From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_pele.WURLDLINK.NET)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 13:22:59 EDT
On Wed, 3 May 2000, William Armstrong wrote:
Bill and everyone,
> 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.
Hmmm, I remember my friend used it when it was under
Delrina. When Symantec taken over the product, he said it was way
different.
> 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.
True. Probably they should name everything WinFax instead. Like
how Microsoft names it's office products or simply sell everything as
plug-in modules.
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> -----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,
> Vince - vince_at_WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____
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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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