jej@chinet.chi.il.us (joe jesson) (07/16/90)
Most of the laptop modems available (and in my six laptops) do not support MNP protocol in ROM and line noise is a real problem. Has anyone used MSDOS-based MNP software to "fix" this problem? i. Any recommendations of shareware or commercial TSR MNP drivers? Thanks! -joe
tnixon@hsfmsh.UUCP (Toby Nixon) (07/17/90)
In article <1990Jul15.171919.3462@chinet.chi.il.us>, joe jesson
asks:
- Most of the laptop modems available (and in my six laptops) do not
- support MNP protocol in ROM and line noise is a real problem. Has
- anyone used MSDOS-based MNP software to "fix" this problem? i. Any
- recommendations of shareware or commercial TSR MNP drivers?
I have "tried" such programs, but not used them for any extended
period. The problem is that comm software is a very subjective
thing, almost as personal a preference as a word processor, and when
you use software-based MNP you are tied to that program. The two
I'm aware of are MTE from MagicSoft (Lombard, IL; 312-953-2374) and
Mirror III from SoftKlone (Tallahassee, FL; 904-878-8564). MTE is
packaged with many modems; Mirror is a very full-featured program
that is more-or-less a clone of Crosstalk (with extensions).
I am not aware of any TSR MNP drivers, shareware or commercial.
It is very unlikely that you will find such a thing that would work
with popular comm packages like Procomm or QMODEM. Virtually all
comm software accesses the serial port hardware directly rather than
going through the BIOS, so there's no way for a TSR to redirect the
I/O through a protocol module.
-- Toby
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