HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: FAX modem help needed
Date: 26 Aug 92 04:35:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

Hi.  I am desperately in need of help.  I have a Best Data Smart One FAX
modem.  It is 2400 data, 9600 send/receive fax, and it's external.  It
is based on the Sierra chipset, version 4.4.0.

The software that comes with it, Quick Link II/FAX, is admittedly not
the greatest, but at least it works -- it sends AND receives faxes
perfectly, with no apparent errors.

However, since it is not very versatile or feature-laden, I have decided
to try another FAX software.  A friend of mine showed me a program
called FAXstf, by STF Technologies.  It is a **GREAT** program, and I
like it very much.  So I decided to purchase a copy (version 2.2.3, the
latest)

However, i am having some MAJOR problems getting it to work.  It
apparently claims to support my modem, because it is listed in the
installer dialog.  When I install, it seems to communicate with the
modem OK.  And indeed, I can send faxes perfectly well.  The person on
the other end says it came out OK, with no errors, and my log (and
observation of the transmission as it takes place) indicates that it
went without a hitch.

However, receiving faxes is my main problem.  Basically, IT DOES NOT
WORK.  Period.  Well, the two fax modems establish connection, and
according to the log (and watching the transmission from my end) it goes
perfectly.  The log reports NO ERRORS or abnormalities.  The guy on the
other end tell me he experienced no errors or weirdness either.

HOWEVER, when I go into the FAX Manager to view the incoming fax, IT
COMES OUT ENTIRELY BLANK.  0 scan lines are reported as successful, and
an insanely high number of scan lines (usually 2000-3000 or so) are
reported as "errors".  Apparently it gets some information right,
because the resolution it was sent in (high or low) and the total # of
pages in the fax, came out OK, plus other info like the sending
machine's Station ID, etc.  However, no matter what I try, I always get
blank faxes.

Obviously, this is not going to do.  I suppose I could live with sending
only (after all, they do have only Send FAX modems) but I bought my
modem with the idea that it would receive also, and I really do have
times when I would like people to send me faxes.  And I really would
rather not go back to Quick Link FAX.

If anyone can help me , that would be greatly appreciated.  Or, if you
could just give me a "pat on the back" (baically saying "Hey I have the
same problem!" that would be appreciated too.  At least then I could go
to Tech Support and say that more than one person has this problem.

anyway, please reply via EMAIL to "dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu".
Thanks.

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From: navalsys@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Allen Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: SupraFaxmodem hangs occasionally
Date: 24 Aug 92 01:47:11 GMT
Reply-To: navalsys@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Allen Bailey)
Distribution: na
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.sys.mac.comm, dresnick@athena.mit.edu (David I Resnick) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I just got a SupraFaxModem V32.bis and am having an intermitant
>problem.  Occasionally the modem "hangs" - that is, it won't
>transmit/recieve data, and won't respond to the +++ escape code as
>well.  I am using System7/IIci/correct cable/Zterm 0.9 with hardware
>handshaking.  Any ideas as to where the source of this difficulty
>could be?

I too have this problem occasionally.  It seems to occur (in my case)
when I'm connected to a v.32 modem at 9600 and the Supra retrains
to a lower speed.  I am using Sys7 w/Tuner 1.1.1;LC; the supplied
cable; Microphone 1.7 and Kermit 0.99(93) also w/hardware handshaking.

I've tried turning off the retrain with AT%E0, but that too failed.

Cheers,
--Allen
  "My opinions are my own."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: howes@xraylith.wisc.edu (Glenn Howes)
Subject: RE: CTB Kermit Tool Now Available
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 01:37:41 GMT


Hi folks, I just wanted to alert you to my just having posted
a freeware CTB Kermit Tool on comp.binaries.mac. Hopefully the
moderator will get it out soon (this presupposes I sent it in
correctly, this being the first thing I've ever submitted to
that forum).

