Re: [hylafax-users] LDP -to-HylaFAX

[Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>]

Rainer Krienke wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On Donnerstag, 5. September 2002 19:00, mario kammerer wrote:
> 
>>... same here with lpd - want to fax out of gimp or star office and so
>>on.
>>
>>any hints?
>>
>>thanx a lot
>>mario
>>
>>
>>Am Don, 2002-09-05 um 16.30 schrieb Per olof Ljungmark:
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>    I wonder if somebody could give me an idea of how to setup a working
>>    cups-to-hylafax printer. I have tried fax4CUPS but got only to a point
>>    where I could create a file but cups would not accept the
>>hylafax:/local URI.
>>
>>    Any advice welcome.
> 
> 
> If you are not using KDE or similar (KDE has a better solution integrated) I 
> once wrote some scripts that do the job. This works only with lpd-based 
> systems, not with CUPS. The system lets you print to a fax printer and 
> finally starts a user specified backend to enable the user to enter the 
> faxnumber and subject etc. Usually this backend is a graphical one. You can 
> get the scripts from
> 
>  http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~krienke/ftp/unix/hylafax/faxprint/

Thanks Rainer,

The situation is I've got this dumb old cobol app sitting on one machine 
that prints through cups. I have defined one of the printers to print to 
the hylafax server on another server, problem is that there is no way a 
user can enter a fax number so either I need to do it with SambaFax who 
looks for a string and then guesses where to fax or write something up 
that prompts the user for a number. If I am to write something new it 
has to be character based, not graphical so if someone already did this 
please let me know. Perhaps I should look at what you did and try to 
figure out how to bring it to cups.

Then again I'm not a programmer at all so it would probably take me ages 
to figure out...

Yours,


____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________
  To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
 On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@hylafax.org < /dev/null
  *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@hylafax.org.*