The RTE FAX solution is not only a specialised fax server for interconnection with messaging systems currently on the market (Ms Exchange, Lotus Domino or SMTP). RTE FAX also has open connectors making it possible to provide the Fax function in applications housed in medium-sized or large systems (UNIX Systems, AS400, Mainframes) while conserving the possibility of making these application interfaces available to Windows applications.

There are 2 ways to interface RTE FAX to an AS 400 or UNIX system :

Spool-IP - Print stream capture (1)
The Spool-IP interface captures a print stream from an application located on a remote machine. Spool-IP searches the print stream for the transmission characteristics (essentially, the recipient’s fax number).
Spool-IP supports TXT, ESC/P, PostScript and PCL streams.

File interface – Shared disk space (2)
The file interface searches a shared disk space for command files whose extension is ‘.INI’. The command file contains the information on the file to be sent, and on the recipient(s) of the Fax.