Re: efax package

[Paul Seelig <pseelig@mail.Uni-Mainz.de>]

kryder71@maine.edu (Kenneth F. Ryder III) writes:

> I just installed the E-fax package , but the man pages are missing, the
> 2 .gz files in /usr/doc/efax talk about extensive help in the man pages..
> any one know what happened? (I am using Debian 2.0.2 cds)
> 
You are possibly using an outdated package?  No problem here:

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[pseelig]~ > man efax


EFAX(1)                                                   EFAX(1)


NAME
       efax - send/receive faxes using Class 1 or 2 fax modems

SYNOPSIS
       efax [ options ] [ -t num [ file... ] ]


OPTIONS
       Where options are:
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This is the version i use (from slink):

[pseelig]~ > dpkg -s efax
Package: efax
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: comm
Installed-Size: 191
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Version: 08a-6
Depends: libc6, libpaperg
Suggests: gs, xloadimage
Conffiles:
 /etc/efax.rc f1c39d5538e7baa0382822626ac61de7
Description: Programs to send and receive fax messages.
 efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that provides the data transport
 function for fax applications using any Class 1 or Class 2 fax modem.
 Another program, efix, converts between fax, text, bit-map and gray-scale
 formats. fax, a shell script, provides a simple user interface to the efax
 and efix programs. It allows you to send text or Postscript files as faxes
 and receive, print or preview received faxes.
 .
 You need ghostscript to fax Postscript files. To preview faxes, you need
 a PGM file viewer such as xloadimage.
 .
 Note that you probably have to adapt /etc/efax.rc to your needs.