HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zuniga@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Ralph Zuniga (FREAC/CAR))
Subject: Kinetics EtherPort IIn (Where?)
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:49:47 GMT


	I'm looking for the driver for the Kinetics EtherPort IIn board.
I have tried to contact the manufacturer of the board but it seems that
it no longer exists or they changed their name.

	Any ideas of where I can get this driver?


	Thanks in adavance!


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Riccardo Mannella <mannella@ipifidpt.difi.unipi.it>
Subject: Client for weather pix wanted!
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6EE6386560108C9@mann1.difi.unipi.it>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 29 Sep 92 19: 48:22 GMT
Organization: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Pisa, Italy
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:10:08 GMT

While reading the news some days ago, I came across the article of a guy 
who mentioned a client for receiving the weather satellite pictures over
Internet.... unfortunately the Mac bombed at the wrong time and I could
not find the article afterwards! Can you help me? Do you know of any
client to "suck" satellite weather pix from the net? Please, E-mail me
'cause the news server is not very reliable.
Thanx
Ricc

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: lishka@dxcern.cern.ch (Christopher Lishka)
Subject: Better documentation on PowerBook 170 data/fax modem?
Summary: Does anyone have a better documented AT command set for this beast?
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:22:23 GMT

I am currently evaluating a data/fax modem for the Apple PowerBook
170.  My first impression (after a weekend of wrestling with the
little beast) has not been favorable: certain commands (e.g. modem
speaker) don't seem to work as documented and error-correction seems
worse than useless with our USR Courier v.32bis modems (i.e.
error-correction has to be turned off completely).  And to add insult
to injury, the Swiss version "blacklists" phone numbers so that if
something goes wrong when calling, the number is "blacklisted" and you
cannot call it again until you have quit and restarted the
communication software (and this *IS* documented in the manual)!

One real annoying problem is that the manual does *NOT* seem to list
all of the AT commands available.  Comparing the output of AT&V (show
profiles) with the documentation, I note the following
commands/registers that *DO* appear in the AT&V output but not in the
manual:

	ATL	AT&J	AT&R	AT&S	AT&X	AT&Y

	ATS2	ATS14	ATS16	ATS21	ATS22	ATS23

	ATS25	ATS26	ATS27

That is an awful lot of mystery commands and registers!  It is a shame
that Apple cannot follow other modem manufacturer's model and supply
complete documentation (e.g. U.S. Robotics).

Does anyone have information on what these commands do?  Better yet,
is there anywhere I can get a more comprehensive manual on the
PowerBook data/fax modem?

Thanks for any help you can provide me!  Hang loose....

						.oO Chris Oo.

-- 
                                                           Christopher Lishka
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet on Mac+
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:07:38 GMT

D.Stevens@uk.ac.uea (Dave Stevens) writes:
: Is anybody out there able to run NCSA Telnet on a Mac+, system 7
: with MACTCP. We have a number of Macs, but the +'s will only
: produce a window for the remote host and nothing else. We have
: tried NCSA telnet up to 2.4.19.
:                                Thanks,      Dave Stevens

There's a bug, MacTCP will not work on a Mac Plus unless you use something
called "MacTCP Plus Tool". It is a program that modifies MacTCP to fix the
problem. I'm not sure, but the tool is probably on ftp.apple.com.

/Mats
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Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
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From: andyb@twisty.eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Andy Babinszki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Courier HST (9600bps) with MacTerminal 3.0 ?
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:08:21 GMT
Reply-To: andyb@twisty.eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Andy Babinszki)
Organization: A Maze of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

Has anyone successfully set up and used a USR Courier HST (9600bps
version) with a Mac running MacTerminal v.3.0 w/ Comm ToolBox Modem
Tool?

Please respond by e-mail.

Thanks, in advance,

Andy.

