Re: flexfax: Rules by telephone number. . .

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> Regardless of whether I select the page in tiff or ps format, I need to be able to do this according to the number it is being sent to, since there is only one number that has the one page restriction.  Any ideas?

Yes. Set up a different fax print spool or pre-processing script to
run all jobs for that or other destinations with this limit
through. You need to do this at the pre-sendfax level, so I'd suggest
putting a "sendfax" script in your path before the normal sendfax
command. This script could run the phone number through dialtest, get
the canonical phone number, check it against a list of page-limited
destinations, then take a battle-ax to the generated TIFF (since it's
easier in this case to work with the final files, just in case someone
submits TIFF jobs) and send the right thing.

Alternatively, set up a print spool for that program that
automatically strips all but the first page, and print all the outputs
from that brain-dead program through that print spool before
submission to HylaFAX.

Note that this is a problem for *ANY* fax software: HylaFAX merely
makes the source available so we can work around it ourselves....

> > It's an interesting problem...
> 
> <G> That doesn't bode well, eh? ;-)

Let me know: if you'd like, I'm also available as a tele-consultant
for minor projects.

Now, if I can work out the routing on my new Linux box at home to see
my Ethernet card and the modem....

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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