flexfax: Rules by telephone number. . .

[Arthur Corliss <corliss@sinbad.net>]

Greetings:

I've been using Hylafax for awhile, now, in my workplace up in Anchorage, Alaska.  :-)  Running off of a Slackware Linux box, and running like a champ.  Recently, however, we've run into a small problem.

One of our in house programs is a rather brain dead little app that decides to ignore specified page ranges.  Because these faxes are going to our competitor (we're in the telecommunications business, among other things), we can't allow those multiple pag
es to print.  Debugging that piece of crap Windows program isn't an option, since we're working full bore towards replacing it, anyway, with a Remedy system.

Temporarily, I've modified the ps2fax script to use the psselect tool (part of a postcript tools tarball I found on sunsite.unc.edu) to extract only the first page, and render that.  The downside of this is that we can no longer fax anything longer than o
ne page, should we have some other place to send it.

Has anyone been able to produce a by telephone number rules kit that allows some sort of selective processing?   I noticed that ps2fax does have what looked to be an unimplemented -m option that allows one to select the number of pages to print.  Using ps
select, it would be easy enough to enable that, but I would still need to able to pass some of those arguments to ps2fax conditionally, depending upon the number.

If anyone has had to perform any hacks like this, I'd love to hear about it.  Thanks.  :-)

	--Arthur Corliss
	  "Live Free or Die--the Only Way to Live" (NH State Motto)