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From: Glen.Stewart@f175.n2240.z1.ieee.org (Glen Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: USRobotics Sportster gets awfully warm!
Date: 6 Oct 92 01:06:27 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2240/175 - The Associati, Grand Blanc MI

Thanks for mentioning this concern.  I have a SupraFax v.32bis that also gets
quite warm (hot) and am also pleased with my HST.  I was taught that hot
circuits fail first...  Guess I'll avoid the Sportster line.  Thanks again.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: chavey@jalapeno.cs.wisc.edu (Darrah Chavey)
Subject: Mac news server (not client)
Organization: Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:18:59 GMT

I would like to set up a Usenet news feed at my College. All the info I 
have seems to assume you'll have a Mac client with a Unix machine 
storing the news for the "community-at-large". I have lots of Mac disk
space available, and little Unix disk space. Is there any reasonable way
(short of A/UX) to set up a Mac as news server?  uupc, as best as I can
tell from the docs, would sort of work except: I would like better control
over expiration dates; I need something that works over TCP lines (uupc
assumes modem dial-up to the place you're downloading news from).
   Anyone know a way to do this?

-- 
--Darrah Chavey                  Department of Math & Computer Science
  chavey@beloit.edu              Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.
From: mikep@iamug.rent.com (Michael Pester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac BBS software.... what options are there ?
Date: 21 Sep 92 03:28:42 GMT
Organization: Iowa Macintosh Users Group

Can we please get a little balance here.

     I have been running Postal Union Lite since it first came out.  I
am running FirstClass for the Iowa Macintosh Users Group.  I like Postal
Union Lite.  It does everything I need it to do.  It is running right
now, delivering messages on to the system, while I am typing this
message and while users continue to use IAMUG's system.  I have no fear
of it crashing my system, and it never has.  It also pick up a great deal
of news daily and in my opinion reasonably fast.

     It also polls my feed every morning around 4 am to pick up news.  I
set this with the schedule button in the UUCP preferences dialog in
Postal Union Lite.  It takes very little to run the gateway
automatically.  I know that there are additional features found in the
reqular Postal Union package, and if I need them, I will buy it. 
However I am glad the I.E. put out an affordable lite version of their product,
because I didn't have to spend $2000.00 for features I really didn't
need.

     I have found Thomas and Megan to be very helpful when I was setting
my system up and whenever I had questions.  I too have things I would
like to see in the software, but sometimes I just can't have everything
I want right now.  I have called I.E. at their support line and
requested new features, and am confident they will be added as soon as
possible.  There are also things I would like to see added to FirstClass
and have called SoftArc and told them what I would like to see.

I just wanted to offer MY observations.  I don't think this needs to
turn into a flame war.  I will answer any questions I can.  I do not
respond to personal attacks, and let it be known that this message is
not meant as an attack on anyones character. 
***************************************************************************
 BBS Administrator                               Iowa Macintosh Users Group
***************************************************************************
From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ISDN cards for Macs
Date: 26 Sep 92 00:20:09 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <137192@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, deboni@diego.llnl.gov (Tom DeBoni) writes:
> Are there any ISDN products available for Macs? I'm wondering about the
> sort of device that would replace a modem in an ordinary analog situation.
> 
> The desire is to acuqire ISDN service at home to connect to work, and use
> one of the abovementioned adapters at each end to handoe one or more
> B-channels of bandwidth.

Hayes has a product known as the ISDN System Adapter. It is designed just for
the kind of service you mention -- modem replacement.

The ISA is a squarish flat box with an RS-232 connection. (It looks cool next
to a NeXT) It uses a special dialect of the AT command set with extensions for
ISDN features.

While it acts kinda like a modem for data calls, it also has commands designed
to control voice calls as well. You can listen to the voice calls via a
standard 2500 phone. (There's an RJ11 on the unit to plug this in)

If you want a contact, send me some mail. I'll forward it to the ISDN
marketing folks.

-- 
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Principal Software Engineer        ! Packet Radio: AA4LR @ W4QO
Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. ! UUCP: uunet!hayes!bcoleman
POB 105203 Atlanta, GA 30348 USA   ! Internet: bcoleman%hayes@uunet.uu.net
Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
From: cbarkley@alex (The DarkMage)
Subject: Re: wanted: WhiteKnight patch installer
Organization: Computer Science, Trinity University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:49:49 GMT

I was unable to respond by mail to the request for the PUP decryptor
which is needed to extract White Knight updates.  It used to be
available on the sumex-aim archives.  If not, or if you can not access
there, let me know and I will post it here or send it to you directly.


-- 
Christopher Barkley
The DarkMage
cbarkley@tusol.cs.trinity.edu
Reality is a State of Mind
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steven Dorner)
Subject: Re: MacIntercomm?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:51:23 GMT

In article <Conrad_Nobili-051092181702@nobili.harvard.edu>,
Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili) wrote:
> software "diagnostic kit" as one of many that can be induced to fail by
> performing *perfectly reasonable* actions like holding down the mouse
> button while downloading....

