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From: gpw@sandman.caltech.edu (Glenn Wyne)
Newsgroups: biz.comp.software
Subject: ClearTrend: Power software for investors
Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:20:20 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: world
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                * *         CLEARTREND 1.02         * *
               * * *                               * * *


ClearTrend software is a stock market analysis and stock charting
program developed specifically for the average, but serious investor.
It is available on 3.5" and 5.25" media for DOS machines with VGA/EGA
support.

ClearTrend was designed so that any investor can use its features to
build a portfolio (either in theory or in actual practice) that will
help him/her make money in the markets.  It also provides more power
to the stockbroker or investment advisor to enhance his/her already
extensive knowledge of the markets.

Although there are no guarantees that any method of investing will make
the investor money, I can safely say that users of ClearTrend software
will love using ClearTrend because its benefits are extensive and the
simplicity of its use is compelling.

Once the ClearTrend program is installed on your system, you will be able
to use your modem to get each day's trades for about 9000 stocks (at the
present time your data updates will be shipped to you weekly on diskette)
and then merge the new data with the existing database you received with
the program at purchase.  You may choose to purchase ClearTrend with
either 6 or 12 months of historic data.

To see what ClearTrend "looks and feels" like, send a check or money
order for $20 (US funds) along with your preference of media (3.5" high
density or 5.25" high density) and the new version 1.02 demo disks will
be sent to you promptly.
                                             Glenn Wyne
                                              65 North Allen #209
                                               Pasadena, California  91106

For pricing information, send me email and I will give you a price quote.
By not posting the price outright I am hopefully preventing this posting
from being offensive to internet news users.

The $20 fee can be deducted from the price of the package when you order.

DISCLAIMER:  Employer (Caltech) is not responsible for this posting or
the software (ClearTrend) that I am distributing for Nova Software, Inc.

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Newsgroups: biz.comp.software,comp.text.desktop
From: psmith@alfred.carleton.ca (Peter Smith)
Subject: DOS D.T.P.
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:37:26 GMT

In the near term, I have to stay with the DOS world.  During this time
(6 months to 1 year), I need to be able to do some DTP.  The output
required is from simple things like generating a monthly calendar to
sprucing up the cover and content of short manuals.  I realize that
wordperfect can handle some of this, but I find that line-draw and
accentuation features etc are not its forte (maybe 6.0, but I'm not
holding my breath).

A final stipulation is that the package have a reasonably short
learning curve, as we will undoubtedly get into more sophisticated
software later on, and therefore don't want to invest too much time in
the interim package.

I have heard 2 names that supposedly fit this bill:  Xpress Publisher
and Finesse.  Before I start test-driving anything, I would appreciate
your input regarding these or other products you consider worthy of
consideration.

By the way, I know that PC Mag recently reviewed some high-end
publishing packages (ie: QuarkXpress and FrameMaker), but have they
had any reviews of mid-low range products for DTP over the last, say,
18 months?

Thanks in advance!
Newsgroups: biz.comp.software
From: jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley)
Subject: Joining The E-mail Synopsys User Group (ESNUG)
Organization: The E-mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:50:26 GMT


  If you're using the Synopsys Design Compiler and/or their ATPG product, you 
  might be interested in joining the E-Mail Synopsys Users Group (ESNUG).

  What we are is a group of hardware designers from all over the world who
  wish to trade experiences, bug reports and the techniques that we've
  found that work best in getting a design from a behavioral description
  to a final fully tested product.  This is a grassroots forum independent
  of Synopsys, Inc.

  A Sample of What We Discuss:

	- Known Synopsys Compiler Bugs    - Implementing Boundry Scan

	- Mentor related issues    - EDIF related issues

	- Hierarchical Compliations   - design_analyzer   - JTAG

	- How Various ASIC Vendors Model Their Macros.   - Clock Constraints

	- Using ATPG Tools   - The Best Way To Write State Machines in Verilog

	- Using VHDL   - System Simulation vs. Synopsys Friendly Code

	- Clever Workarounds to Known Pitfalls   - Testing Strategies

  In order to insure an open discussion, but yet keep our respective managers
  happy in having our company's projects remain SECRET, submissions to be 
  posted to the ESNUG mailing list can be stripped of identifying engineers 
  and company names if so requested.

