[Asterisk-Users] A software FAX modem

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:22, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did say this was a first test release :-)  I can't be held responsible 
> for libtiff being empty on your machine, but they other issues are my 
> fault. I have put a new tarball up, which should need nothing more than 
> libtiff for the library to work. All the other libraries you had issues 
> with are only needed by the test programs. "./configure" will now only 
> set things up to build the library. "./configure --enable-doc 
> --enable-tests --enable-itutests" will set things up to be everything.
> 
> This newer tarball also has improvements in the software. The V.29 modem 
> now works at all three speeds - 9600, 7200, and 4800bps. Previously I 
> had only debugged the 9600bps mode. FAX doesn't actually use the 4800bps 
> mode, but I thought I ought to fully implement the spec. (thats another 
> way of saying it was easy to do after getting 9600 and 7200 working :-) 
> ). I also fixed something that could cause crashes if you tried to send 
> a non-existant TIFF file.
> 
> I'm sorry if I disappointed the early adopters, but it *will* get better.

Early adopters should be used to this. Any comments are just to help get
the bugs worked out so we all can enjoy.

BTW, Mark just added app_cut.so to the Makefile and this has caused your
patch to not apply cleanly. It was minor for me to fix it by hand, but
this will need to be updated.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>