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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Stripping line feeds in VAX file?
From: fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov (Fred McKenzie)
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:24:55 EST
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: world
Organization: NASA/Kennedy Space Center, Florida

In article <1992Jul27.134918.2536@stat.appstate.edu>,
whitesr@stat.appstate.edu wrote:
> I am using WhiteKnight 11.12 to talk to a VAX mainframe ("8650")
> I would like to strip line feeds from a file stored on the VAX without
> transmitting it to my Mac, It there an y easy way to do this ON THE
> VAX?

Steve-

It is my understanding that a text file on the VAX differs from standard
ASCII text files in more ways than just the line feed.  If you list a file
from a terminal using the TYPE command, and capture it on the terminal, the
appropriate conversions are made.  Conversions are also made using Kermit
transfers, but only if the FILE TYPE is set to ASCII first.  XMODEM can
make the conversion during the transfer, if the "ST" or "RT" commands are
used to initiate the transfer.

The last reference may contain an answer to your question.  The version of
XMODEM on the VAX from several years back, was written in FORTRAN, and
included a couple of subprograms, CTOV and VTOC.  I believe these
subprograms performed the VAX to CP/M text file conversions.  However, I
don't know whether the CP/M format contains linefeeds or not.

As a last resort, you should be able to write a fairly simple program in
whatever language you have access to on your VAX.  It would treat the text
file as if it were binary, reading a character at a time, and writing each
character to a new file unless it was an "undesirable character"!

fred-mckenzie@ksc.nasa.gov
From: e5tx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: HSR Dual Standard init string
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:04:58 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

I have a HST Dual Standard 14.4K modem.  but I have trouble with the connection
when a long list is displayed (without pause).  I always get disconnected.  It
seems that the incoming data is too fast for the modem.  Has anyone had the
same problem?  Can someone who has the same kind of modem email me his/her
initialization string?  I think it would make the difference.  Thanks.		

Tim
From: hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: HELP - hqx. To Macbinary Conversion
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:08:56 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

In article <1992Jul22.115502.2851@memstvx1.memst.edu> kittellr@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>
>	Got a bunch of nice stuff from sumex.stanford.edu for my mac. It is, of
>course all in hqx. format. Can't seem to get it home via kermit server in a
>useable format. I have Stuffit 1.5.1, but is of no avail. Need to convert these
>file from .hqx to some other while on VMS. Please HELP.

You might want to try ics.rascal.utexas.edu, for one, because all of their
files are stored in MacBinary. From there, you should be able to get BINHEX 4.0
which will let you convert all those .hqx files back into MacBinary.

h.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: edwards@andy.bgsu.edu (Bruce Edwards)
Subject: Question about XYPLEX terminal server and Zmodem
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:24:58 GMT

I am only able to use Kermit (which is slowwwwww) to download off
our VAX because I'm going through a XYPLEX terminal server.  When
I asked our system people about it they said there was a work around
which allowed the xyplex to be put into PASSALL mode.  They're sending
me some documentation, but until it arrives and I'm able to digest it,
has anyone else found a work around for the xyplex stepping on Zmodem and
how does one engage it from the the

xyplex >

prompt?

edwards@andy.bgsu.edu

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From: vturner@fred.nmsu.EDU (Vaughan Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: problems with Zterm 0.9 and PowerPort Gold modem
Date: 31 Jul 92 04:12:45 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Klein Bottles Inc.  Help Wanted: Inquire Within

hello net,

I just got a PowerPort Gold modem from ClubMac.  It seems to connect fine, even
at high speeds, but I get *no* indication I'm running with compression or error
correction.

The problem is two-fold:

First, ZTerm seems to not give verbose settings when dialing from the dial
menu.  When I dial manually, I get this:

atdt 646-6500
CARRIER 9600
 
PROTOCOL: LAP-M
 
COMPRESSION: NONE
 
CONNECT 38400
 
But when I dial with the Dial menu, I get something like:

CONNECT 38400 NMSU-Net 9600

and nothing else.

The second problem is that the status bar that appears when I am accessing
the PowerPort modem should have the small square to the right of the
thermometer lit up, but it doesn't.  This is supposedly some sort of
"overdrive" indicator, which tells you the modem is running at a faster
rate than the actual baud rate, i.e., compression.

I realize in my example that I am only running LAP-M, and not compression,
but this has happened on 2400 MNP5 modems too, with the same results.

Does anyone know how to get ZTerm to not suppress connection result messages?

has anyone successfully gotten the "overdrive indicator" to work?  I'm still
impressed with both ZTerm and the PowerPort Gold, but I'd really like to know
when I'm connecting with error correction and/or data compression on...

