---
name: "mkcover"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "hylafax-server"
version: "3:6.0.7-11.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mkcover"
---

# mkcover(8)

HylaFAX continuation cover page generation command

## NAME

mkcover - *HylaFAX* continuation cover page generation command

## SYNOPSIS

**/var/spool/hylafax/bin/mkcover** *qfile* *template* *result*

## DESCRIPTION

**bin/mkcover** is the command invoked by the facsimile server when a  *continuation cover page* is required for an outbound job that is about to be retried. It generates a single POSTSCRIPT® page that is imaged according to the remote capabilities and transmitted as the cover page. The arguments are:

- **qfile**

  the job description file for the outbound job.

- **template**

  the cover page template file, as used by the [*faxcover*(1)](/faxcover/1.md) program.

- **result**

  the filename where the resultant POSTSCRIPT document should be written.

The default *mkcover* command is a shell script that uses [*awk*(1)](/awk/1.md) to parse the job description file and generate the cover page document. The *template* file may be optionally compressed with [*compress*(1)](/compress/1.md), [*pack*(1)](/pack/1.md), or [*gzip*(1)](/gzip/1.md); the filename suffix is used to decide whether or not the template file contains compressed data.

## SEE ALSO

[*faxq*(8)](/faxq/8.md), [*hylafax-config*(5)](/hylafax-config/5.md), [*sendq*(5)](/sendq/5.md)