Re: flexfax: Thinking about perl re-write of faxrcvd

[David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>]

> Anyway what I've been thinking is having a tab delimited file with a 
> function like etc/FaxDispatch where we could store options like:

I don't believe there is a precedent for tab delimited in Hylafax.
Unless you are dealing with very large numbers of users, keyword=value
is more flexible (using one file per user).

> do write something that it be useful to more than just us. And on the 
> 'preferred format' option, has anyone been able to create pdf files from 
> fax files using gs? I never get errors, but the pdf's come through 

I've never tried, but I would suggest that going direct to PDF is a much
better solution and not particularly difficult, as all you have to do
is put a wrapper around the raw G3 fax data and add a page navigation
tree.