Hmm, yes, I think I'll just hold my mouse button down over a menu for a few
minutes while I drink this can of coke and type with my nose.  Do it all
the time.

I guess I must be missing something.
--
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
Giving one of them new-fangled Mac newsreaders a try.
From: howarth@rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Zoom v.32-bis VFX modem and others
Date: 3 Oct 1992 19:25:23 GMT


   I have had a Zoom (actually a Magic but its the same) v.32-bis VFX
faxmodem for a month now and really like it except for one thing. The
MacInfo BBS uses a Courier HST-9600 modem and my v.32-bis connects as
if it were getting a 14.4k link. Unfortunately, sometimes the connection
basically locks up and sometimes it doesn't. Is this common that strange
nonstandard protocols above 9600 baud will confuse a typical v.32bis modem?
It is using Rockwell chip sets so I would think it can't be that bad. In
fact it is grat for every other connection I have made. Is there a way
to use AT commands to set the carrier connect speed for a particular
connection? Thanks in advance...
           Jack

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From: mssmith@afterlife.ncsc.mil (M. Scott Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Problem FTP'ing large Mac files
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:20:17 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Hello..

   I finally decided to figure out how to do up/downloads over the internet
with the Mac, and I ran into a problem which I didn't see mentioned in
"how-to" texts.

   To download a file from the internet to my Mac, here's what I'm doing:

 - FTP the file (from sumex; I've tried both binary and regular modes)
 - turn copy buffer on in terminal program on Mac
 - cat the .hqx file
 - turn off copy buffer
 - choose "Convert from Binhex 4.0.." in Compact Pro (v1.31)

   This works fine for relatively small files; however, whenever I try to
use this process for big files (it barfed on a 290k file), Compact Pro comes
back and says "[file] damaged or has a format this version of Compact Pro
can't recognize".  (This is after it has apparently successfully retrived
the file name, as I've already chosen the destination directory at this
point.)

   I doubt line noise is a problem, because I have MNP5 (as does the modem
I'm connecting with), and I've never experienced it.

   So, ANY help would be greatly appreciated!  What am I doing wrong, or
more importantly, what can I do to make it work?

Thanks in advance,

M. Scott Smith
  (mssmith@afterlife.ncsc.mil | umsmith@mcs.drexel.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: veizades@apple.com (John Veizades)
Subject: Re: MacTCP, ASR's and completion routine hell
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:29:52 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.programmer


> 5.) Use the global CurrentA5 to inititialize the ioCurrentA5 field of
> your extended parameter block.
> 6.) Your completion routine should save the value of A5 in a local,
> set A5 from  the ioCurrentA5 of the parameter block (passed in register A0
> I believe) and restore A5 on exit.  Look in the file <SetUpA4.h> for
> inspiration.

As far as the applications A5 world goes if your A5 is set appropriately
when you issue a PBControl call to MacTCP your A5 world is restored on
calling your ioCompletion routine.  For most well behaved MacTCP
applications no A5 world manipulation is needed.

As far as help goes in programming to the MacTCP interface certified
developers should look at the programming examples on the developer CD and
additional questions should be sent to DTS.

John Veizades...
MacTCP engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: broberts@waggen.twuug.com (Bill Roberts)
Subject: Re: High Speed Modems, understanding...
Organization: Brite Systems
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:58:52 GMT

roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:

>Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo) writes:
>> Gee, my modems tend to return "NO CARRIER" when someone hangs up.  I 
>> guess you can't use that to recognize a hang-up?  Naaaah.

>	Absolutely not.  The "NO CARRIER" message is *in band*, i.e.
>it could appear as a perfectly valid piece of text being transmitted
>(like, maybe in the line 2 above this one).  There is no reliable way
>to differentiate between "NO CARRIER" as a piece of transmitted text
>and "NO CARRIER" as the signal for "the phone connection was hung up".
>It's the control-s/control-q flow control problem all over again.

Thanks to the guys that picked up my "spelling error", NMP/NMP.  But
don't try a commerical effort with IN-BAND control.  It man be fine for hobby
use but don't bet someone elses data on it!!
-- 
|  Bill Roberts, Va Beach VA   |  In the field of observation, chance  |
|  broberts@waggen.twuug.com   |  favors the prepared mind. - Pasteur  |

From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: High Speed Modems, understanding...
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 20:52:02 -0500

broberts@waggen.twuug.com (Bill Roberts)

Some of these statements are pretty sweeping (and inaccurate)...

  > 4.  The Macintosh computer has "brain dead" serial ports.  Apple cut
  > corners when they make these port and offer (DTR/DCD) -OR- (CTS/RTS),
  > usually even the cheapest serial ports on a PC have BOTH.  What this
  > means is that the Mac can detect when a line disconnects (critical if
  > running a bbs permitting dial-ins) or it can conduct hardware
  > handshaking (essential for handling high speed modems).  Put this
  > together the Mac CANNOT run a BBS with HIGH SPEED MODEMS, because if
  > you run with DTR to provide dial up security you can't control the
  > modems.  If you choose to have control of the modems you cannot detect
  > if one caller was disconnected and another logged in.

    Gee, my modems tend to return "NO CARRIER" when someone hangs up.  I 
guess you can't use that to recognize a hang-up?  Naaaah.

  > 5.  NMP-5 was an early compression scheme and works well on text,
  > however if you transmit a "zipped" or other type of compressed file
  > this actually takes more time and sends more data.  The V.42bis is an
  > improved version of compression that test the incoming data and if
  > adding additional compression would make things worse it leaves it
  > alone.  (the PPI modem has a &K9 setting that will let the modem
  > attempt a v.42bis but not a NMP-5, use it if you have it)
 
   It's "MNP" not "NMP".  MNP stands for MicroNet Protocol.  Is this some
in-joke on your part, did you not know?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Performas Serial Ports
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 14:48:18 EDT

Becuse MacWorld seems to be lessening the technical details that they 
include in their reviews, I don't know if the P600 supports the GPI, pin 
7. Does anybody know if Appple is continuing to shoot themselves in the 
foot by not connecting this pin?


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From: flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Zterm and sz MacBinary Handshaking
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:04:36 GMT
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744

In article <BvB3sn.4F8@well.sf.ca.us> wab@well.sf.ca.us (Doc Benzene) writes:
>
>Zterm 0.9 is supposed to recognize Macintosh binary data
>according to its documentation.  I assume that this means it
>knows to look for the three forks of a Mac binary file during
>a download and write them to disk as one file.  How do you
>specify the files to sz, though?  It doesn't seem to be smart
>enough to recognize the basic file name and then look for the
>three files representing the file forks.

If I am totally missing the boat, forgive me, but WHAT are you
TALKING about?

First of all, to my knowledge, there are only TWO forks in a Mac
file (resource and data). My typical use of sz involves
de-binhexing a file (usually FTPed from somewhere) using mcvert,
then sz'ing the resulting file (singular) to ZTerm. This works
great. ZTerm wakes up and recognizes the MacBinary transfer.

What are you doing if it is not similar to this? I am totally
confused!

----


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From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: High Speed Modems, understanding...
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:19:20 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <1992Sep26.214619.451@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
> Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo) writes:
>> Gee, my modems tend to return "NO CARRIER" when someone hangs up.  I 
>> guess you can't use that to recognize a hang-up?  Naaaah.
> 
> 	Absolutely not.  The "NO CARRIER" message is *in band*, i.e.
> it could appear as a perfectly valid piece of text being transmitted
> (like, maybe in the line 2 above this one).  There is no reliable way
> to differentiate between "NO CARRIER" as a piece of transmitted text
> and "NO CARRIER" as the signal for "the phone connection was hung up".

Except for one thing. Absolutely nothing will follow the NO CARRIER message.
Add the requisite CR/LF pairs and you have a pretty good indicator for
connection loss.

The Smartcom family of communications software has been using this 
technique for 10 years. It is reliable.

After all, Hayes developed it. Who knows the AT command set better than
the inventors?

-- 
Bill Coleman, AA4LR                ! CIS: 76067,2327    AppleLink: D1958
Principal Software Engineer        ! Packet Radio: AA4LR @ W4QO
Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. ! UUCP: uunet!hayes!bcoleman
POB 105203 Atlanta, GA 30348 USA   ! Internet: bcoleman%hayes@uunet.uu.net
Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.

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