make.coverpg - create a fax coverpg on stdout
make.coverpg [options] <pages> <sender-ID> <sender-NAME>
<receiver-ID> <receiver-NAME> <date> <time>
make.coverpg is called from
faxspool(1) to generate a cover page for the
just-processed fax. It has to create a proper G3 file (e.g. via
pbm2g3(1) or
hp2hig3(1) or
ghostscript(1)) and output that on stdout. If the program
doesn't exist, or can't be executed, the fax simply won't get a coverpage (so,
if you don't want a fax coverpage, do not install it...)
make.coverpg can put anything it wants on the page, but note that there
are certain legal requirements in certain countries about the contents that
*have* to be on the cover page, for example, the fax phone number of the
sender and the recepient, the number of pages, or similar things.
make.coverpg gets the informations about the fax to be sent from the
command line, in the order listed above.
If the environment variable
normal_res is set to something non-empty,
faxspool requests that
make.coverpg creates a cover page in
normal resolution (98 lpi). Default is fine resolution (196 lpi).
NO make.coverpg program is installed by default, since everyones
needs differ too wildly.
Some sample coverpage programs are provided in the mgetty source tree, in the
samples/ subdirectory (coverpg.pbm shows how to do it with
"pbmtext|pbm2g3", coverpg.ps shows how I do it with ghostscript).
In this directory, you can also find two shell scripts (fax and faxmemo) that
will take advantage of one more esoteric feature of my coverpage programs: if
called with the option "-m <memo-file>", the sample programs
will put a text file "<memo-file>" on the cover page (used for
short notes or such). To make use of it,
faxspool is called with the
option '-C "make.coverpg -m <memo-file>"' (the double quotes
are needed!).
- none
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A five-page fax sent from me to my second number could result in a call like
this:
make.coverpg 5 "+49-89-3243328" "Gert Doering"
"3244814" "myself" "Sep 15 94"
"22:10:00"
- /usr/lib/mgetty-fax/make.coverpg
- the program itself
faxspool(1),
pbm2g3(1),
ghostscript(1)
The idea behind
make.coverpg is Copyright (C) 1993 by Gert Doering,
<
[email protected]>, the implementation will most likely have
yours...