Anyway, a little run down on the tool might be in order:
Name: Kermit Tool GH
What it is: An extension giving Kermit File Transfer abilities
to Macintosh Communication Toolbox compliant applications
(ClarisWorks, Termy, VersaTerm, etc..)
Cost: Free
Capabilities: Long Packets;text, binary and macbinary transfers;
1 or 2 byte error checking; run length compression; automatic
8th bit prefixing and works in the background.

I also sent it along to Sumex (gee, I wonder if this means I'll
get a free CD, now I'll just have to get a CD Player), so look
for it in the coming days.


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All right thinking Americans ;-) //  howes@chem.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: matsb@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Subject: Re: Termy and Terminal Manager
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:04:47 GMT

gweil@ibeam.intel.com (Garry A. Weil) writes:
: I recently downloaded Termy2.0. I also go applemodemtool and hayesmodemtool 
: installed. When I launch Termy I get a error #8: something about not being 
: able to find a terminal manager. Where can I get a terminal manager tool?

The terminal manager is part of the Communications Toolbox. Do you have the
Communications Toolbox installed? I think it's on ftp.apple.com. If you're
running system 7 you don't need to install the CTB, it's already there.

/Mats
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Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
Department of medical systems                  Ph:  +46 18 187817
Sweden                                         Fax: +46 18 187825
From: crk5@vms.cis.pitt.edu (Chris Kunselman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Telnet 2.45 Documentation?
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:24:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Hi!

I need a clean version of Telnet 2.45 and the documentation that goes with
it.  Does anybody know where to find it?  Or if there is a newer version
than 2.45 I'd rather have that.

Thank you,

Chris Kunselman	
crk5@vms.cis.pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: aland@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Alan D.)
Subject: Re: software for reading netnews offline
Reply-To: aland@cs.brandeis.edu
Organization: As little as possible
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:47:32 GMT

jxs18@po.CWRU.Edu (Jerry Sy) writes:

>is there a shareware/pd software for reading netnews offline ?

I'm probably going to write one.  It's going to be my first major Mac
program.  I hope. ;)  I've been brainstorming on this project for 6
months, while working on Unix projects.

>I save news articles into one huge files and download it. currently
>I just use a word processor to read it.

>is there a program that will enable me to read it like reading it
>using rn (or whatever newsreader).

Mine will be more line nn, I hope.  I also hope to have a utility on
the Unix side which will allow for replies, both mailed & posted.
*fingers crossed* ;)

Anyone with suggestions, or source, please contact me...

	-=Alan
From: Tom.Lane@mixcom.mixcom.com (Tom.Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: How to distribute fonts across a network?
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:44:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: mixcom.1992Aug27.074443.5634
Distribution: usa
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.


 We've got a network of some 50 LCs hooked up to two IIci servers, all
running System 7. We're planning on adding approx. 500 fonts. Obviously,
putting all of these on each node would be both tedious and wasteful of
disk space. I've got an extension called INITLoader that will load aliases
of extensions on a server at startup. Do you suppose I could make aliases
of all those fonts? Does anyone know if INITLoader will work for this? Or
it there some other way to handle this? Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but
System 7 only loads fonts into memory if you use them, right? (I'd hate to
have to get Suitcase for each node.) How about some info on 7.1's Font
folder? Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
                                                 Tom

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: andy@ie.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun)
Subject: Eudora freezes machine during printing
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:40:13 GMT

Hi,

I posted to this group a month ago regarding the freeze-up of an SE while
running Eudora with automatic checkmail option on and when the machine
is printing. I believe Steve Dorner replied and said that it might be
Microsoft Word that's doing it. However, I have recently proved that
it's not the case.

I recently installed Eudora 1.3b34 on a Mac IIci running MacOS 7.0.1
with an EMAC speedlink II. Eudora is set to check mail every 15 minutes.
The same thing happens (i.e. machine will freeze up and a reset is necessary)
again while the Mac IIci is printing from MacWrite II to an Apple
LaserWriter IIg. Thus I concluded that it's Eudora and not other software
or hardware that's causing this freeze-up. Does anyone who has a similar
setup experience the same problem?

