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From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT and capture buffer filter? -->SOLVED!
Date: 2 Jan 93 19:49:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

While I hate to throw a damper on your "Bash the Clueless Newbie" game, I have
received THREE solutions for the problem that I wrote about.  They came from
some very polite fellows who actually *paid attention* to what I was trying to
ask for, and offered *constructive* solutions rather than try to cloud the
issue with irrelevancies.

The solutions involve 2 programs that strip the unwanted characters from the
files AFTER they have been captured and saved, and 1 script for VLT that filters
the characters out DURING the capture.

The programs that work on existing files are:

Estrip - this filters out ESCAPE sequences only.  I don't know where it can be
	 found and my uuencoded mail is gone.  (It's CLI based)

StripANSI - this filters out ALL ANSI characters and is extremely versatile in
	    that you can CHOOSE which to leave in or take out.  It can be found
	    on FISH 581 and includes C source.  (CLI and GUI versions exist)

I have not yet tried the VLT script because I don't know how to work with
scripts yet, but it was nice to hear that my question inspired someone to
write such a beast, and as soon as I can figure out what to do with it, and
where to type it in, I will be adding it to a function key in VLT (At least 
that's what he said to do with it... :>) 

See, I *KNEW* it could be done, so how "clueless" is that?  Hmmm???  ;>

Thank you all!

Crystal
  ;>


Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:25:55 GMT

In article <qt3cs*tN0@prolix.apana.org.au> dac@prolix.apana.org.au (Andrew Clayton) writes:
> Nobody is posting anything, and nobody is collecting anything.
> Hasn't been for nearly a year now, which is only a little bit of
> a shame.

Sounds like it's time for my perennial offer to moderate these groups.
I ran alt.sources.amiga for a while, until sugar ran out of steam. Since
it was a 386/16 with 4MB of RAM at that time (the same hardware is now
taronga.com) it was a little anemic. Now it's a *pair* of 486/50s with
big SCSI disks on both sides, an Internet link (albeit a little slow), and
half a dozen Trailblazers...

When I was running alt.sources.amiga I would check every program to make
sure it compiled on Aztec. Now that SAS and Aztec have diverged, I don't
think I need to do that any more.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
 `-_-'   Oletko halannut suttasi tnn?
  'U`    
Tarjoilija, tm ateria el viel.
From: tdeck@lifestyle.rhein-main.de (Thorsten Deck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: CNET has BACKDOOR???
Date: 29 Dec 92 23:42:24 MED
Organization: Life-Style

Please Help me!
I Run Cnet BBS SYSTEM V2.41. In the last Night a user has connectet as SYSOP!!
But no PW is wrong. The Hacker has many PWs from my User how???
And 2 HD partions are deletet! 
If you have any information for an CNET BACKDOOR Please write me a E-MAIL!

I can my SYSTEM only Protect if i look the way!!

Please write me! Thanks...
PS: Sorry, for the bad english!
From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: What Is this BBS all ABOUT..Pirates maybe
Date: 3 Jan 93 19:01:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.crystal.726087717
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <C09qKs.65F@hotsun.nersc.gov> cklaus@hotsun.nersc.gov (C. Klaus) writes:

>In article <ms496s553.05ka@sycom.mi.org> ms496s553@sycom.mi.org (Mark Foren) writes:
>>
>>PS..what can you do about Pirate Boards...??


>Call SPA , I guess.  You might want to confirm the BBS is indeed
>a pirate BBS and give the sysop fair warning to stop.

I think if you gave them a warning, they'd just move the board elsewhere and
continue operations.  

Best to find out if it is true, tell the authorities, and let them sting. 
If the sysop is stupid enough to put an ad in a magazine, then he deserves
what he gets.   Can't stop piracy by just a warning - it just moves farther
underground.  :<

Crystal
  :>
From: rodd@jpradley.jpr.com (Rod Dorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: XPRKermit and XPRVMS question
Date: 28 Dec 92 06:11:43 GMT
Organization: Unix in NYC

In article <1992Dec20.154345.45815@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I'm curious if anyone else has trouble xprkermit and xprvms hanging
>frequently.   ...
>the only thing I could think was that the receive and send delay
>(Timeouts) weren't Kosher, but they are set the same on both sides.

I don't know if this will help or not but the following is from the
KERMIT PROTOCOL MANUAL, Sixth Edition, June 1986

3.2. Timeouts, NAKs, and Retries

Normally, only one side should be doing timeouts, preferably the side with  the
greatest  knowledge  of  the  "environment"  --  system load, baud rate, and so
forth, so as to optimally adjust the timeout interval for each packet.  If both
sides  are  timing  out, their intervals should differ sufficiently to minimize
collisions.
-- 
					-- Rod --
rodd@jpr.com
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From: slmt9@cc.usu.edu (Joshua Dinerstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
Date: 27 Dec 92 15:34:45 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <BzxH55.F7E@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, engb@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Ben Eng) writes:
> In <mbs.1i44@adastra.cvl.va.us> mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) writes:
> 
>>In article <BzwHn7.37H@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>>
>>> Sounds like it's time for my perennial offer to moderate these groups.

