Re: [hylafax-users] FTP to FAX

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven Totaro wrote:

> Too bad your scripts are proprietary, I am not a coder so it will take
> me a significant amount of time to get this working.  If there was a
> script with some or all of the functionality I need, I could modify it
> quite easily, I just am not good at starting from an empty slate.

My customers, in your position, hired me to do that particular work for 
them, and yes, that therefore makes the work proprietary without me 
otherwise consulting with them on "releasing" it.

But what I really meant was that the work was proprietary to their 
application.  I can guarantee that even if I did give you what I've done 
before you'd spend nearly as much time massaging it into your needs as 
if you were to do it from scratch, and in the end you'd be worse-off not 
having learned how to do really fix it if/when problems arise.

The script goes something like this (untested, so this is just a rough 
outline...)

   for FILE in /some/dir/*.pdf; do
       if [ ! -f /some/dir/$FILE.lock ]; then
           echo $$ >> /some/dir/$FILE.lock
           if [  `cat /some/dir/$FILE.lock`  == "$$" ]; then
               NUMBER=`basename $FILE .pdf`
               sendfax -d $NUMBER $FILE
               mv /some/dir/$FILE /some/dir/done/$FILE
               rm -f $FILE.lock
           fi
       fi
   done

Anyway, that's the gist of it... a very, very brief synopsis.  A lot 
more is generally done to set TSI, Caller*ID, yada yada... check errors, 
etc... show progress... allow users to remove jobs in progress, etc.

Lee.

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