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From: [e-mail] (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Intel 400/e in non-DOS environment <was: MNP5 software+CAS Spec>
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Date: 8 Jan 93 19:32:29 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Raymond Shwake) writes:
|>     Let me extend and generalize the question: Putting aside the bundled
|>     communication and fax software associated with the 400/external, is
|>     there any reason this modem couldn't be used to support *fax*
|>     functionality outside of the DOS environment? If one had, say,
|>     appropriate fax software for a Macintosh, or Sun, or Next, could
|>     this modem work as a fax modem? Or is it doomed to live within
|>     the DOS ghetto? Has anyone done it? Tried, without success, to get
|>     the straight scoop earlier from Intel, so I pose the question here.
|>
|> uunet!media!irscscm!nearside!shwake            shwake@rsxtech

  Yes, given the appropriate software, you can use the 400e on any other
machine. I use my 400e on my NeXT as a data modem all the time. You will;
however, find it difficult to acquire a Class 1 fax driver for most UNIX
and UNIX-like machines. The 400e is a Class 1 fax modem which means the
computer must do all the fax protocol stuff itself and the modem just sends
the data down the phone lines. There's a lot of tricky timing in the Class 1
spec that is tough to handle on most UNIX systems, so there aren't many
Class 1 drivers around for UNIX. If you can get a Class 1 driver for your
machine, the 400e "should" work. Be warned that any given Class 1 driver may
not work with all Class 1 fax modems. You just have to try it...

Hope that helps.

Alvin Jee
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