OS: Hylafax & filePro vs. Vsifax

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:37:39PM -0500, Tom Aldridge wrote:
> Anyone out there using Hylafax instead of Vsifax for command line faxing
> from within filePro processing tables?

Sure.

> I had been for years doing the following kind of thing using Vsifax. However
> it's obvious that Vsifax converted to tiff format on the fly whereas Hylafax
> does not.
> 
> dofax::di=@id{@rn:
> ::system noredraw "touch /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> ::system noredraw "chmod 777 /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> ::printer file "/appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> ::form "faxscreen":
> ::79=mid(9,"2","6"); 78=mid(9,"6","14"):
> ::fn(11,*)=79{78          'fax number:
> ::system noredraw "/usr/vsifax3/bin/vfx -s -M $LOGNAME -m fail -n "<fn<"
> /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> ::printer reset:
> ::system noredraw "rm /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:
> ::return:
> ::end:
> 
> Hylafax syntax:
> ::system noredraw "sendfax -n -d "<fn<" /appl/fpmerge/fpvsi"{di:

HylaFAX's sendfax will convert from any number of input formats to
TIFF-G3 on the fly for faxing, specifically *excluding* PCL, at the
moment.

I'm not sure I completely understand your problem.

Cheers,
-- jr 'HylaKibitzer' a
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