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echo: aust_modem
to: David Pinkerton
from: Danny Keogh
date: 1997-01-15 23:44:40
subject: Re: Please help me!

While sitting on cloud 9, David Pinkerton said to All something about 
    Please help me!

 DP> I have borrowed a modem from a friend.  It is and internal HAYES
 DP> 14400.  I can successfully connect to this bulletin board uses a
 DP> MS-DOS application called comit.  Modem games of Doom and Warcraft 2
 DP> work without a hitch, but using the modem with a Windows application
 DP> proves to be astonishingly frustrating. Try, I have.  I have done
 DP> everything I can think of: 1: Let windows detect my modem.
 DP> 2: Choose my own modem from the Win95 list of drivers (I do not have a
 DP> Win95 driver for this modem). 3: Choose to record a
"Modemlog.txt" file
 DP> and check for problems. 4: Alter initiation settings in the registry
 DP> (Hkey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Modem\0000)
 DP> . When windows self-detects my modem, it selects teh standard modem
 DP> successfully. In the modemlog.txt, it shows that my modem will not
 DP> respond to commands whether I alter registry settings or not.
 DP> Please, I am desperate will you please give me a reply to this letter
 DP> even if you feel your solution may have only a slim chance. 

Make sure your com settings [port address, irq etc] are right.
If they aren't, windows won't have a clue what it is doing [which
is pretty normal for windows anyway].


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