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Michael F. Santangelo (mike@starburst.umd.edu) wrote:
: Well, someone in this thread said that Class 1 FAX MODEMs were 'unusable'.

Probably me!

: Wonderful.  I just bought a DSI Scout+ V.42bis MODEM with send/receive
: FAX at Class 1.  When I couldn't get it to work with the 'class 2'
: FAX driver on NS2.2 on my turbo slab, I called DSI (Digicomm Systems Inc,
: they who make this MODEM).  They said that class 2 wasn't CCITT ratified
: at all yet and they were waiting for this to happen before offering up
: new ROMs for this MODEM to do it.  If this is the case, why has NeXT
: used a standard that isn't yet?  Sounds like the only 3rd party MODEM
: out there doing this is the more expensive ZyXel MODEM.
: 
: Please comment.  Anyway to write a 'class 1' driver for NeXTStep's
: PrintManager program to configure such a MODEM with?

My understanding is that the class 1 spec is incomplete in that each
vendor's implementation requires a semicustom driver. You'd therefore
need a driver for your Scout while I'd need a different one for my
Practical Peripherals.

The class 2 spec is supposed to be much more "standard" across modem 
lines. I'm curious if the class 2 spec requires any additional functionality
in the some modems for newly "required" features.

Paul Verket (NeXTmail ok)