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From: macman@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacIntercomm Screwed Over, anybody else?
Date: 1 Jan 1993 16:54:10 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1992Dec31.134136.1@vax1.umkc.edu> bfoulk@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>I just received my next day delievery of MacIntercomm from Mac'sPlace.  From
>the description in the ad, the MacIntercomm I was ordering was suppose to have
>a legendary "powerful scripting" w/the package I ordered.  That it not what I
>received.  I got version 1.0 w/a bastardly little readme saying that I only
>received version 1.0 of MacIntercomm and I had to send in my registration card
>to get version 1.1 (w/scripting).

You know, instead of posting this rediculous message, you could have asked
your questions in a simple and straight forward mannor, and you'd probably
get more response.  Heck, if I was from Mercury, I wouldn't even bother
replying to this.

Before blaming only Mercury, I'd suggest you check out all the fact first.
The blame could actually go to Mac Place.  They may be the guys continuing
to ship 1.0 versions until they run out.  (This is just a guess folks). Why
don't you go back giving Mac's Place or Mercury a call and then post your
bitching...
From: deboni@diego.llnl.gov (Tom DeBoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacX Fonts and efficiency
Date: 29 Dec 92 18:29:36 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


I've begun to make pretty serious use of MacX over the phone, via ARA,
and find that the speed Xterms run at is not too bad when I use a high
speed modem. However, I find myself wondering how much overhead is being
caused by the fonts I use. Since I have a smallish screen - an Apple 13"
RGB monitor - I try to use small fonts, so as to conserve space. But I
wonder exactly what the "best" font would be, in terms of efficiency.
Anybody out there got any guesses or opinions? 

Tom DeBoni
deboni@llnl.gov
From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: EUDORA Docs wanted...
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:40:56 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: billd@cheetah

Could someone point me in the direction of an electronic (or paper) copy of
docs for EUDORA?

Thanks,  --Bill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
Subject: Re: looking to make a stylewriter shareable over localtalk
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Motorola
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:04:54 GMT

In article <51691@seismo.CSS.GOV>, dsc@seismo.CSS.GOV (taste is the enemy
of art) wrote:
> 
> 
> we have a stylewriter that we would like to make available over a small
> localtalk segment.  i have heard of some products in the past (i think
> one is sold by hayes) that allow the host mac to advertise a printer like
> a stylewriter or imagewriter over localtalk.  does anyone have any experience
> with such programs or suggestions?  is there some sort of shareware or freeware
> version out there?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> dsc

you may want to wait a couple of weeks and grab one of Apple's new
stylewriters. Those have 16 shades of grey, are much faster, cheaper and
can be shared on the network.  I've seen printouts and they're pretty good.


I'd expect them to be announced at MacWorld.

Greg Ferguson
Programmer/Engineer
Desktop Networking System
SPS, World Marketing
Motorola, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: rtmd30@email.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
Subject: Re: NeXTMail Software for Mac
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Motorola
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:55:26 GMT

In article <4338@novavax.UUCP>, mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman) wrote:
> 
> Dear netters:
>  
> Does any software exist for the Mac to generate and output
> (i.e. record and transmit, and receive and playback--usefully)
> NeXTMail on the Mac?  Is such software in the works?  Will it
> (I hope) work with Apple's Communication Tool Box (thereby
> allowing its use via serial dialup and terminal emulation,
> not merely via TCP/IP--which I do not have.)

I think you're getting some of the services of the NeXT confused with their
Mail front-end.

NeXTMail is basically RTF format text with uuencoded attachments. The
"non-NeXTMail" format is mostly ASCII with some codes thrown in to help
NeXTMail locate the linebreaks to preserve the paragraph flow when another
NeXT receives the message.

It sounds like you want something that'll allow you to translate the
NeXTMail message with sounds attached, to a Mac email message with the
sounds attached and playable on the Mac.

The NeXT sound format is not the same as the Mac format. It is much more
complicated (and capable as it is CD Stereo quality). Tools exist to
convert to/from Mac and other sound formats. If I remember right, a NeXT
sound file is very close to Sun .au format.