  In addition, to further secure privacy and to avoid e-mail headers that
  are hundreds of names long, each mailing is a batch of singlely addressed 
  e-mail letters.

  If you want to join ESNUG, please send me e-mail to "jcooley@world.std.com"
  saying you wish to join and why.  (Please don't send a copy of this letter
  back to me, I know what you're refering to when you're writing.)

					- John Cooley
					  ESNUG Moderator

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Newsgroups: biz.comp.software
From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Subject: Treximp Ltd. Develops U.S Software in Bangladesh
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:42:43 GMT

The Bangladesh software development firm Treximp Ltd. is currently
developing low-cost software projects in Bangladesh, providing high-level
jobs to BS/MS Computer Science graduates in this developing country.

Such software development projects (references available) involve C, C++,
Windows, NT, and X Windows.  The firm is heavily involved in data entry
and financial applications.

Contact Taq Ahmed, Managing Director, in Lexington, Massachusetts
                   Tel. 617-862-8114 or FAX 617-926-4458.
Newsgroups: biz.comp.software
From: anders882@snake.cs.uidaho.edu ()
Subject: Word Perfect Graphs
Organization: University of Idaho CS Dept.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:06:50 GMT

Please help me if you can...

I need a package that can make graphics and then port it over to a 
Word Perfect graph.

Please tell me what I can use.

Also if this is the wrong place to post this please tell me where.

thanx

anders882@snake.cs.uidaho.edu

Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit
From: larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: questions pertaining to Telebit Worldblazer on a Unix system
Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:20:32 GMT

marc@r-node.pci.on.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:

>	Now, when I say the speeds are atrocious, uutraf (Taylor UUCP
>stats) give me an AVG CPS of 206 after about 300+ files being 
>transferred.

ohh..  You should be getting in the high teens to low 20s, ie: 1500 - 2200
cps transferring binary files using UUCP on the WB modems.  Make sure you
are using hardware only flow control, and that xon/xoff are disabled.  Here
is my configuration:


WorldBlazer - SA - Version LA7.01 - Configuration A
 B1  E1  L1  M1  P   Q2  V1  X0  Y0 
&C1 &D3 &G0 &J0 &L0 &Q0 &R3 &S1 &T5 &X0 
S000:1   S001=0   S002:255 S003=13  S004=10  S005=8   S006=2   S007=60 
S008=2   S009=6   S010=14  S011=70  S012=50  S018=0   S025=5   S026=1  
S038=0   S041:1   S045=0   S046=0   S047=4   S048=0   S050=0   S051:7  
S056=17  S057=19  S058:2   S059=0   S060=0   S061:0   S062=15  S063=0  
S064:1   S068=255 S069=0   S090=0   S092:1   S093=8   S094=1   S100=0  
S104=0   S105=1   S111:30  S112=1   S113=126 S114=0   S115=0   S151=4  
S155=0   S180=2   S181=1   S183=25  S190=1   S191:6   S253=10  
OK

here is /etc/gettydefs:

WBL# B50 HUPCL OPOST ONLCR TAB3 BRKINT IGNPAR IXON -IXANY ISTRIP ECHO ECHOE ECHOK ICANON ISIG CS8 CREAD # B50 HUPCL OPOST ONLCR TAB3 BRKINT IGNPAR IXON -IXANY ISTRIP ECHO ECHOE ECHOK ICANON ISIG CS8 CREAD #login: #WBL


here is /etc/inittab:

Ca12:23:respawn:/etc/getty -r -t 30 /dev/term/b12m WBL
Ca13:23:respawn:/etc/getty -r -t 30 /dev/term/b13m WBL
Ca14:23:respawn:/etc/getty -r -t 30 /dev/term/b14m WBL
Ca15:23:respawn:/etc/getty -r -t 30 /dev/term/b15m WBL


here is /etc/uucp/Devices:

WB /dev/term/b12s,M - 50 WBfast
WB /dev/term/b13s,M - 50 WBfast
WB /dev/term/b14s,M - 50 WBfast
WB /dev/term/b15s,M - 50 WBfast

here is /etc/uucp/Dialers:

WBslow =,-, "" ATZ OK ATS0=0X2S111=0DP\T NNECT\s2400 \K\d
WBfast =W-, "" ATZ OK ATS0=0X1S50=255DP\T FAST-\c-FAST \d
-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.use.com
keeper of the Gator                                   uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Xref: sparky biz.comp.telebit:1161 comp.dcom.modems:20067
From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit purchases Octocom Systems
Date: 28 Jan 93 05:25:16 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:

> PEP is a fundamentally half-duplex protocol, which makes it almost
> useless for TCP/IP or any other sort of low-latency application.

