mgetty+sendfax

[Gregory Nowak]

Hi all.

Thanks to all those who answered my bash scripting question.
I'm running into more problems, so maybe I'm better off describing
what it is I'm trying to do.

Basically, I want to have a script that will accept a phone number,
and the name of a text file on the command line.
It would then use ghost script to turn the txt file into a g3 file,
and envoke sendfax to send a fax.

When I want to convert a text file to a g3 file with gs, I am doing:

gs -sDEVICE=faxg3 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fax.g3.%d file.txt

but, I get a whole bunch of error messages from gs:

GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13)
Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights
reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for
details.
Error: /undefined in This
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   2   3
  %oparray_pop   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1
   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3
   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
   --nostringval--   --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:916/1241(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:50/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 5
GS>
 
Then, I type quit to get out of ghost script.

If anybody could please tell me how to do what I'm trying to do
correctly, or better yet, if somebody already has a script that does
this, I would very much welcome the help/script.
Thanks.

Greg


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