pbm2g3: input file type unknown

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Gert Doering schrieb:


> 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).

Then it is installed by Suse.



> 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"?

You are absolutely right: It was a pbm.gz. Either the new_fax script, or 
xfmail in decoding has got rid of the .gz    :-(


I didn't check due to the reassuring "file format is" message.



Meanwhile, I got things working, not perfectly (uuencoded .gif mailed 
instead of MIME, but it's not too bad). 
I have posted a description for faxing with mgetty+sendfax from Wordperfect
to de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers.



hajo


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