Does g3topbm always work for you?

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Hi,

Dr Sharat Chandran wrote:
> Off and on, I am unable to work with fax files that I receive since
> g3topbm reports, for example,
> 
> [19:35:48][570][sharat-pc] [tools] g3topbm fn0b422b1em-65-7912687.01 > a.pbm   
> 
> invalid code, row=991, col=1728, file offset=895b, skip to eol
> invalid code, row=992, col=67, file offset=8975, skip to eol

Every now and then, this can happen, but it shouldn't be more than about
20 or 30 error messages. These are just line noise, that have corrupted a
few bytes, and the messages in itself are harmless (they just inform you
that a few lines of the image are corrupt).

If it happens for *every* line, you might want to try "g3topbm -r", but it
doesn't look that way.

> The fax is received via a Practical Peripherals internal modem.  Does
> mgetty+sendfax do anything with the files received by the modem?

No. It just saves them.

> -- Is there a work around?

No, it is not needed.

> -- Is there a better fax --> gif/jpeg/ps/xxx format coverter?

No :) -- well, yes, since g3topbm doesn't convert to xxx and not to GIF
and JPEG either. But no, they won't help you here, because this is a
general problem.

> -- Is the modem broken?  How can I find out?  I do receive some
> messages fine.

This usually means it isn't broken.

gert

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