HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: SOS!!! MY FILE IS LOST!!!!
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:19:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: NASA/Kennedy Space Center, Florida

In article <1992Jul18.005239.2413@sfu.ca>, duxbury@fraser.sfu.ca (Nancy Ann
Duxbury) wrote:
>   Okay, I need help! I was working on a long phonebook for my Dovefax+
> yesterday. I was about about to back it up, but I did something stupid
> (accidentally dragged "new individual" into the trash) and caused a
> major league crash! I didn't have any other options other than to turn
> off the Mac (brutal, I know). After turning the Mac on, I immediately
> ran disk first aid to repair the hard disk. It found problems and
> fixed them. I expected my phonebook to be total toast, but it was
> still there. However, I can't open it in the fax manager without
> experiencing an error code -.39.  The file is still the same size as
> it was when the Mac crashed, so I'm determined to at least save the
> text that's trapped in there.
> 
Bill-

It does sound bad, but worth a try at recovery.

Before doing anything, I suggest you make a duplicate of the problem file,
and apply your experiments to the copy.

Do you have PC Tools for the Mac?  How about Copy II-Mac?  Both have the
same program, "MacTools", that may be able to help.  Of the various things
the program can do, you also might try looking at the file type and
creator.  If they were damaged, changing them back to the right values,
might make the file work normally.

Another possibility is "Floppy Fixer" by Frank Beatrous.  This is a
share-ware program that is aimed at your specific type of problem, although
I have only seen it used to recover files from a floppy.  I found a copy at
oswego.oswego.edu (129.3.1.1), in the /pub/mac/util directory.

I think a newer version of PC Tools for the Mac, has a program called
"Rescue", that may be better.

Good luck!

fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov
From: bkort@bbn.com (Barry Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Remote access to sys7 appletalk network via modem?????
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:08:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: BBN Labs
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.89.19.87

In article <1992Jul22.163402.18936@nic.unh.edu> tip@kepler.unh.edu (Timothy I
Panagos) writes:

>	I am using sys7 to base a small appletalk net in our laboratory.
>	I want to be able to connect to the network in order to access the
>	stored information on a common hard drive.  I am currently considering
>	two different software packages, has anyone tried this sort of thing
>	using either PhoneNET Liason or Appletalk Remote Access from Apple?

>	Any comments???

We wrestled with Liaison for months, but we could not get it to work reliably. 
Then, when ARA came out we tried that and found it worked well enough that real
users could rely on it.  ARA is not perfect, but at least it works most of the
time.

One point...  Liaison will bridge two AppleTalk nets, which ARA will not do.
If you just want to hook a lone Mac to your Office/Campus AppleTalk, go with
ARA.  It's cheaper than Liaison, has a better user-interface, and is more
reliable and robust.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: mbl900@anu.oz.au (Mathew BM LIM)
Subject: Dialing up from overseas
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:20:55 GMT


I am planning a trip overseas to non-IP connected countries and (being the
network junkie that I am) am looking for means of staying in contact with home
(Australia) via e-mail.

The setup I'm contemplating is to take along a Mac PowerBook and a modem
(preferbly internal), then dial up and run Serial Eudora to exchange mail
across the link.

Does anyone see any difficulties with this? 

In order to charge the cost back to the office, I'll need to make
operator assisted calls, is this a problem?

The connection to a foreign telephone network will be the major problem, 
differect protocols, hardware, etc. Any comments or (hopefully) solutions?

Any suggestions, experiences or other infomation welcome.... Suggestions
on modems which will work worldwide are particularly welcome.

--
Mathew Lim, Unix Systems Programmer, ANU Supercomputer Facility,	
Australian National University,	GPO Box 4, Canberra City, ACT, Australia 2601.
Telephone : +61 6 249 2750 	| 
Fax       : +61 6 247 3425	| E-Mail  : M.Lim@anu.edu.au
From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Kenneth J Meltsner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: untangling "x-uuencode-apple-single"
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:59:50 GMT
Reply-To: meltsner@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Research and Development Center



In article <1992Jul30.051600.8872@rata.vuw.ac.nz>,
newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes:

|>There are various routines to do most of these, except for the conversion
|>from AppleSingle, which only a few programs will do. The GOOD news is that
|>there is ONE program, *free*, which will do the lot.
|>
|>Get 'tickle' for the Macintosh from ftp.apple.com:pub/tickle/
|>
|>This isn't all that tickle does, but it will do what you want.


