NAME

       efax-gtk-socket-client - a client of efax-gtk to work with lpd/lprng

SYNOPSIS

       efax-gtk-socket-client [hostname] [port]

DESCRIPTION

       This program enables lpd/lprng to access the efax-gtk socket server. Meaning the user can send faxes to a
       printer, which will ack as a fax.

       It takes two arguments - first a hostname to connect to, and secondly a port number at that  hostname  to
       connect to.  All efax-gtk-socket-client does is to read from standard input (in this case from lpd/lprng)
       and passes it to a socket at the hostname and port number passed as arguments to it (namely the  hostname
       of  the  computer  efax-gtk is running on - normally you would specify localhost - and the port number of
       the socket).

       fax:
            :sd=/var/spool/fax:
            :mx#0:
            :sh:
            :lp=/dev/null:
            :if=/var/spool/fax/efax-gtk-faxfilter:

       This will cause a printer by the name of "fax" to be available, which (if printed to) will send the  file
       to  the  efax-gtk  socket server.  If you set efax-gtk to listen on a port other than port 9900, you will
       need to amend the file /var/spool/fax/efax-gtk-faxfilter by hand to specify the correct  port  number  on
       which efax-gtk is listening.

       Don't forget to restart the lpd printer daemon after amending /etc/printcap.

OPTIONS

       [ hostname ] - The name of the host to listen to. Usually should be locahlhost.
       [ port ] - the port number to listen to on the [ hostname ].

SEE ALSO

       efax(1), efax-gtk(1).

AUTHOR

       efax-gtk-socket-client was written by  Chris Vine <chris@cvine.freeserve.co.uk>.

       This  manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used
       by others).

                                                  July 18, 2006                        efax-gtk-socket-client(1)