Re: [hylafax-users] resubmitting faxes, custom setup

["Hans Zimmerman" <hans.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Zimmerman wrote:

> Hi list,
>
>  we have a somewhat special setup for HylaFAX. We currently try to send 
> a fax 6 times and have it archived after this. Periodically we have a 
> script checking which faxes failed and this script resubmits a fax for 
> another 4 tries. If it fails again it's printed and someone picks it up.
> This works great for small faxjobs (< 5pages) and we currently have a 
> below 5% failure rate.
>
> Soon we will be submitting bigger jobs (5 to 50pages) and with the above 
> setup we start faxing all over again from page 0 if it failed after the 
>  6 initial times. This is acceptable for small jobs but if a fax failed 
> at it's 49th page it will resend all pages again at the resend and this 
> must be avoided. As we can't ask sendfax to send a fax only from page x 
> we're looking at how we can achieve this. Is there someone that faced a 
> similar problem? We're currenlty thinking of stripping the succeeded 
> pages from the postscript file but I'm not sure if there is a tool that 
> does this.
>
> Kind regards and thanks for the good work, HylaFAX rocks,
>
> Hans Zimmerman


I just found out that the tool 'psselect' might be able to help me out, 
it can strip some pages from a postscript file and dump then into 
another postscript file. Testing will start soon :)


Thanks anyway, still open for other suggestions,

Hans

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