Uuencoded, AppleSingle files are also produced by Microsoft Mail <->
SMTP gateways, Lotus cc:Mail, and AppleLink.  There's a simple utility
called "Tiger" for the Mac, which I believe is at
sumex-aim.stanford.edu, that can decode the lot, and all in about 50K.

Highly recommended, and it's certainly superior to my homegrown
utility for this purpose.

I believe the latest version of Eudora (1.3b??) also handles
uuencoded, AppleSingle enclosures.

This question is rapidly approaching FAQ status.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: taihou@chromium.iss.nus.sg (Tng Tai Hou)
Subject: 3Com Help!!!
Originator: taihou@chromium
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 03:02:51 GMT

Ok. Please don't laugh.

I have 12 Macs stucked with a grand old 3Com mail and file server.
I will replacing it by end of the year. But in the meantime, I
can't get it to run properly on the IIsi under system 6,
and it certainly can't seem to run at all under System 7.

I need help badly. Does anyone know of a solution? I can't dump
it yet. Has to use 3Com.

Your responses are much appreciated in advanced.

Thanks.

Tai Hou
Singapore
From: alexr@apple.com (Alexander M. Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Comm Toolbox: What is it? Where to get it?
Date: 20 Jul 92 17:32:10 GMT
Organization: Hackers Anonymous
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <1992Jul14.060020.7675@terminator.cc.umich.edu> ,
leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu writes:
>	Now, those thinking that Apple is going to fix this problem - think
>again!  There is currently only ONE (1) engineer working on the CTB (all 
>of it, plus the tools) and the "brains" behind the CTB (Byron Han) is 
>probably leaving Apple.  
>
>	I for one would love to see Apple put some $$/people behind the CTB.
>Developers at the WWDC seemed to feel the same, but they certainly haven't
>done anything to prove it.

I thought I'd throw in my two cents about now. I'm the "one" engineer
working on the Communications Toolbox. The "one" is a misnomer
considering the number of support persons involved. We have marketing,
engineering, and testing resources now. We even just got a summer intern.

I'm quite optimistic about the future of the CommToolbox. I expect that
Apple's internal support for the CTB will increase soon.
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From: mirsky1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mirsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Sending mac files through internet
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:42:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Jul21.174236.14027
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

I apologize if the following questions are in the FAQ.  If so, please
direct me to where I may find the answers.
 
I am curious if it is possible to send non-text files, specifically
Mac files, to another user.  Is there a way to do it other than
through email?  Instead of trying to send a file directly, should
you upload your file to an ftp and then tell your friend to get it
there?  What if it is a file that you dont want to be read by others
on the ftp? Can you delete it once it is downloaded by your friend?
 
I know that it is possible to imbed files in email messages. However,
I only know how to do that with text files.  Is there a way to attach
another kind of file? 

Would I be able to send a mac file through email if it has been
changed to an .hqx file?  Could the person receiving th letter
then capture the text and then reformat it with Binex? or would
that not work?
 
Are there any ways to send files to people on other systems? Compuserve?
America Online? Would I do it through email?
 
I am specifically wondering if i cansend Microsoft Word documents to
some friends. However, I dont want to change the documents to pure
ascii documents. 
 
send any replies to mirsky1@husc.harvard.edu
 
Thanks
David
From: glen@Cayman.COM (Glen B. Glater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Requesting Cabletron and Retix information
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:03:06 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: JZHOU@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu's message of 31 Jul 92 00:41:49 GMT

In article <168341234B.JZHOU@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> JZHOU@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:

  >Any netters know the phone numbers of Cabletron and Retix (vendors of
  >Ethernet bridges)? Also, are there any other vendors?
  > 
  >Please email me. Thanks.

Cabletron Systems:  1-603-332-9400

Glen
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	*************************************************************
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	Technical Support Engineer		Fax:   (617) 494-5167         
	Cayman Systems Inc.			Internet: glen@cayman.com     
	26 Landsdowne Street			AppleLink:  CAYMAN.TECH	      
	Cambridge, MA   02139            SneakerNet:  3rd cube on the left
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Pasting into Zterm 0.9
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:04:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <oZ1HoB2w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>, zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman) writes...
>dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick) writes:
> 
>> Anyone else out there have trouble using the Paste command in Zterm
>> 0.9?  When I use it, the text is pasted in at a REALLY slow pace - 1
>> or 2 characers per second.  Now my modem is pretty slow (2400 baud),
>> but this is pretty bad.  Any ideas what is wrong?
>> --
>>        David Resnick                           dresnick@athena.mit.edu      
> 
>You need to set the "Text Pacing..." in the Settings menu. This is pretty 
>self-explanitory, but the biggest slowdown is the "Wait for character 
>echo" checkbox. If this is set, Z-Term won't send the next char until it 

I don't know anything about the text pacing, but I paste regularly using a 
1200 baud modem, and things seem to zip along just fine.  Perhaps it was
already set for me when I got it...
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From: lkimes@alshain.usc.edu (Lance 'Moof' Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PD soft. for telephone pagers
Date: 24 Jul 1992 16:07:34 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: alshain.usc.edu
Keywords: pagers


In article <1992Jul24.204320.16863@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, sstewart@cs.ulowell.edu (Scott Stewart) writes:
|> 
|> Last year at MacWorld all of the network software monitoring packages started to offer options that let you call a pager and leave a alpha-numeric message.  Does any one know of a simple program that can be used on the mac to call an alpha-numeric pager a|> nd leave a message?  If it makes a difference the pager is from Motorola.
|> 
|> Thanks
|> Scott Stewart
|> sstewart@cs.ulowell.edu
|> 


I'm very interested in this as well. If someone could even provide some 
ANSI C source code from another platform, I'll wrap a simple mac gui around 
it and make it available to everyone.


Lance Kimes
Systems Programmer
USC
From: janolov@cdg.chalmers.se (Jan-Olov Lantto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulation Help
Date: 31 Jul 92 08:22:17 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <12516@inews.intel.com>, rcox@cad625.intel.edu (Richard Cox) 
writes:
>   I am looking for a program for the mac, commercial or Public Domain, which
> can emulate an HP 2392A Terminal.  Can anyone out there point me in the 
>right
> direction. Please email responces. Thanks in advance.
> 
Reflection 1+/3+ by Walker Richer & Quinn emulates HP 2392A, HP2393A and HP
2623A.
From: aslt@acad2.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Ethernt: coax cards in twsted pr bldg?
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:35:31 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska

Hi all,

Have an interesting problem.  We have 11 macs and a laserwriter 
that use ethernet cards with thinnet coax cabling.  We are moving to 
a location that has been wired with twisted pair and RJ phone jacks 
because the previous tenant used phone-net and Localtalk.  So, to me 
at least, it appears as if we have an apples-and-oranges mixture.  My 
question to the net.gurus is: What is the most cost- and performance-
effective way to network our macs (currently using coax ethernet 
cards) in the new location (with phonenet twisted pair and RJ jacks)?

I see three options:

1.  Abandon ethernet and use the existing cabling with 
Localtalk/phonenet protocols.

2.  Use the existing cabling, and replace the ethernet/coax currently 
in each mac with ethernet/twisted pair cards (10baseT?).

3.  Use the existing ethernet/coax cards, and run coax in the new 
location.

Questions:

Will the ethernet/twisted pair cards be able to use the existing RJ 
receptacles and wiring (that originally used phonenet) or will there 
have to be some rewiring?

Are there [inexpensive?] adapters that can be place between an 
ethernet card and a twisted pair cabling system without too much of 
a performance hit?

How well do the ethernet/twisted pair systems really work 
compared to the thinnet setups?

