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From: perl@sf180.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Subject: Absolutely Bizarre request - att mod40 emulation
Organization: Pacific Bell - Financial Management
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:10:18 GMT


This is no doubt off-the-wall, but does anyone have or know about a mac
program or commtoolkit tool that can emulate an AT&T model 40 (async)
or model 5420 terminal?

Please send responses by e-mail (I can't imagine anyone else
would be interested).

Thanks,

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: Source for FAXstf software?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:09:26 GMT

A number of the Fax/Modem manufacturers package a program called FAXstf with
their Fax modems.  Are there any sources for just the software alone?  Price?

Thanks much!


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hw,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: mcohen@vax.clarku.edu
Subject: RE: Anyone using a V.35 interface on a Mac?
Organization: Clark University
Date: 31 AUG 92 15:22:18 GMT

In a previous article, johng@informix.com (John Galloway) wrote:
>I noticed the price list now includes a V.35 serial cable.  Since such
>is typicall used for higher speed devices (like 56K/T1 csu/dsu setups) I
>was wondering how well such is working with the Mac's (somewhat unique)
>serial ports.
>	-jrg
>-- 
>internet    jrg@galloway.sj.ca.us  John R. Galloway, Jr  795 Beaver Creek Way
>applelink   D3413                  CEO...receptionist    San Jose, CA   95133
>                                   Galloway Research     (408) 259-2490
Hi John-

  The V35 cable, I believe, is for use with the SerialNB card, which provides 
a V35 interface (among others).  I've never used the SerialNB for V35, so I 
can't tell you how well it works.  I have used the Syncrouter from Engage 
Communications as a V35 router, and that worked well.

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From: jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Telnet tool for Microphone
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:27:37 GMT
Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin

I have heard that Software Ventures is releasing a Telnet tool for Microphone.

Has anyone actually got the tool?  It is supposed to go automatically to 
registered users, but we don't have ours yet.

Microphone is a very good terminal emulator for modem hookups, if the telnet
tool is as good as the rest of the package it would be very attractive as a
VT320 emulator.

John Moulder (jmoulder@mis.mcw.edu)
Radiation Biology Group
Medical College of Wisconsin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Peter Purgathofer <root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: POP3 for Eudora on a NeXT?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6CBFF932701B604@berlin.tuwien.ac.at>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 3 Sep 92 17: 44:51 GMT
Organization: Institute for design and assessment of technology
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:44:27 GMT

Maybe this is the wrong newsgroup for this question, but I suspect
people with answers around here.

I want to use Eudora on a network of macs with a NeXT as the
UNIX-mailserver. I followed the instructions to install POP3 (ftpd
from berkley...) on the NeXT, but it doesnt work. I can send mail,
but it fails to check my mail with the message:

Server not responding. The connection came up halfway and then
failed.
(37:86)

Whats wrong??

Thanx in advance, 
Peter Purgathofer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Greg Ferguson <rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com>
Subject: Re: Disappearing Printer?
X-Xxdate: Wed, 2 Sep 92 08:33:57 GMT
Organization: Motorola, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:32:07 GMT

Subject: Disappearing Printer?
From: Kevin Mullane, mullane@tecsun1.etl.army.mil
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:33:10 GMT
In article <1273@tecsun1.etl.army.mil> Kevin Mullane,
mullane@tecsun1.etl.army.mil writes:
>We want to add an Apple Laserwriter to our AppleTalk net - just plug it
in
>right?  First I checked it out with an isolated Mac.  Fine.  When I put
the
>Mac and LW back on the AT net, however the LW DISAPPEARS from the
chooser menu
>while the other two printers on the net APPEAR in the chooser menu.  But
if
>I isolate the Mac and LW, the LW reappears in the chooser menu.
>
>We have approx 15 Macintoshes and two (hopefully three) Apple
LaserWriters on
>an AppleTalk net.  
>
>Has anyone else experienced this?  FAQ?
>

1. Make sure the AT lines are terminated correctly.

2. Are you powering the laser off then on when attaching it to the
network? 
Each node must have a unique node number which is acquired when it
initializes when attached to the network.

3. Do all three lasers have unique names?

Regards,

Greg

gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com
rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com
=========================================================
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
    -- Steve Wozniak
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From: nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PowerBook 170 <--> Ethernet <--> Sun ..... HELP
Date: 4 Sep 92 11:31:30 GMT
	<NICK.92Sep3170350@vaila.ed.ac.uk> <1992Sep3.235817.10482@qualcomm.com>
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Naff Green Shorts Dance Co.
In-reply-to: sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com's message of 3 Sep 92 23:58:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.235817.10482@qualcomm.com> sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes:

   In theory, that's true.  In practice, the TURN command is rarely
   implemented, and few systems are willing to hold mail for more
   than 2 or three days.  One long wekend, and your mail is history.

