From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-04-21T03:13:06+09:00
Subject: Re: New P.O. application I'm working on...

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On 20 Apr 2005, at 06:54, gregarican wrote:

> Currently a new P.O. that's entered in the system is printed out of
> Microsoft Access to a fax printer driver, where the recicpient's
> details are then manually chosen from the fax software's phonebook as
> part of the Send Fax dialog. With the new application I would like a
> Rails form to automatically fax the P.O. to the recipient. The
> recipient's details are stored in the SQL tables so I could pull things
> like the name, fax number, phone number, etc. programmatically.
>
> Here's where I would like an opinion. Would it be simplest/best to
> implement a Win32 DDE solution to accomplish this? This option would
> require me hooking into the fax software application, which might be
> daunting task for someone of my coding caliber :-)

I would be very surprised if you couldn't do this from WIN32OLE, since 
you can do it from Access.  If you have the VB for this it should be a 
boring but otherwise easy job of porting the VB to Ruby, provided you 
know where to look for which applications.

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