Great documentation!  We should all take notes.

One suggestion, relating to section 3.2: Step2 and your comment about 
fax_poller_client.pl and "I could not figure out how to simply send the 
data as a parameter to nc (netcat)":   instead of the request_file 
dance, since you're using a system call what about echo-ing the 
parameters and piping to your nc command?  Does the same thing I would 
think since it'll be coming into nc as STDIN.  Then you can shorten your 
script by 4 lines.  Example:

system ("echo `$parameters\n` | nc my.mydomain.com 9696");

I'm not even certain you need the newline, either. In fact I would think 
you don't.

david uhlman wrote:

>Mike,
>
>You have definitely got the right idea, Nice Work!
>
>David Uhlman
>CTO 50km Inc.
>
>On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:50, Mike Starke wrote:
>  
>
>>Personally, I believe none of us document enough. Myself included.
>>I just got my fax polling working and thought i would at least document
>>what I did to get it to work. Hopefully someone (including myself)
>>may get something out of it.
>>
>>I must re-emphasize, I am not a programmer. Having said that, I will post
>>the document for anyone to review. I am certainly interested in any constructive
>>comments regarding the process and/or code.
>>
>>http://megconsult.com/papers/fax_polling.html
>>
>>v/r
>>-mike
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