ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (10/29/87)
We had been calling from a Mac to a local VAX using MacTerminal (and sometimes Red Ryder) and a modem attached to the modem port. No problem. We just added Asynch AppleTalk to connect the Mac to a bulletin board and electronic mail server in another building. This allows the user to access the mail etc. as if the two Macs were directly connected via regular AppleTalk. The problem is that it is now a pain to use the modem for anything but automatically accessing the mail server. First, Asynch AppleTalk requires that the modem be hooked to the printer port instead of the modem port. So we told MacTerminal to use the printer port for phone communications. If we try to run MacTerminal, MacTerminal sees that the printer port is in use by AppleTalk and switches back to the modem port automatically (but without telling us). Then it tries to dial out through the printer, which is of course attached to the modem port! The only way we seem to be able to use MacTerminal is by calling up the Chooser and inactivating AppleTalk. Then we start MacTerminal and it works OK. But then to turn AppleTalk back on again we have to pull down "Shutdown" and hold the "I" key to make Asynch AppleTalk restart properly. Is there any way to make this easier? Some possibilities: 1) A way to let Asynch AppleTalk use the modem port? 2) A terminal program that works even if AppleTalk is assigned to the port? 3) A way to make that activating and deactyivating of AppleTalk automatic, like a batch file or something? Thanks in advance for any help. Mike Ciaraldi arpa: ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu uucp: seismo!rochester!ciaraldi