by tim.mcga » Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:06:53
Thanks for your detailed response, John.
I'll offer a bit more clarification.
When operating when installed on my old Thinkpad.... this DOS software
was not really trying to "communicate with the internet". Instead, it
was using the dial-up modem on the Thinkpad to connect by long distance
telephone line to the dial-up modem of PC in a firm that incorporates
the received data into their weekly "tape" data submission (on behalf
of my clinic and the numerous other clinics that contract with this
firm) to our provincial health care insurer (the public health care
equivalent, in Canada, of an HMO in the US).
Please help me understand the comment in your second paragraph,
regarding a modem.
For example........if I were travelling with my Powerbook and relying
upon my Earthlink dial-up internet connection (rather than the cable
internet connection at home and work).... what does VPC do if:
i) I am not already in the middle of a dial-up Internet session on my
Powerbook, and;
ii) I launch Internet Explorer from Windows in VPC.
I would naively expect that VPC would only be able to establish the
Internet connection, in the
preceding scenario, by means of initiation of a dial-up connection to
my Earthlink ISP provider and that this, in turn, would involve it's
recognizing or communicating with the internal dial-up modem on my
Powerbook.
Not sure if I am making this clear, but I wanted to elaborate... since
my read of your explanation, suggested that you were under the
impressing that this was an e-mail issue or that this involved being
able to use the cable internet connection active on my Powerbook. In
contrast, my issue directly involves being able to use the Powerbook's
dial-up modem for a dial-up connection to a computer in a different
city.
In light of the above clarification.... is there any further advice
that you could offer?
Thanks
Tim
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