Re: Fax

[Phillip Deackes <gsmh@gmx.net>]

Oleg Krivosheev <kriol@fnal.gov> wrote:
=> 
=> hmm, learning curve?
=> 
=> i set up efax and was able to fax almost immediately. Is there anything
=> i forgot to learn?
=> 

I obviously lack intelligence. Coming from a Windows background I was used
to installing a Fax application from a floppy disk and printing to it from
any Windows application. Took all of 5 minutes and worked immediately. That
was my starting point. I spent a long time trying to get mgetty/sendfax
working, got more and more frustrated. I ended up finding that my modem at
the time was not supported - wrong class. Hours wasted. Tried the SuSE
implementation of Fax and got nowhere. I gave up and dual-booted into
Windows whenever I wanted to send a Fax.

Then I discovered a message sent to a list or newsgroup, just like the
message I sent to Cuno today. That was more help to me than anything else,
with some tinkering I managed to get things partially working. I was plagued
with minor problems and had to make some changes to fax itself. The process
was most definitely *not* intuitive or simple. I would say a steep learning
curve for the average person

Then there is the indignity of having to send a fax, which is a graphical
object, from the command line. That calls for a different mindset for the
average user.

=> > use fax script. It's doing all the conversion for you

You see, here we go again, what is fax script? I assume you mean the command
'fax'. How does this differ from what I proposed?

I am pleased for you that you found it all so easy.


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