pbm2g3: input file type unknown

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Hi,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:19:31AM +0000, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:
> It just received the first fax with sendfax. This was quite painless, just 
> edit the config files from example and go.
> 
> - User gets mail notification. fine. Yes, really, just as intended.
> 
> - User gets uuencoded fax. Well, that's not what is intended, but anyway, 
> the fax is there, phone line part works, that's not a bad start.

Hmmm, this is not part of the mgetty scripts - something your distribution
vendor added.  Mgetty by default does not mail the fax anywhere (so I
can't really comment on the file format, just try to figure out what's
happening).

> Okay, so let's first try the phone line the other way round. UUdecode the 
> fax, and then: "faxspool <number> ff...very...long...name...pbm
> 
> Result:
> --------------------
> spooling to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F000005...
> ff...very...long...name...pbm is format: pbm
> pbm2g3: input file type unknown

Sounds like the input file is not PBM - whatever it is.  What does 
"file ff...*pbm" say?  What is the output of "od -c ff...*pbm |head"?

gert
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