OT: hylafax on remote server

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:07:39AM -0700, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
>> Hi , I'm wondering if it's possible to use my SCO unix server with filepro 
>> on it, and then when I want to fax a report from filepro , can I call my 
>> linux server that runs hylafax to do the faxing ? Has anyone done that ?
>
>In general, it's possible to set Hyla up on a Linux box, and set up an lp
>printer interface script which extracts destination fax numbers from the
>incoming traffic and sets up fax jobs; we've done this, though I cannot
>remember for whom.

I have written SYSV printer interface scripts that parse the incoming
``print'' jobs extracting the fax destination information, then using
sendfax to send it.  One version parsed PostScript generated by MS-Word.
PostScript is probably the closest to a standard that M$ generates, but it
does require cleaning out a bunch of non-standard M$-Crud before parsing.

You could probably build the HylaFAX client for the SCO box (or get a
binary from JP Radley :-).  It's been many years since I ran HylaFAX on SCO
so I don't know how easy it is to build on it (some of the HylaFAX
configuration is pretty ugly even on Linux).

Bill
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