You are correct about efax. It has been deprecated. I suggest you take a
look at HylaFAX. Lots of nice features that are done by command line. It
does do format conversion.
Regards,
Smitty
On Monday 03 June 2002 22:15, you wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I'm trying to set up a system to fax things to my clients, naturally
> using Linux. I have an old 486 with the full Red Hat 6.1 installed on
> it. Plus external fax modem.
>
> I'm looking for fax software with the following characteristics:
>
> 1) Free/GNU-ish (it's being used in a commercial environment and I'm
> cheap).
>
> 2) Operable via command line, as in:
>
> sendmyfax 12134567890 myfaxfile
>
> 3) Will hopefully convert from common formats (postscript, ASCII, etc.)
> to a fax format suitable for sending.
>
> 4) Does _not_ need to receive faxes, and in fact should be prohibited
> from doing so.
>
> 5) Will play nice with an external fax machine on the same line.
>
> 6) Preferably will also allow faxes to be "mailed" to itself, and queue
> them up for sending.
>
> 7) Cannot require interactive use, and particularly, must not require
> any X or GUI components.
>
> RH61 ships with efax, which is much supported, but very primitive. Near
> as I can figure, it is a single-user app. This might work if that's the
> best I can find. efax's author recommends qfax as a program which acts
> as a mail-to-fax gateway, and uses efax for the grunt work. However,
> qfax does not appear to be under active development, and requires a
> patched older version of efax to operate properly. Moreover, looking at
> qfax's skimpy docs, it sounds like it doesn't want anything but text
> faxes. I can't really tell.
>
> So the question is, does anyone know of anything specifically that might
> satisfy some or all of the above requirements?
>
> Paul
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