Email and I'll summarize, or post here,

Thanks for any help,

Vaughan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Joerg.Vreemann@popserver.uni-konstanz.de (Joerg Vreemann)
Subject: Re: Ethernet NB problems?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Gruppe Kommunikation, RZ Uni Konstanz
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:40:40 GMT

In article <REUVEN.92Jul23103219@pit-manager.mit.edu>,
reuven@athena.mit.edu (Reuven M. Lerner) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know whether the new Apple Ethernet NB cards are unstable?

Somone at our local Apple dealer told me about problems with Apple's new
NB cards; something about shakey electrical contact at the RJ45 port, as I
believe to remember...
Sorry I can't be more specific.

Joerg
From: 00sndavis@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mac to Tandy and back
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:43:26 GMT

Does anyone out there use a Tandy 100/101/200 Portable to do word
processing and connect to the Mac? I am thinking about doing this and
have some questions:
1. How much could I expect to pay for a Tandy portable. Do they come with
hard drives and modems built-in?
2. How does on connect to the Mac (in my case a Plus and a II). With a
null modem? How much are they and where can I get them?
3. What software can be used to transfer between the two.
4. Would I also be able to access CompuServe, American Online, and my
Vax and Unix mainframe with the Tandy?
5. What software is good on a Tandy.?

Thanks, 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt D Baumann)
Subject: Re: SLIP on Powerbooks: performance ???
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 04:42:10 GMT
Reply-To: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt D Baumann)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation

In article <19920720034335CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, CSP1DWD@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU 
(CSP1DWD) writes:
> Intercom

InterCon (note the n not m).  There is a very different company called 
Intercomm. :-)

I use a PowerPort Gold in my 170, and it seems to work pretty well with our 
SLIP software, though it does have some oddities.

My observation about most SLIPs is that anything above 19.2K just seems to 
cause problems.  We are looking into this, and hopefully will get it solved.  
Seems to just get confused or have FAR too many errors.


Kurt Baumann                  Creators of fine TCP/IP Products
InterCon Systems
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From: rfrost@degas.jrc.flinders.edu.au (Richard Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Apple's SHARED VISION product
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:36:50 GMT
Organization: CSIRO/Flinders Joint Research Centre in Information Technology


Video Phones.. move aside!..?

I hear that Apple is to announce a product called SHARED VISION at the next
MacWorld show in the United States..

"..Shared Vision, a communications product that is due to be demonstrated at the upcoming
MacWorld show in the United States.

   Shared Vision would enable two people using Macintoshes in different locations to
communicate and simultaneously share files over normal telephone lines. It would include
a camera facility to allow visual images to be sent and displayed at both ends of the link."


especially note the words "NORMAL TELEPHONE LINES".. (ie.. no IDSN)

Questions:

    1) Cost?

    2) How many frames per second can be sent? are they just still images?

    3) Are the images being sent IMMEDIATELY after they are grabbed from the CAMERA?

    4) How much of the CODEC is software.. how much external hardware is used for 
       real time (<=- assumption) video compression.. is it just using QuickTime and
       sending a few frames a second?

    5) Are the images in colour???


I am very interested in this and would like ANY more information regarding this product.

Maybe its worth starting a thread on this.

please email any replies..

Thanks.

Richard.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Steve Wingard <wingard@scw.b11.ingr.com>
Subject: KILL files for Nuntius -- Ppppppplease!?!?!
Organization: Intergraph Corp.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:52:44 GMT

I'm using Nuntius as my NNTP newsreader of choice right now -- its
"threading"
action and user interface won me over.  

But I'd like to add my voice to the chorus of folks who are asking for
support
of KILL files, such as the ones implemented in "nn" and "rn".  They would
make life MUCH simpler for me....

So, Peter, if you're listening...   pretty pretty please with sugar on
top?

(I know, I'm a fine one to complain about freeware...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: wingard@b11.ingr.com (Steve Wingard)
Subject: VersaTerm SLIP vs. the network router
Reply-To: wingard@scw.b11.ingr.COM
Organization: Intergraph Corp.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:20:50 GMT


I'm using VersaTerm SLIP with a Xylogics "Annex" terminal server. 
I've got a login script that successfully starts SLIP on the Annex --
I get my IP address set correctly, and I can access machines on that
particular network with no problem.

There are some machines in a different building (connected by a
router) that I also need to access.  At various times, I've tried
setting the Gateway field in the VersaTerm "AdminSLIP" tool using the
SLIP server address and the router address, but no matter what I try I
still can't reach the machines in the other building.  I even tried
fiddling with the gateway field in the Apple AdminTCP cdev -- no dice.

Is there a configuration step that I'm missing?  (Is there something
else that needs to be configured on the Terminal Server?)


