mfax - A Manual Fax Send/Receive Utility

SYNOPSIS
mfax mode [ options ] file1 file2...

DESCRIPTION
Mfax can be used to manually send or receive files from a fax modem, bypassing the normal Faximum spooler. It can be used when other devices are being used to control the phone line (such as voice applications).

MODES

tx

transmit fax

rx

receive fax

OPTIONS

-d

Debug

-f device

Select fax device

-p phone-number

Sets number to dial. Transmit without specifying a phone number implies immediately pick up the phone and send fax tones.

-t file-type

Set file type for conversion. The default file-type is tiff. The -t option can specify any file type found in /opt/FAXserver/convert. This option can be specified multiple times on the command line. All files are converted prior to initiating a call.

-v

Verbose

-w

Wait for before connect

For receive, a device must be specified if more than one fax device exists. On transmit, mfax will use the first available device if no device was explicitly specified with the -f option. You can use a symbolic device name that references a file in the /opt/FAXserver/dev directory (e.g. fax-line-1) or an absolute path (e.g. /dev/tty2a).

On transmit, the -t option must be used when the file(s) to be transmitted are not already in TIFF-F format. Mfax uses the same mechanism as sendfax for file conversion. A missing phone number is legal; mfax will assume the number was dialled by some other method (e.g. manually) and will attempt to start a fax session without dialling. Received data is stored in a TIFF-F format file.