How to fax?

[Darin Perusich]

if hylafax is installed on you system the easy part is done. the command 
faxsetup will configure you machine to send and recieve faxes using 
local modems. if there are no local modems it will be setup in 
client/send mode only, this means you have a faxserver setup somewhere 
on your network for it to send outgoing faxes to. you set the FAXSERVER 
variable to this machine.

hylafax printes faxes out to your default printer so you will need to 
have printing setup, if there is no printer a tiff file exists in 
/var/spool/hylafax/recvq.

Asheville Joe wrote:
> I'd like to be able to send and receive faxes.  I'm running MDK 9.1.  
> This is basically a single user desktop system.  I have no clue what to do.
> 
> It looks like hylafax, efax, and maybe others are already installed on 
> my system,  I just don't know how to get them to do anything.
> 
> I went into OOo 1.1 Writer Options/Print and there's a fax pull down to 
> select the fax, but it only shows printer drivers.
> 
> I ran kfax, but kde drives me crazy!  When you select Help, there's no 
> search!  I couldn't even find anything on kfax. 
> I tried opening a text file, but it said it wasn't a fax.
> 
> How do I proceed?  I have only one dialup line, so I need to do mostly 
> manual sends and receives - or set it up to wait for a fax to come in 
> and then disable it after I get it.
> 
> Winfax Pro 9.0 works fine in Windoze, so the hardware is no problem.
> 
> Joe
> 

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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com