HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: good & bad phone order experiences
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:50:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm

In article <7256@transfer.stratus.com>, dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan
Swartzendruber) wrote:
> 
> In article <mike_steiner-141092162104@192.35.50.131>, mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
> > In article <7249@transfer.stratus.com>, dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan
> > Swartzendruber) wrote:
> > > 
> 
> [My horror story deleted for brevity]
> 
> > Did you ask at MacCenter whether they had it without software and cable? 
> > Unless Supra changed its policy in the past few months, Supra does ship
> > without S&C.  They also have a DOS bundle, and possibly a Windows bundle. 
> > They might even have an Amiga bundle, considering that (if I recall
> > correctly) they got started in business making Amiga peripherals.
> 
> Yes, I specifically asked for it that way.  That was the problem.  According to the woman
> I ended up talking to, that Supra policy changed within the last couple of weeks or so.
> In any event, nothing could possibly excuse the slipshod treatment I got.  No one I talked
> to either knew what was going or or seemed to care about finding out for me.

My error; I meant to ask if you had asked at Mac's Place whether they had
the modem without the software/cable bundle.  The lady at MacCenter may
have been misinformed or lying.

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From: zz1bb@impending.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Disabling check box for auto-mount volumes in AppleShare
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:50:50 GMT
Distribution: usa

Is it possible to hack AppleShare so that the checkbox for auto-mouting a
volume at boot time is disabled?  In the Mac lab here, we are constantly
plagued with users who check this box when they mount their partitions and
then we're stuck with security holes because their parititions get mounted
at the next bootup.  We can temporarily fix the problem by trashing
AppleShare Prep, but it's not an adequate solution, especially since the
System Folder is invisible and hard to get to.

I tried poking around with ResEdit, but apparently the scrolling list of
mountable partitions in AppleShare is created at runtime by code instead of
being in a resource.  Where can I patch the code so the box is permanently
disabled?

-- 
Barry E. Brown        --        \  UCSD Instructional Computing Center
bebrown@ucsd.{edu,uucp,bitnet}   \   Anime Stuff FTP Server administrator
Somewhere in San Diego, CA.....   \    (ftp network.ucsd.edu [132.239.254.203])
"Stimpy, sometimes your wealth of ignorance astounds me." -- Ren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: tkolasny@scholia.wbme.jhu.edu (Anthony Kolasny, 5-1663,)
Subject: POPMAIL as an Apple option
Reply-To: tkolasny@scholia.wbme.jhu.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:52:34 GMT

I would like to add popmail as an apple option under System 7. This is my
first time working with apples. So, I'm not sure how to do this. My first
attempt, I copied popmail into the AppleMenu Folder but the machine hung
during the setup of incoming mail folder.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tony Kolasny
tkolasny@scholia.wbme.jhu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jpm@cs.hut.fi (Jussi-Pekka Mantere)
Subject: Mac Ph client v1.1 for use with the UIUC CSO nameserver (Was: Re: Anybody got a "Ph" server?)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Oct15.164944.14678@puma.ATL.GE.COM>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:21:28 GMT

Bob Snyder <rsnyder@atl.ge.com> writes:

   Does anyone know if the MacPh program was ever completed?

Get it from ftp.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/ph/mac/ph-1.1.sea.hqx or as a part
of the complete client distribution, available from
uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/ph.tar.Z. Version 1.1 is required for MacTCP 1.1.1,
which is required for System 7.1, which is required for...

Check with "archie" for other sites.

The Macintosh client is by:

	John Norstad
	Academic Computing and Network Services
	Northwestern University
 
	j-norstad@nwu.edu

Best Regards,

Jussi-Pekka Mantere
From: Charlie.Mingo@p4218.f70.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Charlie Mingo)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: AmericaOnline
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:04:11 -0500

Jim.Redelfs@macnet.omahug.org (Jim Redelfs) wrote:

  > Dennis Watson replied...
  > 
  >> I have had no problems. Besure you are leaving out all capitols and all
  >> spaces Fred Jones is fredjones@aolcom
  > 
  > This is WRONG.  Fred Jones is    fred.jones@aol.com
  > 
  > The dots are CRITICAL.
  

    I think you're confusing Fidonet and AOL addressing conventions.  The
"dots" are not only not needed, they are inappropriate.

    The following is AOL's actual statement on how to address mail
(from the INTERNET area):

------------

YOUR AMERICA ONLINE ADDRESS

If there are people on other services who want to send mail to you 
at America Online, you will need to give them your mailing address. 
Your America Online address consists of your screen name, without 
blank spaces, followed by the "@" symbol and "aol.com."

