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From: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: uAccess 1.62
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:53:47 EST
Organization: ICE Engineering, Inc.
Reply-To: time@ice.com (Tim Endres)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v2


In article <cshotton-250193085804@oac2.hsc.uth.tmc.edu> (comp.sys.mac.comm), cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton) writes:
> What I haven't heard yet (or I missed it) is how InterCon and ICE intend to
> support existing uAccess customers. Is uAccess now a product that falls
> under the InterCon tech support umbrella? Does ICE still provide support?
> Where do upgrades come from for people who own and ICE-labeled version?
> 
> Tim? Amanda? Please clue me in.

I can shed some light here. However, I will need to prefix this by
saying that Intercon has not finalized their plans, and that what I
am stating may be incomplete or inaccurate.

From a recent press release:
[>    HERNDON, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 22 (NB) -- Intercon Systems has
[>    reached an agreement with ICE Engineering of Witmore Lake, Michigan
[>    which allows Intercon to license ICE's Macintosh-based UUCP product.
[>    This product will be called UUCP/Connect by Intercon and will be sold
[>    and supported by Intercon.

All owners of release 1.5 of uAccess may obtain the upgrade to release
1.6v2 from Intercon. Intercon is offering several different options
for getting the upgrade to fit different peoples' needs. They are
offering just the new version of the application, or the new version
plus a nice new manual, or both the new version and manual and technical
support from Intercon. This allows people to pay for only what they
need. I do not know if they will provide an electronic update.

All owners of 1.0 of uAccess will need to purchase the 1.6v2 upgrade
and manual, since the original manual does not cover all of the new
features in 1.6.

ICE Engineering has never really explicitly stated a policy regarding
the duration of technical support. This was primarily due to the unique
nature of uAccess.  We have always been willing to answer any and
all email regarding support. We have always insisted that we would
get your uAccess link up to your server or take the product back,
and this has usually been the only reason for telephone support.

In light of this, ICE will continue to provide telephone technical
support for the next 4 months. It is assumed that all current users
of uAccess will have been able to establish and utilize their email
link by this time. After April 1, we will provide email support only.
Intercon will handle technical support for all those who purchase
the update&support option and future releases from Intercon.

ICE Engineering continues to devote its attention to the development
of uAccess and to assist in technical support when necessary.

This arrangement should be beneficial for uAccess and its future,
since Intercon applies their strength in marketing and ICE Engineering
focuses on development.

tim.


tim endres - time@ice.com  (UUCP: heifetz!tbomb!time)

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From: jdschnitzer@mv.com (Jeff Schnitzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: uAccess 1.62
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 08:04:40 EST
Reply-To: jdschnitzer@schmac.mv.com
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1993Jan22.182112.9148@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> (comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc), robichau@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Paul Robichaux) writes:
  >  
  >  In <9301212139.AA09877@chaos.intercon.com> amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
  >  
  >  >trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
  >  >> (I was interested in the product; now I'm not.  If I'm going to 
  >  >> spend $400 for UUCP, I'll save up a little more, and get MachTen or A/
  >  >> UX, and do real UUCP, with real news/mail, etc....) 
  >  
  >  >Note: I'm not trying to disparage MachTen or A/UX: they are both very good 
  >  >products--they just seem to me a bit excessive for just UUCP connectivity.
  >  
  >  Bob has an awfully good point. I've used uAccess once or twice. It's
  >  a very nice, full-featured implementation. It's also very expensive.
  >  
  >  I'd rather spend $700 and be able to run full-blown unix _and_ my existing
  >  software than spend $400 just for uucp connectivity. Sure, there are other
  >  factors: unix requires a bigger disk, more RAM, a fast CPU, etc. I suspect
  >  that even at twice the price, A/UX or MachTen provides more than twice
  >  the functionality of uAccess.
  >  
  >  IMHO. IMHO. IMHO.
  >  
  >  -Paul

The whole point (as I see it) of a package like uAccess is to get the 
connectivity and the Mac interface _without_ requiring unix.

I have a Mac at home because I want a _Mac_ at home.  I do not want
to spend half my time administering a unix box.  I am participating
in a small start-up company where my responsibilities cover Mac and
NetWare/386 while others deal with various flavors of unix.

unix's power is its organization into small filters.  But it takes
time to glue everything together.  It's pretty easy, but there is
a _lot_ of it.

On the Mac I prefer more of the monolithic application approach. 
I bemoan the spread of many small, orphaned, and often unidentified
extensions.

