fnwlr1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (RUTHERFORD WALTER L) (10/25/90)
We have at least two users at work who use Ventel internal modems on
their Mac II and also have Smart Label printers attached to the modem
port. The problem comes when they have just finished using the printer
to print labels and then need to use the internal modem to reach the
outside world. Usually a dialog box with two icons will appear allowing
them to choose either the internal modem or an external modem via the
modem port, but once the label printer has set the port it uses to the
modem port the dialog box doesn't appear when the communcations soft-
ware is started. The only recourse then is to restart the Mac.
Ventel's Customer Service said that that is the only fix, but that is
a little hard for me to believe. There MUST be a byte in RAM, or a
pointer in memory that the modem is twiddling to get it Mac to over-
ride the choosen serial port. I have poured through all of the Mac
manuals that I can get my hands on, but find nothing obvious.
Any suggestions anyone? WLR
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Walter Rutherford
P.O. Box 83273 \ / Computers are NOT intelligent;
Fairbanks, Alaska 99708 - X -
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fnwlr1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
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