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Re: efax on cygwin
Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>
>> Try "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem". FWIW, RedHat 7.2 Linux doesn't have
>> /dev/modem, and neither do some other Linuces/Unices, so the above
>> program
>> is non-portable to say the least.
>
>
> Uh? I want this program to run under WINDOWS on the cygwin
> environment... I know how to let it work on linux!!
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong mailing list, I thought we were talking about
> the cygwin that runs on windows.....
Did you actually try Igor's suggestion? You may need to create
a real /dev directory. After adding the symbolic link efax
may be able to correctly open the modem. Note that Cygwin's
devices are virtual, so you don't actually need a real /dev/ttyS0
file.
Igor was pointing out that it isn't just Cygwin that efax doesn't
port to directly, since /dev/modem doesn't necessarily exist.
-- Cliff
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