Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!rutgers!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Applelink Message-ID: <32830@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 8 Aug 89 00:15:39 GMT References: <8907020536.AA00288@crash.cts.com> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 26 In article <8907020536.AA00288@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!paul@nosc.mil writes: >Comment to message from: pnet01!crash!pro-sol.cts.com!lbotez (Lynda Botez) > >> In order to loggon to Applelink, you have to reconfigure your control panel >> (it's in the docs)... otherwise the software hangs on you. I always thought >> this was rediculous, but that's the way it is. > >This is more than rediculous, it is shoddy programming. Everything else I use >that uses my modem port sets it the way it wants it and moves on. Even if I >don't use my printer my software hangs unless I modify the control panel. Are we all talking about the same thing here? AppleLink--Personal Edition does not require me to make any control panel changes on my Apple IIgs. Possibly this is just because my standard settings were already what it wanted. Which settings are you guys saying need to be changed? --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.