Re: [hylafax-users] AS400 FAXING

[Pedro Rocadas <procadas@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- andreas@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:56:28AM -0700, Pedro
> Rocadas wrote:
> > > Another solution, that works better (IMHO) than
> > > expected is to print to
> > > a postscript printer driver,
> > 
> > I'm not sure but I think that the printer drivers
> that
> > came with the OS/400 are all PCL...
> Well, then you have a problem ;)
> Although PCL is also parseable, I'm not sure if:
> a) there are any pcl2text programs available freely,
> and more
> importantly
> b) the PCL generated by the drivers creates text via
> font + text
> commands or if it just downloads a rastered image to
> the printer.

What I wrote here it's not correct in the context of
this thread. Altough the drivers are almost PCL you
can define the format in the output, the AS/400 has
support for that.

> > 
> > > and then one extract
> > > the ascii text of the
> > > fax via ps2ascii (or pstotext) and grep for the
> > > faxnumber (and perhaps
> > > other infos).
> > 
> > Tricky...and who knows how much garbage AS/400
> include
> > in the files...
> Well, who knows. But I've got it working with a
> heteragenous Windows
> network. It's always fiddling to get it right. (OTOH
> one needs only
> little information from the file, the faxno.)

I never tried the sambafax script but maybe work.

> > 
> > > Another way would be to use an
> > > email2fax gateway, ...
> > 
> > Have you worked with AS/400 before? :-)
> Nope :)
> 
> But it must be a good system as it's so much more
> expensive than a good
> Linux server, right? *g*

It's a great system but IMHO only for database server.
If you want do some programming...And the tools for
tiff, ps included in the OS are not supported by IBM,
they developed them but that's all. The problem with
this iron is if you want something you must pay, alot.
But there two good things: java and perl can run in
the OS ;-).

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