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From: ceb@netcom7.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Subject: Re: Flexfax
In-Reply-To: mark@jupiter.aggregate.com's message of Fri, 15 Jul 1994 19:39:23 GMT
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 16:04:12 GMT
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In article <MARK.94Jul15143924@jupiter.aggregate.com> mark@jupiter.aggregate.com (Mark P. Gooderum, Software Engineer) writes:

   > i got the same errors when i tried a while ago.  i think the package
   > is broken.

   Sorry, I missed the orignal (our newsserver expired early).

   What's the problem.  I've been running FlexFax 2.2.2 from beta 10 to
   release.  On NetBSD-current Only problem I had was hanging up the

   <Flexfax war story deleted>

The problem here is failure to read.  The original posters were
complaining about the pre-compiled flexfax FreeBSD package available
on ftp.cdrom.com.  If you get Flexfax from sgi.com and compile it
yourself, you do better.

Flexfax really pushes the state-of-the-art in modem interface,
sertainly for Class 2.  It's not really something you can unpack and
have run with any Hayes-compatible.


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