Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <409647C0.2080608@manoweb.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 15:23:12 +0200 From: Alessio Sangalli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031210 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Hones , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: efax on cygwin References: <409508AF.4040301@manoweb.com> <4095E7A2.2080802@manoweb.com> <4096295F.2030703@aonix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4096295F.2030703@aonix.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Cliff Hones wrote: > Did you actually try Igor's suggestion? You may need to create > a real /dev directory. After adding the symbolic link efax > may be able to correctly open the modem. Note that Cygwin's > devices are virtual, so you don't actually need a real /dev/ttyS0 > file. ja!!! it works nicely, thought there are some warnings, but I've sent a fax and it's perfect! Thank you!!! PS sorry if I didn't undertsand the suggestion at first. Thank you again.......!! > > Igor was pointing out that it isn't just Cygwin that efax doesn't > port to directly, since /dev/modem doesn't necessarily exist. efax had the -d option to point to some other device, or you can specify it in a config file... I don't see this as a portability problem.... ciao Alessio Sangalli -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/