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- From: SELBYR@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (186902744)
- Subject: Re: Help getting a new modem
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.233243.1072865@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- In-Reply-To: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz's message of 20 Dec 1992 05:01:16 GMT
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:32:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.202317.1361@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <1h0umsINN2tt@golem.wcc.govt.nz>
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- In <1h0umsINN2tt@golem.wcc.govt.nz> wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
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- > If the modem has the same serial socket, and phone-plugs on the back, (
- > or side depending...) and it's HAYES compatible, Flash will handle it
- > quite happily! (It should say on the box or in the manual or something
- > what the modems specifications are...)
- >
- > If it is a 9600, you'll need to find the serial patch for use on your
- > ST, otherwise the modem will complain when you start trying to do anything
- > fancy!! (This patch is available pretty much everywhere, I think
- > POOLFIX does the required job.)
- >
- > It would be advisable to test, or get the modem on a if-it-doesn't-go-can-I
- > return-it basis! That's probably the safest method. Modems are pretty
- > much standard, if it works on one machine, it will generally work on all
- > the others! (with one major exception being MS-Doze Internal Modems!)
- >
- >
- > =============================================================================
- > | O O If I told you how much I needed this, | ||| |
- > | o I wouldn't have time to eat it. Zaphod B. | ||| TARI |
- > | \_/ Steve Wells - Wellington, New Zealand. | / | \ |
- > =========================WELLS_S@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ==========================
- >
-
- What is it that the serial patch you mentioned do exactly?
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