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From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Term 2.5 Questions
Distribution: world
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Date: 19 Jan 93 22:31:37 CET
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In article <1993Jan17.111544.1803@ultb.isc.rit.edu> rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead) writes:
> [Forwarded]
> 
> I've been checking out Term V2.5 and would like to know if anyone else is
> using this terminal/communications program?

   Me, for example ;-)

> I'm particularly interested in usage of "waitstring".  The doc mentions that
> more than one "waitstring" requests may be active at once.  It also indicates
> that the command is "Synchronous", which means that the ARexx script will not
> return until the command is completed (timeout or string found).
> 
> So, how (other than using multiple ARexx scripts) is one to wait for more than
> one string at once, and take action depending on which is found.

   Hold it, hold it! I am currently rewriting the ARexx interface so things
will work differently in the future.

   The `waitstring' command accepts a certain number of parameters, separated
by spaces. As soon as any of the argument strings appears in the input
data stream the command returns with the string encountered placed in
the `result' variable.

> Note that the problem with using multiple scripts is that when one waitstring
> finds a match it's difficult (or impossible) to clear up the outstanding
> "waitstring" requests, without doing something silly like letting them timeout
> or aborting all ARexx scripts!  Of course aborting scripts is not useful as
> the script that does the abort will not likely be able to continue either!

   As the command works synchronously, you cannot start more than one
single script to take advantage of it.

> I'll probably find a way to ask the author, but thought I'd try locally,
> first.
> 
> BTW, Term 2.5 looks much better than past releases.  I still get enforcer hits
> at startup, but just a couple of low memory reads.  Not that this is good,
> just that it's not likely to cause (in itself) much trouble.

   Better than `term' v2.4? There is no such v2.5, v2.5e, v2.6, v2.7, v3.0i.

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From: jc@crosfield.co.uk (jerry cullingford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: IBM <--> Amiga
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:32:40 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

In article <2194@vall.dsv.su.se> matt-dah@dsv.su.se (Mattias Dahlberg) writes:
>Matthew Simmons (zarthac@bradley.edu) wrote:
>
>: I have TwinCom or whatever the hell its called...
>
>Where can I get this program? I want a program which easely lets me
>to use the PC-HD from my Amiga, and the Amiga-HD from the PC? Does
>this Twin program do that, or what?

Almost. What it _doesn't_ do is make drives on the remote machine look like
drives on the local machine, unfortunately. (big minus point). So you can't
access files on the remote machine from applications.

However, what it _does_ do is let you read and copy files on either machine.
(and get directory listings and change directories and probably create
directories - It's a while since I looked at it).

And you can copy things to or from any device, not just disks. So, for
example, I can print a graphics dump to file on the PC and then copy it to
PAR: on the amiga. It'll also do copies including subdirectories (although
when I tried it needed a little sorting out afterwards; It copied the
directories but didn't get them in the right place (probably since the
amiga didn't recognise the PC \ as a directory seperator).

OTOH, it goes pretty fast for a serial link (around 19K _BYTES_/sec, according
to its own speed estimate in express mode, and claims to work between machines
of the same type too. On the amiga it insists on the standard serial port, no
expansion ones, so it's probably hitting the metal somewhere.

Worth looking at; if it provided a full networked device capability it'd be
brilliant, as it is, it's good for copying files, assuming you have the
disk space at the receiving end, or browsing directories remotely.

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From: dvmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Miller)
Subject: Term in a resizable window?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:45:39 GMT

	I'm wondering if there is any way to get term to open on a
Workbench screen or to have another program open on Term's screen.
(MEmacs for example)  This is the only thing I don't like about Term
and it would be nice to see this ability in a future release.  Thanks
in advance.

			-Dave

			 dvmiller@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
 
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	-Thomas Dolby
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From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: Re: QWK OFFLINE MAIL READER?
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:33:05 GMT

: Few things have depressed me more about the state of the Amiga software base
: than my fruitless search for a decent QWK offline mail reader.

Well, it's seems that there are many new ones popping every month (well,
maybe not so often) I know atleast two Finnish guys coding their QWK
readers and maybe those will be released to the public soon.

:      Somthing horrible called AmigaMail

You mean AME? AmigaMailElite, I didn't like it either.

:      Q-Blue v0.7

I think this is the best one I've tried.

: number of columns. And they are just the bugs I can't work around.

I haven't found any bugs in Q-Blue, I don't use it often, though.

: What I would like to know is if there are better QWK mail readers out there
: (I can't use ftp sites) or, in particular, later versions of Q-Blue and
: Quip.

Well, there is a reader called WWF-Reader (latest version 0.2?) I think it's
quite nic but Q-Blue is better for me.

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From: umlavoi6@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Tim Lavoie)
Subject: Re: Jr-comm
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:47:14 GMT

In article <mondo.727548158@cwis> eeidscw@engvms.unl.edu (strider) writes:
>Have you tested uploading to a unix system with a high speed modem?
>
>I have a Supra v.32bis that allows fast downloading with the 'sz' command,
>but 'rz' dies with ZRPOS errors.  The errors are linked to the use of
>MNP4 or better error correction.  If the error correction is disabled I
>can upload until the line noise forces a dropped carrier.
>

Hmm... Rather odd. I'm using Baud Bandit, not JR-Comm. Anyway, I use rz
and sz all the time for moving files, with a Supra 14.4 on my end, and a
Penril 14.4 on the other end. No problems at all, with or without error
correction. Maybe better local lines, I suppose. If you'd like a copy of
my modem set-up, send me mail and I'll post or E-mail back.

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From: nudd@zikzak.apana.org.au (Nai Ying Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Jr-comm
Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:33:14 +1100
Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: zikzak.apana.org.au

mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller) writes:

>I have been waiting patiently for the new version of JR-COMM.  I have a 
>registered copy of the current version which I like very much.  However, 
>I would very much like to have the VT-220 emulation that is contained in
>the new version.  It is easy for a beta tester to say that it is worth the
>wait.  Beta testers don't have to wait.  All of us (non-beta testers) out 
>here in net land BELIEVE that the new version if a lot better.  I for one
>would greatly appreciate a copy of the latest version.  Call it 1.999 if it
>is not as bug free as a version 2.0 should be.  But, I'd guess that Jack is
>going to lose a lot of support if he doesn't get this new version out soon.
>(He's probably lost a lot of support already ... I'll upgrade when the new
>version comes out ... I'm sure many others will as well, but patience wears
>thin!)

I bloody well totally agree. It's like if he doesn't come up with it in
the next few weeks, I will be getting a 1200, and then he can go screw
himself as I will use Term or Xcomm instead.  One thing I liked about the
Terminus concept was that it could be used on all the platforms and I
would like to support it, but I am so frustrated by the wait that I will
soon come to a state where I will have to upgrade my comms package and
once I have done all the hard work transferring numbers etc and setting up
the package, I will not want to do it again...

Cheerio,

Nudd

>Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
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From: massee@plains.NoDak.edu (Craig Massee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: DNET nfs handler
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:29:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.C1Dnoy.H38
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1jijgdINN477@duncan.cs.utk.edu> levi@cs.utk.edu (David Levi) writes:
...
>double checked it all).  When I try to do dir NF0:
>my shell window locks up, and I can't open any other
>shell windows.  In addition, any icons on the backdrop
>of my workbench will not be redisplayed when they are
>exposed.  I can still pop up tool-manager dock windows
>and use them, and I can still use other DNET connections.
>When I kill the snfs server on the DNET side, the strange
>workbench behaviour stops until a new snfs server is started.
...
>Has anybody seen behaviour like this?  Is there any way
>to fix it?  I have had no problems with any other
>dnet clients/servers for quite some time, but never got this
>to work.  Thanks for any help.

Yep.  I use DNet on two systems, a Solbourne (plains), and on a NeXT.
The NeXT handles every DNet client well, including the snfs server.
Trying to access NF0: while running DNet on the Solbourne gives the
exact same problem you stated above.

>-- 
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-Craig
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Subject: Re: DNET - latest version
From: cwhi2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Craig Dean          Whitmore       )
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:53:54 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

In <1jp1p9$3ip@agate.berkeley.edu> mehlhaff@soda.berkeley.edu (ERic MeHlHaFf) writes:

>In article <1993Jan22.023827.562@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> cwhi2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Craig Dean          Whitmore       ) writes:
>>Could someone tell me what's the lastest version of DNET. I've got version
>>2.0 and I was wondering what differences there where in the new versions/
>>
>>Craig Whitmore
>>

>	I've got what I thought was 2.10 up for ftp on OCF.berkeley.edu, and I
>cleaned up the unix half and put it in a tar.Z on OCF as well.
>	I've heard rumors of a 2.2 at uunet...

Could you post me the lastest version you have, becasue I don't have ftp or
email outward e-mail access. I want a version with NFS if possible!


>Hope this is useful....
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From: rkushner@sycom.mi.org (Ronald Kushner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re:  Dos 2.1 serial.device problem
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:18:13 GMT
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.976

In an article, bob@bpamiga.pegasus.com (Bob Proffitt) writes:

>>Not that I have an A2232 ... hey, has anybody seen an affordable
>>parallel port board for A3000 yet?
>

>I am using GVP's ioExtrender.  It is a Zorro II board containing one
>paralel and two serial ports.  $200 class.  Tested in an A3000 and
>an A4000.
>--
>

>Bob Proffitt, KH6C     Pearl City, Hawaii      bob@bpamiga.pegasus.com

Speaking of the GVP IO Extender...I bought one last week and have had very 
little luck getting AmigaUUCP to recieve with it. It just hangs on one of the 
read requests... I have version 1.7 of the io driver...

Anyone using AmigaUUCP with a getty type program answering with the IO 
Extender?

-Ron

Ronald Kushner               rkushner@sycom.mi.org | sycom!rkushner@msen.com

Sycom Design Software                       VOICE:    (313) 268-5117
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From: cosinus@dthougt.north.de (Christian Stelter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: BBS-program for my Ami
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:23:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: dthougt.cosinus.06i3
Organization: DEEP THOUGHT Bulletin Board System
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi Holger!

Holger Mitterwald (hrmitter@y.cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:

: Hello out there!
: 
: I am looking for a good multiport BBS program. I have already seen C-NET, but
: as there are SO many BBS with this program already, I do not want it too.

      [...]

Take Dialog Professional! I have tested a lot of BBS-Software, but none of
the other softs I tested had this features and this great support (even
down here in Germany).

I you wanna see a good german DLG BBS which uses Dialog then call the

  AMIGA Universe (Esslingen, FRG)

    Port 1    0711-3160934 24h (HST14, V.32bis)
    Port 2    0711-3166183 22-8h (V.32bis, ZyXEL 16.8)

or contact the German Support BBS:

  Intuition-Base (Leonberg, FRG)

    07152-45768 (1200-14400 bps, HST, V.32bis)

Dialog supports FidoNet and UUCP. Dialog is configurable... and has lots of
other good features...

You can contact me:

  via InterNet

      cosinus@deepthought.north.de (preferred)
      
      or

      Christian.Stelter@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de

  via FidoNet

      Christian Stelter @ 2:241/2013.0

  via my BBS

      DEEP THOUGHT BBS

        Port 1  0441-383365 (1200-16800 bps, V.32bis, ZyXEL 16.8k)
    
        Port 2  0441-383839 (300-2400 bps, V.22bis, V.42bis)

  via Voice

      0441-37420

for further information about Dialog Professional.

Greetings,
      
      Christian
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From: jts@krk.fi (Janne Siren)
Subject: Re: NComm trouble with ZMODEM-Upload !
Organization: Radio Club of Kauniainen (OH2NRG)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:26:44 GMT

: I have some trouble using  NCOMM V. 1.92!  The auto-download option
: works fine. But every time i try to upload, the program gets stuck!

I haven't encountered any problems, but maybe you might wan't to upgrade
to NComm 2.0, it's shareware though but worth those few dollars.
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From: hibrown@sarah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: GP Fax Software
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 12:47:21 GMT

In article <74111@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>>> >Do you sell a version of GPFax for Class 2 generic modems such as
>>> >the ZyXell U-1496E?
>>>
>>> Yes, we do. You will need to contact our sales department at either
>>> 800-727-8772 or 503-967-2410.
>
>Their answer, then, depends on the phase of the moon. I called two
>weeks ago, and they told me they stopped carrying it.  Different
>person, different answer. A problem, no?
>
>TomK@cup.portal.com
>Tom Krotchko


Yes, I received a similar reply.  It wasn't a flat denial, but rather
a "Which version? Oh, I'll have to check. Just one moment. (One moment
later.) No one here seems to know about a generic Class 2 version.
Sorry."

Of course, the two GPFax-behind-the-scene-people Perry & Carde, continue
to send me e-mail claiming that Supra does sell it.

HEY!  Life is toooo short to worry about a generic version of GPFax!!!


Herb


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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: QWK OFFLINE MAIL READER?
Date: 24 Jan 93 18:35:59 PST
Organization: BBS

I wish I'd seen the original of the message quoted here...
 
> > Q-Blue and Quip are the most promising but the former can't
> > properly justify quoted text (by the author's own admission)
 
Well a quote-with-word-wrap feature is working in my current alpha
version of Q-Blue.
 
This was discussed in the Fido OFFLINE echo not long ago, and it
turns out that QWK readers for any platform that know how to do this
are rare indeed.
 
> As stated in the originline below, I have written a .QWK reader.
> AmiQWK is currently in version 1.22 (filename AQ_122.LHA), and runs
> under 1.3 and 2.0+ (I haven't had a chance to try it under 3.0 yet)
> In it's current version it is fairly stable, (despite several
> enforcer hits) but it dosen't have very many features
 
That sounds like a description that could have been written about the
first release of Q-Blue.  Except I think it's pretty Enforcer clean.
 
> AmiQWK II will require 2.04 or better, and I have no plans to
> continue working on AmiQWK 1.xx.
 
I would drop 1.x support except it's less work to leave it the way it is.
 
Besides, I just got a registration from someone who runs it on a CDTV!

(It is known to work on 4000s.)
From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: The HYDRA bidirectional file transfer protocol.
Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:23:37 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

In article <1993Jan21.113823.8739@sth.frontec.se>, Bjorn Stenberg (bjst@sth.frontec.se) wrote:
: Have you even looked at the protocol?
: You seem to draw an awful lot of conclusions on the future of hobby tele-
: communications just because a name is included in a text file somewhere.

Yes, I've looked at the protocol.  It doesn't look too bad.

: Right. We might now actually have a GOOD protocol become POPULAR. Ordinary,
: this would have been a Good Thing (tm) but since a certain name is mentioned
: it's all of a sudden a disaster...

I'm not going to get into it.  Like I was saying to Russ, by the time
you read this, we're on to something else.  I've decided that the
protocol would be good to see, my fear was with JoHo's knack of
leaving behind standards and not following documentation.  It does
seem that there's a disclaimer which "waives" this worry.

: I bid you welcome to design a better one. I shall happily support you in your
: work and in the spreading of the protocol.
: Until you have released such a protocol, however, I would personally
: appreciate arguments concerning the procotol's pros and cons and not the
: authors'.

As a guess, I'd say you've got little to know idea who JoHo is, not
that that's bad or anything.  Just an observation.  Anyways, this
really isn't important any longer.

Would I _LIKE_ to do one?  _HELL YES_.  I'd like to see, like I said,
a bi-directional windowed SeaLink (do you happen to know what sealink
is?).  Negotiable packet size, the whole works.  With a larger packet
size, SeaLink could easily be more efficient than ZModem.

Unfortunately, I'd like to get NewsManager out, along with other
things I'm working on.  There are only so many things a person can do.
And when they're as behind in getting what they want done out as I am,
they try to avoid pulling another project under their wing.  I'd like
to be working on my UUCP software too, but I don't have time for that
either, and I can't finish that until I've got what I'm working on now
done anyways.

Greg

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From: pooler@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Robert Peter Poole)
Subject: DNET -- where's the whole distribution??? HELP!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:37:22 GMT


Well, I've been hearing a lot of good things and reading a lot about Dnet, so
I decided to try to give it a go.

The problem is, most of the distributions I've seen are missing crucial files
such as NULL-HANDLER and DPIPE-HANDLER (though I suspect the latter is
unnecessary for connection with a UNIX system).

Also, I've heard that there are serious problems getting NF0: to work.

Note that the UNIX side seems to compile just fine.  Anybody have any clue
where I can get the missing files for the Amiga side?  (I found the archive
dnet_missing.lzh, but it doesn't have the handlers in it.)

-- Rob Poole
pooler@rpi.edu
pooler@cs.rpi.edu
From: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ryan K. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: ZOOM Modem questions
Date: 24 Jan 1993 21:42:17 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Distribution: world
Reply-To: 2575brooksr@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <74279@cup.portal.com>, TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>>I just purchased a ZOOM Modem 14.4K with fax capabilities.  I can't seem to
>>get it to work properly with JR-Comm.  Does anyone else have this modem??
>>How do you like it??  How did you configure it??  Also, it is a 14.4K modem,
>>but the term program skips 14.4k, going from 9600 to 19.2K.  I would like to
>>hear from anyone who has had experience with this modem.

High Speed modems take a little bit of getting used to.  You have to set
the computer's baud rate to some value equal to or greater than the speed
of the connection you hope to make.  The modem through hardware handshaking
(make sure CTS/RTS it on and your cable supports it) sends the data at this
higher rate to your computer.   
	If you are using data compression you should pick a higher rate than
the connection.  Ideally, pick the highest rate that your computer can support
well, to make sure you always get the best speed.
	Other than that, I would suggest taking some time to read the manual.
Every HS modem has alot of confusing setting, so just experiment.



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