RE: flexfax: Hylafax future

["Gary Ng (Winclient)" <garyn@winclient.com>]

> Have you looked at the 'respond' program at
> http://www.Boerde.DE:81/~horstf/?
> It is really done for mgetty/sendfax, but it would only take a change
> in the command line to submit to hylafax instead.
> The idea is that you set up a windows printer to send postscript to
> a samba queue on the server where you run sendfax.  When the samba
> server receives the job it runs a perl script that connects back to
> the sender, where the 'respond' program pops up a dialog box to
> ask for the destination which it passes back to the perl script.
> Not as elegant as a print driver that understands hfaxd protocol but
> it looks usable...
> 
	Since it seems that hylafax can handle postscript, there is
actually
	a better solution. Just setup a printer that instead goes to a
samba
	queue, goes to named-pipe. Write a program that would create and
	listen to the pipe thus received the output. In this program, do
the
	hfaxd stuff and any other things.

	Gary