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From: jbla@giraffe.in-berlin.de (Johannes Blankenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: 2 of 5 Waffle site have UUCICO problems hanging during transfer
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 23:51:10 MES
Distribution: world               
Organization: Private MS-DOS Site

steve@presoft.com (Steve Kohlenberger) writes:
>
> Hi All:
> 
> Two of the five Waffle sites taht I personally know of ocassionally
> get a hang mid transfer.  It results in the modem hanging the phone.
> 
> Symptoms:
> 
> No matter which system calls the other, the systems transfer a
> significant amount of data.  This is several files of random length as
> little as a few K and as much as a few hundred K.
> 
> Then in the middle of file N, I see lights on the receiving modem
> indicating data is being sent and received but the transfer stopps. 
> UUCICO never resequences.
> 
> For the next several calls between these sites, the same file will
> not fully transfer.  The file hangs at different points in the same
> file.  It often takes 3-10 tries to get the file accross.
> 
> One site is a 286 AT on 2400 baud with X00 loaded on a 16450
> (vanilla) connecting to a college.
> 
> The other problem site is fed from my Waffle system.  He is using
> Waffle on a 386/33 using a Hayes 9600 baud with X00 loaded on
> a 16550A. Mine is a 486/25 at 9600 baud with a 16550A and X00.
> 
> Only similarity is between the problem sites is the X00 Fossil driver
> and UUCICO.
> 
> It does not seem to be only the phone lines (we listened and are real
> close).  They may not be perfect but they are not bad.  We swapped
> modems, no effect.  The other three Waffle sites send and receive
> fine.  When the problem is seen, the modem 'timed out'.  This is
> different than if the modem was not able to stay in sync (V.42) and
> just hung up the phone.  
> 
> Why these sites and consistantly? 
> 
> Our suspicion is a data sensitivity in the recovery process in UUCICO
> when mildly inaccurate lines are used.  We are still checking further
> to try to discover the nature of the messages when the problem shows
> up.  Sometimes it becomes impossible to transfer very large
> (1,000,000 bytes) files.
> 
> Any knowledge of these kind of events would be appreciated.

I had the same problem when I used the experimental 'k' option of the
new uucico. The problem appeared sometimes when a file was transfered
with (I think) a special length. One file which will always lock the
receiving computer was PCELM301.ZIP with a length of 68480. If I stop
using the experimental k option this problem won't occur.

        Hannes

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From: Alan Millar <amillar@bolis.SF-Bay.Org>
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: Disabling autoanswer
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 22:26:20 PST
Organization: The Bolis Group, San Jose, CA

> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
> > If the INITIALIZE string in the STATIC file turns autoanswer on, who turns
> > it off?  You don't want it operative while Waffle isn't running, but I see
> > no reference to a modem command string to disable it on exit from Waffle.
> > Is that the "real" reason for AUTO-ATA?  I.e., if you use AUTO-ATA (which 
> > is operative only while Waffle is running), you never have to turn auto-
> > answer on (and therefore don't have to turn it off)?

Exactly.
 
jbla@giraffe.in-berlin.de (Johannes Blankenstein) writes:
> Just insert 'ECHO ATS0=0 >COMx:' at the end of your RUN.BAT.

That would be if you were NOT using AUTO-ATA.  With AUTO-ATA you do
want autoanswer always turned off, not just when you exit.

AUTO-ATA is wonderful.  I had my batch files all hacked up to turn
off auto-answer each time I left waffle, such as to run cron stuff
or poll.  But every so often the modem would answer just after exiting
Waffle but just before my batch file could turn off auto-answer.  What
a pain.

Now I always have auto-answer turned off, and no more problems.  I actually
changed the INITIALIZE string in the static file to include S0=0 instead
of S0=1 so I know it is always off.  AUTO-ATA is a great feature.

- Alan

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Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Groupware article
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:07:51 EST

I have now (US) mailed out hardcopies of that
five page VAR Business article on groupware to
everyone who asked for a copy.  In response to
Email received, this has nothing to do with either
Wang RS/6000 & LAN document imaging or Wang workflow
solutions.  We're not mentioned in the article.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: rom@mvsun.ericsson.se (Robert Malmgren TK/DG)
Subject: Experience with Sun's ShowMe?
Keywords: Sun, ShowMe
Reply-To: rom@mvsun.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 13:50:02 GMT

Does anyone with hands-on experience with Sun's ShowMe groupware care to give some
kind of review? I've seen some ad on the stuff but, as always, that's the stuff
sales persons invent, and I'm interested in what people really think about it
since we might by a copy of it later if it looks promising.

