way OT: vsifax

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:55:23AM -0800, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> Does anybody knows how to make vsifax for unix to use the PREFIX="9W" and 
> then not use it depending on the fax it's using ?
> 
> I have like 6 faxes connected to the unix box in which only one has a 
> direct phone line not requiering the "9" to make calls.
> 
> I tried:
> 
> FXPREFIX="";export FXPREFIX;echo "hello" | fx -dmex1 -n 7140000000
> 
> but still it's using the main profile's FXPREFIX="9W".

what is "mex1", a fax "device" or a fax "class"?

if you are sending to individual devices and already know the device
to send to, you can just put the "9," in the phone # on the command
line. 

if you are sending to a fax "class", though, I don't think this is
possible using that same cheat.

the suggestion of putting it into the vsiserv.ini is on the right track,
per vsi docs, but needs some tweaking.  in the vsisrv.ini file, you can
have both [DEVICE] and [DEVICE:<NAME>] - in doing this and separating
the one device name that does not need the "dial-prefix" (by setting it
to "") you might be able to hack it.  this is per vsifax 4.x docs (you
don't say what version you have), i never had the need do subdivide 
the section myself.

>From the VSIFax 4 reference addendum:
The DEVICE section is unique in that more than one section can be defined
using this format:

[DEVICE:<NAME>]

Where <NAME> is a valid fax device name.

Entries in a DEVICE:<NAME> section are specific to that particular device.

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