[Asterisk-Users] spandsp hylafax asterisk and confusion

[Steve Underwood]

Hi Terry,

People are doing this kind of thing, but I am not. I don't know quite 
how they do it. Hopefully someone will pipe in with a wonderful solution :-)

Regards,
Steve


Terry Goodwin wrote:

>Damn! :-(
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>Now that I have spandsp working on my * I was going to try and get it
>working with hylafax.
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>Is there any other means of faxing from the desktop (windows PC) via
>asterisk?
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>The solution needs to be "user friendly".  I like the solution that
>allows the user to "print" from an application (word, notepad, browser,
>terminal session, etc) to a fax driver which in turn connects to the *
>server for transmission.  A bonus would be that the faxing application
>kept a "directory" of the numbers the user faxed to for easy repeat
>faxing.
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>Any solutions out there like this?
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>Respectfully
>Terry
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>>>>steveu at coppice.org 5/26/2004 7:40:20 PM >>>
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>Christopher Lewis wrote:
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>>I appreciate all the support SpanDSP is getting on this list, and the
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>work 
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>>that went into developing it.  It's nice to see that Asterisk actually
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>>supports sending and receiving faxes now.  
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>>One thing I was expecting to see here is that HylaFax works with
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>SpanDSP, but 
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>>I haven't seen any documentation for this.  Is it possible to use
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>SpanDSP in 
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>>conjunction with HylaFax to route the printing and/or emailing of
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>faxes.  
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>spandsp and HylaFAX will not currently play together. I did some work 
>towards giving the FAX modem in spandsp and optional Class 1 AT 
>interface, but it is unfinished.
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>Regards,
>Steve
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