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Windows 2000 / WinFax Pro 10.0

I am sending faxes from Access using the WinFax DDE calls. Usually the application sends out about 15 faxes in a row.

Worked fine until we migrated to Win2K. Now, the first fax appears in the Outbox OK. The next 3 or 4 faxes all show up together in a single Send Fax dialog box with a bad cover page and no recipient info. The remaining faxes are ignored. (After all of the above occur, plus a brief delay, the one fax in the outbox does then get sent out OK.)

I have had some success adding delay loops or DDERequest calls to check the WinFax status, but these attempts were all random shots in the dark and invariably a solution that worked for me my breaks for the end-user.

Is there a reliable way to make get WinFax to handle the sequential faxes cleanly?

A summary of my DDE commands follow. All the commands below are executed for each fax to be sent. I am confident in the …STUFF… in the recipient() command.

TIA!
Lee

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There is an undocumented DDE function called “CanIPrint” which querys WinFax to see if the WinFax printer is not busy and can accept a print job. Perhaps you can use this to check to see if WinFax is processing faxes before continuing.

This is a sample DDE code in VB. (WinFax_DDE is a form name, and StatusBox is a text box on the form)

WinFax_DDE.StatusBox.LinkTopic = “FAXMNG|CONTROL”
WinFax_DDE.StatusBox.LinkMode = 2
WinFax_DDE.StatusBox.LinkItem = “CanIPrint”
WinFax_DDE.StatusBox.LinkRequest

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