HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu (William M. Porter)
Subject: Re:    *** Questions about FaxSTF
Summary:  My experience with FaxSTF has been good
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:27:00 GMT

1  >Does FaxSTF let the user send a fax directly from any application?
2  >Is FaxSTF able to receive faxes automatically, in the background?
3  >Does FaxSTF allow deferred sending of faxes (ie: faxing after 11 P.M.)?
4  >Does FaxSTF make you route through the chooser to switch between data &
   >   fax modes?
5  >How does FaxSTF handle cover pages?

Mike, I have a Zoom 24/96 data/fax modem (v.42&bis, &c.) that came with the
FaxSTF software. I don't use it very heavily and can't answer all your
questions authoritatively, but I can answer a couple of them.

1. Yes. Sending a FAX is like printing to your printer. You use the Chooser
to indicate that you want to create a fax, then issue the "FAX..." command in
the File menu of any application: it's where the Print command would normally
be. I mostly send Microsoft Word documents, but I think it will work from
within any application.

2. FaxSTF can indeed receive faxes automatically, that is, you can leave it on
and let it respond automatically to incoming fax transmissions. I don't do
this, however, so I can't say much about how well it works.

3. Yes, you can defer the sending of a fax to a date & time of your choosing. I
haven't done this either, but it's mentioned in the manual (p. 48).

4. See answer to 1. (Yes.)

5. I think it handles cover pages quite well. You can define what goes on your
cover page(s), and you can choose a full-page cover page, half-page, or no
cover page at all. 

Again, let me say I'm no FAX expert, but perhaps that is in itself a
recommendation of the software. I have found that it does a very good job, is
pretty easy to use, and produces good output, both receiving and sending.

William Porter 
Internet: wmporter@jetson.uh.edu
Classical Languages: University of Houston
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dave@saguaro.uucp (Dave Challis)
Subject: mac to unix apps wanted
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:09:04 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc.

I'm posting for a friend.  Please post your answers or email to me and
I will forward the replies to Gary.  His question:

From:           Gary Fort
Subject:        Apple Mac 2 Unix

Anyone have recomendations for connecting Macs' via e-net and the AppleShare
protocol and postscript printer support to a Unix system.

I have talked to PACER, who provides this functionality on other platforms,
anyone else???

thanks for any info,
gary

-- 
Dave Challis
uunet!saguaro!dave	VOICE (714) 770-1304
dave@saguaro.uucp	FAX   (714) 863-0461 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner)
Subject: Re: Eudora/popper are balking
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 19:43:55 GMT

dhoyman@sparky.fammed.wisc.edu (Dirk Herr-Hoyman) writes:

>We are seeing an intermittent problem when Eudora fetches mail.  At times it 
>will not make the initial connection.  It will repeatedly timeout and ask
>if you wish to try for another 45 seconds.  This appears to happen more often
>in the middle of the day.

  I have seen this on an over-subscribed MicroVax.  When it is really getting 
hit hard (like the middle of the day) it will take a while to answer the POP3 
call. 

   This could be your problem. 

-- Pat ---------------------------------------> hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
From: bl668@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David P. Alverson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PowerBook highspeed patch
Date: 2 Oct 1992 01:58:48 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bl668@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David P. Alverson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, paul@idg.nl (Paul Molenaar) says:

>I have heard rumours that Apple "alpha'd" a patch (software) to
>fix the PowerBook's "no more than 9600 bps port speed" bug. As you may 
>know, current PowerBooks (except maybe for the 145) are known to lose 
>characters when using high transmission rates. This is particularly 
>annoying when connecting to GUI-systems like TeleFinder and even 
>AppleLink. Other rumours have it that Global Village distributes this 
>"alpha-patch" with their high speed PowerBook modems.

There is a file called PowerBook Tuner on the PowerPort installer
disk from Global Village.  Get Info says its 1.0a2.  What I have heard
is that Apple isnt real happy that GV is distributing this.  Also, 
Apple isnt planning to distribute the PowerBook Tuner in that form.  
Instead, the fixes will be part of System 7.1.

