HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: how to make call waiting tone hang up modem ??
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:35:50 GMT
Organization: The RAND Corporation

In article <1992Apr13.141358.11402@athena.mit.edu> samalone@okra.MIT.EDU (Stuart A. Malone) writes:
>> Out of curiosity, why do you want call-waiting to drop your carrier?
>
>Because for some of us, talking to friends is more important than talking to
>computers.  ;-)

And to some of us, talking to friends is more important than saving money
by getting a separate data line.  Of course, given the amount of time
my data line is busy, I wouldn't talk to much of anyone without a second
line.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke)
Subject: Re: PEP
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 08:20:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom

In article <1992Apr7.052437.9212@news.eng.convex.com> datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>>: What is the actual baud rate of a Telebit PEP connection operating
>>: at 18000 or 19200 bps?  No, this isn't a koan...
>>It is 400 times 7.5 = 3000 baud. 
>
>Where's the 400 come from?

PEP's got 512, but only 400 are active at any one time. I figure it has
something to do with the Nyquist sampling limit.

The experts (J.A.C. Bingham) call the 3000 baud the symbol rate.


The post by Vernon Shryver regarding this topic got lost on netcom. We are 
having i/o overload problems on a SPARCserver2 network. The upgrade
will be a Solbourne multiprocessing system with its known i/o strengths. 
Should be online shortly.

-- 
_______________________________________________________________________________
Wolfgang Henke          wolfgang@henke.sf-bay.org           wolfgang@netcom.com

Xref: sparky comp.dcom.modems:6494 comp.sys.mac.comm:4556
From: daven@notable.com (Dave Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Supra V.32bis (Disappointment)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 19:39:33 PST
Organization: Notable Technologies, Inc.
Reply-To: daven@notable.com
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4


In article <1992Apr6.172632.26295@unlv.edu> (comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm), sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
| The Mac's serial ports are brain-dead.  They lack some of the
| handshaking lines needed for reliable high-speed operation.

They lack DCD and RTS, but there's no mystery about using DSR/CTS
for hardware handshake. That's what people have been doing for several
years now on the Macintosh - both in the modem cable wiring and the
software support for hardware handshake.

This solution is reliable, and works with any modem that supports hardware
handshake.

--Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)
Subject: Re: who sells BLAST?
Organization: RF Engineering, Del Mar, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 19:02:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.173730.16011@news.Hawaii.Edu> bob@kahala.soest.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham) writes:

> Would someone kindly send me contact info (phone number, etc.)
> of whatever company it is that sells BLAST?

Blast Professional UNIX
U.S. Robotics Software
5615 Corporate Blvd.
Baton Rouge, LA  70808
504-923-0888

BTW, there is a review of the "remote-control" features of
blast in the March 1992 issue of UNIXWORLD magazine.  Also
reviewed are Doublevision, form Maximum Computer
Technologies, and UNIXAnywhere from Aardvark Data Solutions.

Quoting from Mike Burgard's conclusion:

	"Blast Professional UNIX ... is the only product
	available for administrators who want to control DOS
	systems that are connected to a UNIX remote system."
	

--
Rick Farris  RF Engineering POB M Del Mar, CA 92014  voice (619) 259-6793
rfarris@rfengr.com     ...!ucsd!serene!rfarris      serenity bbs 259-7757
From: pplacewa@bbn.com (Paul W Placeway)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MS-Kermit isn't PD
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:01:02 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) writes:

< Defending your position, however, I just fired up a copy of C-Kermit
< on a local Unix computer and all I saw was:

<   C-Kermit 5A(179) BETA, 8 Feb 92, POSIX

< so maybe *that* is PD.

