Dialogic 6.2 manual Sending a Fax to a Channel from an External Fax Machine

Developing a Fax Application

Sending a Fax to a Channel from an External Fax Machine

Use the fax.c sample program to send a fax from an external fax machine to a channel in your system. Then send the same fax back to the same fax machine from the same channel in your system.

1.Prepare channel 1 to receive a fax as you did in the previous example. Use the same input filename recfile.ips used to send a fax from one channel to another in the same system:

fax -u 1 -r recfile.ips

Channel 1 is now set to receive a fax and is waiting for a ring signal.

2.At the fax machine, insert the sample fax in the fax machine and call the channel's (channel 1) phone number in the normal way. At the tone send your sample fax.

Wait for the selected channel to receive the sample fax.

3.Send the received fax back to the fax machine:

fax -u 1 -s wphonenum recfile.ips

This time, phonenum is the phone number of the external fax machine.

You can examine the structure of the infopkt stream recfile.ips before you transmit it back to the fax machine.

decode recfile.ips

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