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Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:38:33 PST7
From:	"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: PMFax

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On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:21:39 PST7, Steven Levine wrote:
>In <3DB48553.5AC91716@charter.net>, on 10/21/02
> at 02:52 PM, Ray Davison said:
>>>It has been suggested that I can have a DOS program print to LPT3 and
>>PMFax will turn that printer info into a fax file and transmit it. I
>>have wandered thru the on screen help and found a claim to that effect,
>>but now how to do it.
>>This usually application specific. From the command line:
>> type filename >lpt3
>>will get it done.

For example in WordStar, on the print menu one option is

Redirect to:

Input LPT3.

You have to select a font to rasterize the text which (in points
or cpi) will not go off the logical page when PMFax converts it.
Experiment.

I used to do this all the time to send faxes via PMFax from
WordStar in a DOS box.

Jeffrey Race

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