-- Robert

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Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: rwhitehead@cix.compulink.co.uk (Roger Whitehead)
Subject: Groupware Europe, 1993                  
Cc: rwhitehead@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: rwhitehead@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:00:55 +0000

                            First Announcement
                            - - - - - - - - - -

                          Groupware Europe, 1993
                          ----------------------

     A conference and exhibition on groupware, CSCW and associated topics

                          18th and 19th May, 1993
                    London Press Centre, London, England

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

This event is intended to become the premier European conference and
exhibition on the development and use of groupware.

It will cover a wide range of technologies, such workflow management, process
modelling and enactment, conferencing (video and text), joint writing tools
and information management.  Also, it will review current and future
applications, including remote R&D, business re-engineering, group decision
making and teleworking.

Further information on content and activities will follow, together with
details of the conference board, sponsors and associated organizations.

Potential speakers, exhibitors and delegates are invited to make contact
either with Juliet Coe or myself.

Ms Coe can be reached at:
IBC Technical Services Ltd,
Gilmoora House,
57-61 Mortimore Street,
London    W11N 7TD,
England
Tel:  +44 71 637 4383
Fax:  +44 71 631 3214

I can be contacted at:
Office Futures,
14 Amy Road,
Oxted,
Surrey    RH8 0PX
England
Telephone:  +44 883 713074
Fax:  +44 883 716793
Email:  rwhitehead@cix.compulink.co.uk

Roger Whitehead

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From: todd@flux.Eng.Sun.COM (Todd MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Experience with Sun's ShowMe?
Date: 15 Sep 1992 23:12:41 GMT
Organization: SunSolutions
Distribution: world
Reply-To: todd@flux.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: flux
Keywords: Sun ShowMe

In article 2930@ericsson.se,  rom@mvsun.ericsson.se (Robert Malmgren TK/DG) writes:
> Does anyone with hands-on experience with Sun's ShowMe groupware care to give some
> kind of review? I've seen some ad on the stuff but, as always, that's the stuff
> sales persons invent, and I'm interested in what people really think about it
> since we might by a copy of it later if it looks promising.

There is a review in the Aug 31rst edition of Open Systems Today on page #6,
which is his (Jason Levitt's) "First Impression" from an interactive demo.
As it was a demo, the review doesn't really answer your request, but it will
give you more info than you'd get from the ads.  For hands-on experience
yourself, you can get a reduced functionality demo version by calling
(800) 647-8333 or +1 415 336 4567.  The main demo constraint is that
conferences are limited to 10 minutes in duration.  If you like it,
Sun and various VARs will be happy to sell you the complete package.

Though some of the design was limited by an aggressive schedule, there
are many areas where we put in features that reflected our best guess
on building a tool that would work well for multiple users and in
conjunction with existing tools. We welcome all comments & criticism,
and hope that people find ShowMe to be of use.

Todd MacMillan			Internet: todd.macmillan@sun.com
SunSolutions			Telephone: +1 415 336 1722
MTV02-208  2550 Garcia		Facsimile: +1 415 962 2041
Mtn View, CA  94043

Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Groupware: Tilt! or Bonus story
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:45:24 EST

I've mailed out hard copies of that five page
VAR Business article on groupware in the
July issue of VAR Business to everyone who asked
for one.  If I missed anyone, let me know.  Sorry
for the delay.  I was on vacation and our network
connection was down for a while also.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: mem@bnr.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Global working
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:29:22 GMT
Reply-To: mem@bnr.co.uk ()
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB


Have you had any experience with working with people at a site remote
to you? Do you telework? Do you have to communicate with colleagues in
a different continent? If so, I'd be interested to hear about the
triumphs and the woes. 

How did you communicate with your colleagues?  What kinds of systems
did you use e.g. phone, fax, groupware, etc?  What worked well and why? What
were the problems you encountered? What adaptations to your behaviour
did you have to make in order to cope with the remoteness of your
colleagues? How did the physical distance between you affect your
working practices? How were the social/managerial relationships in the
group affected? How did you feel about having to work with colleagues
you couldn't meet on a daily basis?

Please email your anecdotes, thoughts, etc. etc. on teleworking and
global communication to:

M.E.Morris@bnr.co.uk

Many thanks ... Michele



From: mem@bnr.co.uk ()
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures,alt.society.futures
Subject: Global working
Reply-To: mem@bnr.co.uk ()
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB

Have you had any experience with working with people at a site remote
to you? Do you telework? Do you have to communicate with colleagues in
a different continent? If so, I'd be interested to hear about the
triumphs and the woes. 

How did you communicate with your colleagues?  What kinds of systems
did you use e.g. phone, fax, groupware, etc?  What worked well and why? What
were the problems you encountered? What adaptations to your behaviour
did you have to make in order to cope with the remoteness of your
colleagues? How did the physical distance between you affect your
working practices? How were the social/managerial relationships in the
group affected? How did you feel about having to work with colleagues
you couldn't meet on a daily basis?