  -- Dave

-- 
Dave Alverson, Mason OH
davea@tso.uc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Newton development tools?
From: nolanl@mdcbbs.com
Date: 30 Sep 92 11:24:41 GMT
Organization: M&E (Division of EDS), Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: gonzales

Is there a source of information about tools that Apple is offering for
developers interested in the upcoming Newton PDA?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Mark Stuller <marstu@agdept.odag.or.gov>
Subject: NFS Client
X-Xxdate: Mon, 28 Sep 92 09:10:11 GMT
Organization: Oregon Department of Agriculture
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:14:17 GMT

I believe I know the answer to this but....

		Does anyone have info on an NFS Client for the Mac...

		I know about NFS-Share from Intercon (good but not without its problems,
				one being cost)


Thanks to all!

Organization: Oregon Department of Agriculture, (503) 378-5869

mark stuller, marstu@agedept.odag.or.gov
From: watson@clark.edu (Dennis Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: America on Line
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:44:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Oct6.224444.25523
Distribution: usa
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

In article <1asbn3INNlko@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> hmayor@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu (Heather Mayor) writes:
>I believe it's possible to access America on Line and other
>similar services through the Internet.  I must have missed the
>announcement.  I would like to know the details.  Thanks!
>*--------------------------------------------------------------*
>H* Heather D. Mayor           *D*  hmayor@mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu    *M             

I believe you can send mail by using   username@aol.com
and mail will be delivered to  username

watson@clark.edu
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From: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacTCP, ASR's and completion routine hell
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:57:03 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Of MacTCP, oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) writes:

>1.) ignore the ASR(). it is very hard to get this to work right.

Complaint: Anyone who ignores the ASR ignores ICMP messages. *Don't*
ignore the ASR; report and act on ICMP destination unreachables. If
you attempt a TCPActiveOpen and get an ICMP destination unreachable,
TCPAbort the open and report to the user instead of doing what most
programs do, which is wait up to a minute for the damn thing to time
out.

>7.) Your completion routine can communicate with your event loop by 
>dequeuing queue records from the free list (See suggestion 4) and 
>enqueuing them on a pending list. Enqueu() and Dequeue() are guaranteed
>safe to call at interrupt time.

I like this one; very slick way of doing it. Thanks David. However, it
doesn't solve the reponse time problem that Eric was having, i.e.
having to wait for the WNE to complete. Anyone have any slick
strategies for that?

pr
-- 
Pete Resnick             (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?)
Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC
System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC
Internet: resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: edgar@coco.ms.washington.edu (Edgar Karl Nielsen)
Subject: Re: HP LJ IIIsi on Mac via TCP-IP
Organization: Univ of Wash , Math Sciences Computing Center
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 07:29:08 GMT

jscarsdale@gems.vcu.edu wrote:
: Here at Va. Commonwealth University/Medical College of Va., we have an
: HP LJ-IIISi which is currently attached to a mac via a localtalk
: connection.  In order to facilitate sharing the Laser jet with a
: group of unix workstations connected via ethernet (TCP-IP) we
: are wondering if anyone has managed to get a LJ-IIIsi with a 
: tcp-ip card to work with a macintosh.
We are just starting to use an HPIIIsi(the macintosh model with 5Mb and and
EtherTalk card) as a mac and unix printer. On our unix box we have the
Columbia AppleTalk Package(CAP) running and it has a daemon that will talk
to an ethertalk based printer. The macs can either talk directly to the
printer or talk to a CAP-based unix print spooler depending on your needs.

All this assumes your macs have ethernet cards.  If you don't,
you need something to transfer your localtalk packets
to the ethernet. We have a Cayman Gatorbox for this, though we only use
it to make a localtalk printer accessible to our unix boxes via the CAP
mechanism described above. Other routers are available from other vendors.
If the only thing on localtalk is the printer, some companies(Dayna?) make
an EtherTalk box that you plug your localtalk printer into; sort of
a mini-router.

