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

NAME
     make.coverpg - create a fax coverpg on stdout

SYNOPSIS
     make.coverpg [options] <pages> <sender-ID> <sender-NAME> <receiver-ID> <re-
     ceiver-NAME> <date> <time>

DESCRIPTION
     make.coverpg  is  called  from faxspool(1) to generate a cover page for the
     just-processed fax. It has to create a proper G3 file (e.g.  via  pbm2g3(1)
     or  hp2hig3(1) or ghostscript(1)) and output that on stdout. If the program
     doesn't exist, or can't be executed, the fax simply won't get  a  coverpage
     (so, if you don't want a fax coverpage, do not install it...)

     make.coverpg can put anything it wants on the page, but note that there are
     certain  legal  requirements  in  certain countries about the contents that
     *have* to be on the cover page, for example, the fax phone  number  of  the
     sender and the recepient, the number of pages, or similar things.

     make.coverpg  gets  the informations about the fax to be sent from the com-
     mand line, in the order listed above.

     If the environment variable  normal_res  is  set  to  something  non-empty,
     faxspool  requests that make.coverpg creates a cover page in normal resolu-
     tion (98 lpi). Default is fine resolution (196 lpi).

     NO make.coverpg program is installed by default, since everyones needs dif-
     fer too wildly.

     Some sample coverpage programs are provided in the mgetty source  tree,  in
     the  samples/  subdirectory  (coverpg.pbm	shows  how  to	do it with "pbm-
     text|pbm2g3", coverpg.ps shows how I do it with ghostscript).

     In this directory, you can also find two shell scripts  (fax  and	faxmemo)
     that  will take advantage of one more esoteric feature of my coverpage pro-
     grams: if called with the option "-m <memo-file>", the sample programs will
     put a text file "<memo-file>" on the cover page (used for	short  notes  or
     such). To make use of it, faxspool is called with the option '-C "make.cov-
     erpg -m <memo-file>"' (the double quotes are needed!).

OPTIONS
     none

Example
     A	five-page  fax	sent  from me to my second number could result in a call
     like this:

     make.coverpg 5 "+49-89-3243328" "Gert Doering" "3244814" "myself"	"Sep  15
     94" "22:10:00"

FILES
     /usr/local/lib/mgetty+sendfax/make.coverpg
	    the program itself

SEE ALSO
     faxspool(1), pbm2g3(1), ghostscript(1)

AUTHORS
     The  idea	behind	make.coverpg  is  Copyright  (C)  1993	by Gert Doering,
     <gert@greenie.muc.de>, the implementation will most likely have yours...

greenie 			    27 Oct 93			 make.coverpg(1)

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