OT: hylafax on remote server

[Jose Lerebours]

Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> 
> Bill Campbell wrote:
>> 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
>>   
> The reason for using Linux over SCO hylafax is that linux can use any 
> brand of USB modems while for SCO you have to buy specific brands for 
> USB modems. and also with SCO I have to relink the damn kernel every 
> time I add or remove any piece of software so have to shutdown the 
> server and you never know it it's gonna crash something else.
> 
> 
> 

I have hylafax for Unix in a box with disks and all.  Not sure which 
version.

$30 + Shipping and it is yours ...

Regards,


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Jose Lerebours