articles - BLACK ICE’S FAX DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE

1998 PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Black Ice (Amherst, NH - 603-673-1019) is one of our favorite fax software players . As we mentioned early last year, they’ve always made low-level tools that Zippy and the other nerds around here have liked , including a fax-specific C++ developer toolkit that contains a 32-bit OCX and Object Oriented Interface, which , according to Zippy, is a helluva lot easier to deal with than the APIs you get from card vendors. The perfect gift for the CT software company looking to add fax to its voice and e-mail packages. It supports Brooktrout , Dialogic and Gammalink (the latter two’s APIs definitely are different - as though they came from different companies) . The OOI also supports these resources within the same server - it maps between the different vendors’interfaces. It also supports any Class 1, Class 2 and Class 2.0 off-the-shelf fax modem and all Rockwell chipset modems . A few of the features include Text and Form overlay to create a fax page, Caller ID, Group 4 faxing, Phone Book and Send / Receive Queue. As we’ve mentioned continuously, Black Ice has a lot more fax software, including higher-level app software. In fact , look for a testdrive of a new LANfax package soon. Reader service & online no. 146 at www.computertelephony.com
/ Computer Telephony - December 1998./