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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:42, Steven Kurylo wrote:
> Andreas Dyck wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I've just installed a Hylafax server(4.1.7-38) running on SUSE9. Now i would
> >like to fax ASCII-Docs directly from our text-based manufacturing
> >application running on HP-UX. Any ideas?
> >
> I use  a2ps (http://www.infres.enst.fr/~demaille/a2ps/) to format my 
> documents into ps and then use sendfax to send them to hylafax.

I think the a2ps step is superfluous.

>From the sendfax man page:


> sendfax passes POSTSCRIPT and TIFF documents directly through  to  the
> fax server for transmission, and attempts to convert other file formats
> to either POSTSCRIPT or TIFF.  In normal  operation  sendfax  automati-
> cally  converts  ASCII-text,  troff(1) output, Portable Document Format
> (PDF), and Silicon Graphics format images  for  transmission.   Support
> for  other  file formats can be easily added through an extensible file
> typing and conversion facility; see  typerules(5F).   Note  that  since
> TIFF Class F documents are processed directly it is simple to forward a
> received facsimile.


HTH, Steve



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