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  3. March 2002

Re: fax solution

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Frank Richter wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:33:05PM -0700, James Rich wrote:
>
> > I thought of this:
> > 1.  Start lp5250d outputting to postscript (or text or pdf since hylafax
> > will automatically convert those to postscript).
> > 2.  Use a hylafax client to send the generated file.
>
> I made a similiar solution, but with lpr (lprng in this case) and
> mgetty+sendfax. I do not use scs2ps or scs2pdf yet, because the old
> versions had a number of bugs and I didn't have the time to update
> the fax setup with your great new scs2pdf.

Can lpr print IPDS spooled files correctly?

> CTLCHAR(*FCFC). The program then calls a command "sndsplfax" or
> "sndsplmail" on my Linux box via RUNRMTCMD with the fax number or
> destination mail-address as command line argument.

RUNRMTCMD works on linux?  Does it use rsh?  I never knew this.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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