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C00059 00002 General information about INFO-MAC.
C00066 00003 ∂02-Jan-89 1817 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #1
C00083 00004 ∂03-Jan-89 1320 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu References on User-Event-Driven Programming??
C00086 00005 ∂04-Jan-89 1110 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Macintosh QuickBASIC Programming Group
C00089 00006 ∂04-Jan-89 1722 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #2
C00113 00007 ∂05-Jan-89 1931 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #3
C00131 00008 ∂08-Jan-89 2341 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Mac Developers meetings coming up!
C00136 00009 ∂09-Jan-89 1001 dan@sierra.stanford.edu Want to rent a Mac
C00138 00010 ∂09-Jan-89 1935 NLOOMER%ALBION.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu How to send PostScript output to a file?
C00141 00011 ∂09-Jan-89 2015 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #4
C00171 00012 ∂10-Jan-89 1918 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #5
C00198 00013 ∂11-Jan-89 0200 TVR@ccrma-f4 Generic SCSI disk driver?
C00202 00014 ∂11-Jan-89 1654 B.BILLY-B@macbeth.stanford.edu
C00207 00015 ∂12-Jan-89 1956 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #6
C00233 00016 ∂13-Jan-89 1555 faltings%elma.epfl.ch%CLSEPF51.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu Startup problems
C00237 00017 ∂14-Jan-89 0250 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #8
C00240 00018 ∂15-Jan-89 1941 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #9
C00254 00019 ∂16-Jan-89 2038 @SUMEX-2060.Stanford.EDU:Steve_White@cc.sfu.ca request
C00256 00020 ∂17-Jan-89 1738 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #10
C00279 00021 ∂17-Jan-89 2324 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu mac developers meeting location
C00281 00022 ∂19-Jan-89 1432 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Generic SCSI disk driver?
C00285 00023 ∂19-Jan-89 1459 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu XCMDs - when do they exit?
C00290 00024 ∂19-Jan-89 1835 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #11
C00327 00025 ∂20-Jan-89 1956 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #12
C00358 00026 ∂20-Jan-89 2231 R.RRB@macbeth.stanford.edu Is GateKeeper incompatible with switch-launches?
C00360 00027 ∂22-Jan-89 0009 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #13
C00380 00028 ∂23-Jan-89 1534 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Modem for sale
C00382 00029 ∂23-Jan-89 1847 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #14
C00416 00030 ∂24-Jan-89 1431 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Printer Needed
C00418 00031 ∂24-Jan-89 2335 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #15
C00446 00032 ∂25-Jan-89 1933 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #16
C00473 00033 ∂26-Jan-89 0741 @score.stanford.edu:altman@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Price Query
C00475 00034 ∂26-Jan-89 2107 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #17
C00512 00035 ∂27-Jan-89 1612 robinson@sierra.stanford.edu modem and printer wanted
C00516 00036 ∂27-Jan-89 2030 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #18
C00546 00037 ∂28-Jan-89 1353 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Using a Hayes modem with a mac?
C00548 00038 ∂28-Jan-89 1744 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #19
C00586 00039 ∂30-Jan-89 1441 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Stanford Newsgroups guidelines posted to su.computers
C00588 00040 ∂30-Jan-89 1953 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #20
C00612 00041 ∂31-Jan-89 1158 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu memory for sale
C00613 00042 ∂31-Jan-89 2148 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #21
C00641 00043 ∂01-Feb-89 1907 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #22
C00674 00044 ∂02-Feb-89 1909 @lear.stanford.edu:awang@isl.Stanford.EDU Spanish or German on the Mac
C00676 00045 ∂02-Feb-89 1947 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #23
C00693 00046 ∂03-Feb-89 1008 @score.stanford.edu:jwilson@jaguar.Stanford.EDU terminal emulator
C00695 00047 ∂03-Feb-89 1429 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu (2) 1Mb SIMMS for sale
C00696 00048 ∂03-Feb-89 1541 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Terminal emulator
C00698 00049 ∂03-Feb-89 2108 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #24
C00720 00050 ∂06-Feb-89 1251 @lear.stanford.edu:maile@jessica.Stanford.EDU Silicon Graphics Technology Briefing
C00724 00051 ∂06-Feb-89 1457 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #25
C00757 00052 ∂06-Feb-89 1923 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #26
C00777 00053 ∂07-Feb-89 0959 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: terminal emulator
C00779 00054 ∂07-Feb-89 1002 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu No Mac developers this Weds, its Feb 22 instead.
C00782 00055 ∂07-Feb-89 1004 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Looking for an Apple video card
C00784 00056 ∂07-Feb-89 2012 @score.stanford.edu:richer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Mac II 1MB simms for sale
C00786 00057 ∂07-Feb-89 2111 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #27
C00821 00058 ∂08-Feb-89 2353 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #28
C00849 00059 ∂09-Feb-89 0918 @macbeth.stanford.edu:kuhn@cellbio.stanford.edu Want MacDraw-type editing on files downloaded from mainframe...
C00851 00060 ∂09-Feb-89 1642 D.DCANNE@hamlet.stanford.edu gnuemacs on mac or other PCs?
C00853 00061 ∂09-Feb-89 1817 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu CD RoM readers
C00855 00062 ∂09-Feb-89 1931 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #29
C00888 00063 ∂10-Feb-89 1831 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu testing
C00889 00064 ∂11-Feb-89 1245 @score.stanford.edu:P.PDDOC@Lear.Stanford.EDU APL for the Mac
C00891 00065 ∂11-Feb-89 2352 @score.stanford.edu:G.GBERT@Hamlet.Stanford.EDU Stanford Macintosh Users' Group Meeting 02/13
C00893 00066 ∂12-Feb-89 1559 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu communication
C00895 00067 ∂12-Feb-89 1923 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #30
C00920 00068 ∂13-Feb-89 1141 @lear.stanford.edu:morgan@jessica.Stanford.EDU PostScript from Word -> Unix -> lpr -> LW?
C00923 00069 ∂14-Feb-89 0130 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #31
C00959 00070 ∂14-Feb-89 1911 @score.stanford.edu:P.PDDOC@Lear.Stanford.EDU Typing from the mac
C00961 00071 ∂14-Feb-89 2225 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #32
C00989 00072 ∂15-Feb-89 1849 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #33
C01020 00073 ∂15-Feb-89 2125 A.JIML@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU MAC repairs
C01022 00074 ∂16-Feb-89 0055 TVR@sail.stanford.edu re: Using a Hayes modem with a mac?
C01025 00075 ∂16-Feb-89 2344 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #34
C01063 00076 ∂18-Feb-89 0005 @score.stanford.edu:simoni@strat.Stanford.EDU VersaCad user group?
C01065 00077 ∂18-Feb-89 0006 @score.stanford.edu:simoni@strat.Stanford.EDU Any info about HyperDA?
C01067 00078 ∂20-Feb-89 1338 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu communication
C01069 00079 ∂20-Feb-89 1401 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #35
C01087 00080 ∂21-Feb-89 1506 RLM@score.stanford.edu Wanted: Screen Saver...
C01089 00081 ∂21-Feb-89 1557 RLM@score.stanford.edu 4 256K SIMMs, Best Deal
C01090 00082 ∂21-Feb-89 2028 @score.stanford.edu:aboba@Portia.stanford.edu FidoNet/USENET BBS in Palo Alto
C01093 00083 ∂21-Feb-89 2206 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu PICT
C01143 00084 ∂21-Feb-89 2220 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #36
C01174 00085 ∂21-Feb-89 2320 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU HC
C01177 00086 ∂22-Feb-89 0046 B.BONEBRAIN@macbeth.stanford.edu How to make a downloadable font?
C01179 00087 ∂22-Feb-89 0048 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #37
C01208 00088 ∂22-Feb-89 1520 I.ISIMO@lear.stanford.edu HC bitmapExists XFCN
C01210 00089 ∂22-Feb-89 1932 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #38
C01234 00090 ∂22-Feb-89 1939 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu External Drives
C01236 00091 ∂23-Feb-89 0948 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Memory upgrade chips
C01239 00092 ∂23-Feb-89 1255 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Mac II and monitor for sale - 5000 dollars
C01241 00093 ∂23-Feb-89 1711 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Macintosh CAD programs
C01245 00094 ∂23-Feb-89 2023 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
C01284 00095 ∂24-Feb-89 1756 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #40
C01303 00096 ∂26-Feb-89 1420 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #41
C01323 00097 ∂27-Feb-89 0000 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu 128k macs
C01325 00098 ∂27-Feb-89 0622 ESTES%USUHS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu INITs that remain in memory...
C01331 00099 ∂27-Feb-89 1035 galper@sumex-aim.stanford.edu MacWeek backissues
C01333 00100 ∂27-Feb-89 1337 A.JIML@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Does anyone know how to generate postscript file
C01341 00101 ∂27-Feb-89 1900 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #42
C01376 00102 ∂27-Feb-89 1906 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Looking for experience with backup programs
C01378 00103 ∂28-Feb-89 1309 @score.stanford.edu:aboba@Portia.stanford.edu New BBS in Palo Alto
C01380 00104 ∂28-Feb-89 2248 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #43
C01410 00105 ∂28-Feb-89 2310 A.JIML@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU I need a computer, but I'm poor.
C01412 00106 ∂02-Mar-89 1805 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #44
C01443 00107 ∂03-Mar-89 1644 @score.stanford.edu:G.GBERT@Hamlet.Stanford.EDU SMUG General Meetings 03/06
C01445 00108 ∂03-Mar-89 1653 @score.stanford.edu:G.GBERT@Hamlet.Stanford.EDU SMUG March Calendar
C01449 00109 ∂03-Mar-89 1941 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #45
C01465 00110 ∂04-Mar-89 1558 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu MacTran 3.0 FORTRAN For Sale
C01467 00111 ∂04-Mar-89 1749 goddard@sierra.stanford.edu WordPerfect for sale
C01468 00112 ∂05-Mar-89 1038 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu : "Draw It Again, Sam" v 2.04, for sale, $20
C01470 00113 ∂05-Mar-89 1442 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #46
C01489 00114 ∂05-Mar-89 2200 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu MacDevelopers - MacApp v2 - Mar 8↑th
C01493 00115 ∂06-Mar-89 1610 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Help needed with Cricket Draw 1.1
C01498 00116 ∂06-Mar-89 1711 M.MATHESON@lear.stanford.edu 4MB Memory for sale
C01502 00117 ∂07-Mar-89 1015 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu LaserWriter driver help needed - Helvetica-Narrow?
C01505 00118 ∂07-Mar-89 1930 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #47
C01526 00119 ∂08-Mar-89 0936 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu HARD DISK TROUBLES WITH A MAC II
C01531 00120 ∂09-Mar-89 1232 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu resedit
C01533 00121 ∂09-Mar-89 1730 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #48
C01553 00122 ∂09-Mar-89 2134 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu EE 192A, "MacPhysics" Course, Spring Quarter
C01558 00123 ∂10-Mar-89 1246 B.BONEBRAIN@macbeth.stanford.edu Tabs in Hypercard?
C01560 00124 ∂10-Mar-89 2024 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #48
C01581 00125 ∂14-Mar-89 1507 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #50 (RESEND)
C01618 00126 ∂15-Mar-89 1958 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #51
C01656 00127 ∂16-Mar-89 1814 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #52
C01683 00128 ∂16-Mar-89 2054 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Mac Desktop Publishing Person Wanted for Small Job
C01685 00129 ∂17-Mar-89 1422 hewett@sumex-aim.stanford.edu 2 Mac Problems
C01687 00130 ∂17-Mar-89 1915 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #53
C01705 00131 ∂18-Mar-89 1038 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Using a HP Inkjet with a Mac--some questions
C01707 00132 ∂20-Mar-89 1133 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #54
C01731 00133 ∂20-Mar-89 2206 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #55
C01754 00134 ∂21-Mar-89 1510 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU No MacDev meeting wednesday
C01757 00135 ∂21-Mar-89 1847 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #56
C01792 00136 ∂28-Mar-89 1856 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Change from Mac II -> Mac IIx
C01795 00137 ∂29-Mar-89 2110 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #57
C01824 00138 ∂29-Mar-89 2119 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #58
C01856 00139 ∂29-Mar-89 2134 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #59
C01880 00140 ∂30-Mar-89 0750 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu <Illustrator & PowerPoint>
C01882 00141 ∂30-Mar-89 1917 richer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Re: Change from Mac II -> Mac IIx
C01888 00142 ∂02-Apr-89 1437 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #60
C01921 00143 ∂03-Apr-89 2203 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #61
C01955 00144 ∂04-Apr-89 2217 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #62
C01989 00145 ∂05-Apr-89 1337 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu student programmer jobs
C01991 00146 ∂05-Apr-89 1511 M.M-SPORER@macbeth.stanford.edu I need a font that has medical symbols. Microdisc doesn't have it.
C01993 00147 ∂05-Apr-89 1526 @score.stanford.edu:mansour@am-sun1.STANFORD.EDU recovering a resource fork when mixed up with info part
C01995 00148 ∂05-Apr-89 2116 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #63
C02025 00149 ∂06-Apr-89 1923 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #64
C02052 00150 ∂07-Apr-89 1856 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #65
C02071 00151 ∂08-Apr-89 1120 B.BSK@macbeth.stanford.edu How does mac-sundry work?
C02073 00152 ∂09-Apr-89 2226 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: How does mac-sundry work?
C02075 00153 ∂10-Apr-89 1656 @hamlet.stanford.edu:maile@jessica.Stanford.EDU DEC Technical Symposium
C02079 00154 ∂10-Apr-89 1856 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: How does mac-sundry work?
C02081 00155 ∂10-Apr-89 2343 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU Mac Developer's - Display Postscript - Wednesday
C02085 00156 ∂11-Apr-89 0108 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Paradise Lost
C02087 00157 ∂12-Apr-89 0008 B.SONG@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU Stuff for sale
C02088 00158 ∂12-Apr-89 1201 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu AutoCad for the Mac
C02090 00159 ∂12-Apr-89 1535 @hamlet.stanford.edu:maile@jessica.Stanford.EDU Demonstrations of Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh
C02093 00160 ∂12-Apr-89 2151 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #67
C02113 00161 ∂13-Apr-89 0528 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Geting 6.03
C02115 00162 ∂13-Apr-89 1131 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Need info about SLITEX
C02117 00163 ∂13-Apr-89 1158 @score.stanford.edu:mailcom!f445.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Bernard.Aboba@apple.com Test
C02120 00164 ∂13-Apr-89 1331 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Paradise Found
C02122 00165 ∂13-Apr-89 2120 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #68
C02157 00166 ∂14-Apr-89 1412 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: Mac repair and upgrades by professionals
C02159 00167 ∂16-Apr-89 1357 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #69
C02184 00168 ∂17-Apr-89 1725 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #70
C02210 00169 ∂18-Apr-89 0126 schaefer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu troff on a Mac
C02212 00170 ∂18-Apr-89 2042 B.BSK@macbeth.stanford.edu Help sending stuff to mac-sundry?
C02214 00171 ∂18-Apr-89 2113 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Anyone Getting Academic Word Upgrades?
C02216 00172 ∂19-Apr-89 1251 sujansky@sumex-aim.stanford.edu PASCAL file/database systems
C02219 00173 ∂20-Apr-89 1505 @score.stanford.edu:calius@composite.stanford.edu mail to AppleLink
C02221 00174 ∂21-Apr-89 1316 goddard@sierra.stanford.edu Laserwriter
C02223 00175 ∂21-Apr-89 1343 @score.stanford.edu:S.SALUT@Hamlet.Stanford.EDU Re: mail to AppleLink
C02228 00176 ∂22-Apr-89 1545 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #73
C02250 00177 ∂24-Apr-89 0956 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu MacSamson 2.0 now available
C02255 00178 ∂24-Apr-89 1045 hgkopper@sierra.stanford.edu test
C02256 00179 ∂24-Apr-89 1048 hgkopper@sierra.stanford.edu Monitors for Macs
C02258 00180 ∂24-Apr-89 1050 hgkopper@sierra.stanford.edu Monitors for Macs
C02260 00181 ∂24-Apr-89 1341 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #71
C02292 00182 ∂24-Apr-89 1718 E.EGDIRDLE@hamlet.stanford.edu WANT OLD MAC+
C02294 00183 ∂24-Apr-89 1729 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Mac programmers for an office automation group
C02295 00184 ∂24-Apr-89 1946 M.MAILE@macbeth.stanford.edu "Why UNIX?" seminar announcement
C02298 00185 ∂24-Apr-89 2141 kunieda@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Japanese Mac
C02300 00186 ∂25-Apr-89 0042 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu INIT 29 Virus
C02302 00187 ∂25-Apr-89 0113 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: Japanese Mac
C02304 00188 ∂25-Apr-89 1123 GILBERTSON@score.stanford.edu Question
C02306 00189 ∂25-Apr-89 1128 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: INIT 29 Virus
C02308 00190 ∂25-Apr-89 1943 P.PITNER@hamlet.stanford.edu 380 MB SCSI hard disk for sale
C02310 00191 ∂26-Apr-89 1459 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #74
C02331 00192 ∂26-Apr-89 1634 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #75
C02358 00193 ∂28-Apr-89 1039 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Mac Xwindows
C02359 00194 ∂29-Apr-89 1746 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #76
C02387 00195 ∂29-Apr-89 2232 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #77
C02426 00196 ∂01-May-89 1045 @score.stanford.edu:calius@composite.stanford.edu shipping a Mac
C02429 00197 ∂01-May-89 1614 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #78
C02463 00198 ∂02-May-89 1937 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #79
C02489 00199 ∂03-May-89 2114 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
C02492 00200 ∂03-May-89 2207 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
C02521 00201 ∂04-May-89 1108 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
C02525 00202 ∂04-May-89 1147 P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Fried logic board on Mac Plus
C02527 00203 ∂04-May-89 1816 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #81
C02557 00204 ∂05-May-89 0910 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu WANTED: Mac Courseware Programmer
C02560 00205 ∂05-May-89 1505 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
C02563 00206 ∂05-May-89 1709 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #82
C02588 00207 ∂05-May-89 2323 zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Imagewriter LQ problems
C02590 00208 ∂06-May-89 1124 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
C02593 00209 ∂08-May-89 1621 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #83
C02619 00210 ∂09-May-89 1030 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU "Virtual" for the Mac - This Weds Mac Developers
C02623 00211 ∂09-May-89 1614 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Help needed with code for COPYing
C02626 00212 ∂09-May-89 1946 B.BSK@macbeth.stanford.edu Problem with mac-sundry?
C02628 00213 ∂09-May-89 2234 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #84
C02665 00214 ∂10-May-89 1320 P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Footnotes in Word
C02667 00215 ∂10-May-89 1447 M.MAILE@macbeth.stanford.edu Apple to Present Seminar and Demonstrations
C02670 00216 ∂10-May-89 1621 @macbeth.stanford.edu:A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU Re: Problem with mac-sundry?
C02672 00217 ∂10-May-89 1951 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Footnotes in Word
C02675 00218 ∂10-May-89 2150 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #85
C02706 00219 ∂10-May-89 2150 BREESE@score.stanford.edu Re: Footnotes in Word
C02708 00220 ∂11-May-89 1209 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Imagewriter LQ problems
C02711 00221 ∂11-May-89 2009 K.KINCAID@macbeth.stanford.edu Pict to clipboard
C02713 00222 ∂11-May-89 2217 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #86
C02739 00223 ∂12-May-89 0916 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu Antiviral Protection By Locking programs?
C02742 00224 ∂12-May-89 1409 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Footnotes in Word
C02744 00225 ∂12-May-89 1857 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #87
C02769 00226 ∂15-May-89 1832 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #88
C02803 00227 ∂16-May-89 0933 P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU moving a mac and hard disk across the country
C02805 00228 ∂16-May-89 1816 @score.stanford.edu:maslak@unix.SRI.COM Reconditioned drives
C02807 00229 ∂16-May-89 1822 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #89
C02838 00230 ∂16-May-89 2309 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu RE: Reconditioned drives
C02840 00231 ∂17-May-89 0008 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Word 4.0 and PageMaker ??
C02842 00232 ∂17-May-89 1508 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Word 4.0 and PageMaker ??
C02845 00233 ∂17-May-89 1554 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Word 4?
C02847 00234 ∂17-May-89 2044 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #90
C02882 00235 ∂17-May-89 2255 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Word 4?
C02885 00236 ∂18-May-89 1432 A.JIML@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Mac Bag Suggestions
C02886 00237 ∂18-May-89 1758 K.KIRIN@macbeth.stanford.edu Re: Antiviral Protection By Locking programs?
C02889 00238 ∂18-May-89 1828 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #91
C02932 00239 ∂19-May-89 1116 hgkopper@sierra.stanford.edu test
C02934 00240 ∂19-May-89 1129 hgkopper@sierra.stanford.edu Mac and non-Apple laserprinters?
C02936 00241 ∂19-May-89 2107 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #92
C02970 00242 ∂20-May-89 1228 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu QuickDraw Picture Question
C02972 00243 ∂22-May-89 1841 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Mac Bag Suggestions
C02974 00244 ∂22-May-89 1845 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Antiviral Protection By Locking programs?
C02977 00245 ∂22-May-89 1938 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #93
C03001 00246 ∂22-May-89 2150 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Mac Bag Suggestions
C03004 00247 ∂23-May-89 0621 @score.stanford.edu:K.KENSONG@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU a question about Beyond Dark Castle
C03006 00248 ∂23-May-89 1221 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: a question about Beyond Dark Castle
C03009 00249 ∂23-May-89 1703 RLM@score.stanford.edu Used Monitors - $$??
C03011 00250 ∂23-May-89 1852 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #94
C03025 00251 ∂23-May-89 2358 Mailer@sail.stanford.edu Hard Disk for Mac Plus wanted
C03027 00252 ∂25-May-89 0003 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #95
C03057 00253 ∂26-May-89 0958 RLM@score.stanford.edu Hello, CD-ROM/Music info?
C03059 00254 ∂26-May-89 1336 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Hello, CD-ROM/Music info?
C03062 00255 ∂26-May-89 1801 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Paradise HD + SCSI HD
C03064 00256 ∂26-May-89 1914 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #96
C03093 00257 ∂28-May-89 2024 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #97
C03136 00258 ∂29-May-89 1724 P.STINSON@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Using BinHex 5 to decompress sounds
C03138 00259 ∂29-May-89 1759 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Using BinHex 5 to decompress sounds
C03140 00260 ∂30-May-89 1240 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu DRAM for Sale...
C03142 00261 ∂30-May-89 1555 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu Changing the Disk ICON
C03144 00262 ∂31-May-89 0119 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #98
C03184 00263 ∂31-May-89 1733 K.KINCAID@macbeth.stanford.edu changing the icon for your boot (hard) disk
C03187 00264 ∂31-May-89 1741 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu mac 800k internal floppy drive for sale
C03189 00265 ∂01-Jun-89 1545 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu LaserWriter Plus choking
C03191 00266 ∂01-Jun-89 1556 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #99
C03231 00267 ∂04-Jun-89 1823 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: changing the icon for your boot (hard) disk
C03233 00268 ∂06-Jun-89 2028 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #100
C03264 00269 ∂07-Jun-89 1836 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu System ram size >1 Meg?
C03266 00270 ∂08-Jun-89 1348 @macbeth.stanford.edu:kuhn@cellbio.stanford.edu For Sale, Mac 512KE, and/or external 800K disk drive
C03268 00271 ∂09-Jun-89 2146 K.KIRIN@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU Re: System ram size >1 Meg?
C03270 00272 ∂10-Jun-89 1938 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #101
C03298 00273 ∂12-Jun-89 0023 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU 32 bit quickdraw talk, this Wednesday
C03302 00274 ∂14-Jun-89 1646 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #102
C03340 00275 ∂14-Jun-89 1932 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu mac on the plane
C03342 00276 ∂15-Jun-89 0326 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #103
C03386 00277 ∂15-Jun-89 1224 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: System ram size >1 Meg?
C03388 00278 ∂15-Jun-89 1232 R.REHM@macbeth.stanford.edu Mac 512KE for sale
C03390 00279 ∂15-Jun-89 2208 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #104
C03425 00280 ∂17-Jun-89 2125 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #105
C03458 00281 ∂18-Jun-89 1315 nakata@jessica.stanford.edu Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
C03462 00282 ∂18-Jun-89 1812 @score.stanford.edu:P.PDDOC@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU What happened to Sumex again?
C03464 00283 ∂18-Jun-89 2130 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
C03467 00284 ∂18-Jun-89 2222 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
C03506 00285 ∂18-Jun-89 2330 @score.stanford.edu:A.JIML@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Re: What happened to Sumex again?
C03508 00286 ∂19-Jun-89 0016 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: What happened to Sumex again?
C03510 00287 ∂19-Jun-89 0937 RLM@score.stanford.edu Word 4 - Memory Hog?
C03512 00288 ∂19-Jun-89 1216 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Word 4 - Memory Hog?
C03514 00289 ∂19-Jun-89 2020 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #107
C03554 00290 ∂20-Jun-89 2105 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #108
C03587 00291 ∂21-Jun-89 1519 @score.stanford.edu:gilberts@polya.Stanford.EDU SMUG Mailing List
C03589 00292 ∂21-Jun-89 2307 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #109
C03620 00293 ∂22-Jun-89 1142 @macbeth.stanford.edu:morgan@jessica.Stanford.EDU Re: Word 4.0 Memory
C03624 00294 ∂22-Jun-89 1943 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #110
C03648 00295 ∂23-Jun-89 2129 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #111
C03685 00296 ∂24-Jun-89 1649 @macbeth.stanford.edu:kuhn@cellbio.stanford.edu ** For Sale: Mac 512KE with Apple external 800K drive.
C03687 00297 ∂24-Jun-89 2006 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Linking MacPlus to LaserJet II
C03689 00298 ∂25-Jun-89 2142 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #112
C03720 00299 ∂26-Jun-89 2155 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #113
C03745 00300 ∂28-Jun-89 2055 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #114
C03776 00301 ∂30-Jun-89 1642 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Appletalk with an ibm-pc?
C03779 00302 ∂01-Jul-89 0958 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Appletalk with an ibm-pc?
C03782 00303 ∂02-Jul-89 1955 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #115
C03829 00304 ∂02-Jul-89 2202 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu German keycaps wanted
C03831 00305 ∂03-Jul-89 0124 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Help: How do I hilite a button?
C03834 00306 ∂03-Jul-89 0935 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Help: How do I hilite a button?
C03836 00307 ∂03-Jul-89 1224 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Hiliting a button: RTFM
C03838 00308 ∂03-Jul-89 2124 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu QuickDraw/TextEdit question
C03842 00309 ∂06-Jul-89 1426 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
C03884 00310 ∂07-Jul-89 1245 N.NOODLE@macbeth.stanford.edu MSWord 3 AND 4 on the same network?
C03886 00311 ∂07-Jul-89 1306 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: MSWord 3 AND 4 on the same network?
C03889 00312 ∂07-Jul-89 1929 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu How do I implement a toolbox window like MacPaint 2.0?
C03892 00313 ∂09-Jul-89 1324 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: How do I implement a toolbox window like MacPaint 2.0?
C03897 00314 ∂10-Jul-89 2354 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #117
C03947 00315 ∂11-Jul-89 0928 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@Polya.Stanford.EDU Mac Dev Mtg, Weds/ Data Publication Manager
C03951 00316 ∂11-Jul-89 1015 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Lightspeed C
C03953 00317 ∂11-Jul-89 1759 walton@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Wanted: Used Mac SE
C03955 00318 ∂11-Jul-89 2258 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #118
C03995 00319 ∂13-Jul-89 0038 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #119
C04031 00320 ∂13-Jul-89 2053 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu MacDraw II
C04033 00321 ∂13-Jul-89 2210 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #120
C04074 00322 ∂13-Jul-89 2253 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: MacDraw II
C04076 00323 ∂14-Jul-89 0914 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Low Memory Globals: Application Name?
C04078 00324 ∂14-Jul-89 1002 HILLER@score.stanford.edu Postscripted Logo on Word 4
C04081 00325 ∂14-Jul-89 2141 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Low Memory Globals: Application Name?
C04083 00326 ∂16-Jul-89 1242 @score.stanford.edu:gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Re: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
C04086 00327 ∂17-Jul-89 0032 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #121
C04125 00328 ∂17-Jul-89 2141 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
C04164 00329 ∂18-Jul-89 1610 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu printing postscript from macs
C04166 00330 ∂18-Jul-89 2034 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #123
C04208 00331 ∂19-Jul-89 0832 M.MATHESON@macbeth.stanford.edu Re: printing Postscript from macs
C04211 00332 ∂19-Jul-89 1731 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #124
C04239 00333 ∂20-Jul-89 1326 @score.stanford.edu:sells@csli.Stanford.EDU HyperCard xfcns
C04241 00334 ∂20-Jul-89 1919 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #125
C04279 00335 ∂21-Jul-89 0955 dshulman@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Mathematica
C04281 00336 ∂23-Jul-89 1928 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #126
C04324 00337 ∂24-Jul-89 1107 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Macintosh MS word, formating work
C04326 00338 ∂24-Jul-89 2152 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #127
C04353 00339 ∂25-Jul-89 0129 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Mac programming question
C04355 00340 ∂25-Jul-89 1133 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Mac programming question
C04357 00341 ∂25-Jul-89 1332 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Laserwriter NT, won't print on legal size paper
C04360 00342 ∂25-Jul-89 1633 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #128
C04387 00343 ∂25-Jul-89 1712 @hamlet.stanford.edu:mark@arden.stanford.edu MacDraw II, Word 4, and arrows...
C04389 00344 ∂26-Jul-89 1655 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #129
C04439 00345 ∂27-Jul-89 1537 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #130
C04476 00346 ∂27-Jul-89 2043 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu MacDraw II and LaserWriter driver meet and don't get along
C04478 00347 ∂28-Jul-89 1804 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #131
C04521 00348 ∂30-Jul-89 0901 L.LEONARD-16@macbeth.stanford.edu MacDraw II and LaserWriter don't work...
C04523 00349 ∂30-Jul-89 0908 L.LEONARD-16@macbeth.stanford.edu Used Mac Plus or SE WANTED !
C04525 00350 ∂30-Jul-89 1815 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #132
C04567 00351 ∂31-Jul-89 1144 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Double Sided/Duplex Laser Printer
C04569 00352 ∂31-Jul-89 1845 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Double Sided/Duplex Laser Printer
C04571 00353 ∂31-Jul-89 2058 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #133
C04615 00354 ∂01-Aug-89 1012 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu LaserWriter Driver 6.0
C04617 00355 ∂01-Aug-89 1841 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Getting LW 6.0
C04619 00356 ∂03-Aug-89 0810 R.REHM@macbeth.stanford.edu MacII Dust cover wanted
C04621 00357 ∂03-Aug-89 1038 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: MacII Dust cover wanted
C04623 00358 ∂04-Aug-89 0008 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #135
C04665 00359 ∂04-Aug-89 1433 @hamlet.stanford.edu:gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Re: MacDraw II, Word 4, and arrows...
C04670 00360 ∂04-Aug-89 1642 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: MacDraw II, Word 4, and arrows...
C04673 00361 ∂04-Aug-89 1818 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #136
C04715 00362 ∂05-Aug-89 2111 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #137
C04757 00363 ∂07-Aug-89 1613 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu For sale: Macintosh peripherals
C04759 00364 ∂07-Aug-89 2339 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #138
C04796 00365 ∂08-Aug-89 1035 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu System 7.0 Info
C04799 00366 ∂08-Aug-89 1107 N.NOODLE@macbeth.stanford.edu Changing the hard drive icon
C04801 00367 ∂08-Aug-89 1258 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Changing the hard drive icon
C04804 00368 ∂08-Aug-89 1353 L.LEONARD-16@macbeth.stanford.edu CHESS game for sale !
C04806 00369 ∂08-Aug-89 1409 L.LEONARD-16@macbeth.stanford.edu Mac PLUS for sale ...
C04808 00370 ∂08-Aug-89 1726 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #139
C04847 00371 ∂15-Aug-89 2048 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #141
C04884 00372 ∂15-Aug-89 2100 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #140
C04923 00373 ∂15-Aug-89 2102 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #142
C04963 00374 ∂16-Aug-89 2008 @macbeth.stanford.edu:89.KREMEN@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU Laser Printer Query (SC, NX, and PostScript)
C04966 00375 ∂17-Aug-89 0252 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #143
C05000 00376 ∂17-Aug-89 1402 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu SQUEAL FOR ME! (Broken Mac II hints needed.)
C05003 00377 ∂17-Aug-89 1921 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #144
C05042 00378 ∂18-Aug-89 0955 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Something Screwing Up My Desktop File?
C05045 00379 ∂18-Aug-89 1000 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Macintalk
C05046 00380 ∂18-Aug-89 1200 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu SE fan from hell
C05048 00381 ∂18-Aug-89 1936 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #145
C05083 00382 ∂19-Aug-89 1833 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu mathematica for sale
C05085 00383 ∂20-Aug-89 2357 @score.stanford.edu:P.PDDOC@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU Now where is Info-Mac?
C05087 00384 ∂21-Aug-89 1104 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Busted 800K internal floppy -- Mac II
C05092 00385 ∂21-Aug-89 1419 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Desktop Foulup Results from Doc with BNDL Bit Set
C05095 00386 ∂21-Aug-89 1844 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #146
C05136 00387 ∂21-Aug-89 1855 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #147
C05176 00388 ∂22-Aug-89 1607 goddard@sierra.stanford.edu Software Application Help Wanted
C05178 00389 ∂23-Aug-89 1603 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #148
C05214 00390 ∂24-Aug-89 1459 A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU Screen-saver programs?
C05216 00391 ∂24-Aug-89 1837 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #149
C05247 00392 ∂25-Aug-89 1426 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #150
C05284 00393 ∂27-Aug-89 1813 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #151
C05329 00394 ∂28-Aug-89 0027 A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU Re: Screen-saver programs?
C05331 00395 ∂28-Aug-89 1810 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #152
C05357 00396 ∂28-Aug-89 2115 @score.stanford.edu:P.PDDOC@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU Help with Boomerang cdev?
C05359 00397 ∂30-Aug-89 1950 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #154
C05407 00398 ∂31-Aug-89 1215 R.ROTHO@macbeth.stanford.edu wanted: used SE HD 20
C05409 00399 ∂31-Aug-89 1302 @score.stanford.edu:johnmark@Neon.Stanford.EDU Re: Cheap SIMMs around here?
C05412 00400 ∂31-Aug-89 2253 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
C05449 00401 ∂02-Sep-89 0153 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #156
C05499 00402 ∂04-Sep-89 1903 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #157
C05535 00403 ∂05-Sep-89 2119 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #158
C05568 00404 ∂07-Sep-89 0138 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #159
C05601 ENDMK
C⊗;
General information about INFO-MAC.
Please do not delete this page.
INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU is a network interest group for the Apple
Macintosh computer. This list is SUMEX's contribution to the community of
research and instructional developers of the Macintosh. We welcome all
submissions of messages and programs in this spirit.
The Info-Mac digest is distributed via arpanet mail to over 100 sites,
which then redistribute it to individual addresses. This hierachial
method makes the mail load manageable for the SUMEX host. To receive the
digest, check with your system bboard manager and if they don't yet
receive it, then request a copy be sent to a local bboard address (e.g.
Info-Mac@HOST).
Other networks also have access to the digest. Redistribution to CSNet
addresses is taken care of by Postmaster@CSNet-Relay and to BITNET by
gg.jdn@Stanford.bitnet Usenet receives a copy called fa.info-mac.
For Arpa sites with FTP access to SUMEX-AIM, archives for INFO-MAC are
kept under {SUMEX-AIM}<INFO-MAC>ARCHIVE.<month>, where month =
feb84,mar84,...jan85,... Programs submitted to the bulletin board,
along with documentation files and other references are also stored in
<INFO-MAC>, and listed in the file 00DIR. With FTP access as user
"anonymous" and any password, you can bring these files over to your host
and download them to your Macintosh. (Downloading is still somewhat a
black art..)"Usenet" and some of the other networks that copy info-mac
will see sources redistributed at the time they are mentioned in the
digest distributions. You can in addition, purchase a dump tape of the
directory; see the file <INFO-MAC>00ORDER.
<INFO-MAC> is also the repository for the development tools and utilities
developed at SUMEX and at other universities. The "sumacc" cross
compiler is also available on tape for a minimal charge: See the
file <INFO-MAC>SUMACC.ORDER
Submissions are scanned to filter out any list requests, questions
previously answered, pure speculation or opinion, or message obviously
not in line with the stated purpose of the list. Submissions should
be made directly to INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, also comments
about operations, problems, and administrative questions, should be sent
to INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.
Enjoy!
John Mark Agosta <INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM>
[THis is the old header info. New one above added at the request
of J.M. Agosta]
General information about INFO-MAC.
Please do not delete this page.
Welcome to new members of INFO-MAC. INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM is a network interest
group for the Apple Macintosh computer. The purpose of this list is to
stimulate communication and sharing among individuals and groups that are
using or seriously interested in the Macintosh. The emphasis should be on
USING. INFO-MAC is not the place for trivial gossip, flames, quips, or
debates.
For those sites with FTP access to SUMEX-AIM, archives for INFO-MAC are kept
under {SUMEX-AIM}<INFO-MAC>ARCHIVE.<month>, where month = feb,mar,apr etc.
Other files on <INFO-MAC> contain various topics of general interest
concerning the MACintosh and program submissions.
Messages will be sent to the list as submitted, but are scanned to filter out
any list requests, questions previously answered, or message obviously not in
line with the stated purpose of the list.
All requests to be added to or deleted from this list, problems, questions,
etc., should be sent to INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.
Enjoy!
-- Ed
From: Ed Pattermann <PATTERMANN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
-------
Please do not send INFO-MAC mail to me directly. I get enough mail as it is!
If you wish to submit something to be posted on INFO-MAC, please send it to
INFO-MAC@SUMEX. If you have any administrative problems or questions regarding
the INFO-MAC mailing list, please send those messages to
INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX.
Thank You.
-- Ed
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Pre-Digest messages are in files MAC.1[2,2] thru MAC.29[2,2].
Digestification started with volume 2.
Volume 2 (issues 1-51 plus a few non-digest messages) is in MAC.V2[2,2],
Volume 3 (issues 1-51 plus a few non-digest messages) is in MAC.V3[BB,DOC].
Volume 4 is in MAC.V4[BB,DOC].
Volume 5 is in MAC.V5[BB,DOC].
--- The files described above have been REAPed. ---
Volume 6 is in MAC.V6[BB,DOC].
Volume 7 now flows into this file (MAC.TXT[BB,DOC]).
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 2 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Absoft Fortran
FKEY-ROT13-HQX
Game - Shufflepuck
Info wanted on OCR.
MandelZot 1.4.1
Printer bombs
Question on adding unsupported disk drivers
ResEdit documentation
SPSS (apparently SPSS-X!) for the Macintosh
Which is the best Postscript book?
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Date: Mon, 02 Jan 89 15:15:57 EST
From: Jean Brunet <R31631@UQAM.BITNET>
Subject: Absoft Fortran
I acquired Absoft Fortran recently. Though I am use with the language, I never
used the R Maker to add resources. I would appreciate if someone would send me
a simple example showing me how to add resources to a program. For instance
making a menu bar and insert it in a program. Thanks to those who will reply.
Please reply directly to R31631@UQAM.
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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 89 03:28:16 PST
From: Fernando Borcel <borcelf@jacobs.cs.orst.edu>
Subject: FKEY-ROT13-HQX
This is an FKEY I wrote which will encrypt/decrypt text that's in the clipboard
using rot13 mode.
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___ __ |{tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!
/ _ _ _ _ _ _/ _ /_/ _ _ _ _ / | jacobs.cs.orst.edu!borcelf
/- /_// // / _// // // / / )/ // // /_// |
_/ /_ / / //_// //_//_/ /__//_// /_ /_ /_ |borcelf@jacobs.cs.orst.edu
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>FKEY-ROT13.HQX]
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Date: Sun 01 Jan 1989 01:01 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Game - Shufflepuck
SHUFFLEPUCK IS A GAME WHICH IS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO SHUFFLEBOARD, BUT IS
PLAYED ON THE MAC. SOUNDS BORING HUH? WELL, FOR ONCE IT'S NOT. IT IS
PLAYED WITHIN A PSEUDO-TRENCH WHICH IS THREE-DIMENSIONAL, AND CAN GET
QUITE QUICK. SOUNDS ARE PRETTY GOOD AND ARE DEACTIVATABLE. GO NUTS!
BYE FOR NOW BUT NOT FOR LONG
GREENY
P.S. THE BINHEXED FILE TURNS INTO A STUFFIT DOCUMENT THAT CONTAINS JUST
THE PROGRAM....I DIDN'T GET ANY DOCS WITH IT, BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS CHECK OUT
THE "ABOUT SHUFFLE..." BOX IN THE APPLE MENU...
BITNET: MISS026@E
INTERNET: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@C
GENIE: GREENY
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>GAME-SHUFFLEPUCK.HQX]
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 89 14:13 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info wanted on OCR.
Dear Net,
We want to convert printed text back to ascii files by using a scanner and a
software package. I recall having seen this subject some time ago
on the net. My questions are:
1) does this require a scanner and software by the same manufacturer
or do these packages read different types of scanned files ?
2) could someone inform me on a scanner and software package that
has good performance ?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
bitnet: kraalingen@hwalhw50
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 89 10:02:21 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: MandelZot 1.4.1
This two-part posting contains version 1.4.1 of MandelZot, a program
for exploring the Mandelbrot fractal and its surroundings. This version
replaces the 0.9 version posted last spring.
MandelZot 1.4.1 supports the Mac Plus, SE, and II; I haven't tested it
on a IIx or on the not-yet-announced 68030 SE machine. It runs best on
machines equipped with a 68881, as its calculations are extremely
math-intensive; it will run on 68881-less machines with substantially
lower performance. It supports Color QuickDraw, with both high- and
low-contrast color palettes and color-palette animation. Images can be
copied to the Clipboard and pasted into other applications' documents,
or converted into startup screens via ResEdit. MZ 1.4.1 can be used to
print images, too... it should work correctly with any printer that
supports QuickDraw (including color-slide printers, I believe), and can
print halftone images to the LaserWriter if it's run on a Mac II.
MandelZot is Copyright 1988, Dave Platt. It may be used by anyone; no
shareware fee is requested. It may not be sold commercially.
Documentation and some sample data files follow in separate postings.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>APPL-MANDELZOT-141-PART1.HQX through PART2
<INFO-MAC>APPL-MANDELZOT-141-DOCS-PART1.HQX through PART3
<INFO-MAC>APPL-MANDELZOT-SAMPLES.HQX]
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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 89 18:09 EST
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: Printer bombs
I am having consistent problems trying to print with system 6.0.2 using
a NEC Silentwriter. MacPaint prints 2 pages correctly, then only prints
1/4 of the next page before ejecting that page and dying. Other
programs have similar problems. Usually they bomb with code 02.
Occasionally it appears that the system tries to initialize the printer
twice bofore it bombs. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated
as it is quite a pain. I did try using the LaserWriter and Prep files
>From System 5, but it didn't do anything different.
-- Doug
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1988 15:43:31 PST
From: "Sang K. Cha" <chask@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: Question on adding unsupported disk drivers
I am trying to attach a new (unsupported) disk-like storage device to
Mac II's SCSI slot. Could anybody kindly tell me what to do to make
the driver integrated into Mac OS environment? And how difficult is it?
Thanks in advance.
- S.
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 89 16:15 CST
From: <BCC376@SWTEXAS>
Subject: ResEdit documentation
Does anyone know if documentation for ResEdit exists? I am a new Mac user
and am trying to learn all I can about Mac applications. Also, is there
a source for "all there is to know" about resources? Any and all help
will be greatly appreciated.
Thanx,
Biff Coon
BCC376@SWTEXAS.BITNET
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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 88 16:13:39 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SPSS (apparently SPSS-X!) for the Macintosh
Found on page 25 of the 2 January '89 InfoWorld (by Scott Mace)
*emphasis added*
SPSS Inc. recently announced plans to bring out a Macintosh version of
its statistical software in mid-1989.
SPSS said it has signed an agreement with Managment Computer
International AB of Stockholm, Sweden to jointly develop the
statistical data analysis package for the Macintosh II and SE
computers. The package will contain the FULL FUNCTIONALITY of the SPSS
mainframe statistical products and will have a Macintosh user
interface, the company said.
"In the past year we have seen a growing demand for SPSS products on
the Macintosh" said Norman H. Nie, chariman and cofounder of SPSS Inc.
SPSS is already available on mainframes and IBM PCs.
Management Computer International will work closely with Datalogen AB
of Uppsala, Sweden, in development of the user interface. Datalogen is
a leading Scandinavian company for Macintosh training, according to Bo
Jansson, Management Computer's owner.
SPSS had to trim some of the more advanced functions out of its
DOS-based product due to the 640K memory barrier. "We won't have to do
that with our Macintosh product," said Louise Rehling, SPSS' senior
vice president of product development. The advanced functions are
primarily in advanced file and data management capabilities, she said.
SPSS is working on the Macintosh version in conjunction with its OS/2
Presentation Manager program, which will have a similar user interface.
SPSS Inc., 444 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611; (312) 329-2400.
[The Far Side shall return (I hope)]
Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax}
!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
-+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa!
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
"Close enough for government work" - source unknown (naturally ;-)
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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 89 22:38:30 gmt
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Which is the best Postscript book?
I see there are several Postscript books - three from Adobe, and one
by David Holzgang, that I know of. As these are very expensive in the UK
and I may have to buy a copy by mail order, can anyone suggest which
is the most useful for someone who wants to learn about writing
short Postscript routines to embed in Mac files? Is there any
useful supplementary material available which describes the Apple
extensions carried in the Laserwriter header?
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1989 13:17:00 PST
To: su-computers@sierra.stanford.edu, su-macintosh@sierra.stanford.edu,
info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU
Subject: References on User-Event-Driven Programming??
Can anyone recommend any good references on the basic principles of
Macintosh-style user-event-driven programming?
I'm looking for general concepts on the organization and structure of
such programs (for example, how to manage the flow of control in
large user-driven programs?) _independent_ of the language in which
these programs may be implemented -- something that goes beyond
the elementary advice to "initialize everything, then go into a
main event loop and wait for user events".
[P.S. -- I have half a dozen references on using computers for discrete
event simulation and modelling; I've not been able to make the connection
between these and the questions above.]
Tony SIegman -- siegman@sierra.stanford.edu
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1989 11:06:53 PST
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Subject: Macintosh QuickBASIC Programming Group
A small group will be meeting informally starting Winter quarter to
explore the possibilities of the new Microsoft QuickBASIC as a
programming environment for the Macintosh. Initial focus will be on
scoping out the access to the Macintosh Toolbox and Resources afforded
by QuickBASIC, and on 3D graphics on the Mac screen, via an informal
weekly meeting and individual student projects (academic credit can
be arranged if desired; undergrads and grads welcome).
Initial meeting Friday, Jan 13 (opening week of classes), 3:00 pm,
Ginzton Laboratory, room 35; all welcome.
--Prof. A. E. Siegman, EE Dept (siegman@sierra)
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 4 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
Bookman screen fonts
BroadCast 1.0
Courier screen fonts
Easy Color Paint
GateKeeper 1.0
Info-Mac Digest V6 #114
PICT Control CDEF 1.0
References on User-Event-Driven Programming??
SetClock 1.8
TIFF Libraries
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #1
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #2
Way to discard Worksheet changes in MPW 2.0.2?
Windows 1.2
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 09:53:02 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Bookman screen fonts
Attached is a Stuffit file containing the Adobe screen fonts (including
styles) for their Bookman font.
Michael J. Paisley
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>FONT-ADOBE-BOOKMAN.HQX]
[This font is copyrighted by Adobe and may not be redistributed without
permission.]
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 08:29:48 PST
From: "DASnet" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: BroadCast 1.0
Attached is version 1.0 of BroadCast. Changes include:
- fully operational with System 6.0
- operational after changes in network configuration
- answer without the need to open the chooser.
- cut/copy/paste supported
- more less obvious things changed.
The new version is shareware. The fee is $25 per zone or
$100 per network. Registered uses will receive a disk
containing additional information and the Unix version (CAP).
[Reply to xb.das@forsythe.stanford.edu with a subject line of
[DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.0]
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>UTILITY-BROADCAST.HQX]
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 09:55:36 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Courier screen fonts
Attached is a StuffIt archive containing the Adobe screen fonts for their
Courier font. Includes fonts for bold, italic, and bold-italic versions.
Michael J. Paisley
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>FONT-ADOBE-COURIER.HQX]
[This font is copyrighted by Adobe and may not be redistributed without
permission.]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 17:22:39 EST
From: bwb@allegra.uucp (Bruce Ballard)
Subject: Easy Color Paint
Easy Color Paint 0.4 (Program)
Easy Color Paint (ECP) 0.4 contains the basic features of a color paint
program, including patterns, fatbits, and cut-and-paste. It was originally
designed for children under 12 but, in its present form, it should appeal
to children of all ages. It's been tested with Systems 5.0 and 6.0.2, and
it's compatible with Multifinder. Before launching ECP, use the Control
Panel to set your Mac II to 16-color mode.
ECP is written in Lightspeed C 3.0, and it's freeware: please distribute it
and its documentation files freely. Questions, compliments, and complaints
may be directed to the programmer at the following address:
Bruce Ballard
55 Clinton Avenue
New Providence, New Jersey, 07974, USA
bwb@allegra!att.com
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>APPL-EASY-COLOR-PAINT.HQX and
<INFO-MAC>APPL-EASY-COLOR-PAINT-DOCS.HQX]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 11:12:18 CST
From: chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
Subject: GateKeeper 1.0
GateKeeper 1.0 is a cdev/INIT that attempts to make it impossible
(or as difficult as possible) for viruses to spread or function
successfully in its domain. It does so by monitoring and
limiting access to certain system operations on which viruses
depend. Thus GateKeeper is a general purpose tool in the fight
against viruses, as opposed to programs written to stop only a
specific virus or set of viruses.
GateKeeper operates transparently to the user. It will never
confront a person with "Permission Granted/Denied" dialogs or
anything else of the kind.
GateKeeper is NOT a virus removal/repair utility. GateKeeper
endeavors to prevent viruses from infecting your system in the
first place, and attempts to render them harmless if they should
find their way in.
GateKeeper also provides powerful diagnostic facilities for
those intent on tracking and analyzing viruses in the form of a
log file to which records of the critical operations attempted
by viruses are written.
I have tested GateKeeper myself against the nVIR and Scores
viruses and found it to be completely effective in rendering
those viruses impotent. Tests conducted in public access
Macintosh facilities which had high concentrations of viruses
confirm those results.
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>VIRUS-GATEKEEPER.HQX]
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Date: 3 Jan 89 09:55:17 PST (Tuesday)
From: MWhite.ElSegundo@xerox.com
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V6 #114
I am looking for a protocol Analyzer that can be used in debugging
AppleTalk protocols. I am implementing these protocols and the only tools I
have for debugging my software is Peek and Poke from Apple which are not
that helpful.
Does anyone out there know of protocol analyzers for AppleTalk?
Thanks
Marjan
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 11:13:10 CST
From: chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
Subject: PICT Control CDEF 1.0
PICT Control is a picture based control definition function
for the Macintosh designed to make possible the mimicking of a
variety of common types of real-world controls and the creation
of entirely new control forms.
PICT Control owes its flexibility to the fact that it dictates
almost nothing about the appearance of the controls it makes
possible. The appearance of a PICT Control is completely in
the hands of the programmer and the artist. By creating a
picture P or a series of pictures P in any Macintosh graphics
program, the form of each control may be molded to its
individual purpose.
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>CDEF-PICT-CONTROL.HQX]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1989 13:17:00 PST
From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: References on User-Event-Driven Programming??
Can anyone recommend any good references on the basic principles of
Macintosh-style user-event-driven programming?
I'm looking for general concepts on the organization and structure of
such programs (for example, how to manage the flow of control in
large user-driven programs?) _independent_ of the language in which
these programs may be implemented -- something that goes beyond
the elementary advice to "initialize everything, then go into a
main event loop and wait for user events".
[P.S. -- I have half a dozen references on using computers for discrete
event simulation and modelling; I've not been able to make the connection
between these and the questions above.]
Tony SIegman -- siegman@sierra.stanford.edu
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1989 14:49:26 PST
From: Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: SetClock 1.8
Here's a nifty little program called SetClock 1.8 that sets your Mac's
clock by calling an atomic clock in Virginia. The call takes 10 seconds.
[Pulled from comp.binaries.mac]
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>UTILITY-SETCLOCK.HQX]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 12:01 EST
From: <BEHRENDT%MCOIARC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TIFF Libraries
Does anyone know if there is an updated version of TIFF libraries available?
I have the latest version from Bear River Associates, Inc. which includes
TIFF revision 4.0, but they said they were not contracted to do the new
version which contains color lookup table information. Also, if possible, it
would be great if they were in Lightspeed C.
Thanks,
Brad Behrendt
Image Analysis Research Center
Medical College of Ohio
BITNET : BEHRENDT@MCOIARC
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 11:06 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #1
Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, January 1, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Macintosh Business Conference & Expo- a somewhat belated review
Mouse Problem
New System Fonts print better on Imagewriter than the old ones?
Re: Disassembler needed
Re: Mouse Problem
free fft software--tested and verified for the DSP56001 chip
Re: List Manager Problem
Re: Wish-List: Decent MIDI support for the Macintosh
Re: More open windows and files
Dissolving BitMaps
Seeking Info, Smart Form from Claris
GCC WriteMove Printer
Re: mac+ power supply problems
Re: MAC SE w/68030???
DIY MIDI interface?
Re: HELP: K-Star uses old DDP-range.
Re: A serious bug for multi-screen environments
Re: Disabling internal disk
Super Studio Session, other music programs?
Controls in a Macintosh application.
Re: multitasking and IPC
LSC 3.0 Out of Memory Bug
Re: Scanner
SilverServer Inquiry
Help needed for recoverying FW doc.
MACPLUS hardware question (repost)?
Performer backup disks
Re: Greek font - keyboard mapping problem
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>USENETV5-001.TXT]
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 11:16 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #2
Usenet Mac Digest Sunday, January 1, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
System File Corruption when Zapping Pram!
Re: DIY MIDI interface?
Re: Dissolving BitMaps
Poor Man's Search Path
Using VBL Tasks in Inits...
Apple Scanner Question
Re: Poor Man's Search Path
FilterProc in a DA - how?
Finding out What Application is Running
Re: Using VBL Tasks in Inits...
Re: Wish-List: Decent MIDI support for the Macintosh
Re: Finding out What Application is Running
Re: Using VBL Tasks in Inits... (2 messages)
Re: Finding out What Application is Running
Polygon problems, possible Inside Mac error
Re: Finding out What Application is Running (2 messages)
More...VBL Tasks in inits
color mapping
Re: Compiling with MPW Projector - Is this obvious??
Re: List Manager Problem
Bufptr vs. System Heap
VBLS are OK above BufPtr
Fooling with mcky: DRAT!
Re: INITs and ShutDown routines
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>USENETV5-002.TXT]
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 12:51 CST
From: <STEVEN%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Way to discard Worksheet changes in MPW 2.0.2?
I am new to MPW, having just bought TML Pascal II, which includes MPW 2.0.2. My
question is this: is there some way to have MPW automatically _discard_ the
changes made to the Worksheet window when exiting the Shell (whether Quitting
or launching another program). I figure there must be a way to change the
Suspend (, etc.) script files to do this, but haven't been able to figure out
how as of yet, since the Shell normally won't let you close the Worksheet
window. Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 08:35:20 PST
From: "DASnet" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Windows 1.2
I noticed one bug shortly after I got hold of MacDraw II last weekend.
Attached is version 1.2 of Windows.
Sorry for any inconveniences
Windows 1.2
Copyright 1988 Joachim Lindenberg, Sommerstrasse 4,
7500 Karlsruhe 1, West Germany.
All rights reserved.
Windows is shareware. If you like and use it, send me $10.
International users: Send your check, turning it into cash
costs me $ 0.30.
This is an INIT/control panel extension that will add a windows menu
to the finder and other applications.
Windows "knows" some applications that do not need a 'Windows' menu, either
because they support only one window at a time (HyperCard), or because
they have a built-in 'Windows' menu (like MPW). Windows also "knows"
some applications that need help (Finder, ResEdit). If the current
application is not known to Windows, it will search the menu bar for a
menu named Window(s) or the like. If no menu is found, a menu is
added unless you disabled Windows in the control panel.
Installation: Drag the file into the system folder and reboot (it won't
work before reboot because it wants to patch some toolbox traps before
Multifinder gets loaded). Options may be set using the control panel.
Power users: The "known" applications are represented by their creators
and stored in "ukww" resources. You may add your favorite applications
there.
Windows has been tested on a Mac+ and a Macintosh II running System
Software 5.0 and 6.0. It contains some code to test for 64KB ROMs and
pre-4.1 systems, but this hasn't been tested thoroughly.
Known problems/limitations:
- windows will list only the windows of the frontmost application. If
someone can provide me with some insight on how to get at the windows
of the other applications, feel free to mail that info to me.
- windows is not able to detect whether the application supports more
than one window. It needs to "know" the creator.
- Windows will have problems with some special windows (e.g. the round
windows of "Earth Idle"). This may make the menu useless within these
programs, but should not interfere with general program operation.
Maybe you know Window's predecessor, Windows DA. The DA was not very
useful under MultiFinder, and it had two bugs:
- if a window's name started with a dash, a simple line appeared in
the menu instead of the window's name.
- if two or more windows had the same name, you could not select but
the first one.
The INIT/cdev fixes these limitations and bugs.
Joachim Lindenberg - GER.XSE0010 on AppleLink
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 5 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
4D and Foxbase questions
Anything faster than TextBox?
Best PostScript Book
How to send postscript output to a file? Please help....
Imagewriter LQ vs. Laserwriter SC
Macintosh Keystrokes
Resedit docs
Virus info from Apple
Where to get Kermit for Mac ?
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Date: Wed, 4-JAN-1989 09:51 +0100
From: "3077::PBAUMANN" <U0055%DGOGWDG5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: 4D and Foxbase questions
Hi!
I have a few questions about 4th Dimension and Foxbase+/Mac.
- Does anybody know if 4D 2.0 is faster than 4D 1.04 and how this compares
to the speed of Foxbase+/Mac?
- Has Foxbase got links like in 4D?
- Is there something comparable to the subfiles in 4D in Foxbase?
If you know anything about these questions, please mail me directly. I will
post a summary.
Peter Baumann, U0055@DGOGWDG5
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen, W-Germany
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 11:36 U
From: <JINTEIK%ITIVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Anything faster than TextBox?
I'm writing a graphical object editor that required fast displaying
of justified (left, center and right only) text on the screen. Would
anyone know of a faster way than using TextBox()? TextBox takes
about 3 ticks per text object and wouldn't be acceptable if there
are more than 5 objects on the screen (add a few more ticks for
blitting and other overheads and you'll get about 1 second response
time for 10 or more objects).
I've tried creating my own TE record but it's about as slow as
TextBox(). Any ideas anyone? Please email me directly as the
news digests arrive slowly at this end. Thanks in advance.
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 15:03 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Best PostScript Book
Stephen Page wonders:
"What is the best book on PostScript?"
If you want to learn PS by example I recommend the PostScript Cookbook and
Tutorial. It contains many examples supporting the explanatory text.
The PostScript Language Reference manual is authoritative and complete,
but contains very little example code. It does, however contain a good
deal of information specific to the Apple LaserWriter (in a separate appendix).
If you're familiar with stack oriented programming, then the reference is
for you.
If you're not familiar with stack oriented programming, then the cookbook
and tutorial are better.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer Specialist
Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
PHONE (315) 824-1000 ext 742
APPLELINK U0523
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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 89 13:45:28 CST
From: GA0116%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: How to send postscript output to a file? Please help....
Greetings all on the list. I have been given the task of tying a Mac SE
into a Xenix system for access to a Postscript printer. I come from the
'other camp' (i.e. PC) where it is relatively easy to create a pseudo
device that maps to a file. What I would like to accomplish is this:
1) capture the output from a Mac program such as Macwrite
that thinks it is driving a Laserwriter, only the output
should be redirected to a file rather than the printer
port. This should yield a postscript source file with
the information necessary to create the desired page
layout.
2) download the file to the Xenix system using Kermit (no problem.)
3) route the incoming postscript source to the Xenix postscript
laser printer (again no problem.)
I can find absolutely no reference in any of the Mac documentation that
even eludes to this capability. HELP!!! Anybody on the list have a
program or driver (resource?) to accomplish this? Any ideas?
Please e-mail direct since I am not a member of this list. Many thanks
in advance for your time and consideration on this matter.
Dan Ellison
Molecular Science Program SIU-C
Carbondale, IL 62901
Bitnet: GA0116@SIUCVMB
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 09:22 CST
From: <SWANGER%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Imagewriter LQ vs. Laserwriter SC
My father wants to get a reasonably high quality printer for his MAC Plus
(1mb, 20 mb hd). He is interested in the Imagewriter LQ and the Laserwriter
IISC. The Imagewriter II is not acceptable. He will probably be using MACDRAW
II, a word processor (either Macwrite or WordPerfect) and will possibly get
Pagemaker (or other decent DTP program).
Does anyone out there have experience with both of these printers? Is the IISC
worth the price difference over the Imagewriter LQ? What are potential problems
with using either printer?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 89 17:22:42 PST
From: Reo_Audette@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Macintosh Keystrokes
Following is BinHex data comprising two tables which serve as a
handy reference for those doing word processing on the Macintosh.
They indicate which keys to press to access special characters
available in assorted type fonts.
Most Macintosh users are aware of a desk accessory called Key
Caps which provides a graphical display of the characters
available under various type fonts. Unfortunately, the characters
are presented out of context and it is difficult to tell what
some of them are without experimenting. Also, Key Caps does not
give the complete set of characters available under each font.
With 4 levels of shifting you can type only 184 of the 220 print
characters available in fonts like Times and Helvetica. The
remaining 36 characters are primarily letters with diacritical
marks and require a special key sequence to obtain them.
For example, to key in 'a(circumflex)' you must hold down the
Option key while you type 'i' then type 'a' (denoted 'Option-i a'
in the tables). Microsoft Word provides a 'Paste Special
Character' (Command-Option-q) feature which allows you to key in
the decimal character code for characters not available through
the keyboard. For example, to key in a double acute (?) in Times
font you must hold down the cloverleaf and Option keys while you
type 'q' then type 253 and press the Return key. The tables
include the information available through Key Caps as well.
Re(acute accent)o Audette
BITNET: USERRAID@SFU
INTERNET: Reo_Audette@CC.SFU.CA
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>KEYSTROKE-TABLE.HQX]
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 11:53 EST
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Resedit docs
Below is a text file containing some (old) documentation for
Resedit. No documentation of the new resources is included (e.g.
cicn's etc.) but there is enough to get started, including the
creation of your own templates.
Supposedly Apple is about ready to release and "official" version
of Resedit that is to include documentation (I've heard of
anything from 50 to 100 pages depending upon whether it is the
final "final" release or not.
This is sent in response to a recent request. I am not sure
of the origin of the document. I believe, however, that it
may have been among the pd/shareware titles on a Jasmine drive.
Jim Clark
UT Martin
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>UTILITY-RESEDIT-10D4-DOCS.TXT]
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1989 17:17:34 PST
From: Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: Virus info from Apple
Here's a file I picked up from the mac directory at rascal.ics.utexas.edu.
It contains a well-written introduction to viruses and their properties, as
well as a fairly detailed description of the Scores and nVIR viruses. It's a
text document.
Bill Lipa
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>VIRUS-INFO-FROM-APPLE.TXT]
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Date: 5 January 89, 12:13:10 MEZ
From: Burkhard Schillinger +49 7531 61964 PHSTUD17 at DKNKURZ1
Subject: Where to get Kermit for Mac ?
Can anybody tell me where I can get Kermit for the Macintosh
on disk ? I am not a Mac user (We just need it here at our university),
and I have no possibility to download anything to Mac, so I need
it on a disk.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please send me personal mail, as I do not read this list.
Thanks in advance,
Burkhard <Phstud17@Dknkurz1.Bitnet>
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As in the last few years, there will be Macintosh developers meetings
at Stanford University this year also. This is an informal group of
programmers that meets roughly twice a month, depending on what
speakers we have. Our speakers are typically developers who have
recently written an application, or people from Apple (or other
companies) who have something new for the developerUs community. The
discussions are unrestrainedly technical.
Because of when MacExpo falls this month, our first meeting will be on
Wednesday, January 18↑th, at 7pm when
David Neal
of
Symantic (formerly Think Technologies)
will speak about the ↑new↑
LightSpeed Pascal, version 2 debugger.
David is part of the group from Boston that wrote version 2 of Lightspeed
Pascal. It's new symbolic debugger is totally awesome by any development
environmentUs standards. Maybe some others from the group will also be at
the meeting.
This year I plan to have meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays (not
Thursdays) of the month. When Stanford is not in session many people leave,
so we donUt meet. Meetings are in the courseware lab in the basement of
Sweet Hall. This is a new building that faces on Ceras and Meyer, the
undergraduate library. It is at the end of Escondido Road. Meetings are
free of charge and open to anyone with a serious interest in programming.
In February I hope to have someone from the hyperCard team and from
AdobeUs Display Postscript project come and speak. Also, the folks
from Mountain Lake Software have a C object class library called "Class C"
to present. I am open to suggestions about future speakers. Some possible
topics are the Apple Fax modem, (in fact the engineers of any Apple product
usually have alot interesting they can say once their product is released),
the "cT" language and the WriteNow team.
Since this mailing list may be out of date, please let me know if you'd
prefer to not receive these postings. Or, if you want to be on the list,
send me your net address. Feel free to call me at 415/965-1990 if you cannot
reach me by the net.
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Subject: How to send PostScript output to a file?
To: info-mac-list@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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My question is the same as that of Dan Ellison in this Digest, Jan. 5: How
does one send PostScript output to a file? He requested an e-mail direct
reply, but I suspect that the answer is of more general interest and ask that
it be posted publicly.
I have seen some discussion related to this matter here and elsewhere. The
gist seems to be to print to the laser printer, but immediately after clicking
OK on the Print dialogue box, press command-F to get the PostScript file (or
command-K to also get the laser prep file). I have tried this in MicroSoft
Works without success (except once, and I don't know why it worked that time).
I was able to get the PostScript file (with laser prep) when I was already
directly connected to the laser printer, but of course this defeats the
purpose. But then I ran into another problem: Even with the laser prep file
prefixed to the PostScript file for my document, I was unable to get the laser
printer to print anything.
Any ideas?
Norm Loomer
Mathematics Department
Albion College
Albion, MI 49224
Bitnet: NLOOMER@ALBION
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 9 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 4
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
CMS Utilities (>100MB)
GateKeeper 1.0
HP LaserJet II
Hypercard help and midi interfaces
Imagewriter LQ
Kermit for the Macintosh
MacDraw II font substitution fixed
Problem with VersaTerm Smart Mouse
RAM Disk 1.0
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #3
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #4
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #5
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (via anonymous FTP) in the
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1989 17:08:54 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Sumex-2060 went down this weekend due to a drive crash. It may come up next
week. It may come up tomorrow. It may never come up again.
Therefore, you may wish to learn how to use the info-mac archive at the new
machine, sumex-aim.stanford.edu. The main difference is that this archive is
organized as a set of directories rather than a huge list of files. Macserve
will undoubtedly choke when confronted by this new structure. We are
wondering what to do about that.
However, you lucky FTP users should have no problems. Login as anonymous,
like before. Then type "cd info-mac" to change to the info-mac root
directory. From there, "dir" or "ls" should show you all the smaller
directories you can cd to. Names are all lowercase.
Caveat #1: we may well decide to reorganize files, create new directories,
and so forth. We are publicizing this new archive before it is really ready
because of the service interruption at Sumex-2060.
Caveat #2: the files are incompletely organized. New files (files which were
archived since I became a moderator) are stored in their proper directory.
Old files are awaiting further organization in the directory sumex-2060.
Caveat #3: not all files from sumex-2060 have made it over to sumex-aim. We
have copies of all HQX, TXT, and SHAR files, but not the others. Other things
are sort of old and we are wondering whether it is worthwhile to bring them
over.
Best of luck. As usual, report all problems to our administrative address,
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Info-Mac
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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 89 09:55:14 CST
From: Paul Fons <FONS@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: CMS Utilities (>100MB)
We have a CMS 102MB hard disk here on our mac II and it is acting
strangely. More and more frequently it does not appear on the desktop
when the machine is rebooted. It is accessible by our version 3.2 of
the CMS utilities however. When one tries to for example install new
drivers, it comes back with BAD SCSI READ INSTALLATION FAILED after
a rather long delay. Similarly the verify option comes back with the
same error and the statement VERIFY FAILED. The strange thing is that
zapping the pram SOMETIMES helps (not always) and both the verify and
install new drivers options work fine. What I was curious about is that
we are running 6.02 and using version 3.2 (over 100MB version) of the
CMS utility program. Could the problem be that the drivers are
out of date. Thanks for any help that you can offer.
FONS@UIUCVMD.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 89 13:52:14 -0500 (EST)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
Subject: GateKeeper 1.0
Hi Chris,
Thanks creating GateKeeper, it appears to be an excellent program. But I am
a bit worried about how GateKeeper interacts with other anti-viral and disk
protection inits. I am currently running Vaccine and Guardian by SUM, plus
Font/Da Juggler+, Disktop, Macintalk, and AutoBlack.
Do you know if GateKeeper is compatible with these inits, particularly Vaccine
and Guardian?
Does it matter what order these inits are loaded into memory?
What will happen if a virus tries to infect my MAC, and both Vaccine and
GateKeeper try to prevent the infection?
I cc this letter to the info-mac bboard, because I think other people are also
interested in this subject.
Thanks once again for GateKeeper
John Salmento
Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
ziggy@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 89 01:37 CST
From: <BRK3968%TAMVENUS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Brian Klaas)
Subject: HP LaserJet II
Does anyone have any experience with using a HP Laser Jet with a Macintosh?
I am interested in what software is required, and what problem/solutions
others have found working with this printer.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Brian Klaas
<BRK3968@TAMVENUS.bitnet>
<BRK3968@TAMSIGMA.bitnet> (preferred)
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 89 20:48:46 EST
From: Publice%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Hypercard help and midi interfaces
Hello, I have just begun to try and program a large application in
Hypercard for my father and need some help!
The idea is this....
It is a hypercard stack designed for holding his art history files. Each
card has a:
date
brief description of document to follow
text or document (up to 50 pages in length)
commentry -- bibliography.
Now most of this stuff is easy. The hard part is this: the commentry
is a list of related documents. These must be organized chronlogically.
In addition, you must be able to just "double click" on any of the
above references and have hypercard jump to the card of that reference.
I have no idea how to do this. Is this an application worth programming
in Hypercard? I like hypercard because I can make the working of the program
totally invisible to my father...who is can't handle the VCR....
I have thought about doing this in Double Helix II, but the program is just
not suited to this application. Any help on this would be great, whether
it is in the form of Hypercard help or suggestions of other programs that
would be better.......
I am also interest in any information anyone can tell me about midi interfaces
Thanks for any help
Damian Roskill
Updike@UMass....
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Date: 6 Jan 89 22:44:27 GMT
From: unet!unet.UUCP!aschool@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Adam Schoolsky)
Subject: Imagewriter LQ
RESPONSE:
I had purchased an LQ earlier this year, and after a 4 month wait to get it
I was very disappointed with its operation. I will outline its shortcomings
below. I have had no experience with the SC, but it's rather expensive, and
doesn't buy you *anything* that an HP LaserJet won't do. They both have the
same *engine* and neither support Postscript. This is not the best approach
if you (your father)want to take full advantage of some DTP software like
Pagemaker.
Problems with the LQ (THE **EDSEL** OF THE PRINTER INDUSTRY):
1) The printer doesn't work well with *tractor* feed paper. The paper path
on the LQ is *very* critical, and the best way to use the tractor is in the
*pull* mode which requires that the paper be fed from the bottom, rather
than from the back. If you use either mode, you'll find that entire lines of
characters will be *split* in half horizontally, in other words white space
that makes the characters look lousy. This is of course unacceptable for any
type of business communications.
2) The thing is as slow as a *DOG*. It typically takes *5* minutes to print
a single page in *best* mode using MS Word 3.02. What a joke!
3) The LQ could be sold as *Electronic NO-DOZ* not loud enough to awaken
your neighbors, but will set your dog in a frenzy!
4) The LQ's software driver also causes entire lines of characters to be run
together, bacically removing the spaces between words, requiring the page to
be printed, then you can figure out where you need to put in *more* spaces
to make the text look like it should have in the first place.
5) The LQ requires that you use the LQ fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier and
Symbol) to get optimal print quality. In addition the *best* quality
mandates that the system have fonts resident *3 times* as large as you
actually want to print. For example, if you want to print in 9 pt., a 27 pt.
font *must* be installed; likewise to print in 27 pt. a 72 pt. font must be
installed. So, these 4 fonts that are supplied, take up something like *500K
bytes* on your disk. There aren't many LQ fonts around from 3rd party
vendors, and the regular ImageWriter fonts don't print well, and the
spacing is even more screwed up, if you can imagine!
6) The manual states (and I can testify) that one *should not* print within
the top 1 inch or bottom 1 inch of a page. Like I said, the printer does not
feed paper very well (works a bit better with the cut-sheet feeder, but not
much), so, near these regions "...reduced print quality will occur." I'll
just say that this is a *genuine, bonafide understatement*.
CLOSING COMMENTS: (Reader's Digest Version)
I was not able to get the problems rectified by the local Apple service
folks. I contacted Apple customer service at the Cupertino, CA headquarters,
and was treated *very rudely*. Not being one to take this sort of thing
litely, I packed the thing up, wrote a letter to John Sculley, copied
MacWorld, and MacUser, then carted the wole mess down to Mr. Sculley's
office, and dumped the thing on his secretary's desk, and left. Well I caused
some eyebrows to raise over there, and they were very apolagetic. In addition,
they gave me a *new* LQ and a free cut-sheet feeder. Unfortunately, this didn't
work any better, and after ridiculing them some more about releasing such a
sub-standard product (I went so low as to equate the LQ to an Apple III), they
offered, and I accepted a *new* LaserWriter IINT. So, don't waste your money
on an LQ. I recommend using a *Grappler LQ* with someone elses 24 pin printer,
NEC, or Epson for example. Or buy an HP LaserJet, or equivalent.
Oh yes, the LaserWriter works beautifully.
Good Luck, and If I can be of further assistance, let me know.
Adam Schoolsky (ames, oliveb) !unet!aschool
Fone: 415-780-5773
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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 89 09:13:01 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Kermit for the Macintosh
I believe you can order Kermit directly from Columbia University (the
keeper of Kermit). Try writing to:
Columbia University Center for Computing Activities
New York, NY 10027
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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 89 23:43:09 gmt
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: MacDraw II font substitution fixed
Further to my enquiry a month or so ago:
Thanks to help from Claris, I have now obtained a copy of the
bugfix version (1.0V4) of MacDraw II, and confirmed that this
version fixes the font substitution functionality which was
missing from the first release. To get font substitution enabled,
uncheck "fractional widths" in the "Preferences" dialogue box.
(For those who haven't been following this Digest, version 1.0V4 is
obtainable on request from Claris - it is not sent automatically
to MacDraw II owners.)
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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 89 00:36 EST
From: <TEMPLON%IUCF.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Problem with VersaTerm Smart Mouse
I need help solving a problem with VersaTerm. The problem is
with the smart-mouse cursor positioning feature. I have tried this
both with Arrow-mouse and EMACS-mouse options (using the trick suggested
in the manual about redefining the proper control keys) and with both
standard EDT and TPU editors on a VAX running VMS 4.6. All works fine
except when the target location is either on the first two or last two
lines of the visible screen (and the initial cursor location is not
within the same two-line region as the target location.) For this
situation, the cursor just seems to wander about for a while and stop in
some random mid-screen location.
I am using an SE running system 6.0 (monoFinder) and communicating
over a hayes compatible modem (MAXUM) with a VAX 8650 over good-old Ma
Bell telephone lines.
Anybody have a solution to this problem? Is Mr. Abelbeck on the
net? Oh, yeah, and does anybody know what the things under "Extras..."
do? The manual is a bit out-of-date on this point; the dialog box in
the manual bears no resemblance to the one on my screen !?!
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
P.S. I should add that I am VERY satisfied with VersaTerm, and with
smart-mouse except for this problem - when I ordered it I didn't even
know it had this feature!!
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 23:14:40 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: RAM Disk 1.0
This posting contains RAM Disk 1.0, by Takayuki Karahashi.
RAM Disk 1.0 is a RAM-disk installer with a bit of a twist... it's an
INIT/cdev combination. Drop a copy of it into your System folder, open
the Control Panel, select the RAM Disk, configure the disk's size and
name, close the Control Panel, and reboot. The RAM disk will be installed
automatically.
I haven't tested the RAM disk extensively. It appears to function
correctly under System 6.0.2 and MultiFinder, and to be reasonably
reliable. If you (deliberately or accidentally) trash the RAM disk, it
simply remounts itself with contents intact.
Naturally, the RAM disk goes away when you reboot the Mac (or if the Mac
bombs); all of its contents will be lost. Perhaps to make this fact
_very_ clear, the RAM disk's icon is a "black hole" in your desktop.
RAM Disk 1.0 is "freeware"; the author can be contacted on Compu$erve.
[Archived as <INFO-MAC>UTILITY-RAMDISK.HQX]
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 89 15:03 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #3
Usenet Mac Digest Friday, January 6, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 3
Today's Topics:
Re: Image processing on the Mac - 2-d FFTs
Re: Why can't we speed up the mouse?
System Heap vs. BufPtr (Re: Using VBL Tasks in Inits...)
A Partial (but Useful) Look at mcky resources
Imagewriter clones
Re: Compiling with MPW Projector - Is this obvious??
Re: VBLS are OK above BufPtr
Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.)
Re: INITs and ShutDown routines
Epyx rogue for the MAC
Re: Real Time Handwriting Recognition
Re: X-INIT (thanks Juri Munkki)
Re: Compiling with MPW Projector - Is this obvious??
Re: Epyx rogue for the MAC
Re: Help needed for recoverying FW doc.
Re: Epyx rogue for the MAC
Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.)
UNIX MacServe (or any other net server) emulator for NFS - INFO PLS.
Re: Imagewriter clones
Re: LSC debugging code resources
Help!! ?Changed Menu Made Permanent? (2 messages)
LSP 2.0 problem
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-003.txt]
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 89 15:04 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #4
Usenet Mac Digest Friday, January 6, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 4
Today's Topics:
"INIT 29" virus report
Status of Tek88000 board
Re: Imagewriter clones
Looking for Centronics-style parallel interface card for Mac II
replacing nth occurance on line
Dollars and Sense end of year
Cutting Edge floppy drive
RSG 4.5 (was Re: Status of MS Word 4.0)
Re: replacing nth occurance on line
Disk drive problem (maybe)?
Re: HFS Consistency Check?
warning about Lunarcrack v1.0
Concertware+,DMCS (reviews requested) (2 messages)
Re: Status of MS Word 4.0
More RSG 4.5 complaints
MacDraw type defaults
Any detailed info on CAPPS Prime...? (2 messages)
C I/O differences (HELP!)
Re: Apple HD SC 80 does not support Asynch i/o.
Re: Printer idle proc
MacinTalk Compatible Sound?
Re: Any detailed info on CAPPS Prime...
Re: Ehman Engineering drives for Mac - ever heard of them?
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-004.txt]
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Date: Sun, 8 Jan 89 15:05 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #5
Usenet Mac Digest Friday, January 6, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 5
Today's Topics:
Crunched Shell is now public domain
'snd ' resources as instruments
Wanted: Investment Strategy Software
Diagnosing disk drive problems and Cleaning
PD DSP Programs?
Re: More RSG 4.5 complaints
Re: Monitor Noise...
Status of C++ on the MacOS & A/UX
Generating ASCII NUL in Works 2.0?
Re: Ehman Engineering drives for Mac - ever heard of them?
Colony question (spoiler!)
re. Nettrek crashes on Mac II
Re: How does the Finder tell diskettes apart?
Using the wave-table synth in the Mac II Sound Manager
Updating dialogs
Stack manipulation problems
NewHandle & No Memory
Re: Updating dialogs
Re: Printer idle proc
Ptrace Bug on A/UX
Printf Core Dumps on A/UX
Re: Telebit Trailblazer + and A/UX
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-005.txt]
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 10 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 5
Today's Topics:
Adobe Helvetica Screen Fonts
Adobe New Century screen font
Booting AppleShare volumes
disk drive enclosures
How to send PostScript output to a file?
Hypercard Error
HyperTalk Online Companion
Imagewriter LQ spacing woes
Large extra monitors to the MAC SE/ +??
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Overhead projection devices for Macs
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 11:17:34 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Adobe Helvetica Screen Fonts
Attached is a file that contains the Adobe screen font for their Helvetica
screen font. It also contains the style fonts for bold, italic, and
bold-italic versions. They have been modified so that they won't show up in
your font menu (for most applications, but will in Font/DA Mover).
The fonts are copyrighted by Adobe Systems, Inc. and cannot be redistributed
without prior permission of Adobe.
Michael J. Paisley
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/font/adobe-helvetica.hqx]
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 11:21:20 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Adobe New Century screen font
Attached is a file containing the screen fonts for Adobe's New Century
Schoolbook font.
The screen fonts are copyrighted by Adobe Systems, Inc., and cannot be
redistributed without prior permission of Adobe.
Michael J. Paisley
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/font/adobe-schoolbook.hqx]
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 11:22 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Booting AppleShare volumes
Matt,
I'm sorry that you did not succeed in "booting" from your AppleShare volume.
I have had success, as I mentioned, using the technique I described under
TOPS and MacServe (and the Keeper -- remember that one?) I have never tried
this on an AppleShare server. AppleShare may have a mechanism to prevent
the server from being the startup volume. OR, it may simply be that your
AppleShare volume was READ ONLY. Remember, the startup volume must be
read/write.
Good Luck, and let me know how you make out.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer Specialist
Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
PHONE (315) 824-1000 ext 742
APPLELINK U0523
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 14:32:18 PST
From: bss@jupiter.risc.com
Subject: disk drive enclosures
We have replaced 80-megabyte Quantum drives in four MAC IIs with larger drives.
Now we have these drives that we would like to use as external drives. Does
anyone know where we might be able to purchase off-the-shelf enclosures that
already have the power supply, connector, and internal cable?
Thanks,
Bruce Seely
Rockwell International Science Center
1049 Camino Dos Rios
P.O. Box 1085
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
805-373-4142
bss@RISC.COM
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 20:48 EST
From: NLOOMER%ALBION.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: How to send PostScript output to a file?
My question is the same as that of Dan Ellison in this Digest, Jan. 5: How
does one send PostScript output to a file? He requested an e-mail direct
reply, but I suspect that the answer is of more general interest and ask that
it be posted publicly.
I have seen some discussion related to this matter here and elsewhere. The
gist seems to be to print to the laser printer, but immediately after clicking
OK on the Print dialogue box, press command-F to get the PostScript file (or
command-K to also get the laser prep file). I have tried this in MicroSoft
Works without success (except once, and I don't know why it worked that time).
I was able to get the PostScript file (with laser prep) when I was already
directly connected to the laser printer, but of course this defeats the
purpose. But then I ran into another problem: Even with the laser prep file
prefixed to the PostScript file for my document, I was unable to get the laser
printer to print anything.
Any ideas?
Norm Loomer
Mathematics Department
Albion College
Albion, MI 49224
Bitnet: NLOOMER@ALBION
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Date: Tue 10 Jan 1989 13:05 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypercard Error
Hi all....
I have been working on a stack that keeps track of some data for me. There
is only one background, and none of the cards are linked to another card.
My problem is this ....
When I attempt to perform a Delete Card command, I get a dialog box saying
/--------------------\
∨ ∨
∨ Unexpected Error ∨
∨ ∨
∨ 54321 ∨
∨ ∨
∨ /---------\ ∨
∨ ∨ Sorry ∨ ∨
∨ \---------/ ∨
∨ ∨
\--------------------/
Anyone know what this is, means, or whatever may be causing it? It's driving
me nuts.....
Oh yeah, I'm using Hypercard 1.1, with the recommended system for a Mac +
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: miss026@ecncdc
Internet: miss026%ecncdc.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Disclaimer: I don't know what I just said, and will deny it if asked...
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 10:29 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: HyperTalk Online Companion
[ Uploaded from Delphi by Jeff Shulman ]
Name: HYPERTALK ONLINE COMPANION
Date: 7-JAN-1989 14:16 by SCHERFNET
This is a quick reference database of the HyperTalk language which uses the
Programmer's Online Companion facility. Unlike other reference stacks, you
never have to leave your developing stack to perform the lookup. You need to
have already have purchased the Programmer's Online Companion to use this
database. Enjoy.
-- Mark Scherfling
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/online-companion.hqx]
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 00:19 EST
From: <TEMPLON%IUCF.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Imagewriter LQ spacing woes
Yes, from all I've heard, the LQ is a dog. But it is actually worse
than you say in one instance. The problem with spacing (all words running
together) also occurs with the Imagewriter II. It happens when (at least
in WriteNow when) you don't check "Use Printer Spacing" in the Page Setup
dialog. T/Maker claims that this is an effect of screen chars vs printer
chars - "...widths of characters for the printer are slightly different
>From the widths for the screen." So you can take your choice between looking
nice on-screen (don't use printer spacing) or looking nice on the page (use
printer spacing) but not both.
And they told me it was a WSYWIG machine!! NO!! It's WYGD
(What You Get Depends)
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 14:44:31 MEZ
From: MAMI%DHVRRZN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Large extra monitors to the MAC SE/ +??
Date: 10 January 1989, 14:25:47 MEZ
From: Michael Hartje +49-511-762-3745 MAMI at DHVRRZN1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Hello technican interested people,
I remember a discussion about a year or one and a half year ago
here in the INFO-MAC digest about the connection of an extra -- larger
than 9" -- monitor to the MAC by using a special prepared "video
connector". But at that time I had no interest on the discussion
because of having no access to a MAC. Now I have an own MAC and
I feel that I need a larger screen...
Can anybody tell me that cheep solution to get large screen access?
Does anybody have experience with such a solution -- not a full page
screen?
If you can give me any comment, please send me better direct than
via the digest because not all digests are sure distributed here.
By the way, if anybody remember the discussion and can tell me how
to get that old INFO-MAC, I would like to know how I can get it from
the archives from BITNET.
Thanks
Michael Hartje, Schering-Institut, Insitute for high voltage engennering
and high voltage plants, University of Hannover, W.-Germany
MAMI @ DHVRRZN1.BITNET
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 01:25 CST
From: Youhei Morita (Univ. of Tsukuba) <MORITA%FNAL.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: MSWord questions
Hi, is there MSWord 3 wizard out there? I need some help...
[Saga Part I: Cross referencing -- Introduction to the maze of Word 3]
Now I'm working on about 120 page of thesis. Since I need cross referencing
on figure, table, equation numbers and such, I'm using "Print merge" facility
of Word by creating a separate file in which all fields are defined by
something like;
<<SET Fig-1-1a=Fig.1-2>>
As the number of fields approached to its ceiling of 125, various problems
appeared as though Word approached its memory limit. (I'm using Mac II with
8MB RAM and I have increased MSWord's memory allocation to 1.5MB(!), BTW.
MSWord is 3.02, System is 6.0.2 and running under Multifinder.) For example,
if it hits the unknown field name, AND the number of field names are around
125, AND the size of the text is more than 100kB, it cannot merge the text
anymore! (Program is loaded into the memory through the "Preferences..."
menu and files are tried both on and off.) This is a pain of neck since
there's no convenient way other than creating "New Document" file as an
output of the merged file to tell which part of my text is the offending
field. (If, and only if Word would point out the offending field
name...! :-<)
[Saga Part II: Solution as a practicalist]
To avoid this memory limitation, I had to split my thesis into three files.
This works out very well, although I have to delete white spaces which are
produced by the <<INCLUDE filename>> statement each time I "merge" the text
files.
[Saga Part III: Table of Contents and sections]
Even though I split files, "Table of Contents" works just fine, as long
as I set "Next File" dialogue in "Page Setup" menu properly -- there's
one cavity, though. "Print Merge" automatically appends a new section at
the bottom of the original text. As a result, there's one page of jump
in page numbering of the table of contents. If I simply delete the appended
section, the setup of the previous section just resets (another Word bug,
I might say...). I have to build the header, footer, page number positions
and such section-related definitions, from all over the scratch again.
[Qeustions]
1. What is the best way of cross referencing in MSWord 3? Should I switch
to FullWrite or else...?
2. Is there any patch to raise the limit of 125 in different field names?
3. Will/Has the seemingly limitation of memory in "Print Merge" be/been
fixed?
4. Why in the world Word should append another section to the original text
when merging?
5. Is there a handy way to 'copy' the settings of a certain section to the
section appended by Word?
Please reply directly to me since I don't read the network news regularly.
I'll summarize them to the net if there's enough interest. Thanks in advance.
**************************************************************************
Youhei Morita High Energy Physics Lab, Univ. of Tsukuba
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 16:22:19 est
From: gateh@conncoll.bitnet
Subject: Overhead projection devices for Macs
We are looking into the LCD screens that are used with an overhead projector
to project a computer screen. I was wondering what experiences folks with
them, good and bad. We have a PC Viewer and the appropriate attachments for
a Mac SE, but are not overly pleased with the display. I have seen one
which does an excellent job, but I am not sure of the vendor - I believe it
was a Panasonic.
I am interested in input specs, screen type, projector restrictions
(some require low-wattage overhead), and a rough price.
Thanks much in advance. I will summarize if there is an interest.
- Gregg
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 1482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 89 19:20:31 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Paints by Ron Cobb
Here are three PixelPaint files done by Ron Cobb, the Australian artist who
has done great work for such movies as Dark Star, Alien, and many other
films. These are impressive pictures and as such they are quite large, even
stuffed. Check them out.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/art/colorpics.hqx]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 07:12:15 PST
From: meldal@anna.stanford.edu
Subject: Problems with NCSA telnet version 2.2.
I have problems getting NCSA telnet to work. Whenever I try to
open a connection, be it to a name in the config file, using the
nameserver or giving an absolute (numerical) IP address, it
returns the message 'cannot connect to <hostname>' (or some such),
here <hostname> is the name of the attempted connection, following
up with a message box saying
"ERROR: The conflicting machine is using the same IP number
Conflict with Ethernet hardware address 8: 0:20: 1:e1:68"
What gives here?
My configuration is
MacII w. 5 MBytes running Multifinder, system 6.1
Kinetics Etherport II
Subnetting mask ffffff00, local host IP address 129.177.16.43
SU-MacIP works fine (as a matter of fact, that is the software I'm
using right now).
Any help would be appreciated.
Sigurd Meldal
Hard mail:
ERL 456 | Internet: meldal@anna.stanford.edu
Computer Systems Lab.|
Stanford University | BitNet: meldal%anna.stanford.edu@forsythe.bitnet
Stanford CA 94305 | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!anna!meldal
USA |
phone: +1 415 723 6027
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 10:10:44 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Vaccine INIT/CDEV, v 1.0.1
This is version 1.0.1 of the classic "Vaccine" virus-blocker, from CE
Software. Version 1.0.1 is a bug-fix update to version 1.0; to the
best of my knowledge and belief it has no new features.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/vaccine-101.hqx 12K]
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To: SU-Macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
I'm contemplating using one of several manufacturers' non-Mac disks on my home
Mac+ (with a homebrew cabinet which substantially reduces the incessant noise).
Depending on the manufacturer, i may have a separate controller or put a second
drive on the controller of my existing disk. In either case, i'm going to need
a new driver, as even the existing one almost certainly won't handle more than
one unit. This is no big deal for me, i've hacked much hairier disk code for
other machines (and already have the core of a disk diagnostic running on the
Mac). But I-M VI explicitly does not explain a few things (c.f. p. IV-293) and
perhaps someone in this area has been through this before. Nor does it suggest
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-- Tovar <TVR@SAIL>
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Flight Simulator Program Needed
We are looking for a flight simulator with the following features:
- source code available
- written in a language allows for system calls to interface with
other programs
- good graphic display
The program will be used in a project to build an automatic pilot using
temporal representation and other AI techniques.
Contact: Al Sargent 326-4550 b.billy-b@lear
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Subject: flight simulator program
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FLIGHT SIMULATOR PROGRAM NEEDED
We are looking for a flight simulator with the following:
- source code available
- written in a language that allows for system calls to interface with
other programs
- good graphics display
- runs on Mac II or VAX
The flight simulator will be used in a project to develop an automatic pilot
using temporal representation and other AI techniques.
contact: Al Sargent 326-4550 b.billy-b @ lear
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 12 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 6
Today's Topics:
Another Finder Bug
Autoblack and SUM Guardian incompatibility
Buy A/UX without Apple HD 80 Mb
Can the Mac handle a medium-sized database ?
CDC WREN V 192MBHD Blues.
disk drive enclosures
Help Generator
How to send PostScript output to a file?
LQ-Printer ribbon -- use of all colours?
Mac SIMMS (Memory 1M) for Sale
MAC startup problem - ........S.O.S.!!
ZTerm 0.7 terminal emulator, part 1 of 3
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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directory on sumex-2060.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 13:54:54 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Another Finder Bug
Here's another stupid Finder bug. Open a disk's window. Now open a folder's
window. BEFORE clicking in the new window, start dragging a selection
rectangle on the desktop. The marquee will be clipped to the first window,
not the second. Once you click anywhere in the second window, the behavior
will disappear.
This happens on my Mac II and SE running 6.0.2, MultiFinder or not, so perhaps
that rewrite for 7.0 will be easier for Apple to deal with than just fixing
silly bugs like this.
Jon
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 16:38 MST
From: GASick%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Autoblack and SUM Guardian incompatibility
In a recent archive I noticed that John Salmento was concerned about the
compatibility of Gatekeeper and some of his INITS. I know nothing about
Gatekeeper, but he already has an incompatibility between SUM's Guardian
and the Autoblack (MacsBug) screen dimmer. On my Mac + with System 5.0,
the Autoblack screen dimmer prevents Guardian from catching the Shut
Down hook from the Finder. Thus, you don't get the Volume Save file
updated by Guardian when you shut down. You know it is working if you
see the shield cursor when you shut down.
-- Gordon Sick
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 15:05:16 +0100
From: vandelft%HLERUL5I.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Buy A/UX without Apple HD 80 Mb
I am interested in buying A/UX, but I do not want to buy the 80 Mb
hard disk from Apple. There are other vendors who offer 360Mb disks
for only a little more money. Moreover, I will need much more than
80 Mb. Two questions:
1. Has anyone experience with running A/UX from such disks
2. Is it possible to purchase the A/UX licence, and to obtain
the software and the manuals without buying the Apple disk?
Andre van Delft (VANDELFT@HLERUL5I.BITNET)
University of Leiden
The Netherlands
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 16:31:12 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Can the Mac handle a medium-sized database ?
I am involved with some people who have the following problem
which they would like to solve on a Macintosh:
They have a data base of about 50,000 records of customers with
name, address, and some marketing info (such as: "call back this
person on March 17, 1989" or "has bought product X in the past").
They want to maintain this database and do queries as well as
writing mail merged letters etc. (normally only to a few hundreds
of people at a time, so they should be able to do this part on
their LaserWriter IInx).
They have several Mac II's networked in an Ethernet and a hard disk
of several hundred megabytes. So the hardware should also be able
to store all the info in the database.
My basic question is as follows:
Can databases on the Macintosh actually handle this kind of medium-
sized database in everyday work?
(I know that reviews of databases often say that they can handle several
millions of records, but the reviewers never seem to have tested
databases larger than a few hundred or a few thousand records).
Do anybody have experience in using the Mac on databases larger than,
say 10,000 records?? How about *large* databases (e.g. one million
records or even 100 million).
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 02:50:50 IST
From: Rafi Brunner <RAFI%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CDC WREN V 192MBHD Blues.
Hello all,
I received couple CDC WREN V 192MB hard disks, a while ago.
The Drives came with a formatter/installer from Carl Nelson
( Software Architects).
The formatting went well and the disks are operational.
However there are few problems:
1. The disks will not boot! I can only boot from a diskette and
switch launch the finder.
2. For some reason I cannot switch launch from a another hard disk.
3. In order to mount the disks I have to restart few time
(usualy two). It never mounts after powering on the computer for
the first time.
I checked the boot blocks and it seems to be OK. I also found four
other installer programs that will format/install the disk but none
will let me work with the CDC drive as a startup device.
It was suggested to me that I have a general CDC SCSI WREN disk,
and that I actually need a special Mac CDC disk that have
the suffix "M" in it's product Number.
But I could not verify this, as yet.
can anyone help?
Thanks
Rafi Rafi@BGUVM.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 89 09:30:36 EST
From: ephraim@think.com
Subject: disk drive enclosures
Bruce Seely (bss@jupiter.risc.com) writes:
We have replaced 80-megabyte Quantum drives in four MAC IIs with
larger drives. Now we have these drives that we would like to use
as external drives. Does anyone know where we might be able to
purchase off-the-shelf enclosures that already have the power
supply, connector, and internal cable?
We (Thinking Machines) bought ready-made enclosures from
MicroNet Technology, Inc.
13765-A Alton Parkway
Irvine, CA 92718
Telephone: 714-837-6033
They generally sell only to wholesalers and dealers; they referred us
to a semi-local dealer (Brainwarez, in Vermont). The enclosures we
bought were for full-height drives and provide space for one
full-height and one half-height device. These were $375/each in
quantity five. Since you're repackaging half-height devices, I'm sure
they have cheaper model that will suit you.
Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
"Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for:
God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 16:33:48 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: Help Generator
Howdy.
If you could post this in Info-Mac, I'd appreciate it also.
It seems to me that a while ago, someone put an on-line
help generator and the code to access it onto the Sumex
archives. This thing basically allowed someone to create
a document, "compile" it into this help format, and then
provided the source code for a program to respond to a
button press and access the help file for display.
Unfortuately, with the old archives in such a sorry,
crashed state, I can't really look for it.
If someone can give me another pointer or mail me a
stuffit file, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| "Isn't fun like the best thing to have ever? |
| - Arthur |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: 11 Jan 89 00:51:12 GMT
From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Subject: How to send PostScript output to a file?
Two ideas about your problems printing PostScript to a file:
1. If you use a printer spooler, it won't work. I cannot get it to work
with SuperLaserSpool 2.0. So, you should pull your spooler out of your
System Folder and reboot.
2. Even though you do not have a LaserWriter connected, you must still
have the driver in your System Folder, and you must choose it in the
Chooser Desk Accessory. (I usually select the printer, but turn off
AppleTalk, to avoid problems if the print-to-disk doesn't work and it
really tries to talk to the non-existent printer.)
Wayne Folta (folta@tove.umd.edu 128.8.128.42)
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 20:15:53 MEZ
From: MAMI%DHVRRZN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: LQ-Printer ribbon -- use of all colours?
Date: 12 January 1989, 19:58:05 MEZ
From: Michael Hartje +49-511-762-3745 MAMI at DHVRRZN1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
hello LQ-Users,
if you are using black ribbon, you migth have wished to use not
only one quarter of the ribbon. Up to now, I don't know how to
use the other 3 quarters. Well, one more can be used, if
you change bottom and top of it, but I think there must be also a
software hint to tell the printer to use the other "colours" as a
standard "colour" so that the other parts can be used for normal
printing without telling the application to print standard "red"
colour or similar. -- Most applications don't know colours!
Is there anybody who knows how to get better use of the ribbon?
--By the way the reason for this question is the price: 1 black
ribbon costs about 32$ here in W-Germany at our local dealer and
lifetime is very short compared with Epson-printers -- 4$ a nylon
ribbon which is fully usable for a longer time!
Thank you very much... (if possible please mail direct to me)
Michael Hartje, Schering-Institute, Insitute for high voltage
engeneering and high voltage plants, University of Hannover, W.-Germany.
MAMI @ DHVRRZN1.BITNET
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Date: 12 Jan 89 23:10:01 GMT
From: rjc@ncsc1.att.com (Robert Cook consultant ncsc5)
Subject: Mac SIMMS (Memory 1M) for Sale
I have a quantity of 20 1M low profile 100ns SIMMS for sale. They are brand new
the same you will get at your local computer store, but not for $800+. I am
selling them for $640 a pair. I may be contacted as follows:
Robert Cook
1) Through the net or smail
2) 303/850-8050
3) 749 So. Robb Way
Lakewood, CO 80226
Additional supplies can be obtained if demand requires. Supplies will be first
in first out, Money Order or Cashiers Check.
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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 89 09:43 AST
From: "Jose Mendez, Network Manager" <J_MENDEZ%ACUPR.UPR.CUN.EDU@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MAC startup problem - ........S.O.S.!!
This is the case:
I've got a MAC/SE and a 20 Meg Hard Disk. For the last few months when I
turn on my Mac it takes about 5 minutes for the the machine to completely
boot up from the HD. It simply shows the Disk icon with a flashing question
mark while you can hear the HD whirling. I've notice that the time interval
has been somewhat increasing gradually. I've tried a few things but nothing
seems to help. Any suggestions besides reformatting my HD?
Please help. At times, it gets... aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhhh!!...
exasperating.
Thanks.
Jose Mendez
University of Puerto Rico
J_MENDEZ@UPRENET.BITNET
J_MENDEZ@ACUPR.CUN.EDU
"A computer system runs best when it runs downhill." Murphy
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 89 16:15:36 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: ZTerm 0.7 terminal emulator, part 1 of 3
This three-part posting contains version 0.7 of ZTerm, a new terminal
emulator for the Mac. Documentation is included, in both text and
Microsoft Word formats.
ZTerm is the first Mac telecom program (of which I am aware) that
supports the ZMODEM upload/download file-transfer protocol. ZMODEM is
related, in some respects, to the classic XMODEM and YMODEM protocols,
but it was designed "from the ground up" to work well in situations that
XMODEM cannot handle effectively... downloads over high-speed lines,
downloads over satellite and other long-delay links, downloads over
TELENET-style packet-switching networks, and so forth.
Unlike XMODEM, YMODEM, and Kermit, ZMODEM is a "streaming" protocol...
the sender transmits continually unless interrupted by a message from
the receiver. This streaming behavior permits the transfer to run at
nearly the full theoretical speed of the data path... efficiencies of
over 90% are common, compared with efficiencies as low as 50% for
XMODEM in difficult situations (e.g. over PC-Pursuit or a satellite
connection).
ZTerm 0.7 supports ZMODEM, YMODEM, and XMODEM for both uploading and
downloading; XMODEM and YMODEM can use either short (128-byte) or long
(1k-byte) packets. It also supports MacBinary II file-conversion in
all of these modes.
I've tested the ZMODEM file-transfer capabilities with an Opus
bulletin-board system in my area, and with Chuck Forsberg's "sz" and
"rz" programs on Sun Unix. It works beautifully... the download
efficiency is superior to either XMODEM or to Kermit with 900-byte
packets. If you initiate a ZMODEM download, ZTerm will "notice" the
ZMODEM handshake arrive and will automatically enter download-mode;
you need not (and cannot!) select "Receive ZMODEM" from a menu.
Similarly, if you order ZTerm to send one or more files via ZMODEM, it
will send a user-selectable command to the remote system ("rz" for
Unix, "uz" for Opus, or anything else you choose) to activate the
remote system's ZMODEM receiver.
Version 0.7 is described as a "Pre-release"; I've found it to be quite
solid in the few days I've been using it. The user-interface appears to
be quite clean and easy to understand. You can add "setups" to the
dialing menu; each setup corresponds with a specific system that you
access, and permits you to set parameters such as modem baud rate,
parity, preferred upload and download protocols, phone number, character
set (Mac, or PC extended) and so forth.
There are still some rough edges in ZTerm 0.7. I've encountered at
least one bug in the VT-100 emulation which makes it difficult for me
to use ZTerm with GNU Emacs. There are as yet no macro capabilities,
little or no ability to customize the keyboard, and no scripting
language of any sort, and the selection of the directory-in-which-to-
download done in a primitive fashion. I expect all of these rough
edges to be cleaned up in the relatively near future.
ZTerm 0.7 is shareware ($30); it was written and is supported by
David P. Alverson. I think it's well worth the requested fee, and
look forward to seeing future versions.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
[Archived as /info-mac/appl/zterm-part1.hqx through part3]
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Subject: Startup problems
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I'm having the same problem as Mr. Mendez. It turns out that if the
Mac is cold, below maybe 65F (17 Celsius), some components don't work
right. The hard disk in this case is not considered an OK startup device,
and it is unable to boot. I myself just let it sit turned on like this for
a few minutes, and after that the startup works fine. It would be good if
Apple designed their machines to work in climates colder than California
as well (-:
Boi Faltings, EPF Lausanne
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 18:19:41 PST
From: Bruce Don <bruce%tp5@rand.org>
One possible work around for cold climates might just be to leave it on all
the time.
The Mac+ I had previously was on, except for the occasional reboot, for at
least 9 months. It still works just fine -- my secretary is using it (in
the on-off mode).
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 14 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 8
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (via anonymous FTP) in the
info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6).
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request.stanford.edu.
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 0:51:31 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
This is not really a digest. Rather, it is a test of a new mailing system
which we will begin using if this works successfully. The idea is to allow
only moderators to send out messages using the info-mac mailing list.
Hopefully, the threat of annoying unencapsulated messages will soon
disappear.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 15 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 9
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
3D graphing program
ASLEdit+ V-1.0/a3
Guardian, Disktop and Autoblack incompatibility
SE/30 info
VirusDetective 2.0
XCMDs for CD-ROM drive
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 1989 15:08:50 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
New additions to the archive:
/help -- new directory to contain all sorts of
administrative stuff. For example:
/help/recent-files.txt -- lists all of the files added or modified in
the past two weeks. Similar to 00dir.recent
in the old archive on sumex-2060.
/virus/virus-rx-14a1.hqx -- the latest version. Finds Hpat and Init 29
viruses.
/tn/sound-docs-part1.hqx -- three part MSWord document from Apple.
Replaces Sound Manager chapter in IMV.
Is anyone out there in Bitnet land able to access new files like these from
the Bitnet servers?
There has been some confusion over the copyright notices attached to the
Adobe screen fonts. Info-Mac has permission to redistribute these fonts.
You may download them freely, but may not redistribute them yourself without
getting permission from Adobe.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 13:56:07 PST
From: chris%hobbes@lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: 3D graphing program
The following is a program to generate three dimensional
graphs of mathematical functions. The graphs can be displayed
>From any angle and shaded. It was originally written several
years ago to demonstrate the number-crunching abilities of the
Mac, but I've updated it since. There are two versions, one of
which uses the 6888x. This is freeware; do anything with it but
sell it.
Send comments etc. to
Christopher Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
(415)843-2437
[Archived as /info-mac/app/3d-graph-part1.hqx through part4]
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 13:22 CST
From: Youhei Morita (Univ. of Tsukuba) <MORITA%FNAL.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: ASLEdit+ V-1.0/a3
Here's a tiny text editor, ASLEdit+ V1.0a3 written by Mr.Hiroo Yamada, which I
downloaded from NIFTY serve. Both standalone application and DA version are
included. There's nothing fancy as an English text editor. However, it's the
*first* freeware editor which is capable of editing Japanese two-byte
characters (Kanji Code). It also comes with ASLFont+, a fixed width character
set like the Monaco font. Probably its optimal use is the communication in
Japanese. By using ASLFont+, Zenkaku (Fullwidth) and Hankaku (Halfwidth)
characters properly appears on the screen. Needs BinHex 4 and StuffIt to
decode.
I've got an explicit permission from the author to post this code here.
Here's some excerption from the packed ReadMe document. Enjoy!
--- ASLEdit+ version 1.0/a3 Release Notes Hiroo Yamada 12/24/88 ---
This is a first release of tiny Editor called ASLEdit+,Kanji Talk
compatible Kanji Editor for Japanese.
ASLEdit+ is written in THINK's LightspeedC 3.0 and Capp's Prime
Editor Construction Set.
ASLEdit+1.0/a3 is Freeware,You may upload or distribute this software
as non-profit basis.
If you upload ASLEdit+ to somewhere,would you please give me a mail ?
* ASLEdit+ features
- Supports both Application (ASLEdit+) and DA (ASLEdit+/DA)
- Up to 32 files may be open at one time
- Files of any size may be edited,provided that there is room in memory
(current version has limitation of maximum line number < 32768)
- Block of text can be shifted left or right (4 character at a time)
- Typing,shifting,and cut and paste actions may be undo and redo
- Extensive search and replace functionality,including multi-file search,
and grep search and replace.
- Printer support for Imagewriters and Laserwriters,including printing
from last to first page on the laserwriter.
(LW II doesn't need last page feature,will fix later release)
Do you need instructions ?
You had better to purchase LightspeedC 3.0 and Capp's Prime Editor
Construction Set if you are interested in ASLEdit+. It's worth paying for!
[Archived as /info-mac/app/asledit+.hqx 123K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 17:46 MST
From: GASick%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Guardian, Disktop and Autoblack incompatibility
Following up on my claim that the Autoblack screen dimmer is
incompatible with SUM Guardian in a recent digest, John Salmento pointed
out to me that it does work OK. I just went back to check my claim.
The problem I described actually requires AutoBlack and the DiskTop INIT
**together** to cause Guardian to fail. Neither one alone seems to
cause the problem. I'm glad to find this out because I can live without
the DiskTop INIT, but do find AutoBlack and Guardian to be very useful.
-- Gordon Sick
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 16:41:13 EST
From: swerling@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ace Swerling)
Subject: SE/30 info
I saw on the cover of the latest issue of MacWeek a stack that's being
distributed by Apple at MacWorld that describes the new features of the Mac
SE/30. I was wondering if there was any way that I could get this stack. I
figured that it was something that you could post. I'm sure that there are
alot of people who would be interested in it. Thanks.
-Ace
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 12:45 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective 2.0
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size
range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be removed
>From the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update the
search list at any time. Shareware.
Version 2.0 adds single file searching, auto disk searching, Show Info
command, new searches, commented search strings, friendlier interface and
more!
Jeff
uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
CSNet: SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
MCI Mail: KILROY
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-20.hqx 57K]
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 89 20:23:47 PST
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: XCMDs for CD-ROM drive
The "Audio CD Demo" stack contains 10 XCMDs for controlling the play of
audio CD disks from HyperCard using Apple's CD SCSI drive. In addition to
playing audio CDs, you can randomly access any point on the disk, play a
specific, small section of the disk, retrieve detailed status and addressing
information, etc. The XCMDs are fully functional, but will only work in this
demo stack. Information for purchasing the unprotected XCMDs is included.
Comments, bug reports etc. can be passed directly to me.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/audio-cd-demo.hqx 45K]
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 17 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
a Question & a Vision
BroadCast 1.0 Bug
Help with Mac Upgrade
LookupDeclaration Upgrade Notice
Netter's Dinner
printer drivers
profile and macintosh
Weird problem with Adobe Courier screen font family
WRITENOW BUGABOO-BOO
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 89 14:12:56 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: a Question & a Vision
Oops, sorry about that misspelling (I know better, but my index finger
doesn't always). There really is a "Stamford" (it's in Connecticut :-)
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Add to that the fact that Pinpoint and AST have dropped ALL support and
>production of Apple products, leads to my vision of the future..
>
>The Apple II series are we now know it will die a quiet death, and within
>a year or two after that, Apple will change it's corporate name to
>better identify itself with what it makes (Macintosh?????) and the
>market it serves.
>
>Lest we forget, Apple has not uttered the phrase "Apple II Forever" since
>last spring.. Nowhere did it appear at the last Applefest, nor in any
>promotion or advertising..
There's an interesting article in the 23 Jan '89 BUSINESS WEEK (pp. 90 & 92)
titled "Apple Turns From Revolution to Evolution."
The gist of the article is that Apple is embarking on a strategy of product
line extension (as opposed to innovation). Apple president John Sculley
also is reported to have decided to concentrate on maintaining high profit
margins (practically speaking that's premium prices) rather than aggressively
pursuing market share.
The article comments specifically on the absence of any indications of a
product beyond elaboration of the Macintosh (faster, larger capacity, etc.).
The TOTAL focus is the business market. There is NO mention of education,
hobbiest, or home markets. The Apple II line (past, present, or future?)
isn't mentioned at all; the article leaves the STRONG impression that
the Apple II line doesn't figure in management's strategic thinking for
even the early 1990's.
Anybody out there want to tell me I read that wrong?
Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 00:10:10 PST
From: GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
Subject: BroadCast 1.0 Bug
BroadCast 1.0 contains a bug that causes "answer" to malfunction in some cases
when sender and receiver are in different zones. This bug will be fixed in the
next release ASAP.
Joachim Lindenberg
GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
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Date: 16 JAN 89 11:13-
From: JJW7384%RITVAX.BITNET@CORNELLC.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Help with Mac Upgrade
HELP! I need to upgrade my Mac 512ke to an Mac Plus (or something similar).
All th edealers in my area are saying that they need about 4 to 6 weeks
to get the parts in. If anyone knows where I might be able to get my hands
on a Mac Plus logic board, I'd appreciate the info.
I'm also considering a Dove MacSnap 548S (a SCSI port + 2 megs memory).
Has anyone had experience with this board?
Thanks for you help,
Jeff Wasilko
BITNET: jjw7384@ritvax
INTERNET: jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
OR
jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cornell.cit.cornell.edu
UUCP: {psuvax1, mcvax}!ritvax.bitnet!JJW7384
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 20:21:55 MET
From: Norbert Lindenberg - U Karlsruhe <norbert@ira.uka.de>
Subject: LookupDeclaration Upgrade Notice
Revision 1.1 of the MPW tool package LookupDeclaration will start shipping
on February 1st, 1989. The new revision allows you to search multiple
index files for a declaration, so you may have different indices for
{PInterfaces}, {SrcMacApp} and your own project's interfaces. This makes
it feasible to update your project's index file frequently; multiple index
files are also necessary if you want to use LookupDeclaration in a small MPW
memory partition.
While LookupDeclaration 1.0 is shareware and is still available from
various sources, revision 1.1 is an upgrade for registered users only.
It will be shipped to all registered users free of charge. If you
have not yet registered, this is your chance.
For those who do not know LookupDeclaration yet:
The MPW Tool package "LookupDeclaration" contains two MPW tools and a shell
script, which combined allow you to look up MPW Pascal declarations quickly
and comfortably. It is intended as a supplement to Inside Macintosh and to
the various Inside Mac DAs, which provide better information, but in a less
timely manner. LookupDeclaration allows you to work with the most up-to-date
information you have available - the MPW interface texts. Compared to
Search'ing the interfaces, LookupDeclaration works both faster and more
selectively.
One of the tools, CreateDeclarationIndex, is used to create index files for the
declarations in the interface files you intend to use. After that, you work
with LookupDeclaration in the most simple way: you just position the insertion
mark in an identifier, or to the right or the left of it, and select
"Lookup Declaration" from the "Find" menu or press Command-L.
LookupDeclaration will figure out the identifier, and open the appropriate
interface text at the position where the identifier is declared. If there
are multiple declarations for the identifier - as may occur for record
components or object methods -, LookupDeclaration will open a dialog box
which lets you select the declaration you really want. Any files will be
opened read-only, so there is no risk of accidently modifying them. Of
course, you still may select and copy text from the interface file.
Norbert Lindenberg
norbert@ira.uka.de
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 09:01:33 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Netter's Dinner
Well, due to excessive amounts of skiing fun, I have gotten this message out
pretty late. The Netter's Dinner is going to go off on Saturday the 21st.
Everyone should meet in the upper lobby of Moscone Hall at 6:30. We will walk
to the restaurant from there. What more can I say?
I will be working/hanging out at the A32 User Group booth which is 5338 in
Brook's Hall. Come by and say hi!
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 89 16:52 CST
From: Mark Roseman <ROSEMAN@UOFMCC.BITNET>
Subject: printer drivers
We've got a Macintosh and a Roland 1012(?) printer which we'd like to
interface. We've got a serial to parallel interface left over from a
junked TRS80 computer which we should be able to modify to get information
over to the printer.
The question then is drivers. We've got the Daisy driver (which was in
MacTutor a while back) which should suffice for standard text, but it
would be nice to take advantage of the other capabilities of the printer.
I think its Epson command set compatible (or comparable anyway), so perhaps
an Epson driver would do. Does anyone know of a site where one is
available? Preferably from one of the mail-based file servers, as we
can't FTP from our site. Please respond directly, as we aren't members
of the list--I'll summarize any replies to the list.
thanks in advance..
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 14:00:28 MST
From: Capt Geoff Mulligan <geoff@usafa.arpa>
Subject: profile and macintosh
Is it possible to use an old apple PROFILE with a MAC or is it only usable
with a LISA?
Thanks,
geoff
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 06:41:28 PST
From: TOLLIVER%ORN.MFENET@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Weird problem with Adobe Courier screen font family
Hello gurus,
I've had a really weird problem with the Adobe Courier screen font
family downloaded from the recent posting to the archives. I also
donwloaded some of the others and most seem to work fine. But the
Courier Family seems to have a problem. At 12 point or 24 point, the
Courier screen font, a monspaced font, works fine. The problem is at 14
point size, where it still looks fine on the screen, but when printed to
a LaserWriter Plus, the spacing is not correct. In a code listing, for
example, where I have 4 spaces at the beginning of a line, the
characters in the 5th column do not line up properly. The spacing errors
are not integral multiples of one space. If you site along the fifth
column of the printed page, it looks wavey. This happens with both Word
3.01 and WordPerfect, with or without "fractional fonts" enabled, on a
Mac II or a Mac Plus, with the font in the System file or in a font
suitcase using Suitcase II, with Suitcase II enabled or not even in the
System Folder, and before or after having passed the font through
Suitcase II's Font Harmony utility to correct defects in the file.
Somehow there is some weird interaction between the screen font and the
postscript file that gets created. I repeat, it looks perfect on the
screen, just prints badly. It works correctly both on screen and printed
with 12 or 24 point font sizes (the only other ones I've tried). I've
only seen the problem at the 14 point size. If I shaft the Adobe Courier
Family and replace it with the original Apple Courier screen font, then
the problems go away. If I capture the postscript file created (using
Command-F) it is DIFFERENT when using the Adobe Family screen font than
when using Apple's Courier. How can that be? I thought the screen font
was used only for the screen display, and that the resident postscript
font in the LaserWriter was used for the LaserWriter's output. The
Courier resident font is indeed in the LaserWriter as reported by the
LaserStatus DA. How can the screen font effect the postscript file
created? I cannot read postscript so I cannot interpret what the real
difference is in the two postscript files. They're relatively
short--1634 bytes for the Apple Courier version and 1885 bytes for the
Adobe Courier version (the file I'm having these problems with is only
18 lines long). I could post the original file and the postscript files
if anyone is interested in helping me track this down. Although I cannot
read them, I can sure tell that they are different (just the difference
in size is amazing enough). And the LaserWriter can sure tell the
difference too.
Does any of this make sense? The workaround is obviously to just shaft
the Adobe Courier Family and use Apple's Courier screen font instead.
After all, who really cares about an italisized monospaced font looking
great on the screen anyway? But I wonder about the other Adobe Families
I have downloaded. Is there some bug waiting for an opportune time to
bite? But what I *REALLY* want to know is how can the screen font effect
the postscript file. Is it a fault of the font or of the LaserWriter
driver or what? By the way this is System 6.0.2 with the appropriate
LaserWriter driver and LaserPrep, etc. Thanks for any light that can be
cast on this problem.
John Tolliver (Tolliver%orn.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa)
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 13:48 AST
From: DALNEWS <DALNEWS%AC.DAL.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: WRITENOW BUGABOO-BOO
The editor of our in-house paper has the following problem when she
uses WriteNow on her MacSE hooked up to a Hyperdrive FX-20 20mb harddrive:
When she uses Writenow invisible rectangle overtype on some of
her letters. It happens sporadically and you can only see the little
rectangles when we place the story/article into Page-maker 3.0. Once in
pagemaker we can delete the overtyped rectangle. The local dealer
suggested replacing her WriteNow with a copy from someone else's disk.
We did that, and the same thing kept occurring. We used another person's
writenow application, and again the same thing. the hyperdrive was
re-installed. Nothing changed. We switched keyboards with someone
else in the office. No change. Has anyone else had this problem. No
one else inthe office (9 Macs with hyperdrives) can even duplicate
what she's done. It's left a lot of people scratching their heads.
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∂17-Jan-89 2324 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu mac developers meeting location
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Subject: mac developers meeting location
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A few people have asked me about the location. Apparently it wasn't
clear in the previous note:
At: Sweet Hall Basement, courseWare Lab ( you can't miss it)
Who: Dave Neal, Think Technologies (Symantic Corp)
What: The Think Pascal Debugger
When: 7pm Wednesday, Jan 18↑th
-johnmark
∂19-Jan-89 1432 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Generic SCSI disk driver?
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I'm contemplating using one of several manufacturers' non-Mac disks on my home
Mac+ (with a homebrew cabinet which substantially reduces the incessant noise).
Depending on the manufacturer, i may have a separate controller or put a second
drive on the controller of my existing disk. In either case, i'm going to need
a new driver, as even the existing one almost certainly won't handle more than
one unit. This is no big deal for me, i've hacked much hairier disk code for
other machines (and already have the core of a disk diagnostic running on the
Mac). But I-M VI explicitly does not explain a few things (c.f. p. IV-293) and
perhaps someone in this area has been through this before. Nor does it suggest
how to implement partitions or multiple units.
Before posting elsewhere, does anyone around here have source code for a SCSI
disk driver that i could look at specific parts of (e.g. that which is not
well-documented in easily available form), or alternately, are there Tech Notes
available for FTPing which cover those things that I-M does not? Extensive
comments take precedence over choice of language, which are, in order of
preference, `C', PASCAL or assembly language.
-- Tovar <TVR@SAIL>
P.S. I know about SF&I and do not expect it to cover my situation. Note that
i am not interesting in proprietary aspects of drivers, like how one can get
better performance than others on the same hardware. If the result is reliable,
i would prefer to make it available for non-commercial use without fee or other
solicitations.
∂19-Jan-89 1459 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu XCMDs - when do they exit?
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I wrote an XCMD that draws a PICTure on the screen. The screen is
refreshed by hypercard at the next mouseDown. In effect the keyboard
and the execution of further hyperTalk is blocked until the
next mouseDown.
I want to use this to do crude animation. I'll put up a picture, then
start a disolve to another card with the same bitmap and the picture in
a slightly different place. But I can't do that now, since I can't
return control in the XCMD back to the script.
So -- is this locking-out characteristic of all XCMDs? Is there a
nice way to avoid it?
-johnmark johnmark@polya.stanford.edu
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From: "John M. Agosta" <johnmark@polya.stanford.edu>
To: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: HyperCard XCMDs
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Jan 89 20:55:20 PST
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The blocking XCMD was my own fault - "hidden" in the code was a
mini event loop:
while not button do;
Removing it, the command returned immediately as normal.
This still doesn't help me do good animation. Hypercard flips
thru cards in a stack. By double buffering the screen bitmap.
That is why (except in the case of closing the msg window) you
don't see the erasure followed by the redraw, since both first
occur off screen and they are then copied onto the screen.
If I could put my animation pictures on the offscreen map, then
they too would be smoothly blitted into view. I hoped I could
trick hypercard into letting me use the offscreen map by the
hyperTalk command
lock screen
but then the corresponding
unlock screen
refreshes the card without any drawing that I have done.
Of course, I can always just use one card for each animation
frame. If you have seen the (5 Mbyte stack) "through the manhole
cover" you see how effective this is.
-johnmark
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 19 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 11
Today's Topics:
Adobe screen fonts for Courier
Avant Garde screen fonts
Clear 3.5" Disks
Fax Modems
Help with Mac Upgrade
Helvetica Narrow screen fonts
Human Touch Accel. problems
Mac Viruses - GateKeeper
Palatino screen fonts
Updates of Modula-2
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #6
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #7
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #8
Version 1.1 of Audio CD Demo Stack
Zapf Chancery screen fonts
Zapf Dingbats screen fonts
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 10:35:41 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Adobe screen fonts for Courier
Recently, John Tolliver (Tolliver%orn.mfenet@nmfecc.arpa) wrote:
> I've had a really weird problem with the Adobe Courier screen font
> family downloaded from the recent posting to the archives. I also
> donwloaded some of the others and most seem to work fine. But the
> Courier Family seems to have a problem. At 12 point or 24 point, the
> Courier screen font, a monspaced font, works fine. The problem is at 14
> point size, where it still looks fine on the screen, but when printed to
> a LaserWriter Plus, the spacing is not correct. In a code listing, for
> example, where I have 4 spaces at the beginning of a line, the
> characters in the 5th column do not line up properly. The spacing errors
> are not integral multiples of one space. If you site along the fifth
> column of the printed page, it looks wavey. This happens with both Word
> 3.01 and WordPerfect, with or without "fractional fonts" enabled, on a
> Mac II or a Mac Plus, with the font in the System file or in a font
> suitcase using Suitcase II, with Suitcase II enabled or not even in the
> System Folder, and before or after having passed the font through
> Suitcase II's Font Harmony utility to correct defects in the file.
I can't say that I've seen this problem before BUT, (1) I rarely use Courier,
and (2) I learned (from pre-LaserWriter days) to use tabs to hold alignment
rather than trying to use spaces. It does seem to point up a problem with
that screen font. If I get a chance, I'll point it out to Adobe.
If you can't use tabs, then perhaps the best thing is to just drop the Adobe
fonts. What you'll lose is overall improved character spacing when you use
the Courier-Italic, etc. fonts. One potential problem can result if you
install the screen fonts without first removing ALL of Apple's Courier fonts.
In that case you'll get an incompatible mix. However, I would THINK that
Suitcase's Font Harmony might fix that problem, but maybe not.
> Somehow there is some weird interaction between the screen font and the
> postscript file that gets created. I repeat, it looks perfect on the
> screen, just prints badly. It works correctly both on screen and printed
> with 12 or 24 point font sizes (the only other ones I've tried). ...
This points directly to the problem with the way Apple chose to set things up.
Many folks, myself included, thought that using PostScript meant that no matter
if the display was ugly, the output would be perfect. I even went so far as
to tell people (and do myself) to only install one size (to reduce System file
size) because "the PostScript will take care of everything, and the output
will still be perfect." IT JUST AIN'T SO! Apple chose to make the output you
get (i.e., the PostScript generated) DEPENDENT on the screen display. This is
why the PostScript files are different when you use the different sets of
screen fonts. Something you didn't expect after listening to all of Apple's
hype about PostScript perfection and letter perfect output from your new
LaserWriter. Well it isn't PostScript's fault (though it does have its
own share of problems), it's Apple's.
I suppose they chose this method to speed screen display and/or printing, but
I think they were short-sighted. (Display PostScript seems to be the best
solution today, but it certainly isn't the only one.) Thus, to get the best
possible printing, you need the screen fonts in the sizes and styles that you
will use. Of course, if you use odd sizes, i.e., 8pt for subscripts or 31pt
for display type, then you are in real trouble in trying to get good spacing.
The only solution to that one is PERHAPS in a program called FontSizer by US
MicroLabs. It generates screen fonts (still an approximation) from the
PostScript definitions in the printer in any size and style that are
installed. (Which is why bold Symbol doesn't print that way. There isn't any
bold Symbol installed in the printer.)
I can't really recommend the program because I haven't used it (yet). People
I've talked to say it does a good job on large sizes (for which it was
intended), but I don't know about small ones (for scientific types like me,
who abuse sub and superscripts to no end).
Anyway, I hope this description helps you understand the problem, even if
you don't solve it.
Michael J. Paisley
PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
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Office: (919) 737-7083
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:15:39 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Avant Garde screen fonts
Here's part 1 of the screen fonts for Avant Garde, which is built in
to the LaserWriter Plus and the LaserWriter II NT and NTX, as well as
others. This is a BinHex file of a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA
mover file. This is a nice font for headlines (sometimes), but I wouldn't
advise using it for body text.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/avant-garde-part1.hqx; 59K
/info-mac/font/avant-garde-part2.hqx; 50K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 19:53:31 est
From: MegaFest Coordinator <tron@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: Clear 3.5" Disks
Do any of you folks know where I can get clear 3.5" floppies like the ones that
some of the distributors had at the MacWorld Expo in Boston?
- Richard G. Brewer
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
------------------------------
Date: 18 Jan 89 10:54 EST
From: rrenfro%tofacsa@dtrc.arpa (Richard Renfro)
Subject: Fax Modems
We're looking for a reliable fax modem to attach to a Mac II. Since Apple
hasn't
been able to figure out how to do this, is there another company that offers a
suitable product?
Desired Features:
easy to use
can work in background
can be set to transmit during off-peak hours
imports and exports text or graphics
can send output directly to Laserwriter
works with all currently used fax protocols
Thanks in advance. If there's sufficient interest, I'll summarize the
responses.
rrenfro@dtrc.arpa
301/227-3329
Code 1401
David Taylor Research Center
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 18:35:18 PST
From: Mark Nagel <nagel@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Help with Mac Upgrade
In <Info-Mac Digest V7 #10> you write:
|
|I'm also considering a Dove MacSnap 548S (a SCSI port + 2 megs memory).
|Has anyone had experience with this board?
|
I have a 512e that I've upgraded to 2M + SCSI using Dove's board. It
has worked flawlessly (after getting past some initial problems and
exchanging the first SCSI board for a working one). The only problem
I have is that you need to turn on the Mac before the hard disk --
otherwise it only recognizes 512K, not 2M. It's strange, and Dove had
no idea why it happened. Anyway, I'd suggest going to a Mac Plus now.
That's because you still have an upgrade path to 4M and/or SE, whereas
you're pretty much stuck at 2M forever with the Dove upgrade. When I
first got my upgrade, I thought 2M would never be too little...
-Mark
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:23:03 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Helvetica Narrow screen fonts
This is a BinHex of a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file
of the screen fonts for Helvetica Narrow, a built-in font for the
LaserWriter Plus and LaserWriter II NT and NTX. It comes with the Bold,
Italic, bold italic and plain screen fonts in all the sizes. Basically,
this font is just a horizontally compressed version of ordinary
Helvetica. It's nice for headlines or when you need to cram a lot of
text into a small space.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/helvetica-narrow-part1.hqx; 51K
/info-mac/font/helvetica-narrow-part2.hqx; 57K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 13:14 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Human Touch Accel. problems
Greetings,
I have two problems with a Human Touch accelerator/RAM card which I've been
using now for a couple of years. The card is installed in my Mac 512KE.
It has a 12MHz 68000 and 1.5MB of RAM (system total RAM=2MB). It is fast,
and until recently I've had no compatiblity problems with it. Until recently.
Problem 1 - The DataDesk Mac 101 keyboard won't work on this Mac. The keyboard
works on other Macs but not mine. A friend's identical keyboard also does
not work on my Mac. The keyboard works in Macsbug, but not otherwise (no
response at all). I tried tweaking the power supply voltage, per a suggestion
>From DataDesk, to no avail.
Problem 2 - System 6.0.2 does not boot on my Mac. The "Welcome to Macintosh"
box appears and that's it... totally hung.
Any insights into either of these puzzles?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer Specialist
Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
PHONE (315) 824-1000 ext 742
APPLELINK U0523 (too expensive)
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 20:10 CDT
From: <B645ZAX@UTARLG>
Subject: Mac Viruses - GateKeeper
The following excerpt is forwarded from Spock@calstate:
I recently downloaded a CDEV file named "Gatekeeper". Current version
is 1.0. I'm not sure whether or not this is a BETA copy or not. But
in lue of the situation, I thought it was worth a try testing the
program. This program allows users to actually see what's going on with
their resources as far as possible viri programs are concerned. it
lists out there resource name, ID number, application that they
attacked (or in this case, attempted to attack), application which\
they attacked from, and what source disk; not to mention the date
and time. The program, by default, keeps a record log of everything
>From startup to shutdown. It prevents possible viri programs from
attacking either the Finder or System files. I'm not sure whether
the program prevents attacks on the Desktop file, but since both the
author and myself have tested the SCORES virus, I feeel that the
program DOES include the Desktop as one that is innoculated. Once
gatekeeper is taken off the disk, the viri programs DO attack the
applications and/or three files. When Gatekeeper is in the System
Folder, nothing (ABSOLUTELY NOTHING) happens.
As a personal testing of my own, I've tested "nVIR" as well as
"SCORES" on Gatekeeper. In addition, I've tested "mutated" versions
of "nVIR" at Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper STOPS ALL of those! I'm
not sure whether or not it stops either "Hpat" or "INIT29"; however,
someone has a copy of "Hpat" on his hard disk, and sometime this
week, I plan on getting a copy of it. Hopefully this weekend, I'll
have it isolated and disassembled. I've used MacNosy 2.35 (I have
a newer version, but it doesn't seem to work real well with my
Mac Plus) for disassembling into source code. However, there are
some problems here with Gatekeeper.
When exiting, Gatekeeper either locks up (with an ID=02 msg) or
simply clears and redisplays (rapidly) a blank dialog (with NO msg)
repeatly. I cannot seem to define a parmeter file for customizing
certain applications that DO require certain resource checks (like
MS Excel or ResEdit). That provides the same error message or
dialog. The ID=02 message shows up on my Mac Plus, and the other
message shows up on either the Mac SE or II. The IIx has NOT been
tested yet. Other than that, I've been quite impressed with the
product so far. And what's best is that it's FREE!
Spock INTERNET: cbds080@ccs.csuscc.calstate.edu
cbds080@c730.csupom.calstate.edu
BITNET: spock@calstate.BITNET
<end of excert>
-David Richardson, The University of Texas at Arlington
Bitnet: b645zax@utarlg Internet/Domain: b645zax@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...!{ames, texbell!cs.utexas.edu}!utarlg.arl.utexas.edu!b645zax
USnailMail: P O Box 192053, Arlington, TX 76019-2053
PhoNet: 817-273-3656 (FREE from Dallas/Ft. Worth, school months only)
[I use Gatekeeper all the time without any problems. In my opinion, it's
the best virus-fighting tool I've seen. - Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:28:51 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Palatino screen fonts
Here's part 1 of a BinHex file of a StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA
Mover file of the screen fonts for Palatino. The plain, bold, italic
and bold italic screen fonts are all in here. The font is built in to
the LaserWriter Plus, II NT, II NTX and a whole lot of other printers.
Palatino is an extremely good-looking and readable font for body text,
and it isn't half-bad for headlines either. It may as well be the Official
Font of Brown University, since nearly every official university publication
uses this font, as well as a lot of student publications.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/palatino-part1.hqx; 49K
/info-mac/font/palatino-part2.hqx; 59K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 22:22 CST
From: <IFRA%UMINN1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Updates of Modula-2
Does anyone know if there has been any new updates for
the Modula-2 compiler in the INFO-MAC archives?
-Frank
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:27 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #6
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 6
Today's Topics:
apple 1.4M drives
Coral largely taken over by Apple
Microsoft Road Show & Non-Disclosure Forms
Re: Concertware+,DMCS (reviews requested)
Questions about Hayes compatible modems
Rewriteable Optical Disks
24-bit Color Boards
Re: Turbo Pascal
Greyscale Antialiasing on Imagewriter?
Re: Dollars and Sense end of year
Re: Updating dialogs
Re: Apple HD SC 80 does not support Asynch i/o.
Re: NewHandle & No Memory
Re: How does the Finder tell diskettes apart?
Re: Using the wave-table synth in the Mac II Sound Manager
Re: Stack manipulation problems
Re: Telebit Trailblazer + and A/UX (2 messages)
Re: Looking for Centronics-style parallel interface card for Mac II
Re: Rewriteable Optical Disks
Re: Wanted: Investment Strategy Software
Hpat virus- it is a slightly modified nVIR 'B'.
Re: Wanted: Investment Strategy Software
PageMaker 3.0 Problems
Arabic Fonts and Editors ?
Screen font names <-> PS font names
Re: Simple instructional SCSI manager program wanted
Re: Screen font names <-> PS font names
looking for Layer Mgr docs
a message box for the finder?
Re: Wish-List: Decent MIDI support for the Macintosh
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-006.txt; 40K]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:30 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #7
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 7
Today's Topics:
Re: Dialogs in Init Code
Re: Landscape printing?
Re: Dialogs in Init Code
Re: ethernet overflow errors (2 messages)
Suggestion for virus prevention
Re: Source for laser cartridges?
Re: Radius/Fullwrite
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
CDEV and INIT sample code request
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Re: Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Modal dialogs vs. layer switching
Re: Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
thesaurus
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
STR# rsrc question
Re: Map CDev
Open Resource File List
Re: Command Key D.A.s (a message box for the finder?)
Re: Dialogs in Init Code
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
Re: STR# rsrc question
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
Detecting 3rd Party Math Co-Processors.. How?
ftp File ownership
Re: 4th Dimension Mailing Label Question
Re: thesaurus
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-007.txt; 38K]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:33 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #8
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 8
Today's Topics:
Tex on Macs ??
X Windows under Mac OS?
Application-independent laserwriter printing default
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Fans for Mac Plus - information requested
Re: Macintosh External Hard Disks recommended
Virtual memory init
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
P-system for the Mac
Canvas upgrade, lies
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: Tex on Macs ??
Re: SoftStyle Corp.
Phonetic (IPA) font wanted
MATHEMATICA on the MAC II -- Summary
Virtual Memory for Mac II -- report from a beta-test site
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: MATHEMATICA on the MAC II -- Summary
Anyone heard of 'Liaison'?
Re: thesaurus
Re: Tear of Menu's (Theeere HEEEeer!)
Attention Rodime Users
Re: Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
HD40 SC high pitch squeal
Re: Sad Mac error codes
Re: Need help finding manual for OMTI disc controllers
Internal Hard Disk Indicator?
disk labeling s/w
[Archived as /info-mac/usenetv5-008.txt; 38K]
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 19:15:14 PST
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Version 1.1 of Audio CD Demo Stack
This stack is a demonstration version of the Audio CD stack
which provides a series of XCMDS for controlling the play of
Audio CDs from HyperCard using the Apple CD SCSI drive. In
the Demo stack, you can try out all of the XCMDs, but if the
XCMDs are moved to another stack, they will not work.
However, you can modify the "Try It" button scripts to try
out all of the features of the XCMDs. Feel free to copy this
stack and pass it along to friends, provided that you do not
modify the stack in any way, and in particular that all of
the copyright notices are left intact. The Audio CD stack
itself, with "unprotected" XCMDS that you can use in your
own stacks, can be ordered for $25 -- information is
provided in the stack. Feel free to send comments, bug
reports etc. to me at PROMAN @ UVVM.
Version 1.1 fixes a minor bug in a closeCard handler on the
TrackPlay XCMD and TimePlay XCMD cards.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/audio-cd-demo-11.hqx]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:34:47 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Zapf Chancery screen fonts
Here are the screen fonts for Zapf Chancery, in BinHex format from a
StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file. This font only comes in
italic and bold italic versions, so that's all there is here. As script
fonts go (they tend to be really corny), this one is pretty nice. It's
built into the LaserWriter Plus and similar printers, as well as the
LaserWriter II NT and NTX.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/zapf-chancery.hqx; 24K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 01:40:50 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Zapf Dingbats screen fonts
Here are the screen fonts for Zapf Dingbats, in a BinHex file of a
StuffIt 1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file. This font doesn't come
in italic styles, so those fonts aren't in here. This is a font of
symbols, like arrows, hands, and other things, that come in handy every
once in a while. This font is built in to the LaserWriter Plus, II NT and
II NTX, and other printers that come with lots of fonts. You can get
some interesting and useful effects by using this font in outline and
shadow styles.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/zapf-dingbats.hqx; 29K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
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Today's Topics:
3D graphing program (fixed)
Bodoni screen fonts (part 1 of 2)
Delphi Mac Digest V5 #1
Finder LAYO Resources
Franklin Gothic screen fonts (part 1 of 2)
Looking for Mac SNOBOL
Mac -> Overhead projector interfaces
MacInHebrew
Merge .HQX Stack
New Hard Drive
reply to question on Mac VT100 keyboard for Mac Kermit
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 18:31:00 PST
From: chris%hobbes@lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: 3D graphing program (fixed)
The version of this program posted a few days ago had a
problem in the toaster Mac version, now corrected (it would beep
and exit). This is to replace that entire posting. It consists
of four parts, mailed seperately.
The following is a program to generate three dimensional
graphs of mathematical functions. The graphs can be displayed
>From any angle and shaded. It was originally written several
years ago to demonstrate the number-crunching abilities of the
Mac, but I've updated it since. There are two versions, one of
which uses the 6888x. This is freeware; do anything with it but
sell it.
Send comments etc. to
Christopher Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
(415)843-2437
[Archived as /info-mac/app/3d-graph-part1.hqx; 52K
/info-mac/app/3d-graph-part2.hqx; 52K
/info-mac/app/3d-graph-part3.hqx; 52K
/info-mac/app/3d-graph-part4.hqx; 37K]
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 00:42:20 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bodoni screen fonts (part 1 of 2)
Here are the screen fonts for Bodoni, a font that's not built in to any
printer -- this is a downloaded font. This file is a BinHex of a StuffIt
1.5.1 file of a Font/DA Mover file. Bodoni is a nice font for both body
text and headlines. These screen fonts include styles for plain, bold,
italic and bold italic, as well as a super-bold "Poster" style.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/bodoni-part1.hqx; 71K
/info-mac/font/bodoni-part2.hqx; 67K
May not be redistributed without permission from Adobe.]
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 08:32 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Delphi Mac Digest V5 #1
Delphi Mac Digest Wednesday, January 18, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Laser Smoothing
INTERFAX
re: Dir-Acta-Ry APPL
RE: Usenet Mac Digest V4 #179
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #121
RE: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #2
TextEdit TABbing? (2 messages)
RE: INFO-MAC Digest V6 #121
RE: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #2
Crossword puzzle generation
MS Windows vs Macintosh development envi
re: Re: Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
re: Hard Disk Icons
re: Re: Arabic Fonts and Editors
re: SFPGetFile Question
re: 6.0.2: unlimited downloadable fonts:
Addresource (2 messages)
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/delphiv5-001.txt; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:18:49 EST
From: jonathan%bert.mitre.org@gateway.mitre.org
Subject: Finder LAYO Resources
Use physical Icon replaces the normal icon of a floppy disk that is used by
the finder with a small picture of a macintosh (either a Mac II or an SE) with
an arrow pointing the the drive that the floppy is located in. This is
especially useful on a two floppy drive machine so you can tell which disk is
in which drive.
Copy Inherit and New Folder Inherit are properties related to Appleshare File
Servers. They have to do with the priviliges that folders get when they are
created or copied. (if these options are NOT selected, new or copied folders
will receive the default priviliges for the user creating the folder, if they
ARE selected, a copied folder will have the same priviliges as the original, and
a new folder will have the same priviliges as the folder that it is contained inin).
Jonathan A. Leblang
The MITRE Corporation
McLean Virginia
703 883 5761
jonathan@bert.mitre.org or jonathan@mitre.mitre.org
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 01:14:34 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Franklin Gothic screen fonts (part 1 of 2)
Here's part 1 of the screen fonts for Franklin Gothic, a downloadable
Adobe font. This file is a BinHex of a StuffIt 1.5.1 file of a Font/DA
Mover file. Plain, bold, italic and bold italic versions are included
in this file. There is also a "heavy" font, which is bolder than bold.
Franklin Gothic is a very nice sans-serif font for headlines. It's
similar to but a lot more interesting than Helvetica.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/franklin-gothic-part1.hqx; 79K
/info-mac/font/franklin-gothic-part2.hqx; 83K]
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 16:24:51 GMT
From: PMIDS%FRPOLY11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Looking for Mac SNOBOL
> To all: we are looking for a Macintosh implementation of either
> SPITBOL or SNOBOL for the Macintosh. A check of our software
> catalogs indicated no interpreters for either commerically
> available. Does anyone know ...
I haven't actually seen either of them on the Mac, but on checking
through some things I brought back with me from a trip to the U.S.
at the end of this year, I found this:
"Kim Leeper, in London, has announced completion of a SIL-based
SNOBOL4 interpreter for the Macintosh. This version of MacSNOBOL(tm)
uses a C-based library for its I/O. For more information about
MacSNOBOL, write or call:
Kim Leeper
Technical Director
Giedrys Enterprises
10 Rudloe Road
Balham, London SW12 0DS
United Kingdom
(01) 673-3584"
and
"A Macintosh version of Macro SPITBOL is in progress. The expected
release date is Fall, l987" (from Catspaw, see below)
That came from the SNOBOL4 Information Bulletin, summer l987, so
the information is a little old. I've been looking for a SNOBOL
myself, so I want to know how the two efforts worked out.
General information for those who don't know: SNOBOL4 is a text
processing language, written a long time ago by some people at
Bell Labs. The language itself has extremely powerful pattern
matching capabilties. It was first written in a macro language (SIL)
which has been ported to dozens of machines. SPITBOL is a somewhat
extended implementation--it is also transportable, runs much faster
than implementations of SIL SNOBOL4, but is not in the public domain
as is the SIL implementation. SNOBOL4 (and as far as I know, SPITBOL)
are interpreted, but in a batch mode so you dont get the advantages
you would expect from an interpreter. The language also has archaic
control structures. But even with its disadvantages, nothing is as
simple to use when you need to massage text. It has a small but
devoted following, from people in humanities to NSA code breakers (who
run it on Crays, if rumors can be believed).
Information on SNOBOL4: SNOBOL4 Information Bulletin, free but
published rather irregularly, from
SNOBOL4 Project
Department of Computer Science
Gould-Simpson Building
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
(602)621-2018
Also, Catspaw, Inc., who has 680x0 SPITBOL and is supposed to have
brought it up on the Mac. They also publish a newsletter, and run
a bulletin board for SNOBOL4. My info is all old, but here it is:
Catspaw, Inc.
P.O. Box 1123
Salida, CO 81201
(303)539-3884
(303)539-4830 (BB, Fido address 15/22)
I'm going to check on the SNOBOL4 from England. If the Catspaw
SPITBOL is out for the MAC, I would appreciate hearing about it.
Darrell Skinner, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (or near enough) France
BITNET or EARN: PMIDS at FRPOLY11
paper mail: Labo PMI / Ecole Polytechnique / 91128 Palaiseau France
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 17:46:51 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Mac -> Overhead projector interfaces
Good morning!
I'm looking for another product recommendation. Would anyone with
experiences, good or bad, with hardware devices to allow the mac to project
onto a screen via an overhead projector please email them to me? I'll
summarize to the net(s).
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch
US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 17:09 MDT
From: <GELLMAN%UNCAEDU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacInHebrew
If you have recently successfully installed MacInHebrew
on a Mac SE, I need your help!
I obtained MacInHeb version 2 (or thereabouts), and the
fonts and DA appear to install correctly, in that they
show up in the DA & font lists. The CapsLock key
does move the cursor to the right, but to get a Hebrew
font I have to hold down the Option key. The fonts look
strange (can't be more specific).
All this on a SE with an internal 20MB disk (from Apple),
running System 6.0, Finder 6.1, 1 MB memory. I tried
it on fairly minimal system, with only rudimentary
DA's around, and no fancy CDEVs, standard fonts only.
Please reply to
GELLMAN @ UNCAEDU.BITNET
since I do not have regular access to the BBS.
Thanks,
Reuben Gellman
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 11:45:57 EST
From: Joe McMahon <XRJDM%SCFVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Merge .HQX Stack
This little stack takes segmented .HQX files and puts them together
into a single merge file. No guarantees here, but it seems to work OK
for me. Also, note that sometimes BinHex will complain about a file,
but StuffIt won't.
--- Joe M.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/merge-hqx-files.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 15:17 CST
From: <SRS9925@TNTECH>
Subject: New Hard Drive
"Disk subsystem for Macintosh is announced" - Nashville 'Tennessean'
Northern Telecom announced yesterday what it said is the tele-
communications industry's highest capacity single disk subsystem for
Macintosh networks, the Memorybank 940E.
The new product, with a suggested retail price of $17,900, offers
a 24% increase in disk capacity over previous models in the company's
Memorybank line.
Officials said it is a hard disk/backup tape subsystem consisting
of 940 megabytes of disk capacity and 2.3 gigabytes of tape backup storage,
plus support software for disk management, data backup and restoration.
They also said the company has reduced list prices for its entire
Memorybank product line, effective immediately.
The 940E provides the same features as other Memorybank products,
Northern Telecom said, including:
Backup of AppleShare networks without shutting down AppleShare.
Ability to backup 2300 megabytes onto one small tape cartridge.
Support for time delay, volume and time backup, as well as a
variety of disk management routines.
The product line also consists of of 261,485 and 761 megabyte models,
officials said.
Just thought it might intrest Mac users out there.
-Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 89 15:41 N
From: <SURF050%HTIKUB5.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: reply to question on Mac VT100 keyboard for Mac Kermit
to all persons who reacted to my question on the use of VT100 with
MacKermit on a Mac+. I think the following reaction might be important
to all users. After using BinHex you'l find a number of terminals,
all ready for use.
thank you all for responding to my question. Good luck with the
terminals that follow.
Ir. Koos Jorritsma
Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden
Vondelstraat 9
8913 HP Leeuwarden (NL)
SURF050@HTIKUB5
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/kermit-terminals.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 13:01 CST
From: <SRS9925@TNTECH>
Subject: rumors
Does anyone out there know anything about the rumored rewrite of
the macintosh finder???
-Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 89 18:46 CST
From: <SRS9925@TNTECH>
Subject: Stars 1.8
Recently I got a copy of David P. Oster's Stars 1.8 from macserve@pucc,
which said that it would work on a Mac II. I installed the accessory using
Apple's Font/DA mover, went under the apple and started it up. Instead of
Blacking out the screen and displaying stars (like 1.3 which sort of works on
the mac II), it blacked out the top inch of the screen and proceded to draw
stars all over the finder screen. In the top inch it just diplayed garbage.
Does anyone out there know what the problem is or know of a new version that
works properly. Also does anyone know of any other good anti-screen-burn
desk accessories out that work on the mac II
-Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
[Try Moire 2.22 - Bill]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:38 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #10
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
Apparent Inconsistency in QElem Definitions
Bug in Lightspeed Pascal 2.0
Re: Printf Core Dumps on A/UX
Re: Rewriteable Optical Disks
Re: Dollars and Sense end of year
Re: Alegra common lisp
Re: Arabic Fonts and Editors
MacMoney end of year
SFPGetFile Question
MacsBug behavior?
More minor LSP problems
Minor Inside Mac Discrepancy
Landscape printing?
Re: SFPGetFile Question
Re: MacsBug behavior?
Re: Bug in Lightspeed Pascal 2.0
Re: Apple HD SC 80 does not support Asynch i/o.
Where oh where has my interface gone?
Re: a message box for the finder?
Minor LSP 2.0 Bug
Re: Apparent Inconsistency in QElem Definitions
6.0.2: unlimited downloadable fonts: how?
Radius/Fullwrite
Help for Beginninger Programmer
Re: Rewriteable Optical Disks (2 messages)
Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac??
Re: PageMaker 3.0 Problems
4th Dimension Mailing Label Question
Request for mac zoo archiver
Re: Need help with printers
Re: PageMaker 3.0 Problems
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-010.txt; 38K]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:40 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #11
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 11
Today's Topics:
reading foreign disks
Version control for the Mac
Problem with SUM 1.02 and MenuClock101
Re: Radius/Fullwrite
Tough Ramdisk?
Re: MacMoney end of year
Mac Developers meetings coming up!
Re: Minor LSP 2.0 Bug
Re: Stack manipulation problems
Re: Landscape printing?
Re: a message box for the finder?
re: Landscape printing?
Mac hardware help needed
Re: Minor LSP 2.0 Bug
DIBadMount
How do I change dialog font and size?
Re: Printf Core Dumps on A/UX (also accntg bug)
Re: WYSIWYG Math-Text Processing
Re: Mac Interface, and ways to have a "Command Line" interface
Re: Tough Ramdisk?
Re: Version control for the Mac
Re: WYSIWYG Math-Text Processing
Re: Problem with SUM 1.02 and MenuClock101
Re: Net Trek on a Mac II Bombs, why?
Atron MacIntosh II hardware debugger
Re: Is there a C++ for the Apple Macintosh?
Re: Is there a program to test RAM?
Re: Is there a C++ for the Apple Macintosh?
Re: Why are there no Speech Recognition products for the Mac??
Desktop Publishing on Mac - HELP
Screenfonts: Adobe or Apple?
Re: Minor LSP 2.0 Bug
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-011.txt; 36K]
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 89 08:35 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #9
Usenet Mac Digest Monday, January 16, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 9
Today's Topics:
Weird Thingy with LSC 2.15
Apple ][ emulation?
Redrawing windows using Allegro Common Lisp
MacroMaker and Option-DA
Re: PageMaker 3.0 Problems
Re: Virtual Memory INIT
Product idea (Apple, Claris, and independents, please note!)
Re: Anyone heard of 'Liaison'?
Looking for a font
Drawing an ICN# or its mask
Re: Open Resource File List
Re: How to find total memory (a beginners hack)
Re: serious code generation bug in Lightspeed C
Re: Need help with INITs
Re: Command Key D.A.s (a message box for the finder?)
Re: Suggestion for virus prevention
Alerts
MacApp and the 68881
Minix/Xinu for Mac?
Solved problem with INIT
Text Drawing at speeds in excess of 1200baud
List Manager sources
Hard Disk Icons (2 messages)
Re: Stack manipulation problems
Re: Alerts
Temperment-like INIT anywhere????
Re: Text Drawing at speeds in excess of 1200baud
Re: ethernet overflow errors
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-009.txt; 38K]
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I get an ID=02 bomb whenever I try to switch-launch to a Finder on another
volume.
