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From: music@moravian.edu (Steve Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,alt.sys.amiga.uucp
Subject: AXsh won't respond after connect!
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:06:57 GMT
Keywords: AXsh

I've installed the AXsh.demo (1.25) but am having problems connecting.
I understand the system pretty well but probably don't know modems
well enough. I'm using a straight Supra2400 with cts/rts on and set
the system up to answer the line, then tried to dial in from a remote
system. I got the "CONNECT 2400" message, but nothing else after that.
CR/LF and controls did nothing to get the AXsh to respond. What might
be wrong here? I'm using the defaults that came with the demo in most
cases, just trying to establish a viable link.

Also, I normally run uucp for outgoing and incoming calls at various
times of the day (which I've disabled during the AXsh testing), and
hope I can continue this. It seems that setting the %starthour and
%stophour in the /etc/rc.server file should turn auto-answer on and
off, but I may be way off here (please help me on this one!).

Lastly, in the AXshAdmManual under the 2.0 installation, it tells me
to drag the _3_ icons in the AXsh:storage directory to the WBStartup
directory. However, in the distribution I got there were ONLY _2_ such
icons (specifically the ones with the letter A in the upper left
corner, being the AX-server and AX-Sysghost). Am I missing a critical
startup program here or what?

Answers are greatly appreciated!
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From: Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: baudbandit.device
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 10:35:41 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

One thing I would mention is that it does reduce the cpu-load on the
system.  It worked pretty good for transfers untill I tried to use
Xmodem.  Xmodem will use xon/xoff, so you cannot use it with the
BaudBandit.device.  It doesn't increase the transfer rates(well, maybe
a very little 1-2 cps), but significantly reduces the load on the system.
 
Is the author connected to the Net?  Anyone know how to reach him other
than with snail-mail?
From: thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Error in GPFsupra.lzh archive!
Date: 13 Oct 92 11:09:42 GMT

I saw that I could get a update of GPFax. So I got a copy of GPFsupra.lzh
from WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU and tried to unarchived it with Lha and Lharc but
I got the message "Corrupted file, Bad CRC" on the patch-file. So I took a
copy from ARCHIVE.AU but it was the same!!! Do anyone know if there are a
good archive of this file on any FTP-site in world????


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  "I work with any kind of computers, just to get money to spend on my Amiga"
    /S Jobs, Apple Inc. (written on a PC!)

  "Only dead fish float with the current"
    /G Johnson, IBM
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 14:55:51 PST
From: <WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT - PingServer

To use PingServer, run the setping.rexx program that comes with VLT in your
startup sequence. It adds the necessary libraries and runs Ping.

Then turn program mode-function keys/menus on, and select Beep Volume...
You will see a (likely blank) string requester. Type in it:

~rx "address 'PingServer' BEEP"

hit return, turn off program mode, and save config.

      Willy.
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Willy Langeveld - Bitnet: WGLP09 @ SLACVM - BIX: langeveld
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: QWK off-line message reader for Amiga?
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:32:57 PST
Organization: BBS

> I just had a conversation with the author of QBlue.  He doesn't see
> anything wrong with crippling software so that's it's not usable.
 
Don't tell lies or you'll burn in heck.
 
Q-Blue unregistered IS usable for many people.  If you're not one of
them, that doesn't mean it's unusable for everyone else.
 
 
Just to let you folks know where this guy is coming from, I'll
mention something he said to me ... that he as a very low regard for
anyone who tries to make money off of shareware, and "Matt Dillon
comes to mind" (paraphrased).
 
He's talking about someone who may well have provided more valuable
free software to Amiga users than anyone else alive, and who has
provided a commercial-quality C compiler far cheaper than anything
else that can compete with it, and this guy wants to dump on him for
not giving it away for nothing.
 
Grow up.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: UpdateConfig for term 2.4
Reply-To: tsm2124@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:18:41 GMT

Since I wanted to get my phonebook up and running this is what I did:

	1) put term in hires/interlace/public screen/shanghai

	2) newzap (or whatever) term:config/phonebook.prefs

	3) search for - or scroll through it and edit the phone list.

