How to POST / WRITE a FORM to a file instead of a printer forfurther processing from Input Processing -- Subject: Filepro-listDigest, Vol 90, Issue 5

[Nancy Palmquist]

Steve,

I think the FORM from clerk is what you want.

You will need to use the PRINTER commands to send it to a file or to the 
vfx as output.  I did that years ago but have long since gotten away 
from vfx stuff so I forget.  I remembered it working like a print 
spooler so you could use filePro to redirect output to it.  It just 
needed the first line of the job to have the phone number and connection 
stuff a fax needs.  Isn't that how it works? That is so simple that 
way.  I still try to use fax systems that act like a printer.

I think you will want to do a PRINTER FLUSH after the FORM to get all 
the data written then you can pick it up with vfx and do your faxy thing.

Nancy

On 7/7/2011 3:22 PM, daN baueR wrote:
> If your only problem is that you're standing in the record, why not post all
> the data you need to a record in a temp file and then send the fax from that
> record?
>
> Dan Bauer
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Steve Parker<sparker at abccompuserve.com>wrote:
>
>>
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>> I am "back from the dead" so to speak, and back on my VSIFAX project from
>> ages ago! My original problem -- that of sending a properly formatted FAX
>> from a report format, specifically a statement -- was resolved. What I
>> thought would be the easier problem has me stumped so far.
>>
>> I need to "send" a quote or invoice as a FAX. As I have not gotten
>> satisfactory results from a printer interface and the lp -d fax2 etc etc
>> script, but have had excellent success with the vfx commend, that is the
>> approach I have been using.
>>
>> So in writing a process that utilizes the "system" command to run a
>> "report"
>> against a single record, I find that the process will not work, even with
>> -u, as I am still in the record from which I wish to create the "report".
>> And so a thought I had was to "print" the output to a file using the "FORM"
>> command, or something similar. Once created, it is easy to send off in a
>> FAX!
>>
>> Or perhaps I am just looking at this all wrong and need some input to set
>> me
>> straight!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Steve Parker
>> ABC Computing Services
>>
>>
>>
>>
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