From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
Subject: For Bob Colwill, U Sask, Canada
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:20:19 GMT

Sorry for this posting, but e-mail to Bob bounces.

Subject : Re: LocalTalk
FAXModem Bytes   : 3543
To: Bob Colwill

From: Rick McCormack

RE: FAX-Modem on a LocalTalk network

RM old> I have (am still) installed(ing) an Abaton InterFax 2496
RM old> Send-Receive FAX modem on a small (5 Macs) net, with file sharing,
RM old> no server.
RM old>
RM old> Next step was to install Abaton's InterShare software. Now, this
RM old> seems to work, although we are still trying to find a way of
RM old> telling a group of writers how to utilize the "Chooser, Init, word
RM old> processor, comms software, control panel device, etc...." to
RM old> "easily send FAXes and communicate with other computers."

BC qstn> Sounds like this solution would work for us.  Can you tell me how
BC qstn> the Abaton 2496 attached to a Mac and what model Mac you have it
BC qstn> running in?

RM Ans> The Abaton Fax-Modem is attached to the modem port of an SE
RM Ans> 030--this unit is also running the Intershare Server software, and
RM Ans> thus acts as the FAX-Modem server for the network.

BC qstn> Also, could you let me know where you bought the FAXModem and all
BC qstn> the necessary software and what the approximate costs were?

RM ans> I bought the unit through the local Mac BYTE COMPUTER SHOP, and I
RM ans> think that Intershare came from there also.  Modem was about
RM ans> $(CDN)425, and Intershare was $(CDN)175 (I think--client bought
RM ans> this direct).

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I hope that you have some good luck getting this into your system.
A little update for you now.

We have made contact with a couple of the outside authors who want
to transfer info in. One uses VersaTerm 4.1 (? I think.) and has
to use X-Modem; he could transfer to me here at home, and I could
transfer to the client using Z-modem in SmartCom II 3.3a or
Z-Modem in ZTerm 0.90, but got hangs everytime I tried an X-Modem
transfer (as did the author).

After a lot of dicking around, we now have X-modem transfers
working--I think we have a timing problem since the clientUs
incoming calls go thru their computerized switchboard, on a
supposedly _modem-ready_ line. (Do you remember CompuServeUs
_relaxed_timing_X-Modem_protocol? I think that was a solution for
a very similar problem.)

I am developing a simple overview of the modeming process, and a
short (1 hour) training program for the users who need it. Our
next step is to begin transfers from the client to their press
shop--which means the client will have to learn Stuffit or
Compactor, and some organizational skiakin to watching the
Saskatchewan River flow by in February! 9600 and 14.4k modems have
obviously helped, again at a price.

Hope by now you have a working, economical solution.

Rick McCormack

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