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From: heiby_u@falkor.chi.il.us (Ron Heiby)
Subject: Re: Any progress on K95 GUI?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:07:51 GMT
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fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
>The most attention will be given to those that clarify essential but
>confusing aspects of K95 usage (like "you must give the SET MODEM TYPE
OK. Here's one that started confusing me with the (very nice, by the way)
addition of TAPI support.
Sometimes, I just want to talk to the modem.
It used to be easy. I know what port the modem is sitting on. I know what
speed it's supposed to talk at. I type "set port com2" and "set speed 115200"
(and maybe "set car off") and "connect". Poof! I'm talking to the modem. I
can check its settings. I can change its defaults. I can "manually" try
various options. Cool stuff that lets me figure out just exactly what is
going on.
Now, with TAPI support, as infrequently as I need to do this, it becomes a
major effort of paging through built-in help, trying various combinations of
settings, and usually returning (beaten and bloodied) after having decided
that whatever it was I wanted to do just didn't really need to be done that
badly.
Some day, I'll figure it out and stick it into a macro. I thought I did that
once, but the macro doesn't work. I have no idea whether I made a mistake
(likely) or K95 changed out from under me in this area (also likely, as I did
it when TAPI support first came out).
Anyway, if there were a simple "talk to the port" mechanism that would work
for any sort of port, whether a "COMx" port or a TAPI port, would help me
from time to time. (I could also use this capability to walk someone through
some things over the phone when they have troubles.)
Thanks.
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Ron.