Nope:

moody ftp 206 -> strings `which kermit` | grep opyri
%s, Copyright (C) 1985, 1992,
moody ftp 207 -> kermit
C-Kermit 5A(179) BETA, 8 Feb 92, Silicon Graphics IRIX 4.0
Type ? or HELP for help
C-Kermit>quit

If you look at the source code, all through it has:

 /*
   Author: Frank da Cruz (fdc@columbia.edu, FDCCU@CUVMA.BITNET),
   Columbia University Center for Computing Activities.
   First released January 1985.
   Copyright (C) 1985, 1992, Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New
   York.  Permission is granted to any individual or institution to use this
   software as long as it is not sold for profit.  This copyright notice must be  retained.  This software may not be included in commercial products without
   written permission of Columbia University.
 */


			-- Paul Placeway
				 (Kermit programmer, among other things)
From: dave@compnect.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: DOS telecomm prelim. evaluation results
Summary: Telix HAS that option
Date: 13 Apr 92 21:27:11 GMT
Organization: Compnect, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <1992Apr10.124945.5394@meaddata.com>, dem@meaddata.com (David Myers) writes:
> wyle> It seems that many of the emulators make the same mistake:  When I move
> wyle> the cursor backwords in vi over words, these programs all delete
> wyle> characters over which the cursor passed.
> 
>    This is probably just a disagreement between the emulator and the
> system you're logging in to as to whether a backspace is destructive
> or not.  Look for an emulator option regarding destructive backspace
> and change it.

Telix has the option for destructive or non-destructivs BS. Looks like
he just didn't examine it too closely. Also, I use Telix w/vt100
(actually vt102) emulation daily in maintaing this Unix system via
dial-up. I have yet to find something it couldn't deal with. I even use
it as a spare terminal for my own Unix machine on the other side of the
room also running with vt100 emulation. No problem there either. 

Reading manuals is a Wonderful Thing. Reading them completely is a Truly
Wonderful Thing :)

--
 Dave Ratcliffe (SysAdmin)           
 dave@compnect.uucp                  Coming soon . . Anon uucp downloads 
 compnect!dave@uunet.UU.NET            for Unix and DOS/Unix like files
 eds1!compnect!dave@psuvax1.uucp      
Xref: sparky comp.dcom.modems:6486 comp.protocols.misc:337
From: rcsmith@anagld.analytics.com (Ray Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Help with Line Noise
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:08:37 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division

A friend of mine runs a BBS for our company. She has several lines
in to a SysV386 Compaq and occasionally she hears from users about
"garbage" coming out on their screens.  It seemed to be just "line 
noise" to her so she had the phone company come out and check the 
lines.  They said that everything was with in specs.

I would like to hear from others that are in a similar situation 
regarding things to check and/or how do you explain "line noise" to
a user with out it sounded like a cop-out.

Thanks in advance,
Ray

P.S. If it matters she is using a mix of modems. There are:
		-Hayes SmartModems (2400)
		-Courier Dual Standards
		-ZOOM (2400)
-- 
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7471 Candlewood Rd, Hanover, Maryland 21076                  FAX:   410-684-3593
================================================================================
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From: bredb@central.cis.upenn.edu (bjq)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Looking for UUCP info for a Concord Data Systems 296 Trellis modem
Summary: Looking for help with modem and UUCP...
Keywords: UUCP Concord
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:28:44 GMT
Followup-To: bredb@central.cis.upenn.edu
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I have a Concord Data Systems 296 Trellis modem that I'd like to use for
UUCP from either a 486 PC running SCO Unix or from a Sun running SunOS 4.1.1.
I wrote a *very* simple Dialers entry for the modem, but I was wondering
if anyone out there had anything better.  I'd appreciate any UUCP "Dialers" 
file entries and accompanying modem settings you might want to share...

Thanks,

Bill Bredbenner
From: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel-Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Pin Config for Hrdwre Hndskng Cable?
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:06:17 GMT
Organization: Imperial College Computer Centre

In article <jc1d0bs@sgi.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
>
>Years ago I was taught it is Nasty, Evil, Wrong, Dangerous, and A Bad Idea
>to connect shield (i.e. chassis) ground to logic ground more than 0 or 1
>times in an entire system composed of modems, computers, MUX's etc.
>
>Has this changed?

Well, no. There are two issues:

Shield ground is necessary for cables that go through cable tunnels,
swimming pools, earth and other places where they rub shoulders with
power or high tension (>2000 Volt, say) cables.  There are usually
building regultations that deal with these matters, and, no, it is not a
good idea to have somebody drilling through the shielding and connecting
the signal ground of your computer to high tension.  Normally high
tension cables also carry high currents and computer and modem will bite
the dust long before the safety fuse trips after some 50 ms or so.  If
you connect a modem to a computer with a half meter cable it does not
really matter that much, the big problem is tripping over the cable,
where shield or signal ground does not help, not drilling through it.

Multiple ground connections are normally bad news, because the hole they
enclose represents an inductance and generates a hum, you can actually
generate that if you connect a simple mesh of wires between an amplifier
and a loudspeaker. Such a hum can put a resonance just at the frequency
where you try to transmit data. However, tuning the multiple ground to
the right frequency where you can detect data loss is an art.

Hope this helps                        Thomas
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Supra V.32bis (Disappointment)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:12:39 GMT

jackb@mdd.comm.mot.com (Jack Brindle) writes:
>The Mac's serial ports are extremely versatile, and have an excellent serial
>driver controlling them in asynchronous mode.
*----
If versatile means that the HSKi and HSKo pins can be used for many
different things, I guess you're right.  I'd hardly call it versatile
when every comm program treats them differently, and you have to
think about what kind of cable you need for every serial device.
Isn't this the kind of thing that's supposed to be invisible to
users of "the computer for the rest of us"?

Now, the PC has a versatile serial port.  You plug in a standard
RS232 device and it works as expected!  That's versatile.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
From: richard@octel.com (Richard Karasik)
Subject: help on telebits
Organization: Octel Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:55:13 GMT



I have just received my brand spanking new telebit t3000 -yippee.
Unhappily, I ripped out a perfectly working Trailblazer plus and
replaced it whole hog with the T3000, and even after setting up
'leventy million configurations it still doesnt talk to all the other
places I used to talk to.. AGHHHH.

Originally my TB+ on a PC running Interactive Unix talked happily with a 
T2500 connected to  SUN -sharing files and mail and all things good.
Then the sense of underwhelmed power must have flooded my brain and I bought a
T3000. 

After reconfiguring the t2500 so that it almost doesnt talk to other modems,
and frankensteining one of the "standard" T3000 configurations, I can
get a cu session going. However all my other mail links are broken,
and most importantly my newslink.

I cant expect all of these other people to change their modems for me ;-)
so questions ...

What is a good modem configuration for SUN running any of T 1000, T2500, TB+
What is a good modem configuration for PC/Unix box - ISC 3.2 Unix
running either a TB+ or aT3000? (ie what are all the nasty little switch
settings)

Do I have to wait for the PEP add ON? Do I just commit suicide now ???
How much does the uucp -g protocol affect anything else I use the modem for ??

The sun has plain vanilla serial port .. THe ISC box is using a bell HUB
multiport adapter (stop laughing) }>) Running at 9600 Baud. I tried 19200
and it barfed on me.

last .... I seem to get a humongous number of alarms while uucp is rtunning
what might be the cause of this -ie to get about 5 MB of data across
I might have 400 or so alarms -which does nothing except waste 
bandwidth.

Thanks in advance for any help - please e-mail, and at least the configurations 
I will post to the net. (after trying them)
--Oh I tried the technical help line at Telebit, and it was pretty good (ie got me
off dead center) -However they are woefully understaffed -it took them 24 hours
to even get back to me to help me work on the issues.  I figure that the net can
get back to me in 24 hours -too, and I  will have many suggestions to try ,not
just one..

Richard
-- 
|UUCP  richard@octel.com                 VOICE (HEY YOU!) or 408 942 6372
| 
|             Speaker for the dead - among them:
|                 Liberty, Justice, Freedom
From: chris@surfcty.UUCP (Chris Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Supra that I finally got.
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 21:08:34 PDT
Organization: Surf City Software, Orange, Calfornia - DUDE!

Hmmmm.  Out of the box, this thing don't work!  The v.32bis modem
from Supra did not work out of the box.  Now, I suppose that this
must be one of those 'oops' modems that didn't go through quality
control, or someone would have caught it.

