Faxing from 4GL with HPUX / AIX

>I'm looking for a fax software that enables me to automatically send faxes >from 4GL applications on HP/UX and AIX systems without user interaction. We are using ActiveFax (http://www.actfax.com/). It perfectly integrates with the UNIX spooler and the automation of the fax jobs was really easy to implement. Since this product also handles Laserjet printer commands, I was able to use the same report for printing and faxing, so all in all, it took me less than 15 minutes to implement all that. I was really amazed how simple it was. John

Hi, I'm looking for a fax software that enables me to automatically send faxes from 4GL applications on HP/UX and AIX systems without user interaction. Thanks, Dave

Hi Dave, We are using the Comfax product from Com-EM-Tex GmbH (www.com-em_tex.de) on a SGI UNIX server with Informix 4GL with pretty good results. Comfax is not dedicated to 4GL but to UNIX, anyway it is transparent through a RUN command. We have particularly appreciated the following points : 1) Its hability to work without any user interaction in batch mode. 2) Its capability to work with several modems lines simultaneously - we have six lines. 3) It has user interface for X-windows, VT100 and Windows systems. 4) It is particulary secure, almost 97% of our faxes are sent immediatly. We send 24,000 A4 pages a month with somes peaks at 450 A4 pages in one hour. 5) It works on almost all UNIX and NT platform. 6) Since 1997 we do not have any problem with that software. We hope that this software will help you as much as it still helping us. Best regards T. Baribaud D. Salas <dave.salas@hotmail.com> a 'crit dans le message : 8r1man$is9$1@news.netway.at... > Hi, > > I'm looking for a fax software that enables me to automatically send faxes > from 4GL applications on HP/UX and AIX systems without user interaction. > > Thanks, > Dave

"D. Salas" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a fax software that enables me to automatically send faxes > from 4GL applications on HP/UX and AIX systems without user interaction. > I'm using "mgetty" at home with a simple Linux/multitech fax modem setup. I haven't faxed 4GL output but I did fax the output of an ACE report. Basically I saved it as a .txt file and the mgetty filter for .txt automatically converts it to G3 fax. You can add filters, but the default setup works fine (on Linux, it requires Ghostscript "gs"). I think all components could be compiled on AIX as well. You'd need to compile and install "gs" (ghostscript) and then the mgetty/sendfax package http://alpha.greenie.net/mgetty/ Perhaps there are also commercial solutions for HP/AIX but this is freeware that works very well. The only thing to do is use "faxspool" to fax the text. -- David Stes Molenstraat 5 B-2018 Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, Belgie Tel +32 3 237 43 54 Fax +32 3 237 40 76 Email stes@pandora.be