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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:23:18 -0700
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On 08/19/2012 09:03 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Todd And Margo Chester
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 08/19/2012 05:56 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> By the time the print job gets handed to CUPS, it's supposed to be an
>>>> actual print job. In *theory*, I suppose you could do a wrapper to
>>>> deduce who the sender was, what X session or tty they're running from,
>>>> and do a pop-up. But then that would fail for scheduled fax jobs,
>>>> which would have to use something else. And you'd have to specify
>>>> print requests to hit that particular printer. If you're going to all
>>>> that work of setting the particular printer, why not go to the extra
>>>> wrap of piping the print job to a pre-processor that will set up the
>>>> fax?
>>>
>>>
>>> And, it looks like somebody already wrote one, called "fax4CUPS" at
>>> http://vigna.dsi.unimi.it/fax4CUPS/ /
>>>
>>
>> I already have this one installed.  And, can not get it to work.
>> I have gone over the man page till my eye pop out.
>>
>> The only error message I can find is in CUPS:
>>       aborted "Unknown error (return code 1)"
>
> What did the logs say? And did you make sure that the "lp" user has
> appropriate sudo access?
>

Hi All,

FINALLY figured it out.

http://files.yajhfc.de/doc/cupsfaxprinter.shtml

Pops right up after about a two second delay.

-T

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