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Hi,

On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:56:54PM -0500, Robert J. Brown wrote:
> Anyway, my concern regarding page length is that in the states, we
> almost never use A4 paper (unfortunately), but we use A paper ("letter
> size") instead.  Our fax machines get upset if A4 faxes are sent to
> them because the page is a bit too long.  If you are going to hack the
> G3 raster to enforce page length considerations, consider a -A or
> possibly a --letter option to specify our weird US size of paper while
> you are at it.  Thanks!

Actually, the maximum length that a receiving end can accept (or
"unlimited") is negotiated in the fax protocol setup (these magic 
"+FCC" and "+FCS" lines with lots of numbers in them show what's 
going on).

For me, this has always been a "don't care issue", since either the
receiving machines didn't seem to care how long the page is, or maybe my
modems have corrected this at sending time -- for all my tests, it didn't
matter.

For the Class 1 support, I will have to rewrite the very basic G3 handling
code in sendfax anyway (add padding, etc.), and then I'll do the page
length handling there.  Until then, it's a g3cat + guesswork issue...

gert

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