RE: flexfax: Faxing from Word Perfect (DOS)

["Carl Patten" <cpatte@trimodalinc.com>]

Another way is to run a macro.  I once set up WordPerfect 5.1 for UNIX to
print to DigiFAX this way.

Here's how I'd do it for HylaFAX.  You decide whether it's too much trouble
or not.

(1) Load ActivePerl (http://www.activestate.com/ActivePerl/download.htm) on
the PC.  This gives you access to OLE, which you'll be using to tie
WordPerfect and WHFC together.
(2) Write a small Perl script to call WHFC via OLE.  The WHFC home page has
an example.
(3) Create a macro in WordPerfect called "fax".  This macro will print the
document to file and call the Perl script to run WHFC.

That bypasses the problem of trying to make your DOS app print to a Windows
printer.

Unfortunately, I removed WP51 from the UNIX box four days ago so I don't
have the macro to show you :(  The WHFC web site has an example of how to do
it in Corel WordPerfect that may be of some help:
http://www.transcom.de/whfc/doku/oleexample.html

--
Carl Patten

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-flexfax@celestial.com [mailto:owner-flexfax@celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Ulrich Eckhardt
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 6:09 AM
> To: flexfax@sgi.com
> Subject: Re: flexfax: Faxing from Word Perfect (DOS)
>
>
> Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > An office I know likes to HylaFAX from Word Perfect 5.1, a DOS
> program. They
> > run Word Perfect in a full-screen DOS box under Windows98.
> >
> > I think it will be no problem to use a postscript-printerdriver
> what prints
> > to a postscript-file.
> > With WHFC I can send it to Hylafax.
> >
> > Does somebody know a better way?
> >
> > Bye,
> > Paul van der Vlis.
>
> Hi,
>
> using WHFC with a DOS box will not work, since this dos box does
> not use the "normal" windows printing mechanism.
>
> There is an extension for samba available somewhere. So you have
> a samba printer on which you can print. If i remember correctly
> it was something like "respond"
>
> Uli
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