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- From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
- Subject: For Bob Colwill, USask, Canada
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:16:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <17590@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Sorry for the public posting but e-mail addressed to Bob bounces.
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- Subject : Re: LocalTalk
- FAXModem Bytes : 3543
- To: Bob Colwill
-
- From: Rick McCormack
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- RE: FAX-Modem on a LocalTalk network
-
- RM old> I have (am still) installed(ing) an Abaton InterFax 2496
- RM old> Send-Receive FAX modem on a small (5 Macs) net, with file sharing,
- RM old> no server.
- RM old>
- RM old> Next step was to install Abaton's InterShare software. Now, this
- RM old> seems to work, although we are still trying to find a way of
- RM old> telling a group of writers how to utilize the "Chooser, Init, word
- RM old> processor, comms software, control panel device, etc...." to
- RM old> "easily send FAXes and communicate with other computers."
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- BC qstn> Sounds like this solution would work for us. Can you tell me how
- BC qstn> the Abaton 2496 attached to a Mac and what model Mac you have it
- BC qstn> running in?
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- RM Ans> The Abaton Fax-Modem is attached to the modem port of an SE
- RM Ans> 030--this unit is also running the Intershare Server software, and
- RM Ans> thus acts as the FAX-Modem server for the network.
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- BC qstn> Also, could you let me know where you bought the FAXModem and all
- BC qstn> the necessary software and what the approximate costs were?
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- RM ans> I bought the unit through the local Mac BYTE COMPUTER SHOP, and I
- RM ans> think that Intershare came from there also. Modem was about
- RM ans> $(CDN)425, and Intershare was $(CDN)175 (I think--client bought
- RM ans> this direct).
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- [Stuff deleted]
-
- I hope that you have some good luck getting this into your system.
- A little update for you now.
-
- We have made contact with a couple of the outside authors who want
- to transfer info in. One uses VersaTerm 4.1 (? I think.) and has
- to use X-Modem; he could transfer to me here at home, and I could
- transfer to the client using Z-modem in SmartCom II 3.3a or
- Z-Modem in ZTerm 0.90, but got hangs everytime I tried an X-Modem
- transfer (as did the author).
-
- After a lot of dicking around, we now have X-modem transfers
- working--I think we have a timing problem since the clientUs
- incoming calls go thru their computerized switchboard, on a
- supposedly _modem-ready_ line. (Do you remember CompuServeUs
- _relaxed_timing_X-Modem_protocol? I think that was a solution for
- a very similar problem.)
-
- I am developing a simple overview of the modeming process, and a
- short (1 hour) training program for the users who need it. Our
- next step is to begin transfers from the client to their press
- shop--which means the client will have to learn Stuffit or
- Compactor, and some organizational skills to ensure that all
- relevant files are sent on!
-
- While NetModems offer a simpler and more straight-forward
- installation, they are also expensive. And the few I have used
- were in the days of 2400 bps modems and were impossibly slow--the
- net traffic made every screen update an agony akin to watching the
- Saskatchewan River flow by in February! 9600 and 14.4k modems have
- obviously helped, again at a price.
-
- Hope by now you have a working, economical solution.
-
- Rick McCormack
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