Please email your anecdotes, thoughts, etc. etc. on teleworking and
global communication to:

M.E.Morris@bnr.co.uk

Many thanks ... Michele



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email: M.E.Morris@bnr.co.uk    phone: +44 279 429531   fax: +44 279 441551
BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, England.

        I think it's kind of interesting the way things get to be.
        The way the people work with their machines.
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Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: gary.garrett@hyperion.lanl.gov (Gary Garrett)
Subject: hyperIBIS
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:02:57 GMT

Hi Folks,

Can anyone tell me where I might obtain a copy of "hyperIBIS". This public
domain program is a group-based decision support system for the Macintosh.

...Gary Garrett
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,austin.general,texas.general,dfw.general
From: kgo@comm.wang.com (Kirk Olsen)
Subject: Wang's Engineering Document Management at Dallas Forum '92
Summary: Forum announcement
Keywords: Electronic document management
Organization: Wang Labs
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:34:27 GMT




                        EDMS USER FORUM 92
                      September 15-17. 1992
                       Loews Anatole Hotel
                          Dallas, Texas

Wang Laboratories will participate in Forum '92, an Engineering
Documentation Management Systems Forum, Tuesday-Thursday, September
15-17 in Dallas, Texas.  This event, sponsored by the Kalthoff Group,
is devoted exclusively to intended and installed EDMS users.  It is
a premier show for the Wang Manufacturing/Commercial Applications
Group to present Wang's Office 2000 strategy and Technical Document
Management Systems (TDMS) and CALS solutions/product suite.

Forum agenda sessions include:

  *  Discrete Manufacturing/Engineering, Process and Utilities
     Industry Discussion and User Case Histories.

  *  Cost Justification and Concurrent Engineering as Related
     to these Industries.

  *  Terms, Technology, Trends and an Idea Exchange on the
     Buying and Conversion Process.

  *  Implementing EDMS Systems.

  *  Industry Focused User to User Sessions.

  *  CALS '92 Update and Standards.

  *  Configuration Management and Regulatory Issues.

There will be over 50 vendor presentations and exhibits.  Wang's
exhibit and demonstrations will feature:

  *  CEMS-JUSTINE--Wang's Concurrent Engineering Management System
     designed to satisfy Just-In-Time Engineering objectives.  CEMS-
     JUSTINE is an affordable, powerful PC-LAN based solution that
     includes a workflow option.

  *  CEMS-PM--Wang's Concurrent Engineering Management System-Process
     Manager.  A server and database independent solution that incorporates
     a software construction set to allow the user to custom build screens
     and workflow processes without program coding.

  *  KEYOPS--Wang's Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
     (CALS) Solution that provides an integrated software environment
     designed to automate and manage the critical processes and data
     involved in complex information applications.

  *  BPM--Wang's unique Business Process Management approach to
     analyzing and redesigning business processes will be presented
     with emphasis on manufacturing/engineering applications.

michael.willett@office.wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: kevinlu@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Kevin Lu)
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
Organization: Monash University General Access Unix
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:34:25 GMT

Liuyu (liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu) wrote:
: ckincy@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) writes:
: 
: >>Time to support all standards.
: 
: >I agree.  Herc should support OS/2.  They don't.
: 
: You got it backward! OS/2 should support all standards.

If OS/2 should support all standards, then why shouldn't the makersof
these standards support OS/2?????

  +----------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
  |  Kevin Lu                              | Monash University             |
  |  Email: kevinlu@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au  | Clayton, Victoria             |
  |                                        | Australia                     |
 
   
   

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: totake@ho19.eng.ua.edu (Thomas K. Otake)
Subject: IRQ's in OS/2
Originator: totake@ho19.eng.ua.edu
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Julieline: see if this comes up.
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:57:37 GMT

I am trying to set the IRQ's for COM ports in OS/2 applications or the system
in general but haven't found out how, yet.  Does anybody know how this is
done?

Tom,
totake@buster.eng.ua.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
From: Zak.Smith <Zak.Smith@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: Lantasti/Z under DOS box revisited..
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:38:05 GMT

 
 Well, many people replied to me on how to get Lantastic/Z working under
an os/2 dos box..  Well, it isn't quite working, so I thought I'd post what
I have so far..
 
 I have config.sys setup for com3 (and have tested it.. it works..)
 I have SPORT configured correctly too.. (irq 5, iobase 3e8, comport 3)

I am using a booted DOS 5.0 session with NDOS.COM as my command processor
(like 4dos..)..
 
  I am using COM2210 drivers, and I have direct_hw_access (or whatever, for
serial ports) set to ON, and also the ports_used (can't remember exactly..)
set to COM3..  

 Something is working, because I *CAN* do a NET CHAT and the other computer
responds.  The problem is that whenever I try to access the remote drive,
the dos box (or possibly the whole computer..) crashes..
 
