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From: haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase)
Subject: Re: where to buy Teleport/Gold?(quick plse)ease
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:13:08 GMT

In article <0106200F.lap959@wilhelm.infoserv.com>, wilhelm@infoserv.com
(John MacWilliamson) wrote:
> 
> 
> In article <1992Dec15.180250.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> (comp.sys.mac.comm), ssocl01@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >	Can anyone tell me which shop sells the cheapest Teleport/Gold????
> >
> >	I think the Telepost/Gold is being sold at %$700 mark - which blows 
> >my budget!!!!
> >
> >	Please leave fax numvber of the shop if you can.
> >
> >thanks a lot,
> >
> >Charles
> 
> 
>       List price on the TelePort Gold is $499, so you ought to be
> paying much less than $700...much less that $499 if you shop at the
> right place.
> 
I believe that the original poster is in Australia and he is quoting
prices in Australian Dollars which is approx $.70 US = $1.00 AUS so
$499.00 US list price is about right....

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"The opinions expressed in this message are my own and do not necessarily
 reflect those of Los Alamos National Laboratory"
From: rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu (Rich Haller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: PSI power IV and AT problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: 17 Dec 1992 00:02:42 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rhaller.cc.uoregon.edu

I just had a PSI PowerModem IV installed in a brand new PB160.
Everything worked like a charm until I installed the fax software (using
the installer, of course).  At that point Appletalk zones went away and
Chooser operations like selecting Appleshare would hang the Mac, requiring
a paperclip start.

When I removed the Faxmonitor init, the 'initializing modem' alert on boot
went away and I was able to get zones again.

FYI, other cps/inits/exts I currently have installed are MacTCP1.1.1,
CursorFixer, and Disinfectant 2.9 init.

Anyone else run into this and anyone got a fix?

-Rich Haller <rhaller@ns.uoregon.edu>   University of Oregon, Eugene, OR,
USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: chang hsu liu <cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Problem with Fetch 2.1? (cannot fpt with name address)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:18:06 GMT


I have a problem with Fetch that I have to use the number address of
the site (e.g., 36.44.0.6 instead of sumex....edu) and not the name
addres for ftp. Is there a way to solve this problem? Right now, I
could use "nslookup sitename" to find out its numbers for this 
purpose, but I would rather not to take such extra step. 

Thanks for any help.


Peter Liu
cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
From: rig@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Rigoberto Hernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Apple ExpressModem on PB 160/180
Date: 12 Dec 1992 20:08:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.cchem.berkeley.edu

A few days ago, Phil Kim wrote the following:

> Article: 37803 of comp.sys.mac.hardware
> 
> The Apple Express PowerBook modems only work with newer PowerBooks
> (i.e., not the 100/140/145/170)  They utilize DataPump technology which
> offloads some of the modem chores to the CPU.  This drives down the
> price of the modem to under $300.00 for a 14.4, but don't quote me on
> that.  Apple resellers should have them now.
> 
> -- Phil L. Kim (kim_phil@prc.com or Phil_L._Kim@FoggyBottom.Com) --

I would like to know:

a) What are the modem chores that DataPump offloads to the CPU?

b) Is the PB measurably slower using the ExpressModem vs. an external modem?

c) Has anyone used MacX and a SLIP connection with the ExpressModem?  And how
   well does it work?

d) Finally, if you have a PB 160/180, what are your experiences with the 
   ExpressModem?  And is the performance affected measurably by having a 180
   vs. the 160?

Note:  In the best of all possible worlds -- Candide style -- I would like to
       get a 160 -- cheaper -- and an 8mb/80mb configuration.   Please let
       me know if you feel that this would be inadequate for the use expressed
       in case (c).  And why?

Thank you very much, in advance,

Rig

                ...  rig@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu  ... 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: ssocl01@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: where to buy Teleport/Gold?(quick plse)ease
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:02:50 GMT

Hi all,

	Can anyone tell me which shop sells the cheapest Teleport/Gold????

	I think the Telepost/Gold is being sold at %$700 mark - which blows 
my budget!!!!

	Please leave fax numvber of the shop if you can.

thanks a lot,

Charles

15/12/92
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: ken@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Ken Taylor)
Subject: Re: Printer on LocalTalk, Net on EtherTalk..
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:52:22 GMT

Robert Brewer (rbrewer@dopey.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
: Okay, I have a different question. Say that you have a LaserWriter (with only
: LocalTalk) but you are also on an EtherTalk network. What one would like to
: do is always print to the LaserWriter on LocalTalk, but all other AppleTalk
: traffic would go over EtherTalk. All the above solutions would work, but they
: are 1) expensive or slow, and 2) massive overkill [no routing is needed for my
: situation]. Can this be done without going to the Network control panel every
: time I want to print?

