to select the port that is associated with the modem you want to use. For
example, if you have three modems on your system, on ports called COM2, COM3,
and COM4, you could enter
to use the modem on the port COM2.
There are two known problems with linking to
Windows COM ports: the COM ports of devices change as you add or remove items
from your computer, and linking to COM ports can cause the Windows fax server
software to quit if it is trying to use the same modem as Autolog.
To overcome these two issues, the link command on Windows has a special TAPI mode that allows you to specify ports by product name, or to share Autolog's modem use with Windows Fax software. The command syntax is link tapi:modem-name-which-could-be-long.
To find out the names of the TAPI devices on your Windows system, enter the command link tapi:list. This will display a list of the currently available modems on your system. Old modems and O/Ses may not be compatible with the Autolog 2.0 TAPI interface.
To link to a TAPI modem, just give it's full name. If you can't remember it exact name, or you wish to select from a pool of identical modems, you can use the * character as a wildcard. For example, link tapi:zoop* would link to the first available modem who TAPI name starts with ZOOP. Notice that case doesn't matter in naming TAPI devices.
Modems that are linked using the TAPI subcommand will be deemed as busy or otherwise unavailable to other TAPI-compatible clients like the Windows fax server. No other Windows program can use the modem until you unlink or finish in Autolog.