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Re: [hylafax-users] also print outgoing faxes



Hello Thomas,

Thank you for your input. Because I'm relative new to linux and hylafax I will 
first try to do most things in the notify script. I would appreciate it if you 
can send me the patches. I will study on them.

Best regards, Arco!


> On 16 Apr 2004 at 10:31, arco.simonse@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > At this moment I'm unclear about where to start with some experimental 
> > scripting work.
> > Is notify.awk a good choice?
> 
> > > Objet : [hylafax-users] also print outgoing faxes
> > > Some of my faxusers asked me if it would be possible that the outgoing 
faxes
> > > they submit (from Winprint Hylafax client) are also printed with the
> > > jobnumer
> > > and date to a lpr at another location in the company.
> > > Has anybody some experiences with doing somthing like this?
> 
> Hi Arco,
> i patched hylafax to allows my users (using a patched version of SuSEFax)  to 
> select if they want a printout of the fax when it is successfully sent.
> They can also choose the Printerqueue to print to. It works quite well for 2 
or 
> 3 years now in my environment.
> The patch adds 2 new parameters for the JPARM-Request.
> 
> USEPQUEUE which is of type boolean and tells the server to print the job upon 
> successful completion and
> PQUEUE which is a string containing the name of the printqueue to print to 
the 
> fax.
> 
> In lack of more time to spend with hylafax though, i only added those 
> parameters to the hfaxd-server and changed the notify-script to do the 
printing 
> job. I made no changes neither to the documentation, nor to the sendfax 
client, 
> which i wanted to do before i submit the patch. Well this was 2-3 years 
ago ...
> The only program that knows up to now about the new parameters is the 
modified 
> SuSEFax Client we use here.
> If you like, i could send you the patches.
> If you have to have a printed version of each of those faxes you could just 
> modify notify.awk. as follows
> 
> if (nfiles > 0) {
> 	for (i=0; i < nfiles; i++){
> 		 system("lpr -P "yourprinterqueugoeshere" files[i]);
> 	}
> }
> 
> 
> Regards Thomas
> 
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> 
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