Fair enough. I don't know what Demon (the UK internet service) do about
turning the connection, but I believe they hold mail indefinitely; that's
part of the service. Hmm. I'd better check that...!

   I've redirected follow-ups to comp.sys.mac.comm, where this thread
   is the least inappropriate.

Good move.

Nick.
--
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               nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk |     there in this bar?"
CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | "Dunno; count the Dr. Martens and
     cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk |     divide by two..."
From: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: X-client for Mac wanted
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:52:26 GMT
Reply-To: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Organization: Code 1542, DTMB, Bethesda, MD

In comp.sys.mac.comm, bernard@is.morgan.com (Bernard Horan) writes:
|In article <14299@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng) write
|s:
||> In article <24145@oasys.dt.navy.mil> hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix
|) writes:
||> >I'm looking for experiances with X clients for the Macintosh.
||> >(These are programs that allow an X-window terminal to access a Mac.)
||> >Two that I have heard of but know little about are:
||> >PlanetX    by InterCon Systems
||> >Xport      by Qualix Corp.
||> There's also MacX, available from Apple for about $200 street price.  It wor ks
||> pretty well, although the only problem I have with it is that there is not
||> scrollback capability.
|I used MacX in my last post, and it worked pretty well even through a Router.
|I also evaluated eXodus, which I felt was better (allowed you to transfer the c
|lipboard etc)
|but wasn't System-7 compatible, and cost a lot more.

Aren't MacX and eXodus only servers.  That is, they can display for an 
X-client program, but they do not allow another system to access the 
Mac to display programs running on the Mac.

Another poster recommend Xgator  by Cayman  (no color)

Dane Hendrix                              | email: dane@wizard.dt.navy.mil 
DTMB (a.k.a. Headquarters, Carderock Div.,|  or hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Naval Surface Warfare Center)             |  or hendrix@nas.nasa.gov 
Code 1542, Bethesda, MD 20084-5000        | phone: (301)227-1340
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mac BBS software.... what options are there ?
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 23:31:27 GMT
Organization: Physics Dept.Massey University
X-Xxdate: Wed, 2 Sep 92 17:30:06 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9

What options are there for Macs, I have seen HERMES and some of
the mail about it but there must be other options.

A friend said that there are about half a dozen different
programs, but which is best ?

I have looked in the FAQs but there seems to be no information out there
 and in New Zealand we are a little more isolated so tend not
 to have the access to the same information and options.
 
 My alternative is to buy (god forgive me ) a PC and run a BBS on that
 but seeing that I have a Mac spare it seem logical to use that.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.misc
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: return receipt
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:56:54 GMT

In article <BtK4I1.D3D@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>
>>One correction.  The postal return receipt does not mean this at all.
>>The postal return receipt means that the user has NOT seen the letter,
>>but has signed a receipt under coercion, knowing that he will never see
>>the letter unless he first signs that statement pretending that he has
>>seen it.
>
>What it means to the sender is that the recipient can't claim not to
>have known about it and/or that you don't have to call him up to check.

That's right.  But keep in mind why this is true.  It is true because

  (1)   The receipt is an object which can be produced on request,
	and which is difficult to create.  It is not just volatile
	information in a computer which can be forged with the nearest
	text editor.

  (2)   Every post office which has handled the mail keeps records of
	the handling of this certified item.  These records are retained
	for a considerable length of time, and it is possible to request
	a trace of the message, such as might be needed to verify whether
	a receipt is a forgery.

  (3)	The courts accept the validity of these receipts.

Anything equivalent is just not possible for email today.  To do something
equivalent would require either restricting email use to large centrally
run mainframes with highly coercive software, or the widespread use of
public key encryption and digital signatures.

For the present, attempts to produce email receipts comparable to postal
certified mail receipts are nothing more than self delusion.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: arisco@evtech.com (John Arisco)
Subject: problem with macdump/restore
Organization: Evolutionary Technologies, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:57:45 GMT


	Macdump works well for me.  I can dump regularly and use
macdumpdir to list the contents of the backup file.  What I cannot
do is use Restore (on my Macs) to read the dumpfile.
	I can go into the chooser and select the restore host, but
when I start up restore, it says that I still must select the restore
host in the chooser.  When I go back to the chooser, the restore host
appears to be selected, but I select it again.  When I return to
restore, I get the same response.
	My macs are running System 7, and I've applied two tuner
patches to it.  They are also running MacTCP 1.1, and my Suns are
running CAP 6.1.  All the other facilities (NCSA Telnet, printing
with lwsrv, mounting Sun files with AppleShare, etc.) are working
as expected.

Suggestions would be appreciated,

John Arisco				Evolutionary Technologies, Inc.
arisco@evtech.com			8920 Business Park Dr.,Suite 180
512-346-3813				Austin TX 78759
From: Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ICE Engineering Dead? (uAccess creators)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 23:08:06 EST
Organization: Univ of Fnord; Roslyn's Cafe Div.
Reply-To: jeff@digtype.airage.com
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <01058004.btdm2o@oberon.notable.com> (comp.sys.mac.comm), daven@notable.com (Dave Newman) writes:
> 
> Some weeks ago uAccess posted the following message:
> 
> > uAccess release 1.6v1 updater is now available for ftp.
> > The update is an application that will read your 1.5v5
> > release of the software and create the new 1.6v1 release.

> Well, I've tried like the devil to contact them, and they have failed to
> return 3 phone calls, and 7 email messages. We would certainly be willing
> to upgrade our copies of uAccess 1.5v4, but I must conclude that ICE Engineering
> has gone out of business, or is simply not interested in supporting their
> product.

Tim emailed me the updater after I asked about it about 2 weeks ago,
but I also asked a few questions to the support alias. I got an 'auto-ack'
but no reply....

I hate uAccess as much as I love it....

Since Tim didn't answer my question: What's the differnece bewteen
1.5vx and 1.6vx??? I can't notice much other than a mysterious 'async
dialout connection' in the options dialog for setting up news servers....

Jeff

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Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare.  On the other
hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions
of their own innards!"  -Michael O'Brien
From: Rob.Dewhirst@macrocosm.omahug.org (Rob Dewhirst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ARA on a Mac Plus
Date: 30 Aug 92 00:30:17 CST
Reply-To: rob.dewhirst@macrocosm.omahug.org
Organization: The MacRocosm BBS, Lawrence, KS
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm


hongwei Yu writes in a message to All on 29 Aug 92:

 FH(>  So I was wondering if anyone could provide some advice on 
 FH(> how to install ARA on a Mac Plus machine. If possible, please 
 FH(> give detailed instruction on how to install ARA as I don't 
 FH(> know much about the Mac

First of all, don't bother unless you are running System 7 on the Plus.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: wilcox@carina.unm.edu (Sherman Wilcox)
Subject: CTB Problems
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 05:06:20 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

For several days I've tried installing and running Eudora via a dialup
connection to my university unix. I have not yet succeeded, although
what I thought was a problem getting the correct logon navigation strings
installed into Eudora may not be my problem.

Now, I suspect that the CTB is not configured correctly -- but I'll be
darned if I know why. I have it set for the same settings that I use
to log on manually with MicroPhone. But I never seem to connect properly.

What makes me suspicious is that when I try using the CTB within
MicroPhone, I also have problems. If I set it for 2400bps, same
settings as MP, it won't connect -- when it connects it says
connection made at 2400 instead of 19k (but I told CTB 2400, and the
dialup number is a 2400 line). Then, I get no response from the Cisco
server. Only if I change ti 2 stop bits can I finally get a response.
Setting CTB to 2400bps and 2 stopbits in Eudora hasn't yet succeeded
in getting me any response (apparently -- since it has never worked,
I'm assuming that when it *does*, I'll see the host prompts in the
dialog along with Eudora's responses).

Is there something I'm missing here with the CTB?
From: lingerke@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Ken Linger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mail Notification
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:19:47 GMT
Reply-To: Linger@starsys.laf.in.us (Ken Linger)
Organization: Star Systems

About a year ago (maybe less) we tried out a program called Mail Slot
which told users on our Localtalk network when someone dropped a file
into a specific folder on their System (could be mail, may not have had
to be mail).

I'm looking for something similar, but perhaps a bit better.  Are there
any suggestions?  (I'll be looking through Sumex in a bit, but there
are many titles there under comm and if there is a general suggestion,
then I'd like to take that route).

Thanks,

Ken Linger

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        Ken Linger                              Linger@starsys.laf.in.us        
        School of Computer Science              lingerke@expert.cc.purdue.edu   
        Purdue University                       AOL:  Ken Linger
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.misc
From: D.Nash@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Eudora Suggestion???
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:31:59 GMT
Organization: University of Texas System Office of Telecommunication Services


In article <peter.714621130@suite.sw.oz.au>, peter@suite.sw.oz.au (Peter
Bestel) writes:
>There is no standard for returning receipts. However,
>sendmail honours any Return-Receipt-To: headers by
>tossing a receipt back to the address specified after
>the semi-colon. This is a defacto standard - I'm not
>sure why it has never been formalised.

