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From: risc@finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Richard Schwaninger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Faxit (a fax frontend for mgetty+sendfax)
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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 06:56:52 GMT
Organization: softWorks, Richard Schwaninger, Graz, Austria
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Fax Frontend |
=======================+==================================
Version 1.1 | softWorks
15/11/1996 | personal engineering software
|
====================+====================+==================================
1. DESCRIPTION | This is a programm that lets you compose, send,
| receive and view faxes.
|
| It is a graphical frontend to a fax programm like
| mgetty+sendfax. You may interactively build up your
| fax messages, adding plain text and attachements and
| selecting recipients from a fax number database.
|
| You may query the status of the fax subsystem,
| listing both incoming and outgoing faxes. Faxes may
| be displayed on your screen or may be sent to a printer.
|
| Here are some highlights
| - graphical frontend to popular fax software
| - easy and fast composition of fax messages
| especially when you only need a few lines
| of text
| - fax number database
| - attachements
| - select different header pages
| - delayed fax sending
| - management of incoming/outgoing faxes
| - viewing faxes
|
| The Faxit programm is also available as a commercial
| version. This version adds the following features:
| - significantly faster
| - faxes may be printed
| - manipulation of the fax number database
| - create custom header pages
| - mailing incoming faxes to any destination
| - may optionally use Netscape to display
| help pages.
| - full support, upgrades
| - complete documentation
|
| What faxit is not:
| - a fax backend (it needs another package to
| handle spooling and modem interaction
| - network aware (limitation of underlying
| spool software, NFS is ok though)
====================+========================================================
2. LOCATION | You can download the public-domain version of faxit
| from the neosoft archive (currently in incomming, but
| will certainly move to the following location):
|
| http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/NEW
| ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/tcl/NEW
| Faxit1.1.1.README 10k
| Faxit1.1.1-info.tar.gz 25k
| Faxit1.1.1-base.tar.gz 131k
| Faxit1.1.1-linux.tar.gz 552k
| Faxit1.1.1-hpux.tar.gz 713k
| Faxit1.1.1-irix.tar.gz 696k
| Faxit1.1.1-english.tar.gz 135k
| Faxit1.1.1-german.tar.gz 153k
| Faxit1.1.1-support.tar.gz 54k
|
| NOTE: the neosoft archive is currently restructured,
| so the above location may change!
|
| You need both the base and system specific packages to
| run the programm. The language specific files contain
| adaptions and help files. The info file contains an
| overview of faxit (HTML, it is also included in the
| 'english' package). The support package contains
| demos showing how to use the programm.
|
====================+========================================================
3. INSTALLATION | This is a ready to run application - unpack the tar
| archive, maybe add the 'SW/bin' directory to your path
| or let the environment variable SOFTDIR point to your
| installation directory and start the program
|
| SOFTDIR=??/SW; export SOFTDIR
| ??/SW/bin/fax
|
| users in german speaking countries may want to set
| SOFTLANG to 'german' ;-)
| Please check the files contained in ??/SW/ins for
| configuration options.
|
| Please go to the 'demo' subdirectory and try the
| examples first (demos are in the support package).
|
====================+========================================================
4. DOCUMENTATION | Complete documentation and context sensitive help is
| included in HTML-format. A postscript version is
| available too.
|
====================+========================================================
5. COPYRIGHT | See the supplied documentation for full details.
| The package includes other packages (like tcl/tix) that
| have their own copyrights.
|
| The public-domain version may be used, copied and
| modified as long as you keep the copyright notice and
| don't make any money with it.
|
| The commercial version has it's own rather lengthy
| copyright - check out the documentation...
|
| All versions may be tested for 30 days. After this
| period you have to obtain a license code - which is
| free for the public-domain version...
|
====================+========================================================
6. QUESTIONS/BUGS | You can contact me at
| risc@finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at
| Richard Schwaninger
| softWorks
| Theodor-Koernerstr. 173
| A-8010 Graz, Austria
|
====================+========================================================
7. REQUIREMENTS | Currently tdoc is available for the following platforms:
|
| Linux:
| You need an ELF based system with X11
|
| HP-UX:
| Version 9.x (10.x may work too). X11R5 or later
|
| SGI Irix:
| Version 5.3
|
| Faxit needs the following packages:
|
o | mgetty+sendfax from Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de).
| It should be available from
| sunsite.unc.edu:
| /pub/Linux/system/Serial/mgetty+sendfax*
| tsx-11.mit.edu:
| /pub/linux/sources/sbin/mgetty+sendfax
| ftp.leo.org:
| /pub/comp/networking/communication/modem/mgetty
| and a lot of other sites.
|
o | pbmplus/netpbm and ghostscript (these are used by
| mgetty+sendfax to convert files)
|
o | viewfax from Frank Cringle (fdc@cliwe.ping.de) which
| is included in the mgetty package (frontends/X11)
|
o | a fax modem
| Note: This software needs a working setup of faxspool
| from mgetty+sendfax to send/receive faxes.
|
====================+========================================================
8. CURRENT VERSION | The current version is
|
| Faxit Version 1.1.1 - public domain
| Faxit Version 1.1.1 - commercial
|
| The commercial version is also available in source
| form. Please contact softWorks for details.
|
====================+========================================================
9. MISCELLANEOUS | This is a binary, self contained release. It contains
| no sources and will only run on the platforms stated
| above. Contact softWorks if you would like to see faxit
| for other platforms.
|
o | If you are interested in other products and our services
| then send an email with the subject line
| 'product-catalog'
| to risc@finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at.
|
====================+========================================================
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Richard Schwaninger softWorks
Email: risc@finwds01.tu-graz.ac.at
Tel/Fax: +43 (0)316 686590
Mail: Theodor-Koernerstr. 173, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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