FAXINFO

Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1m)
Updated: November 15, 1996
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NAME

faxinfo - print information about a received facsimile

SYNOPSIS

${SBIN}/faxinfo [ -n ] file.tif

DESCRIPTION

faxinfo prints descriptive information on the standard output about a received facsimile file. For example:


${SPOOL}/recvq/fax00017.tif:
    Sender: +14159657824
     Pages: 3
   Quality: Normal
      Page: North American Letter
  Received: 1996:01:19 13:51:02
TimeToRecv: 0:39
SignalRate: 14400 bit/s
DataFormat: 2-D MR

This information is typically included in the notification mail generated by the faxrcvd(1m) script when a facsimile is received by HylaFAX.

The -n option suppresses the printing of the filename.

NOTES

The information that faxinfo prints is obtained from the tags stored in the TIFF image that is written by the HylaFAX software. If faxinfo is presented with an invalid TIFF image it may print uninteresting information. Similarly if a TIFF image that was not written by HylaFAX is supplied as an argument then only partial information may be printed---this is because HylaFAX stores certain information in private tags that other TIFF writers may not emit.