<snip> > Joe....the real winmodem problem is better explained below by > the two selected quotes from Rick Moen's linuxmafia.com > website: > > http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/ good link, thanks <'nother snip>
> Theoretically, programmers could write substitute "engine" > software for non-MS-Windows operating systems. This would > have to be done separately for each OS and for each > modem-type crippled in some distinctive way. Further, it > would entail reverse-engineering each such design's > programming interface, without cooperation from manufacturers > who classify this as proprietary information. In any event, > programmers seem highly unlikely to bother, because they find > it far easier to buy real modems, instead. not to mention a jail term in the USA due to the DCMA. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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