$300 for uAccess is steep.  I wouldn't buy more than one copy; if I
were managing a group of Macs I'd look for another solution.  A price
of $125 to $175 seems right for what it provides.  $300 would be fair
iff the 'terminal' functionality were beefed up with simple macros
and archiving so that I wouldn't also need another comm program like
Microphone, White Knight, etc.
 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
Subject: Re: Problems with ZTERM
Keywords: ZTERM DTE MODEM
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:53:21 GMT

tcm@moscom.com (Tom Maszerowski) writes:

>  What is more important to look at is chars/sec. To calculate maximum
>(without compression) character rate we assume 9 bits per character
>(8 bits per byte plus 1 stop bit). 14,400 equates to 1600 (14,400/9).
>I typically see around 925 when doing ZMODEM transfers with the Telebit
>at work. While this is only 57% (of 14,400), it as good as it gets for me 
>since the Telebit is fed at 19200. Although this is faster than 14,400, the
>compression feature means that the modem can pump the data out faster
>than the SUN's serial port can feed it and it spends a lot of its time
>waiting for data. BTW, this equates to 14% as reported by ZTerm.

No, its 10 bits per character (8 bits for the character itself, 1 start bit,
and 1 stop bit)  The reason you see > 1440 cps even on well-compressed files
is because v.42bis (and MNP 5) compression abandon the 1 start bit 1 stop bit
thing and instead packetize data into larger groups without start bits or stop
bits, but including some overhead for error correcting and the like.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: howie@cfarer.ds.boeing.com (Howard Modell)
Subject: Re: Using Ethertalk and Appletalk together
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Boeing Defense and Space Group
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 00:27:53 GMT

In article <1k6tfmINNsjr@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, hook@geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook)
wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a Quadra 900 (actually, I`m helping someone who has one) and
> he has the following problem:
> 
> - he is set up with an ethernet connection and is running MacTCP 1.1
>   on system 7.0.1. He is able to select either/or AppleTalk or 
>   EtherTalk, but not have botha ctive at the same time. This is a
>   problem because he needs to get files through, say mail (Eudora)
>   or grab readnews articles (NewsWatcher) or use Fetch or ftp
>   to transfer file from remote spots to his Mac and send the files
>   to his LaserWriter. The LaserWriter is on an AppleTalk network, shared
>   by three Macs. In order to print the things he gets through TCP/IP connections,
>   he has to shutdown MacTCP and ethertalk and startup appletalk to
>   use the printer.
> 
>   This seems terribly convoluted, and I can't help but believe that
>   someone has knows the resolution to this; i.e., to have Ethertalk
>   and AppleTalk active at the same time with no conflict from
>   MacTCP either.
> 
> 
> All help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Chris Hook 
> Atmospheric Sciences
> University of .B.C., Vancouver, Canada
> e-mail: hook@geog.ubc.ca

I don't know .. I have both a Quadra 700 and a IIci that use both Localtalk
(for printers and InBox and such) and Ethernet for TCP/IP stuff.  What I
did was leave the Network as "Localtalk" and in the MacTCP control panel, I
told it to use Ethernet.

Works just fine.

+----All opinions expressed are mine and *NOT* my employers!----+
   howard modell, Boeing Defense & Space group, Seattle, WA
         howie@cfarer.boeing.com,       wk04977@worldlink.com,
         h.modell@ieee.org,                  72376.252@compuserve.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: ericg@getafix.cs.uoregon.edu (eric leander gorr)
Subject: Z-Modem
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:53:03 GMT

Are their other shareware programs out there (besides ZTerm) that support
Z-Modem and support the printer port to communicate with the modem (like
ZTerm).  I've had to many problems sending stuff using ZModem and ZTerm - 
ZTerm keeps crashing on me.

thanx...

(Please respond via E-mail)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: harrym@netcom.com (Harry Myhre)
Subject: Re: Eudora Problem
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:58:30 GMT

What's Eudora? Is it a Fidonet readerr?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: mspace@netcom.com (Brian Hall)
Subject: Re: Ex-machine Notify! product info needed
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:33:15 GMT

whitton@bnr.ca (Mark Whitton) writes:
>Has anyone tried the Ex-machina Notify! product?  This allows you
>to have a MAC deliver messages to a person via a message pager.


>I think it monitors an e-mail program and forwards messages to
>you by dialing the pager company and sending the message via modem.

Out of the box it comes with an Apple Event aware server, and a client
that is used to send messages and create subscribers, groups, and services.

There is also a product, mailNotify! that can forward Microsoft mail to
a pager via Notify (there is a bundle tha includes Notify! and mailNotify).

>I believe that it works with various e-mail systems under 
>System 7.

It works with anything that can send generic Apple Events with more
than one parameter (to be useful you need to provide who the message
is for and the message itself).

>Are there any products that compete with Notify!?

There are a number of products that only handle alpha pagers (Notify handles
numeric, alpha, and the newstream, which is a pager with a serial port).

