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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:	Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:	Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:	FUNYET::ANDERSON

Created:	Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:	Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1433
Total number of notes:	10312

821.0. "MEGAFILE30-errors vs NL-TOS 1.4?" by JGO::MEHIGHEND (Wil Heijsen) Thu Apr 05 1990 06:52

    Hi all,
    
    This is something perhaps only applicable to Dutch Atarists.
    A friend of mine has a MEGA2 with the NL-TOS 1.4 ROMS.
    A new machine. He has a known good MEGAFILE30 which gives disk errors
    when operated by the MEGA2. No errors when attached to a MEGA2 with
    TOS 1.2 running. The errors show up as intermittend FAT comparison
    errors. He get's 'forward link out of range, lost clusters, crosslinked
    clusters'. The same partition verified (he uses DLLI V0.24 from
    Simon Poole) gives also no errors at all sometimes.
    
    Has anyone experienced a similar problem with TOS 1.4 and specifically
    the NL-version?
    The US-version seems to work right with the MEGAFILE30. This was
    communicated over BITNET or USENET, he said.(he works on a university)
    
    Another question: do we have GMAIL in use within EASYNET? Can we
    reach universities directly or does some stuff from there show up
    in EASYNET thanks to people who do the uploads?
    
    Inputs will be much appreciated. The troublesome machine was at
    a dealer before it was delivered (new) to build in PCSPEED. The
    latter didn't work for some obscure reason, so they shipped the machine
    without the DOS-hardware enhancement.
    
    Thanks all!
    
    Regards, Wil Heijsen CSL-Engineering JGO.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
821.1	GMAIL? Try just using MAIL	OLDTMR::WALLACE		`Thu Apr 05 1990 13:01`	6
	I don't know what gmail is but you should be able to send mail to someone at a university if you know his/her BITNET/USENET address. Just send mail to nm%DECWRL::" whatever the usenet addres is " they can in turn just reply to your messages. Ray
821.2	USENET is news only net	NORGE::CHAD	Ich glaube Ich t�te Ich h�tte	`Thu Apr 05 1990 16:33`	10
	nit: USENET is the news network (no mail or anything else) Internet et al is/are the external network where you send mail. Chad not a network expert
821.3		PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ	Jeffrey A. Lomicka	`Thu Apr 05 1990 18:24`	2
	USENET also does mail.
821.4	sorry	NORGE::CHAD	Ich glaube Ich t�te Ich h�tte	`Fri Apr 06 1990 11:47`	20
	re: USENET also does mail nope. USENET is the term used to describe the network of newsgroups. The news software does tie into the mail networks however (you can mail a poster a message). When some one sends mail to [email protected] or [email protected] they are using internet addressing and it floats around one (or many) of the networks below to the recipient. MAIL on the "outside" net is carried on the various nets. I believe that this is generically called the internet or maybe the internet is just a part of it. Some outside nets are the UUCP networks, BITNET, ARPAnet (or however they call the arapa network), etc. For a description of this you'd probably look in the USENET conference or one of those conferences. Chad not a net expert
821.5	Okay, it's UUCP, not USENET.	PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ	Jeffrey A. Lomicka	`Fri Apr 06 1990 13:10`	12
	I suspect I mixed up the terms "USENET" and "UUCP". In any case, I just spent some time reading through the Ultrix documentatin, and yes, UUCP can be used to send mail. It's not internet mail, since UUCP routing doesn't use any IP addresses, just system names and telephone dialing instructions. See rmail(1) uucp(1c), Guide to UUCP utility section 2.4 (sendmail refreeze), and sendmail (8). Sendmail doesn't actually talk about UUCP, but rmail certainly does, and taken as a whole, it looks like sendmail knows about UUCP. When I get some time, I'll experiment with this. UUCP networks use the "!" delimiter between nodes to specify routing.
821.6	thanks	51228::MEHIGHEND	Wil Heijsen	`Thu May 10 1990 07:59`	7
	Hi all, Thanks for the information you gave me especially on the network area. I'll post my result in trying to communicate with my friend over the foreign network. Isn't this somewhat dangerous? Wil.