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From: swhite@bach.udel.edu (Stephen H White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: re: Problems with zterm 0.9
Date: 8 Apr 92 05:18:14 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

> When Zterm 0.9 came out I noticed that others had some minor problems
> with it.  Since I didn't have anyproblems with it I thought maybe
> these were isolated cases. I've since been having problems (as of two
> days ago) whenever I log on to my computer account at school. I'm
> using Zterm as my comm software and I have been noticing that
> characters have been dropping out. This happens some- times as soon as
> I get to the port selector. Ocassionaly it happens when I am typing.
> My question is: Is there some quirks in Zterm 0.9 that may cause this
> to happen? Do I have a phone line that may be going bad? I'm asking
> this, because I also tried another software package I own and no
> dropouts occured at all. This may change if I try yet another
> application, but I haven't as of yet. I'd appreciate any help anyone
> could throw my way:)

As is in most cases the answers to problems usually come by accident. Well,
I found mine. It turns out that the Fax software distributed  by Zoom
with their Fax modems is not compatible with Zterm 0.9 when fully installed.
In order to utilize the Fax capabilities of my Zoom modem, two inits have to be
installed. One is the Fax Print init, and the other is the Fax Manager. When
these are installed, Zterm acts really crazy! However I can use the Fax software
as a comm program and connect to my school computer. No problem. But, when I
disable these inits Zterm acts like its good old self. The problem probalbly
was being caused by the Fax Manager init which monitored incoming transmissions
to see if they were Fax, voice, or data. Since it should be used with the 
comm/fax software which came with my modem. It probably got confused whenever
I used zterm. To be safe, I disabled both inits. I'll only use the software for
sending or receiving faxes every once in a while, so I don't need these 
inits running anyway. I appreciate the input given me by y'all. BTW, for those
without Zoom fax modems like mine, I was talking about a software package
called Quick Link II Fax put out by Smith Micro Software.

On a side note, Why do I have trouble with vi if I'm using Zterm to connect to
the unix system at school? I have a Mac Plus with a standard Plus keyboard. 
When I use vi, I am often unaware or uncertain of which line I am editing.
Does anyone know what I am talking about? Has there been a solution for this?
I connect to my computer account at school at 2400 baud, no parity, 8 bits, and
one stop bit. Handshaking is on. I'm looking forward to hearing from those
who may have an answer. Thanks;)

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From: williams@tigger.jvnc.net (Steve Williams)
Subject: Slip for the mac
Summary: Trouble with slip
Originator: williams@r2d2.jvnc.net
Organization: JvNCnet
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 15:29:18 GMT

Hello,

	Is anyone running NCSA telnet2.4.19(BYU version slip for the
MAC)

I am trying to get it to work but not having much luck. I can get it to
connect to my slip server, but when I enter slip I loose the connection
and receive the message that the connection could not be opened. If
anyone is running this program or knows of a better solution for dial in
IP I could sure use the help.

		Thanks,
Williams(Steve Williams)r2d2.jvnc.net
JvNCnet princeton

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From: erik@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Erik van bronkhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring MacTCP crashes my machine?
Date: 14 Apr 92 10:16:56 GMT
Organization: Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA

I have MacTCP 1.1 working great on my IIsi/sys7.  Unfortunately
I need to get it to work on several Plusses runnig 6.0.5.  I 
have no crashes but applications attempting to use MacTCP complain
about the "driver".  What do I need to get MacTCP to work on a +?
Thanks
Erik

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From: bob@iastate.edu (Robert P Kuehne)
Subject: Zoom 14400 Modem... Good/Bad???
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:09:37 GMT

Hi,
I recently saw a zoom 14400 Send/recieve fax/modem advertised for
just about 320 buckaroos.  THis seems like a great price for the
equipment, but I was wondering about quality, user support, and various
other opinions of net-people on this modem... Email or Post, soon, as
the offer expires the first o May.
Bob
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From: wlarkin@hounix.org (Ward Larkin)
Subject: Re: SupraFAXModem v.32bis experiences
Organization: Houston Unix Users Group
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:19:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.185431.23984@menudo.uh.edu> arch1l@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
>I'm considering purchasing the SupraFAXModem v.32bis from Mac's Place for
>$378.00. Has anyone had any positive/negative experiences with this
>fax/modem?
>
>Also, can I purchase this for less than $378.00 from another vendor?
>
I received a mailer a few days ago from Zoom in which they
advertised a send/receive, 9600 bps, v.42bis, MNP5, FAX modem for $289.


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   wlarkin@hounix.org
From: miranker@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew Miranker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: NFS/Share & MacPathWay & aliases
Date: 11 Apr 92 13:53:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Apr11.095333.10951
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Intercon's NFS/Shares is superb.  We already had TCP/IP running
on our Macs, and NIS running on our unix machines when we decided to
buy 6 licenses, so getting it to work was as difficult as rebooting
the Macs and adding a line to our exportfs file on the unix machines.
It is fast, effective and very usefull.

