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From: Fady_Kardoush@amusers.UUCP (Fady Kardoush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: V.Fast Transfer Rates
Distribution: world
Date: 7 Sep 92 11:56:40 PST
Organization: The Amiga Users Group of Victoria BC

In a message dated Wed  2 Sep 92  2:57, king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King,
Software Archaeologist) wrote:

 SKSA> I've heard the V.Fast standard described this way:  Don't think of
 SKSA> it
 SKSA> as a data standard that can do 28,800 bps.  Think of it as a
 SKSA> standard
 SKSA> that normally does 19,200 bps BUT UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS can go
 SKSA> as
 SKSA> high as 28,800.

I consider it a pointless, waste of time to develop it and market it now.
Why would anyone buy an item that can't be used to it's full potential,
that, of course, costs a whole lot! Seems like a waste to me.

 -- AEd V1.36/Eval

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

             +----------------------------------------------------+
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             |  Victoria, BC, Canada |The spirit of multitasking! | 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Subject: A request for VLT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:25:32 GMT

I've developed this tendency to run VLT in a window on a custom screen, along
with a few niftyterm windows that I load up and use with dnet.  I want to use
VLT in the "WorkBench screen" mode, so I do get a separte window, rather than
a VLT custom screen where the terminals window fills the screen and is not
resizable and movable.  Neither niftyterm nor VLT supports public screens, so
I use ScreenManager to open up my public screen "Terms" and turn on "shanghai"
mode so that VLT and the niftyterm windows go to that screen.

So far, so good.  Now, once all those windows are opened, I use ScreenManager
to make WorkBench the default screen again, and turn off Shanghai mode, so
that all subsequent things I open go to the workbench rather than my terms
screen.

The problems come up when either I do a plot with VLT's Tek window, or look at
the VLT scrollback buffer.  I have VLT configured to do the Tek window on a
custom screen (interelaced - I don't want the vt100 window on an interlaced
screen 'cause I'm a 2000 user who can't stand reading flicker for long periods
of time).  When the plot is done and the program switches back to the text
screen, VLT puts the _Workbench_ screen forward... which, of course, is not
where VLT is any more.  Also, when I open up the scrollback buffer, I'd like
it to go to the terms screen, mainly so that when I quite from the scrollback
buffer the screen with VLT will still be in front.

Q: is there any way I can get all this to work with VLT as it is?  If not,
what are the chances that the next VLT version will have real public screen
support, i.e. when switching back to vt100 from the Tek window, not just
putting the workbench screen forward, but looking to see what screen VLT is
on?  Also, what chances that the scrollback buffer will check what VLT's
screen is even when VLT is in "WorkBench screen" mode?

Thanks,

-Rob Knop
rkonp@cco.caltech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: interesting modem idea -- please read!
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:18:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.004314.5323@serval.net.wsu.edu> hbechtel@luke.wsu.edu (H. E. Bechtel) writes:
>I was overcome by an interesting idea for a modem that I thought might
>be a very high possibility...
>
>ideas follow:
>
>a stereomaster audio digitizer (or any par port audio digitizer)
>output from the amiga rca stereo channels going into the telephone line
>input from the telephone line going into the digitizer
>a program written that looks for audio input real time
>
>now with all of this do this:
>digitize the sample from the phone line and compare it to super-high-speed
>modems' analog tones
>send the correct tones out through the stereo sound jacks to match it
>divert the info directly into a modem package of some type.
>
>with these ideas, would it be possible to make a super fast modem using 
>amiga's abilities?  a small box could be made to house all of the rca 
>wiring etc...

   This would not work.  Wih a method like this, you would only be able
to produce an amplitude modulated signal, which would be worthless for
anything over 300 bps.  Fast modems use frequency modulation, which would
not be producable using a method such as this.

>Email hbechtel@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu for info on the Transfer Buyers Organization.
>Access to the finger command?  Finger hbechtel@frodo.eecs.wsu.edu for info...

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| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Date: 15 Sep 92 01:47:32 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ

smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:

>>   Pretty sure that the 240 is a monochrome beast while the 340 was the color
>> version.
>>

>VT240 was monochrome by virtue of having a mono monitor, the VT241 was
>the colour one, but there wasn't any difference in the system box. You could
>plug a colour monitor into a VT240 and it became a VT241
  
  Ok, so pick nits if you must.  That being the case, 240 != 241... ;-)

  -jack-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
Subject: Re: VLT insists on sending PATH with file!!! :<
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:43:05 GMT

From article <crystal.716447070@glia>, by crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal):
> 
> I really am having MUCHOS problems trying to upload to my unix host. I've
> tried the host = server, I've tried  kermit -r, and all sorts of permutations,
> and I STILL get transmission errors.  I am using XPR-Kermit with the latest
> version of C-Kermit (it is my only option) and the connection is at 1200 baud.

