Only the top 5 cm of a fax is received.

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:16:21 +0100


Hi,

On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 05:12:00PM +0100, Niels Basjes wrote:
> I tried to send a fax to a friend of mine and it turns out that the fax is
> not received correctly: Only the top 3-5 cm of each page of the fax is
> received. When I send two pages he only gets the top of both pages.
> 
> I checked the two files (f1.g3 and f2.g3) that were still on my machine in
> the queue (labeled as done) and both are 1728x2157x1 bpp bitmaps that look
> fine in an image viewer (I converted them to BMP and did that in NT).

>From the log, everything is just perfect.  No errors, no strangeness,
nothing.

> 01/30 13:26:36   tio_set_flow_control( HARD )

You *might* want to try software flow control (sendfax.config ->
fax-send-flow xon), as this smells of a flow control problem.

Or it might just be a "USR modems just can't do it" problem.

Does it work if you send the pages to a different receiver?

gert
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