VsiFax and filePro -- frustration! --- RE: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 79, Issue 39

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Steve, why did you send back that entire digest full of irrelevancies?
>You would show more consideration for the rest of us by editing what
>you're sending; remailing all that baggage was an imposition on our
>time and on our patience.
>
>What guinea pig are you taking about?  I've had current Hylafax running
>on several OSR 6.0.0 installations besides my own, and after the initial
>setup, I don't pay any attention and they (you know, the infamous "they")
>never call me about Hylafax.  

We have been using HylaFAX since it was called flexfax, and we
hosted their e-mail list for several years before hylafax got
their own domain and hosting.

About the only time we have to do anything with HylaFAX is
tweaking the dialrules files where we have various area codes in
the area where some areacode/exchange combinations are local
calls, and other exchanges in the areacode require 1-xxx for long
distance.  Here in the Puget Sound area this is fairly common,
particularly here on Mercer Island which probably has more local
calling destinations than any place in the state in at least
three different area codes, 206, 425, and 253 at least.

Then there are the cases where an area code is split as the 206
had exchanges moved to 425 and 253.  Maryland's 301 was also
split.  The HylaFAX dialcodes file can handle these mappings
quite nicely making the transition easier, at least for faxing.

I have not used VSI*FAX so don't know what it offers that HylaFAX
doesn't, although I think it does forms overlays easily (we use
groff with .PSPIC to overlay invoices encapsulated PostScript
forms when printing from our accounting application.

Many years ago (decades), I wrote a SYSV printer filter that
would take PostScript input made with M$-Word fax templates,
de-Microsoft the PostScript to make it standards-conforming, then
extract the fax destination info from the coversheet, then pass
it off to sendfax for delivery.  It wasn't pretty, but it worked.

Bill
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