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From: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Want a Mac front end for VMS Mail
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:56:24 GMT
Reply-To: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: oavax.csuchico.edu

In article <C0K0un.CFr@world.std.com>, reuber@world.std.com (kent b reuber) writes:
>I have a user who wants some sort of front end for VMS mail. Currently, he
>is using VersaTerm to connect to his Mac and read mail. What he wants, I
>think, is to have his mail pop up in a real Mac window and be able to
>edit, print, save to Mac disk, whatever. Does anyone know of any
>commercial or (even better) shareware product that will do this?
>
If your VAX is running Multinet as its TCP/IP software, you can use the
POP2 protocol to accomplish this.  There are numerous Mac mail clients
that use POP2.  In the public domain realm, I highly recommend Eudora.

Other VAX TCP/IP packages might include a POP2 server.  I'm not sure which
ones do besides Multinet, which is what we use here.

-Robin
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Robin Goldstone, Systems Software Specialist                   ____
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rgoldstone@oavax.csuchico.edu                                   \/
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: scot@jlc.mv.com (Scot Salmon)
Subject: NCSA Telnet questions
Organization: John Leslie Consulting, Milford NH
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:14:17 GMT

Two questions on NCSA Telnet 2.5...

1) In this office, we have a Mac IIci which runs Telnet just dandy and
   a Mac Plus across the room which does not.  The Plus is definately on
   the same network (shares the printer, etc) and is connected through the
   SCSI port via Asante's EN/SC.  We're trying to use the exact same setup
   that works on the IIci, to no avail.  Any clues?

2) Same office, except now we're looking at a Duo in another part of the
   room.  The Duo is connected to the Plus via LocalTalk and the Apple
   Internet Router and is therefore in a different zone from the IIci.
   The Duo won't Telnet, either.  Is it possible to make this setup work.

-- 
"Man himself is so unlikely that if he did not          | Scot Salmon
 exist, his possibility would not be worth discussing." | scot@jlc.mv.com
                                    - Damon Knight      | 101010 222 52 2A...
From: brian.polak@travel.com (Brian Polak) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Zterm,  Fetch
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:34:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online / St. Louis Online - St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: brian.polak@travel.com (Brian Polak) 

JC>From: wellsj@orph14.phy.ornl.gov (Jack C. Wells)
JC>Subject: Zterm,  Fetch
JC>Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:23:28 GMT
JC>
JC>Hello,
JC>I've read in a few newsgroups about some
JC>good shareware called Zterm and Fetch.
JC>Whould some kind person please inform me
JC>as to what these two programs do, and
JC>where I may locate them?  
JC>Thanks,  Jack Wells
JC>

Hi Jack.  These are two great programs.  Zterm is a shareware 
communications program for the mac that allows dl/ul using the ZMODEM 
protocol.  This is especially useful since it is a common one used by 
IBM based BBS's.  Zterm also supports ANSI terminal codes which is the 
standard for PC BBS's.  Fetch is a nice program that allows any mac 
connected to an internet gateway (or any mac connected to a file server 
connected to a gateway) and running Mac TCP to do anonymous FTP (file 
transfer protocol).  All one does is enter the internet address and fetch 
does the rest - it connects automatically and allows you to browse through 
the file directories and select files to download using your mouse.  You 
do not have to remember any FTP commands, it allows you to get files off 
DOS or UNIX type operating systems just like they were a mac.  Zterm is 
available from any FTP site carrying the Info-mac archive 
(wuarchive.wustl.edu or sumex-aim.stanford.edu), it is in the /comm/ 
directory.  I think fetch can be found here also, but I am not sure.
                             Hope This Helps
                                  Bri
                        Internet: brian.polak@travel.com



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From: dmeyers@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Maclayers like comms. package but with zmodem download?
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:50:38 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Res. Inst./Modeling & Analysis Lab

In <1993Jan8.104222.15305@ousrvr.oulu.fi> pkor@phoenix.oulu.fi (Pasi Korhonen) writes:

>Povl H. Pedersen (povlphp@uts.uni-c.dk) wrote:
>: In <sharad.726276727@mamura> sharad@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Sharad) writes:
>: >I was wondering whether there was a program like maclayers but which also
>	Povl, I think Sharad wants multi-session term prog w/zmodem downloads.
>	My MacLayers doesn't do anything when I launch sz :-)

I don't know of any multi-window maclayers-like program which will
allow zmodem.  However, I do have a suggestion.  There is a unix
program called screen, which will allow multiple virtual terminals,
and thus effectively a multi-window access to unix.  However, only
one of these 'windows' is actually visible at a time.  You change
screens with a control key (I think it is ^a).  It works very nicely
with a normal text-based terminal program, like Zterm.  However,
in order to do a zmodem up/download, you need to suspend Screen
temporarily.  This means that while the up/download is taking place,
nothing else will be, but that is not all that bad.

Other than that, the only things I could suggest would be to look
into using ARA (or SLIP)  and running ncsa telnet, fetch and lots of other
goodies.  you could then have as many terminals running as you
want, and even as many up/downloads going as you want, only they'd
look like ftp instead of zmodem or anything else.  And would be
pitifully slow compared to straight zmodem with a normal serial
terminal.

--David
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.os.vms
From: reuber@world.std.com (kent b reuber)
Subject: Want a Mac front end for VMS Mail
Keywords: VMS Mail
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:25:34 GMT

I have a user who wants some sort of front end for VMS mail. Currently, he
is using VersaTerm to connect to his Mac and read mail. What he wants, I
think, is to have his mail pop up in a real Mac window and be able to
edit, print, save to Mac disk, whatever. Does anyone know of any
commercial or (even better) shareware product that will do this?

Kent Reuber
reuber@cdv.eri.harvard.edu
reuber@world.std.com

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reuber@world.std.com          
reuber@cdv.eri.harvard.edu
From: owen-christopher@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU (Christopher Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: bulletin board software?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 14:33:02 -0500
Organization: Yale University Science & Engineering UNIX(tm), New Haven, CT 06520-2158
NNTP-Posting-Host: minerva.cis.yale.edu

The new BBS software you probably were refering to is called Public Address.
The first beta version should be coming out shortly.  I have been using an
alpha and it looks really great.  Right now they are just focusing on the
text interface, but eventually it will be graphical as well. So far I have
been really impressed.  The BBS has EXCELLENT support of modules (in fact
the whole thing is made up of modules.  If you don't want to customize it should
be transpartent, but if you want to all sysops have access to the source code
for the modules and lots of people are already writing add-on modules.

You can get a file that details the future plans of this BBS at the FTP
site.  It is at minerva.cis.yale.edu in the directory /pub/owenc.  The beta
distribution will be there as soon as I get authorization from the authors.
The doc sounds a little too good to be true but I can tell you that what has
been done so far lives up to the claims.  So far they have added such cool 
things as built-in support for fidonect (no more tabby) and apple-talk.

Chris


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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85 Trumball St      ~  Data : (203) 772-4485       ~  between cool and
New Haven CT 06520  ~  owenc@minerva.cis.yale.edu  ~  caught. -- C Owen
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: calboyd@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Larry Boyd)
Subject: Mac Zone times...
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:17:46 GMT

     Read the following in Mac Zone v9, Nov/Dec '92

   DATA TRANS TIMES NECESSARY TO SEND 4MB TEXT FILE
--------------------------------------------------------
2400 baud w/v.22                                28min

   Are Text files really that faster to transfer than bin files?

   I use a 2400 and it takes me over an hour to DL a 1mb file.

   Am I reading this table ( on pg. 82) wrong?

                 Curiously

        E-mail will be appreciated.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
Subject: RE: VersaTerm and LAT (Solution)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:23:59 GMT


In article <1993Jan4.182622.7184@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, I wrote:

>
>	A user here has a IIci and a Quadra 950, both running VersaTerm Pro
>utilizing LAT Tool as the connection method.  We have observed that both Macs
>are using the same LAT address.  Ideally, we would like each Mac on the network
>to have its own unique LAT address.  Is it possible to change the LAT address
>on either Mac and if so, how?  I thought about trying out ResEdit, but decided
>I would wait for any authoritative answers before delving "where no one has
>gone before." (;-)
>

	The problem, as several of you pointed out, was that DECnet/Mac was
once running on the IIci and then (improperly) de-installed.  DECnet/Mac
creates a resource named eadr in the System file on the Mac it is installed on.
After I removed this resource and the EtherTalk preferences file (which is
rebuilt on restart), then restarted the IIci, it was no longer reporting an
incorrect Ethernet address in any of the network-related facilities.

							Thanks,
							 Mike
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From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Mac LAN
Date: 13 Jan 1993 00:08:06 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <C0r7w5.Bo9@news.iastate.edu> LB.NKA@isumvs.iastate.edu (Nubi
Achebo) writes:
>I would like to hear from LAN administrators who have successfully networked
>CD-ROMs for macintosh computers. I will be assuming a new job next month and
>would be required to network a couple of CD-ROMs for remote and in-house
>accesss by a number of research fellows. 

We have an AppleShare server with a string of 4 CD-ROM drives attached to it.
Macs throughout the institution can access the CD drives. So can PCs running
Farallon's PhoneNet PC (formerly PhonNetTalk).

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Distribution: world
From: jimh@laison.w8hd.org (Jim Hebert)
Organization: L'AISON - Local Area Information Server Open Network
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 07:55:22 EDT
Subject: RE: IBM>>MacBinary>>Mac

Sounds to me like you need a utility that converts in/out of MacBinary format.
 
