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- This document contains recent changes relevant to this package.
- These may not have made it into the manual as yet,
- or may be recent additions to the manual.
-
- Last Manual Update: 15-March-1994, AmigaFax 1.40
-
- The large Amiga fonts converted from TeX format which were stored in
- the file FaxFonts.run would not fit on the floppy for the 1.40
- distribution. These are not required for AmigaDOS2.0, but may be
- required under 1.3. The fonts themselves have not changed for many
- years, so if you have a copy from a demo you can use them. Otherwise
- if you require them please contact me.
-
- -David
-
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- AfaxSend 1.34 9OCT92 23:00 DAV
- =============
-
- Experimental version with Xon/Xoff flow control when transmitting.
- To enable XonXoff mode, you must have a config entry (or environmental
- or local variable):
-
- XonXoff 1
-
- Actually, any number will do for now, but use 1 for future compatability.
-
- => 1.34
-
- This one checks for XON/XOFF every 10 characters, not every 1000 as
- 1.33 did.
-
- It also prints out characters received while transmitting, in case the
- modem sends things other than XON/XOFF. These are not checked for as yet.
-
- To see the debug info, from a shell, type
-
- afaxsend -d3 number faxfile
-
- eg
-
- mkafax my_text_file ram:fx
-
- afaxsend 052786355 ram:fx
-
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-
- Modified Faa for use with TrapDoor 17NOV92 DAV
- ==================================
-
- I've just had some discussions with a local user who is also trying to
- use TrapDoor with AmigaFax. I made up a test version of FAA for him,
- which he has reported back as working, so I'll pass it on. The problem
- appeared to be in the baud rate between TrapDoor and faa - when faa is
- run in the -G mode, it would not attempt to set the baud rate, leaving
- it at what Getty had set it to. Apparently this doesn't work well with
- TrapDoor.
-
- For this version (1.34) there is an extra command line option, -Q
-
- When this option is given with -G (Getty mode), the baudrate given in
- the RRate config or environment variable will be used when faa
- communicates with the modem.
-
- Without it, the serial rate is not set.
-
- So now your TrapDoor command line for fax may be:
-
- FAXCOMMAND "afax:c/faa -D duart.device -U 0 -G -Q"
-
- with FAXLIB:Config (or SetEnv or Set)
-
- RRate 19200
-
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-
- Support for PasTeX with AmigaFax 9DEC92 DAV
- ================================
-
- We have received a support package to allow users of PasTeX to
- interface to AmigaTeX. This is included in an archive in the
- Afax:Other directory. We have not tested the package here, as we do
- not have PasTeX installed. See the ReadMe file in the archive for more instructions.
-
- Thanks to Martin Horneffer and Martin Steppler for this contribution.
-
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-
- Version 1.38 1FEB94 DAV
- ============
-
- This revision is mainly to add an afax printer driver, but a few
- general bug-fixes to do with requester satisfaction also made it in.
-
- Additional Programs:
- -------------------
-
- afax.driver This is the printer driver itself. The working copy
- goes in DEVS:Printers, the copy in afax:c is not needed.
-
- printsymb This is the print symbiont that does the conversion to
- fax format. Under 2.0 the driver will start it
- automatically, if this doesn't work it may be run up
- manually. Goes in afax:c
-
- FPrint A little print-diverter, you could bind this to a
- hot-key using FKeys or similar. Allows directing one
- or more print jobs to the fax driver. You can also do
- this by setting afax.driver in your printer preferences.
-
- Operation:
- ---------
- afax.driver The current version is limited to graphics-format
- output only. (Most DTP programs, etc use this)
- I may add standard text capability later.
-
- printsymb -h "Hang Around" - the symbiont will not terminate when the
- driver is expunged. Useful for testing.
- -r Replace - Automatically replace an existing symbiont.
- Again useful for testing only.
- -q Quit - Terminate any existing symbiont, and exit.
-
- The print symbiont will create a fax file in the directory FAXSPOOL:,
- with a unique name of form P_xxxxxx.AFX, and then will call afax to
- process it for sending, viewing, etc.
- This can result in a build up of files in FAXSPOOL:, P_0000.AFX,
- P_0001.AFX, P_0002.AFX and so on. The the environmental or config file
- variable FAXFILE is set, then output will always go to that file,
- overwriting if it exists. So you could:
-
- setenv FAXFILE T:Faxprt
-
- and all fax printout would go there. BEWARE of doing this if you are
- spooling faxes, however, as the fax may be overwritten before being sent.
-
-
- FPrint -m Multiple jobs. If called with this option, FPrint will
- stay resident for multiple print jobs, else it will
- terminate after one.
- -n No Requester - The "Print Redirected" requester will
- be suppressed.
- -q Terminate any running FPrint, and exit.
-
- FPrint will change the in-use printer preference while running, so
- that printing goes via the afax.driver. The previous printer is
- restored when it exits. You can get the same effect by changing your
- printer to afax.driver via preferences, but FPrint may be more
- convenient. You could attach it to a hot-key, using FKeys, for
- example, to run "RunBack FPrint", "RunBack FPrint -q", etc as desired.
-
- Other changes:
- -------------
- The afax program now has a command-line switch.
-
- afax -f faxfile
-
- where faxfile is the name of a fax file, will result in afax coming up
- with the source and fax files pre-set to that file name. This is for
- use with the printer-driver code, but may be useful for other things.
-
- afaxprt should not abort prematurely when keystrokes go into its
- requester! This was a general fix, and may help other programs also.
-
- afax will signal afaxspl to do an immediate scan everytime it spools
- another fax, rather that waiting for the next scheduled queue scan.
-
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