HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: glen@Cayman.COM (Glen B. Glater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Gack! IRIX 4.0.1 NFS permits creation of directory entries with '/' in name!
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:26:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: na
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: pasek@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM's message of 6 Apr 92 17:43:31 GMT

In article <1416@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> pasek@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM
(Michael A. Pasek) writes:


   In article <1992Apr2.123511.8311@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
   mark@cita.toronto.edu writes:

   While translation of "offending" file-name characters is not
   possible (as far as I know) with the GatorShare software, you can
   _prevent_ those files from being created.  In one of the windows in
   the GatorKeeper software ("NFS Servers" ?), you can specify
   "illegal" characters.  I have our GatorBox set up so that "/", "(",
   and ")" (and maybe a couple of others) are "illegal" characters.
   What happens when you try to copy a file with one of these
   "illegal" characters to you Unix server is that the Finder detects
   a "disk error" of some sort (I'm certainly not technically
   knowledgeable here...), so that the copy operation fails with the
   "The file xxxxx could not be written and was skipped" dialog.
   Suggestion: have your GatorBox administrator specify that "/" is an
   "illegal" file-name character.


   M. A. Pasek Software Support NCR NPG (612) 638-7668 Development
   Support 2700 N. Snelling Ave.  pasek@ncrons.StPaul.NCR.COM
   Roseville, MN 55113

As I said in an earlier posting, translation of the "offending" character is
a feature of our software, starting with version 2.0.  If you'd like more 
information, look for my previous post or send mail to support@cayman.com.

Also, look for Version 2.1 coming soon to a GatorBox/GatorStar near you!

Glen
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	Technical Support Engineer		Fax:   (617) 494-5167         
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From: erik@dexter.psych.umn.edu (Erik J. Arthur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: X client software
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:26:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: news2.1992Apr14.022626.5434
Organization: University of Minnesota


Hi,

I am interested in getting some X client software for the Macintosh, but I have no idea
what packages are currently available or what you need to run them.  I have a IIfx with
an apple ethertalk card and want to use an SGI 4D35 as my X server.  I am familar with
several packages that will do this on an IBM.  Could anyone send me information on
who is distributing this type of software?

Thanks a lot,


Erik Arthur	erik@dexter.psych.umn.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.comm:4616 comp.windows.x:9942 comp.unix.aix:5356 comp.sys.mac.apps:7891 comp.windows.x.motif:3181
From: fettig@sol.cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Fettig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.windows.x,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: MacX cannot keep up with incoming traffic?
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:33:39 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm


   Hello John!

cary@jove.Colorado.EDU (John R. Cary) writes:
: I have developed a Motif application for an RS6000/320H running AIX3.1.6 that
: periodically plots one point inside a Scrolled Window widget.  The calculation
: producing this one point can be very fast, producing 1000's per second.  This
: code runs fine on the RS6000 when it is used as both client and server.
: 
: My problem arises when I use my Mac IIci running MacX as a server in System
: 7.0.1.  The two
: machines are connected by thin-net ethernet.  This line eventually terminates
: at a repeater.  When the RS6000 is really cranking out the points, eventually
: (after 3000-18000 points)
: the associated windows in MacX stop responding.

I had a similar problem with MacX on a Mac IIfx (System 6.?.?) .
My program just printed some strings and drew some lines and then did 
an XFlush(). The program worked OK with the Suns and the NCD X-terminals 
we had, but hung with MacX after a few XFlush()'s. 
Taking out XFlush stopped this. Definitly not a feature.

: When I run one RS6000 as client and another as server, I get no failures.
: 
: When I insert a sleep command into my code so that no more than 100 to 250
: points are plotted per second, I get no failures even with MacX on the II ci.
: 
: BTW - I realize that plotting single points is very network inefficient, but
: it is necessary for other reasons.

Perhaps the problem is caused by the underlying tcp-ip software: The debugger
showed the program waiting for a select-call to return. But having two interrupt driven programs running at once is perhaps too much for the Mac. It's nearly
 multi-tasking! (-:) 

: 
: Other ideas?
: -- 
Yup! Trash the software, I'll take the Mac. (-:)

: --------------------------
: John R. Cary                                  cary@boulder.colorado.edu
: to May 15: High Alt. Obs., National Center for Atmospheric Research,
:            Boulder, CO 80307-3000; ph. (303)497-1555; fax (303)497-1137

	Thomas


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From: Chris McNeil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: AppleShare using an NFS volume?
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:55:56 GMT
Reply-To: cjm@unb.ca
Distribution: global
Organization: University of New Brunswick

