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efax is a small ANSI C/POSIX program that sends and receives faxes
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using any fax modem (Class 1, 2 or 2.0). [*]
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efax is smaller and easier to install than HylaFAX or mgetty+sendfax.
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As one user put it "EFAX is a nice simple program for single user
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systems."
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The "fax" command, a shell script, lets you send, receive, view and
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print faxes. In larger systems, faxes can be sent by printing to a
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"fax" printer and received faxes can be e-mailed as MIME attachments
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to an administrator for distribution. efax can also pass incoming
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data calls to a getty program.
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The efax package includes "efix," a program to convert between
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various image file formats. To fax Postscript files you will need
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Ghostscript. To view faxes you can use any program tha displays
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PGM files. efix can also convert received files to Postscript or HP
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Laserjet formats for printing.
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This program has only a command-line interface.
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If you need a GUI-based fax solution, install efax-gtk instead.
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[*] Any hardware-based fax modem, that is. If you have a "software
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modem," a so-called "Linmodem," then you'll instead need to
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download the alpha version of efax and modify this SlackBuild script
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accordingly.
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The alpha release can be found here:
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https://www.cce.com/efax/download/efax-0.9a-001114.tar.gz
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