If you can get the HP TCP/IP board working just with the unix side of things
- it seemed to us that it was only supported on a few vendor's unix boxes -
you could run CAP on your unix box to make it be a mac print spooler and
then the file will be put into the normal unix lpr print mechanism so you
can make it go to any postscript printers accessible from your unix box.
Our unix-based mac print spooler sends jobs to various postscript printers
connected to the unix box via serial, ethertalk, and localtalk connections.
We prefer serial, but ethertalk and localtalk are faster as our serial ports
are limited in speed to 19.2K or so... Mac print jobs took minutes faster
due to this limit so we switched to localtalk/ethertalk methods.

Finally, Intercon has announced an lpr client for the mac, but I don't think
it is available yet. If you have MacTCP working on your macs this may be a
viable option for ya'll.
Edgar Nielsen
-- 

All opinions are my own....
---------
Edgar Nielsen
From: rramos@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Rodney G. Ramos)
Subject: v.32bis modems
Summary: v.32bis modem comparisons needed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: modem v.32bis
Date: 27 Sep 92 13:14:35 GMT

I've been shopping for a v.32bis modem and I've noticed that there is an
overwhelming amount to choose from.  Each modem I've seen seems to have the
same features as the next.

I was wondering if there has been some "lab test" type comparisons of all
or most of the v.32bis modems on the market right now. Does anyone know of
a magazine article or consumer report that has this information?
 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: USRobotics & UDS Modems and ARA
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:19:29 GMT

Has anyone used the USRobotics V.32bis modem
for ARA dial-in/out?  I would be interested in 
your experiences.  Thanks.
-- 
=  Enjoy!          John DeRosa, Motorola, Inc, ESMR Development  =
=  thanks          derosa@ssd.comm.mot.com                       =
=  a 10^6          N1111@applelink.apple.com                     =
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems
From: johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
Subject: Re: SupraFaxModem Caller ID upgrade...
Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:21:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.032425.10957@unlv.edu> edcrwfrd@unlv.edu (Edward Crawford) writes:
>Speaking of the Supra Rom upgrades:
>
>Supra mentions you only get 1 upgrade and the offer ends Nov 30. They
>also mention that Dec is the target month for the voice mail upgrade.
>Now does that mean i can get the free rom upgrade and get the voice
>mail later, or what?

Supra is asking $69.95 for the "Voice firmware", so I assume that
they'll be willing to take our money later if we get the free ROM
upgrade now.  Note that the current choice is between a $19.95 ROM
that supports Caller ID and a free bug fix ROM.  There has been
no word yet on whether the "Voice firmware" will include Caller ID,
or whether that upgrade will be just a ROM, or include other changes.

Please see Re:  Supra New ROMs (ordering info) in comp.dcom.modems 
for more info.  General questions about a particular brand of modem 
don't really belong in c.s.m.comm, so I've re-directed followups.
-- 
-- Bill Johnston (johnston@me.udel.edu)
-- 38 Chambers Street; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949
From: harllee@henry.ece.cmu.edu (Peter S. Harllee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: SLIP and NCSA telnet 2.5 (help!)
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:14:46 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

--------
I'm having trouble getting NCSA telnet 2.5 setup properly for SLIP.
I've set the hardware=Serial in the config.tel file, and commented almost
everything else out.  When I start it up it asks me for my IP number, I put
it in and hit OK.  It then tells me that it can't initialize the hardware
drivers.

What else do I need to do?  Also does anyone have a config.tel file that they
could send me.

I'm running this on a Quadra 700 with a Supra v.32bis modem connected to
the modem port.

Thanks.
Pete
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: aleskine@cs.hut.fi (Arto Leskinen)
Subject: bbs or what?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 14:08:43 GMT

I should have a mac waiting 24 hours a day for people to put in files.
What is best way to do. It should be pretty much plug and play kind of system.
I tried Microphone II 3.0 with minibbs script, but it does not work properly.
Only program that was able to understand return or line feeds was MPII.
With other comm progs all lines came a top of each other. It was also slow.
MPII on both ends could not upload files, only downloading seemed to work.
Zterm and Termy seemed to be able to upload, but all instuductions came to
same line.

