HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wmurphy@cs.umb.edu (William E. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: HELP! QuickMail drasticlly unstable!
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:06:50 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


I am getting two errors. 

QM crashes after being up for an hour or two when I try to send mail out
through the SMTP/QM gateway.
error: International Utilities Not Found

On attempt at restart after crash,
error: Bus Error

I am running Sys 6.0.7
(used bootman to reset sys peram. open files 200, os events 40 and heap 20%)
On a IIfx w/8MG ram and a Hammer 300 external HD
Ethernet NB card 
ethertalk phase 2 v2.2.2
Apple share 2.0 
Appletalk v56
QM 2.5a
MacTCP v1.1
TCPack 1.4.1a

Now, things I have already tried...

First attempt,
threw away QMadmin prefs, reintalled QM admin (set mem to 1400k) retarted and
reconfig. worked for a few hours, same prob. (did this 3 times)
(config for QM and SMTP done verbatem from IE manual so resonably sure that
is not the prob)
One time I tried this I had just rebooted and went to update the Nameserver
when i clicked on the Nameserver icon in the ControlPanel it crashed with 
the "International Utilities not found" error so...

Second attempt
threw away all QM admin prefs and Nameserver Prefs. reinstalled all of QM
reboot, and reconfigure. same prob. (did this 4 times)

Third attempt
reintalled system, reset useing bootman. reintalled QM (all of it)
reconfig as above, same prob. (tried this once)

I have been helped through these processes by Tech support at both QM and IE

Now I am at wits end.  Has anyone seen this prob before? Has anyone seen this 
error msg before? Does anyone know what International Utilities are?

HELP!! ? !!










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From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NewsWatcher : alphabetical order of newsgroup ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: 26 Aug 1992 21:48:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <knguyen-260892142413@knguyen.emr.ca>, knguyen@emr.ca (Khanh Kim
Nguyen) wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am using NewsWatcher 1.3d5. I often update new newsgroups in my list
> of newsgroup. During updating, new newsgroups usually go to the bottom of
> the list, so I have to arrange manually the list. 
> My question : Is there a feature I miss in NewsWatcher which helps me to
> get the alphabetical order for the list automatically ?
> 
> Khanh Kim Nguyen
> internet : knguyen@emr.ca
> cc:mail: knguyen@cc2smtp.emr.ca
> bitnet : knguyen@EMRCAN.BITNET

As far as I know, no, there is no such option. I don't, in fact, want my
subscribed groups in alphabetical order - I want them in the order I have
them arranged, so that when I read news I will (1) get the groups I've
given highest priority to, first; and (2) can leave the "bottom" groups go
unread if I'm pressed for time.
-----------
Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.
From: JNeedleman@MCIMail.com (Jeffrey L. Needleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: 2 LINER: Where can I ftp MacTCP1.1 from?!
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:45:37 GMT
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
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X-Xxdate: Wed, 26 Aug 92 10:48:01 GMT

In article <BtJuwr.I7C@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jim McKay,
jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>MacTCP (including 1.1) is a licensed Apple System Product and is not
free.
>Last I checked it was $195 a copy.  Some sites (like the University of
Illinois
>where I work) have negotiated a blanket campus site liscense.  you may
wish to
>check with your academic computing service department at Harvard to see
if
>they have such an agreement and to verify its terms.  THEN if they don't
>have one, maybe your Apple Rep can get you an educational discount.

All true. But you can retrieve Eudora software from ftp.cso.uiuc.edu and
(surprise!) get a copy of MacTCP1.1 included free that way. The
University does pay for a license to distribute MacTCP1.1 with the Eudora
software, and CHOOSES not to charge for the software. It is available by
anonymous FTP.

Note that you will not see MacTCP listed separately in the directory at
the site. It is included with the Eudora file, though. Trust me!

I suppose technically you only have the right to use it with Eudora. But
I doubt anyone will object if you switch out of Eudora and continue to
use it with other MacTCP applications in the same session...

Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.os.vms,comp.mail.misc
From: Jeff E Mandel <mandel@tmc.tulane.edu>
Subject: Re: Reading VMS Mail from Macintosh
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-16865]: mandel.anes.tulane.edu
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6C787A757023009@mandel.anes.tulane.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:24:07 GMT
Organization: Tulane University School of Medicine
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:24:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.150406.21639@qualcomm.com> Steve Dorner,
sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com writes:
>Besides TGV's MultiNet, there's IUPOP3.  For the archie-impaired,
>here are some pointers:
>
>Host cs.dal.ca
>
>    Location: /pub/comp.archives
>      DIRECTORY drwxrwxrwx        512  May 12 1991  vms-iupop3
>
>Host logos.ucs.indiana.edu
>
>    Location: /pub
>      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  Apr  6 13:42  iupop3
>
>Host nic.switch.ch
>
>    Location: /software/vms
>      DIRECTORY drwxrwxr-x       1024  Aug 20 1991  iupop3-1.6a
>
>Host srawgw.sra.co.jp
>
>    Location: /.a/sranha-bp/arch/arch/comp.archives/mail/pop
>      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  May 12 1991  vms-iupop3
>
>Host src.doc.ic.ac.uk
>
>    Location: /usenet/comp.archives/mail/pop
>      DIRECTORY drwxr-xr-x        512  May 14 1991  vms-iupop3
>
>Both TGV and IUPOP3 work acceptably with Eudora.

Note that the current version of IUPOP3 is 1.7, so you might want to go
to the source (logos.ucs.indiana.edu). 1.6 works with Eudora, but has
some problems with NUPop, Nortwestern's MS-DOS client. Mind you, I'm not
advocating MS-DOS, just trying to save you all some aggravation when the
PEECEE people come around and want to know if they can get mail too.


Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: mike@rice.edu (Michael L. Quillin)
Subject: Re: Magic Modems
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:01:46 GMT

wkmpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (W. Keith McManus) writes:

>Looking for some information about Magic Modems:

>                       Magic VFX FaxModem
>                       Magic VFX V.32bis Fax Modem
>                       Magic  VX V.32 Modem
>                       Magic  VX V.32bis Modem

>Supplied by MacPRODUCTS USA  in Austin, TX

I would suggest buying the zoom analog of the above modems.  They are
supposedly made by the same manufacturer and the difference in cost is
quickly made up for by the money MacProducts charges for shipping and 
handling.  I previously owned a magic modem which went kaput on me and
am still trying to get it back from MacProducts.  I am currently the
proud owner of a V.32bis zoom modem which i purchased from MacConnection.

Good luck,
mike


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From: babcock@cayman.com (Bill Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: X-client for Mac wanted
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:07:23 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems, Inc.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-XXDate: Fri, 4 Sep 92 13:08:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.212857.5207@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Daniel T.
Pritts, danno@css.itd.umich.edu writes:
>I can't say for sure about eXodus, but MacX is definitely only a  
>server.  

Mac X and Xodus are servers, while XGator turn the Mac into a client so
it may be run remotely from the Xterminal.

>There is a demo of xgator on mac.archive.umich.edu, i think in  
>/etc/demos (fully functional for ten minutes, i think).

You may also FTP it from ftp.cayman.com, in /pub/XGator. There's also a
Quickstart set up and troubleshooting guide which I'd be happy to email
to anyone whom needs it.
From: strobel@aludra.usc.edu (Roland Strobel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PSI Powermodem
Date: 1 Sep 1992 13:26:58 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <15810.2AA2ADFB@zeus.ieee.org> Steven.M.Holtzman@f947.n107.z1.ieee.org (Steven M Holtzman) writes:
>Has anyone had any luck using PSI's fax/modem on PB 140's without
>disabling the screen saver. It has cut my battery life in half which I
>have found quite annoying.


What version of the fax software are you using?  I had the same problem and
some others prompting me to call PSI.  They sent a new disk (ver. 2.2) but 
said that the "awakened" computer still will not fall asleep after a fax was 
received.  A yet again new version will hopefully clear this up.  In the mean
time, I've downloaded "Backlight" from sumex-aim (I think), a cdev which will 
turn off the screen after a user defined period, say 2 minutes.  This helps
reduce the battery depletion...

-- 
Roland strobel@aludra.usc.edu    
Urban and Regional Planning              
University of Southern California
From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Tabby/MacFidonet
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:28:05 -0500

jason@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Jason Ehrlich) writes:

  |> I believe we're on--what--year 3? of the "RSN" for a good Tabby. 
  |> However, it's true that rumor has gotten stronger of late about an
  |> adequate Tabby mail engine.  For what it's worth.
  |> 
  > Well, Mike Connick has posted some logs of his latest Tabby 3.0
  > efforts onto the TABBY echo on FidoNet. But no one is quite sure when
  > 3.0 will be out, and if it will have ZedZap or anything of that sort.
  > Hmm...
  > 
  > Rumour also has it that Craig Vaughan is working on a mailer as well.
  
   I wouldn't hold your breath.  We're still waiting for him to implement
ZedZap in MacWoof, which was promised last fall, and again this spring,
but has yet to materialize.

   Rumour has it that Craig is working (on contract) on a game.  Perhaps 
there were too few shareware registrations....


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
Subject: Re: FTPd troubles
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: NCRPDA, Curtin University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:26:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.215026.20836@math.utah.edu>, Tom Morrison
<morrison@bioscience.utah.edu> wrote:

> I think the culprit is AppleTalk Remote Access.  I just started using it
> on the same machine running FTPd.  The problems with FTPd began happening
> after I started using ARA.

None have been reported to me.  If anyone else has had problems with FTPd
and ARA, please let me know, alternatively, if anyone has ARA and FTPd
running together, also let me (and Tom) know.

Thanks,
   Peter.
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GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6001, AUSTRALIA             FAX: +61 9 367 8141
From: craigw@fnal.fnal.gov (Craig Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Higher modem speeds?
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:03:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fermilab

In article <1992Aug26.032333.18514@eff.org>, hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
wrote:
> 
> west@ntmtv.UUCP (Andrew West) writes:
> 
> >Now that we've got cheap v.32bis (14.4K bps uncompressed) modems, I
> >have to expect CCITT to come up with another standard for an even
> >higher speed (e.g. 19.2K bps uncompressed).  Has anybody heard
> >anything about any new higher speed CCITT standards under development?
> 
> I've heard of something called V.fast, which is supposed to REALLY SCREAM!
> However, I don't know much about it, or what its vapor factor is.  Does
> anyone else?

I know that it does exist. A friend of mine at Motorola has seen a early
prototype based on V.FAST it and said it was VERY sweet. As far as actual
specs and realease dates, I don't know...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: west@ntmtv.UUCP (Andrew West)
Subject: Higher modem speeds?
Originator: west@herald
Reply-To: west@ntmtv.UUCP (Andrew West)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:21:58 GMT

Now that we've got cheap v.32bis (14.4K bps uncompressed) modems, I
have to expect CCITT to come up with another standard for an even
higher speed (e.g. 19.2K bps uncompressed).  Has anybody heard
anything about any new higher speed CCITT standards under development?

Andrew West
Northern Telecom    UUCP: {ames, amdahl, hplabs}...!ntmtv!west
Mt View, CA   USA   Internet: ntmtv!west@ames.arc.nasa.gov  or
			      ntmtv!west@ames.arpa

Mann - "So you don't know everything?"
Eve  - "It would be impractical to know everything.  Access time would
	 be enormous..."

-Mann & Machine

stty: Operation not supported on socket
.isg: No such file or directory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jason@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jason Watts)
Subject: Re: Appleshare for application sharing?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:48:00 GMT

davidj@byron.u.washington.edu (David Jardine) writes:

>We are thinking of installing an Appleshare network for the purpose of
>sharing APPLICATIONS, not FILES.
>[...]
>If we can make these
>applications available over an Appleshare network, we could cut down on
>illegal copying of these applications while still permitting each user to
>work in his or her own office.

Unless you bought multi-user licenses for the software packages, making
them available to serveral network users will still be illegal (most
likely--circumstances can vary).

>If we do this, we would upgrade to Ethernet in order to speed up the
>communication between the server and the nodes. Our network has 25 Macs.
>Approximately 10 of these are Mac Pluses or Mac Classics, so we would have
>to use an external Ethernet SCSI device for these computers. The other
>computers are LCs or better. We would use a Mac II as the Appleshare
>server (after we installed a large, fast hard disk).

>Will this situation work? Will the applications run extraordinarily
>slowly
>Will this situation work? Will the applications run extraordinarily
>slowly

The applications will run extraordinarily slowly--I mean *minutes* to open
a file in an application like PageMaker.

>or will they run fast enough that the less sophisticated users
>will think that the applications are running on their personal computer
>rather than the server?

How much "less sophisticated?"  Mollusks, rodents,...?  ;)


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From: peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu (Peter C. Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: EtherTalk box for LocalTalk DeskWriters?
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:02:26 GMT

Hello -

Does anyone know of a box that will let me connect *non-PostScript*  
LocalTalk printers to an EtherTalk net?  I've seen lots for laser printers  
but nothing so far for, e.g., DeskWriters.  Due to wiring/space/security  
constraints I cannot put a hardware router or print server next to the  
printers - they need to be alone in a place with only ethernet wiring.   
Any ideas?  Thanks for your help.

