Re: FBII EZ-Mate question

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:45:11 PM UTC-5, mleuck wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 4:52:28 AM UTC-5, RockyTSquirrel wrote:
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> > On Monday, October 29, 2012 9:02:28 PM UTC-5, RockyTSquirrel wrote:
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> > > been trying to get EZ-Mate  9.94  to work on several old machines here in
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> > > Two desk tops running Win 3.1 and ME,  two  lap tops running 98se and ME..
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> > > The 98se laptop will connect and U/D load with no problems  using a Hayes
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> > > 2nd problem [none of the machines will U/D load using a Hayes Opima 2400
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> > > (even though it is in the EZ-Mate modem setup selection)
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> > > Back in the day,  we used to use these all the time with no major
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> > > But for some reason,  We can't understand, only the 98se laptop we've been
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> > > We guess it has something to do with the string setup  but so far we've
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> > > BTW  yes we do use Compass now-a-days..   ;-)
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> > >The Hayes 2400 will not do the handshake like the 1200 will
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> > Thanks for the info..  that might explain some of the results we've been
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> > >I haven't used EZ-Mate for years since they moved it to Compass, why
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> > Believe it or not  we still have a couple of active panels Compass (newest
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> > and with a shop full of ole 80's cooters,  we like to keep the old stuff
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> > we even have a couple of old ademco 1002, 1004, 1025, 342R and (2) 4080 gold
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> > When you work in HillBilly central you see a lot of old stuff out there..
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> > A personal request though,    if any one does have the AT  string  to setup
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> I have an old ADT version of Compass that came with those FBI panels, I exported those panels into standard versions of Compass 1.5 although I'm not sure it works on 2.0, I'll have to try that

Update: Tried importing some .wdl files from Compass 1.5 into 2 and it didn't work, Compass didn't recognize them