Crippled received faxes

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Hi,

Matthias Hovestadt wrote:
> I installed mgetty 1.1.15 on my computer (Linux 2.0.32) and use a
> ZyXEL U1496E modem. Receiving faxes works pretty fine and saves a
> file in /var/spool/fax/incoming for every received page.
> When I convert such a page with g32pbm and view the converted page
> with any image viewer, the page seems to be crippled a little bit:
> 
> 7 cm above the bottom of the page there is 1 cm text missing. There's
> no free space, but the bottom is shifted 1 cm up. Also the last line
> of the page is missing.
> 
> The original was a WinWord page with DIN A4 Format which was faxed
> with WinFAX to the Linux system.

Sounds like a page conversion problem on the WinFAX side.  

If that does NOT happen if the WinFAX sender sends the fax to another
receiver, it might be a mgetty bug (or a modem bug), but that's very
unlikely.  If the page arrives completely correct, just some borders
are "snipped off", it's normally a problem in the page creation process.

gert
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