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by **Dmitry Noviko** » Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:00:00

Hello Everybody!
I am trying to create some kind of faxserver on my Linux box, and idea is to
create a 'virtual' postscript printer
with redirection of incoming postscript data to a fax software, with using
Ghostscript as converter PS -> G3 FAX.
Is there any way to create such a 'virtual' printer, which will be seeing
from Windows clients (95/98/NT) as
some kind of generic (or not generic) printer?
Or may be using postscript as 'common language' is a bad idea?
Or, may be, there are other not-email-based ways to send faxes from Windows
clients?
Thanks for any help

Dmitry

by **Duncan Simps** » Thu, 10 Jun 1999 04:00:00

Quote:>Hello Everybody!
>I am trying to create some kind of faxserver on my Linux box, and idea is to
>create a 'virtual' postscript printer
>with redirection of incoming postscript data to a fax software, with using
>Ghostscript as converter PS -> G3 FAX.
>Is there any way to create such a 'virtual' printer, which will be seeing
>from Windows clients (95/98/NT) as
>some kind of generic (or not generic) printer?
>Or may be using postscript as 'common language' is a bad idea?
>Or, may be, there are other not-email-based ways to send faxes from Windows
>clients?
>Thanks for any help

Look into hylafax (free from SGI). You can set up an email to FAX
gateway taht goes via hylafax or use the supplied windows client. The
server might require extereme pushing to run on windows, so why bother :-)

Ducnan (-:

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Windows clients, Samba server and generic postscript printer.

Windows clients, Samba server and generic postscript printer.

Windows clients, Samba server and generic postscript printer.