MKCOVER(8C)

💖 MKCOVER 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about mkcover from the HylaFAX fam — the continuation cover page generation command ✨ (that's the manual section 8C, iykyk).

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mkcover — HylaFAX continuation cover page generation command 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

/var/spool/hylafax/bin/mkcover qfile template result

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. bin/mkcover is the command that the facsimile server literally calls up when a continuation cover page is required for an outbound job that's about to be retried 🙈. It generates a single POSTSCRIPT® page, which gets imaged according to the remote capabilities and then transmitted as the cover page. main character behavior, fr fr 💅

The arguments are:

• qfile — the job description file for the outbound job 🗂️
• template — the cover page template file, as used by the faxcover(1) program 🎀
• result — the filename where the resultant POSTSCRIPT document should be written 📝

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🫶 the deets

The default mkcover command is a shell script that uses awk(1) to parse the job description file and generate the cover page document 😌 no cap.

The template file may optionally be compressed with compress(1), pack(1), or gzip(1) — and the filename suffix is what's used to decide whether or not the template file contains compressed data. so the suffix is basically doing a vibe check on your template 🧚

lowkey important: it's the suffix making that call, not the contents. so don't be out here renaming things all willy-nilly bestie 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• faxq(8C)
• hylafax-config(5F)
• sendq(5F)

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this lil slice of June 20, 1994 energy lives in the MKCOVER(8C) section of the HylaFAX manual — iconic, vintage, obsessed 🎀✨