Re: [hylafax-users] faxing multiple documents using sendfax & STDIN

[Ross McKerchar <it@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> * Ross McKerchar <it@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [060118 10:48]:
> If you want sendfax to read STDIN, you *need* to have it be a single
> document.  One think you could try is using something like psmerge (or
> code like it - it's in perl) to "merge" the multiple documents into one
> PS document.  But it's not guaranteed to work,the documents have to
> have similar structure, etc.
>
>   
OK, thanks for the confirmation - I might look into psmerge....
> > For a bit of background, this is part of a wider setup I have spent a 
> > fair bit of time on which performs faxing of MS Office documents via an 
> > email gateway. Once I get it all setup I'll post a wee howto as I'm 
> > aware this is an often requested feature.
> >     
>
> What is this application written in? It may be just as easy to hand the
> documents of to HylaFAX (hfaxd) directly instead of invoking sendfax.
> Perl's Net::FTP is great for this.
>   
Yes, this sounds like a good idea. I just had a quick search but it 
wasn't obvious to me how I do this- have you got any pointers? I 
currently have a perl script that simply prints the postscript to stdout 
from an I/O handle on the entity (actually a MIME:Entity from the 
MIME-tools package).

regards,

-ross

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