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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:26:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alessio Sangalli <alesan AT manoweb DOT com>
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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
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