The largest advantage of Notify is the number of third party applications
that directly support it (like HyperCard, Excel, Frontier, AppleScript, 
network monitoring apps from AG Group, Dayna, Neon, Easy Alarms,
MicroPhone II, etc etc).

You can call 800-ADVISE-U for more info, or send mail to
ex.machina@applelink.apple.com.

(Disclaimer: I consult for Ex Machina)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
Subject: Re: LaserWriters and EtherNet
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:50:53 GMT

In <1k1vnhINN9fs@bmsrs.usc.edu> degennar@bmsrs.usc.edu (Ray) writes:
>We're switching to a 10baseT ethernet and running AppleTalk over it.  Any
>advice on our options?

>A:	Something like Dayna's EtherPrint or Compatible Systems EtherWrite.

>Ray (DJ) DeGennaro II
>degennar@scf.usc.edu

If you are in a multizone network (which I assume most Universities are),
do NOT buy Dayna's EtherPrint unless they have developed software to 
prevent unauthorized printing!  This should be a caveat about any such
hardware from other vendors.  I don't know about EtherWrite, but some
vendors support security.

We have an EtherPrint Plus; it works fine, except it occasionally needs
to be reset (i.e., unplug it and plug it in again).  Don't lock the box
in a closet where NO one can get to it if your set up needs to be usable
24 hours a day (but place it somewhere secure, obviously).  Ours is
marginally accessible; it seems to crash when the network load is "heavy":
many people printing SuperPaint 3.0 or PageMaker 4.0 documents simultaneously.
(The network can handle the load, no problem, the traffic through the box
seems to be the problem.)

Dan
From: p653663@austin.lockheed.com (p653663)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: White Knight and Hermes BBS Problems
Date: 21 Jan 93 10:58:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: "Lockheed Austin Division, 6800 Burleson Rd, Austin, TX 78744"

I have been having fits getting White Knight to upload to a 
Hermes BBS using zmodem at speeds greater than 9600. I have
been using a Supra v.32bis modem. The problem is 'Transmission
Errors' and I have no idea how to fix the problem. I did 
try ZTerm and it worked. Not sure if this is a White Knight
problem or a Hermes problem. One of the two has a bad zmodem
engine.

Any help will be appreciated.
 
Dick Kriss
kriss@austin.lockheed.com
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Norbert Mueller <K360171@alijku11.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Subject: Re: XferIt version
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A78DEC6BA3016205@nmueller.chemie.uni-linz.ac.at>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:02:51 GMT
Organization: Johannes Kepler Univ., Inst. of Chemistry
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:05:12 GMT

Re: XferIt version

In article <1993Jan27.165637.11773@midway.uchicago.edu> james frederick
amundson, amun@quads.uchicago.edu writes:
>I do *not* recommend registering XferIt. I sent payment for two
>copies months ago. I haven't even been able to get the registration
>code to remove the startup dialog, not even after repeated attempts to
>email the author.

I have registered for 2 copies nearly a year ago. In June he replied to
my e-mail that
he had received the payment but had a tremendous backlog to handle the
serial numbers.
So my personal solution is QuickKeys to dismiss the reminder quickly.
It's still the best ftp for the Mac but recently I have noticed some
instability on
large downloads with system 7.01 and 7.1

Norbert M!ller
Institute of Chemistry
Johannes Kepler University
A-4040 Linz
Austria 
e-mail K360171@ALIJKU11.bitnet
       K360171@EDVZ.uni-linz.ac.at
       Norbert@soft.uni-linz.ac.at
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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: uAccess 1.62
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:39:09 -0500
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
Distribution: world
Reply-To: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.intercon.com
X-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1b34

trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder) writes:
> (I was interested in the product; now I'm not.  If I'm going to 
> spend $400 for UUCP, I'll save up a little more, and get MachTen or A/
> UX, and do real UUCP, with real news/mail, etc....) 

Those are certainly reasonable options.  Just out of curiousity, though, what 
do you mean by "real"?  This is *not* a trick question--you're the first 
person I've run into who'd evidently rather run UNIX-style UUCP/mail/news on 
a Macintosh than run a native Mac application with a Mac user interface.
Not to mention the difference in disk space requirements :)...

Note: I'm not trying to disparage MachTen or A/UX: they are both very good 
products--they just seem to me a bit excessive for just UUCP connectivity.



Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
From: marty@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov (Marty Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Ping under Sys.6?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 01:54:49 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov

Is there an implementation of UNIX ping for the Mac that works under
6.x? The version at sumex requires System 7.

Thanks in advance for any help!

                            Martin Slade
                            JPL/Caltech Mail Stop 238-420
                            +818-354-2765
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: Cornell Comet "AWESOME" !
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:56:47 GMT

Has everyone seen the Macintosh terminal emulator COMET ? It is available from
mac.archive.umich.edu as well as the home site at Cornell. 