My guess as to why it hasn't been formalized is that a "return receipt"
isn't well defined.  Does this mean a receipt when the message is
delivered to the user's mailbox (a delivery receipt), or a receipt when
the user actually reads the message (a read receipt)?  Delivery receipts
are generally done by the mail transfer agent (sendmail, PMDF, etc.),
while read receipts are usually done by the mail user agent (mail,
Mail, mailx, elm, pine, mm, mh, etc.)

I know that PMDF does receipts differently than sendmail, it uses
Delivery-receipt-to: to request delivery receipts and Read-receipt-to:
to request read receipts.  As far as I can tell, it doesn't understand
Return-receipt-to: headers.  It does generate a receipt in response to
Delivery-receipt-to: headers.

If Eudora was going to implement receipts of some sort, the only receipt
it makes sense for it to use would be a read receipt, since the POP host
would, in theory, generate the delivery receipt (after all, that's where
the user's mailbox is, and that's where sendmail or PMDF or whatever is
running).  Of course, you could argue that the message isn't truly
delivered until it is on your Mac (or PC, or whatever), in which case
Eudora would be considered part of the MTA as well as the MUA and thus
would also need to handle delivery receipts.  It is a pretty sticky
issue, and I wouldn't blame Steve if he steered clear of it until some
sort of real standard emerges.

My opinion on the matter, and I certainly don't claim to be an expert,
is that Eudora is a mail user agent which happens to be able to read a
mailbox across a network.  It doesn't have any MTA abilities and thus
shouldn't deal with delivery receipts.  However, I can understand why
someone would argue from the other direction.  I think I'll just let the
IETF deal with this one.

I think this discussion might be getting off track for
comp.sys.mac.comm.  I'd redirect it elsewhere, if only I knew where to
send it.

                                ++Don Nash

                                The University of Texas System
                                Office of Telecommunication Services

Internet:  D.Nash@utexas.edu
BITNET:    DON@THENIC
THEnet:    THENIC::DON
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: csmith@blackplague.gmu.edu (Blackplague)
Subject: Re: ARA and Supra V.32bis?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: George Mason University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:13:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.162513.11458@midway.uchicago.edu>,
choi@gsbsrc.uchicago.edu (Dongseok Choi) wrote:
> 
> Hello!
>  I try to set up ARA on my MacIIsi with Supra V.32bis (fax) modem.
>  Is there connection script available for Supra V.32bis or
>  can I use one of modem options built in ARA?
> 
>  If connection script is available, could you tell me where I can
>  get a copy?


This script is available from sumex-aim.stanford.edu in
info-mac/comm

Blackplague
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner)
Subject: Re: POP3 for Eudora on a NeXT?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:49:31 GMT

Peter Purgathofer <root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Server not responding. The connection came up halfway and then
> failed.
> (37:86)
> 
> Whats wrong??

You probably have inetd misconfigured.  You should have entered the "pop3"
service in NetInfo, then put the appropriate line in inetd.conf, then sent
a kill -1 to inetd.

Most of the Eudora code was written on a NeXT, and all my testing was done
with a NeXT and popper, so I can assure you the combo works very well.
--
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
Giving one of them new-fangled Mac newsreaders a try.
From: pabe@cdl.cdc.com (Paul Bemelmans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: FTP: Can't see the world
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:58:48 GMT
Organization: Control Data Ltd.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
X-XXMessage-ID: <A6C2745B68017C3E@imccmac1.cdl.cdc.com>
X-XXDate: Thu, 27 Aug 92 12:00:27 GMT

Hmmm, looks to me like MacTCP doesn't see your default gateway.
Are you sure that in the More... bit of the MacTCP control panel 
you have a valid Gateway?

Paul Bemelmans
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From: peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu (Peter C. Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: fax SW for Quicktel Xeba recommendation?
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:21:02 GMT

Hello -

Can anyone recommend a fax program which is known to work with the Xeba  
2400bps/v.42bis modem?  We've found QuickLink II Fax, which came with it,  
to be just about unuseable.  We've got a lot of faxing to do in a hurry -  
the biggest problems occur when the transmitted document is larger than  
8.5 x 11.  Any testimonials?  Thanks for your help.

--
Peter Gorman
University of Pennsylvania
Library Systems Office
peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu