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From: dwade@svcdudes.com
Subject: Re: Microphone Front End for GENIE & Internet mail wanted.
Organization: Software Ventures, Inc.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 23:00:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.004324.9005@samba.oit.unc.edu> jwillner@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu (Jeff Willner) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.194617.13264@svcdudes.com> dwade@svcdudes.com writes:
>>In article <1992Aug17.214211.5523@news.columbia.edu>
>ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) writes:
>>>
>...
>>>I was wondering if someone had written a Microphone II front end for
>>>checking email (NOT news) etc for internet and for Genie.
>>>
>>>Imran Anwar
>>
>>
>>	The SVC BBS (510) 849-1912 has settings documents for Genie and MCI
>>Mail on it.  I don't use GEnie, so I have no idea how impressive it is.
>>
>As long as we're on the topic of Microphone II and the internet, when can we
>expect to see Telnet and FTP tools for the program? They were supposed to be
>included in the original release of v4.0, and were supposed to be ready "Real
>soon now" about 3 months ago. Same for Dialogger Pro.
>
>I've used every version of MicroPhone since v1.0, and I have to admit that I've
>gotten a bit frustrated with Software Ventures' inability to get their products
>out the door in anything resembling a timely fashion (more than a year's delay
>in shipping on both versions 3 and 4). At this rate, I'm probably going to skip
>the next upgrade and switch to a package like PacerTerm.
>
>Just my two cents.
>
>Jeff Willner
>jwillner@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu
>

	Telnet and 4.0.2 are being shipped to all registered users at the
end of the month.  FTP's been shown at MacWorld, but I don't have a release
date.  The current version of Dialoger Pro with documentation is on the BBS.
	Basically, what happened with the Telnet tool is that we realized
that all of the tools on the market weren't very impressive too late.  That is,
it took longer to write than the other people, because the standards here 
are higher.  The Telnet and FTP tools are fully scriptable, as an example.  
The telnet tool is visibly faster than the Versaterm tool.  Anyway, you get 
the idea.

Doug
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Igor Livshits <igorl@uiuc.edu>
Subject: MacSlip and MacX
X-Xxdate: Sun, 16 Aug 92 21:02:12 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Organization: NCSA
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:09:30 GMT

Hello,

Is there a FAQ list for MacSlip and MacX?  Mine works with one terminal
server (CISCO) but not the other (also CISCO, I think).   Also, if I
inhibit DTR flow control, it works longer, but then everything freezes
after a few hundred K transfered.  If I leave DTR on, well the modem just
hangs up  :-(

Thank you,
Igor
From: keeshu@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl (Kees Huyser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Program to beep on mac when popmail arrives over unix needed
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:26:27 GMT
Organization: the National Institute for Nuclear Physics; the Netherlands

In article <1992Aug18.225126.22913@bradford.ac.uk> A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk (Drew Radtke) writes:
#I would like to know if anyone knows of a program which will make my Mac
#beep (or some other attention grabbing device) when I get mail sent to
#my unix account via popmail.
#
#I've got software to read the mail, I just want something that will run
#in the background and poll my mailbox every so often.

Have a look at Eudora; you can configure it to beep or show an alertbox.
You can also configure how often Eudora has to poll the host.
Eudorea is freeware and available at ftp.cso.uiuc.edu.
A great mail program!

--kees
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* internet: keeshu@paramount.nikhefk.nikhef.nl		 AppleLink: HOL0397 *
* The National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High-Energy Physics, CSG/K *
* P.O.Box 4395,  1009 AJ Amsterdam,  The Netherlands,    phone:+31205922132 *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: patrick@casbs.Stanford.EDU (Patrick Goebel)
Subject: Need help with Print menu under MacKermit 0.98(62)
Organization: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:46:50 GMT

Why is it that the Print menu under MacKermit 0.98(62) is perpetually
grayed out (and hence non-functional)?  One is apparently supposed to
be able to print "captured text" with this menu so I'd like to know
how it works.

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Cheers,
patrick
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From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: ?Abaton Interfax with Faxshare #2
Date: 14 Aug 92 23:11:22 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

Well, seems no-one on the net uses the Abaton Interfax and Faxshare over a
localtalk network. Is anyone sharing a fax modem over an Apple- or Local-talk
network?  Would such a person care to comment on how well or poorly this works.

Thanks for any info.

rick mccormack

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: ag12481@unibase.Unibase.SK.CA (Mike Weaver)
Subject: ClarisWorks Communication package help.
Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 07:16:13 GMT

I hope this isn't a FAQ but I couldn't find an answer in the
Macintosh FAQ file or in the Macintosh Bible.

I just got a new Mac Classic II and I am trying to use it to
communicate with local BBS that gives me access to the Internet.
The only comm software available is the ClarisWorks
communications package.  As you can see, I've got it working
with straight text but I can't seem to get file transfers
working.

I'm using vt102 emulation which is needed for my host.
I have the option of transfers using xmodem tool or text tool.
I can choose as a method: MacBinary,  MacTerminal 1.1,  Straight
xmodem, or xmodem text.
and I have transfer options of: standard, CRC-16, K blocks, or
Clean Link.  (I have only tried standard since I am quite sure
that is what is required by the host.)

I have tried to do straight xmodem transfers of both clarisworks
files and text files but there is always a bunch of garbage
before my text and without CR at the end of each line, it
doesn't import into mail worth a darn.  By the way, I tried
these choosing both text and binary as the receiving file type
without success.  I was able to download a text file using
straight xmodem.  Since the permutations in this puzzle are
quite numerous, I would appreciate any assistance you can give.
Personal mail or to the net are both fine.

I can't say I am very impressed with this segment of
ClarisWorks.  It is not nearly as intuitive or easy to use as
ProTerm was on my Apple II.  I would ftp for zterm 0.9 and try
it out but there isn't much point if I can't do a binary
download.  Thanks again for your help.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Q: High speed modems w/ voice
Summary: Opinions sought re: high speed modems w/ voice mail
Keywords: high speed modems voice mail fax
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:37:29 GMT

Hi, all

 Does anyone out there have any experiences with high speed, voice and
fax modems that they'd be willing to post?

 I'm interested in a modem like the Prometheus Home Office gadget that
has v32bis data, send and receive fax and voice mail capabilities. I'm
just interested in how well the services are integrated, and what the
voice mail driver software is like. Opinions greatly appreciated!

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
From: sshws@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Herb Schilling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: How do QuickMail/SMTP gateways uuencode QM attachments?
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:45:44 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center


We are working on getting QuickMail and a QuickMail/SMTP gateway 
but in the meantime we 
are getting flooded with QuickMail messages with attachments from 
other sites that are sent to our SMTP accounts.  The attachments people send
end up as uuencoded text in the actual message itself in our UNIX mail.

 We have tried to cut out the uuencoded stuff, uudecoding and transferring
 it to the Mac but the
resulting Mac files are corrupted and their creating apps won't open them . 

 Is there anything we should know about how these attachments are uuencoded so
we can manually extract the attachments until our other software comes in ?

 Thanks.
-- 
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Cleveland, Ohio 44135 . (216) 433-8955       sshws@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: cjc@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Christopher Chen)
Subject: FlexFax modem?  4Sight?  Comm-Server?  Help!
Summary: taking over without modems.  Grr.
Keywords: FlexFax 4Sight Comm-Server
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:04:26 GMT

I inherited a setup that includes a FlexFax fax modem and Comm-Server
fax-modem-sharing-over-the-network software that doesn't quite work
correctly:  the problem is, they lost the manuals.

Does anyone have any experience with these?  Would we be better off
with someone else's software?  Someone else's modem?  Writing off a
$695 investment is possible, but we'd like to have good reasons before
we do it.

Thanks for any help.


cjc
From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: cancelling ZTerm transfers
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:29:58 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I have seen a few complaints recently about how difficult it is to cancel an
aborted file transfer using ZTerm 0.0, and just recently experienced the same
problem (after the transfer is cancelled, my screen continued to fill with the
file download). Obviously this was because the "break" character wasn't getting
out to the sending machine.

Sure enough, when I checked the setup strings for my modem ( I use an EMAC, and
by typing ATI6 and AT&V I get a listing of the settings currently used by the
modem) I saw that the "break" send feature had been set to send the break after
the buffer was empty.

This was controlled by the AT\Kn where n is a number between 1 and 5; mine was
set to 5 --send a break in sequence with the data in the buffers.  I changed it
to 3--send a break immediately but DO NOT EMPTY the buffers.

Then I tried the file transfer again, and deliberately aborted it. Sure enuff,
I got a screen starting to fill with gibberish, but this time the break key
stopped it within about 15 seconds, as opposed to the previous ineffectiveness.

So, check this setting for your modem, and see if it solves the problem for
you.

Luck
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: NFS under MAC/OS?
From: Thomas J Cozzolino <RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:08:11 EDT
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company

Can a Mac running System 7.0 mount an RS/6000 filesystem and manipulate
it using NFS?

How reliable/fast/etc. is it?

Please reply via E-mail.  Thanks.

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From: Mark.Tucker@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Tucker)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: S7 FILE SHARING VS FULL BLOWN APPLESHARE
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:07:12 -0500

 > This seems like it should be a FAQ but I can't find it in any FAQ 
 > list.
 > 
 > What are the practical limitations of S7 file sharing? Sitting on a 
 > mac in a closet how is it different from AppleShare on a dedicated 
 > server?

Actually AppleShare 3.0 can run in the background under System 7.  The main
difference is that S7 file sharing allows only 10 connected users while
AppleShare allows 120.  AppleShare 3.0 also comes with administrator tools. 
Obviously, the cost is also a major difference.  You can get AppleShare 3.0 mail
order for about $1,100 while S7 file sharing comes free with system 7.
From: Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU (Conrad C. Nobili)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: A-talk <-> EtherTalk routers
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:56:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Harvard University Office for Information Technology

In article <13811@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, jstevens@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu
(Jason Philip Stevens) wrote:

> I believe Liason (sp?) does this.  Sorry, but the company that produces
> it has slipped my mind...

Farallon PhoneNET Liaison....  Originally from InfoSphere....

Apple Internet Router may also be able to do what you want....

Conrad C. Nobili  N1LPM  Conrad_Nobili@Harvard.EDU  Harvard University OIT
From: 75300.3473@CompuServe.COM (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PowerBook Tuner in PowerPort release?
Date: 18 Aug 1992 23:31:34 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

	[ ok, folks, I will remove the file, but I am going to
	  find a way to either get Apple to put it up at their
	  FTP-server, or make them realize that they will be tared
	  and feathered by not making bug-fixes and bug-patches
	  available conveniently.  and I do not consider having
	  to FTP a 1.5meg file to get a 5k INIT customer-friendly
	  at all!   ---Werner
	]

Werner,

AAAK!!!! Don't do THAT! We have had a big argument with Apple about including 
that with our software. We have promised that we would have an installer that 
would remove it from the system with our next software release. Apple is going 
to build it into the next release of their software and the version that you 
have posted is definitely "alpha" stuff. We really appreciate you placing the 
software you can FTP it but posting the tuner is a big no-no with Apple and us. 
We understand that you are really trying to help folks with some of the serial 
port timeouts that occur on the modem port in a PowerBook (which is why we 
included it with our stuff) but it just can't be posted where there is public 
access to since Apple can't guarantee the stuff as being stable with everything 
out there. Sorry to cause you some headaches but it just can't remain there.
Greg @ Global Village

PS It can remain within our software since we will remove it with the next 
release. Apparently it will be uneccessary with system 7.1. 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: AppleShare 3.0 with no Finder (Q)
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 00:00:56 GMT

 Hi, all!

 I'm setting up an AppleShare 3.0 file server on a Mac IIci. However,
unlike previous versions, version 3.0 requires System 7.0. That means,
of course, that the Finder is always running in the background.

 This can be quite handy and convenient, but the Finder does take up a
fair bit of memory. So I added a "Quit" command to the Finder's "File"
menu. That way I can run the file server alone, freeing up memory and
hopefully CPU cycles also. The only disadvantage as I can see it is
that if you want to have AppleShare Admin running simulataneously you
need to launch it first, as you can't launch an application without
quitting the file server first if the Finder isn't running. (Apple
menu items vanish).

 Does anyone out there know of any possible problems associated with
not having the Finder around when using AppleShare 3.0? Thanks!

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
From: Barry_Wolman@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Hardware Handshaking with CTB
Date: 15 Aug 92 08:02:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.YeXGeM000k009Z5EoM
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The Apple Modem Tool in the CTB doesn't support hardware handshaking, which
is needed to take full advantage of high speed modems.  The two supported
choices are xon/xoff and none.  I'm currently using none;  I'm pretty sure
that sooner or later I'll start seeing buffer overruns.  Does anyone know
if hardware handshaking will be supported in a future release of the Modem
Tool?

Thanks,
Barry Wolman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman)
Subject: Re: What became of Red Ryder?
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 00:36:40 EDT

Benjamin.Shayne@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Benjamin Shayne) writes:

> I know that White Knight was once the shareware (or was it freeware) called R
> Ryder and I was wondering if anyone knew if there is still some access to Red
> Ryder that I can get my hands on just to look at? Just reply or mail to me yo
> answers...

Yeah. It's on most (good) mac BBSes. Like mine. (see sig)


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From: gandhi3@husc8.harvard.edu (Srinivas Gandhi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: FAQ: Where can I get it?
Summary: Where can I ftp it?
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:35:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug22.213524.15023
Followup-To: sender
Distribution: na
Organization: Harvard University Department of Government


	I was wondering where I could get a copy of the 
FAQ for this group or whether some kind soul could mail
it to me.  
	Thanks a lot!


-- 

Srinivas P. Gandhi
gandhi3@husc9.harvard.edu
From: Jim.Redelfs@macnet.omahug.org (Jim Redelfs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: Hermes 2.0 -- where's the support?!
Date: 22 Aug 92 03:03:00 CST
Reply-To: jim.redelfs@macnet.omahug.org
Organization: Macnet Omaha
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

> ...Over a month ago I sent a check for $75 to Frank Price of AOC
> Software to register my copy of Hermes...It's been a month and I
> haven't heard a word from Price's mouth. Which is not to say I
> haven't tried hearing something; I've called his support board,
> located in California, almost daily from my home in Maryland...I have
> sent mail to Frank Price many times requesting a status report on my
> order. He has yet to reply. I am not impressed...

Your experience appears to be an exact parallel of that of my friend:  He
sent HIS check in over a month ago.  
  
After several messages, the response from AOC Software (Frank Price) was that
he was in Boston at the MacWorld Expo and couldn't do much from there!
  
Finally, 30-days elapsed and my friend's BBS "went to sleep"!  Has YOUR's,
yet?
  
Trusting my friend as I do, I loaned him MY serial number (so sue me, Frank!)
to resurrect his comatose BBS.  A week later, he got his OWN serial number,
installed it, and is running along nice in his own right.
  
I'm betting that, by the time you read this, AOC Software will have validated
your account (your check cleared!) and you are on YOUR way.
  
Frank Price is an EXCELLENT programmer.  Macintosh shareware doesn't GET any
BETTER than Hermes BBS.  
  
Frank Price, at the same time, is a LOUSY businessesman.  His poor business 
practices are overshadowed only by his worse public relations.
  
But, I still *LOVE* Hermes and am running a quite successful BBS using it.

Please join our newly backboned, FidoNet conference:  Hermes_SysOps 
  
Ask your friendly, local SysOp to get it for you!
  
JR

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jwillner@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu (Jeff Willner)
Subject: Re: Microphone Front End for GENIE & Internet mail wanted.
Organization: Dept. of Psychology, UNC, Chapel Hill
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:43:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.194617.13264@svcdudes.com> dwade@svcdudes.com writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.214211.5523@news.columbia.edu>
ia4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imran Anwar) writes:
>>
...
>>I was wondering if someone had written a Microphone II front end for
>>checking email (NOT news) etc for internet and for Genie.
>>
>>Imran Anwar
>
>
>	The SVC BBS (510) 849-1912 has settings documents for Genie and MCI
>Mail on it.  I don't use GEnie, so I have no idea how impressive it is.
>
As long as we're on the topic of Microphone II and the internet, when can we
expect to see Telnet and FTP tools for the program? They were supposed to be
included in the original release of v4.0, and were supposed to be ready "Real
soon now" about 3 months ago. Same for Dialogger Pro.

I've used every version of MicroPhone since v1.0, and I have to admit that I've
gotten a bit frustrated with Software Ventures' inability to get their products
out the door in anything resembling a timely fashion (more than a year's delay
in shipping on both versions 3 and 4). At this rate, I'm probably going to skip
the next upgrade and switch to a package like PacerTerm.

Just my two cents.

Jeff Willner
jwillner@uncvx1.oit.unc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: cng@me.utoronto.ca (Charles Ng)
Subject: Re: Mac<->PC null modem???
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:45:20 GMT

Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack) writes:
>TIFF files in both directions.  I know about pins 7,2 and 3; what pins need to
>be connected for control (will accept X-on, X-off, but would have liked
>hardware handshaking if it were possible).

>Once the cable is installed, and the comms programs brought up on both
>machines, is there any trick to getting the machines to recognize each other?

>Any one know of any good books on a low-level technical plane about this type
>of inter-machine connection?

>Thanks for any ideas, suggestions.

>Rick
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There is a commercial package called MacLink Plus PC which includes both
hardware and software that will do what you wanted to do.  It costs about
$150.
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