NDC comm CompuFax More About Sending Files, Sending Multiple Files, Sending Different File Types

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More About Sending Files

In the previous chapter, we covered some simple ways to send faxes. Since the SEND command is the most important command in CompuFax, we devote this chapter to more of its options. (This does not complete the list, however, since some options are related to System Management. For a complete list, see Chapter 7.)

3.1 Sending Multiple Files

You can send multiple files, all as part of the same fax. For example, if you have five files (named doc.1 through doc.5) to send in a single fax, you can give the command:

$ FAX SEN D doc.1, doc.2, doc.3, doc.4, doc.5 / N UMBER= 1-555-123-4567

These files are joined together (concatenated) to make up a single document. For example, if each of the above five files contains ten lines of text, the final document will contain 50 lines of text on a single page. If each of the files is supposed to start on a new page, this may be done by embedding a # # PAGE directive at the end of each file, except the last. See Chapter 7 for more information. Instead of # # PAGE you can insert a Control-L character into the text file, wherever a page break is to occur.

3.2 Sending Different File Types

In addition to regular text files, as we did in our earlier examples, you can also send compressed bitmap files, called T4 files, and PostScript files. These three file types are explained below.

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