 Any Ideas? (respond by mail please ..  )
 
- Zak
--
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: printing binary files, emx/gcc
Date: 8 Sep 1992 18:35:25 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu
Keywords: printing, binary, emx/gcc

In article <1992Sep7.092236.20536@newstand.syr.edu> jtcox@syr.edu (Ted Cox) writes:
>I want to send some binary files to my paintjet in an os2 window.
>Under DOS this is easy: copy /b datafile lpt1.  In a DOS window under
>os2, or in an os2 window it doesn't work the same.  I get (at least) an

Define a printer object using IBMNULL attached to LPT1. I have the same 
trouble as you with dumping directly at LPT1, and IBMNULL allows you to do 
that. Of course, you then lose the ability to have printer specific output.
So my idea was to define another printer object attached to another port, 
redirected to LPT1, then define that as the default printer. However, I 
could never get anything to come out of the printer. So instead tell your 
printer specific object to print to a file, which seems to work.

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Vantage related problems.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:09:23 GMT

In article <Bu545y.B9s@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>,
jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei) writes:
>I have two questions about the ATI card I just purchased and would appreciate
>any comments.
>
>1.  When I used the accompanying diagnostic program ("test") in a DOS full
>    screen session, it reported 3 error messages: subsystem (14203), ram
>    (14206) and post ram examination (14216) failures.  Is this normal when
>    the test is under OS/2?  The self-testing during system boot-up is O.K.,
>    however.  Oh, I did run SVGA ON first before the testing.

  I also have an ATI graphics Vantage, but I don't think I've ever
had this problem.  I also don't use the 'SVGA ON' settings, though.
(I tried it, but things were better without it.  Is there really a
reason to have it?  Please, no 'it's just supposed to be that way'
comments!).
I've never had *any* problems with this card under OS/2 in the
8514/a mode.  If you suspect a problem with the card, you may want
to boot into DOS if possible to run the diagnostic software again.

>
>2.  I installed the bus mouse coming with the card and set every IO bus to
>    16 bit (or auto selection) for power-up settings.  After that, the
>    modem, which used to work with another SVGA card (Zymos), failed to
>    respond.  I know this could be due to address or interrupt conflicts
>    although OS/2 did not report this kind of error.  Adjusting the
>    switches on the modem to set it from com3 to com1 did not help.  Now,
>    the temporary solution to this is to pull out the multi IO card,
>    which provides 2 com port, 1 game port and 1 parallel port. Although
>    I don't need this IO card now (since I use the bus mouse), I may
>    need it for a printer in the future.
>

  I had problems with my mouse when I switched the IRQ to 2 (I can't
remember what it was on originally).  I fixed the problem by using
the secondary address (instead of the primary one).  You may want to
try the same.  This is done from the Install program, I think.

>BTW, I am very impressed by this ATI card's performance.  The Zymos card is
>simply no comparison.
>

I agree!  This card is by far the best I have seen (although the
Ultra is probably a little faster).  The 8514/a compatability makes
it all the better.  BTW, ATI is supposed to be coming out with OS/2
specific drivers for the card soon (so they say...)

>
>Jason
>--
>Jason Lei                               |
>Botany and Plant Pathology              |
>Purdue University                       |       No fancy slogan found yet.
>W. Lafayette, IN, USA                   |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu (FREY, TONY C)
Subject: So what about the Sound Blaster Drivers?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:21:00 GMT

 Did anyone find anything about the release of the Sound Blaster drivers?
I haven't been able to get on their board yet to ask myself.

TCF9033@venus.tamu.edu
Tony Frey 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Subject: communications and DOS settings problems
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:51:38 GMT
Keywords: OS2

My generous (NOT) 60 days of tech support has run out, and I have problems.
Hopefully, I can get some answers here.

First, my communications program is not working in OS/2. The communications
program is quicklink II, something that came with my modem (for DOS). when I ran it the first couple times, it was fine until I actually tried to work with the
UNIX mainframe here (what gives me access to this net). when I connected, some
weird characters appeared at the prompts. It just kept doing this. Looked like
line noise, but it wasn't.
After this, I tried changing DOS settings, but that made it worse (even when I


After I changed some DOS settings, it was worse (even after I changed them back)Now when I go to the screen for the comm program, nothing even appears on the
screen. I typed in atdt followed by a number anyway, and the modem dialed it.
But nothing was showing up the screen. It stayed blank.

Speaking of DOS settings, that is where my 2nd problem comes in. I saw no way
to change the processor time of a DOS app, or make it exclusive (the only thing
running when it is the foreground app). I want to be able to do this so that
DOS apps run at full speed (DOS apps can run at full speed under OS/2, can't
they?).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Nish Patel nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc