Re: a tiff viewer for faxes

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 14-Mar-99 Allan M. Wind wrote:
> On 1999-03-14 18:25, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> Since I am unable to get fax to work in Linux, I want to use the
>> e-fax service offered on the net, but I will need a tiff viewer for
>> faxes.  Does Debian have such a thing?
> 
> mgetty+fax was pretty easy to get going here (granted it's not as full
> featured as one might wish - hylafax fits that defitition better, I
> believe).
> 
> Lots of packages provides tiff viewing - imagemagick, xv.  Search
> through /var/lib/dpkg/availble for a complete list.
> 

Thanks.  I just never understood how to get fax to work in Linux because the
HOWTO's assume knowledge I do not possess.

I would need a HOWTO that starts from scratch.

I was not sure xv would do the trick.  I will check KDE's site too.

--
Andrew

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