Fax and Email from AREV (AREV Specific)
At 27 DEC 1998 08:13:24AM Ernst Loohuis wrote:
I have a client who would like to be able to fax and email directly from AREV. They are uing AREV3.12 and Novell.
At 27 DEC 1998 09:23PM Don Bakke wrote:
Ernst,
Faxing: Do they want to use a fax server or do they want to fax direct from each workstation?
Email: Are we referring to internal email (i.e. AREV based) or internet email?
What OS are the workstations running?
At 28 DEC 1998 02:25AM Ernst Loohuis wrote:
They don´t use a fax server and they want to fax from each workstation and they are talking about internet email.
At 29 DEC 1998 09:49AM Don Bakke wrote:
You didn't mention what OS these workstations are running but I'll assume Win95/98 because of the e-mail reference. Either way, I'm not sure you can integrate AREV and internet e-mail without OpenInsight and its ability to work with MAPI.
Faxing from AREV can be done using many of the DOS-based faxing applications and running it through a SUSPEND command. Typically you write to a file the straight text or PCL formatted information and then run a utility that converts this to a faxable formatted file. Then launch the fax software with command line parameters or a reference to a header file with the phone number. When completed, control is brought back to AREV. There are some packages that actually work in the background as a TSR so the end user can continue to work in AREV while the fax is going on.
We did this for a client about 5 years ago but I can't remember the fax software that we used. If I were to do it all over again I would search the internet…as I recall the results were mediocre anyway. Well, truthfully, I probably would steer the client to OpenInsight and use a Windows based faxing application. If you continue to pursue this with AREV, you will need COMMDRV.IBM but I'm not sure how successful this will be under Win95, although it should work.
Best wishes,
At 04 JAN 1999 01:28PM Terry Rainville wrote:
Ive created a way of sending faxes directly from arev to the fax
machine without any fax software.
Basicly I created my own automatic faxing routine, takes a little
work and some tweeking but you can send faxes without another
software package.
Terry Rainville
At 16 FEB 1999 11:41PM Dennis Smith wrote:
I did this by using a routine that does a PDISK, prints the document to the C:\FAX-DIRECTORY\PDISK-NAME.TXT, then SUSPEND EXIT C:\FAX-DIRECTORY\FAXPROGRAM.EXE PDISK-NAME.TXT
Hope this helps