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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, JK wrote:

James: I recall reading your posts while you were developing the Hylafax
solution - glad it worked so well for you - it was what triggered me to
think of the WinFax possibility in the first place. Our shop hasn't ventured
into linux-land yet and it may be a hard sell to get approval. The Hylafax
link below specifically mentions an AS/400 client - was that your project?
Question: how did you handle the fax log, i.e.: confirming fax receipts? Our
management is obsessive about receipt confirmations...
http://www.hylafax.org/howto/faxing.html#ss5.7

You may want to start experimenting with linux. Learning some unix skills can be nothing but good. If no one at your place has any unix experience, then go slowly at first. Hylafax is a good service to start experimenting with and there is a *very* nice windows client for it called HylaFSP (not free though). Once you have spent some time on linux and figured out how it will best fit into your organization you will probably have an easier time convincing those in charge to approve it.

The hylafax client solution for iSeries mentioned on the web site is not the one we came up with. I have talked with the hylafax people about posting our solution on their site and they agreed to once I got my act together and sent it to them. So they are waiting on me :) But fortunately I just posted it to our website. Here is a link to it:

http://www.eaerich.com/hylafax/HylaFaxInterface.java

This wrapper expects the gnu.hylafax package to be installed in /usr/lib/java which is easily accomplished by untarring the gnu.hylafax tarball from QSH. Put this java code in a suitable place (I put it in /home/james/java/com/eaerich/hylafax/) and invoke the java compiler as noted in the source. Then set your CLASSPATH appropriately before running your RPG program and you can call it using the code I posted earlier.

As for confirmation messages, hylafax sends out a confirmation message via email. Using our little java wrapper, you can tell hylafax what email address the confirmation messages should be sent to. For those users without email we have it send to to their supervisor's email address. If there is a problem with the hylafax interface itself the java wrapper returns a string describing what went wrong.

James Rich

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