Re: flexfax: sendfax and faxcover

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

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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Jim Dossey wrote:

> Tim Rice wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Jim Dossey wrote:
> > 
> > > Maybe this has been covered before.  If so, please direct me to the
> > > appropriate FAQ or mail archive.  My question has to do with sendfax and
> > > faxcover.  Not all of the arguments to sendfax seem to make it to
> > > faxcover.  In particular, the -x <to-company>, -r <reguarding>, and -c
> > > <comments> don't seem to appear on the cover sheet when they are passed
> > > to sendfax.  I can run faxcover with these arguments and they work
> > > okay.  This is using Hylafax 4.1b1 on a Unixware 7.1 system.
> > >
> > So what sendfax command line did you use?
> > 
> > Tip: command line arguments on HylaFAX are position dependent.
> 
> Ahhhh....
> That's the problem.
> 
> I have another question.  Is there a way to get sendfax to send only the
> cover page?  Sometime we only need to send a cover page and nothing
> else.  If you don't give sendfax a filename, it tries to read one from
> stdin.  If you don't give it a valid filename, it complains.
> 
> For now I am using faxcover to generate the cover page, and then pass
> that file to sendfax.

This works: it's how the perl script "sfax" works.

Adding a flag to send only the cover page might be completely
reasonable, and could be a suggested revision to
HylaFAX. Alternatively, you can use something like "sfax" as a wrapper to
do precisely this.

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

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