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From: Kevin Fries <A5783644665@ATTPLS.NET>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 07:23:58 +0000
Subject: Re: death of PL
Dear Magic, Magic Cap Discussion List writes: > 3- I have a 1000 and concerned that I wont be > able to handle Presto Mail and Link > 4- I will still need a dial up account ? > 5- What are my choices besides America Online ? I obtained an internet account from a local provider for $8 for 20 hours. I figure that should be plenty for simple E-Mail even at 2400 baud. Now I just need to get Presto Mail. I will not even bother with Presto Link. Magic Cap Discussion List writes: > Compuserve Companion is available on the > Compuserve PDA forum in the MagicCap section. I > have not tried it, so I have no opinion to share > other than it has garnered mixed reviews on this > list. It is a free download if you are a > Compuserve subscriber; If you are not, you will > either have to subscribe conventionally using a > PC or Mac and download it yourself, which would > conveniently establish an account for you to > access when you do load the package, or you could > get someone else who already has an account to > download it onto a floppy for you and install it > using Magic XChange and hope you can sign up for > an account using that package. Try calling > Compuserve and run it by them- maybe they will > send it to you on disk. That would be a smart > marketing move on their part I talked to Compuserve this afternoon and this is what they told me: They said that the package cost $10.00 but you would get the $10.00 back in usage credit, thereby making the item free. There is also some type of demo. This is how I was told to get it: Procedure for temp login: Use terminal program to access via a local number (I have the number for Denver Metro if anyone needs) @ Host prompt type "CIS" @ Login Prompt type "177000,2000" @ Password type "explore/world" @ Agreement type "Replace" @ Serial Number type "802" Type CS4MAGIC You might want to check with Compuserve if this method will work for you.
From: Kevin Fries <A5783644665@ATTPLS.NET>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 07:26:03 +0000
Subject: Re: Outfitters Direct
Dear Magic, Magic Cap Discussion List writes: > Has anyone actually gotten Outfitter's Direct to > work? Yep no problem. I saw the email message and updated my catalog yesterday. Pulled down several freeware packages. I find this much more convenient than Spies since it goes directly to the ML. Kevin Fries
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:16:19 -0500
Subject: Re: Modem question
>Can I put a 28.8 pcmcia modem in my Envoy? If so, which brand, which >drivers, where do I get them, etc? Any advice would be greatly >appreciated. Personally, I've always wondered if Wireless Modem Link (WML) would work on an Envoy. If it did, it'd be a bonanza for all those Envoy users who need (uh, want) wireline access at acceptable speeds. Anyone? ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 05:30:35 -0500
Subject: Re: Outfitters Direct
>I was told that with PrestLinks, I will be able to download packages from the >internet directly on my link. ( Note that I am NOT talking about UUencoded >packages. A GM employee said that packages on the internet will have a magic >cap tag or something and will enable you to download large packages.). As of >today, I am still unaware of how this works. Yep, you can. Currently the only place I know of that does this is at: http://www.spies.com/MagicCap/CapPackages/ The server does have to be configured to recognize the MagicCap type, though. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 05:32:55 -0500
Subject: Re: Phone Number
>Ok, no biggie, I've got one of the options set wrong. But which one? >If during step 6 Presto!Links would have displayed the number it was >dialing, I would have something to go on. In my case, I forgot to tell >my new locality the prefix it was dialing was a local toll call, so it >didn't dial the area code. But, it took 5 minutes of fiddling to find >it. If I'd have seen the number, I would have known the problem. Yep, you're right: links (unlike mail) doesn't show the number that was dialed (or is dialing). That'd be a good thing for the next version (hint, hint). ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 05:48:46 -0500
Subject: Re: SoftModem
>I just finished reading the press release for SoftModem. I had trouble >parsing the press-release speak. I believe I know what it is. Can >anyone explain what problem it solves? My guess is that it'd allow the vendor to reduce the number of chips needed, which would drop the overall cost of a given unit. There'd be less board design, less manufacturing/logistics, etc. OTOH, it uses the CPU and memory whereas a real modem wouldn't. It'd push the cost of a modem into the 'back' (user impact) instead of the 'front' (user cost). Back-end costs are much harder for users to understand, and can be effectively hidden in the marketing stuff. Of course, there are real benefits too. A software modem is theoretically upgradable (though the GeoPod belies that somewhat). The unit is smaller, since you don't need space on the board (you still need the phone jack, though). And, most importantly, the unit as a whole costs less, since it's cheaper to add software than hardware. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:05:15 -0500
Subject: Re: AT&T WorldNet being "proprietary" (was Re: <No subject give
Hi Ray! Got you! >Currently, CHAP is not supported on all platforms (It's supported for >drivers with WinSock, Linux, most UNIX variants, &c, &c - it's not >some Redmond, Washington thorn in our side...) Notably, the Mac's >existing PPP drivers have not adopted CHAP, which is why Macintosh >access is lagging Windows. Actually, all (or at least FreePPP) Mac PPPs support CHAP, as far back as MacPPP 'SD' releases. The problem, I think, is that AT&T is using a funky version of Navigator. If you pull the configuration info from the WorldNet setup file and enter the data into FreePPP (using the format as described by Bruce Porter), it should work fine. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:20:36 -0500
Subject: Re: IWish#373
>>where on earth did you get the specs for the connector? >did you have >to sign away your firstborn child (NDA)? or is >it on some web page >openly? > >I read this in one or more writeups in computer journals when I was >actively shopping for a PDA. I think they were Pen Computing, and >Computer Shopper in a big PDA comparison they did some time back last >year. From what I remember (and it's been a long time) the connector itself is a honda d-shell connector. There is some kind of voltage thingy in there somewhere, and it'd be easy enough to figure out what it was by dissecting a cable. I'm not sure how to activate the 'magicbusness' of the port, since most things I've seen are dumb serial. Mitsubishi, I think, made the interface kit. You could try mailing GDT and asking how they did the print cable/video mirror peripherals. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:28:50 -0500
Subject: Re: Presto Mail & 2 DNS's
>With Presto mail can a person have more than one DNS? When i try to add >a secondary DNS stamp it just jumps off the card into the trash. Can >someone help me set up a secondary DNS? The PrestoStuff only supports one DNS per provider. There was a reason for this, but I don't remember why anymore. Another feature request? ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:33:05 -0500
Subject: Re: PrestoMail rules?
>I rely heavily on the forwarding rules that Plink provided. In >particular the ability to have things sent to my SkyTel was critical. >Does PrestoMail do this? No. The reason is that the forwarding was done on the TeleScript server run by AT&T. To do something like the auto-forwarding would have required writing a totally new POP server and making every ISP transition to it, something which is way outside the scope of the Presto products. It's too bad...PLink had a lot of neat fatures in the new incarnation that'll be sorely missed, like directory lookups. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 06:27:17 -0500
Subject: Re: large text messages under presto!mail 1.5
>It is a well known feature, er, failure under MagicCap that large text >messages cannot be received on either MagicCap 1.0 or MagicCap 1.5. Large >in this case is anywhere from 45k for the Envoy to 50 or 60k for the PICs. Well, you can get around this somewhat by doing annoying memory things when you want to collect mail. Basically, when you want to collect mail, turn off your device, hold the option key, and turn it on. This clears out workspace memory (techspeak: this nukes the transient clusters), giving the mail service as much memory as possible. Then option-tap the inBox. This is only useful, BTW, on MagicCap 1.5 communicators. >Has anyone tried receiving text messages of this size or large using the >new Presto!Mail 1.5 on any flavoer of communicator? Beats me; I was on links. I'd think the above would work. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Manuel Veloso <veloso@APIX.COM>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 05:59:33 -0500
Subject: Presto!Stuff and CHAP
>the readme files are not clear on the subject > >does anyone know? > >MCI absolutely requires it for their PPP access Well, in theory it does. Unfortunately, there was a last-minute bug discovered in the CHAP implemenation that didn't make it into the final release. I assume that there'll be an updated version of PrestoPPP posted sometime soon. This means that any CHAP-based ISP might or might not work. ISPs known to use CHAP include AT&T WorldNet, uunet, and MCI. Note that WindowsNT RAS CHAP never was supported, due to RAS' non-standard CHAP implementation (grrr). If you're using RAS, enable plaintext passwords on RAS, which tells RAS to use PAP instead. ----------------------------------------- Manny Veloso Digital Plumber Active Paper, Inc. http://www.apix.com ----------------------------------------- "home again, home again"
From: Jonas Millan <WHALE%KITKAT.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 11:09:54 +0400
Subject: Re: SRAM Card
