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From: jerry@marin.uucp (Jerry C. Hudgins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:18:53 EDT
Organization: Private UUCP Node

In article <1992Sep14.191315.24011@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
> In article <3744@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
> >  Pretty sure that the 240 is a monochrome beast while the 340 was the color
> >version.
> 
>    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.

Not to mention SIXEL graphics, much faster graphics processing, multisession
support (either DEC's SSU protocol or two lines), and an integrated monitor/
system unit.  Pretty nice terminal, but huge and expensive.  The VT330 was
the monochrome version of this beast; the VT320 was character-cell only.

The VT330/340 (and now the 420) will do either horizontal or vertical split
screen between their two sessions, if you want.  This is actually useful on
the 420, which can display 50 lines.

These newer DEC tubes are a LOT more complicated that the old VT100 series.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: whitem@jester.usask.ca (Matt White)
Subject: Re: DNET remote connections
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:09:19 GMT

David Levi (levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu) wrote:
: I am trying to use DNET to open a remote connection on my Amiga from
: a sun4 at school, using the dsoc client.  I've got DPIPE: installed on
: the amiga, and have dnet started on the amiga and the sun4 (the connection
: is running), but when I run dsoc, I get the message:
: 	DOpen: No such file or directory
: Is there something I need to do with the DNETHOST environment variable,
: or am I doing something else wrong?  Thanks for any clues.
: -- 
: -Dave Levi     levi@cs.utk.edu
I had much the same problem, and after some research, I found that Dnet
doesn't always use the same filename for the socket that it creates when
it starts.  Do a directory of your $DNETDIR and look for the newest
socket.  For example, my $DNETDIR looks like:

srwxrw-rw-  1 whitem          1 Aug 21 08:32 DNET. P@hP@A@Cp
-rw-rw-rw-  1 whitem         72 Aug 21 08:32 DNET.LOG
-rw-rw-rw-  1 whitem   	    243 Jun 15 19:59 dnet.servers

The DNETHOST environment variable must be set to the suffix of the
filename of the socket, including the space that is put in there.  For
example, for the above socket, I would have to do:

setenv DNETHOST ' P@hP@A@Cp'
	 	 ^
		 Note the space!

The default that it expects is just a space (setenv DNETHOST ' '), so what
I usually do is rename the socket to 'DNET. ' so I can use it normally. 
There is probably an easier way to do this, but I haven't had the time to
look at the source and try to figure it out or change it.

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University of Saskatchewan      |  My real computer is an Amiga...
From: hac@po.CWRU.Edu (H. Anthony Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Date: 13 Sep 1992 12:39:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: hac@po.CWRU.Edu (H. Anthony Chung)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Wanted: specification of SkyPix
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:48:07 PST
Organization: BBS

> JR-Comm has it because Jack Radigan talked to Michael Cox about
> including it.  Just ask Michael--He probably wouldn't mind,
> especially if you're upfront with him about it.  Michael is no
> longer supporting Skypix with Skyline v2.0.
 
I think we can proclaim SkyPix to be dead at this point.  I wonder if
Jack could make a smaller JR-Comm version (JR Jr?) that leaves out
SkyPix support.  I wonder how much that would save...
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Need comm prog with VT200 compatability
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:50:35 GMT
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Distribution: usa
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <7SEP199222582881@rigel.tamu.edu>, jct7661@zeus.tamu.edu (THUMM, JOHN C) writes:
> I need a comm program that can emulate a vt200 terminal.  I would greatly
> appreciate some titles (and the site where they can be had).  Thanks.

The only VT220 compatible terminal program I'm aware of is HandShake.  It can
be found on Fish 449.  JRcomm is rumoured to support VT220 in the next release
(can you confirm this Jack?).

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From: pianoman@misseye.uucp (Alan D. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Baud Bandit 2.01 upgrade from PP&S
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:55:31 GMT
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <65227@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
>To all, and everyone...
>Baud Bandit (the terminal program) has been upgraded to version 2.01. A number
>of people upgraded recently, and received version 2.00. Version 2.00 still has
>a couple problems and should not have been released. (The Fast--Slow ASCII
>text throttle slider in the config window for example does absolutely
>nothing). 
>
>If you were upgraded by Progressive to Bandit 2.00, send your 2.00 disk back
>to them and include a note asking for version 2.01. It's free if you already
>have version 2.00. This is the information I got this morning from PP's tech
>support guy "Jim" on the phone. Perhaps 20 people were upgraded to version
>2.00 but on the chance that any of them read this, just send the disk back to
>swap it for version 2.01. 
>
>For those of you using the older Bandit 1.0 or 1.5 versions, if you wish to
>upgrade to 2.01, send your original labelled disk to PP&S in Denver (yes they
>had a fire... mail is being forwarded to their new place) along with a payment
>of US$15.00 and a request to upgrade you to version 2.01. 
>
>Regards, Harv
>
>[not a PP&S employee or agent.. just a friend of Greg Cunningham, and a Beta
>tester of his program, Baud Bandit (the terminal program, not the ".device"
>:-) ]

Was anything done in 2.01 to the "HELP that never was?" :)

With Baud Bandit 1.5, whenever I pressed the HELP key, I got a nice
window full of what key-presses did what, and I could simply click
on them to activate them. 
With 2.00, I press HELP, and get a nice requester asking me to "insert
HELP in any drive."

I really hope that was fixed.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: martinh@cac.washington.edu (Martin Hunt)
Subject: Re: Does GfxBase X support Xremote?
Organization: UW Networks and Distributed Computing
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:48:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.141918.3039@qucis.queensu.ca> 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?

GfxBase supports SLIP, but not xremote.  

Martin

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From: pk-asdg@cup.portal.com (Perry S Kivolowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Ethernet Software
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:35:07 GMT
  <1992Sep6.024521.23737@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
  <robertk.03bx@taoami.lerctr.org>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

ENLAN has been up here on 5 nodes running on ASDG EB920 Ethernet boards.
Performance is very good - and the software is reliable. 

pk
From: ap661@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kurt W. Greiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Mail doors and off-line mail readers
Date: 6 Sep 1992 18:46:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


 I have used various mail doors for offline reading and offline mail readers
my question is that are there any .qwk mail doors for DLG, C-Net, or XenoLink?

I have been looking for sometime now and can't find any.

-- 
Kurt.W.Greiner.OSU.CIS
From: luumu@whirpool.pp.fi (Janne Saarme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Dialog updates.
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:18:35 GMT+2
Organization: Captain Converse

My BBS is somekind of Dialog support system. Now I need someone
nice person who can send me all updates quite quick by e-mail.
This is the cheapest way to me. I you are this nice person, please
send me e-mail. Thanks!


            __
           /// - Janne Saarme -         InterNet: luumu@whirpool.pp.fi
      __  /// ------------------                  luumu@moondawn.pp.fi
      \\\///  Puistokaari 9 C 31        FidoNet:  2:220/550
       \XX/     00200 Helsinki          Amiga-Night-System (Dialog)
      -------------------------------   +358-0-675840 (24H)
                   FINLAND

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,aus.computers.amiga,aus.computers
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: HELP:  Connecting Amiga 1000 modem to Amiga 500?
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:52:58 GMT

10667547@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (JIMMY FANG) publicly declared:
>(1) Is there a way of connecting this modem to my serial port with either:
>	(a) different cable?
>	(b) gender bender (serial port on Amiga-500 is female)

Use a gender bender or a different cable.  DON'T PLUG INTO THE PARALLEL
PORT!  I once blew up a perfectly good I/O card (in an IBM clone) by
not realizing that I was plugging into a parallel port instead of
serial.  Who's the doofus who decided to use a DB-25 connector for
parallel ports in the first place?  I work with so much serial
equipment around here that I'm always reaching for gender changers and
null modems.  DB-25 and RS-232 are forever fused together in my
brain...

>(3) Are there communication packages that work through the parallel port?

Funny you should mention that...  For the heck of it I did an
experiment once with JRComm to see if it would talk to the
parallel.device.  I had a hair-brained idea about putting a
parallel-to-serial converter on the parallel port and using it to get
high-speed communication to my modem.  (My A500 can only do 19200 bps
reliably, I was hoping to increase that by using the parallel port.)  I
never actually made the converter, but I did manage to get JRComm to
use the parallel.device to send stuff to the printer.  It didn't work
*well*, but it worked.

Ha!  Bet you never thought anyone would actually try *THAT*, Jack!  :-)

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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Ethernet Software
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:24:45 GMT
Organization: BBS

> There's also that other network solution that can also do Appletalk
> (RS422), but I can't remember its name right now.
 
DoubleTalk?
From: QAEXP000@BLURT.OSWEGO.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: U.S. Naval Observatory and AtomClock
Date: 13 Sep 1992 20:06:58 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


>There was an application named "AtomClock" that would
>use you modem to dial a number in DC that once belonged
>to the US Naval Observatory in NW DC.  Their number
>would answer the phone with a 1200 or 2400 baud modem
>transmitting the exact time according to the Earth Clock.
>
I use Aclock severial times a year. At 1200b the phone number
is (202) 653-0351, don't know the 2400b number. The navy has
severial other numbers, one is like a BBS where you can get
lots of info (even some C code) about time keeping.

One thing I have found is my Amiga clock doesn't keep real good
time. Call with Aclock and set your internal clock, then call 
back in about 30 days to see how close you still are.
From: skyluke@skylink.sublink.org (Luca Spada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re:  V.Fast Transfer Rates
Date: 5 Sep 92 12:56:46 GMT
Organization: Sky Link (Amiga BBS) - VA, Italy, Europe

>  But then again, it took 20 years for touchtone service to get installed
>nationwide and some areas still don't have cable TV today.

Well, do you know the situation in Italy ?

Cable TV does not exist at all.
Over  80%  of  the  country is STILL USING the pulse dial, touchtone is
available only in big city :-(

Ciao!
                                                   Sky Luke
                                          (skyluke@skylink.sublink.org)
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: HELP:  Connecting Amiga 1000 modem to Amiga 500?
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:56:48 PST
Organization: BBS

Re the question of using an A1000 modem setup on an A500 ... I was able to move
my Supra 2400 from A1000 to A3000 with a simple gender bender.  It's going the
other way that is trickier -- when connecting to an A1000 you should probably
disconnect pin 23, which the 1000 puts twelve volts on.
From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Caller ID software???
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 07:34:47 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
 du> <rwm.716151816@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>

Well, i support Citadel as a hobby, definitely not to make money...
Of course all donations will be refused NOT!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Subject: Re: Public domain (was Re: C-NET)
Summary: Poetic Justice
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:39:14 GMT



Well perhaps it would just be poetic justice, if any good original
bits oc f C-NET code, were to appear in derivative works, with as
much respect being given to Ken's effort, as he gevives to the effort
of others. We should be able to assume that he wouldn't mind being
so sincerely flattered.
From: amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: X-terminal program for Amiga?
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:22:48 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

GfxBase hase a very good version of X-windows with either Openlook or 
Motif. if you need an address send me email.


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From: jcmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jeff Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: Ethernet Software
Summary: toast is good... just watch for butter.
Date: 8 Sep 92 21:52:14 GMT
Organization: UB


	[actual article shortened:

		.
		^ actual shortened article]

	but how much is it? and where is it? you know stuff like that.

smurfo
From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: XComm - Anyone who has tried it?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:44:43 CED
Organization: MXM Barthel & Paesler

In article <1992Sep2.105840.25191@fwi.uva.nl> welter@fwi.uva.nl (Richard Welter) writes:
> >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.

   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.

> 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.

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

> *                         X      Computer Science                   /        *
> *    Richard J. Welter   |X|  University of Amsterdam           \  /         *
> *                         X                                     CIAmiga      *
> *      "Marshmallows! Ben, where are those hickory sticks?!"  - Jerry        *

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From: monsoor@nextnet.csus.edu (Matt Monsoor)
Subject: Re: Kermit
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 06:50:41 GMT

In article <715655141snx@waltsinn.UUCP> waltsinn!walterb@bearsden.UUCP (Walter Boese Jr.) writes:
>
>
>Yes there is a standalone version of kermit.  It was released about 2-3 months
>ago.  It is basically the same version that was released for Unix SYS V type
>machines.  It can be had from watsun.cc.columbia.edu.  I believe it is up to
>version 3.1 something.  Several enhancements - such as extended pack size
>(1024 - 2048), a full script language and others.
>
>Sorry, that is all I can remember at the moment.
>
>Walter Boese Jr.       
>                       
>Short and Sweet
>

The only Kermit files I have found on watsun.cc.columbia.edu for the Amiga
require you to have a C compiler...I haven't found a runable copy of the 
latest version for the Amiga....Works great on a SYS V and on a IBM PC.  The
nice thing about the PC version that I use at work (they don't support Amiga's
at work) is that Kermit has script files that interact with whats received so
if I know what to expect I can write a script file to do most of the work for
me.


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From: "Stefan Berg" <sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: JRComm???
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:34:56 -0500

jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:

>> old letter removed...

> I'm all filled up with beta testers, thanks for asking though.

>  -jack-

Sorry if I ask a FAQ now, but when will the new JR-Comm be available for
registered users? I have heard about this new version for a long time now,
but nothing seems to be happening.

Stefan

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From: monsoor@nextnet.csus.edu (Matt Monsoor)
Subject: Re: Kermit
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 06:44:00 GMT


I use VLT because I can set packet size to 1K makes xfering faster!

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