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Installation Synopsis
Use and Copyright
Acknowledgements
HylaFAX Mailing List and Other Final Words


$Id: README,v 1.141 1996/10/31 19:10:46 sam Rel $

HylaFAX, Version 4.0 (release)


Copyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler
Copyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
HylaFAX is a trademark of Silicon Graphics

    Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and 
    its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
    that (i) the above copyright notices and this permission notice appear in
    all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names of
    Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or
    publicity relating to the software without the specific, prior written
    permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, 
    EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY 
    WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

    IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR
    ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
    OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS,
    WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF 
    LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE 
    OF THIS SOFTWARE.

This note is basically just a placeholder. The real documentation is located online at the HylaFAX home page:

The online documentation includes the full contents of the documentation as well as an FAQ, archives of the HylaFAX/flexfax mailing list, and associated modem-related documentation. Preformatted copies of this documentation and the reference manual pages is also available by public FTP at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/doc.

You will find a subset of the online documentation in the html subdirectory. Beware however that timely information is usually more up to date online than in the materials in the html directory. You can view the HTML documentation in place and/or configure it for local installation through the configure script.

This note has the following sections:

Installation Synopsis

Follow the directions in the online documentation. The main material on configuring, building, and installing the software is given in: Server setup information is found at: The documentation is extensive and designed to be used when installing the software. There is also an FAQ that covers (or should cover) common problems.

The basic procedure is:

If this does not work and the problem is not clear, then you will need to look at the documentation and/or the code.

Use and Copyright

There is documentation! There is GOBS of documentation. The HTML materials present information needed to build+setup the software; the manual pages act as a reference guide. There are manual pages for all the programs and for all the files and directories that you may be curious about. Of course there is also source code for everything, but this should (hopefully) not be needed. A useful introduction to the client applications is given in hylafax(1). If you want to learn how the server and spooling system work, look first at hylafax(4F).
Remember however that the manual pages are for reference; the HTML documentation is designed to be more introductory in nature and should usually be consulted first when you're looking for general guidance.

Please note that unless you are sending me a bug *fix* to this software sending mail directly to me is a waste of your time. The flexfax mailing list (described below) is the place to send your comments and problems. The -request administrative alias (again, see below) is the place to send administrative requests.

Silicon Graphics has seen fit to allow me to give this work away. It is free. There is no support or guarantee of any sort as to its operations, correctness, or whatever. If you do anything useful with all or parts of it you need to honor the copyright notices. I would also be interested in knowing about it and, hopefully, be acknowledged.

Finally, note that this software is called ``HylaFAX'', not ``Hylafax'', ``hylafax'', and certainly not ``FlexFAX'' (the old name which someone else has a copyright on). If you want to refer to this software use ``HylaFAX (tm)'' and be sure to honor the Silicon Graphics trademark.

Acknowledgements

This software is more than 6 years old and is the product of many folks' work. Robin Schaufler did the original scheme for delayed submission and worked on the client-server protocol. More recently, the following people have helped either by testing or by contributing fixes and/or improvements:

  Matthias Apitz     Chris Beekhuis	  Peter Bentley	
  Marc Boucher       Piete Brooks         Bill Campbell
  Brent Chapman      Camden Clarke        Tom Corson
  Alan Crosswell     Mark Diekhans        Greg Ferguson
  Steve Fine	     Andrew Ford          Nico Garcia
  Wolfgang Henke     Viet Hoang           Bert Hooyman
  Ken Hornstein	     Dirk Husemann        Brian Katzung
  Masao Kitano	     Carsten Koch         John T Kohl
  Scott Kramer       Rickard Linck        Rick Lyons
  Tom Lislegaard     Rob MacKinnon	  Kevin McManamon
  Les Mikesell	     Bill Morrow	  Andy Moskoff
  Chris Munonye	     Rob Newberry	  Dag Nygren
  Jonas Olsson       Dave Packer	  Damon Permezel
  David Pike         Amir Plivatsky       Andy Rabagliati
  Eric Rescorla      Matthew Rice         Tim Rice
  Marshall Rose      Daniel Rosenblatt    Joel Rosi-Schwartz
  Tim Rylance        Joseph E. Sacco      Thomas A. Szybist
  Brent Townshend    Peter White          Steve Williams
  Scott Woodard      David Vrona          Paul Vixie
  Christian Zahl

(and surely others). Also, a special thanks to Ed McCreight for helping me understand the stuff "between the lines" that's necessary to make a working Class 1 driver.

The regular expression support is based on Henry Spencer's POSIX 1003.2 compliant regex package that has ``Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Henry Spencer. All rights reserved.'' Consult regex/COPYRIGHT for the full copyright notice associated with this software.

