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telecomm with Emplant

    03-Jan-95 22:43:01
Fm: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
To: Ray Lewis 76057,467
Ray, Wow!! I'm sure glad you seemed to get it finally to work. I, however, sold my Amiga system before Emplant software version 5.0 was released, so I never had a chance to check out the latest empser.device. The one that came with 4.9, however, didn't work for me. I never could get any downloads to work above 9600 baud. Do try a correctly wired hardware handshake cable for the Emplant serial ports. It will surely help on the Mac side. It appears that every cable I've gotten with any high speed modem was called a hardware handshake cable by the modem company that supplied it, but every singel one of them was missing one line. None of them were wired according to the schematic supplied with the Emplant documentation. In my case until I got the correct cable I couldn't use MacTCP and SLIP/PPP for internet dialups. And you can't use the Amiga serial at all for that. For most terminal communications it didn't seem to make any difference, so the problem wasn't apparent when using a terminal program. BTW, apparently unless you have the correct hardware handshake cable and use the Emplant serial port, you won't get any fax software to work properly. Steve