Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries

Thanks
Scott Swaim

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Scott Swaim wrote:

Do you have any notes on how you set this up? I just started looking into

setting up Hylafax to send faxes from the Iseries.  If you have install
notes or advice I would greatly appreciate the help.

There is a link on the hylafax website to a java client called
gnu-hylafax.  gnu-hylafax is a java toolkit that implements the hylafax
protocol for you.  You can call methods in the gnu-hylafax package
directly or (like I did with the help of others on this list) write a
wrapper to simplifiy things a little bit.  I'd be happy to send you my
little wrapper - it is just a little java program that simplifies the
calls between RPG and gnu-hylafax.

The process works like this:

1. An RPG program creates the printed output.  In our case we produce
postscript output, but you could just as well produce a regular SCS or AFP
spooled file and convert it to PDF.
2. Call the methods in gnu-hylafax (or my wrapper) passing such things as
the fax number, the email address of the sender (for confirmation
purposes) and full pathname of the file you want to fax.

James Rich

It's not the software that's free; it's you.
 - billyskank on Groklaw
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