HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: TERM external emulators
Date: 30 Jul 92 09:52:47 PST
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG

Quoted from <1992Jul29.034140.1000@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au> by peterk@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au (Peter Kerney):
> I have 'term' and want to incorporate an external emulator.

    For that matter, is programming documentation for XEM or XTE
    libraries available anywhere?

> PeterK.
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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: FCC considering "modem fees" again
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:55:36 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ

tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) writes:

>> >Assuming you do little else but get email, that's probably 
>> >4 hours a month. 
>> 
>>   Update your database, CIS has had a montly flat rate for basic services
>> for quite awhile now.

>Unfortunately, the basic services excludes the forums.

  So?  GEnie does the same thing.  The point here is that CIS offers one of
the most well-connected email systems around, that alone is worth the monthly
fee.

  -jack-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: JR-Comm and PAL video mode
From: crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Travis Prebble)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 00:19:08 EDT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

I need an answer to something that has been puzzling me for a few weeks 
now.  When downloading via Zmodem with JR-Comm 1.02a on a 2400 baud 
modem, I can boost my characters per second from 234 up to 278 by 
switching to PAL mode!  At first, I thought it might just be an error in 
a video based timer, but I actually sat down with a stopwatch and timed a 
download, once in NTSC and once in PAL.  PAL was faster!!

My configuration is as follows: A500 with WB 1.3, 4.5 megs of RAM, Fatter 
Agnus, Cardinal 2400EX modem.  Now, nothing there seems to be an obvious 
connection.  



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Travis Prebble @ Heart of Gold BBS (814) 238-9633        ///  \
INet address: crunch@hogbbs.scol.pa.us               \\\///----\
(814) 353-9069                                        \XX/      \ MIGA
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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: 'SZ'
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:17:27 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ

clemon@lemsys.UUCP (Craig Lemon VE3XCL) writes:

>        I thought of this too.  I wasn't about to argue with it but I am
>*POSITIVE* that there was a 7E1 connection, Jr-Comm continued to display
>8N1, sz crapped out and sb worked just fine with YModem batch.  I can't
>explain it.  At the time that this happened, I was kind of in a "WHo cares
>_why_!?" kind of mood :-).

  Sorry, your memeory has a parity error.  The status line shows the
settings in effect when the connection was first established and does
not change them when it switches to 8n1 during a file transfer.  And,
it changes back to the original settings when the transfer completes,
guaranteed.

  -jack-
From: jbgoldsm@cats.ucsc.edu (Joshua B Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: SupraFAX - new ROMS out?
Date: 27 Jul 1992 06:49:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


aq061@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Devine) writes:
>I had heard that a new version of the SupraFAX v.32bis roms were going to
>be shipped in mid-July.  Well, it is nearing the end and I haven't heard a 
>followup or even that they have shipped.  Any one know?

They were going to be released the first of August.  This was told to me
by one of their people in tech support on Wednesday.  This upgrade was 
also going out to all registered owners.  I'm impressed...
From: jgodfrey@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jon David "JET" Godfrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: To Jack Radigan; Regarding JR-Comm 2.0+
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:22:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Jack, there's been a question on the minds of myself and many of my users. The
success of your JR-COMM has probably been unparalleled in the shareware arena
of software.

I have tried your software, along with many others.  JR-Comm wins in contest
over most qualities of any other term software.  Except for one.  This catagory
could be the "make-or-break" decision for many of my user's in registering 
their copy.

The Amiga computer was based on it heart-and-soul multitasking O/S.  The problem
that many of us found was that JRC doesn't particularly like to multitask well.

Our question to you is: Will the 2.0+ version of JRC multitask correctly? or
will that be a problem that we will have to live with, or not live with JRC
at all--a most unfortunate solution.

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I-NET: jgodfrey@demeter.calpoly.edu    | Amiga, Adult & Grafix DBases_  ///
GEnie: J.Godfrey2                      | 1200-14400, MNP 5, v.32bis \\\///
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From: pianoman@misseye.uucp (Alan D. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re:  Baud Bandit II--Is It Available?
Date: 20 Jul 92 22:15:38 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <62264@cup.portal.com> joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
>>I just read a message on GEnie that Baud Bandit 2 (or II) was now
>>available.
>>Can anyone confirm or deny this?
>>I have written to PP&S but haven't received a reply as of yet.
>>
>>                                        Thanks.
>>
>>                                        >AL<
>>
>>--
>>**************************************************************************
>>* Sing me a song           \  Alan D. Ray  /         BERKS AMIGA BBS     *
>>*  you're the               \ Reading, Pa./          (215)-921-1016      *
>>*    pianoman....         *******************                            *
>>*        B. Joel             uunet!cbmvax!rehab1!misseye!pianoman        *
>>**************************************************************************
>>
>
>Well, if you were on Portal instead of Genie (see bottom of my sig) ;-)
>maybe you could talk to the author of BaudBandit Greg Cunningham who could
                                              
I already talked with Mr. Cunningham (briefly) long ago on PeopleLink.
I'd like to tell him that he writes excellent Amiga programs. I own
Diskmaster II as well as Baud Bandit and use them every day.

