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From: rthomas@terapin.com (Richard Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Z-modem...
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:13:03 PST
Organization: BBS

Could someone please give me the Z-modem protocol? By this I mean A subroutine
that I can go to in an application that will send and recieve the Z-modem
protocol... I'm trying to make a little program, but it's very hard as I have
no idea where to start with the X-fer protocols and Z-modem seems to be the
best one (at least to me)... I only need it, as this is going to be a very
specific program... So couod someone who has it please Post it or E-mail it to
me? E-mail is preferrable, as usually I don't get a chance to read all the
messages here so sometimes I just "catch up" the new messages when there are a
lot of new ones and I just know I'll accindently skip over the response (if
any)... PLEASE help me out with this! You can have a free copy of my program if
you do! The source can be in Quick Basic, C, or Pascal, but Quick Basic is
preferrable as I am still learning the latter two... Thanx a lot...
From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Problems with ZTERM
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:15:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

In article <1993Jan23.193046.10595@cs.rit.edu>, mnc@cs.rit.edu (Marcus N Cannava) writes:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm the proud new owner of a SupraFAXModem v.32bis, and wonder why I'm
> getting such poor performance with zmodem transfers. I'm getting
> efficiency rates of around 10-20%.. Perhaps a simple setting I'm
> missing?
> 
> I'm using Zterm 0.9, on a Mac IIsi, with the modem mentioned above.
> The connections are reliably connecting at 57,600 baud (14.4 with
> compression). 

    As is unfortunately all too common here, you aren't providing us nearly 
enough information to make an intelligent guess at the source of your problem.
Most importantly what are you transferring?  If the files are already 
compressed, then the v.whatever compression (I'm afraid I can never remember 
which number is which.)  will slow down your transfer.  You can only get close 
to 100% efficiency with uncompressed files.  Some files like Gif's are always 
compressed.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Mathematics
elharo@shiva.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.hardware
From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
Subject: Dayna EtherPrint Plus: any security measures??
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:47:18 GMT

We are on a network with multiple zones and would like to deny access
to printing to machines outside our zone.  However, we use the EtherPrint
Plus boxes to connect our printers to the Ethernet (we use EtherTalk Phase 2);
apparently there is no software solution to prevent printing on our printers?

Is this really the case?  We don't have money to buy a different set
of network boxes.  Is there a ROM upgrade to the EtherPrint boxes?

Dan 
dross@cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: joel@writer.yorku.ca (Joel Atkin)
Subject: UUPC <--> UUCP
Originator: joel@grant
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:26:43 GMT


I recently got UUPC 3.0 and started to set it up.  However, there's
still a couple of things I don't get.  How do you initiate the unix
box (in my case, SUN, bsd 4.3) to send news feeds.  None of the files
included describe how tto start the newsfeed transfer.


Am I missing something *really* simple here?


feeling silly,

joel

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: MACE@HDQCMS2H.UTSD.ATT.COM
Subject: Re: Zoom 14.4Kbd modems, any good?
Organization: None
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 02:42:51 EST

In article <C1HLw2.IFD@feenix.metronet.com>
marcbg@feenix.metronet.com (Marc Grant) writes:
 
>
>In article <jsuker.727990244@orion.oac.uci.edu> jsuker@orion.oac.uci.edu
>(Johnathon Suker) writes:
>>       Well the subject line basically says it all.  I am contemplating
>>buying a Zoom 14.4bd Fax modem and was wondering if anyone owned on.  I have
>>their 9600 baud modem and it works fine so I like their products but I though
>>I would ask the opinions of others that may own them.
>
>Well John, I'm sure you'll get lots of opinions on this one.  When the
>14.4 Zoom modems first came out, they were plagued with all sorts of
>problems.  Perhaps the most noticeable was that when operating at 14.4
>it had trouble adjusting to changes in line conditions and had a nasty
>habbit of hanging up (ouch!)
>First Zoom sent me a firmware upgrade which made things a little
>better.  I finally had to mail the modem back to Zoom where they sent me a
>new one in just a few weeks.
>The modem has been working great since it was returned to me in September.
>It's a little hard to get in touch with Zoom customer service should you
>have a problem with the modem, so I say buy from a large dealer with a 30
>day return policy (you should do that with any modem) in case you have
>problems.  Final analysis:  I'm happy with mine and would buy a new one in
>a flash.
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>Marc Grant                                                 Amateur Call: N5MEI
>Phone# 214/530-9488                       Internet: marcbg@feenix.metronet
 
I had just recently checked out the non-fax version of this modem and it
worked perfectly in every connection we tried, even when attached to the
front-end processor for our VM mainframe (which requires a strange setting).
We just ordered 30 of them based on our satisfaction with the unit.
 
Most problem reported against modems are, IMHO, incorrect configuration
of the modem settings.  Whatever modem you get, spending the extra
time understanding the configuration will solve most of your problems.
This makes it extremely difficult to separate quality reports from a
forum such as this... good luck!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mace Moneta, AT&T VM Product Engineering, Piscataway, NJ
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: joes@ihspa.att.com (45262-Strzemp)
Subject: faxstf, atm, and freehand interaction problem
Summary: fax resolution problem with freehand
Originator: news@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
Keywords: faxstf, atm, freehand
Organization: AT&T (no opinions are those of)
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:42:40 GMT

A net-less friend asks,

Why is it that when I try faxing (using faxstf) a doc from freehand
that the text turned on it's side (vertical orientation) has jaggies
while the horizontal text looks great?
(Obviously ATM is installed.)
The jaggies are especially obvious when viewing
large point sizes (e.g., 36) with preview in faxstf.

It looks like the bitmaps that ATM generated for the screen
are being scaled (X3) for the fax device/driver
instead of generating a new set of bitmaps
because the vertical stuff is bad not terrible.
The same file sent to a imagewriter looks fine.

Any ideas or similar experiences?
Just respond with mail if you're answer
is simply "does(n't) work for me"
(but do include your configuration).

vitals:
	6.0.7:	MAC
	2.0.3:	ATM
	2.2.3:	faxstf
	3.1:	freehand

Joe Strzemp (joes@ihlpa.ih.att.com)
============
No one ever lost money under-estimating
the intelligence of the American people.  -J.R. (Dallas)
From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: FOCUS Modems anyone?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:11:00 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

I just got a catalog in the mail from a company calling itself "FOCUS
Enhancements." They offer a variety of hardware, including modems. One of
their modems is a v.everything for less than US$300.00. It sounds good, but
then so have other modems which turned out to be problematic.

Anyone have any experience with this company or especially with their
modems?

Thanks in Advance

-----------
Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu
All opinions expressed are MINE -- I'd have a different job if the
University wanted me to speak for it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Kevin Woodside <woodside@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: Speedy Finder Bug?
X-Xxdate: Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:21:12 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom Canada
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:19:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.181049.17118@bradley.bradley.edu> Arturo Pinzon,
mrr2ro@cs1.bradley.edu writes:
>For some reason, Once speedy finder is installed
>running under sys7.1.
>
>I cannot open the control pannel folder from my Apple Menu.

Have you tried trashing the Control Panel alias in your Apple Menu Item
folder, making a new alias of the real Control Panel folder, and then
moving the newly created alias into the Apple Menu Item folder?  Worked
for me...

Kevin

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From: tcm@moscom.com (Tom Maszerowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Problems with ZTERM
Summary: Effeciency based on DTE speed
Keywords: ZTERM DTE MODEM
Date: 24 Jan 93 04:17:54 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <1993Jan23.192243.7467@ultb.isc.rit.edu> mnc0678@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.N. Cannava) writes:
>Hi there,
>
>I'm the proud new owner of a SupraFAXModem v.32bis, and wonder why I'm
>getting such poor performance with zmodem transfers. I'm getting
>efficiency rates of around 10-20%.. Perhaps a simple setting I'm
>missing?
>
>I'm using Zterm 0.9, on a Mac IIsi, with the modem mentioned above.
>The connections are reliably connecting at 57,600 baud (14.4 with
>compression). 
>
>Thanks, in advance..
>\marc

  The key here is the DTE speed, the speed at which your Mac talks to
the modem. ZTerm quite simply bases its efficiency rating on the 
throughput at the speed the serial port is set to. In the case of
57,600, 14,400 is 25% of the DTE speed. Any protocol, ZMODEM, included,
has some overhead and even with compression, your figures seem in line.

  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.



-- 
Tom Maszerowski    tcm@moscom.com   
                   {rit,tropix,ur-valhalla}!moscom!tcm
                   DoD #1957 (1987 BMW K75s) BMWMOA #59113
Everyone looks naked when you know the world's address - TMBG
From: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: AppleTalk over SLIP? How?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:19:35 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: Academic Computing

In article <1k86elINN4da@intercon.intercon.com>, amanda@intercon.com
(Amanda Walker) wrote:
> 
> maynard@tamar.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
> >Is it possible to run AppleTalk over SLIP?
> 
> No.  SLIP only works with IP.  You *could* run AppleTalk over PPP,
> which can handle multiple protocols, but there are no products for
> the Mac which can support this yet.
> 

You CAN run AppleTalk over SLIP. It's sick and twisted, but if you have a
copy of Apple's new Internet Router (3.0), it will tunnel AppleTalk over IP
connections. Unless your SLIP software can be configured to establish a
connection automatically at "init" time, when the MacTCP driver is opened,
you'll never get it to work with the router though.

--_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Chuck Shotton                      |    
Ass't Director, Academic Computing |       "This space for rent."
UT Health Science Center Houston   |  
cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu       |         
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: martin@DMI.USherb.CA (Jean-francois Martin)
Subject: FOCUS modems, any comments?
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:34:26 GMT


Can someone give me their comments of the FOCUS modems? I'm looking to buy
a 9600 ou 14400 bauds modem with send/receive fax and compression.

JF Martin

-- 
================================================================================
= Jean-Francois Martin                                     martin@dmi.usherb.ca=
= Graduate student of Universite de Sherbrooke (je parle francais)             =
= "In complete darkness we are all the same" Janet Jackson                     =
From: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: best terminal emulator with MacTCP
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:57:47 -0500
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
Distribution: world
Reply-To: kdb@intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
NNTP-Posting-Host: mini-macaw.intercon.com
X-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1b35

In article <hook-240193073853@port63.annex1.net.ubc.ca>, hook@geog.ubc.ca 
(Chris Hook) writes:
> Can someone please give me a short list of the best terminal 
> emulators to use with MacTCP (I'm using MacSLIP on a 9600 baud 
> modem). I'ld like to have a reasonable terminal that is 
> somewhat customizable, like the one that comes with Zterm. 
> 

Try any of the following:

InterCon's TCP/Connect II
TWG's Mac PathWay Access 2.0
Synergy VersaTerm Pro
Pacer's PacerTerm

Those are a few.  There are probably more.  But I know that all of the above 
work just fine over MacTCP.





Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End)
Subject: MicrophonePro: adding new Fonts ?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:13:35 GMT

Can I add the cool 16 point font from Comet to Microphone Pro ? How would
one go about this ? I don;t think a regular Font/DA mover installation 
will work.

Thanks,

Jim
From: f2ehg786@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Problems with ZTERM
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:05:36 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

In article <1993Jan23.200543.8981@cs.uoregon.edu>, ericg@getafix.cs.uoregon.edu (eric leander gorr) writes:
> In article <1993Jan23.193046.10595@cs.rit.edu> mnc@cs.rit.edu
> (Marcus N Cannava) writes:
> 
>>I'm the proud new owner of a SupraFAXModem v.32bis, and wonder why I'm
>>getting such poor performance with zmodem transfers. I'm getting
>>efficiency rates of around 10-20%.. Perhaps a simple setting I'm
>>missing?
>>
> 
> I would like this information also....thanx...
> 
If you've set your transfer speed to 57,600 and you host supports 14,400
transfers, already the theoretical best you can do is 25% efficiency. If your
host only supports 9600, your theoretical max. will drop accordingly. Factor in
any line noise, etc., and your transfer rate drops still further. Perhaps a
better indicator would be bps.

I hope I've correctly understood the question given the information you
provided and that this helps.

Bill

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: m92pbo@tdb.uu.se (Peter Borken)
Subject: Re: X windows for Mac ?
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:42:57 GMT

There is a program called macX (I think...) and it's a (c) program...

		/Peter (m92pbo@tdb.uu.se)
From: msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Michael L Sung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacIntercomm Question
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:11:13 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I am a happy user of ZTerm 0.9 on a 4 MB Macintosh SE with a SupraFaxModem
v.32bis (14.4K).  I have heard some stuff about MacIntercomm from various
sources and have a few questions:

(1) What exactly are the capabilities and advantages of MacIntercomm?  In
other words, what will MacIntercomm offer my SE that ZTerm can't fulfill?

(2) What is "scripting" capabilities on MacIntercomm?

(3) Who makes it, how much is it, and what type of technical support do
you get?  (What version is the most recent at this time?)

Thanks in advance.  Please e-mail responses.

msung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
From: Jim.Redelfs@macnet.omahug.org (Jim Redelfs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: RE: How safe is it to send money to Hermes BBS software??
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:53:19 CST
Reply-To: jim.redelfs@macnet.omahug.org
Organization: Macnet Omaha
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

> ...someone posted messages in this group saying how he got ripped off
> after he send money [to register Hermes]...but don't get anything
> back...Please let me know wether it is safe to send money...
  
It is completely "safe" to send money to AOC Software, Inc.  I have done so
twice without a hitch EITHER time.
  
I have a close friend that had difficulty with a credit card registration,
but the snafu was shortly cleared up.
  
Of course, sending *CASH* ANYWHERE is stupid.  I recommend that you pay with
a personal or certified check, money order or credit card.
  
JR
From: deboni@diego.llnl.gov (Tom DeBoni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: AppleTalk across the Net?
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:10:01 GMT
Followup-To: deboni@llnl.gov
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I think I saw an ablique reference here not too long ago to a program that
allows AppleTalk nets to be joined across the Internet, as if the AppleTalk
were being tunneled through tcp/ip. Does this thing really exist? Does it
cost a lot? Any info would help.

Thanks in advance!
Tom DeBoni
deboni@llnl.gov
From: grub@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca (Gordon Grieder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: zterm downloads
Keywords: zmodem, efficiency, DTE
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:03:58 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: The Draco Unix System [BBS]

 mnc@cs.rit.edu (Marcus N Cannava) writes:

> I'm the proud new owner of a SupraFAXModem v.32bis, and wonder why I'm
> getting such poor performance with zmodem transfers. I'm getting
> efficiency rates of around 10-20%.. Perhaps a simple setting I'm
> missing?

Zterm calculates the efficiency based on the DTE speed, not the connect
speed as reported by the modem.

I use a ZyXEL 1496E connected to the Mac at 57600.  Those figures you
posted of 10%(quite low) to 20%(more reasonable) are not out of line.

As I understand it (*correct me if I'm wrong everybody*) modems using
data compression create a token table during the transfer of redundant
data, and passes the tokens rather than the data through the modem if
possible which is why you'll find you efficiency starting lower and then
building up.

When modem makers advertise rates of "up to 57,600" that's a bit
misleading I think.  As a test one weekend, I created 2 files, each
of 125,000 characters (not K).  One was just some text file, and
the other was the character "m" (yes, 125000 times) the transfer
rate wasn't much different, and my 'efficiency' never did hit
100%.  If I recall, it maxed out around 40%, but I may be mistaken.
I'll dig up the results if anyone is interested.

cheers.

+---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+

|grub@bbs.draco.bison.mb.ca | "...and I spake unto the prophet, 'Oh wise one, |

|          (Gordon Grieder) | show me the way that I might burden my computer |

|   in Winnipeg, MB, Canada | with the loads of twenty thousand camels!'  and |

|       (drinking his beer) | there was Windows..."          ---Grub 01:22:93 |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: marcbg@feenix.metronet.com (Marc Grant)
Subject: Re: Zoom 14.4Kbd modems, any good?
Organization: Tx Metronet Communications Services, Dallas Tx
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:40:50 GMT

In article <jsuker.727990244@orion.oac.uci.edu> jsuker@orion.oac.uci.edu 
(Johnathon Suker) writes:
>	Well the subject line basically says it all.  I am contemplating
>buying a Zoom 14.4bd Fax modem and was wondering if anyone owned on.  I have
>their 9600 baud modem and it works fine so I like their products but I though
>I would ask the opinions of others that may own them.

Well John, I'm sure you'll get lots of opinions on this one.  When the
14.4 Zoom modems first came out, they were plagued with all sorts of
problems.  Perhaps the most noticeable was that when operating at 14.4
it had trouble adjusting to changes in line conditions and had a nasty
habbit of hanging up (ouch!)
First Zoom sent me a firmware upgrade which made things a little
better.  I finally had to mail the modem back to Zoom where they sent me a
new one in just a few weeks.
The modem has been working great since it was returned to me in September.
It's a little hard to get in touch with Zoom customer service should you
have a problem with the modem, so I say buy from a large dealer with a 30
day return policy (you should do that with any modem) in case you have
problems.  Final analysis:  I'm happy with mine and would buy a new one in
a flash.
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Marc Grant                                                 Amateur Call: N5MEI
Phone# 214/530-9488                       Internet: marcbg@feenix.metronet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: cassel@tsoft.net (Greg Cassel)
Subject: Re: White Knight and Hermes BBS Problems
Organization: TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:30:09 GMT

p653663@austin.lockheed.com (p653663) writes:

>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.

From what I hear, WK has a hardware handshaking problem, which causes
transmission errors.

Also, the WhiteKnight Z-modem is almost completly incompatible with hermes
if you are using HWHS, and even though the file may seem to transfer,
Hermes will say Transfer aborted.

WhightKnight is due for a major overhaul, and needs help with HWHS.

Greg
From: corse@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (Emily L. Corse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Microphone II "number" function
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:36:14 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Using Microphone II v. 3.01:

I have a script that uses the "number" function to translate two characters
read from the screen.  Normally, the characters read include one digit and
a blank:  "4 " for instance.  "Four, blank" usually translates into the
number "4", which is just what I want it to do.  Unfortunately, on one of
my patron's Macs, "4 " (four, blank) translates into the number 40!  Which
*destroys* the function of the script!

He's using Microphone II v. 3.0 on a Mac IIci running system 7.01, tuned.

If anyone has ideas about what could cause this, or even a detailed
explanation of how "number" is supposed to work, I'd appreciate hearing!

Thank you.

-- Emily L. Corse
   U of PA Biomedical Library
   corse@a1.mscf.upenn.edu