Faxfilter not extracting fax number

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Actually, you can add most any characters before the 'FAX#nnn-nnn-nnnn' part
of the filename, or alpha characters after it which appear to get ignored by the faxfilter.  
I've also looked in the /tmp directory where the files are stored prior to getting read by 
the faxfilter and they seem to be given temporary filenames, such as 'teri.00a78cc9', so there 
doesn't appear to be any collision or overwriting... but perhaps I'm being too simplistic 
about it.  The main problem I see is using programs that require the DOS 8.3 naming 
convention.  I wonder if there's any other way to get the fax number into the header 
of the postscript file so that it's not broken up by Windows 98 programs.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Robert J. Brown [SMTP:rj@eli.elilabs.com]
Sent:	Sunday, May 16, 1999 8:43 AM
To:	Teresa Ray
Cc:	'Stephen Davies'; 'mgetty@muc.de'
Subject:	RE: Faxfilter not extracting fax number 

>>>>> "Teresa" == Teresa Ray <tcray@speedchoice.com> writes:

    Teresa> Thanks again for the input.  I tried various ways, but I
    Teresa> also found that, on occasion, Word seems to change the
    Teresa> formating, such that I might get: (FA), then (X), then
    Teresa> (N), etc., etc., etc. and Excel seemed to do it even
    Teresa> another way.  I did, however, just now figure out one
    Teresa> fairly easy way to get it working.  If I save the file as
    Teresa> "FAX#939-4202.doc", then the postscript driver puts the
    Teresa> filename in the header, and it's all one string.  Then I
    Teresa> changed the filter you sent to look for "FAX#" instead of
    Teresa> "FAX-Nr:" This works not only in Word, but Excel,
    Teresa> WordPerfect and it seems, any file I send via the Samba
    Teresa> (postscript) printer.

The problem, of course, beinge that if you have 2 faxes queued up to
the same number, the new one will overwrite the old one. :-(

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