What is HQFax?

HQFax is a single user, stand-alone faxing application for Windows. You can print from most Windows applications with the HQFax Printer Driver and HQFax will popup, allowing you to send a fax to one destination or many destinations. HQFax has a built-in Jet phonebook and many other features designed to make faxing easier. You can fax through the Internet or with your local fax modem.

How can I actually send a fax?

You either send a fax using your local fax modem. HQFax comes with the HQFaxMgr which allows your locally connected fax modem to send and receive faxes.

You can also send a fax through an Internet fax network called TPC.INT using standard Winsock. Your Winsock connection can either be through your LAN or your modem. Selecting whether to send the fax via the modem or the Internet is simple.When you want to send, click Send for Modem or IFax for Internet.

What versions of Windows are supported?

All Windows 3.1, 3.11 and Windows for Workgroups are supported. Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 are also supported. Each operating system Win3.X, Win95 and WinNT have their own installation disks. Windows NT is not yet supported with release 8 of HQFax.

How do I install it?

Download the files for your operating system.

Windows 3.1 systems need to have Win32s loaded first. These provide 32 bit services to Windows 3.x users. These are installed separately to HQFax. Download these and run setup.

Pkunzip the HQFAX??.ZIP file you have received into a temp directory. This temp directory should ideally be on the same volume/drive you are going to install HQFax into. Eg. You are installing HQFax into C:\HQFax so you place the temporary files into C:\TEMP

Once you have the extracted files run the setup.exe which has been extracted.

How do I send a fax through the Internet?

Let's take Microsoft Write as a sample application since it's available on all Windows Platforms. Open your document in Write. Click Print and Select the HQFax Printer Driver. This will be called HQ Win16 on Windows 3.x machines, FaxHQ-95 on Windows 95 and HQ_FaxDriver on NT Machines. Now click OK to print. HQFax should then popup. Type in the fax number in the dialog box shown.

Very Important.. You must include the full country code and area code for every fax you send via the Internet. TPC.INT is an international organisation and it uses the country code of your fax to determine which fax server processes your fax.

Some examples:

To send a fax to

Sydney Australia: 61 2 9558 xxxx

Melbourne Australia 61 3 9555 xxxx

Los Angeles, USA 1 310 555-1234

Note the 0 in front of the area code is removed for most countries that have a 0 in front of their area code. If in doubt consult your local telephone directory on how to direct dial internationally. The same procedure usually applies to sending faxes via TPC.INT.

Click IFax when you have finished entering the fax number details. With HQFax you can send faxes to multiple destinations at one time. If you "abuse" particular locations by mass faxing, you will find that your access to these locations is barred.

I want to send a fax I received with my modem - through the internet. How can I do it?

This is easy. In HQFax's Fax Tracker. Right mouse click the gray area beside the buttons. Click on the Receive option from the popup menu. You are now being shown the Received Fax log. Select the entry you wish to send via the Internet and click the Resend button. Type in the number of the destination and click IFax.

How can I attach an Excel spreadsheet to my Word Document and Fax it?

Firstly print the Excel spreadsheet using the HQ printer driver. When HQFax pops up, Select the File Menu and the option "Keep This Image File". You will then be asked for a brief description for this file. Complete this. Now go into your Word Document and print this using the HQ Printer driver. When HQFax Pops up again, key in your fax destination details. Click the DOCS button and drag the previously saved image file into the attached documents area. Click OK. Now can you send the fax via the modem or through the Internet clicking Send or IFax.

I get the message about "Incompatible Database Problem" when installing. Why?

This is caused by a conflict between HQFax's Jet database DLLs and those of another application which has an older version of Jet. HQFax's Jet (Microsoft's database API) is the latest version 2.5 for 16 and 32 bit operating systems. If you want to keep your old version, you can ignore the errors and try and run the setup wizard when everything is finished.

Run the program with the command line

C:\HQFax\INETSet WIZARD

If you want to get rid of your old Jet, look for the following files in your windows or windows\system directory.

MSAJT200.DLL

VBDB300.DLL

Delete or rename these files (You may also find one called msajt112. Remove this one also). You can then re-install HQFax from the setup program.