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- Fax Forward 1.0
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- Forward Faxes from a Windows for Workgroups 3.11 PC with a
- fax/modem to another PC on the workgroup.
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- Legal stuff (Disclaimer)
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- Fax Forward is freeware. It may be distributed freely. But
- be aware:
- The Copyright Owner hereby disclaims all warranties relating
- to this software, whether express or implied, including
- without limitation any implied warranties of
- merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The
- Copyright Owner will not be liable for any special,
- incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due
- to loss of data or any other reason, even if The Copyright
- owner or an agent of The Copyright Owner has been advised of
- the possibility of such damages. The person using the
- software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of
- the software.
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- Fax Forward is almost complete, except for the Help and
- About menus. I sadly lost the code to the main form of Fax
- Forward two days after writing it (in one afternoon!). I
- hope to some day rebuild it, but you may want to try it on
- your own. You really only need the MAPI VBX with the
- professional version of Visual Basic 3.0.
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- From a VB point of view, all Fax Forward does:
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- - Starts a MAPI Session for the Receiving station
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- - At a given interval, checks the InBox for unread messages.
- It then steps through as many messages as it got (now in
- its Read buffer), and looks for "Fax" as the first three
- letters of the originator's address.
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- - If it sees "Fax", it then puts the message in the Compose
- Buffer, and forwards it to the address specified in the
- Settings dialog. It simultaneously adds the fax message to
- the listbox on Fax Forward's main form, and to the log file.
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- From a operational point of view, the first time your run
- Fax Forward, it won't know what the receive station is, or the forward
- station. Go into the Settings menu option, and enter the name of the
- fax/modem's station, the forwarding station, the interval to check
- (1 - 59 minutes are OK numbers). Fax Forward fills in a file name to
- log to; if you want to turn off logging, just clear all text out of
- the Log To File box. You can enter a different file name, but do not
- put a new path. Fax Forward always puts the log file in its own
- directory, and uses that knowledge to run Notepad.exe to show you
- the log file. Now close Fax Forward and relaunch it with its proper
- settings. If you get an error message, you may not have the correct
- name for one of the stations - check them and try again.
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- Note that the List of forwarded faxes is cleared out every
- time Fax Forward is closed. So the log file keeps a list of all
- forwarded faxes since Fax Forward was installed (unless you delete/edit
- the file), and the list box just shows faxes forwarded this session.
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- That's it. I hope it works on your system. It works like a
- charm on our small workgroup. If nothing else, I hope it
- can get you over the shock that Microsoft didn't build this
- feature into W4WG 3.11.
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- Paul Kaliciak
- CompuServe: 70242,3375
- Internet: paul.kaliciak@canrem.com
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