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to: Roy J. Tellason
from: Andy Roberts
date: 1999-09-11 22:25:26
subject: faxworks

 Roy J. Tellason,

10-Sep-99 16:02:36, Roy J. Tellason wrote to all
          Subject: faxworks

 RJT> I happened to have installed the faxworks stuff from the bonus
 RJT> pack on to this machine way back when,  and didn't do anything
 RJT> with it for quite some time..

 RJT> Today I tried to use it,  and the package kept on complaining
 RJT> about not getting the proper responses from the modem,  and I
 RJT> wasn't able to fax anything out

 RJT> The modem isn't anything terribly unusual,  it's a Courier, and
 RJT> works well to support the bbs here

 RJT> Is there something special in terms of how I have to set this up?

Depends on which SDL you have on that Courier.  AFAIK all the V.90 SDLs work
with FAX.  IIRC the last previous V.34 SDL worked with FAX.  But prior to that
none of the SDL worked well with FAX until all the way back to a 1994 SDL.

Also remember USR is class 1 and class 2.0 but not class 2.

--- Excerpt Config.Sys ---
DEVICE=G:\FAXWORKS\FMD.SYS (4,2E8,5)
---

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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