receiving faxes: efax vs. mgetty
Hi,
On sid with efax I could not receive faxes: got an error for each line
received.
That matched a post by Terry White of 6 years ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.admin/browse_thread/thread/9cc63d5c2a3f2862/57e3b7792f59f578?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=ia#57e3b7792f59f578
which says:
...
the number of lines received and errors are identical. as i recall, this
indicates an inability to detect end of line. that is not a modem issue,
but a protocol violation. i set mgetty up for 2.0 and have had no
trouble with it, on a usr v.90.
...
Installed mgetty and mgetty-fax and sure enough:
mgetty /dev/ttyS0
works out of the box!
Then you convert the g3 file with g32pbm that comes with mgetty-fax.
Would seem that efax has a problem receiving faxes. I have an exterior
USRobotics faxmodem 56K.
H
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