For example, the address for the screen name "Steve Case" would be:

stevecase@aol.com

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From: perrins@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: network printer security
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:34:56 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

Network printer security. (A hardy annual)

This problem has been discussed here from time to time. The basic difficulty is
that when you hook up your appletalk networks so everyone can contact the
internet etc they can all print on each others printers. In a university
environment this is a serious problem - our mac classroom printers cost >1000
pounds sterling each for paper toner etc. There are various ways to control
this when you can determine the setup of machines on the relevant network - eg
LaserLockout; we have a solution tying the chooser name to the appleshare login
name on our local server, preventing workstations connecting if they dont
login (toucan, previously mentioned in these pages). The server printspooler
can then attribute printing as required. 
HOWEVER, this does not
solve the problem if you connect to a wider area, eg so you can play on the
internet. Shiva offer some relief with the FastPath, which can hide
laserwriters, but a) it only seems able to conceal them if they are on the
localtalk port b) cant allow authorised users access from outside the 'home
zone'.
Inside AppleTalk (2nd ed) section 14 gives, in loving detail, an exact
specification for the solution. The spooler hides laserprinters, and by means
of Postscript comments it checks every print job spooled against a user
database (which I would hope could be an AppleShare Users and Groups file) and
rejects if not authorized. There is even a method to avoid sending the password
in clear over the network. Presumably the comments have to be inserted by a
specialised version of PrintMonitor on the client end. What it fails to mention
is whether any actual implementation of a print spooler uses the security 
mechanism in full. The Product Description of AppleShare 3 sounds like its
print spooler is just like AppleShare 2 ie inadequate. 
SO - anyone out there know if there is a decent print spooler available?
Plz email me - I'll summarise for people.

I have one clue so far; a product called Print Central by Compumation? Who they
please, we Limey's have trouble finding small US s/ware producers (at least I
do)
Robin McCleery                   
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From: iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu (Jerry Wilcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What is a tar'red archive and can my Mac read it?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.comm
Date: 9 Oct 1992 15:56:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Office of the President
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ajax.ucop.edu

In article <1b2ht4INNgj0@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU>, Chris Chesher
<cchesher@uts.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> It seems many ftp sites use a compression format called tar (suffix is
> ".z"). How can I translate these files (I've tried all decompresion
> systems I can, and postscript certainly doesn't understand). 
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Chris Chesher
> cchesher@uts.edu.au
> *****************
First of all, .z does NOT mean 'tar', it means that the file has been
compressed with the UNIX 'compress' command. There is a program available
at many archive sites called MacCompress (I believe the latest version is
3.2) that can both uncompress .z files and compress them. I know it is at
sumex-aim (info-mac).

'tar' is a different UNIX archiving process. There are a number of
shareware products for the Mac that can uncompress 'tar' archives -- the
one that comes to mind is UnTar, which should also be available at sumex.
If you have Stuffit Deluxe 3.0, you will find a 'tar' item under its
'translate' menu. I'm not sure if the shareware Stuffit Lite 3.0 has the
tar translator or not.

You will find files that have been compressed multiple times. If you see
'myfile.tar.z' simply uncompress first with MacCompress and then un-tar.
You always work from the outside in.

Hope this helps.
-----------
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: blakey@ug.cs.dal.ca (Jason Richard Blakey)
Subject: Re: Zterm and sz MacBinary Handshaking
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:40:45 GMT

In article <1238@shrike.com> flash@austin.lockheed.com (James W. Melton) writes:
>In article <BvB3sn.4F8@well.sf.ca.us> wab@well.sf.ca.us (Doc Benzene) writes:
>>
>>Zterm 0.9 is supposed to recognize Macintosh binary data
>>according to its documentation.  I assume that this means it
>>knows to look for the three forks of a Mac binary file during
>>a download and write them to disk as one file.  How do you
>>specify the files to sz, though?  It doesn't seem to be smart
>>enough to recognize the basic file name and then look for the
>>three files representing the file forks.
>
>If I am totally missing the boat, forgive me, but WHAT are you
>TALKING about?
>
>First of all, to my knowledge, there are only TWO forks in a Mac
>file (resource and data). My typical use of sz involves
>de-binhexing a file (usually FTPed from somewhere) using mcvert,
>then sz'ing the resulting file (singular) to ZTerm. This works
>great. ZTerm wakes up and recognizes the MacBinary transfer.
>
>What are you doing if it is not similar to this? I am totally
>confused!
>
  Ditto!:)   Except sometimes, if there's an error in the file on disk(it seems)
It won't receive, until you replace it with a new copy**shrug**
-JB
-- 
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From: lance@hartmann.austin.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Mac serial cable question from a PC owner
Summary: Will current cable support V.32bis modem?
Keywords: SERIAL CABLE V.32BIS USR ROBOTICS DS DUAL-STANDARD
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:34:46 GMT
Reply-To: lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin


I, a PC clone owner (please, no hisses), am trying to help out my father
(1000+ miles away) who owns a Mac II.  Recently, he received his upgrade
from a US Robotics HST modem to a US Robotics Dual Standard (V.32bis)
with FAX.  Anyhows, I know that his former modem used USR's proprietary
high-speed protocol (9600 one way / 300 the other) and that his new
modem will support this PLUS V.32bis.  My (our) question, though,
surrounds the serial cable.  I've read that Mac's require a special
cable to handle hardware flow control particularly for fast modems.
My question is:  "is it safe to assume that his cable that worked
fine with his HST modem will also provide all the signals that he
needs for his Dual Standard (ie. support of V.32bis)"?

If possible, please reply directly rather than post.  Note that
my network address uses the '%' hack for routing.  I'll be more
than happy to post summaries if interest warrants.  

Thanks to all in advance,
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
               Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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               Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: peterco@eff.org (Peter Cohen)
Subject: Where is FaxSTF?
Originator: peterco@eff.org
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:40:34 GMT

It's commercial software, available from STF Technologies.  Retails for
around $100 dollars.

- Peter
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| peterco@eff.org | Heck!  My employer doesn't even know I'm here! |
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From: rpd@twinkletoes.sbi.com (Richard P. Daley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: SLIP, PPP, and ARA
Keywords: SLIP, PPP, ARA
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:53:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Fulcrum - Salomon Brothers, NY

I'm interested in running MacTCP-based applications on my mac at home,
to connect to SparcStations at work, and I've got a few questions.
Can anyone help me out?

1) Does anyone know whether there are any PPP implementations for the mac
which would give me similar functionality to the SLIP implementations?

2) I've heard comments that implied that PPP is somehow better than
SLIP.  Does anyone know if this is true, and in what respect?

3) Has anyone succeeded in running MacTCP over ARA?  Is the performance
worse than SLIP?  Does anyone have any numbers?

4) I've succeeded in getting SLIP to connect from my mac to a SparcStation
at work.  I used the SLIP that comes with the new Versaterm and I installed
a SLIP streams module in my SparcStation that I found on the internet.
However, this streams module does not support CSLIP.  I found one that
does, but it was called "cslipbeta" and it contains a README that claims
the code is very experimental.  Is anyone using this version?  Is it more
stable than the README would lead me to believe?  Or, is there another CLSIP
implementation I can use with SunOS?

Thanks for any insight...
Rick Daley
rdaley@sbi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: jong-min@ie.engr.wisc.edu (Jong-Min Park)
Subject: Acquiring and releasing Dynamic IP addresses
Organization: /usr/local/lib/organization
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:27:58 CDT
Summary: MacTCP,NCSA Telnet,TCP/IP

Macs at my site acquire dynamic IP addresses from a GatorBox (Cayman).
Is there a way (or a program) to acquire an IP address only during
TCP/IP session, then releases that IP address for other Macs to use?

It seems that MacTCP or NCSA Telnet acquires an IP address then never
releases it until the machine is turned off, even if Telnet or programs
that use MacTCP (Eudora,PopMail) has been quit.

Please e-mail and I'll summarize if there are enough replies. Thank you.

Jong-Min (jong-min@cae.wisc.edu)
From: jfw@neuro.duke.edu (John F. Whitehead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: QuickMail 2.5.1, GaterMail-Q, and MacTCP
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:08:36 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <Bvvx5u.40p@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jjmckay@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim McKay) 
writes:
>I heard gossip that perhaps Cayman wasn't making enough 
>money on it to license the upgrade code from Star*Nine, but I'm sure
>Cayman will have something to say after they see this. 
>
>Now here's the trick.   Gatormail Q is based on a similar version of 
>Star*Nine's Mail*Link for Quickmail.  StarNine HAS upgraded theirs to be
>compatible with Mac TCP 1.1 (and System 7.)  I'm not certain if it is
>going to be compatible with the upcoming MacTCP version 1.1.1.
>
>So you can upgrade to Star*Nine's version and not have to worry about re-
>creating the SMTP mailcenter.  But of course you will have to pay Star*Nine
>to buy it from them.

StarNine does do all the stuff normally handled by Cayman and GatorMail-Q
with their "Mail*Link SMTP for QuickMail", v 2.1.  An upgrade from v 2.0
is $95, or site license is $195, and both are discounted 20% for 
educational institutions.  They also have a special deal for the upgrade
plus the next one for slightly < 2x the regular price.  You can reach them
at (510) 649-4949, or at support@starnine.com (the latter may be tech
support only.

The reason why GatorMail-Q 2.0 (which always was made by StarNine even 
though Cayman put their name on it) doesn't work with MacTCP 1.1 is 
because they put it out according to a beta version of MacTCP 1.1. 
When the real MacTCP 1.1 came out a couple of weeks later the Creator
name was changed from mtcp to ztcp, and 2.0 could not find the new one.
Also 2.0 needs to have MacTCP in both the System Folder and the Control
Panels folder (in System 7).

-- 
 ________________________________________________________________________
|   John      jfw@neuro.duke.edu          Duke University Medical Center |
| Whitehead   jfw@well.sf.ca.us           Department of Neurobiology     |
|________________________________________ Durham, North Carolina ________|
From: phil@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Phil Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Drag and drop debinhexing...
Date: 10 Oct 92 00:31:41 GMT
Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department

I know this has been asked lots of times (at least I've seen it a lot) but
I can't remember the name of the program to take put together binhexed
files that have been chopped up and then to debinhex the binhexed file.

I assume it's on Sumex.

Thanks.


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Internet: phil@pic.ucla.edu                             Compu$erve: 74726,2444
America Online: PhilippeG                                  AppleLink: Philippe
From: werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PowerBook highspeed patch
Date: 9 Oct 1992 04:29:23 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu

 karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches) writes:
|>> I got it (I think) from the PowerBook directory on ftp.apple.com.

	I don't think so ... (last I looked)

>The only place you can get it is from Global Village or download the
>Global Village PowerPort Installer disk image from Compu$erve.

	nope, you can also get it with FTP from RASCAL.ICS.UTEXAS.EDU
	(directory mac/support-of-products/GlobalVillage)

>Unfortunately, you have to download the 700K image to get the
>5K PowerBook Tuner.

	I think there are alternatives also (ask if you can't find any)
-- 
  werner@cs.utexas.edu |  ..!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner | werner@UTXVM.bitnet

              "Free Advice and Opinions -- Refunds Available"
From: long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: YMODEM & ZMODEM Tool for Macintosh Comm Toolbox?
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:14:17 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <0101001C.fmdeq2@twisty.eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca>, andyb@twisty.eslvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Andy Babinszki) writes...
>Does anyone know of a Y/ZMODEM tool for CTB?  Comercial, Share or

 I believe Pacer has a Zmodem tool, but I don't know if it is available
 separately, or only bundlded with Pacerterm (a great program, by the way).
 You can call Pacer at (619) 454-0565.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Patrick Parker <pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: IRC Clients (was Re: TALK on Macintosh ? Which programs ?)
Reply-To: pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:08:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.130454.22365@puma.ATL.GE.COM> rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob
Snyder) writes:
>In article <clarke.stevens-081092093535@astgator-201.gatech.edu>
clarke.stevens@gtri.gatech.edu (Clarke Stevens) writes:
>
>>For even more excitement, get ircle.  This is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
>>program that lets you have live group and private discussions with people
>>all over the world via Internet!  You can get it at sumex.
>
>Actually, a much better (IMHO) IRC client is Homer, available from
>zaphod.ee.pitt.edu...

I'll have to agree with Bob on this.  While ircle is all right, I use Homer and
think it's great.  Although it's not a finished program (the programmer is
still spending time modifying it and extending it's abilities) it IS fully
functional.  Check out the FTP site listed above and make sure you look over
the READ ME.

Patrick Parker
University of Minnesota
pharmacy@epx.cis.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.dcom.modems,netcom.software.mac
From: anderson@fpg.uwaterloo.ca (Glenn Anderson)
Subject: An network fax modem
Organization: Department of Computing services
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:53:42 GMT


I am looking for information on a fax modem that could be shared by all
the users on the network.
From: stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu (Glenn Stauffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: PowerBook highspeed patch
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:30:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.ZSJRBSQP
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6FA051FD201432F@stauffer.swarthmore.edu>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 8 Oct 92 20:32:47 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12

In article <zaphod-061092175531@gregt.winona.msus.edu> Gregory Talmo,
zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu writes:
> Believe it or not I got it (I think) from the PowerBook directory on
>ftp.apple.com.

I looked in /pub/PowerBook (sic) and couldn't find a PowerBook Tuner 
anywhere.  There are other useful things for the interested.

STAUFFER
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
From: antjcb@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (J.C.Burns)
Subject: Re: Prometheus Promodem Problem?
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:48:43 GMT


I too am not satisfied with the tech support I've had with my ProModem
Ultima. I've had problems connecting to certain types of fax machines
(that I didn't have with my previous modem, a DoveFax) and just generally
was annoyed with the fax software (the Dove--actually FaxSTF software
names files with the date/time received and the station message--usually
the incoming phone number. I'd kill to have that with their MaxFax 
software, and since it's proprietary--that is, FaxSTF software won't
run on it, they tell me, I'm stuck with MaxFax which hasn't been revised
in more than a year!
Phew. i feel better now.

--jcburns