This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: OBHack...
Article: 7683 of alt.hackers From: ats4@clarion.cec.wustl.edu (Alan T Shutko) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: OBHack... Date: 19 Apr 1995 09:14:18 GMT Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO Lines: 36 Approved: Heh! Message-ID: ATS4.95Apr19041418@clarion.cec.wustl.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: clarion.cec.wustl.edu In-reply-to: halo@news-server.engin.umich.edu's message of 16 Apr 1995 05:27:27 GMT Status: RO
>>>>> "J" == Johnny Yuma <halo@news-server.engin.umich.edu> writes: In article <3mq9rv$juk@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> halo@news-server.engin.umich.edu (Johnny Yuma) writes: J> says... 'In order to give you the easiest use of a modem possible, J> We have included a 'Windows(r)' modem. The Windows(r) modem is of J> course very easy to use and GUI like, compared to the difficult to J> use DOS modem. From what I could see if it, it looked like a J> semi-nice modem. (with v.32ter and stuff), but a Windows modem?!?! J> Ohman... It refused to work in dos. :( It sorta sounds like it was one of those "soft modems".... a DSP with software to dowload into the modem to make it go. And they never bothered to write a driver for dos. Annoying things. Besides the fact it won't work in any reasonable OS, the implementations I have seen have been annoying... like a separate module for fax or modem... have to switch manually.... ObHack: I'm on a dynamically allocated PPP link.... Since I fancy myself cool and run Linux, I like to run all the standard network services... ftp, SMTP, http, etc. However, the dynamic allocation messes things up, to the extent that whenever I dial the modem, I have to run a script which will sed in the new address in about ten different config files, even update the /etc/hosts so some programs will work. Then kill and restart a couple daemons, because you can't tell sendmail to reread it's cf. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alan Shutko - Home of the Mighty Morphin' Power Sig - ats4@cec.wustl.edu T h i s t a g l i n e i s e n c r y p t e d ! GCS/S d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a-- w+(@) v+++(-) C++++ UL++++ P+>+++ L++ 3 E+++ N++ K++ W--- M-- V-- -po+ Y+ t+ 5+++ j R G !tv D- B--- e+>++++ u h f r++ n- y+(**)
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