km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (07/21/90)
Has anyone tried to get Prodigy to work on a 386 system running
VPIX? I've tried this on the Sun 386i box and it dies trying to
dial out through the modem.
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Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963darryl@lemuria.MV.COM (Darryl Wagoner) (07/26/90)
In article <6062@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >Has anyone tried to get Prodigy to work on a 386 system running >VPIX? I've tried this on the Sun 386i box and it dies trying to >dial out through the modem. No, it doesn't work on VP/ix and the folks at Prodigy will not even talk to you about it. I called there help line and as soon as they found out that I was running VP/ix, they stop trying to help. My guess is that they don't want it to work on anything that could capture there stuff. -Darryl -- Darryl Wagoner darryl@lemuria.MV.COM or uunet!virgin!lemuria!darryl 12 Oak Hill Road Brookline, NH 03033 Office: 603.672.0736 Home: 603.673.0578
vlr@dynsim2.uucp (Vic Rice) (07/29/90)
darryl@lemuria.MV.COM (Darryl Wagoner) writes: >found out that I was running VP/ix, they stop trying to help. My >guess is that they don't want it to work on anything that could >capture there stuff. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What do you mean by this ? Capture what stuff? By the way, I have attempted to run prodigy under DOS Merge with very little success. On occassion, I can run DOS Merge from root with a nice value of -20 and actually get logged on to Prodigy. But after about 6-8 commands the Prodigy software heads for the twilight zone. Oh, well. This single program is forcing me to real DOS once a day to run it. Otherwise, I wouldn't even need a DOS partition. Everything else I need seems to run OK under DOS Merge. -- Dr. Victor L. Rice Litwin Process Automation
rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson) (07/29/90)
In article <1990Jul28.202436.17195@dynsim2.uucp> vlr@dynsim2.uucp (Vic Rice) writes: >Oh, well. This single program is forcing me to real DOS once a day >to run it. My reaction was to toss Prodigy. It got three strikes against it: wouldn't work under VP/ix, no Trailblazer dialins, and you couldn't capture stock quotes. Outta there. -Rick -- Rick Richardson - PC Research, Inc., uunet!pcrat!rick, (201) 389-8963
karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (07/30/90)
In article <1990Jul29.051118.4963@pcrat.uucp> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >My reaction was to toss Prodigy. It got three strikes against >it: wouldn't work under VP/ix, no Trailblazer dialins, and you >couldn't capture stock quotes. Outta there. Yeah, too oppresive, too closed, too much advertising, too slow. The Clarinet service, the PC-based version of Quottrek (sp?) and similar things are, I think, more the way to go, because you can receive the stuff without human intervention and manipulate the results with programs, etc, rather than just printing it out. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave uunet!sugar!karl until I get my raincoat back." -- Metrophage