Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!rutgers!att!ihlpf!suem
From: suem@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Sue McKinnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: AppleLink
Keywords: apple, applelink
Message-ID: <6428@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 88 17:14:05 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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I've not seen much traffic on AppleLink.  Has anyone else tried it?
I took advantage of the free offer Apple sent to user groups and
signed up as the local club ambassador.  So far I've found several
annoyances about the system and I'm still trying to figure out what
it gains me (I've only used it for 45 minutes beyond the original
sign-on).  I have one question, however, about the set up
procedure:  the manual tells you to set *both* the modem and
printer ports to buffered and turn off the handshake modes.  Does
anyone know why I am suppposed to mess with the printer port?  I
have a hardware buffer in my ImageWriter II and prefer *not* to
buffer printer output through control panel settings.  (I'm running
off a IIgs; I just realised that was not obvious.)  In fact, setting
the printer port to buffered messes up my output since I usually
have a 0K RAMdisk set up; I only get 7 pages of printed output,
presumably 64K, 128K, or whatever the default buffer size is.
Anyway, I tried running with the printer port set back to the
default settings (which is what works fine with my setup) and
AppleLink seemed to work OK, so why the specific settings in the
AppleLink manual?

Beyond this question, has anyone used AppleLink enough to comment
on its value?  I intend to use at least the free time (a club
ambassador gets two free hours per month through 6/89) so I can
report to my club.  I can also report my impressions here if
there's interest.
-- 
Sue McKinnell    ...!att!ihlpf!suem	IH 6N311      x5313
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw