Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:09:31AM +0200, Alessio Sangalli wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>If you can't maintain it, then don't bother submitting it. Maintenance >>is an integral part of the procedure. > >That's why I asked if some developer was interested. If "some developer" was interested

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you can't maintain it, then don't bother submitting it. Maintenance is an integral part of the procedure. That's why I asked if some developer was interested. Efax is a rather stable software which doesn't change so much. As far as I know, there is no equivalent soft

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:29:14AM +0200, Alessio Sangalli wrote: >I will try to prepare a package ready for the distribution, I don't know >if I will be able to maintain it... If you can't maintain it, then don't bother submitting it. Maintenance is an integral part of the procedure. cgf -- U

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Brian Ford wrote: You don't need to be a "cygwin developer" to get a package included in the distribution. See: http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting if you are interested in maintaining it yourself. Interesting procedure. But the facts are: I'm not a real cygwin user because I work with Linux

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > so: efax works, but it has few warnings here and there related to the > serial ports and terminals. Is there some cygwin developer which is > interested in including this program into the cygwin ditribution? I > could try to solve the compatibility pro

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-04 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: In this case, efax should have worked nicely with "-d /dev/ttyS0", too... Or "-d /dev/com1", if you prefer the Windows names... yes, now that I understand how cygwin works it's easy :) so: efax works, but it has few warnings here and there related to the serial ports and

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Cliff Hones wrote: > > > Did you actually try Igor's suggestion? You may need to create > > a real /dev directory. After adding the symbolic link efax > > may be able to correctly open the modem. Note that Cygwin's > > devices are virtual, so you do

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-03 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Cliff Hones wrote: Did you actually try Igor's suggestion? You may need to create a real /dev directory. After adding the symbolic link efax may be able to correctly open the modem. Note that Cygwin's devices are virtual, so you don't actually need a real /dev/ttyS0 file. ja!!! it works nicely,

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-03 Thread Cliff Hones
Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >> Try "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem". FWIW, RedHat 7.2 Linux doesn't have >> /dev/modem, and neither do some other Linuces/Unices, so the above >> program >> is non-portable to say the least. > > > Uh? I want this program to run under WIN

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-02 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Try "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem". FWIW, RedHat 7.2 Linux doesn't have /dev/modem, and neither do some other Linuces/Unices, so the above program is non-portable to say the least. Uh? I want this program to run under WINDOWS on the cygwin environment... I know how to le

Re: efax on cygwin

2004-05-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Hi, I would like to send faxes with the eafx program under cygwin. > I've tried to compile it and I had to hack a bit the source and the > Makefile. > > You can donwload the efax sources at: > http://www.cce.com/efax/ > I've used the "stable" release:

efax on cygwin

2004-05-02 Thread Alessio Sangalli
Hi, I would like to send faxes with the eafx program under cygwin. I've tried to compile it and I had to hack a bit the source and the Makefile. You can donwload the efax sources at: http://www.cce.com/efax/ I've used the "stable" release: ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/fax/e