Fax software

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

  Hi,

  I've spent the better part of the afternoon trying to get Silicon Graphics'
HylaFAX package set up and working, but, alas, without success.  It looks it
should be a nice, full-featured, well-documented (great hypertext) package,
but it's not much good if it doesn't run!

  There's a Linux binary, which installs just by unpacking the tar.gz file.
However, when you try to run any of the programs they complain like this:
     /usr/local/bin/sendfax: can't load library 'libg++.so.27'
Ok, well my library is called libg++.so.2.7.0 .  Sounds close enough, so I
make a link to it from ...so.27 .  No go!  Now we can't resolve the references.

  Fortunately, the source is available at the same URL,
     ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/
so I tried compiling it.  Everything is very well set up, all nicely 
automated, but the compile fails to produce some of the key executables.
At this point I give up.

  Anybody else had better luck?  This looks like it's worth a little hassle
(if necessary) to get going.  But I'm open to alternate suggestions too.

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka


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