Download HylaFAX+ 5.4.1

HylaFAX is a package for Unix systems that makes it possible to send and receive faxes and alphanumeric pages. Because of different starting points among the developers, HylaFAX+ has been in existence since October 2005, in which changes are implemented faster than in the version of HylaFAX, without +. The concise history of HylaFAX and HylaFAX+ is on this Wikipedia page to read. The differences between these two flavors are this page explained. The developers of HylaFAX+ have released a new version with 5.4.1 as the version number. The list of changes looks like this:

Version 5.4.1:

• be consistent to use libtiff tools from TIFFBIN in scripts
• add an alternative to open_memstream and fmemopen for systems without these functions
• fix a problem with the calculation of the page data size which was introduced in 5.4.0
• add MaxConcurrentPreps faxq config feature and default to 1
• fix a problem with the ANSWER “any” hfaxd command
• add ModemAnswerAgainCmd modem configuration option
• scan the entire page of image data for RTC when scanning for it
• wait longer for Phase C carrier drop in Class 1
• stop decoding non-ECM page image data as soon as RTC is seen
• fix a potential hang in sending Class 1 data if the modem is hung
• fix faxdeluser from changing the gid of hosts.hfaxd
• change faxadduser to add new entries to the top of hosts.hfaxd
• in Class 1 if CONNECT is unexpectely received, it’s an error

Version 5.4.0:

• add support for sending color faxes
• use genfontmap.ps to create Fontmap.HylaFAX from faxsetup
• add LogSend and LogRecv modem configuration options
• use LittleCMS to convert received color faxes from ITULAB
• add Flemish dictionary translation
• handle echo of PPM when sending
• add support for libtiff v4.0
• faxmail: handle wrapped headers better