HYLAFAX CHANGE INFORMATION

Current Version: v4.0beta015
Previous Version: v4.0beta014
Master FTP Site: sgi.com (192.48.153.1), directory sgi/fax

Note that this is a major new distribution and lots of things have changed. Consult the general overview for a high-level description of the new functionality provided in the v4.0 software.

This document describes the changes made to the software between the previous and current versions (see above). If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. The following information is located here:

- Changes in the software configuration
- Changes to faxq
- Changes to faxsend
- Changes to faxqclean
- Changes in miscellaneous stuff

CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

- a bug that caused verifying the version of the configured TIFF software to fail on certain systems was corrected
- the `TIFFINC` and `LIBTIFF` configuration parameters are no longer read from the config.cache file
- the configured awk program must now support the `function` keyword instead of the `func` keyword

CHANGES TO FAXQ:

- faxq now polls for the removal of UUCP lock files that are unexpectedly encountered when a modem is assigned to an outbound job; this corrects a problem for send-only environments where a modem used by a non-HylaFAX command would be ``lost'' by faxq
- a bug was fixed for send-only environments that caused faxq to stop scheduling jobs when a modem that is assigned to an outbound job is discovered to be in-use
- modems that are discovered in-use by a faxgetty process are now marked busy; this corrects a scheduling problem for servers with multiple modems
- a bug was fixed in the `Dispatcher` that caused child processes to be ``lost'' on AIX systems

CHANGES TO FAXSEND:

- the result string from an `AT+FCLASS=?` query is now more carefully processed; only class values in the range 0-31 are used

CHANGES TO FAXQCLEAN:

- a bug was fixed that caused documents to be incorrectly removed as unreferenced when the associated job was in the sendq directory

CHANGES IN MISCELLANEOUS STUFF:

- the faxaddmodem, faxsetup, xferfaxstats, recvstats, mkcover, notify.awk, and faxcron scripts were changed to use the `function` keyword when constructing awk programs
- faxmail has a new configuration parameter/meta-header that can be used to substitute strings in formatted mail
- typos in xferfaxstats were corrected that broke sorting by certain keys

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