[AccessD] Winfax Pro and Access

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 16:07:40 CDT 2009


Doug,
I very much appreciate the offer!  Thank you!  Yes, I would love to see your
code.  I appreciate it very much.

Steve Erbach

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Doug Steele <dbdoug at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was using Winfax to send invoices from Access a few years (3 or 4?) ago.
> Unless something has changed, the API for Winfax had basically been
> abandoned by Symantec.  Is Winfax Pro still available?  I'm not sure if my
> client still uses the code I wrote or not - if you want, I'll send it to
> you.  It's pretty straightforward - it looks like I was printing an Access
> snapshot to a file then having winfax pick it up and send it.  If I
> remember
> rightly, I had some timing issues - I had to pause 10 seconds between each
> fax to let Winfax process the report.
>
> Doug
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Group,
> > I have an old client (started working with him right after I started my
> > business in '91) who continues to use Paradox for DOS for the majority of
> > his business.  I'm his go-to guy for all of that work as well as for
> > Paradox
> > for Windows, which I introduced into his company to produce more flexible
> > reporting, and Access 2003.  I wrote an EDI component for processing
> > purchase orders in Access using a VBA EDI library I recommended he
> > purchase.
> >
> > Anyway, I've been trying over the years to get him to switch completely
> to
> > Access or SQL Server but I don't think that it's ever going to happen.
> >
> > During the time I've worked with him he's had an idea for electronic
> > document storage that he keeps running past me.  We talked about it again
> > on
> > Thursday this past week.
> >
>



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