I've actually found efax to be more robust than sendfax (from mgetty-fax) but I've never tried to use hylafax. There was some configuration involved with efax but efax can handle Class 1 operation which sendfax can't (at least not the version I used). This may or may not be an issue for you.
Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, David Frye wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that > > they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the > > easiest and most reliable to use? > > I've been pretty happy with hylafax, although the version in slink doesn't > seem to initialize my modem (USR Sportster) properly so I went back to the > hamm version. I could never get efax to work. I couldn't get faxgetty to > run and still work with data, so I got a second modem (as far as I can > tell, this is more a modem problem than a software problem although it did > work in Win95--ugh). > > Bob -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
