Subj : Win2k/NetModem
To   : BENNIE HUTTO
From : CHRIS CRANFORD
Date : Thu Aug 22 2002 09:36 am

->  -> Nope, haven't tried COM/IP, and I fear any virtual port program
->  -> will net the same result without there being virtual port support,
->  -> unless I'm just not looking in the right place?

->  CC> What version of Wildcat are you using Bennie?

->  WildCat! 4.20ML10 (DOS). I would upgrade to WINS but
->  finances are very short. :(

Bennie, 

I certainly understand regarding finances.  I don't know if you're
aware, but Santronics is running a special of 20% all of their Wildcat
and PX line products through the end of the month of August.  Now I
don't know if that's for WINS existing customers or for all customers so
you can always contact asantos@santronics.com and verify that; however I
am not quite sure if you're going to be able to using a Virtual Port app
with Windows 2000 either and WINS.

I can tell you however that WINS v5.4.449 runs perfect on Windows 2000.
You may want to, as suggested in the previous message by another party
consider going back to WinNT4 which did support Virtual Ports.  You may
want to also do a search on the Internet and look at the virtual port
software company's websites and see if they say that their products are
Windows 2000 compatible.  That will also answer your question, but I
have a feeling it's up the the manufacturer of the software.

Windows 2000 is merely an extension of WinNT v4/Sp6A which you are
probably aware of.  I have be running both Win2kPro/WinNT4SP6A
concurrently here in the office and see no differences except for the
placement of certain buttons and textboxes on the dialog boxes in the
control panel, etc...

I tried to look in the help for virtual ports and found nil.  I can also
suggest you go to http://search.microsoft.com and see if you can find
any leads there as well. 

Let me know your finds!!!

Best Regards,
Chris Cranford
WIN2000 Moderator






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