>also tell you that PP&S is charging $15 for the upgrade.  He posted most of
>the new features of v2 on Portal recently.  I'll try to post them here.

I'd appreciate a posting of Baud Bandit 2's new features. I'm sure others
would too.

>
>Hope this helps.

Thanks.
>
>   ========================================================================
>  / Joel E. Swan........./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA  /
> / Senior Producer....../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
>/ Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com                        /
>========================================================================
>***** PORTAL NOW SUPPORTS TELNET, IRC AND FTP ACCESS TO ITS USERS! *****
>                   FOR $1/HOUR AT 9600BPS! (w/PCPursuit)

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*  you're the               \ Reading, Pa./          (215)-921-1016      *  
*    pianoman....         *******************                            *
*        B. Joel             uunet!cbmvax!rehab1!misseye!pianoman        *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: evermic@prism.cs.orst.edu (/X\.BiSON)
Subject: Re: fast modems!!
Keywords: which are best?
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept
Distribution: orst
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:42:17 GMT

I vote for the US Robotics 16.8 Duals. Simply the best, and fastest.
The list of features is to long to list, and simply put, they are the
choice of sysops everywhere.  And may be the first to be upgrdable to
vfast.  Just think. 28.8k!

/X\.BiSON

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: JR-COMM (vt220 emulation?)
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:03:23 GMT

jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) publicly declared:
>  But it doesn't, nor does it look like it ever will have BIMODEM.  It is
>a proprietary protocol.

BIMODEM?  Isn't that when two modems like to connect
transmit-to-transmit or receive-to-receive as well as the "straight"
transmit-to-receive?

Eeeewwww!  Gross!

And illegal in Georgia...  :-)

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The wonderful thing about X-Windows is that you can      |     Steven King
customize anything about it.  Of course, the down side   |  Motorola Cellular
is that you *HAVE* to customize *EVERYTHING*!            |  king@rtsg.mot.com
From: richardc@vogue.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: GPFax and GETTY
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:33:53 GMT
Organization: Amiga Developer (GPSoftware ACM093)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

To use GETTY and GPFax, here's an example DATACALL.GPF script

------------------------CUT------------------
/*
 * $VER: DataCall.GPF 0.01 (12.07.92) rsc
 *
 * an ARexx script to start GETTY from a DATA call using GPFax
 *
 */
options results
address rexx_gpfax
baudrate
baud = result
address command 'uucp:c/getty <nil: >nil:' "-B"baud "-Md" "-h0" "-c0"
------------------------CUT------------------

adjust the GETTY parameters to suit...

-- 
  Richard Carde     Developer for GPSoftware     Ph: +61 7 300 6864
    EMAIL: vogue.adsp.sub.org!richardc@cbmehq.commodore.com
           cbmaus!cbmozq!vogue!richardc@cbmvax.commodore.com
From: jwaris@pdrome.UUCP (Jeffrey Waris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: What is the best BBS?
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:12:41 GMT
Organization: The PowerDrome BBS [(716)825-3614 CNet]

In article <paulk.0xcq@terapin.com>, paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:

>Well what I hate about the *particular* C-Net I'm using right now,
>more than anything else, is the way messages are connected in the
>message base ... a sequence of originals, each with a bunch of
>replies dangling off of it, all considered as replies to the first
>message rather than as replies to later replies ... and none with any
>"To:" information in them.  And on THIS bbs, whenever there is one
>new reply at the end of the chain and I say "read new" it refreshes
>my memory by showing me about half a dozen older replies before the
>new one.  BLEAH!

As far as the message base structure goes.. To each their own. As far as a RN,
I have never had a problem with that. What version are you running??

>I do hope that this is merely something weird done by this particular
>sysop, and not what every C-Net user has to put up with.  This
>structure of the message bases is far LESS useful than the simple
>linear structure most BBSes use, in my opinion.

Depends totally on what your preferences are. ANd in my opinion are QUITE
useful. You don't have to follow threads and  can lead to more in depth
discussion on one post, where you might kinda loose the idea through a linear
structure.

>Another thing that annoys me:  the file subdirectory commands areinconsistent
>about how they behave when you're in a directory with further subdirectories
>vs. when you're at the bottom level ... or is it the top level, I forget ...
>anyway the effect is that one gets confused about what level in the structure
>any directory-switching commands are going to act on.

True. You really should be careful how you use subdirectories. If used properly
people don't really become confused. 

>C-Net, as far as my experience on this board goes, is one of those systems
>which offers lots of features, but in such a way that you end up wanting to
>learn as few of them as possible and just avoid anything you don't havetodeal
>with right away.  Sort of the Amiga equivalent of PC-Board, only more so.

Not nessesarily.

Jeff

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: Mail to:                     ///     that of PowerDrome BBS.              :
: aquarium!pdrome!jwaris@  \\\///    - PowerDrome BBS                       :
:   acsu.buffalo.edu        \XX/       Amiga C-Net-(716)825-3614)           :
*<+=---------PowerDrome-On the CUTTING EDGE!!-----------------------------+>*
Quote:
"DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP TAPPING LIKE THAT?!? YOU BLOATED SACK OF PROTOPLASM!!"
                                                        -Ren
From: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: NFS/AS225 package
Date: 21 Jul 92 14:56:16 GMT
Reply-To: dlarson@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dale Larson - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, Systems Assurance, Amiga Systems Section

[NOTE:  Some people have already noticed the change in my .signature, but in
case you haven't:  I have moved within Commodore and I no longer work in the
Amiga networking group.  The Amiga networking group continues to work hard on
various projects.  As always, my postings and I do not represent Commodore or
the Amiga networking group in any way.]

In article <1992Jul17.204912.2452@msdrl.com> karkan@msdrl.com (Jim Karkanias) writes:
>Has anybody ever seen this error before:
>
>	nfsmgr: Mount fail: (volume vaxa) NFS: Stale filehandle;

Do you get this everytime you attempt to mount (even after rebooting)?  If a
remote system you have mounted reboots, you must unmount and then re-mount any
volumes on that system.

>I've been using nfsmgr to mount a volume on a vax running VMS for close to a
>8-10 months now with _no_ problems (well, alright, a few timeouts here and
>there but, hey!, there's a lot of traffic on the net and the bridges are slow
>to boot).  Anyway, all of a sudden it stops working.  Nothing has apparently
>been changed on either end and yet something must have been modified (I'm not
>using the v-word yet).  What I'd like to know is: what sort of muck would
>cause this error to crop up?  I might be able to look in the right direction
>if I knew where to start.

If nothing has changed at either end, then I suspect that something has changed
in the middle.  I know of one case where a gateway of some sort was overwhelmed
by heavy traffic.  I think that their solution was to reduce maximum NFS packet
size (see your manual, I don't have one handy -- I think it is "maxread" or
something like that).

>The set-up:
>	A3000, WB2.04, CBM ethernet card, CBM AS225 SW latest rev (I think)
>
>I have checked that:
>
>	the board is working (diags all pass)
>	the ethernet is fine (I can ping away, ftp, telnet, etc.
>				to my heart's content)



>
>Oddly, showmount says that the volume is actually mounted.  However, that
>seems to be wrong as it never shows up.  Any ideas would be most welcome.

Showmount shows which volumes a machine is willing to export and to whom.  It
does not show which volumes are actually mounted.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: cg@ami-cg.UUCP (Chris Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: AFAXdemo with SupraFAXmodem can't send FAX???
Distribution: world
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:41:52 MST
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1365@sousa.ltn.dec.com> oakley@cgou11.enet.dec.com (Wayne Oakley)
writes:
>
>    Has anybody  been	able  to  get the Afax Demo from the Fish Disk to work
>    with a SupraFAXmodem 14400?
>
>    I am using  the  getty  frontend  and  can receive FAX's alright but when
>    sending the afaxspl program  does	an  init  of the modem and the afaxspl
>    status window indicates 'sync'ing modem'  and  then  after a while failes
>    with an error 21.	After  the  modem  has	been init'd the RD lite on the
>    modem does not indicate any further communications from the system, so it
>    seems  as though afaxspl is waiting for something	but  not  getting  any
>    response and times out.

I've been able to get it to send a fax, to another person running the
Supra V.32bis and GPFax. It wasn't able to send to another person running
the Supra with a PC, however. I'm assuming this is consistent with the
reports that the modems sometimes have trouble connecting with themselves.
Data connections have not been a problem, however, including to either
of those people.

How did you get the Afax demo to work with Getty? What setup did you use
with the modem? When I experimented with that, I could either get it to be
ready for a FAX, or have it be ready for data, but it wouldn't do both at
the same time.

If anyone has a list of the FAX commands for the Supra, would they be kind
enough to post them or mail me a copy?

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: uzun@crash.cts.com (Roger Uzun)
Subject: Supra BBS phone #, Practical Peripherals BBs Phone #
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:38:59 GMT

I have a USRobotics Dual Standard V.32bis modem, and I have no problems
whatsoever connecting and downloading/uploading at 14,400 baud
with all but one board, which uses Xenix and Practical Peripheral
V.32/V.32bis modems.  I can connect and read text fine, but trying
to download using sz results in mega errors.  The same system has a
Telebit WorldBlazer v.32bis line, and a HST dual standard v.32bis
line, and I can do everything fine on those lines, it is only the
Practical Peripheral modems (v.32 and v.32bis, the system has one of
each), that give me problems.

