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hi,

(CC: to the mgetty list is set, so that it is archived in the docs.
Klaus, is this already in the FAQ?)

On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:36:39AM -0500, Doug wrote:
> In trying to fax documents directly from WordPerfect (or others when I
> figer it out) on my RedHat 5.2 box.
> 
> I create 'document.ps' with WordPerfect 8 and save it to disk.  Then I
> 'gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -sOutputFile=g3faxfile.%03d document.ps
> </dev/null', this makes a file called g3faxfile.001.  After this file is
> created I 'senfax  1234567 g3faxfile.001'  the following is echoed :

Oh, please READ THE DOCUMENTATION.

"tiffg3" is not "g3", and the documentation clearly states that this is 
the wrong input file format.

> Trying fax device '/dev/ttyS3'... OK.
> Dialing 1234567...
> WARNING: file may be 'tiffg3' - TIFF file format is *not*
> supported!          Thus, fax transmission will most propably fail

... that's what sendfax tells you as well.

[..]
> Although this is not typical (I am running out of unexpecting
> participants in my troubleshooting), I cannot keep faxing to the couple
> of friends with fax machines, the portion of this that concerns me
> currently is the warning about the file format... according to the
> corresponding docs for the utils I used this should work.

No.

Please read the mgetty documentation (http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty),
especially the part about document conversion - and then use the "faxg3"
or the "dfaxhigh" driver, but NOT tiff.

gert
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