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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:26:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Alessio Sangalli cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: efax on cygwin In-Reply-To: <409647C0.2080608@manoweb.com> Message-ID: References: <409508AF.4040301@manoweb.com> <4095E7A2.2080802@manoweb.com> <4096295F.2030703@aonix.co.uk> <409647C0.2080608@manoweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Mon, 3 May 2004, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > 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 In this case, efax should have worked nicely with "-d /dev/ttyS0", too... Or "-d /dev/com1", if you prefer the Windows names... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/