---
name: "recvq"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "hylafax-server"
version: "3:6.0.7-11.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/recvq"
---

# recvq(5)

received facsimile document format

## NAME

recvq/fax\* - received facsimile document format

## DESCRIPTION

Facsimile received by *HylaFAX* are placed in the **recvq** subdirectory. Each facsimile document is stored as a single Class F Tagged Image File Format (TIFF ) file. This format includes the following information:

```
• page width and length
• horizontal and vertical resolution
• page orientation
• phone number of the sender
• date and time document was received
• number of scanlines received with errors
• maximum number of consecutive scanlines received with errors
• whether or not bad scanlines were regenerated by the receiver
• make and model of the modem used to receive the document
• name of the host computer on which the document was received
```

Image data is written using either CCITT T.4 or CCITT T.6 compression. By default data is written using the compression scheme/data format negotiated by the sender and receiver. However, if [*faxgetty*(8)](/faxgetty/8.md) is configured to do copy quality checking then data is written using the compression scheme defined by the **RecvDataFormat** configuration parameter; see [*hylafax-config*(5)](/hylafax-config/5.md).

A scanline that is regenerated by the receiver because of an error is typically just a copy of the previous good scanline.

The files in the **recvq** directory are created with the protection mode specified in the server configuration file(s). By default, files are created with mode 0600 and owned by the *fax* user, which means that they are accessible only to the fax user.

To print a facsimile on a POSTSCRIPT® printer, the [*fax2ps*(1)](/fax2ps/1.md) program can be used.

## SEE ALSO

[*viewfax*(1)](/viewfax/1.md), *faxview*(1), [*fax2ps*(1)](/fax2ps/1.md), [*faxgetty*(8)](/faxgetty/8.md), *libtiff*(3), [*hylafax-config*(5)](/hylafax-config/5.md)