Question: I want to use WinPack with my Baycom modem. How do I do it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Answer: WinPack does not have its own Baycom driver, but it can be used with a Baycom modem via the BPQ node software, or via PC Flexnet. Baycom/BPQ/WinPack ------------------ I would be the last person to suggest that this is easy to set up! However, a lot of people have managed it. You need to load the BPQ node software underneath Windows, configured to use a Baycom driver. You then run WinPack in BPQ mode (this is selected from "Options", "Comms Setup"). BPQ is quite a complex piece of code, it has a lot of documentation with it, but it is in several DOC files, so you need to do quite a bit of reading to work out how to use it. The version of BPQ you need is 4.08a - it is the last version that was released and the only version with support for running underneath Windows. The Baycom driver you should use is the NODE2BAY package which is available from this web site. DO NOT try and use a DOS BPQ/Baycom driver such as BPQAX25, if you get it to work underneath Windows you will be very lucky, because there are sound technical reasons why it shouldn't work! The NODE2BAY package contains a file called NODE2BAY.TXT, which gives some useful information on setting up BPQ. PLEASE take note of the comments about possible problems with the CTS output of some Baycom modems when used with modern motherboards! Finally, the WinPack online help also contains some sections on using WinPack with BPQ. Baycom/PC Flexnet/WinPack ------------------------- From V6.3 onwards WinPack supports PC Flexnet. Since Flexnet has its own Baycom driver, it allows you to use Winpack with a Baycom modem. To use PC Flexnet with a Baycom modem, you must be running Win95. A description of PC Flexnet and what it does is beyond the scope of this note. WINPFLEX.TXT which comes with the WinPack V6.3 update gives more information and it also contains the URL for the Flexnet web site. Roger Barker, G4IDE December 1997