Bug#175239: efax no longer understands dvi2fax' output
(Taking out the submitter, he didn't seem to be so interested, and
obviously cannot help)
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
>> Could you also try it with the dvi2fax version from unstable,
>> copied to your woody filesystem? It's just a shell script, so no
>> problem there.
>>
> drachi:[~] #cp sarge/usr/bin/dvi2fax .
> drachi:[~] #diff dvi2fax /usr/bin/dvi2fax
[...]
> Nothing, what could hit us.
Agreed.
>> I cannot really test it, because I don't have a modem at all. When
>> I said I cannot reproduce it, it was because I didn't get the error
>> message described by Seb - but of course I get an error message
>> about a missing modem, and probably the modem is checked before the
>> file is read.
>>
> drachi:[~/efax] #./dvi2fax.new truc.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2004.04.07:1246' ->
> <texc.pro>. [1]
[...]
> drachi:[~/efax] #file truc-001.fax
> truc-001.fax: group 3 fax data, fine resolution (204x196 DPI)
>
> drachi:[~/efax] #./dvi2fax.old truc.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2004.04.07:1246' ->
> <texc.pro>. [1]
> drachi:[~/efax] #file truc-001.fax
> truc-001.fax: raw G3 data
That is the same as I got - therefore the (possibly different) gs
versions produce the same output, or at least output which looks the
same to magic(5).
> An strace of efax shows me, that the error message "can't get format
> of truc-001.fax" appears before even opening /dev/modem.
Really? That's different here, both on woody-bunk2 and in the sarge
chroot, both with efax v 0.9a-001114.
> Last resort: That was a bug in ghostscript, which has been fixed in
> unstable. Would you be so kind to send me your *.fax file?
I can't see any difference between the files produced on woody+ and on
sarge, but I can see the difference between the two dvi2fax versions -
what am I missing?
> The number was real, he really started sending that fax. So I guess,
> that is a bug in efax....
Well, perhaps not a bug - I'd say an incompatibility. Does sendfax
understand the version that efax likes?
>> P.S. Was there any footnote ¹?
>>
> Yes.
Poor footnote, it must be running around in the internet, looking for
the text where it should be attached :-(
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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