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From: chari@nueces.UUCP (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: ? Soft modem devel. status
Message-ID: <238@nueces.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 03:51:27 GMT
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In article <246300002@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> What's the current development status of soft modem/fax-modem for NeXT?
> Forgive me if this has been talked about recently.

I don't know but, if it doesn't come out soon, I'm going to get a trailblazer
out of frustration. My question about the modem is, can dsp programs be
swapped in and out or will the device be busy when its a modem. When I tried
to see what happens when two programs try to use the dsp, it brought the
system down. I assume that the new libraries and stuff in 0.9 will
take care of this.

> Is 'tip' supported?

Yes and its just as bad as it's always been. I hope they have a decent
IB-type terminal app that is specifically for modems in the future.

> Has 'kermit' been ported?

NeXT does not include the source or binaries but I have got 4e070 running
just fine.

>                          Hugh


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