NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/comp/dcom/fax/2492

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.fax
Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
From: [e-mail] (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Fax/Modem cards and Desqview
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:17:29 GMT
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[e-mail] (avram rudy vener) writes:


>My modem recently died and I'm looking for a replacement.  What I'd like
>to get is a Fax/Modem card and software that is Desqview aware and will
>let me run my modem in one window to service my BBS and the Fax software
>in another window to service incoming fax calls. Has anyone done this?
>With what degree of success?

The above msg implies to me that you want two pieces of software to access
the same device at the same time.  /TILT/.  On the other hand, there is a
product called The Complete Communicator which is able to take FAX, Modem,
_and_ voice calls, treating each differently.  Unfortunately, its modem is
still only 2400 (FAX is 9600), and the way it identifies the call type is
not completely automated (incoming callers must press a touch tone
sequence to switch to other than the default, which can be any of the
three call types).  I have mine set up to default to voice, but my voice
message (my voice) says to press 3-2-9 if you are sending a FAX.  If I have
modem software running, I can have another code to switch to it.  The software
for this board is a TSR.  This means you can run your BBS in the foreground,
with CCOM defaulting to answer to the modem.  Your voice answer would be a
quick "Press x-x-x for FAX, now, else here's the modem".  Of course, this
means that someone sending you a FAX cannot simply have their FAX call you
to send; they've got to manually hit those keys.  You could default to the
FAX, but then callers to your BBS would have to manually send tones to
switch to the modem.  And, of course, this is a single line device, so you
can't take FAX and modem calls at the same time.  Note that DV is not used
with this arrangement.  To do what you seem to describe, servicing both types
of calls at the same time, requires two comm boards and two different pieces
of software running.  They do not have to be DV aware; DV will keep them
from interfering with each other by not letting each even know the other's
port exists.  At high baud rates, you'll want to be using a '386 or better.

Hope this information is useful.  Feel free to email if you have more
questions.  Like I said, I have a CCOM myself and like it.

-JTT