Reply-To: erik.wachtmeester@bighole.iaf.nl
Eric Flament wrote in a message to Erik Wachtmeester:
 EF> excuse for the late answer, i'have a lot of work.
Same over here...
EW> An automatic reboot will maybe work, but that doesn't solve the
EW> reason why it crashed. IMHO it's better to send a broadcast to
EW> some users 
 EF> the crashes were due to bad connections ( hardware) , i changed
 EF> bncs, now its good, about BROADCAST, i cant use when the station 
 EF> is frozen :-(
You've got a point there. But if e.g. the connection with the PABX is lost,
such a broadcast message isn't to bad an idea.
 EF> i'm working with a Northstern pabx, its a great machine ( voice mail 
 EF> integrated)
I don't know Northstern, but I'm looking for a small PABX for one of our 
hotels
(8 ISDN2 outside lines, about 120 ports, of which 12 to 16 must be digital in
order to see the caller ID on the display, 3 internal S0-busses for video
conferencing). Do you know what company sells Northstern in The Netherlands?
 EF> in a few month i will get a card permetting to send asci text to 
 EF> be transformed in voice, really great for messages.
We're using our pay-tv system for that. Works OK too.
EW> ... I'm working in a hotel).
 EF> also, do you interface with fidelio software( front office software)
:-) No, not really. Apart from working in a hotel, I'm parttime programmer 
or
a small hotel software company, and of course we think that our software is
better than Fidelio. ;-) Only the Micros cash registers are far superior to 
our
little cash register program, but we can interface with Micros as good as
Fidelio.
 EF> about pabx / other serial connection, i use Telepathy, its a
 EF> great library.
 EF> what lib  do you use for serial link .
Just the com_... functions from Clipper Tools, really. Nothing fancy, but 
hey
always work, and if you build a nice little library around them, they're 
uite
useful.
 EF> i'm trying to work with Faxual lib to pick reservations from the
 EF> cardex, then fax the confirmation to a queue. ( i dont like rip / 
 EF> graphics :-(( )
We fiddled with CAS and Faxual for a while, but we found a much easier
solution, at least in a NetWare environment: QP-Server by Quality Netware 
Tools
in the Netherlands.
It's a dedicated printerserver (an old 486 or 386 machine will suffice as 
host)
that's much better than Novell's pserver/rprinter/nprinter solution, and if 
you
put one or more cheap faxmodem cards in that dedicated machine, you've got
yourself a faxserver that does everything (and more) a CAS solution can do. 
And
QP-Server itself doesn't cost a bundle either: about $750 per 
print-/faxserver.
A free demo version on CD can be ordered from:
Quality Netware Tools BV
PO Box 1116
8900 CC Leeuwarden
The Netherlands
or through email: info@qnt.net (they've got a website at www.qnt.net, but
unfortunately that's still Dutch only. :-( )
It's very easy to use in your Clipper code: graphics for logo's, signatures,
watermarks, etc. can be embedded as plain text in the fax document itself, 
nd
the same goes for the number to call, the adressee, the sender, and 
verything
else you would wish to put on a cover sheet.
And the fax behaves like a PCL3 or PCL5 printer, so that shouldn't be to much
of a problem...
 EF> cheers from a very sunny french riviera
Lucky you. ;-) It's raining over here right now...
Regards,
Erik 
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