In article <1992Apr8.150312.10196@lmpsbbs.mot.com> butler@quest.comm.mot.com
(Jim Butler) writes:
>
>
>	Hello everyone,
>
>	Has anyone NFS mounted a volume on an AppleShare server and then
>published it so that others with AppleShare can access it?  Catch my drift?
>In this way other users with AppleShare can access the NFS drive via the
>AppleShare server, and if everything is Ethernet-ed the speed might be
>acceptable.
>
>	On a similar note, has anyone used file sharing with System 7 to
>publish an NFS mounted volume?
>
>
>	Jim
>
>
>--
>Jim Butler (butler@Quest.comm.mot.com)
>
I got this to work if I used Easyshare to republish the volume but not if I
used system 7's file sharing to publish it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jackb@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jack Brindle)
Subject: Re: Help Wanted W/ APPLE LISA & Modem    Pleeeeze?
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:25:54 GMT

In article <46605@dime.cs.umass.edu> kim@unix1.cs.umass.edu (John Kim) writes:
>Hi.  My friend has an Apple Lisa and no documentation.  He would like to
>use a modem with it.
>
>1.  Where can we find a cable to go from Lisa's ports to a modem?  It
>seems to have 25-pin parallel and serial ports.
>
>2.  Where can we find the pin-out information?  A local Mac shop said
>they'd make a cable for us if we get the pin-outs.

The Lisa has "real" RS-232 pin-out ports. This means that a "normal"
RS-232 cable will work between the Lisa and a modem. In other words
you really don't need a special cable. Just make sure the Lisa end
is male, and not female like DOS machines need. The modem end will
probably need to be male also. If I remember right, I used a 25 pin
ribbon cable with male DB-25 connectors to connect the Lisa to a
modem.

>3.  Which communication software works on a Lisa?  Do mac programs work
>on it?  Do I have to do anything special with it?

The only native Lisa terminal program I ever saw was LisaTerminal, part
of Apple's 7/7 software system. I do remember a small program Apple
whipped up to transfer Mac programs from the Lisa to the Mac for testing.
Lisa, as you might remember, was the original (and for a time, only)
development system for the Mac.

The other thing you might look at is Sun Remarketing's version of
MacWorks (called MacWorks Plus). It allows most Mac programs to work
on the Lisa (aka Macintosh XL), and it even works with System 6.0.2!
I have used several terminal programs on the Lisa in this environment.

>4.  Where can we find general help with using Lisa?

Try Sun Remarketing, if they are still around. Classify the Lisa as
orphaned - Very few people support it these days. There are some places
that provide upgrades of one type or another, such as a 68020 CPU board.
I'll leave it to others on the net to provide names & phone numbers for
these folks, especially since I no longer have that info. In fact, a 
question to anyone who can answer - Is Sun Remarketing still in
business? The phone number listed in my copy of MacWorks Plus is no
longer in use.


Jack Brindle
ham radio: wa4fib
internet: jackb@mdd.comm.mot.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: leonardr@ccs.itd.umich.edu
Subject: Re: ResEdit Revelations in Microphone II 4.0
Originator: leonardr@diddley.ccs.itd.umich.edu
Organization: Campus Computing Sites, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 16:32:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.114027.1@tesla.njit.edu> erh0362@tesla.njit.edu writes:
>> 	VarWatcher was an XCMD that I wrote orignally as a test bed for
>> the variable access XCMD callbacks (same ones that HC 2.0 does).  It was
>> similiar in concept to the one used in Hypercard (which will work in MPII
>> as well, if you copy all the correct resources ;-), but I never finished it
>> as the product took precedence.
>
>	This sounds promising. Could you give us some details about which 
>resources we should copy from HyperCard 2.0? And how we might go about using 
>it? Alternately is there a good reference to using VarWatcher in Hypercard 2.0?
>I could probably hack it from there.
> 
	I'd have to do dig up my notesj as to the resources from HC needed -
but if you wnat to play around with VarWatcher, just do a simple DoXCMD on it
and it will bring up a semi-ugly window with the list of variables you've
got defined and their values.  You may even be able to edit them - I forget if
I had that working or not...

>> 	Hopefully someone at SVC will "pick it up" and finish it up.
>
>	Agreed, but there seems to be so much other stuff for them to do; and 
>with two of the main programmers elsewhere today I wouldn't count on it. Are 
>Allen Foster and david Rowland still working on the product?  I know you and 
>David Newman have moved on.
>
	Allan Foster also left.  He's now at Apple.