Should I try Kermit instead.

And MPII minibbs is sloooow!

Arto Leskinen
aleskine@cs.hut.fi
From: rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PowerBook highspeed patch
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 14:05:42 GMT
Organization: Lucky Duck Productions

bl668@cleveland.Freenet.Edu writes in article <1agacpINNsii@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>:
> 
> 
> There is a file called PowerBook Tuner on the PowerPort installer
> disk from Global Village.  Get Info says its 1.0a2.  What I have heard
> is that Apple isnt real happy that GV is distributing this.  Also, 
> Apple isnt planning to distribute the PowerBook Tuner in that form.  
> Instead, the fixes will be part of System 7.1.
> 

If Apple made a modem that worked properly, maybe they'd have some
right to bitch.
---
Rolfe Tessem               Lucky Duck Productions
rolfe@w3vh.UUCP            96 Morton Street, NYC, NY 10014
rolfe@ldp.com              212-463-0029
From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ARA & FaxModems
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:51:11 GMT
Organization: USC-ISI
In-reply-to: ahby@ui.org's message of 24 Sep 92 15:21:01 GMT

In article <252@uiunix.ui.org> ahby@ui.org (Shane P. McCarron) writes:

>I am currently using ARA, and I see that it supports a number of
>faxmodems as ARA modems.  However, it is not clear if it will allow
>ARA to answer calls and still allow faxes to be sent into the Mac.
>Actually, it seems to me that this would be a faxmodem problem rather
>than an ARA problem.  Whatever the case, does anyone know of faxmodems
>that work in such a configuration?  If so, please respond via e-mail.

I *think* that the new "silent answer" mode of SupraFaxModems may work
with this, since the software/hardware will only kick in when it
actually detects the FAX tones (which I believe are rather different
from modem tones).

jas

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From: davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (David Morgenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: BMUG Newsletter Article Request
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:11:35 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University


Dear Netters:

Newsletter Articles Wanted! Yes, That means you!

BMUG, formerly the Berkeley Macintosh Users Group and now just
BMUG, is requesting everyone to submit articles for our upcoming
Spring '92 Newsletter. They can be on anything that might be
of interest to a computer user.

The last issue had sections on hardware, software, System 7,
Desktop Productions (dtp+), programming, telecomm, PowerBooks,
computers in society, and commentary. How can there be so much? The
"newsletter" is around 450+ pages!

The articles don't have to be clones of the monthly rags that we
see on the news stands. We want real users, real solutions, and
real life stories!

If your article is accepted, you receive a six month membership in
BMUG, which includes the Newsletter, BMUG Memo (a small publication
that comes out every now and then), access to our BBS (16-lines),
notice of any special offers that developers make to our members, 
and use of our telephone HelpLine. I know this doesn't sound like
much to people that are connected through the InterNet, but you'd
also get thousands of people that don't see your signature everyday
oohing and aahing over your words. 

The deadline for submission is soon, October 31, 1992. The
Newsletter will be sent to our members in late January.

If this sounds like a good idea, please send your articles to 

Tim_Holmes@bmug.org  or         

snailmail on disk (a good way for insurance)

Newsletter Editor
BMUG Inc. 
1442A Walnut Street, #62
Berkeley, CA  94709-1496  USA

PS: If you sent in an article and think it was accepted -- and
haven't received your copy of the Newsletter yet -- please send an
inquiry to Tim_Holmes@bmug.org including the title of your article,
your snail address, and whatever else you might want to mention...
-- 
 David Morgenstern, BMUG CheerLeader davidm@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu
    "Miracles do occur - but they rarely provide food." 
         --  Talmud: Shabbat, 53b
From: bms@penguin.eng.pyramid.com (Bruce Schlobohm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ARA script for DoveFax+?
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:24:52 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology, San Jose, Ca

In article <1992Oct6.214912.3750@tdb.uu.se>, t89djo@tdb.uu.se (David Jonsson) writes:
| How do I get my DoveFax to work with ARA 1.0?
| If a script cannot be had, is it easy to write it on your own?

