It's hard to believe in this day and age that we are still running a
DOS based computer so we can keep Faxlink Gold running. It has been a
great product, but I am starting to get concerned about how much longer
it is going to last.

I saw Bruce Nichol mention Active Fax, and I am wondering how difficult
it is to get set up to be used from D3. Also, since all use will be
coming from D3, is that considered 1 user?

Does anyone else have a different faxing from Pick solution? If so, I
would love to hear about them.

Thanks!

Tracy

Goo'day, Tracy,

On 12 Apr 2006 10:23:27 -0700, "Tracy Raines" <liveblues (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

Thanks for remembering me...

ActiveFax is a totally "hands free" adjunct to any MV environment. All
of the faxing/emailing is taken care of by sending the document to the
ActiveFax "printer".

SETPTR 1,,,,,,AT ACTIVEFAX, BRIEF (UV and OpenQM)

From there you can manage the transmission yourself. But... There is
a better way.

ActiveFax has things called "data fields" which are basically codes
for all sorts of things: Receivers fax number, senders fax no,
subject, priority, receivers email address, etc, and all you need to
do is include the code in a DataBASIC PRINT statement, eg,
PRINT '@F201 Bill Smith@@F211 0234343434@':
the @F201 code being "receivers name" and @F211 being "receivers fax
no", and the codes and data need to be contained within sets of "@"..

Dead simple. ActiveFax does it all...

And, yes, we were able to licence single user ActiveFax server - the
MV server being the user. Only had to ask. However, users got to
see how simple ActiveFax was for sending/receiving all sorts of
documents, even "fax back" and our sites are now all multi-user
clients so that individual users can use it...

And that's not all.. Thanks to advice from Jeffrey Kaufman, we have
now got (almost) full PCL printing to low end GDI lasers and jet
printers simply by printing to the ActiveFax printer and re-directing
from there by embedding "data field @F503 ...@ and its options in
the report/document

And that's not all.... ActiveFax permits use of bit maps by using
another "data field" @F000 @ ... signatures, letterheads from MV
anybody?

Try it...
Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

Tracy,

We have a couple of options that may fit the bill - our original
FaxLynx product (hmmm, wonder where THAT name came from and also our
Visage.Faxer product.

Both require a Windows box "somewhere", and can be used for inbound &
outbound faxing. vFaxer is "nice" in that you can have inbound faxes
re-directed via email, and in terms of outbound faxing you can use HTML
for document formatting (and to include logos, images etc)

However, neither have a "PCL" emulation mode in quite the same way that
Fax Link did

If you want more details, just me an email (or you can download a trial
version, manuals etc for the old FaxLynx/WordLynx products from the web
site) ... Oh, and in terms of cost, the Visage.Faxer is just $249 ....
and I also have a few spare Intel "SatisFAXtion" modems hanging around
(and 1 user still on "gold" - youch!)

Thanks for the replies.

Bruce, that sounds similar to the way Faxlink works. It doesn't sound
like a conversion from Faxlink to ActiveFax would be terribly
difficult.

Glen, thanks for the heads up on Hylafax. I will definitely have to
look into it.

Sorry Ross, I didn't mean to exclude you on my last reply. Yours
wasn't there when I started it.

You probably don't remember me, but I spoke to you about FaxLynx at the
2005 Spectrum in San Diego. You were going to email me some
information about it when you got back home, but I never heard from
you. That's ok, Spectrum is a busy time, and I won't hold that against
you. I will certainly give your product a look.

I tried to send the following as an attachment last week before I left for a
few days of R & R. I see the post never surfaced. Here it is again, although
it is not going to format well. It is a cross reference between Faxlink and
Active Fax that I wrote a few years ago.


Fax Command String Comparison

Command FaxLink Standard FaxLink Gold/Enterprise
Active Fax


Primary:

Fax start string FAX ~FAX~
(none)



Fax to phone# phone /phone=phone
@F211 phone@



Fax id string /id="string" /id="string"
@F308 string@



Fax body (none) ~TXT~
(none)



Overlay /INSERT/ +PCXLdosfile
@F306 dosfile.cov@

/dosfile



Insert Image
@F000 dosfile.bmp@



End of fax /./ ~END~
@END@



Options:

Compact print /COMPASCII /COMPASCII
embed PCL code

Hold fax /HOLD /HOLD
(none)

No stamp /NOSTAMP /NOSTAMP
(none)

Retries /RETRY=nn /RETRY=nn
(none)

Fine resolution /FINE /FINE
@F313 2@

Route name /ROUTE=name /ROUTE=name
@F201 name@

Fax time /TIME=hh:mm /TIME=hh:mm
@F304 hh:mm@

Fax date /DATE=mm/dd/yy /DATE=mm/dd/yy
@F303 mm.dd.yy@

HP landscape /HP /HP
Esc &l1O



Other features:

Fax from company
@F101 company@

Fax from name
@F102 name@

Fax from fax#
@F110 fax#@

Fax to company
@F201 company@

Fax to name
@F207 name@

Fax subject
@F307 subject@



Notes:

The @END@ is only necessary for faxes sent via serial connection.

Overlay images must be run through the Active Fax cover page designer and
have the .cov extension.

Other images, such as signatures, flyers, letterhead, etc. must be .bmp
files.

The "other features" data print on the fax header line and display in the
fax status window of the server.

Any HP PCL commands may be embedded into the fax body.

Full documentation is available from the downloads section of www.actfax.com
..



"Tracy Raines" <liveblues (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

we have had good success with fax2send. details can be found here:
http://www.fax2send.com/fax2send/page/home.html

-Jim