Use FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast on Win2K?

[JasonL]

Hey all,

I'm developing an in-house application to broadcast faxes. I'm limited to
Windows 2000 (and therefore the Fax Service Client API for Windows 2000).

The Platform SDK documentation says the following:

<quote>An application should call the FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast function
to efficiently send a fax document to multiple recipients, rather than
calling FaxSendDocument multiple times. This is because
FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast stores the master document only once, using the
same file for all outbound transmissions.

Note To send a fax document efficiently to multiple recipients, an
application should call the FaxSendDocument function multiple times. The
FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast function is supported for backward
compatibility.</quote>

So which is it? On Windows 2000 should I call FaxSendDocument multiple times
or use FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast? My guess is that the Note saying
FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast is supported for backward compatibility is
referring to WinXP/2003, but I'm not sure.

Tnx,

Jason Langston

 

[R. Sridharan [MSFT]]

Internally FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast, actually does call FaxSendDocument
many times to do the job. So from Windows 2000 onwards, you dont have big
advantage of calling FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast. I suggest that you call
FaxSendDocument multiple times to do the broadcast.

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[JasonL]

Thanks for the clarification ...

Internally FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast, actually does call FaxSendDocument
many times to do the job. So from Windows 2000 onwards, you dont have big
advantage of calling FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast. I suggest that you call
FaxSendDocument multiple times to do the broadcast.

--
R. Sridharan [MSFT]
Microsoft Printing, Imaging and Fax Team

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is for newsgroup
purposes only.'

Hey all,

I'm developing an in-house application to broadcast faxes. I'm limited to
Windows 2000 (and therefore the Fax Service Client API for Windows 2000).

The Platform SDK documentation says the following:

<quote>An application should call the FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast function
to efficiently send a fax document to multiple recipients, rather than
calling FaxSendDocument multiple times. This is because
FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast stores the master document only once, using the
same file for all outbound transmissions.

Note To send a fax document efficiently to multiple recipients, an
application should call the FaxSendDocument function multiple times. The
FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast function is supported for backward
compatibility.</quote>

So which is it? On Windows 2000 should I call FaxSendDocument multiple times
or use FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast? My guess is that the Note saying
FaxSendDocumentForBroadcast is supported for backward compatibility is
referring to WinXP/2003, but I'm not sure.

Tnx,

Jason Langston