flexfax: Installing Hylafax --for Frantz and Canas

[Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net>]

Dear Paul Franz and Carlos Canas:

I tried to contact you directly (by hitting Reply) but my message was
returned to me.


First, I wish to thank both Carlos Canas and you for your gracious help
with Hylafax. Thanks to the advice offered by both of you, I am now
close to being able to use Hylafax.

I downloaded all the Red Hat files Paul recommended, then followed
Carlos' instructions on how to use faxsetup.

Here is what I have installed:

[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -qa |grep ghostscript
ghostscript-Both-5.50-9mdk
ghostscript-X-5.50-9mdk
ghostscript-fonts-6.0-2
ghostscript-6.01-1
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$
                                 
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -qa |grep hylafax
hylafax-4.1beta2-3rh6
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$   

[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q libtiff
libtiff-3.5.5-2
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q libtiff-devel
libtiff-devel-3.5.5-2
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$  

[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q mgetty-sendfax
mgetty-sendfax-1.1.21-6
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$
mgetty-sendfax-1.1.21-6

[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ rpm -q mawk
mawk-1.2.2-3mdk
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$
                                                           

With Hylafax finally installed correctly, I proceeded to Faxsetup.

1) I got the /bin/egetty missing message

2) I got a message telling me that the ghostscript 5.50 directory is
missing. Well, I uninstalled my Mandrake ghostscript 5.50 and
gostscript-fonts 5.50 files and installed the new ghostscript 6.0 and
ghostscript-fonts 6.0 files. They installed perfectly. I tested them on
printtool in DrakeX and by actually printing out the sample ASCII and
Postscript samples and a letter from Netscape. Everything works
perfectly.

Here is my ghostscript directory:

[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$ whereis ghostscript
ghostscript: /usr/bin/ghostscript /usr/share/ghostscript
/usr/man/man1/ghostscript.1
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 sher]$     

[sher@adsl-77-233-178 share]$ cd /usr/share/ghostscript
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 ghostscript]$ ls
6.01/  fonts/
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 ghostscript]$ cd 6.01
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 6.01]$ ls
examples/  lib/
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 6.01]$ cd ..
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 ghostscript]$ cd fonts
[sher@adsl-77-233-178 fonts]$ ls
a010013l.afm  c059013l.pfm  hritro.gsf    n019024l.pfb  n022023l.pfm
a010013l.pfb  c059016l.afm  hrpld.pfa     n019024l.pfm  n022024l.afm
a010013l.pfm  c059016l.pfb  hrpldb.gsf    n019043l.afm  n022024l.pfb
a010015l.afm  c059016l.pfm  hrpldbi.gsf   n019043l.pfb  n022024l.pfm
a010015l.pfb  c059033l.afm  hrpldi.pfa    n019043l.pfm  p052003l.afm
a010015l.pfm  c059033l.pfb  hrplr.gsf     n019044l.afm  p052003l.pfb
a010033l.afm  c059033l.pfm  hrplrb.gsf    n019044l.pfb  p052003l.pfm
a010033l.pfb  c059036l.afm  hrplrbo.gsf   n019044l.pfm  p052004l.afm
a010033l.pfm  c059036l.pfb  hrplro.gsf    n019063l.afm  p052004l.pfb
a010035l.afm  c059036l.pfm  hrpls.gsf     n019063l.pfb  p052004l.pfm
a010035l.pfb  d050000l.afm  hrplsb.gsf    n019063l.pfm  p052023l.afm
a010035l.pfm  d050000l.pfb  hrplsbo.gsf   n019064l.afm  p052023l.pfb
b018012l.afm  d050000l.pfm  hrplso.gsf    n019064l.pfb  p052023l.pfm
b018012l.pfb  fcyr.afm      hrplt.pfa     n019064l.pfm  p052024l.afm
b018012l.pfm  fcyr.gsf      hrpltb.gsf    n021003l.afm  p052024l.pfb
b018015l.afm  fcyri.afm     hrpltbi.gsf   n021003l.pfb  p052024l.pfm
b018015l.pfb  fcyri.gsf     hrplti.pfa    n021003l.pfm  putb.pfa
b018015l.pfm  fhirw.gsf     hrscc.pfa     n021004l.afm  putbi.pfa
b018032l.afm  fhirw.pfm     hrsccb.gsf    n021004l.pfb  putr.pfa
b018032l.pfb  fkarw.gsf     hrscco.gsf    n021004l.pfm  putri.pfa
b018032l.pfm  fkarw.pfm     hrscs.pfa     n021023l.afm  s050000l.afm
b018035l.afm  fonts.dir     hrscsb.gsf    n021023l.pfb  s050000l.pfb
b018035l.pfb  fonts.scale   hrscso.gsf    n021023l.pfm  s050000l.pfm
b018035l.pfm  hrger.pfa     hrsyr.gsf     n021024l.afm  u003043t.afm
bchb.afm      hrgerb.gsf    n019003l.afm  n021024l.pfb  u003043t.gsf
bchb.pfa      hrgerd.gsf    n019003l.pfb  n021024l.pfm  u003043t.pfm
bchbi.afm     hrgero.gsf    n019003l.pfm  n022003l.afm  u004006t.afm
bchbi.pfa     hrgkc.gsf     n019004l.afm  n022003l.pfb  u004006t.gsf
bchr.afm      hrgks.gsf     n019004l.pfb  n022003l.pfm  u004006t.pfm
bchr.pfa      hrgrr.pfa     n019004l.pfm  n022004l.afm  z003034l.afm
bchri.afm     hrgrrb.gsf    n019023l.afm  n022004l.pfb  z003034l.pfb
bchri.pfa     hrgrro.gsf    n019023l.pfb  n022004l.pfm  z003034l.pfm
c059013l.afm  hritr.pfa     n019023l.pfm  n022023l.afm
c059013l.pfb  hritrb.gsf    n019024l.afm  n022023l.pfb
[sher@adsl-77-233-178
fonts]$                                                   

Everything seemed all right except for the ghostscript 5.50 "error". I
now proceeded to test Hylafax:

Should I run faxmodem for each configured modem [yes]?
/usr/sbin/faxmodem ttyS1
 
Done verifying system setup.
[root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# sendfax -d phoneno /etc/hosts
/usr/sbin/textfmt: No font metric information found for "Courier-Bold".
Usage: /usr/sbin/textfmt [-1] [-2] [-B] [-c] [-D] [-f fontname] [-F
fontdir(s)]
[-m N] [-o #] [-p #] [-r] [-U] [-Ml=#,r=#,t=#,b=#] [-V #] files...
>out.ps
Default options: -f Courier -1 -p 11bp -o 0
Error converting data; command was "/usr/sbin/textfmt -B -f
Courier-Bold       -Ml=0.4in -p 11 -s default >/tmp//sndfaxfLGfRp
</etc/hosts"
[root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]#                             

This is as far as I got. Am I almost there? What does that error above
mean?

Please remember that I am only interested in using Hylafax as a client
to send and receive faxes. Secondly, my system is an AMD K6-2 400, which
is usually translated to mean a 586, yet the setup program talks about a
686 installation. What does this mean, please? Can my system handle it?

All my thanks again to both of you and to several others who wrote in
but whose advice, for one reason or another, was not quite appropriate.

Benjamin

-- 
Benjamin and Anna Sher
sher07@bellsouth.net
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