From: Charles Chambers
    To: Gail Hitson
Thread: Email to Fax?      (1/1)
  Date: 15-Jul-97, 11:20pm  (Ref# 5514)

 GH> Does PBFAX allow your BBS users to send out faxes from your system via an
 GH> email/netmail/echomail base?  In other words, you can provide Fax
 GH> services to your BBS users?

No and yes.  No, the message base is not used, but PBFAX does make use of a
temporary file called MSGTMP.  This temporary file is also used by ICE-EDIT.
Yes, I can (and have) provided *local* fax service to my users for about two
years.

Quoted from the docs for PBFAX (quotes are indented, comments are not):

      1) User enters who the fax is addressed to, a subject, and who the
         fax is from.

User is in the door at this stage, but ICE-EDIT has not been invoked.  The
door is simulating the BBS look and feel.

      2) PB/FAX calls the editor defined in procfg. (Tested with
         ICE-EDIT and GEDIT)

Currently running ICE-EDIT.  Works no problem.

      3) Creates a file called faxit.bat in the startup directory. This
         file will call ZFax to convert the fax and will then call BGFax
         to send the file.

The EXEBBS.BAT contains a line that tests for the existence of FAXIT.BAT and,
if it exists, calls it.  FAXIT.BAT runs, exits, and processing is passed back
to EXEBBS.BAT, which reinvokes FrontDoor.  The line reads something like:

   IF EXIST E:\PB\NODE%NODE%\FAXIT.BAT CALL E:\PB\NODE%NODE%\FAXIT.BAT

I run OS/2 3.0 on a 486sx25 with 16 megs memory, with (sometimes) 5 tasks
running.  Memory utilization and speed are not problems.  However, PBFAX
*requires* ProBoard be the BBS software.

Hope this helps.

Charles Chambers
FidoNet 1:114/443
charles.chambers@443.ghostrdr.wierius.com

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