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How to use a fax modem with frontdoor 2.20

This document was prepared by:

Mark Kerr @ 2:443/59, 2:443/60(fax) fidonet

This is a functional setup for fd 2.20 and a supra v32bis faxmodem with 1.71roms.

Fossil is BNU 1.70 locked at 57600 copyright David NugentBGFAX is 1.00beta5 copyright B. J. GuillotXRobot is 3.01 for dos copyright Joaquim HomrighausenZfax is 2.23 copyright Zyxel Corporation

This setup will receive faxes using bgfax as a rearend, xrobot to createthe netmail and zfax to view the fax.

Any ideas for improvements, queries, modifications should be forwarded tothe author via netmail for consideration..

IMPORTANT

This setup works for me, however it is strongly recommended that you read

fully the documentation for all the products involved!!!!!!!!

SETTING UP - the interesting bit..

I have set the received fax dir as d:\zfax\rcvbgfax is on the c: drive which is a ramdisk

FDSETUP

MAILER/FAX

RcvdFiles D:\ZFAX\RCV\Recipient Mark KerrPrint No (or Yes :-)Printer d:\zfax\zfax.com 2 =F

MAILER/ERRORLEVELS

Fax 254Received mail 200

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Create BAT.file Yes

EDITOR/FAX

Viewer d:\zfax\zfax.com 4 =FAutomatic YesRemove No

MODEM/HARDWARE

Serial port 2Locked port YesMaximum baudrate FixedReset modem to connect speed YesLower DTR when busy YesLower DTR to terminate call YesToggle DTR before dialing YesCarrier detect mask (CDMASK) 128

MODEM/CONNECT MESSAGES

Fax FAX

MODEM/COMMAND STRINGS

Escape code +++Return on-line ~ATO|Onhook ATH0|Offhook ~ATH1|Dial ATDTPrefix

Suffix |Delay 5Init-1 ATZ|Init-2 AT+FAA=1+FCR=1|Init-3 AT+FLID="Your Name Here....."+FDCC=1,5|Down ATH1|Reset ATz|

MODEM/ANSWER CONTROL

Manual answer YesForce answer AT+FAA=1;A|Answer delay 5

Enable LDFRS No

MODEM/FAX

Internal No

RELEVANT PORTIONS OF THE MAIN BATCH FILE

if errorlevel 254 goto FAX

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:FAX

c:\bgfax.exe /FAX d:\zfax\rcv 2 zif errorlevel 4 call d:\zfax\rcv\doprintgoto START

SAMPLE DOPRINT.BAT CREATED BY BGFAX

D:\ZFAX\RCV\EXEPRINT.BAT D:\ZFAX\RCV\FAX0004.ZFX

MY EXEPRINT.BAT

d:\fd\xrdos send /f%1 /r2:000/000 /n3 /mb+

Here I use XRobot 301 for dos to send me the notification of a fax/F%1 uses the second part of bgfax's dofax.bat to find the file

/r is your address/n3 is user number 3 in my fdsetup (called "FAX")/mb+ sets the fax attach msg attribute

POSSIBLE EXEPRINT.BAT TO ALLOW FAX FORWARDING

d:\fd\xrdos send /f%1 /r2:000/000 /n3 /mb+c:\bgfax /send %1 232 343 5566

this would announce the fax in your netmail folder, then attempt toforward the fax to 232 343 556 using the information in your bgfax.cnf

file.

MY SUPRA SETUP

AT&VACTIVE PROFILE:B1 E1 L3 M1 N1 Q0 T V1 W2 X4 Y0 %C1 %E1 %G1 \N3 &C1 &D2 &K3 &Q5 &R0 &S0 &X0 &Y0S00:000 S01:000 S02:043 S03:013 S04:010 S05:008 S06:002 S07:050 S08:002 S09:000S10:014 S11:048 S12:050 S18:000 S23:063 S25:005 S26:001 S36:007 S37:000 S38:020S40:071 S46:138 S48:007 S95:003 S109:062 S110:002

HISTORY

Updated 09/09/93

bgfax now supports fax transmission from the commandline (beta 5)adding a suitable command to your exeprint.bat should allow thereceived fax to be retransmitted/forwarded if you wish. Possible

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uses could be if you are expecting an important an important faxand will not be at your machine but at another location with asuitable fax. The problem is all faxes received until your returnwould be forwarded, unless you modified or changed the batchfileremotely.This requires that you edit the bgfax.cnf file to suit your modemand set an environment variable to point at its location. Fulldetails of this can be found in the bgfax documentation.

Updated 25/8/93

bgfax now makes a doprint.bat which calls exeprint.batwith beta 02 dofax.bat exefax.bat

Known Bugs

xrobot doesn't recognize the $task$ in the fd logname.