HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: yen@prpa.philips.com (Yen C. Lee)
Subject: MacTCP LAP
Summary: definition for IP interface.
Keywords: MacTCP, LAP
Organization: Philips Research Palo Alto
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:33:47 GMT

thanks to those who responded to my post about ka9q mac port ...

my main purpose was to get SLIP running on my Mac, and hook
my Mac up to the InterNet.

some people suggested MacSLIP, and seem to have found that it
worked well for their needs.

however, I wanted to roll my own, and after some study, it
seems that SLIP is really-really easy protocol, so ...

QUESTION: does anyone know where I can find documentation on
how to write the SLIP code to interface with MacTCP?  someone
told me that is writing a LAP (Link Access Protocol?) to sit
below MacTCP.  if there is documentation of anysort anywhere,
without having to order the MacTCP bundle from APDA for $$$,
I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.
Yen.
yen@prpa.philips.com                 (standard disclaimers apply here)
From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Re: AmericaOnline
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 13:41:13 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

JIm Redelfs writes:

JR> Dennis Watson replied...
JR> 
JR> > I have had no problems. Besure you are leaving out all capitols and
JR> > all spaces Fred Jones is fredjones@aolcom
JR> 
JR> This is WRONG.  Fred Jones is    fred.jones@aol.com
JR>   
JR> The dots are CRITICAL.
JR>

nope.  Where are you getting your info from?

Everything I've read from AOL sez, take out the spaces, don't put anything in
their place.  Has AOL changed things without mentioning it?

--Adam--
 
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From: sk4i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Samuel John Kass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: TALK on Macintosh ? Which programs ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:37:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.kepJ=LK00WA100zcNZ
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


	Talk won't work with many variations of UNIX talk, unless you're in a
"name table."  That means a fixed IP address, which is just about
impossible to assure using LocalTalk.
	--Sam
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: good & bad phone order experiences
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:23:21 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

In article <7249@transfer.stratus.com>, dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan
Swartzendruber) wrote:
> 
> I wanted to buy a Supra V32.bis FaxModem (on advice of MacUser).
> 
> First the bad experience:
> 
> MacCenter advertised it for $379 with software & cable, $329 without.
> Since I didn't want the software and had a cable, I opted for #2.
> I called 12 days ago and placed my order.  I was told 4-5 days by UPS
> surface transport.  10 days later (Monday), I called them.  The only
> thing the phone doobie could tell me was that the order hadn't gone out
> for some reason (he didn't know why, but apparently the town and phone
> number were wrong.  He corrected those and said he'd get right back to
> me about the status.  3 hours later (with no call), I call him.  He
> hasn't been able to get to it.  Too busy.  He'll definitely call before
> the end of business.  I go home around 7PM, still no call.  Tuesday
> morning, I call.  He tells me the problem is that the modems are out of
> stock and are back-ordered.  I respond that I was told they were in stock
> when I placed the order, so what's the problem.  He'll have to check and
> get back to me after lunch.  Around 3PM, I call.  No, they *are* in stock,
> but something else is wrong.  He doesn't know what.  He'll call me before
> the end of the day.  Right.  Around 6PM, I call and everyone has pretty
> much gone for the day, except for one woman.  She apparently has her act
> together and tells me that the problem is that SUPRA DOESN'T SHIP THESE
> MODEMS WITHOUT THE SOFTWARE AND CABLE!  Apparently MacCenter had been
> removing this stuff and sending it back, and Supra finally told them to
> stop doing this.  At this point, I cancelled the order and called one of
> the other places I had written down when browsing through MacUser.
> 
> Now the good experience:
> 
> I called (immediately after hanging up on MacCenter) Mac's Place and asked
> for the complete package, since that's the only way it ships.  She tells me
> that for only the $3, they will overnight airexpress it to me.  It's on my
> desk less than 24 hours later with no problems.

Did you ask at MacCenter whether they had it without software and cable? 
Unless Supra changed its policy in the past few months, Supra does ship
without S&C.  They also have a DOS bundle, and possibly a Windows bundle. 
They might even have an Amiga bundle, considering that (if I recall
correctly) they got started in business making Amiga peripherals.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: boag@world.std.com (Scott A Boag)
Subject: WANTED: Your Opinion on Powerbook Modems
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:31:41 GMT


I recently bought a Global Village Gold for $300 through a deal 
via a friend (I'm not sure if I can say more...).  The modem 
lasted for 5 minutes before it crapped out!  However Global 
village shipped a new one to me overnight and I have been 
very pleased with it.  The company shows quality from the 
manuals to the shipping box to the hardware.  The fax software
is painless.  Microcom II (I think that's the name, I don't 
used it...) is shipped with it.  I highly recommend this 
product.




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*  Scott Boag
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: zkessin@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Zach, the Lego Maniac)
Subject: ZTerm Problem
Keywords: ZTerm 
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:38:51 GMT

I have been having a problem with ZTerm (0.9), when attaching to a
hp/ux mini. Sometimes Zterm will at the end of every line not advance
the screen so that all the lines pile up. This usauly happens after
exiting emacs or an rlogin, or at login. often "clear" will fix it but
not always.

Anyone know what may be causing this?

thanks in advance

--Zach
   Zachary Kessin               
 ZKessin@cs.brandeis.edu  / real.world: I don't think the    |
 (617)736-5848           /   news server gets that group!    |
From: Jim.Redelfs@macnet.omahug.org (Jim Redelfs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Re: AmericaOnline
Date: 11 Oct 92 08:49:19 CST
Reply-To: jim.redelfs@macnet.omahug.org
Organization: Macnet Omaha
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

JR> Dennis Watson replied...
JR>
JR> > I have had no problems. Besure you are leaving out all capitols and
JR> > all spaces Fred Jones is fredjones@aolcom
JR>
JR> This is WRONG.  Fred Jones is    fred.jones@aol.com
JR>
JR> The dots are CRITICAL.

> Huh? 
> 
> I'm absolutely sure that you can send me mail at afcpeirce@aol.com
> and it will be delivered to my account. On AOL itself the account
> name is AFC Peirce. 
> 
> So Dennis isn't wrong at all.

Yes, he is.  ...and so are you - at least partially.
  
(At this point, I am splitting HAIRS, so watch carefully...)
  

Dennis wrote:   fredjones@aolcom
  
   You wrote:  afcpeirce@aol.com

I wrote:      fred.jones@aol.com
  
  
Dennis' advice (at least his EXAMPLE) was flawed in that it left out ALL
dots/periods in the address.  I am CERTAIN that doing so would send anything
outgoing into the byte bucket - unless, of course, there is a DOMAIN listed as
aolcom  - and I don't think there is.
  
Leaving out special characters BEFORE the  @  simply requires that the
RECEIVING site can handle it.  In that regard, I stand corrected and apologize.
I *DO* recall that AOL's on-line naming convention is without spaces.

JR            (jim.redelfs.macnet.omahug.org)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: ekaftan@malloco.ing.puc.cl (ekaftan)
Subject: Re: TALK on Macintosh ? Which programs ?
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:50:29 GMT

Scott Allen Gruby (sgruby@jarthur.claremont.edu) wrote:
: In article <9210061954.AA11155@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>,
: sinkovics@wu-wien.ac.at (Rudolf R. Sinkovics) wrote:
: >  deleted...
: There is a program called Talk by Peter Lewis which can be found at
: sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
: 
: The program works pretty well for a TCP based talk.
: 
: 
: Scott Allen Gruby
: sgruby@jarthur.claremont.edu

	But does'nt seem to work with Ultrix 4.2

Eduardo Kaftanski
ekaftan@ing.puc.cl
Disclaim?
Date: Friday, 9 Oct 1992 16:44:25 +01
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: NCSA-Telnet 2.5 HELP!!!
From: Andre' Pirard <pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be>
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
X-XXMessage-ID: <A6FB4853AF02180A@ampa.segi.ulg.ac.be>
X-XXDate: Fri, 9 Oct 92 13:31:47 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Universite' de Lie`ge (Belgium)

In article <Edward.Visse-091092133514@fastpath-38.wblab.lu.se> Edward
Visse, Edward.Visse@wblab.lu.se writes:
>Telnet 2.5 messes up my keyboard: the lowest line of char:ie. "zxc.."
etc.
>are moved to the left one key. I don't have SPACE or RETURN anymore. And
>some other characters have moved f.ex. "()-+?". I use a Mac+ with an old
>keyboard with a seperate keypad, system 7.0 and Swedish or USA
>characterset. Anyone got an idea???

NCSA americanize the keyboard for until you set off Telnet's "Remap
option key to control"  (and reboot). That option is disabled in system
7, and you're not allowed to change it. But the option *is* in the
default preference file, so you have to move a preference file to system
6 to be able to remove the option.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
Subject: Re: Prometheus Promodem Problem?
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:55:16 GMT

In <antjcb.719110123@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns) writes:


>I too am not satisfied with the tech support I've had with my ProModem
>Ultima. I've had problems connecting to certain types of fax machines
>(that I didn't have with my previous modem, a DoveFax) and just generally
>was annoyed with the fax software (the Dove--actually FaxSTF software
>names files with the date/time received and the station message--usually
>the incoming phone number. I'd kill to have that with their MaxFax 
>software, and since it's proprietary--that is, FaxSTF software won't
>run on it, they tell me, I'm stuck with MaxFax which hasn't been revised
>in more than a year!
>Phew. i feel better now.

I'm puzzled...I have a Prometheus Ultima Home Office and am using
MaxFax V3.2.4, released July 92. I get all of the above reporting
features with my incomming faxes, including the station message
(that's the answerback isn't it?). Here is a line from the MaxFax Schedule
Queue window...

To/From		Time		Date	Status	Filename
MICROSOFT CORP.	10:52 AM	9/19/92	Recv'd	From_MICROSOFT CORP.

The "MICROSOFT CORP" is the answerback and is usually the originator's
phone number (microsoft probably don't know theirs :-)).

I too had problems with the Ultima's connect ability to certain
fax machines, the problems I reported to Prometheus are corrected
by the Ultima Home Office. I'd be happy to try and send a page
to a "problem" machine (providing I don't get too many requests
and the owners of the machines are warned and in agreement). If you
ask me to do this (by email), please include full details of the
machine I am connecting to. I'll publish the "survey" results to the
net (minus phone numbers). I'll also send Prometheus a copy.

--alen
alen@crash.cts.com

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A. Three...One to sharpen the sword and one to confuse the issue.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: poorman@convex.com (Peter Poorman)
Subject: Anybody got a "Ph" server?
Summary: Where's the daemon?
Keywords: eudora protocol ph
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:44:19 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

Eudora includes a "Ph" client, which is apparently intended to get people's
phone numbers by contacting a server.  

Can someone tell me where to get a server (to run on my UNIX box)?

Thanks!

-- Pete Poorman
   poorman@convex.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Vladimir Butenko <butenko@stalker.srcc.msu.su>
Subject: Re: Networkable Fax Modem
Reply-To: butenko@stalker.srcc.msu.su
Organization: STALKER Software
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 16:29:33 +0300

In article <BvrG9u.M9K@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
rcrispin@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Richard Crispin) writes:
>My department is interested in having a Fax modem up on its network.
>I would like any information/exprience that anyone has. We have a server
>that the modem will most likely be attached to. We would like to be
>able to restrict availability to only certain users on our network.
>
>I would rather not have to get something like a Netserial to attach
>the Faxmodem too. Either the Fax modem would attach directly to
>the network or the software could be accessed over the network with the
>modem attached to the serial port.
 The problem is that there are modems and fax software that can survive
 when the modem is accessed through the network, and there are products
 that don't survive due to  delays  in  transmittions  inevitable  when
 using a network.

 For example, Abaton  Interfax  works  fine  with  PortShare  Lite  and
 PortShare Pro, but we know several fax modems that are not compatible.
 So I'd advice you to get a demo of a modem sharing product and try  it
 with your fax software - if it  works  OK  -  go  ahead  and  buy  the
 product, if not - :-(.
 You can get demos of PortShate Lite/Pro on  Compuserve,  AppleLink  or
 just call 800-262-4722 and ask for a demo.

 Disclaimer: yes, I do work for Stalker, the PortShare manufacturer.

Vladimir Butenko                         STALKER Software
Phone:  7(095)939 3907   Fax:  7(095)938 2136
From: mcn@cfa203.HARVARD.EDU (Charley Noecker, Prec Astron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: NCSA Telnet bug report address (Re-post)
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:54:24 GMT
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

Sorry to the net if you've already seen this many times.  My Usenet
connection is apparently flaky; I've tried to post this 2-3 times, but
I've never seen it come up when I read later.

I found a while ago that the bug report address listed in the docs is
not working; after I sent a couple of messages into the blackness, I
used 'finger' to locate a working email address.  When I tried

        telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu

I got a nearly immediate auto-answer and later a personal response to
my report of the non-functioning address.  One final test indicated
that the un-answered letters had not been getting through to the right
person.  If you have sent them mail using the address in the doc
files, and particularly if you never got a response of any sort, you
probably need to try again with the address above.  A recent test
indicated they still hadn't sorted this out as promised.

Charley Noecker
noecker@cfa.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Hermes 2.0 bug ?????
X-Xxdate: Fri, 9 Oct 92 18:30:45 GMT
Organization: Physics Dept.Massey University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 23:29:02 GMT

I am running a Hermes BBS using the AMUG BBS in a box CD-ROM

It all works really well except that the 2 largest directory areas dont
work

	Hyper - the hypercard stack directory has over 1000 entries
	Util  - the utilities area has over 900 entries
	
All the other directories are fine, but they all have less than 500
entries

Anyone else experiance the problem and know of a cure (apart from
Manually rebuilding 
the directories into two seperate ones) ?

Thanks in adavnce
And NO flames on my choice of software.

CIAO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Klaus P. Fechner <klaus@sparky.rad.med.umich.edu>
Subject: Eudora/popper problem: maildrop lock
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 20:39:26 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan
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X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6FA4CCB54012105@via.dsf4.merit.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 8 Oct 92 20:38:35 GMT

Hi!

I encountered a problem reading my mail with Eudora from the popper
server on our Sun SPARCstation II. I remember reading about
the same thing and its solution just recently, but can't remember
where.

When I start a mailcheck in Eudora, it tries to contact the popper
server and after a couple seconds gives an alert with something like:

"I said PASS and the server said -ERR: maildrop locked. Any other
connections
active?"

This happened after my MacTCP/SLIP connection timed out during a
prior access, and it won't let me connect again. There are no other
connections, I checked with ps -ax.

I remember vaguely that the solution involved moving some mail
files back to where they belonged.

Can anyone give me the details?

Please reply be e-mail to Klaus.Fechner@um.cc.umich.edu; this is
a mail account that I can still easily access.

Thanks for your help,

Klaus
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From: smills@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (MuffinHead)
Subject: Re: AmericaOnline
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 06:57:10 GMT

Jim.Redelfs@macnet.omahug.org (Jim Redelfs) writes:

>Dennis Watson replied...

>> I have had no problems. Besure you are leaving out all capitols and
>> all spaces Fred Jones is fredjones@aolcom

>This is WRONG.  Fred Jones is    fred.jones@aol.com
>  
>The dots are CRITICAL.

   I beg to differ. I tried sending to one of my AO account 2-word names 
and got it there without the period but just by squishing the two words
together as "fredjones@aol.com".

Muff
From: pw4963@sarah.albany.edu (Peter G. White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Zmodem problems
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:55:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: sarah.1992Oct14.235518.21129
Distribution: na
Organization: State University of New York at Albany


I am having a problem sending text files from my mac to the UNIX machines on my
campus.  I am getting the error got zrpos =0 every time I try.  When I use 
kermit(much slower) it sends the file fine.  Please help me!!!

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From: Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Mailer programs
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 13:51:12 EST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:226/20.18 - cmhGate UF Gateway, Columbus OH

stuart@insane.apana.org.au (Stuart Marburg) writes:

 > Anyone can supply mail order places that carry Counterpoint and/
 > or Copernicus?
SM>  I do not know about CounterPoint, but in my Copernicus II 
SM> Manual there are two addresses mentioned: 

COUNTERPoint (now at v2.1) is full shareware ($45), uncrippled, and is still
an enhancement reader add-on to Copernicus or MacWoof, or works fine with
Tabby if you have that.  (In other words, CPoint doesn't include any mailer or
de-arc programs--it's just a reader, and the finest Mac point/offline reader
available.)

If you don't want or have Copernicus or MacWoof and if you're really into it,
you can use the free WhiteMailer script for Microphone II for your mailer and
use StuffIt to de-arc your mail bundles, use CPoint for the reader, and be
done with it.  It's easier than it sounds, actually.

COUNTERPoint 2.x also works as a QWK reader/replier.

COUNTERPoint 2.1 is available on CIS in the MacComm BBS utils/progs library,
and somewhere on AOL (MacComm area, probably).  You can also deal direct with
the author, Mike Lininger:

Lininger Technologies
385 Bowling Green Place
Gahanna, OH  43230

--Adam--
 
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From: bryn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bryn Dyment)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: FirstClass
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:31:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Does anyone out there have any experience with FirstClass?  I downloaded the
demo from AppleLink a few days ago and was impressed; however, I'd like to
hear from a few real users before sending them my cheque!

Please respond to me directly; if you wish, I can forward other people's
comments to you as well (I'll assume 'no' unless I hear otherwise).

Thanks a bundle!

Bryn Dyment
bryn@mindlink.bc.ca
From: Henry.M..Halff@p932.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Henry M. Halff)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Looking for a modem
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 10:47:01 -0500

On 10/7/92, Peter A. Bidian said the most wonderful thing to All about Looking
for a modem: 

  PA> Hi, I would like to connect from home to our SLIP server at the U.
  PA> According to the people from Telecommunications Services the server
  PA> supports v.42 bis and MNP 10 @ 2400 and 9600 baud.
  PA> 
  PA> I was wondering if anybody can tell me what modem has these features
  PA> because I intend to buy one. Maybe you can also give me a price for
  PA> the modem.

My son has had good success running MacSLIP on a US Robotics Sportster
V.32bis/Mac. You can get one for $329 from an outfit called Callsoft
(800-777-5014). They advertise in MacUser.

hh