WELCOME to CARRANZAFAX. CARRANZAFAX is a faxing utility for Linux based systems. The cost for CARRANZAFAX is presently $20. Payments are accepted through PayPal. The link for payment is given below this paragraph. Fill out all the forms and include your email address. Once I receive payment, I will send you a tarred copy of the program. The tar file is only about 150Kb. Feel free to check out the screenshots. Furthermore, background, installation, and usage information is also provided in the other sections of this page. Demonstration software is included as well.
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Demonstration Software
To try out the software, please download the free DEMO. The DEMO version is written to demonstrate the fax sending capabilities of the CARRANZAFAX only. To operate the DEMO, please following the below given instructions:
Download the tarred package to your Desktop, there should be no need to switch users to ROOT
Open a shell window and change directories to your Desktop
untar the package with the following command: "tar xvf demo.tar"
change directories to the newly created folder on your desktop: "demo"
launch demo with the following command: "./demo"
Introduction
CARRANZAFAX is a Linux based program that makes faxing quick and easy. CARRANZAFAX is completely written in C programming language and utilizes the GTK libraries for C. CARRANZAFAX is a front end program. In other words, CARRANZAFAX provides the GUI for EFAX, a binary faxing utility. EFAX is executed via command line and can be quite cumbersome to use. For this reason, CARRANZAFAX is developed - to serve as an easy to use GUI for a command line program, EFAX. EFAX is normally included in all major distributions of Linux. More information about EFAX is provided through the manual pages: "man fax" or "man efax".
Installation
Download CARRANZAFAX to your Desktop
open a shell window
switch users to ROOT
untar the file: "tar -xvf carranzafax.tar"
change directories to "carranzafaxinstall"
install program by typing "./install"
CARRANZAFAX is automatically installed to the following directory: /usr/local/bin/carranzafax/
Fax File Preparation
As was mentioned earlier, CARRANZAFAX is a front end GUI to another program, EFAX. EFAX requires that all files to be foxed are in Post Script format. Thus, all files faxed must be converted to Post Script first before using CARRANZAFAX. This can be done in any program of your choice: Open Office, Star Office, K Office, Gimp, etc. Once this is done, then launch CARRANZAFAX and the program will guide you through the file selection. At this time a cover sheet must be prepared separately from the document to be faxed. Therefore, two Post Script files must be created, one for the cover sheet and one for the document.
Utilization
open a shell window
switch users to ROOT
change directories to /usr/local/bin/carranzafax/
run program by typing "./carranzafax"
Main Menu opens
Sending A Fax
at Main Menu, simply select "send"
program guides you through the operation
Receiving A Fax
at Main Menu, select "receive"
program guides you through the operation
received faxes are stored in the /usr/local/bin/carranzafax/ directory
they are stored as TIFF files and one TIFF file is created for every page received
each page is given a unique name, specifically "faxreceived.001", "faxreceived.002", etc
it is important to note, that each time a fax is received, the previous fax is erased. Thus, be sure to save the received faxes in another directory if they are needed for future reference.
Important Issues
At the present time, CARRANZAFAX must be running for a fax to be received. Future work includes allowing CARRANZAFAX to launch automatically when a fax is detected.
Sometimes faxes are not received properly because of issues with EFAX. EFAX must be configured sometimes to communicate with certain modems. For instance, if you are using a US Robotics external modem, you have to edit the configuration file: /etc/fax.config. You must uncomment line 227. If you do have problems receiving faxes, please contact the author of EFAX, he will be glad to help you: edc@cce.com or http://www.cce.com.
Contact Information
Bug fixes, comments, and recommendations are very welcome. Please send me an EMAIL
richard_carranza@msn.com