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Actually - what I'm using is a US Robotics 28.8. It works fine under Windows 95 -
but doesn't seem to work in native DOS on this machine (on my last computer - it
worked both in Windows 95 - and in native DOS). But thanks for the help. Robyn
Ron Augustine wrote:
> The reason that your modems don't work directly from DOS is because they are
> Plug & Pray compliant and only know how to communicate with the operating
> system via Win-95 specs, and not directly with DOS-- as older modems did.
> When you're in a DOS Window, you are really talking to them via Windows, but
> you may not see it this way...Your choices are to surrender to the altar of Gates
> and humbly accept that it is wiser to communicate with the outside world via your
> internal
> Win-Modem and accept the fact that the pretty little flashing lights on the
> external box are just window-dressing --or-- jump back to the Jurassic era
> and drag something like a pre-plug & pray U.S. Robotics 28.8 modem into the
> mix. This will profoundly confuse your Plug & Pray apparatus and add to the
> potential pool of conflicts...
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