wgadsby@gara.une.oz.au (Peter Gadsby) (06/29/91)
Has anyone else had experience with this software? Published by Smith Micro Software, Inc of Huntington Beach, CA. It seems a little flaky on our (SE) system; I wonder if anyone else has seen it. Peter Gadsby
mst@tsc.cxo.dec.com (Mike Temkin) (06/30/91)
In article <7244@gara.une.oz.au> wgadsby@gara.une.oz.au (Peter Gadsby) writes: >Has anyone else had experience with this software? Published by Smith >Micro Software, Inc of Huntington Beach, CA. It seems a little flaky >on our (SE) system; I wonder if anyone else has seen it. > >Peter Gadsby Yech! This has got to be the *worst* piece of software imaginable! I have a Zoom sendfax modem and was saddled with this horror. I successfully used it twice to send faxes, but now it won't seem to work. I called up the people who write the Quick Link garbage and told them I was having troubles, they said to boot from their disk and run it that way (not a very good answer). I did it still didn't work properly (and remember, this was without any INITs or CDEVs). I called them back again and their attitude was "Oh well...". If it seems like I am pissed, I am! However, MacWorld just did a review of fax modems and they said that the Zoom uses the Sierra chip, which is what you need to use BackFax. I will be contacting that company to see if it really will work. If so... Just my grumblings... Mike. -- Mike Temkin mst@tsc.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation These opinions are my own, I can't even give them away...
jesse@cs.UAlberta.CA (Jesse Lee) (06/30/91)
In article <7244@gara.une.oz.au> wgadsby@gara.une.oz.au (Peter Gadsby) writes: >Has anyone else had experience with this software? Published by Smith >Micro Software, Inc of Huntington Beach, CA. It seems a little flaky >on our (SE) system; I wonder if anyone else has seen it. > >Peter Gadsby I have this software which comes with Zoom sendfax only modem. My friend has a DoveFax send/receive modem. One day he told me to send a fax to his modem to test his modem. I used Quick Link II Fax and I had no way to send a fax to him. The connection always broke in the middle of transmission. I do not know the reason why. I seldom use the program at all even as a terminal emulator. This sendfax feature of this software can only send text and pict documents. I once sent a text file to a fax machine to look at the output. The output did not look very good. All the characters are very small and there is no way to format the output. I phoned the company and asked them if they have the latest one. Mine is 1.0.2. They said they had a latest one and charged for thirty something to upgrade. Since I do not really like the software, I told them to send me a catalog first. But I never receive such a catalog. I hope there is some other software around which can drive my modem to work. I think it is possible. If someone has an answer, please post the result. I would like to see what other options would be. Jesse Lee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse Lee | UUCP: jesse@alberta.uucp Department of Computing Science | Internet: jesse@cs.ualberta.ca University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2H1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------