Andy
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Computing Coordinator			Ontario, Canada. M5S 1A4
Department of Industrial Engineering	Phone: (416) 978-2920
University of Toronto			Fax:   (416) 978-3453
From: ogawa@sm.sony.co.jp (Masato Ogawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: KanjiTalk / NIFTY-Serve question
Date: 28 Aug 92 09:10:20 GMT
Organization: Super-Micro Group, Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan


  Quit uniq questions which I ever have seen.

In article <1992Aug27.002237.13903@leland.Stanford.EDU> sigmond@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Sigmond) writes:
>    1. When I run NinjaTerm in 8 bit, no parity mode with a generic 2400
>    modem, I can usually* get the modem to echo correct Kanji. For example, if
>    I type "ryo", convert to kanji, and hit return, the terminal window
>    echoes the correct character. However, this does not work for all
>    characters. 
>    If I type "a", and then hit return, the character echoed back is not the
>    hiragana for "a". The errors seem sensitive to settings such as number of
>    stop bits, local echo, etc. I am using Shift-JIS mode in both NinjaTerm
>    and the KanjiTalk control panel (I think!)

completely out of my imagination... But give us the information about
to what, do you connect this NinajTerm&Macintosh? The echoed
characters are sent "BACK" by the "HOST", not your Macintosh. So the
problem often resides on the HOST setting. From my experiences, such
phenomena are caused by the "parity" setting of somewhere in the
communication path.  As you said, your Mac & NinjaTerm must be OK. How
about your "HOST"? It must be set as 7bit even parity ? (in the case of
accidentally matches a parity bit for lower 7 bit of a character in
SJIS and MSB of that character, you get the right echo back. Unlacky
case causes bargabe echo back for a character, as you see). You should
have the HOST set as 8-N-1, too.

  FYI, I believe there is no setting in KanjiTalk CP for character
encodings (=SJIS or EUC, etc). KanjiTalk OS (6.x or lower) is fixed as
SJIS. But it doesn't matter.


>    2. What settings work best to connect to NIFTY-Serve via CompuServe? The
>    information packet I have says to use 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, which
>    are the default values for NinjaTerm. However, when I connect to CIS, 
>    I see streams of garbage unless I switch to 7-bit data. Is the best method
>    to use 7 bit data for CompuServe, then switch to 8-bit after accessing
>    NIFTY?

YES, that's right. Or use CompuServe with 8-N-1 from the first time.
CompuServe can configure these kind of setting. Consult your manual or
online help.


  There is a mailing-list for KanjiTalk user, which you can talk with
English on InterNet. Contact, if any interest:

	kanjitalk-request@crl.go.jp

with a mail subject of "list". The server replies automaticaly sending
the introduction.

--
==========================================================================
Masato Ogawa					Sony corp.

ogawa@sm.sony.co.jp				Tokyo, Japan
==========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com (Greg Ferguson)
Subject: Re: Auditing For AppleShare? (Nok Nok!)
Reply-To: gregf@shaman.sps.mot.com
Organization: SPS
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:19:15 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.151131.26523@linus.mitre.org> woycke@smiley.mitre.org  
(Daniel Woycke) writes:
>I am curious about any sort of audit trail that can be generate for
>AppleShare folders. I am curious about people connecting to my public
>folder at odd times. 
>
>Thank You,
>
>Daniel W. Woycke             |"I went out drinking with Thomas 
>The MITRE Corporation	     |Paine..." -- Billy Bragg
>7525 Colshire Drive (MS Z213)|"But I am still thirsty..."
>McLean, VA   22102           |-- Arrested Development
>woycke@mitre.org, woycke@smiley.mitre.org

Trik Software has a program called Nok Nok that'll allow you to get more info  
about the "guest" logins. You can also limit the time that they have  
idle/logged-in, the same with the real users. Don't know the price. I'm  
testing their AppleShare 3.0 version which is real slick and has had no  
problems at all.

They have an AppleLink account, but I don't remember what their internet  
address was.

Personally, I'd never allow "public" or "guest" access to my machine. If  
someone wants in they can ask me for an account and get a real login and  
password.

Greg
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.comm:8311 comp.mail.misc:2774
From: bellamy@covax.commerce.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: return receipt
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:56:50 AEST
Organization: University of Queensland

In article <BtL4Mv.ABH@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton) writes:
> In article <1992Aug26.013300.29761@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:
>>The messages that get sent back are by and large relatively small.  The
>>example I know of for mail return was charging a small amount anyway.  It
>>was charged by the kilobyte sent and for an acknowledgement, this could
>>hardly reach 1K.
>>
>>Also, you can just accept it as part of the service.  You will probably be
>>able to configure your mail reader not to send acknowledgements and there
>>is always the possibility that incoming mail reciepts will be generated at
>>no cost by your mail system.
> 
> This is all fine when you work in an environment like AARN or many of
> the American networks where things are funded centrally. In New
> Zealand, we pay for our traffic on a per byte basis. As the Internet
> becomes more commercial, and I have no doubt that it will, the rest of
> you will as well. Many countries around the Pacific, in Central and
> South America and Africa etc. have problems with bandwidth. I looked
> today and we shifted around 4800 messages in the last 24 hours. If
> each causes the return of the two tier acknowledgement and say each
> return message is 512 bytes that's 512 * 2 * 4800 ~= 4.8 Mbytes a day.
> That's a significant chunk of a 2400 baud connection - and people are
> still using them and still a reasonable slice of 9600 baud.
>

As I understand the request, a receipt will only be sent if requested.  Then it
will still be a configurable option as to whether the receiver's system will
do the acknowledgement.  If it was not implemented this way then maillists
would self replicate :-(

I assume people would use such an acknowledgement system with care, like only
for job applications, bug reports etc.  I have enough mail to read each day
without reading acknowledgements to my own outpourings. 

-----
David E. Bellamy              Email: bellamy@commerce.uq.oz.au
Dept. Commerce, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, AUSTRALIA
From: svsolanalos@pro-freedom.cts.com (Sheldon Nalos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: RE: Hermes 2.0 -- where's the support?!
Date: 23 Aug 92 18:40:07 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-freedom] AppleVan (Apple UG of Vancouver, WA)

I registered Hermes w/ a credit card and it only took a few days... I was
confused for a while but it was sorted out quite nicely. Frank is somewhat
of a lousy businessman but I still LOVE Hermes.
                                                   
Sheldon Nalos

ProLine:  <LOGIN>@<HOST>
Internet: <LOGIN>@<HOST><DOMAIN>
UUCP:     crash!<HOST>!<LOGIN>
From: 71035.622@CompuServe.COM (Jerry Sy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: what is the format of the active file in NW
Date: 31 Aug 1992 23:02:33 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I recently posted a message inquiring about a program for reading news offline
(with no mactcp or anything attached to the mac).  some suggested newswatcher.
now I need to know the format of the "active" file so that I can set up
a folder for newswatcher to access.

thanks in advance.

jerry

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: atreyus@lascar.puc.cl (Marcelo Vasquez)
Subject: Does anyboy have a powerbook running macTCP??
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:41:26 GMT

Hi : I tried to set up a powerbook 170 with MacTCP over an appletalk that is connected to a falshcard to the ethernet. Well, it just doesn't work. I have no problems with the other macs (all with system 7) but this only powerbook is not working. I am using manual addressing and telnet 2.4
Any suggestions???
thanks

Marcelo Vasquez

atreyus@ing.puc.cl

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jmw@lad.med.utas.edu.au (John Mark Williams)
Subject: Terminal emulation wanted
Keywords: McDonnell-Douglas P12, Prism 8
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:09:32 GMT

Is there a Mac comms programs which can emulate a 'Prism 8', otherwise known
as the 'McDonnell-Douglas P12' terminal? Even better would be an emulation that
would run over MacTCP, ie Telnet with the required terminal emulation.

One package which may do the job is MacPest(?). Anyone know anything about
this one?

