faxing from a rev stack?

[Peter W A Wood]

Peter

2009/9/3 Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com>

> I'm interested in building a fax capability into one of my stack  
> systems.
> I'm presuming that I'll need to call on a Mac fax application.  
> Anyone know
> which app would be best to use and how to call on it it to fax by  
> script
> from within rev?
>
> MacBook, OSX 10.5.8, Rev Studio 3.5.0-gm-2, build 870
>
> -- Peter

It is possible to send a fax with a shellCommand. I tested sending a  
very basic fax with the following shell command :

lp -d External_Modem -o phone=67300923 ~/Desktop/testfax.txt

Hope this helps

Regards

Peter