Automated faxing - Can it be done?
807569Jul 5 2006 — edited Jul 15 2006Hiya,
Hope this is the best place to ask this question. Appoligies if it isn't.
I have a SCADA package that automatically generates a report each morning. Currently this means tht someone has to collect the printout and then manually fax it to a whole group of people.
i can configure my Scada package so that @ 8am generate report (and save in directory....)
I would like to then generate a command so that @8:05 "sendfax REPORT 123456789" and have the external program 'sendfax' start, get file 'REPORT' and fax it to number 123456789
Generating the commands in the SCADA is easy (it can 'send' strings out to a command line), but actually finding a program to do the faxing side of the business, what I need is not.
SO the question is is there some cleaver bean out there that already does this? or what series of API's should I investigate to understand better?
XP operating system. SCADA is 'CIMPLICITY'. Fax machine is currently a HP 7210, but could easily be an external fax modem.
Thaks in advance