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On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Grant Hilsenteger wrote: > information through a 1-800 toll-free service that provides its own > software. The program has the phone number "hard-coded" into the program, > and thus you can't change it so that it will pause between dialing an > outside line (dial 9) and the 1-800 number. Therefore she can't dial into > the service. However, a friend of hers who has not bought a new IBM Get a simple analog phone, and a line spilter, plug both the phone and the phone into the line. First dial 9 with the phone and then have the program dial the 1-800 number > Thinkpad (not sure which one) is having trouble connecting to this service > (probably for the same reason, but I don't know) and she called IBM. They > told her (get this) that the modems in IBM TP's don't work in DOS. They are referring to the fact that many of the new TPs are sold with Winmodems. These only work in Windows. > I've told her to tell her software supplier to get with the times and > develop a Win95 version of their software and make it a lot more compatible Haa, I'd rather have a DOS program then a Win95 one. > with various hardware. The program also wouldn't allow her to print from > her Canon BJ-80 printer (which operates on essentially the same driver as > the BJ-70, a very popular portable printer. Have her set the program to the Epson lx2500 and it should work with the BJ Patrick West <pccare@teleport.com>,using Pine 3.96 PGP Key fingerprint = F9 95 AE C6 06 B3 E5 16 DE 51 21 A4 C9 DF DF 8D Key available from pgp-public-keys@pgp.mit.edu