	I also offered to moderate these newgroups before. But the current
silent moderator was chosen. If there is a person needed to be the moderator I
will once again throw my hat in the ring. 

	However if someone else wants to do it, then by all means lets pick
someone and get these news groups active again.

	Joshua
	SLMT9@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: wglp09@scsa1.slac.stanford.edu (W.G.J. Langeveld)
Subject: Re: Ncomm
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
X-Newssoftware: GRn-beta 1.16g (10.12.92) by Michael B. Smith & Mike Schwartz
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:55:37 GMT

In article <FEoas*TO1@light.fipnet.fi> terje@light.fipnet.fi (Terje Bergstrm) writes:
>   I tried VLT once, but threw it out in no time. It kept complaining about
> visitor windows in VLT screen when there were none and couldn't close the
> screen.

Last time someone mentioned this to me, the problem was due to a program which
I think was called "NewLook" (or something like that - I hope I remember that
right) which tries to give all windows on the system the new look under 2.04.
Get rid of it, it does illegal stuff.

-- 
W.G.J. Langeveld - SLAC | Internet: wglp09@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu
                        | BIX:      langeveld
From: bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Need MNP settings for ZModem transfers
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:30:22 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.33

>   If someone could give me some hints, such as what MNP settings and what
>terminal programs are known to work, it would be appreciated.  I would like
>to be able to take advantage of the synchronous mode when transferring
>binary files, and the synchronous mode and compression when transferring
>text files.

Well, use Term of course.  :)

Here's a few thoughts.

   If you can't get it to work, try using the Escape Characters
function.  It's possible that the Xyplex doesn't like some ctrl
characters & stuff, and therefore may not like Zmodem binary
transfers.  Escaping with ZModem might just give you what you're
looking for.  I remember that JRComm had this capability, I'm not sure
how many others do.  I don't believe that the current XPRZmodem or
XPRZedZap support it.

Escaping will, of course, make your transfers that much longer, but it
may fix your problems.

Greg

--
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From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Modem Terminology is Confusing
Date: 24 Dec 92 08:24:16 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) writes:

> >TIES    : "Time-independant Escape Sequence"  Used by Hayes-pseudo-compatibl
> >          modems.  The sequence consists of the five characters: "+++AT", 
> >          that is, the Hayes sequence, but without the guard times, followed
> >          by the "AT" characters that must preceed any Hayes-compatible
> >          command sequence.
> 

Heh.  I loved Hayes' advert in "Time" for "Tick Tick Tick Boom..."  Trying
to scare business-suit types into thinking that someting "evil" was going to
happen.

Hayes even offered a program (I don't know if it was a program or just a
script, but anyway)....  And if your modem "reacted" to the escape sequence
incorrectly it "warned" them.

Multitech (which doesn't have guard times on its modems)... sued 'em.  hah.

(they won).

	-steve


.............................................................................
   swinokur%cellar@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com -or- swinokur@cellar.uucp
                           GEnie: S.WINOKUR  -or-
                  435 Norristown Road, Horsham PA, 19044
..................... Amiga: Hey, at least it works! ........................
From: wiener@igd.fhg.de (Andreaaas Wiener (Englert))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: SerNet installation
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:10:36 GMT
Organization: Haus der Graphischen Datenverarbeitung, 6100 Darmstadt

Hello,

Can anybody help me with the SerNet installation?
Is there a Version to unpack and use ?

Thanks Andy
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From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: It has happened again - another bogus "term v2.5" is floating around
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:15:05 PST
Organization: BBS

> There are limits to my patience, the next revision may be a
> commercial-only release, may no longer include the source code, may
> require an '030 CPU or Kickstart 3.0 to run.
 
I hope that doesn't mean you're going to make a major upgrade and
take a long time to release it ... with 2.4a you got THAT -> <- close
to getting everything I want into it ... the only weakness was that
some necessary features were disabled with IBM emulation ...
 
I've been swatting 2.5's here and there, along with copies of
Terminus and MagiCall ... seems to be quite the fad to be uploading
bogus comm programs around here.
 
I guess the users are feeling impatient for one or another of them to
finally be really complete.
 
If you do want to control revisions, you will have to withhold source
or make it available only with a signed promise to make only personal
use of it, or something...  Please don't make it require 3.0 -- 2.04
should be good enough and a lot of A500s will probably never upgrade
higher than 2.1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT & BaudBandit.device
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 27 Dec 92 20:06:59 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <bschense.725407348@ais.org> by bschense@ais.org (Robert Alan Schense):
> The summary says it all.  I can't get BaudBandit device to work
> with VLT. I get the error message, "Serial - Can't open

    You have to use a binary file editor to change the string
    BaudBandit in the .device file to lower case. Once you've done
    that you should be able to open it with VLT.

    I had another problem with it that stopped me from using it
    permanently - once a connection was established, VLT would only
    update the screen in bursts. My guess is that the
    baudbandit.device handles timeouts a little different from the
    serial.device, and doesn't return characters to VLT until some
    buffer fills or I press a key that VLT notices.
--
*** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
***    "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk    ***
Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.datacomm:8407 comp.sys.amiga.misc:19181
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
From: liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz (Liam Greenwood)
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:58:03 GMT+12
Organization: It's Home, really...
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

The Nose (John_Davis@equinox.gen.nz) wrote:
> Peter da Silva (peter@NeoSoft.com) wrote:
> >Sounds like it's time for my perennial offer to moderate these groups.
>
> I'll second that motion!! ;-)
>
> I remember many moons ago when the new moderation for csa/cba picked
> up the reigns, stated he'd start clearing the (huge) back log of
> submission, sent out about 3 things and _vanished_. Whilst most
> people who can use ftp sites nowdays, for the (still large) number
> of people out there who are stuck on systems with news/mail only,
> I think resuscitating cba/csa is a worthwhile move (csa especially)
    As one of those on a site with only News and mail... I'll third that,
with a strong vote for the binaries (not everyone has access to the appropriate
compilers...)

--
 Liam Greenwood ------ liam@durie.amigans.gen.nz ------ Wanganui, N.Z.
                 Don't tell my Mother I'm a programmer,
               she thinks I'm a piano player in a brothel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: VLT and capture buffer filter?
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Date: 1 Jan 93 13:26:49 PST
 <crystal.725769972@glia> <C03wHF.9t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <crystal.725830210@glia>
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <crystal.725830210@glia> by crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal):

> That's the POINT.  If the review buffer can filter them, WHY can't the
> capture buffer?  I *know* such a thing is possible because I've used other

    Because quite often one doesn't WANT to filter out the Esc
    sequences from the captured data. If you do, you are supposed to
    use the review buffer.

--
*** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
***    "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk    ***
From: gbartoli@netcom.com (Guy Bartoli II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: CNET has BACKDOOR???
Date: 30 Dec 92 09:32:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Dec30.093214.16968
Organization: CLink - A Manly Network
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Thorsten Deck (tdeck@lifestyle.rhein-main.de) wrote:
: Please Help me!
: I Run Cnet BBS SYSTEM V2.41. In the last Night a user has connectet as SYSOP!!
: But no PW is wrong. The Hacker has many PWs from my User how???
: And 2 HD partions are deletet! 
: If you have any information for an CNET BACKDOOR Please write me a E-MAIL!
: 
: I can my SYSTEM only Protect if i look the way!!
: 
: Please write me! Thanks...
: PS: Sorry, for the bad english!

First off, be careful using the word "Backdoor," because that implies that
the programmer purposefully put this method for gaining private passwords
into the system -- which is not the case.

I'm not going to bother describing the method (bug) since I know people
of more malicious attitudes will repeat it on their local CNet systems, but,
any system that has been "attacked" by a hacker MUST delete their BBS.udata
files since the hacker has most-likely attained every user's password and
you will never get rid of the *sshole.

PLEASE! This is not a backdoor. It's a bug in the system that someone has
uncovered and is taking advantage of. There should be a fix up on the
support board (Future World) immediately! If you haven't had a hack attempt
yet, do not delete your BBS.udata ... if someone has gotten ahold of one
password, he probably has 'em all, so restart your userlog.

Take care.

p.s. I'm in no way connected to Perspective Software, the hacker, or
Barbara Bush. Thank you.
-- 

==========================================================================
Guy Anthony Bartoli = Jagulars wait up in the trees and yell "Halloo."
gbartoli@netcom.com = When you look up ... they fall on you. -- Pooh
==========================================================================
From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Modem Terminology is Confusing
Date: 24 Dec 92 08:31:34 PST
Organization: BBS

> Hayes Improved Escape Sequence with Guard Time (what a mouthful):
>     Consists of short delay, followed by three special characters,
>     usually '+', followed by another short delay.  Patented (and
>     vigorously enforced) by Hayes.
 
Then why does my old Supra 2400 use the same feature?  "+++" with a
one second delay before and after puts it in command mode.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: beato@cc.uow.edu.au (Michael Beaton)
Subject: ParNet problem
Summary: problem with parnet between A3000 and A500
Keywords: parnet
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 22:23:06 GMT

Hi,
	I have a problem trying to get parnet to work between my A3000/25 with 
KS 37.175, WB 37.71 and my 1.3 A500 runnning WB 1.3.2 version 34.28.
	The network comes up ok but it doesn't work for very long, sometimes
only a few seconds, but usually for a couple of minutes. I can access files
for a while but then the machine that I'm using to access the others files, 
hangs and sometimes the other machine resets with a software error.
	When the machine hangs I can still move the mouse around,click on things
(highlights but nothing else happens), and move windows around but they don't 
get redrawn. This is usually from the 500 using the 3000s harddisk but it does
the same thing if I access the 500s df0: from the 3000 for a while. 
	I think I have the latest version of parnet, parnet.device is v2.0. I
also have netpatch installed.
	The cable is a bit different from the diagram only in that it was made
with ack connected across to ack and sel bridged locally to ack instead of the
other way around, but that wouldn't make any difference would it ??
	Also how long can the cable be ?? It's about 3 metres long.

	Any help in getting this to work (if its possible) would be greatly 
appreciated.

		Thanks,

			Michael

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From: jimdawson@cup.portal.com (Jim R Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Current status of JRComm
Date: Sun,  3 Jan 93 17:15:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

Does anyone know what the current status of JRComm (a.k.a. Termulus, or
something lile that). When I try to call the support BBS I get a "This
number no longer in service" message.
 
+-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
|Jim Dawson - Author of AmiQWK .QWK mail reader | jimdawson@cup.portal.com|
+-----------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
From: dlamberm@bluemoon.use.com (David Lambermont)
Subject: Re: Upgrading a HST DS 14.4 to FAX ????
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:04:10 EST

kendrix@peachs.enet.dec.com (John R. Kendrix) writes:

> In article <1992Dec16.113126.17956@ludd.luth.se>, pelly@ludd.luth.se (Per Lin
> >I wonder if a USRobotics HST DS 14.4 can be upgraded to a fax modem?
> >                                            ^^^^^^^^
> >Any suggestions?
> 
> Well, for starters I'm afraid that you have a faux pax in your request.   It
> is impossible to UPGRADE from a 14.4 DS HST to a fax modem since doing so wou
> be a DOWNGRADE.  The 14.4 DS HST has many more features than the fax modems
> have.   I won't waste bandwidth by listing them all.  You have your modem's
> documentation.  I believe that doing a point by point comparisom of the featu
> between the two modems will eliminate your desire to "UPGRADE" in this manner
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> JK
> 
> 
>  John R. Kendrix                  Disclaimers:  The opinions expressed here  
>  Digital Equipment Corporation                  aren't likely to be claimed  
>  Phone:  404-343-1739                           by me, much less my employer.
>  E-Mail: decwrl::"Kendrix_J@mims.enet.dec.com"

What if the question was "is there any way to add fax capability to the 
USR Dual Standard 14.4?"

-----
David Lambermont - dlamberm@bluemoon.use.com
----------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.misc
From: sutela@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Sutela)
Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 12:50:53 GMT

peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>Sounds like it's time for my perennial offer to moderate these groups.

Go for it!  BTW, great sig.

-- 
Kari Sutela	sutela@utu.fi
From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Binaries/Sources
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:31:14 GMT
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <BzwHn7.37H@NeoSoft.com> by peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva):

> Sounds like it's time for my perennial offer to moderate these groups.
> I ran alt.sources.amiga for a while, until sugar ran out of steam. Since

    So if we want to post something, we email it to you?

> Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
--
*** John Bickers, TAP.                   jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
***    "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk    ***
From: edana@pearl.tufts.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Term and zmodem
Date: 23 Dec 92 05:18:50 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

When using a Xyplex terminal server a problem can occur where the line
seems to lock up. The reason for the lockup is due to ZMODEM using XON/XOFF
characters in its protocol (but NOT the XON/XOFF protocol itself).

   When connecting to UNIX this is usually the problem. When connected to
VMS one does NOT usually see it. Why you ask? VMS usually uses a LAT
connection. When a LAT connection is made the terminal server lets the data
pass 'transparently' through. For most UNIX systems the TCP/IP is the
type of connection used. This type of connectin allows the terminal
server to 'interpret' the data. This is where the problem occurs.

   To solve the problem (only required for a TCP/IP connection):

   1.) Make your connection to the remote computer and login.
   2.) Enter a BREAK (or possibly a ctrl-\)
   3.) Enter SET SESSION PASSALL
   4.) Enter RESUME

   Now you can do the transfer. To undue the PASSALL settings:

   1.) Use the instructoins above, but change #3 to:

   3.) Enter SET SESSION INTERACTIVE

   Thats all there is to it.

Eric Dana
Mgr., Academic Systems Programming
Tufts Univ.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm