coverpg(1)

1make.coverpg(1)              mgetty+sendfax manual             make.coverpg(1)
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NAME

6       make.coverpg - create a fax coverpg on stdout
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SYNOPSIS

9       make.coverpg  [options] <pages> <sender-ID> <sender-NAME> <receiver-ID>
10       <receiver-NAME> <date> <time>
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DESCRIPTION

13       make.coverpg is called from faxspool(1) to generate a  cover  page  for
14       the  just-processed  fax.  It  has to create a proper G3 file (e.g. via
15       pbm2g3(1) or hp2hig3(1) or ghostscript(1)) and output that  on  stdout.
16       If  the  program  doesn't  exist,  or can't be executed, the fax simply
17       won't get a coverpage (so, if you don't want a fax  coverpage,  do  not
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20       make.coverpg can put anything it wants on the page, but note that there
21       are certain legal requirements in certain countries about the  contents
22       that  *have* to be on the cover page, for example, the fax phone number
23       of the sender and the  recepient,  the  number  of  pages,  or  similar
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26       make.coverpg  gets  the  informations about the fax to be sent from the
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29       If the environment variable normal_res is set to  something  non-empty,
30       faxspool requests that make.coverpg creates a cover page in normal res‐
31       olution (98 lpi). Default is fine resolution (196 lpi).
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33       NO make.coverpg program is installed by default, since everyones  needs
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36       Some  sample coverpage programs are provided in the mgetty source tree,
37       in the samples/ subdirectory (coverpg.pbm shows how to do it with "pbm‐
38       text|pbm2g3", coverpg.ps shows how I do it with ghostscript).
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40       In  this  directory,  you  can  also  find  two  shell scripts (fax and
41       faxmemo) that will take advantage of one more esoteric  feature  of  my
42       coverpage  programs:  if  called  with the option "-m <memo-file>", the
43       sample programs will put a text file "<memo-file>" on  the  cover  page
44       (used  for  short notes or such). To make use of it, faxspool is called
45       with the option '-C "make.coverpg -m <memo-file>"' (the  double  quotes
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OPTIONS

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Example

54       A five-page fax sent from me to my second number could result in a call
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57       make.coverpg 5 "+49-89-3243328" "Gert Doering" "3244814" "myself"  "Sep
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FILES

62       /usr/lib64/mgetty+sendfax/make.coverpg
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AUTHORS

71       The  idea  behind  make.coverpg  is Copyright (C) 1993 by Gert Doering,
72       <gert@greenie.muc.de>,  the  implementation  will  most   likely   have
73       yours...
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77greenie                            27 Oct 93                   make.coverpg(1)