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- Thank you for using MakeFax 1.01. Makefax is a simple program
- that I wrote to automatically handle the raw .fax files that
- BinkleyTerm generates.
-
- First off, Makefax is free and is therefore supplied as is
- with no warranty whatsoever. All I can say is that it works
- for me and will occupy space on your hard disk. If you like
- Makefax please send me a postcard or just a quick netmail so
- I can see people are using it which might encourage me to add
- new features.
-
- Here is how Makefax works. When Binkley receives a fax it
- seperates every page into a seperate file named pagexxxx.fax.
- Makefax combines these files into one Zfax format fax file.
- The files are stored in a subdirectory of your Binkley fax
- directory which MUST be called receive. For example, on my
- system faxes are stored by Binkley in "c:\bt\fax" and the
- processed fax files are stored in "c:\bt\fax\receive". After
- the fax is processed the raw .fax files are deleted. The
- Zfax format file is named MMDDYYYY.### where MM is the current
- month, DD the day of the month, YYYY is the year, and ### is
- the nth fax for the day.
-
- I have included both a 32-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 2.x version
- of Makefax. I have also included a sample dofax.cmd and
- dofax.bat file that is called from Binkley. I use makemsg to
- send myself a message whenever a fax arrives. To keep things
- simple Makefax assumes that all of its files and the .fax files
- are in the current directory.
-
- To install Makefax copy (unzip?) all of the makefax files into
- the directory where Binkley places incoming faxes. Modify the
- .cmd or .bat file as appropriate so that the makefax .exe file
- is run from the correct directory. Create a subdirectory in
- the Binkley incoming fax directory called "receive". Have
- Binkley call makefax or dofax whenever a new fax is received.
- An incoming fax is easily detected by testing for an errorlevel
- or checking for .fax files in the Binkley incoming fax directory.
-
- If you find any bugs please contact me at the address bellow.
- Also, if you have formats for other fax programs beside Zfax
- send them to me and I might just add them into a future version
- of Makefax.
-
- Philip Polstra
- Sysop the Hangar/2 BBS Fido 1:201/100 FlyNet 196:7050/2
- BBS and FAX (317)583-0732
- Internet: polstra@physics.purdue.edu
- Snail Mail: PO Box 2, Otterbein, IN 47970-0002