Tools for Creating Modem INF Files

Three tools that can be used to create modem INF files are:

• Use a text editor to work directly on the INF file; the editor must be able to save the INF file as ASCII text. If you are experienced in working with INF files, this may be quickest and most flexible tool for creating your INF file. Notepad is an example of an ASCII text editor on your Windows 95 computer, but you can use any editor you are used to that saves a file as pure ASCII text.
• Use the Infedit tool, which presents a graphical user interface that prompts you for information to put into an INF file and builds the INF file for you. InfEdit is a great tool to use to create your INF file if you have never worked with INF files before or have trouble working with INF files because InfEdit takes care of a lot of the structural details for you. InfEdit is available on the Windows 95 DDK.
• Use Profile Calculator to compose profile-type values to put in your INF file.

Note that you can alternately use your text editor and InfEdit to work on the same INF file. For example, you open a modem INF file with InfEdit (from WINDOWS\INF) and do some editing there, save the new version of the INF, reopen it in your text editor, and do the rest of the edits there. If you want to do cut and paste edits, you will have to do those in your text editor.