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From: maarten@fwi.uva.nl (Maarten Carels)
Subject: Re: MacPlus Versaterm SLIP woes
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 07:35:10 GMT

Last friday I wrote:
>I tried to get Versaterm SLIP working on a mac+.

>This gives some problems, both under 6.* and 7.*.
>What happens is that MacTCP crashes upon selecting the SLIP icon, or during
>the boot process when MacTCP gets loaded.
>Using a IIcx, or Quadra it works like a charm.
>As the disk I used on the plus is the same disk as I used on a cx, I think both
>MacTCP and the SLIP stuff were installed correctly.

I got a lot of replies (thank you all!).
It seems the problem is caused by a bug in MacTCP, and the latest Versaterm
SLIP works around it.
It seems the problem occurs with SLIP 1.0.2. Later versions seem to work
without problem.

I'll let you know when we have the latest version.

--maarten
-- 
In real life:	Maarten Carels
		Computer Science Department
		University of Amsterdam
email:		maarten@fwi.uva.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: justin@mik.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
Subject: Re: Can't get NCSA Telnet & TCP working
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:16:51 GMT

Charles Carlson writes
> 
> I can't get a Mac II with an Ethertalk card using system 6.0.7, 
> NCSA Telnet(TCP Version 2.4) and Mac TCP 1.1 to talk to my Unix host.
> I know the Unix host works because I can use NCSA telnet from a DOS machine
> and that works, and I know the network card on the Mac works because when
> I run A/UX I can talk to the net.
> 
> I installed the ethertalk NB drivers from the Network Software Installation
> disk from apple.com and configured TCP.  NCSA telnet shows the Macs IP
> address as I configured it in Mac TCP, I added the name and address of the
> Unix host in the config.tel file, but it just keeps telling me that the
> Unix host is not responding.  The PC has network traffic indicator lights
> and none of them ever light up, so nothing is even making it to the wire!
> 
> I'm not using a DNS and I've clicked Manually for IP address assignment.
> 
> Any hints as to what I've missed?
> 
> Thanks....Charles

Well, for one, NCSA Telnet is at 2.5 now. :)
Can you use any other TCP/IP-based programs (like Fetch or something like  
that?) or can you telnet anywhere else? Does it give you any errors when you  
start it up or try to connect? 
From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mac BBS software.... what options are there ?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:04:59 -0500

waire@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Timothy A Waire Jr)

  >> Not so. Postal Union has the following problems:
  >> 
  >> 1. Cannot handle batched and compressed mail.
  > 
  > With a high speed modem connection with compression (v.42bis), you
  > will get better throughput then the compressed batch mail.  Also,
  > remember that the UUCP standards do not require compressed and batched
  > mail.
  
   I've never seen a modem compression format (including v.42bis) that 
came close to the level of compression achieved by pre-compressing files.  
In almost all cases, v42bis will not compress better than 2:1, while 
pre-compression often achieves 4:1 or better.
From: bmueller@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: What do these mean (again) ?
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:48:54 CDT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

Netters,
  This probably belongs in a different group (please advise) but here
goes.

  I have bein doing Mac downloading + uplaoding and am familiar with
binhex endoding, archiving and dearchiving via stuffit, stuffit lite
compact pro, et al.

  Today I was interested in acquiring a UNIX file for our Sun. The
listings in the ftp site were

-rwxr--r--  1 server   wheel      91149 Sep 16  1991 sscan.uaa
-rwxr--r--  1 server   wheel      25650 Sep 16  1991 sscan.uab  

  I would guess that these are two segments of a package, but I am not
sure. Can anyone give me some info as to what the extensions might mean?

  Thanks in advance.

                                            ...Bob Mueller
                                               bmueller@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: aboba@world.std.com (Bernard Aboba)
Subject: Re: FidoNet on the Mac
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 04:33:20 GMT
Organization: MailCom
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

In article <la0c15INNmtl@nada.cs.utexas.edu>, benkei@cs.utexas.edu (William
Kent Richards) wrote:
> 
> 
> Can someone please tell me what software exists to allow a Mac to do FidoNet
> -- 
> 
There's MacWoof and Tabby. Tabby is a full mailer, MacWoof is just a point
system. There's also apparently a new mailer that was recently released
that is supposedly multifinder friendly, which Tabby is not (at least
as of version 2.1). 

I should also add the Tabby-derivative point mailer, Copernicus II. 

Bernard Aboba
Author of "Bulletin Boards and Beyond"
Internet: aboba@world.std.com          FidoNet: 1:161/445
MailCom, 5337 College Ave., Suite 326, Oakland, CA 94618
Fax: (510)540-1057
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Organization: Bar-Ilan University Computing Center, Israel
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:56:06 IST
From: Noam G. Nudelman <P88038@BARILVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Help: An error while changing network selection

Hi,
  I have installed an Apple Ethernet NB Card in my IIcx (7.0.1 + TU 1.1.1).
When I select the EtherTalk extension in the Network control panal,
I receive the following message:

  An error occured while trying to install the selected
  AppleTalk connection.  The built-in LocalTalk port will be used
  instead.


