VSI Fax?

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Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 02:19:44AM +0000, Peter Caffin wrote:
>> I was just wondering if anyone had heard about or experienced using VSI
>> Fax (particularly under Linux). I've been refered to this product by a
>> manager who's been reading SCO World Nov/Dec 1998 (US magazines seem to
>> take forever to make it to Australia)..

> Hmmm, this is fairly offtopic on this list... - VSI*FAX is a commercial
> software, that costs real money and you don't get source code for it.

Sorry about the off-topicness, BTW. I suspected that I'd find a much
better critique of it from here, though :). I'm really not all that keen
on the idea, when there are other options for network faxing that could be
bug-fixed given the time.

Unfortunately, I'm not really being given the time or adequate resources
to work more on the LPD remote spooling concept of it, so management wants
"the quick fix" *sigh*.

If anyone is interested in taking a peek at what I managed to come up
with (when I did have a bit of time), and would even like to help kill a
few bugs, have a look at The Print-To-Fax Mini-HOWTO at
http://it.net.au/~pc/comp/linux/print-to-fax.html.

Although it's nominally a Linux Documentation Project wannabe document,
it's useful for any OS that can run mgetty-fax, magicfilter and LPRng.
All useful suggestions for the doc will be credited (of course).

> Besides that, it's said to be not bad.  Mgetty is a lot more flexible,
> though :-) (but I certainly have to say that mgetty is better).

Without having looked at this VSI Fax myself, I'd agree. The way you've
written mgetty is the logical way a fax/getty daemon should be written.

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