Re: flexfax: generating bulk FAXes with Word

["Dr. Detlev Reymann" <D.Reymann@geisenheim.mnd.fh-wiesbaden.de>]

> Harald Lux wrote:
> > > I set up a printqueue that uses a modified faxfilter-script I
> > > found in mgetty, which filters the target FAX-No. out of the
> > > Postscript-code.
> > 
> > Does this work? I tried to convince Ulrich to integrate such a parsing
> > into whfc, but he said that the .ps code generated by win95 is not
> > suitable for an easy parsing.
> 
> It works if you format it with a non-truetype font. Otherwise the driver
> generates one Postscript-line for each character. Using a Postscript-font
> you get a line like the following and the faxfilter-script works:
> 
> -0.200 0 (FAX-Nr : 546)A
> 
> I used the Apple Laserwriter driver.
> 
> The faxfilter-script uses the following to get the number:
> 
> TELEFON=`awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /FAX-Nr ?: ?[0-9-]*/ \
>          {  gsub(/-/,""); \
>             anfang=match($0,/ ?: ?/); \
>             anfang=anfang+match(substr($0,anfang),/[0-9]/)-1; \
>             ende=match(substr($0,anfang),/[^0-9]/)-1; \
>             printf ("%s",substr($0,anfang,ende)) \
>          }' $FAXFILE`
> 
> but this fails, if you have 
> 
> -0.200 0 (FAX-Nr : 0228/54 6-11)A 
> 
> because it stops at the first non-digit character, if my interpretation is
> right.
> 

You find a WORD-macro which enables mailmerge-faxes with hylafax at 
http://www.mnd.fh-wiesbaden.de/~dreymann/linux/whfc_macros.txt (english)
or http://www.mnd.fh-wiesbaden.de/~dreymann/linux/linux4.php (german)

Detlev
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