If you are the only person that need to use the LaserWriter, you can just
connect it asynchronously (not networked) by using either the old AAPDA
async LaserWriter driver or by patching your driver with the DMM LW Tools
to make is Async.. You can then stay on ether the whole time and print out
of either of your serial ports.. I have set this up in a situation where 
the owner of the printer didn't want it visible to anyone else on the network
but still needed network access...  

This option is free !!!!

Ken
-- 
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 ken@cujo.curtin.edu.au  |   He's seen the aging and the mildew from the rain
 Curtin University       |   And he does what he can to keep on top of every
 Perth, W. Australia     |     one of them"     - Happy Rhodes
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: world
From: Daniel_A._Chirkov@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:13:38 EST
Subject: Re: ARJ on a Mac?

Yes, a ARJ program is available. It has a very very cheezy interface, but it
does work. It's called simply MacARJ.
-Dan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
From: preece@netcom.com (Darrell Preece)
Subject: questions about the Spirit II Fax Modem
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:21:56 GMT


hi all, I'm considering buying a Spirit II Fax Modem "The worlds
fastest Fax Modem, for a song" so the ad claims. (14,400 data and 
Fax, $249 + tax). A company called QuickComm in Milpitas sells the
unit.

Has anyone heard of this Fax Modem? Any reviews? What about software?
(it comes with PC software). I have heard about FAXstf but I'm really
in the dark about the whole FAX thing, any clues would be appreciated.

thanks!
-dp-      preece@netcom.com
From: jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jason Wasson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: How do you get slip for the mac?
Date: 17 Dec 92 05:41:37 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

How does one get software that allows a Mac to use SLIP? So far all I've
been able to find is SLIP software for MSDOS machines (yuk!! :) Is there any
slip software out there available for the Mac?

					-Jason
				jwas_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

-- 
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and to sleep under the stars each night--
to ride into the Sun each morning,
all on a whim, a desire met with the passion of life.
From: Mike_Pruett@maccomw.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: ARJ on a Mac?
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:27:01 GMT

Does anyone know of a program that would allow me to create ARJ archives on the
Macintosh? I'm looking for something with a nice interface, but anything that
does the job is acceptable.

	->mjp

"Wrong!" -John McLaughlin
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: wang_dj@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (David J. Wang)
Subject: Re: Smartcom II offer ?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 00:39:57 GMT

In article <1h2vahINN833@agate.berkeley.edu> werner@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner) writes:
>In article <6568.2b344b48@hayes.com>, Bill Coleman writes:
>> The moral dilemma is this -- how is this VT102 emulation? You'd now be 
>> emulating a different terminal, not a VT102.
>
Another second -- I use MacLayers when dialing my school's UNIX boxes, and I 
resize my windows to anything I want.

-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
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From: cq267@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Z-modem CTB extension?
Date: 21 Dec 92 01:38:10 GMT
Reply-To: cq267@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Fox)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, d91-mwd@svartur.nada.kth.se (Michael Westlund) says:

>Has anyone heard of a Z-modem file transfer tool for the Mac
>communications toolbox, or a terminal program that can handle both
>8-bit ascii (ISO8859 Latin 1) and Z-modem file transfers?
>
>I have tried the Zmodem terminal program, but it can't handle the
>Latin 1 code. The best thing for me would be to use a CTB extension
>compatible with MacTerminal 3.0.
>
>Does a Z-modem CTB extension exist?


Yes, Seaquest software makes one that or is planning to, the last time I
checked it was still in beta test.

Jeremy Fox	cq267@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: jtang@hpsgl1.sgp.hp.com (Jerry TANG)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:20:50 GMT
Subject: NCSA Telnet Weirdness
Organization: Asia Peripherals Division, HP Singapore
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL7]

Hi netters,

I have a weird problem that I would like to share on the net. I am currently
using NCSA Telnet 2.5 for my terminal sessions with a UNIX host.

Whenever I open a connection to a particular host, the login prompt comes on
but when I try to type anything at all, nothing happens. This doesn't only
happen to one particular host but all the other hosts on the net with the
exception of one host. Connection to this one host allows immediate interaction
on the terminal. However, I noticed that when I set my terminal to local echo
and then back again, everything works fine, it accepts my keyboard input (that
was on all other hosts that didn't work except for the one host that work, I
did not do anything).

Anybody have any clue, what's going on ? Maybe the folks at UIUC or BYU can
help answer this question.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Please reply to the net or by email. Thanks.

===============================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Barry Cooper <bjc3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Using Zoom modems for ARA?
X-Xxdate: Wed, 16 Dec 92 23: 08:35 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: bjc3@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:04:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.153659.29841@netnews.noc.drexel.edu> Andrew W.
Miller, milleraw@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu writes:
>> My personal experience using both Zoom and Supra modems was miserable. 
>>I just could not get them to connect at 14.4.
>
>Is this a problem with the modem or with ARA.  I have a similar problem
>with my Twincom 14.4k modem.  It will not connect using ARA at 14.4.  But
>when I call a BBS at 14.4k the modem works fine.  What is so different
>about ARA?  Is there any way to fix this?

Sorry, I don't know the answer, but I had somewhat similar experiences,
ie. I could connect to BBSs sometimes using White Knight , but hardly
ever using ARA.  However, I can only repeat that switching to the USR DS
modems _completely_ corrected the problems.  Now all my connections are
high speed and stable.  It seems to me therefore that ARA is somehow more
demanding of the modem, perhaps of the modem's ability to handle a
certain level of line noise.  I saw somewhere on the net that another
user had fitted a filter of some kind that he said he got from AT&T.  If
I remember correctly it was a radio frequency filter.  Good luck.
Barry Cooper
bjc3@cornell.edu
From: deboni@diego.llnl.gov (Tom DeBoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: You get what you pay for? (Was Re: Eudora Support)
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:25:39 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

As one of many Eudora users at a major government and educational
installation, I'd like to mention that a lot of folks at my site
don't give a hoot who wrote it or what it costs, as long as it works.
NCSA Telnet has become one of the most heavily used applications
here, and it gets supported at a very low level. Most folks with
questions here have to ask another local for help. Luckily, we've
grown some of our own experts, at least at levels below that of
munging around with debuggers and source code. With Eudora, we could
even go that far if we wanted. However, it all works so well, and Steve
is so responsive to bug reports, that the functional difference between
his freeware and commercial-for-money-software still favors Eudora.

So, in contexts like ours, Eudora's not being commercial, not costing
real money, or not coming with a serial number and a support number is 
not a problem. Personally, I think Steve Dorner deserves to be paid for
his good work, and perhaps he is, in a way, at his new company. But he's 
rich in the respect of his professional peers, regardless of his financial 
status.

One more thing: I'd never heard of Quallcom before Steve moved there. Maybe
I don't travel in the right circles, but you can bet I've heard of them now,
and his presence there is great advertising.

Tom DeBoni
deboni@llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Kees van Eekelen <cve@ped.kun.nl>
Subject: Re: VT100 codes -> font, Russel answer
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A757B0D3E001B86A@maccve.ped.kun.nl>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 16:46:11 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, Holland
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:38:49 GMT

Mr Russel mailed that he had a solution for my problem. I mailed back but 
my mail bounced, I cannot reach him. I hope he reads this.

I wish you could send me the code you mentioned. We will use it for 
acces to the local library here at the University only. 

Thanks very much in advance.

Grretings, Kees van Eekelen, University of Nijmegen , Holland.
From: Mayank_K_Kothari@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Microphone Pro 1.0 Bug Infestations etc...
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 23:41:40 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world


Here is your warning before purchase:

After purchasing MP Pro 1.0, several bugs became evident immediately.  One is
under "Print..." used for margin control, click on a dialog item and bombed. 
Secondly, the click on pop up menus fails to respond when clicking on the 
downward triangle.  It lacks modem strings for PSI modems.  The largest font 
only 12 points.
From: morando@alad
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Logging in on GatorBox
Date: 19 Dec 92 20:35:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Nntp-Posting-User: morando

> As it says on the GatorBox Manuals the GatorBox allows the administrator
> to telnet and use a SNMP shell. When I telnet the GatorBox the prompt
> asks me for a user name. I can't find on the manuals any reference to
> that.. It talks of a password but not in a user name. I've defined
> administrator and user password on the GatorBox, trough GatorKeeper, but
> I haven't saw anywhere a user definition. What am I doing wrong ?
> 
First, make sure that TCP/IP services are on (via GatorKeeper). Also,
if you bought it used (like I did), reinitialize the GatorBox hardware
and reinstall software using GatorInstaller.