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Director of Advanced Technology   AppleLink: MACgician
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From: timl@maxwell.concordia.ca (Tim Lapin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Routing Appletalk across IP gateways
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:51:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Hi all,

We also have a non-trivial appletalk net using Cisco routers.  The setup is as
follows:

   Several Phase II only FastPaths with one phase II zone  (default)
   One Phase I/II transition bridge FastPath
   Several Phase I only FastPaths.
   Phase II default zone name is:  "CompServ Ether 2"
   Phase II net range is:           9000-9000

Practically all FastPaths are either genuine "5"s or upgraded "4"s.  There
remain but a few non-upgraded "4"s on our net.

Cisco routers are routing phase I and bridging phase II.  The reason is that
not all our Ciscos have been upgraded to route phase II.  Their data are:

  GS S/W on relevant routers:   8.0 (13)   and   8.2 (3)
  System Bootstrap:             4.1 (4)    and   4.3 (2)
  Microcode level:              1.4,  1.5,  1.7,  1.8


Now for the problem:

Although our FastPath is the transition bridge, we cannot see any remote Phase
II services and the remote phase II FastPaths cannot see our Phase II service.
In fact, no phase II net can see another phase II net's services.

The phase I nets are unaffected.  That is, all phase I services are visible
to all phase I nets.

What are we doing wrong?


The following things should be noted:

1)     All phase II services are on nets with either a genuine "5" or upgraded
"4".  The ROMS are level 5.1, using KSTAR 9.1.

2)     One phase II FastPath is on the other end of a 56Kb link.  Most of our
mac net is on a fiber hub.


Any help is appreciated.  Please respond by e-mail.
-- 
Tim Lapin
Computing Services     Concordia University     Mtl, Que, Canada    H3G 1R8
timl@maxwell.concordia.ca    Tel:  (514) 848-7639      FAX:  (514) 848-7622
From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telpass--Where?
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:16:19 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

pkz0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PETER K. ZEITLER) writes:

>Could someone lend me a hand and tell me where I might find Telpass (I think
>that's the name of the application--it's the app that in conjunction with NCSA
>Telnet allows you to password-protect your mac). Thanks.

Try anonymous ftp to ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu in the Mac/Telnet/Telnet2.4 directory.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Mike Alexander <Mike.Alexander@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: MacTCP and Slip ?
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:22:38 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan, ITD - Research Systems
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2

>More info please! Is VersaTerm's SLIP tool compatabile with all 
>applications that use MacTCP, or is like BYU Telnet with SLIP tossed in, 
>and you can just get a SLIP connection for VersaTerm?

It's a new LAP layer for MacTCP.  This lets you use everything that
supports MacTCP, at least in principle.  Because a SLIP line is so much
slower than normal MacTCP connections the timing of things is changed
and some code which makes assumptions about timing doesn't work. I've
tried all the  applications I could get my hands on, and the only one
that consistently gave me trouble so far was NewsWatcher. However, since
I had the source for it, I was able to fix it. Nuntius worked fine, so I
have be using it for a news reader.

It has a simple, but effective, scripting facility which lets you
automatically connect to your SLIP server. This works even if the IP
address isn't known until after you dial (as is the case for me). It als
supports header compression, although I haven't been able to try that
since my SLIP server doesn't support it.

Mike Alexander                Internet:  Mike.Alexander@umich.edu
University of Michigan        AppleLink: UMICH
ITD - Research Systems        AOL:       MAlexander
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: Updating White Knight...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Delaware/Department of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:11:00 GMT

In article <11321@mindlink.bc.ca>, Dave_McClean@mindlink.bc.ca (Dave McClean) writes...
>>Just recently a White Knight11.12->11.13 updater was placed
>>on sumex.  Well, I downloaded it but can't figure out what to do
>>with it.  It unstuffs to be some file with type 'PUPI' or something
>>like that.  What the hell am I supposed to do with this file ...

>You need PUP Decryptor 2.0.    Archie says:  [ Canadian and OZ sites ...]

A copy of the Pup Decryptor was also included in the WK 11.10->11.12
updater, which is still available on sumex-aim.stanford.edu in 
/info-mac/util.

-- Bill (johnston@me.udel.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: add@owlnet.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham)
Subject: CAP and Sys 7
Keywords: CAP 7 Sys7
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:36:42 GMT


Okay, I've seen this several times and never paid attention.  Now I need it,
and can't find it.  Where is the FAQ?  It's not in my current spool of
articles.