--
Peter Gorman
University of Pennsylvania
Library Systems Office
peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.misc
From: cliff@sfn.ORG (R. Cliff Young)
Subject: Re: return receipt
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: Society for Neuroscience
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:28:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.130524.9881@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>It is technically impossible to produce valid read receipts at this
>time.  With a highly coercive mail program, the best the software can
>do is verify that the message has been displayed on the screen.  It
>cannot verify that it has been read.  Letting information scroll past
>on the screen without reading it is a very common practice amongst
>computer users.

How about including the following bit o' magic text in the body of the
message?

	Please reply to acknowledge that you have read and understood
	this message.

That's probably the surest way to get a read receipt, and will work
with most MUAs.  ;)

One good approach (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread by Dave Platt
<dplatt@ntg.com> in message <1992Aug25.175619.22425@ntg.com>) is to
have some sort of "Reply-requested" header that will (in participating
MUAs) automagically pop up a reply template window when the message is
read ("read" being treated here as "displayed on the screen").  Nice
MUAs will also utilize this header when deleting messages, so that
complaints like

	A reply has been requested for this message, but you have not
	read it.  Are you sure you wish to delete this message?

can be generated.

Neil is right, though, we will never see an automated system that will
return an acknowledgement that the recipient has actually READ the
message, at least not as long our society is relatively free of
intense Big Brother-esque personal monitoring.  So, ultimately, the
only way you can ever be sure if the recipients have read your message
is to ask them!

--
 R. Cliff Young, SysAdmin, SFN --/\/-- cliff@sfn.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
Subject: Re: return receipt
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:00:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.133055.12927@qualcomm.com> sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes:
>Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) writes:
>>I'm seeking an assurance from those building and designing mail
>>interfaces that they remember that not everyone has bandwidth to burn.
>
>My MUA works acceptably on a 1200 baud modem, and I intend to keep it
>that way.  So I doubt you have anything to fear from me.  Though I
>do wonder exactly how it is that you feel justified in demanding
>assurances; TANSTAAFL, you know. :-)
>

I'm not demanding anything, Steve, I'm *seeking* an assurance and I'm
happy to see you give it! Eudora does a good job of providing
configurable options - long may it continue to do so. I just hope
others are listening.

I feel justified in *seeking* assurances on behalf of users on my
systems and as someone who has to pay network charges. I also prefer
to get feed back from the users of the systems I build and manage. I
know I don't have all the answers.

>>today and we shifted around 4800 messages in the last 24 hours. If
>>each causes the return of the two tier acknowledgement and say each
>>return message is 512 bytes that's 512 * 2 * 4800 ~= 4.8 Mbytes a day.
>
>You're not going to get a return receipt on every message.

I will if everyone using any new 'improved' MUA can't switch off
asking for and generating 'return receipts' (:-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: zapantis@uvphys.phys.uvic.ca (Nik Zapantis)
Subject: Re: Reading VMS Mail from Macintosh
Reply-To: zapantis@uvphys.phys.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Physics & Astronomy
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 21:12:04 GMT


>In article <2223@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, hontanon@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Ramon J. Hontanon) writes:
>
>Does anybody know of a Mac application that will let me read/send mail
>from/to my VAX/VMS account?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ramon@fdavax.cber.nih.gov

If you have TCPIP/SMTP mail running on the VAX, you can then use a Mac PD
program called Eudora.
If you do not have TCPIP/SMTP on the VAX, you can get the Pathworks for Mac($$)
package, and use the Mac VMS mail client.
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From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Does anyboy have a powerbook running macTCP??
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:37:04 GMT
Organization: Naff Green Shorts Dance Co.
In-reply-to: atreyus@lascar.puc.cl's message of 2 Sep 92 19:41:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.194126.1258@tolten.puc.cl> atreyus@lascar.puc.cl (Marcelo Vasquez) writes:

   Hi : I tried to set up a powerbook 170 with MacTCP over an
   appletalk that is connected to a falshcard to the ethernet. Well, it
   just doesn't work. I have no problems with the other macs (all with
   system 7) but this only powerbook is not working. I am using manual
   addressing and telnet 2.4

I have a PowerBook 140 running MacTCP 1.1 into a Kinetics Fastpath, with
NCSA Telnet 2.5 and so on. No problemo. (I'm on SUMEX right at this moment.)

Nick.
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