When I telnet to the GatorBox, it immediately puts me into its
command shell.

> Thanks in advance
> Luis Quinta

! Alex Morando
! UUCP:      ...!mcdphx!gedphx!ged!alad!morando
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From: boebel@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu (Rick Boebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Cheap Fax Modem
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:11:04 GMT
Organization: Freeman School of Business
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75770469A01B0E0@boxorain.sob.tulane.edu>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 12:10:46 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d13
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-9500]: boxorain.sob.tulane.edu

I have a friend who wants a fax machine for Christmas and I was
wondering if a MacPlus with some sort of cheap fax modem would
do the trick because I have a Plus that's being used as a door
stop right now.  MacWarehouse has a Zoom FaxModem for $99;  Are
these any good?  Can anyone recommend anything else, and/or
cheaper?  Thanks,  Rick Boebel
From: dmeyers@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Eudora Support
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:07:03 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Res. Inst./Modeling & Analysis Lab

In <9212141613.AA18858@draco.src.honeywell.com> drdan@src.honeywell.com writes:

[Some excellent comments about the half-life of software]

>Consider Eudora. Unless Qualcomm starts treating it as a profit source, I
>can't depend on its future (if Qualcomm were to start having cost problems,
>it has to drop marginal efforts to survive). For Eudora the file format
>problem doesn't exist, because we have a long term committment to Unix and
>the Internet, and the Eudora files can be simply transmitted to a unix box,
>and we can go back to using "mail" or emacs (yugh). So I recommend it to
>individuals who like good elegant email packages.

I just wanted to mention here that there are other programs for
the mac which can handle (at least read nicely) the mail files.
For example, there is a new program called Easy View which is
for reading in text files of a variety of sorts, from simple
text to digests, to mail files.  It is in version 2.2 now, I
think, and is on sumex.

--D  :)

-- 
-- David S. Meyers (dmeyers@math.gatech.edu)
From: exualan@exu.ericsson.se (Alan Malkiel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mac to SUN server??
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:50:23 GMT
Reply-To: exualan@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.

Hi,
I will soon be able to dial up our SUN server at work.  I have a Mac Si running Versaterm Pro at home.  Is there any reasonable way to get them to work together?
Is it reasonable to expect that my OpenWindows applications will be useless in
this environment and I will be restricted to unix commands?

Obviously in my state any advice will be helpful.

Mail directly to me if you don't think your answer is of general interest.
Thanks for helping!
--Alan

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From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: An FTP client that will do mult. hops
Date: 11 Dec 92 14:28:50 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

greenstn@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes
>  I need to FTP to an IP address with a port, which will then give 
> me permission to continue by typing a "username@site.domain" command.
> A/UX or any unix system with 'native' FTP doesn't have a problem with  
this.

Fetch 2.1 will FTP to an arbitrary port -- just type the port number after  
the host name, e.g. "firewall 9999" if firewall is your gateway machine  
and 9999 is the ftp gateway port.  If the dialog from then on looks just  
like a regular FTP dialog you're all set; if the gateway requires some  
special commands you may be out of luck.

I would like to provide better support for ftp gateways in Fetch but it  
appears that there are a number of different kinds of gateways, and in  
some cases the way they work is considered a secret.  Secret, non-standard  
solutions don't encourage third-party software support....

Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Software Development
From: sw@network-analysis-ltd.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ARA and data compression
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:51:19 GMT
Reply-To: sw@network-analysis-ltd.co.uk
Organization: Network Analysis Ltd
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <KEN.92Dec16184542@stthomas.Cayman.COM> (comp.sys.mac.comm), ken@Cayman.COM (Ken Siegel) writes:

> All well and good, but ARA specs a checksum on every packet that is not
> sent with a 0 in the checksum field across the link. So, there is a level
> of data integrity. I admit it may not be as "robust" as CRC-16 speced for MNP-4
> but frankly, it is fine given the error rates and types you would experience
> on a serial cable.

Yes, but you have reckoned without the infamous PowerBook serial port problem
where Power manager interrupts cause the PB serial ports to lose data at 9600
or more. Since ARA was launched with the PBs, Apple would have had egg on
their faces if their new wonder software didn't work on the PBs.

> The easiest way to dump the 20% overhead is to use synchronous
> communications. If the mac had real serial ports then this would be
> possible but it does not so it is a mute [sic!] point.

Isn't LocalTalk synchronous? In that case, my Mac is doing synchronous comms
out of the serial port right now...


Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited
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