[Samba] RESPOND-EFAX/Payong Gig

[Keith G. Murphy]

OK, let's go through this again.

printfax.pl as it comes from the author already does a cover page (or, 
more precisely, it gets the server software to do it).  It turned out 
over time that what you really wanted was your client's logo on the 
page, which actually means a modification of faxcover.ps.

It further turned out that you're not using hylafax or mgetty, so you 
must be using a modified version of printfax.pl.

Therefore, I needed the faxcover.ps and printfax.pl you were using, 
because those are the things I would possibly have to tailor.  That's 
what I asked for, and instead you sent your printcap entry for faxlpr, 
then ignored further requests for info.  We had already gone through a 
prior period in which you ignored E-mails; you said later that you 
thought you might have lost some.

Do you see why I say you are difficult to work with?

I have burned up *way* too much time trying to work with you on this.  I 
gladly turn over this (non-technical) challenge to someone else.

> I need it to create a front end cover page.
> 
> It's the only aditional thing I need it to do.
> 
> Can you do this?
> 
> 
> On 2002.10.03 16:17 Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> 
>>The only thing I said I couldn't (more like would not/didn't have time 
>>to) do was make the frontend (Respond) display PostScript.
>>
>>A quote from your E-mail:
>>
>>"The front end should produce a postscript cover page."
>>
>>I explained that with Respond/printfax.pl, the backend produces the 
>>PostScript, but that my Respond replacement could provide a preview of 
>>the fax.
>>
>>You did not dispute that, and we continued to correspond for a while, so 
>>I assumed we were still go on the project.
>>
>>I basically think that you never had a handle on what software you were 
>>using or how to express what you wanted.  And you apparently had a poor 
>>understanding of what I was trying to tell you.
>>
>>That's the charitable interpretation, anyway.
>>
>>But why you dropped the whole issue as I continued to try to get the 
>>information I needed to continue, I'm not sure.
>>
>>None of this is a capital crime.  But I did find you very difficult to 
>>(try to) work with, and I think my warning was proper.
>>
>>Anyway, this list is not the place to continue to discuss this.  Not 
>>that I want to, or have any desire to continue to (try to) work with you...
>>
>>Ruben I Safir wrote:
>>
>>>And you said you couldn't do it
>>>
>>>On 2002.10.03 12:56 Keith G. Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Ruben Safir wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I'm using efax and faxlpr to send faxes from the Windows computers.
>>>>>I need to hire someone to hack RESPOND to create a nice Cover Letter with
>>>>>inforamation in it about each user.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can someone do this hack?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Be prepared for grief.  This guy posted to the Hylafax list a while 
>>>>back, saying he needed it for Hylafax.  I responded, we made a deal, I 
>>>>started working on it, but when I had questions he stopped responding.
>>>>
>>>>He made another posting on the same list, I wrote to him again, he 
>>>>claimed to have lost my E-mails.
>>>>
>>>>Started work again, had questions, turned out he wasn't sure about what 
>>>>he was running; I needed more detail, told him what files he needed to 
>>>>send me.
>>>>
>>>>Got no response (for weeks) until I saw this posting.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe someone else will have better luck dealing with this guy.
>>>>
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>>>
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