sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu (09/28/88)
Greetings, I asked this a long time ago, but my problem remains unsolved. I have a Magic Modem 1200 (by Magic Products?), which works fine with all the communication/terminal emulator softwares I have ever encountered, such as MicroPhone, RedRider, etc. However, it doesn't work with the DIAL command inside HyperCard. When I used the Phone stack that comes with HyperCard distribution to dial out a number, it only dial out the first digits and then stoped dailing. I don't understand how it can work with Communication Softwares/Terminal Emulators but not HyperCard. I asked this question before and Mactijn Koster (u00300 @ hasar5.bitnet) suggested the following. >I found out how to get Hypercard's Dial-function to work with a modem: the >modem must assume DTR to always be true. Turn the modem off, set the >appropriate dipswitch on or inside your modem, and switch the modem back >on. On my modem, a lightspeed 1200, I did this by removing the front panel >and setting switch 1 DOWN. After that it worked! I opened my modem and cannot find such switch. I wonder if it can be set by software. Since DIAL doesn't work, is it possible to write an XCMD or XFCN to emulate how the communication softwares dial a number? Does anyone out there have such codes? Can anyone tell me what the difference between these two types of dialing and what can be done? Thank you for your suggestions. -- Kang Sun sun@venus.ycc.yale.edu sun@yalevms.bitnet
tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) (09/29/88)
I had the same problem for a long time. It works ok on a plus, but doesn't work on an SE. Very simply, my RS232 cable passes the DTR signal thru from Mac to modem, and Hypercard DROPS DTR!!!! This is the only program I know of that starts a dial command and drops dtr before giving the modem a chance to finish dialing, let alone for the dialed number to answer. One simple solution is to force that line high. I'm using a MacVision which has a little box that puts power onto that line (for the SE) which makes the SE look lkike a plus and voila, Hypercard works on the SE. Hey Apple, when ya folks gonna clean this up? Glenn
gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu (10/05/88)
I have the same problem on a Mac II/Prometheus modem.
It's a little bit pathetic when you think about it. Hypercard is
supposed to be optimized for doing simple stacks like the phone stack.
Yet, it seems like the modem driver must be brain-dead in hypercard.
Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801
ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,ihnp4,harvard}!uiucdcs!gilliestenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) (10/13/88)
In chatting with a guy on the HC team, my guess is that HyperCard opens the serial driver, sends the dial command, and then closes the driver which drops DTR. Now if only HC would have waved the magic wand and told the driver to keep DTR up after being closed... Ahhhh. Maybe it'll be fixed soon. Glenn