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3.13 Deferred Sending
You can tell CompuFax to wait until late at night to send a fax, when the phone rates may be lower, or there
is less chance of getting a busy signal. We briefly touched on the / AFTER qualifier in the previous chapter,
but here it is discussed in more detail.
Here is an example:
$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.2 / AFTER= TOMORROW
$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.2 / AFTER= 18:00
$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.2 / AFTER= 12-APR-1996:2:15:30
$ FAX SHOW QUEUE
CompuFax queue report as of 10-JUN -1995 17:50:46.49
Conversion queue:
ID User Priority State Activation Time
14 P_SMITH 100 Pending 10-JUN -1995 18:00:00
13 P_SMITH 100 Pending 11-JUN -1995 00:00:00
15 P_SMITH 100 Pending 12-APR-1996 02:15:30
FAX server queue entries
As the above queue display shows, the fax that was submitted with / AFTER= TOMORROW is now
scheduled to be sent at midnight (when tomorrow starts,) the / AFTER= 18:00 is scheduled for "today" at 6:00
p.m., while we have another fax to be sent on April 12th, 1996, at 30 seconds past 2:15 am.
3.14 Deleting Entries After Sending
For the times when you do not want to save the files you have faxed, you have the option of telling
CompuFax to delete them after sending is complete. However, you should also consider whether you still
want to delete the file if the fax did not get sent, as might happen if the number was busy. (By default,
CompuFax tries three times before it gives up, although your System Manager may have changed the number
of tries.) You may not care if the fax did not go through, or you may want to try it again later.
In the following example, you would use the first or second command (which are equivalent) if you wanted
the file to be deleted only if the send was successful. You would use the third command if you would want it
deleted, regardless of whether or not the send was successful:
$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.2 / DELETE
$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.2 / DELETE= SUCCESS
$ FAX SEN D TESTFAX.2 / DELETE= ALWAYS
If more than one file is sent with one SEND command, the / DELETE qualifier applies to all the files in the
command.