NDC comm CompuFax Lookup With Wildcard, Broadcasting Faxes, Personalizing Broadcast Faxes

The / LOOKUP qualifier causes CompuFax to look up Fred's number (1-818-555-1111) automatically and send the fax to that number. Or, instead of using the / LOOKUP qualifier, you can use the # # LOOKUP directive in your text file:

## LOOKUP "Fred Smith"

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3.9 Lookup With Wildcard

In the above lookup example, if you could not remember Fred's last name, but you know that there is only one Fred in your lookup file, you could enter:

$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.1 / LOOKUP= Fred*

In this example, the asterisk (*) (called a wildcard) means that you leave it up to the computer to decide what comes after the word Fred. By the way, you can omit the quotation marks, if there are no spaces in what you type. If you know that there is only one name starting with the letter F, you could even enter:

$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.1 / LOOKUP= F*

This would be enough for CompuFax to figure out that you want to send the fax to Fred Smith.

3.10 Broadcasting Faxes

What if you want to send the same fax to everybody in your lookup list? You simply wildcard the whole name:

$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.1 / LOOKUP= *

In the case of the FAX_DB.DAT example file above, a total of three faxes would be sent, one to NDC, one to Jane Jones and one to Fred Smith. Sending a fax to multiple destinations is known as broadcasting. You could also send a fax to every name in your lookup file that lives in a certain city:

$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.1 / LOOKUP= CITY= "Los Angeles"

You can break it down into as many categories as you have keys in your lookup file.

3.11 Personalizing Broadcast Faxes

You can personalize broadcast faxes. For example, you can get the fax to Fred Smith to start with 'Dear Fred' and the fax to Jane to start with 'Dear Jane'. For this, you use a feature, called text substitution or text merging.

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