Try a right mouse click on the .inf file and see if you get a drop down
context menu with a choice to "Install".

Joe Trimarchi


----- Original Message -----
From: Conor McNessa <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 5:37 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Modem confusion


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Timchenko <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >Did you try running those executables? [modem drivers]
>
> Yes. Clicking on the mdmacc executable brings up a DOS screen, which asks
if
> you want to overwrite an already existing mdmacc.inf. Then the DOS program
> terminates.
>
> >Do text files have any instructions on installing the drivers?
>
> No! They seem to be some kind of script - a sample:
>
> [Version]
> Signature="$CHICAGO$"
> Class=Modem
> Provider=%Mfg%
>
> [ControlFlags]
> ExcludeFromSelect=SERENUM\HAYF00
>
> 0
> >
> >The generic procedure when working with an unknown device is choose
> >"have disk..." when Win wants driver location and switch to the
> >directory where drivers are. Did you try that?
>
> I tried it, and I tried every version of it that I could think of,
including
> copying the files onto a floppy and putting them in a folder on the floppy
> called Win95! Nothing has worked.
>
> It seems to me that the .inf files are the actual drivers, but how to get
> them to work is beyond my knowledge.
>
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