	4) I made one entry, cloned it, and changed the name,
		numer,terminal accordingly

	It only took about 5 minutes.  I am running term under 3.0 and have
had NO CRASHES whatsoever.  The only thing I found wrong with it
is that under terminal Bell is switched (ie: visual and audible)


			Todd Major
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: baltzebw@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Bruce back again!)
Subject: WHY TERM CRASHES WHEN YOU ATTEMPT CUT&PASTE
Summary: check your setpatch version... 
Keywords: term guru 
Organization: Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 07:03:21 GMT

I would have posted this sooner, but I only recently started reading
posts again this year (busy busy...).  I didn't realize so many people
had that problem.  Well, it's not term!  Check your version of setpatch.
i was using the version that came with my 2.04 ROMs/Manual, and term used
to crash on me all the time.  Sometime last summer, a friend bought an
A3000 with a newer version, so i took it (didn't think Commodore would mind
me patching their ROMs...).  I now use version 37.28, and it no longer
gurus when I try to cut.  My roommate was having the same trouble and
almost went back to JR-Comm (good term prog, mind you) until he got the
newer setpatch - works great now.
Hope I'm not repeating anything you already knew, but the messages I read
today implied there were some who didn't, anyway.
l8r,
bruce

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From: wmp@wperkins.UUCP ("William M. Perkins")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: good term program?
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:31:44 EDT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: The Greenwood

Kenneth John Aarts (kaarts@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
: In <paulk.1m54@terapin.com> paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
: 
: >> what I want:
: >>     very good vt100 emulation
: > 
: >> What I don't need:
: >>     some neat dialer stuff (I am going direct to my 386 running bsd)
: >>     talking stuff
: >>     millions of lously implemented emulations
: > 
: >Sounds like you just described VLT.
: 
: On the other hand, VLT does chew up the memory.
: 
: Ken

Than use the VLTjr version that does not have the Tektronix graphics code.
It should work okey in small memory machines and still supports a good
vt100 emulation.

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The Greenwood                       or     ..!uunet!virginia!wperkins!wmp
+1 804 750 2101                    BIX   - wmperkins
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Friday, 16 Oct 1992 11:06:23 PST
From: <WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: good term program?
 <92288.133020WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1992Oct14.225603.8665@ncsu.edu>

To remove all traps, you use the script command   trap remove all  .
You can also give this particular trap a number and just remove it.
Something like:

          trap add 42 install "*X0C" "clear"

and cancel it by:

          trap remove 42


        Willy.
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From: jagrizza@uncc.edu (James A Grizzard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: HS/LINK
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:00:05 GMT
Reply-To: jagrizza@uncc.edu
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte

does anybody know if there is an HS/LINK XPR protocall available/being developed for
the amiga???

for those that don't know, HS/LINK is a protocall available on the (gasp!) IBM that
gives better throughput than ZModem.. ~238 cps at 2400 instead of 232.  I didn't
really care before, but now that I've got my 14.4.... :>

tnx!
From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: How do I get feedback from Term's ARexx commands?
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:18:58 GMT
Organization: MXM Barthel & Paesler
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith

In article <4783@disuns2.epfl.ch> sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Sarrasin) writes:
> I'd like to know how to get feedback from Term's (2.3) A-Rexx commands. I
> mean: some commands like 'query baudrate' or 'input' should obviously
> return something to the A-Rexx programm. I am no A-Ress wiz, and therefore
> I'd appreciate if someone in the know would enlighten me a little bit. I
> already tried the following:
> 
> /* dumd test */
> address TERM
> option results
  ^^^^^^

  I suppose that this should read "options" instead of "option".

> [...]
> 
> Also, does anyone know the exact syntax of the 'input' command (the docs are
> a bit cryptic about that)?

   The syntax is: INPUT <Maximum number of characters to read>

>        Christian Sarrasin (sarrasin@di.epfl.ch || sarrasin@eldi.epfl.ch)

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From: HANKINS@PKEDVM8.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:11:56 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Softcopy manual for VLT 5.517 wanted

In article <92281.190203WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>,
<WGLP09@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> (Willy Langeveld) writes:

>You can't obtain a "softcopy" of the VLT manual, there is no such thing
>You'll have to make do with the paper version when it arrives... 8^(

The TeX source would do just fine for grepping.  Are you still making
that available?  If so, where can I get it?


Dan Hankins
hankins@pkedvm8.vnet.ibm.com
dan-hankins@cup.portal.com

Billing's Law:  Live within your income, even if you have to borrow to
do so.
From: ridder@zso.dec.com (Hans Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: `term' v2.4 to be released rsn.
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:21:15 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
Originator: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com

In article <1992Oct15.054112.8068@mercury.unt.edu> west@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce West) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.234007.27563@ninja.zso.dec.com> Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com> writes:
>>In article <1992Oct12.043439.29294@mercury.unt.edu> west@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Bruce West) writes:
>>>  [Stuff deleted]
>>I don't think Copy/Paste to/from files is a terminal emulator's job.
>>And how would you like Cut to work in a terminal emulator?
>
>    Cut/Paste to/from files in the REVIEW BUFFER.  ie, you see several
>addresses you would like to save in your review buffer.  You highlight
>them all and then save them to a file.  This is an invaluable tool.

First you say "save in your review buffer" and then you say "save them
into a file."  You also talk about "files in the REVIEW BUFFER."  This
sounds confus(ed/ing).  Do you want to use the the review buffer like a
clipboard/editor?

The way *I* think is that you select stuff in the review buffer, and
then "Copy" it to the Clipboard.  You can then "Paste" it back into the
terminal emulator, as if you typed it, or "Paste" it into your editor,
notepad, etc. which would allow you to save it to *disk*.

"Cut" (as opposed to "Copy") implies removing (deleting) something from
the review buffer.  Most review buffers I'm familiar with cannot be
modified (it's "read only".)  I don't think "Cut" has any meaning in a
terminal emulator.

>>>  Ability to *paste* from files.
>
>    This is good so you can write your responses on your grand Amiga, and use
>all the tools you have aquired over the years to make it "perfect".  And then
>you simply "post" it by pasting from the file.

Oh, I see what you're getting at.  This is usually done with an "ASCII
send," isn't it?

>>>  Ability to paste with line prefixes and suffixes. [needed for responding
>>>    on brain-dead systems].
>>
>>Hmmm.  What's this good for?
>
>    So when I go into the buffer to see what you said ten messages ago I can
>simply paste it (with a > prefix set, for example).

OK, so that's a replacement for brain-damaged news software?

>                                          - Jason
-- 
  Hans-Gabriel Ridder				Digital DECwest Engineering
  ridder@rust.zso.dec.com			Bellevue, Washington, USA
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From: glenn@anagld.analytics.com (Glenn Holliday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: dialup ftp?
Summary: Is there such a thing for Amiga?
Keywords: ftp amiga
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:31:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division


	A local UNIX person was describing dialup FTP software to me.
Is this for real?  Is there an Amiga version?  Are any of the Amiga
archives offering dialup ports?  My guess is, this would be cheaper LD
than ftpmail service -- does anyone know for sure?
	Thanks,
Glenn Holliday anagld.analytics.com!dahlgren!glenn
From: kevinm@terapin.com (Kevin Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: C-Net File Upload Counter NEEDED!
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:46:28 PST
Organization: BBS

I'm looking for a program (or ARexx script) that will keep track
of uploads on an Amiga BBS running C-Net.  I know such a thing
exists, because I have seen it used.  Of course, now that I am
looking for it, I can't find it anywhere.
 
Getting a program that does what I have described is rather
important, and I would appreciate it if anyone with info
would send me info about where to get the file.  If you have
the fule personally, PLEASE send it via E-Mail.
 
I can be reached at: kevinm@ocf.berkeley.edu [preferred]
                     kevinm@teripin.com      [a bit unreliable]
 
 
Thanks!
 
Kevin
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: QWK off-line message reader for Amiga?
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:55:51 PST
Organization: BBS

The BlueWave format is going to become public this year.
From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: multiple serial ports on A500 or A600
Reply-To: king@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:10:35 GMT

ggibeau@ucqais.cba.uc.edu (George G. Gibeau) publicly declared:
>Does anyone know of any way to get multiple serial ports on either
>the A600 or the A500?  I am trying to set up a kiosk system
>with both a touch screen monitor and a controllable laser disc
>player.  Both devices are a serial interface.  The laser player and
>the touch screen are already in place and I am running out of ideas.
>
>Is it possible to retro-bastardize the parallel port into a serial
>port?  I think the touch screen only uses a few signals.  Of course,
>a new serial.device of some sort would have to bee written...
>
>Any help greatly appreciated...

There exist parallel-to-serial adaptors.  Check the local computer
stores or catalogs like Black Box.  (Though Black Box will soak you for
big-time dollars.)

I think I saw one of these at CompUSA, a kind of computer K-Mart.  Ask
around.  Hopefully you'll find an employee who knows what they're
talking about.

(Ah, for the good old days when computer store employees were geeks and
knew how to kludge together anything you needed.  Not like today when
90% of them couldn't hold a job 3rd shift at Dairy Queen.)

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                                                       |   Motorola Cellular
                                        (D. W. Jones)  |   king@rtsg.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu (Devin E. Parsons)
Subject: Re: Amiga to Unix
Reply-To: taa33@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 04:58:09 GMT

In article <swindley.718950265@s1.elec.uq.oz.au>, swindley@elec.uq.oz.au (Robert Swindley) writes:
>  Could someone please mail me information on what
>would be required to dial in from home to the
>university Unix system.
>
>  I own an A500 1meg ram, 2 * 3 1/2 drives, and
>a unix login.
>
>  The system I use at uni has dial in access and
>uses a VT100 terminal emulation.
>
>  I have heard of the program VLT, but is this
>all I need (besides a modem)
>
>Ta Much
>    chengster     chengm@sun.mech.uq.oz.au
>

Your are corrent, all you need is a modem and a term program.  I use
HandShake, but VLT is good, too.
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From: CliffG@cup.portal.com (Cliff - George)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Portal info
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:51:12 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

The 13.95 is for Portal access. There is an extra $5.00 per month
charge to use FTP/Internet. I think it is worth it.
From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Baudbandit.device?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.15.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 16 Oct 92 06:43:42 EDT
Organization: Well, I haven't decided on a name yet...

In article <1992Oct15.185845.19300@ninja.zso.dec.com> Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com> writes:
> In the case of the serial.device, things like parity, break detection,
> overrun detection, XON/XOFF, etc. are all in the critical path.  They
> don't just add to the size of the code, they add to the number of
> instructions which *must* be executed for every character received.
> That slows it down.  You can't just take your "specialized chunk" out
> without a conditional test, and that's part of what slows it down.
>
> The only solution for the serial.device would be to have separate
> interrupt routines for every possible combination of desired "features,"
> or to have a separate driver altogether (hence BaudBandit.device.)  C=
> at partially addressed the problem with RADBOOGIE, but that of course
> adds another conditional in the critical path....

NO!

That's what function pointers are for. You create specialize procedures to
address individual and combinatorial features and just call the appropriate
function.  The ONLY routine that needs special code for that is OpenDevice()
and who cares if it is slow?
--
  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us  -or-  uunet.uu.net!virginia.edu!adastra!mbs
From: walthour@coos.dartmouth.edu (David Walthour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Baudbandit.device?
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:26:49 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <rwm.718943553@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca> rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond) writes:
>jha@holger.icl.dk (Jan Hauge Andersen) writes:
>>n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (BarryB) writes:
>
>
>>>I have succesfully used both 1.2 and 1.4 of BaudBandit.device.
>
>>>            worked?
>>>            -------
>>>VLT           no

Using the QuickFix program which comes with BaudBandit 1.4, I have been 
successfully using it with VLT, but I couldn't get it to work by having
VLT open the BaudBandit.device.

>>>Term          yes
>>>MagiCall      yes
>
>>Works with NComm 2.0 as well.
>
>  Mark Welmat down as a 'no'.  I have not tested it myself, but
>the lack of TermArray support means that baudbandit.device will not
>work with Welmat V1.  I have no idea if it will work with Welmat V0.44 
>or V.47.
>
>--
>  Opinions expressed in this message are my Own. I represent nobody else.
>  Russell McOrmond  rwm@Atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca Net Support:(613) 230-2282(V.32Bis)
>  FidoNet 1:163/109 Welmat Help 1:1/139  Current WELMAT 'keeper of sources'.

David Walthour
walthour@dartmouth.edu
From: tcampbel@unlinfo.unl.edu (thomas campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: SUPRA ROMs...
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:33:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu


jagrizza@uncc.edu (James A Grizzard) writes:

>does anyone know what the current version of the ROMs is on the SupraFAXModem 14.4??
>I just got mine today and want to see if the ROMs are the new ones released a week or
>two ago...
I received a set of ROMs two days ago, and they (Caller ID ROMs) have 
a suffix of 'j'.  According to the docs, the non-Caller ID ROMs have a
suffix of 'h'.
 
tcampbell@unlinfo.unl.edu
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: QWK off-line message reader for Amiga?
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:56:26 PST
Organization: BBS

> So, still no taglines?  Why not?
 
Because that squadron of goons hadn't locked me in a dark basement
with chains yet demanding taglines, at the time the last features for
0.8 were decided.
 
> They are part of the QWK specification, right?
 
Well technically you're not REQUIRED to support them to be QWK
compatible.  It says so in Appendix G of the QWK standards document.
 
> And will those of us who can only get packets from areas with
> control.dat files over 10K finally get a chance to play with it
> this time?  ;)
 
Yes; it can now read control.dats of any size.