From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 08:51:30 EDT
On Wed, 3 May 2000, William Armstrong wrote:
Bill and all,
> Vincent,
>
> I use my laptop for faxing a lot. I have accounts with Concord for Internet
> faxing and Universal Mail. Internet faxing works great. I've been able to
> drop the fax line at my office and never have to worry having an analogue
> line free at home or in a hotel because the faxes just go out over the
> internet. Universal mail works well, too, although the connection to Concord
> for downloading can be iffy. You can always see your faxes in a browser,
> though.
The reason I never used my thinkpad for faxing is because i can't
figure out what to fax without a scanner =) Ofcourse, I use efax.com for
all incoming faxes.
> Re: TalkWorks 3.0: Probably some refinements in the voice stuff. I remember
> reading the improvements list, but don't recall there being anything that
> was particularly compelling. Plus, I had by then stopped using the voice
> features anyway.
Yeah, true... I just wonder why Symantec never just made it one
product instead of two.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Poy [mailto:vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:41 AM
> To: William Armstrong
> Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> Subject: RE: WinFax Pro 10 ?
>
>
> On Wed, 3 May 2000, William Armstrong wrote:
>
> Bill and everyone,
>
> That's true. I just installed WinFax Pro 10.0 on my desktop over
> TalkWorks 2.0 and it went back to the TalkWorks folder. I never fax from
> the ThinkPad and besides, my HD is still in data recovery at the labs. I
> guess the Symantec product will default to the folder of the first product
> you installed, whether TalkWorks or WinFax Pro for installation. I just
> wished there was a TalkWorks 4.0. I still wonder what the difference is
> in 3.0 versus 2.0 since they both use WinFax Pro 9.0.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Vince - vince_at_WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____
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>
> > Vincent,
> >
> > The SYMANTEC website is still calling TalkWorks 3.0 a new program. There
> is
> > no indication there that a W2K version is forthcoming or even planned. I
> > wonder why not? I had TalkWorks Pro 2.0, as well, but never really used
> the
> > voice stuff. When I installed WinFax 10.0 it defaulted into the old
> > TalkWorks folder.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vincent Poy [mailto:vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 11:00 PM
> > To: William Armstrong
> > Cc: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu
> > Subject: RE: WinFax Pro 10 ?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2 May 2000, William Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > Bill and all,
> >
> > > Vincent,
> > >
> > > Mmmm.... You're right. TalkWorks Pro 3.0 includes WinFax Pro 9.0, not
> > 10.0,
> > > and is not compatible with W2K. Must be something about the voice stuff
> in
> > > TalkWorks that makes it difficult to get it to work well with W2K. Oh
> > well.
> > > If I remember correctly TalkWorks Pro 3.0 came out before WinFax Pro
> 10.0.
> >
> > I actually have TalkWorks Pro 2.0. 3.0 came out like 2 weeks
> > after I bought 2.0. 2.0 has WinFax Pro 9.0 as well. Maybe TalkWorks Pro
> > 4.0 will be available really soon. I noticed that TalkWorks is installed
> > in the WinFax Pro folder and not in it's own folder.
> >
> > > I never thought that TalkWorks worked with the ThinkPad modems. It
> didn't
> > > with earlier ThinkPads, but maybe it did with the 770's. Kinda doubt it.
> > The
> > > voice parts of TalkWorks were designed to work with only a small set of
> > > voice chipsets (Rockwell, originally, then 3COM), but did not work with
> a
> > > bunch of others.
> >
> > I don't think it does since I remember someone saying it
> > didn't. I just have a 3Com Combo 10/100 NIC + 56k modem card so it'll
> > work. Unfortunately, for my desktop, my USR COurier v.everything dual
> > standard external modem doesn't have voice capabilities.
>
>
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