What do you need to change to get CAP to properly print Sys7 printer driver
created files?  Mail or Post as you feel.  
-- 
Darren Dunham                                 add@owlnet.rice.edu
MicroConsultant                                   Rice University
(What is that? A small consultant?)                   Houston, TX
Any resemblance between real opinions and my post is coincidental
From: Mike_Steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Supra V.32bis (Disappointment)
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:07:08 GMT
Organization: Claris Corporation

In article <Dk6XiB3w165w@spectrx.saigon.com>, aaron@spectrx.saigon.com (Aaron Anderer) writes:
> 
> sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
> 
> > In article <1992Apr7.180559.10267@clark.edu> gsnow@clark.edu (Gary Snow) writ
> > But it would've been just as easy for Apple to stick all the pins in
> > there.  If a Super Serial Card for the Apple II (design dates to the
> > early 80s) can provide all the port signals, and if every serial board
> > out for IBM clones can provide all the signals, why did Apple have to
> > cheat on the Mac?
> From reading the manual to my mac classic(I don't use it much, I have an
> IBM to do real work on), that the serial ports on the mac are RS-422 ports
> From what I know, this is quite different than RS-232C stuff.

>From what I understand (and I admit that I may be wrong), RS-422 is a superset
of RS-232-C, and handles everything that 232 handles.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory and Comm programs
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 01:00:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr1.215531.25454@nntp.uoregon.edu> dise@vector.uoregon.edu (David Ellsworth-Casti) writes:
>I'm running System 7.0 on a Macintosh SE/30 5/170 system, and I'd like to use  
>virtual memory.  I have a high speed modem and use it very frequently (read:  
>every few hours).  Unfortunately, both ZTerm and Microphone die horribly when  
>VM is turned on.  The VT100 emulation goes all to pieces (e.g. elm can't draw  
>to the screen properly), and text gets smashed and garbled -- even if I save it  
>from the stream to a file.  Needless to say, downloads are impossible under any  
>protocol.  Essentially, the two programs become utterly useless.

What versions of these programs are you using?  ZTERM is up to version
0.9, and Microphone II is up to version 4.0.
-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
From: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt D Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NFS/Share & MacPathWay & aliases
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:38:21 GMT
Reply-To: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt D Baumann)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation

In article <1992Apr11.095333.10951@husc3.harvard.edu>, 
miranker@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew Miranker) writes:
> Intercon's NFS/Shares is superb.  We already had TCP/IP running

Thanks! :-)

> 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.  
> 

This may be changing soon.  But we really don't want to go making calls to 
things that are not documented with several thousand copies of the package 
out there, it would cost us an arm and a leg if we guess wrong and Apple 
changes something to make our "hack" break. :-)

We kinda end up in a no win situation.  We are working on fixes, however.

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

I don't even know if they handle alias's to begin with?

Thanks for your support!

Kurt Baumann                  Creators of fine TCP/IP Products
InterCon Systems            For the Macintosh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jhl@naif.jpl.nasa.gov (Jay H. Lieske)
Subject: Re: TheNews news reader
Reply-To: jhl@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:26:56 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.070525.14851@unixg.ubc.ca> Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca
(Sundar) writes:
>To continue this thread, let me chip in with a few TheNews experiences. >It 
>has routinely caused heavy crashes on a IIcx running Sys7.0 (before and 
>after tuneup 1.1), the most common being a 'Bus Error' which always 
>...

	I've been using TheNews v 2.1 without a problem on a IIfx.  I used to have
difficulties, but I set up the options the way I want them and then LOCK the
program.  Ever since doing that locking step things have been great.  Unless
it's locked, the program seems to want to walk on itself sometimes.

Jay Lieske                                            jhl@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
From: 91angell@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Thanks to all
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:30:30 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

I want to thank all of those who dropped me a note letting me know
where to find an Unzip program. It is nice to have experts take a
few minutes to answer questions.

V.C. Angell
English Department
Western Michigan University
From: fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Help desperately needed with Shiva Config
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:22:02 GMT
Reply-To: fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu
Organization: University of Fairbanks, Alaska...no wait, that's not right...
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a3

Thank you very much for the responses I did receive.  However, I must
admit to some major egg on my face right now.

After the lab aide gave me version 3.6.6 of the Shiva drivers and more
or less indicated that that was all he had, I come to find out that they
crashed under System 6.  From there, I made this post, then sent e-mail
to him telling him what was wrong.  The next day, he gave me version 3.1
of the drivers, and they work just fine under System 6.

So, many apologies for wasting the bandwidth, although I did receive
some helpful advice nonetheless.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Bill Burns <wdburns@mtu.edu>
Subject: Re: Installing Network software?  Help?
Organization: CCLI Lab, MTU
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 19:40:57 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system