(I'm running System 6.02, Suitcase, Pyro, SuperClock, and an old Paradise
20 meg hard disk.)
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 21 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
CDC WREN V 192MBHD Blues.
Creating PostScript Files
Duplicating machines...
Garamond screen fonts
Getting Files
Goudy screen fonts
Large Screens
MacinTalk Request
More on SNOBOL
PC PCX/TIFF to Mac
Stars 1.8 and Mac II
Vietnamese character set? is there such a thing?
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 17:26:52 GMT
From: PMIDS%FRPOLY11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: CDC WREN V 192MBHD Blues.
Someone recently reported problems with CDC Wren V half high disks:
> I received couple CDC WREN V 192MB hard disks, a while ago.
> The Drives came with a formatter/installer from Carl Nelsontects).
> ( Software Architects).
> The formatting went well and the disks are operational.
> However there are few problems:
(summarizing here) not being able to boot off the disk, not being able
switch launch from another hard disk, having difficulty mounting them
after powering up the Mac.
> It was suggested to me that I have a general CDC SCSI WREN disk,
> and that I actually need a special Mac CDC disk that have
> the suffix "M" in it's product Number.
> But I could not verify this, as yet. can anyone help?
I just bought the same disk and installed it. No problems.
There may indeed be a special Mac Version. Or rather, I was told that
CDC made a mistake in one particular SCSI function (which one, I dont
know) which causes problems when you put two or more of them on line
simultaneously. The one I got, I was assured, was a special model
in which the problem was fixed.
Mine was packaged by MicroNet Technology (13765-A Alton Parkway /
Irvine CA 92718 / (714)837-6033), the info came from tech support
there. (I heard on the network that MicroNet is being started by
the same person who started CMS, thus should know what he is doing ...
don't know if it is true or if I am spreading rumor). Anyway,
so far I'm really happy with mine. Their disks are carried (altho
not advertised) by MacLand and Hardware House. The latter gave me
a better price, took them up on it ... got the CDC drive for only
a few hundred $$ more than similarly sized Rodime. Only complaints:
it arrived carelessly set up (as a drive half its size), and I don't
see how to partition the drive (tech support assured me it could be,
don't see how from their software, so I am writing them).
(No connections ... etc., except as satisfied customer ... this disk
is fast!). Hardware House: (800)356-2892 (215)386-2208
Suggest you call MicroNet and see what you can find out, they told me
they had worked with CDC engineers to fix the problem they found.
I looked under the hood again, the model number didn't have an 'M'
in it (94221-190), looks like a regular CDC label.
One other possible source of info: there's been a little ad in the
back of MacWorld for CDC drives, "custom designed driver software"
available separately, Third Estate Corp., (800)888-4131.
Darrell Skinner, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (or near enough) France
BITNET or EARN: PMIDS at FRPOLY11
paper mail: Labo PMI / Ecole Polytechnique / 91128 Palaiseau France
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 09:29 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Creating PostScript Files
Someone recently asked about creating PostScript output files from Mac
applications. There are two ways to do this, depending on what kind of
PS file you need. You can create a file which only has the PS code for
your document by holding down the "F" key immediately after clicking "OK"
in the print dialog box. You will see a message "Creating PostScript File"
instead of "Looking for LaserWriter...". This file won't be very useful
because it depends on the presence, in the PostScript printer, of the LaserPrep
file. If you can download that file to the printer, and make it permanent,
then you're all set.
Chances are, however, that you'll need to download the prep file in front
of the document file. So, Hold down the command-K key as you click "OK"
in the print dialog box. LaserPrep will be pre-pennded to your document
file, and this file should print.
I'll be truthful, I have not actually tried this, as all our postScript
printers are LaserWriters that are connected via AppleTalk to my Mac!
If anyone has tried this, please let us know how it worked.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer Specialist
Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
PHONE (315) 824-1000 ext 742
APPLELINK U0523
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Date: Tuesday, 17 Jan 1989 08:23:33 EST
From: m20011@mwvm.mitre.org (Anup Patel)
Subject: Duplicating machines...
Here in the PC Support Lab, we have a need to make a batch of disks when ever
a software upgrade occurs. I am looking for a disk duplicating machine that
is reliable, has good manufacturer service, and can handle 50-100 disks per
week.
We have a $21,000 duplicator from MST that breaks down after a month of use.
The service center is in California, so it becomes expensive to send it out
for repair.
Also, price should be in the $3500 - $7000 range for a MAC format only disk.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 22:49:26 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Garamond screen fonts
Here's part 1 of the screen fonts for Garamond, a BinHex of a StuffIt
1.5.1 archive of a Font/DA Mover file. This is a downloaded font only
-- it isn't built in to any printers that I know of. Garamond is a great
font for headlines or body text.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/garamond-part1.hqx; 60K
/info-mac/font/garamond-part2.hqx; 52K]
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 07:59:17 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Getting Files
I must be dumb or something. I kept seeing new archives on recent
info-mac digests such as : archived as /info-mac/font/adobe-times.hqx etc
Please, can anyone tell me how to retrieve these files, especially when
a request for the latest file directory listing reveal none of them - eg
the 3-d graphingh program, Bodini font etc.
[Glad you asked. The reason you can't get these files is that you're using
a Bitnet server instead of FTP. None of the Bitnet servers have been updated
to support the new archive format (subdirectories) yet. However, we're
really trying to work something out so that Bitnet is not left out in the
cold. The recent lowercasing of all of the names in the sumex-2060 directory
and the creation of the file /help/all-files.txt may help in this endeavor.
Hopefully in the next few weeks... Bill]
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 22:55:34 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Goudy screen fonts
Here's part 1 of the screen fonts for Goudy, a downloadable font
>From Adobe. The font is compressed with StuffIt 1.5.1. Goudy is a
very elegant, stately font for headlines or body text.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
[Archived as /info-mac/font/goudy-part1.hqx; 57K
/info-mac/font/goudy-part2.hqx; 51K]
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 14:38:29 CDT
From: <AEZRAYS%UICVMC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Large Screens
From: aezrays@uicvmc.bitnet
A professional musician friend of mine is using Finale to compose for
a full orchestra on a MacII. He is searching for a monitor that will
display a full page of an 11X14 score. 8 1/2 by 11 is not big enough
for him. The local computer store has told him that there is no way.
Are they right?
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 89 18:10:39 EST
From: MACFERRIN@HUCHE1.BITNET
Subject: MacinTalk Request
Can anyone tell me what MacinTalk is and how I can get it?
Thank you.
--Kurtis MacFerrin
BITNET: MACFERRIN@HUCHE1
PHONE: (617) 495-8394
MAIL: DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
12 OXFORD ST.
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 07:43 EST
From: <ELJAZZAR%UTKVX3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: More on SNOBOL
> To all: we are looking for a Macintosh implementation of either
> SPITBOL or SNOBOL for the Macintosh. A check of our software
> catalogs indicated no interpreters for either commerically
> available. Does anyone know ...
I know of HCI SNOBOL that is available from:
Human-Computer Interface Ltd.
25 City Road, Cambridge
CBI 1DP, England
I got the address from the User's Manual, no phone number was listed.
(Sorry I cannot give you any information about the quality of the product
because I do not use it myself)
Hope this helps..
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Mohamad Eljazzar (ELJAZZAR@UTKVX1.BITNET)
UT Computing Center
Knoxville, TN
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Date: Fri 20 Jan 1989 15:57 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PC PCX/TIFF to Mac
Our department is getting a Kurzweil Scanner for a PC (ug!) that supports
300dpi/15 levels graphics in PC PCT and TIFF formats. (Also a couple of
other formats I'm not familiar with).
Is TIFF format on the PC the same as TIFF format on the MAC? (So I just need
to do a binary transfer between my machines?)
Is PCT format on the PC binary compatible with the MAC? If not, is there
a package available to convert the from PC to MAC?
Is there any advantage to PCT over TIFF or visa versa?
Thanks,
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 09:42:13
From: <LANGOWSKI%FREMBL51.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Stars 1.8 and Mac II
The behavior that you described sounds like a hard-encoded screen size for
the screen blanking routine. Not very easy to fix. If you're patient, you
can look for numbers like 512, 342, or their product in the code and try
to patch that part. Having Nosy at hand would help.
--jl--
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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1989 16:50:34 CST
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: Vietnamese character set? is there such a thing?
Can someone tell me what character set I need to get to prepare
text in the Vietnamese language?
--------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------
INTERNET: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1)
or: werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner
ALTERNATIVE: werner@astro.as.utexas.edu OR werner@utastro.UUCP
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see su-market, please.
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 23 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 14
Today's Topics:
Antipan Question
Creating of PostScript File...
GateKeeper - THE TRUTH COMES OUT - (or from the horse's mouth...)
Helix VMX
HP2648 emulator?
More on MicroNet
RobotArm game
Symantec CAPP (?)
Talking Moose 1.21
Text file manipulator
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #12
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #13
Usenet Mac Digest V5 #14
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Date: 23 Jan 89 13:15 CST
From: B28384%ANLVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Antipan Question
Date: 23 January 89, 13:06:11 CST
From: Ray Carlson 2-5805 B28384 at ANLVM
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Antipan Question
I tried to send a message to Alex Heatley, not author but submitted antipan to
info-mac, but couldn't seem to get the right routing address.
I didn't have any problems either, until I compressed my harddisk with Disk
Express. Could antipan have added something to the programs that Disk Express
did not recognize and copy?
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 16:53:27 EET
From: Jouni Santara <LK-JOUNI%FINTUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Creating of PostScript File...
Hi everybody|
Proudly, I have to inform that the problem of creating of PS
files has been solved a long time ago by me. However, it does
not help me much, because I still have to transfer my files
via network to the PC-compatible printer and so on...(you do
not want to hear, I am sure).
To the facts: I am using Mac+ with the next thumb rules in
order to succeed. So, do not blame me if you have another machine
or configuration.
1. First, you have to be sure that there is nothing connected
to your printer port if there is a plug pick it out - this is an
order.
2. Next, open the chooser under your apple menu and activate
LaserWriter also press the AppleTalk on. Do not ask why.
3. Close the chooser and go to your favorite text processing
program reading in the text you are wanting to print.
4. Now, select the print function. The printing window appears.
5. Press OK-button of window and immediately after that
COMMAND-F or COMMAND-K (the difference was explained before).
6. Finally, the window saying "Creating PostScript files" appears
to mark you have succeeded.
The most important step, which has been missing until now, was
1. and 2. For some odd reasons, it just seems that the printer port
has to be free or let's say in state where Mac can illustrate to be
able to use AppleTalk.
This is only one way to do it, but it works for me. I hope it does
for you too.
Jouni Santara
Computing Centre
Turku university
FINLAND
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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 18:28:43 CST
From: chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
Subject: GateKeeper - THE TRUTH COMES OUT - (or from the horse's mouth...)
GateKeeper 1.0 has been in release for twenty days now and it appears to be
time to make an announcement or two.
GATEKEEPER BUGS - THE TRUTH COMES OUT
There are indeed bugs in GateKeeper 1.0. They cause some people no end of
serious problems, while other people are blissfully unaware of them and run
without any problems at all. I suspect that most people fall into this
latter category, but there are cetainly quite a few in the former category
with problems that can't be (and aren't) ignored.
If you are having serious problems with GateKeeper, my apologies. It would
probably be best if you stop using GateKeeper until the fixed version is
available.
If you are not having problems with GateKeeper, by all means continue using
it - from everything I've learned from those people who've contacted me it
will either cause you chronic and unmistakeable problems, or none at all.
I, personally, fall firmly in the category of one who has had no problems
at all.
The fixed version of GateKeeper (1.0.1) has been in testing for several days,
and I should start getting feedback from my testers soon. I don't believe in
releasing software that is still in its testing stages (i.e. Alpha, Beta or
Development versions), so when 1.0.1 is released, it'll mean something.
IS GATEKEEPER 1.0 A BETA VERSION OR WHAT?
As I stated above, I don't believe in releasing software that's still in its
testing stages. GateKeeper 1.0 was a full-fledged release version. It was
tested at two separate sites (actually, there were three, but the last one
served primarily to confirm the results of the original two). None of the
problems that have so effectively plagued some GateKeeper users were reported
by those testers. In addition, I ran GateKeeper on my own machine throughout
the entire development phase in the belief that if anybody was going to get bit
by bugs it ought to be me. An extremely early internal development version
actually did cause me some serious problems too - while I was in the process
of building a newer version of GateKeeper, it caused Lightspeed C to delete all
of the GateKeeper source files. I was not amused - but that bug, and every
other one I encountered, were fixed. Indeed, by the time the earliest test
version went out to the test sites, GateKeeper had been running trouble-free
for me for some time.
The long and the short of it is: It was not for lack of trying that GateKeeper
1.0 went out with bugs. My apologies and sympathies to those who have been
bitten.
IT'S GOT PROBLEMS. SO WHAT'S BEING DONE ABOUT IT?
New and significantly more varied test sites have been chosen for version 1.0.1
of GateKeeper. Specifically, I've asked everyone who has reported problems
(especially those who have reported very serious problems) to become testers.
I've also asked all those who contacted me and reported that they've had no
problems to become testers. This way I should get feedback from both ends of
spectrum. So far I've had very favorable responses and I believe that with
the help of these people, GateKeeper 1.0.1 will be an admirably stable and
reliable release.
When it will be available depends entirely on what I learn from the testers,
and what (if any) features I decide to add. In the name of timeliness, I'm
inclined to release it without additional features as soon as I get the word
>From my testers - In the name of steadily reducing the size of the list of
features to be added without creating a senseless plethora of versions, I'm
inclined to add several important new features to the upcoming release. The
debate rages - only time will tell what I'll decide.
For those of you wondering, the version of GateKeeper that is already in test-
ing does (should?) allow privileges to be granted to INITs and cdevs. It was
not forgetfullness that resulted in being unable to grant those items privi-
leges in version 1.0, it was a difficult implementation problem. I've since
worked out a solution that should work in the vast majority of cases, so you
won't have to rename your INITs and cdevs for very much longer.
REPORTING YOUR PROBLEMS WITH GATEKEEPER
Two basic approaches to problem reporting have been developed by GateKeeper
users: 1) Send the the author (me) email as I've repeatedly requested, or
2) Post problem reports to the newsgroups without making any attempt to
contact yours truly. [There's actually a third: Find out the author's phone
number and call him early on Sunday mornings to make certain he doesn't get
any sleep after long nights of working on GateKeeper into the wee hours of
the morning. Fortunately, this one hasn't been used very often. :-) ]
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess which of those two approaches
is most likely to accomplish something. :-)
Seriously, I'm very interested in making GateKeeper as useful and reliable as
possible, but if questions, comments, bug reports and whatnot don't get to
me, they'll never do anyone any good. If you want to post to the newsgroups,
that's fine, but send a copy of your bug reports, etc. to me as well (and if
you find my reply useful, I'd appreciate it if you'd post a follow-up summary.)
If it sounds like this part was aimed at you - please take it in the spirit it
is intended: nothin' more than a friendly suggestion.
IN CLOSING
Thanks to everyone who's tried GateKeeper for better or for worse. Particular
thanks to everyone who's contacted me - whether it was with problems
or compliments (they all serve a useful purpose). The current problems with
GateKeeper will be (have been) fixed and I hope it will go on to be a useful
tool for everyone concerned.
Thanks,
----Chris Johnson
----Author of GateKeeper
P.S. If you haven't found the on-line help, click on the question mark above
the Info/Settings sliding switch. Regrettably, this makes perfect sense to
some people, while other people never do discover it. I'll find a more
sensible form for the button in a future release. 'Sorry for any troubles this
may have caused.
------------------------------
Date: 23 Jan 89 13:55 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Helix VMX
Date: 23 January 1989, 13:31:12 EST
From: <WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 (Theodore A. Morris)> WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Helix VMX
I would like to hear any success or horror stories regarding the use of Helix
VMX. In particular we are going to be using an Ethernet peer-to-peer network
of Macintosh II/IIx machines with a MicroVAX II. The Mac II's have 4M, the
IIx has 8M, and the uVAX II has 9M. The only other application on the uVAX is
an Oracle VMS database application, but I don't know how many blocks it takes
or how many tables it's composed of, etc.
We're not so much interested in using Helix as a dbms, as we are in utilizing
the cross-system authoring tools it includes, to create a "user shell" around
our application. That application is, essentially, to manage multiple
communications sessions, steering the user from one to another, or even to
several "concurrently" (at least to the capabilities of the MultiFinder).
We could obviously work within hypermedia to create the multiple pathways one
might follow to navigate an informational query through multiple information
resources, but we'd like to see how easy the task could be. Basically, the
scenarios runs something like this: patient gets sick; physician logs into
our "system," checks a couple of resources including an Oracle db of normative
values, etc., a bibliographic full-text db, and sends a DEC All-in-1 E-mail
message to a colleague, with bits and pieces of the other comm session data
cut-and-pasted into his E-mail message.
I'd be glad to discuss the project with anyone who's interested; meanwhile,
could Helix VMX knowledgable users contact me? I'd appreciate it!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Theodore A. Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML #574
University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH 45267
Med. Ctr. Info. & Communic.| (513)558-6046
Info. Res. & Devel. Dept. |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 14:15 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HP2648 emulator?
Is anyone out there aware of sw for the Mac (or PC for that matter) that
emulates an HP 2648 graphics terminal?
thanks
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 13:31 EST
From: REWING%TRINCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: More on MicroNet
Since this was mentioned before on Info-Mac, this is information on
MicroNet, for those of you looking for hard drives right now.
MicroNet was indeed started by Charles F. McConathy, a vice-president of
CMS Enhancements, a company that also makes hard drives for Macintosh,
Apple II family and PC-based systems. Those of you who have had Apple II
systems might recognize McConathy's name: he once ran another company
called CMC which was an Apple II hard drive vendor, before being bought
out by CMS Enhancements. McConanthy left CMS after what can only be said
as "business direction differences", and went off to found MicroNet.
Since McConathy has been in the hard drive business for several years now,
he has earned a reputation for being a stickler for quality, design, and
support, and I have no problems with recommending one of his units now.
This is not an official endorsement from my company, but just a comment
>From a satisfied field engineer whom McConathy sold a CMS drive (80 meg),
and have loved it ever since. I am currently in the process of trying
to secure a 600 meg unit for my office network from MicroNet based on
this reputation.
__________________________________________________________________________
|Disclaimer: Disclaimers are for sissies and...what??? Me??? SUED?!?!?! |
| |
|Internet: REWING%TRINCC@MITVMA.MIT.EDU-----------Rick Ewing |
|BITNET: REWING@TRINCC-----------------Systems Engineer, Apple Computer |
|Applelink: EWING--------------------100 Ashford Center North, Suite 100 |
|Compu$erve: [76474,1732]--------------------Atlanta, GA 30338 |
|GENIE: R.EWING1--------------------------Talknet: (404) 393-9358 |
|USENET: ...ihnp4!psuvax!trincc.bitnet!rewing |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
------------------------------
Date: 21 Jan 1988, 10:00 PST
From: comp.binaries.mac
Subject: RobotArm game
[RobotArm]
Here is a simple game I wrote for my four-year-old in three days.
Somewhat amusing, and just in time for Solstice Days.
Totally free, but still copyrighted.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/robotarm.hqx; 21K]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 89 14:35 CST
From: Mark Roseman <ROSEMAN@UOFMCC>
Subject: Symantec CAPP (?)
Just a question for anyone using this product which provides a full
featured TextEdit type of thing for Lightspeed, but allows for unlimited
text size in the window, tab support, etc. I'm running MPW Pascal and
was wondering if the package could be used with MPW rather than just
with Lightspeed.
Please respond directly as I'm not subscribed!
Mark
------------------------------
Date: 21 Jan 1988, 10:00 PST
From: lipa@polya.stanford.edu
Subject: Talking Moose 1.21
This posting contains the Talking Moose DA, it's associated Moose
Phrases file, Jan Eugenides' Moose Frazer, and a short help file.
[Moderator's Note: Requires MacinTalk, which is copyrighted by
Apple and cannot be distributed through Info-Mac.]
[Archived as /info-mac/da/talking-moose-121.hqx; 64K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 19:14:57 EMT
From: HDBFS%NOBERGEN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Text file manipulator
This is a Stuffit file that has been run through BinHex
You'll need the program "StuffIt" to unpack it.
Paradigma contains the paradigm "Net", which can be used to
purge text files (such as mailing lists) of linefeeds and
unneccessary returns.
The help screen doesn't work on a Mac II
Also, use the "Add" function before quitting, if you want to
keep a useful paradigm, because the program won't ask you to
do so.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/paradigma.hqx; 39K]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 15:31 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #12
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 21, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 12
Today's Topics:
Re: Problem of Suitcase II and Cirrus Volumes DA
Re: Virtual Memory INIT
Re: Virtual Memory for Mac II -- report from a beta-test site
Re: Phonetic (IPA) font wanted
Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Staircase recently posted on comp.binaries.mac
FAX
Oracle for the Mac has arrived!
Re: HD40 SC high pitch squeal
Re: Games on the Mac II
Re: Open Resource File List
Re: Text Drawing at speeds in excess of 1200baud
Re: Alerts
Re: Text Drawing at speeds in excess of 1200baud
Re: What is an SICN?
Re: List Manager sources
Re: Big Floppy on A/UX
X-windows on MacOS (Summary)
Re: WYSIWYG Math-Text Processing
Everex harddrive for Mac
Macromaker Problem
Mac display postscript
On Cue / TMON incompatibility
Re: Turbo Pascal & MacsBug
Merging WriteNow Dictionaries?
KCHR and Resedit
MINISCRIBE HARD DISK owners ...
Re: Mac display postscript
Re: Staircase recently posted on comp.binaries.mac
Re: MacMoney help needed (non-income wages etc.)...
Moire2.22 and GateKeeper1.0 conflict...
Edit breaks!
Re: A/UX actually floppies and some moaning.
Mac Mah-Jong (sp?) anyone
Archiving software
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-012.txt; 38K]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 15:35 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #13
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 21, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Re: MacMoney help needed (non-income wages etc.)...
Re: Edit breaks!
Re: Virtual Memory for Mac II -- report from a beta-test site
CDEFs and the Disk Driver
MPW vs Lightspeed
Plotting SICN items
Help request: Event Journalling Mechanism
Re: DIBadMount
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
terminfo vs. termcap
Re: FAX
Apple Educational Contacts
Re: help printing MAC postscript files
Re: Protecting applications on server from viruses
More PageMaker 3.0 Problems
dumping Mac graphics to video
Re: Everex harddrive for Mac
Re: Gatekeeper bug (2 messages)
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: Reprogramming Keyboard Layout
Re: Protecting applications on server from viruses
Re: Gatekeeper bug
Re: Open Resource File List
INIT 29: a brief description
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Re: FoxBase XCMDs & XFCNs (was Re: Bug in resource handling in LSP 2.0)
Re: help! large offscreen map
[Archived as /info-mac/usenetv5-013.txt; 46K]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 89 15:39 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #14
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 21, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 14
Today's Topics:
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
'Standard' Wordprocessor exchange format?
Help With VBL Tasks
UUPC on Macintosh anyone?
Re: terminfo vs. termcap (4 messages)
Re: Virtual memory init
Word-For-Word ??
Educational Spreadsheet for Teachers
PageMaker performance on network
Re: ZTERM 0.7 is out!
Re: On Cue / TMON incompatibility
Re: Gatekeeper bug
Re: Aask is now out! (New EZ-menu too)
Re: FontSizer
Mac & TeX
Re: Everex harddrive for Mac
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: free TIFF software
VirusRX 1.4aX
Forced Switching under MF
Re: DIBadMount
Re: Forced Switching under MF
SADE
reading color video signals using QuickCapture
Re: MacApp and the 68881
Allocating large amounts of memory
Re: INIT 29: a brief description
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
Re: UUPC on Macintosh anyone?
Re: Forced Switching under MF
Re: INIT 29: a brief description (2 messages)
SIGIO
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-014.txt; 40K]
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 24 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 15
Today's Topics:
APPLE->MAC TRANSFER
Brainchild Grade
Creating of PostScript file
Font Comments
HELP!! (2 msgs)
Hypertalk scripting question
II in a Mac - Review
Init 29 Report
Key-combinations and user-friendliness
More Postscript
Page Flipping (Is There Hope?)
What database?
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 10:31 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: APPLE->MAC TRANSFER
I have several disks full of library data written in
Quickfile on the Apple IIe. My Quickfile program disk
has been trashed. How can I transfer that data to the
Mac, for use in Filemaker or similar database program?
There is no communications card in the Apple IIe.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 21:20 CST
From: <MBENSMAN%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Brainchild Grade
Brainchild Grade is distributed by Kinko's in US for $25.00US. It is a simple g
rading program (even I can use it). Author is Evan Corbett, Dallas, TX.
Kindly sent me upgrade compatible with system 6.02. I recommend it.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 03:20:35 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Creating of PostScript file
This is something else that I think has been causing problems for all
those people out there who have been trying to create PostScript files
using the command-F and command-K options in the Print dialog box:
You can't just press command-K or command-F -- you have to hold it down
until the "creating PostScript file" message appears. After bringing
up the print dialog box, click on "OK," then immediately hold down
command-F (or K). Don't let go of it until the message appears.
I have a feeling that was holding a lot of people back.
-Greg
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 19:42:58 est
From: Waldemar Horwat <waldemar@VX.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Font Comments
A few comments about fonts:
1. Many of the fonts that have been uploaded to the Info-Mac archives have
their resource forks corrupted in some way. Palatino is especially bad in this
respect (many of the font resource names point to the same string, which is
sure to cause Resource Manager trouble). Reading the font files with Font/DA
Mover 3.8 seems to work, but writing to them causes a system crash.
To check whether a font resource file is damaged:
Run MPW 3.0's RezDet on the file. It will report any inconsistencies in the
resource file.
To fix a damaged font resource file:
Use Font/DA Mover 3.8 to create a new font file and copy all of the fonts
into it. Then delete the old font file.
2. It would be nice if the italic, bold, and bold-italic versions of screen
fonts did not clutter up the font menus. This is easy to arrange. Simply use
ResEdit to insert periods in front of the names of the italic, bold, and
bold-italic FOND resources and at the same time delete all of the
zero-length, named FONT resources. (If for some reason you need these
zero-length FONT resources, copy all the fonts into a new file using Font/DA
Mover 3.8. It will put them back in.)
This will remove the styled fonts from the font menu, but they will still be
accessible by selecting the base font and choosing bold and/or italic in
whatever word processor you are using. (Make sure you keep a backup of your
font file before doing this. This procedure will not work on the old 64K ROM
Macs.)
3. Is there a reason why the 9-point Helvetica screen font (taken from the
Info-Mac archives) is *bigger* than the 10-point Helvetica font?
Waldemar Horwat
waldemar@vx.lcs.mit.edu
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 00:26:44 EST
From: dg2y+@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: HELP!!
Don't ask me how this happened because I'm not really sure.
I was running a graphics program on my Mac, and I requested
the program to increase the size of the drawing. My 20Meg
external drive started to spin, and I realized that it was
taking an extra long time (5-10 minutes). I restarted the
computer only to find 2K of memory left on my drive. Apparently,
I now have a DESKTOP file of over 3000K long. Do I have to re-copy
everything back onto my drive, or is there a way to repair
the desktop file so it is back to normal (about 130K).
Thanks in advance
Dave Gillen
dg2y+@andrew.cmu.edu
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 08:04:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert George Johnston, Jr." <rj0z+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: HELP!!
Just before the Finder mounts your Hard Disk volume, hold down the
Command-Option and Shift keys. You will be asked if you want to rebuild
your desktop file.
Rob Johnston.
------------------------------
Date: TUE, 24 JAN 1989 14:37 JST
From: Ronald D. Notestine <DOUGLAS%JPNNUCBA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypertalk scripting question
Hello Info-Maccers,
I have a Hypertalk scripting question. If anyone can help I would
be very grateful.
--I wish to copy part of a card picture and paste it onto another
card IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION.--
This is easily done "manually". After pasting, one merely drags the
pasted selection to the new location. However, I wish to shift the loca-
tions of elements of card pictures on a couple hundred cards, or so.
Clearly, I wish to do this with a script.
I had expected to use the DRAG command after pasting, with the
element still selected. But, this doesn't seem to work. If one is working
with buttons or fields, DRAG will indeed drag a button if the button tool
is chosen, or a field if the field tool is chosen. However, I have been
unable to budge a selected portion of the card picture with the select to
chosen.
Any Ideas???
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 21:38:34 EST
From: halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Bruce P. Halpern)
Subject: II in a Mac - Review
"II in a Mac" is Apple II simulation software for Macintosh. It simulates an
Apple II with a clock, joystick (but no mouse), and four 5.25 inch Disk II or
two 3.5 inch disk drives. An 80 column card in slot #3, a serial card in slot
#2 with adjustable baud rate, data length, parity, and stop bits, and a RAM
card with up to 3.6 Mb RAM (Applied Engineering RAMWords standard) in slot 0,
are also simulated. The software is distributed on copyable 400K Macintosh
disks. It is published by Computer:applications, Inc., 12813 Lindley Drive,
Raleigh, NC 27614. Telephone 919-846-1411. It is sold by the publisher and
by distributers such as Mac Warehouse.
"II in a Mac" is very slow. It operates at about half the normal speed of a
//e or //c. For anyone who is accoustomed to an accelerated //e or //c, the
speed is a significant factor. It is said by some that it will operate at
normal 1 MHz //e speed in a Mac II.
A very serious problem with "II in a Mac" is its inability to reliably
produce open apple-X or closed apple-X commands, where X is some additional
key (such as ? or P or ESC). One is supposed to produce open
apple by pressing OPTION and O ; closed apple by pressing OPTION and
C. For open apple-X, OPTION and O are to be pressed together, then released,
the X is to be pressed. Occasionally this works. Generally, either nothing
happens or something unpredictable. I tried this with version 2.5 and 2.53,
on two different Mac Plus. Same problems in all cases. Since AppleWorks is
very dependent upon open apple-X commands, "II in a Mac" is useless for
AppleWorks.
AppleWorks enhanced with Timeout utilities should not be used with "II in
a Mac" . A crash attributed to attempting to execute an undefined 6502
instruction is reported.
AppleWorks v2.1 will not work with "II in a Mac" v2.53.
Summary: Not recommended. Might be useable in situations where no
open or closed apple-X commands are used, and in which nothing that
might be considered an illegal opcode is used.
****DISCLAMER: My comments, etc., are my own shakey opinions ********
| Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca |
| INTERNET:halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET:D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5|
| UUCP:{vax135,rochester,decvax}!cornell!batcomputer!halp |
| PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 12:46:45 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Init 29 Report
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
THE ELEVENTH WORD:
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
An Investigation Into the 712-byte RINIT 29S Macintosh Virus
by Thomas Bond, Mac Consultant
11684 Ventura Blvd., #932 % Studio City, CA 91604
818-843-0567
) 1989 by Thomas Bond. Permission is hereby granted to distribute in whole
part by any means, whether in print or electronic, as long as the name,
address and phone of the author remain unchanged. Publications may quote
parts for use in education on computer virus problems.
Code 0
/
Virus Segment
\
Application Segments
/
????????
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: This research could not have been completed without the
very valuable help received from Q Tom Pitts, Robert Wright and David Lagerson
of the MacValley Macintosh Users Group, Mark Weems of Kinko's Studio City
store, Ken Cary of PaperWorks in Burbank, Joe Niewe of California State
University, Northridge, and many others who gave up their time and advice.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/init29-info.txt; 15K]
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 08:38 GMT
From: Ed de Moel <DEMOEL%HUTRUU51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Key-combinations and user-friendliness
Hi networkers,
Since weeks now I see a discussion flow along concerning the
niceties of PostScript on the Mac. And I thought the Mac was
supposed to be user-friendly...
It even is so bad that one author has to write:
> Proudly, I have to inform that the problem of creating of PS
>files has been solved a long time ago by me.
Part of the solution appears to be:
> 4. Now, select the print function. The printing window appears.
> 5. Press OK-button of window and immediately after that
> COMMAND-F or COMMAND-K (the difference was explained before).
> 6. Finally, the window saying "Creating PostScript files" appears
> to mark you have succeeded.
Why don't the Apple people use their dialog-windows and
radio-buttons for this purpose. That way normal people might
understand what is going on...
I like the Mac and some of its soft-ware, but every time I need
an interesting function, the solution appears to be: try
command/option+character.
PLEASE: is there anyone out there who can supply me with a
(COMPLETE!) survey of these key-combinations. I do have Inside
Macintosh (1-5+xref), but that has not been of much help to me in
this respect.
Of course, it would still be better if the Apple people made
decent menus and dialogs, so that one wouldn't have to find out
things like command+shift+3 or command+k.
Please answer to this Mac-Info-forum, since I am sure I can't be
the only one with this problem.
Ed de Moel,
University of Utrecht,
BITNET: DEMOEL @ HUTRUU51
DIALCOM: 12428:PGA005
Disclaimer: I don't claim, so I don't have to disclaim.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 21:34:09 BST
From: Paul Sutton <pcs%ELECENG.BRADFORD.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: More Postscript
Peter Jorgensen and Jouni Sanatra describe ways of making Macs generate
Postscript files instead of printing to Laserwriters, but how exactly does
one then printout these files to a Laserwriter on another machine? I am
actually trying to print out files generated on a PC on a Laserwriter.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 89 22:02 CST
From: <SRS9925@TNTECH>
Subject: Page Flipping (Is There Hope?)
I am Relatively new to programing on the macintosh, but having come
>From the Apple II family i am use to being able to flip pages to get relatively
smooth movement in graphics. I am now attempting this process in applications
on the mac and I am running into brick walls left and right. After thumbing
for hours through stacks of books (Macintosh Revealed,Inside Macintosh to name
a few). The only thing I can find is that it is not possible to draw into a
hidden window and then move it to the front, the toolbox leaves it to you to
redraw a window that has been broughtforward. If anyone can offer any insight
to this problem, any other methods to obtaining the 'page flipping effect', or
references to any text that might clearify the situation I would appriciate
your help.
-Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
[Use an off-screen bitmap and CopyBits. This works even on a Mac II, which
does not have a second screen buffer. -Bill]
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Date: 24 Jan 89 10:36 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: What database?
While we're at it, does anyone have any strong feelings regarding dBASE MAC
(or whatever A-T's product is called) vs. Foxbase/+ for the Mac? We're
looking for a dBASE-like pgm. to complement Oracle/Mac. We already have
lots of MS-DOS dBASE III+ applications, and Oracle/VMS.
Thanks for your comments--we're buying SOMETHING soon.
Ted
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Date: 24 Jan 89 10:27 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: What Pascal?
Does anyone out there have any information/opinions of what Pascal a new
Mac adopter should buy? We've just spec'ed out an Ethernet of 9 Mac II/IIxes,
with a MicroVAX II, etc., and I (a systems analyst from the MS-DOS world), my
boss (deep thinker, not programming oriented), and our contract programmer are
going to Developer Ed 102 late next month. We have bought little for our
network yet beyond telecommunications software, since that's the main purpose
of the network--accessing multiple other systems.
However, we're going to want to manage those comm sessions for our users,
either with a hypermedia script/stack, a shell program of some kind, or ...?
Therefore, I suspect I'm going to need to learn Pascal well enough to follow
along with any new contract programmers we hire. I've been looking at TML
Systems' Pascal II, which includes the MPW. Does anyone have an opinion on
this or any other Pascal? Although we are a University and this is a grant-
funded project, money is not *necessarily* an object, if the product can
justify a higher cost.
Will look forward to your comments, and summarize to the net if it seems
warranted. Thanks!
Ted
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 25 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
AppleII to Mac file transfer
Font Comments (in Info-Mac Digest V7 #15)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #4
MacsBug Problems
Microtech Nova internal 40 Meg for Mac II
Moire bombs with some Prg's?
Multiple button mice?
Pascal
Printing PostScript files
Rebuilding desktop file.
The PostScript (read: PostFIX).
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 11:48 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleII to Mac file transfer
Stan Armstrong wonders:
>I have several disks full of library data written in
>Quickfile on the Apple IIe. My Quickfile program disk
>has been trashed. How can I transfer that data to the
>Mac, for use in Filemaker or similar database program?
>There is no communications card in the Apple IIe.
If you can get your Apple II files onto 3.5 inch ProDOS diskettes,
by using the ProDOS utilities and an Apple with both 3.5 and 5.25" drives, then
the Mac can read them using Apple File Exchange (which comes with the Mac
system software). Of course this is assuming that QuickFile saved the data
in some form that you can import into another DataBase program.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 09:35:38 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Font Comments (in Info-Mac Digest V7 #15)
Waldemar Horwat writes:
> 1. Many of the fonts that have been uploaded to the Info-Mac archives
> have their resource forks corrupted in some way. Palatino is
> especially bad in this respect (many of the font resource names point
> to the same string, which is sure to cause Resource Manager trouble).
> Reading the font files with Font/DA Mover 3.8 seems to work, but
> writing to them causes a system crash.
That's a long-standing problem with the font-files that Adobe
distributes. The font resources were not installed by the Mac's
resource manager. Adobe built the resource-forks in these files on a
Sun (?) system, using their own software, and then downloaded the files
to a Mac. Alas, Adobe's understanding of the resource-map format was
inadequate. The net result is that the resource forks can be read, but
any attempt to update the resource forks will corrupt the files or
crash the Mac.
The "Font Harmonly" utility (part of the Suitcase II product) can correct
the incorrect resource-maps in-place, without it being necessary to copy
the fonts. Copying the fonts via Font/DA Mover may not always work,
according to info in the Suitcase II manual; copying with ResEdit is
probably a surer way to make updatable copies of the Adobe font files.
Finder copying is _not_ adequate!
> 2. It would be nice if the italic, bold, and bold-italic versions of
> screen fonts did not clutter up the font menus. This is easy to
> arrange. Simply use ResEdit to insert periods in front of the names of
> the italic, bold, and bold-italic FOND resources and at the same time
> delete all of the zero-length, named FONT resources. (If for some
> reason you need these zero-length FONT resources, copy all the fonts
> into a new file using Font/DA Mover 3.8. It will put them back in.)
>
> This will remove the styled fonts from the font menu, but they will
> still be accessible by selecting the base font and choosing bold and/or
> italic in whatever word processor you are using. (Make sure you keep a
> backup of your font file before doing this. This procedure will not
> work on the old 64K ROM Macs.)
This can also be done with Font Harmony, with the tool-of-similar-purpose
provided with Font/DA Juggler+, or with the free N-Font utility from
Olduvai (posted to Info-Mac some time ago, I believe).
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Date: 25 Jan 89 19:00:10 GMT
From: news <news@shuldig.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #4
you do not run veru often into problems as it is in the PC,
but when you run into one, you are stuck with it.
We have 9 old macs that were upgraded to macplus, but the
upgrade did not include keyboard replacement, so we still
have the old (no key pad) keyboard.
From: yogi@humus.huji.ac.il (Yossi Gil)
Path: humus!yogi
The problem is that the keyboard works strange, the last
row of keys is shifted, the enter key is gone, ans the space
is something else.
I heard that this
keyboard is called in the mac slang European Keyboard, and that
a program called localizer from apple could convert the system
files to work with this keyboard. I tryed the program
and it worked fine with old system version, but failed on newer
ones. I do not need to work with MultiFinder but I would like to work
with the latest version prior to it, since this version is
the only one that supports hebrew without too many system crashes.
Strangely enough, early (and brain damaged) of the hebrew support
system, could convert from one type of keyboard to another without
booting the system.
The local dealer claim that this problem is unsolvable, and that
we are doomed to upgarde the keyboards too (150$ each). I suspect
that they have good reasons for not trying to solve the
problem (about 9*150 of them). I am sure that this is a
software only problem since the localizer and the old hebrew system
could work with the keyboard with no problems.
BTW- there is a file called keylayout in the system folder, could this
be the answer?
I would appreciate any direct mail answer, but I will watch for answers
in this news group and others
thanks
yogi (the bare)
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Date: 25 Jan 89 09:59:00 MST
From: "2614 Rieb, Declan A." <darieb@sandia.gov>
Subject: MacsBug Problems
Problem: When I enter MacsBug (via programmer's switch or appropriate trap)
my Mac freezes...no cursor motion, no activity, nothing. All that's left is to
re-boot. This happens when using the real, boot-time loaded MacsBug, not the
ROM-resident version; remove or rename the MacsBug file, and the ROM version
works OK.
Environment: Mac II, 8 MB SIMMS, no hard disk
RasterOps 104 color board driving NEC Multisync XL
Dual Bering 20MB "Bernoulli-type" drives
EtherPort II
System 6.0.2, Finder 6.1
MacsBug version 5.4
Various INITs & CDEVs: Vaccine, SFScrollInit, HeirDA, RasterOps 1.0...
Note...When I removed the RasterOps board and put in an Apple color video board, Macs-
Bug worked fine. RasterOps states that it's Apple's problem in MacsBug. Apple????
Is there any hope? Help, please!
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 12:09:04 EST
From: David Ascher <ST501649%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Microtech Nova internal 40 Meg for Mac II
I'm looking for any information not included in the advertising for the
Microtech Nova Internal 40 Meg hard drive for the Mac II.
Here are the specs:
- Quantum drive
- 19 ms average access time, can be lowered to 12 by Quantum's Discache,
- 40 Megs,
- 1:1 interleave
- 5 YEAR WARRANTY with tech. support on business hours (approx.),
- $599 through Microtech.
What's the glitch? Any info? Any recommendations? Decommendations?
Sorry if this has been asked before: I haven't read the net in a couple
of months...
David Ascher
E-mail: ST501649@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (ARPANET)
SnailMail: P.O. Box 3209, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
NewEnglandTelNet: (401) 863-6603
# include disclaimer.h;
Flames, mail, and love letters gladly accepted.
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 16:42:39 MEZ
From: MAMI%DHVRRZN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Moire bombs with some Prg's?
Date: 25 January 1989, 16:24:23 MEZ
From: Michael Hartje +49-511-762-3745 MAMI at DHVRRZN1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Hello,
I have got Moire 2.21 out of the archives from MACSERVE and it seems
to work on MAC SE with most programs.
But with programs like KERMIT 09/40 as well as with Word 3.02 it bombs
regulary! Every time, after screen darkens during transfer (Kermit) or
with a resting "start printing dialog" (Word) and when I moved the
mouse, the screen comes up again and a system Bomb ID=25 occurs!
May be, some other programs have the same error. It seems that there
is an error on the "activate screen event" of one of the programs.??
This does not happen with the "old AutoBlack" !
Is there anybody out there who knows of a correct version of Moire?
Was it my mistake?
Thanks!
Michael Hartje, Schering-Institute, Institute for high voltage
engeneering and high voltage plants, University of Hannover, W.-Germany
MAMI @ DHVRRZN1.BITNET
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Date: 25 Jan 89 16:30 +0100
From: Carl Petter Swensson <cepe%si.uninett%norunix.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Multiple button mice?
I am doing object-oriented programming on a Mac using Smalltalk. Smalltalk
uses a three button mouse, which is simulated on the Mac by using option-
and command-mouseclick.
My question is does anybody know of any two or three button mouse for the Mac?
Any pointer to where I might get one is appreciated.
Carl Petter Swensson
Object-oriented philosopher
cepe%si.uninett@norunix.bitnet
mcvax!ndosl!sinanna!cepe
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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 89 23:43 CST
From: <SRS9925@TNTECH>
Subject: Pascal
Reply to Theodore A Morris's request for information on pascal.
I use Think tech.'s Lightspeed pascal 2.0 and i have been very pleased
with it. It includes a symb. debuger and supports mpw-files, and modulized
code. I have used TML, Turbo, and Lightspeed, and I recomend Lightspeed over
the rest. A nice added feature is that it is relatively low priced: $65 from
most mail order outfits. Hope I have been of assistance.
-Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
-Remember, No matter where you go.... There you are.
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 14:42 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printing PostScript files
The question was: How do I print postScript files ( I actually want to do
this from a PC).
I will attempt to answer this here, because most of my answer will apply
to PC and Mac (or even VAX) users.
Few (if any?) applications produce "native" PostScript output which any
PostScript printer could print. Most make use of extensions to the language
which are defined in a user dictionary which must be loaded before output
program is run. Whereas Mac applications (generally) use a standard user
dictionary (Laser Prep) ms-dos applications each have their own (not surprising,
is it?). This is because ms-dos does not have a sophisticated print manager
like the Mac to mediate between the application and the printer.
At any rate. To get a PostScript output file (program) to properly print
(run) on a PostScript printer you must first make sure the user dictionary
file is properly loaded into the printer's memory. This can simply be done
by appending the PostScript output file to the dictionary file, and sending
the whole thing to the printer. Alternatively, the dict file can be sent
to the printer once, and made resident. Then each individual output file
can be sent to the printer by itself. Be forewarned _most ms-dos application
dict file are poorly written (though improving) and need some modification
to really work_.
BUUUUT, you ask, How do I send the file to the LaserWriter?
1) attach the pc to the printer via a serial connection and copy the file
to the comx: port (e.g. copy output.ps com1:)
2) install an appletalk card in the pc and use the print utility that comes
with the card to send the file to the laserWriter. If you have an AppleTalk
PC card from Apple the command would be "lwprint output.ps"
I hope this clears up some of the confusion.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 11:54 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Rebuilding desktop file.
Dave Gillen writes:
>>I now have a DESKTOP file of over 3000K long. Do I have to re-copy
>>everything back onto my drive, or is there a way to repair
>>the desktop file so it is back to normal (about 130K).
>>Thanks in advance
To which Roberts Johnston, Jr. replied:
> Just before the Finder mounts your Hard Disk volume, hold down the
>Command-Option and Shift keys. You will be asked if you want to rebuild
>your desktop file.
The Shift key is not necessary, just command-option while the disk is being
mounted.
Bear in mind that you will lose the comments you might have typed into the
"Notes" area of the Get Info window for each file, and that icons belonging
to applications which are no longer on the disk will also be lost. Both
sound like reasonable tradeoffs for your situation! to me.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 21:49:59 EET
From: Jouni Santara <LK-JOUNI%FINTUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: The PostScript (read: PostFIX).
Hi Again|
First, I am thanking Gred Brail - he correctly pointed an
obvious mistake of my thumb rules to create PostScript files:
press COMMAND-F or COMMAND-K until a small window appears.
Dear Ed De Moel, you are perfectly right that there should
NOT be these kind of things in user-friendly Macintosh. My
best guess why Apple has taken this kind of approach when
implementing these COMMAND-X sequences is simple: they are
application independent feature of your system. This means,
that you can switch from desktop publishing packet A to B
without having to worry about losing (for example an ability
to generate PostScript file) these system kernel functions.
There IS the Macintosh Quick Reference Card to describe all
of these cryptical COMMAND-A..Z pressing combinations of
keyboard, except COMMAND-F and COMMAND-K (At least, not in
my version of paper). I can send the list for you, if you
really want to get it. Another solution could be a modified
printer driver (a piece of code to control your printer),
which is able to form only PostScipt files as a default
setting. Unfortunately, I have not heard about such...
For you Paul Sutton, there is the application/DA called
AddlPrep, which you still have to use if wanting to convert
the PostScript files of Mac to the PS-type PostScript files
of PC. Yes, it is an additional step for your output generating
process and you definetely would not like to use it without
heavy reasons. These could be: not AppleTalk installed (or
at least no LaserWriter inside the LAN) and there happens to
be PCs with LaserWriters near you somewhere (like in my case).
Again as before, a modified printer driver could do this trick
nicely and again (as you guess it) I have not found it yet.
When the prices of LaserWriters are going down, these kind
of tricks are becoming unnecessary. I just hope they are doing
it a little bit faster. Did you hear me Apple?
Jouni Santara
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What is the resale value of a Mac II with 13" color monitor, 8 MB RAM,
40 MB hard disk, enhanced color video card and LaserwriterPlus? I
have to sell such a system, but don't know the value these days. This
is a system from circa October 1987.
Thanks,
Russ
p.s. Can such a system (with 020 old 68881 fp-processor) still be
purchased new these days?
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 26 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Apple IIe --> Mac
AppleII to Mac file transfer
Backups of AppleShare?
C source examples of the new preferred AppleTalk interface?
Default Button Selection & Mac->Overhead Interface (2 msgs)
Expo Report
GateKeeper exceptions
II in a Mac
Keystrokes and options
Needed init to check serial ports.
Palatino screeen font problem
PostAAAAArrgggh!
Rebuilding desktop file.
Removable Drives..
Tek emulators for Mac's
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 13:54:29 EST
From: DBecque%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Apple IIe --> Mac
To get your data from the 2e to your Mac you will need
4 things: a SuperSerial Card for your 2e, a null modem
cable to go from you 2e to the Mac, 2 copies of Kermit (
one for the 2e and one for the Mac). Set the communications
parametes equivalently on both machines and use Kermit
to send your data from the 2e and receive your data on the
Mac. I've created a null modem cable myself and done the
transfer of ascii text files, so I know that it will work.
Call your local computer store, or drop me a line to get the
pinouts to create your own cable. Goodluck.
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 7:13:25 MST
From: Major John Buono <buono%asbf-imp.huachuca-emh1.army.mil@huachuca-emh1.army.mil>
Subject: AppleII to Mac file transfer
>Stan Armstrong wonders:
>>I have several disks full of library data written in
>>Quickfile on the Apple IIe. My Quickfile program disk
>>has been trashed. How can I transfer that data to the
>>Mac, for use in Filemaker or similar database program?
>>There is no communications card in the Apple IIe.
>
>If you can get your Apple II files onto 3.5 inch ProDOS diskettes,
>by using the ProDOS utilities and an Apple with both 3.5 and 5.25" drives, then
>the Mac can read them using Apple File Exchange (which comes with the Mac
>system software). Of course this is assuming that QuickFile saved the data
>in some form that you can import into another DataBase program.
>
>Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
>Computer Center Colgate University
>BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
>APPLELINK U0523
>CompuServe 74010,1353
>Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
>
This would be nice if it worked like you state. However the Apple File
Exchange does not come with any ProDos translators, so all you end up with
is a ProDos file on the Mac, and as near as I can tell, there are NO
programs that will read a ProDos file on a Mac. At Mac Expo I searched for
someone that made translators for ProDos to Mac, like the old Passport
program. There were a lot of MS-DOS translators, but NONE for ProDos side
of the house.
Does any know of a solution to this problem?
Thanks
John Buono
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 13:49:38 EST
From: Michael_P._Brown@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Backups of AppleShare?
I'm looking for hardware/software that will allow me to backup a 300
Mg AppleShare server. Currently I'm using Network DiskFit 1.5 backing
up to several 40 Mg tapes. This is both time consuming and the
server must shut down to do it. Ideally I would like to do backups
to much larger capacity tapes and be able to do this while the server
is running. Does anyone have any experience or products to recommend
that would help this situation.
Thanks.
Michael_P._Brown@um.cc.umich.edu
University of Michigan Computing Center
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 89 23:44:14 EST
From: mike@shogun.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Subject: C source examples of the new preferred AppleTalk interface?
I'm trying to experiment with AppleTalk with my shiny new Lightspeed C
compiler and I'm having trouble using the new "preferred interface" to
AppleTalk listed in Volume V. Specifically, I'm trying to write some
code to register an entity on the network, and then look for entities
of that type. I can't get it to work - it usually crashes big time
with a call to PLookupName().
Does anyone have any source code which might do such a thing that I can
use as an example? Or if someone can point me to an ftp server which
might have such an example, I'd appreciate that too. I looked at sumex
but only found an example using the "alternate" or old interface.
If you can send me mail, that'd be great.
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Michael Nowak ...mailrus!shogun!mike
Workstation Consultant mike@shogun.cc.umich.edu
U of M Computing Center User Services Mike_Nowak@um.cc.umich.edu
...working for but in no way representing the University of Michigan...
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 9:38:52 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Default Button Selection & Mac->Overhead Interface
Does anyone know of a way to change the default button selections in some of
the dialog boxes we see? The one I'm really sick of mousing over to is the,
'Replace Existing "file xyz?"', when I do a 'Save As...'. The default there
is NO, and I almost never choose that option. Is that in ROM? In the system?
In each application? Once I find it, how do I change it so YES will be the
default?
As to my last query regarding overhead projector interfaces for the mac,
thanks to all who responded, in particular, (because I remembered to save
their msgs),
Henry Greenside <hsg@cs.duke.edu>
Donald J. Gulliksen (IMD) <gulliksen@ARDEC.ARPA>
Sandor I. Einstein (AED-EWD) <einstein@ARDEC.ARPA>
Major John Buono <buono%asbf-imp.huachuca-emh1.army.mil@HUACHUCA-EMH1.ARMY.MIL>
Bob Hale <rhale@ARDEC.ARPA>
The overwhelming consensus was: buy the Kodak Datashow. In particular, buy
the top of the line model. The cost is not much more, but apparently
resolution, and so forth is. Only real drawback, at this time, is a lack of
Mac II compatibility. Also, it isn't recommended that these devices be used
with older overhead projectors, which use quartz bulbs. The heat they create
is a real killer. There are a number of models out now with halogen bulbs.
They run much cooler. It appears that the optimal combination (assuming that
you can talk your boss into paying for it :-}) would be a Dynamac (or other
mac laptop), a Datashow, and a collapsable halogen overhead projector. The
whole thing should fit in a large valise. You do need an interface card to
your Mac+ or SE. The dealer should be able to install it.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch
US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 15:15:49 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Default Button Selection & Mac->Overhead Interface
Thanks to Ken Sussmann for this quick reply!
>Yes you can change the default if it is an alert box. For the
>"Replace existing... ? alert, use resedit to open the system
>file. Then open ALRT resource -3996. From the ALRT menu that
>appears, choose show as text. Check the boxes in front of 2 bold
>in all four places (you really only need the first one, but what
>the heck). Now close everything and save it. Reboot and your
>done. I sure hope you don't have anyone else using the machine or
>you may be losing a lot of files.
>
>What you have done by the above is change the default button from
>No. 1 to No. 2. Fancy applications can have up to 4 different
>alert results by checking the appropriate boxes (ie don't draw
>it, sounds, which button is the default). resedit itself uses
>this when you edit templates. If you put in an invalid response,
>when you try to close the template, it beeps at you. When you try
>to close it again without fixing the problem, it gives you an
>alert box with a brief statement of what it doesn't like.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Ken
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 10:30:14 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Expo Report
Here's a short expo report. Well, for me it's short.
First, the show was massively crowded. It was hard to get up to the displays
and talk to the vendors. Except for Sunday, that is. Then the hardest place
to get to was the Electronic Arts booth. They had turned their large
Mitsubishi (which Jerry Rice finally learned to say) monitor onto the game and
quite a crowd was gathered.
Second, my favorite things were the SE/030 and Virtual, the virtual memory INIT.
They go together like spam, bacon, spam & eggs. A 2 Meg SE/030 can run like
it has all 8 Meg on board. Killer stuff. Of course rumors place this
functionality in the soon to be vaporware "new" system, so maybe these folks
will be out of a job soon. Of course, I overheard talk of patents and such.
perhaps Apple's lawyers will get something else to argue about.
The SE/030 is a Mac IIx in an SE case. Rumors say that it will sell in a
2 Meg Superdrive version without an SCSI port, or a 4 Meg 40MB version
(university pricing around $3K). For the punch, this could be a winner. If
they are serious about selling top end instead of bottom end like the market
went after their last increases then having a reasonable price is essential.
The machine has a slot (not nubus) and card manufacturers already have color
monitors working externally. Someone really needs to make a color replacement
monitor for this puppy. That boy would make a lot of money. How do I go
about getting a monitor like this? Can I call Sony? If anyone knows tell me,
I am serious about this.
Aside from the that, I got to talk to Wesley Crusher, er, I mean Wil Wheaton.
He's a Mac owner and he laments the lack of user's groups in LA. Life's tough
in Hollywood, kid. He was very nice and I think he loved the attention of
people were giving him stuff left and right. He's still a kid though and
brought his folks and a friend of his who was a stand-in (you know, one of the
people who walks down the corridors). Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troy) wasn't
as talkative. She blasted in and out without a pause, signing her autographs
in between. Mind you, she looked marvelous, but she didn't seem to want to
deal with the show or the people there. Uhuru and Checkov were there one day
too, but the crowd was too dangerous to handle. I did play the Star Trek
theme real loud a couple of times though. I was pretty obnoxious. I talked
with Wil on Sunday when the place was vacant.
The netter's dinner was very nice although a bunch of people just showed up
on the spur of the moment, so they had to sit at another table, but it worked,
so what the hell. The Hunan people burned our faces off quite well and we
missed Jeff Shulman, the human gateway, but it was still a smashing sucess.
But even better was Jasmine's party at the Gift Center afterwards. Serious
fun and a free T shirt to boot. Who can argue?
Well, enough for now. Someone else will have other impressions, I'm sure. In
particular, I would like to thank all the people who stopped by the booth
after reading this drivel. You know who you are, and I already forgot your
names, but not your faces, so please write and remind me who you are.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 13:41 EST
From: DB8Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: GateKeeper exceptions
I remember reading a text file of privileges certain applications needed to
function properly under GateKeeper, which seems to cause problems for StuffIt,
Font/DA mover and (I remember reading) certain applications from those
rule-benders at Microsoft. Could someone post a list of privileges needed by
popular applications or a guidelime by which to grant them?
Thank you.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 11:24:03 est
From: Richard G Brewer <tron@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: II in a Mac
In info-mac vol7 number 15, Bruce Halpern writes:
>A very serious problem with "II in a Mac" is its inability to reliably
>produce open apple-X or closed apple-X commands, where X is some additional
>key (such as ? or P or ESC). One is supposed to produce open
I'm afraid that I must disagree with this fellow- I did some extensive work
with // in a Mac over Christmas break, and had no problems with it (even in
appleworks). The trick is remembering that the open and closed apple keys are
the same as the joystick buttons on an Apple //.
>"II in a Mac" is very slow. It operates at about half the normal speed of a
>//e or //c. For anyone who is accoustomed to an accelerated //e or //c, the
>speed is a significant factor. It is said by some that it will operate at
>normal 1 MHz //e speed in a Mac II.
Sure, the software is slow, but I dont think that anyone is kidding themselves
into thinking that the performance curve of software interpretation beats an
actual 6502 coproccessor. Most people get it so that they can transfer their
files from their pre-Mac days onto the Macintosh in a format that the Mac can
read, and it is very good at that.
Conclusion:
II in a Mac runs more than it does not. Most Apple games that come on 3.5"
disk work fine (not GS games, though), and I've even done assembly work with
it. I am very satafied with it's file transfer capabilities. It may be slow
(about 50 - 75% of that of a //e), but it is very accurate, right down to the
mini-assembler routines...
T R O N
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 10:35 GMT
From: Ed de Moel <DEMOEL%HUTRUU51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Keystrokes and options
Hi Folks,
I hate to be misunderstood, especially by people who seem to
agree with the general drift of what I want to say.
My problem is not really with the way Apply implemented their
stuff, but with HOW I get to know the nice extra features.
The fact that some menus might have just one or two extra
check-boxes is just the fine polish that would prove itself
worthwile in daily practice.
The ongoing discussion has taught us about COMMAND-F and the
post-script related things. A few days ago a friend of mine
pointed out that when you click OPTION-GOAWAY on a desk-top
window, all windows are closed. There are many more of these
features.
As far as I understood, the MAC user interface is based on the
principle that if you want an option, you only need to point to
it with the mouse and click. This implies that all options,
relevant or not in common denominator practice, MUST be visible
on the screen, otherwise you can't point to it.
We are now confronted with the situation, and the PostScript
thing is just one example, that users KNOW something must be
possible, but have NO MEANS OF FINDING OUT HOW they should do it.
This is what I call 'not user-friendly'.
I agree with Thomas Blake that this principle may invite
programmers to create obscure menus and dialogs, but a little
'think before you write' usually prevents such things.
I am not critizizing Apple people for the way they supply the
system. I just want to make a general remark to anyone who makes
software not to hide options.
I don't intend to create a lengthy discussion on the subject. I
have one request and one promise, however. If you all supply me
with lists (yes, Jouni Santara, please do send it) of the
key-combinations and option/control + mouseclick features that
you know, I will compile them and feed them back to the net. The
need is obvious, and someone has to do the job.
Greetings for now,
Ed de Moel.
Physically: Electronically: Hybrid:
University of Utrecht BITNET: demoel@hutruu51 Phone: +31 (30) 532239
Princetonplein 5 DIALCOM: 12428:PGA005
PO BOX 80000
3508 TA Utrecht
The Netherlands
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Date: Tuesday, 24 Jan 1989 12:51:51 EST
From: m11472@mwvm.mitre.org (Craig M. DeRose)
Subject: Needed init to check serial ports.
Info-mac, I need a init or startup appl. that checks the serial ports for
connections and halts bootup if the ports are connected to a network.
Such as AppleTalk or a Modem. And continues to check the ports while
notifing the user to pull the connections. If it were smart enough to
recognize a laserWriter and accept it but reject any other nodes, that
would be even better.
Has anyone done this before or is it possible to accomplish?
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
* Craig M. DeRose TeleCo: 703/883-7229
* The MITRE Corporation
* 7525 Colshire Drive ARPA: cderose@mwvm@mitre.org
* McLean, VA 22102-3481 APPLELINK: N0764
* Mail/Stop Z331
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 10:45:14 PST
From: Francois Felix INGRAND <felix@ai.sri.com>
Subject: Palatino screeen font problem
I have downloaded some Adobe screen fonts from SUMEX and ran in this problem:
- I downloaded the fonts
- copy all of them in a new font file using font/da mover 3.8 (this is
suppose to correct some problems of empty ...)
- run font-harmonizer (suitcase) with the merging option ON (but not
for the narrowed family) (at this time my system had not font in it)
- install the fonts in the "empty-font" system (only the 3 fonts which
are in the Mac II roms).
in my fonts menu, everything is fine (I only see the family name),
except that I have a:
BI palatino bo...
which should not be here... (this font should be merged in palatino).
Any solutions?
Moreover, I would like to know if it is possible to add bigger size
screen fonts (from Power-Point for example)? The reason why I am
asking that is that I read somewhere that before installing these
adobe fonts, you have to make sure that your are getting all the Apple
fonts out of your system... But it does not say if you can put some back...
Thanks in advance,
Felix
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 14:28:41 GMT
From: lamonts@m5.sdsc.edu (Steve Lamont)
Subject: PostAAAAArrgggh!
I prostrate myself at your feet, oh Mac Gurus...
My humble, most miserable question is this: Why, oh why, is it that even though
I can generate PICT files from Cricket Graph which have color embedded in their
command streams and import them into whatever application I care to, still
showing color on the monitor, I cannot cause my QMS Colorscript 100 printer
to excrete the imported images in anything other than monochrome (i.e., black
on white), even though any text and/or images I generate from the importing
application do, themselves, come out in color.
To clarify:
I (actually I don't but a lab assistant friend of mine does) generate a
graph with Cricket Graph.
The file is saved in PICT format; the other option is in Cricket Graph
internal format, not importable to anything other than Cricket Graph.
I then fire up some application which can ingest PICT files, call it
MacFoo.
I diddle around in MacFoo, adding text or other embellishments, using
color.
I then attempt to print to our QMS Colorscript 100 color printer. I get
color text and black and white graphs.
What am I doing wrong? Is Cricket Graph partially brain damaged? Is
MacFoo? Theories, Mr Spock?
spl
Internet: lamonts@sds.sdsc.edu
Bitnet: lamonts@sdsc
Disclaimer: You can't get there from here.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 9:55:36 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Rebuilding desktop file.
A better solution to the huge desktop problem is to use DiskExpress to
rebuild the desktop. It will do so without deleting any comments you may
have added in 'Get Info' windows. Worth every penny of the $29.95 it cost
us.
tom c
Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit offers you some
MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: Wednesday, 25 Jan 1989 13:14:23 EST
From: m20011@mwvm.mitre.org (Anup Patel)
Subject: Removable Drives..
I am not sure if this has been discussed before, but are there any removable
hard drives available for a Macintosh? I am looking for something equivelant
to the PC's removable hard drive (i.e. Passport from Plus development).
I am not looking for Bernoulli type media. I am looking for hard drives that
can be removed from its casing.
I can be reached at: m20011%mwvm.mitre.org@mitre.arpa, or
m20011@mwvm.mitre.org.
Any help is appreciated.
Anup Patel
The MITRE Corp.
McLean, VA 22102
(703) 883-7002
------------------------------
Date: Thu 26 Jan 1989 15:44 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Tek emulators for Mac's
Can anyone suggest a good Tek emulator for a Mac? I was hoping Mac Kermit
would support this (since MS-KERMIT does), but since it doesn't, I'm forced
to look elsewhere.
Public domain is preferred, but not required. I've heard that Versaterm Pro
is supposed to be a good emulator that even supports Color and also the
132 column mode on the vt100 emulation. However, I'd like to know the name
of the company that supports it (and a phone number, if possible), not a
distributor.
thanks,
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
MUCM000@ECNCDC.BITNET
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 27 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
(Short) Preliminary conference announcement - Please post
AppleII to Mac file transfer
Bitmap area calc programs?
IM SetDItem bug?
INQUIRY
Leprechaun-Demo
Localtalk Specs.
Macs, Suns on a network
MAC to HP DESKJET DRIVERS?
Mouse Scaling CDEV
MPW Pascal help
Postscript dumps and Rebuilding Desktop
Problems with Adobe fonts
Problems with SYMANTEC
Thesaurus Enhancements?
Transfer paper
VersaTerm Pro Source
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: 27 Jan 89 14:57:00 EST
From: "LFA" <lfa@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: (Short) Preliminary conference announcement - Please post
P R E L I M I N A R Y A N N O U N C E M E N T
The Energy Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the United States
Census Bureau have pledged support for a conference or workshop on ADVANCED
COMPUTING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. The conference is tentatively scheduled
for October in either the Washington, D.C. area or Williamsburg, Va. The
formal call for papers will be issued next month. The most suitable papers
would relate to Economics, Planning, Sociology, Geography and urban studies,
transportation studies, policy analysis, or government activities. Topic
areas include supercomputing, parallel processing, satellite imagery, expert
systems, natural language processing, databases and information retrieval,
computer networks, and innovative microcomputer applications
For more information and a preliminary attendance form (electronic/paper),
please contact Lloyd F. ARROWOOD
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P. O. Box 2008
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA 37831-6207
Phone: (615)-574-8700 Email: LFA @ ORNLSTC.BITNET or LFA @ STC10.CTD.ORNL.GOV
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 08:24:14 MST
From: dbirnbau@nmsu.edu
Subject: AppleII to Mac file transfer
The Apple File Exchange DOES allow you to do ProDOS-Mac OS
conversions, both through AppleWorks - Microsoft Works files and
regular text to text conversions (at least the one I have does....)
David Birnbaum.
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| |
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:57 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bitmap area calc programs?
Hello,
We're looking for a way to calculate the area of enclosed regions of a scanned
bitmap. I don't think thissoftware would be too hard to write but rather
than reinvent the wheel I thought I'd see if it had been done already.
We are going to scan images which we then want to process to find the area
of selected shapes.
Thanks,
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Friday, 27 Jan 89 13:45:53 EST
From: barnes@a.psy.cmu.edu (Bill Barnes)
Subject: IM SetDItem bug?
I seem to have stumbled across a minor misprint in IM 1, but common sense
and a healthy dose of inferiority tells me that it's probably me.
I have a dialog (loaded from a resource) whose buttons I tend to retitle and,
consequently resize (before displaying).
IM 1 says (p.422),
"Note: Do not use SetDItem ... to change or move a control"
and (p.421),
"...to move a control or change its size, you would call
MoveControl or SizeControl."
Fine. Using MoveControl and SizeControl _does_ change the control accordingly,
but then ModalDialog (among others) does not recognize the new bounds of the
control. Thus if 'x' denotes the area occupied by the old button, and 'y'
by the changed, and 'z' the common area, ModalDialog only senses mouseDowns
in the 'z' common area.
yyyyyyyyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxzzzzzyyyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxzzzzzyyyyyyyy
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The solution is to use SetDItem to prescribe the new bounds after using
MoveControl and SizeControl. This seems to contradict IM. Am I doing
something wrong?
-Bill
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 14:58:57 EST
From: DARRYL WOOD <DWOOD@UDCVM>
Subject: INQUIRY
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I AM IN DIRE NEED OF THE FOLLOWING:
O THE NAME OF ALL FILESERVERS THAT CAN TRANSFER MACINTOSH
FILES TO A SYSTEM THAT IS ONLY CONNECTED TO THE OUTSIDE
WORLD BY BITNET.
O A PRGRAM THAT RUNS ON THE MAC WHOS SOLE PURPOSE IS CON-
STRCUTING FLOWCHARTS. PREFERABLE FREE OR SHARE WARE.
Thank Your very much for your time
Darryl Wood
Technical Liazon COSDET Center
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 02:22:43 PST
From: Mark Hastings <hastings%scam.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Leprechaun-Demo
This posting is to announce a demonstration version of a hot new game
called Leprechaun.
The 'Read Me' file reads as follows:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Read Me for Leprechaun Demo, a multi-level action game.
Push the pot of gold to the rainbow while avoiding the nasties!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This game supports Color QuickDraw (when available) or classic
QuickDraw. Also uses extensive digitized sound effects.
For on-line help, see the Help item under the Apple Menu.
Commercial version will have over a hundred levels and a fully-functional
editor module (available March 1, 1989). For more information, see the
About Box.
Requires 1MB of RAM, System 6.0 or later. MultiFinder aware.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/leprechaun-part1.hqx; 136K
/info-mac/demo/leprechaun-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/demo/leprechaun-part3.hqx; 149K]
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 08:45:32 CST
From: Don Davis <AEDAVIS%UMSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Localtalk Specs.
Hi,
I am preparing to do some work on a driver for a UNIX machine connecting
to a localtalk net. The problem I am having so far is aquiring some documentati
on the localtalk protocol itself. Any leads or advice would be gratly appreciat
ed.
thanks,
DON DAVIS BITNET: AEDAVIS AT UMSVM
APPLICATIONS ANALYST INTERNET: AEDAVIS AT VM.CC.OLEMISS.EDU
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
OCIS
UNIVERSITY, MS. 38677
(601) 232-7206
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:30:28 PST
From: doxsee@composite.stanford.edu
Subject: Macs, Suns on a network
I would like to include one Mac SE into a pre-existing ethernet network
between Suns and PCs. The PCs are able to send postscript files over the
network (w/ PC/NFS) to the Sun which acts as a print spooler for an Apple
LaserWriter IInx. I would like to do the same with the Mac. Since it's
likely that only one Mac will ever be hooked up to the network (Macs are
many times more expensive than PC clones here in Belgium), I'm considering
connecting the Mac to the network with a SCSI Ethernet connector (the slot
is filled with a PC drive card) instead of a with a bridge/gateway such as
Kinetics Fast Path or Gaterbox. My question is this: with a Mac connected
to the network with a SCSI ethernet connector (such as Kinetics EtherSC),
can I use Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP) for spooled printing on the
LaserWriter connected to the Sun? Is this operation relatively simple
and "transparent" to the user? Also, can the Sun be used as a AppleShare
file server with this hardware and software configuration? Also, is
there an expert at Columbia whom I can contact directly?
Thanks for the help.
Tad Doxsee
Dept. of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
doxsee@composite.stanford.edu (will be forwarded)
doxsee%kulmech@kulesat.uucp
** It is occasionally the curse of visionaries to see their visions fulfulled.
-- author??
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Date: 27 Jan 1989 08:43-EST
From: MENDELSOHN@a.isi.edu
Subject: MAC to HP DESKJET DRIVERS?
←Has anyone out there any experience with drivers for the
Mac-to-HP DeskJet connection? The three choices I know of are
Orange Micro's Grappler LS, DataPak's Printer Interface III, and
Insight's MacPrint. Any comments on handling of Mac and HP
fonts, graphics (OK, I know there is no PostScript, but how is
the 300 dpi QuickDraw, and is it integratable with text), and
lastly, of course, what are the relative speeds? Any comments
are welcome. If there is a lot of interest (there should be at
$700 for the DestJet!) I can summarize. Thanks.
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 18:52:59 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Mouse Scaling CDEV
Here is a CDEV I downloaded from Info-Center BBS (914) 565-6696. It allows
the same mouse scaling we were talking about using ResEdit to implement, last
week, or so. Appears to work well. Also appears to be PD.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch
US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/mouse-scaling.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 12:22:40 GMT
From: CS undergrad <KoehlerKF@MSA.BRISTOL.AC.UK>
Subject: MPW Pascal help
I am very new to both the Mac and this list. My problem may be simple,
but it isn't for me. I want the output of a pascal program displayed
in windows: One for the text-output, one for the graphics. I already
realised that WRITELN always opens one more window where it places
the output. I didn't find here any books which deal with these things,
so I would like to get some information which books could help me
and / or an example program, which does similar things. The program
SAMPLE which comes with the MPW Pascal contains not enough information
for me to get started.
Please send any answers directly to me to avoid bothering the experts...
Thanks,
Klaus Koehler
University of Bristol
School of Chemistry
<KoehlerKF@msa.bristol.ac.uk>
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 15:18:31 PST
From: jhl%naif.span@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov (Jay Lieske)
Subject: Postscript dumps and Rebuilding Desktop
In response to the questions asked regarding rebuilding the desktop
one sometimes has problems invoking it on disk bootup because of other
inits. However, since the Command-Option key brings up the Rebuild
Desktop dialog at ANY time finder is entered, the easiest way I have
found to do it is to hold down the Command and Option keys while
selecting Quit from the menu of your favorite application.
As far as reliably getting the Postscript dumps to disk without
worrying about rapidly pressing cmdF or cmdK and seeing it run
off to your printer instead of the disk, try this: When print dialog
comes up instead of clicking on the OK button, HOLD THE MOUSE DOWN without
releasing it. Then at your leisure press the Command and F or K keys and
then FINALLY release the mouse.
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Date: 27 Jan 89 11:48 +0100
From: "Espen J. Vestre" <m_vestre_e%use.uio.uninett%norunix.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Problems with Adobe fonts
The posted Adobe screen fonts for Avant Garde, Helvetica Narrow and Palatino
contain an annoying error: The names for the style fonts do not contain a
dot in its name (like e.g. ".B Times Bold"). This means that they will appear
in font menus.
The problem can be cured with ResEdit, you will have to change the names of
the style fonts of these three fonts _both_ in the FOND resources and (through
an "Open General") in the FONT resources.
Espen Vestre e-mail:
Dep. of Mathematics m_vestre_e%use.uio.uninett@nac.no
Univ. of Oslo espen%ikaros@ifi.uio.no
P.O. Box 1053 Blindern
N-0316 OSLO 3, Norway
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 08:50 EST
From: "I am only an egg." <JOHNSON@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu>
Subject: Problems with SYMANTEC
Please forgive me if this has been discussed before. I'm not a
regular reader of this list.
I have a problem with SYMANTEC. They bought up MAC ZAP which was
working perfectly. I received the "upgrade" to SUM. The DISK CLINIC
hasn't work yet in trying to recover a broken Mac disk. I have had to
use MAC ZAP every time.
Last July or August I called SYMANTEC. I should say I spent a week
trying to get them or at least a response from them. I finally got some
one who said that the version I had did have bugs that caused it to fail
to recover broken disks. My name and address were taken and I was told
that a version which worked would be sent to me. I'm still waiting.
I'm also still using MAC ZAP because the DISK CLINIC still won't work.
I'd like to get a DISK CLINIC that does more the ignore broken disks.
Anybody else have this problem with SYMANTEC? Anybody else have
this problem with the DISK CLINIC? Has anybody been able to get a
positive response to a problem from SYMANTEC? If so, how? I've been
trying to call them again but am having no luck at all.
Please respond direct. Thanks much.
Chris Johnson
Northeastern University
(617) 437-2335
Internet: johnson@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu
BITNET: johnson@nuhub
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Date: 27 Jan 89 15:11 EST
From: rrenfro%tofacsa@dtrc.arpa (Richard Renfro)
Subject: Thesaurus Enhancements?
We do a great deal of technical writing here. One of the tools in use is the
Word Finder thesaurus bundled with Microsoft Word. It's a great product, but
would be even more useful if there were some way to add definitions and/or
links to the database. My questions are:
1) Is there a convenient way to add entries to Word Finder?
2) If not, is there another commercial thesaurus with this feature?
3) As a last resort, is there an alternate approach to this problem?
Thanks!
rrenfro@dtrc.arpa
301/227-3329
Code 1401
David Taylor Research Center
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 14:47:49 CST
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Transfer paper
Sirs:
I need information for a possible source for heat-transfer paper. I need this paper to transfer a MacVision image to say a T-shirt. I've seen it used in booths in most Malls, but forgot to ask where they bought it.
Thanks
Eddie@cc.msstate.edu
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:05:55 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: VersaTerm Pro Source
Many people will probably reply to the request for a source for VersaTerm
Pro:
Peripherals, Computers, and Supplies, Inc.
2457 Perkiomen avenue
Mt. Penn, PA 19606
(215) 779-0522
The author is Lonnie R. Abelbeck of Abelbeck Software. I don't have his
address or phone.
