>>>I have a FPW 2.6 app that is running under Win/95 and the users want to be able fax some of the reports. Anybody have any experience with the different Comm. libraries that work with FPW 2.6 and Win/95?
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>>John,
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>>I've used Winfaxpro with success. All you have to do is to set the printer to the printer created by winfax, the the user can enter the number to fax to. From participants on this forum I know that using dde sessions you automate that too. You might try and search the archives.
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>>Good luck.
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>>Marc
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>The users will not have WinFaxPro. They want to automate a report they print out per client then fax. Instead they want the report to automatically fax out to each individual client. So the program will need to auto enter the fax # then send the fax out.
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>Have you used any of the comm tool libraries?

John,

Via DDE, you can automate the entry of fax numbers into WinFax. I would really recommend something like this rather than creating your own fax method. You "could" use something like COMET or one of the other libraries, but why recreate it when a product like WinFax gives you all the functionality and more. The DDE calls have been done by many people successfully. I haven't had the "need" to do it as of yet (most people find that it's not that difficult to manually select the information), but I believe that it is well documented within WinFax on how to do it. Another benefit is that it is already network enabled which means that you wouldn't have to have a fax modem in every machine in the office (all compatible with the library that you choose).

If you are set on using a library, check out hallogram. They have several COM libraries to choose from. None are specific to faxing, but most have examples of how you can use them for faxing