efax-gtk-socket-client(1)

💖 efax-gtk-socket-client(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the efax-gtk-socket-client page, from the General Commands Manual section. sit down, grab a boba, we're gonna fax things like it's 2006 and we're thriving ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

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

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: this program lets lpd/lprng get at the efax-gtk socket server. translation? you can send faxes to a printer, and that printer will ack as a fax. yes literally. printer → fax machine pipeline, no cap 🔥

it takes two arguments — first a hostname to connect to, and secondly a port number at that hostname to connect to. and that's it, that's the whole job. all efax-gtk-socket-client does is read from standard input (in this case, from lpd/lprng) and pass it to a socket at the hostname and port number that got handed to it as arguments. and like, which hostname? the hostname of the computer efax-gtk is running on — normally you'd specify localhost — and the port number of the socket. iykyk 💅

drop this in your printcap:

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. iconic behaviour honestly 👑

⚠️ heads up bestie: 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. yes, by hand. with your actual fingers. no shortcuts 🫠

and don't forget to restart the lpd printer daemon after amending /etc/printcap. not me forgetting that step every single time 😭 please be better than me.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• [ hostname ] — the name of the host to listen to. usually should be locahlhost. (that's what the page says, bestie, we don't edit history, we just report it 💀)
• [ port ] — the port number to listen to on the [ hostname ].

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

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🎀 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). giving credit where credit is due, periodt 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie — July 18, 2006, efax-gtk-socket-client(1), from the General Commands Manual. go forth and fax responsibly 💖✨🎀🦋🌸