Problems on sending to a Toshiba fax machine

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Hi,

Claudemir Todo Bom wrote:
> Gert Doering wrote:
> > allgood@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^ hmmm...
> 
> I don't know if you marked my nick 'allgood' (Is my lastname translated
> to English) or the my-dejanews.com. But, I think that this is not the
> point.

I wondered about "my-dejanews.com" as the e-mail address you listed below
your e-mail is different.

> > > I'm having problems to send faxes to a Toshiba machine. After the first page,
> > > faxrunq exits with signal 12. On the fax machine appears BAD PICTURE.
> > >
> > > Yes, I know all about pbmplus bug, and I've patched it. I've tried to send
> > > only the ghostscript faxg3 output, and the same error appears.
> > >
> > > I've tried it on 3 types of Toshiba faxes, and allways I've got this error.
> > 
> > Sounds like a G3 page creation problem.  One would need to know what kind
> > of input files are used, whether you use faxspool or a direct call to
> > ghostscript, etc.  -- see the manual for more data on this.
> 
> I've tried to transmit only the exit of GhostScript 3.30 and the errors
> appears. 

Could be, depending on the *input* files.

> I'm using faxspool, but I've commented the lines that write the
> header of the fax page. (pbmtext, g3cat and stuff). 

Don't do this -- g3cat will fix some of the problems introduced by
ghostscript under certain conditions.

[..]
> > > May be Ghostscript generating bad images
> > > that only some fax machines complain?
> > 
> > Yes. See the docs.
> 
> I've already readed the docs, and the only problem with g3 creation it
> mention is with pbmplus, and I've patched it and disabled it too. Unless
> I didn't readed well.

Hmmm, yes.  I just noticed that you have a fairly old mgetty version,
where the docs possibly did not contain that part yet.  See the current
docs on http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/ for a discussion of the
Ghostscript problems (bad page width for certain input files).

> > > Modem USR Sportster 33600
> >         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this might as well be the problem.
> 
> The docs make mention about USR modems and give a parameter to be set:
> FAX_SEND_IGNORE_CARRIER, I've seted it, together with #define
> FAX_USRobotics.

Same thing, old docs :-) -- USR Sportsters are known to be very unreliable
for faxing.  Some people, for some models, have been lucky and "it works",
for most others, Sportsters can NOT be recommended.  USR Courier modems
are quite good.

> > You can write to the list by mail (mgetty@muc.de, and mgetty-request@muc.de
> > to subscribe).
> I'm subscribing to it...

Don't forget to keep mgetty@muc.de in the CC: of your replies!

gert
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