When attempting to dial out, the modem goes off-hook.  When it
does, it seems that the relay bounces just enough to make the
CO line think that a pulse-dial system is coming in.  The
modem then says "NO DIALTONE"...  No kidding!  It bounced the
hook, what is it supposed to think.

My only alternative now, is to take a telephone off-hook, listen
for dial tone and then allow a poll to my mail site?  I think not...
It seems to work fine from there... Sort of...

On the PC I get bi-directional data flow.  On the mac, it seems that
they forgot to hook up the flow control back to the host.  Quicktel
did the same thing!  What's gonna happen when I call Supra?

Am I going to get flamed by the infamous "major waste of my time"
Kenneth G. Richards?  

I can understand some new product glitches, and an occasional whoops,
but a company that has delayed shipment for 10 weeks because of "extra
testing" should send nothing less that a pristine product.

More to follow...

Chris


Chris D. Johnston       714/289-8543 (Voice) 8AM~7PM PST
Surf City Software      714/289-1002 (Fax)
Orange, CA  92669       AppleLink: SURF.CITY
chris@surfcty.UUCP      surfcty!chris@UUNET.UU.NET

Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: davidp@pulua.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David Park)
Subject: dallas fax 14.4 (yeah right)
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:20:02 GMT

 just recently got my modem and find that it does not work very well. I'm having a heck of time with it. It supposed to be 14.4 but i find that it does not work and that the uart i have installed is the 16450 not the 16550 as they say it is.. Can anyone tell me what rockwell chipset is used for 14.4 modems.. If u are having the same troubles as i am(the dallas fax tech support suxs) please post to me at davidp@pulua.hcc.hawaii.edu. In fact if any one has had any experience with this particular modem please

 mail me. Also, any FAQ on this would be cool.. to. Oh, no flames please I just started reading this group and I think is really cool that there is one.. ok.
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Loyalty Pays Again, PEP Upgrade, T3000 and WorldBlazer
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:48:40 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Apr14.050820.21095@percy.rain.com> leop@percy.rain.com (Leo) writes:
>gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>
>>Telebit just announced the WorldBlazer modem (finally!).  This is a separate
>>model from the T3000.  The T3000 is a V.32bis modem.  The WorldBlazer is
>>the PEP/V.32bis modem.
>
>Thanks for clearing up the confusion, Greg!
>
>>The WorldBlazer is available under the Loyalty Pays Again offer.
>
>Ah, but how much is it?  Since it hadn't been announced, it's not
>mentioned in the LPA offer.  The LPA price for a T3000 is $499.
>What's the LPA price for a WorldBlazer?  $699?
>

You're asking the wrong guy.  A phone call to 1-800-TELEBIT or +1-408-734-5200
will get you the LPA price and availability.

>
>And those of us who bought our T3000's from the factory under LP
>before March 31 end up with a WorldBlazer when we get our free ROM
>upgrade, right?
>

Yes, the upgrade kit includes a new window for the faceplate with the
name "Telebit WorldBlazer" on it.


-- 
 .------------------------------------------------------------------.
 |  Greg Andrews   |       UUCP: {amdahl,claris}!netcom!gerg        |
 |                 |   Internet: gerg@netcom.COM                    |
 `------------------------------------------------------------------'
From: rogerk@Veritas.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit Loyalty pays
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:31:22 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: VERITAS Software

In article <1992Apr13.035428.14126@wrangler.WLK.COM> bill@ssbn.wlk.com (Bill Kennedy) writes:
>Further, I've gotten
>any number of charges, some recently, where the charge arrived before the
>merchandise.  This has a lot to do with the credit authorization terminals
>used to place the charge.  When they key it in the charge is posted *right*
>*now* and the bill might very well beat the merchandise to your door.

Nope.

The *authorization* reduces your available credit by the requested amount
for a week; it does not charge your account.  Receipt of the transaction
record does charge your account, but this transaction should not be entered
until ship time.
-- 
ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                             VERITAS Software
4800 Great America Parkway #420   Santa Clara, CA 95054    +1 408-727-1222 x310
rogerk@veritas.com                               {apple,pyramid}!veritas!rogerk
"Life turns on a dime." -- Ruth Ann
From: Stafford@vax2.winona.msus.edu (J Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Apple Data Modem 2400 (junk?)
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:54:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: msus1.1992Apr14.105408.360
Organization: msus

We have two people who cannot get their Apple 2400
Data Modem (family no. g5432) to connect at 1200.  Always
goes to 2400, regardless of software & settings.  Anyone
else have similar problem?  (if not, then I'll have to 
find why only these modems don't work here.  All others do!)
From: davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Telebit 2500 tutorial
Keywords: We need one
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:36:19 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1781@selway.umt.edu>, cs000rdw@selway.umt.edu (Richard D Warner) writes:
|  
|  	We have AT&T 6386's running UNIX SVR3.2, and recently bought a 
|  couple T2500's to test out.  Can someone point us to a tutorial that could
|  help us get them up and running fast.  There is so much technical material
|  to work through, and surely lots of other people have already struggled 
|  through it.  One of the Internet ftp sites would be great.  I looked 
|  around on ftp.uu.net and couldn't find anything, but there probably is.
|  Thanks in advance for the help.

  Sure is! I don't have the path, but there are a series of papers from
Tbit which tell you about configuration for various applications and
systems. I personally find the best is the one for the unix-pc (may be
called 3B1). It starts with a one pager on what to change from the
factory settings (AT&F). I have a set of settings for the TB+ which are
working on Dell V.4, SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, and Ultrix. I change only a
few registers for dialout, lock the line speed, and use compression and
spoofing on the dialout side.
-- 
	- bill davidsen (davidsen@crd.ge.com)
	GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
By analysis of usenet source, the hardest part of C to use is the comment
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Subject: Re: Supra V.32bis (Disappointment)
Reply-To: andrew@cubetech.com
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:31:50 GMT

In article <01058004.0fank4@oberon.notable.com> daven@notable.com (Dave Newman)  
writes:

>  In article <1992Apr6.172632.26295@unlv.edu> 
(comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm), sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>  | The Mac's serial ports are brain-dead.  They lack some of the
>  | handshaking lines needed for reliable high-speed operation.
>  
>  They lack DCD and RTS, but there's no mystery about using DSR/CTS
>  for hardware handshake. That's what people have been doing for several
>  years now on the Macintosh - both in the modem cable wiring and the
>  software support for hardware handshake.


Well, a good programmer can make it do RTS/CTS and DCD without DTR on Macs that  
can use pin 7 on the port...   NLP does this, and I think Herpes does too...   
You generally don't need DCD unless you run some kind of dial-up.

It's a shame the Mac serial ports are so cruddy though.  My NeXT has mini-DIN8  
ports and the same serial controller, but it can do RTS/CTS, DCD, and DTR with  
no problems....


andrew
-- 
andrew@cubetech.com
Andrew Loewenstern            |  "listen: there's a hell of a good universe
Cube Technologies, Inc.       |   next door; let's go." --- e.e. cummings
From: SMITHBS@PURCCVM.BITNET (Barry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: 16550 Test program?
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:14:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: PURCCVM.92098.211436SMITHBS
Organization: Purdue University

I have a 486/25 and I want to test to see if I have a 16550.  Is there
any easy way to do this?>
From: jiang@cs.arizona.edu (Howard Jiang)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modem an Telekom-Nebenstellenanlage?
Summary: Der Deutcher Mann
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:21:50 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <1992Apr8.130445.3894@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, hahn@dfki.uni-kl.de (Ulrich Hahn (DA / Projekt ALV)) writes:
> Eine bestimmte Sprache auf einem internationalen Netz kann doch 
> allerhoechstens eine Vereinbarung sein, niemals jedoch ein Muss.
> Falls Du Dich fuer die fremdsprachigen Artikel so sehr interessierst, 
> vielleicht solltest Du die andere Sprache einfach lernen?
und so weite, und so weite...

Sehr gut. Jetzt, was bedeutet das?
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.mac.comm