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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!olivea!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Telepath Problem
- Message-ID: <telecom12.699.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:29:57 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 699, Message 9 of 11
-
- My new Gateway 2000 Telepath fax/modem works fine except for one big
- problem: I can't get it to work with software (games) or bbs's that
- don't use the data compression and error-correction protocols (MNP5,
- v.42, and etc.). The software and bbs in question both work just fine
- with my generic el cheapo 2400 internal modem, and with the old Hayes
- 2400 external at the office. But they won't work with the Telepath.
-
- The guy that runs the BBS said I need to turn off the datacompression
- and error correction stuff, but I can't find a way to do it. I've had
- long conversations with Gateway, and they've suggested different
- initialization strings to use, but they haven't worked (one of them
- actually disabled the damn thing altogether! The other just didn't
- change anything). My comm software, by the way, is Crosstalk for
- Windows, which has no provisions to accomplish this, either. Haven't
- any of these people ever heard of "backward compatibility"? Am I just
- out of luck? Do I have to waste a second slot on the old modem, just
- to communicate with this BBS and software and anybody else not using
- the modern protocols???
-
- Help! Any informed input MOST welcome!
-
-
- Paul Botts prb@chinet.chi.il.us
-