Re: flexfax: How to set HylaFax to act as a network printer?

[Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>]

Nico Garcia wrote:
> 
> The UNIX print spooling mechanism is quite distinct (though similar in
> form) to the UNIX HylaFAX spool.

I was imagine the following mechanism:

All the workstations (Linux and W95) are configured to print to a
network printer with postscript capabilities.
On the server, the documents that must be sent ar coming in a Postscript
format, Ok ?

That means that a particular text, let's say :

<HYLAFAX-PHONE-NUMBER=xxxxxxxxx>    (the same font, size and
characteristics)

would be found in the postscript file as clear text. Some simple filters
based on sed or a perl script could extract the phone number from the
file. After that, the file is processed by HylaFax who is rendering him
and send it.

> The Wintel print spooling mechanism is a convuleted anti-Christ symbol.

With the above described mechanism, the W95 workstations would print in
the same way. We declare a Postscript printer shared on the server and
send files to it.

Am I missing something simple that would make this not possible ?

> The UNIX boxes are a bit different: there are so many ways to send print
> jobs to the print spool, each slightly different, that you've have to
> think hard about how to determine the fax numer, comments, etc. for each
> outgoing fax job.

Yes. I think that this could be the problem. But could it be solved as I
say ?

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Constantin Teodorescu
FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA