mgetty problems

Philip Hands (phil@hands.com)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:26:17 +0100


> Dear Gerth,
> 
> we are using mgetty to receive faxes on our Debian Linux
> server. The problem is that some incoming faxes come in a
> compressed, landscape form. Is there something we can to do
> to receive the faxes normally?

It sounds like you're receiving ``normal'' resolution faxes, and displaying 
them as though they were ``fine''.

If that's the case, you need to double the height of the pixels when 
displayed, which can be done with a ``-n'' option to viewfax.

Cheers, Phil.