HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: robertk@taoami.lerctr.org (Robert Kesterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Need Help with TAR split problem
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:07:10 CDT
Organization: Not an Organization

I just got the COOL library from ti.com, and now I have a problem.
The file appears intact (I can read it with "more", etc.), but I
can't get "tarsplit" or "gnutar" to split it.  Since it is about
8.5 meg, I don't really like the idea of splitting it by hand.

Gnutar says "gnutar: can't open tar.out : (3)bad file descriptor"
when I try to use it.  (In fact, it says that regardless of what
options I feed it.)

TarSplit just says "TarSplit: unknown linkflag".

Has anyone else had this problem?  (And before anyone asks, yes,
I have un-tarred files before using tarsplit.)

Barring that, is there some other tar splitter that I might have
better luck with?

Respond by e-mail please...   TIA.
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From: nverenin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Spumoni the Fat Wok   )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: The cause for Term problems? (was Re: Term 2.3 still has problems...)
Date: 5 Sep 92 09:35:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep1.041352.23856@polari> dwdyer@polari.online.com writes:
>Well, I've tried just about everything.  All I've come up with is a sure-fire
>way to make Term 2.3 crash (8000 0003) -- when the screen opens, do a quick
>double-click with the left mouse button after the "About" screen disappears.
> 
>Boom!
>
>I think I'll wait for something else...
>
>-- 
>                 Wayne Dyer --- dwdyer@polari.online.com  
>  "I mistrust all systematizers and I avoid them. The will to a system
>      is a lack of integrity."  -Nietzsche, _Twilight of the Idols_ 

	That happens to me too. Another thing is that Term2.3's
VT100/Ansi emulation doesn't work right when I call this Unix
server. I can read the text, but when the server wants Term to clear
the screen Term just prints the control codes. How stupid. I read
in the 'news' how the author rewrote this routine--looks like he
left something out, eh? It's too bad because I really likes
everything else about Term. (oops, 'liked') Gotta go back to using
something that works...

--nverenin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: rlosey@sdf.lonestar.org (Richard Losey)
Subject: Re: Question about terminology
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 02:06:40 GMT

In article <92246.102655PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET> PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET (Cem Turgay) writes:
>Hi, Could I learn the meaning of V32, V42 and bis abbreviations?
>

You're welcome, Cem.  I expect some of what I say will get corrected, but here
goes.

adding the 'bis' CHANGES the MEANING of the v.32 and v.42; there are different!
(They just happen to look alike).

v.32 - the "standard" for communicating at 9600 baud  (CCCIT, I think)

v.32bis - the "standard" for communicating at 14400 baud

v.42 - an error correction standard

v.42bis - a data compression standard.  This is a "smart" standard -- if having
the compression ACTIVE is deteriorating the transfer, it is supposed to turn
itself off.  (files that are already compressed usually deteriorate when the
v.42bis standard is applied).

NOTES:
a) Standards are not "upward compatible" -- just because a modem is v.32bis
DOES NOT MEAN that it will work at 9600, 4800, 2400, or 1200.  It ONLY means it
wil work at 14400.  Having said that, almost all modems support ALL the
standard protocols (I've never seen one that didn't).

b) v.42 is NECESSARY for high-speed (>2400 baud) connections.

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From: quark@pabst.bu.edu (Paul Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: The Great Term Search
Summary: VT100 *and* _REAL_ ANSI
Keywords: vt100, ansi, terminal, emulation
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:31:18 GMT
Reply-To: jnorton@wilkes1.wilkes.edu
Organization: Wilkes University


Hello...

#include <wrong_place_apologies_if_required.h>

  I am looking for a terminal program which can do VT100 *correctly*
_and_ ANSI *correctly*... including graphics, that will run under 2.0.
Does anyone know of a terminal which will do all of these things?  And 
is there a program out there that supports the ANSI "blinking"?

Many thanks for your help..


J. "Rikardon" Norton
Station Manager, WCLH-FM
From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: JRComm???
    <Bu1AvD.HxF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Distribution: World
Date: 6 Sep 92 13:13:42 +1200
Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, TAUG

Quoted from <Bu1AvD.HxF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> by huebner@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Huebner):
> In article <3671@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
> >paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
> >
> >>Someone told me about three months ago that it was in "gamma test".
> >>I figured by now it must be in epsilon test.  But bugs will be bugs...
> >
> >  Three months ago it was in "local test".  Beta testing only started about
> >two months ago...
> >
> >  -jack-
> 
> I am happy to see that its being thoroughly tested.  Hopefully this
> will avoid the innumerable problems that crop up with each new release
> of "Term".  

Yeah but at least Term is being released.
---
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From: blyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Today's Mitzvah:Help w/SLIP&NOS&etc.etc.etc.
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:47:24 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University


I'm REALLY confused!! Here's the situation:

My school has just set up a network which allows dial-in SLIP
connections, from which one can access various internet functions from 
their home.  They are , of course, widely supporting its use for the MAC,
but are unlikely to even admit that the Amiga is an existing entity.
Now, knowing the dialup SLIP number, how can I use it with my Amiga?
I've been told to use AmigaNOS _over_ the dialup connection. I assume this
means to dial in with , say, JRComm, and then multitask AmigaNOS and switch
over to it.  But how do I set up, using AmigaNOS, my IP address, my host's
IP address, whatever else has to be set up?  Does NOS send commands through
the modem? How else would it work?  Furthermore, say I wanted to read mail
or read USENET, or FTP.  What programs for the Amiga would I need and how
would I use them in conjunction with JRCOMM, AmigaNOS, or whatever, to
accomplish what I want?  Does UUCP have anything to do with this?
What about the news readers like Ann or GrN?  I really know very little
about all this stuff, so please help me as specifically as possible - 
but any information si GREATLY appreciated. I WANT to prove the school
wrong, and that the Amiga CAN be a useful, usable computer.

Thanks in advance,

Aaron
From: Dana_Huggard@tfbbs.wimsey.bc.ca (Dana Huggard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: help DLG-Pro and SupraFaxModem
Distribution: world
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:33:21 PST
Organization: TERRA FIRMA BBS

In a message dated Mon 31 Aug 92  3:35, Lauwilli@nmsu.edu (williams) wrote:

 L> I am haveing problems with DLG-Pro and my Supra Fax modem V32.bis.The
 L> maximum baud rat of the modem is 19200 but it only connects at 2400.

I'm running DLG with the SupraFAX as well.. (Are you using TrapDoor as
well?)

I had that happen.. (and many other strange things), for about 3 days after
I bought mine.        I eventually cured it with an AT&F2&W. I did tweek a
couple of other things I don't quite recall presently(!).. one was S11. You
want to head for a reliable connection. Set your Amiga Serial Preferences
at 19200 RTS/CTS. Lock the Baudrate with TrapDoor if you are using it. You
want the modem to give as much verbose info as it can.. When TrapDoor
connects I'll get something like

CONNECT: 2400                           CONNECT 14400

PROTOCOL: NONE            OR!           PROTOCOL: LAP-M

CARRIER: 2400                           CARRIER: 14400

... That type of thing.

     Maybe you've got it already. It's not a bad manual.. actually the way
it sounds like you want to get the connect match the carrier. I used to see
19200 when it was really 2400. I knew something was sort'a screwy. Not sure
what may really be happening with yours as I don't know who you'd be
connecting to...
Hope this helps though.

Best of luck to'ya.

Dana_Huggard (1:153/765.0@fidonet * 40:800/765.0@Amiganet * ADS * SAN * )


-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: JRComm???
Date: 5 Sep 92 04:27:50 GMT
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ

sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu (Stefan Berg) writes:

>Sorry if I ask a FAQ now, but when will the new JR-Comm be available for
>registered users? I have heard about this new version for a long time now,
>but nothing seems to be happening.

  FAQ?  What makes you think that? ;-)

  Anyways, yes, things are kinda slow since my day job is kinda busy.  It's
coming along and looking pretty solid but I really have no idea when it will
be done at this point.

  I will post here when it is though.

  -jack-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett)
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:13:15 GMT

In article <3744@faatcrl.UUCP> jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan) writes:
>  Pretty sure that the 240 is a monochrome beast while the 340 was the color
>version.

   No, the 240s are color.  Believe me, I know; I used to have to use the 
damn things every day, and I still have to use one occasionally when the real
computers inthe labs are being used.  VT240s may have been sold with mono
monitors at one time, but most of the 240s here are color.  The 340s have
vastly better resolution and color capability from the 240; better color and
resolution, in fact, than the Amiga 3000.

>  -jack-

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From: Scotty@freemf.UUCP (Scotty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: U.S. Naval Observatory and AtomClock
Distribution: world
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:56:23 PDT
Organization: Not an Organization

In a message dated Sun 13 Sep 92  3:34, Bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (brian H
wrote:

 BH> Has anybody tried this on a 2.04 3000 or 3000T?  I tried and it
 BH> rebooted my machine.

  It works ok if you run it from the command line.  *(Scotty)*

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992

John (Scotty) Freeland  ---  scotty@freemf.eskimo.celestial.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: jct7661@zeus.tamu.edu (THUMM, JOHN C)
Subject: Need comm prog with VT200 compatability
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:58:00 GMT

I need a comm program that can emulate a vt200 terminal.  I would greatly
appreciate some titles (and the site where they can be had).  Thanks.

	Thumper 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
Subject: Re: U.S. Naval Observatory and AtomClock
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:43:59 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

bobl@bobsbox.rent.com (Bob Lindabury - SysAdmin) writes:

>While all this is great information, how about somebody posting just
>where we can obtain the PROGRAM AtomClock.  FTP sites would be just
>fine.

grind.isca.uiowa.edu
Look in the amiga/utils area.

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From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:13:24 EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: DNet & niftyterm (Re: Why can't I find one decent term program?)
	<1992Sep8.081418.1539@wuecl.wustl.edu>

ins314l@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Justin Keene) writes:
>BTW I have the dnet 2.20 distribution, but I'm not sure that it contained the
>compiled binaries, and I keep getting gurus while compiling :( so where can I
>obtain the 2.20 binaries??

  I am curious if Matt is still maintaining DNet sources, and if he is not,
who is?

>	Justin Keene
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From: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Rockerboy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Citadel68K doors wanted
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 04:46:04 EDT
Reply-To: rock@lakes.trenton.sc.us
Organization: The Veronica Lake Fan Club

jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:

> In article <65273@cup.portal.com> Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRA
NCI
> 
> >Actually, I used to play Nuclear Warfare by Flying Buffalo!  Yes the
> >idea is similar.  This game is not a PBM game, and turns are not as
> >rigid.  I will probably be sending out a version to Fred Fish when I
> >finish testing.  I still have some work to do with the configuration
> >files and a few things like that.  Is Flying Buffalo still in business?
> >I haven't played their games in over 10 years.
> 
> I assume this was to me, since I commented on something on this thread abo
ut 
> Anyway, I'm looking forward to it.  One thing I'd like to know:  in this c
ase
Oh, yes, Flying Buffalo still lives, at least as of a year or two ago (and I
am pretty sure you can still order their games, as several friends of mine
want to get nuclear war/escalation).  And as for their permission for a BBS
game, I once contacted them on Compuserve for the very same reason, and they
essentially told me that they were flattered, and as long as I wasn't
actually selling the game, they had no problem.  Best if you actually
contact them again, though, as they could feel differently.  (And, no, I
never got around to doing the Nuclear war game...)  I had their C$erve
address at one time (it came with the game) but I have since lost it.  If by
chance you still had the game, there was a flyer describing their yearly
April 14'th tournament ("The Day Before") conducted on cserve and another
net (can't remember the name).  And you can send the mail via internet if
you have the address.


"Sometimes what you say is going to fly right in the faces of the 
powerful people who really run this world, but you don't care...you know 
it's your place to challenge authority..."

                                          Rockerboy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: amc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
Subject: Re: DNet & niftyterm (Re: Why can't I find one decent term program?)
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:02:34 GMT

In article <UefHWme00guKF4y1Rn@andrew.cmu.edu> Todd Andrew Williamson <tw0i+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>           The problem is that, while FTERM opens its window and does
>all of its setup before it tries to connect, niftyterm tries to connect
>first.  So DNET isn't ready by the time niftyterm gets started up. 
>Since it takes longer for FTERM to start up (opening windows and
>such...), it doesn't have this problem.
>
>The easiest solution to this is just to start up a niftyterm by hand.

Another I found is to write a short script called delayednifty which
does a wait 3 and then calls niftyterm.  dnet -sdelayednifty then works.

AMC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: jtrimble@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Jason Trimble)
Subject: Re: Wanted: specification of SkyPix
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:18:19 GMT

In article <wsZsqB3w165w@bugend.edvina.se> ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans) writes:
>Here's another one....
>
>What I'm also looking for is the specifications for the SkyPix format 
>use by some BBSes.

	It is used ONLY by Skyline systems (legally). It is a proprietary
system invented my Michael Cox (of CVI Teleproductions Inc.) who wrote the
Skyline BBS system for the Amiga.  It is ILLEGAL to write software which
implements this protocol without explicit written consent from Michael
himself.

	Here is his address:

	CVI TELEPRODUCTIONS
	   P.O. Box 13417
	  El Paso, TX 79913

					Jason
>


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Douglas Mueller)
Subject: JR-COMM (AUTODIAL???)
Reply-To: mueller@math.wisc.edu
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 14:43:06 GMT

Hi.  I just became a registered user of JR-COMM and have a few questions
for all you experts out there.  Is there a way to have JR-COMM automatically
start dialing a preselected subset of the phone number list when I start the
program? (That is, am I forced to actually click on the numbers I want dialed?)

It's not that I'm lazy, I'm just wondering if this is possible.  (How about in
the new version due out soonish?)

Thanks for any help.

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
From: olsen@sourcery.mxm.sub.org (Olaf Barthel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VT220/VT340 Terminal emulation?
Distribution: world
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16e (7/4/92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:27:06 CED
Organization: MXM Barthel & Paesler

In article <abeech.716337691@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes:
> Anyone know of a commercial or PD comms package that will correctly emulate
> VT220 and VT340 terminals?  I need to connect to a Sun and use Word Perfect.
> The VT100 and VT102 emulations are not suitable for this type of work.

   You might want to try `term' -- or any other program to support
external emulation libraries -- with "xemvt340.library".

> Adrian V. Beech                              E-MAIL: A.Beech@ext.gu.edu.au

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From: MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (LORETI, Maurizio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT/Kermit to Unix upload help needed...
Date: 6 Sep 92 02:48:17 GMT
 <92248.065934MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <crystal.715729221@glia>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

>Just kermit as far as I know.  No idea there was a difference. Unix kermit.
>We have space limitations and we use whatever version is on the machine.
>
>How would I find out what version it is?

Well, this looks like a question for your local system administrator.
But I am sure you asked your administrator as the first thing,
before posting to hundred and hundred sites all around the whole
world, didn't you?
Any way try to type 'version' at the kermit prompt; or, better,
'help': this way you will learn a lot of useful things.

From Italy,     ciao          Maurizio

- Only my opinions ... --------- (programmer since 1968) --------- aka I3NOO. -
 Maurizio Loreti - University of Padova - Department of Physics - Padova, Italy
 Padova:   LORETI@PADOVA.INFN.IT         +-------------------------------------
 Stanford: MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU  | I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way
 FermiLab: LORETI@FNALD.FNAL.GOV         |           (Jessica Rabbit)
From: umward10@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Derek Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Weird request?  DTX emulation
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:09:12 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada



  Are there any terminal emulators around that do DTX?  I need to do some
lovely (not!) COBOL assignments on the mainframe at school, but in order
to avoid using a line editor, I have to use DTX (we have about a million
DTX terminals around campus, but I would like to be able to call in from
home and work from here).

  Please send any info through mail, if possible.  Thanks...

Derek

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: theune@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Peter Theune)
Subject: Re: Kermit
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 02:40:44 GMT

waltsinn!walterb@bearsden.UUCP (Walter Boese Jr.) writes:


>In article <92247.155159MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:

>  > 
>  > 'Kermit' as a standalone program does not exist for the Amiga; however you
>  > can find a lot of communications program handling the kermit protocol.
>  > What I use to connect to VAXes IBMs and Unixs is VLT, available from
>  > Fish disks; in addition you need xprkermit, always from Fish disks.
>  > The shareware/freely distributable communications programs are all
>  > better than commercial ones. You will not find many postings in
>  > comp.sys.amiga.datacomm referring to VLT, and for just one simple
>  > reason: VLT HAS NO PROBLEMS ;-)
>  > 
>  > From Italy,           ciao             Maurizio
>  > 
>  > - Only my opinions ... --------- (programmer since 1968) --------- aka I3NOO. -  >  Maurizio Loreti - University of Padova - Department of Physics - Padova, Italy  >  Padova:   LORETI@PADOVA.INFN.IT         +-------------------------------------  >  Stanford: MLO@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU  | I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way  >  FermiLab: LORETI@FNALD.FNAL.GOV         |           (Jessica Rabbit)
>  > 

>Yes there is a standalone version of kermit.  It was released about 2-3 months
>ago.  It is basically the same version that was released for Unix SYS V type
>machines.  It can be had from watsun.cc.columbia.edu.  I believe it is up to
>version 3.1 something.  Several enhancements - such as extended pack size
>(1024 - 2048), a full script language and others.

>Sorry, that is all I can remember at the moment.

>Walter Boese Jr.       
>                       
>Short and Sweet



Thanks, I'll track it down.

Peter.