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From: michel@cst02.segin.com (Michel Pollet)
Subject: Re: SLIP for MAC
Reply-To: michel%cst02.segin.com@relay.prime.com (Michel Pollet)
Organization: Segin, Groupe Axime
Date:  3 Sep 92 10:47:01 GMT

wlopez@vitalink.com (Walter Lopez) writes:
>I am very interested in anyone's comments on SLIP for the Mac.

>We have been testing InterCon's TCP/Connect II version 1.0.9 and
>have had fairly good success but can't run any MacTCP compatible
>apps. I will be looking at VersaTerm Pro version 4.6.2 as well.
>Is this product any better? 

	TCP/Connect II comes in two version.. one that is MacTCP compatible
	and the other do it's own direct TCP/IP.

>I am trying to located a copy of MacSLIP by Rick Watson too. How
>does this package compare? I hear it is MacTCP compatible..

	I have TCP/Connect II (MacTCP) and MacSLIP installed, and that's
	a mess, the transfert time is AWFULL !! TOTALY UNUSABLE. I fall
	back to the SLIP version of TCP/Connect II; buggy but much more
	usable. These real bad performances appear with ALL the MacTCP
	compatible applications.
	I don't care is it's a MacTCP or a MacSLIP problem.. The MacSLIP
	peoples should have known.
	All that on a PB140 (4/40 with 7.01 + last tunup).

	Wondering if there an update somewhere..

	Michel
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From: sells@cs.umn.edu (Chris Sells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: 605, 4410 or AT386 Terminal Emulation?
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:55:40 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Spanlink Communications

Anyone know of a program capable of faithful AT&T 605, 4410 or AT386
terminal emulation for the Mac? Needs F-Keys, too. Thanx in advance.

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| Spanlink Communications |
| sells@cs.umn.edu        |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dewey@centerline.com (Devan F. Dewey)
Subject: Re: MacTCP on low-end macs
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:58:50 GMT

In article <202@uiunix.ui.org>, ahby@ui.org (Shane P. McCarron) wrote:
> 
> Our facility uses MacTCP extensively to connect Macs to our network of 
> UNIX systems via a Gatorbox.  Unfortunately, MacTCP seems to hang/go
> away on Macs that have to connect via localtalk.  More specifically,
> it appears that the MacTCP driver loses its connection with the remote
> system, causing, for example, a NCSA Telnet 2.4.02 session to
> terminate.
> 


We seem to have this problem from time to time as well, but we have
isolated it to LocalTalk machines that are are 2 hops from ethernet.
Specifically, ethernet, through GatorBox to LocalTalk, and through Shiva
NetBridge to another LocalTalk zone. We never have any problems with
machines directly on the GatorBox's LocalTalk zone (except when our
collision/error rate on LocalTalk is high).

You might want to check termination. If the LocalTalk segment is dirty, you
can get timeouts in your telnet session very easily. We once corrected this
problem by repunching the entire zone into the Star Controller. In the
process we founf a few unused, untermintated ports.

Hope this helps,

Devan
                             
               Devan F. Dewey | Senior Systems Analyst
          CenterLine Software | dewey@centerline.com
            10 Fawcett Street | "Leme esplain - no dere is
          Cambridge, MA 02138 | too much. Leme sum up."
                                       -Inigo Montoya
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: 14.4k modem
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:29:08 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

e5tx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Tim) writes:

-> With the low price of recent 14.4k modems, is there any reason 
-> to buy a US Robotics 14.4k modem?

well, perhaps not a USR modem specifically, but yes, IMHO you should spend the
extra $50 to $100 that a good quality modem costs over one of the newcomers. 
USR, Telebit, Hayes, Motorola, ZyXel--these (and others) seem to be good
companies with some experience.  I think right now one should look to a
company that does its own research and builds its own stuff from scratch.  At
some point in the future the "box 'em and sell 'em" crowd--Supra, Zoom, et al.
-will have nice enough products.  But not yet.

At any rate, go ahead and get a v.32bis faxmodem, from wherever.  USR makes a
nice one in their Sportster line (see August Computer Shopper, p. 510 for a
place that sells the Sportster models at a good price).  Avoid any proprietary
modulation schemes as the sole method of high speed transmission, unless you
really know that you'll only need that proprietary scheme.  (I bought a used
USR Courier HST for exactly this reason, but if I were buying new, it sure
wouldn't be an HST-only model.) 

-> What is a good price for a use USRobotics Dual Standard 14.4k 
-> modem?

I like the USR Courier line, of which the Dual Standard is one.  A used Dual
Standard--large footprint, v.32bis on one side, HST at 14.4kbps on the other
side--goes for around $600-$650.  There is a new model out since Feb. 92, a
small footprint model with the HST side going up to 16.8kbps (and allegedly
upgradable to v.fast for $295 next year).  I don't know what those are going
for used.  I would suspect in that same $650 range.

--Adam--
 
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From: peralta@noao.edu (Michael Peralta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Source for Quadra to Thicknet Ethernet Transceiver Cable
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:45:42 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ

Is there an adaptor cable that goes from the Quadra ethernet port directly 
to a AUI type DB15 connector? MacWarehouse told me I needed two different
adapter cables totalling $178.00. For that much I can buy an Ethernet card.
There has got to be an easier way.  

--
Mike Peralta (mperalta@noao.edu)
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
Tucson, AZ
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
Subject: Re: SLIP for MAC
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:17:29 GMT

michel%cst02.segin.com@relay.prime.com (Michel Pollet) writes:
>	I have TCP/Connect II (MacTCP) and MacSLIP installed, and that's
>	a mess, the transfert time is AWFULL !! TOTALY UNUSABLE. I fall

I use MacSLIP as my exclusive network connection and I live, so it's not
totally unusable.

A lot depends on your modem.  At 2400 baud, interactive applications
are not going to work well at all; I found I could read news with
rn, but just barely.  I'm currently using a v.32bis modem, and find
performance more than adequate, modulo the occasional lost packet.
(Round trip times for SLIP are high, so retransmits don't happen in a
big hurry.)  Depending on how busy my SLIP server is, this is
an occasional annoyance or a really big PITA.

Even at 2400 baud, however, "batch" type apps do alright.  Fetch,
Eudora, etc are tolerable, if not speedy.

A SLIP server that does compressed SLIP will also help.

I generally get 1 Kbyte per second on Fetch transfers.  I've seen
numbers as high as 3Kbytes per second on a big text file (v.42 probably
helped a lot here).
-- 
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
Taking arms and by opposing end them, definitely.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: sigmond@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Sigmond)
Subject: KanjiTalk / NIFTY-Serve question
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 00:22:37 GMT


A while back I posted a message on this newsgroup asking about KanjiTalk/
JIS compatible terminal programs. Several people suggested NinjaTerm,
which I now have up and running on our IIfx. I have also been trying to
open an account on NIFTY-Serve, the Japanese version of CompuServe. I had
a few questions/problems:

1. When I run NinjaTerm in 8 bit, no parity mode with a generic 2400
modem, I can usually* get the modem to echo correct Kanji. For example, if
I type "ryo", convert to kanji, and hit return, the terminal window
echoes the correct character. However, this does not work for all characters.
If I type "a", and then hit return, the character echoed back is not the
hiragana for "a". The errors seem sensitive to settings such as number of
stop bits, local echo, etc. I am using Shift-JIS mode in both NinjaTerm
and the KanjiTalk control panel (I think!)

2. What settings work best to connect to NIFTY-Serve via CompuServe? The
information packet I have says to use 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, which
are the default values for NinjaTerm. However, when I connect to CIS, 
I see streams of garbage unless I switch to 7-bit data. Is the best method
to use 7 bit data for CompuServe, then switch to 8-bit after accessing
NIFTY?

I appreciate the help. If anyone out there is using NIFTY-Serve and is
willing to share information on settings, etc. please send me e-mail.
Thanks in advance.
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From: mwgertz+@cs.cmu.edu (Matthew Gertz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Looking for Unix-like TCP library for Think C 5.0
Date: 31 Aug 92 13:33:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BtuoC2.4II.1
Organization: Dept. of ECE, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon

Nearly everyone who replied to my message pointed me to the file

ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/misc/unsupported/SocketLib.sea.hqx

with the caveat that the library will need some "tweaking" to work under
Think C 5.0.

Thanks for the replies!

-- 
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Dept. of ECE, The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.comm:8330 comp.sys.mac.apps:13756
From: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: X-client for Mac wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:51:19 GMT
Reply-To: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Code 1542, DTMB, Bethesda, MD

I'm looking for experiances with X clients for the Macintosh.  
(These are programs that allow an X-window terminal to access a Mac.)

Two that I have heard of but know little about are:

PlanetX    by InterCon Systems
Xport      by Qualix Corp.


(I wasn't sure whether this should have been posted to c.s.m.comm or c.s.m.app
please direct followups as you see fit.)

Dane Hendrix                              | email: dane@wizard.dt.navy.mil 
DTMB (a.k.a. Headquarters, Carderock Div.,|  or hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Naval Surface Warfare Center)             |  or hendrix@nas.nasa.gov 
Code 1542, Bethesda, MD 20084-5000        | phone: (301)227-1340
From: wlopez@vitalink.com (Walter Lopez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: SLIP for MAC
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:36:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: NOC.1992Sep2.173621.16133
Reply-To: wlopez@vitalink.com (Walter Lopez)
Organization: Vitalink Communications

I am very interested in anyone's comments on SLIP for the Mac.

We have been testing InterCon's TCP/Connect II version 1.0.9 and
have had fairly good success but can't run any MacTCP compatible
apps. I will be looking at VersaTerm Pro version 4.6.2 as well.
Is this product any better? 

I am trying to located a copy of MacSLIP by Rick Watson too. How
does this package compare? I hear it is MacTCP compatible..

Comments please....


Thanks!

Walter..
wlopez@vitalink.com

Walter Lopez
wlopez@vitalink.com

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From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: X-client for Mac wanted
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:28:39 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

In article <24145@oasys.dt.navy.mil> hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix) writes:
>I'm looking for experiances with X clients for the Macintosh.  
>(These are programs that allow an X-window terminal to access a Mac.)
>
>Two that I have heard of but know little about are:
>
>PlanetX    by InterCon Systems
>Xport      by Qualix Corp.
>

There's also MacX, available from Apple for about $200 street price.  It works
pretty well, although the only problem I have with it is that there is not
scrollback capability.

h.
From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Wanted CTB Kermit Tool Beta Testers
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:52:09 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

In a message to everyone written on Friday, August 14, 1992 at 9:07:29 PM,
howes@xraylith.wisc.edu writes:

how-> it would be useful to some users right now. Anyway, I am
how-> wondering if anyone would be willing to help test it to shake
how-> any major (or minor) bugs out of it before I make it available
how-> for general release.

ABSOLUTELY!  I have several users on my BBS that would really enjoy working
with it.  Also, I can provide it to the Flint APple CLub for testing as well.  
Can you upload it here, or tell me where I can download it?

Also, have you ever heard of a Zmodem tool in the public domain or shareware?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
Subject: Have Suprafaxmodem wake-up when called?
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:58:04 GMT

I know that with the Powerbooks, one can turn them off and have them automatically
"wake-up" when a fax is sent to them.  Question:  is there any way to do this
with a SupraFaxmodem (using the FaxSTF software) on a Mac II?


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From: Steven.M.Holtzman@f947.n107.z1.ieee.org (Steven M Holtzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: PSI Powermodem
Date: 30 Aug 92 23:14:16 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:107/947 - NJMUG BBS, Clark NJ

Has anyone had any luck using PSI's fax/modem on PB 140's without
disabling the screen saver. It has cut my battery life in half which I
have found quite annoying.


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Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.comm:8319 comp.mail.misc:2779
From: los@coos.dartmouth.edu (Charles Dubuque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: return receipt
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:11:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <BtKBn9.qs@comp.vuw.ac.nz> Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug25.212140.23286@qualcomm.com>, sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes:
>|> dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt) writes:
>|> >The advantages to the sendmail approach are
>|> >[1] It's difficult for the recipient to subvert the
>|> >    receipt process (i.e. prevent the receipt from being returned to
>|> >     the sender).
>|> >[2] If the recipient later claims that the mail was never
>|> >    received, the sender can point to the fact that it _was_ delivered
...
>|> >What I
>|> >might do, is implement both - uupc would send back a "delivery receipt"
>|> >when the message is delivered locally, and Fernmail would pop up an
>|> >"auto-reply" window when the user read the message.
>|> 
>|> I *like* this plan.  I *like* it a lot.
>
>I was pleased to read that Steve intends to make the MUA return receipt optional
>and Dave's message implies the same. I hope that in both cases there can be a
>configuration option which allows the user to switch this off if they want to.
>It might also be nice to have a list of people that you're prepared to send
>these sort of receipts to. That means you can control things a little more
>flexibly.
>
>There are many mail gateways providing services for people who pay for the
>privilege of recieving incoming mail so forcing them to pay for possibly two
>more messages sending the return-receipts may be adding unfairly to their bills
>especially if the original message is junk mail.

There are also some security problems involved with forced return
receipts, at least at local sites like Dartmouth. For example, in 1990,
a staffer at the Dartmouth Review learned the name of the local mailing
list for Voices for Peace, a group that was protesting the war in the
Gulf. They sent a seemingly innocuous inquiry with a return receipt
attached to it. Computer neophytes simply opened the message and read
it, not aware that they were literally generating a list of the people
on the list for the Review. There was a work-around (forward the
message to yourself, throw out the original without reading it (no
receipt returned) and read the copy) but not many people were aware of it.

I'm not sure how this would work with lists at other sites, or for
lists on the network, but I am glad there are ways to circumvent return
receipts.

Chuck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: cfarmer@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Chuck Farmer)
Subject: Types of expansion card for SE
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: NCSA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:16:53 GMT

What kind of expansion cards are available for the J13 expansion slot of
the 
SE (not SE/30). Please reply email. I will summarize and post.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Subject: Re: return receipt
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:21:20 GMT

dricejb@drilex.dri.mgh.com (Craig Jackson drilex1) writes:

>Applying this to email,  I think receipt should be returned when:

>1. The message is displayed to you by the final MUA.  This means the POP
>client, if you are using POP.  You should be given the option to refuse
>the receipt, and therefore refuse the message (a bounce would be generated).

I don't agree here and Steve Dorner won't either :-)  When you use POP to
grab your mail it is then up to the mail client that is grabbing your mail
to send the "THIS HAS BEEN READ" receipt back to teh sender.

My friends have Eudora set to download their mail every 5 minutes and if
the mail is downloaded on a friday night and is marked as having been read,
it will actually take 3 days for them to read it, which wasn't very good if
you were counting on them being somewhere on the weekend based on your
email.

Craig
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.app
From: og@access.digex.com (Gary Goldberg)
Subject: BUG REPORT (Updated) StuffIt SS and TelePort 2.03
Organization: Personal Account - Digital Express Greenbelt, MD
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:54:51 GMT

I am enclosing a copy of the message I sent to Leonard Rosenthal of Aladdin
and Katherine Arthurs of Global Village to let them know about this problem
I had tonight.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT ---

Thank you for posting the updates so quickly. I have updated SpaceSaver and
Magic Menu, and have installed the new Compression Engine, as well as updated
the StuffIt Engine. I have not been able to get the SD updater as yet.