What have you set for the handshake? Xon/Xoff should work.
If you have that and still get trouble, then it is at the host end, and
you will need to curry favour with the administrator.  Pay particular
attention the 7/8 bits and parity - some systems set these differently
upon connection, depending on the initial character sent, and if you
connect via a server, _it_ may have a different view of things compared
to the unix stty's.
 
> But the one thing that is *really* getting annoying, is that VLT seems to
> insist on sending my PATH to the unix machine.
> 
> I use the requestor, but if my file is on the RAM DISK, it appears on glia
> as  RAM DISK:filename  (and Unix will not allow me to rename or FTP THAT at
> all because of the space).  I HAVE gotten error-free transmissions, but I
> can't DO anything with them once they appear on unix thanks to the path 
> being sent. :<

XPRkermit is brain-dead wrt paths.  cd to Ram Disk: _before_ starting
VLT, so that there is no path sent.  Using the default directory command
in VLT doesn't help.
 
Allan Duncan	ACSnet	 a.duncan@trl.oz
(+613) 253 6708	Internet a.duncan@trl.oz.au
		UUCP	 {uunet,hplabs,ukc}!munnari!trl.oz.au!a.duncan
Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia.
From: hribnak@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Jim Hribnak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Wanted: specification of SkyPix
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:02:46 MST
Organization: The Nucleus 16 Lines 403-531-9353 -CNet Amiga-

Good Luck..  Its best to contact Michael Cox on that one!
From: kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT Question
Date: 5 Sep 92 02:22:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep5.022221.12080
Organization: Richard Nixon Voodoo Dolls 'R' Us

In article <2511@ulysse.enst.fr> jeannet@sphinx.enst.fr (Olivier Jeannet) writes:
>In article <Btvv7F.DG9@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, doerrhb@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Heath Doerr) writes:
>> 
>>    I am having a small amount of trouble with VLT (senior) and I
>> was wondering if someone could help me out.  When using VI, I cursor
>> around with the arrow keys and the text that I back over (using left
>> arrow key) disappears.  If I refresh the screen, everything is 
>> still there, it just vanishes with the left arrow.  This also happens
>
>I had the same problem, I think you selected the option just below
>"swap BS <-> DEL" which is something like "destructive BS". When this option
>is selected, the left arrow does the same as BS (I use "swap BS <-> DEL").
>
>I hope this will help.

I don't know if you're referring to the same problem that he is... I still
suffer from the one that he talks about...  Swap BS<->Del is something that
I have to do constantly when switching between the systems that I use.  I
still get lost characters on each of them though... the characters are NOT
actually deleted though, other than on my terminal screen... they remain
there, so that when your editor or other program refreshes the screen 
fully they come back...  strange.  I wish I did know a fix to this...
Willy?  Oh, I forgot... he's away for a few weeks...

>Olivier.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: interesting modem idea -- please read!
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 16:58:20 GMT

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) publicly declared:
>   This would not work.  Wih a method like this, you would only be able
>to produce an amplitude modulated signal, which would be worthless for
>anything over 300 bps.  Fast modems use frequency modulation, which would
>not be producable using a method such as this.

Correction: 300 baud modems use frequency modulation.  The amplitude of
the signals is constant, but the modem uses tones of different
frequencies to differentiate 1s from 0s.  Faster modems (1200, 2400)
use phase modulation, which I barely understand and couldn't hope to
explain over the net.   Even faster modems (9600, 14.4k) use a
combination of phase and amplitude, maybe even with some frequency
shifts for good measure.  In my opinion, they're just simply magic.  :-)

You're right though, that anything over 300 baud would be very
difficult if not outright impossible on the hardware we've got.
Digital signal processing chips are expensive for a reason!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: DLG Support BBS?
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not neccessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 15:16:56 GMT

In article <mkoch.0467@amisys.UUCP> mkoch@amisys.UUCP (Mike Koch) writes:
>Could anyone bring me up to date on the status of TelePro's DLG support BBS?

I can't give you specific numbers, but TPT is alive and well.  They moved,
is all.  Hopefully someone will follow up with the new numbers.

-- 

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NCR -- Torrey Pines Development Center | Jeffrey.Grimmett@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
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From: Maurizio_Fabiani@maui.sublink.org (Maurizio Fabiani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re:  V.Fast Transfer Rates
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:40:55 GMT
Organization: Maui for Amiga - L'AQUILA - Italy
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <skyluke.00az@skylink.sublink.org> skyluke@skylink.sublink.org (Luca Spada) writes:

> >  But then again, it took 20 years for touchtone service to get installed
> >nationwide and some areas still don't have cable TV today.
> 
> Well, do you know the situation in Italy ?
> 
> Cable TV does not exist at all.
> Over  80%  of  the  country is STILL USING the pulse dial, touchtone is
> available only in big city :-(

Well...the situation is not so bad !
I live in a little town and i'm using touchtones.

Ciao

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From: at595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Garrett Laska)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: QWK, Mark Mail Doors
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:31:25 GMT
Reply-To: at595@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Garrett Laska)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


  Can anyone out there shed some light on a dim subject (my brain).. that
being what in the heck the format is of the .ndx files that are produced
by QWK compatible doors... I'm currently stuck on this 1 point, I'm writing a
QWK Mail door and for the life of me can't figure it out... I have misc
docs of the QWK standards, everything else is a piece of cake but here is my
situation:
    The QWK docs say that the numbers in the .ndx files are MSBIN or BasicReal
format, and that I have to convert them to/from a Float format??? why would
they be floating point numbers anyways, a Long int (4 odd million) would seem
sufficient, but anyways, here is a routine I pulled out of the docs..
 
union Converter
{
unsigned char uc[10];
unsigned int  ui[5];
unsigned long ul[2];
float       f[2];
double       d[1];
}
 
float MSBINToIEEE(float f)
{
union Converter t;
int sign, exp;
 
t.f[0] = f;
 
sign = t.uc[2] / 0x80;
exp  = (t.uc[3] - 0x81 + 0x7F) & 0xFF;
 
t.ui[1] = (t.ui[1] & 0x7F) | (exp << 7) | (sign << 15);
return(t.f[0]);
}
 
 
  I have many QWK packets I've pulled off of many boards, and always, the first
.ndx file (the one that pertains to the first message in Message.dat) contains
for the first message 0x82... which is 130 in decimal... if you run that
through the converter you don't get a Byte seek position or a 128byte block
position?? At least that is one common thing... from there on out it seems
erratic as to what the next value will be... Someone told me that they were
Shown 86%, press <SPACE> for more, 'q' to quit, or 'h' for help
not MSBIN numbers and were just Byte seek positions for the Message.dat file
but that doesn't fly.... Anyone out there that knows what I'm talking about??
I appreciate any help!!!
 
 
   
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	     Garrett Laska...  
             Internet: AT595@cleveland.freenet.edu  Cleve, OH
From: levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: DNET auto startup
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:57:38 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: levi@galoob.cs.utk.edu (David Levi)
NNTP-Posting-Host: galoob.cs.utk.edu

My next question about DNET is......
Is there any way to automate the startup of DNET?  Like some kind
of script which would run dnet, dial my ATDT, and log me into the
system, and then start the unix dnet?  Could this be done with AREXX?
Has anybody done it?  If not, does anybody want to give me some hints as to
how to do it, and I'll give it a try?  Thanks.
-- 
-Dave Levi     levi@cs.utk.edu
From: richardc@vogue.adsp.sub.org (Richard Carde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: StarNet (Paragon)
Date: 4 Sep 92 03:35:45 GMT
Organization: Amiga Developer (GPSoftware ACM093)
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <1992Sep2.130102.27199@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com> markm@zerbin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Mark Montminy) writes:

> He's not bluffing, he does have another programming job that's taking all of
> his time right now.  I believe he'll be done by the end of Sept, beginning of
> Oct (I'd have to check the calendar).  I happen to know first hand since I
> hired him for the job.

GREAT!  Can you PLEASE ask him to contact me about GPFax and StarNet.
I would like to get an updated StarNet which can use GPFax as a frontend.
(Since I am co-author of GPFax, I should be able to help a lot! :-) )

What work is he doing?

> Internet:                     | Fidonet:
>  markm@zerbin.dev.cdx.mot.com |  mark.montminy@f119.n323.z1.fidonet.org
>  Motorola/Codex (617)821-7187 |  The Bloom Beacon BBS (401)751-3831

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Stace)
Subject: The Internal modem question
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:20:08 GMT

To all who answered my query, thanks very much.

The consensus of the replies was...

A> Yes, Supra makes internal Amiga modems.  the 2400ZI, and the 2400ZI+ (the + 
has error correction).

B> Yes, you can run an internal and an external.  However, most recommend 
getting a multi serial board.  I was previously aware of the serial boards,
but I don't have a need for that many ports... I just want to be able to run
one other modem so I can telecommunicate without taking my BBS down.

Again, thanks to all who replied.

->Stace<-
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: Jan.Lucenius@tel.vtt.fi (Jan Lucenius)
Subject: bug ?
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:17:09 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.introduction


I was selecting View - all files from the WB menu, but for deleting
some extra files I used either the "execute command" from the menu
or the Shell (don't remember which) (that is easier when there are
many files to delete which begin with the same name than to choose
the icons). The delete command was executed successfully, (though it
urkes me that there are tens of resident commands that I never use,
but the most usual: list, copy, delete are not resident by default)
but the pictures of the files still remained in the window, even if
you shut the window and reopen it!

Jan
From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Kill, DpaintIII questions
Summary: No, save as brush.
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:39:15 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

In article <14153@chalmers.se> olof@tfd.chalmers.se (olof daunius) writes:
>A couple of questions from a new Amiga user:
>Does AmigaDOS have a command corresponding to unix kill(1), to shut down
>background processes? 

This is a FAQ.  The answer is "No".  Not now, and not in the forseeable
future.

>How do you save a picture from DPaintIII in a specified size?
>I have a program who wants DpaintIII pic's 52 pixels wide and
>13 high.

Save it as a brush.  Deluxe Paint does not allow a picture to be smaller
than 320x200, but a brush can be any size.  It has one more bitplane than
a regular picture (which defines the outline of a nonrectangular brush),
but other than that a brush is just another ILBM picture.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: digdug@cwis.unomaha.edu (Greg Dugger)
Subject: help unpacking pb fantasies
Keywords: lha's
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:14:02 GMT

Hi all,i just recently downloaded the new pinball fantasies demo. I'm not new
to uncrunching files,but this one will not work. I tried everything and
the new lha_e132 is the only thing that would work. i used lha e ram:
pinballfantasies while i was uncrunching from ram to a disk,and all it would
do is keep coming back saying "could not open output file". the file is
in the .lha and the path is set to the volume name, so i don't see where I am
going wrong. Any help would be appreciated. either reply here or send mail.

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From: keck@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Keck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Strange icons
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:53:23 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

I have a 3000 with 2.04 WB.  Every once in a while my default tool icons 9i.e
ones that don't have an info file, and appear when I SHOW ALL FILES) all turn
into some other icon.  I noticed it happened a lot that they would turn into a
drawer icon if I was using a drawer with a tool in it by the same name (e.g.
the file ZOO with no .ifo inside a drawer named ZOO).  I started naming the
drawers things like ZOOFOLDER and it usually doesn't happen any more.  BUT, a
while ago I started getting all the def. tools looking like my folder icon for
DSS, even though I renamed the program inside DSSProg, AND both have .info
files.  Anybody else had this happen?

Paul Keck keck@athena.cs.uga.edu
From: Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Is the A600 available in the US?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 16:08:57 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

I got a foldout flyer from Creative Computers, Lawndale, CA in the
mail yesterday advertising the Amiga 600 with an "Availble Now" star
next to it. Their advertised prices are:
A600 : $399
A600 with 40MB hard drive: $599.

The flyer has some other amazing prices on it and the one that really
caught my attention was that Creative is now giving a CDTV "free"
to all purchasers of an A3000/25/52 or 3000/25/100 and tossinig in
the Parnet software & cable, and a Fish CD ROM. 

Harv
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
From: bobs@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (KI Sanders robert dic 3012530964)
Subject: Is the A600 available in the US?
Reply-To: bobs@aplcen (KI Sanders robert dic 3012530964)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:51:51 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Is the A600 available in the US?
Expires: 
Reply-To: bobs@aplcen (KI Sanders robert dic 3012530964)
Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Keywords: 

The title says it all.

QUIT
e says it all.

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