Re(3): How to create dial-up settings in OS X 10.0?
Re(3): How to create dial-up settings in OS X 10.0?
- Subject: Re(3): How to create dial-up settings in OS X 10.0?
- From: Jens Bauer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 18:58:49 +0200
Hi Sak,
On Wed, 7 Aug, 2002, Sak Wathanasin <email@hidden> wrote:
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In reply to Jens Bauer's message of the 06/08/2002 at 04:48 +0200,
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>Usually this kind of application is stored on a CD, which a telephone
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>company offers for free to their customers.
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>The catch is that all kinds of users might grab one of the free CDs, and
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>among those, there will still be 10.0 users.
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This is exactly right: a potential customer puts a sign-up CD in his
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Mac; it auto-launches and tells him he's got to go spend some money
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ad go through the hassle of a pretty major OS upgrade before he can
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use our fine system. I know what my reaction would be: "you want me
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to go through all this just so I can sign up to your service? Get
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lost - there are 100s of ISPs out there."
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The CD supports systems all the way back to Win 95 and MacOS 7.6, so
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not supporting an OS only a year old sounds pretty lame. Besides the
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ISP in question has server stats that show a signification proportion
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of OSX users still running 10.0 and has said that if we can't make it
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work for all OSX users, they prefer to pull the OSX stuff off the CD.
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So any help or hints would be appreciated.
In any case, you *must* provide information (a small booklet, 7 lines),
telling the user how to set up the network *manually*.
This will help users who has a system that is incompatible with your CD,
such a Mac OS X, but will also help additional people like Linux, Atari
and Amiga users.
(Yep, I know a guy who's surfing the internet on his Atari ST)
-But it will also help people who just want to quickly re-install
manually without running the program, and those paranoid people (like
me), who would never ever insert such a CD in my computer. -And yes,
there are many of thosse as well. ;)
Love,
Jens
--
Jens Bauer, Faster Software.
-Let's make the World better, shall we ?
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