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- From: jgro@netcom.com (Jeremy G)
- Subject: Re: SFM/Faxstf and Silent Answer (Was Re: supra L roms?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.102305.22081@netcom.com>
- Organization: Not that I'm aware of :-)
- References: <TRSNYDER.93Jan15110617@iris2.mcs.drexel.edu> <1993Jan16.141351.1@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu> <SteveWall-190193125104@hipmac1.pica.army.mil>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:23:05 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <SteveWall-190193125104@hipmac1.pica.army.mil> SteveWall@aol.com (Steve Wall) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan16.141351.1@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu>,
- >f0975893@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu wrote:
- >>
- >> In article <TRSNYDER.93Jan15110617@iris2.mcs.drexel.edu>, trsnyder@mcs.
- >> drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
- >> > Silent Answer is also in the J (and I belive H) ROMs. Unfortunately, it
- >> > does you no good unless you have fax software which was written to handle
- >> > it. And FAXstf doesn't.
- >>
- >> Does anyone know if, and when, the authors of FAXstf plan to integrate
- >> Silent Answer into their software? It seems pretty pointless to me to
- >> include the feature and then provide software that does not take advantage
- >> of it!!
- >>
- >I called STF Technologies about this before Christmas. At that time, they
- >had tried to implement Silent Answer without success. Apparently they did
- >everything Supra told them to do, but it wasn't working for them. So,
- >it's probably only a matter of time until they and Supra figure out what's
- >wrong and get it working. How long? Who knows?
- >
- >Steve Wall
-
- I talked to reps from STF at Macworld in San Francisco, and they said
- the problem with Silent Answer was bigger than just Supra. The
- problem is that the Mac OS has no support for serial port arbitration.
- Once the fax software realized that the incoming call is data, they
- don't have a good way to pass the call to a telecom package. They
- claim to be trying to get Apple to solve the problem. (Good luck :-( )
-
-
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- Jeremy G Committed to developing user-friendly products,
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