efax on cygwin

[Alessio Sangalli]

Hi, I would like to send faxes with the eafx program under cygwin.
I've tried to compile it and I had to hack a bit the source and the 
Makefile.

You can donwload the efax sources at:
http://www.cce.com/efax/
I've used the "stable" release:
ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/serialcomm/fax/efax-0.9.tar.gz

I had to edit the "efaxio.c" source file adding:
#define SIGIOT 6

then I had to edit efaxlib.h on line 94; this was a strange issue to me, 
I had to modify "O_TEXT=6" in "O_TXT=6".

I also had to modify the Makefile to create an executable called 
"efax.exe" instead of a simple "efax".

Now, the program seems to run, but it doens't recognizes /dev/modem as a 
device:

$ ./efax.exe
./efax: Sun May 02 15:44:00 2004 efax v 0.9 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
./efax: Sun May 02 15:44:00 2004 efax v 0.9 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
efax: 44:00 compiled May  2 2004 15:40:02
efax: 44:00 Error: can't open serial port /dev/modem: No such file or 
directory
efax: 44:00 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error)

I tried to specify "com1" as a device but it hangs:

$ ./efax.exe -d com1
./efax: Sun May 02 15:44:04 2004 efax v 0.9 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
./efax: Sun May 02 15:44:04 2004 efax v 0.9 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas
efax: 44:04 compiled May  2 2004 15:40:02
efax: 44:05 opened com1
efax: 44:05 Error: tcgetattr on fd=3 failed: Not a typewriter


Do you have any advice? Thank you
Alessio Sangalli








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