I have noticed what appears to be a serious conflict between the updated Space-
Saver control panel and the Global Village TelePort 'TelePort 2.03' control
panel. With both installed, my 8MB 7.0.1 tuned 1.1.1 IIcx crashes when TelePort
loads at boot time, with a 'bus error'. I am also forwarding this message to
Global Village, in the event they can help.

I removed the Magic Menu control panel and the machine still crashed repeatedly
at boot. I replaced the MM and removed the SpaceSaver and the machine booted
cleanly. For reference, my complete list of extensions/control panels is as
follows:

SuperClock 3.9.1 TelePort 2.03 AfterDark 2.0v HandsOff II 2.2.1 MacEnvy 2.1
PixelFlipper 1.3.3 Mode32 SCSIProbe 3.4 Adobe Type Manager 2.03
MacRecorder Driver 1.02 Suitcase 2.1.1 Apple MIDI Manager 2.01
StuffIt/Viewer Engines DeskPict 1.1 Disinfectant 2.9 QuickTime 1.0

I have also set 32 bit addressing and have a 256K disk cache set in the
Memory control panel.

I most definately need access to both control panels simultaneously, so I will
be returning to the un-updated SpaceSaver control panel until I hear from
you. Thank you for your help. - Gary Goldberg og@access.digex.com

END TRANSCRIPT

-- 
- Gary Goldberg og@access.digex.com Bowie, MD KA3ZYW
And NO organization to represent. ' ... Free, free at last ...'
Info on 'The Simpsons'? Let me know.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: trimper@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg Trimper)
Subject: Re: FBBS
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 19:07:28 GMT

news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:

>Can anyone tell me what has become of FBBS.This seemed to be a good
>alternative

The author sent me a disk with 0.85, I think, a LONG time ago, and I
*REALLY* liked it, but it had some serious flaws on my SE/30 working in the
background under System 7, so I never got it set up.  Last I heard,
he had moved (back?) to South America somewhere.  I can't remember, as I
have since lost the floppy and forgotten about it.


Greg Trimper
From: Jim.Redelfs@macnet.omahug.org (Jim Redelfs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Updating White Knight
Date: 19 Aug 92 06:32:46 CST
Reply-To: jim.redelfs@macnet.omahug.org
Organization: Macnet Omaha
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

Weid Tang wrote:

> ...I have a question on how to upgrade whiteknight. I have WK version
> 11.08 and I just downloaded some upgrading files from FTP sites, but
> those are only the patch files, can someone tell me how to upgrade WK
> with those patch files, do I need another program or should I do it
> by usng resedit or other ways...
  
You must obtain/use the PUP Decryptor application.  Also, with rare exception,
White Knight must be upgraded in individual increments, i.e. 11.08->11.09,
11.09->11.10.  Freesoft has, in the past, posted updates that span several
increments, but I can only recall one or two.
  
The current version of White Knight is 11.14.  It is GREAT!      :)
  
JR


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: j-norstad@nwu.edu (John Norstad)
Subject: Re: NewsWatcher : alphabetical order of newsgroup ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:14:38 GMT

In article <Don.Rainwater-310892093516@ucrain.san.uc.edu>,
Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu (Don Rainwater) wrote:
> 
> In article <j-norstad-290892125528@norstad.acns.nwu.edu>, j-norstad@nwu.edu
> (John Norstad) wrote:
> > [Stuff deleted]
> >
> > I do not currently have any plans to offer an option to keep user group
> > lists sorted in alphabetical order.
> 
> Well then, how about a 'one-shot' menu item.  Selecting it would
> alphabetize the current newsgroups window.

It just doesn't seem like the kind of thing enough people would care about
to warrant a new feature in the program.

> While I'm at it, how about being able to use tabs in the text of an article
> you're posting?  Currently, hitting the tab key seems to show up as a
> single space.

We're currently using the Mac's built-in text editing, which doesn't
support tabs. There's an item on the wish list to perhaps use some other
editing package, and if we do and the other package supports tabs, then
we'll support them.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm