Nordic Star Products 4.3A 17. Technical specifications

Technicalspecifications

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17. Technical specifications

XFAXis fax software for sending Group 3 faxes with the aid of Class 2-compat-

iblefax modems. The maximum speed for sending faxes is 14.400 bps, however

9.600bps is the most common. This depends on the other fax unit. The speed of

computerto modem is 19.200 bps.

17.1 Modem drivers

Class 2 (proposedTIA/EIA 592) and Class 2.0 (TIA/EIA 592)

17.2 File formats

ASCII, HPLaserjet (PCL-4), Modified Huffman. Files are usually stored in

ModifiedHuffman format since this is a very efficient way of compressingthis

type of data.

17.3 Memory required

Thisdepends to some extent on the operative system, but the whole systemoccu-

pies between2 Mb of memory after installation. When using the system the fol-

lowing isadded: One fax file with a normal page of data (A4) needs between 20

and 80 kb.

17.4 Tested platforms

AIX 3.2.5

AIX 4.1

AIX 4.2

AIX 4.3

HP-UX 9.x

HP-UX 10.x

HP-UX 11.x

Linux (Redhat)

SCO OpenServer5

SCO UNIX

SCO UnixWare2.1

SCO UnixWare7

SINIX

Solaris2.x (Intel and Sparc)

17.5 Modems tested

The followingmodems have been tested with XFAX and functioned satisfacto-

rily.However, for the best functioning we recommend the ZyXELmodem that

has been shown to be the most stable with respectto fax functionality.

Intertex,various models

Multitech,various models

Contents

Main Contents Page Page Page 1. Overview Page 2. Installation 3. Configuring the software 3.1 Keywords 3.2 Environment variables 3.3 Adding actions 3.4 XFAX and multiple fax devices Page 4. Sending a fax 4.1 faxsend 4.2 Attaching a note to a fax 4.3 One fax to several recipients (group transmission) 4.4 Scheduled transmissions 4.5TheIDofthefaxinthequeue 4.6 Printing a fax before sending 4.7 The script xfax 4.8 The script faxadm 4.9 Document codes 4.10 The telephone cost file ETCDIR/cost Page 5. Receiving faxes 5.1 Automatic printing of incoming faxes 6. Handling faxes 6.1 Fax queues 6.2 Reschedule a fax 6.3 Scheduling a fax 6.4 Canceling of a fax 6.5 Printing a fax 6.6 Listing faxes in a particular directory 6.7 Routine maintenance 6.8 Cleaning the statistics file 7. XFAX in a Windows environment 7.1 The XFAX Windows client (printer driver) 7.1.1 Installation 7.1.2 Using the client 7.2 Using the address book in XFAX Page 8. Overlay files and cover sheets 8.1 Using overlay files as forms and cover pages 8.2 Cover sheets the old way Page Page 9. XFAX and e-mail 9.1 Sendmail 9.2 The script faxmail Page 10. XFAX and Ghostscript (sending PDF and Postscript) 10.1 Installing Ghostscript and the XFAX driver 10.2 Troubleshooting 11. The integrated HTTP server 12. The integrated SMTP server 13. Modems and flow control 14. Command reference 14.1 Commands 14.1.1 faxadm 14.1.2 fax2bmp 14.1.3 fax2hp 14.1.6 faxmail 14.1.7 faxmaster 14.1.8 faxmime 14.1.9 faxprint 14.1.10 faxq 14.1.11 faxrm 14.1.12 faxsend Page 14.1.13 faxsr 14.1.14 faxstat 14.1.15 faxwho 14.2 Exit codes 15. Keyword reference 15.1 General keywords 15.1.1 FAXLINE 15.1.2 ACCESS_HTTP 15.1.3 ACCESS_SMTP 15.1.4 ACCEPT_USERS 15.1.5 ADMINISTRATOR 15.1.6 ALERT_USER 15.1.7 ARCHIVE_SENT Page Page 15.1.23 DOMAIN 15.1.24 EXEC_WORKDIR 15.1.25 EXECUTE_AFTER_RECEIVE 15.1.26 EXECUTE_AFTER_SEND 15.1.27 EXECUTE_BEFORE_SEND 15.1.28 EXIT_STRING 15.1.29 FAIL_DIR 15.1.30 FAIL_FAXNO 15.1.31 FAXHOST Page Page 15.1.46 LD_PREFIX 15.1.47 LINE_FAIL 15.1.48 LOCAL_PREFIX 15.1.49 LOCK_DIR 15.1.50 LOCKING_STYLE Page Page 15.1.67 RECEIVE_ONLY 15.1.68 RESOLUTION 15.1.69 RETRY_TIME 15.1.70 REVERSE_STATS 15.1.71 ROUND_ROBIN Page Page Page 16. Troubleshooting Page 17. Technical specifications 17.1 Modem drivers 17.2 File formats 17.3 Memory required 17.4 Tested platforms 17.6 Typefaces in XFAX Index