Bug#175239: efax no longer understands dvi2fax' output
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> drachi:[~/efax] #diff truc-new.fax /home/hille/tmp/sarge/efax/file-new.fax
> Binary files truc-new.fax and /home/hille/tmp/sarge/efax/file-new.fax differ
> drachi:[~/efax] #diff truc-old.fax /home/hille/tmp/sarge/efax/file-old.fax
> Binary files truc-old.fax and /home/hille/tmp/sarge/efax/file-old.fax differ
[...]
> and then he starts dialing. don't tell me, that the difference
> between your one and my ony was only a timestamp....
Might well be.
> drachi:[~/efax] #diff -a truc-new.fax /home/hille/tmp/sarge/efax/file-new.fax |wc
> 11 100 19497
you could try with "strings".
> drachi:[~/efax] #./efax -t 0123456789 truc-new.fax
> ./efax: Thu Apr 8 00:40:52 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
> ./efax: Thu Apr 8 00:40:52 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
> efax: 40:52 compiled Apr 6 2004 19:31:38
> efax: 40:52 Error: can't get format of truc-new.fax
> efax: 40:52 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error)
> drachi:[~/efax] #./efax truc-new.fax -t 0123456789
> ./efax: Thu Apr 8 00:41:39 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
> ./efax: Thu Apr 8 00:41:39 2004 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
> efax: 41:39 compiled Apr 6 2004 19:31:38
> efax: 41:39 opened /dev/modem
> efax: 41:40 using Version 1.10 / 19.07.1999 "ELSA AG, Aachen (Germany)" "MicroLink 56k basic" "Version 1.10 / 19.07.1999" in class 2.0
> efax: 41:43 Error: terminating on signal 2
> efax: 41:44 done, returning 5 (terminated by signal)
>
> Have no clue, that does that mean.
Probably that efax is buggy.
>> > 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.
>>
> drachi:[~/efax] #strace ./efax -t 0123456789 truc-new.fax 2>&1 | grep modem
> drachi:[~/efax] #strace ./efax -t 0123456789 truc-new.fax 2>&1 | grep format
> write(2, "efax: 43:43 Error: can\'t get for"..., 52efax: 43:43 Error:
> can't get format of truc-new.fax
This efax is strange. Here it always complains about not finding
/dev/modem, irrespective of what I put into /etc/efaxrc.
> The both dvi2fax versions of woody and sarge don't really differ.
> Between potato and woody I see, that the resolution is not fixed to
> 204x196. What does mean woody+ ?
woody-bunk2 plus lots of backports.
> At least he didn't complain about unknown formats. I didn't try to
> send that fax anywhere and call the receiver, whether it has arrived.
I'll send a mail to the maintainers of the other fax packages.
Tschüß, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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