TCP/IP doesn't require low latency.  We've got links in-house with 2-second
rtt's, and while they're no fun to use, they work fine.  TCP/IP makes full
and efficient use of the line as long as your window size is at least twice
the latency times bandwidth, which isn't hard at all on a phone circuit.

> TCP/IP cannot effectively be spoofed by the modems, either, because
> they would have to ensure end-to-end data correctness -- something

Spoofing is unnecessary, and is a waste, if the formula above holds.  The
only reason spoofing is so great for UUCP is because the default window is
192 bytes, which only gives you room for an 80 ms latency at PEP speeds.

> that a link between two routers can't do.  Unless Telebit has some
> sort of full-duplex PEP waiting in the wings (perhaps a version that
> dynamically splits the available bandwidth between the two modems),

Isn't turbo-PEP a full-duplex protocol (now I'm guessing)?  And, you don't
need to split the bandwidth if you suppress echoing across the line.  This
is what V.32bis does, after all.

-- 
Tom Fitzgerald   Wang Labs       fitz@wang.com   "I went to the universe today;
1-508-967-5278   Lowell MA, USA                   It was closed...."
From: paul@eunet.co.at (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit
Subject: Re: Anguish with T3000 settings
Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:49:52 +0100
Organization: EUnet EDV Dienstleistungs GmbH A-1010 Wien Austria
NNTP-Posting-Host: hp4at.eunet.co.at

In article <1jmqtpINNf0h@rodan.UU.NET> ziegast@uunet.uu.net (Eric W. Ziegast) writes:
>I had a similar experience, but it was all my fault.  The first time
>I played with a T3000, I wanted it to behave exactly like the T2500s
>I already had installed.  Using T2500 mentality, I started with "AT&F"
>and built from scratch each of the settings, based on my T2500 settings

That was exactly my thinking.  I guess it must be my fault too!

>Then I gave up and used one of their precooked defaults: AT&F3.

I'd better try that.  Thanks!

>There's always Telebit Tech Support too.

Are they one the net?  I guess I could mail to support@telebit.com.
:-)
-- 
Paul Gillingwater
Home system: paul@actrix.co.at (Waffle)
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit
From: rick@tessi.com (Rick Lindsley)
Subject: WB rom versions, and uucp problems
Reply-To: rick@eaglet.rain.com
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:07:45 GMT

I have one of the earlier WorldBlazers, and my rom version is 5.00W.  I
know someone with a newer WorldBlazer has 5.01, but I don't know what
the differences are, so it's hard to tell if I'm really that much out
of date, functionally.

I've been experiencing some intermittent, rare uucp problems where a
data file gets transmitted to me, but the leading X bytes (don't know
what X is precisely, but it's less than, oh, 512) are missing and then
the connection ends. On my side, uucico thinks it has a complete file,
so apparently the spoofing convinced it it does. The other side does
not think it delivered a complete file, so when it starts up again, it
tries to resend it. uucico complains that that file already exists
(causing path-denied mail to be sent on the other side), and that
particular file transfer fails. However, subsequent transfers,
including the relevant X. file does (or did) succeed, so the
conversation continues.  The mail I eventually get is then the
truncated version.

On the sending side ("their" side) the message is:

rick eaglet eagletN30ad (1/26-11:18:19,3922,1) BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL)

On the receiving side ("my" side) the message is:

uucp tessi  (1/26-11:15:39,24922,1) BAD READ (expected ')

It's hard to tell if the problem is in the WorldBlazer, the remote
modem (which I believe is a T2500) or in uucico. I suspect one of the
modems, and I further suspect mine since nobody else is having this
problem with this site.

