Fax software question

[Dan Pelleg]

Stephen Liu <satimis at icare.com.hk> writes:

> - snip -
>> > # which acfax
>> > # which acfax
>> > # which efax
>> > # which gfax
>> > # which ghfaxview
>> > # which hylafx
>> > # which tkhylafax
>> > # which tkscanfax
>> > t# which viewfax
>> > all : Command not found.
>> >
>> > I suppose they have not been installed.  Kindly advise which of them is
>> > easy to config and suitable to fax text document.
>>
>> I use mgetty+sendfax (that's the port name). It accepts postscript or g3
>> format. For text input, it looks like pbmtext (from the netpbm
>> port/package) will convert text files to a suitable format (and then you
>> run pbm2g3, which is inclduded in the mgetty+sendfax pacakge).
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Tks for your response.  I used efax on RH before.  I think it is the front-end 
> (GUI) of mgetty+sendfax.
>
[...]
>
> I think I need to install 'mgetty-1.1.30.12.16_3'.  Shall I install 
> 'netpbm-10.17_1' as well.
>
> Kindly advise.  TIA
>
> B.R.
> Stephen

Yes. Do it in one of the following ways:

1.
cd /usr/ports/comms/mgetty+sendfax
make install clean

cd /usr/ports/graphics/netpbm
make install clean

2.
portinstall mgetty+sendfax netpbm

(assuming you have portupgrade installed).

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  Dan Pelleg