On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:41 PM, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
It's been many years, but it seems that I have to receive a fax and might have to send one too. Is there a way to do this on CentOS 5.5? (Hope so.)
tia.
There are plenty. "mgetty" is built-in. HylaFAX, written by Sam Leffler, who created TIFF and was one of the core authors of BSD, is still in popular and commercial use: It Just Works(tm). [I wrote the SunOS port of it years and years back, and broke down laughing at a job interview in England when the company said "oh, yes, we use some very old fax/modem software you'll need to deal with. It's called 'HylaFAX'".
The "viewfax" tool from mgetty still remains the best tool for viewing the special tiffg3 files used for sending and receiving faxes, and the mgetty "voice" tools can help HylaFAX or mgetty handle voice messages too. But if you just install HylaFAX from RPMforge, it should Just Work(tm).