The zlib package used in the client-server protocol is copyright 1995-1996 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler. Consult the file zlib/README for more information on the package.

The code to read PCF fonts is distantly related to the X11R5 code that is ``Copyright 1990 Massachusetts Institute of Technology''; consult faxd/PCFFont.c++ for the full copyright notice.

The textfmt program is distantly related to the lptops program written by Nelson Beebe; there was no copyright notice on the version of the code that textfmt grew out of.

The config.guess and config.sub scripts are part of the GNU autoconf package and covered by the GNU Public License (GPL). Several ideas in the configure script are directly "borrowed" from autoconf (and I have tried to maintain as much compatibility as possible).

The PCF font etc/lutRS18.pcf included for use with tag lines is a compiled version of a LucidaTypewriter font that was contributed to X11 by Bigelow & Holmes. Redistribution of this font requires inclusion of this copyright notice:


    NOTICE TO USER: The source code, including the glyphs or icons 
    forming a par of the OPEN LOOK TM Graphic User Interface, on this 
    tape and in these files is copyrighted under U.S. and international
    laws. Sun Microsystems, Inc. of Mountain View, California owns
    the copyright and has design patents pending on many of the icons. 
    AT&T is the owner of the OPEN LOOK trademark associated with the
    materials on this tape. Users and possessors of this source code 
    are hereby granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free copyright and 
    design patent license to use this code in individual and 
    commercial software. A royalty-free, nonexclusive trademark
    license to refer to the code and output as "OPEN LOOK" compatible 
    is available from AT&T if, and only if, the appearance of the 
    icons or glyphs is not changed in any manner except as absolutely
    necessary to accommodate the standard resolution of the screen or
    other output device, the code and output is not changed except as 
    authorized herein, and the code and output is validated by AT&T. 
    Bigelow & Holmes is the owner of the Lucida (R) trademark for the
    fonts and bit-mapped images associated with the materials on this 
    tape. Users are granted a royalty-free, nonexclusive license to use
    the trademark only to identify the fonts and bit-mapped images if, 
    and only if, the fonts and bit-mapped images are not modified in any
    way by the user. 


    Any use of this source code must include, in the user documentation 
    and internal comments to the code, notices to the end user as  
    follows:


    (c) Copyright 1989 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun design patents
    pending in the U.S. and foreign countries. OPEN LOOK is a 
    trademark of AT&T. Used by written permission of the owners.


    (c) Copyright Bigelow & Holmes 1986, 1985. Lucida is a registered 
    trademark of Bigelow & Holmes. Permission to use the Lucida 
    trademark is hereby granted only in association with the images 
    and fonts described in this file.



    SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC., AT&T, AND BIGELOW & HOLMES
    MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF
    THIS SOURCE CODE FOR ANY PURPOSE. IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" 
    WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 
    SUN  MICROSYSTEMS, INC., AT&T AND BIGELOW  & HOLMES, 
    SEVERALLY AND INDIVIDUALLY, DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES 
    WITH REGARD TO THIS SOURCE CODE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED
    WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
    PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL SUN MICROSYSTEMS,
    INC., AT&T OR BIGELOW & HOLMES BE LIABLE FOR ANY
    SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
    OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA      
    OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF  CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
    OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
    WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOURCE CODE.

HylaFAX Mailing List and Other Final Words (where to send bugs)

A mailing list for users of this software is accessible through sgi.com. If you want to join this mailing list or have a list-related request such as getting your name removed from it, send your request to (FYI, "flexfax" is the old name for this software). For example, to subscribe, send the line "subscribe" in the body of your message. The line "help" will return a list of the commands understood by the mailing list management software. You can also find information on subscribing to the mailing list at:

Submissions to the mailing list (including bug reports) should be directed to: Note that the mailing list has many people on it. Please take this into consideration when posting notes to it; i.e. avoid posting large trace logs and the such. Also, when corresponding about this software please always specify:

- what version you have (see "How to tell which version you have" above),
- what system you're running on, and,
- if the problem is modem-related, identify it and the firmware rev
For example: "HylaFAX v3.0beta99 under Solaris 2.3 with gcc 2.6.3;
ZyXEL 1496E with 6.11a firmware."
If you find the flexfax mailing list to have too much traffic for you, there is also an announcements-only mailing list called flexfax-announce.
This can be subscribed to by sending mail flexfax-announce-request@sgi.com; include the single line "subscribe" in the body of the message. Note that there is no need to subscribe to both mailing lists; postings to the announcement list are automatically fed to the normal flexfax list.

If you have not previously done so, please submit the survey form at

This form provides me with information on the modems and systems that HylaFAX is being used with. The information is just to help me diagnose problems; all information is kept strictly private.