On a DOS system, a file is a file is a file. If some machine sends your PC a
Macintosh file in MacBinary format, you can get that file from the DOS machine
and recover it. 
 
Macintosh telecommunications programs have a special ability to receive a file
in MacBinary format and convert it to the native Mac file (i.e., with two
forks, resource and data).  The MacBinary format, very simply, looks like
this:

    Header+Resource+Data  (all one big file)
 
When this is received by a MacBinary aware communications program, the comm
application, once the entire file is received, strips off the header (from
which it obtains information like filename, etc), and stores the file on the
Macintosh volume with data and resource forks.
 
What is happening with your transfer is that you are getting the file on the
Mac volume, as a Mac file, but it is still in MacBinary format. In other
words, you have a Mac file, on a Mac volume, and that file consists of one big
data fork which contains a Macbinary format of the real file. 
 
Use a utility, like one built into StuffIt Lite, to convert the Macbinary file
back to a Mac file.

If this doesn't work, then perhaps the answer is that the file being sent from
AOL in not in MacBinary format, but in some other format that AOL has cooked
up for themselves and is recognized by the AOL Mac client software and nothing
else.  You may want to confirm that the AOL file is indeed a MacBinary format.
There are other formats for doing this sort of thing; AppleLink, for example,
has their own format for sending Mac files. Since AOL was originally derived
from AppleLink, perhaps they use a derivative of it.
 
 Also, call into the best local Macintosh system in Oakland County, mine! 
L'AISON @ 313/647-2634.

_____________________________________________________________________________
Jim Hebert                L'AISON = Local Area Information Server Open Network    
jimh@laison.w8hd.org                Tel: 313/647-2634  Beverly Hills, Michigan
______________________________________________________________________________
From: brian.polak@travel.com (Brian Polak) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: HELP, Can't unbinhex teln
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:53:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Travel Online / St. Louis Online - St. Louis, MO
Reply-To: brian.polak@travel.com (Brian Polak) 

MO>From: olsenm@ucs.orst.edu (Monte Olsen)
MO>Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
MO>Subject: HELP, Can't unbinhex telnetted files
MO>Date: 8 Jan 93 21:56:39 GMT
MO>Hi everyone,
MO>I'm having a problem, to whit:
MO>I call the area university VAX where I have an account.
MO>I telnet to Sumex or another FTP site and "get" a file, which is then
MO>stored on the university's VAX machine.
MO>I try to kermit the file to my home computer. The transfer appears to 
MO>OK.
MO>I startup Binhex 4.0 and try to unbinhex the file. 
MO>The program returns a CRC 000000 error or something like that. 
MO>It's driving me nuts. 
MO>Is there something I'm doing wrong (obviously)? If so, do any of you
MO>gurus out there have an answer. I'd be happy to share it with others if 
MO>someone comes through.
MO>Thanks in advance,
MO>
MO>Monte Olsen
MO>

Hi, I think your problem is that the BinHexed file contains a header in 
it.  Most files from FTP sites have a header at the beginning stating what 
the file is, who developed it, and a comment saying it is encoded by 
BinHex 4.0.  To check this, open the file on the vax (or your Mac) using a 
text editor, you will see the header, and a few lines below it, a lot of 
ascii characters that make up the stored file.  Just delete the header, 
save the file, and then use BinHex to decode it.

                                        Hope this helps
                                               Bri
                                  Internet:brian.polak@travel.com 



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From: Apgar@Apple.com (Gar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: MacTCp 1.1.1 ?
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:07:01 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Apple

In article <1993Jan7.002713.14942@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, gpb@gpb-mac (greg
berryman ) wrote:
> 
> mixterhp@appstate.edu (Perry Mixter) writes:
> : In article <1993Jan6.085223.119709@marshall.wvnet.edu>,
> : gary@marshall.wvnet.edu (gary's news) wrote:
> : > 
> : > Where can one order MacTCp 1.1.1 ??
> : > 
> : It WAS in the Gator demo on info-mac/sumex archives, but I looked there
> : this morning (1/6/93) and it was gone!  I also looked in the other archive
> : site mentioned here in previous posts, and the Xgator demo did NOT include
> : any version of MacTCP 1.1.1.
> : 
> : Anyone have clues to this mystery? Did someone wise up and pull these off
> : the net due to copywrite problems??  Help!
> 
> It's not free software.  See your local Apple dealer to buy it.
> BTW, don't upgrade to 7.1 if you use MacTCP 1.1 until you buy 1.1.1, it
> won't work with 1.1

Actually APDA is distributing this.