Try using "Hayes Smartmodem 2400" in the modem selection menu.  This will
actually work for the DoveFax+, I've seen it.

Note that you will have to use the DoveFax Control Panel (or app) to
make sure the modem is in data mode.
Also, if you set ARA for answer-calls, you will want to either disable
the FaxManager or remember to turn off the "answer-calls" box before
changing the modem back to fax mode.

-- 
bruce schlobohm
bms@pyramid.com
From: lowe@madvax.uwa.oz.au (Brian Lowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac Classic & telnet problems
Date: 29 Sep 1992 04:40:49 GMT
Organization: Maths Dept UWA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: olearia.maths.uwa.oz.au
Keywords: classic telnet

In article <sjames.716168860@adam.adelaide.edu.au>, sjames@adam.adelaide.edu.au (S James) writes:
|> I am trying to find out if a problem we are having with some of out Mac's
|> has happened to someone else, I assume it has.
|> We have some Macs, Classics and an LC which were changed over to system 7
|> the classics have the 680000 chip.
|> Since then we have been unable to get Telnet to run, Telnet 2.3 just bombs
|> with a trap error.
|> Telnet 2.5 seems to start up, but will not open an active window.
|> Maybe I am missing something simple, maybe I am missing something BIG, but
|> I am sure missing something.
|> 
|> Does anyone have any ideas, we have two people suffering from extreme net
|> withdrawal symptoms (not a pretty picture)
|> Any info would be helpfull
|> Please reply to the Adelaide address
|> sjames@adam.adelaide.edu.au


We had similar problems with a similar configuration. We eventually downgraded to system
6.08 (for other reasons), and the problem went away. To be frank, if you're not using
file sharing or any of the other rings and bells in system 7.0, you'll get better performance
by downgrading, and your problem will probably disappear. We only have system 7.0 running
on file-sharing volumes and those machines that are fast enough to make it worth while.


Brian Lowe
lowe@madvax.uwa.oz.au

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From: bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Info on HayesConnect, Shadowland, et al wanted
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:27:01 EDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

In article <Bv9t55.B84@cs.psu.edu>, plambert@sml.cs.psu.edu (Paul  Lambert) writes:
> 
> It's just simple Local Talk 
> We have a 2400bps modem, an ImageMangler II, and a DeskWriter.  
> Our problem is this: there are close to thirty
> people who will be using these two Mac Classics (the public ones; the others
> are private).  The IWII is serial, and so is the modem, so we have one on each
> computer.  The idea I had was to use something like HayesConnect or ShadowLand
> to allow the use of these from either computer.  

If I were you, I'd go buy an AppleTalk card for the IW II. It works great,
it isn't all that expensive, and it will provide an integreated AppleTalk
solution for the IW that doesn't depend on a particular computer being
turned on. Furthermore, it is compatable with all applications, since the
Mac OS has an AppleTalk IW driver built-in.

For the modem, I'd recommend HayesConnect. (Of course, I'm biased)

> I was wondering about a few things: these programs, HayesConnect, et al., does
> anyone have any suggestions (which is better, which is CHEAPER, which crashes
> least, etc.)  

HayesConnect is $84 from MacWarehouse. That's typical for most mail order
companies.

It is pretty robust. I wouldn't say it never crashes. Crashes are extremely
rare.

> Am I required to buy multiple copies of each to use on each computer?  

HayesConnect requires a single copy for the server. You have license to 
unlimited copies of the client software (a chooser device) on the network.

-- 
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Principal Software Engineer        ! Packet Radio: AA4LR @ W4QO
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POB 105203 Atlanta, GA 30348 USA   ! Internet: bcoleman%hayes@uunet.uu.net
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