hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) (07/05/90)
Has anyone had any experience putting a fax board on a Novell network? It needs software running under both DOS and MS Windows, and it should probably appear to users as a printer. I'm most interested in having it used as an outgoing device (using hardcopy faxes for incoming messages). -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | Monash University | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. | fax: +61 3 565 4944 or 3409
monroe@rlgvax.UUCP (Steve Monroe) (07/06/90)
In article <32586.26930274@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) writes: > Has anyone had any experience putting a fax board on a Novell network? I had about 20 GammaLink GammaFax boards running in 4 PCs sending out images. > It needs software > running under both DOS and MS Windows, and it should probably appear to > users as a printer. A company called Alien computing makes a MS-Windows driver that can make either the Intel Connection Co-processor or the Spectrafax board appear as a printer. The problem would be that these will appear only to the machine in which the cards are placed. Both companies are working on multiple board support (don't know what the current status is). > I'm most interested in having it used as an outgoing > device (using hardcopy faxes for incoming messages). The GammaLink people also make a product called GammaScript that will produce FAX images from PostScript. It is very easy to dedicate a PC with a simple batch script that will take a PostScript file, generate the image, and queue it to the fax board. This will allow you to operate as a printer (PostScript to a file, most apps let you do this). You just have to write a simple little program (shell follows): main() { for(;;) { filename = find_file( "*.ps" ); system( "faxtops filename" ); system( "faxtobrd filename.fax" ); } } crude, but that is basically it. You need to sleep or do some other notification method that there is work to do but I can guarantee that this will work with all of the boards mentioned above. GoScript Plus (the latest edition) will also produce FAX resolution TIFF or PCX files that can be used in place of GammaScript. > -- > Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au > Lecturer in Civil Engineering | > Monash University | phone: +61 3 565 4983 > Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. | fax: +61 3 565 4944 or 3409 Good Luck! -- Steve Monroe | monroe@ropes.opcr.icl.com Formerly FAX involved person | ICL | phone: 703-648-3436 Reston, Virginia, USA. | fax: 703-264-0319