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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telecommunication Softwarenewsgrtoups
Message-ID: <0B010004.ai8fjb@outpost.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 91 06:24:08 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.222425.29328@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> 
> In article <1991Mar26.024316.2265@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, rcook@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Robert Cook) writes:
> > Does anyone have any advise on what communications software to use for
> > general use?  Configuration is a Mac Classic with a Global Teleport A300(?)
> > which plugs into the ADB port. I have several packages (MacTerminal, Versaterm,
> > Red Ryder, HayesConnect) at work, but nobody knows where the documentation is.
> > I've tried playing around with all of them to see which I like, but with
> > NO experience in telecommunications, I can't get anything to work. 
> 
> My understanding of the Global Village Teleport ADB modem was that the tradeoff
> you got for freeing up a serial port was that you had to use their software. I
> don't know that much about it, but I don't understand how you could configure
> any comm program to use it since it looks for it in the serial port.

You need the Teleport cdev/init only to configure it.  It lets you 
configure it one of three ways.  It can "pretend" to be the modem port 
or "pretend" to be the printer port or be access via the Comm Toolbox 
as an additional port.

Once it's configured, you can use any comm program you like.

-- michael

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