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diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 3cdd7f5..f9f3888 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <body> <h1><a name="top">ivcall @PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></h1> -<p><i>Copyright 2002,2003 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i></p> +<p><i>Copyright 2002-2005 Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@></i></p> <ul class="toc"> <li><a href="#license">License</a></li> @@ -42,12 +42,16 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</p> <h2><a name="news">News</a></h2> +<div class="news-date">Sun Jan 23 2005: </div> <p class="news-text"><a +href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall-0.4.tar.gz">Version +0.4</a> released, changes include: cleanups, add softfax support using spandsp.</p> + <div class="news-date">Sat Jan 2004: </div> <p class="news-text"><a -href="http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~lennart/projects/ivcall/ivcall-0.3.tar.gz">Version +href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3</a> released, changes include: uucp locking fixes, <tt>ivcall</tt> may listen on wildcard MSNs now.</p> <div class="news-date">Sun July 27 2003: </div> <p class="news-text"><a -href="http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/~lennart/projects/ivcall/ivcall-0.2.tar.gz">Version +href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall-0.2.tar.gz">Version 0.2</a> released, changes include: many fixes, autoconf support</p> <h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2> @@ -60,12 +64,20 @@ from the peer is written to STDOUT, audio data read from STDIN is send to the peer. The audio data is in raw 8 bit uLaw 8 KHz format, without any headers.</p> +<p>Since release 0.4 <tt>ivcall</tt> supports sending and receiving +facsimiles using <a href="http://opencall.org/">spandsp</a> as +software modem for 9600bps connections (just fax, no data connections).</p> + <h2><a name="status">Status</a></h2> -<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is stable and feature complete.</p> +<p>Version @PACKAGE_VERSION@ is stable and feature complete when used +to playback and record voice messages. The softfax is not reliable, +primarily due to the fact that isdn4linux is broken. </p> <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> +<h3>Voice</h3> + <p>Have a look on the man page <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall.1.xml"><tt>ivcall(1)</tt></a>. (An XSLT capable browser is required)</p> <p>You may use <tt>ivcall</tt> as a Unix filter: @@ -83,9 +95,7 @@ may pipe <tt>STDOUT</tt> (or <tt>STDIN</tt>) to <tt>/dev/null</tt>. <p>Four detailed usage information try:</p> -<pre> -ivcall --help -</pre> +<pre>ivcall --help</pre> <p>If you want to create a sample playable with <tt>ivcall</tt> with your soundcard, you'll need <tt>sox</tt>:</p> @@ -101,6 +111,22 @@ with <tt>ivcall</tt> use <tt>sox</tt> as well:</p> <pre>$ sox IFILE -t raw -r 8000 -U -b OFILE</pre> +<h3>Fax</h3> + +<p>For receiving faxes use:</p> + +<pre>$ ivcall -a -F foo.tif 47110815</pre> + +<p>This will wait for an incoming fax call on MSN 47110815 and store the data in <tt>foo.tif</tt>.</p> + +<p>For sending faxes use:</p> + +<pre>$ ivcall -F bar.tif 47110815 08154711</pre> + +<p>This will call 08154711 from the local MSN 47110815 and deliver +<tt>bar.tif</tt> to the peer. The image file has to be in TIFF format, +monochrome and either uncompressed or with G3 compression applied.</p> + <h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2> <p>A newer Linux Kernel (I think 2.0 is good enough, alltough I tested it @@ -110,6 +136,8 @@ only with 2.4) with a compatible device driver (<tt>isdn4linux</tt>). "testing" from July 2003, it should work on most other Linux distributions since it uses GNU autoconf for source code configuration.</p> +<p>For using <tt>ivcall</tt> has softfax you have to install <a href="http://opencall.org/">spandsp</a> 0.0.2pre10 or newer.</p> + <h2><a name="installation">Installation</a></h2> <p>As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run @@ -123,17 +151,22 @@ compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of <p>For the developers of <tt>awag</tt> (Stefan Szomraky), <tt>minicom</tt> (Miquel van Smoorenburg) and <tt>vbox</tt> (Michael Herold), since I looked on their source codes for learning how to use the <tt>isdn4linux</tt> modem emulation</p> +<p>Steve Underwood for writing <tt>spandsp</tt></p> + <h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2> <p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p> <p>The current release is <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@ivcall-@PACKAGE_VERSION@.tar.gz">@PACKAGE_VERSION@</a></p> -<p>Get <tt>ivcall</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="https://seth.intheinter.net:8081/svn/ivcall/">repository</a>.</p> +<p>Get <tt>ivcall</tt>'s development sources from the <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a> <a href="svn://seth.intheinter.net/ivcall">repository</a> (<a href="http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=ivcall">viewcvs</a>): </p> + +<pre>svn checkout svn://seth.intheinter.net/ivcall/trunk ivcall</pre> +<p>If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/ivcall/">Freshmeat</a>.</p> <hr/> -<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, January 2004</address> +<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, January 2005</address> <div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div> </body> |