Thanks,

--
John M Williams, 
School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania
J.M.Williams@med.utas.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.mail.misc
From: davidw@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu (David Wojtowicz)
Subject: Re: return receipt
Organization: Atmospheric Science at Univ of Ill at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:29:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.180238.11444@qualcomm.com> sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner) writes:
>ogil@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>My experience with Return-Receipt-To: is that sendmail generates a
>>receipt when the mail is delivered to the recipient's mail spool file.
>
>This is almost useless behavior, unless I'm missing something.  I can
>infer that the mail made it to the spool file by the fact that I
>did not get a bounce message.  Thus, the only time this sort of
>return receipt is useful is when you are dealing with a mail path
>that doesn't do error returns, or when catastrophe strikes along
>the path, and mail is actually lost.
>
>This situations are so few and far between that I just can't get excited
>about this sort of receipt.
>

I often find it useful to know if mail has reached its destination.
The absence of bounced mail is not at all comforting to me.  Brain
dead sendmails (or ones under adjustment) might not be capable of
sending bounces.  Maybe it was a real strange address and it just
plain disappeared.  Maybe the original is stuck in a spool directory
someplace.

As far as notification of someone "reading" your message.... this is
pretty hard to determine by machine.  Maybe they've displayed it using
their mail agent but how do you know they've actually read it?  If it
is important to know if the person has read and understood the
information you've sent them, why not ask them to reply to your
message when they've read it?  A tactful way to do this is just
ask a question that requires a reply.


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Atmospheric Sciences Dept, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
d-wojtowicz@uiuc.edu, davidw@vista.atmos.uiuc.edu
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From: daven@notable.com (Dave Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Microphone Front End for GENIE & Internet mail wanted.
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:15:44 GMT
Reply-To: daven@notable.com
Organization: Notable Technologies, Inc.
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Aug31.184631.1047@svcdudes.com> (comp.sys.mac.comm), dwade@svcdudes.com writes:
| 
| 	If you send me mail I can fax you some documentation.  I know there
| are some oddities involving 4.0's implementation of Apple Events due to it
| coming out when it did -- these are fixed in 4.0.2.

The oddity being, that the "GetData" event in the AERegistery changed after
the AppleEvent support in MicroPhone II v4.0 was written. Tom Lippincott
has changed fixed "GetData" in MPII to support the current AERegistery and
touched up the AETE resource to reflect the change.

--dave

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From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Hermes 2.0, Hardware Handshaking, and a Mac Classic -- HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:08:41 -0500

dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Donald Burr) writes:

  > I have a Mac Classic, running system 7.0.  I am rying to get a BBS
  > started, using Hermes 2.0.  I have their Cable #3 (a hardware
  > handshaking cable) and have the Hardware Handshaking option turned on.
  > HOWEVER, though the handshaking works, if a user connects, the bbs
  > does not recognize that a user is on.  This is because the DCD
  > (carrier detect) line isn't even being used.

   When I use a hardware handshaking cable, I set dip switches on the modem to
force DTR and DCD high.  I think this is mandatory.

   So how does Hermes know when someone has connected?  From the CONNECT line.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: bernard@is.morgan.com (Bernard Horan)
Subject: Re: X-client for Mac wanted
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:26:05 GMT

In article <14299@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, hcheng@Auspex.COM (Howard Cheng) writes:
|> In article <24145@oasys.dt.navy.mil> hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix) writes:
|> >I'm looking for experiances with X clients for the Macintosh.  
|> >(These are programs that allow an X-window terminal to access a Mac.)
|> >
|> >Two that I have heard of but know little about are:
|> >
|> >PlanetX    by InterCon Systems
|> >Xport      by Qualix Corp.
|> >
|> 
|> There's also MacX, available from Apple for about $200 street price.  It works
|> pretty well, although the only problem I have with it is that there is not
|> scrollback capability.
|> 
|> h.
|> 
|> 
I used MacX in my last post, and it worked pretty well even through a Router.
I also evaluated eXodus, which I felt was better (allowed you to transfer the clipboard etc)
but wasn't System-7 compatible, and cost a lot more.

B.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm