> Wouldn't it be a lot nicer to just add a "fax" entry to /etc/printcap? > I know that at least lprng can handle printing to pipes (I use it to > `print' mp3's to mpg123). I have already thought about that. But the problem is that this fax entry is supposed to spawn a graphical utility (requiring "DISPLAY to be set). And the standard lpr doesn't keep environment variables. The package I am writing is gfax. Wolfgang