Magic Cap Users Mailing List

Wednesday July 03, 1996

From: Mark Nomad <MarkNomad@AOL.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 02:35:18 -0400
Subject: Terminal Cleanup

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Dear Magic,

My 2000 tanked when I tried to install the PrestoMail packages in the wrong
order.  The Diner put about a mile of open road on the pic, so I deleted and
reinstalled.  Big mistake, terminal cleanup.  Course this was the final beta.
 Pulling the ram card let it boot, but the ram card (it was on) trashed it
every time with basically the same problem you have.

Solution-  I put the ram card in the trusty ol' 1000.  I could put a graham
cracker in that thing and it would try to read it.  The 1000 let me delete
the packages and start over.

If you did the same thing with the packages in main memory, I could see where
there'd be no way to recover short of yanking the juice.   Not to blame
Presto, they number the packages for a reason, right?

Hope this may be relevant, or save someone some headaches.

Mark

From: Bruce Tong <zztong@MAIL.EV.NET>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 09:28:54 -0500
Subject: Re: PICS-WM1

> It locked up and kept trying to clean up.

I saw a PIC-2000 with a problem similar to this. If you turned it on,
it would clean up for about 5 seconds and then shut itself off. The
problem turned out to be one of the RAM cards had become partly
unseated. Ejecting the RAM card and firmly replacing it back into the
slot fixed the problem with no data lost.

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Systems Programmer
Electronic Vision / Fitne

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From: Christopher Burr <cburr@KCC.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 09:36:59 -0500
Subject: Protective Covers for Screen

Someone mentions that someone was selling protective covers for the screens
for the MLs.  Can someone give me the name and phone of the company...  Or
even better, if anyone's come up with a cheaper solution, please let me know...

Thanks,
  Chris
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From: brenda holloway <brendah@MBAY.NET>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 10:13:11 -0700
Subject: Re: cujoterm

>Now that I have CujoTerm loaded...ahem... Installed.... I wonder if
>someone can offer their support in getting to work.  Each time I
>connect to my internet provider, I get a communications error.  I am
>not even asked for a password.

I wondered how people were doing this. CujoTerm (at least the version I
downloaded) requires you write your own code for doing login negotiation
with your ISP; so getting the unmodified package probably won't let you in.
At least for rlogin & TCP/IP+PPP (I think it works as a straight terminal
nonetheless, doesn't it?)

brenda

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From: "Lawrence M. Hanser" <hanser@RAND.ORG>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:34:51 -0700
Subject: Re: cujoterm

From: brenda holloway 

>>Now that I have CujoTerm loaded...ahem... Installed.... I wonder if
>>someone can offer their support in getting to work.  Each time I
>>connect to my internet provider, I get a communications error.  I am
>>not even asked for a password.
>
>I wondered how people were doing this. CujoTerm (at least the version I
>downloaded) requires you write your own code for doing login negotiation
>with your ISP; so getting the unmodified package probably won't let you in.
>At least for rlogin & TCP/IP+PPP (I think it works as a straight terminal
>nonetheless, doesn't it?)

Yes, but unfortunately it doesn't understand ansi codes (needed for vtxxx
emulation).  So I guess it's really just an old-fashioned tty device.

Larry

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Lawrence M. Hanser
RAND

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'Abdu'l-Baha

From: Greg Handley <ratman@LANMINDS.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:14:26 -0800
Subject: Magic link PIC-2000 for sale

Magic Link PIC-2000 for sale. 4 months old, perfect condition includes all
orginial equipment, boxes, manuals and a copy of Magic Xchange for
Macintosh.

Please E-Mail offer to: ratman@lanminds.com

From: AlphaGraphics <cedrone@SERV1.JUMP.NET>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:01:20 -0500
Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE

Please take me off your mailing list.

From: John Culver <A5133644645@ATTPLS.NET>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:36:35 +0000
Subject:

Dear Magic,
Hey, me too.

Could someone plink me some free software.

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From: John Culver <A5133644645@ATTPLS.NET>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 00:44:00 +0000
Subject: Protective Covers for Screen

Dear Magic,
Supplier?  Saran Wrap.
Get real.  Wrap a Baggie around it

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From: AJ Wright <aj@GS1.CINTI.NET>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:35:43 -0400
Subject: PrestoMail/PrestoLinks

I've been having nothing but problems since I got PrestoMail/PrestoLinks.
I must have made a dozen calls to General Magic's tech support (followed
their advice to the letter). After each call the situation is worse than
before I placed the call:( When first installed I was able to send email
and browse the web but could not retrieve email (timed out while checking
mail). Now, several calls later, I can't do anything . . . can't send
email, browse the Web or even connect. Anyone else experiencing such
exasperating problems with this package? OR is it just me :(

AJ

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From: "Jon Whitney (via RadioMail)" <jwhitney@RADIOMAIL.NET>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 20:42:48 -0700
Subject: Re: Protective Covers for Screen

Really, is saran-wrap the answer?  Are we sure we don't want to use trojan
condoms?

From: Lee Butler <leebu@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 22:47:07 -0700
Subject: Re: PrestoMail/PrestoLinks

AJ Wright writes:
> Now, several calls later, I can't do anything . . . can't send
> email, browse the Web or even connect. Anyone else experiencing such
> exasperating problems with this package? OR is it just me :(

Who is you ISP?  Does it have exactly the problem from multiple locations?  It
might be related to phone line troubles, the ppp stack is a little intolerant of bad connections.

I'm using with great success once I found an ISP with clean phone lines in my
area...  I had very bad luck with two providers who use UUNET for nationwide
access.

Netcom has my business now and I only see 1 in 15 calls have an error.  The
will also give you 1 month for 5 dollars to try it out.

Thanks,
Lee Butler
Consultant
leebu@ix.netcom.com
Phone:303.843.1738          Pager:800.480.9079