sendfax problems

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:22:04 +0200


Hi,

On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 10:43:33AM +0800, warren wrote:
>     (1)When i sent to Canon Fax-L300,  the first four letters in every
> line  was eaten. i created the pbm file using pbmtext in "pbmplus" of
> version "10dec91" and used "pbm2g3" to generate G3 file.

This is documented somewhere - not all fax machines can print right from
the left border, you have to put in some spaces at the beginning of the
line.

>     (2)When i sent to Muratec M3500, the fax machine hang up and said in
> its display "Check remote modem". The log was attached.

The page might be too long, or broken, or whatever.  Use "faxspool" to
create pages, and then let's see whether that works better.

gert
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