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Gert Doering writes:
 > Russell Nelson wrote:
 > >  > > Hmmm....  Maybe we could
 > >  > > modify sendfax so it would either queue or send email via tpc.int?
 > >  > Maybe not *sendfax*, but that's a valid thought for a "front-frontend" -
 > >  > either call faxspool, or convert to postscript/MIME and send to tcp.int.
 > > 
 > > Hmmmm...  Or maybe a backend.  Instead of faxrunq, you could have a
 > > "tcpintrunq", which would search the queue for faxes which could go
 > > through tpc.int instead.
 > 
 > No very basic difference.  Mainly the page format issue remains - tpc.int
 > wants ASCII or Postscript, the mgetty fax queue has ready-made G3 instead
 > of the original documents.
 > 
 > So I still think something in faxspool's place might be more useful - why
 > spool it locally if you can directly put it into the mailer queue?

Because faxspool deals with all sorts of different formats.  It puts
on header lines.  And it's structured to throw files into a queue
directory.  And because knowledge about the queue is already fixed
into three separate programs, faxspool, faxq, and faxrunq.  Adding a
fourth wouldn't make any of the three more complicated.  And
converting from g3 to postscript is, um, trivial: g3topbm|pnmtops.

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