Unknown device: faxg3

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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Mikael Jokela wrote:
> # faxspool 123456 file.txt 
> spooling to /var/spool/fax/outgoing/F000032...
> spooling file.txt...
> file.txt is format: ascii
> Initializing... Unknown device: faxg3
> \n/usr/local/bin/faxspool: error spooling "file.txt" - aborting!
> 
> What's wrong?? Re-installing and updating mgetty didn't help.

You

a) installed mgetty wrongly ("ECHO=..." in the Makefile)
b) have ghostscript without the faxg3 driver compiled in.

gert
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