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vsifax3 Gold and WinXP

I'd suggest looking into Hylafax.

From: Joe Chasan <joe@magnatechonline.com>
Subject: Re: VSIFAX3 Gold and WinXP
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:39:16 GMT

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:20:54AM +0000, beanz wrote:
> 
> Has anyone had the 'print to vsifax' thing working on WindowsXP with
> this version of VSIFAX?
> 
> I've installed a new PC (upgrade from 95!) which is WindowsXP and now
> the VSIFAX client doesn't work like it used to.  It doesn't fire up the
> VSIFAX client when you open a document and select the VSIFAX 'printer'
> as the print destination.
> 
> The job actually queues when trying to print to the printer called
> VSIFAX on LPT1.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

vsifax3 is pretty old - on the ver 4 win client version you have to make 
sure that the vsiptof executable makes it to the startup process as on 
some XP/2000 installs i've noticed it fails to do so for some reason.
(you should check task manager right now to see whether it is running
or not).  this the program that "listens" to output sent to that "port"
and redirects it to the vsi program, after which it tries to log on to 
the vsi server to get the fax transmitted.

you might also want to navigate down to the vsi programs directory
and try the send.exe by itself to see that it can properly find and
login to your server.

also note that the vsifax client has gone through several iterations,
perhaps yours is old enough that it is not supported on win xp/2k,
or if it was the existing install from w/95 and you didn't reinstall
for xp you might want to try that - you also may want to contact
vsi (now esker) to see what the newest windows client is that you 
can use with your older vsifax3 generation server - you may be able
to just download a newer client.
 
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