Magic Cap Users Mailing List

Friday October 25, 1996

From: Kevin Fries <kfries@CSN.NET>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 06:38:50 GMT
Subject: Re: CujoTerm no longer available?

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 14:14:41 -0400, Luke Derossi 
wrote:

>Tommy Thorn wrote:
>>
>> I have searched all over for CujoTerm, but it seems it's no longer
>> available.  Anyone know if and why?
>  The pre-built version of CujoTerm is available on the Magic Internet
>Kit download page, which is:
>http://www.genmagic.com/Develop/MagicCap/Internet/Downloads/index.html

Just out of curiosity, we were using my Magic Link to debug a problem =
with
our ciscos and the phone lines the other day.  I showed the office =
manager
(its one of out subsidiaries) how to adjust the settings on the magic =
link
to change the phone a number and how to get Presto!Links to connect.  =
Would
this have been easier to do in CujoTerm?  If so, maybe I need to get =
this.

Thanks

Kevin Fries

From: Kevin Fries <kfries@CSN.NET>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 06:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: IRC Help

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 03:06:27 -0400, Luke Derossi 
wrote:

>  First, I knew your name because in addition to your nickname, your
>connection address is also available and is often displayed when a
>person joins or leaves a channel.  This was something like
>kevin_fr@blahblah.com so I ventured to guess it was you. :)
Pheew, I was starting to think you were psycic

>  As for the long delay before a response happened, that's probably just
>IRC for ya.  IRC is a pretty big, clunky, overloaded mess, and lag-times
>are common.  Because of the countless servers running, supporting any
>particular IRC network (EFnet, Undernet, DALnet, etc.), you basically
>just have to surf around until you find a server that has low lag to the
>people/channel you wish to converse with/in.  Just as an example, very
>shortly after you 'slapped Josh around with a large trout' (a default
>macro-button in mIRC for those who aren't familiar :) I responded to
>your original 'Hello' message.  I also sent several others, but probably
>due to lag, you never saw them.
>
>  The bottom line in your case was that everything seemed to be working
>pretty normaly.  The only suggestion would be to find a server with
>lesser lag.  I often use irc.neosoft.net, irc.nol.net and irc.magic.ca
>to name a few.  (Be warned, CujoChatters, that the latter two of these
>servers require 'identD' running, an IRC feature that CujoChat doesn't
>support at this time, so you'll get booted from either of those servers
>with an error message.)

Can anyone recommend what server I should use.  I tried CU first.  Too =
many
users, kicked me before I even got a list of groups/topics.  Next I tried
BYU, I could not even find the server.  Next I tried UC Davis, bingo, but
could not get any type of response other than one acknowledgement from
Luke.  Luke, do probably about it, no other messages were received.  =
Also,
Josh, sorry about that fish thing.  I was clicking buttons and figured =
that
would be something like Ping.  But since nothing else was being responded
to, I just figured that that was not getting received either. =20

>  Anyone who will be attempting to establish a connection to IRC for the
>first time tomorrow to attend the BAMCUG simulcast may want to start
>early, to get the hang of things.  I will most likely be active in
>#magic-cap from noon PDT on, in case anyone has questions, and will be
>watching incoming Email and the lists closely for anyone unable to get
>onto IRC for help. :)

Thats what I tried but was unsuccessful, then I got caught at work fixing
our ISP's CGI written in VB.  One of these days I should learn VB .
So I missed the meeting anyway, but I hope this happens next meeting.
However, by then, I will be trying this with my Magic Link.

Thanks

Kevin

From: Boris Foelsch <boris@TROGGS.genmagic.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:08:51 -0700
Subject: Re: Keyboard and serial cable connection...

In genmagic.list.magiccap you write:

>Is there no possible way to have the keyboard and the serial
>cable hooked up to the magic link?  Am I being blindingly
>stupid?

Actually, you're not. Which isn't to say that you can easily do this with
the products you're talking about. The Magic Bus (labeled Magic Port on the
PIC-[12]000) which the keyboard uses to talk to the device is designed to be
daisy-chainable. That is, if you had peripherals with up and downstream
connectors (and they all implemented the Magic Bus functionality), you could
daisy-chain them.

Of course, running Magic Xchange allows you to use your PC/Mac keyboard to
enter data into the device.

-Boris

From: Lee Butler <leebu@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:22:10 -0700
Subject: outfitter's direct

Is outfitter's online at all any more?

If not, I'll reclaim that 100k on my shelf....

From: Bruce Tong <zztong@MAIL.EV.NET>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:41:58 -0400
Subject: Re: outfitter's direct

> Is outfitter's online at all any more?

Beats me.

I tried to connect to them two weeks ago. While I was able to establish
a connection and place an order, my order was constantly rejected
because they claimed my credit card didn't have enough credit available.
This is odd for two reasons. First of all, I pay my card off every month
and there are always thousands of dollars of credit left. Secondly, I
was ordering some FREE software -- an updated version of their software.

--

Bruce Tong
Systems Programmer
Electronic Vision / Fitne

Work:

Phone : (614) 592-2511
Fax   : (614) 592-2650
mailto:zztong@evi.ev.net
http://www.ev.net/fitne

Play:

mailto:zztong@eurekanet.com
http://www.eurekanet.com/~zztong

From: Josh Carter <josh@genmagic.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:09:01 -0800
Subject: BAMCUG meeting #5 IRC transcript available

Hi all,

The fifth BAMCUG meeting last night (10/24) was "simulcasted" on
Internet Relay Chat, and the complete transcript of the IRC-cast is
now available on the web. I put the transcript and attendee list on my
personal web page located at:

http://www.spies.com/~josh/bamcug/

The whole thing is about 39 pages long *ack*.

Enjoy!
-Josh Carter