Re: flexfax: ignoring stdin with sendfax - SOLVED

[Lee Howard <faxguy@server.deanox.com>]

As far as I'm aware, sendfax *must* either have a valid file to fax *or* a
non-empty set of stdin to use.  sendfax errors out when it gets empty stdin.

So, the workaround is to use faxcover and pipe it to sendfax like this:

faxcover -c "blah" -f "bleh" -n "bloh" -r "blih" -t "bluh" -x "bleeh" \
	| sendfax -n -f "blaih" -R -d "blioh"

If that makes any sense...

Lee Howard


At 09:50 PM 5/20/00 -0600, Lee Howard wrote:
>Is there a way to have sendfax ignore stdin on occasion?  I need to invoke
>sendfax from another program that will *always* send stdout.  However,
>occasionally I would like to send only a coverpage as a "small note" with
>no following pages - the sendfax acceptance of stdin creates pages
>afterwards.  The use of an empty file in the sendfax command generates an
>error.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Lee Howard
>