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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:49:32 +0100 (BST)
From: Phillip Temple <ptemple@acorn.com>
Subject: Re: Slipdial vs FreeDial
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On Wed 30 Jul, Nick Kaijaks wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Carol Carpenter wrote:
>
> > 1. Should we stay with SlipDial or go for FreeDial ?
>
> Personally, I'd prefer FreeDial with one reservation. SlipDial is very
> flexible but can be awkward to set up if there isn't a script supplied.
> I'm not a technical novice, but I confess that I haven't got it working
> properly yet! For a beginner (for whom Acornet is surely aimed), I'd think
> that FreeDial is more elegant, but still retains a lot of flexibility.
Is it that difficult to set up a script using the Acornet 'Configure'
app? Anyway, the point is that there should be scripts already done.
That way you just click on your ISP and everything slots into place
for you. If someone comes across an ISP that it isn't configured for,
once we get a script worked out for that ISP (and that person), everyone
else that follows benefits!
> My one reservation is that I still can't get FreeDial to talk to my USR
> WorldPort modem - it seems to ignore it totally - I recall some other
> USR users having the same problem, so this could be a disadvantage to
> putting it in Acornet. If anyone has any ideas, the source is available
> (I'm not a C programmer myself), and I'd be grateful for a solution by
> the way, as I can only use an old (very old) and slow modem at the mo!
No problems with SLIPdial that I've come across.
Phillip.
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Phillip Temple