Does this problem sound familiar to anyone, and/or should I be
contacting Telebit about new roms?

Rick
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit,comp.dcom.modems
From: larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Telebit purchases Octocom Systems
Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:12:09 GMT


CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 20 (NB) -- Shortly
before Bill Clinton became America's 42nd President, Telebit
announced a transition of its own, saying it has signed a letter
of intent to acquire Octocom Systems for stock and become more of
a local area networking company.

The merged companies will have sales of about $80-100 million,
Octocom spokesman Brian D. Cohen told Newsbytes. A lot of other
questions, like where the new company will be based and who will
run it, are still be be decided. "We're still working on
operating plans, and we hope details will be announced in about a
month."

Other modem makers, notably US Robotics, have in recent months
announced plans to get more heavily into local area networking,
and Telebit itself already makes routers, which are devices that
pass data between and among LANs. The acquisition of Octocom,
which specializes in dial and leased line modems and flexible
network management systems, gives it an immediate place at the
LAN market table.

The potential of the market is revealed by a statement from 900
Support, which sells computer support services by the minute. As
the company began its fourth year of business, it said it is
getting a surge of calls from people connecting to LANs for the
first time. Weekend traffic is up 30 percent recently, with many
callers buying their gear from high-volume computer superstores
only to have trouble making it work on their days off, the
company said.

Proposed terms of the deal will give Octocom about a 40 percent
stake in the merged companies, it will get 5 million shares of
Telebit for its current stock. Telebit has 7.5 million shares
outstanding. Telebit CEO Michael K. Ballard emphasized the idea
of remote LAN access solutions, and Octocom's international
distribution network, which links to over 60 countries, as being
behind the deal. Telebit gets 80 percent of its revenues in the
US. He also noted that LAN routing over public phone networks
represents a perfect market for his company's PEP technology,
which can run data faster than standard V.32bis modems but is
incompatible with them, as well as its coming V.FAST standard
modems, which would run data at 19,200 bits/second.

Completion of the merger is still subject to execution of
definitive documents, approval by the board of directors of both
companies, opinions regarding the accounting treatment of the
transaction as a pooling of interests, and regulatory and
shareholder approval.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19930120/Press Contact: Telebit, Steven A.
Hess, 408/734-4333; Octocom Systems, Brian D. Cohen, 508/441-
2181)


-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.use.com
keeper of the Gator                                   uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit
From: ronal@telebit.com (Ronal Thompson)
Subject: Re: Worldblazer stand alone to rack
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:46:37 GMT

larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

>Is it possible to modify the WB stand alone modem to 
>fit into the Telebit Rack?  Is it by chance as simple
>as a backplane to mount the PCB on?

The rack mount product has a dual connector that only fits
the rack, and the rack is not able to accecpt WorldBlazers
directly.

Ron

 
ronal@telebit.com                These ain't no opinions but my own!
R.THOMPSON65  GEnie                                     
MJWG99A  Prodigy    and remember,  what you think of me is none of my business
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit,comp.dcom.modems
From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: Telebit purchases Octocom Systems
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:35:43 GMT
Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL

In article <1k3a3dINN51d@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>In article <C1FC09.1xu@trauma.rn.com> larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>[Larry quotes a press release from Telebit]
>>Telebit CEO Michael K. Ballard ... also noted that LAN routing over
>>public phone networks represents a perfect market for his company's
>>PEP technology, which can run data faster than standard V.32bis
>>modems but is incompatible with them, as well as its coming V.FAST
>>standard modems, which would run data at 19,200 bits/second.
>
>How unfortunate it is that the CEO of Telebit doesn't understand how
>the modems his own company makes work.

Don't bet on it (Hi Mike) ;-)

>PEP is a fundamentally half-duplex protocol, which makes it almost
>useless for TCP/IP or any other sort of low-latency application.
>TCP/IP cannot effectively be spoofed by the modems, either, because
>they would have to ensure end-to-end data correctness -- something
>that a link between two routers can't do.  Unless Telebit has some
>sort of full-duplex PEP waiting in the wings (perhaps a version that
>dynamically splits the available bandwidth between the two modems),
>V.32bis is still going to be the protocol of choice for use in dialup
>IP applications.

