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FAX(1)                                                                                                FAX(1)



NAME
       fax - make, send, receive, view or print a fax

SYNOPSIS
       fax help

       fax make [-l] file

       fax send [-l] [-v] { -m | number } filename...

       fax [ receive [-v] [ filename-prefix ] ]

       fax { print | view | rm } filename...

       fax { queue | status [t] |  start | stop }

       fax answer


OPTIONS
       -l       use low (96 line per inch) resolution

       -v       display verbose messages for debugging

       -m       the phone call has already been dialed manually



       The  commands  make, send, receive, view and queue may be abbreviated to their first characters (e.g.
       ``fax q'').

       Assignments of the form VARIABLE=value may appear before the command name to temporarily  change  the
       values of most fax script variables (e.g. ``fax PAGE=A4 print letter.001'')



DESCRIPTION
       fax provides a simple user interface to the efax(1) and efix(1) programs.  It allows you to send text
       or Postscript files as faxes and receive, print or preview received  faxes.   The  fax  help  command
       prints a summary of the possible commands.

       To  send  a  fax,  the original files need to be converted from ASCII or Postscript into a particular
       bit-map format (TIFF with Group 3 encoding).  This can be done automatically by the fax send  command
       or you can use the fax make command to do the conversion before sending the fax.  The conversion will
       create one file per page.  These files will have the name of the original file with the  page  number
       as an additional suffix.  For example, running fax make doc.ps on the two-page postscript file doc.ps
       would generate the files doc.ps.001 and doc.ps.002.

       When sending a fax with the fax send command you may dial the number manually and use the  -m  option
       or you may give the phone number on the command line.  The names of the files to be sent are given on
       the command line, usually by using wildcards.  For example, to send a multi-page  fax  consisting  of
       the  files  doc.ps.001,  doc.ps.002, and so on, you could use the command fax send 555-1212 doc.ps.0*
       (if you had already run the fax make command) or simply fax send 555-1212 doc.ps.  If the  number  is
       busy the script will wait and try again.

       Use  the  fax receive command to answer the phone and receive a fax.  If a file name is specified the
       received fax will be stored in files with the given file name plus an extension  equal  to  the  page
       number.  If no options are given, the received fax will be stored in files having a name given by the
       date and time and an extension equal to the page number.  For example, a fax  received  beginning  on
       July 4 at 3:05:20 pm will generate files 0704150520.001, 0704150520.002, and so on.

       The fax print, fax view, and fax rm commands are used to print, preview or remove received fax files.
       As with the send command the file names are usually given using wildcards.

       If efax has been installed for automatic fax reception you can use the fax queue command to check for
       files in the incoming spool directory.  The fax script can also be configured to print received faxes
       or e-mail them as MIME attachments with type image/tiff-f.  For convenience the fax print,  view  and
       rm  commands  will  first  check for the named files in this spool directory.  The fax status command
       shows the status of the automatic receive process once, or every t seconds.  Privileged users can use
       the fax stop and fax start commands to stop and restart the fax reception daemon.

       The  fax  answer  command  is  used  for  unattended  reception of faxes.  It is normally placed in a
       launchd.plist(5) file and is run automatically by launchd(8).  The -v option  displays  verbose  mes-sages. messages.
       sages.

       Other features of the fax script are documented within the script:


       -  a directory that lets you specify recipients by name instead of number


       -  the fax new command to create a simple cover page and start up a text editor


       -  the  fax  makefont  command  converts a Postscript font to a bit-mapped font for use in headers or
          text


RESOLUTION
       Faxes can be created at low (98 lines per inch)  or  high  (196  lpi)  resolution.   Almost  all  fax
       machines  will operate at either resolution.  By default files are created at high resolution but you
       can use the optional -l argument to create files at low resolution.


SESSION LOGS
       The modem commands and responses together with status and error messages are written to file.  If the
       fax is successfully sent or received the log file is removed.  Otherwise a message is printed showing
       the log file name.  Please send a copy of this file when reporting problems with efax.


FILES
       The fax script will `source' the optional shell  scripts  /etc/efax.rc,  ~/.efaxrc  and/or  ./.efaxrc
       before  processing command-line arguments.  These files can be used to set script variables to custom
       values for a particular system, user and/or directory.

       The following files are created in the FAXDIR spool directory when automatic fax reception is enabled
       (see  the  fax  script).  DEV represents the name of the fax modem device file in /dev (e.g. cua1 for
       /dev/cua1).


       DEV.n     the log file created by the fax answer daemon with process id n

       DEV.log   contains collected log files for device DEV.  Log files showing a termination status  of  1
                 (device busy) or 4 (no response from modem) are not added to this file.

       DEV.stop  created by the fax stop command to prevent the fax daemon from starting up.


AUTHOR
       Fax  was  written  by Ed Casas.  Please send comments or bug reports to edc@cce.com.  Please describe
       the type of modem used and include a copy of the log file.


COPYRIGHT
       Fax is copyright 1993 -- 1999 by Ed Casas.  It may be used, copied and modified under  the  terms  of
       the GNU Public License.


DISCLAIMER
       Although  fax has been tested, it may have errors that will prevent it from working correctly on your
       system.  Some of these errors may cause serious problems including loss of data and interruptions  to
       telephone service.


SEE ALSO
       efax(1), efix(1), launchd(8).


BUGS
       See efax(1).



3rd Berkeley Distribution                         May 1996                                            FAX(1)