Some senseless babbling from Will Honea to Mike Ruskai
on 11-11-99  21:55 about Vmodem...

 WH> MIKE RUSKAI wrote to LINDA PROULX on 11-11-1999
 
 MR> Vmodem stands for Virtual modem.

 WH> That line popped up an interesting thought:  what would happen if you
 WH> pointed a DOS program (specifically TurboTax) to Vmodem and told it to
 WH> use a dialup connection instead of an existing inet connection???

 WH> I never did get the TT online stuff to work right - kept giving me all
 WH> sorts of socket-related errors - but I never thought to try this
 WH> little trick.  Anybody tried it?  If not, maybe I'll give it a shot
 WH> come tax time this year.  This could be interesting...

Having never used TurboTax, I can only suggest that based on what you're
saying, it'd depend entirely on whether or not the connection process is
different from dial-up or explicitly using the Internet.

If it does everything the same, and considers the telephone line or TCP/IP
stack as an abstraction layer, then it should work.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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