I know of nothing that will do all the conversions on the fly for you.
*You* can manually do them though. Tools exist to allow you to uudecode a
file (Tickle at SUMEX-AIM is very good).

Current Mac email programs are not good candidates for this. Also, NeXTMail
is their own proprietary method of sending mail. The two probably won't
meet. What you can look for would be a MIME mail client for both systems.
MIME will support the text formatting and is supposed to be better at
handling attachments. However, I've not heard of a Mac MIME client and only
a few Unix ones.

Possibly Steve Dorner (Eudora's daddy) or Jim Matthews (Fetch's daddy and
one of Blitzmail's creators) will chip in and blow my thoughts out of the
water... they've got a hell of a lot more experience than me with this
stuff. :-)


Greg Ferguson
Programmer/Engineer
Desktop Networking System
SPS, World Marketing
Motorola, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: mcduffeek@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Question: Sounds through modem?
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:58:28 GMT

Does anyone know of a program that will allow one to transmit sounds through
the modem port of the Macintosh and through the modem so the sound can be heard
over the phone lines?  I have a cheap ZOOM modem, but I would like to know if
such a program exists and what hardware is required.

Please E-Mail responses...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: world
From: James_Tilley@tcs.las-vegas.nv.us
Organization: Cyber Sanctum
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 10:38:32 PST
Subject: Re: ANSI graphics for Hermes BBS's

>Has anyone found a program that can be used to make ANSI logon etc. screens
for
>a Hermes BBS.  ANSIMouse v06s7 wouldn't export the graphics to the Hermes
>Shared file.  Also, is there a difference in Hermes 2.1 or is it just a way for
>Frank Price to start charging for Passwords again?

Use ANSIMouse, but export them to a text file (teach text works great) and
then just go into TT and open them up, copy and paste them into whatever
Hermes menu/display you want.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: world
From: sharkman@magicbb.uucp (Matt Daw)
Organization: MAGIC - Macintosh Awareness Group In Canada
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:23:36 EST
Subject: Re: How do I create a binhex file on unix?

To encode to BinHex use BinHex 4.0 which is available in a lot of places. If
you still can't find it I will send it to you.

Matt
From: mancini@fysik.uu.se (Derrick C. Mancini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Help: Sharing non-networkable modem
Date: 25 Dec 92 11:09:54 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Fysikum, Uppsala Universitet
NNTP-Posting-Host: usx221.fysik.uu.se

In article <BzqF7D.9AD@SSD.intel.com>, Joe Niski <niski@ssd.intel.com>
wrote:
> 
> Shiva Corp. sells a device called the NetSerial, which lets you hang just
> about any serial device (modem, Imagewriter) off a LocalTalk net.
> ---------------------------------------------
> Joe Niski                                          niski@ssd.intel.com
> Macintosh Network Admin.
> Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
> Beaverton, OR USA

We have a couple of these.  Unfortunately, they appear to run up to 19200
baud, too slow for the newer v32bis modems with compression.  Is there some
sort of ROM upgrade we missed that will allow higher speed operation?

Derrick C. Mancini
Fysiska Institutionen  -  Uppsala Universitet
Box 530  S751 21  Uppsala  Sverige
mancini@fysik.uu.se
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: christbj@ifi.uio.no (Christian Bj|rnerud)
Subject: Re: looking to make a stylewriter shareable over localtalk
Followup-To: christbj@ifi.uio.no
Keywords: localktalk share chooser stylewriter imagewriter printer
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:10:46 GMT
Originator: christbj@yrsa.ifi.uio.no


In article <51691@seismo.CSS.GOV>, dsc@seismo.CSS.GOV (taste is the enemy of art) writes:
> 
> we have a stylewriter that we would like to make available over a small
> localtalk segment.  i have heard of some products in the past (i think
> one is sold by hayes) that allow the host mac to advertise a printer like
> a stylewriter or imagewriter over localtalk.  does anyone have any experience
> with such programs or suggestions?  is there some sort of shareware or freeware
> version out there?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> dsc

A utility called stylewriter-on-appletalk should do the job. It allows all
macs with this utility installed to use a stylewriter connected to on of the
macs.

You will find it at sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the info-mac/util directory.

Christian :-)
From: heksterb@cs.utwente.nl (Ben Hekster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Networking pre-System 7
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:41:04 GMT
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science

In article <1992Dec19.183617.160568@bmug.org> Craig_m._Jennings@bmug.org writes:
>	But what about the SE with System 6.0.7? What is needed for this one to be a
>file server as well? Is there something I am missing -- there is nothing in
>the System Software that suggests this can be done. Do I have to upgrade this
>one to Sys 7?
>	And if this is a file server, can LocalTalk allow each of these two to "host"
>each other?

Basically, a machine has to be a file server in order for another
machine to be able to use its files.  On the other hand, any Macintosh
with the AppleShare Chooser Extension/INIT (which means, practically,
every Mac in existence) can use files that are `served' by another
Macintosh.

	To my knowledge, there are four ways to add file sharing
capabilities to a pre-System 7.0 Macintosh:

(1)	Upgrade to System 7

(2)	AppleShare server software
	This is an Apple-commercial product which turns your Mac into
	a dedicated multi-user file server

(3)	Public Folder
	This is Michael Pierce's shareware Chooser Extension which also
	gives your Mac multi-user file server capabilities through a
	"Apple File Exchange"-like interface.

(4)	Cher
	[warning: shameless plug]  I wrote a small Control Panel some
	time ago which also lets a pre-7.0 Mac function as a file server,
	with the limitations that only one user can `log in' to the
	server at a time, and the served files are read-only.  However,
	the volume does appear on the Finder desktop and behaves like
	any ordinary server volume.  It's very small and unobtrusive,
	and I use it all the time myself.

(1) and (3) are publically available, (2) is public but commercial,
(4) is freeware but I haven't submitted it to any public site, yet.
I'll e-mail it to anyone who's interested.

-- 
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heksterb@cs.utwente.nl		|  the challenge died"
From: Eric.Choi@zeus.ieee.org (Eric Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: where to buy Teleport/Gold?
Date: 20 Dec 92 06:56:40 GMT
Organization: IEEE Service Center, Piscataway, NJ

MacConnection sells it for US $429.00 plus $3 shipping.

For those like I who are fortunate enough to own any Global Village modems,
there is a $349.00 offer for Teleport/Gold. I got mine thru this program.
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From: shawn@cars.com (Shawn Connelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Zoom v.32 ARA=Hangup!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 08:22:13 EST
Organization: Connelly Automation Research and Services
Reply-To: shawn@cars.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Dec29.130532.3796@vitro.com> (comp.sys.mac.comm), mzwick@vitro.com (Morris J. Zwick) writes:
> >I have the same problem. Try getting the ZoomTurbo ARA script from Sumex. This
> >is a hack script for the Zoom v.32 9600 (12000 turbo) modem. It let my v.32bis
> >Zooms connect but at only 4800 baud! When I use this script with the ZoomTurbo
> >I get a 12000 baud connectin every time!
> >
> >My question is why does the modem hang up? Is it a problem in hardware that
> can
> >be fixed by hacking the ARA script to change some registers? I had a Supra
> >v.32bis that did the same thing but worse. I would work a little longer at
> >connecting but always hung up! I returned it and got the Zoom.
> >
> >Good Luck,
> >-shane
> >
> 
> I should point out that the modems are 14400 baud.
> 

The modems that these folks are referring to are NOT 14400, but 9600
v.32 with 12000 baud capability. I have the same modem and have had
the same problem. Now the question is there a solution!

Let's hope so.

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From: garyg@netcom.com (Gary Greene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacUser review
Date: 29 Dec 92 05:52:15 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

dwade@svcdudes.com writes:

>	I just got a xerox of the February 1993 MacUser.  They reviewed Zterm,
>MacIntercomm, MicroPhone II, Smartcom II, and White Knight.  Zterm they
>basically said "OK for many and it's cheap", White Knight they completely
>trashed, MacIntercomm got dinged for not actually coming out with all of their
>promised features yet.  That leaves SC and MP.  Basically they said that MP's
>more powerful, but that SC does a really good job at what it does and is a
>little cheaper.  

Just to be honest (not that you weren't) they also dinged you folks for being
a bit slow in execution ...not that I have personally noticed any such draw-
back.  I've used MP II for about three years now, and have been very happy 
with it.  The only annoyance I have experienced is a tendency at times for
MP II to get messed up when doing a copy and paste to the command line of a
UNIX server ...the paste hangs and I have to hit the stop button and retry.
Doesn't happen too often though.

Cheers,

Gary Greene
Santa Clara, California				garyg@netcom.com  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dwade@svcdudes.com
Subject: MacUser review
Organization: Software Ventures, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 23:22:48 GMT

	I just got a xerox of the February 1993 MacUser.  They reviewed Zterm,
MacIntercomm, MicroPhone II, Smartcom II, and White Knight.  Zterm they
basically said "OK for many and it's cheap", White Knight they completely
trashed, MacIntercomm got dinged for not actually coming out with all of their
promised features yet.  That leaves SC and MP.  Basically they said that MP's
more powerful, but that SC does a really good job at what it does and is a
little cheaper.  They seemed to feel that having extra features is a plus if
you use them and a minus if you don't, which seems kind of strange -- I think
they're a plus if you use them and a zero if you don't as long as the program
lets you ignore them -- which we do.  They also didn't mention things like
we're the only one that's cross-platform, so if you've got to support
Windows users you can just port your scripts over without a lot of hassle.

Anyway, it's a good article, although they didn't review VersaTerm.  Here's
the summary unedited from the end, unless I mistype something :-) It was
written by Tom Petaccia, and I'm sure it's copyright 1993 MacUser and/or
Ziff Davis, inc...

Good Connections
Depending on your needs and level of telecom expertise, you really have only
two programs to choose from.  Smartcom II is simple and powerful enough for
the majority of Mac telecom users.  For those whose activity is limited
primarily to direct connections with other users and logging on to on-line
services, Smartcom will be more than enough.  If you want or need more high-
powered features, such as buttons, extensibility through XCMDs, and custom
interfaces, look to MicroPhone II.  If MacIntercomm's scripting language
delivers all that's been promised, however, it could offer some serious
competition.
-- 
Doug Wade  /  dwade@svcdudes.com  /   Disclaimer:  It's not official, folks. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: friedman@nrel.gov (Daniel J. Friedman)
Subject: MacTCP 1.1.1 (was Re: VersaTerm)
Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:35:50 GMT

In <abelbeck.1075263957B@tigger.jvnc.net> abelbeck@tigger.jvnc.net (Lonnie R. Abelbeck) writes:

>Both VersaTerm and VersaTerm-PRO come bundled with the "VersaTilities"
>package which offers Telnet and FTP (CommToolbox tools), FTP Server
>cdev/INIT, SLIP for MacTCP and MacTCP itself... among other goodies.
                                ^^^^^^

What version of MacTCP is included? Is it the fabled 1.1.1?

- Dan Friedman (friedman@nrel.gov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: simsh@crockett1c.its.rpi.edu (Big Guy)
Subject: How is Zoom v.32bis modem?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:26:43 GMT

Hi, in the latest MacConnection catalog there is an ad for a Zoom v.32bis fax
modem for about $269 or without fax for $229. This is a really awesome sounding
price, my question is has anyone had any experience good/bad with these modems?
I would like to find out before I decide whether or not to get one. Please
email me directly as I will be unable to read this group for a while. If anyone
wants, I will summarize responses when I'm able. Thanks all for your help!

-- 
Hillel Sims      Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute      e-mail: simsh@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: world
From: Jason_M._Weintraub@laison.w8hd.org
Organization: L'AISON - Local Area Information Server Open Network
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:52:48 EDT
Subject: ANSI graphics for Hermes BBS's

Has anyone found a program that can be used to make ANSI logon etc. screens for
a Hermes BBS.  ANSIMouse v06s7 wouldn't export the graphics to the Hermes
Shared file.  Also, is there a difference in Hermes 2.1 or is it just a way for
Frank Price to start charging for Passwords again?

 

* The views expressed in this posting are those of the author!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dbb@well.sf.ca.us (David B. (Ben) Burch)
Subject: Message format for Hermes BBS?
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:19:11 GMT


Does anybody have any data on the structure of hermes message file formats,
and the format of the message pointer resource in the Hermes Shared file?
I have asked Bkrank Price for this, but realize that he might not want to
share this data, and perhaps one of you has worked this out.  Thanks!

-Ben Burch
From: Howard Levine <hlevine@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: 25 Dec 92 17:13 PST
Subject: Re: VersaTerm SLIP/ FTP client hangs!
Nf-ID: #R:Bzq57q.6t1@hfglobe.intel.com:-564326103:cdp:1364300008:000:497
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hlevine    Dec 25 17:13:00 1992


I've been using VersaTerm Admin SLIP with my Zoom 14.4 v.32bis modem for
about 6 months now and I haven't had any problems.  Yes, the modem sometimes
sits idle (no send/receive activity) during FTP sessions for several
seconds, but the transfers are usually successful.  They do take longer
than other protocols, but that is teh nature of SLIP.  

I did have a few problems earlier, but settint MTU to 1006 and the retry
delay to "none" solved most of my problems.

-Howard Levine
hlevine@igc.org
From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Supra/v.32bis modem/Bottomline
Date: 28 Dec 92 00:28:58 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-


Eric, look again. That's $2 a MINUTE, not $2 an hour...
From: arnone@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Guido A Arnone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Looking for a good terminal emulator
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:11:04 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin


I'm looking for a nice shareware or freeware communication program
for the Mac - any suggestions...?

THanks,

Guido
From: Mitch.Alland@p956.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mitch Alland)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Update: Best, cheapest 14.4 modem
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 20:59:05 -0500

Harley Myler writes in a message to All on 02 Jan 93:

 HM> To the acolytes, this modem performs flawlessly with ARA, datacom 
 HM> programs, and FAX.

Will it work with ARA when the FAX init is on?  That is, does it recognize the
difference between an incoming modem call and an incoming fax call -- I didn't
think that any faxmodem did that?
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: speck@ruc.dk (Peter Speck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: All users of Nuntius: please upgrade to d16
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:31:12 GMT
Organization: Datalogi, Roskilde Universitetscenter

Version 1.1.1d14 and 1.1.1d15 has serious troubles with some
groups: if the name of the group you're opening is very long 
(+29 chars) Nuntius will go into a never ending loop, creating
folders inside folders. If this process is aborted with
cmd-opt-escape, it will be very likely your disk is trashed.

So, please upgrade to 1.1.1d16, available from sumex.stanford.edu,
lth.se and (always) frederik.ruc.dk

BTW: This version too has fixed for the bugs in d12/13/14 I'm getting
bug reports for.

Peter Speck 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: baumgart@Sirius.dfn.de (Thomas Baumgarten)
Subject: Re: X.25 for the Mac?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:46:36 GMT
Organization: DFN-GS

michaelf@psg.com (Michael Fetzer) writes:

>I'm not entirely sure what question I'm asking. :) I access teh net via
>Tymnet right now, and noticed that they offer X.25 connections. Is it
>possible to take advantage of this with my Mac, and a stadard modem?
>I have a Supra V.32bis, if that makes a diff. Is there Mac software I need
>to complete the setup? What? Where can I get it?
>
I don't think that it is possible. Looking for X.25 products for
Macs I only found the MacX.25, which I have installed for more than
one year. It works, but a communications card is necessary.
Thomas

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm