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From: dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.dcom.modems,bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re: Supra problems wanted
Date: 20 Dec 1992 20:48:40 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1h3hbkINN4ss@uwm.edu> bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
>I've been around in the Amiga community for a good long while, now.
>I've seen companies come, I've seen companies go.

>Supra should have gone a long time ago.  Why don't they?  Because
>people believe their marketing, and forget their engineering.
[explanation deleted]
>Greg

Well, whatever they do wrong(I don't know or judge) they do support
the amiga; and that is a rarity. What other company ships their
modems with amiga software?  Most other modems(mine included) come
with a nice piece of useless peecee fax or term software. I'd give
Supra some aknowledgement just for recoginizing the amiga.

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From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
Subject: Term 2.5 Released???
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 17:21:26 GMT


In the Term 2.X topic on GEnie 4 or 5 people are saying that
they have Term 2.5.  All of them D/L'ed it off of "local"
BBS's.  At first they thought it was a Trojan Horse virus, but
someone went through it pretty thoughouly and decided that it wasn't.

They say it has a date of 13.11.92 in the title bar, comes with
something called zmodem32K.library, and is COMPLETELY stable!

Does anyone know if Olaf has released it without telling us, or did
someone anonymously fix this program up?

Jeff

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From: kendrix@peachs.enet.dec.com (John R. Kendrix)
Subject: Re: Upgrading a HST DS 14.4 to FAX ????
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Alpharetta, Ga.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:51:04 GMT


In article <1992Dec16.113126.17956@ludd.luth.se>, pelly@ludd.luth.se (Per Lindgren) writes...
>I wonder if a USRobotics HST DS 14.4 can be upgraded to a fax modem?
>                                            ^^^^^^^^
>Any suggestions?

Well, for starters I'm afraid that you have a faux pax in your request.   It
is impossible to UPGRADE from a 14.4 DS HST to a fax modem since doing so would
be a DOWNGRADE.  The 14.4 DS HST has many more features than the fax modems
have.   I won't waste bandwidth by listing them all.  You have your modem's
documentation.  I believe that doing a point by point comparisom of the features
between the two modems will eliminate your desire to "UPGRADE" in this manner.  

Cheers,

JK


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From: pdietz@cse.unl.edu (Phil Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: What differences: BaudBandit.device & serial.device?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 18:59:03 GMT
Organization: NCEMRSoft
Distribution: world
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snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan) writes:

>What does baudbandit.device do that serial.device does not do?
>What do I lose if I use it instead of serial.device?
 
You Lose Xon/Xoff as well as BREAKS.  I personally use breaks everyday so
I had to scrap baudbandit.device.

>Will I still be able to use JRComm and HandShake?
>What modifications will have to be made?
 
Simply replace the name serial device GENERAL with baudbandit.device.  EZ

>Is BaudBandit.device free?  I think BaudBandit Comm is NOT!
 
He requests a small donation of something like 5 bux.  I also told him
to rename it so people wouldn't get confused with the commercial product
BaudBandit, but alas...I guess he doesn't care.

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From: sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: VLT and Flow Control
Keywords: Novice Question please help
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:41:28 GMT
Organization: Fred's Lounge


I just got a V.32 BIS modem (Practical Periphreals 14400FXSA) and
am having a bit of trouble uploading files.  The manual says to
check the flow control settings of my software.  I am using VLT
5.517.  How do I ensure that I am using hardware flow control and
what exactly does this mean?

Thanks
scot
sjk@emx.cc.utexas.edu
sjk@astro.as.utexas.edu
From: sherlock@sleuth.eskimo.com (Jonathan Marsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Ncomm
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:11:06 PST
Organization: Perpetual Motion Machines Ltd.

    Having just gotten back from the end of the Earth (The Bering Sea), I've not
played with the toy here for a long time. I was wondering if anyone knows the
state of affairs concerning Ncomm 2.1? Has Torkel improved this excellent
program yet again?
    Then too, why are folks still beating themselves over the head with JRcomm &
Term ??? Very buggy programs those are. Of VLT, it looked great but I never got
the phone book to work right & so had to give up. Would like to try it out again
someday. :-)

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From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.dcom.modems,bit.listserv.i-amiga
Subject: Re: Supra problems wanted
Date: 21 Dec 1992 04:31:48 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

In article <1992Dec20.204602.12196@blkbox> jdb8042@blkbox (John D. Baker) writes:
>dtiberio@libws4.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.143207.23322@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV) writes:
>>>Do the problems seem to be confined to Supra's high-speed modems?  I've had
>>	Yes, the high speed modems only.
>I beg to differ.
>I am using a SupraModem 2400 Plus  (2400bps wi MNP2-5 and v.42/v.42bis)
>and have been having no end of trouble when connected with the advanced
>features turned on.

I've been around in the Amiga community for a good long while, now.
I've seen companies come, I've seen companies go.

Supra should have gone a long time ago.  Why don't they?  Because
people believe their marketing, and forget their engineering.

What do I mean?

People:  It's simple.  DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF BUYING SUPRA
PRODUCTS.  Problems exist across their entire line of products,
they're well known for it.  From modems to hardcards, hardware to
software, they've always been buggy.

>I talked to Supra Tech Support and they are baffled and insist that the
>remote modem is at fault.  My sysAdmin insists that it's MY modem's fault
>and states that I am the only user wh has trouble staying connected.

Blaming the other person has always been Supra's strong point.  Their
customer service is well known to be less helpful than C='s, even if
they're more often there to talk to.

I cannot say this strongly enough, folks.

Supra products should be avoided.  Like the black plague.

Disclaimer:  These are my opinions, I am merely making them known.

Greg

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From: cwaig@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: AS225 and socket library
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:07:35 GMT

Hi all.

I was wondering if anyone out there could help me out with this.

I have had a C= 2065 ethernet card and the As225 s/w for the last year or so.
Now that I have a bit of time I was going to try to write some s/w for the
ethernet card, specifically a nntp newsreader, a mail program (popmail client)
or maybe evan a smtp mail system.

Now there was no docs on how to devalope for the ethernet card, and I assume
that I will need some support files (socket stuff) for my C compiler (SAS 6.1)

I recall awhile ago someone mentioning a thingy called the Network Devalopers
Kit, or something like that.  I conacted C= AUS and they couldn't find out
anything about it.  I know that there is a sockets.library because GRn uses it
for it's nntp support, but acording to the author it's only available to
registered devalopers. :-(

So the big question is, is there a network toolkit available to non registered
devalopers? And if so where can I get it.

Also on a side note

(a) Has anyone else had the following error message when using the AS225 ftp
program to send files from their Amiga up to another system.

   "bad directory components"

I *always* get this whenever I do either a

	MPUT filename/template
	PUT filename
	SEND filename

After this, get and mget also fail with the same error. The only way to correct
it is to exit the program.

(b) Whats the latest on rev 2 of the As225 s/w.  I remeber someone (Dale Luck?)
mentioning that it was still in beta over 6 months ago? Anyone got any more
news on it? And if you do, does it have any other goodies in it like a mail
(smtp please!) program in it.

Any information on the above would be *much* appreciated,

Craig

Email: cwaig@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Monash University Computer Centre
Melbourne, Australia



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From: johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Misc terminal questions
Keywords: Term, Memory, Sites, Handshake, Identify this term prog.
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:13:37 GMT

Hi all,
 
I've got a few questions that maybe someone could help me out with.

I run an Amiga 2000 w/1M graphics memory and 0M other memory.  After workbench
I can barely run Term 2.4.  That is, I can run it if I go directly into 
the settings menu and drop the buffer size to it's minimum.  Even then, some
things don't work.  (Actually I think it's mostly phone boot and zmodem 
transfers that don't work- to be more specific, the phone book works execept
it does not remember the date, the zmodem appears to start but then says it
can't find the file.  Now that I think of it, I belive that happens with 
Ymodem batch too)  I belive this is because there is not enough memory 
but I'm not sure.  I think there is typically about 20K left after term runs.

So, my first question is, can anyone identify the problem above, and if they
can is there a work around?  Anyone running Term on a similar configuration?
Is Term 2.4a or 2.5 smaller or more efficient?  I really like Term and would
like to use it, but have not been able to get it working well on my machine.

Question 2:  What is the ftp site where Olaf puts the Term releases?

Question 3:  I've been looking at other term programs (other than term) and
not found any I've liked quite as much as term.  I currently use Handshake
2.12.  I've heard there is a newer version.  Does it do Zmodem and if so,
how well?  If so, where can it be found (ftp wise)?  Does it allow to override
autobaud detection (ick).  My current version of handshake hangs the modem
after it hangs up on the autodialer.  Ie, it tries to dial a number, gets a 
busy, hangs up.  At this point the modem will not function at all until
I quit handshake and re enter, where it will work again.  The modem is a
microcom QX/4232hs with a locked com rate of 19.2k.
 
