HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jvl@redorc.chi.il.us (System Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Supra problems wanted
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:47:43 CST
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

In article <1993Jan1.040429.28557@seq.uncwil.edu>, loyd@seq.uncwil.edu (David
Loyd) writes:
>Thier tech support is second to none and customer service is 
>fantastic.

You have GOT to be kidding. I went through 4 of their modems before i unloaded
it onto someone, and each time i had a problem they made me feel a: like i was
the cause of it. one case the wires actually FELL OFF the speaker it got so
hot, i guess this was MY fault. b: the people i talked to had NO CLUE of amigas
or how the serial ports work. One of their techs told me to 'baud the modem
down to 9600, cause Amiga's serial ports can't handle over that with a stock
68000. I informed him i had an 030, he said maybe that was defective? 

Because of this modem, i will NEVER again own any supra products, and about 60%
of that conculsion was based on the way i was treated. I was givin the run
around, lied to, hung up on. told i was stupid. They can SCREW me!

>
>There was a letter a couple months ago in the back cover of an
>Amigaworld issue where a fellow had numerous problems with his
>Supra controller and hd. They told him to send it back and they
>would replace it. He did not want to be w/o his hd so waited.
>Three days later a BRAND NEW HD arrived via UPS from Supra.
>That is SUPPORT!!!

That is not support, that is the way it should be ALL the time. Too bad supra
only seems to honor this for about 10% of it's customers.

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From: kihlberg@vipunen.hut.fi (Olli Kihlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: xprZmodem.library problems
Date: 10 Jan 93 11:51:58 GMT
Reply-To: kihlberg@vipunen.hut.fi (Olli Kihlberg)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology

In article <3491@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM> Chip.Brewster@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM writes:
>
>In article <1ij250INNa1q@manuel.anu.edu.au>, tom@mars (Tom Minchin) writes:
>|> Daniel Barrett (barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu) wrote:
>|> : >>In article <C0HIuH.534@news.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald
>R Lloyd)
>|> : >>[in c.s.a.advocacy] writes:
>....
>|> I see that the two previous followupees (!) both use A3000s. Because of the
>|> wimpy serial port the Amiga is _stuck_ with it is quite easy to over run the
>|> buffer at 9600 baud. Standard 68000 Amigas will be rather strained if you
>|> say download at 9600 baud and LHa at the same time, so having a nice '030
>|> 32bit system would help I guess.
>
>My friend's A3000 has no problems.  My stock 68000 A2000 has all kinds of
>errors if I try to do something else while downloading at 9600.  Sometimes
>just moving the mouse (with AutoPoint running) or inserting a floppy is all
>it takes.  I've always suspected I need more horsepower.

A faster serial.device might help. The WB2.x serial.device is said to
be faster than the WB1.3 device. "BaudBandit.device" (it's shareware)
is much faster than WB2.x device. Also, running communications at
higher priority might be enough to solve many problems.

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From: kaye@FSCORE.dec.com (Mark Kaye - Where's my Kama Sutra pop-up book for Zero-G)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: TERM 2.4a - VT340 crashes my amiga w/LSE or NOTES
Date: 10 Jan 93 14:03:28 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <olsen.7701@sourcery.mxm.sub.org>, olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel) writes...
>> VT340 emulation
>> ===============
>> 
>> When i log in it says i'm a VT300 (good), but as soon as i run LSE, or
>> NOTES which interrogate me for my current window size (usually 48x80,
>> but i have tried 24x80) my Amiga immediately crashes.
> 
>   The author of the xemvt340.library (not me!) is currently trying to fix
>any existing bugs. In spite of the fact that lots of users have experienced
>problems with the library he has failed to find any bugs yet. Could you make
>a verbatim capture (i.e. turn off the capture filter and capture the incoming
>data to a disk file) of the session to use the offending codes? Please choose
>a different terminal setup (e.g. the built-in terminal emulation) and send
>the file to me. I will forward it to the author of the library.
> 
Let me stir things up a bit more...

1 person had it working & 2 of us didn't. The other person found that
by changing XEMVT340 and putting 3 quotes, instead of 2 for the last 2
parameters his version now works (we compared our non-working vs
the working). However, now that it works, changing it back to 2 quotes
still works?? I tried this but still crash, so there is more to it.
I will capture the escape sequences for you.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: drool@bisco.kodak.com (Rayla A)
Subject: Parnet & sksh?
Originator: drool@bisco
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:46:11 GMT

Has anyone out there had any success running parnet & sksh on a parnet client?
I just put sksh on my client (it was using the Commodore shell) and I have some
very wierd problems.

1) All manner of wildcards do not match stuff in the current directory
2) File completion fails (more wildcarding I'd say)
3) execution of a file in the current directory yields file not found.

If I say blah:bletch/file, that works but if I am in blah:bletch and type file,
I get file not found.

Any ideas?
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										<: Drool :>
From: mohrc@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Craig Mohr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: What is Supra's internet email address?
Keywords: Supra Fax Modem
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:29:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: storm.cs.orst.edu

In article <1993Jan11.214647.3844@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>>Has anyone successfully communicated with Supra via internet?
>
>	Yes...but I am not sure what the address is. It is something like:
>
>supratech@cs.orgst.edu or supratech%supra.uucp@cs.orgst.edu
>
Ah seems my last post was wrong! (oh well so it happens :) after some checking
it looks as if they do have a net account(although they dont respond to news
posts about supra for some reason). the CORRECT address is:

supra@cs.orst.edu

this is on an Oregon State University machine.>
>
>--
From: Mad@mad.UUCP (Tom Warkentin)
Subject: DLG Header Files
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Summary: 
Keywords: 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:18:08 MST
Organization: The Spectre BBS

About 5 months ago I got a handy little archive containing various header
files for accessing different DLG data structures... the problem is that
it's really out-of-date now making it difficult to write little utilities
that require some information from the BBS.  If anyone has a more up-to-date
archive of the headers, would you mind emailing it to me?  Much appreciated.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
Subject: serial.device for 2232 
Keywords: DTR
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 4 Jan 93 10:54:56 CST



    Does ANY ONE have the NEWEST serial.device for the 2232 that handles
 DTR correctly???  I have been searching for it many MONTHS now.  My
 dealer can't get it and people at commodore won't answer e-mail about
 it.  What the hell gives?  WHY is this so hard to get a hold of???  Any
 help to put it in my hands would be most welcome.



     Daniel Baehr



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From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Term 2.5 suggestions
Distribution: World
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:19:01 +1200
Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, TAUG

I would like to see an ascii send function to save typing out all those
text files. You should be able to just send them from a file.

Also I tried out xprzedzap.library tonight and found a problem with the
window used to set the options. Part of the window was off the screen and
the gadgets where not accessible due to this. The mouse would only go to
the edge of the screen as well.
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From: mohrc@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Craig Mohr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: What is Supra's internet email address?
Keywords: Supra Fax Modem
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:23:08 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: storm.cs.orst.edu

In article <mondo.726783257@cwis> eeidscw@engvms.unl.edu (strider) writes:
>What is Supra's email address?  I've tried Supratech@supra.uucp but
>two different computer services say this address doesn't exist.

Thats because it doesnt.. Supra for some reason has not got an account on
the internet. This is not because its not possible since they are less than
20 miles and a local phone call to to a major state university with net access.

>
>Has anyone successfully communicated with Supra via internet?

If they knew what was good for them they would get a net account IMO, this would
improve their feedback (and give them a chance to defend themselves here :} )

>
>Does Supratech login to GEnie anymore?
>
>
>Scott Weddel   strider   Apple /// aficionado   eeidscw@engvms.unl.edu
>    Sterling Rider       MegaChip A500C= DCTV   UNLincoln Nebraska USA
>

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From: amuser@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bill Sharp-Smith)
Subject: Do I need UUCP to get News/Mail ?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:30:57 GMT

We have an A2000 with the A2065 Ethernet card and TCP/IP software. I
would like to get news and mail running on it, hopefully using our local
news archive machine (with NNTP ?) 

I am confused about the role of UUCP. Wasn't it superceded by the
protocol Internet relies on ?

Most importantly, do I need UUCP to get News and Mail ? Most of the PD
news/mail programs seem to refer to/require Dillon's UUCP.

Also, can anyone recommend news and mail software for a direct Internet
connection ?


Thanks for any replies.

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From: john@goshawk.mcc.ac.uk (John Heaton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: AmigaNOS v2.9k
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:58:05 GMT
Reply-To: john@nessie.mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Happy New Year,

There have been that many requests for PPP in AmigaNOS, that I decided
to have a go at including it in my version.  As a result, AmigaNOS v2.9k
has the PPP software from the earlier version.  I have not had the chance
to put the file out anywhere except 130.88.202.27

Bye for now.
John 

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From: halo@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dr. Strangelove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Term 2.4a bug?
Date: 8 Jan 1993 19:41:45 -0600
Organization: Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: tamsun.tamu.edu

In article <27697@sybase.sybase.com> dobrien@sybase.com (Dave O'Brien) writes:
<I had lots 'o problems with Term aborting ZMODEM transfers until I upped
<the program priority to 5 (from zero) using the Miscellaneous Setting
<requester. Now it takes quite a load to derail the download. Not a fix,
<but a good workaround until Olaf figures out the problem...

Term will abort zmodem transfers anytime I get a system message.  It was doing
that whenever Viruschecker couldn't figure out the bootblocks (such as putting
in an ms-dos disk even with Cross-dos installed... of course I've turned that
feature of VC off now).  I upped the priority to 5 also but that didn't help.
It'll still konk out if I put in a non-standard bootblock.

It also happened when I was playing a game but then, the game sucked anyways
and it's almost impossible to find a multi-tasking game so I really don't that
much.  I don't think it has quit on me for any other reason. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: willw@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Waring)
Subject: Re: X-Comm V1.00 & reqtools.library
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:42:03 GMT

In article <jim.726865660@tuna.ddb.umu.se> jim@ddb.umu.se (Jimmy Ljungberg) writes:
>When i unarchived my version of X-Comm (ftp'd from amiga.physik) i noticed
>that X-Comm has been shipped with reqtools.library V37.673, but it demands
>at least V38 of reqtools.library.
>
>So, if you don't have V38 of reqtools.library. Make sure you get that too.
>Otherwise X-Comm refuses to start.

Yeah sorry about that ... I does ship with V38, but the installtion script
is actually only telling you the version currently in RAM on both
occasions. I have attempted to remedy this problem in the updated
installtion script (Will be released in v1.00a) by putting an 'Avail
FLUSH' command infront of it. If the reqtools.library is not currently in
use, then this should tell you correct versions. Sorry for any problems
caused..

Eddie


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From: jbw@ponder.csci.unt.edu (WEST JASON BRUCE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Dnet -- COMPILATION HELP [PLEASE READ AND RESPOND, almost there]
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:08:56 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton


     I ftped every version of dnet on the planet - I think I now have the
unix dnet 2.2 files uploaded to my Unix side.  Now, how do I get them to
compile?

My system is ponder.cc.unt.edu - it's a "DYNIX(R) V3.1.4" version system.
I believe I saw that dnet *should* compile on this sort of system.  So,
how do I do it.  Here is what I get from the various attempts at
compiling the files...

from parent dir:

jbw@ponder% make
Make: No arguments or description file.  Stop.
jbw@ponder% cd lib
jbw@ponder% make
        cc -c dnetlib.c
"dnetlib.c", line 24: illegal type combination
*** Error code 1
Make: .  Stop.

more or less the same thing from the client,server, and dnet dirs also.

That "illegal type combination" is:
typedef unsigned short uword;
typedef unsigned long ulong;       <---- this is line 24 I believe
typedef unsigned char ubyte;
typedef struct sockaddr SOCKADDR;

Now, I'm no Unix or C expert - but everything seems more or less in line to
me.  I *really* need dnet up and running - and would be extremely grateful
if some kind soul would help me out.



Thanks a million - in advance.
Ciao...



                                              - Jason
From: robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT and capture buffer filter?
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:23:01 GMT
Organization: a gora

In article <paulk.33wq@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
>> > Speaking of the review buffer, is there any chance you could add
>> > an option to print the selected lines?
> 
>This gets tricky if the information on screen has high-ascii
>characters that are NOT Amiga 8-bit-ascii glyphs ...  I have yet to
>find a good way to print IBM high-ascii characters except to send
>then raw to PAR: and hope the printer is sufficiently IBM compatible.
>I would definitely appreciate knowing any better way to do this, that
>I can use in my offline reader which is commonly used with IBM fonts.


