FF>> Interestingly, I've installed two modems here in Win95, and one at a
 FF>> friend's place, all different, (Maestro 144M, Courier, Dynalink
 FF>> Fastcard+), and Win95 "detected" all of them as
"Generic 28.8",
 FF>> (even the Maestro!).

 BG> Shows you how useless Win95 is then, as the Courier uses a completely
 BG> different command set from the Dynalink or Maestro.  I doubt it would
 BG> work under Win95's generic setting anyway.

I never even bother to try, in case some obscure Rockwell command turned on
the Courier's security features and locked me out of my own modem :-)

[...]

 FF>> Once this straight ASCII text file get's to 256Kb in size, that's
 FF>> it. Nothing more will be written to the file. You get no warnings,
 FF>> no nothing. Unreal! Even a three line QBasic program can write to a
 FF>> text file megabytes in size, yet Win95 falls over at 256Kb :-(

 BG> You mean the data doesn't get added to the file on a FIFO basis then?

Nope. Once you hit 256kb, it's all over. Rather annoying, to say the least.

 BG> And I alway thought that IBM was the current master of footshots...

I'm afraid not ...

 FF>> What more can you say .... ??

 BG> Lots, actually, but you really don't want me to start, do you?  :)

Probably not, unless you want to go for the world record for the longest
echo mail message ever :-)

Regards,
Frank


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