Date:         Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:53:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "David L. Cassell" <Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Faxing SAS reports
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sms@COGNIGENCORP.COM replied in a new thread:
> We have a series of reports that will need to be faxed to about
500-750
> different offices biweekly over several     months.  For these offices
> email is not an option. We will use email from SAS for the majority of
> the report mailings.

Okay, you've convinced me.  You'll need to do this as a sequence of
faxes.

> We are running on UNIX Sun Solaris with SAS 8.2. We have HylaFAX
> installed on a separate server with one line but our sys admin is
> investigating adding more lines to speed up the process. In looking at
> the documentation with HylaFAX, it appears I would have to create and
> store separate ASCII-text report files for each fax report.  Has
anyone
> used HylaFAX with SAS? With the email reports we are able to use the
> email option on the filename statement without the need to save
separate
> reports, I guess we were hoping for a similar solution for the faxes.

I haven't used HylaFAX, but this sounds fairly limited.  If this is all
you can get out of it, you'll want to go ahead and create the text
reports
with SAS (that part is really easy), then run them all through HylaFAX
to
transmit them.  You can't do more than the fax server software will
handle.
But you can contact the HylaFAX people to see if they have an
alternative.

HTH,
David
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David Cassell, CSC
Cassell.David@epa.gov
Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician