Hello All,
This new BGFAX-upgrade is of today freqable on my system (2:285/255.1
+31-13-4636984)
Put a statement in your FDNODE.CTL (or a similar file if you're using another
mailer then FrontDoor):
phone 2:285/255.1 31-13-4636984
phone 15:100/9314 31-13-4636984
When done, compile again the nodelist and you would be able to request files 
on
my system.
The following upgrades are available:
bgfax170.zip     BGFax v1.70 (with complete documents)
fax170h.zip      BGFax v1.70h  (Beta-release)             (magic-name BGFAX)
THIS IS A BETA VERSION, IT IS ASSUMED YOU ALREADY HAVE DOWNLOADED A
COPY OF BGFAX170.ZIP FROM MY WEB SITE OR BBS!
    1.70 Revision H
Friday 18 July 1997
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Please note that as of the last beta, I adjusted the pricing for BGFAX.
The price for BBS sysops and other non-business users continues to remain
at USD$25.00.  However, if you want BGFAX to be registered in the name
of a business, the price is USD$68.00.  If you are a small business and
cannot afford the $68 price, then simply register BGFAX in your own
personal name and I'll accept the $25 cost.  (I won't turn down money.)
1. Fixed a bug introduced in the last beta of VIEW.EXE that caused very
   strange things to happen after the user instructed VIEW to print a fax.
2. When BGFAX /HOST mode is in /PS:xxx (Poll Server) mode, the host mode
   idle info screen will replace the "Mail crash call" line with the new
   "Number of inbound polls" line.  Since Poll Server mode should not be
   used with adaptive answering, no data calls means no possibility for
   mail crash calls.
3. If an inbound poll comes in during Poll Server mode, BGFAX will now
   correctly log this entry to the FAXOUT.LOG file.  A "P|" will be
   prefixed before the filename to indicate to the user the file was
   sent as a poll rather than as a /SEND.  e.g.
   07-17 18:27 00:23   11012  9600 P|1234567.FA 713 507 9620 .. 1  Finished
4. Added feature to QCONTROL.EXE which allows the user to show faxes that
   are no longer in the queue, but faxes that were not actually sent by the
   POLYFAX/BGFAX combo.  Recall this happens if you manually delete a fax
   from the queue via QCONTROL or if POLYFAX took the fax out of the queue
   because of meeting some kind of error constrant.  You CANNOT actually
   undelete the files from the queue, but this option allows you to judge
   just how well the queue went.  To make QCONTROL show these sent-but-not-
   really-sent-faxes, just specify a command line parameter.  (Any command
   line parameter, i.e., QCONTROL /SS).
5. New POLYFAX command line switch #LS:nnnn  (Lowest Speed)
   If POLYFAX has trouble sending to a specific fax number multiple times,
   POLYFAX will force the maximum rate to 4800 bps.  If this number is too
   low, you can adjust the lowest speed by adding a #LS:7200 or #LS:9600
   switch to the end of the POLYFAX command line.  This can also be an
   argument in the list file, or ASCII file dropped into POLYFAX.NEW.
6. New POLYFAX command line switch #MA:nnnn  (Maximum Attempts)
   Previously, the only way to remove a job from the POLYFAX queue was
   if the threshold for maximum failures (#MF:nnnn) was met, or if you
   manually killed the job (via QCONTROL.EXE).  The #MA:nnnn is similiar
   to the #MF:nnnn, except that #MA:nnnn will also count trivial "failures"
   such as BUSY, etc, which, is not technically a failure.  This can also
   be an argument in this list file, or ASCII file dropped into POLYFAX.NEW.
7. Fixed a bug in POLYFAX that caused POLYFAX to abort if you put more than
   10 files into the POLYFAX.NEW directory.  POLYFAX was not properly
   closing one of the files, and it was running out of file handles.
8. A piece of debug code was left in MAKEFAX 1.70e that was causing MAKEFAX
   to beep when it detected an  character during an ASCII-to-FAX file
   conversion.  This debug code has been removed.
9. The /AN switch (Alternate Naming convention) introduced in the last
   beta of BGFAX was not always saving the files in the proper place.  It
   was ignoring the rp= variable in BGFAX.CNF.  This has been fixed.
   Another bug relating to the /AN switch caused the idle info screen during
   BGFAX /HOST mode to mark a received fax as an aborted fax.  This related
   bug has also been fixed.
10 Fixed a small glitch in VIEW and BGFAX that involved the decoding off
   TIFF file headers.  Both executables were still looking at the full
   32-bit numerical field even if the field was denoted as an 8-bit or
   16-bit field.  This was usually not a problem except on some programs
   that generate TIFF files which don't null out the remaining 24 or 16
   bits of an 8 or 16-bit field.
11  frames have been logged to the BGFAX.LOG for the last few versions,
   but many people e-mail me and tell me the frames are being logged
   backwards.  Since the "NS" in NSF stands for "non-standard", it is not
   surprising that some fax machines use a different order than others.  So,
   BGFAX will now log the  frames in both directions.  e.g.:
      17:23:39   [ EUB.J. Guillot    ] [    tolliuG .J.BUE ]
   BGFAX logs only ASCII characters in the alpha-numeric range.  Notice the
   first group is the string "EU" followed by my name, nad the second group
   is identical to the first group except that it is saved backwards.  It
   should be noted that logging the  frames are not really an important
   thing to do, but sometimes they provide interesting information.
12 It has been requested that BGFAX also log  frames when detected.
   I have added the code to do this, but I have no way of checking whether
   this works or not since my stand-alone fax machine does not seem to be
   able to generate this frame.  The  frames will be logged in a way
   identical to the  frames, as mentioned above.
13. Added command line option to VIEW.EXE, /FH  for "Force High" resolution.
    In some cases, when BGFAX in working in rear-end mode operation (when
    a BBS or Fido Mailer answers the phone and passes control, some modems
    will send the resolution information to BGFAX too late, and if you try
    to print such a fax, it may take two full length pages to print a
    single page fax.  The /FH will tell VIEW to force the page as high
    resolution rather than the default of low resolution.  Most people
    should never need to use this switch.
I mentioned to at least one person that this beta version would contain
some additional POLYFAX controls for limiting the time of day that POLYFAX
uses when sending faxes, as well as putting some kind of network support
into POLYFAX so that multiple computers could work at sending a job of
broadcast faxes.  Unfortunetly, I will have to post-pone these two changes
until the next beta due to another project that just popped up.  Rather
than delay the entire beta another week or two, I've decided to go ahead
and release a beta now.  (There are already 13 changes in this one,
anyway.)
Regards,
B.J. Guillot
bgfax author
All, regards & take care,
Henk            (e-mail: henk.loosbroek@pi.net)   [PGP KeyID: 9032BB1D]
Latest Supra-ROM (V34-PC-ext): 1.440-26-V34_DS (13 mar 97)(Magic: SUPE1201)
Latest BGFax                 : 1.70h           (18 jul 97)(Magic: BGFAX)
... Dangerous Job #?: Klingon Dentist
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