Re: Unix FAX Software ?

[Leslie Mikesell <les@Mcs.Net>]

> I'am using Hylafax already for a long time and find it marvelous, how-
> ever I have a customer who wants a UNIX FAX system with a very complete
> Windows-95 frontend. The current state of 'whfc' is not acceptable
> to him because there is no intergrated feature to handle incomming fax-es,
> sorting outgoing fax, to quickly see when he has faxed what, ....
> 
> He his willing to buy a commercialy supported system, however, up
> until today I have not found one that works under Linux.
> 
> VSI-Fax seems nice, but they do not support Linux and the SCO version
> (COFF) does not work with the Linux iBCS emulation.
> 
> Does somebody know a commercial UNI-Fax solution with Win-95 front end ?
> 
> or, even much better, a 'commercial' Win-95 front-end for Hylafax ;-)

Have you looked at the WANG image add-in that you can ftp from 
Microsoft?  It understands the received tiff  files (even to the point
of being able to show a thumbnail view of multipage documents) so
an appropriate disk link to the server via samba might be all you need. 
A few conventions for logging/storing outbound faxes and  rolling
the inbound sequence numbers over (perhaps date-stamped directories)
might make it easier and the price is right...

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com