From: William Armstrong (warmstrong_at_waldinc.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 09:37:44 EDT
Vincent,
If I remember correctly WinFax had the voice stuff at one point, but
Symantec being the greedy folks they are probably realized they could charge
more for TalkWorks as a stand alone than they could with a WinFax version
that included the voice stuff.
I suspect a lot of people are like me and have bought TalkWorks because of
it's additional functionalilty, but never end up using it, or discover once
they have it that their modem does not support the voice capabilities.
-Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Poy [mailto:vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:52 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 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.
Cheers,
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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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