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From: dale@ntg.com (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Does GfxBase X support Xremote?
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:49:49 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

In akerman@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman) writes:
>We have a new dial-in system here which offers SLIP, and something called
>xremote, which I assume is a low-bandwidth X protocol.  Does GfxBase Xwindows
>for the Amiga support such a protocol?

The current release (4.1) of X11 for the Amiga does not support Xremote.
When release 6 of X11 becomes available we plan on supporting the new
LBX protocol that will come with that. We do support slip/compressed
slip now with beta as225 software.

Dale Luck
GfxBase
>Richard J. Akerman   | Akerman@QUCIS.QueensU.Ca    +--------------------------
From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 6 Sep 92 22:54:48 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: JRComm???

jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>>One question, though.  Are there any plans for bi-directional
>>transfer protocols?

>  Sorry to say, no.  I'd love to implement one, and I've toyed with the idea

  Assuming your XPR handling was done well, there will be bi-directional
protocols for your users to use soon enough.  I myself am not going to
sit around, and if someone else doesn't beat me to it, I'll have
done soon after the release of version 1 of Welmat.

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From: thumper@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Chris Mojica)
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:24:03 GMT

In article <abeech.716337691@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes:
>Anyone know of a commercial or PD comms package that will correctly emulate
>VT220 and VT340 terminals?  I need to connect to a Sun and use Word Perfect.
>The VT100 and VT102 emulations are not suitable for this type of work.

I'm pretty sure that JR Comm supports VT220 but I have yet to find a term
program that supports VT340.


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From: levi@cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: DNET remote connections
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:06:08 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

I followed the advice about using DNETHOST that was posted the other
day.  Now I get this message:
	DOpen: Error 0
Anybody seen this before?  Thanks.

-Dave Levi  levi@cs.utk.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
Subject: DNet & niftyterm (Re: Why can't I find one decent term program?)
Keywords: terminal
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 08:14:18 GMT

Yes, I'm replying to my own post...

In article <1992Sep8.024138.28616@wuecl.wustl.edu> amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello) writes:
>My requirement are few and simple:
>
>It must be able to use a window on the Workbench screen.
>It must be able to use any non-proportional font.
>It must support VT100, or at least ANSI, emulation.
>It must provide for file transfers.

The combination of DNet and niftyterm, both of which can be found in
wuarchive:/systems/amiga/comms/network/dnet, satisfies all my needs.
It's really slick.  Multiple sessions and background file transfers is
very nice.  The only drawback is that it's quite slow, but I should be
getting a v.32bis modem in a couple of months, which will help greatly.

Question for those using DNet and niftyterm:

When I use the -s option of dnet, as in "-snifty" (where nifty is a
hard link to niftyterm sitting in the same directory as fterm), dnet
reports "Unable to connect".  But then when I run nifty myself, it
works fine.  Without the -s option, dnet starts the fterm successfully.
So what's the problem?

Thanks,
AMC
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From: peterk@foetus.syd.sgi.oz.au (Peter Kerney)
Subject: TERM 2.2b and Xmodem transfers
Reply-To: peterk@foetus (Peter Kerney)
Organization: Silcon Graphics, Sydney, Australia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 04:52:43 GMT

Hi there everyone.

I am running 'term 2.2b (14.5.92)'. I used to be able to transfer files
from my UNIX machine using Xmodem protocol (I think).

Now, whenever I try and transfer, as soon as the 'transfer status' window
opens up the Amiga gets a software failuse #8000 0004 and I have to reboot.

Anyone had this experience. I have checked my 'stack', run from WBench
and shell, removed all my resident programs etc.

Taa, PeterK.
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From: Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: protocols, speeds, what are V42bis, etc..
Date: 13 Sep 92 03:32:43 GMT
Organization: MangaZone Advanced Services, Rome - ITALY

In a message dated Sat 12 Sep 92  4:38, Paulk@terapin.com (paul Kienitz)
wrote:

 PK> What on earth does the word "bis" actually mean as a word?  Is it
 PK> French or something?

It is italian (actually latin ;-) and it can be translated in "do it again"
and some other set of wrds, basicalli means that something has been done
again.  In the case of the V42Bis (as well as the V22Bis) it is wrongly
used, since the same thing as the predecessor did not happen.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Date: 15 Sep 92 01:49:59 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>   No, the 240s are color.  Believe me, I know; I used to have to use the 
>damn things every day, and I still have to use one occasionally when the real
>computers inthe labs are being used.  VT240s may have been sold with mono
>monitors at one time, but most of the 240s here are color.  The 340s have
>vastly better resolution and color capability from the 240; better color and
>resolution, in fact, than the Amiga 3000.

  Please keep your incessant whinings about the Amiga in c.s.a.a.  Better yet,
keep it to yourself...

  -jack-
From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: DO NOT BUY A GVP PHONE PAK VFX!!!
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:24:32 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.comm
Subject: DO NOT BUY A GVP PHONE PAK VFX!!!!!!!
Distribution: world
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I took delivery of a Phone Pak VFX yesterday.  Plugged it in, installed the
software, and hooked up the phone lines.  I then activated the software and    
attempted to dial in from the local phone.  THE MACHINE CRASHED!!!  10-15
more attempts at this, from the local phone, and having a friend call in,
all yielded the same results.  Sometimes part of the outgoing message would
play, sometimes not.  But it never was able to record a message.  Since it
was late, and the GVP service line was closed, I decided to try some other  
stuff.  I followed the manual and attempted to record an outgoing message--
THE MACHINE CRASHED!!!!!!  When I rebooted, DH0: was not validated.  So, I
had to spend some quality time with my machine and get that fixed.  

I then attempted to send a fax.  Nothing fancy, just 1 line of text that read
"This is a test".  I selected the fax number, picked the fax file, and told it
to go.  The machine dialed the number, and the fax machine connected.  The
machine started to send the fax (JOY-Something worked  I thought)

	THE MACHINE CRASHED AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

I called GVP customer support and talked to them today.  Seems that the board
was never tested with a PP&S 68040 card!!!!  It works with a GVP 040, but
the technician "thought" that it was probably a conflict with the PP&S board.

Unfortunately I can't try it without the 040 board, because I only have
1meg of CHIP ram on the motherboard and Phone Pak needs 2 megs of ram 
minimum to work.

So I told the guy that I would put the card in my 6 meg 3000 and try it out.

"Uhh, your 3000 has to have 16 bit ram in it for Phone Pak to work--due to
a flaw in the Ramsey chip." ^^^^^^ He replied.   


16 BIT RAM?????? in a 3000?  How many people out there have 2 megs of 16 bit
ram in a 3000?


I aske if I could talk to an engineer.

"All of the people that deal with the Phone Pak are in Pasadena at the moment."


AAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH


So, unless you have a GVP 040 in your 2000, or an 030/020/000 equiped 2000, I
would stay away from this product.


Jeff Hanna
Studio J Video Productions
PO Box 3086 
West Lafayette IN 47906

(317) 743-2983

InterNet: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
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From: hamster@werple.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Zmodem uploads @ 19200
Date: 5 Sep 92 06:22:59 GMT
Organization: werple public-access UNIX, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.apana.org.au

stephen@csd.uu.se (Stephen Cooper) writes:

>Hello,
>  I'm trying to get my old A1000 to work on our local serial network here
>at the university.  I'm running it at 19200 baud, and everything works
>fine, except uploading.  Downloading (using Zmodem) works great, but
>uploading by X/Y/Zmodem won't work.

>  When uploading, the zmodem will send several packets, comming up to
>approx 4096 bytes.  Then it repositions to 0, and stalls.  Running at
>2400 & under works great.  What's wrong?

>Serial prefs:  Baud rate:  19200, buffer size 16000, read bits 8, Write
>bits 8, stop bits 1, parity none, handshaking none.

You'll need to turn some sort of handshaking/flow control on, preferablt
CTS/RTS if you r modem supports it. Check your modem manual for the
command to switch either CTS/RTS or Xon/Xoff flow control, then enable
the appropriate one in JRComm. You'll need to restart JRcomm to make
CTS/RTS active, and to use it at all your modem must have a DSR line
(check the manual again) and you should be using a full 7 wire serial
connection. 

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From: bandy@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Mike Bandy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: vltjr 5.576 phonebook problems
Date: 6 Sep 92 21:53:03 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University

ROGOSCHP@MAX.CC.Uregina.CA writes:

>I am using vltjr.5.576 with wrokbench 1.3 and am having problems with the phone
>book.  when i bring up the phonebook menu and click on create phonebook I get a
>n error 17 saying that there is a wrong number of arguements.

Me too!  I had the same problem with 5.517 and read the release notes for
5.576 that stated that the phonebook had been reworked.  The problem is with
the "GetFile" calls.  I'm going to go take a look around hubcap.clemson.edu
for the version 3.0 arplib that Willy says is required.  Hope that resolves it.
I'll let you know ...

Anybody know for sure what the problem is?

		Mike Bandy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: eas3714@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.A. Story )
Subject: Re: XComm - Anyone who has tried it?
Originator: eas3714@ultb
Keywords: xcomm, amiga, datacomm
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:39:36 GMT

In article welter@fwi.uva.nl (Richard Welter) writes:
>etxpihl@eua.ericsson.se (Tomas Pihl) writes:
>>Anyone who has tried XComm?  
>Tried it yesterday.
>>I downloaded it from a BBS last night and the program is
>>for sure SUPER!. Some real nice features, but it seems to
>>have lots of bugs. Who has made this program?
>It's terrible, it crashed twice just trying to configure it, so
>I immediately got rid of it.
>It was 'made' by some Australians I think. Actually it looked
>suspiciously like Term (one of the older versions), it looked so
>much like it that I suspect they used a lot of the Term source.
>So don't bother with it, just get Term2.3.

I don't understand these new 2.0 only terminal programs.  DO the
programmers test their programs on something OTHER than a 32-bit
machine?  Every version of Term I've dloaded, and apparently from
comments here Xcomm as well, crash horribly with 8000 0003 system
errors.  

                          ---Ezra
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From: 2ftqkiln@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: GVP PhonePak Speed?
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:15:16 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Does the GVP phonepak run at 9600 or maybe even 14400?
is this for both datacomm and fax? just wondering!
From: Rick_Lang@amusers.UUCP (Rick Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: transmission stats
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:06:29 PST
Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Mon  7 Sep 92  2:55, kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kenneth
John Aarts) wrote:

 KJA> I am using a SupraFax v.32bis and I am wondering about

 KJA> 1)  How much line noise it is correcting for.  With my old 2400

 
 The modem command AT%Q will report the quality of the line signal:  0 -
best  8 - worst. The modem command AT%L will report the signal level in
-dBm. (This information is from the SupraFAXv.32bis reference manual.)


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From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:21:08 GMT

In article <18vcpkINNgb5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> hac@po.CWRU.Edu (H. Anthony Chung) writes:
>
>In a previous article, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) says:
>
>>The Mac and IBM "products" are as bad as DEC's PathWorks; in other words:
>>
>>				GARBAGE
>>
>>Note the enclosed, which touts a functioning VT200-style emulator for the
>>Amiga, and note the date: 1988.  The program works PERFECTLY, and even does
>>the double-high/-wide stuff which even DEC's PathWorks cannot do (kinda makes
>>one wonder: DEC is not dealing with a full deck, since they are even unable
>>to today (1992) emulate their 1979 VT100).
>
>I have yet to find a true *vt100* emulator for the IBM...I don't know
>why people cannot write one bug free - even ProComm plus screws up
>sometimes.  Meshugena is excellent, be it a little dated - especially
>with it's user interface, but I never had any trouble with it.  What's
>more, it supporst UW (Unix Windows) for multiple login sessions.
>
>>-------------------- begin enclosure
>>
>>*  Meshugena V1.0 -- A **VT220 terminal emulator                           *
>>*  Copyright   1988                                                        *
>>*  By Michael S. Leibow                                                    *
>
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I belive the original poster was interested in something other than VT100 so
he could use WP over modem.  I use Handshake under 2.0 and it works pretty
well.  It does VT220.  It may not be perfect but it works for me!

john


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From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Date: 14 Sep 1992 13:49:07 GMT
Organization: SunConnect
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.france.sun.com

In article <3744@faatcrl.UUCP>, jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

> 
> >   VT240 terminals handle 400x200 Regis and Sixel color bitmapped graphics,
> >with 8 colors.  VT340 terminals handle Regis graphics (same resolution 
> >and color capability as on a VT240), and Sixel graphics at a resolution of
> >800x600 with 16 colors out of 4096.  (I recently wrote a simple script
> >to view GIFs on a VT340 terminal, and the results are better than on an
> >Amiga 3000)
> 
>   Pretty sure that the 240 is a monochrome beast while the 340 was the color
> version.
>

VT240 was monochrome by virtue of having a mono monitor, the VT241 was
the colour one, but there wasn't any difference in the system box. You could
plug a colour monitor into a VT240 and it became a VT241
 
Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: willw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Waring)
Subject: Re: X-Comm
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:43:42 GMT

In article <18h11eINNn0@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> snozer@cats.ucsc.edu (PlasmaNeptunoid) writes:
>
>So, I've been hearing about this new terminal program called X-Comm, but 
>I haven't seen anyone mention where I can get a hold of it.  Is it available
>via anonymous ftp?  Thanks.
>-daniel.

Hi I'm the primary author of 'X-Comm' - The newest addition to the amiga range of telecommunications products (Sounds nifty eh? :-)). Umm.. it is currently only beta and has not yet been released to the public. The version that did get out was a mistake, and that is what everyone has been waffling about. It is about to go V0.97b so it isn't long before V1.00 release. All I have to do now is get a few bugs out and put the finishing touches on. You will probably have a hard time trying to find it, as I have 


requested it to be deleted everywhere. If you do, download it and check it out. It's VERY buggy but should JUST stand up (If it doesn't, you'll have to wait till V1.00). There are LOTS of imporvments in the current version over V0.85b, so don't judge it too harshly.

Regards,
	Edward



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 07:16:20 GMT

In article <65778@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>In article <1992Sep13.041545.25033@news.iastate.edu>
>barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) rambles:
>
>|In article <abeech.716337691@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech
>)
>|writes:
>|>Anyone know of a commercial or PD comms package that will correctly emulate
>|>VT220 and VT340 terminals?  I need to connect to a Sun and use Word Perfect.
>|>The VT100 and VT102 emulations are not suitable for this type of work.
>|
>|   Several such products exist for the Mac and IBM systems, but none exist for
> 
>|the Amiga unfortunately.  I've been looking for such software for the past fou
>r
>|years.  I have even offered to help get VT240/340 databooks to various authors
>|of VT200-compatible Amiga terminal packages who would guarantee writing a
>|VT240/340 emulation program, but none have taken me up on my offers.
>
>The Mac and IBM "products" are as bad as DEC's PathWorks; in other words:
>
>				GARBAGE
>
>Note the enclosed, which touts a functioning VT200-style emulator for the
>Amiga, and note the date: 1988.  The program works PERFECTLY,
[description of Meshugena, which I looked at in detail immediately after
it came out in 1988, deleted]

   What the original poster was looking for was a VT240/340 emulator.  There
are **LIGHT-YEARS** of differences between the VT220 and VT240.  VT240 is
as big a step up from VT220 as the A4000 is from the A1000.  

   VT240 terminals handle 400x200 Regis and Sixel color bitmapped graphics,
with 8 colors.  VT340 terminals handle Regis graphics (same resolution 
and color capability as on a VT240), and Sixel graphics at a resolution of
800x600 with 16 colors out of 4096.  (I recently wrote a simple script
to view GIFs on a VT340 terminal, and the results are better than on an
Amiga 3000)

   The programs I mentioned for the Mac and PC handle all of the bitmapped
graphics capabilities of Regis and Sixel.  I have yet to see even hints of
anything for the Amiga that does this.

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From: welter@fwi.uva.nl (Richard Welter)
Subject: Re: XComm - Anyone who has tried it?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 19:00:25 GMT

olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel) writes:

>   If I remember correctly, the program is still in its very early
>stages (v0.85 or so). You can't expect any program to perform reliably before
>going through a number of revisions.

I know that now, so sorry for those comments :)

>   How comes that it appears to you to look like `term'? Does it
>crash quite as often? ;-)

I've never had Term crash on me, except when I was short on memory and the
review buffer got to big. It's worked perfectly the rest of the time.

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