Question 4:  Several years ago I say a pd or shareware terminal program that
looked very snazzy, and functioned much differently that any others i've seen.
It basically multitasked all it's functions.  If you started a down load,
you could still change other settings, etc.  Does anyone know what this 
program was and what it's status is today?  Maybe where I can get a copy?
It was set up for BBS mostly the color graphics types and did not do VT
type emulation.

Maybe someone would be willing to put together a list of terminal progs avail
for the amiga and a quick and dirty description of it and where it was avail
from?  Sounds like a handy thing for a FAQ posting...

Well, thanks for putting up with all my questions!

 
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From: osymh@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Michael L. Hitch)
Subject: Re: DNET and A/UX
Keywords: n
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:58:02 GMT

In article <71526@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>
>Then kindly explain why it DOESN'T work on:
>
...
>	Ultrix (from DEC)

  It works on Ultrix here, on VAX and DECstations.  I did have trouble getting
snfs running:  there were several spots where the byte order in integers had
to be changed, and there is a structure definition that aligns an integer
field so that it doesn't match the data sent by the Amiga.

Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: zajerkom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Nick Zajerko-McKee)
Subject: Need News sites in MD (Gaithersburg) and S.F. (415 area).
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:40:26 GMT

Hello, I will be moving to either S.F. area or Gaithersburg area RSN and
would like to keep in touch w/ the world, can someone please direct me
to local sites in either of these areas.

Thanks in advance,

Nick Zajerko-Mckee
From: sdk@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Steven "Scrib" Kuck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Hey, does zmodem work for 2.4a?
Date: 19 Dec 92 14:34:52 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida CIS Dept.

Well, I just got my hands on term 2.4a and ZModem worked flawlessly the first 
time I tried it.  And the second.  And the third.  I've up/down loaded several
megs of files, and not one error.

I like what's been done with 2.4a.
-  there is no more $#*&! crash when you double click the screen.  I spent
several minutes double clicking my mouse for all I was worth, no crash.
I am extatic!
-  A couple of bugs relating to using term on VMS [mostly eve and edit scroll
problems] have been fixed.  All the big letter, underlines, etc seemed to work
right the first time!  JR-Comm?  Wassat?  :)

I don't know what you're doing wrong with Zmodem - it worked for me to a BBS,
to VMS, and to Unix systems.  Describe your problem so you can be helped!

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From: willw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Waring)
Subject: Re: VLT and Flow Control
Keywords: Novice Question please help
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:26:11 GMT

In article <85347@ut-emx.uucp> sjk@ut-emx.uucp (Phil Alvin) writes:
>
>I just got a V.32 BIS modem (Practical Periphreals 14400FXSA) and
>am having a bit of trouble uploading files.  The manual says to
>check the flow control settings of my software.  I am using VLT
>5.517.  How do I ensure that I am using hardware flow control and
>what exactly does this mean?

Okay, you need to first make sure that your modem knows that you want to
use CTS/RTS handshaking. Refer to the manual of your modem to find out how
to turn this on. One you have done that, load your terminal program and
issue the command that will turn CTS/RTS handshaking on. Now go to your
terminal program's configuration and look for either 'CTS/RTS' or '7-wire
handshaking' and turn this on. you shouldn't have to do anything else.
hope this helps.

Regards,
	Eddie

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From: hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl (Dick Verweij)
Subject: Assign drives over serial cable??
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:20:29 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

I have an IBMPC compat. and an AMIGA 500 and a null modem cable. 
Are there programs that can assign drives over this cable.
e.g. that I can acces C:(IBM) as SER:(AMIGA) (or something)


Thanks in advance!!
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From: peter@sdf.lonestar.org (Hoang Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: What's a .sfx file?  How to decode it?
Date: 10 Dec 92 11:47:23 GMT
Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas

In article <1992Dec7.190723.15885@engr.uark.edu> jmc@engr.uark.edu (John Carmack) writes:
>I justdownloaded dms1.11.sfx off the wuarchive, and don'thave a clue how to 
>convert it to an executable.  What do I do to .sfx files?
>
>thanks in advance.
>jmc@engr.uark.edu
>

It's already an executable file.  Just run it...
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From: ummuir05@ccu.umanitoba.ca (John Derek Muir)
Subject: Term 2.4a problem...   A crash!!!  AND BURN!
Summary: Term 2.4a prob...
Keywords: TERM
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:59:55 GMT

A couple of days ago, I tried this;

I set up my terminal to the biggest I could get it; 90 x 28 - with a sixteen
point font.  Then I used  stty  to set my unix end to 90 by 28 aswell...

THEN, I used the an editor called 'joe' which is really nice 'cause it
doen't update the whole screen when you move around down the text; it just
deletes a line at the top, inserts a line at the bottom, and writes the next
line...

Now, as I was editing, I came to the end of one line, and pressed Enter, and
BOOM :(, term died with a 'recoverable' software error.  I think the
'insert line' vt command was sent to my machine, but I can't be sure about
that one.

It wasn't quite that recoverable though, since if I tried to cancle the
error, the software error requester kept coming back, and I had to reset.

Quite the pain...  anyone else had this problem?

John
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From: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Subject: Re: Welmat
Reply-To: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
Organization: The National Capital Freenet
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:16:57 GMT


In a previous article, jts@jtsamy.krk.fi (Janne Siren) says:

>I would be interested to get the latest version of Welmat. I have 0.44 and I 
>know it's very old and it doesn't work very well, no ZedZap. I also found 

  If you require ZedZap immediately, then there will be a problem.  The
application called 'Welmat' (Latest, and kinda "last of it's kind" is
0.47.14 and is available on amiga.physik and it's mirrors as 'WLMT4714.lzh')
does not support ZedZap.

  Now, there is a new language being developed called WPL which is in many
ways a derivative of the origional application program.  Currently only
the developers beta test version of this language is available, and it is
available to people that have access to the support conference only.  This
new language not only supports ZedZap, but when released will support EMSI,
Janus, Slip, and a host of other negotiations and file transfer protocols.

  If you are interested in the program, eithor to get involved in the
beta testing, or to be added to the growing list of people who wish to
be informed of the start of a beta test phase for a 'User level' application,
then please get ahold of myself.  For those who have access to Fidonet,
file requesting the magic name 'WPL' from fidonet#1:163/139 will get
get them a text file that documents many things about the new language.

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From: mane@vsbbs.UUCP (Mark Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Hey, does zmodem work for 2.4a?
Date: 10 Dec 92 18:16:21 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <LCN=gT_@engin.umich.edu>, chymes@geneva.csmil.umich.edu (Charles
Hymes) writes:
>When I tryoed to use zmodem on term 2.4a. it did not work, just like
>term 2.4 Is there any combo of things I can do to get it to work, or
>am I doomed no matter what I try?

Well it seems you are doomed, because when I have posted the same type of
complaint there was no responce so I switched to VLT it is free! Totally!
No guilty conscience! It seams to be workin' fine...Sorry Olaf!
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Any DIRT simple Comm packages that use ZMODEM?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 15:23:14 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>Does anyone know of a DIRT simple Comm program that
>will run on 2.04 and supports ZModem?
>
>Thanks in advance..
>Scott Nolan
>snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
>
>-- 
>
You might look around for SSPatel's old "AZComm", which was based
on DJJames' "Comm." Dirt simple, as you said, and the Zmodem is
built in so no xternal libraries needed. Very fast too. ASCII-based
phone book, function keys, chat window, and a few other things
but no scripting and no ARexx.

Harv
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: baltzebw@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Bruce W. Baltzer)
Subject: Re: Hey, does zmodem work for 2.4a?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:03:25 GMT
Organization: tuns.ca

mane@vsbbs.UUCP (Mark Kane) writes:

>In article <LCN=gT_@engin.umich.edu>, chymes@geneva.csmil.umich.edu (Charles
>Hymes) writes:
>>When I tryoed to use zmodem on term 2.4a. it did not work, just like
>>term 2.4 Is there any combo of things I can do to get it to work, or
>>am I doomed no matter what I try?

>Well it seems you are doomed, because when I have posted the same type of
>complaint there was no responce so I switched to VLT it is free! Totally!
>No guilty conscience! It seams to be workin' fine...Sorry Olaf!

well, what kind of error message, if any, do you get when you try to dl
using zmodem?  zmodem requires an 8-bit connection, for one.  you have the
appropriate xpr library in libs:?  if you like, you can send me mail telling me
you setup (maybe your config file, so i could try using it, and let you know
what's set up wrong).
l8r,
bruce

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