This is not true.  V.32bis modems frequently have latencies in the
<hundreds> of milliseconds round-trip.  PEP <can> be faster than that 
with careful work.  It just might be with TURBO-PEP.  Certainly, with 
large enough windows on your TCP connections, this can be a win.

I am going to have to check this out with plain PEP.  There is nothing, by
the way, preventing them technically from splitting the bandwidth between
the ends from what I can see of the protocol.

>It's also premature to say that V.FAST modems will "run data at
>19.2Kbps", since the V.FAST committee hasn't even decided on a
>modulation or a bit rate yet.  Most likely, V.FAST will support
>multiple bit rates depending on the quality of the line being used,
>with the highest speed somewhere between 20Kbps and 26Kbps.  But
>nothing is final yet, and it's certainly presumptuous to say that
>TurboPEP is faster than V.FAST.  (I should also note that V.FAST will
>be xxKbps *full* duplex, whereas TurboPEP is 23Kbps *half* duplex.
>As such, V.FAST is really providing somewhere around 40Kbps (or more)
>of total throughput, instead of TurboPEP's 23Kbps total throughput.
>And V.FAST will actually be useful for low-latency applications, since
>it is full duplex and thus doesn't require any line turnarounds.)

This is correct.

--
Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900]

Xref: sparky biz.comp.telebit:1152 comp.dcom.modems:19901 comp.sys.sun.admin:10685 comp.sys.sun.hardware:7056
From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: biz.comp.telebit,comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Users getting locked out by Zoom Modem screwing up T2500!
Date: 23 Jan 1993 12:58:38 -0500
Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: plts.uucp

I have a TB2500 (ROM GF7.03-T2500SA) connected to a Sun3 at home.
People dial in all day no problem.  System hasn't been changed
in months.

However, I now have a user that has a Zoom modem (fax compatible) which
they got for Christmas.  Every once in a while they get line noise
(usually includes a "{" or two).  Sometimes, however, the modem
completely locks up and they exit their terminal program.

What happens then is their modem disconnects properly, but my port is
hung.  Their process is "<exiting>" so I can't kill it.  Power-cycling
the modem doesn't help.  Only a reboot fixes it.  Nobody can dial in
until the machine is rebooted.

However, UUCP is still able to dial out!  Mail/news gets through but my
users (and ME if I'm remote) GET LOCKED OUT!

Another clue:  CTS, DTR, MR are usually on when a getty is running.
DTR goes off while a getty is killed, but comes back when the new getty
runs.  When this problem happens, the DTR light stays off.

Here are my modem registers.  If anyone can help, it would be
appreciated!  Notice that I run with a locked interface at 19.2kpbs,
auto-detect the incoming modem speed, and turn off MNP, MNP compressing
and PEP compress (I like to keep things simple, plus most of the files
I send are already compressed).

E1 F1 M1 Q4 P V1 W0 X0 Y0 &P0 &T4     Version GF7.03-T2500SA
S00:002 S01=000 S02=043 S03=013 S04=010 S05=008 S06=002 S07=040 S08=002 S09=006
S10=007 S11=070 S12=050 S18=000 S25=005 S26=000 S38=000 
S41=000 S45=000 S47=004 S48=000 S49=000 
S50=000 S51:005 S52:002 S54:004 S55=000 S56=017 S57=019 S58:002 S59=000 
S61=150 S62=003 S63=001 S64=000 S65=000 S66:001 S67=000 S68:002 S69=000 
S90=000 S91=000 S92=000 S93=008 S94=001 S95=000 S96:000 S97=000 S98:000 
S100=000 S101=000 S102=000 S104=000 S105=001 S106=000 S107=020 
S110:000 S111:030 S112=001 
S121=000 S130:005 S131:001 
S150=000 S151=004 S152=001 S153=001 S154=000 S155=000 S157=000 S158=000 
S160=010 S161=020 S162=002 S163=003 S164=007 S169=000 S255=000 

Thanks in advance!
Tom Limoncelli
-- 
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Moderator of ne-social-motss and the Drew University Alumni/ae mailing lists.
"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is
right with America." --Bill Clinton's inaugural address, 1/20/93