  ASCII is only 7 bits.  You must be thinking of ISO.
Organization: Doctoral student, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 1993 10:18:18 -0500 
From: Daniel Kimberg <kimberg+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: xprZmodem.library problems
	<1993Jan7.151142.1476@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>

ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
> In article <58400@dime.cs.umass.edu>, barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barre\
> tt) writes:
> > In article <C0HIuH.534@news.udel.edu> don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
> > [in c.s.a.advocacy] writes:
> >>     My big problem with Term is that it uses XPRZModem.library, which seems
> >>to start getting error messages at the slightest sign of another running
> >>task...
> > 
> >       I have noticed this too, but I had not realized that
> > xprZmodem.library might be the cause.  I use xprZmodem.library with VLT
> > 5.576.  Has anyone gotten around this problem?
> 
> I regularly use VLT 5.576 with XPRzmodem 2.52 (available on unizh and its
> mirrors) and do not have these problems.  I regularly play games while
> downloading, edit files, run LhA, etc., and do not get errors.  My system is an
> A3000-16 and I use a 9600 bps modem.

i've had this problem as well, it only occurs (but is reliable) when I
do serious disk accesses during the download (esp. un-lha'ing fairly
long files).  i think it's possible it only occurs when i'm doing
writes.  i have been using xprzmodem v2.51 (the latest on wuarchive)
and will switch to 2.52 to see if that helps, although the readme file
said it was a very minor update.  not sure what the relevant variable
might be, but i'm running vlt 5.576 as welll, on an a2000 w/40MHz 030,
transmitting up to 14,400 with compression on a supra modem, and my
disk is a Quantum 120LPS off a GVP controller.  i should mention that
i've always suspected xprzmodem as the culprit, just because it's been
buggy in other ways as well.  but if someone's gotten it to work,
maybe not.

dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Subject: Re: Term 2.4a bug?
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:48:24 GMT

 esgbs@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GARY STANDEN) writes:
>
>I would just bet that everyone that has problems with XPRZModem is running 
>it on a stock 68000.  It sounds like a timing problem.  I have the same 
>problem with my 500 with, term, VLT, NComm 2.XX .  Changing the priority 
>didn't change a thing.  The problem only hit when I use the hard drive for 
>the download.  When I use the floppy or ram for the download, NO ERRORS!
>

     I have the problem on a 25 Mhz A3000, and upping the priority only
helped a little.  I do a _lot_ of ZModem transferring, so this makes Term
pretty much unusable even though I like most of the rest of
its features.



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BIX: DRL
From: n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (BarryB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: More X-Comm 1.00 comments
Date: 12 Jan 93 05:20:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1993Jan12.052010.2262
Organization: Western Washington University

Well, I've been using X-Comm 1.00 for several hours now.  Version 1.00
seems to crash more than Term 2.4a currently does.  But I must say it
is a *lot* more stable than the early releases of Term were!

Things I really like that are better than Term:
-----------------------------------------------

-Redial system is much better.  You can see a list of all the numbers
you're trying to get thru to.  And the max number of dial attempts lets
you enter in whatever value you wish.  Term only lets you have a max
of 100 which is unreasonable for speed dialing a very busy number.

-The on-screen review buffer is nice too.  Just the way I like it.
One suggestion though, could you make the same key that brings it
up also take it away?  Kinda like a toggle.

-The ability to put the terminal window on any public screen (including
workbench) is great!  I can't think of another term program that does
this as nicely.

-The 'Terminal Window Adjuster' is neat!  Finally a term program that
lets you control *exactly* where the text display area will be.  I hope
this idea is expanded upon in future releases to allow the unused parts
of the screen for something useful.

Things I don't really like:
---------------------------

-The file transfer window is a little bit too confusing to look
at.  For example, having two bar graphs, both of which total up
to 100%, serves no purpose.

-The current emulations offered really cripple the program.
Currently the program is marginally useable for use with Unix and BBS's,
but for VMS systems it is unusable for anything serious.

-How can I get rid of the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen?

-Text clipping is only available from the buffer.

Bugs I've encountered:
----------------------

-I can't use the set mark character while in emacs.  I tried control+@
and control+space but neither seemed to work.  Is the console unable
to pass these?

-Everytime I try to load a pattern to fill the screen with, I get an
instant guru.  I went to WBPattern in the workbench preferences, selected
a pattern, and did a save.  I then used that file as the pattern file
in X-Comm.  (I am using OS 3.0 if that makes any difference.)

-Sometimes when I open the review buffer, all of the text in the buffer
has changed from color 1 to color 3.  I'm not sure what causes this,
but it seems to happen everytime I use 'nn' as my news reader.

Suggestions:
------------

-Good solid emulations that allow the user to select whatever font
they want. Something that does upto a VT220 would be great!

-Incorperate Meshugena's multiple terminal windows using 'uw'
concept into X-Comm.  This would give us Unix users a nice, small,
simple alternative to DNet.

If these two features are implementated, I'll surely register!
At any rate, even in it's current state, X-Comm looks promising!

-BarryB
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