Re: Newbie question

"Matthias Moetje" <moetje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You would need to check out which AT commands you
> need to send and which responses you receive. These are
> hardware dependent, so you may need to change your
> application when using different modems
> ...
> - you can use this handle with the readfile and writefile API
> to send and receive data. Only problem is that you need to
> do this with overlapped I/O. VB might not be very efficient
> with this but we have done this for our SMS sending component
> (which requires only low baud rates).

Exactly right. This is the tradeoff - modem independence for the high
perfomance I/O scheme that TAPI imposes. But performance is not what drives
the choice to use VB. Rather it is ease of development.

Just my opinion ... but TAPI's modem independence imposes too high price to
pay for the average guy whose development tool of choice is VB.

Regards,
Will




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