mgetty and the NeXT FaxReader

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Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.DE) wrote:
: >Has anyone been able to make mgetty work with the FaxReader and Fax subsystem
: >in the NeXTStep OS?

: Yes. ;-)

: I and two or three other people managed to connect mgetty+sendfax to the  
: NEXTSTEP fax system. For the sending part, there's a package, ps2g3, from  
: Kevin Peckover in the archives (e.g. ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) that  
: contains a precompiled (old) version of sendfax and a setup program that  
: installs a new fax modem in the NEXTSTEP fax system. The nice thing: it  
: doesn't need ghostscript, but uses DPS to render the pages!

: I've never tried this stuff ;-)

: The receiving part should be much easier. Kevin hacked together some stuff,  
: but didn't make it public, as did Christian Starkjohann and Mark Salyzyn. I  
: started to modify the mgetty source accordingly (most important change:  
: three-digit page numbers instead of only two! ;-), but stopped sometimes, when  
: I found that this part of mgetty would like to see a major cleanup. Gert told  
: me that this is on his todo-list, so I'm still waiting ;-) (no offense!).

: Anyway, the necessary knowledge is there. We just have to bundle it.

I am interested in this stuff too.
I've installed mgetty+sendfax, which seems to work.
The ps2g3 package has some problems with my 68040 System with NS3.3 (when the line is 
busy the fax is resent forever.)
Where can I get some information how the NeXT fax-system works and how to combine it with 
mgetty+sendfax? Where is the info of Christian Starkjohann and Mark Salyzyn? 

Thanks for any help, Charly.

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