--
Steve Wingard
Intergraph Corp.
wingard@scw.b11.ingr.com
From: knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Re: NCSA Telnet cannot find config.tel?
Date: 24 Jul 1992 11:48:01 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: ozona.cs.utexas.edu

In article <25620003@hpcvra.cv.hp.com> charliep@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Charles Patton) writes:
[...]
>Second, I tried your described experiment on a IIx / 7.0 / 
>tune-up 1.1.1 / 8Mb / 24bit mode with the following results:
>
>Telnet 2.5B (MacTCP version) - serial line not supported.
>
>NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 - same result as you descibed _except_ that
>the dialog box indicated that if continued, only serial 
>connections would be allowed (did you get this "fine print"?)
>
>Having set up the connection to a slip server earlier and
>having obtained the assigned IP# at that time, I choose the
>"configure serial" dialog, entered the baud rate, etc. and
>the SLIP IP#, and was off and running.
[...]

Yes, I tried clicking the "Serial" button, but in my case it does not
make a difference. When I select "open connection" the serial/Slip
checkbox is dimmed, and no connection is ever established (server or
host no responding), even if I set the right IP number like you.

Edgar



Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: davis@gauss.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Subject: Can Microphone II recognize down-loaded file type/creator?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:47:46 GMT


I used to use ZTerm 0.9, which seemed automatically to recognize the
type/creator of most files I tried to down-load.  Now I'm using Microphone II
4.something, and it seems really stupid.  When I down loaded a UN*X tar file
with ZTerm, ZTerm said "Aha! TARF/TAR."  Microphone II with the same file
said, "Duh, huh?"

Is there anyway to make MPII smarter, or do I have to put the type/creator in
by hand for each file?

Thanks.


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From: phjq762@chpc.utexas.edu (Rodney Kinney)
Subject: Re: Re: NCSA Telnet cannot find config.tel?
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 17:52:42 GMT


>P.S. MacSLIP+MacTCP+NCSA Telnet(MacTCP-mode) is a superior
>way to go. I wouldn't be suprised if NCSA dropped its SLIP
>support altogether now that MacSLIP is available. 

	I concur with this. I was unable to get Telnet with SLIP to work at all
on my portable, but with MacTCP and MacSLIP, I connected on the first try.
-- 
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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: ARA and V.32, MNP 5, etc.
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:16:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: USC-ISI


I have read in bits and pieces that ARA doesn't support hardware
compression on modems that have it (MNP5, V.42), instead relying on
V.42 (or is it 32?  I get confused) in software.

Question:  Wouldn't it be faster to turn off software V.42 if the
modem has it in hardware?

Is this possible?

jas
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From: jstewart@Software.Mitel.COM (John Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Help; what is "atis" on a sun?
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:15:21 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

A Sun workstation administrator (me) needs help.


We have a couple of users here who used to access some printers off of
one of our Sun networks via a gatorbox. The apple network has been changed,
so has the sun network, and of course now things do not run.

Some of our suns start a program called "atis". I could not find any documentation
in our archives about this software, and of course nobody knows anything 
about it.

strings of atis give the following:

% strings atis | more
$Author: cck $ $Date: 88/04/16 22:58:56 $
$Header: atis.c,v 1.39 88/04/16 22:58:56 cck Rel $
$Revision: 1.39 $
Copyright (c) 1986,1987,1988 by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
...

If anybody could give me pointers on what this software does or how to find
the distribution, I'd really appreciate it. 

Thanks;



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Aaron Freimark <abf1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Nuntius 1.1.1d2 won't allow for follow-up post or reply by
     mail
X-Message-Id: <A69C63AE12014541@k-tom.cit.cornell.edu>
Nntp-Posting-User: abf1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d3
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:00:58 GMT

In article <199207290739.AA07662@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ,
gaylord@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:
>(1) doesn't allow me to post a follow-up article (it tells me that i need
>to select an editor using the 'editing articles' in the prefs menu which
in
>turn tells me "could not complete your request because it was not found"
>
>(2) doesn't allow me to reply to author by mail (it tells me i need to
>select a mailer using mail in the prefs menu which in turn brings up a
>dialog box which doesn't do much of anything [btw - i am using eudora for
>this message].

"Doesn't do much of anything" isn't very descriptive--what do you see? 
It sounds like your "Nuntius Preferences" file may be corrupted in some
way.  Trash it, and re-start Nuntius.  (You shouldn't have to rebuild the
List of All Groups.)

In article <VQDNBDV6@cc.swarthmore.edu> Eiji Hirai,
hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu writes:
[...directory list of frederik.ruc.dk...]
>
>It seems like the modification times say 1.1 is the latest, or am I just
>confused?

I'd say Peter reposted the 1.1 version, for some reason.  But 1.1.1b3 is
definitely newer.

--Aaron Freimark
  Cornell Information Technologies
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Publicly-available equivalent of Apple Internetwork Router?
From: dskeeler@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Dennis S. Keeler)
Date: 21 Jul 92 08:29:11 -0500
Organization: Lost in n-space

In article <1992Jul20.224800.907@telebit.com>, brent@greatcircle.com (Brent Chapman) writes:
> Is there a publicly-available equivalent to Apple's Internetwork Router
> product?  I have a LocalTalk net consisting of a Mac IIcx and a laser
> printer, and occasionally a PowerBook 140.  I have an Ethernet network
> with a that same Mac IIcx and a Sun on it.  I'd like to be able to run
> AppleTalk over the Ethernet (so my Sun can use my laser printer via
> AppleTalk, for instance), without having to buy a FastPath or GatorBox
> or equivalent.  I've already got a perfectly good machine that's on both
> nets (the Mac IIcx); I'd like to find some software for it that runs under
> MultiFinder on System 7 to perform occasional duty as an EtherTalk to
> LocalTalk gateway.
> 
	I think Liaison 3.0 by Farallon would do the trick. I haven't used it
myself, but I am happy with the Farallon products I do use. Liaison would set
you back $279 from MacWarehouse.
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From: chiu@synoptics.com (Timothy Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Possible Pseudoexplanation for Telnet "free
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:31:11 GMT
Reply-To: chiu@synoptics.com
Organization: Synoptics Inc. Santa Clara, California.

In article 712247012@cwis, heys@cwis.unomaha.edu (Matthew D. Heys) writes:
<<A fairly long article about how SE's need to be warm booted to work
  correctly with MacTCP and Asante's SE card>>


Well, I don't want to make this any longer than the article Matthew 
Heys has written, but I thought I'd add in a few more data points
regarding Mac SE's and the SE card from Asante.

At my previous company, we used TCP/Connect II from Intercon as
well as NFS/Share.  We had the entire range of Mac computers from
an SE up to a Quadra 900.  The only Asante card we could never get to
work correctly was the SE card with the Intercon software (which 
ran on top of MacTCP).  Our problems were more related to the 
fact that the SE card was available in only an 8k or 16k version.

We ended up using a card from NRC that had 64k on board which resolved
the problems we had with MacTCP and the software that ran on top of
it.  Hence, I don't really think the "freezing" problem is related
to MacTCP, since we didn't experience it with the NRC cards, although
I had plenty of freezes with the Asante card trying to run NFS/Share.

I was not able to get my freezes to correlate with warm/cold boots 
the way Matthew was though.

As usual the above is my own opinion and not the opinion of my employer
(past or present).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Dick Rinewalt <rinewalt@gamma.is.tcu.edu>
Subject: Re: Nuntius 1.1.1d2 won't allow for follow-up post or reply by
     mail
Organization: Texas Christian Univ Comp Sci Dept
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b3
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:30:25 GMT

I get the message "Your article could not be posted because MacTCP could
not find a nameserver." I tried the setup suggested by Aaron Freimark,
but that did not help.

Thus, I have returned to 1.1b3.
From: black@mpd.tandem.com (David C. Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: White Knight update patches 11.07-11.14
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:24:43 GMT
Reply-To: black@auriga.UUCP (David C. Black)
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <26JUL199215205959@vax2.concordia.ca> dohle@vax2.concordia.ca
(Gordon Dohle) writes:

>In article <Brwt31.4zJ@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
>dmcclell@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (D. Jason McClellan) writes...

>>I have just downloaded all these patches and now have no clue on how to add
>>them to the existing program.  Anybody have the quick answer?  Thanks
>>beforehand and

>For anyone who is a registered owner, the patch path is
>a very long and tedious process, which requires collecting
>not only the patches, but also a set of PUP decoders.

I have owned White Knight since the days of Red Ryder 4.2, and have only
needed a single PUP Decrypter in all that time (even System 7 compatible it
seems).  The update process is tedious only if you have to do more than
one at a time.  By keeping up to date, I have had no complaints about the
process except that the update files are somewhat large.  Be sure to turn
off virus checkers or tell them that PUP may legally update White Knight.

>The fastest, easiest way is to call Freesoft and ask for
>an updated version. Mine was delivered 3 days after I
>called.

Yes, this is the fastest way if you have a bunch of updates to apply.
If you just got a download of the most recent version from GEnie, then
the PUP Decrypter may be faster due to demand at Freesoft.

>No cost.
>
>Gordon
>dohle@vax2.concordia.ca

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