What 10baseT cards do you recommend, or recommend that I avoid?

Have I forgotten anything?

Many, many thanks in advance.  E-mail replies welcome.

Lee
From: galeana@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Kermit and Zterm Questions
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:37:15 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University

First Kermit.  I'm using Kermit 8.5 to download stuff from my vax account.
My questions are: Does Kermit have a status bar that shows you how much you havedownloaded, and how much you have to go.  I know Zterm has it.
Now to Zterm:  When I use Zterm to communicate to the vms/vax at the university
I logon but afterwards Zterm displays everything double-spaced.  It's a little
annoying trying to use control S to pause the screen every minute. Is there
a way to correct this problem(If it happens to be a problem).
Also:  the university only has kermit to dowload stuff, and I have to use
mackermit in order to receive it.  Now, if I use kermit to send files, can I
receive them using Zterm(that is Ymodem or Xmodem).  I tried it, but I think
I'm doing something wrong.
Any responses or REplyes would be greatly appreciated.  THANKS
From: D.Nash@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: SLIP on Powerbooks: performance ???
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:14:54 GMT
Organization: University of Texas System Office of Telecommunication Services


In article <michel.712342200@cst02>, michel@cst02.segin.com (Michel Pollet)
writes:
>	I bought MacSLIP for uses it on my powerbook, and found it
>	TOTALY UNUSABLE. The speed it FAR too slow. I have TCP/Connect II
>	and found that it was may be 10 time faster.
>	I never got any usable answer from Trisoft; I tried to replace
>	MacTCP, then try another implementation of SLIP on my sun. It does'nt
>	help. I found that it's not really a serial problem but a TCP
>	acknoledge problem in MacTCP or MacSLIP.

I talked to the author of MacSLIP about this problem while I was beta
testing MacSLIP.  The problem is with MacTCP's handling of
retransmission timers.  This isn't MacSLIP's fault and will affect
anything that presents a relatively slow datalink to MacTCP.  In fact,
this is mentioned in the MacSLIP User's Manual on page 29, which also
says that the problem will be corrected in a future version of MacTCP (I
guess he's been in contact with Apple about this).  What happens is that
MacTCP doesn't see an ACK for its outstanding data soon enough to
satisfy it, so it retransmits everything back to the last ACK it saw. 
By the time it gets done with the retransmission, the ACK for the
original transmission arrives and MacTCP moves on.  Depending on the
line speed, it can do this for almost every TCP window it sends, so it
winds up sending almost everything twice.  It's not hard to see how that
can slow you down quite a bit.  Using the Netstat program included with
MacSLIP, you can watch the tcpRetransPkts global statistic and the
bytesResent per-connection statistic increment quite rapidly during bulk
data transfers.

This isn't to say that there aren't other things which could have
adverse affects on MacSLIP's performance.  I believe the PowerBook Tuner
has already been mentioned here, although I haven't tried it personally
so I can't say how much it may help.  Also, the author of MacSLIP has
indicated to me that there are some internal improvements he can make to
MacSLIP to make it faster, so I'd expect to see them implemented in a
new version of MacSLIP sooner or later.

Hey, for Version 1.0 software, *I'm* very happy with it!  Now all I need
is for my Global Village PowerPort/Gold to get here so I can do V.32bis
from my PowerBook.

                                Donald L. Nash

                                The University of Texas System
                                Office of Telecommunication Services

Internet:  D.Nash@utexas.edu
BITNET:    DON@THENIC
THEnet:    THENIC::DON
From: u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu (Buckaroo Banzai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacSlip+NCSA Telnet vs VersaTerm (Pro)
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:36:51 GMT

In <1992Jul17.132218.362@homebase.vistachrome.com> eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson) writes:

>u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu (Buckaroo Banzai) writes:
>>In <1992Jul13.220733.18499@qualcomm.com> jwn2 (John Noerenberg) writes:
>>>In article <Br53rG.FwC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, lamont@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley Lamont) writes:

>>>> 5. Get a copy of BYU Telnet 2.4.17 or later which is up to date and also
>>>> supports slip.

>>If anyone knows why this never gets enabled, please let me know.
>>It works fine as a terminal program to talk to the modem, but when it
>>comes time to talk SLIP, the menu I need is dimmed.

>I noticed the same thing, and was going to write the author, but this came
>up first, so since I'm sure he reads this group, I won't need to write
>him directly.  This is, I guess a bug/feature/oversight that is easy to
>get around IF you have a host on your local net.  Just open a window 
>to a directly connected host, and the session menu enables, and you 
>can go from there.

>OOOOh, I just had an idea... hold on I'll be right back...

>Yes, if you do not have a connectable host on a local net, try opening
>an ftp session to yourself ( with ftp enabled, of course ).  This
>may not work if you are not connected to a network at all, but I was
>just trying to help.

I would say that this is a large oversight, albeit easily fixed, like you said.
I dont happen to have any hosts on my net, so I was forced to time out
a connection before the menu would enable.
(I did this just fooling around and I almost couldn't figure out what
happened to get it to do it again.)

Also in my config.tel file, whenever I have hardware=serial in it I
get the error "Could not initialize hardware level drivers" at which
point Telnet seems to think I don't have a config.tel file and asks
me to quit(which doesn't really quit) or find a config file.

When Telnet boots up like this it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to get SLIP to work
which it should, because SLIP requires ZERO network support. The
problem being the damn menu never gets enabled.

hardware=appletalk works fine, but I have to either do the ftp-to-self
gimmick or time-out a connection to a non-existant host.

Does anyone think that 2.5 handles SLIP slower than 2.4.19 does?
My experience says 2.5 is much slower.

Thanks.
-- 
=  Marc Tamsky    u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu    KB6JWE  =
--
=  Marc Tamsky    u_banzai@mcl.ucsb.edu    KB6JWE  =
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:51:09 -0400 
From: Barry_Wolman@transarc.com
Subject: Re: Strategy for providing SLIP/PPP?

pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
> 
> I have several questions:
> 
> 1) There are no PPP Mac clients available *yet*, so should I plan to
> install both SLIP and PPP on the Sun host?
> 
> 2) Has anyone experienced any problems using a WorldBlazer modem with
> a Macintosh?
> 
> 2a) What PC packages are popular for SLIP (only know about KA9Q) and
> PPP?
> 
> 3) I'd like to hear in general from anyone who's using MacSLIP and a
> Telebit modem connected to the map, in particular, what kind of
> throughput are you getting for ftp and telnet sessions, for example?
> 
> 3a) Same as (3) above, for PC clones.
> 
> --
> Dave Pascoe
> pascoe@rocky.gte.com
> GTE/SCSD - Needham Heights, MA
> (617) 455-5704

I have a WorldBlazer that I use from time to time with BYU Telnet
2.4.19's built-in SLIP support (telnet session only).  When I do so, I
turn off PEP before calling our bank of Telebit modems (various
non-WorldBlazer models) because character echoing with PEP enabled is
SSLLOOWW. This is particularly notable when using GNU emacs.
Connecting at 9600 baud with PEP disabled gives much better character
echoing.  Our host-side SLIP software doesn't support compression;  if
it did, PEP connections might seem faster.  If you have WorldBlazers
at both end, you could use V.32bis and do even better than 9600.

Barry Wolman (ex-Needhamite, now living in Pittsburgh)
From: fstiva@cs.vu.nl (Stiva F)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: ARA and Teleport Modem
Keywords: ARA, Teleport Modem
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:10:12 GMT



We try to use Global Village Teleport modems in combination with ARA.
When we switch on ARA (Answer Calls), we can establish a connection with 
another modem.
If however a person calls, the modem/computer takes over and no voice 
connection is
possible.
We cannot just simply rent another telephone line, it is too expensive.
Constantly switching ARA on and off is not convenient either.


Is there a solution to our problem?


Thanks in advance
	Fulco Stiva


Dept. of Special Education    Free University Amsterdam
Fulco Stiva (fstiva@cs.vu.nl)