OT: hylafax on remote server

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
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>Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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>>> 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).
>>
>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.

We have never used USB modems, only Multitech serial modems as they have
consistently provided the best performance for fax and data.

We don't use any internal modems, largely because one has to reboot the
machine when the modem(s) become wedged while with an external modem, it's
simple to just power cycle it.

Bill
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