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Specify Fax Phone Number
$fax_phone phonenum
This command identifies the phone number of the fax machine to call. This is a required command (unless you use $voice_phone or $poll_phone instead to specify a voice or poll call).
| • | For a fax-on-demand callback operation, CopiaFacts will create this command from the phone number entered by the caller in response to standard voice prompt 21 or standard voice prompt 36; or looked up as specified in $caller_id; or specified as $owner_fax; or assigned to system variable RCVRFAX during the request. |
| • | For fax server and broadcast operations, the phone number will be inserted by the client application, perhaps from a broadcast list or phone book. FFMERGE creates this command from the phone number on the document action line. |
The parameter on this command is used as follows:
| phonenum | fax phone number to call. For convenience when files are generated, the phone number on this command need not be enclosed in double quotes if it contains embedded spaces. |
The number may be included on the cover sheet by using the system variable @RCVRFAX in the cover sheet template, or in the fax header line.
If the phone number contains embedded spaces, parentheses, square brackets, hyphens, tilde or slash characters, they are discarded. The processing of '+' is affected by the $country_prefix configuration command. The number is then processed as specified in the $phone_mask command, if any. Any other non-numeric character causes all following characters to be excluded from phone-mask matching (and then replaced). This allows you to specify, for example, a delay and then dialing an extension number (e.g. ",,,34"). It also allows a standard dial command prefix (e.g. "TW") to be used to bypass phone-mask processing altogether.
In pri-ISDN systems, non-numeric characters (other than those listed above as discarded) in a dial string cause the number to be rejected, since special prefix characters are never valid.
Hardware Issues: The CopiaFacts default for the Dialogic Fax/40 board is use call progress analysis on the dialed call. You can use a "$" suffix on the phone number to attempt to send the fax whatever the outcome of placing the call (which marginally faster if the call succeeds, but much slower if the call result is busy or no-answer). These suffix characters can be applied to specific numbers (e.g. to a known combined fax/answer-machine) or by using the convert option of the $phone_mask to add the suffix.
Default: none (required entry for fax transmission)
Example:
$fax_phone "6307788848"
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