How to send a Fax from Powercobol application ?

Hi,
how can I send a Fax from an application written in Powercobol ?
Regards,
Massimo.

Massimo wrote:
> Hi,
> how can I send a Fax from an application written in Powercobol ?
> Regards,
> Massimo.

Print to a fax printer?

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> Hi,
> how can I send a Fax from an application written in Powercobol ?
> Regards,
> Massimo.
>
Here is a workable solution that uses the COM component already in the XP
Operating System.

This is an optional install for XP, so you must go to Control Panel and
install the fax service first. (if it hasn't been already)

Select Add/Remove programs> Add or Remove Windows components.
Tick the box for Fax Service.

You can then configure the service from the printers and faxes dialogue. (Or
you can do it programmatically using the component described below.)

Having got a fax service running on the system, you now want to use it from
PowerCOBOL.

Here's an event procedure that allows you to set up and send a Fax with
standard cover page (which you can preconfigure or do dynamically under
program control.)  You must  set the repository to support COM, as I
described earlier.

>
ENVIRONMENT     DIVISION.
DATA            DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 progID  pic x(25) value "FaxServer.FaxServer.1".
01 objFAX OBJECT REFERENCE COM.
01 objFAXDoc OBJECT REFERENCE COM.
01 CPNote pic x(8) value "Hello...".
01 ServerName pic x(9) value "\\PetesP4". *> use the name
*> of the computer to which your fax modem
*> is attached.
01 DocToSend  pic x(13) value "SampleDoc.Doc".
01 FaxNumber  pic x(10) value "1234567890".
01 Truth      pic s9(5) comp-5 value POW-TRUE.

PROCEDURE       DIVISION.
invoke COM "CREATE-OBJECT"
using progID
returning objFAX
end-invoke

invoke objFax "Connect"
using ServerName
end-invoke

invoke objFax "CreateDocument"
using DocToSend
returning objFAXDoc
end-invoke

invoke objFAXDoc "SET-CoverpageNote"
using CPNote
end-invoke
invoke objFAXDoc "SET-FaxNumber"
using FaxNumber
end-invoke
invoke objFAXDoc "SET-SendCoverpage"
using Truth
end-invoke

invoke objFAXDoc "Send" *> sends the document
end-invoke

invoke objFax "Disconnect"
using ServerName
end-invoke

set objFAX  to null
set objFAXDoc to null

As you can see this is not too hard. It uses late binding so all parameters
must be By Reference.

There are many thousands of functions included with XP; it is worth taking a
look through them. Remember that COM components can be brokered through
CORBA now, so they can be accessed remotely from Linux systems also.

HTH,

Pete
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."