Re: Faxing

2006-01-29 Thread Christian Huldt
24 jan 2006 kl. 11.43 skrev Alan Fry: As a PS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested to me [slightly condensed]:- Well, I'd skip the Perl - applescript - Terminal - bash hoopla why not just use system(efax command line) or just back-ticks. Indeed that's much better, faster, and cleaner, and works

Re: Faxing

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Whittle
the file to faxable format and sending the fax by 'efax'. In both cases a suitable shell script can be invoked from within a perl script by an AppleScript 'do script' command. I hope this may be of interest to some with my apologies to those not interested in faxing from Perl for his long

Re: Faxing

2006-01-25 Thread Alan Fry
On 25 Jan 2006, at 10:32, Robert Whittle wrote: Thanks for the detailed and useful info provided. When using the efax approach described, is there any record available anywhere that tells you whether or not the fax was successfully sent or not? Options to retry if the number is busy ?

Re: Faxing

2006-01-24 Thread Alan Fry
On 23 Jan 2006, at 17:34, Bill Stephenson wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Alan Fry wrote: I was intrigued by the original question and have done some experiments on this G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.4. snip Wow, thanks for sharing what you've learned! Admittedly, I haven't had much

Re: Faxing

2006-01-23 Thread Alan Fry
the file to faxable format and sending the fax by 'efax'. In both cases a suitable shell script can be invoked from within a perl script by an AppleScript 'do script' command. I hope this may be of interest to some with my apologies to those not interested in faxing from Perl for his long

Re: Faxing

2006-01-23 Thread Bill Stephenson
On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Alan Fry wrote: I was intrigued by the original question and have done some experiments on this G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.4. snip Wow, thanks for sharing what you've learned! Admittedly, I haven't had much time to play with this since I asked that question but

Re: Faxing

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Whittle
I managed to get perl to send faxes using the 'fax' front-end program, but never satisfactorily. I had to use root user to send faxes and I never managed to send any faxes that has graphics in the. In the end I installed PageSender, which has examples of sending faxes via AppleScript, and

Re: Faxing

2006-01-18 Thread Adrian Hosey
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Robert Whittle wrote: : I managed to get perl to send faxes using the 'fax' front-end program, but : never satisfactorily. I had to use root user to send faxes and I never managed : to send any faxes that has graphics in the. In the end I installed PageSender, : which has

Re: Faxing

2006-01-18 Thread Doug McNutt
At 13:29 -0600 1/17/06, Bill Stephenson wrote: I want to write a script that faxes selected members of congress my humble opinions ;) You can send e-mail from perl and that leads to two options: 1) Send the email to efax (sp) where it can be converted to FAX and sent for a fee. 2) Don't vote

Re: Faxing

2006-01-18 Thread Joseph Alotta
Hi Doug, I like the idea of efax. It seems good but costs $13/month. That is a little high for me considering I send or receive about 5 faxes a year. I wonder if there is another place that only charges when you do something? On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Doug McNutt wrote: At

Faxing

2006-01-17 Thread Bill Stephenson
Is there a way to fax a document using the built-in Mac OSX (10.3) fax feature with perl? I want to write a script that faxes selected members of congress my humble opinions ;) Kindest regards, -- Bill Stephenson