Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries

["Scott Swaim" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you could email the wrapper I would appreciate it.  No need to Re-invent 
the wheel


Thanks
Scott Swaim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: IBM Fax support for iSeries


> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Scott Swaim wrote:
>
> > Do you have any notes on how you set this up?  I just started looking 
> > into
> > setting up Hylafax to send faxes from the Iseries.  If you have install
> > notes or advice I would greatly appreciate the help.
>
> There is a link on the hylafax website to a java client called
> gnu-hylafax.  gnu-hylafax is a java toolkit that implements the hylafax
> protocol for you.  You can call methods in the gnu-hylafax package
> directly or (like I did with the help of others on this list) write a
> wrapper to simplifiy things a little bit.  I'd be happy to send you my
> little wrapper - it is just a little java program that simplifies the
> calls between RPG and gnu-hylafax.
>
> The process works like this:
>
> 1. An RPG program creates the printed output.  In our case we produce
> postscript output, but you could just as well produce a regular SCS or AFP
> spooled file and convert it to PDF.
> 2. Call the methods in gnu-hylafax (or my wrapper) passing such things as
> the fax number, the email address of the sender (for confirmation
> purposes) and full pathname of the file you want to fax.
>
> James Rich
>
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