I just set this up with my new 14" display and its amazing ! Finally a full
screen emulation !!!!! Included is a 16 pt. monospaced font that allows
you to use your whole vieable area at its maximum potential.

Any chance of adding Z-term capacity ?

Does anyone know how I can get these Fonts into MicrophonePro and starting
using the full screen ?

thanks much for Comet,

Jim
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From: nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: MacTCP 1.1.1  slows down the Mac (I think BUT I'm not sure)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:02:46 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Distribution: world
Reply-To: pali+@osu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: ops.mps.ohio-state.edu
Originator: nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu

Since I installed MacTCP 1.1.1 on 2 macs with System 7.1, the macs regularly
freeze for upto 10 seconds and then they resume working.  Is this related
Take care...Paul MacTCP? I never had this before.  Can you advise me? Please
respond by email. Thanks.  Take care...Paul

Paul Nevai                            nevai@mps.ohio-state.edu
Dept Math - Ohio State University     1-614-292-3317 (Office)
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A.     1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: bylsma@unixg.ubc.ca (Dieder A. Bylsma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: FaxSTF problems w/Supra
Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:21:46 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

A question for a friend....

He's having problems enabling 'receive' on his SupraFAX modem...it sends fine
but for some reason won't receive. It was working fine previously, but otherwise
it has stopped and can only send.

Any suggestions, appreciated.

Dieder
From: zabaldo@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mark T Zabaldo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Help needed finding software
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:52:07 GMT
Organization: UB

Would someone please advise me on where to find a shareware/freeware
version of a communications program?  I am not familiar with mac, so I
have a few questions.  Is it possible for me to download the software on
an IBM and then use it on a Mac?  Will the program need to be uncompressed?
Any help is needed.

(I need this for my SO who is not as News reader or FTP literate as I)

Thanks.
Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: rmah@panix.com (Robert Mah)
Subject: Re: Speedy Finder Bug?
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:23:45 GMT

In <1993Jan20.181049.17118@bradley.bradley.edu> mrr2ro@cs1.bradley.edu (Arturo Pinzon) writes:


>For some reason, Once speedy finder is installed
>running under sys7.1.

>I cannot open the control pannel folder from my Apple Menu.

If you are using version 1.5.4 (the last one released), be aware it has a 
involving the "Alias Resolving/App Finding" option.  It screws up some of
your menu selections.  Turning that option off seems to resolve <g> the 
problem.

Anyway, the author says he will send you a fix if you send in the 
registration fee.  That's what he told me anyway -- although I think it a 
bit strange to leave a known buggy version released for so long when you 
already have a fix.  But hey, to each his own.

Cheers,
Rob

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From: marury@magic-bbs.corp.apple.com (Maury Markowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Gee, could I get some help?
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:51:05 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Macintosh Awareness Group In Canada

> 1.  How do I download a file?

  Get a better terminal program!  Both QuickLink and ClarisWorks have
revolting terminal portions, IMHO.  A good place to start is ZTerm, a
shareware program that's pretty popular (that's what I use).  When using
Zterm, you select a file to download on the BBS, tell it to use ZModem
transfers, and ZTerm will take care of the rest.  It works quite nicely.

> 2.  Is there some place I can get shareware and public domain
> software for the Mac?  How do I find them?  How do I get access to them?

  What you need is a good BBS list.  I'm not sure of any BBS's in your
area, so you may have to poke around for a Mac BBS list.

>         UUCP  (or is it UUPC?)

  This is a protocol originally designed for file transfer, something like
XModem.  Since then the "shell" that drives it can be used as a type of
over-the-modem networking to send mail and "news".  In fact, if you are
reading this, you are reading a UseNet News article, which is transfered
using UUCP.
  UUPC is a PC based version of UUCP.

>         NNTP

  NNTP is a way of sending UseNet News over the Internet rather than UUCP. 
This makes it easy to send large volumes of data from point to point
without modems, and at high speed.  There's a very good chance (like 99%)
that you received this letter over links run by NNTP rather than UUCP
directly.

>         MacTCP

  MacTCP is a selection of drivers that run on the Mac to give you TCP
access.  This allows you to hook your Mac into the Internet if you have the
correct connections.

>         FAQ

  Frequently Asked Questions.  This is a perfect example of a FAQ!

> 4.  I've been told that I need Z modem.  My QL2 and CW both
> have xmodem.  What is the difference?  Is one better than the other?

  ZModem is MUCH MUCH faster, and easier to use. 

> 5.  (thanks for reading this far.... :)  )   Do you have any other
> basics that you think I should know?

  So many it's scary.  I would recommend buying BMUG's BBS and Beyond as a
good reference.

Maury Markowitz,
SoftArc Inc.
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