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From: duncan@kaos.RedBrick.COM (Donald Duncan)
Subject: Re: freebsd & faxing?
Message-ID: <1995Nov1.001930.16921@RedBrick.COM>
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:19:30 GMT
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In article <PF.95Oct24142249@elissa.hc.ti.com>, pf@elissa.hc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) writes:
|>     Date: 23 Oct 1995 07:53:19 GMT
|>     From: ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler)
|> 
|>     Didn't there used to be some package for FreeBSD called "flexfax"?
|>     Anyoneknow what happened to it or other fax packages besides hylafax?
|> 
|> Flexfax is hylafax, or vice versa.
|> 
|> I found efax, a convenient small fax program, in a Linux group.  It's
|> not nearly as powerful as flexfax, but it's fine for simple sending and
|> receiving and it works with my old class-1 modem and the April 2.0.5
|> snapshot.  It handles text or (with ghostscript) PostScript.  Here's
|> part of the README:
|> 

Also try sendfax, which contains mgetty/vgetty plug-ins.  It ported to FreeBSD
almost immediately and supports data, voice and fax provided you have
the correct modem type.  Look on freebsd.cdrom.com somewhere in the Linux
area.


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duncan@redbrick.com (Donald Duncan)