Why am I getting this message ?  How can I overcome this problem?

Thank you in advance for your advice.


                                       Noam G. Nudelman

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  Noam G. Nudelman           Bitnet:    p88038@barilvm           |      |
  Computer Center            Internet:  noam@erez.cc.biu.ac.il   | (o)(o)
  Bar-Ilan University        Telephone: 972-3-531-8627           |    __)
  Ramat-Gan, Israel 52900    Fax:       972-3-344-446            | ,___|
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From: kmiller@psych.uiuc.edu (Kevin Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Eudora 1.3b46 & Superboomerang 4.0 Problem & Solution
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:54:04 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Illinois
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d1

There is a potentially serious, even embarrassing problem with the
combination of Eudora 1.3b46 and SuperBoomerang 4.0 (part of the new
upgrade to Now Utilities).  SuperBoomerang will by default reopen files
that were used with an application.  If you do this with the beta version
of Eudora, you're in for surprises, including sending email messages that
have attached to them the entire contents of your In- and Out-boxes!

The solution is very simple.  In the SuperBoomerang Control Panel you can
exclude an application from being Boomeranged and you can also exclude any
application from the Re-launch option.  Adding Eudora to these lists
solves
the problem.  

The  underlying problem has to do with a bug in this beta version of
Eudora
that also emerges when you open it by clicking on a mailbox.  The bug does
not exist in previous versions, and I understand that it is fixed in the
next beta version.

Thanks to Steve Dorner and Pete Resnick for help in tracking this down.

-- Kevin F. Miller 
Psychology Dept. & Beckman Inst., University of Illinois
From: cnc@apple.com (Chris Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: 14.4k modem
Date: 9 Sep 92 17:06:36 GMT
Organization: Consultant at Apple
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-XXMessage-ID: <A6D37D5A830103C4@kip2-7.apple.com>
X-XXDate: Wed, 9 Sep 92 10:07:22 GMT

Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)

In article <715687368.F00005@blkcat.UUCP> Charlie Mingo,
Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org writes:

>   The Supra and (particularly) the Zoom are not remotely as good as
(say)
>a US Robotics or an Intel.  Perhaps if your needs are modest and you
don't
>plan on making too many calls over a bad line, you can get by with an 'el
>cheapo' v.32/bis modem.

I have a Zoom 14400 modem and have had no trouble with it at all.
I know that the folks who wrote first class dislike them because of an
obscure corner case bug in the MNP code that they believe can crash the
server. I have not run into this problem. The modem does tend to run hot.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: MacTCP weirdness on locked floppy
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:47:57 GMT

 OK, this problem has me stumped. It's probably obvious, but I can't
figure it out...

 In a lab here we've got a bunch of Mac Pluses that boot off a floppy,
make a RAM disk, load the system onto the RAM disk and then
switchlaunch to RAM. We've also had MacTCP on the boot floppy, but no
MacTCP on the RAM disk. In the past we've been able to telnet from
these Pluses. The MacTCP we've been using has dynamic nodes, with an
appropriate range.

 Now the strange thing is last week everything stopped working. There
were no changes to the net, far as I can tell, and yet dynamic
addressing no longer works. Every time you boot the machine gets a
node number set to the lowest # in the range. UNLESS the floppy is
unlocked - then everything works fine. Something gets written to
floppy every time, it seems, but the machine seems to need to make
changes each time.

 Any light shed on this dark and arcane mystery would be greatly
appreciated. The thing I can't figure is why it suddenly happened,
apparently on its own accord. The configuration has not changed of
late. Cosmic rays? The alignment of planets in an inauspicious
fashion? Governmental conspiracy?

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: picka@aylmer.uchicago.edu (Jeffrey Picka)
Subject: modem advice
Organization: Department of Statistics
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:21:16 GMT

    I need help choosing a 9600 baud modem for a Mac IIsi. Please
reply with advice or horror story.
             Jeff Picka
From: kehres@ima.com (Tim Kehres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: return receipt
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:45:04 GMT
Organization: International Messaging Associates, Menlo Park, California

In article <51770@drilex.dri.mgh.com> dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com (Craig Jackson drilex1) writes:
: 
> Applying this to email,  I think receipt should be returned when:
> 
> 1. The message is displayed to you by the final MUA.  This means the POP
> client, if you are using POP.  You should be given the option to refuse
> the receipt, and therefore refuse the message (a bounce would be generated).

I disagree.  The generation of a new message that states that "I have read
and possibly understood the contents of your message" is a new message and 
it's generation or non-generation should have no impact on what is done with
the already properly received original message.  As another point, there is
really no way to force this behavour on end systems anyway.

Best Regards,

Tim Kehres
From: johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Internet Router not available
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:48:45 GMT
Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA

In article <BuKv80.MDM@news.udel.edu>, zagar@chester.cms.udel.edu (Randy Zagar) writes:
>Okay, I'm running Cap60(pl100) on a Sun and have a Mac-][si with 
>an Asante' ethernet card.  Cap60 is set up for Phase-2, but when
>I try to select the Phase-2 icon in the networks control-panel
>I get a
>
>  You cannot choose a zone at this time
>  because no internet router is available.
>
>dialog.
>
>I thought that since both of these things were on ethernet (10Base-T),
>and were both Phase-2 that no router would be necessary...  
>
>What have I missed ?

Zones come from routers. That's where you configure them. No router,
no zone.

Routers manage NBP lookups based on zones. If there isn't a router
to do this, the mac simply does an all-nets broadcast and everyone
resonds. No loss other than you can divide your network objects
(printers, macs, etc.) into zones to make the chooser less cluttered.

		-John Kalucki
		johnk@gordian.com
From: cf043@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lance K. Chun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: SupraFaxModem OWNERS PLEASE READ!-UPDATE
Date: 12 Sep 1992 23:45:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cf043@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Lance K. Chun)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


: To SupraFaxModem owners,
:
: I am planning on purchasing the v.32bis version; please speak
: your mind now. If you like it and have no problems, tell me;
: if you own one and hate the cheap crap, tell me! I really want
: to know if it is indeed as bad (or as good) as some of the netters have
: said.


Of 5 responses I received, all were praises with tiny complaints.
So far this modem seems a great choice.
 
Lets hear MORE from MORE owners! Any bad complaints? Speak up!
 
Lance
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Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, CA      |   &   |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: wdburns@mtu.edu (WILLIAM D. BURNS)
Subject: Can Nuntius store its reader files somewhere else?
Organization: CCLI Macintosh Lab, Michigan Tech University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:49:52 GMT

Hi all,

I am interested in allowing my lab users usenet access.
Every user has their own "personal" hard drive on a sun that they mount
through our gatorbox...Eudora allows them to store their own mail on
their own disk, but the actual app is on a local hard disk.

Can Nuntius (or some other new program) do this type of configuration?

i don't want people all having a copy of the app on their hard disk...

thanks in advance,

bill burns
Senior Mac Technical Consultant, CCLI Lab - MTU

-- 
Bill Burns

  [ Internet: wdburns@mtu.edu ]
  [ AppleLink: SHADOW         ]
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From: jgraham@ucs.indiana.edu (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Sharing a Laserwriter LS ?
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:40:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: Rumor Control inc.

Hello Networking Wizards,

We have gotten into a bit of a bind over here while trying to economize on
a Laserwriter. When we originally got our Personal LS we did not think that
we would be adding more Macs to the lab. We now have a used SE for the
secretary.

The Personal Laserwriter LS has no ROM and is "non-networkable". Is there
any kind of Appletalk box that we could add to it externally to allow
connection of two CPU's ? Even if we just had a simple switch/splitter for
the serial port (ADB ?) connection at the printer, that would do. Is there
any hope ?


Thanks much,

Jim
E-mail me:
jgraham@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu
From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Dual stacks over serial line?
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:07:27 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York


	I'm looking for a way to have dial-in access from a remote Mac to
our network that will pass both IP and AT.  I know about SLIP, and things
like ARA and Shiva NetModems, but for the application I have in mind, I
want to be able to use both IP services (X, POP, FTP) and AppleTalk
services such as mounting AppleShae volumes.  Any suggestions?
-- 
roy@wombat.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
"This never happened to Bart Simpson."
From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Need emulator for an AS/400 on Mac
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:06:12 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Winona State Academic Computing


  Hello,
   I've been trying in vain to hook up to our campus' AS/400 through
tn3270.  The program gets me into the '400, but I cannot make it understand
function keys.  The way that our AS/400 is set up if one doe not have
function keys, one cannot use the damn thing.  I'd like to find a working
emulator that does AS/400 function keys so I don't hve to sojurn to a PC to
complete my peper work.

  Any replies will be appreciated.  Post or Email, I check both.

- Greg Talmo  (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
                                   | The opinions expressed above are my
own,
 "Mothers are much fonder of their |and do not necessarily reflect the
 children than are fathers, for    |opinions, tastes, or policies of Winona
 they are more certian that they   |State University, its faculty, staff or
 are their own."       - Aristotle |students.
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From: cherry@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu (Mike Cherry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: X-Windows via dial-in modem?
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:30:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: opal.11SEP199222303877
Organization: Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <2AAE6A95.215@intercon.com>, amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes...
>joh@valhalla.cs.wright.edu  writes:
>> I desperately need program(s) that can enable me to use X-Windows via
>> dial-in phone line using a modem. Is there anyway to do this?
> 
>The only way I know of to do this is to use one of the Mac X servers (MacX, 
>eXodus) with a MacTCP extension that supports SLIP (VersaTerm SLIP, MacSLIP, 
>InterSLIP), and a SLIP gateway on the host network (this can be either a 
>standalone box or a computer that has SLIP installed).
> 
>In my own experience, this is not a very rewarding way to get work done.  
>Running MacX over InterSLIP with a V.32bis modem is quite usable for  most 
>tasks, but extremely graphics-intensive applications are still quite slow. 

You can also use AppleTalk Remote Access and MacTCP to do the same thing.
I'd expect it is slightly slower than using SLIP but perhaps much more
available to most people. I use MacX over ARA and it is slow, but fast
enough if your X application is doing simple graphics or text. As Amanda
mentioned it is quite usable. 

Mike 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Subject: RE: BinHex4.0
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:14:04 GMT

I have BinHex 5.0 here.  Feel free to drop in!

--  
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 Glen Stewart - Internet: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org
From: lmk@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: 9600 baud modems on ethernet
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:06:41 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

I would like information on 9600 baud modems 
that I can network on a thin or 10BaseT 
ethernet network.  

NetModem/E by Shiva is about $1300 for 
educational institutions.  Is there a less expensive solution?


Loukis Kissonergis
West Virginia University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
Subject: Re: Looking for a PowerBook modem that has voice...
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 07:05:19 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: PowerBook, modem

jaesyn@carson.u.washington.edu (Jason Smith) writes:

>	I have noticed several fast (14.4k range) data/fax modems coming out
>lately that have voice messaging capabilities, as well as Caller ID, and the
>ability to switch between data, fax and voice automatically on auto-answer.
>However, all these are desk models.  I'm planning on buying a PowerBook 180
>sometime after it's release, and am wondering if there is something similar for
>the PB's?  Completely internal would be vastly preferred.  Rumors are also
>appreciated. :)

If rumors are ok, there is always the "CommPort" that Applied Engineering
started talking about at MacWorld.  Internal voice/data/fax.

They had some lit out, but no dates.

-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: howes@xraylith.wisc.edu (Glenn Howes)
Subject: Need ZModem Protocol for CTB Tool
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 18:25:16 GMT


As a followup to my freeware Kermit Tool, I think it might be
possible to graft the ZModem Protocol onto the same basic framework with
a minimum of fuss -- this is an assumption as I know next to nothing about ZModem -- with an extensive reuse of code. Anyway, would anyone know of a 
site on the internet that describes the ZModem protocol, or barring that a
good book similar to Frank da Cruz's Kermit: a File Transfer Protocol. I 
will give anyone who responds with useful info a free copy of what will be
a shareware tool (assumiming I have the time to write it).


-- 
=======================================================
     -Official Spokesman:   //        Glenn Howes
All right thinking Americans ;-) //  howes@chem.wisc.edu
From: cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (chang hsu liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Is there a Quadra700 compatible Ether+ software, or...
Date: 12 Sep 92 17:50:45 GMT
Organization: Indiana University


Dear netters,

	The Ether+ ethernet box (hooked up to SCSI port) supported by
the school is not compatible with Quadra 700. It gives a mail message
saying that it does not support this hardware (Q700). Is there a updated
driver available now? If Ether+ won't work on Quadra700, I have to use
the built-in ethernet on Quadra. I seem to remember that I need to buy
adaptor for that purpose. What's usual price for that adaptor? Where can
I find cheaper alternatives?

thanks in advance.

Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: X-Windows via dial-in modem?
From: joh@valhalla.cs.wright.edu 
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:51:29 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

Hi,
I desperately need program(s) that can enable me to use X-Windows via
dial-in phone line using a modem. Is there anyway to do this?

At work, I use X-windows on SUN workstations and SUN minis. 
I would like to connect my MacII-ci at home to the SUNs via dial-in line 
using a modem and want to use X-Windows on my Mac. (That is running 
a X application program on a SUN in a remote site and displaying the program 
on my Mac screen at home)

I know that there are several Mac X-Window products but all of them I
know requires EtherNet connection or some sort of Local Area Networking.
Therefore, in my case no use.

Could anyone tell me how to accomplish this?
Thanks in advance.

-- 
Jae Chan Oh (Rm. 109, Computer Sci. Dept.)              | 
Wright State University Research Building               | Only belongs
3171 Research Blvd., Kettering, Ohio 45420              | to me... 
CSNET: joh@CS.wright.EDU   UUCP: ...!osu-cis!wright!joh |