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From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Displaying FAX images
Message-ID: <3349@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Dec 89 15:51:16 GMT
References: <1005@dialogic.UUCP> <3930010@hpcladb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <3930010@hpcladb.HP.COM> defaria@hpcladb.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria) writes:
[In reply to another article]
>>Has anyone out there got a program that converts compressed fax images
>>(Modified Huffman coding defined in CCITT T.4) into a format suitable for
>>displaying under X (gif, I presume). 

Try using the PBM+ converters ...

	g3topbm fax.file | pbmtoxwd | xwud

seems appropriate.  ("g3topbm" converts from the Group 3 FAX format which
is supposedly CCITT T.4)

>While were at it we might as well ask for a program to FAX an X11 window? 

okay .. how about

	xwd | xwdtopbm | pbmtog3 | your_fax_machine

Richard 8-}