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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:27:18 GMT
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- From: "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Aliases and FAXen
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- > We have been happily using PMDF-FAX for sometime now. I now am being asked
- > to add lots of aliases to make sending FAXes easier. The rub is that the
- > users would like to use an alias and override some of the attribute pairs
- > when then send the message. This would allow specifying a unique ``please
- > deliver this to'' without having to remember the phone number. Can I do
- > this? How do I do this?
-
- Oh, I forgot to mention that going into 4.2 is a special header line
- (controlled via a logical) which can specify default attributes to apply
- to FAX addresses. So, if you had the system-wide alias
-
- tek-fax: /fn=012-345-6789/o=Tektronix/@text-fax
-
- and a user has this magic logical set to "/at=Mrocheck Freed/tn=555-1212/"
- then the PMDF-FAX would pick up all four attributes, fn, o, at, tn.
-
- All that remains would be a painless means for your users to set these
- logicals. (DCL script?) This mechanism is actually intended for more static
- information (stn, sfn, setup, fsi, tti, etc.) but can be used for in this
- situation too.
-
- Dan
-