Internet: APDA@AppleLink.Apple.com
800.282.2732 US
800.637.0029 Canada
716.871.6511 Anywhere
76666,2405 CompuServe
APDA AOL and AppleLink

APDA
Apple Computer Inc.
Box 319
Buffalo, NY 14207-0319

Apgar@Apple.com   |   Eric Apgar  alias  Gar   |   I said it, NOT Apple.
From: jonathan@gabriel.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Printing to a Unix Host
Date: 12 Jan 93 11:44:01 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

I am not a Mac user but I am a computing officer who has been given this
task.  I need to get a Mac to print on a printer connected to a Unix host
which is using the Berkely protocols.  Here's the hardware and software
specification:

Mac
---
  Mac LC
  System 6
  Apple Ethernet card (UTP)


Unix
----
  Sparc 2
  SunOS 4.1.2
  Berekely LPD.

We have seen the K-Spool product, but for one mac this seems a little
pricey.  It also seems to talk appletalk over the ethernet and rely on
Unix to answer these protocols.  I would like the solution to be scaleable
so that the whole campus can use the same solution.  As all our routers
talk IP and not appletalk I really want the Mac to talk IP, but I'll
consider any solutions you can come up with.

Thanks in advance.
From: glen@Cayman.COM (Glen B. Glater)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ********
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:52:18 GMT
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA
In-reply-to: md@kanaha.Idbsu.EDU's message of 5 Jan 93 19:18:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.191857.5038@guinness.idbsu.edu> md@kanaha.Idbsu.EDU (Martin Dougherty) writes:

  >Does anyone know of a version of lpr for the mac.  I have looked at
  >the FAQ sheet and it talks about using macps to print from mac to
  >Unix.  I would like to avoid the interim step of ftp'ing (or otherwise
  >copying by hand) from mac to Unix and then using lp or lpr on the
  >unix machine.  

Martin:

Intercon makes InterPrint, which allows Macs to print to lpr printers.  
InterPrint allows you to select the printers from the chooser, which makes
things a bit easier.

There is also a program available via anonymous ftp from brownvm.brown.edu
called lpr1.2 that does a similar thing, but is less Mac-like.

Glen
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland)
Subject: Re: Modem Software????
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:47:01 GMT
Organization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.

2712s@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jennifer Murnane) writes:

> 
> 
> Help!  I need to pick out a modem software program that will work with
> my new SupraFaxModem v.32bis 14,000 modem.  I have it hooked up to
> a MacIntosh II and currently I am running System 7.  I called
> MacWarehouse and they suggested "White Nite Software" and "SmartCom".
> Supra suggested I purchase "FaxSFT".  I want to be able to send and
> receive faxes on my machine with little or no compatibility problems.
> I want to be able to fax from Word 5.0, Canvas 3.0, and Excel 3.0.
> Can anyone guide me in the right direction.  I should note that I
> am more familiar with IBM systems than I am with MacIntosh systems.
> In other words, speak laymens terms.

I recommend BackFAX. I've read a lot of good/bad (mostly bad) things 
about FAXstf, but haven't used it myself.
The all-around BEST comm program I've found is Zterm, version 0.9.
$40 shareware and worth every penny.

jmr

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From: yjc@po.CWRU.Edu (Y H J. Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: ZYXEL MODEMS??????
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:36:46 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: yjc@po.CWRU.Edu (Y H J. Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, wrl@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Bill Lewandowski) says:

>We tested the ZyXEL 1496-E and have choosen it for our Standard Modem.
>We had no problems with it and it has beed very reliable,
>

How long does the startup test takes? I've always had to reset the modem
before I could use it. 
-- 
 The Evil Tofu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
Subject: Re: MacTCP/Domain Name server question
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:56:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.163640.1@bcvms.bc.edu>, eileen@bcvms.bc.edu wrote:
> behaviour, and is there any way to get MacTCP to recognize a secondary name 
> server that it will use to resolve all names?

Enter your default domain in the first domain box, list the address of your
primary DNS, and click the default button.
In the second domain box, put a single period, and repeat the address of
your primary DNS.
List your backup DNS's below, each with a domain of "." and its proper IP
address.

--
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.mac.comm:12812 news.answers:5054
From: sdorner@qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
Subject: Re: (?) Ethernet addr list
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:00:49 GMT

In article <chipp.726356960@tsmnet5>, chipp@tsmnet5.uucp (Chipp Kuldell)
wrote:
> My pc users have a text file that we have them download
> on the first boot of the day, which contains this alias
> list and the users real names (for importing into
> LifeLine mail).  The pc users can bring up this list and
> select names for their To: and CC: fields.  My mac users
> want a similar capability.

Eudora uses a file in UNIX .mailrc format for nickname storage.  A thousand
names shouldn't be a problem.

Of course, you'll need MacTCP and a POP3/SMTP server.
--
Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.