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List:       hylafax
Subject:    Fw: flexfax: Umlaut problem
From:       "Bob Perschau" <rcp () panduit ! com>
Date:       1999-03-25 20:47:51
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Took Darren's advice for checking out the changelog for the RPM I have here.
(hylafax-v4.0pl2-3rh5.i386.rpm)

did a

$ rpm -q --changelog hylafax | more

and got

* Tue Sep 29 1998 Darren Nickerson <darren@info.tpc.int>
<snip>

Ok, it looks like I have something recent. However the only mention I see
about textfmt in the changelog is Robert Colquhoun's textfmt-mailer patch.

A look at TextFmt.c++ and TextFmt.h in the source RPM I have here,
(hylafax-v4.0pl2-3rh5.i386.src.rpm) shows them to be the patched versions.
Looks like I'll be doing some compiling from these sources.

Sitting here with fingers crossed,
Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: <darren@info.tpc.int>
To: Jay R. Ashworth <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Cc: <flexfax@sgi.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 0:10
Subject: Re: flexfax: Umlaut problem


> In message <19990324122753.39140@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>, "Jay R. Ashworth"
writes
> :
> >> I have searched the list archives and it seems that this problem was
> >> addressed by Leif Erlingsson with TextFmt.c++ and TextFmt.h patches. I
am
> >> using Darren Nickerson's hylafax-v4.0pl2-3rh5.i386.rpm.  I assume this
is
> >> a patched version as I also have a source rpm with the patches and
> >> Darren's name on it.
> >
> >The 3rh5 rpm was in fact generated by Darren; if it doesn't include a
> >list of the patches it includes, I'd have to suggest to Darren that he
> >add one to the next release.
>
> (anybody with the RPM could do this):
>
> [tpcadmin@hewes SOURCES]$ rpm -q --changelog hylafax | more
> * Tue May 26 1998 Darren Nickerson <darren@info.tpc.int>
>
> - removed .orig files from patch - they were 90 percent of it
>   - removed oversimplified /dev/modem assumptions
>   - faxcron was invoking xferstats, instead of new xferfaxstats - fixed
>   - revised faxcron's manpage
>   - HylaFAX was still writing etc/xferlog. Changed to etc/xferfaxlog as
>         advertised by all supporting docs and scripts.
>   - added hourly faxqclean and daily faxcron cron jobs, and xferlog
rotation
>   - hfaxd no longer hard-wired as running from inetd, faxsetup will handle
this
>   - no longer assumes /dev/modem and blindly inserts inittab entry
>   - change naming scheme to differentiate rh4/rh5
>   - move documentation back into main rpm, instead of sub-packages
>   - added Robert Colquhoun's textfmt-mailer patch
>   - increased margin on LHS, was too close and getting clipped
>   - make faxsetup warn that modem class = modem pool, not Class1/2/2.0
>   - use HylaFAX's init script, startup with new protocol only and no snpp
>   - added -DFIXEDMEDIA to last command in ps2fax.gs, as posted
>         by "Alan Sparks" <asparks@nss.harris.com>
>   - added fixhtml patch, removed release from the doc dir, now just
version
>   - added Nico's skel patch, for class1/2/2.0 modem prototype files
>   - added Robert Colquhoun's patch to hfaxd's tagline generation
>   - fixes to build on 5.1, contributed by Richard Sharpe
<sharpe@ns.aus.com>
>   - faxrcvd now treated as a config file, preserved as .rpmsave
>   - fixed ghostscript dependency to require fonts-std, not fonts.
>   - remove requirement for mawk - use gawk instead.
>   - faxsetup now detects is hfaxd is not driven from inetd, and starts it
>         when restarting faxq using SysV init script (Robert Colquhoun)
> [snip]
>
>
> >It may well not have the specific patch you need, though.
>
> If I recall correctly, this patch was merged into the pl2 distribution.
>
> Yeap, a quick peek at TextFmt.c++ from hylafax-v4.0pl2/util leads us to
>
>             /*
>              * Next line added by Leif Erlingsson <leif@lege.com> because
>              * otherwise, if the metrics-file has no glyph metric table
>              * and useISO8859 == False, the FixedMetrics will be all 0's!
>              * (I don't know if this does or does not cause any problem.)
>              */
>
>
> >You neglect to mention how the text is _getting_ from your mainframe to
> >your RedHat box.  However, we may not need to know.  TextFmt is a
> >frontend to GhostScript, used on files that don't originat in that
> >format, as far as I understand things.  This being the case, I'd bet
> >that the patch you're talking about is in fact not installed, and that
> >your pipeline from the IBM goes through textfmt on the way to GS.
> >
> >Darren?  Concur?
>
> I'm a frayed not. He's patched up. I'm not sure what's failing, sorry!
>
> -Darren
>
>

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