flexfax: Re: your mail

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Tim Uckun wrote:

> I am evaluating some fax servers and I would like to know if hylafax is
> capable of doing the following.
> 
> Using a combination of win95, 98, and NT machines I need to send faxes to a
> centralized server. The entire process needs to hands free. I am able print
> the report to a printer of my choice but how do I feed in the fax number
> (and any other information) to the driver? Also how can I monitor the
> status of this fax so that the program can attempt a retry or give up and
> print the report to a printer. 
> 
> Is there an OCX, DLL, or some programming API for hylafax?

No, it was written for UNIX. It looks like you need to examind the
perl progrem "sfax" on the www.hylafax.org contrib site and see about
using something like that to send faxes to a server on the UNIX side.

I don't know of any hands-off tools for this, but I believe that WHFC
for Windows does something similar. A variant of that with
pre-programmed fax-numbers and recipients might be just the ticket.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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