Can someone let me know the phone # of the Practical Peripheral BBS,
or the Supra BBS (I want to try and connect/download from Supras too).

Any ideas why I can connect to the same system using v.32bis on WorldBlazers
and USR Dual Standards, but have problems when Practical Peripheral V.32
modems are used on the other end?

-Roger
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: jakobi@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Peter Jakobi)
Subject: Re: Help on accelerating an A2000 rev 4.x
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:12:22 GMT

hao@eastern.COM (Hao Dang) writes:

>Does anybody out there know if the 68030 accelerator boards (ie: Mega Midget
>Racer, VXL, GVP Combo) will work on a 4.x revision AMIGA 2000?  Or do they
>only work on the newer 6.x revisions?  I think I read a message somewhere
>saying that they wouldn't work because of the different circuitry layout,
>but I can't confirm this.  Please help.  I need this information as soon as
>possible as I am planning on purchasing an A2000 rev 4.x system.

Hello Hao !

Concerning accelerator boards:
A 2630 25Mhz works fine on a rev 4.1 board. I originally had a 30 Mhz quartz
in the card, but operation seemed a bit unstable, after I hacked the
board to 2MB on board (256k*1, 32 chips on soldered onto the old ones - next
time, even I would consider using newer rams and putting them on the platine
with the CAS/... logic) using the plan someone named alv provided (not the
usenet hack). Especially the deinterlaced graphics was flickering and sometimes
even writing trash-pixels back into chipmem. Updating the board to 4.5 and
doing one part of the rev.6 'pcb - ``bug-fixes''' from CBM did not help.
At the moment, after I changed the quartz, everything seems more stable, but
i cannot say for sure, since the memory problem was not reproduceable. Might
have been a bus timing problem ...

Display flicker (eg on mouse movements, using the original colorpalette of wb2.0)
however is the same as before, might be the new agnus is very sensitive to 
miniature changes of voltage...

Anyway, if you buy an used A2000 4.1 and do not intend to upgrade it *again*
in two years with the newest hardware card requiring an A3000 Zorro 3 bus, or 
whatever, you'll do fine with the old one. 2MB Chip hacks and manufactured 
plug in cards are available at est. less than 400$ , updating yourself might
cost (ECS: 100$ + cost of 1 or 2M ram), and if necessary, some small changes
on the board to update it to rev4.5 (well est 10$, estimating German prices).

However I don't think we'll be able to upgrade to the next chipset CBM may release,
the architecture of the A2000 is simply to old, considering its 'thin' Zorro II'
bus, slow bus tact rate and ...  

CU
Peter
From: martinh@cac.washington.edu (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Networking. (was: LET'S RESCUE THE AMIGA!!...(in misc))
Date: 31 Jul 92 06:13:08 GMT
Organization: UW Networks and Distributed Computing

In article <63140@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>Since Windows & OS/2 are taking off in the business world, it would
>be nice if the Amiga supported token ring/IBM PC LAN/SQL Server.
>

Amigas do support token ring.  We just need someone to build a token
ring card.  PC LAN?  You're kidding, right?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: Re: sz problem
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:10:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.184336.4694@wam.umd.edu> walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann) writes:
>
>I've gotten 237 and occasionally even 238 cps out of VLT using a rather old
>Supra 2400.  Not often, admittedly, but that's obviously not the fault of
>VLT then.  Perhaps the fact that my machine has a 68030 makes a difference,
>but I doubt this can be very significant at only 2400 baud ...
>	Perhaps you should look into system load both on your machine and
>the other end.  Our systems here occasionally get so busy that the transfer
>rate dropped to around 100 cps but again that wasn't VLT's fault either.
>	Are you using Fast RAM for the transfer or is all this happening in
>Chip RAM?
>

I test the same file under the same condition. For Jr-Comm, I got 232
cps. For VLT, I got 211 cps. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
Subject: Re: SupraFAX - new ROMS out?
Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:42:09 GMT

In <1992Jul26.192608.27213@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aq061@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott Devine) writes:

>I had heard that a new version of the SupraFAX v.32bis roms were going to
>be shipped in mid-July.  Well, it is nearing the end and I haven't heard a 
>followup or even that they have shipped.  Any one know?

Supra added a few weeks to that date. Try the second week in August.

--
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ged@niksula.cs.hut.fi             2.04// Aim for the impossible and you
Department of Computer Science    \\ //   will achieve the improbable.
Helsinki University of Technology  \X/     --- Camillo S{rs
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