What device for Ghostscript with mgetty ?

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On 11-Sep-97 Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Gert Doering wrote:
>> 
>> Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote:
>> > In ChangeLog og mgetty-1.1.9 :
>> >
>> > * fax/faxspool.in: make faxg3 the default driver for ghostscript,
>> > as it is compiled-in by default in ghostscript 3, 4 and 5, and the
>> > output quality in gs 5.01 is better than that of dfaxhigh.
>> >
>> > If I use faxg3 as device for ghoscript, I have problems with multi-page
>> > fax. Transmission fails with :
>> >
>> > Transmission error: +FHNG:51 (RSPREC error)
>> > or
>> > Transmission error: +FHNG:52 (No response to MPS repeated 3 times)
>> 
>> Very weird. How did the pages come out on the remote end? Was this the
>> very same fax number that worked fine with dfaxhigh? Or another one, where
>> you don't have data whether it works with dfaxhigh? [This is a big
>> difference!]
>
>The error appears only on fax machines with faxg3 files. The
>transmission stops after the first page. Our fax machine (Canon L500)
>sends an error page. When I transmit to a modem attached to a PC, it
>works. On the same fax machines, it works with dfaxhigh. I can try many
>times with the same result.

That's a known problem to me ... Canon faxes have some problems.
you can get arount thet when you produce pbm file with ghostscript and convert t
hem with pbm2fax to g3 ...

> 
>> > BTW, is there some tool allowing
>> > to check fax files ? (viewfax for example is happy with these faxg3
>> > files).
>> 
>> If the g3 files are broken, "g3cat file.g3 >/dev/null" should tell you so
>> (about bad G3 codes, or wrong line width problems). If neither g3cat nor
>> "viewfax -v file.g3" complain, the file is OK.
>
>No message from them. I have also try to filter the file with g3cat but
>the error remains.
>
>My configuration :
>Solaris 2.5
>mgetty 1.1.9
>modem USR Sportster Vi

Regards Matthias

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