Then came aliases

No bugs, but aliases to NFS/Share volumes store username and password
(encrypted) and don't prompt for password and username when the alias
is double clicked.  This represents a security problem we are not happy
with.  Some people are opting to use CAP AUFS instead of NFS/Share for
this reason.  Intercon blames apple for not publishing some standard
protocol for doing this, and they are not willing to make a hacked version
in which they try to second guess apple on this standard.  I can't say
I blame them, and we are otherwise very pleased with Intercon's software
and user support.  

I have never heard of MacPathWay NFS CLient.  Does it suffer from the same
alias problem?

Andrew    
miranker@tammy.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Re: TheNews news reader
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 05:07:29 GMT

In <kga.92@lmsc.lockheed.com> kga@lmsc.lockheed.com (Ken G. Andrews) writes:

>Hello,

>I have heard of newsreaders NewsWatcher and TheNews for Macs. I tried
>NewsWatcher, and want to try TheNews. Can anyone tell me if it's available
>via anonymous ftp, and where to get it from?

>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>Ken G. Andrews  (Ken)
>LMSC Sunnyvale, CA
>408-756-9752
>kga@lmsc.lockheed.com



Ken,

Watch out for that program "The News". It has so many bugs that things
like changing active windows will cause it to crash. In my opinion it
is the most incompatible piece of software I have ever seen on the
Mac. Even on the most stripped down system, no go. I have tried
several versions as they have been released over the last year or two.

Flames and minor disagreements welcomed.

Jim
E-mail me:
jgraham@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu  

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
Subject: Re: How do I get a .gif from UNIX to Mac?
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 16:36:26 GMT

In article <c#sj10g@lynx.unm.edu>
jade@triton.unm.edu (Eric Jaderlund) writes:
 
>Ok, I give up.  I have a .gif image on a UNIX machine that has been uuendoded.
>Fine.  I uudecode it and get the .gif file.  Now how to I get it to my Mac?
>If I kermit it ( either in text or binary mode ) I get garbage when I view it.
 
When I had a similar problem from mainframe to Mac, it was because I had
failed to instruct Kermit/RedRyder to preserve linefeeds.  In your case,
be sure that _both_ Kermits are instructed to use binary protocol.
From: streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Problems with zterm 0.9
Date: 8 Apr 92 08:27:50 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

I have also noticed, if not a problem, a curiosity with zterm 0.9
and vi. If I get into vi, the host computer thinks my screen is 24
lines long (whereas it's actually 43 due to the font I am using),
but when I get out of vi, everything is screwed up. The top half of
the screen scrolls, the bottom half doesn't and all input occurs on
the bottom line of the screen. I can fix this by resizing the screen
ever so slightly, then resizing it back. But I wish it wouldn't do
that.

Another problem I have noticed is with scripts. I cannot get the
simple line of script to send a single RETURN to work. It acts like
a no-op.

Other than that I am very happy with zterm, once I figured out how to
replace the font with the Minaco font from MacSampson, in order to
get a 43 line screen.

tim.
From: Stafford@vax2.winona.msus.edu (J Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: *Kermit-No backspace, delete???
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:35:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: msus1.1992Apr16.103541.363
Organization: msus

We have a Macintosh lab which (for unfortunate reasons) talks to
one our Vaxes via serial ports (not tcp/ip) and I've found that
Kermit Version 98 (62) and (63) has no 'swap backspace for delete'
option and on the standard (and perhaps the extended) keyboard, there 
is absolutely no delete-character whatsoever, making Kermit 
virtually worthless for us.

Perhaps CKMKEY 0.8(6) is a keyboard mapping facility but it won't
run on my system. (FX under 7.0) so I cannot know if it is a solution.

Any words of wisdom? (Besides buying a commercial or shareware product.)
From: tmyers@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Tim Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Microphone II and Kermit
Keywords: Microphone Kermit
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:34:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: oucsace.1992Apr15.233433.5699
Organization: Ohio University C.S. Dept, Athens

I recall some postings a while back about a problem with the
Kermit transfer protocol with Microphone II, version 4.  It had
something to do with the size of the volume that MPII was
downloading a file to.

I've been experiencing a few Kermit quirks this week.  If someone
could fill me in, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.

Tim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Cancel a Newswatcher Post ???
Summary: All the worlds a stage
Keywords: How do you do (it).
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 05:15:24 GMT

Has anyone found a way to cancel a post made with Newswatcher ? I
either missed it or the rest of net is a lot more careful than I :).

The first time this happened, I was able to get at it through "nn" or
"rn" and use 'C'. This time those UNIX readers don't believe its my
post I'm trying to cancel.

Any tricks ?


Jim
E-mail me:
jgraham@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Undocumented Features in Microphone II 4.0
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:38:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: tesla.1992Apr9.213832.1
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


	It seems I've been quite critical of Microphone II 4.0 here 
lately. Perhaps I should remind people that I actually do like the 
product. I just don't like it any more than version 3.0 which is a 
little disappointing for a major upgrade. But just like hidden bugs 
there are also not a few hidden feature. So without further ado here is 
Version 1.0 of Rusty's List of

		UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES IN MICROPHONE II 4.0

1.	In vt102/ANSI mode (and probably others) Option-clicking at a 
point on the screen will send the appropriate cursor movement commands 
to position the cursor there. Apparently this has been in every release 
of Microphone II since 1.0, but got left out of the documentation 
somewhere along the way.
2.	While in the script editor, you can use the standard Copy and 
Paste commands to move ENTIRE scripts back and forth from the 
clipboard. Cutting normally cuts the Title Box, but option-cutting cuts 
the entire script.
3.	If, like me, you often read messages from a BBS slower than 
they come across your screen, and if you like to occasionally jump to 
the bottom of the screen buffer to check, for instance, if the 
transmission is still happening or if its done and so you can hang up, 
you'll love this next feature. Just click where you want to mark your 
place (i.e. use the cursor as a bookmark), drag the thumb to the bottom 
of the buffer, and then, to return to your marked place, type 
"Command-/", i.e. hold down the command key and backslash key at the 
same time. You'll jump back to where you were before scrolling down 
(provided of course you haven't clicked anywhere else in the buffer in 
the meantime.
4.	To create a new module or open an old one, select Edit scripts 
from the Scripts menu, Select module from the popup menu in the Scipt 
manager, and then select New/Open Module from the file menu. This 
really should have been documented in the manuals but it wasn't.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Applied Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07103
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: spencer@med.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas)
Subject: Re: New Modems and ARA???
Organization: University of Michigan HSITN
	<SPENCER.92Apr16124638@guraldi.med.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:20:15 GMT

One note: to use the script I posted, you must change its type and
creator using ResEdit (or a similar tool) to be the same as the other
scripts.  Use the Info about File/Folder... menu item in ResEdit.

--
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spencer.thomas@med.umich.edu	313-747-2778
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Subject: Installing Network software?  Help?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 22:22:38 GMT

We just (finally) upgraded to System 7 (specifically 7.0.1/Tuneup1.1.1)
and can no longer get our network softare installed properly.  It's a
IIci 8/80 with Cache card.  A couple of questions here:

  1.  What does the System 7.0.1 Installer actually install as pertains
      to an ethernet board and network stuff?  When I try to use the
      Network control panel, I get a dialog telling me that my Network
      software has not been installed correctly and that I should go back
      and reinstall it.

  2.  The installer that came with the board (its an Ether2 board from
      Compatible Systems Corp. from over two years ago) has no clue about 
      System 7 and just complains about me not having my System software
      installed correctly (but I think that's probably because its expecting
      a System 6.0.x configuration).

  3.  I downloaded the latest Network Software Installer from ftp.apple.com
      (version 1.2 from March 1992) and used that to try to install the
      Network software (Network, AppleTalk, EtherTalk).  It claims to have
      installed properly, but after I reboot and try the Network control
      panel, it complains just as before (Network software incorrectly
      installed, go install it again).

  4.  On a slightly different subject ... How should MacTCP (1.1) be set up
      under System 7.0.x?  I know there has been talk back and forth about
      such-and-such being in the System Folder itself as opposed to the 
      Control Panels folder (with an alias in the CP folder).  How should
      that be set up?

Any suggestions (by post or e-mail) would be most helpful!  Thanks in advance!


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From: d39818@simpsons.pnl.gov (David R. McGee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Nok Nok
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:31:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Apr17.023119.6382
Distribution: na
Organization: Pacific Northwest Laboratory

In article <21MAR199221051954@gamma.is.tcu.edu>, williams@gamma.is.tcu.edu (MARK WILLIAMS) writes:
> 
> 
>    [ Nok Nok ]
> 
> I've seen this CP device mentioned -- anyone know what it is?
> 
> 
> 	Mark Williams		Williams@gamma.is.tcu.edu
> 
> 

Nok Nok is a Cdev/init that monitors your personal file share connects. It
is fairly handy, because it enables auditing and attempts to determine the
actual name of guest connections based on their responder or chooser names.

David R. McGee
Network Manager
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Battelle Boulevard, M/S K1-88
Richland, WA 99352
(509)375-6994
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internet dr_mcgee@pnl.gov
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From: lipa@camis.Stanford.EDU (Bill Lipa)
Subject: Re: How does one use the communication tools from Apple?
Organization: Stanford School of Medicine
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 00:33:05 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.220834.16122@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> cromwell@spot.Colorado.EDU (CROMWELL JON DAVID) writes:
>I downloaded some of Apple's communication tool extensions from their 
>archive (ftp.apple.com) and put them in the system folder where they 
>belong, but they don't seem to be doing anything for me. 

The CTB tools are for use by CTB-aware applications, such as uaTerm (a
terminal application in the comm directory at sumex). You cannot use them
directly.

Bill Lipa
lipa@camis.stanford.edu
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From: duane@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Duane Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Installing Network software? Help?
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:41:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: blacks.duane.703093299
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL

johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) writes:


>Earlier tonight, I <johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)> wrote:

>>We just (finally) upgraded to System 7 (specifically 7.0.1/Tuneup1.1.1)
>>and can no longer get our network softare installed properly.  It's a
>>IIci 8/80 with Cache card.  A couple of questions here:
>>
>>  1.  What does the System 7.0.1 Installer actually install as pertains
>>      to an ethernet board and network stuff?  When I try to use the
>>      Network control panel, I get a dialog telling me that my Network
>>      software has not been installed correctly and that I should go back
>>      and reinstall it.

>Thanks to a number of people who told me to simply turn on AppleTalk in the
>Chooser dialog window.  Two problems still -- first is:

>  A. we have a DeskWriter (a la 1989 or so) that is connected to the printer
>     port and when I boot the Mac with AppleTalk on, the DeskWriter screams
>     about "bad baud rate".  Any suggestions there?

A couple of problems here. The purpose of the Network control panel is to 
control where AppleTalk is communicating. You can communicate with AppleTalk
over an Ethernet link if you want. If all you have connected to the printer
port is is the DeskWriter, than turn the AppleTalk off and don't bother
with the Network control panel. MacTCP has it's own control panel where
you will select the network connection for it to communicate over, and it
is here that you will select the Ethernet card driver. Telnet and MacX will
use MacTCP to get to the correct connection.

>>  4.  On a slightly different subject ... How should MacTCP (1.1) be set up
>>      under System 7.0.x?  I know there has been talk back and forth about
>>      such-and-such being in the System Folder itself as opposed to the 
>>      Control Panels folder (with an alias in the CP folder).  How should
>>      that be set up?

MacTCP goes in the Control Panels folder, and when you get MacTCP1.1 (strongly
recommended) MacTCP DNR goes directly in the System folder. Also, hosts and 
config.tel files go directly in the system folder.
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From: babb@ucselx.sdsu.edu (babb j)
Subject: EtherTalk <-Router-> LocalTalk
Organization: San Diego State University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:05:49 GMT

Hi All,
 We've got a macIIfx running system 7, with MacTCP 1.1, EtherTalk
Phase 2 ver. 2.2.1, LocalTalk 2.0, Router 2.0, DeskWriter AT 2.2,
and the Network Cdev that came with System 7.
Our problem is that we can't print on the DeskWriter via LocalTalk.
 When we choose the network Cdev and try
to go from EtherTalk to LocalTalk, it sez:"AppleTalk
currently in use, cannot be changed at this time", which is funny (NOT)
because, we can't see a local LocalTalk zone. I was under the impression that
Router would let my cohorts across campus see my DeskWriter and print to it.
I don't know why I can't print to it by disabling EtherTalk, and/or why
I can't disable EtherTalk in the 1st place. Addl info: under the chooser with
EtherTalk enabled, we see all the AppleTalk zones on campus just fine.
Servers and printers aboud.
The EtherNet card is an Asante MacCon+ IIET with the latest driver 3.32.

advaTHANKSnce, Jeff.
babb@ucsvax.sdsu.edu

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From: garym@telesoft.com (Gary Morris @lone)
Subject: Re: Problems with zterm 0.9
Reply-To: g@telesoft.com
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:47:04 GMT

In <3725@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater) writes:
>I have also noticed, if not a problem, a curiosity with zterm 0.9
>and vi. If I get into vi, the host computer thinks my screen is 24
>lines long (whereas it's actually 43 due to the font I am using),
>but when I get out of vi, everything is screwed up. The top half of
>the screen scrolls, the bottom half doesn't and all input occurs on
>the bottom line of the screen. I can fix this by resizing the screen
>ever so slightly, then resizing it back. But I wish it wouldn't do
>that.

I have this problems when I login to our VAX/VMS machines using zterm and
with *some* termcap entries for the vt100.  The cause is that some termcap
entry sends a code to initialize the terminal and one of the things they
set is the scrolling region.  This is hardcoded to be lines 1 thru 24.
I use the following cshell alias to reset it to 40 lines whenever things
get confused.

alias zterm 'setenv TERM vt100; stty rows 40 cols 80; echo "^[[1;40r"'

(the ^[ is supposed to be an escape)

Of course, you'd need to change the 40 to 43.
--GaryM
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