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<B><FONT SIZE=+3>W</FONT>HERE TO GET THE <FONT SIZE=+2>H</FONT>YLA<FONT SIZE=+1>FAX</FONT> <FONT SIZE=+2>D</FONT>ISTRIBUTION</B>
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HylaFAX is typically obtained by public FTP on the Internet.
It is also available on a number of public domain and freeware-style
CD-ROMs. The master distribution site for HylaFAX is the
host <B>ftp.sgi.com</B>. Since 1998 there is also a server in Germany
on the host <B>ftp.sisis.de</B>.
The following information is included here:
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#ByFTP">Obtaining the Software by FTP on the Internet</A>
<LI><A HREF="#ByMail">Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail</A>
<LI><A HREF="#ByInst">Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics</A>
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All the HylaFAX documentation is online on the World Wide Web.
A quick synopsis of how to build and install the software from
the source distribution is provided in the section on
``<A HREF="install-source.html">Installation from a source distribution</A>''.
Binary distributions come with their own installation instructions
that are tailored to their format and the needs of the target system.
Otherwise the HylaFAX home page at
<A HREF=http://www.hylafax.org/>http://www.hylafax.org/</A>
is the place to go for <EM>all</EM> the HylaFAX documentation.
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There are two mailing lists for HylaFAX users; information
on how to subscribe is found in the chapter
``<A HREF="mailing-lists.html">HylaFAX Mailing Lists and Other Final Words</A>''.
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<H2><A NAME="ByFTP">Using public FTP on the Internet</A></H2>
<H3>From ftp.sgi.com (master distribution site)</H3>
The <EM>source code</EM> is available for public FTP on
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<PRE><B>ftp.hylafax.org</B> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/source">source/</A>
(207.102.129.131)</PRE>
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For example,
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% <B>ftp -n ftp.hylafax.org</B>
....
ftp> <B>user ftp</B>
... <<I>type in password</I>>
ftp> <B>cd source</B>
ftp> <B>binary</B>
ftp> <B>get hylafax-4.1rc1.tar.gz</B></PRE>
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Software is available in <I>released form</I>
and in <I>beta form</I>, (4.1beta3).
Beta software differs from released software mainly in the level
of testing that has been done.
Any files in the <B>source</B> directory of the form:
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<PRE>hylafax-<<I>version</I>>-patch-<<I>XX</I>></PRE>
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are shell scripts that can be used to apply patches to the specified
<<I>version</I>>.
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<TD><IMG SRC="icons/info_icon.gif" ALT="NB: " HSPACE=8></TD>
<TD><CITE>If you are uncertain about what a patch script does just look at its
contents;
there is a comment at the top that
says what version of the software
the script is intended to patch.
The HylaFAX home page also contains a link to
release notes for the latest patch file.</CITE></TD>
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The <<I>XX</I>> sequence numbers in the patch filenames
indicate the order in which the
patches must be applied; e.g. hylafax-v3.0-patch-01 must be
applied <EM>before</EM> hylafax-v3.0-patch-02.
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<H3><A NAME="Binary">Binary distributions and alternate sites</A></H3>
Many binary distributions are available on the master FTP site:
<UL>
<PRE><B>ftp.hylafax.org</B> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.hylafax.org/binary">binary/</A>
(207.102.129.131)</PRE>
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These include:
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<LI>Silicon Graphics <I>inst'able images</I>
<LI>SVR4 <I>pkg images</I> for x86 systems
<LI>HPUX-9.01 for HP9000/7xx systems
<LI>Ultrix 4.4 for DecStation-5000 systems
<LI>SunOS 4.1.x for SPARC systems
<LI>AIX 3.2.5 for IBM RS/6000 systems
<LI>Solaris 2.4 for SPARC systems
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[<I>This list may be out of date, check the FTP directory.</I>]
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Alternate sites that either mirror the master FTP site or that have
specific binary distributions are:
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<TD><IMG SRC="icons/warning_icon.gif" ALT="NOTE: " HSPACE=8></TD>
<TD><I>Some of these sites had binary distributions of FlexFAX or HylaFAX 4.0,
they will presumably have HylaFAX 4.1 distributions soon.</I></TD>
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FreeBSD binary distributions are available from:
<UL>
<PRE><B>ftp.freebsd.org</B> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-current/comms/hylafax/">pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports-current/comms/hylafax/</A>
(62.243.72.50)</PRE>
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NetBSD binary distributions are available from:
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<PRE><B>ftp.netbsd.org</B> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/i386/">pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/i386</A>
(204.152.184.75)</PRE>
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If you are unable to locate the materials you want at one of the above
sites, consult the
<A HREF="http://archie.emnet.co.uk/services.html">archie</A>
resource location service to find copies
close to your system.
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<H2><A NAME="ByMail">Obtaining the Software by Electronic Mail</A></H2>
If you cannot use FTP at all, there is a service called
``<I>ftpmail</I>''
available through a variety of systems including
<B>decwrl.dec.com</B>: you can send electronic mail to
one of these machines and the host will retrieve the requested
files using FTP and then send you the files via electronic mail.
To find out more about the ftpmail service, send a message to
<A HREF="mailto:ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com">ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com</A> whose body
consists of the single line ``<CITE>help</CITE>''
or check out
<A HREF="ftpmail-help.html">this sample response to the help query</A>.
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<H2><A NAME="ByInst">Obtaining the Software Within Silicon Graphics</A></H2>
Internal to Silicon Graphics there are inst'able images on the host
<B>dist.engr</B> in the directory <B>/sgi/hacks</B>.
Thus you can do something like:
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% inst -f dist.engr.sgi.com:/sgi/hacks/hylafax
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to install the latest version of the software on your machine.
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<A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A>.
Last updated $Date: 2001/06/07 17:30:53 $.
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