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Title: Phone dialer ist kaputt
Post by: Magnum on December 02, 2010, 02:35:12 PM
The "fellers" at MSFN and the newsgroups are speechless.

I have a program called phonebk.exe that stopped working under XP Home.

It starts fine and no error messages when it is dialing a number. (in lieu of using the dialer on my land line phone.)

No errors of any kind in the event viewer.

I can send and receive faxxes great, so I would assume it isn't a hardware issue.




Title: Re: Phone dialer ist kaputt
Post by: dedndave on December 02, 2010, 03:55:32 PM
perhaps it is sending an AT command to the modem - waiting for a response
Title: Re: Phone dialer ist kaputt
Post by: dedndave on December 02, 2010, 04:03:17 PM
at any rate...
the program may allow you to configure differently for voice and faxes
i would look over the configuration menus again
Title: Re: Phone dialer ist kaputt
Post by: Magnum on December 02, 2010, 10:52:54 PM
The only option is a command line parameter. -Pxxx where xxx is the port number.

Andy
Title: Re: Phone dialer ist kaputt
Post by: Magnum on December 02, 2010, 11:29:29 PM
I asked in MSFN if they have recommendations about where I could get help.

I am wondering if XP support is being "kicked to the curb." (unofficial like)

I may end up looking for another freeware program that will work.

My current one is real handy because besides storing phone numbers, it lets you store notes as well.



Title: Re: Phone dialer ist kaputt
Post by: Magnum on December 03, 2010, 01:13:32 AM
Found the problem.

I had set the fax modem to receive to get some bank faxxes.

As soon as I turn it off, my phone dialer worked again.

It's almost always something simple.

Think I will make a batch that flashes, "Turn the receive back off when finished receiving."
whenever I fire up fxsclnt.exe.