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DIN8-to-DB25 cable instead of another modem. But I'm having trouble
getting the modem to work. Is there something special that I need to
do or should my modem work just like the modems made by Apple?
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 28 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 19
Today's Topics:
Adobe screen font annoyances
DeskPict
Klutz 1.0 DA
Lots of rumors this month !!! :-)
Need help with assembly/pascal interfacing for data acquisition
ScreenMaster 2.6
Staircase 1.0.2 INIT
Zippy 1.0
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 89 02:45:00 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Adobe screen font annoyances
As the poster of the Adobe screen fonts that everybody's been complaining
about, (Palatino, Avant Garde, and the like) I suppose I'd like to
apologise for any inconveniences I may have caused.
However, the fact is that I don't have Font Harmony, since I haven't
received my update to Suitcase II yet, even after six weeks. The font
files I posted were basically what came off of the Adobe disks, although
I'm not sure if the files were EXACTLY what came on the disks. I wouldn't
know if the files I posted would work with Font Harmony. I also never
thought that the fact that I didn't modify all the FOND resources with
ResEdit so the bold, italic and bold italic styles didn't appear could
be considered an "error," since I didn't know about this obviously
nonstandard technique until three days ago.
I use the screen fonts I posted to produce a daily newspaper using a
network of Mac Pluses and Mac IIs running PageMaker and the latest
system software. They work fine for me. If someone else on the network
has more technically advanced versions of the fonts (assuming it's
legal to post Font Harmonized fonts) no one is stopping them from
posting those fonts. If not, I have more fonts I'd like to post.
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
P.O. Box 1020
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
(401)521-9599
[Actually, the agreement we have signed to enable us to legally distribute
the fonts specifically states that we may not distribute modified fonts
(presumably because we might mess things up in some way). So if that's the
way it comes from Adobe, that's the way it has to be on Info-Mac. It's hard
for me to believe, though, that Adobe doesn't know about these problems.
Perhaps a corrected version is available from them. -Bill]
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Date: 18 Jan 89 03:00:31 GMT
From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Subject: DeskPict
Here, by request, is !DeskPict.
!DeskPict, will make a desktop from a PICT2 Document.
I have long since lost the docs for this, but all you have to do is
call a PICT document "DeskPicture" and !DeskPict will make that your
backdrop.
When used in conjunction with ScreenMaster, it is possible (although
slightly convoluted) to create a desktop picture from a picture that
has a custom CLUT.
Have fun.
Stu.
__Paths to my door:_______________________
microsoft!stuartb@beaver.cs.washington.edu - Usual disclaimer, that all
microsoft!stuartb@uw-beaver.arpa - the above is pure fantasy
microsoft!stuartb@uunet.UU.NET - and Microsoft only
[DE01HB]stuartb@DASNET# {from AppleLink} - gave me the Mountain Dew
stuartb@microsoft.uucp {well connected} - to dream it all in a
D2012 {AppleLink - shared account} - caffeine haze :-)
[Archived as /info-mac/init/deskpict.hqx; 29K]
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Date: 17 Jan 89 17:00:19 GMT
From: bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long)
Subject: Klutz 1.0 DA
[Klutz 1.0 DA]
Klutz allows you to view, change, load, or save Color LookUp Tables
(CLUTs). Klutz graphically displays all the colors available in the
current CLUT.
Rob Snevely (rdsesq@Jessica.stanford.edu) sent in an older copy of
Klutz, prompting me to post this updated version.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/klutz-10.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 23:30:02 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Lots of rumors this month !!! :-)
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
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$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
Laptop Supercomputing!
Texas Instruments is developing an entirely new class of
semiconductor devices that, in the next decade or two, could
result in battery operated, laptop computers that rival the
performance of today's supercomputers. The device,
demonstrated by the Advanced Concepts Branch of TI's Central
Research Labs, is a "quantum effect transistor," the first
true "tunneling transistor." This new transistor is about
100 times smaller than conventional integrated circuits of
the same capacity and operates at 1,000 times the speed of
conventional transistors. Mark Reed, a senior member of
TI's technical staff, said that a number of significant
hurdles need to be overcome before the device can be
manufactured in quantity. Mr. Reed estimates that practical
applications of this new technology are probably a decade or
so away. - InfoWorld 2 January
Monster Floppy.
Tejiin Ltd., a $4 billion a year Japanese synthetics
materials manufacturer, and Optical Data, developer of a new
erasable optical media that has been licensed by Tandy,
Philips, and DuPont Optical, have announced an agreement to
develop a high capacity floppy disk. Donald Matson, CEO of
Optical Data, said his firm hopes to offer a 500 Mbyte 5.25
flexible disk for the same price as one of today's floppy
disks. - InfoWorld 2 January
Software Disk Drive Upgrade.
The Kennect Technology division of The Engineering
Department of Campbell, California will release "Lumpy" (at
$295) at about the time this column appears. Lumpy is a
program that increases the density of Macintosh floppy
drives and allows Mac's to read MS-DOS disks. The program
will format standard Mac drives to 1.4 Mbytes. The same
firm also will offer Drive 2.4 (at $495) that will let Mac's
format disks at 2.4 Mbytes (primarily for hard drive
backup). - InfoWorld 9 January
Photo Quality Color Printing.
ICI Imagedata has demonstrated a dye-diffusion thermal
transfer printer that allows creation of output limited only
by the resolution of the output device. Traditional thermal
printers transfer pigments in true binary - all or nothing
(dot or not) - a method that provides poor color saturation
and limits shading control. ICI Imagedata's D2T2 (sounds
like a robot from Star Wars) achieves true color mixing and
offers a wide range of color saturations. At present, costs
are prohibitive compared to binary thermal transfer
printers, but they seem likely to fall to a competitive
range in the future. - InfoWorld 19 December
Laserjet Driver for Macintoshes.
Insight Development is offering a $149 printer driver and
cable called Mac Print that permits transparent printing on
a Hewlett-Packard Laserjet from any standard Macintosh
application via the printer dialog box. Mac Print supports
Quickdraw, text, and graphics at 75, 150, and 300 dots per
inch. Release 1.1, scheduled to ship in April, will offer
support for soft fonts, the Laserjet 2000, and the Deskjet.
A version for popular 9-pin and 24-pin dot matrix printers
is planned for August release. - InfoWorld 9 January
Not a Laptop.
IBM's portable Model 70, rumored for February 7, will weigh
20 pounds and won't run on battery power. It will have 3
slots, a gas plasma display, a full-sized keyboard, and
Micro Channel Architecture. It's designed to offer the same
functionality as a desktop with the advantage of being
readily moveable. - InfoWorld 16 January
New CPU's Under the Sun.
Sun Microsystems plans to upgrade its 386i to Intel's 80486
chip (the 486i?) and its 3/50 workstations from the Motorola
68020 to the 68030 later this year. The 486 machine will be
twice as fast as the 20 MHz 386i but will carry a price tag
that "closely resembles" the present $7,990. The new
workstation will run both Unix and MS-DOS applications (as
does the 386i). - PC Week 19 December
Topping the Sun Killer?
DEC insiders view its new line of workstations announced
last month as "Sun killers" (offering roughly twice the
performance and about 60% of the price). However, an even
better system is about to be introduced by Data General.
DG's Motorola 88000-based little wonder running at 14 MIPs
with 8 Mbytes of RAM and a 16-inch color monitor will be
offered for under $10,000. - InfoWorld 16 January
Taking a RISC.
With Sun, DEC, and DG announcing new high-end work stations
built around RISC processors, an update to IBM's RT line is
overdue. Intel plans to announce it's own RISC chip
(code-named the N10) in March. Intel reportedly will
promote the chip as a coprocessor for the 80486, but it can
be used as a stand alone processor, and IBM is expected to
announce an N10-based product as early as April.
- InfoWorld 16 January
Are We on the Right Bus?
Apple's new 68030-based Macintosh SE line doesn't support
either existing Mac SE or Mac II (or IIx) expansion cards.
In order to speed I/O processing, the new Macs use a 110-pin
bus architecture to be named the 030 Direct Connection. The
030 Direct Connection avoids the bus arbitration required by
the Mac II Nubus architecture. The result is improved I/O
performance (at the sacrifice of potential parallel
coprocessing). Meanwhile, Orchid Technologies will soon
deliver Mac Sprint II, a $350 Nubus hardware cache, for the
Mac II that speeds processing by up to 40%.
- PC Week 12 December and InfoWorld 19 December
3-Slot Mac.
Apple's "year of the CPU" continues at the Hanover Computer
Show in Germany with the introduction of a three-slot
Mac-030 replacement for the Mac II (Nubus architecture, but
slots approximately two-thirds as long as the Mac II). This
new, smaller footprint, Mac family will have both 16 MHz and
25 MHz versions, and a 25 MHz Macintosh IIx (6-slot) also is
expected. A 2 Mbyte (16 MHz) system with a 40 Mbyte hard
disk and 68882 math coprocessor (along with the standard
68030 CPU and internal Super Drive) could retail for less
than $6,000. The 73 pound floor standing 68030-based
Macintosh "tower," code-named Columbo (see last month's
column) is due in August.
- PC Week 26 December and InfoWorld 16 January
Big Blue's 80386 Operating System.
IBM has developed a prototype 32-bit '386 operating system
that can run several MS-DOS as well as OS/2 programs within
its windows. The software does not actually run MS-DOS
itself, rather it emulates MS-DOS. The operating system
also permits users to allocate variable amounts of memory to
individual windows. Both IBM and Microsoft have promised a
future release of OS/2 which has these features, but the
prototype appears to be a separate development and may never
be released as a commercial product. - PC Week 12 December
Microsoft Does Windows.
Microsoft is planning a new releases of both Windows 286 and
386 in August that will dramatically improve memory
management. Windows 3.0 (the current version is 2.1) will
use RAM above 640K (extended memory) more efficiently. The
new Windows 386 also will take advantage of the 80386 CPU.
- PC Week 26 December and InfoWorld 2 January
Managing Some Presentations.
Microsoft's Bill Gates says 1989 will be the year of OS/2
applications (at last). Microsoft expects to bring out "a
critical mass of applications" within the next six months.
There will be both OS/2 and DOS (Windows) versions (packaged
as separate products) of PC Word 5, Multiplan 4, and all of
Microsoft's character-based development tools.
- InfoWorld 16 January
1-2-3 Version 3.0.
Lotus is seriously considering releasing 1-2-3 Version 3.0
as a program which will not run on the 8088 and 8086 based
machines that make up nearly two-thirds of the present
installed base. Lotus is considering using a DOS extender
to avoid having to squeeze the new version into 640K, but
the DOS extender will rely on the protected mode of 80286
and 80386 processors. However, Lotus vice president Frank
Ingari asserts that Version 3.0 will run on the 8088 and
8086 PC's and that the DOS extender is simply a way of
providing greater support for "power users." Lotus has said
all along that they will continue to enhance version 2 for
the less powerful PC's.
- PC Week 12 December and InfoWorld 19 December
Exploring the DOS World.
Lotus Development's powerful DOS shell and hard disk
organizer, Magellan ($139), is scheduled to ship by the end
of this quarter. The program has a tree structure
directory, a macro language, point-and-shoot DOS commands,
and a "browse" feature that lets users "peek" inside files.
The software is designed as a time-saver for "power users."
- InfoWorld 2 January
Chipping In.
As many as seven manufacturers are poised to release 33 MHz
80386 computers once Intel officially announces the chip and
begins shipping production quantities. Prices haven't been
set, but expect 33 MHz systems to cost $1,000 to $2,000 more
than similar 25 Mhz pc's. IBM's 33 MHz model, scheduled for
mid-year introduction will feature the enhanced (MCA2) bus
(see last month's column) according to industry sources.
- PC Week 2 January
The Mac FAX.
Apple's $699 Fax Modem (originally announced in August 1987,
shipped last summer but withdrawn in October due to hardware
incompatibility with several popular fax machine brands) has
a new ROM and may be shipping by the time this column
appears (if some remaining software bugs are eradicated).
Meanwhile, Orchid Technologies should be beginning shipments
of its Macintosh fax (which also doubles as a data modem)
with Solutions International's Backfax software (capable of
faxing in background without requiring MultiFinder) for less
than $600. - InfoWorld 19 December
Compaq Graphics to Outperform IBM's 8514/A.
By the time this column appears Compaq should have announced
its Texas Instruments 34010 graphics chip board that both
emulates and outperforms IBM's top-of-the-line 8514/A
graphics adapter. The $1,500 board, scheduled for shipment
before all the snow melts, supports both 640 by 480 VGA and
800 by 600 Super VGA.
- PC Week 19 December and InfoWorld 16 January
SPSS Mac and OS/2.
SPSS Inc. has announced plans to offer a Macintosh version
of its multivariate statistical software by mid-1989.
Because the Macintosh is not bound by the 512K memory
limitation of MS-DOS, SPSS-Mac will have the "full
functionality of SPSS mainframe statistical products" and a
Macintosh user interface. SPSS also is working on an OS/2
Presentation Manager program which will have a similar user
interface. - InfoWorld 2 January
High Resolution Mac II Graphics.
Matrox Electronic Systems is developing a high speed
graphics board for the Macintosh with a resolution of 1,280
by 1,024 pixels. The Matrox NG-1281 graphics board is
primarily for computer-aided design applications and should
be available in the second quarter for under $5,000.
- InfoWorld 19 December
Handwritten Input.
California's Go Corporation is showing a prototype of a
digital "notebook" which resembles an Etch-a-Sketch pad with
a stylus. The product stores handwritten notes until it's
convenient to attach it a microcomputer for long term
storage. Commercial release is about a year away.
- PC Week 19 December
AppleWorks GS Tips and Tidbits.
Addison-Wesley is scheduled to publish "Using AppleWorks GS"
by Douglas L. Brown this month. The 450 page paperback
($19.95) contains tutorial, tips, and advanced guides to
making the most of this integrated software. Douglas Brown
was a member of the original documentation team for
AppleWorks GS and also authored "From Pascal to C: An
Introduction to the C Programming Language." - A+ February
The Latest (Late) Word (Perfect).
Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh has been delayed again
(until at least the end of February). When the program,
originally scheduled for October and then "before the end of
1988," finally does arrive, it will offer support for
creating tables, the ability to edit while working in
columns, and easier commands for positioning graphics. Word
Perfect 1.0.2 for the Macintosh was scheduled for "January
3, or later" (anyone seen it?). Along with interim releases
of the MS-DOS version, (to purge some bugs, add
functionality, and standardize operations between different
PC configurations), the new Macintosh version offers
optional backup files, enhanced graphic line editing, faster
line editing operation. - InfoWorld 2 and 9 January
I bought the latest computer;
it came fully loaded.
It was guaranteed for 90 days,
but in 30 was outmoded!
- The Wall Street Journal passed along by Big Red Computer's SCARLETT
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(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 89 14:14 CST
From: "Fred Schulz (CHEE77@UHVAX1)" <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: Need help with assembly/pascal interfacing for data acquisition
Hi,
I have a rather specific question which is probably not of much general
interest but is of great interest to me. A member of my research group has a
a infrared camera which is hooked up to an old but computerized controller.
Essentially, the camera scans a 128 x 64 grid of pixels and returns an 8-bit
number corresponding to the thermal level. The controller stores the value for
each pixel in its memory. There is a port where the address and the data
can be read from the controller's bus.
There is a MacII next to this set-up. It is equipped with Data Translation's
Forerunner data acquisition board which includes 16 Digital I/O lines,
enough to read the 8-bits of data and some of the memory address. The camera
scans across and then moves down to the next row. The scan rate is about
200,000 pixels/sec or 5 us/pixel.
The idea is to hook up the 8 data lines, and the low and high order address
bits to the DIO lines. When initiated, a simple assembly language routine will
continuously read the DIO word. The low order address will be the trigger -
when the bit flips, the new data will be on the bus. It can then be stored into
memory. This check/move loop will take less than half of the 5 us(?). The
sampling will begin when the high-order address bit goes from high to low.
Ideally, the program which reads the data will be called from within a pascal
program. The idea is to just capture several seconds of data at a time directly
to memory, then return to the calling program and write the data to disk, or
over the ethernet to a Vax disk and then to tape.
The problem is this. We are not very familiar with programming the mac. Are
there any pascal compilers avalable (or C) which allow inline assembly, or
what assembler allows subroutines to be created which can be called from
Pascal? Does someone out there have any experiences or insights which might
save us some headaches and/or misguided software purchases? Any recommendations
or warnings?
Any suggestions will be welcome. Please reply directly to me - if you don't
know the answers but this interests you, let me know and I'll pass on what I
learn. I doubt this will be of general interest to the net, but if it seems to
be I'll be glad to send in a summary. Thanks everyone...
-Fred
CHEE77@UHVAX1.BITNET
CHEE77@UHVAX1.UH.EDU
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Date: 18 Jan 89 15:01:35 GMT
From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden)
Subject: ScreenMaster 2.6
[ScreenMaster 2.6]
Here, due to requests, is ScreenMaster 2.6.
ScreenMaster will read PixelPaint docs, with custom CLUT's and display
them as startup screens. Another init is also provided to re-set the
CLUT to the standard system colours.
Used in conjunction with another init called DeskPict (which creates
Colour DeskTops from PICT files), it is possible to have a picture
with a custom CLUT, as your desktop image (in which case you would
not use the init to re-set the colour lookup table).
Have fun.
Stu.
__Paths to my door:_______________________
microsoft!stuartb@beaver.cs.washington.edu - Usual disclaimer, that all
microsoft!stuartb@uw-beaver.arpa - the above is pure fantasy
microsoft!stuartb@uunet.UU.NET - and Microsoft only
[DE01HB]stuartb@DASNET# {from AppleLink} - gave me the Mountain Dew
stuartb@microsoft.uucp {well connected} - to dream it all in a
D2012 {AppleLink - shared account} - caffeine haze :-)
[Archived as /info-mac/init/screenmaster-26.hqx; 37K]
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Date: 15 Jan 89 21:09:41 GMT
From: rainer@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Robert Rainer)
Subject: Staircase 1.0.2 INIT
[Staircase 1.0.2 INIT]
This INIT will allow one to operate menu commands from the keyboard. I
hope that some people will find use for it. I found it on a BBS out of
S.C. and have run it for about a week with no signs of unwanted life.
Thanks.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/staircase-102.hqx; 29K]
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Date: 19 Jan 89 06:01:08 GMT
From: kriss@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (R M Kriss)
Subject: Zippy 1.0
[Zippy 1.0]
The following is the son of the Talking Moose called Zippy. It works
with MF and contains documentation on how to use and modify its
operation.
I remember some postings several months ago asking what ever happened
to the Talking Moose. Guess this is it. I would like to see this
application ported to a CDEV that the user can configure. I happen to
be an appliance operator rather than a hacker; lets see some new work.
Dick Kriss
kriss@lockheed.austin.com (ARPANet)
kd5vu @ kb5pm (Packet Radio)
[Archived as /info-mac/da/zippy.hqx; 31K
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Today's Topics:
Adobe Fonts
AppleShare PC equipment
Bitmap area calc program
Expert system shells
Hot T-Shirts (2 msgs)
Keystrokes & Options
Novell 2.15 MAC version
Ta Ta For Now
ThinkC Source for PAP i/f routines
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 08:45:20 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: Adobe Fonts
>The posted Adobe screen fonts for Avant Garde, Helvetica Narrow and Palatino
>contain an annoying error: The names for the style fonts do not contain a
>dot in its name (like e.g. ".B Times Bold"). This means that they will appear
>in font menus.
This can be fixed easily by investing in a copy of Suitcase and using Font
Harmony to unify the styles. If you don't want to do that, I have a full
document on how to unify the styles properly. Email me if you want it.
A nastier problem is that I could not get the Bodoni and Franklin-Gothic to
unBinHex. If others have had this problem, it could mean that the postings
are corrupted. If someone has been successful, could they please email the
files to me?
Thanks.
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: 30-JAN-1989 15:51:23 GMT
From: UGFA061%GEOG.QMC.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: AppleShare PC equipment
I've been asked by a colleague of mine to pass on this request concerning
AppleShare PC equipment, since I was unable to help him. Is there anyone
out there on info-mac who can help him. Replies direct please, since I'm
not on the distribution list.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : David Mitchell
E-Mail : UGFA061 @ geog.qmc.ac.uk
Tel : 01 980 4811 ext. 3631
Snail-Mail : Department of Geography
Queen Mary College
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
U.K.
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The enquiry I would like you to make is as follows:
We currently operate a MicroVAX and a fairly minimal Ethernet which is
linked to a LocalTalk network via a Kinetics FastPath. We are planning
to add at least one Mac II with a Kinetics Etherport to the Ethernet,
but note that the whole system runs using AppleTalk and AppleShare
protocols, using AlissaTalk on the VAX; in particular, we do not have
Dec-Net.
We wish to add a PC clone to the system (possibly a 386) without buying
additional VAX system software. We know that we can do this by combining
the AppleTalk PC board and AppleShare PC software, but this means that
the PC, which will be used to run fairly heavyweight data analysis
software such as SAS, will only be able to talk to the VAX at LocalTalk
speeds. Is there any way to run AppleShare PC software, or an equivalent,
using a PC connected directly to an Ethernet?
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 89 16:21 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Bitmap area calc program
This is something I haven't tried personally, but it sounds akin to what you're
looking for:
"Planimeter"--for measuring the area of irregular regions such as
cells.
It's in the "Reed Applications II" disk available from Kinko's Academic Course-
ware Exchange, $14.00.
Hope this helps,
Sandro Corsi
U. of WI - Oshkosh
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 89 16:49:55 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Expert system shells
We are developing an expert system for a software engineering class that
I am currently taking. I would like to convince the people that we are develop-
ing the for to use a Mac rather than a PC. Does anyone out there have any
experience with some of the Expert system shells available for the Mac (or
the PC for that matter) such as Level5, Instant-Expert plus, Cognate, etc.
We need as much power as we can get, but don't have lots of money to purchase
it with (ain't it always the case).
Mainly, I would just like to hear some opinions from anyone that has used
any of the Expert System shells. Please e-mail to me and I will summarize to
the net.
Thanks in advance,
Reed Rector
Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
Bitnet: SXWRR@ALASKA
Internet: SXWRR@acad3.fai.alaska.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 12:14:14 EST
From: Michael_P._Brown@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Hot T-Shirts
Sirs:
I need information for a possible source for heat-transfer paper. I
-this paper to transfer a MacVision image to say a T-shirt. I've seen
-in booths in most Malls, but forgot to ask where they bought it.
Thanks
Eddie@cc.msstate.edu
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 12:23:44 EST
From: Michael_P._Brown@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Hot T-Shirts
I'm not sure if this will solve your problem, but it may be
of interest . . . .
>From MacWorld, Feb. 1989, Letters, p.38
" . . . heat transfer ribbons that allow Mac-created designs
to be printed out on regular paper and then transferred to
a T-shirt by pressing them with a hot iron. The system
works great and I've had a lot of fun with it. "
"The ribbon is still available from I/O Design for $19.95.
The address is P.O. Box 156, Exton, PA 19341.
Phone: 800/241-2122."
I'm not affiliated with company in any way, just passing
info on.
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 10:40:10 EST
From: "Hugh A. Huntzinger" (CCL-S) <huntzing@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Keystrokes & Options
Ed wrote:
>
>As far as I understood, the MAC user interface is based on the
>principle that if you want an option, you only need to point to
>it with the mouse and click. This implies that all options,
>relevant or not in common denominator practice, MUST be visible
>on the screen, otherwise you can't point to it.
>
>We are now confronted with the situation, and the PostScript
>thing is just one example, that users KNOW something must be
>possible, but have NO MEANS OF FINDING OUT HOW they should do it.
>This is what I call 'not user-friendly'.
>
I'm in the same boat, but I'll add "... possible enough to look for ..."
I'm just a _user_ and I don't have the luxury of time to experiment.
"shift-option-4" is hard enough to remember. Imagine my dismay when I
learned the "mouse-shift-move the bar-unshift-unmouse" commmand in MacWrite
DAYS AFTER I had reformatted 300+ pages of text the old fashioned way.
Ever see a rubber band around the mouse button to lock it down?
BTW, when you make up the list, make sure you differentiate between
systems. When I get help from some of our local guru's, I seem to get Mac
SE Extended-keyboard commands that don't work/exist on a Mac Plus Keyboard.
-hummer
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 08:05:34 MST
From: mwalters@Outlaw.UWyo.Edu (Michael Joe Walters)
Subject: Novell 2.15 MAC version
I am interested in hearing of experiences with the latest version of NOVELL
Local Area Network operating system (2.15) that supports MACs. What ethernet
boards are you using?, what problems have you found?, what do you like the
most about the system?, can you interchange MAC and DOS files?, etc.
______________________________________________________________________________
Wyoming Michael Walters Bitnet:
Higher Associate Director, WHECN MWalters@UWYO.BITNET
Education Box 3945 University Station
Computer Laramie, WY 82071-3945 Internet:
Network 1-307-766-4881 MWalters@CORRAL.UWYO.EDU
______________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 08:41 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Ta Ta For Now
After about 4 years of continuous service this node (me) is finally
going off line for a much needed rest. There will be no more Usenet or
Delphi Mac Digests and no more cross posting of files. I will still be
around but as an observer. If anyone would like to take over for me you
are more than welcome to. I can arrange free access to the Mac SIG on
Delphi and provide you with my Macintosh based message digesting
program.
It has been fun these past years making the Mac telecomm community a
little more "global" and contribute to the sharing of ideas and
knowledge. All this took time, *lots* of it, which I have recently run
out of. So it is time to "pass the modem" to any willing takers.
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Jeff "Mr. WorldNet" Shulman
CSNet: SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM
Usenet: {backbone}!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
MCI: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
[I'm sure, Jeff, that many of us on the net have greatly appreciated your
efforts to distribute the Usenet/Delphi digests and to download software
from Delphi to Info-Mac. Is there someone who would be willing to take over
this role? Without a volunteer, the quantity of software posted to Info-Mac
will be substantially reduced. -Bill]
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Date: 29 Jan 89 15:13:33 GMT
From: sw@kernel-technology.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: ThinkC Source for PAP i/f routines
I've just received my Jan 89 copy of MacTutor, and I noticed the request
for PAP i/f routines. I attach below two files: pap.c and pap.h that are
meant to be built into a project, and called from your host application.
Because I do not build them into a DRVR (although you can), they are much
simpler. Morever, they are self-contained and can be built using the
ThinkC compiler alone (I've used both ThinkC 2.x and 3.0).
The pap.c file includes a set of test routines (conditonally compiled
using the variable TEST). When enabled, they simulate the action of the
LW, but write the PS to a file. This allows you to test the sequence of
PAP calls without having an LW present. To use the test routines, just
call the PAP routines as usual, and periodically call the routine
TestDelay (your main event loop is a good place).
To use them,
a) call the routine PAPLoad once to load the PAP routines from the
LW driver
b) call PAPOpen to open a connection to the LW
c) call PAPRead/PAPWrite as required to talk to the printer
d) call PAPClose to close the connection to the printer
e) repeat (b) to (d) as required; see MacTutor article on details of
how to send EOF to the printer
f) the PAPStatus call can be used to return info about the printer at
any time
f) call PAPUnload once before your application exits (you must do this
because the PAP mgr has VBL tasks running and these must be removed)
I hope that you will find these routines useful. I have used them with
all vintages of LW drivers from 2.0 to 5.2, and all Systems from 2.1 to
6.0.2 (note that if you use a machine with the 64K roms, you may have to
install the AppleTalk drivers in your system file).
I would be glad to hear of any bug reports.
If anyone can add any details of the PAP mgr to that contained in Bob
Denny's excellent MacTutor article, please post to the net. In particular,
I'd like to know if there is any way of aborting a PS job once it has
started.
Sak Wathanasin
uucp: ...!ukc!kernel!sw
JANET: sw@uk.co.kernel
BITNET: sw%kernel.co.uk%ukc.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet
other: sw@kernel.co.uk
phone: (+44) 532 444566
snail: Kernel Technology Ltd, 46 The Calls, Leeds LS2 7EY
[Archived as /info-mac/source/think-c-pap-routines-doc.txt; 2K
/info-mac/source/think-c-pap-routines-h.txt; 1K
/info-mac/source/think-c-pap-routines-c.txt; 10K]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1989 18:47:07 PST
From: William Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: Warning v1.0
This is the latest version of the Warning init. Warning checks your System
file for the common types of viruses each time you start up. If it finds an
infection, you are presented with an alert which describes the situation and
asks you whether to continue or reboot. It is designed for use by non-
technical people; no knowledge of viruses or of ResEdit is required.
Warning does not check applications for viruses and only checks the System at
startup. Therefore, it does not provide complete security against viruses.
However, since it is so easy to use (you just throw it in your System Folder
and forget about it), it may give you more protection in practice than
something like Virus RX which must be run by hand if you want to perform a
check.
Changes since previous versions: less disk IO is required, all repair options
have been removed (since there are other tools which handle repair), checks
have been added for the Hpat and Init 29 viruses, and various small bugs have
been fixed.
Bill Lipa
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/warning.hqx; 6K]
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 31 Jan 89 Volume 7 : Issue 21
Today's Topics:
6.0.3 Change History (Official)
Adobe Fonts
Custom palette offscreen example
draft memos
Gatorbox
INIT 29 further information and corrections
Local Talk connections
Mac Irma
PD PSsend
Retry: Tecmar Drive Magic: Avoiding Reformatting
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Date: 31 Jan 89 02:30:47 GMT
From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark Johnson)
Subject: 6.0.3 Change History (Official)
The following is a copy of a document shipped to developers
describing the changes to System Software 6.0.3. You will notice
that only the System file, Responder, and AFE files are changed.
United States Macintosh System Software 6.0.3
Change History
Revision Dates: December 23, 1988
Copyright (c) Apple Computer, Inc. 1988. All rights reserved.
Introduction
This document summarizes the changes made to the United States
Macintosh System Software 6.0.2, since it's release in release in September,
1988.
The United States Macintosh System Software 6.0.3 release is primarily a
maintenance release and a bug fix for the Apple File Exchange. In addition it
provides a hook to support 32 Bit Color QuickDraw, and fixes problems in the
AppleTalk Manager and the Time Manager.
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/system-603-changes.txt; 9K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 14:58:41 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: Adobe Fonts
Here is a summary of the process as outlined in the document I made
reference to in my last posting. The full version can be obtained on the
CompuServe Adobe Forum under the title of INVFNT.TXT.
-------------------------------- 8< -----------------------------------------
1. Inside of Font/DA Mover, create a new font file. Copy in all the Roman
versions of the font. Then, copy in the Non-Roman versions. The non-Roman
versions all start with I, B, or BI. An exception is Helvetica Narrow
which have non-Roman versions starting with NI, NB, NBI.
2. Using ResEdit (v. 1.1B3 or later), open the new font file created in
step 1. You will see two kinds of resources, FOND and FONT. Both will
need to be adjusted. The NFNT resource should be ok, provided you obeyed
the order specified while doing step 1.
3. Double click on the FOND resource. There is a FOND for each screen
font in the file. Select each non-Roman font and do "Get Info" or CMD-I.
Click in the front of the name appearing in the Info box and enter a "% "
(percent then space) so that the name becomes "% I ...", for example.
Close the Info box and repeat for each of the other non-Roman fonts.
4. Close the FOND resources by clicking in the close box for the FOND
window.
5. The next step is to do the FONT resources. Hold down the Option Key as
you Double click the FONT resource to open its window. Using the Option
key insures that you get ALL the FONT resources, rather than just the
non-zero ones. You need all of them.
6. You will see a font ID number for every point size of each font. The
zero length FONT resources are the only ones which have names - these are
the ones you need to change. You change the names identically as in step
3. Remember to only change the non-Roman fonts.
7. Close the FONT window. Now re-open both the FONDs and FONTs and
double-check what you have done. You should be able to install the font
and all its family members as usual. Please use Font/DA Mover 3.8.
-------------------------------- 8< -----------------------------------------
Now, I still recommend getting Suitcase II so you can use the Font Harmony
program. There are resource defects in some of the Adobe fonts that you
cannot fix in ResEdit easily. Font Harmony can fix them - I suspect this
was the problem with the person who what complaining about problems with
the Courier.
Lastly, this process is not endorsed by Adobe, although they posted it
originally, and I disavow any responsibility. If you screw up your fonts
its your problem. Remember, using ResEdit voids your warranty. :↑):↑):↑)
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| "Isn't fun like the best thing to have ever? |
| - Arthur |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Mon 30 Jan 89 20:47:46-PST
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@lear.stanford.edu>
Subject: Custom palette offscreen example
Here's a six-file example from Apple of drawing a PICT into an offscreen pixmap
with a custom palette, and copying it to the screen, written in MacApp (#8
below). It's on AppleLink, in the directory Developer Services/Developer
Technical Support/Macintosh/Sample Code/SC.008.FracAppPalette.
Descriptions of the graphics programs:
This is a series of sample programs for those doing development
using Color QuickDraw. Since the whole color problem depends
upon the exact effect desired, there are a number of answers
to how to use colors, from the simple to the radically complex.
These programs try to cover the gamut, so you should use
which ever seems appropriate. In most cases, use the simplest
one that will give the desired results. The compatibility
rating is from 0..9 where low is better. The more known risks
there are the higher the rating.
The programs (in order of compatibility):
SillyBalls:
This is the simplest use of Color QuickDraw, and does
not use the Palette Manager. It draws randomly colored
balls in a color window. This is intended to give you
the absolute minimum required to get color on the screen.
Written in straight Pascal code.
Compatibility rating = 0, no known risks.
FracAppPalette:
This is a version of FracApp that uses only the Palette
Manager. It does not support color table animation
since that part of the Palette Manager is not sufficient.
The program demonstrates a full color palette that is
used to display the Mandelbrot set. It uses an offscreen
gDevice w/ Port to handle the data, using CopyBits to
draw to the window. The Palette is automatically
associated with each window. The PICT files are read
and written using the bottlenecks, to save on memory
useage.
Written in MacApp Object Pascal code.
Compatibility rating = 0, no known risks.
TubeTest:
This is a small demo program that demonstrates using the
Palette Manager for color table animation. It uses a
color palette with animating entries, and draws using the
Palette Manager. There are two circles of animating colors
which gives a flowing tube effect. This is a valid case
for using the animating colors aspect of the Palette Manager,
since the image is being drawn directly.
Written in straight Pascal code.
Compatibility rating = 0, no known risks.
FracApp:
This is the commercial quality version of FracApp. This
version supports color table animation, using an offscreen
gDevice w/ Port, and handles multiple documents. The
CopyBits updates to the screen are as fast as possible. The
program does not use the Palette Manager, except to
provide for the system palette, or color modes with less than
255 colors. For color table animation using an offscreen
gDevice w/ Port, it uses the Color Manager and handles the
colors itself. Strict compatibility was relaxed to allow for
a higher performance program. This is the most real of the
sample programs.
Written in MacApp Object Pascal code.
Compatibility rating = 2. (nothing will break, but it may not
always look correct.)
FracApp300:
This doesn't support colors, but demonstrates how to create and
use a 300 dpi bitmap w/ Port. The bitmap is printed at full
resolution on LaserWriters, and clipped on other printers (but
they still print). It demonstrates how to use a high resolution
image as a PICT file, and how to print them out.
Written in MacApp Object Pascal code.
Compatibility rating = 1. (The use of PrGeneral is slightly
out of the ordinary, although supported.)
[Archived as /info-mac/source/apple-color-examples.hqx; 78K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 21:43 GMT
From: <JONES%COLOLASP.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Mike Jones)
Subject: draft memos
I would like to make a DRAFT mode for my memos that would clearly label them
as a draft. I once saw a tip (don't know where, don't know when) that would
write the word DRAFT in one inch high, 25% grey letters rotated 45 degrees
on each page of a Word document. As is recall it was only a few lines of raw
Postscript inserted in the Postscript style of Word at the top of the
document. Does anyone recall this procedure, or is wizard enough to just
create it out of hand?
The effect would be something like:
________
! !
!... T !
!... F !
! A !
! R ...!
! D ...!
!_______!
Thanks for your help,
Mike Jones SPAN zodiac::jones
LASP, Campus box 392 INTERNET jones%zodiac@vaxf.colorado.edu
University of Colorado BITNET jones@cololasp
Boulder CO 80309 phone (303)492-1295
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 10:03 CET
From: Anders Liljegren <TEKAL%SEUDAC21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Gatorbox
Hi there|
We have an AppleTalk net with some Mac+s and a LaserWriterII. We also
have an Eathernet with some HP workstations (370 & 340). We should of
course like to be able to use the LaserWriter from the workstations
(including graphics). We would also like to use the disks of the
workstations as fileservers to the Macs.
Does any know if this is possible with Gatorbox or by some other means?
Anders Liljegren, Uppsala University
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 08:44:50 -0500
From: Joel B Levin <levin@bbn.com>
Subject: INIT 29 further information and corrections
There have been a few misconceptions floating around about INIT29 and
how it works. It is quite virulent, spreading at the drop of a hat,
and I don't want to minimize it; but there is a slight bit of
overstatement in what I have read and I want to try to correct it a bit.
1. If you have booted from a clean system (System file and INIT, cdev,
and RDEV type files are all clean), then you are running clean.
Nothing will happen if you put an infected disk in your drive, if you
look at an infected file with ResEdit or copy a file. The ONLY thing
which does damage while you are running clean is to run an infected
application. Doing so will infect your CURRENT System file. That's
all it will do (not that it isn't enough); you will still be running
clean afterward. Rebooting with an infected system file is necessary
before the serious damage starts.
2. Booting from an infected system disk (one or more of your System
file and the INIT, cdev, and RDEV type files IN YOUR SYSTEM FOLDER are
infected) will cause your system to run dirty, i.e. with OpenResFile
patched to infect anything it opens. Now you are in a state when
merely opening any file with a resource fork will infect it with
either an INIT 29 resource (if there is no CODE 0 resource) or with a
new CODE resource (if there is a CODE 0 resource). It is thus true
that merely inserting a floppy disk (under Finder, not necessarily in
applications, which might not cause the Desktop file to be opened) a
copy of INIT29 "infects" the Desktop file on that disk. And any
documents or other miscellaneous files which are opened for any reason
are likely to have an INIT29 written into them. However, the only
significant INIT29's are those written into the System file or into a
type INIT, cdev, or RDEV file in the system folder. In other files
the INIT29 resource is less like an infection than like a benign tumor
-- it takes up space, is neither useful nor harmful, and sometimes
gets in the way of something and causes it to break. [This doesn't
mean that some future virus couldn't activate it somehow.]
3. The only sure way to deal with INIT29 at this moment is to have a
completely clean system on a hardware LOCKED diskette, complete with a
detection tool like VirusDetective. All copies of INIT29 may be
safely removed. All infected applications should be deleted and
restored from locked master disks (you did keep those around, of
course, and locked :-)). At this moment I know of no available
programs capable of properly removing the infection from an
application-like file (i.e. has a CODE 0 resource), including Virex;
but I guarantee you there will be one or more available before long.
/JBL
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 10:35 AST
From: "Kevin Cassidy, System Operator" <KCASSIDY%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Local Talk connections
Hello,
This is a question passed on to me about problems we've been
experiencing with our AppleTalk network. I really don't know anything
about Appletalk myself, but hopefully any answers will be appreciated
by this third party.
The question is simple : On a Local Talk (Apple Talk) network,
are there any restrictions on the number of notes on the net ? We
have 50 nodes on our net. The limit is supposed to be 32, but is
that number the number of ACTIVE nodes on the net or the number of
nodes hooked up to the net, period ?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin Cassidy
System Operator
Saint Mary's University
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 16:10:14 LCL
From: ELDRIDGE%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Mac Irma
Does anyone out there have any experiences/info on the performance of Mac Irma?
We are currently using Avatar boards with both Mac II's and SE's and are happy
with them, but are interested in examining other alternatives. Thank you for
any information.
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 23:52:39 BST
From: Paul Sutton <pcs%ELECENG.BRADFORD.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PD PSsend
Hello,
does anyone know where one can find a PD program that'll send a
postscript file to a laserwriter for printing. Something like PSsend
would seem to be appropriate; is there anything like it in the
INFO-MAC archives? Any info or PD or shareware programs would be
appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-89 08:29:05 PST
From: portal!cup.portal.com!wmartin@sun.com
Subject: Retry: Tecmar Drive Magic: Avoiding Reformatting
Whether this is a random occurrance or not, only the Hard Drive Gods
know, but, from time to time, my Tecmar MacDrive becomes confused and seems to
trash its master directory blocks. Usually this means reformatting the
drive. (thanks to religious backups I have not lost any thing, yet...)
Anyhow, last time this happened, the Tecmar Volume Manager software was
giving me it's usual helpful alert messages ("Can't reformat the drive!
Please Contact your Tecmar Dealer for Help (OK)" Ha!) when, in
frustration/desperation, I selected "Reset Print Spooler" from the Volume
Manager menu. Lo and behold, like Lazarus, my data was restored whole and
intact. (Guess the MDB wasn't trashed after all.)
The point is, Tecmar owners (anybody left??), you might try selecting
"reset Print Spooler" before reformatting your drives again next time. Since we
have been able to patch the Tecmar driver resources into all system versions
up from 1.something to 3.2, who knows what kind of magic stuff is coded into
the "Reset Print Spooler" feature...
-wiley
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Today's Topics:
A New Risk (the patched version)
AppleTalk questions/answers
draft mode
Exchanges Between Apple II and Mac using 3.5 disks
gray "DRAFT" in Word 3.02
MacIRMA
options and commands
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 23:09:05 CDT
From: "Dave Zuhn" <zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Subject: A New Risk (the patched version)
Here is the Risk program, with the Mac II patches installed. It works on
my system (mac II, 256 color) and on a Mac Plus at school. Other than
the color patch, there are no changes.
Dave Zuhn
U of MN - Twin Cities
zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/game/risk.hqx; 121K]
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 15:34:49 EST
From: rht@uunet.uu.net (Randy Thompson)
Subject: AppleTalk questions/answers
> We have an AppleTalk net with some Mac+s and a LaserWriterII. We also
> have an Eathernet with some HP workstations (370 & 340). We should of
> course like to be able to use the LaserWriter from the workstations
> (including graphics). We would also like to use the disks of the
> workstations as fileservers to the Macs.
> Does any know if this is possible with Gatorbox or by some other means?
>
I would like to be able to answer your question, however, I am lacking
some information.
For example:
What Network OS are you using (NFS??).
If you are not using NFS, the only thing that the gatorbox
can do for you is be an IP router. (what do you mean, arent
you running TCP/IP??)
A little more to the point:
Currently, the GatorBox does not support remote printing, or mail
between UNIX systems & the Mac. However, the word that I have from
Cayman indicates that these features will be supported in a new
software release due out sometime towards the end of April.
I will be happy to try to answer your questions directly as I have had some
experiencve with the G-Box, but I will need a little more info.
Please feel free to e-mail me. Additionally, Cayman IS on the net. Their
address is:
uunet!husc6!bunny!cayman!________?
cant remember the last for sure.....try: support
If you are unable to get through, let me know & I will come up with a _real_
address for you.
Sorry I cant help you more!
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 11:04:22 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: draft mode
>I would like to make a DRAFT mode for my memos that would clearly label them
>as a draft. I once saw a tip (don't know where, don't know when) that would
>write the word DRAFT in one inch high, 25% grey letters rotated 45 degrees
>on each page of a Word document. As is recall it was only a few lines of raw
>Postscript inserted in the Postscript style of Word at the top of the
>document. Does anyone recall this procedure, or is wizard enough to just
Try this...
-------------------------------- 8< -----------------------------------------
%! Procedure to print a light-gray DRAFT on pages
gsave
initmatrix 72 dup scale
/Helvetica-Bold findfont 1 scalefont setfont
(DRAFT) dup
stringwidth pop
4.5 5.5 translate
60 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto
.95 setgray
show
grestore
%% This overlay produces a 1 inch
%% tall DRAFT at a 60 degree angle in the center of the page.
%% The routine is self-adjusting so any string can be placed in instead
%% of DRAFT in the above routine and used.
-------------------------------- 8< -----------------------------------------
I think you'll find that this works better than the 45 degree, 25% gray
you asked for. 45 is too shallow an angle and 25% is just too light to be
noticed readily.
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| "Isn't fun like the best thing to have ever? |
| - Arthur |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 08:13:53 EST
From: halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Bruce P. Halpern)
Subject: Exchanges Between Apple II and Mac using 3.5 disks
The Apple II files should be in ASCII format. Apple File Exchange on the Mac
will then be able to read the file (the Apple II disk should go into the
internal drive, not the external drive) and convert it to a form the Microsoft
Word 3.01 and Microsoft Works are able to use. I do this routinely with
AppleWorks text files. If you have the Beagle Bros Timeout Powerpack desk
accessory "AWP to TXT" available for AppleWorks, use it. It will eliminate the
carriage return that AppleWorks otherwise appends to the end of each line when
it prints an ASCII file to disk.
Apple File Exchange can also be used with ASCII format AppleWorks data base
files (printed to disk in ASCII format using the normal data base routines).
Such files, after translation by AFE, can be read by Microsoft Works as ASCII
files, and then converted into Works files within Works.
--
| Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca |
| INTERNET:halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu BITNET:D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5|
| UUCP:{vax135,rochester,decvax}!cornell!batcomputer!halp |
| PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 09:43 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: gray "DRAFT" in Word 3.02
To print a gray draft notice on every page of a document using MSWord 3.02
insert the following postscript code in the header. Format it as *Postscript
style (from the PostScript glossary supplied with Word).
%Gray "DRAFT" at 45 degrees
gsave
% saves the current graphics state.
.95 setgray
% 0 is black 1 is white
220 400 moveto
% 0 0 is bottom left (Postscript NOT Mac coordinate system)
{}mark T /Helvetica-Bold /____Helvetica-Bold 0 rf
% reencodes Mac character set in a new font (____Helvetica-Bold)
/____Helvetica-Bold findfont 72 scalefont setfont
% sets this font to 72pt size (1 inch high)
45 rotate
% rotates user space so letters are printed at an angle
(DRAFT) show
% puts the characters in the parentheses onto the page
grestore
% restores the saved graphics state
The lines here are preceeded by space characters to allow them to travel
across various gateways (i hope:) ) but should not contain the leading spaces
in actual use.
The lines beginning with percent signs are comments, as you might have guessed,
and can be eliminated.
You can also eliminate the reencoding line, if you don't intend to use "foreign"
(accented) characters. My name has one, so I always make allowances for them.
If you eliminate that line ("{}mark...") then remove the four leading under-
scores from the name of the font on the next line.
Put this code into a glossary item and you'll never have to type it again!
If anyone is interested, I'll post some other samples of PostScript code for
use in Word and FullWrite (nothing extravagant, just useful) that I have
written.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 1 Feb 89 15:44 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: MacIRMA
Date: 1 February 1989, 15:39:47 EST
From: <WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 (Theodore A. Morris)> WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: re: MacIRMA
We tested MacMainframe3270 from Avatar when we decided to go with Macs over
Model 70's, and were quite happy. When we bought, though, we were persuaded
that we ought to buy MacIRMA since we have so many MS-DOS-machine IRMA boards
already installed in the University and the IRMA software is already loaded
onto the mainframes.
I suspect it will run all right ONCE I GET THE PROPER SOFTWARE, since I have
a IIx and they are not shipping the IIx version of the software. You have to
get system bombs first and call them to find out why before they'll ship you
the additional disk "on request." After that, though, I suspect it'll work
fine...
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or WB8VNV (NTS)
===============================================================================
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'!
===============================================================================
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 10:26:49 est
From: Richard G Brewer <tron@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: options and commands
I couldn't help but notice these distictive letters in INFO-MAC:
>As far as I understood, the MAC user interface is based on the
>principle that if you want an option, you only need to point to
>it with the mouse and click. This implies that all options,
>relevant or not in common denominator practice, MUST be visible
>on the screen, otherwise you can't point to it.
>
>We are now confronted with the situation, and the PostScript
>thing is just one example, that users KNOW something must be
>possible, but have NO MEANS OF FINDING OUT HOW they should do it.
>This is what I call 'not user-friendly'.
-----
>I'm in the same boat, but I'll add "... possible enough to look for ..."
>I'm just a _user_ and I don't have the luxury of time to experiment.
>"shift-option-4" is hard enough to remember. Imagine my dismay when I
>learned the "mouse-shift-move the bar-unshift-unmouse" commmand in MacWrite
>DAYS AFTER I had reformatted 300+ pages of text the old fashioned way.
>Ever see a rubber band around the mouse button to lock it down?
One thing that I have noticed of my fellow Macintosh users is the fact that
they seem to do all that they can to avoid reading the manuals for their
software. As programs become more and more complex, puldown menus cannot
account for all possible commands (unless you like burying your work under
menus and sub-menus), thus the reason for the option and command-shift
keystrokes. Any reputable software company (including Claris, Microsoft,
Ashton-Tate, and Adobe), includes a reference card to these commands, as do
the publishers of the popular (gulp) PC based applications. It takes no time
at all to pull out the reference card, assuming you own a _legal_ copy. I have
NO PITY for pirates...
Richard G. Brewer
Macintosh owner & Software Developer
PS - Those "obscure" commands that Ed and this other fellow were looking for
can be found on the "Macintosh Quick Reference Card" which came with their
Macs.
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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 89 08:18:54 EST
From: Kathy S Brown <KATHY%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: reply to 1/31 posting
FROM: KATHY BROWN, KATHY@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
DATE: FEBRUARY 1, 1989
RE: POSTCRIPT CODE FOR DRAFT IN WORD
MIKE JONES FROM COLOLASP ASKED...
THE FOLLOWING WAS PLACED ON OUR APPLESHARE SERVER BY ANOTHER CIS
(COMPUTING & INFORMATION SERVICES) STAFF MEMBER HERE AT BROWN.
WORKS GREAT IN THE HEADER - STYLE=POSTSCRIPT & FORMATTED HIDDEN
ONLY ONE OF OUR USERS HAS TROUBLE WITH IT, THE OUTPUT "SLIDES" TO
THE RIGHT EVER SO SLIGHTLY, HE USES A MACII, SYS V6.0.2 & WORD V3.02
- WE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT, BUT IT WORKS FOR EVERYONE ELSE...
.page.
/Times-Bold findfont 100 scalefont setfont
wp$x 2.8 div wp$y 3.5 div translate
0 setlinewidth
52.3 rotate 0 0 moveto (D R A F T) true charpath
gsave .95 setgray fill grestore stroke
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 10:21 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SendPS
Send PS v1.1 is distributed by Abode "without Explicit Support."
Further, it's about dialog states:
" Please use it and distribute it, but don't sell it without our express
permission."
It comes with "Adobe Illustrator" and is posted in MacServe@PUCC as:
UTILITY-SENDPS-121.HQX.1 (sounds like a newer version than I have.)
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:04 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #15
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 15
Today's Topics:
Re: 68030 MMU vs 68551 {was: Virtual Memory for the Mac II}
Is Supramodem any good?
Re: Moire2.22 and GateKeeper1.0 conflict...
Conflict between TOPS 2.1 and Vaccine
Product Bulletin Board
SmallTalk/V on the Mac
MultiClip - a n-level clipboard & more.
Re: Virtual Memory INIT
Apple Announces SE/30 at MacWorld
LaserWriter II SC memory question
Information on conversion utils wanted
Re: Virtual memory init
Re: Apple Educational Contacts
Re: Versaterm question
Re: SADE (2 messages)
Re: Allocating large amounts of memory
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
MacFortran Include Errors
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
A/UX networking problem
Re: Is Supramodem any good?
Arkanoid (Spoiler)
enzyme kinetic software needed
Re: Questions about Hayes compatible modems
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
Mac-awk
Re: INIT 29: a brief description
Re: MacApp and the 68881
Re: Text Drawing at speeds greater than 1200baud
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-015.txt; 43K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:04 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #16
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
what fonts should I use for a Vietnamese text document?
Two Questions
memory expansion on newer SEs
SADE
The Symantec Developer's Breakfast (at 12pm)
Re: SADE (2 messages)
Stashing A5 (was Re: Help With VBL Tasks)
Write Protect Tab (was Re: INIT 29: a brief description)
Re: Programming INITs
Re: memory expansion on newer SEs
MultiFinder Problem
Re: Fast image changes
Re MultiFinder Bug (Feature)
Re: Is Supramodem any good?
Using HierDA with Coral Common Lisp
The Trackball, and the Mac that Would Not Sleep
OASYS C++ Info Wanted
Re: Aask is now out!
Re: LaserWriter II SC memory question
Virtual Memory, MaraThon 030
Fittness
Re: Two Questions
Re: New Macs
Re: ZTERM 0.7 is out!
Re: FAX
Re: MPW vs Lightspeed
Re: Stashing A5 (was Re: Help With VBL Tasks)
How do you get a "Unique" Mac ID...
Staircase and LSC conflict
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
MPW and the Clipboard under MultiFinder
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-016.txt; 44K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:05 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #17
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 17
Today's Topics:
Need help with mouse pointer in A/UX 1.0
Re: Programs to launch other programs under MultiFinder
REO-650 Optical
Another WriteNow Question
Two WriteNow Questions
WriteNow widows/orphans
Re: LaserWriter II SC memory question
Any info on LaserView MONITOR from Sigma Designs?
Re: Another WriteNow Question
PageMaker Auto Flow Question
Re: New Macs
Re: SADE
Re: Re: A plea for help (double-clicking disabled in Finder...)
Re: How do you get a "Unique" Mac ID...
Re: Word format
NCSA Telnet Question?
Re: AppleTalk Info
Re: How do I tell if my MacII already has a 68551 PMMU in it?
Re: WriteNow widows/orphans
GateKeeper <-> DiskFit
Scientific Graphs
Mailing list for Cayman GatorBox users
Macintosh Revealed Vols. 3 and 4
C source examples of the new preferred AppleTalk interface?
PhoneNet advice and opinions sought ..
Keyboard stickyness
PC MacTerm/pcAnywhere III
Re: Arkanoid (Spoiler)
Looking for RGB mixer board with chroma-keying for Mac II
survey: to spool or not
Where can one get SFDriveInit [sic?]
Re: Macintosh Revealed Vols. 3 and 4
What to do with the tiny Black Hole in Uninvited?
Is Hard Drives International for real?
Re: "Application busy/missing" with newer systems
Re: Where can one get SFDriveInit [sic?]
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-017.txt; 42K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 15:06 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: Usenet Mac Digest V5 #18
Usenet Mac Digest Saturday, January 28, 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 18
Today's Topics:
Re: Mac II screen depth
Re: Backgrounder/Print Monitor help
Ciao, Baby!
Connecting Canon Scanner to Mac II
Backup Programs
Re: Is Hard Drives International for real?
awk on the Mac
number array -> gray-scale grid
Re: Where can one get SFDriveInit [sic?]
Editable TextItems in Dialogs - Help!
Memory Management
Re: Editable TextItems in Dialogs - Help!
Vol # of Launched APPL?
Re: How to play snds?
Funny bugs in LSC
Re: Fast image changes
Re: Vol # of Launched APPL?
Re: Editable TextItems in Dialogs - Help!
Re: Typecasting sets in LSP 2.0
Object Pascal
Re: Was there a fee for Certified Developers?
CDEF's
Keyboard on MacII
Re: A/UX Mail files
simple bug fixes in Smalltalk/V Mac
Re: Help With VBL Tasks
[Archived as /info-mac/digests/usenetv5-018.txt; 40K]
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Does anyone know of any databases for Spanish or German (or French)
flash cards for review? Are there programs or hypercard stacks
available?
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"DRAFT" Overlay for WriteNow Documents?
AFE and Works/Appleworks
BundAid
CD Editor Demo Stack
Gatorbox?
Help on two qestions
Imagewriter Tall Adjust default
Inside Mac V5 C Prototypes
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SCANNERS
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 89 16:32:29 PST
From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: "DRAFT" Overlay for WriteNow Documents?
Can anyone tell us how to do the neat "DRAFT" overlay trick for WriteNow
documents that will be sent to a Laserwriter NT printer?
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 89 08:49:47 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AFE and Works/Appleworks
It is no longer necessary to save Appleworks files as ASCII files
in order to transfer them to a Mac. The latest version of Microsoft
Works contains a translator that will translate Appleworks files to
Microsoft Works files. (Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work the
other way.)
Alan H. Stein Department of Mathematics
The University of Connecticut at Waterbury
32 Hillside Avenue, Waterbury, CT 06710
(203) 757-1231
Internet: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM
UUCP: {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
Compu$erve: 71545,1500 Genie: ah.stein
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 89 09:38:23 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: BundAid
Here is a small program called BundAid that turns off the bundle
bit of any file without a BUND resource. Very handy for fixing
that nasty "Application Missing or Busy" message.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/util/bundaid.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 89 09:10:43 PST
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CD Editor Demo Stack
The CD Editor Demo stack provides an "editor" for generating
specific play passages from audio CD disks using HyperCard
and the Apple CD SCSI drive. Includes a complete control
panel for controlling the play of audio CDs in real time.
Use this stack to start playing a CD disk from a specific
location, and subsequently mark the beginning and ending
addresses of a sound "clip" or passage for playback in an
interactive audio stack. This demo stack is completely
functional, except that it lacks the extensive save
function, for saving a series of clips to a file for use in
another stack, for loading a file of sound clips, and for
individual testing of sound clips from a saved file.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/cd-editor-demo.hqx; 54K]
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 89 11:36:49 CST
From: Don Davis <AEDAVIS%UMSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Gatorbox?
> WE HAVE AN APPLETALK NET WITH SOME MAC+S AND A LASERWRITERII. WE ALSO
> HAVE AN EATHERNET WITH SOME HP WORKSTATIONS (370 & 340). WE SHOULD OF
> COURSE LIKE TO BE ABLE TO USE THE LASERWRITER FROM THE WORKSTATIONS
> (INCLUDING GRAPHICS). WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO USE THE DISKS OF THE
> WORKSTATIONS AS FILESERVERS TO THE MACS.
> DOES ANY KNOW IF THIS IS POSSIBLE WITH GATORBOX OR BY SOME OTHER MEANS?
>
> ANDERS LILJEGREN, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY
In response to the above request I have included the readme file for
CAP version 5.0 and the FTP information. This server has been implemented for
HPUX so it should not have any problems with your HP workstations. It is availb
le from cunixc.columbia.edu for Anonymous FTP.
[Archived /info-mac/report/cap-for-unix.txt; 7K]
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 89 12:09 EST
From: S71DDOD%TOWSONVX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Help on two qestions
Hi all. This is my first time sending anything to infomac, so please
bear with me.
I am a student employee of a micro computer lab at Towson State
University in Maryland.
I would like to know if I can do two things to the Turbo Pascal
application by Borland International and if I need to contact them for
copyright reason before I do any of the following.
The first thing that I wish to to do is make the Turbo apllication
the only application that will run when the disk is booted (No Finder).
When a student boots the disk with Turbo Pascal and the Macintosh system on
it I want it to boot up into Turbo Pascal. When the Student quits the Turbo
Pascal application I want the computer to do the equvalent of a "Shut Down".
Now the second thing I would like to do. I would like to add a delete
option to the Turbo Pascal's File Menu. I think I know how to add something to
the pull down menu, but I would like to be sure. Also, I need to know how to
actually do the deletion by having the computer bring up a standard dialog box
so the student can choose the file they want to delete and a dialog box for
deletion confermation.
I will be doing this on a Mac Plus with two 800k drives if that makes
any difference. Also, I am not that experienced with this kind of Macintosh
programming and would appricate any of your expert knowledge.
I would prefer if you would send your reply directly to me.
Please send your reply to
s71ddod@towsonvx
Thank you very much.
Mark Dodd
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 19:28 EST
From: <GILBERTD%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Imagewriter Tall Adjust default
In case anyone else is interested in making "Tall Adjusted" the
default print option for your imagewriter (so that imagewriter
dots are square and page size/formatting remains the same when
you switch to a Laserwriter), here is the protocol:
1) Use ResEdit to operate on the ImageWriter chooser
device from the current full system (6.0.2). This
may not hold for other versions.
2) Find and open the resource PREC #0. There are 3 PRECs,
#1 seems identical to #0, but #0 is the important one.
3) Find the 20th byte (this is offset #19 from 0). It should
have a value of "02". Change it to "06".
4) Quit ResEdit, saving the change.
For reference, the original bytes at offset 18-25 are
0102 0528 03FC 0001
The new values are
0106 0528 03FC 0001
Of course, make a backup of your ImageWriter file before
operating. This looks easier than teaching a bunch of
novices that they need to hit that option box each time
they create a document.
Don
BioComputing Office > < Phone : (812) 855-7807
Biology Department > Don < IU EMail: Gold::GilbertD
Indiana University > Gilbert < BitNet : GilbertD@IUBACS.BITNET
Bloomington,IN 47405 > < InterNet: GilbertD@Gold.Bacs.Indiana.Edu
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 10:09:36 PST
From: decwrl!well!wdh@labrea.stanford.edu (Bill Hofmann)
Subject: Inside Mac V5 C Prototypes
These are ANSI C prototypes for Volume 5 of Inside Mac. I'm currently using
them with THINK C 3.01p, and the #ifdefs are named appropriately. You may
need to change them for another compiler. Use, distribute, enjoy! Send
comments and bugs (gasp!) to:
-Bill Hofmann wdh@well.uucp
Flashpoint BILLHOFMANN (Delphi)
[Archived as /info-mac/source/think-c-protos-imv.txt; 24K]
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 89 14:36:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Cooper <ecc@CS.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Is partitioning useful for private disks?
Is there any reason for partitioning a private SCSI disk, assuming I'm not
interested in password protection or encryption of contents?
Can it make the disk more robust in the face of misbehaving programs (can one
enforce read-only partitions?) Or reduce fragmentation, or simplify backups?
Eric Cooper
ecc@cs.cmu.edu
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 89 16:40:44 EDT
From: Alfredo Abbud Terrazas <PL146406@TECMTYVM>
Subject: Mac to TELEX?
I hope I can get help out of you mac users. I need to know if there is any
way of connecting a Macintosh to Telex via modem or through any other special
device. Also want to know if there is any software with it.
A friend of mine wants to do it, but (like most weird experiments) he hasn't
seen anyone do it yet. Is there any person who can assist me in this crisis?
Thanks in advance. -- Alfredo Abbud --
"Murphy's Law never stops to embarrass me"
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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 89 17:52 CST
From: <DBLUESTN%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SCANNERS
What is the opinion on scanners in the general Mac community? I am
searching for a scanner that is graphics and OCR capable and must be able to
be connected to both a Mac and IBM (for the others in the department). What do
most people use/recommend? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Please send
to my E-mail address below and I will summerize.
David Bluestein
P.O. Box 2890
Auburn, AL 36831
BITNET
: DBLUESTN@AUDUCVAX
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 3 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 24
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
AppleWorks
BackIt 3.03 (was PSBU) part 1 of 2
French Spelling Checker
Help on two qestions
Hyperscan Magic Button
Info-Mac Digest V7 #23
Is partitioning useful for private disks?
MacKermit
Update with my MAC/SE booting problem
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1989 14:38:14 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
I have created a new directory called freq. It's intended for answers to
frequently asked questions. I think all veteran readers know what these are:
1) How do I generate a Postscript file to use on another printer?
2) Help! My hard disk doesn't show up on the desktop when I boot up.
3) How can I rebuild the desktop?
4) The apple symbol in the menu bar is flashing. I must have a virus.
Part of the point of a moderated digest like Info-Mac is to screen out the
noise caused by questions like these repeated again and again. However, it's
of course necessary for novice users to find out the answers to such
questions; that's how they become more experienced.
I have put preliminary answers to these questions in the freq directory.
Please read them and comment on their accuracy. Feel free to suggest
additional topics which should be included in freq.
Still no news on updating the Bitnet server to talk with the new archive.
However, I have discovered the existence of a mail server which talks to the
old archive. This may be convenient for those of you on UUPC and other
isolated sites which don't have either Bitnet or FTP access. Mail us for more
info.
Bill Lipa
info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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Date: Friday, 3 Feb 1989 10:21:02 EST
From: m20011@mwvm.mitre.org (Anup Patel)
Subject: AppleWorks
I've been a fan of AppleWorks for many years. Not only have I used it, but
I've taught Intro. to Computers courses at a local University. I think it's a
very good product not only for beginners, but also for more advanced users.
Admittedly, it's not as powerful as MS-Word or other word processors, but for
getting the job done FAST, it's very good.
Saying all this, has Apple introduced a MAC version? If it has, is A.W. for
MAC as fast as for the Apple II/GS/...?
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 20:52:57 -0100
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: BackIt 3.03 (was PSBU) part 1 of 2
BackIt v3.03 - Preselective Backup Utility(was P.S.B.U.)
Enhancements since last version 2.3.x:
Most things not directly recognized by the user. Some file
copying code rewritten. Better error detection. Possible to
create folders from inside the application.
BackIt is distributed as shareware.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/backit-303.hqx; 42K]
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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 89 10:42 EST
From: <J_RICHAR%HVRFORD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: French Spelling Checker
I have been unable to locate a French Spelling Checker that will work with the
Macintosh version of Microsoft Word. If anyone knows of one, whether shareware
or a commercial product, please let me know.
Jan Richard
Haverford College Computer Center
Bitnet address: J_RICHARD@HVRFORD
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 16:48 EST
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R%UBVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help on two qestions
To answer your first question, click on the Turbo Pascal icon in the Finder.
Choose Set Startup... from the Special menu, and click on the selected
applications button, then click OK. (You can remove the finder by starting
up from a different disk).
To answer your second question, you can add a menu item, but you will only
confuse the program. As far as adding code to execute it, I think that a
miraculous work of patch code, so you are far better off with putting a
public domain desk accessory on the disk that can delete files, such as
Disktop.
Maurice Volaski
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 15:31:29 PST
From: puatu@vlsi.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Hyperscan Magic Button
At the MacWorld Expo, Bill Atkinson demonstrated an undocumented feature
in HyperScan called the "Magic Button." With it, the user can select a
beginning window and an ending window and HyperScan would interpolate
subsequent windows in a multiple scan. Unfortunately, I did not remember
how he selected the two windows. Anyone Know? Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 09:42:25 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #23
> Is there any reason for partitioning a private SCSI disk, assuming I'm
> not interested in password protection or encryption of contents?
> Can it make the disk more robust in the face of misbehaving programs
> (can one enforce read-only partitions?) Or reduce fragmentation, or
> simplify backups?
Yes to all of the above.
Partitioning a large hard disk into several smaller volumes will reduce
the size of the smallest allocation block. On a 100-meg hard disk,
files are allocated in chunks of (I think) 4k bytes each; if you have
lots of relatively small files, this can add up to quite a bit of
wasted space. If you partition the disk into subvolumes that are < 32
meg each, the allocation blocks become substantially smaller (down to
1k bytes, I think).
If you're planning on storing a large number of applications on a hard
disk (f'rinstance, in a PD/shareware library), then the "Desktop" file
for that disk will become very large; updating the file takes a long
time, and if you _really_ stuff the disk full of files you can push the
Desktop file past the maximum number of resources that the Resource
Manager can support. If this happens, CRASH!
By splitting a disk into several partitions, and dividing your
collection of applications across these partitions, you can keep the
Desktop file size well clear of the point at which its performance
begins to suffer.
If you use a volume backup utility such as DiskFit (i.e., one which is
relatively unselective about what it backs up), you can simplify your
backup task by keeping your active data files in a small partition that
you back up frequently, your System and applications in another
partition that you back up every so often, and your unchanging files
(e.g. PD and shareware stuff) in yet another partition that you never
back up, but simply restore from your PD/shareware floppies if you need
to. The System/application and PD/shareware partitions will suffer
very little fragmentation while in use, because their contents are not
changed frequently. If the data partition becomes fragmented, it can
be defragmented relatively quickly.
You can set up a small partition as a "hot lab" for testing new
programs of uncertain behavior and possible danger. Build a minimal
system environment in this partition using the Installer. When you
want to test a new program, drag it over into this partition,
command-shift-doubleclick on the Finder in this partition [which makes
this partition your "startup volume"], then drag all of the other
partitions into the trash (dismounting them). It's MUCH harder for a
virus to spread into an unmounted partition (I know of none that are
capable of doing so).
One can enforce read-only partitions. Jeff Shulman's freeware
"DiskLock" desk accessory can set the "volume lock" bit on an HFS
partition, thus preventing the creation of new files and the
modification of existing ones. This isn't as secure as unmounting the
partition or physically write-protecting or unplugging the disk, but it
will stop most forms of accidental and willful modification.
I have a 100-meg disk in my Mac II, broken up into 3 partitions of
about 32 megs each. It's a wonderful setup; I would not want to go
back to a nonpartitioned arrangement.
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 10:17:07 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Is partitioning useful for private disks?
There are at least three reasons for partitioning a disk:
1. There is (I believe) on desktop file for each logical disk (i.e.
partition). If your disk is unpartitioned, and you have a LOT of files
(e.g. MacZap with all the patches, etc.), then updating the desktop
file may take a significant amount of time. By sticking these files
into a separate partition with little file-creation activity, you
reduce the overhead when creating files on other partitions.
2. Disk fragmentation. As time goes by, your files tend to become
fragmented - i.e. they are no longer stored contiguously on the
physical medium. By partitioning the disk, you reduce the
fragmentation, and thereby speed up accesses.
3. Backups. A number of backup programs deal only with disks, not
folders. By partitioning your disk you may back up parts of your files
as if the partition were a "real" disk. If you organize your
partitions wisely, this may reduce the effort of backing up your
volatile data significantly.
-- Sigurd Meldal
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 14:07 EST
From: A. DARO <ACCAMD@HOFSTRA>
Subject: MacKermit
First, thanks to everyone who has responded to my questions in the past.
This has been a terrific source of information.
Next - we are distributing MacKermit to users who will be dialing in
to both our Vax 8530 and IBM 4381. I need to set up key definitions
for each of those settings. I have ordered the latest MacKermit from
Columbia, which I understand comes with a key definition program.
BUT I am wondering 1) will it include options for both the original
Apple keyboard AND the extended keyboard and 2) has anyone done this
already who can advise me in advance of things they discovered?
Please reply directly to me and I will summarize if people are
interested. Thanks in advance -
Anne Daro
Hofstra University
BITNET: ACCAMD@HOFSTRA
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 12:38 AST
From: "Jose Mendez, Network Manager" <J_MENDEZ@acupr.upr.cun.edu>
Subject: Update with my MAC/SE booting problem
Hi,
I just wanted to update you on my MAC/SE booting problem. A few weeks ago I
submitted my problem. My MAC takes about 3 or 4 minutes to boot from the Hard
Disk. When turned on the Disk would just whirl while a disk icon with a
flashing question mark would stay on screen. I received some good advices
which I quickly implemented.
First, some people told me to compact my Desktop file. I don't know how big
it was but anyway it didn't help at all. Holding down the option and apple
keys while booting the machine causes it to compact the Desktop file.
Second, many people told me my HD was too fragmented, that I should de-fragment
it. I bought DiskExpress (AlSoft) to do so. It's a very neat utility which
I beleive all Mac users should have. I took a look at my disk and it was
fragmented like heck. DiskExpress has an option called QUICK OPTIMIZE. It'll
de-fragment files but will not optimize the space utilization, in other words,
it won't eliminate free space between files. Well this didn't do much either.
I then told it to OPTIMIZE with PRIORITY which is the heavy option. Not only
does it eliminate the free space between files, but it orders the files in the
HD so that system files are at the beginning and files which are dynamic
(which write to the HD and are of variable size) are put at the end of the used
space so that it takes the free space next to it. It must have taken at least
1 1/2 hours (I'm not sure cause I fell asleep and woke up at 5:30 am).
I was very happy to just think that I wouldn't have to sit in front of my MAC
and wait 4 minutes. But, oh, the agony, no change at all. The HD looks real
neat now but it STILL takes 4 minutes to boot.
I appreciate all you people who gave me good suggestions. Is there any other?
What else can I do?
Thanks.
Jose Mendez
J_MENDEZ@UPRENET.BITNET
J_MENDEZ@ACUPR.UPR.CUN.EDU
"Nothing is as easy as it seems." Murphy
"When you've tried everything and nothing works... read the instruction."
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performance networking, and high performance graphics.
For more information, contact Randy Melen, AIR/IRIS, at 723-5359 or
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 5 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 25
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
3D graphing program (v0.5)
Closure Game hexification
Couple of Questions and a comment.
FontMaster 1.1 DA
FontWizard DA
How? to get AppleShare files off UNIX host
Info wanted on tranferring CAD files to AutoCad (PC)
Info wanted on WaitNextEvent
LaserWriter II NTX Hangup
Macintalk problems
Macintosh users
McSink 6.5 DA
MyPageSet.Hqx
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Repair 1.4
Staircase 1.0.3 cdev
Update with my MAC/SE booting problem
Virus RX 1.4a2
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1989 12:58:02 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Freq was a lame name. It's now tips.
Here is some great news for Bitnet readers and others without FTP access:
the Bitnet/electronic mail server at Rice University is now talking to the
new archive. You should be able to get any of our files within 24 hours of
their posting on sumex-aim.
To use the server, you send commands (one to a line) as the body of a mail
message to listserv@icsa.rice.edu or LISTSERV@RICE. Some example commands:
$MACARCH HELP
$MACARCH INDEX
$MACARCH GET <FileNameGoesHere>
Bitnet users may be able to do things a different way using interactive
messages. I am not familiar with this procedure, however.
Please keep your usage of the server outside of Texas working hours. This
kind of server can really eat a lot of computer power if it gets overloaded.
It would be bad to lose this capability because of an abuse of Rice's
generosity.
Many thanks to Mark Williamson for implementing the changes necessary to
support our new archive.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 13:08:40 PST
From: chris%hobbes@lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: 3D graphing program (v0.5)
This is version 0.5 of the 3D graphing program, to replace
3d-graph.hqx. It's now easier to export graphs to other
programs. You can generate a flat, shaded array from the graph,
and do topo-style shading.
I've yet to solve some problems with working in multiFinder;
for example, Suppose you're in the middle of responding to an
update event and taking a long time about it. Of course you
should call WaitNextEvent to let someone else get time. The
resulting events may include reshuffling windows. Result; since
you're was in the middle of a BeginUpdate(), the visRgn etc. gets
scrambled. I'm curious what other people do about this sort of
thing. (An offscreen bitmap for the drawing might be a solution,
but it's a pain in color, takes a gross amount of memory, and
leaves the poor user wondering just what the hell the program is
up to.) Most programs seems to solve the problem by blocking
until the update is over; if you've been clicking during the update,
the update is followed by a flurry of moving windows, which generates
more update events...
At any rate; The following is a program to generate three
dimensional graphs of mathematical functions. The graphs can be
displayed from any angle and shaded. There are two versions, one of
which uses the 6888x; they are otherwise identical (I've tossed the
fixed point version). This is freeware; do anything with it but
sell it.
Send comments etc. to
Christopher Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
(415)843-2437
[Archived as /info-mac/app/3d-graph-05.hqx; 198K]
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Date: 4 Feb 89 16:00 EST
From: STERRITT%ARISIA.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Closure Game hexification
Hello,
This file is the fascinating game of Closure, which is a variant of
Othello. The game is played on a 4 x 4 x 4 'cube' of squares. It is
quick to play a game, and the computer plays a pretty good game, with
seven levels of intelligence. You can also run a demo, and set the level
of intelligence of the demo 'players'. HOWEVER, I think that this sets the
intelligence of the regular player, whatever the Smarts menu says.
The only problem I have is a nagging suspicion that there is a
perfect strategy (that is, 'perfect' play always wins, for one player or
the other). If anyone knows what it is, or of writings on this game, I'd
like to hear about it. On this subject, I discovered a perfect strategy
for the 12 x 12 board twixt game (shareware'd as Betwixt).
Enjoy,
Chris Sterritt (I'm not the author, and it's free.)
Sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
[Archived as /info-mac/game/closure.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Feb 5, 1989 6:00
From: John Sutcliffe <9663SUTC@MUCSD.BITNET>
Subject: Couple of Questions and a comment.
1. I am interested in any information concerning using Grappler (or an
equivalent) with an Epson 24 pin printer (or equivalent) on a Local Talk network
Specifically, how do you allow everyone on the net to have access to the Epson?
Is this even possible?
2. I just read in a recent PC Magazine about a new optical character
recognition software product for the Mac called TextPert from CTA Inc. in New
York. John Dvorak mentioned it in his Inside Track column (Jan 31, 1989). He
says it has a "99.5 percent hit rate". I am wondering if anyone else has heard
of or seen this product in use. Has someone compared this to OmniPage? I would
be interested in any observations you may have about TextPert and OmniPage.
Also, what hardware are you using with this software?
3. A while back someone mentioned putting some pressure on Apple to extend their
warranty to 1 year. I have seen no other comments on this topic since. I think
it is time to unite and complain. If a PC compatible company can give a 1 year
warranty, why can't Apple???? What are your thoughts and ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help you may provide.
John Sutcliffe O.S.F.A. Marquette University, Milwaukee WI.
<9663SUTC@MUCSD.BITNET>
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:07:43 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: FontMaster 1.1 DA
This message includes a copy of the FontMaster desk accessory, written by Ken
Winograd and sponsored by Varityper. FontMaster can show you statistics on
the fonts you have installed (point sizes, styles, size in bytes, FONT ID's,
FOND ID's, resource types (FONT or NFNT), and can also display sample text in
each font.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/fontmaster-11.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:10:07 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: FontWizard DA
Here is another desk accessory written by Ken Winograd and sponsored by
Varityper. From the Read Me file included in the archive:
Varityper FontWizard is a desk accessory that approaches the problem of
font management from the perspective of the FOND resource. Varityper
FontWizard is particularly useful to users who wish to know more about
their fonts than the names of the fonts present and their resouce ID
numbers. This DA shows the name of the PostScript font and the name of the
printer font for each style variation of the font. This DA also informs
the user as to whether the screen font and the printer font specified will
be imaged by a font that has been provided or whether they will be imaged
via a mathematical distortion of an existing font. Double clicking on the
name of a font will display the entire character assignment table, and the
pressing of a key will momentarily flag the position on the chart that
corresponds to the key pressed.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/fontwizard.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 22:28:08 EST
From: David J. Sturman <djs@gertie.media.mit.edu>
Subject: How? to get AppleShare files off UNIX host
With AppleShare we can open volumes on UNIX machines over ethernet or
the applenet via a Kinetics box. The directories and files appear on
the desktop like [almost] ordinary Macintosh folders and files. They
can be dragged from the UNIX folder onto the Mac and vice-versa. It's
kind of a nice setup. However... the files are kept in 3 separate
parts on the UNIX side (data, resources, info) and if AppleShare isn't
working, which happens occasionally, I cannot use them (I can't decode
and reassemble them!). Does anyone know the format of these files and
how to reassemble them? Does anyone have (or want to write) something
that will assemble the three portions of AppleShare files on the UNIX
side and package them suitably for recovery via a modem. Something
like xbin/macget/macput.
David Sturman
MIT Media Lab
djs@media-lab.media.mit.edu
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 23:09 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info wanted on tranferring CAD files to AutoCad (PC)
Dear Net,
Does anyone have any experience transferring data from Mac CAD
programs to AutoCad (IBM PC) ?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 19:25 MET
From: "AGRD02::V_ZON"%HWALHW50.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Info wanted on WaitNextEvent
Hello networkers,
I am looking for detailed information on the toolbox routine WaitNextEvent.
What types are the new parameters, what are all the events it returns
(MultiFinder / System 6) and what are the possible values for the other fields
in the returned EventRecord for the new events, like SuspendResume and
MouseMoved.
Is there anybody who can mail me this information, or knows where I can
find it? (preferably in C, but not necessarily)
Please E-mail me directly: "AGRD02::V_ZON"@HWALHW50.BITNET
Thanks.
Ed van Zon
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Date: Sat, 04 Feb 89 02:18:53 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter II NTX Hangup
I use a LaserWriter II NTX with a 20 MB Apple hard disk for most of my
work. It's normally an extremely fast, reliable printer. But every
once in a while, it seems to hang while printing a file. The 'in use'
light on the printer flashes, and the computer doing the printing (a
file server running the AppleShare Print Server) doesn't complain
about not being able to reach the printer. But the printer just sits
there, flashing the 'in use' lights on both the printer and the hard
disk, for 10-15 minutes. This seems to happen even for very simple
files which would take less than a minute to print. In any case,
no file would ever take that long to print on this printer normally.
What's going on? I'm using system software 6.0.2 and the AppleShare
Printer Spooler, as I mentioned above. The hard disk on the printer is
an Apple HD 20 SC with 65 fonts on it. My guess is that the printer
is somehow rearranging the font cache on the disk. After all, it
sometimes starts accessing the disk when the printer is idle. But
couldn't it stop when someone tries to print something?
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is this a bug, or a feature?
I'd be interested in finding out, since people start to get a little
annoyed when their one-page Microsoft Word files take 15 minutes to
print.
Thanks in advance,
-Greg
Greg Brail
ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 21:41:33 gmt
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Macintalk problems
I took my usual version of Macintalk and put it on a shiny new IIx
running System B1-6.0.2. I ran a couple of talking applications,
including HyperMacintalk, and boom! The application "unexpectedly quit (1)".
Very helpful.
Any suggestions? Is there a later version of Macintalk? (My version doesn't
show a version number in the Get Info box.)
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Date: Sun 5 Feb 89 15:23:12-EST
From: Bill Starbuck <BSTARBUCK@vx1.gba.nyu.edu>
Subject: Macintosh users
MacWeek and Macintosh Business Review recently published
lists of large-scale users of Macintoshs.
The following organizations have policies of using 100%
Macs:
General Electric (6000-10000)
Seafirst (2900)
Northern Telecom at Research Triangle (2830)
General Dynamics (2500)
Dartmouth College (2080)
Electronic Data Systems (1380)
Drake University (1250)
Boeing Aircraft (>1000)
Ford Aerospace Western Lab (900)
BBN Communications (900)
Naval Research Lab (650)
Martin Marietta - Oak Ridge (600)
Alcoa (550)
Bell Communications Research (500)
Polaroid (500)
Less than 500: Domino's Pizza, Armco, Bechtel Group, Amoco,
Grumman Aerospace, Deere, Hambrecht & Quist
Macs comprise more than half of the pcs in the following
organizations:
DuPont (9000)
Motorola (>6000)
University of Michigan (6000)
Peat Marwick ((5500-6000)
Hughes Aircraft (5000-7800)
Martin Marietta (5300)
Eastman Kodak (>5000)
US Sprint (4500)
Arthur Young (4000)
Northern Telecom (4000)
TRW (>3500)
University of Texas - Austin (3500)
GTE (3450)
Tektronix (3150)
Lawrence Livermore Lab (2600)
University of Chicago (2000)
Adaptive Control Systems (2000)
AlphaGraphics (1800)
Federal Express (1550)
Lockheed Missles (1500)
Virginia Polytech (1500)
Planning Research (1300)
ARCO (1200)
University of Missouri (1200)
Brown University (1200)
Drexel University (1100)
Citicorp (>1000)
Texas A&M (1000)
Eli Lilly (1000)
MIT (1000)
Pacific Bell (1000)
Union Carbide (1500)
University of Pennsylvania (1000)
Jet Propulsion Lab (1000)
Colgate University (1000)
Ohio State University (1000)
Aetna Insurance (1000)
NASA - Edwards (900)
Bolt Beranek & Newman (900)
McDonnell Douglas (850)
Mitre (800)
University of Hawaii (800)
University of Tennessee (800)
Nynex (800)
University of Wisconsin (750)
Bank of America (700)
Massachusetts Mutual Life (750)
University of California - Santa Barbara (700)
Chevron (600-700)
3M (500-700)
Princeton University (650)
SRI International (>600)
Northrop (600)
US Dept. of Energy - Richland, WA (600)
Arco Alaska (600)
Rockwell International (500-600)
Raytheon (550)
AT&T Bell Labs (>500)
BBD&O (500)
Control Data (500)
GcGraw-Hill (500)
University of Delaware (500)
Southern California Edison (500)
National Institutes of Health (500)
Army Materiel - Ft. Monmouth (500)
SCI Applications (500)
General Motors has more than 5000, but the percentage is
unknown.
≠
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:15:13 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: McSink 6.5 DA
This is version 6.5 of the shareware McSink text editing DA. This version
adds no new features, but fixes some of the problems with the last release
(6.2a). Also changed is the price to upgrade to Vantage, the commercial version
of McSink, which has a number of other goodies (spelling checker, reads
MacWrite/WriteNow files, macros, external commands, and more).
[Archived as /info-mac/da/mcsink-65.hqx; 85K]
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 13:52 EST
From: <GILBERTD%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MyPageSet.Hqx
MyPageSet for the Macintosh will make your preferences
for "Page Setup" of your printer the default choices.
A useful choice if you use an ImageWriter and a Laserwriter
is to make the Imagewriter "Tall Adjusted" option the
default. Then pagewidths for both printers will be
similar, any you won't need to reformat documents when
switching. Another use of MyPageSet is to set the default
to the type of paper you normally stock in your printer.
One caveat: MyPageSet modifies a system resource in your
current printer device driver (the file "ImageWriter" or
"LaserWriter", the one you pick with "Chooser") when you click
okay on the dialog (nothing is changed if you click cancel).
Make sure you keep an unmodified original, and note that this
will probably set off the gongs on your virus prevention
software.
Don Gilbert
dogStar Software Bitnet: GilbertD@IUBACS
[Archived as /info-mac/util/my-page-set.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:24:54 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Programmer's Key 1.1B3
Here is version 1.1B3 of Paul Mercer's Programmer's Key INIT. For those who
use Apple Desktop Bus keyboards, Programmer's Key lets you interrupt or reset
your Mac without using the switch on the side; it works in conjunction with
the "Triangle" key, or the power-on key for Mac II users. Pressing Command-
Triangle generates an interrupt, while Command-Shift-Triangle resets your
computer. Useful for those, like me, whose reset switches have long ago
broken off their Mac (if you lug it around a lot this happens easily. Just
try going to your dealer and ordering a new switch!).
[Archived as /info-mac/init/programmers-key-11b3.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:00:05 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Repair 1.4
This is Steve Brecher's Repair application, version 1.4. Repair disinfects
applications that have been infected with the nVIR and/or Hpat virus.
Version 1.4 repairs all nVIR variants.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/repair-14.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:17:40 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Staircase 1.0.3 cdev
Here is version 1.0.3 of the Staircase cdev (Control Panel device) by
Eccentric Software. Staircase allows you to select menus and menu items from
the keyboard, similar to the "WalkDown Menus(tm)" feature of FullWrite
Professional. Place the cdev into your System Folder and restart to activate.
Version 1.0.3 fixes problems with some applications, such as QUED/M.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/staircase-103.hqx; 27K]
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 89 10:58:35 -0500 (EST)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Update with my MAC/SE booting problem
Jose,
Trying resetting your parameter ram, I believe you do this by holding down
the command, option, and shift key and picking the control panel.. Remember to
reset set the options you had in the control panel, since they will be set to
their defaults. The only other thing I can think of is to but a clean system
and finder on the hard disk.
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 14:52:05 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Virus RX 1.4a2
This posting includes a BinHexed StuffIt archive containing version 1.4a2 of
Apple's Virus RX application. Virus RX will scan your disks for infections
by all of the known Mac viruses - nVIR, Scores, Hpat, INIT 29. This version
no longer reports all present INITs, or files dated in the future. It now has
options to automatically scan inserted floppies, and a few other improvements.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-rx-14a2.hqx; 68K]
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 6 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 26
Today's Topics:
Brainchild Grade
dCAD Calculator DA 3.9
Desktop Manager Fix
FullWrite Diddler 1.2
Mac-based BBS
MacSpeed
N-Font 1.1
PictDisplay DA
SetClock 1.8.1
ShowCINIT
Slow text in PowerPoint while in color mode
Soft- and hardware for the visually impaired
SuperClock 3.1 cdev
System Error Table DA 2.0
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Sun, 05 Feb 89 22:55:13 -0900
From: Hans <FTHAH%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Brainchild Grade
Brainchild Grade is no longer carried by Kinko's. Apparently many users
have had problems with the program and it does not live up to the same
standards as the rest of the academic courseware that Kinko's carries.
I would suggest seeking an alternative program.
- Hans Hazelton
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:57:50 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: dCAD Calculator DA 3.9
This is version 3.9 of Desktop CAD's scientific and programmer's calculator
DA. Many bug fixes, plus improved keypad support which should cover all
machines.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/dcad-calculator-39.hqx; 46K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:38:04 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Desktop Manager Fix
This is the Desktop Manager fix, by Harry Starr. This program patches Finder
6.1 to work better with the "Desktop Manager" INIT. The Desktop Manager is
a Startup document (INIT resource) that comes with AppleShare and is used by
the AppleShare server to manage it's desktop. It is possible to use the
Desktop Manager on a stand-alone Mac to improve Finder performance in
managing the desktop file, and to get around the problems the Finder has
with large desktop files containing many resources. One of the few drawbacks
to the Desktop Manager scheme is that it leaves its files (Desktop DB and
Desktop DF) open all of the time; this means that you cannot unmount hard disks
when you use the Desktop Manager (it has no effect on floppies). This patch
allows the Finder to close the open files and dismount volumes. I have been
using this patch for over two months now with no problems whatsoever.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/desktop-manager-fix.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:42:13 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: FullWrite Diddler 1.2
This is the FullWrite Diddler version 1.2 by Fred Reed. FWP Diddler is an
INIT resource (startup document) that is activated by placing it in your
System Folder and restarting your Mac. FWP Diddler patches FullWrite so that
utilities which use pop-up or altered menus will work correctly in FullWrite.
This includes On Cue and HierDA. This does not affect the functionality of
FullWrite in any way.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/fullwrite-diddler-12.hqx; 4K]
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Date: 6 Feb 89 09:39 EST
From: rrenfro%tofacsa@dtrc.arpa (Richard Renfro)
Subject: Mac-based BBS
We are looking into setting up a bulletin board on a Mac with a large
disk. The main use would be as a mail drop and central document
library for various project teams. Access would initially be via 2400
baud modem and 9600 baud hard wire from another computer/LAN.
If possible, would also like to incorporate into existing AppleTalk
TOPS multi-zone network. Users would communicate from their
IBMs, Macs, or other minis.
Desired features:
-Password security, with multiple access levels
-File transfer: Xmodem, Ymodem, Kermit, and whatever
else is currently popular
-Unattended operation, remote Sysop control
-High reliability
-Compatibility - Must be able to transfer and store complete
Mac documents without going through BinHex; must
work with IBMs
-User-friendly
I know about Red Ryder Host and have a two-year old version of it.
I'm wondering if a new version exists and whether it will do more
along the lines mentioned above.
What other BBS packages are available, how well do they work, what
are the costs and hardware requirements, etc?
Will summarize if sufficient information and interest.
InterNet: rrenfro@dtrc.arpa
Genie: r.renfro
Phone: 301/227-3329
David Taylor Research Center
Bethesda, MD 20084-5000
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 19:07:03 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: MacSpeed
MacSpeed 1.0 by Scott Berfield. Shareware program to benchmark your Macintosh in
disk I/O, graphics, and calculation.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/macspeed-10.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:50:15 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: N-Font 1.1
Here is N-Font 1.1, a freeware application from Olduvai Software that lets
you convert from the old-style FONT resource to the new NFNT resources.
To use NFNT's, you need Font/DA Mover 3.8 or later and a 128K ROM (or later)
machine.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/nfont-11.hqx; 45K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:45:45 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: PictDisplay DA
Here is the PictDisplay DA, a shareware DA by Neal Trautman. It lets you paste
in up to 10 PICT resources and will display them. This could be useful in doing
on-line help, for example.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/pictdisplay.hqx; 8K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:32:44 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: SetClock 1.8.1
Here is version 1.8.1 of Set Clock, by Jim Leitch. Set Clock uses your modem
to call up an atomic clock and set your Mac's clock to the exact time, for
those of you who like to be precise...
[Archived as /info-mac/util/setclock-181.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:54:43 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: ShowCINIT
ShowCINIT - Written by Joseph Sternlicht and Andrew Diaz - $1 Shareware
ShowCInit is a precompiled INIT which displays color or black&white icons
on the desktop at startup. It is fully compatible with ShowInit (or "Thanks
Paul") and the Mac family (with the possible exception of those with 64K ROMs).
It also provides seven additional features:
1. It will wrap icons when they reach the end of the screen (starting one
row up and to the left).
2. It facilitates the animation of color or black&white icons.
3. It facilitates drawing multiple color or black&white icons.
4. It provides an option to play a 'snd '.
5. It provides an option to sysbeep the user.
6. It doesn't have to be compiled because it already is, and gets its
information from a resource.(for which we include a ResEdit template)
7. And it provides an option to loop through your animation until the
mouse button is pressed. (handy for alerting the user, also SysBeeps each time
if sysbeep option is set)
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/showcinit.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 10:47:04 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Slow text in PowerPoint while in color mode
I have the following problem:
I am running PowerPoint 2.0A on a MacII with SuitCase II, System 6.02
and a SuperMac color monitor (8 bitplanes).
When writing text in full color mode, text updating on the monitor is
abysmally slow, it does not even pretend to try to keep up with my
hunt-and-peck speed (THAT's slow!).
On the other hand, when I change to black and white mode, things move
along breezingly, with monitor updates as fast as I can type arbitrary
nonsense (which is pretty fast). This problem only occurs while using
PowerPoint, other applications seem to behave well.
Any pointers to what causes the problem or (even better) how to avoid
it without changig to B/W ewvery time I use PowerPoint?
In appreciation of any help,
Sigurd Meldal
Hard mail:
Department of Informatics | Arpa:sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no
Allegt. 55 |
N - 5007 Bergen | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
Norway | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!meldal
phone: +47 5 21 27 10
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 12:47:05 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Soft- and hardware for the visually impaired
A blind sudent is enrolled at our department, and we would like to
give him facilities for the efficient continuation of his studies. We
would appreciate pointers to hard- and software enabling him to
easily access and generate data stored in ascii form, in particular we
are interested in output units that can be used to generate Braille.
A Macintosh platform is not a necessary prerequisite.
There are rumors to the effect that there exist versions of the
LaserWriter that print thickly enough that Braille can be printed
and read. I do not know whether this is an effect of the print engine
of this laserwriter, or of some particular toner.
Responses to me will be summarized for the Info-Mac newsgroup.
Sigurd Meldal
Hard mail:
Department of Informatics | Arpa:sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no
Allegt. 55 | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
N - 5007 Bergen | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!meldal
Norway |
phone: +47 5 21 27 10
fax: +47 5 21 28 57
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:30:48 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: SuperClock 3.1 cdev
Here is version 3.1 of the SuperClock cdev (Control Panel device). After
putting it in your System Folder and restarting your Mac, you should have
a miniature clock in your menu bar. SuperClock is configurable so that you
can:
o display the time with or without seconds
o display the time with or without AM/PM appended to it
o have it move over for OnCue or Easy Access, or disappear when menus that
are too long would overwrite it
o works with Stepping Out
o works with screensavers
o hides when HyperCard hides the menu bar
o works in multi-color levels on the Mac II
o lets you display the time in any installed font and point size
o includes alarm and timer functions
SuperClock is freeware from Steve Christiansen.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/superclock-31.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Sun, 5 Feb 89 15:43:47 CST
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: System Error Table DA 2.0
Here is the System Errors DA version 2.0 by Bill Steinberg. It presents you
with a scrolling list of all system-related Mac errors, along with a brief
description of what the error means.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/system-errors-20.hqx; 22K]
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∂07-Feb-89 0959 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: terminal emulator
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Subject: Re: terminal emulator
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MacKermit version .99(40) is good and free. (Kermit means free in Celtic.
This is not Kermit the frog) There is also a good terminal emulator
program on the freeware disk with the recent BMUG newsletter (miniterm).
-j
∂07-Feb-89 1002 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu No Mac developers this Weds, its Feb 22 instead.
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Subject: No Mac developers this Weds, its Feb 22 instead.
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This Wednesday there will be no Stanford Macintosh Developer's meeting.
It seems it is difficult to coax any of those "evangelists" out to speak
for Ash Wednesday. :)
The rest of Lent seems to be well outfitted. On Wednesday, Feb 22↑nd,
Adam Paal from the HyperCard development group will come. I have been
talking with him about how to write an animation XCMD. He will speak
and answer questions about HyperCard programming.
For March, maybe the MacApp folks will return. There are also slated,
talks on Display Postscript and ClassKit, a third party C class library
for Macintosh applications. Details will follow.
----
Other speakers:
Next Tuesday Feb 14↑th the SEF Mac Sig will have Allain Rappaport of
Neuron Data speaking about their product's Expert system runtime library.
They meet in Apple's cafeteria, in Cupertino. Don't forget their MacApp
class on Feb 25↑th also. For details on both call 415/854-7219.
-johnmark
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Has anyone an Mac II Apple video card to sell? With both a bw and color
monitor its nice to be able to run them both. Sigh, there must be alot more
people with two monitors and one card than the other way around. -johnmark
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 7 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 27
Today's Topics:
Appletalk to Ethernet
Info-Mac Digest V7 #25 (2 msgs)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #26
Macintosh Drafting Packages
mpw 3.0/macapp 2.0b5 problems
New Macintosh Virus
OmniPage and TextPert
Plea for help
Published Mac users from MacWeek
Question about, and Report on, MEdit Editor Program
Text/PICT or DRAW conversion?
TextPert/OmniPage
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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 89 08:54:27 EST
From: Adriene Nazaretian <ADRIENE@YALEADS>
Subject: Appletalk to Ethernet
AT YALE UNIV. WE ARE CURRENTLY NETWORKING THE BIOLOGY TOWER.
WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THERE IS A VERY TALL BUILDING (14 FLOORS)
AND MOST OF THE FLOORS HAVE SMALL 5-10 NODE APPLETALK NETWORKS WITH
PHONENET CONNECTORS. MOSTLY MACS WITH A FEW IBM'S
OUR GOAL IS TO INTERCONNECT THE FLOORS TO AN ETHERNET SPINE THAT RUNS
THE LENGTH OF THE BUILDING (AND EVENTUALLY TO THE CAMPUS SPINE)
WE KNOW OF THE GATORBOX WHICH WILL GO APPLETALK TO ETHERNET...
ARE THERE ANY PRODUCTS OR OBVIOUS ANSWERS WE HAVE MISSED?
Thanks in advance ...
RESPONSES CAN GO TO THE LIST OR TO ME PERSONALLY (ADRIENE@YALEADS)
ADRIENE NAZARETIAN - YALE UNIVERSITY M.I.S
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 12:47 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #25
This is in response to the questions From: John Sutcliffe <9663SUTC@MUCSD.BITNET
> RE: OCR software for the MAC:
There is a very thorough comparison of available OCR packages for the Mac on the
current issue of MacWorld. It covers non-trainable, trainable, and automatic
programs, including TextPert and OmniPage.
Also, I agree on the 1 year warranty from Apple: users should demand it (there
is a nat'l conference of Apple users groups coming up in Indianapolis, March 31
to April 2: it could be an appropriate forum to voice these concerns).
Sandro Corsi
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 14:25:28 PST
From: unet!unet!aschool@sun.com (Adam Schoolsky)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #25
Please post this in the next Info_mac Digest please.
1) Does anyone have any input as to how much memory one would (should) want
to have when running A/UX and later UNIX on a Mac IIX?
2) I am looking into the purchase of a hard disk drive for me SE. I am
thinking about:
a. The 45 mb removable from *LaCie*. Any comments about their
service/support?
b. Or a 100 mb internal from *Conner*. Any comments about their
service/support? I understand they have a 5 yr. warranty, and I want to
purchase from someone that will offer excellent after the sale support.
c. Comments on other drives that seem to be reliable, or when they
weren't, how was the service?
Please reply via the net to :
Adam Schoolsky (ames,oliveb,pacbell,sun)!unet!aschool
Fone: 415-780-5773
and/or post your comments in the digest. Thanks.
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 23:31 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #26
This is in reply to the request for help with Braille otput. Well, it hadn't
occurred to me before, but the printouts from our laser printer sure can give
a lot of tactile feedback. Ours is an AST Turbolaser/PS, built around the Ricoh
4081 engine. We just use the standard toner recommended for this particular
model. I understand that its unusually thick application of toner is due to the
use of "write white" technology. Anyway, we bought it for its wonderfully deep
solid blacks, but it might also be useful for its bas-relief-like qualities.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 21:25:12 EST
From: bse@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Brian Eberman)
Subject: Macintosh Drafting Packages
I was wondering if anyone had the names of any good mechanical CAD
packages for the mac besides Macdraft.
Brian
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Date: 7 Feb 89 10:19 EST
From: DIXON WALTER V <DIXON@ge-crd.arpa>
Subject: mpw 3.0/macapp 2.0b5 problems
Hello,
I just purchased MPW 3.0 and MacApp 2.0B5 updates for my system at home
and exprienced a number of problems in installing this software and
building the sample MacApp applications. None of these problems have been
hard to fix (so far), but I was wondering if other people had similar
experiences.
I believe that I have read and followed the installation instructions,
but I don't rule out the possibility that I might have missed something.
Listed below are the problems I have run into so far.
(1) The installer script immediately fails because it can't
find a file.
(2) MacApp won't compile. One module has two functions which
are not typed at all, and another module incorrectly (?)
references an intermediate function value from within the
function, ie.
FUNCTION foo(VAR x:integer): integer;
BEGIN
foo := 1;
if(foo = 1) THEN ...
(3) The first two sample MacApp programs (calc and cards) fail
to build because of problems in a ".r" file. (I haven't
tracked down the cause of these errors, but I suspect that
they will not be hard to find.
Most of the problems were with MacApp. Admittedly, this is beta software;
however I don't think it unreasonable to insist that the software install
without error and the sample programs build correctly. I expect that
a vendor try his installation procedures before shipping them.
Please reply to me directly and I will summarize for the net. If other
people have seen similar problems, I will forward a list to Apple as
well.
Walt Dixon {ARPA: dixon@ge-crd.arpa }
{US Mail: ge crd }
{ po box 8 }
{ schenectady, ny 12345 }
{Phone: 518-387-5798 }
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Date: 7 Feb 89 15:29:46 GMT
From: hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert J. Hammen)
Subject: New Macintosh Virus
This is some info on a new Mac virus. This article was originally posted on
CompuServe, and reposted on Delphi by Robert Wiggins:
Reposted message at the request of the author, Thierry DeLettre: Until
now, all known Macintosh viruses could be easily detected by the additional
resources they created. Now, it's over... There is at least one virus that
creates no additionnal resource. This virus is called ANTI, and infects only
applications (and other files, ID=1 resource. It inserts a JSR at the
beginning of the resource and all the virus code at the end. It seems to be
very recent, but we have already found infected Macintoshes in Paris and
Marseilles, and it is probably making its way fast across all Europe. This
virus is _not_ detected by VirusDetective or other utilities. It installs
itself even when Vaccine is on. Vaccine beeps only if the 'Always compile MPW
Inits' is _not_ checked. Virus Rx does not detect ANTI's presence in other
files, but, when infected itself, changes its name to 'Throw me in the
trash'. It doesn't seem to infect all applications, but only some (the ones
with a CODE 1 resource called 'Main'). We haven't found how it works yet.
It doesn't seem to change the System file, which doesn't contain a CODE
resource. The contagion seems to be spread by the Finder. To see if an
application is infected, you have to open its CODE ID=1 resource with ResEdit
and search for the ASCII string 'ANTI'. You can also use the advanced
features (resource fork search) of GOfer. We haven't yet found the way to
remove it, but only a way to deactivate it by changing the first words of the
virus code to a RTS. There is a strange story about this virus. Two years
ago, Apple France's developper's support manager, Alain Andrieux, wrote a
utility for his own use called 'Stamp', with which he marked the programs he
gave to developpers. If a confidential program was given out, he could easily
know where it came from. His program added a CODE resource to the marked
files, but did _not_ change anything in the CODE 1 resource. In January 89,
a 'new' version of this program (Stamp 1.0b5) began to spread in the French
Mac community. When run, this program installs the 'ANTI' virus into the marked
or checked applications and/or into the Finder. These infected applications
and Finders then become contagious themselves. It seems the virus author
stole the source code of this program, changed it into a virus installer,
then gave it away. Obviously, inserting a virus installer in an Apple program
was done to damage Apple France's reputation... Thierry D, Chief Mac Sysop,
Calvacom . P.S. A copy of the virus has been sent to Jeffrey Shulman and
Robert Woodhead, so that they can update their anti-viruses consequently. .
P.P.S. I don't have access to other major American on-line services, so
please upload the above information where you can. Thierry can be reached
via CompuServe at 76670,2260.
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 09:11:21 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: OmniPage and TextPert
John Sutcliffe asks about OmniPage and TextPert.
We have a full-blown working copy of OmniPage, and a demo of TextPert (we
have a full version on order). The major difference is that OmniPage can not
be taught new typestyles, while TexPert can. Additionally, TextPert has just
announced that their software will recognize *** any *** indo-european
language. I have also heard of people teaching it Kanji and other languages
(we are interested in trying to teach it russian).
We run the software on a Mac II with 8 Mb of RAM and a 40 Mb hard disk.
OmniPage needs at least 4 Mb to run (preferably on a Mac II). TextPert
will run on any Mac with at least 1 Mb of RAM.
Hope this helps.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 89 21:46:02 CST
From: Jeff E Mandel MD MS <AS01MEF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Plea for help
I run a small departmental network of 10 Macs connected via LocalTalk to a
KineticsFastPath 4, which connects to a MicroVAX II via a short run of
thin net to a DEQNA. I runVMS 4.7 and AlisaShare as a fileserver. I also
have a 2400 baud modem on my DHV-11board, and a DataSpace TeleNode
with a Telebit Trailblazer Plus connected to LocalTalk.Our only easy access
to the Internet is via the university mainframe, an IBM 3081 KX running
VM/CMS, and which runs (as of today) the IBM TCP/IP connection
package, which connects via Ethernet to several Suns, a Unix and a VMS
VAX, and a room full of Mac IIs. The mainframe is physically located on
the main campus, some 5 miles away, and I have an asynchronous 9600
baud line which operates over a multiplexor/T1 connection to a Gandalf
PACX, and then into the mainframe via an IBM 7171 protocol converter. I
would dearly love to be able to do the following:
1) Never again have to log in to the mainframe to read or send mail.
2) Be able to FTP Mac files directly from my Mac II to other sites on the
Internet.
The personnel at the computer center are only interested in solving this
problem for me within the context of "the next five year plan", which
commences in 1990. The are specifically disinterested in SLIP, and are only
willing to support an Ethernet link between the campuses if I purchase it
myself (well, I guess I could sell the VAX). I do not have a full routing
DECnet license, nor do I have TCP/IP on my VAX. While I am reasonably
adept with the VAX, I do not feel I am capable of bringing up CMU's
TCP/IP, as better men than I have demurred from trying it. I am willing to
put some money into it, but only if the chances for success are reasonable
(i.e. it works somewhere else in the world much of the time)
Does anyone out there have any ideas? Specifically, does anyone have
experience with:
1) Appletalk serial bridges over multiplexors.
2) SLIP access to internet via a Sun.
3) SLIP for IBM mainframes.
4) Mail routing from Internet to Mac mail packages such as QuickMail, MS
Mail, etc.
Thank you in advance
Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Department of Anesthesia
Tulane University School of Medicine
1415 Tulane Ave
New Orleans, LA 70112
AS01MEF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 11:43 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Published Mac users from MacWeek
I'm replying to the recent posting of figures taken from a recent MacWeek
article on numbers and percentages of Macs at various institutions.
These figures are probably not very reliable at all. Colgate University has no
where near 1000 Mac (Oh, I wish, I wish) and we don't come close to 50% Mac
usage (more like a piddlin' 10%). I was very surprised to see these figures
when they first came out, and realized any or all of the other sites listed
could be equally mis-represented. (I'm still hoping that the figures are
predictive... at least for Colgate!).
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 89 13:06 EST
From: <TEMPLON%IUCF.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Question about, and Report on, MEdit Editor Program
Here is a submission which you may find best split into two parts.
The first is a request for help with the editor program MEdit. The
second is a report I sent to the local user's group; I thought I may as
well send it along with the request for help.
The request concerns the difference between 1) left-arrow and
shift-5, 2) right-arrow and shift-=, 3) down-arrow and shift-9, and 4)
up-arrow and shift-7. On a Mac SE standard (non-extended) keyboard,
these keys generate identical "keycodes" reported from the KeyCode desk
accessory which comes with the MEdit package. Sure enough, if I define
a macro and bind it to the keycode (224) reported for right-arrow, it
does not get executed when right-arrow is pressed. It does get executed
when shift-= (+) is pressed!
So how do I get the correct keycodes for the arrow keys? I know
there must be a way to tell them apart, or else KeyCaps wouldn't be able
to distinguish between them (it can.) I might also add that the right,
left, etc. arrows DO move the cursor around in MEdit, I just can't bind
a macro to them.
Anyone have a solution? Seems I remember a discussion about a
similar problem on this list, but I can't remember the details.
***********
Report on editor program MEdit
This is a report on an editor I received from MACSERVE@PUCC called
MEdit. The program is shareware, $25 U.S. The distribution file is a
Packit archive containing the program, a quite thorough manual, several
related macro files, a macro compiler program, and a Desk Accessory used
when binding the macros to specific keys on the keyboard (see below.)
What distinguishes this editor from programs such as MiniWriter,
McSink, etc. is the macro facility. The bare-bones editor works quite
like one of the previously mentioned programs; there is an accompanying
macro language that allows the editor to be extended to a large degree
in whatever manner the user wishes. Some of the things that one can do
within the macro language:
* cut, copy, paste, clear - in the standard Macintosh manner
* search for strings
* prompt the user for input
* select text based on file position (row,column) input
* scroll to an arbitrary file position
* ability to CALL other macros within a macro
* control structures WHILE, IF-THEN-ELSE
As an example of what one can do using these constructs, I will
point out that I am typing this report with MEdit in a fairly complete
VMS EDT environment. One of the files included with MEdit is a set of
editing tools for Pascal - macros which insert PROCEDURE, CASE, etc.
templates into the file being edited. Here is an example from that
macro file:
---------------------------------
* 7 * insert a PROCEDURE template "PROCEDURE" {
Push;
Insert("PROCEDURE {.ProcName.} ({.Parameters.});\n");
Insert("CONST\n\t{.Constants.};\n\T\n");
Insert("TYPE\n\t{.Types.};\n\T\n");
Insert("VAR\n\t{.Variables.};\n\T\n");
Insert("BEGIN\n\t{.Statement.};\n\TEND;");
Call(13); };
---------------------------------
This next section is what gets inserted into the text by invoking the
macro:
---------------------------------
PROCEDURE {.ProcName.} ({.Parameters.}); CONST
{.Constants.};
TYPE
{.Types.};
VAR
{.Variables.};
BEGIN
{.Statement.}; END;
---------------------------------
Macros can be invoked in several ways. The first is by being
installed in the program's "Macros" pull-down menu. Second is by being
installed as a command-key equivalent. Third is by being assigned to a
specific key on the keyboard (this includes option-key and shift-key
modifiers) through the use of the keycode desk accessory, which tells
you the code associated with any typed key. This latter technique is
how the EDT keypad was set up.
Problems I found with MEdit:
1) It does not seem to work completely with the SE. I don't know if
this is due to system 6.0 or due to the SE keyboard differing from
earlier versions.
2) The search command is case sensitive always; no way to swap to a
non-case-sensitive search.
3) Some of the standard interface functions are missing (e.g.
propeller-Q is not the Quit shortcut, shift-arrow does not extend a
selection in the arrow's direction,...) This is not too serious a
complaint as one can use the macros to put it in yourself.
This concludes the report on the editor MEdit. It can be acquired
>From MACSERVE@PUCC (VAX BITNET users) by sending the command
SEND MACSERVE@PUCC GET UTILITY-MEDIT-15.HQX
SEND MACSERVE@PUCC GET UTILITY-MEDIT-EDT.MACRO (for the EDT emulator)
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 09:47:13 PST
From: POTHIERS%TUVA.SAINET.MFENET@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Text/PICT or DRAW conversion?
Anyone know of a program that can convert some text representation of
objects to PICT or MacDRAW format?
I'm really looking for a easy to implement method for non-Mac applications
to build a MacDraw document. The non-Mac applications will only need to
manipulate a handful of simple objects.
Please respond to me directly, if possible, at:
pothiers%tuva.sainet@nmfecc.arpa
Thanks in advance.
Pothier
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 10:44 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TextPert/OmniPage
I am currently evaluating both TextPert and OmniPage with an Apple Scanner. I
have not had time yet to do a thorough comparison, and when I have I will post
it to this BBS.
My first impressions are:
Omnipage is good, but not infallible, at recognizing blocks of text as separate
>From one another. I tested it on a portion of the front page of MacWeek and it
did very well at isolating text blocks and graphics blocks. It has a
nice preview mode which allows you to define the area for OCR by dragging
a selection rectangle around a block of your scanned image.
TextPert is trainable, and I found, initially, that it is very easy to train,
and it "learns" fast.
I'll be posting a complete comparison as soon as I can get it done (2-3weeks).
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 8 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 28
Today's Topics:
Accelerators for Mac II
AppleLink/BITNET gateway
Arrows in Canvas 2
CKMKER.SET inquiry for Mac Kermit
fonts
Info-Mac Digest V7 #26
Info-Mac Digest V7 #27 (2 msgs)
keystrokes and options (as promised)
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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 89 13:56:34 CST
From: Paul Fons <FONS@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Accelerators for Mac II
One of our visiting researchers here at the university has a Mac II and
wishes to accelerate his Mac II as much as possible. He is doing numerical
work (solid-state monte carlo Molecular Dynamics -- if you really want
to know). Yes we are already using the Cray-2 here at the university for
the brunt of the research, but his company is willing to spend a large
amount of money (if justifiable) on upgrading the Mac to allow it to do
smaller scale calculations. I was wondering if anyone knew more about
the 88000 motorola cpu board from Tektronics. How fast is it? Is there
a fortran or a C compiler for it? Does it have adequate memory cacheing?
Any other information on accelerators -- DMA boards etc. would be nice to
know about. Thanks for any help.
Paul Fons
University of Illinois
Coordinated Science Lab FONS@UIUCVMD.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 10:50 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleLink/BITNET gateway
Someone asked about the gateway between AppleLink and BITNET. Here's how to do
it.
Address your BITNET mail to
XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET
in the SUBJECT field put the AppleLink address such as
U0523
If you want a short subject separate it from the applelink address by an
exclamation point "!" such as
U0523!Testing the gateway.
All AppleLink users received several mailings explaining how to send messages
back to a BITNET user, so I won't cover that here.
AppleLink is a relatively expensive system, so most users who have access to
other nets use them. (I check ALink only once a week, whereas I'm always
logged on to my VAX account - while at work.) On the flip side, you can send
messages to people in Apple, people at places like MicroSoft, and dealers and
developers who don't have mainframe network access.
Keep in mind also that BITNET is limited to non-commercial traffic, and
AppleLink is not.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 89 12:16:52 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Arrows in Canvas 2
Can anybody tell me whether the arrows in Canvas vers. 2 have improved
compared to vers. 1 ?
I have been especially upset about the ugly arrowheads when used with
heavy linewidths but except from this problem I like Canvas and
might be inclined to upgrade to vers. 2 to make it my primary graphics
program (currently I use about 4-5 different graphics programs, depending
on the figure I want to make).
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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 89 14:56:00 EST
From: DAVID%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: CKMKER.SET inquiry for Mac Kermit
Recently, I downloaded CKMKER SET (from a KERMIT server)
to a MacIntosh II, and used BINHEX4 to
successfully create a file called "Mac Plus Keyboard Map", which appears
to be a document of some kind.
I tried to read the document (using WORD) but failed.
Since I have already created the Settings File appropriate for IBM
CMS/VM work, I thought I could get hints about improving that set of
settings from CKMKER.SET, but to no avail.
Can you help me understand what CKMKER.SET is?
Thanks,
Carl W. David (BITNET->DAVID @ UCONNVM)
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 15:52 CST
From: <HAMMETT@AUDUCVAX>
Subject: fonts
I am looking for either a Russian language font or a font editor. I
tried to use the font editor from the info-mac dir at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.,
but I can't get it to run. I downloaded to our VAX and then to our Mac+(with
hard drive), then un-bin-hexed it. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing
wrong, or where I can get another editor or a Russian font I would greatly
appreciate it, either on the list or to my bitnet address, below.
Thanks,
Richard Hammett
<HAMMETT@DUCVAX>
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 12:32:49 pst
From: amdcad!weitek!dms!petrick@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #26
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> the AppleShare server to manage it's desktop. It is possible to use the
> Desktop Manager on a stand-alone Mac to improve Finder performance in
> managing the desktop file, and to get around the problems the Finder has
> with large desktop files containing many resources. One of the few drawbacks
Can you send me info on how to do this? I've only recently upgraded
to the newer system and didn't get any info on what various new stuff
does.
Thanks,
-- jim
---
-- jim petrick
petrick@dms.UUCP
...ames!amdahl!pyramid!weitek!dms!petrick
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 16:50:52 mst
From: rrw%naucse.UUCP@arizona.edu (Robert Wier)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #27
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> John Sutcliffe asks about OmniPage and TextPert.
>
> We have a full-blown working copy of OmniPage, and a demo of TextPert (we
> have a full version on order). The major difference is that OmniPage can not
> be taught new typestyles, while TexPert can. Additionally, TextPert has just
> announced that their software will recognize *** any *** indo-european
> language. I have also heard of people teaching it Kanji and other languages
> (we are interested in trying to teach it russian).
>
> We run the software on a Mac II with 8 Mb of RAM and a 40 Mb hard disk.
> OmniPage needs at least 4 Mb to run (preferably on a Mac II). TextPert
> will run on any Mac with at least 1 Mb of RAM.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
Bret -
Your note on OmniPage vs TextPert somewhat caught me by suprise.
We have bought an Apple Scanner, and were thinking about buying
a MacII JUST to run Omni-Page. I've seen an Omni-Page demo tape
and they made a big deal out of the auto-font learning feature,
which was promoted as being a desirable feature since you didnt
HAVE to teach it new fonts - it taught itself.
We had also been thinking of running READ-IT (havn't seen a demo
of that yet). I has also heard of TextPert, but also heard that
it was in the range of $2 kilobucks or so, putting it out of our
reach.
I'd be quite interested in any other comments you might care to
pass along.
Many thanks -
-Bob Wier at Flagstaff, Arizona Northern Arizona University
...arizona!naucse!rrw | BITNET: WIER@NAUVAX | *usual disclaimers*
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 16:56:26 mst
From: rrw%naucse.UUCP@arizona.edu (Robert Wier)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #27
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> I am currently evaluating both TextPert and OmniPage with an Apple Scanner. I
> have not had time yet to do a thorough comparison, and when I have I will post
> it to this BBS.
>
> My first impressions are:
>
> Omnipage is good, but not infallible, at recognizing blocks of text as separate
>>From one another. I tested it on a portion of the front page of MacWeek and it
> did very well at isolating text blocks and graphics blocks. It has a
> nice preview mode which allows you to define the area for OCR by dragging
> a selection rectangle around a block of your scanned image.
>
> TextPert is trainable, and I found, initially, that it is very easy to train,
> and it "learns" fast.
>
> I'll be posting a complete comparison as soon as I can get it done (2-3weeks).
>
> Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
> Computer Center Colgate University
> BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
> APPLELINK U0523
> CompuServe 74010,1353
> Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
>
Peter - I am QUITE interested in your comparison of Omni-Page
vs TextPert, since our department just bought an Apple Scanner,
and is considering buying another MAC II JUST to run Omni-Page
software. I had heard of TextPert, but have been able to get
no definitive information on it. I have heard that it a)
will run on any Mac with 1meg+ of memory and b) it is priced
in the $2 kilobuck range. Are either of these true (both?).
If TP will run on a regular Mac, is the performance acceptable?
I think I will recommend holding off on any hardware purchases
(and software, for that matter) until things get resolved a bit
better.
again, I'm VERY interested in your comments....
thanks for posting
-Bob Wier at Flagstaff, Arizona Northern Arizona University
...arizona!naucse!rrw | BITNET: WIER@NAUVAX | *usual disclaimers*
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 89 15:16 GMT
From: Ed de Moel <DEMOEL%HUTRUU51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: keystrokes and options (as promised)
As I promised, this is the list so far.
I only received the information from other people, so keep
the responsibility for the validity of the information where
it belongs, i.e. not with me...
If anyone finds errors, or has additions, please let me know.
I will gladly modify and update the list.
Ed de Moel.
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/short-cuts-and-options.txt; 24K]
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 10:38 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: macWeek figures
>> From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>>
>> I'm replying to the recent posting of figures taken from a recent MacWeek
>> article on numbers and percentages of Macs at various institutions.
>>
>> These figures are probably not very reliable at all. Colgate University
>> has no where near 1000 Mac (Oh, I wish, I wish)
>I expect they include all student/staff/faculty purchases, not just "lab"
>machines, and got the numbers from your campus computer store.
If you total up all student/staff/faculty Mac purchases for the past five years
at Colgate, you'd probably get about 150. We have no campus computer store.
We only have 2500 students and 740 faculty/staff.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 21:37 EST
From: <GILBERTD%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: my-page-set.hqx
MyPageSetup will make your preferences for "Page Setup" and
the "Print" job dialogs of your printer the default choices:
* Set Imagewriter "Tall Adjusted" so that ImageWriter &
LaserWriter page sizes are similar.
* Set the type of paper you normally stock in your printer.
* For Imagewriters, with the "Paper Size" button, you can
change the page sizes and names of paper choices, print
quality, and page feed method.
* For LaserWriters, you can change cover (user name) page
printing.
Version 1.1 adds the "Print" job dialog, paper size
settings, and help.
Don Gilbert
dogStar Software Bitnet: GilbertD@IUBACS
Internet: GilbertD@Gold.Bacs.Indiana.Edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/my-page-set-11.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Wed 08 Feb 1989 19:58 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SYSTEM BOMB 42
can anyone out there tell me what would cause a SYSTEM ERROR ID=42 upon
shutting down a mac? It doesn't always happen, just sometimes. Oh yeah,
these are Mac +'s running System 5.0....with no control panel files in the
system folder (they are student proofed...)
I tried to look up SYS ERR 42 in IM, but had absolutely no success whatsoever..
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Date: Wed 08 Feb 1989 19:56 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TOPS 2.1
Has anyone out there gotten the TOPS 2.1 update and been as upset with it as
I have? It installs just fine on MAC +'s, and MAC SE's, but it refused
to do so on a Mac II. So I called the technical support and instead of getting
to talk to a technician -- I HAD TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR ONE TO CALL ME
BACK!!!! What kind of deal was this I asked the operator...Can't I just sit
on hold for a while? I'm only in my office for the next 15 minutes, and
wont be able to make an appt. Of course she said no. And the office that I
was doing these installs for has no idea regarding technical matters. So I
had to call back the next day and make an appointment.
DAY 2:
The technician calls me back and tells me what to do. Since I'm not in front
of the Mac in question (yeah I know it's a mistake...but I couldnt be there)
I *TRUST* the technician when he tells me that it's a bug in the TOPS installer.
And then tells me how to copy the stuff onto the MAC ][. Of course, this
didn't work either. So I'm back to calling the TOPS people again.
DAY 3:
TOPS technician on the line. "Oh yeah, you probably blew away the TOPS
KEY file by accident. So I asked him what to do, and was told to "just copy
it off of the old 2.1 disks". When I asked him why they even included it on
the new update if it was a trouble maker, he had no response. And when I asked
why they just didnt write a script for Apple's installer, instead of writing
their own I still got no response. However, after replacing the new TOPS
KEY file with the old one, everything was hunky dory.
Where is all this leading? Well if you are getting TOPS2.1 update and have a
MAC ][ to update, then DON'T USE THEIR INSTALLER!!!! Simply copy all of the
(or wherever). Then use the FONT/DA mover to open the program called TOPS DA
and use the option-open technicque to extract the TOPS DA from it. Then
replace the TOPS DA that is currently in your system with the one from the file.
Or better yet -- forget TOPS 2.1, and wait for 2.1.1 or whatever, and hope
that they have the bugs fixed...
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Disclaimer: I'm in college what do I have that you wanna sue me for?
Quote of the day: "Gee, I'm surprised that that bug got past the Q/A
dept. Sorry!" -- Anonymous TOPS technician
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 18:34:20 EST
From: decwrl!decvax!formtek!pen@labrea.stanford.edu (Philip E. Nickerson, Jr.)
Subject: UUCP, News for the Mac under MacOS
I have been searching for a long time for UUCP (UUPC, or whatever)
running under MacOS to send and receive mail as well as news. I'd
like to attach a trailblazer to my SE and let it gather news and mail
as a background process.
Have any of you seen anything which will accomplish these goals for
me?
Please give me a call at (800) FORMTEK or send me mail. Thanx!!
-Phil
Philip E. Nickerson,Jr. |UUCP {pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!pen
(412)937-4900|(800)FORMTEK| decvax!formtek!pen
"Programming is simply |Snail Formative Technologies, Inc., Foster Plaza VII debugging a blank page!" | 661 Andersen Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15220
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∂09-Feb-89 0918 @macbeth.stanford.edu:kuhn@cellbio.stanford.edu Want MacDraw-type editing on files downloaded from mainframe...
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Is there a way to turn a text file in a reasonable format (e.g. postscript
or some other ascii format) into a MacDraw file? Or a program which will
operate directly on an ascii postscript file? Or some other way we can
edit graphs, etc. produced on a mainframe in a mac-like way without getting
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If not, how can we find out how to write a file in MacDraw format?
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∂09-Feb-89 1642 D.DCANNE@hamlet.stanford.edu gnuemacs on mac or other PCs?
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Subject: gnuemacs on mac or other PCs?
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Does gnuemacs exist on macs or other PCs? I understand that it's by no means
a small program, and a mac port might be daunting, but the program has really
proliferated... I know that there is a microemacs around, but I haven't heard
how much functionality it retains from the full blown version. Finally, any
pointers to source if it has been ported?
Thanks,
Dave Cannon.
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Any one know where one can get access to a CD rom reader for the macintosh?
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 9 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 29
Today's Topics:
additional memory in SE's
Canvas 2.0 Arrows
Collaboration among Macs and Apollo workstations?
Error 42 (the answer to the question ;↑)
Hard Disk Partition
Info-Mac Digest V7 #28
Mac graphing, Laserwriter IISC questions (2)
Macs directly on Ethernet
Probs with Mac 512
Russian fonts
SCSI disk/copier/fixer
SCSI partitioning for Seagate 277N drive?
Serial Pinouts and Cable Information for MacII/SE
System Error 42
TOPS 2.1
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 16:30:06 -0500
From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (William (Liam) Grant)
Subject: additional memory in SE's
Generic stupid question that I can't seem to answer:
We've just added 2Meg upgrades to our MacSe's here. That's
2.5 Meg total memory. What improvements can we expect ? In what applications? I know Multifinder will run better, but where else is it noticeable ?
Where should I set the RAM cache ? (64K ?, 128K?) What will that actually
help ? Please mark actual experience versus informed hypotheses (I know
what it should affect, but should is a vague word.) Will going to 4Meg
make any noticeable difference ?
Please reply directly to me and I'll summarize to the net in a week or two.
Liam Grant Code 5541
grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Laboratory
grant@wpi.bitnet Washington, DC 20375
(202)767-2392
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Date: Thu 9 Feb 89 08:03:48-PDT
From: Elliot Bennett <ELLIOT@star3.stanford.edu>
Subject: Canvas 2.0 Arrows
Canvas 2.0 now has an Arrow Manager which not only lets you choose between
three different types of arrow heads, but lets you reshape them as you like
(e.g., make them longer, shorter, fatter, thinner). You can also have it
automatically put end-lines on the arrows (as is used normally for dimen-
sioning things).
Canvas 2.0 has a HUGE list of other features. I have a 5000 character file
detailing all the goodies if anyone's interested. It really is the best
drawing program on the planet. And soon it will be even better. Current
plans call for adding true dashed lines and WYSIWYG text wrapped around a
curve (!!!).
Let me know if you want any more info...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@star.stanford.edu
Disclaimer:
I am a HIGHLY BIASED beta-tester for Canvas - so don't expect any objectivity.
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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 10:09:33 GMT
From: PMIDS%FRPOLY11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Collaboration among Macs and Apollo workstations?
Does anyone out there use both Macs and Apollos and make them work
together? I am part of a group that has both. We would like to:
1) print from the Apollo on the Apple Laserwriter; 2) use the Macs
as terminals for the Apollo, with multiple windows and graphics if
possible; 3) use Apollos as file servers (possibly, but less important.
I am on the Mac side of this, and don't know much about Apollos.
The LocalTalk network of Macs and Laserwriter will be connected
to Ethernet along with Apollo cluster; Macs could also be connected
by serial lines.
CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package) should accomplish 1) and 3) for
UNIX (4.2 BSD), but apparently has not been ported to Apollos.
UW (in the Info-Mac archives) evidently provides 2), but only
over direct serial connection, and I don't know if it has been
ported to Apollos.
Any users of Apollos who can enlighten me? Any users of UW, on
any system, who can report experiences?
I'll summarize for the net any responses I receive directly.
Thanks.
Darrell Skinner, Ecole Polytechnique, (near) Paris
E-Mail: PMIDS@FRPOLY11.BITNET (or PMIDS@FRPOLY11.EARN in Europe)
paper mail: Labo. PMI / Ecole Polytechnique / 91128 Palaiseau France
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 09:32:17 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Error 42 (the answer to the question ;↑)
>From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: SYSTEM BOMB 42
>
>can anyone out there tell me what would cause a SYSTEM ERROR ID=42 upon
>shutting down a mac? It doesn't always happen, just sometimes. Oh yeah,
>these are Mac +'s running System 5.0....with no control panel files in the
>system folder (they are student proofed...)
>
>I tried to look up SYS ERR 42 in IM, but had absolutely no success
>whatsoever..
According to the System Errors DA, 42 is shutdownAlert, which is cryptically
described as "handled like a shutdown error". According to IMV-586 the way
things work is that the Shutdown Manager looks at your machine type. If you
are a Mac II it shuts off the power, otherwise it sends the System Error
Handler a 42 (of course ;) and it puts up the dialog that says "It is now safe
to turn off your Macintosh." Obviously something is missing, either from your
system or memory, and so it is putting up the bomb instead. Perhaps someone
has skagged the resources necessary in memory. It will obviously take some
digging to find out why this is occuring unless someone else has seen this and
has an explanation as to the reason it is happening.
Jon
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 07:58:24 CST
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Partition
After reviewing the discussion about the hard disk partitions, I've decided
that's the route I need to take.
My question is where do I get the software necessary to partition my disk drive?
It's an Everex Emac-20. The utilities included with it do not include anything
resembling partitioning software.
After suggestions would be appreciated, especially if the software is public or
shareware.
Thanks,
Eddie Mikell, eddie@cc.msstate.edu
To know me is to wonder about me.
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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 10:09:02 EST
From: DJ WOOD <DWOOD%UDCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #28
CAN ANY BODY TELL ME IF THERE ARE ANY NETWORKS THAT ARE FREE TO UINVERSITES, OR
HOW ONE GAINS ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING NETWORKS:
INTERNET
CSNET
APPLELINK
UUCP
I PRESENTLY HAVE A CONNECTION TO BITNET, BUT I CAN'T GET ACCESS TO ANY REOMTE
SERVERS THAT HAVE TO BE SPOKEN TO INTERACTIVELY.
THANX IN ADVANCE,
DJ WOOD
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 14:26 CST
From: <SWANGER%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac graphing, Laserwriter IISC questions (2)
I have two Macintosh questions that I hope I can get answered.
First, I would like to obtain a graphing software package for the Macintosh. I
am mainly interested in creating 2D x-y graphs. I am not familiar with any Mac
graphing packages except MockChart, which is not acceptable (can only read data
>From Clipboard, only plots whole numbers, ... blah!). I would like to hear
>From people who have used Mac graphing software. What's good? What isn't?
What is priced right (or better yet, is there any good PUBLIC DOMAIN graphing
Mac software available)?
Second, a client of mine recently purchased a Laserwriter IISC. Most of the
time, it prints great. However, sometimes text that is in a file and on the
screen doesn't print when printing in landscape mode. I don't know if it's the
printer driver, the application, or the printer (I don't think it's the
printer, but I could be wrong). Has this happened to anyone else out there?
I would appreciate any help I could get.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Swanger |
Academic Computing Services |
200 L Building | "JCL ... The Big Lie !"
Auburn University, Al 36849 |
205-826-4813 |
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Date: 9 Feb 89 09:21 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Macs directly on Ethernet
Greetings from the Bitnet side! Recent questions about the AppleTalk to
Ethernet connectivity problem prompt me to comment about our project, where we
will be connecting Mac II's directly to Ethernet with a MicroVAX II (and,
potentially, other VAXes).
There sure seems to be a dearth of literature (and products!) for this
style of connection. There are lots of products, obviously, for the AppleTalk
to Ethernet world, since 1) That's been the only way to network Macs to other
folks for so long and 2) only recently have we had Macs which could accept
a direct Ethernet connection/adapter card. So, the AppleTalk to Ethernet
market is pretty rich in hardware and software products, with more on the way,
I'm sure.
Since the University of Cincinnati has a heavy investment in DECNet-linked
VAXes, we want to basically run DECNet-or-something-like-it or something-
compatibile-with-it on our "local" Ethernet. We also want to "bridge" over
to the rest of the University's network, isolating traffic one either side
except that which is specifically destined for a node across the bridge.
We hope that will keep general OA-type traffic on their side, our medical
and patient-specific traffic on our side, and (if we get to it) potential
encoded-video data on our side, so it doesn't compete with the OA/etc.
traffic in the "big" network.
We are in the process of looking at products like Pacer/etc. and CommUnity,
but would welcome comments/suggestions about other DECNet-like or DECNet-
supporting protocols to run on our network, as well as comments about the
bridging options we should entertain. Conversely, I will be glad to share
with the net or with individuals information about our trials and tribulations.
With that offer, let me bring this overly long msg. to a close :-). Thanks
for your support.
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or WB8VNV (NTS)
===============================================================================
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'!
===============================================================================
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 00:27 EDT
From: JEFF WASILKO--PRESIDENT PRINTER'S DEVILS LOCAL 49 <JJW7384%ritvax.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Probs with Mac 512
We've got a Mac 512 (unenhanced) that is having a bit of a problem. It passses
the self test perfectly. After inserting a disk you get the Happy Mac. After
about 5 seconds (before the "Welcome To Macintosh" startup screen) we get
a Sad Mac Icon/Black screen with the codes 0F 0064.
It seems to me that it wouldn't be memory related, since that would be checked
at startup. Does this mean drive or drive controller?
Thanks for your help
Jeff Wasilko
BITNET: jjw7384@ritvax
INTERNET: jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
OR
jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cornell.cit.cornell.edu
UUCP: {psuvax1, mcvax}!ritvax.bitnet!JJW7384
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 15:02 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Russian fonts
>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 89 15:52 CST
>From: <HAMMETT@AUDUCVAX>
>Subject: fonts
>
> I am looking for either a Russian language font or a font editor. I
>tried to use the font editor from the info-mac dir at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.,
>but I can't get it to run. I downloaded to our VAX and then to our Mac+(with
>hard drive), then un-bin-hexed it. Can anyone suggest what I might be doing
>wrong, or where I can get another editor or a Russian font I would greatly
>appreciate it, either on the list or to my bitnet address, below.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard Hammett
> <HAMMETT@DUCVAX>
An excellent Cyrillic (Russian) PostScript font is available from Linguists
Software which is commercially available. It is called LaserCyrillic. One
problem with LaserCyrillic is that it is not mapped to the keyboard as a Soviet
keyboard would be, nor can it be alphabetically sorted with programs like Word.
A professor here has developed a remapping of this font which solves these
problems. You must have the LaserCyrillic font for the remapped font to work.
I will post a copy in a separate posting.
Several other imagewriter Russian fonts exist as well.
Check the Macintosh Buyer's Guide.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 9 Feb 89 04:26:01 EST (Thu)
From: decwrl!decvax!lotus.COM!montys@labrea.stanford.edu (Monty Solomon)
Subject: SCSI disk/copier/fixer
I have a SCSI Jasmine disk with a trashed Master Directory. I would like to
make a complete sector for sector copy of this disk to another identical model
and then I would like to try to replace the bad Master Directory with
the backup copy.
Does anyone here know of any software that will let me perform both of these
operations even though the file system will not mount the disk?
--
# Monty Solomon / Lotus Development / 161 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
# <montys@lotus.com> / {garp,spdcc,uunet}!lotus!montys
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 09:25:23 EST
From: Eric.Cooper@ecc.mach.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: SCSI partitioning for Seagate 277N drive?
After several people kindly pointed out the advantages of partitioning a
hard disk into smaller volumes, I tried to do this. The installation
software supplied by the manufacturer had no partition option, but I was
able to use a modified version of the Apple HD SC Setup. But its custom
partition option allows at most one Macintosh HFS volume.
Is there any other way to get true SCSI partitioning on this drive (ST277N)?
(I already know about the pseudo-partitioning offered by Symantec
Utilities.)
Eric Cooper (ecc@cs.cmu.edu)
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 89 14:22:40 PST
From: trewitt@miasma.stanford.edu
Subject: Serial Pinouts and Cable Information for MacII/SE
I am posting this to comp.sys.mac. You might be interested in it for
the archives.
- Glenn Trewitt
Pinouts and cables associated with the modem and printer ports:
>From the Macintosh II Owner's Guide:
Viewing the pins on the end of a connector on a cable:
6 7 8
3 4 5
1 2
Note that pin 4 is actually offset a bit to the left of center. The
Apple manual shows the pinout on the plug on the back of the Mac and is
therefore reversed from this.
The signal assignments are:
1 HSKo Handshake out
2 HSKi Handshake in / external clock
3 TxD- Transmit data -
4 GND Signal ground
5 RxD- Receive data -
6 TxD+ Transmit data +
7 GPi General purpose input
8 RxD+ Receive data +
On the modem port, GPi can be set to be a second external clock.
Note that by making a mirror-image of this pinout, exchanging
(6,8), (3,5), and (1,2) you get a null-modem. (Except for pin 7.)
*** This type of mistake is easy to make, so watch out! ***
The standard Mac Port to modem cable is as follows:
(Mini-8) Mac RS-232 (DB25P)
Port DTE
-----------------------------------------
1 HSKo DTR 20
2 HSKi CTS,CD 5,8
3 TxD- TxD 2
4 GND Sgnd 7
5 RxD- RxD 3
6 TxD+ n/c
7 GPi n/c
8 RxD+ Sgnd 7
Pin RxD+ is grounded to make the differential RS-422 signals
compatible with RS-232 signals. This cable produces a Data
Terminal Equipment (DTE) interface which is intended to be
connected to a Data Communications Equipment (DCE) interface.
DTE interfaces are usually on a DB25P connector (with pins).
DCE interfaces are usually on a DB25S connector (with sockets).
[ Note about RS232 signal names: The signals named TxD (transmit data)
and RxD (receive data) are from the point of view of a Data Terminal
Equipment (DTE) device. For a DTE, data will come out of TxD. For a
DCE, however, data will go into TxD. It's very confusing. If in doubt
about which direction data should be going, get out a voltmeter and
measure from pin 7 (ground) to the pin in question. You will measure
a voltage larger than +3 V or less than -3 V if a signal is being
driven on the pin. If the voltage is near ground or high impedence, it
should be receiving a signal. Better than that is a breakout box,
preferably one with two-color LEDs that can indicate >+3V, <-3V, or
floating. ]
To make a null-modem version of this cable (e.g. for connecting
a printer), just exchange the input and output signals:
(Mini-8) Mac RS-232 (DB25S)
Port DCE
-----------------------------------------
1 HSKo CTS,CD 5,8
2 HSKi DTR 20
3 TxD- RxD 3
4 GND Sgnd 7
5 RxD- TxD 2
6 TxD+ n/c
7 GPi n/c
8 RxD+ Sgnd 7
WARNING:
I have seen DIN-8 to DIN-8 cables in two varieties. One
connects pin 1 to pin 1, 2 to 2, etc., and the other that
exchanges (1,2), (3,5), and (6,8), making a null modem. This
is a deplorable situation, but itUs AppleUs fault for not setting
a standard. I prefer to use the straight-through cables, since
other devices, such as A-B printer switches, use the same scheme.
Having a null modem appear out of nowhere is very confusing.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 09:44:53 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: System Error 42
This code appears in the System Errors Table 1.8 desk accessory as:
42 shutDownAlert handled like a shutdown error
I _think_ that the standard shutdown code issues a system error 42,
which is trapped by the system error handler; the error-handler puts
up the "You may now turn your Mac off safely" message rather than the
standard bomb-box.
I'd begin to suspect that while "student proofing" the machines, you
might inadvertently have removed too many resources, leaving the
error-handler unable to locate the appropriate alert-text.
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 13:24:36 PST
From: gp@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (George Pavel)
Subject: TOPS 2.1
My experiences with TOPS are exactly the opposite of GREENY's. 2.1
installed on my Mac II with no problem using their installer. And when I had
a problem with 2.0, although I did have to make an appointment for a call, the
fellow who helped me was very nice, understood the problem, and shipped me a
new disk with a beta version of 2.1 (then called 2.08) which worked just dandy.
George Pavel
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808 L-68
Livermore, CA 94550 Internet: gp@lll-lcc.llnl.gov
(415)422-4262 UUCP: ...!lll-lcc!gp
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The doors open at 6:30 pm; a general Question & Answer
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 12 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 30
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
a request
Default buttons on system alerts
Generic SCSI disk driver?
Graphing Software for the Mac
Hard Disk Partition
HELP! virus?
Print Spooling w/o Multi-Finder for an ImageWriter II
Probs with Mac 512
Reference on OCR programs
SYSTEM BOMB 42
TransSkel2.01 (C version)
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
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Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1989 17:01:16 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
I put some information on other Internet archive sites in the file
/info-mac/misc/other-archives.txt. I'm sure this file is very incomplete.
Please let us know about sites we are missing.
It would be very nice if someone with access to Usenet would volunteer to
send us the contents of comp.binaries.mac. That way we could keep our archive
better-stocked, and perhaps reduce some of the "I missed that posting, could
you resend?" traffic on the comp.sys.mac newsgroup. Send mail to
info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu if you would be willing to help us in
this.
I put some new GIF 256-color picture files in the /art/gif subdirectory.
There are also some new files in the /unix subdirectory. One set is for
use with /comm/zterm; it supports the Zmodem protocol. Another is the file
bhcomb-c.txt; it knits together multipart postings and strips out all of the
garbage. Bhcomb may be of use to comp.binaries.mac users and also may
help with some of our older files on Info-Mac.
We are getting replacements for our out-of-date Technical Notes. Check the
file /help/recent-files.txt to find out which ones, as there are too
many to list in a digest.
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 23:41:31 EST
From: Ravi.Anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: a request
I recently got a microexplorer in my office. For Mac II applications, I
expect my officemates also to use the machine. Is there any application
that will allow one to protect folders separately? With multiple users,
I need some way of keeping the users' documents private; e.g. it should
ask for a password to open a specific folder.
Please send e-mail to anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Thanks,
Ravi
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Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 21:55:11 -0500
From: mjm@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Michael McClennen)
Subject: Default buttons on system alerts
One way to change the default button on system alerts (for example, ALRT -3996
"Replace existing file <x>?") is to use ResEdit to change the ALRT resource in
the system file.
If you open the resource and select the "display as text" item from the ALRT
menu which appears, you will get a panel enabling you to change this
default (via a check box labelled "2 bold") along with other information in
the alert template. You will probably want to change all four stages.
A safer way to make the change is on a per-application basis (I did it to
Lightspeed C). Copy the ALRT resource from the system file, paste it into
the application, and edit it there. While the application is running, the
resource manager will check the application resource map before scanning the
system map, and so your modified alert will be displayed instead of the version
in the system file.
For more information on alerts, see Inside Macintosh...
-- Michael McClennen
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Date: 10 Feb 89 1907 PST
From: Tovar <TVR@sail.stanford.edu>
Subject: Generic SCSI disk driver?
I'm contemplating using one of several manufacturers' non-Mac disks on my home
Mac+ (with a homebrew cabinet which substantially reduces the incessant noise).
Depending on the manufacturer, i may have a separate controller or put a second
drive on the controller of my existing disk. In either case, i'm going to need
a new driver, as even the existing one almost certainly won't handle more than
one unit. This is no big deal for me, i've hacked much hairier disk code for
other machines (and already have the core of a disk diagnostic running on the
Mac). But I-M VI explicitly does not explain a few things (c.f. p. IV-293) and
perhaps someone in this area has been through this before. Nor does it suggest
how to implement partitions or multiple units, not to mention sundry `gotcha's.
The Tech. Notes emphasize the latter (esp. TN159), but don't really explain,
and APDA's package is explicitly incomplete (if it is even a disk driver to
begin with). Of course, it doesn't deal with the issue of large disks or disks
shared by diverse individuals, in either case where partitioning is essential.
Does anyone out there have source code for a SCSI disk driver that i could look
at specific parts of (especially that which is not well-documented in easily
available form)? Extensive comments take precedence over choice of language,
which are, in order of preference, `C', PASCAL or assembly language.
-- Tovar
P.S. I know about SF&I and do not expect it to cover my situation. Note that
i am not interesting in proprietary aspects of drivers, like how one can get
better performance than others on the same hardware. Being out of disk space,
nor do i want to wait to get back-issues from some magazine in some language
i don't have and which probably won't do what i want anyway. In other words,
i expect to have to hack the code, and if the result is reliable, i would
prefer to make the source code available for non-commercial use without fee,
or other solicitations. I certainly don't want to use anything that would
preclude this.
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 08:20:18 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Graphing Software for the Mac
David Swager asks about Mac graphing sofwtare...
We use Cricket Graph for our graphing needs. It does excellent xy
plots as well as many other types of plots. Not only can it print out
on a laswerwriter, you can also use it to drive a plotter (such as an
HP 7475A) abd thus get color plots (the program supports color graphs,
even if you are only using a Plus or SE). I don't know the price, but
you can probably get it from one of the "1-800-Macsomething" companies.
Bret Ingerman Ingerman@SUVM.bitnet
Microcomputer Specialist
Syracuse University "disclaimer goes here"
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 19:35:41 est
From: Richard G Brewer <tron@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Partition
in info-mac v7n29, Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu> writes:
>After reviewing the discussion about the hard disk partitions, I've decided
>that's the route I need to take.
>
>My question is where do I get the software necessary to partition my disk drive?
>It's an Everex Emac-20. The utilities included with it do not include anything
>resembling partitioning software.
>
>After suggestions would be appreciated, especially if the software is public or
>shareware.
Well, this program isn't shareware, but if you own a Hard Disk, you should
have it - Symmantec Utilities for the Macintosh (SUM). Not only will this
program allow you to partition your hard disk (and give you a special DA for
the management thereof), but it will also allow you to install an earmarking
file wich will allow you to recover files that have been accidentally deleted
with little to no hastle at all. It also "optimizes" disk files to speed up
the bootup proceedure.
I was given SUM as a Gift, and it was by far, one of the most valuable ones I
ever recieved...
-Rick
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
rbrewer@wpi.bitnet , tron@wpi.wpi.edu
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 18:32 MST
From: DAVID KLEIN <PAKLEIN@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: HELP! virus?
I am worried about a possible virus and was hoping my search can be
directed. A few days ago, my floppy has refued to run period. When a disk
is put in, it just sits as the mac thinks its turning, until eventually it
decides that the disk is unreadible. This also happens on startup, except
when I have done a PRAM dump, I get a bit of action (that high pitched loud
disk sound) but no true extended turning. I don't know the limits of what
a virus can do to floppy operations and how well it can hide in active memory
My SCSI 20 meg internal is running fine.
Why might I think it is a virus? First the machine is only 5 months old.
Second I don't like the idea of buying a new disk drive. Third I am very
open to attack and have been doing downloading from various PD ARPAnet archives
During runtime, I have been receiving frequent ID 2 error messages and it
took 3 tries to get interferon to check anymore that 1 document without bombing
in my system, I have found 2 inits called "main" with a id=10 with an old Rx
and could not find them with Resedit. in my desktop I have some interesting
things including resourses called (not)=vir with the = really being a not
equals sign, and one that has no name at all. I don't have enough mac code
expirence to understand their codes though. Is there a way to make a virus
act on that first HD activity before the floppy is checked? Also by the way,
The id=2 errors have decresased since my floppy died and I also have
virus running.
PLEASE RESPOND!
thanx,
David Klein
[The (not-equals)VIR resource in the Desktop file is the signature of
Interferon. Many slapped-together programs don't have any signature at all,
which would explain the nameless resource. -Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 11:56 CST
From: MARK@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Subject: Print Spooling w/o Multi-Finder for an ImageWriter II
Hello all!
We have 8 Mac II's (6 with 1 Meg, 2 with 2 Meg) here at U.N.T. and
would like to be able to have a print spool running on each one without running
MultiFinder. The Macs are on a AppleTalk network to a single ImageWriter II
and sometimes have to wait several minutes if the printer is tied up. Is there
any such program (preferable PD or shareware) that allows us have the print
jobs spooled on each machines hard disk (40 meg) so that the user can continue
on? We feel that the Macs don't have enough memory to justify running
MultiFinder for this job. Please reply to me directly and I will summarize if
there is enough interest. Thanks in advance....
Mark Thacker
Mark Thacker Bitnet : MARK@UNTVAX or AC48@UNTVAX
Graphics Lab Consultant THENET : NTVAXB::MARK or NTVAXB::AC48
(and student of CSCI at) Internet : MARK%ntvaxb.decnet@utadnx.cc.utexas.edu
The University of North Texas SPAN : UTSPAN::UTADNX::NTVAXB::MARK
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 15:24:09 CST
From: JohnD%CDCCentr.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Probs with Mac 512
> After about 5 seconds (before the "Welcome To Macintosh" startup screen)
> we get a Sad Mac Icon/Black screen with the codes 0F 0064.
The information that follows is a bit old, but I think it's still accurate.
What you've got is essentially a SystemError #64. It shows up with the sad
Mac rather than the usual bomb alert box because, at that time in the
boot process, not enough of the system is present to display the alert.
The 1985 version of the "boot blocks" (read off your boot disk and
executed early in the boot process), used SystemError #64 to report that
the _InitResources trap failed. This trap, among other things, opens
the System file and reads in its resource map.
Perhaps you have a bad disk sector within the System file, or maybe the
System file itself is garbaged. I'd suggest trying to boot off a known-
good floppy, if you haven't already. If that doesn't work, try clearing
the machine's parameter RAM: Sometimes bad information in the parameter
RAM can affect booting in unexpected ways. Good luck.
John Dykstra - Operating System Design - Control Data Corporation
(612) 482-3749 JohnD@CDCCentr.BITNET
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 17:07 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Reference on OCR programs
The article on OCR programs is "The Reading Edge", pp.170-179, in the February
'89 issue of MacWorld.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 17:33:17 PST
From: chris%hobbes@lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: SYSTEM BOMB 42
System error 42 is the "You can shut down your mac safely
now" message - or rather, it's the way the mac normally responds to
it. The Finder generates this error; normally the Dire Straits
error manager has this mapped to the dialog with that message and
the Restart button. If the mapping is destroyed, or if you have a
debugger installed that tries to be helpful by intercepting the
error, you may see something else. I'd try a more complete system
file (the control panel should be irrelavent).
Chris Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 15:05:15 -0600
From: Brain in Neutral <bin@primate.wisc.edu>
Subject: TransSkel2.01 (C version)
Here's the newest TransSkel in Lightspeed C.
Yours,
Paul DuBois
[Archived as /info-mac/source/transskel-c-201.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 11:36:04 -0800
From: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu
I have a Microsoft Word document with which I would like to do the
following:
a) capture the PostScript produced when Word prints the file,
b) transmit the file to a Unix system,
c) use lpr to print the PostScript on a LaserWriter attached to the
Unix system.
I can do a) using command-F or command-K while printing, and b) with
FTP. But all I get on the printer is error messages when I try to
print the PostScript file. I get different errors if I use the
command-F (document only) or command-K (doc plus LW Prep), but it
doesn't work either way.
Any suggestions?
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 13 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 31
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
AppleLink/BITNET relay
ApplicationMenu 3.3
Canvas 2.0 "short" review...
File checksums
Hypercard problems
Imagewriter II spooler
Info-Mac <=> Delphi
LaserJet driver software
Looking for TurboPASCAL code for MBLs
LSC 301p4 (Third Try)
Mac graphing
System Error 42
Virtual - some praise, some problems
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 14:27:25 CST
From: "Mark R. Williamson" <MARK%RICE@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
[The postmaster at RICE] has run into a problem. He is getting hundreds of
pieces of bounced mail per day, caused by non-BITNET, non-Internet sites asking
our server for files. Unfortunately, our gateway to the Internet and
beyond does not know how to reach sites represented by MX records in the
Internet Domain Name Servers. The gateway function is performed by IBM's
TCP/IP for VM product, 5798-FAL, which does not understand MX records.
The IBM development team understands the problem, but has not yet issued
changes to correct it.
Until the gateway can handle MX records, I have to ask that use of our
server be restricted to sites on, or directly addressible from, BITNET.
Since users directly on the Internet should be able to FTP from Stanford,
this should affect only users on "the far side" of the Internet as
viewed from BITNET, primarily USENET sites. Some sites are behind
gateways smart enough to provide usable return addresses, via the %
kludge or source routing, but since we cannot determine which sites
those are, we must ask even them to stop using our server for a while.
Our postmaster has been kind enough to forward as much of the bounced
mail as he could (that for which he could find a gateway). After this
message appears in an Info-Mac digest, I will let him know that he may
switch to telling users at non-addressible sites to stop using us. If
they continue, we may have to add code to our server to ignore requests
>From those sites.
We both are sorry to have to take this step, but he does have other
work to do besides forwarding errant Macintosh archive files.
Mark R. Williamson, Rice University, Houston, TX; MARK@ICSA.RICE.EDU
Coordinating BITNET redistribution of Info-Mac archive files from Rice.
[We are trying to work out a path which will have greater success. Until
then, please refrain from using the e-mail server unless you are on Bitnet.
Stay tuned. -Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 15:50 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleLink/BITNET relay
Several people expressed a need to know how to communicate from AppleLink TO
BITNET, so here goes.
In AppleLink's memo addressing dialog box:
In "To:" field enter
"DASNET" (without the quotes)
in "Subject:" field enter
userid@node.BITNET
For example:
TO: DASNET
SUBJECT: pjorgensen@colgateu.bitnet
AppleLink users should note the restrictions and limitations of this relay as
described in appropriate AppleLink documents (check Apple Progs. folder etc.)
AppleLink users may even have to be "authorized" to use this service, if so,
contact Tony Wong (AppleLink WONG8) for information.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 10:15:48 -0800
From: lsr@apple.com
Subject: ApplicationMenu 3.3
Enclosed is the latest version of ApplicationMenu (3.3). This is a
cdev/INIT that provides a popup menu of all the applications you have
running under MultiFinder. You can switch applications by choosing from
this popup menu.
This version has a number of improvements over 2.0:
* Works with MultiFinder 6.1a2 (with Set Aside).
* Works with Suitcase & FullWrite Professional.
* You can popup the menu anywhere.
The enclosed documentation describes the software in more detail.
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014
AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM
UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/applicationmenu-33.hqx; 16K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon 13 Feb 89 01:40:09-PDT
From: Elliot Bennett <ELLIOT@star3.stanford.edu>
Subject: Canvas 2.0 "short" review...
A number of people have been curious about Canvas 2.0 (or at least what graphics
packages are "out there") and I thought I would help out with my impressions of
Canvas 2.0 now that I've had some time to play with it.
Very simply, Canvas is (in my opinion) simply the BEST (non-CAD) graphics
package in ANY software market. In fact, read this review, and if anyone knows
of something better ON ANY MACHINE, I'd like to know.
A "short" list of Canvas' features include:
GENERAL
-------
o ABSOLUTELY the BEST user-interface I have ever seen on the Mac (and I
studied user-interface design at Stanford [I could talk a LOT about
this if anyone's interested]).
o supports 16 mill. colors (using the color wheel and/or saved sets of color
tables to set the current color palete). It uses a great pop-up color
palate to access the colors. You can set fore- and background colors.
o unlimited layers (memory permitting). Different layers can be saved to a
separate file or printed (e.g., print layers 3,8, and 23). Layers are
easily reordered, hidden, or greyed (for tracing bitmaps, for example).
Easy transfer of objects between layers.
o Tons of well placed and useful pop-up menus (as alternates to the pull-down/
heirarchical menus under the menu bar)
o Zoom in/out by up to 64 times using a brilliat pop-up menu, a magnifying
glass, or the keyboard.
o Custom editable fill/pen patterns (patterned sets can be saved to disk.
"Only" 60 or so patterns can be seen/used at once).
o Fill/Pen patterns can be a postscript gray scale (from 1-100% @1 deg. incr.).
o Tear-off rulers let you measure anything anywhere.
o Rβββββββββββββββββββββββββββββuler zero-point reset
o Ruler guides
o Pen Modes (COPY, OR, BIC, XOR, and their compliments Not XOR, etc.)
o Pen sizes from 1 to 9 adjustible in both height and width
o Cβββββββββββββββββββββββββββββustom pen sizes of anything you like down to 1/8 of a PIXEL width for
hairlines (though 300 dpi laser printers can only print down to 1/4
of a pixel)
o Macros (of complicated objects savable into sets)
o New Textedit (allows letters to be INDIVIDUALLY sized, colored, styled, or
'font'ed.)
o 9 Feet x 9 Feet drawing space (and pages can be set to print with overlap
for easy cutting and pasting). Not only that, but you can set the
DIRECTION of printing the pages (i.e. horizontally or vertically).
Ever wonder in MacDraw which page it considered #2 when you had 2 down
and 2 across? Well, YOU set it in Canvas.
o Exports/Imports all the standards, including PICT (except it only imports
MacDraw).
o On-line Hypercard-like help that tells you most of what you need to know.
o White text on black background (done by using the BIC pen mode w/black fill).
OBJECT MODE
-----------
o Unlimited point Bezier curves. Well done (as in Illustrator).
o 3 standard types of EDITABLE arrow heads (w/ or w/o endlines)βββββ.
o Auto-dimensioning (height, width, perimeter, and area) of objects
o Splitting and gluing of polygons. Points are easily added or subtracted.
o Open ovals (for pie charts, etc).
o Scaling of objects
o Duplicate feature lets you set # of copies, angle of rotation, start/stop
pattern fill and/or color, x/y offsets, % inc/decrease in size, and more
o Easily changed curvature of round-rectangles (ala MacDraft).
o Rotations at 1 degree increments
o Use arrow keys (in conjuction with Command or Option) to move objects 1, 10,
or 50 pixels at a time. Absolute must for accurate positioning (the
numbers 10 and 50 are user-changable to whatever you like).
BITMAP MODE
-----------
o Autotrace of bitmaps to polygons (this, like most autotracing, works so-so)
o Bitmaps up to 2540 dpi (I use 300 dpi for LW perfection).
o Full MacPaint tools that really are comparable to Superpaint
o Flow rate control on Spraycan.
o When zoomed, a reduced view of object appears in upper corner.
o More, but I don't use this quite as often, so I'm not as familiar w/it...
PLUS
----
o A LOT more (cropping, grids, multiple ruler scaling units...)
I could probably go on and on. To be fair, it does have a couple of
shortcomings. Like when you save a file, the icon is moved to a grid location
in the finder (if it's not at one already) and the color of the icon (on a Mac
ii [obviously]) is lost. Another minus is the inability to have "real" dashed
lines (like in Cricket Draw). In addition, text is only single spaced (no
double or 1.5- don't ask me why). And I would prefer floating palates to having
one in each window. But, hey, I can live with it...
So, if you're not using Canvas you've got to ask yourself why? (I've seen it
for as little as $150 mail order). You can get a demo version from them for
about $10 (I think). I will post it to the net in any case. My FREE upgrade
>From 1.0 also came with a desk accessory version that they claim has about 70%
of the program's capability (though on my 5 meg Mac ii under MF, I have little
need of it :-).
I'd really enjoy hearing why people wouldn't use this package. Please note that
my enthusiasm for this program comes from more than an impressive and long list
of features. It's not just WHAT they put in the program, but HOW they
implemented it. I, for one, am ready to go out and buy stock in Deneba...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@star.stanford.edu
P.S.
COMING REAL SOON! True dashed lines and WYSIWYG text wrapped around curves plus
LOTS more. Details as they arrive...
Disclaimer:
I am now a (highly biased) beta-tester for Canvas 2.0, so if anyone has any
comments, please don't hesitate to tell me...
-------
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 11:50 EST
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: File checksums
I am looking for a program that will do a cryptographic checksum of a
file, including both the data and resource forks. I want to be able to
give it a key, and the file name, and receive the checksum. The program
must be freeware since I need to distribute it to lots of people. The
purpose is for others to be able to verify that the hypercard stacks
they receive are the same as those we distribute. While this may not
absolutely guarantee that, it is better than ignoring the problem.
-- Doug
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 11:56 EST
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: Hypercard problems
I have been trying to isolate the problems I have with hypercard. The
last query I put out didn t yield any assistance. The problems I
encounter are on a Mac+ with 6.0.2 and 1 Meg memory. They appear to be
related to the use of the menubar. In particular, using any DA causes
the problem. What happens is that after using the menubar, the play
command stops working. No sound is generated. Then after a bit of
continued use, hypercard can crash or starts providing corrupted cards
and error messages. The corruption of error messages is obvious, words
are missing from the text. I have used a Ma SE with accelerator and 4
Meg without any of these problems occuring. Continuing past the point
of noticible corruption can result in corrupted stacks on disk. Any
ideas on how to avoid this problem will be appreciated.
-- Doug
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 10:30:10 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Imagewriter II spooler
Please note that MultiFinder provides background printing ONLY for
laserwriters, not for ImageWriters, so Multifinder wouldn't do you
help this problem even if you had more memory.
There are several commercial spoolers, including SuperMac's SuperSpool,
available from the usual outlets.
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
Joshua Yeidel YEIDEL@WSUVM1.BITNET
Academic Computing Services YEIDEL@WSUVMS1.WSU.EDU
Washington State University (509) 335-0441
Pullman, WA 99164-1220
DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking solely for myself here, not Washington State U.
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 16:47:05 -0600
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac <=> Delphi
Hi, I'm one of the folks who is now responsible for the gateway between
Delphi and Usenet/Info-Mac. I'm doing the file transfers between all of the
networks (including forwarding binaries from comp.binaries.mac). Jeff Shulman
has not yet picked someone to do the Usenet and Delphi digests, but they
will continue as soon as possible. We thank you for your patience and your
cooperation.
Robert
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/ Robert Hammen | hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu | uwmcsd1!uwmcsd4!hammen /
/ Delphi: HAMMEN | GEnie: R.Hammen | CI$: 70701,2104 | MacNet: HAMMEN /
/ Bulfin Printers | 1887 N. Water | Milwaukee WI 53202 | (414) 271-1887 /
/ 3839 N. Humboldt #204 | Milwaukee WI 53212 | (414) 961-0715 (h) /
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 17:51 PDT
From: "BRIAN KLAAS, CH3 POLE J7, MAILSTOP CH3-69" <BKLAAS%CH3@sc.intel.com>
Subject: LaserJet driver software
Does anyone have any experience, good or bad, with a package called JetLink
Express by GDT Softworks Inc.? It is supposed to be a driver that supports
all font sizes, and even text rotation.
Thanks,
Brian Klaas
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 89 22:43:06 PST
From: Dan_MacIsaac@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Looking for TurboPASCAL code for MBLs
Subject: MicroComputer Based Laboratories, Laboratory Interfacing
CERG is developing a Laboratory Interface for the MAC SE for use in HS Science
Laboratories (Chemistry, Biology and Physics), and I am writing TurboPASCAL
software to run an 8 channel A/D converter (of local design), graph and store
signals, load them into spreadsheets and calibrate sensors (microwave oven
thermometers, phototransistors and pH meters). I would greatly appreciate
any assistance that could be given to me by MAC PASCAL programmers in
developing this code. I am a new programmer on the MAC, and would
particularly welcome any source code that I could get my hands on.
Thanks in advance;
Daniel MacIsaac
Computers in Education Research Group
Dept of Mathematics and Science Education
University of British Columbia
CANADA
BITNET: Dan_MacIsaac@UBCMTSG.CA
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 14:38:24 EST
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: LSC 301p4 (Third Try)
This is the latest and greatest version of Lightspeed C.
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/think-c-updater-301p4.hqx; 104K]
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 01:21:26 PST
From: calius@composite.stanford.edu (Emilio Calius)
Subject: Mac graphing
I responded to the original query directly, but upon seeing Bret
Ingerman's post in #30, I decided to post a copy of my message.
I disagree with Ingerman's recommendation of CricketGraph. It is a
very frustrating program for serious users. In this category, the really good
software is being produced by small outfits with smart algorithms. I encourage
you to seek them out and not default to Cricket's bigger advertising budget.
Although CricketGraph is what is (usually) on the dealer's shelves, the others
are easily available by mail order. The authors often have small ads in
MacWorld and/or MacUser.
If Rich Siegel sees this, maybe he would like to comment on the status
of FzzPlot.
David Swager's question was
---------------------------
>First, I would like to obtain a graphing software package for the Macintosh.
> I am mainly interested in creating 2D x-y graphs.
1) Producing good, publication-quality plots regularly is harder than it looks.
2) I have not heard of any PD graphing packages. There is a shareware program
called FzzPlot, but I don't know much about it. When I looked at it almost a
year ago it was missing a couple of features that were essential to me.
However, the author, Rich Siegel was constantly improving it, so it should
be worth another look. Rich is on the net, but I don't recall his address.
3) The best graphing package that I know of is Kaleidagraph, or at least
version 2. I spent 30-40 minutes talking to one of its developers and
putting it through its paces at MacWorld Expo. It's due out in March I think.
The current version is nice (and FAST!), but it doesn't let you mix line and
scatter plots on the same graph. You can kludge it with a scatter plot by
joining the points with lines and making the plot symbol invisible, but it
annoys me. However, that's fixed in 2.0, and they have added a number of
features that I like. They have always had a good upgrade policy (send them
a disk and $10 to get the latest version), so I would recommend KaleidaGraph
as your first choice. You should be able to get it for about $150 at a
discount place.
4) A good alternate choice is Passage. That is what we use at present. The
interface is a little idiosyncratic, and sometimes irritating, but it produces
excellent quality graphs and is quite fast. If you need something right now,
this is a good choice. We paid a little under $200.
5) Whatever you do, stay away from CricketGraph. I had to deal with it for
a couple of years. It produces output that in general is far inferior to that
of the two programs mentioned above, the dashed lines options are a joke if
you have more than 10-20 data points, and it insists in redrawing the entire
graph after even the smallest change (when you have a few hundred points,
redrawing can easily take 15 minutes!!!). Enough said.
6) Some of the better spreadsheed packages have decent graphing functions.
Trapeze in particular. WingZ (at least the demo version) isn't bad either.
However, they are usually slower and lack important (to me) features when
compared to specialized graphing programs. Excel, etc. are even more
"business-graph" oriented than the above (N flavors of pie graphs)
I hope this information saves you a little frustration. Feel free
to ask me any questions. And let me know if you find a program that I haven't
mentioned here. I do a lot of graphs, so I would appreciate hearing about
anything interesting that you dig up.
Emilio P. Calius
Structures & Composites Lab
Aeronautics & Astronautics
Stanford University
** It is occasionally the curse of visionaries to see their visions fulfulled.
-- author??
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Date: Mon 13 Feb 1989 01:44 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System Error 42
Thanks to all of you out there who have responded to my posting requesting
help regarding the System Error 42. One respondant even dropped me a copy
of the System Errors 2.0 DA!
Once again...thanks to all. Also, since the mailer at my site screwed up my
response to Dave Platt -- I'll post it here:
Thanks again Dave...
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 18:03:57 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Virtual - some praise, some problems
Summary: Virtual does not work when you're using an ethernet card (at
least one exception applies, though).
I have just installed Virtual on my MacII, extending my memory from 5
MBytes (real) to 8 MBytes (somewhat imaginary). 8 Megs feel like a
lot (at least for a couple of days), and for my uses the slowdown
caused by swapping is hardly noticeable.
I have encountered one serious problem, though: Virtual seems to be
incompatible with EtherNet cards - some in a worse way than others.
If an ethernet card is installed, an EtherTalk is chosen in the
control panel, the Mac plain refuses to boot - it stutters once, then
plays a cheery scale of four notes, and blacks out. Dead.
For a Kinetics EtherCard II that's the end of the story - the card and
Virtual cannot be used at the same time.
The same problem occurs with Apple's EtherTalk card, with one (in my
case VERY significant difference): Apple's card works for some
applications (notably Stanford University's SU-MacIP) even if you have
chosen "internal" as the network of choice (this does not work with
vanilla NCSA Telnet). And with "internal" chosen, Virtual does its
thing without causing problems.
-- Sigurd
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Does anyone remember if there is a program that allows you to type
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Sort of like a fancy typewriter?
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 14 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
Adventures in Programming -- FrameIt
Adventures in Programming -- init cdev
Adventures in Programming -- Logout
CDC WREN Disks. Some answers and some more questions.
Dungeon Winner
EtherTalk and Virtual
init cdev -- INIT management utility
Key Finder DA
Questions on Mac/Ethernet Connection, running TCP/IP or DECNet
Radius vs Kurta
tar 1.2.1
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Date: 8 Feb 89 21:00:21 GMT
From: johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
Subject: Adventures in Programming -- FrameIt
[Adventures in Programming -- FrameIt]
What do you get when you cross a journalist with a programmer?
The "Adventures in Programming" series describes the development of a
number of public domain programs. Share the joy, anger and amazement
of writing a program as you learn new techniques which may save an
insurmountable time in the future. A new form of public domain
journalism.
This adventure describes the development of FrameIt, a utility which
frames screen dumps. But it isn't as simple as it seems...
Copyright 1988 by John Rotenstein
Printed reproduction requires written permission from the Author
johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/adventures-frameit.hqx; 10K]
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Date: 9 Feb 89 05:00:27 GMT
From: johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
Subject: Adventures in Programming -- init cdev
[Adventures in Programming -- init cdev]
What do you get when you cross a journalist with a programmer?
The "Adventures in Programming" series describes the development of a
number of public domain programs. Share the joy, anger and amazement
of writing a program as you learn new techniques which may save an
insurmountable time in the future. A new form of public domain
journalism.
This adventure describes the development of init cdev, a utility which
manages the usage of INIT files. Discover hints in writing INITs and
cdevs as you journey the uncharted paths of Macintosh...
Copyright 1988 by John Rotenstein
Printed reproduction requires written permission from the Author
johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/adventures-init-cdev.hqx; 10K]
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Date: 9 Feb 89 01:00:23 GMT
From: johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
Subject: Adventures in Programming -- Logout
[Adventures in Programming -- Logout]
What do you get when you cross a journalist with a programmer?
The "Adventures in Programming" series describes the development of a
number of public domain programs. Share the joy, anger and amazement
of writing a program as you learn new techniques which may save an
insurmountable time in the future. A new form of public domain
journalism.
This adventure describes the development of Logout, a utility which
provides information on the time spent playing with your computer.
Learn techniques of modifying DSATs and installing shutdown routines as
you venture into the dark and forgotten reaches of Macintosh...
Copyright 1988 by John Rotenstein
Printed reproduction requires written permission from the Author
johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/adventures-logout.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Wed, 15-FEB-1989 00:16:40.19 GMT+1
From: <miwe001%dtuzdv5a.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Adrian Weiler #45054)
Subject: CDC WREN Disks. Some answers and some more questions.
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 22:00 GMT+1
From: miwe001@dtuzdv5a.bitnet (Adrian Weiler)
Subject: CDC WREN Disks: some answers and some more questions
Rafi (Rafi@BGUVM.BITNET) writes (Info-Mac Digest V7 #6):
> I received couple CDC WREN V 192MB hard disks, a while ago.
> The formatting went well and the disks are operational.
> However there are few problems:
> 1. The disks will not boot! I can only boot from a diskette and
> switch launch the finder.
(other stuff deleted)
> It was suggested to me that I have a general CDC SCSI WREN disk,
> and that I actually need a special Mac CDC disk that have
> the suffix "M" in it's product Number.
Darrell Skinner (PMIDS@FRPOLY11.BITNET) writes (Info-Mac Digest V7 #13):
> I just bought the same disk and installed it. No problems.
> There may indeed be a special Mac Version. Or rather, I was told that
> CDC made a mistake in one particular SCSI function (which one, I dont
> know) which causes problems when you put two or more of them on line
> simultaneously.
Well... I bought a CDC WREN IV and, after a while, managed to get it
running with my Mac SE. However, there are still some problems left:
1) It runs on a Mac SE, but *NOT* on a Mac Plus!! Therefore I guess that
Rafi has a Mac + and Darell has a SE or ][.
The Macintosh Technical Note #96 (SCSI Bugs) has an answer for this:
> In the process of looking for a bootable SCSI device, the boot code
> issues a SCSI bus reset before each attempt to read block 0 from a
> device. If the read fails for any reason, the boot code goes on to
> the next device. SCSI devices which implement the Unit Attention
> condition as defined by the Revision 17B SCSI standard will fail to
> boot in this case. (...) If no other device is bootable, the boot
> code will eventually cycle back to the same SCSI device ID, reset
> the bus (causing Unit Attention in the drive again), and try to read
> block 0 (which fails for the same reason).
> The problems in the ROM boot code can only be fixed by changing the
> ROMs. Most of the bugs in the SCSI Manager itself have been fixed
> by the patch code in the System 3.2 file. There are a few problems,
> though, that are not fixed with System 3.2emost of these bugs have
> been corrected in System 4.1. (...) ROM code for future machines
> will, of course, include the corrections.
> The 'new' Macintosh Plus ROMs that are included in the platinum
> Macintosh Plus have only one change. The change was to simply do a
> single SCSI Bus Reset after power up instead of a Reset each time
> through the SCSI boot loop. This was done to allow Unit Attention
> drives to be bootable.
> Not possible to get a specific ROM since they are all the same
> part number.
> We recommend that you choose an SCSI controller which does not require
> the Unit Attention featureeeither an older controller (...), or one of
> the newer Revision-17B-compatible controllers which can enable/disable
> Unit Attention as a formatting option (such as those from Seagate,
> Rodime, et al). Since the vast majority of Macintosh Plus computers
> have the ROMs which cannot use Unit Attention drives, we still
> recommend that you choose an SCSI controller that does not require the
> Unit Attention feature.
A close look to the CDC-WREN technical documentation reveals: this drive
does *not* offer enabling/disabling Unit Attention. I can only speak for
the model WREN IV that I have, but I believe the model WREN V does not
differ in that point. But this is not a 'mistake in one particular SCSI
function': The Mac Plus'es SCS-Interface was designed *before* the
standardisation of SCSI was complete. Probably the 'special Mac Version'
of the CDC disk just allows to disable the unit attention condition.
2) I could not set the startup disk to be the WREN until I opened my Mac
SE and changed the SCSI-Device-Number of the internal drive (20MB) to a
value greater than the SCSI number of the WREN. I first tried with
Ephraim's SCSI Driver (SF&I). The disk drive worked with it but...
Then I bought the SCSI Development Package to write my own driver (in LSC).
Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem 2). Probably, the latter
problem is also related to the Unit Attention Condition. A problem
solved by my owm driver was the support of drive partitioning.
Questions:
- Is there really no newer version of the SCSI-Dev. Package
than 1.0 (Dated 1986)? This Version does *not* conform to 'Inside
Macintosh' Vol. V.
- Where does the Control Panel DA store the startup device? I found this
nowhere in IM. (There is only a single bit in the parameter RAM to
select internal/external (floppy) drive).
- Is it possible to disable Unit Attention on a CDC drive which is not
a special Mac version? (probably just a jumper?)
- What is the behavior of the SE ROM code when booting from SCSI and the
device reports an error (Unit Attention)? are there retries first or
does the code pass on to the next drive? (this would explain why the
ability to boot depends on the drive numbers).
Any hints are appeciated.
Adrian Weiler (MIWE001@DTUZDV5A.BITNET)
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Date: 10 Feb 89 21:00:21 GMT
From: kiron@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA (Kiron Bondale)
Subject: Dungeon Winner
[Dungeon Winner]
The Dungeon Winner is a character modifier for John Raymonds' Dungeon
of Doom and also for The Dungeon Revealed. It allows the user to
change various character attributes. It is a shareware product.
__________________________________________________________________
Kiron D. Bondale Concordia University, Mtl, Quebec, Canada
"Never mourn Black Omne"-|_|-Habitat:kiron@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA
__________________________________________________________________
[Archived as /info-mac/game/dungeon-of-doom-winner.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 07:47:38 EST
From: Rob Chandhok <Ravinder.Chandhok@CS.CMU.EDU>
Subject: EtherTalk and Virtual
>From info-mac:
>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 89 18:03:57 +0100
>From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
>Subject: Virtual - some praise, some problems
>Summary: Virtual does not work when you're using an ethernet card (at
>least one exception applies, though).
The symptoms you describe can be narrowed down to "Virtual does not work
when using Ethertalk". When you use the Apple EtherTalk card with SU-MacIP
or NCSA (configured properly), they access the card directly, and attach
their own protocol handlers for IP. Thus, they operate completely
independantly of the current AppleTalk driver.
I am interested in this interaction since I have seen weird things happen
with Ethertalk in general, like dropping interrupts, crashing, etc. I
haven't been able to isolate it as well as you, however. Any other stories
about EtherTalk oddities would be welcomed.
Rob Chandhok
School of Computer Science, CMU
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Date: 9 Feb 89 09:00:34 GMT
From: johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
Subject: init cdev -- INIT management utility
[init cdev -- INIT management utility]
Are you plagued by that modern-day irritation experienced by a majority
of Macintosh users? Do you wish you could stop that clock from
interfering with your game of Continuum? Or do you just enjoy
collecting more?
init cdev enables you to activate and deactivate INITs and cdevs at
startup or in the Control Panel. No longer need you move INITs to and
>From your System Folder.
Distributed under the HappiWare System:
IF YOU LIKE IT, REMEMBER TO SMILE!
johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/init-manager.hqx; 19K]
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Date: 8 Feb 89 08:00:45 GMT
From: freek@uva.UUCP (Freek Wiedijk)
Subject: Key Finder DA
[Key Finder DA]
I wrote this desk accessory for those people who, like me, always forget
that the way to type the sign for set inclusion (in the Symbol font) is
"option-n shift-a". (Or was it "option-n shift-o"? :-) )
--
Freek Wiedijk <the Pistol Major> UUCP: uunet!mcvax!uva!freek
#P:+/ = #+/P?*+/ = i<<*+/P?*+/ = +/i<<**P?*+/ = +/(i<<*P?)*+/ = +/+/(i<<*P?)**
[Archived as /info-mac/da/key-finder.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 11:28:30 CST
From: "C.K.Farn" <HT6B0001%TWNMOE10.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Questions on Mac/Ethernet Connection, running TCP/IP or DECNet
Hello,
I have a problem on networking and hope someone can help me.
We are currently running an Ethernet with two types of Hosts: VAX 8650/VMS,
HP 9000-825/UNIX, SUN/UNIX, and a micro VAXIII running ULTRIX serving as a
gateway between DECNET and TCP/IP. IBM compatible PCs are connected on
the network. I have a MacII and a MacSE whcih I want to get on to the
network, to be able to use all the hosts stated above (we may even get an
IBM 9370/VM which will have an Ethernet comms option).
I think K-Fastpath will be too much for me given only two Macs, I am now
considering 3-Com EtherLink Cards. Can anyone who tried this alternative
please tell me whether it is good? What software (one both the Mac end
and on the TCP/IP and DECNet hosts) must I use to at least be able to
do terminal emulation and file transfer?
Best Regards.
Best Regards,
Best Regards,
Farn
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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 08:39:09 PDT
From: Carl Benson <CARL%FHCRCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Radius vs Kurta
I'd been using a Kurta IS/ADB graphics tablet on my Mac SE for a month
or so before making my big upgrade for the year, a Radius Full Page
Display. The FPD is beautiful, but surprise -- the IS/ADB no longer
functions other than as a very expensive mouse. According to Kurta tech
support, this is because the Radius software doesn't follow Apple guide-
lines in some way. Radius has provided a patch to allow the older Kurta
IS/One serial tablets to work on the SE, but refuses (so far) to make a
patch for the IS/ADB.
Kurta said they don't seem to be able to change their Penworks software
to return the full functionality to the tablet.
While the group of people who need both a big display and graphics tablet
is rather small, I think it could grow a lot because this is such a
tremendous combination of tools. For drawing applications, a tablet beats
a mouse in many ways.
The Mac II doesn't have this problem apparently; only the SE.
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Date: 2 Feb 89 14:00:49 GMT
From: sw@kernel.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: tar 1.2.1
[tar 1.2.1]
I received the following bug report about the version of tar that I
posted recently. Since the application is small, I am attaching a
binary of the corrected application. Those of with sources should
apply the fix shown below.
>Msg#:24826 *MACDEV*
>04-01-89 19:10:29 (Read 5 Times)
>From: PAUL RUSSELL
> To: SAK WATHANASIN
>Subj: BUG REPORT
> Sak --
>
> I expect this has already been reported, but there's a bug in the tar
>sources you posted recently. In 'create.c', the following line:
>
> SFPutFile(where, "\pName of TAR file", NIL, NIL, &reply);
>
> should really be:
>
> SFPutFile(where, "\pName of TAR file", "\p", NIL, &reply);
>
>or something similar. This bug causes a garbage default file name in the
>Standard File dialog - not serious I know, but then I'm a perfectionist ;-)
>
> -- Paul
Apologies to those inconvenienced by the problem.
Sak Wathanasin
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other: sw@kernel.co.uk
phone: (+44) 532 444566
snail: Kernel Technology Ltd, 46 The Calls, Leeds LS2 7EY
[Archived as /info-mac/util/tar-121.hqx; 30K]
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 15 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 33
Today's Topics:
32 x 32 background pattern
3D input device for Mac II?
Benchmarks comparing Apples & IBM's
DataDesk keyboard
Displaying Postscript
External Floppy Drive w/MacII
horoscope program
Logout -- Fantastic shutdown utility
MacEnvy 1.0 CDEV
MacEyes - A MultiFinder Toy
MidiMerger 1.0
More pictures
SCSI Reset kludge
Sounds in MicrosoftQuickbasic
Status of FzzPlot
Systems for the Visually Impared
Three Button mouse
TOPS/CG incompatible?
virtual and FullWrite Professional ar incompatible
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Date: 5 Feb 89 12:00:36 GMT
From: pa1087@sdcc19.UCSD.EDU
Subject: 32 x 32 background pattern
[32 x 32 background pattern]
I've wanted to post this for a while. This is what I use as my
standard background pattern for my mac II. It's a lot nicer than
the 8x8 the control panel only lets you have.
-Cris
[Archived as /info-mac/util/32x32-background-pattern.hqx; 3K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 09:21 EDT
From: "RCSDY::YOUNG"@gmr.com
Subject: 3D input device for Mac II?
I seem to recall discussion of a 3D input device for the Macintosh, that
allowed input of x,y,z points from a solid object, but I can find nothing
listed in any of my Mac buyer's guides. Does anyone have the name of the
company that might make such a device?
YOUNG@GMR.COM (csnet or arpanet)
YOUNG%GMR.COM@CSNET-RELAY.CSNET (other)
313-986-1471
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 16:15:23 EST
From: Susan Grajek <GRAJEK%YALEVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Benchmarks comparing Apples & IBM's
At the risk of being told that comparing Apples & IBM's is like comparing
apples & oranges, I'm looking for benchmarks that compare the performance
Apples & IBM microcomputers. If anyone has such benchmarks or specific
references to some, I would appreciate your posting the information.
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Date: Wed 15 Feb 89 13:41:40-PDT
From: Rob Reesor <REESOR@intellicorp.com>
Subject: DataDesk keyboard
I'm curious if users of the DataDesk Mac-101 find it useful.
Rob Reesor
IntelliCorp
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 23:28:09 BST
From: Paul Sutton <pcs%ELECENG.BRADFORD.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Displaying Postscript
Hello,
I have postscript files from various sources (Mac, IBM and
hand-written) and would like to display them graphically on the
screen.
Then I found out that Adobe Illustrator uses postscript to store its
graphics displays, so wouldn't it be possible to read in an existing
PS file, and it would display it graphically?
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work. Looking at the AI files, they
have a lot of prologue statements and from the manual, it seems that
AI's description language isn't really postscript. Incidently, the PS
files I have been trying to display print out perfectly on the
laserwriter. I have tried various things like surrounding this PS with
Adobe Illustrator prologue and trailers. I have read the PS section of
the AI manual, and this seems to confirm that AI using a different
version of PS to save its own files.
My question is - it there a way of reading PS files into AI and
displaying them? Or is there a utility (preferably PD) that converts
normal PS into AI type PS? Or, going back to the original problem, is
there any other way of displaying PS?
Thanks,
Paul.
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Paul Sutton | JANET: pcs@brad.marvin
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, | EARN/BITNET: pcs@marvin.brad.ac.uk
University of Bradford, Bradford, |
West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK | Phone (home): +44.274.726263
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 02:35:48 EST
From: Gregor_Rittinger@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: External Floppy Drive w/MacII
I just got a MacII in my office, right in the place it always
should have been. There's just one problem: it takes too much
space! I really want to have it under the desk, with just the
monitor and keyboard on top. However, when I tried that, I found
it really a pain to keep trying to use the floppy drive. After I
had formulated this great plan to put an external floppy on the
desk, too, I realized that that was not possible. How lame!
Does anyone know the solution to this problem? It seems to me that
all you'd need is the right cable to run between the floppy D-19
and the connector in the Mac. Is this possible?
It would probably be difficult, but I'm willing to try to make the
cable. Where does one get the info on the pinouts? Hardware?
Gregor Rittinger
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 16:13:06 EMT
From: EDMSL%NOBERGEN.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: horoscope program
Does anyone know a program that calculates the planetary positions
and houses needed for making horoscopes? The program should run on
a Macintosh.
Please reply personally to :
Stein Haakon Lygre:
EDMSL at NOBERGEN on BITNET.
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Date: 9 Feb 89 16:00:24 GMT
From: johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
Subject: Logout -- Fantastic shutdown utility
[Logout -- Fantastic shutdown utility]
Logout will tell you how much you've been using your Mac. Simply drop
it into you System Folder and the next time you ShutDown or Restart,
you'll receive the bad news.
Logout may be configured from the Control Panel.
Distributed under the HappiWare System:
IF YOU LIKE IT, REMEMBER TO SMILE!
johnr@runx.ips.oz.au (John Rotenstein)
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/logout.hqx; 19K]
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Date: 8 Feb 89 12:00:53 GMT
From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Subject: MacEnvy 1.0 CDEV
[MacEnvy 1.0 CDEV]
MacEnvy is a freeware cdev ("Control Panel Device") that displays
detailed information about the hardware/software environment it is
running in. With machines being upgraded to various levels of
"in-between" functionality, MacEnvy is useful to quickly determine the
status of one's system variables. Items currently described include
machine type, total amount of installed RAM, processor type,
coprocessor type, presence of PMMU, monitor size, monitor resolution,
graphics model, keyboard type, attached storage devices, presence of
SCSI port, type and size of parameter RAM (clock chip), ROM size and
version, System and Finder versions, version of MultiFinder (if
present), file system in use, name & size of default volume, number of
files and free space on default volume, last backup date, name of
current DA shell, user name (from Chooser), currently selected printer,
AppleTalk driver version number (if loaded), and highest available
version number of the SysEnvirons call. There is also a minimalistic
implementation of Conway's "Game of Life" built in, "for your casual
amusement." Documentation is included.
========== ==========================================
Ken McLeod -------- uucp: felix!dhw68k!thecloud@ics.uci.edu
========== InterNet: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com
==========================================
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/macenvy.hqx; 24K]
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Date: 12 Feb 89 20:01:23 GMT
From: sinclair@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair)
Subject: MacEyes - A MultiFinder Toy
[MacEyes - A MultiFinder Toy]
Here is MacEyes.
There are three motivations for use:
1) A trendy wee MultiFinder utility which watches over your shoulder
at what you are doing and reports back to the Boss.
2) If you cannot find your mouse in your 6 screen Mac II display,
have no fears, follow MacEyes line of vision to find it.
3) It shows that your Mac is still MultiFinding smoothly.
Tested with System 5.0 & 6.0.1 only on a Mac+ & SE, I am sure it works
on a II.
Enjoy!
--
Duncan Sinclair Try one sinclair@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
Computing Science Student of these sinclair@uk.ac.glasgow.cs
...!mcvax!ukc!glasgow!sinclair
Witty Phrase : "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" - Carry On.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/maceyes.hqx; 12K]
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Date: 10 Feb 89 00:00:30 GMT
From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Subject: MidiMerger 1.0
[MidiMerger 1.0]
This is a StuffIt file containing Lightspeed C sources, an LSC library,
and assembly sources for driving a MIDI interface from a Macintosh. The
original assembly-code module was written by Kirk Austin, and is PD.
The higher-level MIDI merging routines are by me, and PD also.
The StuffIt archive contains a README file which describes the modules
and documents the procedures provided.
--
Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c-midimerger.hqx; 44K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 20:23:40 EDT
From: ULMO031%FRORS12.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: More pictures
I'm looking for images for the Mac II. Especially GIF pictures
because I know there are plenty of them on Compuserve I think.
Recently, a moderator has posted a few pictures...Nice. Would it
be possible to go on and have in <info-mac> a lot of them ? I mean
only the nice pictures....Those that look great.
Another question : CVirtual sounds like a nice product. I believe
Apple will soon make something that looks like Virtual. The only
problem is : Virtual can work with 2Mb, but will Apple product work
with that few ? And when will I see it ? (By the way, what is the
address of the one that seel Virtual ?)
Alain Raynaud <ULMO031@FRORS12.BITNET>
[We'll take any GIF pictures that aren't copyrighted. -Bill]
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Date: 15 Feb 89 1403 PST
From: Tovar <TVR@sail.stanford.edu>
Subject: SCSI Reset kludge
The Macintosh Technical Note #96 (SCSI Bugs) has an answer for this:
> In the process of looking for a bootable SCSI device, the boot code
> issues a SCSI bus reset before each attempt to read block 0 from a
> device. If the read fails for any reason, the boot code goes on to
> the next device. SCSI devices which implement the Unit Attention
> condition as defined by the Revision 17B SCSI standard will fail to
> boot in this case. (...) If no other device is bootable, the boot
> code will eventually cycle back to the same SCSI device ID, reset
> the bus (causing Unit Attention in the drive again), and try to read
> block 0 (which fails for the same reason).
We had a problem like that on an older MacPlus (actually an upgraded Mac), and
ended up using a solution recommended by the company which packaged the drive
(i forget who actually manufactured it). I'm not sure i recommend the
solution myself, particularly if you have more than one device on your SCSI
bus, but perhaps it might help someone out. They suggested disconnecting the
SCSI RESET line. There's an easy way of doing this, which i will explain,
but you'll have to look up in I-M IV which pin to do this to, so i can be
sure that people who attempt this will at least have some vague understanding
of electricity (and also because i'm lazy).
Go down to your friendly neighborhood electronics supply (e.g. someone better
than Radio Shack) and get two 25D ("EIA") connectors, one of each sex. Make
sure one is the solder type and the other intended for wire-wrap use (with
shorter tails if you have a choice). It doesn't matter which is of which sex
as long as they are different. Cut the off most of the wire-wrap pin
corresponding to SCSI reset. Then, insert the remaining 24 wire-wrap pins
into the corresponding solder connections of the other sex of socket, and
solder all 24 pins. If you got the shorter type of wire-wrap connector, this
will be reasonably strong mechanically, but others may want to improvise.
By the way, the same technique works great for fixing things up when a
manufacturer gets confused about the RS232 standard. Cut the confused pins
in half. Wrap on one side and solder the other. One usually swaps TD&RD,
RTS&CTS, and DTR&DSR. Solder the remaining pins. Other times (DIN8 adapters
in particular), RTS/CTS don't support RTS/CTS. In that case, jumper these to
the other on each sex of connector and don't cross connect. Of course, these
hacks do not work with two connectors of the same sex.
--- Tovar
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Date: 15 Feb 89 10:54:00 EST
From: "STC::EJN" <ejn%stc.decnet@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Sounds in MicrosoftQuickbasic
I am interested in finding if (or how) I can put digitized sounds recorded with
MacRecorder (from Farallon) into callable routines from Quickbasic.
E. Nall
<EJN@ORNLSTC>
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 10:01:26 EST
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Status of FzzPlot
It has been a long time since I've upgraded FzzPlot; the latest version
available is 7.2, and it's long out of date.
I am working on the next version,dubbed FzzPlot Prime. It offers
considerable improvements over both the old FzzPlot and over Cricket Graph,
to wit:
- An integrated text editor for preparing data files. The text
editor can handle anything that can fit into memory (i.e. no 32K
limits).
- The graphing section has been enhanced and speeded up considerably;
it's about an order of magnitude faster than the previous FzzPlot,
and supports multiple graphed datasets, mixing of line and scatter
graphs, varying point marker styles, movable titles, use of the
mouse to format the graph on screen, and true WYSIWYG - a graph
can be displayed at full-page size, and scrolled to bring invisible
parts into view.
- graphs can be printed at full resolution on the LaserWriter.
- color is supported on machines so equipped.
- the user interface has been greatly improved.
I'm considering making the next stable alpha version publicly available,
subject to requests from the net.
R.
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 10:57:28 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Systems for the Visually Impared
Someone requested information about systems for the visually impared a while
back and a friend gave me this company's name to post:
Telesensory Systems, Inc.
PO Box 7455
Mountain View, CA 94039
They apparently have been dealing with PC clones for quite some time and are
supposed to be very knowledgable. Good luck.
Jon
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 16:25:37 -0500
From: James J Dempsey <jjd@bbn.com>
Subject: Three Button mouse
Now that we have Mac products like X Windows (under A/UX or White Pine
Software's eXodus under MacOS), MacIvory, and MicroExplorer -- all of
which want a 3 button mouse -- is there anyone out there selling a
three button mouse for the Macintosh?
If so, is it compatible with all products which want a 3 button mouse
or is there currently no standard way to handle 3 buttons?
--Jim Dempsey--
BBN Communications
jjd@bbn.com (ARPA Internet)
..!{decvax, harvard, wjh12, linus}!bbn!jjd
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Date: Wednesday, 15 February 1989 10:19am
From: zoda537@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu ("Josh Hayes")
Subject: TOPS/CG incompatible?
I'm posting this for a friend who is wealthy enough to have
enough computers to need TOPS. His network consists of four
Mac Pluses, three with hard drives (two Jasmine 20s, one Apple
20), and a Laserwriter II. When working on a document in
Cricket Graph, my friend opens a document to print it, then
when he closes it asks if he wants to save the changes. He
says yes, it then tells him that someone has written to the
file since he opened it, does he still want to save those
changes? He says no. It reverts to the first dialog box,
do you want to save changes, and so forth. After going around
this circle a couple times he gives in and says sure, save the
mysterious changes. Bomb id=02. The same application running
on a single Mac without TOPS prints fine. System is 6.0.2,
as far as I know no weird inits or anything (although they
do have vaccine and pyro running). Is there a record of
Cricket Graph not working with TOPS 2.0? It's the most
recent CG, I believe 1.2.....any help would be appreciated.
Please send e-mail to me, or post to the digest if it's of
general interest (I doubt it). Thanks!
Josh Hayes, Zoology Dept., University of Texas, Austin TX 78712
zoda537@uta3081.bitnet
j.hayes@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu
zoda537@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu
or drive out and tell me in person......
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 16:03:01 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: virtual and FullWrite Professional ar incompatible
The subject line says it all: When I try to print in FWP while Virtual
is doing its thing the Mac bombs.
Whatever is it with the FWP programmers? The program looks clean, but
it seems to break whenever somebody comes up with a nifty init or
cdev.
Well, back to Word I guess (I fear).
Sigurd Meldal
Hard mail:
Department of Informatics | Arpa:sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no
Allegt. 55 | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
N - 5007 Bergen | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!meldal
Norway |
phone: +47 5 21 27 10
fax: +47 5 21 28 57
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I have a MacPlus at home and I'd like to use it as a terminal.
Since I have a spare Hayes-compatible modem for my IBM PC, I bought a
DIN8-to-DB25 cable instead of another modem. But I'm having trouble
getting the modem to work. Is there something special that I need to
do or should my modem work just like the modems made by Apple?
Not all DIN8-DB25 cables are alike. The last one i examined muffed the
RS232 standard and would have needed an adapter, like i described in
INFO-MAC earlier today, had not the other end made the same dumb mistake.
Other times, the RS232 end doesn't do anything about RTS/CTS. Again,
you need an adapter, which jumpers RTS to CTS on both sides of it. You
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 16 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 34
Today's Topics:
Alisatalk 3.2
Blind Macintosh users
general purpose simulation software needed ...
GIF pictures
Hypercard stack for USCF race organizers?
KanjiTalk on Macintosh ?
MacBlitz 2.0
Mac SE Speaker
More complaints about MacWeek's Mac user estimates
PosteRestante 2.01
Request for font information: lower case script "ell"
ScreenDump II
ScrollMBar INIT
SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL availability
Sol's Neighbors Stack
Text to MacWrite
Yarrow Stack
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 14:26:45 EST
From: Publice%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Alisatalk 3.2
Hello, I am a worker at the Micro Resources Lab here at the University
of Massachusetts. Currently we are running four Mac II with system 6.0.2
and two Mac SEs. We are using a Vax 2000 workstation as a fileserver,
meaning, it supplies applications to users. We are interested in other
people who are using Alisatalk version 3.2 in a similar way.
I am also writing because of a problem with using system version 6.0.2
with the fileserver. We have noticed that system version 6.0.2 now
no longer supports multilaunching of applications. Meaning, that if
someone is running Finder and tries to access the program on the fileserver,
only the first user will be able to get on. The other option is to run
Multifinder, which presents a problem with some applications (such as
Hypercard), because of the memory usage. On a 1 meg machine,(such as
our Mac SEs), we have had to use an earlier version of the system (4.2)
in order to solve this problem. If anybody out there has another
solution we would be very grateful.
This posting is getting very long, but I wanted to ask one more question.
I am developing a Hypercard stack for my father, and it has a button
which simply asks the user to input what they desire to find, and then
it uses the find whole command in Hypertalk to find it. The script is:
on mouseUp
ask "What is it you wish to find?"
find whole it
end mouseUp
When I try this out, it finds the first occurance of the word or phrase,
but, when I hit return, either bombs or refuses to find the next occurance,
even one on the same page. Is this a limitation of Hypercard? Again,
any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Damian Roskill
Publice@Umass
--------------------------------------------------------
place standard disclaimer here
"Life's like a jigsaw, you get the straight bits
but there's something missing in the middle" -XTC
--------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 20:59 EDT
From: "CHARLES W. WHITE" <CWWHITE%Vax2.Concordia.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Blind Macintosh users
I need to know what software and/or hardware systems are available
to facilitate the use of Macintosh microcomputers by blind users.
I would appreciate any leads as quickly as possible, because I
have a friend who needs to decide on a new computer system. He would
also appreciate the name of someone he could contact re. recommending
a workable system. Please send any available information to:
Charles W. White, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
Telephone (514) 848-2210
E-mail "CWWHITE@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA"
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 21:43:29 EST
From: Ravi.Anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: general purpose simulation software needed ...
I am looking for a general purpose event-driven simulation software
(language) on the Mac II. I had used SIMULA on DEC1090 a few years back
and liked the features. So I'm looking for something with similar
capabilities, e.g. object-oriented (or Class-based; SIMULA does it with CLASS)
with features to activate, suspend, reactivate, hold etc., and built-in
functions for various probability distributions. Is there any such package
available? If not, what is the closest available? I would greatly appreciate
pointers.
Please send e-mail to anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Thanks in advance,
Ravi.
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 21:33:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Joseph Darweesh <md32+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: GIF pictures
If anyone is interested in trading GIF pictures, send me a list of you
Gif pictures and I'll do the same. I have over 200 I believe (I stopped
counting) and more thatn any ftp server so let me know.
Mike Darweesh
CMU Macintosh Users Group Treasurer
md32@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: 16 Feb 89 11:05:00 EST
From: "ARTIC::HALPIN" <halpin%artic.decnet@alexandria-emh2.army.mil>
Subject: Hypercard stack for USCF race organizers?
I am an active race organizer and USCF official (that is the United
States Cycling Federation for those who don't recognize USCF);
I have made a few feeble attempts to construct a stack to help me
keep track of data on racers registered, results by stage and
overall, etc. I finally developed a Helix data base to do the same
thing, but think that is overkill. Besides, by using hyperCard I
could do more to customize the interface, allowing someone else to
do the data entry without being a knowledgeable user, thereby
allowing me to watch the races.
I have heard rumors that someone at Stanford or at Apple
has developed such a stack. If anyone could give me any leads I would
greatly appreciate it.
Reply to halpin@alexandria-emh2.army.mil
Thanks! Stan Halpin
Remember: There is a fine line between a challenge and a pain-in-the-as
s.
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 16:33:53 GMT
From: mcvax!cs.aber.ac.uk!cho@uunet.uu.net
Subject: KanjiTalk on Macintosh ?
Does anyone have any details of the Apple Programmer's Development
Association, Renton, nr. Seattle ? I have been informed that they
supply a Japanese operating system for the Macintosh and would very
much like to buy a copy,
Best Regards,
Chris Orgill, tel +44 970 623111 x3227
Computer Science Department, cho%cs.aber.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net (ARPA)
University College of Wales, cho@uk.ac.aber.cs (JANET)
Aberystwyth, Dyfed, United Kingdom. SY23 3BZ.
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Date: 15 February 1989 00:28:21 CST
From: <PUDAITE@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: MacBlitz 2.0
MacBlitz is a fast-paced, multi-player HyperCard card game that
resembles the solitaire game Canfield. MacBlitz pits the human player
against three computer opponents in a simultaneous race to empty their
stacks of ten "blitz" cards.
MacBlitz 2.0 features the following enhancements from MacBlitz 1.0 (I
have also interspersed tips, comments and questions about HyperCard):
1. MacBlitz 2.0 no longer requires a ram disk for optimum
performance. HyperCard 1.0 and 1.1 continually update a stack to disk
storage whenever possible, slowing down script execution and
disturbing. The only way to reduce this disturbance was to make disk
access as fast as possible, for example, by using a ram disk. MacBlitz
2.0 makes use of the "Write-Protect" property introduced in HyperCard
1.2 to eliminate disk accesses (except for a few initial reads), thus
ensuring smoother mouse-tracking, even faster play than with a ram
disk, and saving wear and tear on disk drives. With this enhancement,
MacBlitz 2.0 runs very nicely even on a Mac Plus with just the
internal floppy drive.
HyperCard specifics. What I do at the beginning of a playing session
is:
set cantModify of this stack to true -- turn write-protection on
set userModify to true -- allow the user to make changes to cards
-- (necessary in order to play the game)
When the user wants to finish playing, I use the following message
handler:
on storeThisCard
if cantModify of this stack then
set cursor to busy
lock screen
doMenu "Copy Card"
set cantModify of this stack to false
doMenu "Delete Card"
doMenu "Paste Card"
unlock screen
end if
end storeThisCard
This message handler has to be placed in the stack's script because
the card must be deleted (and it is the only card of that particular
background). A slightly different script would be required to store
changes made to a card while it was write-protected if that card was
the only one in the stack. You would have to paste the modified card
first, then go to the old card and delete it.
HyperCard bug or feature? When you turn write-protection off, the
values of the global variables revert back to their values before
write-protection was turned on. It took me a while to figure out what
was happening.
Mac II problems (with HyperCard 1.2.1 and System 6.0.2). Even with
write-protection on, the Mac II mouse still occasionally skips (the
Mac Plus mouse works fine; I haven't had a chance to test MacBlitz on
an SE). As best as I can tell, this is a typical situation when this
occurs: a button's icon is being changed, and the mouse passes over a
button (not necessarily the same one) with a mouseEnter or mouseLeave
message handler. Is this caused by the ADB? Is there any way to work
around this problem? Also, the sounds sometimes get frazzled, even if
I only play sounds when 'the sound = "done"'. I've heard a rumor that
this has been corrected in HyperCard 1.2.2. Is this true?
2. Improved algorithm for the programmed players (who compete against
the user). The new algorithm is less likely to clog up the tableau.
It may also choose to keep playing even after the last blitz card is
played. Because of this, game scores tend to be higher, so the score
required to win a match has been raised to 2500 points.
3. Extended handicapping. Were you able to beat MacBlitz 1.0's
programmed players even with a handicap of 0? MacBlitz 2.0 allows
negative handicaps, giving the programmed players extra cycles and
points to keep pace with MacBlitz experts! Now you can find (and
compare) your true playing ability. MacBlitz 2.0 also displays
information about your handicap on the playing card. More details in
the stack.
4. Many message handlers have been optimized for both size and speed
(where trade-offs occur, scripts are optimized for speed; e.g.,
whenever you can optionally use "the", scripts execute faster if you
DO put it in). Performance of all of the game-time scripts has been
dramatically boosted -- some critical script sequences now execute
twice as fast as before. Perhaps your MacBlitz 2.0 handicap will stay
positive!
5. The "clerical" message handlers have been cleaned up. In
particular, the one in the "names" field that keeps track of who is
playing and matches in progress is a lot more robust. Also, the game
button has a new option that allows you to reset if, for instance,
your machine crashes during a game and trashes the game variables.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/macblitz-20.hqx; 94K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 20:02 CST
From: <CCLARK%UTMEM2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac SE Speaker
Has anyone ever replaced or heard of replacing the Macintosh SE's speaker
with one that produces somewhat better sound reproduction? I don't even
know what the impedance of the little devil is, but if anyone has ever tried
this I'd like to hear about it.
Cole Clark
University of Tennessee, Memphis
CCLARK@UTMEM1 (BitNET)
FCCLARKJR (GEnie)
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 16:15:07 EST
From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White)
Subject: More complaints about MacWeek's Mac user estimates
Someone already responded about how Colgate's listed numbers (1000 Macs
and 100%) were way off (I think the person said it was closer to 500 and 10%).
I'd like to point out another that, that of Drexel University. The article
(actually usenet posting) gave values of 1100 users and less than 50%. Slightly
off.
How about 10,000 Macs and 100% usage? Since 1983's freshman class, EVERY
freshmen has been required to purchase a Macintosh. In fact, Drexel was the
FIRST college to require Mac's of all it's students. Therefore, considering
how far off they were in just these two cases, I wouldn't put much belief
in any of their other listings.
Jeff White
Univ of Penn - CETS
jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
------------------------------
Date: 7 Feb 89 16:00:26 GMT
From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Subject: PosteRestante 2.01
[PosteRestante 2.01]
Poste Restante is a cdev/INIT which implements a primitive mailing system
on any network of Macs running a file server. It requires no dedicated
mac of its own, is small, and covers the basics of mail handling. I wrote
it after we tied into the campus network (300 nodes in 12 zones), when
InBox started taking five or six minutes to locate its mail server.
Poste Restante is posted in partial response to a discussion in comp.sys.
mac.programmer about implementing mail systems. Anyone who wants source
code should send me e-mail.
The one bug (in ABOUT... on a Mac II) doesn't affect operation and won't
crash anything; it'll be fixed soon. Poste Restante is ostensibly
shareware, but you know what that means (:-[).
Nick Jackiw
Visual Geometry Project
UUCP: ...!rutgers!bpa!swatsun!jackiw
Internet: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu
Bitnet: jackiw%campus.swarthmore.edu@swarthmr.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/poste-restante-201.hqx; 37K]
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 15:07:54 PST
From: jpl06!john@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Request for font information: lower case script "ell"
I have need to produce lower case script "l" (that is "ell", the 12-th
letter of the alphabet) within "Word" documents. I understand that
the "Princeton" font will do this (option-shift-B, I'm told), but I
cannot find Princeton font anywhere. Can someone tell me where I can
get a copy of Princeton font? Is there a better way?
Thanks in advance.
John Armstrong
jpl06!john@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
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Date: 13 Feb 89 00:00:48 GMT
From: gwills@maths.tcd.ie (Graham Wills)
Subject: ScreenDump II
[ScreenDump II - part 1 of 5]
Here is the promised ScreenDumpII utility. It is totally self-
explanatory.
Graham Wills, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/screendump-ii.hqx; 151K]
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Date: 7 Feb 89 09:00:32 GMT
From: timo@Apple.COM (Timo Bruck)
Subject: ScrollMBar INIT
[ScrollMBar INIT]
The ScrollMbar init will scroll the menu bar if it is too wide to fit on the
Macintosh screen. It was written by Greg Brewer (a friend of mine who does not
have access to the net).
--
Timo Bruck - Software Navigator | My fish, were it still
AppleLink: Timo | alive, would share my
Internet: timo@apple.com | opinions, but I doubt
UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hoptoad,nsc,sun}!apple!timo | anyone else (even
Day Phone: 408/974-3319 | Apple) would!
[Archived as /info-mac/init/scrollmbar.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 16:12:03 GMT
From: PMIDS%FRPOLY11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL availability
A SNOBOL4 interpreter is available for the Mac II, and a SPITBOL system should
be available in a few weeks. A few weeks ago I gave some out-of-date
information in reply to:
> From: "Jeff Balvanz" <GR.JLB%ISUMVS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
> Subject: Looking for Mac SNOBOL
> To all: we are looking for a Macintosh implementation of either
> SPITBOL or SNOBOL for the Macintosh. A check of our software
> catalogs indicated no interpreters for either commerically
> available. Does anyone know of anyone offering either language ...
I have received some more info, and summarize here.
The SNOBOL4 interpreter ported by Kim Leeper in London is available from
Human-Computer Interface Ltd.
25 City Road
CAMBRIDGE CB1 1DP
England
(0)223-314934 [drop the 0 for international calls]
It's called HCI SNOBOL, has a stand-alone development system, and uses
a C-based library for its I/O. It costs 199 pounds (about $350 US--tho
if someone would distribute it in the U.S., the price might could drop to
something reasonable, a third or fourth (judging from what happens
when Mac software moves from French interior market to the U.S.))
One user of this SNOBOL reported:
> Some impressions:
> it's OK, but doesn't get you very far down into the Mac, which makes
> the interface not as good as it should be. Reading/writing to/from
> multiple files is particularly troublesome.
He also found it disappointingly slow.
A SPITBOL implementation is in the last stages of preparation--only a
couple of appendices in the documentation, maybe two more weeks,
according to the author. It's called MaxSPITBOL. Contact Mark Emmer,
Catspaw, Inc., P.O. Box 1123, Salida, Colorado 81201 U.S.A.
Telephone: 719-539-3884
E-Mail: {uunet | allegra | noao}!arizona!cats!mark
or: emmer@arizona.edu
He says it will run 7-10 times faster than HCI SNOBOL. It has some access
to the Mac interface (file dialogs and alerts). It has a multi-windowed
stand-alone development system, on-line help with language reference,
directly accesses the 68881 co-processor and 68020-specific integer
instructions if available for faster math, etc. It will $195 plus shipping.
(This announcement also indicates that a stand-along version of the Icon
language is in preparation for the Mac--maybe midyear?)
Background ... SNOBOL4 is a pattern-matching and text-processing
language developed years ago at Bell Labs (indeed, an early form of SNOBOL
is included in the standard Unix release, although it doesn't seem to be used
much). SNOBOL4 is to text manipulation about what APL is to calculations--
it is amazing how something that takes pages in normal languages can be
written in a few SNOBOL4 lines. You can essentially write the Backus-Nahr
description of a syntax, and voila! you have a syntax checker in SNOBOL4.
(Icon is a rather different kind of language, developed at U. of Arizona
by some of the original SNOBOL authors.)
SNOBOL has a small but loyal following. E.g., researchers analyzing literature,
and (according to rumor) the NSA (who, again according to rumor, run it on
Crays ... to break codes? to figure out what we say over long distance
phone conversations?)
The SIL implementation of SNOBOL4 is in a portable macro language; not too
hard to port, renowned for being slow. SPITBOL is another portable imple-
mentation of SNOBOL4, as well as an extension to the language. It uses some
kind of compilation to an intermediate form, and the macro implementation
is based on a multi-register machine model which gives good performance on CPUs
like the VAX and the 68000.
See my previous posting for info on SNOBOL newsletters from U of Arizona
(they have one on Icon also) and from Catspaw.
Darrell Skinner Paris, France
I(nformatique)Mail: PMIDS@FRPOLY11.BITNET
E(scargo)Mail: Labo PMI / Ecole Polytechnique / 91128 Palaiseau France
Disclaimer: I have interest (though none financial) in these products.
I don't even know these guys (except I've talked to both authors by phone,
they seem nice enough fellows ...)
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Date: 5 Feb 89 14:00:47 GMT
From: gordon@june.cs.washington.edu (Allyn)
Subject: Sol's Neighbors Stack
[Sol's Neighbors Stack - part 1 of 3]
I am posting this stack, Sol's Neighbors for a friend. Here are his
notes about it:
Sol's Neighbors - This stack provides a star catalogue of all the
stars within 16 light years of the solar system. Standard astronomical
methods are used to estimate the diameter of each star and its angular
size in the sky, as viewed from a hypothetical planet receiving the
same energy-density of sunlight as does the Earth. These sizes are
represented graphically on each card. In addition, the stack will
compute the distance from one star to another and will provide a three
dimensional map showing the positions of selected stars. I wrote this
stack because it was information I wanted organized in this way for
possible use in future SF novels, since these are the stars that
humanity will colonize first.
John G. Cramer
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/sols-neighbors.hqx; 85K]
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Date: 10 Feb 89 17:00:38 GMT
From: grh@rhi.hi.is (Gisli Runar Hjaltason)
Subject: Text to MacWrite
[Text to MacWrite]
txtomw is a skeleton program for converting text files into MacWrite
documents complete with formatting changes. It is written in MPW C
2.0.2, but it should be easy to modify so it compiles under other C
compilers (e.g. under UNIX as someone wanted to do) if you have the
necessary Macintosh header files.
The following BinHexed StuffIt file contains the source file txtomw.c
and its header file txtomw.h. More info is included in the files.
Gisli Runar Hjaltason
University of Iceland
grh@rhi.hi.is
grh@krafla.UUCP
[Archived as /info-mac/source/text-to-macwrite.hqx; 11K]
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Date: 6 Feb 89 18:00:25 GMT
From: gordon@june.cs.washington.edu (Allyn)
Subject: Yarrow Stack
[Yarrow Stack]
I am posting this stack, Yarrow, for a friend. Here are his notes
about it:
This HyperCard stack is semi-freeware, and is to be distributed as
widely as possible on any and all computer networks and bulletin boards
which provide for downloading of Macintosh software.
Yarrow (I Ching) - This stack is aimed at the New Agers out there in
Macintosh land. It uses HyperTalk commands to simulate manipulation of
the yarrow stalks used in the most traditional form of the I Ching
oracle procedure. After the yarrow stalks are manipulated and the
lines are cast, it consults a condensed version of the I Ching and
provides a primary oracular reading. Secondary readings if the moving
lines must use a printed version of the I Ching.
John G. Cramer
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/yarrow.hqx; 40K]
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Subject: VersaCad user group?
My dad recently purchased VersaCad for his Mac II and is wondering if there
are any VersaCad user groups out there. Any pointers will be appreciated.
He would also be interested in talking with others using the program to
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Thank you all who responded to my distress message on using
the MAC SE as a terminal. After trying and testing all the
suggestions, my sad conclusion is that I could'nt use the
modems that were lent to me. So I have decided to buy a
Packard Bell modem which is advertised in the VISA citishopper
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 20 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 35
Today's Topics:
APDA
Color Printing on Mac+
DataDesk 101
hard disk
Heard of PSPICE?
lower case script ell
Mounting Mac II under the desk
se/30 80 partition
TMON 2.8.1 and 68030s
Word processing bibliography builders?
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 09:01:28 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: APDA
APDA (Apple Programmers and Developers Association) is now part of
Apple Computer. They can be reached by mail addressed to
APDA, Apple Computer Inc., 20525 Mariani Avenue, MS: 33-G,
Cupertino, CA 95014-6299 USA. Dues is $20/year (US), $25 (Canada),
$35 (elsewhere).
They can also be reached on various networks, faxed at (408) 562-3971,
telexed at 171-576.
They can be reached from BITNET by sending a message to
TO: XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET
with a subject
SUBJECT: APDA@APPLELINK
An actual subject can be entered by putting an exclamation point
after APPLELINK. For example:
SUBJECT: APDA@APPLELINK!Kanjii for the Mac.
(Sorry for all the carbons, but I wasn't sure what would work.)
Alan H. Stein Department of Mathematics
The University of Connecticut at Waterbury
32 Hillside Avenue, Waterbury, CT 06710
(203) 757-1231
Internet: stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
BITNET: STEIN@UCONNVM
UUCP: {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 17:56 CST
From: <BPB9204%TAMVENUS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Color Printing on Mac+
After reading an article in the recent _Scientific American_ about the
Mandelbrot set, I wanted to write my own version to examine the character-
istics of the set. What I want to do is draw the area of the set I'm look-
ing at on the screen(in pattens), but also have the option to print it in
color (with IW2) without the patterns. Is that possible having the program
draw in patterns but print in solid colors? Would I have to draw patterns
to the screen, then when I print, redraw with colors?
I also need some info about the printing techniques in a program. If
someone has some Pascal source available showing the print Mgr calls, I'd
appreciate receiving a copy.
Send any replies to: BPB9204@TAMVENUS (BITnet)
By the way, I'm writing it with these intentions on a Mac plus.
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 18:07:03 est
From: "Gregory N. Shapiro" <gshapiro@wpi.wpi.edu>
Subject: DataDesk 101
>I'm curious if users of the DataDesk Mac-101 find it useful.
>
>Rob Reesor
>IntelliCorp
Rob-
I have a DataDesk 101 connected to my Mac Plus. I'd say it is a
definite improvement over the standard Mac Plus keyboard all around.
I haven't used one on the Mac SE/II/SEx/IIx/IIcx. I would venture to say
that it is comparable to the Extended Keyboard and the choice is yours
since it only depends on the feel you like from the keyboard. I also
like the DataDesk on the Mac Plus since it has the extra keys and I find
myself using the keyboard more than the mouse through macroing. The
keyboard comes with a macro program but I strongly suggest QuickKeys since
it is the best around. QuickKeys comes with an init for the DataDesk
keyboard.
Greg
_____________________________________________________________________________
Gregory Shapiro Gregory Shapiro
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester Polytechnic Institute
GSHAPIRO@WPI.BITNET Box 1397
GSHAPIRO@WPI.WPI.EDU (130.215.24.1) 100 Institute Road
GEnie: THE.CYCLOPS Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
MacNet: GShapiro United States
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Date: 17 Feb 89 00:22:37 GMT
From: zz1he%sdcc19@ucsd.edu (Heather Ebey)
Subject: hard disk
I'm looking for a fairly fast, reliable hard disk in the 20-45MB
size. Should be under 40ms, hopefully pretty quiet and stackable
(rear or side ventilation) and under $700. It will be used as an
AppleShare file server, connected to a MacPlus.
Any suggestions? I have priced the CMS SDU-30, which is within
our budget, but I've heard they are unreliable. I've also gotten
pricing on a MicroNet NS30 and a MacBest 30MB. Any one of these
might do, but I can't find spec sheets or one in stock. Anyone
know about reliability and noise on these units?
Thanks.
----------hebey@ucsd (Internet, Bitnet, UUCP )-------------
Heather Ebey, Micro Support Voice: (619) 534-2448
UCSD, Academic Computing Center, C-010, La Jolla, CA. 92093
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 19:39:43 EST
From: x86fosmoe@gw.wmich.edu
Subject: Heard of PSPICE?
Hello,
Just wondering if anyone out there in netland has come across
a student version of PSPICE (circuit simulation program) for the MAC.
If *ANYONE* has heard of such a program, please send mail to 602FOSMOE
@gw.wmich.edu on the internet. I would also appreciate any information
regarding any simulation program similiar to PSPICE.
Thanks
Richard T. Fosmoe
602FOSMOE@GW.WMICH.EDU
X86FOSMOE@GW.WMICH.EDU
FOSMOE@WMU-CS
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Date: 17 Feb 89 09:34:00 EST
From: "ZZT" <zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: lower case script ell
lower case script "ell"
There is both a screen verison and postscript version of the lower
case script "ell" (the one with a loop in it) in both the Bartholomew
and Bellsley fonts. They are located in the info-mac archives as:
/font/belsley-bartholomew.hqx; 67K.
Jon Tischler, ORNL
DDN: zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
Bitnet: zzt@ornlstc
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 07:22 EST
From: "Harry E. Bates" <E7P2BAT%TOWSONVX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mounting Mac II under the desk
Gregor_Rittinger@um.cc.umich.edu writes:
>I just got a MacII in my office, right in the place it always
>should have been. There's just one problem: it takes too much
>space! I really want to have it under the desk, with just the...
I am also considering putting my II under the desk. The most
convenient way to do it is place it in a rack on its side. The unit
was clearly not designed to be mounted this way. Is it safe to do
so? Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Harry E. Bates
Towson State University
Department of Physics
Baltimore, MD 21204
HBATES@TOWSONVX
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Date: Fri 17 Feb 1989 00:12 CDT
From: <MMPR004%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: se/30 80 partition
I just wanted to know if anyone has used any partition software with the
se/30 80meg drive from apple. I really need to use a password partition
that will work with the se30. I tried the software that came with my old
jasmine 20...but it wouldnt recognize device 0. Any suggestions would
really be welcome.
scott hutinger
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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 89 18:17:57 est
From: Waldemar Horwat <waldemar@VX.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: TMON 2.8.1 and 68030s
An incompatibility exists between TMON 2.8.1 and 68030-based machines such as
the Macintosh IIx and the Macintosh SE/030. The problem is that the TMON
loader does not recognize the 68030 as one of the processors it knows about
and, therefore, refuses to load the Monitor. This can be easily fixed using
either MPW or ResEdit as follows:
If you have MPW, use the following script. Change all <d>'s to the Macintosh
delta character (option-d) and then run the script.
Directory {Boot}'System Folder:' #...or whatever directory TMON is in.
Echo "include <d>"TMON<d>" ;" <d>
"include <d>"TMON<d>" 'MonI' (2) AS 'MonI' (3) ;" <d>
"include <d>"TMON<d>" 'MonC' (2) AS 'MonC' (3) ;" <d>
| Rez -a -t APPL -c TMON -o "TMON"
If you have ResEdit, do the following:
Open the TMON application and find the MonC resources. You will find two
resources numbered 0 and 2. Duplicate resource 2 using Duplicate in the Edit
menu; this will produce a copy with a random number. Use Get Info to renumber
the new resource to the number 3. Repeat the above steps for the MonI
resources in TMON. Quit and save TMON.
You now have upgraded your TMON 2.8.1 to 2.8.2; you may change the version
numbers if you wish.
The above procedure works *only* for TMON 2.8.1. If you have an earlier TMON,
contact ICOM Simulations about upgrading it to version 2.8.2.
Waldemar Horwat
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 11:12:19 -0500 (EST)
From: David Reed <dr2g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Word processing bibliography builders?
Is anyone aware of a word processing program available on the Mac
with the ability to build a bibliography or reference section using an
outside database file of sources? For example, in Scribe one simply
has to reference the source by its "tag", as defined in a separate
bibliography file, and it will automatically construct the reference
section for printing in the appropriate format. Such a system of
cross-referencing is not available in MacWrite or Word.
Any suggestions of how to make developing a bibliography in Word a less
tedious and painful process?
Dave Reed
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∂21-Feb-89 1506 RLM@score.stanford.edu Wanted: Screen Saver...
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...the kind where the stars rush by you. I'm new to the Mac and
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∂21-Feb-89 2206 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu PICT
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Does anyone know the structure of the PICT file format or know where I can
find this information out? Someone mailed me a disk with a file in PICT
format and I need to do some computations on the individual pixels for
a project.
Thanks,
Dave Alexander
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Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: PICT
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In article <7060@polya.Stanford.EDU> david@polya.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes:
>
>Does anyone know the structure of the PICT file format or know where I can
>find this information out? Someone mailed me a disk with a file in PICT
>format and I need to do some computations on the individual pixels for
>a project.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave Alexander
The PICT file format is fairly complex; unfortunately, it does not contain the
individual pixels that you seek. Instead, it is a sequence of drawing
commands. The file format and the resource format differ somewhat, but they
basically go as follows:
size of picture in bytes (2 bytes)
rectangle coordinates (standard Quickdraw rect-8 bytes)
{picture data itself-variable size}
I may have the size and rectangle backwards, but it follows the format of
the QuickDraw PicRecord (or whatever a PicHandle references). Also, PICT
files have a 512 byte header (or 256 or 1024--sorry, I don't remember) which
contains data specific to the application; typically this is stuff like
patterns, etc.
One of the technotes (I think it is #86) describes the PICT resource format
in detail; I can upload and send it to anybody who wants it (send email to
erberman@portia.stanford.edu if you want a copy).
If you want to work on the pixels, what I would do is the following:
1) Declare a PicHandle. If you are reading from a PICT file, skip the first
512 bytes and allocate enough space to read in the rest of the file, then read
it in. If you are reading from a PICT resource (like in the scrapbook or
clipboard), simply do a "my_Pic := GetPicture(pic_ID)" to load it in.
2) Draw the picture on the screen with a DrawPicture call as follows:
DrawPicture(my_Pic,my_Pic↑↑.picRect)
(Again, I am doing this from memory; I may have the order of the arguments
backwards and I the picture rectangle field may not be picRect, but you get
the idea...)
3) Read the bits off of the screen or directly from the bitmap.
--Eric Berman
(erberman@portia.stanford.edu)
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In article <440@Portia.Stanford.EDU> erberman@Portia.UUCP (Eric Berman) writes:
>In article <7060@polya.Stanford.EDU> david@polya.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know the structure of the PICT file format or know where I can
>
>the QuickDraw PicRecord (or whatever a PicHandle references). Also, PICT
>files have a 512 byte header (or 256 or 1024--sorry, I don't remember) which
>contains data specific to the application; typically this is stuff like
>patterns, etc.
Like the above, this is from memory, but:
- MacPaint files have a 512 byte header then packed bits
- PICT files are just the picture data, with no header
There's no way in h*ll that you want to fool with the picture definition
format. Thus to get the bits in a PICT file,
1. Find the size of the data fork in bytes
2. Allocate a handle big enough to hold the picture
3. Read the data fork into the handle
4. Draw the picture in a grafport (as in previous message)
5. Examine the bits in the grafport
Randy
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In article <7060@polya.Stanford.EDU> david@polya.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes:
>
>Does anyone know the structure of the PICT file format or know where I can
>find this information out? Someone mailed me a disk with a file in PICT
>format and I need to do some computations on the individual pixels for
>a project.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave Alexander
>
>
>
I just got another version of the same file, this time in TIFF format.
I don't know what TIFF is, but the file is about 2x the size of the PICT
file. I also got a note saying the picture was 976x1045 pixels with 16
shades of grey, which should work out to (...quick calculation...
976x1045x4/8 = ) 707600 bytes, and the TIFF version of the file happens
to be 707702 bytes. Is the TIFF format just some header followed by the
pixels, and would this be easier for me to work with to get at the individual
pixels? I do not know enough about programming in the Mac environment,
i.e. QuickDraw, to implement the various suggestions for PICT that have
appeared in this group, though I would like to thank those who posted those
replies.
Thanks again for indulging a MacNeophyte.
Dave Alexander
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In article <7148@polya.Stanford.EDU> david@polya.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes:
>In article <7060@polya.Stanford.EDU> david@polya.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know the structure of the PICT file format or know where I can
>>find this information out? Someone mailed me a disk with a file in PICT
>>format and I need to do some computations on the individual pixels for
>>a project.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Dave Alexander
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>I just got another version of the same file, this time in TIFF format.
>I don't know what TIFF is, but the file is about 2x the size of the PICT
>file. I also got a note saying the picture was 976x1045 pixels with 16
>shades of grey, which should work out to (...quick calculation...
>976x1045x4/8 = ) 707600 bytes, and the TIFF version of the file happens
>to be 707702 bytes. Is the TIFF format just some header followed by the
>pixels, and would this be easier for me to work with to get at the individual
>pixels? I do not know enough about programming in the Mac environment,
>i.e. QuickDraw, to implement the various suggestions for PICT that have
>appeared in this group, though I would like to thank those who posted those
>replies.
>
>Thanks again for indulging a MacNeophyte.
>
>Dave Alexander
TIFF is simply another format for transmitting graphical information that is
even more screwed up than the PICT file format. If I can find it, I will
post the file format for TIFF. In any case, here is the Mac TechNote that
describes the PICT format. I will also post the file format for MacPaint
documents, so if you can use any program to put the picture onto the clipboard
then dump it into macpaint, you can access the macpaint file.
--Eric Berman
Technical Note #21 page of 6 QuickDrawUs Internal Picture Definition
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Macintosh Technical Notes p
#21: QuickDrawUs Internal Picture Definition
See also: QuickDraw
Programming in Assembly Language
Technical Note #35QQuickDraw Picture Problem
Technical Note #59QPictures and Clip Regions
Written by: Ginger Jernigan April 24, 1985
Modified: Rick Blair November 15, 1986
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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This technical note describes the internal format of the QuickDraw picture data
structure. This revision corrects some errors in the opcode descriptions and provides
some examples.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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This technical note describes the long-awaited internal definition of the QuickDraw
picture. The information given here only applies to QuickDraw picture format version
1.0 (which is also created by the 128K ROMs). It should not be used to write your own
picture bottleneck procedures; if we add new objects to the picture definition, your
program will not be able to operate on pictures created using standard QuickDraw. Your
program will not know the size of the new objects and will, therefore, not be able to
proceed past the new objects. (What this ultimately means is that you canUt process a
new picture with an old bottleneck proc.)
Terms
An opcode is a number that DrawPicture uses to determine what object to draw or what
mode to change for subsequent drawing. The following list gives the opcode, the name
of the object (or mode), the associated data, and the total size of the opcode and
data. To better interpret the sizes, please refer to page 4 in the RProgramming in
Assembly LanguageS chapter of Inside Macintosh. For types not described there, here is
a quick list:
opcode byte
mode word
point 4 bytes
0..255 byte
P128..127 signed byte
rect 8 bytes
poly 10+ bytes (starts with word size for poly (incl. size word)
region 10+ bytes (starts with word size for region (incl. size
word)
fixed point number long
pattern 8 bytes
rowbytes word (always even)
bit data rowbytes * (bounds.bottom - bounds.top) bytes
Each picture definition begins with a picsize (word), then a picframe (rect), and then
the picture definition, which consists of a combination of the following opcodes:
Opcode Name Additional Data Total Size
(bytes)
00 NOP none 1
01 clipRgn rgn 1+rgn
02 bkPat pattern 9
03 txFont font (word) 3
04 txFace face (byte) 2
05 txMode mode (word) 3
06 spExtra extra (fixed point) 5
07 pnSize pnSize (point) 5
08 pnMode mode (word) 3
09 pnPat pattern 9
0A thePat pattern 9
0B ovSize point 5
0C origin dh, dv (words) 5
0D txSize size (word) 3
0E fgColor color (long) 5
0F bkColor color (long) 5
10 txRatio numer (point), denom (point) 9
11 picVersion version (byte) 2
20 line pnLoc ( point ), newPt ( point ) 9
21 line from newPt ( point ) 5
22 short line pnLoc ( point ); dh, dv (-128..127) 7
23 short line from dh, dv (-128..127) 3
28 long text txLoc ( point ), count (0..255), text 6+text
29 DH text dh (0..255), count (0..255), text 3+text
2A DV text dv (0..255), count (0..255), text 3+text
2B DHDV text dh, dv (0..255), count (0..255), text 4+text
30 frameRect rect 9
31 paintRect rect 9
32 eraseRect rect 9
33 invertRect rect 9
34 fillRect rect 9
38 frameSameRect rect 1
39 paintSameRect rect 1
3A eraseSameRect rect 1
3B invertSameRect rect 1
3C fillSameRect rect 1
40 frameRRect rect (ovalwidth, height; see 1, below) 9
41 paintRRect rect ( ovalwidth, height; see 1, below ) 9
42 eraseRRect rect ( ovalwidth, height; see 1, below ) 9
43 invertRRect rect ( ovalwidth, height; see 1, below ) 9
Opcode (cont.) Name Additional Data
Total Size (bytes)
44 fillRRect rect ( ovalwidth, height; see 1, below ) 9
48 frameSameRRect rect 1
49 paintSameRRect rect 1
4A eraseSameRRect rect 1
4B invertSameRRect rect
1
4C fillSameRRect rect 1
50 frameOval rect 9
51 paintOval rect 9
52 eraseOval rect 9
53 invertOval rect 9
54 fillOval rect 9
58 frameSameOval rect 1
59 paintSameOval rect 1
5A eraseSameOval rect 1
5B invertSameOval rect 1
5C fillSameOval rect 1
60 frameArc rect, startAngle, arcAngle 13
61 paintArc rect, startAngle, arcAngle 13
62 eraseArc rect, startAngle, arcAngle 13
63 invertArc rect, startAngle, arcAngle 13
64 fillArc rect, startAngle, arcAngle 13
68 frameSameArc startAngle, arcAngle 5
69 paintSameArc startAngle, arcAngle 5
6A eraseSameArc startAngle, arcAngle 5
6B invertSameArc startAngle, arcAngle 5
6C fillSameArc startAngle, arcAngle 5
70 framePoly poly 1+poly
71 paintPoly poly 1+poly
72 erasePoly poly 1+poly
73 invertPoly poly 1+poly
74 fillPoly poly 1+poly
78 frameSamePoly (not yet implemented - same as 70, etc.) 1
79 paintSamePoly (not yet implemented) 1
7A eraseSamePoly (not yet implemented) 1
7B invertSamePoly (not yet implemented) 1
7C fillSamePoly (not yet implemented) 1
80 frameRgn rgn 1+rgn
81 paintRgn rgn 1+rgn
82 eraseRgn rgn 1+rgn
83 invertRgn rgn 1+rgn
84 fillRgn rgn 1+rgn
88 frameSameRgn (not yet implemented - same as 80, etc.) 1
89 paintSameRgn (not yet implemented) 1
8A eraseSameRgn (not yet implemented) 1
8B invertSameRgn (not yet implemented) 1
8C fillSameRgn (not yet implemented) 1
Opcode (cont.) Name Additional
Data TotalSize (bytes)
90 BitsRect rowBytes, bounds, srcRect, dstRect, mode, 29+unpacked
unpacked bitData bitData
91 BitsRgn rowBytes, bounds, srcRect, dstRect, mode, 29+rgn+
maskRgn, unpacked bitData bitData
98 PackBitsRect rowBytes, bounds, srcRect, dstRect, mode, 29+packed
packed bitData for each row bitData
99 PackBitsRgn rowBytes, bounds, srcRect, dstRect, mode, 29+rgn+
maskRgn, packed bitData for each row packed
bitData
A0 shortComment kind(word) 3
A1 longComment kind(word), size(word), data 5+data
FF EndOfPicture none 1
Notes:
1. Rounded-corner rectangles use the setting of the ovSize point (see opcode $0B,
above).
OpenPicture and DrawPicture set up a default set of port characteristics when they
start. When drawing occurs, if the userUs settings donUt match the defaults, mode
opcodes are generated. This is why there is usually a clipRgn code after the
picVersion: the default clip region is an empty rectangle.
The only savings that the RsameS opcodes achieve under the current implementation is
for rectangles. DrawPicture keeps track of the last rectangle used and if a RsameS
opcode is encountered that requests a rectangle, the last rect. will be used (and no
rectangle will appear in the opcodeUs data).
This last section contains some Pascal program fragments that generate pictures. Each
section starts out with the picture itself (yes, theyUre dull) followed by the code to
create and draw it, and concludes with a commented hex dump of the picture.
{variables used in all the examples}
VAR
err: INTEGER;
rh:PicHandle;
h: Handle;
r,smallr,orgr: Rect;
pstate: PenState; {are they in the Rose Bowl this year, or the state pen?}
I.
{ Rounded-corner rectangle}
SetRect(r, 20, 10, 120, 175);
ClipRect(myWindow↑.portRect);
rh := OpenPicture(r);
FrameRoundRect (r, 5, 4); {r,width,height}
ClosePicture;
DrawPicture(rh, r);
'PICT' (1)
0026 {size} 000A 0014 00AF 0078 {picframe}
1101 {version 1} 01 000A 0000 0000 00FA 0190 {clipRgn with 10 byte region}
0B 0004 0005 {ovSize point} 40 000A 0014 00AF 0078 {frameRRect rectangle}
FF {fin}
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II.
{Overpainted arc}
GetPenState(pstate); {save}
SetRect(r, 20, 10, 120, 175);
ClipRect(myWindow↑.portRect);
rh := OpenPicture(r);
PaintArc(r, 3, 45); {r,startangle,endangle}
PenPat(gray);
PenMode(patXor); {turn the black to gray}
PaintArc(r, 3, 45); {r,startangle,endangle}
ClosePicture;
SetPenState(pstate); {restore}
DrawPicture(rh, r);
data 'PICT' (2)
0036 {size} 000A 0014 00AF 0078 {picframe}
1101 {version 1} 01 000A 0000 0000 00FA 0190 {clipRgn with 10 byte region}
61 000A 0014 00AF 0078 0003 002D {paintArc rectangle, startangle, endangle}
08 000A {pnMode patXor -- note that the pnMode comes before the pnPat}
09 AA55 AA55 AA55 AA55 {pnPat gray}
69 0003 002D {paintSameArc startangle, endangle}
FF {fin}
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III.
{CopyBits nopack, norgn, nowoman, nocry}
GetPenState(pstate);
SetRect(r, 20, 10, 120, 175);
SetRect(smallr, 20, 10, 25, 15);
SetRect(orgr, 0, 0, 30, 20);
ClipRect(myWindow↑.portRect);
rh := OpenPicture(r);
PaintRect(r);
CopyBits (myWindow↑.portBits, myWindow↑.portBits,
smallr, orgr, notSrcXor, NIL);
{note that the resulting bitmap is 8 bits wide instead of the 5 specified
by smallr}
ClosePicture;
SetPenState(pstate); {restore the ports original pen state}
DrawPicture(rh, r);
data 'PICT' (3) {
0048 {size} 000A 0014 00AF 0078 {picframe}
1101 {version 1} 01 000A 0000 0000 00FA 0190 {clipRgn with 10 byte region}
31 000A 0014 00AF 0078 {paintrect rectangle}
90 0002 000A 0014 000F 001C {BitsRect rowbytes bounds (note that bounds is
wider than smallr)}
000A 0014 000F 0019 {srcRect}
0000 0000 0014 001E {dstRect}
00 06 {mode=notSrcXor}
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 {5 rows of empty bitmap (we copied from a
still-blank window)}
FF {fin}
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Here is the MacPaint file format that I promised I would post. I will
post the MacDraw format, if anybody sends me email requesting it, and I also
have the GIF format, if anybody wants it. I don't think I have TIFF, but
I will post it if I find it.
--Eric Berman
Technical Note #86 page of 5 MacPaint Document Format
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Macintosh Technical Notes p
#86: MacPaint Document Format
See also: MacPaint User Manual
ToolBox Utilities
Written by: Bill Atkinson 1983
Modified by: Bryan Johnson August 19, 1986
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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This technical note describes the internal format of a MacPaint document. It is the
same as the description in the Macintosh Miscellaneous section of early versions of
Inside Macintosh. It has been verified to be correct for version 1.5 of MacPaint.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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MacPaint documents are easy to read and write and have become a standard interchange
format for full-page images on Macintosh. Their internal format is described here to
help developers generate and read MacPaint documents.
Documents created by MacPaint have a file type of PNTG and creator ID of MPNT.
MacPaint documents use only the data fork; the resource fork is not used and may be
ignored. The data fork contains a 512 byte header and then the compressed data
representing a single bit map of 576 pixels wide by 720 pixels tall. At 72 pixels per
inch, this bit map occupies the full 8 by 10 inch printable area of the standard
ImageWriter printer page.
Header
The first 512 bytes of the document form a header with a 4 byte version number
(default = 2), then 38*8 = 304 bytes of patterns, then 204 unused bytes reserved for
future expansion. As a Pascal record it could look like:
MPHeader = RECORD
Version: LONGINT;
PatArray: ARRAY [1..38] of Pattern;
Future: PACKED ARRAY [1..204] of SignedByte;
END;
If the version number is zero, the rest of the header block is ignored and default
patterns are used, so programs generating MacPaint documents can simply write out 512
bytes of zero as the document header. Most programs which read MacPaint documents can
simply skip over the header when reading.
BitMap
Following the header are 720 compressed scanlines of data which form the 576 pixel wide
by 720 pixel tall bit map. Without compression, this bit map would occupy 51840 bytes and
chew up disk space pretty fast; typical MacPaint documents compress to about 10 Kbytes
using the PackBits procedure in the Macintosh ROM to compress runs of equal bytes within
each scanline. The bit map part of a MacPaint document is simply the output of PackBits
called 720 times, with 72 bytes input.
Reading Sample
{ ReadMPFile:
This is a small example program written in TML Pascal that demonstrates how to
read MacPaint files. As a final step, it takes the data that was read and displays
it on the screen to show that it worked. Caveat: This is not intended to be an
example of good programming practice, in that the possible errors merely cause the
program to exit. This is VERY uninformative, and there should be some sort of error
handler to explain what happened. For simplicity, and thus clarity, those types of
things were deliberately not included. This example will not work on a 128K
Macintosh, since memory allocation is done too simplistically.
}
PROGRAM ReadMPFile;
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:MemTypes.ipas' }
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:QuickDraw.ipas' }
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:OSIntf.ipas' }
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:ToolIntf.ipas' }
CONST DefaultVolume = 0;
MaxFileSize = 51840; { maximum MacPaint file size, 720*72. }
VAR srcPtr: Ptr;
dstPtr: Ptr;
saveDstPtr: Ptr;
srcFileName: Str255;
srcFile: INTEGER;
srcSize: LONGINT;
errCode: INTEGER;
scanLine: INTEGER;
aPort: GrafPort;
theBitMap: BitMap;
BEGIN
{ Initialize QuickDraw. }
InitGraf(@thePort);
{ Make a name of a file to read. }
srcFileName := 'MP TestFile';
{ Make a buffer that is the largest picture we can expect. This
could be done in a more memory efficient manner. }
srcPtr := NewPtr(MaxFileSize);
IF srcPtr = NIL THEN ExitToShell;
{ Open the data file. }
errCode := FSOpen(srcFileName,DefaultVolume,srcFile);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Skip the header. }
srcSize := 512;
errCode := FSRead(srcFile,srcSize,srcPtr);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Find out how big the file is, and figure out source size. }
errCode := GetEOF(srcFile,srcSize);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
srcSize := srcSize - 512; { Remove the header from count. }
{ Read the data into the buffer. The file mark is already past the header. }
errCode := FSRead(srcFile,srcSize,srcPtr);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Close the file we just read. }
errCode := FSClose(srcFile);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Create a buffer that will be used for the Destination BitMap. This also
has a maximum size possible, the same as the full MacPaint picture size. }
dstPtr := NewPtr(MaxFileSize);
IF dstPtr = NIL THEN ExitToShell;
saveDstPtr := dstPtr;
{ Unpack each scanline into the buffer. Note that 720 scanlines are
guaranteed to be in the file. (They may be blank lines) In the
UnPackBits call, the 72 is the count of bytes done when the file was
created. MacPaint does one scan line at a time when creating the file. }
FOR scanLine := 1 to 720 DO
BEGIN
UnPackBits(srcPtr,dstPtr,72); {bumps both ptrs}
END;
{ The buffer has been fully unpacked. Create a port that we can draw into. }
OpenPort(@aPort);
{ Create a BitMap out of our saveDstPtr that can be copied to the screen. }
theBitMap.baseAddr := saveDstPtr;
theBitMap.rowBytes := 72; { width of MacPaint picture }
SetPt(theBitMap.bounds.topLeft, 0,0);
SetPt(theBitMap.bounds.botRight, 72*8, 720); {maximum rectangle}
{ Now use that BitMap and draw the piece of it to the screen.
Only draw the piece that is full screen size (portRect). }
CopyBits(theBitMap, aPort.portBits, aPort.portRect,
aPort.portRect, srcCopy, NIL);
{ That's it. Now wait for the mouse button to leave. Pause. }
REPEAT
UNTIL Button;
END.
Writing Sample
{ WriteMPFile:
This is a small example program written in TML Pascal that demonstrates how
to write MacPaint files. It will use the screen as a handy BitMap to be
written to a file.
}
PROGRAM WriteMPFile;
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:MemTypes.ipas' }
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:QuickDraw.ipas' }
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:OSIntf.ipas' }
{$I 'HD:Pascal System:ToolIntf.ipas' }
CONST DefaultVolume = 0;
MaxFileSize = 51840; { maximum MacPaint file size, 720*72. }
MaxDiv2 = 25920; { divided by 2 for half buffer size. }
MaxDiv4 = 12960; { divided by 4 for clearing. }
MaxDiv8 = 6480; { divided by 8 for bug avoidance. }
TYPE ByteBuffer = PACKED ARRAY [1..512] of SignedByte;
BigBuffer = PACKED ARRAY [1..MaxDiv4] of LONGINT;
BigPtr = ↑BigBuffer;
VAR srcPtr: Ptr;
dstPtr: Ptr;
dstFileName: Str255;
dstFile: INTEGER;
dstSize: LONGINT;
errCode: INTEGER;
scanLine: INTEGER;
aPort: GrafPort;
dstBuffer: ByteBuffer;
I: LONGINT;
picturePtr: BigPtr;
tempPtr: BigPtr;
theBitMap: BitMap;
BEGIN
{ Initialize QuickDraw. }
InitGraf(@thePort);
{ Make a buffer that is the picture size. }
picturePtr := NewPtr(MaxFileSize);
IF picturePtr = NIL THEN ExitToShell;
{ Now clear the buffer since it is a picture, and we want it to
start as a blank page. Clear four bytes at a time. This is done
in two steps since there is a bug with TML that won't allow us
to index an array larger than 32768. This would normally be
done by setting the CLEAR bit for the NewPtr used in assembly,
but that would make this even more complex. }
FOR I := 1 to MaxDiv8 DO
picturePtr↑[I] := 0;
{ Create the address half way through the block. This keeps our
index of I smaller than 32768. }
tempPtr := BigPtr (ORD4 (picturePtr) + MaxDiv2);
{ Clear the rest of the block, 4 bytes at a time. }
FOR I := 1 to MaxDiv8 DO
tempPtr↑[I] := 0;
{ Open a port so we can get to the screen's BitMap easily. }
OpenPort(@aPort);
{ Create a BitMap out of our dstPtr that can be copied to the screen. }
theBitMap.baseAddr := picturePtr;
theBitMap.rowBytes := 72; { width of MacPaint picture }
SetPt(theBitMap.bounds.topLeft, 0,0);
SetPt(theBitMap.bounds.botRight,72*8,720); {maximum rectangle}
{ Draw the screen over into our picture buffer. }
CopyBits(aPort.portBits, theBitMap, aPort.portRect,
aPort.portRect, srcCopy, NIL);
{ Make a name of a file to write. }
dstFileName := 'MP TestFile';
{ Create the file, giving it the right Creator and File type.}
errCode := Create(dstFileName, DefaultVolume, 'MPNT', 'PNTG');
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Open the data file to be written. }
errCode := FSOpen(dstFileName,DefaultVolume,dstFile);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Write the header as all zeros. }
FOR I := 1 to 512 DO
dstBuffer[I] := 0;
dstSize := 512;
errCode := FSWrite(dstFile,dstSize,@dstBuffer);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
{ Now go into a loop where we pack each line of data into the buffer, then
write that data to the file. We are using the line count of 72 in order
to make the file readable by MacPaint. Note that the Pack/UnPackBits can
be used for other purposes. }
srcPtr := theBitMap.baseAddr; { point at our picture BitMap }
FOR scanLine := 1 to 720 DO
BEGIN
dstPtr := @dstBuffer; { reset the pointer to bottom }
PackBits(srcPtr,dstPtr,72); { bumps both ptrs}
dstSize := ORD(dstPtr)-ORD(@dstBuffer);{calc packed size}
errCode := FSWrite(dstFile,dstSize,@dstBuffer);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
END;
{ Close the file we just wrote. }
errCode := FSClose(dstFile);
IF errCode <> noErr THEN ExitToShell;
END.
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There is a looseleaf with TIFF documentation in the courseWare lab
in the basement of Sweet Hall. -johnmark
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Hi, I am still messing around with the picture that I need to analyze.
I have copies in PICT and TIFF formats. The pictures were generated by
an Apple Scanner in 16 shades of gray. Does anyone know about the
Apple Scanner and the exact format of the TIFF (which I think would probably
be easier for me to decode the way I need it) file its driver creates?
Is there a phone number that I could call where someone at Apple would
be able to help me, like a Customer Support line (even thought the Apple
Scanner isn't mine)?
Thanks once again for taking the time to indulge the clueless probings of
a MacNeophyte.
Dave Alexander
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 21 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 36
Today's Topics:
ANTI virus report
External Floppy Drive w/MacII
Frame Grabbers
help ...
Help system (for including into programs)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #29
Info-Mac Digest V7 #35
Journalling Mechanism
Laserwriter NT bug...
Menstat 1.0B1 (part 1 of 3)
MicroEmacs again.
more Mac graphing
No multi-launch under 6.0.2
Printing Postscript Files on the Sun
THINK Pascal 2.0p1 Updater
TML Pascal II 3.0 vs. Lightspeed Pascal 2.0
XFCN to see whether bitmap exists?
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Date: 17 Feb 89 2:42 +0100
From: Danny Schwendener IDA <macman@ifi.ethz.ch>
Subject: ANTI virus report
This is a report on the ANTI Virus. For any information, please contact
me directly at the following address:
Danny Schwendener
ETH Macintosh Support, ETH-Zentrum, m/s PL, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
UUCP: macman@ethz.uucp BITNET: macman@czheth5a.bitnet
Internet: macman@ifi.ethz.ch AppleLink: macman%czheth5a.BITNET@DASNET#
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/anti-info.txt; 8K]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 22:35:40 GMT
From: PMIDS%FRPOLY11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: External Floppy Drive w/MacII
In a recent posting, Gregor_Rittinger@um.cc.umich.edu asked
> I just got a MacII in my office, right in the place it always
> should have been. There's just one problem: it takes too much space!
> ... After I
> had formulated this great plan to put an external floppy on the
> desk, too, I realized that that was not possible. How lame!
He asked how to make a longer cable.
I have a similar problem, and would like to know how long cables
can be for the monitor as well as a floppy. Does the image quality
degrade with a longer cable? There is no room on my desk, nor under
it, nor in my tiny room ... I am thinking about hanging it all from
the rafters (the 18th century or whatever rough hewn wooden beams
which help make the real estate so cher ...). I want to run cables
3-4 meters for the monitor, disk drive, ADB. Actually, I was just
thinking about taking out the internal drive and replacing the ribbon
cable with a longer one, sort of rolled up and tinfoil covered (OK,
its kludgy, its cheap, but with this rent ...) Any limits on, any
experiences with long cables?
Thanks,
Darrell Skinner Paris (not Texas)
I(nformatique)-Mail: PMIDS@FRPOLY11.BITNET (PMIDS@FRPOLY11.EARN in Europe)
E(scargo)-Mail: Labo. PMI / Ecole Polytechnique / 91128 Palaiseau France
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 19:58 -
From: Fereydoon Family <PHYFF2%EMUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Frame Grabbers
I am trying to put together an image analysis system for studying patterns in a
physics related experiment. The heart of the system has to be a frame grabber.
I would appreciate hearing from people who have been using frame grabbers.
As far as we can tell, there has been no review of frame grabbers in the
standard mac magazines. I also like to know what monitor and cameras you
are using with them. Thanks.
--Fereydoon Family (PHYFF2@EMUVM1)
Physics Dept., Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 01:45:17 EST
From: Ravi.Anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: help ...
I have a microexplorer system. I tried to install the vaccine utility
(public domain) but failed. When I (re)start the system with the vaccine
in my system folder, it bombs - gives a system error (ID = 01). Does anyone
know what the problem is???
Thanks,
Ravi Anupindi@isl1.ri.cmu.edu
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Date: 16 Feb 89 22:37 EST
From: STERRITT%ARISIA.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Help system (for including into programs)
Hello,
This is R. Fronabarger's 'Help System', which is a stuffed,
binhex'd file consisting of a sample program, the program source, and
the source for the help system as a LightSpeed Pascal 2.0 Unit.
The demo program is the documentation for the system; the idea
is that the code gives you the capability of topical help. It
brings up a dialog box with a scrolling list of topics, and when one
is clicked, it brings up the appropriate text for that topic. The
text in the topics is formatted with the new TextEdit, so it's styled
text; that is, you can have underlined, bold, different fonts, etc.
all in the same window.
It takes (obviously) LSP (but it could probably be ported),
and some familiarity with ResEdit to set up all the appropriate
resources (a TMPL is included for creating and editing 'styl' resources).
Enjoy,
Chris Sterritt
Sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa (on arpanet)
[Archived as /info-mac/source/think-pascal-help-system.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 14:26 CST
From: WAR EAGLE! <HAMMETT@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #29
Does anyone know of a morse code practice program for the MAC? It is needed
to practice for a ham license.
thanks,
Richard Hammett
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 14:32:42 CDT
From: "James N. Bradley" <ACSH%UHUPVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #35
I use the CMS SDU-30 at home. I've had it for about six months with
no problems. No louder than the airplane I use at work (Mac II).
If you need specs, I'll have to see if I can find them, contact me
directly at ACSH@UHUPVM1.bitnet or ACSH@UHVAX1.UH.EDU (internet).
Jim
Acknowledge-To: <ACSH@UHUPVM1>
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 17:56:49 GMT
From: PHY6JEM%CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Journalling Mechanism
In order to provide a special interface to the Mac, I would like to
overwrite the current mouse position and to simulate mouse-downs
etc. Reading "Inside Macintosh" I guess that the way to do this is
to use the "journalling mechanism". This is demonstrated in the
"Welcome" guided tour disk and also in the DAs ProMouse and JournalMaker.
The explanation in "Inside Macintosh" is a little sparse and
suggests that journalling is only possible from Assembly language
Is this true, or can I use C and if so how?
In the Apple Developers Group product listings is a document titled
"Journalling and Guided Tour". From the title this looks promising
Has anyone ever seen this publication and does it answer my
questions?
In summary, all hints, tips, tricks or sample code for using the
journalling mechanism would be most welcome.
John McMillan
phy6jem@uk.ac.leeds.ucs.cms1 | JANET |
phy6jem%uk.ac.leeds.ucs.cms1@ukacrl.earn |BITNET/EARN|
phy6jem%cms1.ucs.leeds@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk | ARPA |
star::"phy6jem%leeds.ucs.cms1@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk" | SPAN |
Haverah Park Group / South Pole Air Shower Experiment
Physics Department, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS29JT, UK
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Date: Fri 17 Feb 89 14:22:28-PST
From: Elliot Bennett <ELLIOT@star.stanford.edu>
Subject: Laserwriter NT bug...
Ok, here's an obscure one for all you manual-feed people:
I've got a Laserwriter II NT (at the moment all to myself!!) connected to
a Mac II running System 6.0.2 and Finder 6.1 etc, etc. When I try to do
a manual feed and LEAVE PAPER TO BE HAND FED IN THE TRAY BEFORE THE RED LIGHT
COMES ON, the paper feeds just fine, but the red light doesn't go off. If,
on the other hand, I wait for the red light to come and THEN feed in the paper,
the red light goes off (as it should) after the sheet goes through. Make
any sense? Has anyone seen this too, or is my logic board not quite all
there?
Any info would be greatly appreciated...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@star.stanford.edu
Disclaimer:
Now, don't try this at home kids...
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Date: 15 Feb 89 17:00:26 GMT
From: paco@devsys.UUCP (Paco)
Subject: Menstat 1.0B1
Menstat is the first in a series of Macintosh applications from
SubPhyllum which address women's health issues. This is a preliminary
release, submitted for public evaluation as freeware.
You may distribute this software freely, but you may not bundle it with
commercial software nor charge any fees whatsoever for its distibution
without the written consent of the authors and due payment of royalties.
Otherwise, our legal department will want to do lunch with your legal
department, in a big way.
Try the sample file for demo of the charts and stats. Check out the
online help for more info. To reach the authors, login to:
Generic BBS @ 201/389-8473
and send mail to "paco". We'd like to hear what you think about Menstat.
Besides, Generic is a cool boardI
paco xander
suzanne nathan
3 Nov 88
[Archived as /info-mac/app/menstat.hqx; 86K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 89 11:19:30 -0500
From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Subject: MicroEmacs again.
This is a rather stable version of microemacs for the Macintosh,
still using Daniel Lawrence's 3.9e microemacs code.
There are some user-visible changes from previous posted
versions. You can now define the region using the mouse: A drag sets
the mark at the beginning of the drag and point at the end. You can
resize buffer windows by dragging the mode lines up and down. A click
in the message line lets you enter a named command. There is support
for ctags. (How you create a tags file is up to you, but the source
for ctags is in the comp.sources.unix archives.)
There are some non-apparent changes which are as significant. The
file read/write code has been overhauled. This version no longer destroys
the resource fork of a file when saving over a previously existing file, nor
does it change the file's creator. It checks for sufficient disk space
before saving a file. The code to read in a line now uses a Handle for a
temporary input buffer, so that long lines are taken care of by resizing
the Handle. Binary files may be edited, even those containing nulls.
Non-TEXT files may be edited using "execute-command-line" and "find-file."
The last "line" in any file written out will have a carriage-return appended
to it, however.
Enjoy.
Earle R. Horton
[Archived as /info-mac/app/microemacs.hqx; 81K]
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Date: 20 Feb 89 13:18:00 EST
From: "ZZT" <zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: more Mac graphing
Mac graphing
I too have found Cricket Graph to have annoying limitations (inability to
mix symbols and ordinary text, subscripts, superscripts, slow on a
Mac II...). Recently, we purchased a new program called Igor from Wave
metrics for a little (a very little) under $200 that may be useful for many
people. Its main advantage seems to be for automatically producing plots
of basically similar sets of data. Igor is basically a laboratory assitant
that takes data (text files) and produces pretty good plots. It uses a
standard Macintosh interface such as pull down menus etc., but in a
slightly different manner.
Whenever you make a selection, rather than just executing your choice,
a command is automatically entered in a small window, executed, and saved
in a "history" window. The commands in the history window can be later
move to a macro window and edited to create a procedure for use at some
later time. In fact, you can set things up so that upon running Igor a data
file is read in, the data curves are analyzed (scaling, Fourier Transform,
fit to Lorentzian...), the data are plotted, and then printed. Although at
first the user interface appears daunting, it is only slightly different;
you can still do everything from dialogs and pull down menus. Appearently
everything that the program can do, can be done either by standard menus
and dialogs, or by commands.
The limitations in Igor that I have encountered are:
-- selection of markers is too limited, and they cannot be easily sized
-- axis labels cannot be positioned, and often appear too far away for me
-- error bars are possible, but not easy
Particular advantages of Igor are:
-- can mix symbols, text, superscripts, and subscripts in text boxes
-- ability to save ALL features of a plot for use with another set of data
-- can AUTOMATICALLY process data (much of my data is fit to two gaussian
curves) and automatically put results (mean, FWHM,...) into text boxes
-- ability to print two graphs on the same page, even on top of each other
-- can accept data, analysis, graphing, and printing commands from a single
TEXT file. Thus your PDP-11 can take data and generate a file with
EVERYTHING you need for a picture
-- doing mathematical operations on data is very easy, and there is plenty
to choose from (even special functions such as bessel functions)
Igor is available from:
Wave Metrics
PO Box 2088
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
(503) 635-8849
Note, these opinions are mine, and are unconnected to Wave Metrics or my
employer. I just use programs.
Jon Tischler, ORNL
DDN: zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
Bitnet: zzt@ornlstc
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 16:45 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: No multi-launch under 6.0.2
This is in reply to part of a message from
Damian Roskill <Publice@Umass>
which goes:
...
> I am also writing because of a problem with using system version 6.0.2
> with the fileserver. We have noticed that system version 6.0.2 now
> no longer supports multilaunching of applications. Meaning, that if
> someone is running Finder and tries to access the program on the fileserver,
> only the first user will be able to get on. The other option is to run
> Multifinder, which presents a problem with some applications (such as
> Hypercard), because of the memory usage.
...
I'm afraid I can't help you, but perhaps you can help me... how is it that
using Multifinder lets you get around the problem ? We have an AppleShare
server running on an SE, and soon will have another on a Sun going thru a
GatorBox. The entire network is back to system 5.0 precisely because we could
no longer multi-launch applications with 6.0.2.
More in general, I have the impression that even under 5.0 multi-launching was
a barely tolerated klutz: no clear documentation of it, and everything that is
meant to be shared had to be manually locked in its Info window. Are there any
true multi-launch applications around (nothing fancy -- just capable of making
itself and documents it opens read-only -- forget about record/byte locking) ?
To clear the air from understandable suspicion: we do it right -- buy 10 copies
of the software -- but we can't be expected to clutter our limited disk space
by installing all 10.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 15:52:16 EST
From: Padmanabhan Anandan <anandan-padmanabhan@yale.arpa>
Subject: Printing Postscript Files on the Sun
I have files generated on the MAC using Adobe Illustrator88, which I need
to print on a postscript printer connected to a Sun workstation. I
have tried the "k" and the "f" versions as well as just the input
files for the illustrator (which are in postscript), but nothing works.
Has anyone solved this problem? I also have postscript files generated by
Pagemaker with the same problem.
Thanks.
-- P. Anandan
PS: I was adviced to add "showpage" just before the trailer of the Illustrator
file. I did, but that did not help either.
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 10:14:52 EST
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: THINK Pascal 2.0p1 Updater
This patcher fixes the notorious "fatigue" bug, and miscellaneous code
generation and library bugs.
--Rich
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/think-pascal-updater-20p1.hqx; 54K]
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 16:51 CST
From: <STEVEN%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TML Pascal II 3.0 vs. Lightspeed Pascal 2.0
I would like some info on the two new Pascal compilers: TML Pascal II 3.0
versus Lightspeed Pascal 2.0. Some particular concerns:
-- How is MPW 3.0? Is the linker faster/slower? Is the package a memory-hog?
-- How is the LSP editor? Better/worse than MPW or LSP 1.0?
-- Is LSP well-suited to large projects?
-- How is the LSP debugger? Useful with small amounts of memory?
-- How is code generation on each? Both are supposed to be 030/882 compatible,
"optimizing" compilers. How well do they optimize? Any head-to-head
comparisons?
If anyone could post info on either or both of these compilers, I would
appreciate it.
-- Steven Johnson (Bitnet: STEVEN@AUDUCVAX)
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Date: Mon 20 Feb 89 14:48:12-PST
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@lear.stanford.edu>
Subject: XFCN to see whether bitmap exists?
Is there some HyperCard structure I can get at via an XFCN to see whether the
current card has a bitmap or is blank? It would be best if the method was
likely to work in future versions of HC. Examples best, explanations helpful,
rumors better than nothing. Thanks!
Brodie Lockard
CAT Project, Stanford University
I.ISIMO@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU
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..just back from the east coast, I am sending this message, hoping it is
timely when you get it.
Next Mac developer's meeting:
Wednesday, Feb 22↑nd, 7pm.
Adam Paal, from Apple's HyperCard group
speaking about some programming related questions on HyperCard.
in Sweet Hall basement, courseware lab.
The following meeting will be on the 2↑nd Wednesday of March, for which
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Subject: How to make a downloadable font?
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I've been playing with modifying a downloadable font. I captured the Font defini
ition with Command-F, and then edited the PostScript to pervert it to my own uses. Now I would like to compile the PostScript file into a POST resource.
My understanding is that programs like Word will look in the System folder for
fonts, and download them if necessary.
I have been able to edit the resource directly to change the font, but this
is pretty inconvenient. I would rather edit a text PostScript file, and compile
it into a resource.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 21 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 37
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
CDC blues some answers.
cheapcolor.sit.hqx
Debugger's Assistant Demo
Hard Drives International
HyperTalk Seminars
LaserWriter Manual feed Prob...
Relocating MacII on its side
se/30 80 partition
Software for the Blind
stuffit 1.5.1 bug?
The Definative Hierarchical Popup Menu XFCN
The numeric keypad
TransDisplay 2.0 for LightspeedC
TransEdit 2.0 for LightspeedC
Vaccine and INIT 29
Word processing bibliography builders? (2 msgs)
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1989 22:53:53 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
A few things:
1. Please don't use lines starting with a sequence of dashes in your messages
or signatures. They mess up some undigesting programs. For example,
"--------" is bad, but " --------" is OK.
2. I recommend that you use StuffIt 1.5.1 rather than BinHex 4.0 to decode
.hqx files. It is significantly more robust and can decode all of our files
without any editing being necessary.
3. We are buried under a mountain of Adobe fonts and tech notes. Hang in
there.
4. Persons on Bitnet: please do not send messages to local redistribution
points such as info-mac@RICE. Instead, use info-mac%sumex@stanford.
Otherwise we have to strip off the headers which is a real pain (especially
at 1200 baud.)
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 02:41:06 IST
From: Rafi Brunner <RAFI%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CDC blues some answers.
A while ago I've sent a question over to the
net about CDC WREN IV drives, and described some of
the problems I had. I have been answered by few of the InfoMac
readers and I am thankful to all. Recently another CDC
answer appeared in InfoMac from Adrian Weiler. So I decided
to give some of the answers I have at this time.
There are two problems with the CDC WREN IV drives:
The first Is as Adrian describes the "Unit Attention"
problem. ( and no, Adrian I'm using a Mac II not a plus).
That's the reason sometimes the drive boots and other
times will not.
A restart always give the drive enough attention to mount.
The second is an arbitration bug, two ( or more) CDC WREN
Drives on the same bus compete for attention and neither
will mount, or only one (randomly) will mount.
All the above does not apply to the special Mac version CDC
( actually Imprimis) is now producing.
As long as I use a single CDC WREN IV drive and don't mind
resetting the Mac once in a while every thing seems to work
fine ( my experience is with 192 & 630 MB CDC WREN IV drives ).
Rafi
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 17:52:01 CST
From: skaistis@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Jeff Skastis)
Subject: cheapcolor.sit.hqx
This is CheapColor, an application that converts PICT2 and PixelPaintfiles
into a PICT version 1 that uses dithered original QuickDraw colors to reproduce
the image. It also supports color printing using an ImageWriter with a color
ribbon. Neat stuff, give it a try. Docs included. This is a BinHexed Stuffit
file. -Jeff Skaistis
[Archived as /info-mac/app/cheapcolor.hqx; 85K]
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Date: 17 Feb 89 03:01:02 GMT
From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com (Jerry Whitnell)
Subject: Debugger's Assistant Demo
This is a demonstration of Debugger's Assistant. Debugger's Assistant
is a desk accessory companion for LightspeedC and Lightspeed Pascal.
It can also be used standalone. Features include:
* View of Application, System or user-selected heap.
* View of resources in open resource files
* View of windows and grafports from either window list or user-
selected grafport
* View of open files, mounted volumes, working directories and
open drivers (the Unit table).
* View and search memory
* Knows MultiFinder. Select heaps, windows and resource files
from any application running under MultiFinder. Works with
Finder as well.
This demonstration is the desk accessory embedded in an application.
It can only be used to look at the application itself, but contains
all the features of the full desk accessory.
Jerry Whitnell
BC Sofware
jwhitnell@cup.portal.com Animals Gathered Together in a
..!sun!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell Cave and Grooving with a PICT.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/debuggers-assistant.hqx; 166K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 22:35:06 EST
From: DBecque%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Hard Drives International
In the Feb issue of MacWorld there was an interesting add on page 258
for hard drives. Being in the market, I took note of it and realized
that these were some to the best prices I'd seen. But, I'm not sure
that I understand the deal, are these kits that you put together
yourself or what (in the small print it says the drive comes with an
external case, well I hope so!!)? Has anyone had any experience with
this company: Hard Drives International? Thanks
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 15:51:32 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: HyperTalk Seminars
I have a friend who would like to take some HyperTalk seminars. He needs
to create some scripts pronto and doesn't have time to dealve into
Goodman's books in detail.
Any pointers to seminars or alternate references (particularly for
XCMD/XFCN writing) would be appreciated.
Email to me or to him directly at lablanc@ge-crd.arpa.
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| "Isn't fun like the best thing to have ever? |
| - Arthur |
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Date: Mon 20 Feb 89 11:21:37-PDT
From: Elliot Bennett <ELLIOT@star3.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter Manual feed Prob...
As you may recall, I posted a question about the LW II NT's manual feed red
light (it would go on and stay on if you fed the paper in BEFORE the red
light came on).
Anyway, MANY THANKS to the thousands of replies I got (well, there were at
least 6). As it turns out, according to just about everyone (and his mother)
that's the way the silly thing works. Please note, however, that I did NOT
say that's the way the silly thing SHOULD work. Why not? Well, it seems
(at least I have it on good authority) that the LW II NTX (note, that's
nt_X_) does NOT exhibit this particular characteristic. Can you say "bug"?
So, is there any chance I could convince someone from Apple to possibly look
into this and maybe even provide a fix? I'll admidt that it's not an "earth
shattering problem," but...well, it is somewhat annoying...
Oh yes, as everyone pointed out, this little bug in no way effects per-
formance...
Once again, thanks to all of you who responded...
Elliot Bennett
elliot@star.stanford.edu
Disclaimer:
Just doing my part to try and make Apple computers a cleaner environment in
which to work...
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 10:16 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Relocating MacII on its side
I've heard that Apple does not recommend mounting the MacII on its side, as
its ventilation depends on the Mac being horizontal.
If you can imagine a standard steelcase desk with a MacII, AppleScanner and
Zenith 158, you can imagine my desk! I've put the Mac on an HP 92166A plotter
stand that raises it high enough to scoot the extended keyboard under. Of
course I have to sit on a step ladder to see the monitor :) The other good
alternative is to mount the Mac on a shelf above the monitor, if you can find a
shelf that's deep enough.
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 11:13:49 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: se/30 80 partition
Hard Disk Partition works very well. It has password protection.
-- S. Meldal
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 09:55:41 CST
From: Bill Goffe <B234WLG@UTARLVM1>
Subject: Software for the Blind
In response to several requests for software for the blind, I'll describe
an article I saw in the Business Section of the New York Times on February
5, 1989. The article, titled "A Mac That Hears Its Master's Voice" on p. 10
describes several voice input and output devices for the Mac. Of particular
interest for blind users is Outspoken. Using the Mac's built-in speech
synthesis capability, it pronounces words, numbers, commands and icons under
the cursor. One could imagine slowly moving the cursor across the screen and
hearing all the things we normally see. A prototype was shown at MacWorld.
The cost will be $395 when available next month. Contact Berkeley Systems
Inc. of Berkeley, CA, (415) 540-5535.
Bill Goffe
b234wlg @ utarlvm1 (bitnet)
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Date: 21 Feb 89 16:13:00 PDT
From: "AMSD3::STRONGEG" <strongeg%amsd3.decnet@wpafb-ams1.arpa>
Subject: stuffit 1.5.1 bug?
I have noticed strange behavior in stuffit 1.5.1 (Mac II, 5MB,
System 6.0.2, Multifinder 6.0.1). I was stuffing several files
in one session, each file in its own archive. I specified the
stuff method to be LZW. The first file went through fine. The
second file, which had no resource fork, displayed the problems.
The 'Huffman' and 'Lempel-Ziv' fields of the resource fork display
showed the values from the data fork of file 1. The first two
fields of the resource fork display were (correctly) zero.
It is cosmetic only, but a flaw nonetheless in an otherwise
robust program. Would someone pass this on to Ray Lau, since
I don't have a convenient way to send it to him. Thanks.
Gordon Strong (strongeg@wpafb-ams1.arpa)
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 14:37:58 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: The Definative Hierarchical Popup Menu XFCN
Here is the definitive HPopupMenu XFCN. It has a number of features that are
unique in the world of Hypercard Hierarchical PopUp menu XFCNs.
Primarily:
% This allows you to have a very large number of menu items in either
the main menu or any of the submenus. A single string also avoids
Hypercard's limitation of 16 parameters to XCMDs.
% The string is formatted thusly:
Main1,Sub1,Sub2,Sub3;Main2,Sub1,Sub2,Sub3;Main3;Main4,Sub1,Sub2
% The location of the menu takes into account the card window's location
so that the menu pops up in the right place even on large screens.
% You can use this as either a regular popup menu or a hierarchical one.
% You can use commas or semicolons for regular popup menus.
% You can make the menu drop down, pop up, and/or have a default checked
item through the use of the checkedItem parameter.
% You can use all the standard meta-characters for making special menus.
Bold, Italic, Shadow, icons, marked items all work. See the examples.
% Null menu items are ignored. This allows you to add extra commas for
HyperTalk array processing without affecting the menu.
% You can select the main menu item even if there is a sub menu on it.
And it has the additional questionable benefit of being written by me.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 14:34 EST
From: "Jeff Perkinson" <UNCJCP%UNC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: The numeric keypad
Hey Netters,
I was just wondering if anyone had ever heard an official
explanation of why Apple put the minus key over the plus key
on one keyboard (ADB standard keyboard) and the plus over the minus
on the other two keyboard (MacPlus and ADB extended keyboards).
Anyone out there got any ideas?
Jeff Perkinson
Consultant, Micro User Service
UNC-CH
(UNCJCP@UNC.Bitnet)
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 22:21:52 -0600
From: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu>
Subject: TransDisplay 2.0 for LightspeedC
Here is TransDisplay 2.0 in LightspeedC. It is compatible with
TransSkel 2.01.
Yours,
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c-transdisplay-20.hqx; 74K]
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 22:23:03 -0600
From: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu>
Subject: TransEdit 2.0 for LightspeedC
Here is TransEdit 2.0 in LightspeedC. It is compatible with
TransSkel 2.01.
Yours,
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c-transedit-20.hqx; 82K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 07:50:01 PST
From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu
Subject: Vaccine and INIT 29
Danny Schwender of ETH Zuerich recently analyzed the new ANTI
virus and mentioned that ANTI gets past Vaccine if the
"Always compile MPW INITs" option is turned on.
I've tested INIT 29 and discovered that it too gets past
Vaccine if "Always compile MPW INITs" is turned on. I tested
on a Mac II and on a Mac SE, with and without MultiFinder,
and got the same results each time - with the MPW INITs
option turned off Vaccine prevents INIT 29 infections, but
with MPW INITs turned on it permits the infection.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
Applelink: a0173
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 11:15:23 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Word processing bibliography builders?
Word together with Scholar's Aid (available from the info-mac
archives, I believe) works for cross-referencing, and bibliographies
based on outside databases (e.g. MS File, Record Holder Plus etc.)
-- S. Meldal
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 14:35:38 EST
From: steinmetz!galactica!hallett@uunet.uu.net (Jeff A. Hallett)
Subject: Word processing bibliography builders?
To the best of my knowledge, a product called Endnote works with both Word
and MacWrite. Basically, when you need an entry, you call up a desk
accessory and select the entry you want. You can set things like page
ranges as well. Endnote creates a special formatting command in the text.
When you are finished, you can run an application over the document to
resolve the entry commands and it will generate a section that you can
include which contains the formatted bibliography.
It is reasonably intelligent about formatting the various media entries
(book vs. mag vs. ...), but you cannot change its default formats. If you
want a different format, you must change it after the bib is generated.
I've seen this work and it looks pretty nice. Caveat - I've never actually
used it.
There is another product called Professional Bibliography (it will be named
something else soon) which does all of the above except that it has some
pretty powerful database features (such as generating comprehensive reports
of all its contents and full on-line searching). It could be used to
manage a medium sized public library. The price matches the power. It
also allows you to create some custom formatting and you can create
additional "types" of medium which have their own formatting styles. This
I have used, but it is really more than I would need. If you are a
professor or doctoral student doing massive amounts of research, consider
spending the money. If you are an infrequent writer who doesn't use many
references, go with Endnote.
Jeffrey A. Hallett | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
Software Technology Program | UUCP: galactica!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
GE Corporate Research and Development | (518) 387-5654
+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| "Isn't fun like the best thing to have ever? |
| - Arthur |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Subject: HC bitmapExists XFCN
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I can't make the meeting tonight with Adam Paal. Can some kind soul ask him:
Is there a way to check whether a card has a bitmap or is blank? Perhaps an
XFCN that accesses some data structure? I'm trying to copy everything from
one card to another and I can't copy the picture from a script because if it's
blank,, HC interrupts with "Nothing to copy. Try background." Thanks ver
much!
Brodie Lockard
CAT Project
725-3155 (work)
368-4967 (home)
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 22 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 38
Today's Topics:
Cabling
Canvas 2.0 review
Chemical Elements Stack (part 1 of 4)
GKS-Mac Interface
Jasmine AppleShare box
Journalling Mechanism
Montana
Mounting a Mac II on it's side
No multi-launch under 6.0.2 (2 msgs)
recognizing scanned images as structured drawings
SCHEME availability?
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 08:15:39 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Cabling
I don't know the general theory on this, but w.r.t. monitor cabling
the maximal length seems to vary with the graphics card and or the
monitor. I bought a Kensington set of extension cables. The Apple card
with the Apple RGB monitor worked fine with the new, long cable. My
Supermac card/trinitron monitor got a bad case of seasickness.
-- SIgurd
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Date: 22 Feb 89 13:51:09 PST (Wednesday)
From: "Ron_Fischer.AISNorth"@xerox.com
Subject: Canvas 2.0 review
I have to agree with Elliot on Canvas. Its an excellent drawing program
and, its rather competitive against things like (eck) SuperPaint (even the
new one). My only complaint is that its a little slow to update the
display on an SE with a complex display full of bezier curves, but even
there its not too bad.
When I shopped around for drawing programs I looked at Freehand,
Illustrator, and SuperPaint. I bought Canvas 1.0 with the expectation of
2.0 being provided for free. No disappointments so far. A great mid-level
graphics program.
(ron)
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Date: 20 Feb 89 12:00:59 GMT
From: gordon@june.cs.washington.edu (Allyn)
Subject: Chemical Elements Stack (part 1 of 4)
I am posting this stack, Chemical Elements, for a friend. Here are his
notes about it:
Chemical Elements - This stack is similar to several other "Periodic
Table" stacks that have been distributed, combining the best features
of several of its predecessors with additional data on element char-
acteristics. It's fun, in particular, to use the "Show Stack" button
and watch the electrons fill the orbits as the black dot marches
through the table icon.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/chemical-elements.hqx; 120K]
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 18:02 N
From: <HEWAT%FRILL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GKS-Mac Interface
Does anybody out there know of a GKS-Mac interface that can be called from
Fortran ? (GKS is the Graphic Kernel System commonly used for graph output
on larger computers).
Alan W. Hewat, ILL France (Bitnet HEWAT@FRILL)
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 01:54:57 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Jasmine AppleShare box
I heard a rumor that Jasmine is coming out with an AppleShare-
compatible fileserver. From what I heard, the box runs AppleShare a bit
faster than a Mac Plus. Apparently, it's just a hardware box with a
LocalTalk connector and 7 (!) SCSI ports. Server administration is
handled remotely while the device is running. The price is supposed to
be about $1,200, but don't quote me on that.
Is this true? Has anyone seen, heard about, or used this thing? Does
it exist, or is is vaporware? Does it do any kind of print spooling?
It would seem to me that making a device that could serve as an
AppleShare server would make a lot of sense if the box was, say, as fast
as a Mac II and as cheap as a Mac Plus. It would also probably do well
with people who balk at having to dedicate a computer to be the fileserver.
After all, it's "not a computer," is it?
While we're on the subject, what would be the best way to speed up
an AppleShare network consisting of 10 Mac Pluses, 2 Mac IIs, 3 printers,
and a Mac Plus filserver -- a faster fileserver (Mac II or SE/30?), or
faster network hardware (i.e. FlashTalk, since Ethernet is too expensive).
With an AppleShare network and LocalTalk cabling, what's the limiting
speed factor -- the network transmission speed or the speed of the
fileserver?
If anyone has tried to answer this question before, let me know.
-Greg
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 09:41:25 CST
From: JohnD%CDCCentr.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Journalling Mechanism
About a year ago, I ran into problems using my existing journalling code
with new System versions. Mac Technical Support confirmed that
journalling was no longer supported by the new versions of the
System file. I suspect that this is still the case, and that
the package being sold by APDA is obsolete.
There were two primary uses of journalling--making applications run
themselves for demonstration purposes, and capturing test sequences for
automated testing. Animation packages are now used for the demos. Apple
showed a test harness called "Player Piano" at the last Developers
Conference, which plays back events from one Mac to another, but I
haven't heard anything more about it.
My experiences with using the journalling driver (which replaced the
journalling feature documented in IM 1) are several years old, but I'd
be glad to answer any questions you might have. Please E-Mail me directly.
John Dykstra - Operating System Design - Control Data Corporation
(612) 482-3749 JohnD@CDCCentr.BITNET
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Date: 22 Feb 89 16:03:30 GMT
From: md32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Joseph Darweesh)
Subject: Montana
Here's a card game programmed by my roomate-Eric Snider. It's the
traditional solitaire card game-Montana.
Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/montana.hqx; 27K]
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Date: 22 Feb 89 13:44:43 GMT
From: bobd@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob Debula)
Subject: Mounting a Mac II on it's side
I've been reading about those who had a similar problem to mine (i.e.
no desk space and lots of Mac II). I solved it by ordering a bundle
put together by Kensington from MacWareHouse. This set includes:
A Mac II side stand (actually two separate & unconnected leg braces
which hold the Mac II about 2" off the floor &
if positioned right, do not interfere with any
of the vent slots).
A cable extension set which includes a monitor cable extension and
a monitor power cable extension.
I believe that's everything I got with the set. These pieces (the
sidestand and the extension set) are orderable separately. I make
absolutely no guarantees that this will not have some adverse effects
on your Mac II at some distant point in the future, but it all seems
reasonable to me (Kensington is a reputable company & the Apple
requirement of 4 - 6" clearance on each side of a Mac II seems like
overkill). Try to find a computer hutch that has that much clearance.
Anyway, I've been using this combo for 2 months plus now with no problems.
Also something I've noticed is that this system leaves the air intake (I assume that's what it is) on top the Mac II completely unobstructed (note that when
Apple illustrates a Mac II that they show the monitor set all the way to the
right side as you're facing it? This appears to be for the purpose of leaving
that air intake as unobstructed as possible). Anyway, I consider the side
stand approach as having this added benefit. I believe just about any of the
mail order houses that carry Kensington goodies also carry the sidestand
stuff (Also, places like MacWareHouse and MacConnection deliver it to your
door *fast*; I ordered mine on Friday afternoon and had it Saturday
morning via Federal Express).
Bob DeBula
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 11:34:11 pst
From: Larry Rosenstein <lsr@apple.com>
Subject: No multi-launch under 6.0.2
In article <8902220412.AA16839@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> you write:
>...
>I'm afraid I can't help you, but perhaps you can help me... how is it that
>using Multifinder lets you get around the problem ? We have an AppleShare
>server running on an SE, and soon will have another on a Sun going thru a
>GatorBox. The entire network is back to system 5.0 precisely because we could
>no longer multi-launch applications with 6.0.2.
I tried multi-launching under MultiFinder under 6.0.2 and it worked fine.
Can you supply the specific case you tried?
>More in general, I have the impression that even under 5.0 multi-launching was
>a barely tolerated klutz: no clear documentation of it, and everything that is
>meant to be shared had to be manually locked in its Info window. Are there any
>true multi-launch applications around (nothing fancy -- just capable of making
>itself and documents it opens read-only -- forget about record/byte locking) ?
That's not true. Multi-Launching is clearly documented in some of the
AppleShare info. It requires that the programs have a special bit set,
and that they don't do anything that would prevent 2 users from using them
at the same time (ie, hardwire in the name of a temporary file, write to
the application file, etc.)
All that multi-launching does is open the application read-only. It is up
to the application developer to make sure that his/her application can be
run in that mode.
Multi-launching is different from the ability for 2 users to open the same
document at the same time. That requires that the application developer use
the locking features of AppleShare. I don't know specifically of programs
that permit this, but I know that some of the existing database programs
support multi=user network access.
As far as I know, multi-launching was not taken out of 6.0.2. This is one
of the features of AppleShare.
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014
AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM
UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 14:07:27 MST
From: dbirnbau@nmsu.edu
Subject: No multi-launch under 6.0.2
At New Mexico State University, we have set up a file serving system running
under 6.0.2, which works just fine. However, in order to utilize the
multi-launch capabilities of programs such as Word and PageMaker, you have
to use ResEdit to set the cache bit in the finder attributes of the
application. This allows things to work just dandy.
Unfortunately, some applications don't function with this
modification. NCSA Telnet, HyperCard (because of the Home stack) and
SuperPaint are the applications that will not function as a
multi-launching application.
Applications that I currently have set up for multi-launch are Word
3.01, PageMaker 2.01, MacDraw, MacWrite, FullPaint, Excel, Cricket
Draw, Cricket Graph, Works and ReadySetGo 4.0.
One problem is that MacWrite 5.0, for some unknown reason, opens
the Main Dictionary as read/write, so only the first user can access
the dictionary. A pretty silly programming decision, if you ask me.
Other then that, most programs work just fine.
+--------------------------------------------+------------------------------+
| David Birnbaum, programmer/consultant | dbirnbau@nmsu.edu |
| Small Systems, Computer Center | VTIS001@NMSUVM1.BITNET |
| New Mexico State University <--+ They pay my bills, but |
| 10 PRINT "Basic is Dead!" : GOTO 10 | they don't write my opions! |
+--------------------------------------------+------------------------------|
| "It shouldn't be a suprise to anyone when the network screws up; |
| the suprise should be that the dang thing works at all!" |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 15:54:45 EST
From: sdl@mbunix (Litvintchouk)
Subject: recognizing scanned images as structured drawings
Now that we have Applescan, are there any software products that can
take a drawing that I scanned in, and recognize it as a structured
drawing (not a bitmap picture)? That is, I would like to take the
scanned drawing and further manipulate the various lines, boxes,
curves, etc., using MacDraw II or some other CAD software (not just
play with individual pixels).
If anyone knows of any such products, or any other way to accomplish
this, please reply directly to me (since I am not a regular subscriber
to this newsgroup). Thanx in advance!
Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
(617)271-7753
ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org
UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl
"Ada came at the peak of confidence in computing. We believe
the tide is now moving the other way." -- Bernard Carre,
University of Southampton and Program Validation, Ltd.
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 11:12:32 GMT
From: Arnold Smith <smith%cam.sri.com@ai.sri.com>
Subject: SCHEME availability?
I'm looking for a compiler/interpreter for Scheme (Lisp dialect), ideally
with good interfaces to the Mac Toolkit. Lots of universities must have
Scheme for teaching undergraduate computer science courses. Can anyone
point me in the right direction?
Arnold Smith
SRI International
Cambridge, England
agsmith@ai.sri.com (Internet)
smith@uk.co.sri (UKnet,JANET)
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I'm in the market for a medium size (30 to 50 Mbyte) external
hard drive for a Mac plus. Comparing advertisements has led me to
the Jasmine Direct Drive 45. It seems to combine good speed and
performance with reasonable cost.
I'd like to hear from anyone with first hand experience with
this drive, or anybody who could suggest a better alternative.
George
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Plus. I believe one can get these chips from a variety of sources.
I would appreciate any pointers on issues such as reliability, price,
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Thanks
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Plus. I believe one can get these chips from a variety of sources.
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FOR SALE - MAC II AND MONITOR
Price: $5000
This includes:
- Apple color monitor
- extended video card
- 2 meg of RAM total
- monitor stand
Willing to ship anywhere.
Please respond by e-mail to Will Equitz (equitz.isl.stanford.edu)
and I will relay the information to the actual seller.
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We are looking for a CAD program to run on the Mac II.
Does anyone have opinions or experience about the programs
available? I noticed someone mentioned versaCad in a recent
article.
We need 3-D wireframe ability. Hidden line removal a plus,
but not necesary. If it can drive an HP plotter, all the better.
-johnmark
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Cc:
Good, fairly detailed review of 12 3D CAD programs for the Mac in
MacWorld, December 1988. "Mac3D" and "Super 3D" (B&W version) seem to
me to come out the best among the under-$500 programs. There are 3
top-of-the-line programs in the $1500-$4000 range also. I have tear
sheets in a file if you want to stop by.
--Tony Siegman
(Now if I can figure out how to get out of this Unix editor....)
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 23 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 39
Today's Topics:
astronomical demonstrations
caution/question on vertical mounting Mac II
DBecque%UMass.BITNET about HDI
Developer Stack 1.2r
Ehternet boards for MAC
EndNote
exotic character sets for wordprocessing
Hard Drives International
Hello from trebor
I knew I tasted a "worm" in that Apple somewhere ...
Japanese Wordprocessing
Jasmine AppleShare box (2 msgs)
LISP (or LOGO) needed?!
MacTerminal file incompatibility
Moire 2.22
Posting: Character Map DA
Print Drivers for HP Deskjet
speech recognition
tn.0289.upd.hqx
Virus Encyclopedia
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 12:42 EST
From: MCCALL%QUASAR@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: astronomical demonstrations
I just bought a Mac SE/30 to aid in teaching astronomy. I am particularly
interested in using animation to demonstrate basic astronomical concepts.
For example, I think that the concept of the stellar parallax might become
more clear by showing simultaneously a window with the Earth going
around the Sun and another window with a star moving back and forth
with respect to background stars. Is there software around which can
be used to create demos like this relatively easily? I have heard that
VideoWorks II might be useful. Does anyone have any experience with it.
Or would it be better to create demos myself by writing my own software?
If so, what language might be the best for doing this? Keep in mind that
I am not a hacker and my background is in Fortran. Does anyone know
of any astronomical demonstrations already developed for teaching purposes?
I have already purchased Voyager.
Any advice would be appreciated. Please send E-mail to Marshall McCall
at bitnet address FS300050@YUSOL. Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 17:44:25 PST
From: mse@b2red.caltech.edu (Martin Ewing)
Subject: caution/question on vertical mounting Mac II
When it comes to mounting the Mac II in a non-standard orientation, I
would worry about whether your hard disk prefers to have its rotation
axis vertical. I.e., is your bearing life going to be reduced by
running the disk on its side?
I've heard various stories; can someone make a definitive statement?
Martin Ewing
Caltech Radio Astronomy
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 22:28 CST
From: <BPB9204%TAMSTAR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: DBecque%UMass.BITNET about HDI
Hard Drive International deals with bare drives by volume, which translates
into great prices.
About six months ago I realized my need for a hard drive - then I
could manage ONE system file, ansrt, no switching floppies
anymore. I asked a couple friends, and was told by three different sources
to go with HDI. I decided to, and now I have a 65meg drive for barely
more than $500.
HDI's service: HDI has a tech support number, and another 800 number
for customer inquiries. I had first hand experience with both because, un-
fortunately, the first Seagate drive I received was defective. It was
noisy, and then died after three weeks of light use. I notified HDI, re-
turned the Seagate drive, and received a new drive for no extra $$$.
I am totally satisfied with HDI's service.
If you are interested, I have the necessary instructions for
assembling a drive. It doesn't take much to assemble a drive, it's just
a matter of mouting the drive in a case and connecting three cables to the
drive. It took me about an hour and a half to do that AND check all
possible connections three more times.
For more info, just reply to:
+--------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| Brent Burton | Hey, hey, no affiliation with HDI(I'm just a |
| BPB9204@TAMVENUS | customer) but some with Salman Rushdie. |
+--------------------+---------+ Go ahead, MAKE MY DAY. +-----------+
+------------------------+
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 11:46:26 CST
From: CB Lih <CL06076@UAFSYSB>
Subject: Developer Stack 1.2r
Hello. I've been using Developer Stack 1.2r. Certain movements within
this stack will cause HyperCard to 'unexpectedly quit'. I can make it
do this by using the index button and going to card 'System Messages'.
After it unexpectedly quits, I'm put back into a pseudo finder, ie it
looks like finder and objects can be manipulated, but there's no menu.
Double clicking on a stack icon will place the word HyperCard at the
top of the screen and then the machine freezes. I'm using a MacSE with
4meg ram, System 6.0.2, Finder 6.1, MultiFinder 6.0, HyperCard 1.2.2.
I use several inits and will list them if someone thinks they might
contain the problem.
Has anyone run into this? Does anyone know why it happens? Is there
anyway to recover short of a restart? Thanks,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=---> CB Lih <---= "Picked up for questioning."
Macintosh Support ::
BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB :: //↑↑\\ ::↑↑\\
AppleLink: U0669 :: :: :: ::
US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas :: :: ::__/
155 Razorback Road :: :: :: \
Fayetteville, AR 72701 :: :: _ :: :: _
501-575-2905 :: \\__// :_: ::__// :_:
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 09:17:56 MST
From: mwalters@Outlaw.UWyo.Edu (Michael Joe Walters)
Subject: Ehternet boards for MAC
We are interested in hooking up our Macintoshes to a Novell network running
the new version 2.15 that supports Macs. My question is what ethernet boards
do people recommend and what experiences have you had with version 2.15.
We have heard that Micom-Interlan is selling a board, NI9210, for Macs.
Any help would be appreciated.
______________________________________________________________________________
Wyoming Michael Walters Bitnet:
Higher Associate Director, WHECN MWalters@UWYO.BITNET
Education Box 3945 University Station
Computer Laramie, WY 82071-3945 Internet:
Network 1-307-766-4881 MWalters@CORRAL.UWYO.EDU
______________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 11:15:15 -0600
From: David Rudolph <rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: EndNote
>> It is reasonably intelligent about formatting the various media entries
>> (book vs. mag vs. ...), but you cannot change its default formats. If you
>> want a different format, you must change it after the bib is generated.
This is not true. Endnote is extremely flexible; virtually and default
setting, including formats for books vs magazines, etc, can easily be
changed
David Rudolph rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 09:42:03 CST
From: Gerald Kutish <ACRC0008%UNLVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: exotic character sets for wordprocessing
Can anyone suggest good, cheap wordprocessing packages in
the Macintosh which will do Japanese, Chinese, Russian,
Arabic, Hindi or other exotic character sets and diacritical marks?
Thanks
gerald kutish
326 administration
university of nebrsaka
lincoln, ne 68588
402-472-5108
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 21:08:36 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Drives International
>DBecque%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu asked:
>In the Feb issue of MacWorld there was an interesting add on page 258
>for hard drives. Being in the market, I took note of it and realized
>that these were some to the best prices I'd seen. But, I'm not sure
>that I understand the deal, are these kits that you put together
>yourself or what (in the small print it says the drive comes with an
>external case, well I hope so!!)? Has anyone had any experience with
>this company: Hard Drives International? Thanks
I recently bought a 46 Meg SCSI (Miniscribe) from HDI for my Apple IIGS.
It came completely assembled and formatted. All I had to do was plug it
in and, because it was formatted for a Mac, do a high-level format for
Prodos. Once I found it worked, I recommended that a non-profit
organization I volunteer for buy one for one of its Macs. It came
yesterday and I installed it today. It took about a minute.
The only problems I found were: in both cases, they took over a month
to ship (while they had immediately charged our credit cards) and there
is no documentation on the hardware.
Basically, they buy hard drives from the name brand manufacturers
(Seagate, Miniscribe), buy cases with power supplies, put them together,
put them in a box and ship them.
They also sell kits, but I believe the kits actually wind up being
at least as expensive as the assembled drives.
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Date: Wed Feb 22 09:27:10 1989
From: biar!trebor@rochester.UUCP
Subject: Hello from trebor
Greetings. It had to happen; I'm finally on Usenet. I'm the author of the
anti-virus programs INTERFERON and VIREX. I want to take a minute of your
time to answer a couple of the most frequent questions I get about these
programs in order to stem the huge tide of calls I get every day.
Interferon : PLEASE IGNORE Anomalies; System 6.0+ and other programs breed
them like flies. Use Anomalies like this; run the check and note which
files generate Anomalies. Wait a week and run the check again. If files
that were not generating Anomalies start doing so, you have a virus that
Interferon doesn't directly detect. Interferon detects Scores, nVIR and
a hypothetical "Sneak"; it does not detect Hpat, INIT29 or ANTI. DO NOT
USE THE ERADICATE OPTION; it has a bug. Kill files in the finder instead.
The Vision Fund : I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone
who has sent in a donation to The Vision Fund for Interferon. We have
collected much more that was expected, and have already purchased a
special video magnifying machine for the beneficiary.
Virex : was updated to v1.3 last week to kill ANTI. If you purchase a
"stale" copy (eg:<v1.3) you'll be automatically updated when you send in
your registration card. I also made some user interface enhancements
based on user suggestions; if you have suggestions, let me know.
New viruses : Virex will be updated as quickly as possible whenever a new
virus is discovered. If you find a new virus, contact me as quickly as
possible. The first person to report a new virus gets a free copy of the
new version that kills it.
Robert J Woodhead ...!uunet!cornell!biar!trebor CompuServe 72447,37
Biar Games, Inc., 10 Spruce Lane, Ithaca NY 14850 (607)257-1708, 3864(fax)
Games written, Viruses killed "I'm the head honcho of this here spread;
While U Wait. Take a number. I don't need no stinking disclaimers!!!"
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1989 9:13:03 CST
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: I knew I tasted a "worm" in that Apple somewhere ...
[ a friend beat me to typing this in. (thanks, Jim)
it also made the national TV-news this morning ]
Thought you'd get a chuckle out of this. From the
_Austin_American-Statesman_ Thursday, Feb. 23, 1989, reprinted
without permission:
LONDON -
The company representing the disbanded pop group the Beatles is
suing Apple Computer Inc. in a dispute over the use of the
"apple" trademark, a lawyer for the company said Wednesday.
Nicholas Valner said Apple Corps Ltd. filed a lawsuit in the
High Court in London, accusing the California computer company
of violating a 1981 agreement. Under that agreement, Apple
Computer, founded in 1977, paid the Beatles an unknown amount
[!] for the right to keep using the famous apple trademark.
But the Apple Corps says Apple Computer violated stipulations
not to use the trademark "on any apparatus specifically
designed and intended for synthesizing music," he said.
Over the past few years, the computer company has developed
top-selling hardware with music synthesizing capabilities.
Apple Computer's latest, top-of-the-line Apple II (sic) and
Macintosh personal computers come equipped with circuitry that
allows them to play and synthesize music.
'It's a clear violation of the agreement," said Wayne Cooper,
an attorney for the recording company, which is equally owned
by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and the estate
of the late John Lennon. "If the computer company wants to
sell machines that make music, they will have to become banana
or peach, or something."
The suit seeks a court order requiring the computer company to
withdraw all products violating the 1981 agreement and pay
past-due royalties - plus 15 percent interest - on all sales of
music-making computers. Dataquest, a computer market research
company in San Jose, Calif., estimates that Apple Computer has
sold about 1 million computers with music-making capabilities.
Cooper estimated that past-due royalties could amount to $50
million to $200 million.
A spokesman for Apple COmputer declined to comment on the suit
or the ongoing dispute.
Analysts said the music company may be moving to protect its
position before its claim to the trademark is lost due to lack
of enforcement of its original contractual rights.
Apple Corps was founded in 1067 and its activities included
music releases under the Apple label and a chain of clothing
stores. The Beatles broke up in 1970. Some Apple Computer
histories trace the name to co-founder Steven Jobs memories of
working in the Oregon apple country, where he became convinced
apples are a perfect food.
Well, there you have it. Proof positive that there are too many
lawyers in this small world of ours. Gack.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 10:29:07 GMT
From: Stuart MacFarlane <mcvax!hci.hw.ac.uk!stuartm@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Japanese Wordprocessing
I'd like to find out about Japanese language wordprocessing software
for the Mac (Plus or SE). I've heard of something called Kanjitalk,
but don't know exactly what it is, or how to get it. I'd welcome
names, addresses, prices, opinions, etc. on this or any other system.
Please mail me, and I'll post a summary.
Stuart MacFarlane ARPA: stuartm@hci.hw.ac.uk
Scottish HCI Centre, UUCP: ..{backbone}!mcvax!ukc!hwcs!hci!stuartm
Heriot-Watt University, JANET: stuartm@uk.ac.hw.hci
Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HX Scotland Tel: 031-225 8432 ext19
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 10:09:39 EST
From: ephraim@think.com
Subject: Jasmine AppleShare box
Greg Brail asks about the reality of the Jasmine AppleShare box. It's
real. Last time I spoke to Tim Standing at Jasmine, he was hard at
work on it and full of optimism about the results. I didn't ask him
about pricing and I honestly don't recall what he said about shipping
dates.
"Apparently, it's just a hardware box with a LocalTalk connector and
7(!) SCSI ports."
It supports seven SCSI *devices*, just like any Mac with a SCSI port.
It only has one SCSI *port*.
Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
"Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for:
God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
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Date: 23 Feb 89 16:08:23 GMT
From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Subject: Jasmine AppleShare box
Yesterday I received in the mail Jasmine's product brochure which
leads off with its new "DirectServe TM Dedicated File Server."
The list is $1,299. It has a 68010 running at 10 MHz, comes with
standard 1MB memory which can be upgraded to 2 or 4 MB. Jasmine
says it can accommodate up to 40 users and/or bridges.
You have to separately purchase an SCSI hard disk to attach to
the server. Jasmine's main claim to speed is that its processor
doesn't have to drive a video display, keyboard, or mouse.
Jasmine's number is 1-800-347-3228; Pacific Time.
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Date: 23 Feb 89 06:39 EST
From: science@nems.arpa (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: LISP (or LOGO) needed?!
Help! I've begun working with a friend's "Object Logo" and want to buy
a copy for myself (or a similarly-priced LISP) -- but phone calls to Coral
Software indicate that they aren't selling or supporting it any more, now
that Apple owns them. XLISP is ok but I need a faster LISP or Logo and can't
afford the $500+ pricetags for fancy things. Any advice on where I could
find a good LISP/Logo these days? Are Expertelligence's products worth
considering? Tnx -- ↑z -- science@nems.arpa
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 10:09:54 EST
From: Jonathan K. Millen <jkm@mbunix.mitre.org>
Subject: MacTerminal file incompatibility
Anyone know why, when I open MacTerminal, it puts up a dialog
saying "This file is incompatible with the current version
of MacTerminal"? It happens on opening either the application
iteself or a document just created by MacTerminal. The text
in the file is remembered, but all settings are lost.
I have MacTerminal 2.2, System 4.2, Finder 6.0, on a Plus with 1 Meg,
not running Multifinder.
-Jon Millen
jkm@mitre.org
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 89 22:04:12 EST
From: Timothy Miller <CC002160%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Moire 2.22
I noticed that the sumex-aim archives only have version 2.12 of Moire, but the
ones at umn-cs.cs.umn.edu have version 2.22, so here's the newer version. The
doc (included) says that the changes are:
>This version fixes the problems with Kermit, etc. Also fixes a problem with
>multiple screens, and now handles 12/24 hour settings properly. The speed
>settings have also been modified, and the speed differential between
>the lowest and highest settings is more noticable now. Furthermore Moire is
>now 100% compatible with Font/DA Juggler.
Tim
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/moire-222.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 14:16:47 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Posting: Character Map DA
This is Character Map DA, a tiny but helpful tool for all those who
are - like me - tired of the trial-and-error character search with
Key Caps. Character Map shows a map of all characters available in
in any of your fonts. To insert a character into your word processor
document, simply click on it and there you are. No more looking up
rare characters in home-grewn tables or fumbling around with the
modifier keys in Key Caps. Moreover, Character Map is even capable
of inserting characters that do not have keyboard equivalents (e.g.
the check mark in the Chicago font, when you don't have a CNTL key).
The best thing is: Character Map is FREE (after all, it took me not
more than three hours to write it; so, how could I charge anything
for it?).
A short documentation (in both TEXT and WriteNow format) is included.
Enjoy it.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/da/character-map.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 13:26:10 EST
From: A. Moiseff <MOISEFF%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Print Drivers for HP Deskjet
Does anyone have experience with any of the print drivers for either the
HP Laserjet II or HP Deskjet printers? There have been several drivers
advertised but I have not been able to find any performance specs.
Specifically - print speed and whether special font images (e.g.,
3X sizes) are required.
Please respond via BITNET: MOISEFF@UCONNVM.bitnet
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Date: Wed 22 Feb 89 21:59:16-PST
From: TOM MALER <RIORDAN.MALER@bionet-20.bio.net>
Subject: speech recognition
Hello
I am looking for an inexpensive speech recognition system for the Mac
(for example an external serial device), that could recognize 4-8 words.
I need something pre-cooked or very well documented.
I cannot do the development work myself. If you know of something like
that or have any syggestions, please send me a message.
Thanks a lot
Tom Maler
44 George Street
Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, M8V2S2
416-2524789
416-3695814
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 16:48:03 PST
From: Mark B. Johnson <mjohnson@apple.com>
Subject: tn.0289.upd.hqx
This file contains the complete set of February 1989 Technical Notes, including
a revision to the Script Manager 2.0 document. This release includes revisions
to Notes 129, 171, and 176, New Notes 222-227, and an update to Note 0 and
the Index. With this release, the format has also changed, so the necessary
laser fonts and the Font/DA Mover are also included.
[Archived as /info-mac/tn/tns-feb89-part1.hqx; 159K
/info-mac/tn/tns-feb89-part2.hqx; 159K
/info-mac/tn/tns-feb89-part3.hqx; 150K
In order to make things more convenient, we are going to be maintaining the
latest tech note release as one StuffIt archive in addition to the individual
files. That way if all you need is the latest revisions/additions, you can
pull them out of the archive with a minimum of fuss. Of course, we'll keep
on updating and adding individual tech notes. -Bill]
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 02:32:02 -0600
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: Virus Encyclopedia
This posting contains the Virus Encyclopedia HyperCard stack by Henry C.
Schmitt. It's a fairly informative stack detailing most of the Mac viruses and
it gives a brief description of most of the anti-viral utilities. Some of
the information is out of date, but at the rate this situation changes, it's
not surprising, and it doesn't really reduce the value of the stack.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/virus-encyclopedia.hqx; 70K]
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 24 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 40
Today's Topics:
AppleShare 2.0 and PageMaker
Computer Care Inc. (SOFTSTEP SIMMs)
CORE/GKS
Digest posting
Fun in Space
Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
LISP (or LOGO) needed?!
Non-proportional fonts
Numerical Methods Stack
Volume XCMDs
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 09:35 EST
From: Roberta Russell <PRUSSELL%OBERLIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleShare 2.0 and PageMaker
I manage a Macintosh network running AppleShare 2.0 FileServer and
PrintServer. Users on the network have the option of downloading server
software or using their own. All printing jobs, regardless of software,
are spooled to the server.
I am the only person who can write to the server. Yesterday I noticed
three new document files (generic document icon) in the system folder:
(creator) (type)
0Aldus1.2Prep 36k asps lspt
0Aldus1.2PrepS 6k asps lspt
0Aldus1.2Prep 0k asps lsqt
The files were in a print queue folder called Q_0aserWriter II_*
together with the usual queue and log files for the LaserWriter.
Since PageMaker is NOT one of the programs on our server, someone has
obviously used an outdated (and probably pirated) floppy copy to do some
printing. If anyone knows how these files are created and how I can keep
them off the server, please let me know. Many thanks.
Robin Russell
Oberlin College Computing Center
prussell@oberlin
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 14:32 EST
From: "Thomas R. Blake" <TBLAKE@bingvaxb.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Computer Care Inc. (SOFTSTEP SIMMs)
Folks,
I have a user who is interested in purchasing SOFTSTEP memory upgrades
for his Mac II. These are produced by a Minneapolis company called Computer
Care Inc. (I haven't heard of SOFTSTEP or C.C. Inc. before).
Does anybody have experience with these products, or this company?
(Good, Bad, Indifferent?)
The user already has 2 Meg in his machine.
The SOFTSTEP product is a .75 Meg SIMM with another socket built onto
the end, so that you plug your original .25 Meg into the end, and voila, you
have a 1 Meg SIMM! (Another product, allows you to combine 4 .25 Meg SIMMs
into 1 1 Meg. They provide products for II's, and SE/Plus's)
Any information would be appreciated, if there is enough interest, I'll
summarize to the net.
TBLAKE@BINGVAXB.BITNET Thomas R. Blake
tblake@bingvaxb.cc.binghamton.edu Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing
SUNY-Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13901
(607) 777-6008
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 20:57 EDT
From: Mike Kirby <MPK9172%ritvax.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CORE/GKS
Does anyone know of a GKS/CORE implementation of the graphics standard
that has binding to C? I have implemented a good portion of the
CORE standard for one of my classes. (all 2 d transformations and
segments. I do not really want to do the 3-d and user interface
stuff if I can avoid it. If noone else has done it, then are there
anyone out there that would be interested in me porting CORE to
the Mac? I figure if I've already done most of the work, why not
finish it up. I did most of the three-d perspective transformation
matricies for another project, and that includes three-d matrix
manipulation routines for a good portion of the scale/rotate/translate
commands.
Also, are there any extensions that (within reason...I'm not gonna
do the PHIGS thing.) people might want to see?
later,
mike
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 12:28:41 PST
From: carlton%betelgeuse.Berkeley.EDU@berkeley.edu (Mike Carlton)
Subject: Digest posting
> From: Jonathan K. Millen <jkm@mbunix.mitre.org>
> Subject: MacTerminal file incompatibility
>
> Anyone know why, when I open MacTerminal, it puts up a dialog
> saying "This file is incompatible with the current version
> of MacTerminal"? It happens on opening either the application
> iteself or a document just created by MacTerminal. The text
> in the file is remembered, but all settings are lost.
> I have MacTerminal 2.2, System 4.2, Finder 6.0, on a Plus with 1 Meg,
> not running Multifinder.
> -Jon Millen
> jkm@mitre.org
A similar problem happened to me. I traced the problem to having McSink v5.0d
installed, removing McSink fixed the problem. Another fix was to create a
MacTerminal document on another system (without McSink) and transfer the
document to the first system. I was able to use this document to open
MacTerminal with no problems.
I would guess the problem is a resource that McSink installs which confuses
MacTerminal, although I haven't verified this.
Regards,
Mike (carlton@ji.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton)
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Date: 23 Feb 89 06:00:35 GMT
From: md32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Joseph Darweesh)
Subject: Fun in Space
[Fun in Space]
This the wild and exciting game-Fun In Space. It was created and
programmed entirely by Eric Snider (my Roommate). It's even in color
on the Mac II!
Have some fun in space!!!
[Archived as /info-mac/game/fun-in-space.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 24-Feb-89 09:27:01 PST
From: portal!cup.portal.com!LaserMan@sun.com
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
Martin Ewing asked about mounting the MacII on its side and the impact on disk
drive spindle bearings. He asked if someone can make a definitive statement.
I have a copy of the Quantum Q80S application manual and it specifically
states that orientation in any axis is acceptable. I also called and talked
to the V.P. of Engineering at Quantum about this. Mr. Shelton stated that this
was the case but did reccomend that the drive be reformatted in the
orientation it was to be used in. The Quantum is is standard drive used by
Apple in the MacII. I also talked to a number of other people in the disk
drive industry and they all felt that their mechanisms would work in any
orientation as well. What I heard off the record is that all drives are tested
in the normal orientation and all life test data is based on that. Hence some
manufacturers put a disclaimer in their manual about mounting in any position
other than horizontial/PCB down. In talking to drive designers it is clear
that no technical reason exisits to restrict mounting of the devices. One
thing did emerge and that is that since the vertical mounts are less stable
the chance of inadvertantly kicking the machine and shocking the drive is much
higher with a vertical mount some engineers reccomended against it on that
basis. In visiting three major drive makers I noticed MANY vertically mounted
machines in each company even if they recommended against doing it.
Bob Murrow
laserman@cup.portal.com
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 11:43:12 PST
From: halff@NPRDC.NAVY.MIL (Henry Halff)
Subject: LISP (or LOGO) needed?!
Subject: LISP (or LOGO) needed?!
> Help! I've begun working with a friend's "Object Logo" and want to buy a copy
> for myself (or a similarly-priced LISP) -- but phone calls to Coral Software
> indicate that they aren't selling or supporting it any more, now that Apple
> owns them.
What a disaster! Object Logo is one of the nicest object-oriented languages
around. Apple, if you're out there listening, do yourself a favor and find
some way of supporting the product, and Pearl Lisp too. I'm sure that you are
aware of your presence in the educational community and of Logo's popularity
there as well. Our local high schools are installing Macs in computer-science
labs and may one day find it advantageous to use them in lower grades as well.
If you promise to get support for Object Logo, I'll promise to tell our
computer-science people that it's not just a kids' language.
hh
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 9:11:40 EST
From: "Hugh A. Huntzinger" (CCL-S) <huntzing@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Non-proportional fonts
I'm looking for a "old fashioned" non-proportional font, any style.
The application is to use Word to view & output captured text streams from
Versaterm. The info is formatted 132 columns wide & proportional text
defeats the columnation the mainframe did. Any suggestions?
Direct is huntzing@ardec.arpa ...or... huntzing@pica.army.mil
(they're in the process of changing the mailers
Thanks!
-hummer
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 14:32:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Patrick Arnold <ba0k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Numerical Methods Stack
Hello there,
Enclosed is a "Numerical Methods" HyperCard stack, StuffIted and BinHexed
(so I owe Raymond Lau $20). The stack contains HyperTalk methods for solving
numerical problems along with some instructions on how to use them. There
is one XFCN method, and I plan to write more as time permits. This won't teach
anybody how to use the methods, but for those who are interested, this may be
some fun to toy around with. It is shareware $12, but you can "try it out"
indefinitely if you like, as long as you don't gain any productivity by it.
- Brian
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/numerical-methods.hqx; 116K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 11:11:40 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Volume XCMDs
Here is a simple stack with the GetVolume and SetVolume commands
in it. They allow you to control the Mac's volume from Hypercard.
Included is a button that behaves like the standard Mac volume
control. The SetVolume XCMD actually changes the Control Panel's
volume also.
Once again, this is free and sleazy.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd-volume.hqx; 7K]
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 26 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 41
Today's Topics:
Complaint: MAC ROMS
Converting MACBinary files accessed through a file server
MiniScribe Hard Disk Mounting
No Multi-launc on system 6.0.2
Setting AppleTalk node numbers
USDebt 2.0 DA
VirusDetective 2.1
ZTerm 0.75
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 20:14 EST
From: Timothy Stark <11TSTARK%GALLUA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Complaint: MAC ROMS
Hello Users:
MAC emulation for Amiga:
I received a mail from someone about MAC ROMS. He said me that they
changed a lot about MAC ROMS. Most will not sell MAC ROMS. A few increase
MAC ROMs a price much. I get very angry with them. Why did Apple, Inc not
want sell MAC roms to third party company (ReadySoft, Atari, etc.. for
MAC emulation)? I will not buy MAC computer execpt MAC emulations unless
my demand met. Why does Apple, Inc not like MAC emulation? I am not like
Apple's bearucracy (sp?) It may cause Readysoft's bankrupt which sells
MAC emulation for my Amiga!
Thanks.
-- Tim Stark
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 89 15:26 EST
From: Ted Nieland - SRL <@wpafb-aamrl.arpa:TNIELAND@FALCON>
Subject: Converting MACBinary files accessed through a file server
I have a lot of files that are stored in MACBinary format on a VAX that
has the AlisaTalk file server running on it. Does there exist and
application that I can run on the MAC to decode these files (accessing them
using the file server). The files are displayed on the MAC with the
VMS file icon (indicating that the file server knows nothing about them)
It would be a lot easier to decode this way then having to use Red Ryder,
MAC Terminal, etc and KERMIT or X-MODEM to translate the files.
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 18:02:31 GMT
From: CYK10%PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: MiniScribe Hard Disk Mounting
Hello there! I'm wondering if anybody has had this problem or knows of a
solution. I bought a MiniScribe Hard Disk (model 8051S) a while ago as an
internal drive for my Mac SE. Unfortunately, the mounting that came with the
drive doesn't fit the space vacated by the upper floppy (it's much too big).
Right now all that's holding it in place is some Blu tack (!). Does anybody
know where I can get a proper mounting bracket for it?
I would appreciate any help sent direct to me. Thanks!
C Y Khoo
Queens' College
Cambridge
JANET: CYK10@UK.AC.CAM.PHX
EARN/BITNET: CYK10%UK.AC.CAM.PHX@UKACRL
ARPA: CYK10%UK.AC.CAM.PHX@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 16:06:08 MST
From: Andy <ZZMLAB%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: No Multi-launc on system 6.0.2
We have come across a great network utility that solves all of our
multi-launch problems with AppleShare. It is called DoppleMaker and was
a shareware product which has been considerably enhanced and is now being
distributed directly by the author. This program allows you to specify
how many copies of an application can be opened at a time. For example,
if you have a 20 node network but only have 5 copies of MacDraw, only
5 users can open it at one time. The sixth user gets a message that all
copies are in use. When one of the MacDraw users quits, DoppleMaker then
allows someone else to use it. It supports any number of applications and
works with everything we have thrown at it, including SuperPaint and
assorted programming languages. One added benefit is that it copy protects
the applications so that pirates are out of luck. This utility is the
answer for ensuring there is no copyright violation in a lab environment.
You can contact the author at:
RB Consulting
10168-88 Street
Edmonton, Alberta CANADA
T5H 1P3
Andy
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 15:52:32 MST
From: BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Setting AppleTalk node numbers
I recently saw a reference to a public domain program that could
be used to see node hint numbers on Macs on an AppleTalk network.
This would seem to be a very handy utility that could be used to identify
computers on a network using something like AT View. Nodes could be
assigned room numbers, station numbers or whatever. I think the name
was Set Node. If anyone has this, I would appreciate it if you would
send it to me or let me know where I could find it. Thanks.
Bob Bolt
Microcomputer Coordinator
University of Alberta
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 11:46:36 PST
From: riley%cs@ucsd.edu (Chris Riley)
Subject: USDebt 2.0 DA
This is an updated version of the United States National Debt
desk accessory, version 2.0. The DA is still free.
It was entirely re-written to include various suggestions.
Improvements:
* Update faster and smoother.
* The display window is smaller so it uses up less of the display.
* The digits are easier to read since they are seperated
by commas: eg 2,333,444,555,666.
* Saves its position if it is moved.
* Slightly smaller in physical size.
Click anywhere in the debt display window for information
on the DA.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/us-debt-20.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 14:06 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size
range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be removed
>From the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update the
search list at any time. Shareware.
Version 2.1 adds JData and Data searches for detecting ANTI and like viruses.
Jeff
uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
CSNet: SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
MCI Mail: KILROY
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-21.hqx; 56K]
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 89 21:18:51 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: ZTerm 0.75
This four-part posting contains version 0.75 of ZTerm, a Mac terminal
emulator that supports XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM file transfer. This
version replaces the 0.7 version posted back in January.
This version fixes a number of bugs... in particular, its VT-100
emulation is more compatible with curses-based editors (e.g. GNU Emacs
and vi) and with the rn news-reader. [Turn off the auto-linefeed option
in the Setup... dialog box for maximum compatibility]. 7-bit-with-
parity terminal setups work better (although I've had a bit of trouble
with XON/XOFF flow control during ZMODEM uploads in this configuration;
I recommend 8-no-parity, no-extended-characters when calling Sun and
similar Unix systems). ZTerm's keyboard remapping can be turned off;
this will apparently make ZTerm easier to use on non-U.S. Mac keyboards.
ZTerm is shareware, $30; the author's name, address, and support info
is in the documentation, which is included in this posting.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
ZTerm 0.75 - detailed change history - 19 Feb 89
ZTerm v0.75 - 19 Feb 89 - program size: 120,105 bytes
* Added ReDial/Queue-dialing: setup names are marked when a Dial fails
or by holding Shift when you select the setup name. Dial Marked will
cycle thru all marked setup entries.
* Added hardware handshake support (don't use with systems before 6.0:
the Serial Driver can hang the system).
* Added support of YModem-G.
* Added cursor positioning by Option-clicking in the terminal window.
* Added purge buffer command and clear screen command.
* Added escape control char support in ZModem Parms.
* Send ZModem will now adjust block size if no errors and Auto selected.
* Added dialogs to edit the Macro strings & the modem init string.
* Modem init string is not sent at startup if default setup doesnt
have a phone number (direct connect) or option is held down.
* Added Text pacing dialog to set wait for echo, or delay time.
* X/YModem receive now has 3 options: try CRC w/fallback to Checksum;
Checksum only; CRC-1K request by sending CK.
* Fixed bug in YModem receive: it didn't know when to quit!
* Fixed MFS volume name display in transfer status.
* Fixed bug in restarting download of MacBinary file.
* AutoLF can now be turned off; when on it does LF when CR is received,
but ignores a LF after a CR.
* VT100 keypad can be turned off to get just the chars marked on the
key.
* Control chars can be entered in certain dialogs by typing a caret
followed by the letter.
* Sends a break when Cmd-Enter is typed.
* Fixed the switch to 8 data bits (when set for 7) when starting
ZModem receive. It was changing the port setup while the first
message was coming in, garbling it.
* Fixed text detection so Mac extended chars are allowed.
* Fixed clear screen (esc [ 2J) to NOT home the cursor.
* Fixed save cursor/attributes to save text attributes and char set.
* Added handling of next_line sequence (esc E).
* Made the program somewhat more tolerant of running on older
ROM/system, but I haven't tested this much.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/zterm-075.hqx; 176K]
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What's the highest numbered System / Finder combo advisable for a Mac 128k?
Also, anyone know of a decent Forth system that would run on such a beast?
-=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "Research Scientists need Porsches, too!"
->paulf@shasta.Stanford.EDU | -- Bloom County
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I was trying to write an INIT in Pascal that would manipulate the trap
dispatch table (i.e. intercept a call to a routine in ROM) and ran into
some problems. If I use setTrapAddress WITHIN an application to
manipulate the trap dispatch table, everywthing works ok...If I try to do
it in an INIT there is no effect. Is there something I need to do to keep
it in memory? When I do it within an application the effect disappears
after I exit the application. I want to have some routines constantly
running in the background, checking AppleTalk for my packets. I assume that a
trap in the dispatch table would be the best way to go (I have tried to use
the verticle retrace manager & gave up there also!). Does anyone have a
suggestion, better yet, any example code that I could see? I am using LSP, but
have started using LSC. Thanks for the help!
Ed
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Some inits have a very nice feature - icons for them appear on the screen
during startup. Others do not seem to do this. Is there any way to adjust
the inits that do not appear on the screen so that they advertise their
presense at startup?
Thanks
David
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The trap table is swapped multifinder as one of the things that changes
with each application. Instead of writing "background" code as an init
why not write a tiny background application for multifinder? It can
be launched by 'set startup' -j
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I'm looking for an issue of MacWeek from summer '88. Can someone
direct me to an archive of these weeklies? I've tried most of the
major libraries on campus, but most only carry the Macintosh monthlies.
In particular, I'm looking for the issue that featured the MIT media lab's
full-motion video compression/decompression system, based on a Mac. Any
pointers to other articles on this topic are welcome, too. Thanks.
Adam
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I'd like to draw some pictures on my Mac and include them into LaTex
documents.I believe generating postscript file si one solution.
Could anyone suggest me how to do it?
Thanks.
- S
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>I'd like to draw some pictures on my Mac and include them into LaTex
>documents.I believe generating postscript file si one solution.
>Could anyone suggest me how to do it?
>
>Thanks.
>
>- S
Yes, just use the chooser to set the printer to be a laserwriter, then
choose the print command, then press command-F or command-K. One of them
deposits a completely self-contained postscript file on your disk, the other
creates a postscript file that merely contains your picture. I don't remember
which does which.
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> Yes, just use the chooser to set the printer to be a laserwriter, then
> choose the print command, then press command-F or command-K. One of
> them deposits a completely self-contained postscript file on your
> disk, the other creates a postscript file that merely contains your
> picture. I don't remember which does which.
Cmd-F just places the PostScript output from your document into the
file; Cmd-K prepends the LaserPrep file that's in your System Folder.
Unfortunately, due to various bizarrenesses that people seem to blame
on Apple, the Cmd-K-produced "completely self-contained postscript
file" that Eric refers to isn't quite as useful as it might be. It
may be fine for inserting into Latex (don't know, I'm not a Latex
user), but I guarantee you can't just print it on your LaserWriter.
Here's what I found out recently when I wanted to take the PostScript
of a MS-Word document and store it on a Unix host for printing to a
LaserWriter. There is a package called "macps" written by Edward Moy
at UC Berkeley that is designed for just this. It's available on
Sumex as ~/info-mac/unix/macps-prepfix.shar. After you get it, unshar
it and compile it on your Unix host, it allows you to take
Cmd-F-produced files from your Mac, merge them with appropriately
munged LaserPrep files, and successfully print the result on a
LaserWriter. Great stuff, Ed.
- RL "Bob" Morgan
Networking Systems
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 27 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 42
Today's Topics:
All the rumors that fit we print
Archive access
Character Map DA Addendum
GIF file format
MACII and the HP Laser Jet
Non-proportional font
Problems in a Novell 2.15 network
Sharing modem ports on a Mac II
TARGA->PICT2 on PC or VMS?
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 22:40:26 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: All the rumors that fit we print
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the March 1989 APPLE PULP
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Permission granted to copy with the above citation
All in One LAN.
NetFrame Systems of Sunnyvale, California plans to deliver
by year's end a multiprocessor 80386-based network server to
seamlessly link Novell Netware, OS/2 LAN Manager, and UNIX
networks. The NetFrame Server will initially be offered in
two sizes, one designed for between two and five processors
and another for between three and 17. NetFrame's future
plans call for integration with networks based on Motorola
68030 and 88000 CPU's, Sun's SPARC processors, and the Intel
80486. - PC Week 13 February
Major OS/2 Upgrades.
Microsoft plans a new release of OS/2 this fall that will
permit the operating system to access non-OS/2 storage
devices. Hardware vendors will be able to create OS/2
Installable Files Systems (IFSs) for their products, and
OS/2 users with corresponding file systems will then be able
to access DEC VAX, CD ROM, Macintosh, or UNIX-based
devices. Two further versions of OS/2 are planned for
1990. One will be a multiprocessor release that will allow
users of MCA and EISA architectures to take full advantage
of their multi-channel capabilities, and the other will be
specifically written for 80386 computers.
- PC Week 30 January and InfoWorld 6 February
Porting Macware to PM.
Developers and industry observers say a substantial number
of Macintosh applications should start appearing in releases
for IBM's Presentation Manager (PM) later this year. The
rivalry between the Macintosh and PM interfaces may lead to
more buyouts of smaller software firms. Porting the
programs is far from trivial, and small developers probably
won't have the resources to sustain the effort. While
Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft appears to be having
little effect, a major drawback is that most Macintosh
applications are written in Pascal while PM development
generally is done in C. - InfoWorld 30 January
The "Year of the CPU" Continues.
The 16 MHz 3-slot Mac should make its expected debut March 8
at the Hannover (West Germany) Computer Fair (see last
month's column). The more powerful 25 and 33 MHz Mac II
descendants which also will have a 20 MHz version of the
NuBus (twice as fast as the 10 MHz bus in the Mac II, IIx,
and 3-slot) will appear in August (with a hefty price tag
ranging from $10,000 to $15,000). Apple will be releasing a
new generation of Laser printers using the new Canon 400 dpi
engine in August as well. - InfoWorld 30 January
WalkMac/030.
You may actually see a LapMac from Apple later this year
(have you heard that before?), but by that time, Colby
Systems will already have shipped a 12-pound laptop based on
the new SE-030. Under an arrangement with Apple and
dealers, Colby provides unfinished portable units to dealers
who complete the systems by adding Mac motherboards. The
WalkMac/030 will include the 1.4 Mbyte Superdrive, a 40
Mbyte hard disk, and a 2400 baud modem. The portable
measures 12 by 15 by 3.5 inches, has a double supertwist
blue backlit LCD, a built in keyboard, and internal
batteries which can last up to four hours. Sufficient
motherboards to make the WalkMac/030 available are not
expected for at least two months. Colby expects to be able
to offer the machine for $6,500. - InfoWorld 6 February
No Low-Cost Mac (from Apple).
Apple CEO John Sculley told stockholders last month that the
firm has opened a second design center to focus on designing
machines for the low end of the market, however a Mac with a
price tag below $1,000 will not be offered this year.
Products Division president Jean-Louis Gassee also is quoted
as saying the company doesn't plan to offer a low-cost Mac
configuration anytime in the next two or three years.
- InfoWorld 30 January and PC Week 6 February
An SE-30 Clone (Sort of) Already?
At least some of Atari's new $2,000 68030 computers are
expected to ship this Spring with genuine Macintosh ROMs
legally obtained from a third-party. - InfoWorld 6 February
Bus Transfer.
Although the 030 Direct Slot in the new Mac SE-030 isn't
compatible with NuBus cards used in the Mac II or cards for
the original Mac SE, Second Wave, Inc. of Austin, Texas says
that in April it will begin shipping the Expanse II/SE-30
which will expand the SE-030's single Direct Slot into eight
(8) NuBus slots as well as adding a 130 watt power supply, a
cooling fan, and support for three SCSI devices. The
company already is shipping an eight slot expander (the
Expanse II) for the Mac II and IIx (providing a total of 12
slots). Both Expanse products are priced at $2,295.
- InfoWorld 30 January
Virtual Memory for the Mac II.
Little known start-up, Connectix, demonstrated a $295
program at last January's Macworld Expo which enables Mac
II's equipped with 1 Mbyte of RAM (and sufficient hard disk
space) to run applications accessing up to 8 Mbytes of
memory (the maximum allowed by the current operating
system). The program, called Virtual, requires a 68030 or
the 68551 Page Memory Management Unit (PMMU) in a Mac II
with a 68020. - InfoWorld 30 January
Desktop Unpublishing.
Xerox plans to ship its $995 Datacopy Accutext software for
the Macintosh during the second quarter. Accutext uses
artificial intelligence to increase scanning accuracy and
can recognize a wide variety of fonts and character sizes
>From 6 to 24 points. It not only translates scanned
documents into text, it can create word processing files
(Mac Write, Word) which include information for column
margins, paragraph indentation, indented blocks, and tabs.
The program also processes graphics into TIFF, PICT, or Mac
Paint files in resolutions from 75 to 400 dots per inch.
- InfoWorld 23 January
MCA/1+?
In response to widespread rumors, IBM Senior Engineer Chet
Heath denied the existence of an enhanced MCA architecture
(MCA/2 see January's column) that would be incompatible with
current PS/2 computers. However, Heath also is said to have
confirmed that some enhancements, presumably using undefined
"reserved lines" in the original MCA specification will be
introduced in the 33 MHz Model 70 in August (see last
month's column).
- PC Week 6 February and InfoWorld 13 February
RISC-based Graphics.
Hardly had Compaq and TI teamed up to produce a graphics
board to outperform IBM's 8514/A adapter (see last month's
column), than word arrives that Big Blue will announce a
board with 1,280 by 1,024 pixels by 256 colors or 1,600 by
1,200 pixel monochrome resolution (the 8514/A provides up to
1,024 by 768 pixels). The new RISC graphics processor and a
daughter board that will dramatically speed printing of
complex graphics will be introduced later this year. The
boards will support Interleaf publisher, but it is not clear
whether they will support any other software at the time of
their release - PC Week 13 February
Color Clamshell?
Later this Spring, IBM will unveil a color LCD display said
to offer the brilliance, resolution, and readability of
standard CRT's. Look for the display in a laptop this
summer. - PC Week 23 January
Excel 2.2.
Microsoft plans an April release for the latest upgrade of
its popular Macintosh spreadsheet program. Version 2.2 will
require a minimum of 1 Mbyte of RAM and will support
spreadsheets as large as 5 Mbytes. The new Excel will be
able to import and export in industry standard (MS-DOS)
database formats (Ashton-Tate's dBase and others) as well as
Lotus 1-2-3 "WRK" format. Other features include using as
many as six styles of type and an unlimited number of fonts,
annotation of cells with visible or hidden text, and support
for color on the Macintosh II and IIx. - PC Week 23 January
OS/2 Applications.
Word Perfect's OS/2 version, a straight port of MS-DOS
version 5.0, is expected by the end of March. OS/2 will
permit background printing and lifting of memory
constraints. A Presentation Manager version is planned for
release by the end of the year. Microsoft's Word,
originally scheduled for December, also is expected by the
end of the month. Word 5.0 will be a single program that
can be configured to run under either MS-DOS or OS/2.
Ashton-Tate plans to release dBase IV version 1.1 for both
DOS and OS/2 sometime this Spring.
- PC Week 30 January and InfoWorld 13 February
Windows Applications.
Microsoft has been demonstrating several, as yet
unannounced, Windows programs to selected corporate
accounts. Windows versions of Microsoft Word (October),
Power Point (third quarter), Project Manager (third
quarter), and a new Systems Application Architecture (SAA)
database (October) are scheduled for release later this
year. - InfoWorld 13 February
Forever Vaporware.
Tektronix has canceled its previously announced Postscript
compatible printer, the Phaser LP. Problems with the
printing engine's print quality were given as the reason for
the demise of the printer which was announced last November
and scheduled to ship by the end of March.
- InfoWorld 30 January
Speculating on Vaporware.
Software publisher Claris has struggled financially since
Apple spun it off two years ago. However, Claris has shown
some signs recently of challenging Microsoft for leadership
in Macintosh software sales, and talks with investment
bankers about a stock offering have been resumed. A likely
date for the debut of publicly traded Claris stock would be
this summer, but stock market conditions will be the
decisive factor determining whether the company moves ahead
with an offering. Apple continues to control 82% of Claris
stock; so Apple board members will make the final decision.
Meanwhile, Wall Street rumors have Ashton-Tate (selling for
$23 a share in early February) as potentially "in play" (a
takeover target) at a price that may reach as high as $42.
- PC Week 23 January and 13 February
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 10:07:08 EST
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Archive access
To VMS netters:
I have a new problem with the change in format of the Info-Mac archives. I'm
accesssing the system from a VAX-750 running VMS and using CMU's TCP/IP
package. I'm finding it difficult to find the files I'm looking for in the
archives because I can't use the Unix 'ls' command.
I've tried most all combinations of the QUOTE command which is supposed to
allow you to send any command line to the remote host, but the local machine
keeps trying to interpret it (I think). If I use the normal 'DIR' command, it
complains about invalid file identifier. If I use 'DIR *' then it works ok,
except it shows me all of the contents of the current directory AND the
contents of all of the subdirectories. This can be disconcerting when you're
at the top level of Info-Mac.
Any other VMS'ers out there running CMU that have figured a way around this?
Thanks.
Michael J. Paisley PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
Materials Science & Engineering PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
229 Riddick Laboratories PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
Campus Box 7907 Office: (919) 737-7083
North Carolina State University Messages: (919) 737-2377
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 FAX: (919) 737-3419
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 13:47:30 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Character Map DA Addendum
When I posted my Character Map DA a couple of days ago, I forgot to
include a hint for MultiFinder users. I'm just a poor Mac+ user with
not more than 1 MB RAM, so MultiFinder isn't relevant for me...
When you pick a character in Character Map DA, it simply posts a
keyboard event that is subsequently processed by the application. When
you run under MultiFinder, the current application is the DA Handler
that doesn't know what to do with keyboard events.
Thus, when runnung under MultiFinder, you should press the option key
when invoking Character Map in order to get it loaded in the application
heap and not under control of the DA Handler.
As a further inconvenience, Character Map cannot communicate with other
DAs.
I'm too busy in the moment to produce a new version of Character Map
now, but I promise to come out with one in the near future. It will
then support the Clipboard just like Key Caps does.
I've you have further suggestions/complaints, just contact me under
the eMail address listed below.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 12:56:35 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GIF file format
The De-facto standard for transfering color images seems to be the GIF
format. I have a couple of programs for the Mac that display GIF format
pictures and there seems to be numerous images out there in this format.
I am taking a computer graphics class this semester using Masscomp
computers and I would like to wirte a program that will allow GIF pictures
to be displayed on our masscomps. Unfortunatly I don't know where to find
the specs for the GIF format. If anyone out there knows where I could get
some documentation for GIF files, please e-mail me a message. If I can
get a program running it would allow us to distribute some of the images
that we generate (including Ray-Traced and other rendered pictures) to this
list.
Thanks in advance,
Reed Rector
SXWRR@ALASKA (Bitnet)
SXWRR@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Internet)
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 09:53:53 CST
From: "Elias Saab" <MATHES%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MACII and the HP Laser Jet
Isn somebody using GRAPPLER from ORANGE MICRO as a driver for the HP Laser Jet
on a MAC II? I would like to know if one can use it with Texture or with say
super paint, WritenNow. I would appreciate a response.
Thanks
MATHES@UMCVMB.BITNET
Elias Saab
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 09:35 EDT
From: HENRY YEE <HENRY@atc.bendix.com>
Subject: Non-proportional font
Have you tried Monaco? I think that's supposed to be non-proportional.
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 02:30 CST
From: "Kevin W. Mullet, UNT Academic Computing Services" <KEV@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Subject: Problems in a Novell 2.15 network
We've recently set up a Mac/IBM computer lab for the
students here at the University of North Texas using
Novell's Netware 2.15. There's a few things I need to
know in order to get everything ship-shape here.
HOME STACKS
What is it that makes a home stack a "home
stack"? Is it simply the name, or is there a resource I
can copy with ResEdit from the original homestack? I've
read elsewhere in this digest that it's the homestack's
requirement for read-writeability that precludes it from
being mulit-launchable (huh?) on a network. If this is
true, I'd like to simply give each of our station
accounts a seperate home stack as a menu-interface to
the network.
MULTI-LAUNCHING
Elsewhere in the digest, I've read that certain
applications can be made switch-launchable by changing
the cache bit through ResEdit. Could I have a bit (pun
intended) more info on this? I'd appreciate having
enough rope to hang myself.
SWITCH-LAUNCHING
Big problem on our network. We've got access to
LOTS of fonts and DAs that we'd like to let our student
users use. The problem is caused by the fact that our
students use the network from a lab full of 2-floppy SEs
with no hard drive. Minimal room on the startup disk
for all the fonts and DAs we'd like to provide. I've
tried switch-launching to system resources on the
network, but it doesn't work. I've tried using INSTALL
to install a network volume as a startup disk. nada. I
desperately need information on how I can put our fonts
and DAs out on the network and have them be used by our
2-floppy machine users. Preferably, I'd like to do so
transparently. Tall order?
Thanks to all who reply,
Kevin Mullet
Microcomputer Support
University of North Texas Academic Computing Services
Denton, Texas... "home of happiness".
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 19:14 EST
From: Karen Strauss <STRAUSSR@nyuacf.bitnet>
Subject: Sharing modem ports on a Mac II
A colleague of mine asked me to pass this question along. We have a
Mac II hooked up to a scanner and we also want to hook it up to a
modem. Is there any way to let these two devices share the same port.
The scanner and the modem are not used at the same time, but we
want to avoid the problem of changing cables every time we want to
use the other device. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also -- several weeks ago there was a request for information about
scanners and OCR. I didn't see any reply. I would like the same
information (or summary of one is available).
Thanks in advance.
Karen Strauss
STRAUSSR@NYUACF
CompuServe 71571,3226
GEnie K.Strauss
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 15:53:35 EST
From: Dick Dramstad <rad@mbunix.mitre.org>
Subject: TARGA->PICT2 on PC or VMS?
We've got several thousand images (badge photos, actually) that
were captured using an IBM PC-based TARGA-16 image capture system. We
need to convert all of these images to Macintosh PICT2 (color) format
and place them on a VMS VAX running AlisaShare. Right now, we are
using DECnet-DOS to get the PC images to the VAX, and then using
AlisaShare and a Mac-based photo retouching package from Avalon called
PhotoMac to convert the images from TARGA to PICT2 format. We're also
converting the TARGA files to Encapsulated PostScript for storage on
the VAX.
The process is slow and tedious, because the Macintosh doesn't
support a powerful enough Macro facility or, especially, a command
language to batch up the conversions. So far, we've struck out trying
to find companies that have what we need (precise requirements below),
and so are turning to the net for help. Free/public domain software
is, of course, welcome, but we're willing to pay for the software,
which would:
- convert TARGA to PICT2 format
- run on an IBM PC or on VMS (or both) (Note: high-level
language source code is highly desirable)
- run from a command line with all options specified and
amenable to batch processing; including specification of input and
output file names
- allow for TARGA image cropping before conversion
- support option of adjusting aspect ratio by 6% to account
for non-square TARGA pixels
- support image scaling
If anyone knows of any package that would meet some or all of
our requirements, or if you're experienced enough with all the relevant
pieces to propose a reasonable development effort, please contact Norm
Sutherland at the following addresses (please respond directly; we
don't always follow both of these newsgroups):
nbs@mbunix.mitre.org (E-mail)
(617) 271-3073 (Voice)
Norm Sutherland
The MITRE Corporation
M/S B010
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
Thanks,
Dick Dramstad (rad@mbunix.mitre.org)
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Has anyone used REDUX, DISKFIT, FASTBACK FOR THE MAC, or any other
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Please respond directly to newman@portia, don't clog up the net.
Thanks,
Jon Newman
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 28 Feb 89 Volume 7 : Issue 43
Today's Topics:
AppleDraw DA Version 4.1.1
Contour81
Finder hanging Jasmine DD140
Fix for Developer Stack 1.2r under Hypercard 1.2.2
Fonts/DA's & Multi-launching
here comes DiskFit_1.5df
HyperCard Graphing
Locking a hard disk directory
Non-proportional Font
Sharing a Modem Port
Sharing modem ports on a Mac II
stuffed binary files often fail to download correctly ?!?!
VD 2.1 bug
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 11:28:31 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleDraw DA Version 4.1.1
A new version (V4.1.1) of the *Draw Desk Accessory is available
now. (Read the "*" as an apple symbol; I don't know how to type
it on this dull terminal:) It requires at least a Macintosh Plus
with at least System 4.1. It is still shareware for still not
more than $30.
New Features:
- The text styles "condense" and "extend" are supported.
- Polygons are fully supported. This includes introduction of
new corners and transformation of lines, arrows and rectangles
into polygons.
- Groups are supported. Grouped objects can be edited in place
with the "Edit Group" menu command.
- Zooming (with the magnification factor 4) is supported.
- Auto-scrolling has been added.
- A new application *Drawer allows opening *Draw files from the
Finder as well as printing of *Draw files.
User Interface:
- The *Draw window has a zoom box.
- Fonts and styles are available in hierarchical menus. Up to
50 different fonts may be installed.
- Font sizes can directly be selected from a hierarchical menu.
The "smaller" and "bigger" commands are not present any more.
- The disk icon and the save/load dialog box have vanished;
instead, the file operations can be selected directly from the
menu.
- The operation "Load picture" has been split into two commands
"Open" and "Load", which open a new picture or add another
picture to the current one, respectively.
- The "Alignment" command has been separated into two
hierarchical menus "Align Objects" and "Align Text".
- The "Align Objects" submenu is a graphical menu with a
special command for fast repetition of alignment operations
via a keyboard shortcut.
- Check marks in the font, style, size and text alignment menus
indicate the attributes of the selected objects.
- The state of the modifier keys is now significant at any time
during drawing and moving operations (not only at the time of
the mouse click).
- The arrow keys are supported during text editing.
- The "Save Defaults" command also saves the size and location
of the *Draw window (a gift for Mac II users and owners of big
screens).
- *Draw has an "Open" submenu that shows up under "hierDA".
Other Improvements
- The pattern "pull aside menus" are now implemented as pop-up
menus; selection of patterns is therefore significantly faster
than before.
- The *Draw default settings aren't kept in a resource in the
System file any more but rather in a configuration file
"*Draw Defaults" in the System Folder.
- Several bugs and inconveniences have been removed.
The package consists of three independent archive files:
- *Draw DA and the *Drawer application
- 13 page MacWrite Documentation + Release Notes + Installation Hints
- a couple of sample pictures.
Make sure to get all three files from the archive.
DO NOT GIVE INCOMPLETE COPIES OF *DRAW AWAY|||||
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
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Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/da/appledraw-411.hqx; 64K
/info-mac/da/appledraw-411-docs.hqx; 57K]
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 89 20:58:17 EST
From: roberk@mars.njit.edu (kozlowski robert)
Subject: Contour81
Contour81 is a contouring and graphing utility that generates
three-dimensional surface plots and plan-view contour plots
>From regular or irregular collections of three-dimensional
data points. It only runs on the Mac II and supports full
color, the 68881 coprocessor, and to a certain extent,
MultiFinder. It saves graph files in PICT, TEXT or AutoCAD
DXF formats.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/contour81.hqx; 163K]
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 22:50 CST
From: Richard <Tilley%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Finder hanging Jasmine DD140
Finder hanging when many folders open.
Most often happens when doing a drag copy of a folder
containing many files (eg 53) from a Jasmine DD140
partition to an 800K floppy.
Only some of the files get copied (eg 18).
If no third party INITS or CDEVS are installed then the maximum
number of folders need to be open before it happens.
With several INITS installed then 1 open folder is enough.
Doens't seem to matter which INITS.
Even Vaccine is enough if lots of windows are open.
Mouse does not freeze but wristwatch hands stop moving and red
DD140 access light comes on solid.
The bare facts: 512KE, Dove Macsnap 548S, Jasmine DD140,
System 6.0.2, UniFinder 6.1
Have spent hours on this. Anyone have a fix?
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 19:13:35 PST
From: eynon@lindy.stanford.edu (Barry Eynon)
Subject: Fix for Developer Stack 1.2r under Hypercard 1.2.2
Hot off Compu$erve, here's a stack that will fix problems with Developer
Stack 1.2r under Hypercard 1.2.2, as per the recent request. Enjoy.
-Barry Eynon
eynon@lindy.stanford.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/developer-12r-fix.hqx; 38K]
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 11:57 CST
From: <NH2031S%DRAKE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Fonts/DA's & Multi-launching
>From: "Kevin W. Mullet, UNT Academic Computing Services"<KEV@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
>SWITCH-LAUNCHING
> Big problem on our network. We've got access to
> LOTS of fonts and DAs that we'd like to let our student
> users use. The problem is caused by the fact that our
> students use the network from a lab full of 2-floppy SEs
> with no hard drive. Minimal room on the startup disk
> for all the fonts and DAs we'd like to provide.
This is in reference to the above posting requesting a method of accessing
a lot of fonts and DA's on a network (server). Instead of taking up room on
the startup disk you can put any desired fonts and DA's into the applications
on the network. This takes up a little more space on the network server (by
putting duplicate fonts and DA's in each application), but thats really the
only place there is room when using floppy systems to access the network.
Using the Font/DA mover you can load fonts and DA's directly into application
files. You have to open the application from inside the Font/DA mover. This
is done by holding down the OPTION key when you click on the OPEN button.
When openning with the OPTION key down, the open dialog box lists all files
and applications (not just System files or Font/DA suitcases). With the
application file open, you can copy fonts and DA's into it as normal.
There was also a question on making applications multi-launching. I would be
interested in seeing some of the replies posted here on Info-Mac. I can't
understand that all you have to do to make a program multi-user is change one
bit. Why wouldn't the programs be packaged with the cache bit on? Don't the
programs need to be written with the intent of being multi-user; maybe all
programs are? Are there any programs that can't be changed to multi-user.
Nicholas L. Hayes
Microcomputer Support Specialist
Drake University
BITNET: nh2031s@drake
[In current versions of ResEdit, it is the "shared" bit and not the "cached"
bit which controls whether or not the Finder will allow you to launch more
than once. A program which does not write to itself nor use a temporary file
with a hard-wired name is a good candidate for this bit-switching trick.
Be sure your license allows the software to be used by more than one person
at a time before turning this bit on. -Bill]
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 6:50:39 CST
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: here comes DiskFit_1.5df
[Archived as /info-mac/util/dataframe-diskfit-15df-part1.hqx; 149K
/info-mac/util/dataframe-diskfit-15df-part2.hqx; 134K
Requires a Dataframe hard disk.]
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 18:32:14 PST
From: GPR006R%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HyperCard Graphing
Does anyone know of a good Graphing/Ploting HyperCard Stack? I am mainly
looking for the ability to use Pie,Bar,Line and Scattergram formats. I have
been trying to write my own and have made little progress. The Plots stack that
is included with the HyperCard program just doesn't suit my needs. Thanks-
Replies:
GPR006R@CYB720.HSU.CALSTATE.EDU
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 13:51 EST
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: Locking a hard disk directory
Is there something, preferably on the archive, that will allow me to
"lock" a hard drive directory so that others can't easily use or modify
anything in that directory? Thanks,
-- Doug
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 89 23:20:15 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Non-proportional Font
Apart from other commercial fonts probably available out there, anybody with
access to the standard System disks included in any Mac and the fonts disk
>From any Laserwriter can find and use the following (and only)
non-proportional (monospaced) fonts available from Apple:
Monaco, an adequately good looking sans-serif bitmapped font. Only drawback
is that it only comes in size 10 and 12 point.
Courier, a better looking serif bitmapped and Postscript font. The bitmapped
(screen) version comes in sizes 9 to 24 point. The Postscript version
is found inside any flavor of Laserwriter.
Hope this helps.
Juan M. Courcoul
Monterrey Inst. of Tech.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 11:58:37 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Sharing a Modem Port
We use a "DATA-SWITCH" which has one "common" port (cabled to the Mac
modem port) and four other ports (A, B, C, D) which can go to four
different devices. The one limitation is that you can't use more than
one of the DATA-SWITCH connected devices simultaneously (the switch has
no smarts whatsoever -- just contacts).
If you go this route, be sure you get a "straight-thru" cable to connect
your modem port to the "common" port on the switch. I thought I would
save some money by using an extra ImageWriter cable for the purpose.
Unfortunately, the ImageWriter cable is a "null modem" cable, not a
"straight-thru" cable though you can't tell that by looking at it),
so it won't work for the purpose.
We get the switch and the cable from the maker:
Computer Friends, Inc.
14250 NW Science Park Dr.
Portland, OR 97229
(503) 626-2291
Applelink D0438
They also make cables, ribbon re-inkers, and other paraphernalia of
Macintoshing. (I have NO connection with Computer Friends, other
than that I buy, use, and like their product).
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
Joshua Yeidel YEIDEL@WSUVM1.BITNET
Academic Computing Services YEIDEL@WSUVMS1.WSU.EDU
Washington State University (509) 335-0441
Pullman, WA 99164-1220
DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking solely for myself here, not Washington State U.
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 08:54 CST
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: Sharing modem ports on a Mac II
The easiest way to share a port is to use a switchbox to switch between
devices. According to their 1988 catalog, a 2-port 8 pin mini-Din switchbox
stock # ABMD8-2 sells for $28.95, from:
Alltex Electronics
300 Breesport
San Antonio, TX 78216
1-800-531-5369
I have been satisfied with purchases made from them before.
Note that you will need a special cable to connect the switchbox to the Mac.
The cable that comes with the device, ie, modem-Mac, scanner-Mac, will plug
into the switcbox fine, but these cables reverse the send and receive lines,
etc.
It will be tempting to just use a Mac-Imagewriter II cable to go from the box
to the Mac, but this would re-reverse the send/receive lines and not work.
You must have a straight-through male-male cable, part # AC-11, $9.95. I just
called and spoke to John, who confirmed the above prices and availability. He
said to ask for him if you decide to order.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1989 7:11:54 CST
From: Werner Uhrig <werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu>
Subject: stuffed binary files often fail to download correctly ?!?!
a friend came to visit me last night telling me that I better put up
or shut up when I claim that the binary files can be downloaded correctly.
well, the particular file he had had problems with (TalkingMoose_1.21_bin
in RASCAL's ~ftp/mac/NEW-in-8901) sure gave me problems, too in most any-
thing I tried (variations on XMODEM and Kermit Binary) in a rather obnoxious
way: the downloaded file did not have the correct file-type information,
thus trying to unstuff it would fail. However, the good news is that
downloading with Kermit of the binary file and receiving in the Kermit
MacBinary mode of VersaTerm 3.20 worked like a charm.
This problem has been reported before, that file-attributes are not correctly
set during the download process, and, unless the user immediately tries
out the file, he may not notice until too late (after having deleted the
online file, assuming that the download process succeeded as no error messages
were given. BTW, just changing the File Creator and Type fields to SIT!
did not help me get the file unstuffed - so there must be something else
that needs modifying; it must be minor thing, because I run a Compare File
of MacZAP Tools 5.1 and the "good" file downloaded with MacBinary Kermit
and the "bad" file downloaded in xmodem showed no difference, to my surprise)
Sigh, ---Werner
--------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------
INTERNET: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1)
or: werner%rascal.ics.utexas.edu@cs.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!rascal.ics.utexas.edu!werner
ALTERNATIVE: werner@astro.as.utexas.edu OR werner@utastro.UUCP
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 09:21 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VD 2.1 bug
Even though you should not use VD to remove any resources keeping the Remove
button from working at all may have been going a little too far :-> (It was a
typo, really!) To correct for the silly mistake change 2 occurrances of:
4A6B 003A 67
to:
4A6B 003A 66
I will be posting 2.1.1 within 24 hours with this fix and one other (seems
the parser will accept certain illegal hex patterns). Sorry for this
inconvenience. These bugs DO NOT affect VD's ability to locate any resources
however!
Jeff
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Date: 28 Feb 89 10:55 -0330
From: <dgraham%mun.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: XCMD problems
Please excuse two naive questions from a programming novice:
1. Can anyone tell me how to go about debugging XCMDs in LSP2.0 without
having to leave LSP and actually install the XCMD into a stack? I
presume you have to write a small program that calls the XCMD?
2. I entered the source code for the About Box XCMD given by Danny
Goodman in his HyperCard Developer's Guide and can't get it to work. This
XCMD is supposed to put up an about box for a stack, which you create from
a template in ResEdit. The XCMD saves the HC port, calls a procedure to
center the about box in the window,calls MoveWindow to position the box
and activate it, calls ShowWindow, draws an outline around the OK button,
calls InitCursor, and calls ModalDialog. What actually happens when I
use it is that the box never appears on screen, but the cursor does change
to an arrow, and a click anywhere on screen produces a beep, as if I were
clicking outside a modal dialog box. Set the visible flag of the DLOG
resource to true causes the box to flash on screen for about 1/10 second
and then it disappears. Does anyone have any idea what may be happening
here? There is quite a bit of built-in error checking in the source code
but no errors are returned at any point. This is driving me *crazy*, because
I suspect some simple elementary mistake on my part is causing this behaviour...
I'd appreciate any help--thanks in advance|
David Graham
dgraham@mun.bitnet
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 2 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 44
Today's Topics:
AppleDraw V4.1.1 Pictures
A Terminal Emulator for a TI931
Coral vs. Exper Lisp [was Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
Definative Filename XCMDs
finder hanging on Jasmine DD140
Fonts & DAs over a server
HP Deskjet Driver
Hypercard Merge Info
keystrokes and short-cuts update (feb 1989)
mac mh?
Military OCR Fonts
My gif Mailing list
No intelligent life in AppleLand (Marketing only, of course)
SFScrollInit INIT
Slide Printers for the Mac
Trap routines/Pascal compilers
VAX/Mac fileservers for applications
VirusDetective 2.1.1
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 89 10:54:03 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleDraw V4.1.1 Pictures
This HQX document contains 15 pictures for various purposes, e.g.
- a time table
- a map of the US
- a table of several AppleDraw shortcuts
- pictures (diskette, etc) that can be loaded into other pictures
- a memo template
The BinHex file's size is about 23k. I leave it up to you to "waste" that much
space on your server...
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/art/appledraw-pictures.hqx; 23K]
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:52:25 CST
From: jae@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Andy Edwards)
Subject: A Terminal Emulator for a TI931
This may be a bizarre request, but does anyone know of an existing
emulator for a Texas Instruments 931 terminal for use on a Mac II or
Mac SE? It is to be used in conjunction with a TI330(?) business
system.
If you have any ideas on the subject, please let me know directly at
jae@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
Thanks,
Andy Edwards.
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:10:01 WET
From: Flash Sheridan <flash%cs.qmc.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Coral vs. Exper Lisp [was Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #39
>Are ExperIntelligence's [Lisp] products worth considering?
No no no no. Our department is stuck with the turkey they [not I]
call ExperCommonLisp. It's not Common Lisp, and it's not much good.
If you *really* want it, I'll try to sell you our 8 copies, so our
students can use Coral [now Apple].
The *only* good thing about ECL is that it will run in 640K or
so, Coral CL needs almost a Meg [don't know about Pearl].
From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:18:30 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Definative Filename XCMDs
Here is a re-reworking of Steve Maller's Filename XFCN and some
others. This stack contains Filename, NewFilename, and SetDirectory
for complete Hypertalk control of file manipulation in the
standard Macintosh manner. These dialogs center themselves over
the card window, so they are asthetically pleasing.
Andrew Gilmartin started this stack and I merely rewrote the XFCNs
(there was a minor problem in them) and added my SetDirectory
XCMD. I also modified some of the documentation and included
the source code so that aspiring Hyperhackers can see how to do
some of this stuff. I ran this by Andrew and he liked it so,
here it is. It can replace the old one that has been in the
archive for quite some time.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx; 27K]
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Date: 1 Mar 89 10:03 EST
From: DIXON WALTER V <steinmetz!CSBVAX!DIXON@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: finder hanging on Jasmine DD140
I have seen these symptoms, but I suspect that their cause may
be different. In my case I had moved A/UX to a Jasmine DD140.
The driver which came with my Jasmine disk did not work under
A/UX, so I used the Apple driver. I used A/UX to set up the
new disk (ie dd all partitions except the root which I wanted
to make bigger). The MacOS booted fine after cloning, but I
was unable to create large files from the Mac side. After a
great deal of grief and no support from either Apple or Jasmine,
I traced the problem to write blind operations. Since I eliminated
write blinds from the Apple driver, I have had no problems.
I guess the moral to all this is do you know where your SCSI
driver came from?
Walt Dixon {ARPA: dixon@ge-crd.arpa }
{US Mail: ge crd }
{ po box 8 }
{ schenectady, ny 12345 }
{Phone: 518-387-5798 }
PS I understand that Jasmine is working on an A/UX compatible
driver. It may be available now.
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 08:15:01 EST
From: jonathan%bert.mitre.org@gateway.mitre.org (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: Fonts & DAs over a server
Instead of stuffing all of the fonts and DAs into the applications themselves,
you can use Suitcase II or Font/DA Juggler Plus to open font and DA files
over the network. I currently run a network that has 25 dual drive mac SEs
and an AppleShare FileServer and access a 2.5 megabyte file of fonts and DAs
>From all the networked Macs and suffer little performance problems. There is
a cost associated with this implementation, but maybe someone could develop
a shareware or freeware utility that accomplishes the same thing.
jonathan leblang
the MITRE Corporation
McLean, Virginia
jonathan@mitre.org
703 883 5761
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 14:17 EDT
From: Brian Lockrey x4-7281 <LOCKREY%BCLVXF@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HP Deskjet Driver
We are looking for a MAC to HP-Deskjet driver. We have heard of the
following products: Orange Micro, GDP and DataPak.
Does anybody used any of these products? Recommendations?
Brian Lockrey
BLOCKREY@UOFT02.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 10:49:42 EST
From: "William T. Harris" (PAO) <wharris@ARDEC.ARPA>
Subject: Hypercard Merge Info
How can I merge two stacks into one? Must I write script? Have two stacks with mail labels that I want to merge into one. Each contains about 500 addresses.Thanks. Bill Harris (201) 724-6364.
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 15:59 GMT
From: Ed de Moel <DEMOEL%HUTRUU51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: keystrokes and short-cuts update (feb 1989)
As I promised, this is the list so far.
I only received the information from other people, so keep
the responsibility for the validity of the information where
it belongs, i.e. not with me...
If anyone finds errors, or has additions, please let me know.
I will gladly modify and update the list.
Ed de Moel.
Physically: Electronically: Hybrid:
University of Utrecht BITNET: demoel@hutruu51 Phone: +31 (30) 532239
Princetonplein 5 DIALCOM: 12428:PGA005
PO BOX 80000
3508 TA Utrecht
The Netherlands
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/short-cuts-and-options.txt; 26K]
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 12:06:19 PST
From: Ann McLaughlin <alm@apple.com>
Subject: mac mh?
could anyone give me pointers to mac mh? i have
mh, and am interested in the mac front end.
i am looking for more information on the program,
how to get it, whether the source is public domain etc.
(responses to alm@apple.com, please). -ann
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Date: 2 Mar 89 16:12:00 EST
From: thrasherr@gw2.hanscom.af.mil
Subject: Military OCR Fonts
Does anyone know where I can get a font that is usable in the military
(Air Force) message OCR systems? I would like to be able to prepare
the messages on my Mac and print them with a Laserwriter, but none of
the fonts I have are the standard Government OCR-10 or OCR-12 fonts. I
currently do not have the time or talent to design my own, is there
anything out there? Any help is appreciated!
Roger Thrasher
THRASHERR@ESDVAX.ARPA
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 17:51:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Joseph Darweesh <md32+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: My gif Mailing list
If there is anyone out there who wants to get in
on my gif mailing list deal, write me now!!
Also , if I you have submitted a request for gif pictures
to me and I haven't responded yet, then please
send more mail perhaps under another address.
I have had trouble responding to quite a few addresses.
Let's get giffing!!!
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 02:06:25 EST
From: Alexis Rosen <decwrl!decvax!ccnysci!alexis@labrea.stanford.edu>
Subject: No intelligent life in AppleLand (Marketing only, of course)
I've heard bad news about Apple before. When they didn't announce an
'020 in 1986, I knew that that was bad. When they announced a Mac II
with lots of wait states at 16MHz I wasn't thrilled. When they proudly
announced that they were going to rest on their laurels for the duration
of 1988, and not trouble their souls to bring out a better Mac, I was
really upset. But this latest announcement surely brings Apple to
astonishing new depths.
The announcement I'm referring to, of course, is the decision to trim
back the R&D budget as a percentage of sales. (While this may not imply
actually reducing R&D spending, that depends on how well they do in the
next few quarters.) Regardless of the actual dollar figures, this means
major changes in Apple's R&D efforts. Products will get shelved, or
floated out into an unprepared marketplace to "sink or swim" on their
own. Product Managers and engineers, working under short-term contract,
may not be retained for the long term, and this will worsen the already
chaotic state of employee affairs.
I could say that this showed a lack of marketing wisdom, or poor
judgement, or bad timing, but that doesn't _begin_ to describe my dismay
and _fury_. I think that this decision is _abysmally stupid_. It
demonstrates a feeling for this business roughly on a par with that of
my six-year-old cousin's. These are very harsh words [net readers may
recall that the last time I was so unequivocal was quite a while ago,
over the trashed hard disk caused by the first bugridden version of
SUM]. Nevertheless, I feel that they are fully justified.
Now more than ever before, Apple cannot afford to reduce its R&D
efforts. The products that Apple needs to introduce over the next year
are legion. Token Ring, Laptop Mac, Tower Mac, FourSquare, new Monitors,
new display cards, the MacAPPC board, the QuickDraw accelerator, the
multi-user Mac, I/O boards, new printers. AppleTalk 2.0, MR-DOS 2.0,
System 7.0, a new Resource Manager, A/UX 2.0, HyperCard 2.0,
Protected-mode MultiFinder... the list is endless. The Apple engineers
can do the job- all of the technical people at Apple that I know are
excellent. The question is, can marketing figure out what to do with
these products? If not, they will never be released, and both we and
Apple will suffer.
More distressing to me than any single consequence of this decision to
cut R&D is what it tells me about Apple's most senior management. In a
typical business, it would be natural (and wise) to seek to reduce your
cost of goods if your gross margin went down. In fact, this policy
change is exactly what you would expect from a maker of apparel... or
soft drinks. Naturally, we look to the leader of an organization for
guidance when it stumbles. The guidance we are seeing here is indeed
John Sculley's. And that is the most disturbing fact of all.
To end this little tirade, I would like to cite a study I read of in PC
Week several months ago. Of the top seven R&D spenders (per employee),
Apple came in first by a wide margin. This made me feel very good, until
I noticed that the _last_ company, with only half of Apple's R&D, was
Sun Microsystems. And the second and third companies, right after Apple,
were Lotus and Ashton-Tate.
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
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Date: 1 Mar 89 07:00:42 GMT
From: bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long)
Subject: SFScrollInit INIT
SFScrollInit is an INIT by Andy Hertzfeld that enhances Standard File.
It causes Standard File to remember the last scroll position for each
directory. This version is reentrant, which means it's compatible with
programs that call SF from within SF.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/sfscrollinit.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 89 13:15:34 GMT
From: Norbert Bornfeld <TAK010%DE0HRZ1A.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Slide Printers for the Mac
Our department is planning to buy a slide-printer for the Mac. Has
anyone experience with the slide-printers which are commercially
available? Is the Honeywell PCR better than Montage or Mirius?
Waht about PostScript?
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 89 15:39 EST
From: Jeffrey S. Lee <LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Trap routines/Pascal compilers
Hello...
I have two questions: First, where can I find a list of the Macintosh trap
routines and their hex addresses? (if someone could send me a copy, I would
be very appreciative.)
Secondly, does anyone have or know of a public-domain (freeware or shareware)
Pascal compiler for the Mac? The only compiler we have here is a shareware
C compiler, and I'm not too familiar with C...
Thanks,
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|Jeffrey S. Lee |LEE_JES@CTSTATEU.BITNET |
|Faculty Computing Center |LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU |
|Central Connecticut State University|LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU|
|New Britain, CT | |
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this letter are my own, and do not |
| necessarily reflect those of the Connecticut State University |
| system. Nor do they reflect light. |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
"Edmund, you've killed Nursie! That's horrid!"
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 11:54 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: VAX/Mac fileservers for applications
Greetings,
Well, Colgate is finally going to go BIG-TIME and install a campus-wide
EtherNet to COMMUNICATE! One of our objectives is to replace Mac sw
distribution by diskette with file server SW on our VAX 11/780. I'm looking for
suggestions based on your experience in a similar setting. Here's the
background.
Presently we have 20 (total) Public Macs in 5 sites. (12 in one site, two each
in 4 "satellites"). I anticipate this will grow to about 40 total.
We have a like number of Zenith PC's (XT clones) which we would also like to
include, but only if all other conditions are satisfactorily met.
We don't want to buy a license for every piece of sw for every possible
machine. I am aware of Dopplemaker, but don't know whether it will run on a
VAX host, etc.
I know about TOPS, but would rather not spend the money to make each Mac (PC) a
potential server... Does TOPS have (planning to introduce) strictly client sw?
I know about PacerShare and Alisa... but need some feedback from actual sites
who have several-many users running apps from the server. How fast/slow is it
compared to floppies (which is what our users are used to)? Can the number of
simultaneous users of an application be limited/controlled (ala Dopplemaker)?
Are terminal sessions supported - multiple terminal sessions?
We plan on using Kinetics or Gatorboxes to link or LocalTalk networks into the
Ethernet... which do you prefer?
I'd be happy to summarize the responses if you'd rather send them just to me,
or send them to the net, I check it everyday.
Thanks in advance... you're making real progress possible at Colgate U.!
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 89 09:00 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1.1
Date: Wed 1 Mar 89 09:00:07-EDT
From: Jeff Shulman <SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Subject: VirusDetective 2.1.1
To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, macmash@rascal.ics.utexas.EDU
Message-ID: <604764007.0.SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM>
Mail-System-Version: <VAX-MM(218)+TOPSLIB(129)@SDR.SLB.COM>
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size
range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be
removed from the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update
the search list at any time. Shareware.
Version 2.1 adds JData and Data searches for detecting ANTI and like viruses.
Version 2.1.1 fixes bug where Remove button wouldn't highlight.
Jeff
uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
CSNet: SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
MCI Mail: KILROY
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-211.hqx; 57K]
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Subject: SMUG General Meetings 03/06
To: SU-Macintosh@score.stanford.edu
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The next general meeting of the Stanford Macintosh Users' Group
(SMUG) is on March 6. This month, Informix will be presenting the
long awaited spreadsheet program, WingZ. Also there will be a
discussion of long dreaded viruses.
The doors open at 6:30 pm; a general Question & Answer
session starts at 7:00 (highly recommended);
the main segment of the meeting begins at 7:30.
General meetings are held in the Kresge Auditorium,
which is next to the Law School on the Stanford campus. Everyone
is welcome to attend; admission is free for SMUG members and
$3 for nonmembers.
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From: Gregory Hulbert <G.GBERT@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: SMUG March Calendar
To: SU-Macintosh@score.stanford.edu
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Stanford Macintosh Users' Group Calendar of Events
Call 723-7684 for more information
March 5 MuSIG meeting -- Sequencer Shoot-out!
1:00 pm ComputerWare 480 California Ave., Palo Alto
Four MIDI sequencers are compared
March 6 General Meeting -- Informix WingZ
7:00 pm Kresge Auditorium, Stanford Campus
The spreadsheet program WingZ will be shown; also
a discussion of viruses by Lance Nakata
March 8 Human Language SIG
7:30 pm LaserWrite 540 Bryant St., Palo Alto
Society for Technical Communications will
discuss uses and development of international
software for the Mac.
March 8 Developers SIG -- MacApp
7:00 pm Sweet Hall basement, Stanford campus
Discussion of Apple's MacApp development
environment
March 14 Novice SIG -- Mac basics
8:00 pm Turing Auditorium, Stanford campus
Discussion of Macintosh basics led by
Rich Wingerter
March 20 Human Language SIG
7:30 pm call 493-5400 for location
Building fonts and keyboard layouts
March 22 Developers SIG -- MacApp
7:00 pm Sweet Hall basement, Stanford campus
Demo of Display PostScript
March 28 Basic MacApps Meeting
8:00 pm Turing Auditorium, Stanford campus
Covering the basics of FocalPoint II
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 3 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 45
Today's Topics:
ARTICLE CONTRIBUTION
chpcolor.sit.hqx
Coral vs. Exper Lisp
Gatekeeper v1.1
Memory questions
PlaySound
PostScript
PostScript Files
Spiro!
Tektronix and GKS Plotter Libraries
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: 03 MAR 89 13:22:42 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN>
Subject: ARTICLE CONTRIBUTION
A user requested information about using a DeskJet and Grappler interface
with a MAC. The following is a review on using both the DeskJet printer
and the interface. I'm don't know how to route this to ".standford.edu"
which is the partial address for article contributions.
[Archived as /info-mac/report/deskjet-grappler-interface.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 21:54:12 CST
From: skaistis@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu (Jeff Skastis)
Subject: chpcolor.sit.hqx
CheapColor 1.0.3 -- an application that converts PICT2 and PixelPaint docs
into PICT1 docs and prints them in color on an ImageWriter with a color
ribbon. I have told it also works on a HP PaintJet.
This version fixes some bugs in version 1.0 and later versions
Works on a +/SE/II
-Jeff Skaistis
[Archived as /info-mac/app/cheapcolor-103.hqx; 90K]
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 9:48:16 PST
From: abbott.pa@xerox.com
Subject: Coral vs. Exper Lisp
Flash Sheridan <flash%cs.qmc.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>'s posting is a little
out of date. ExperTelligence is now marketing a completely different
implementation of Common Lisp from Procyon, an outfit in Cambridge,
England. I don't know much about it (I use Coral myself), but it's not a
dog the way ExperCommonLisp was.
- Curtis Abbott
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 17:32:25 -0600
From: chrisj@emx.utexas.edu (Chris Johnson)
Subject: Gatekeeper v1.1
GateKeeper version 1.1 - Bugs fixed, features added, and finally ready.
Simply put, GateKeeper attempts to make it impossible (or as difficult as
possible) for viruses to spread or function successfully in its domain. It
does so by monitoring and limiting access to certain system operations on
which viruses depend. Thus GateKeeper is a general purpose tool in the fight
against viruses, as opposed to programs written to stop only a specific virus
or set of viruses.
Once configured, GateKeeper operates without the need for intervention by the
user. It provides facilities for warning the user of its intervention in the
operation of the system, but will never require that the user to make
decisions on-the-fly about what operations should be allowed to occur or
forced to fail. GateKeeper ensures that such decisions are made automatically,
transparently to the user and with total consistency. It will also, if
requested, keep a detailed log of all such decisions for later review.
GateKeeper is NOT a virus removal/repair utility. GateKeeper endeavors to
prevent viruses from infecting your system in the first place, and attempts
to render them harmless if they should find their way in.
GateKeeper also provides powerful diagnostic facilities for those intent on
tracking and analyzing viruses in the form of a log file to which records of
the critical operations attempted by viruses are written.
I have tested GateKeeper against the Scores, nVIR, Hpat, INIT 29 and ANTI
viruses and found it to be thoroughly effective in rendering those viruses
impotent.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/gatekeeper-11.hqx; 78K]
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 10:23:54 -0500 (EST)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Memory questions
Hi,
I have a couple of questions about Mac simms. I removed two 256K simms from
my Mac Plus, when I upgraded it to 2.5 MB.
Is there a way to tell the speed of these simms by the age of the Mac Plus, or
by looking at the simms?
Are Mac simms and IBM simms interchangeable as long as the simms are fast enough?
Is it possible to use Mac simms in a 512KE, ie. does the 512KE macs have simms
slots?
Thanks,
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 12:38:16 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: PlaySound
This is the world's simplest sound playing program (once again
written by yours truly). It simply throws up an SFGetFile dialog
and when you select a sound file (of type FSSD) it plays it. It
reads both SoundWave and SoundEdit resources so that it can play
the files at the correct speed. Since SoundCap files have no
speed information in them, I recommend not using them if you
record at anything other than 22 KHz. Try SoundWave instead.
This also has a simple volume control. Technically I could add a
simple speed control but I haven't. Try to talk me into it if
you want that feature (be sure to send money too ;↑). This does
not deal with snd resources or anything like that, just the sound
files. It works great if you are using BeepInit, Cheapbeep or
SoundMaster and have a mess of sound files lying around.
Share and enjoy.
Jon
pugh@nmfecc.arpa
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/playsound.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 10:45:29 -0500 (EST)
From: "Peter C. Kornelisse" <pk33+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: PostScript
I captured a PostScript-file from MS-Word on the Mac with ↑k. I wanted to send
this file to someone else for printing. When doing this, the only thing that
happened was, that a light of the LaserWriter blinked six times during printing,
an no print came out !
What can I do to solve this problem ?
Bye, Peter Kornelisse.
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 00:08:54 CST
From: Francis Fang <ffang@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: PostScript Files
I work at a computer center at my university and have been asked several
times by a number of people about being able to import PostScript files to
the Macintosh. I have tried a number of graphics program to try to read
them in but they all seem only to read in Encapsulated PostScript. The
only way that I have been able to even view the PS picture is to print them
out on the printer using Microsoft Word.
The programs that I have tried to use are PixelPaint, Pagemaker (which I have
had a tiny bit of success with), VisionLab, GifConverter, Curator, Glue,
SuperGlue, MacVision, ImageStudio, FreeHand, Illustrator,amongst others. The
problem with Pagemaker and MS Word is that although I can see them
and print them out, there is no way that I can manipulate the graphics
as I would with EPSF (Encap. PostScript).
Can anyone out there help? Is there a program that will convert the PS to
EPSF?
The programs that I use most often and hence would like to be able to
use the converted formats in are Aldus FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator.
Thanks in advance.
Francis Fang.
Please send replies to : ffang@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
or bitnet to : bptftf@uiamvs
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 89 22:18:05 MST
From: Andrew Stone CS.DEPT <stone%hydra.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu>
Subject: Spiro!
Spiro is an interactive HyperCard Stack which is fun for kids of
all ages!. Pop-up menus allow easy choice of parameters to create
amazing "spirographic" drawings. Enjoy!
andrew
||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
|| Andrew Stone ?? 2 + 2 = 5; ||
|| stone@hydra.unm.edu <> for sufficiently large 2 ||
||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/spiro.hqx; 14K]
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 15:14 N
From: <HEWAT%FRILL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Tektronix and GKS Plotter Libraries
Apparently nobody knows of a GKS-Mac library. But what about a PLOT10
Tektronix library for the Mac ? It looks so easy to replace the calls
by calls to the toolbox with for example Absoft Fortran, that I expect
some-one has already done it.
In fact I was surprised how easy it is to port Fortran programs to the
Mac, and even add the fancy bits like menubars and Icons. If the MacII
was twice as fast it would start to be really interesting.
A.W.Hewat, ILL Grenoble, France.
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∂04-Mar-89 1558 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu MacTran 3.0 FORTRAN For Sale
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MacTran 3.0 for sale. Legitimate registered copy, with manuals (actually
two of them, since this was upgraded from earlier MacTran Plus). Pretty
favorably reviewed in March 1989 MacWorld.
List price $399, don't know what "street price" might be...first $150
can have it (pick up at my office). For sale because I haven't had
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∂04-Mar-89 1749 goddard@sierra.stanford.edu WordPerfect for sale
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see su-market.
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Send msg to judycla@sierra, pick it up at Ginzton Lab Room 35 during
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 5 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 46
Today's Topics:
Allegro Common LISP is now sold by ADPA
Bold Symbol font
CheapColor...
Dvorak FKEY and KCHR resources
Fonts & DAs over a server (2 msgs)
No intelligent life in Appleland (Marketing only, of course)
SuitcaseII upgrade
TEK Emulators
TROUBLE WITH REAR-WINDOW INIT
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 89 12:40:32 EST
From: David Robinowitz <dr@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Allegro Common LISP is now sold by ADPA
Looking for a copy of Allegro CLISP for the mac, I tried unsuccessfully to find
a listing for Coral Software in Cambridge. A version of Allegro for the Sun-3
was listed as a product of Franz Inc. The helpful people there informed me
that Apple had bought Coral and was now selling Allegro Common LISP through
ADPA. The cost is $495 which includes Flavors (object-oriented extension),
some sort of quick-draw interface (I forgot the name), and a stand-alone
application generator.
-Dave
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Date: Sat, 04 Mar 89 12:23 CET
From: Anders Liljegren <TEKAL%SEUDAC21.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Bold Symbol font
Hi !
I have some problem getting the LaserWriterII to print the Symbol font
in bold.
Most fonts exists in four different versions in the LaserWriter:
plain, italics, bold, and bold italics. Not so Symbol. It exists in only
a plain version. But if you use the Italics style you get Italics on the
LaserWriter. I presume that the plain LaserWriter version of Symbol is
slanted by the software, just as the screen fonts.
You would then suppose that the same strategy would be used when printing
bold on the LaserWriter. But no, if you use bold or bold italics you get
plain or italics respectively on the LaserWriter.
At the moment I try to get round this by fooling the LaserWriter. I have
made a copy of the Symbol screen font that I have renamed Symbo2. I use
this font when I need bold Symbol characters. This font is not recognized
by the system, and the software then does what it is supposed to do when
not recognizing a font; it uses the screen font to print on the LaserWriter.
And, voila, I get bold and bold italics Symbol on the LaserWriter.
But there are drawbacks. The extra copy of Symbol takes up space and clutter
up the menues. The printing quality is not nery good either.
Is there anyone who knows of a solution to this dilemma??
I guess there are a lot of frustrated mathematicians and physicists out
there, wondering why Apple won't allow them to use greek letters for
vectors.
Anders Liljegren, Uppsala University, Sweden
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 89 20:06:20 PST
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: CheapColor...
I just wanted to send in a "Well done!" to Jeff Skaistis for his CheapColor
application. It really works!
I've been feeding it some rather complex Mandelbrot-set PICT files generated
by version 1.5.1 of my MandelZot program. CheapColor does indeed convert
these PICT2 files (which use a nonstandard color palette) into quite
respectable-looking 8-dithered-color PICT images. I haven't yet tried to
print one of them on an ImageWriter using a color ribbon, but it appears
to me that the results would be quite good!
Bravo, Jeff!
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 89 15:13 CST
From: "How can you be man, til you see beyond the life you live?" <LENTZ@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu>
Subject: Dvorak FKEY and KCHR resources
Hello,
I am forwarding this from comp.sys.mac Enjoy!
Robert Lentz
lentz@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu
I have recieved numerous requests for the FKEY and
KCHR resource. Since it is not very long and in the interest
of speed, I am posting this directly.
- Miles Weissman
President Carnegie Mellon's Macintosh Users' Group
ARPANet: mw2k@andrew.cmu.edu
USnail Mail: 1060 Morewood Ave
Box 1477
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: ( 412 ) - 268 - 4283
[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/dvorak.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 89 18:57 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Fonts & DAs over a server
Jonathan Leblang writes:
(...)
>you can use Suitcase II or Font/DA Juggler Plus to open font and DA files
>over the network.
(...)
>There is a cost associated with this implementation, but maybe someone
>could develop a shareware or freeware utility that accomplishes the same thing.
There is such a thing already. It's called Fontsie, and it is (or was, a while
ago) available from the BCS-Mac BBS (you have to be a Boston Computer Society
member to download). It may be available elsewhere, too.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 12:53 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Fonts & DAs over a server
Whoops!... a key word was missing from my previous message on the same subject:
Fontsie will solve network access problems concerning *FONTS* only... it does
nothing for your DA's.
My apologies for spreading misleading rumors...
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 02:10:49 HST
From: decwrl!ucbvax!pro-pac.cts.com!tsouth@labrea.stanford.edu (System Administrator)
Subject: No intelligent life in Appleland (Marketing only, of course)
> From: Alexis Rosen <decwrl!decvax!ccnysci!alexis@labrea.stanford.edu>
> The announcement I'm referring to, of course, is the decision to trim
> back the R&D budget as a percentage of sales.
> Now more than ever before, Apple cannot afford to reduce its R&D
> efforts. The products that Apple needs to introduce over the next year
> are legion. [...] the list is endless. The Apple engineers
> can do the job- all of the technical people at Apple that I know are
> excellent. The question is, can marketing figure out what to do with
> these products? If not, they will never be released, and both we and
> Apple will suffer.
I look at this decision and see a number of points that have been
bantered by the Apple ][ community for some time; most of them in
response to Apple's decision to make the Apple ][ family their
"cash cow" to support development of the Macintosh line. This was
another decision that your cousin would have laughed at, too, if
looked at in its long-term implications. Sales continued, but
eventually they peaked (about 1987 when the Apple ][ line sold
over one billion dollars due). But, when people started asking for
more and more improvements to the Apple ][ line none seemed to
appear. The Mac, on the other hand, was releasing new items on
a regular schedule. The introduction of the IIgs boosted sales
again for their peak in the 1987 era, but the introduction of the
across-the-board 35% has dramatically caused sales to drop. A price
increase which was applied to Apple ][ products, but was caused
by a bad chip price projection on chips for the Macintosh line
of computers.
Now, Macintosh prices are going back down, somewhat, but the
results of the losses are really just starting to reflect on both
Apple ][ and Mac sales. Note, also, that Apple ][ prices have
not gone down at all, yet for some reason Apple continues to
think that the Apple ][ family will continue as a heifer to be
milked. While this may not be a direct reflection on the future
Macintosh arenas, it tends to hint that prior marketing teams
of the company might be in need of new direction.
Todd South
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 12:12:47 -0500 (EST)
From: John Hill <jh5f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: SuitcaseII upgrade
Does anyone have a working copy of the upgrade program for Suitcase II 1.2 that
they can mail me or can tell me where to obtain it (I can FTP)? I have tried at
least four times to download the file from Sumex-aim archives, but it is always
defective even when everything else that I am FTPing arrives fine.
Thanks for your help.
John Edward Hill Dept. of Biological Sciences
jh5f+@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University
shenry.hill@bionet-20.bio.net 4400 Fifth Avenue
412-268-5122 Pittsburgh, PA. 15213-3890 USA
[The file seems to be bad at this end. Could somebody mail us a new
copy? -Bill]
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 89 13:19 PDT
From: "BRIAN KLAAS, CH3 POLE J7, MAILSTOP CH3-69" <BKLAAS%CH3@sc.intel.com>
Subject: TEK Emulators
Howdy,
Does anyone know of a decent terminal emulator for the MAX II that will
handle TEK4111 or TEK4107? I know it would be slow, but TEK terminals
typically are anyway.
Brian Klaas
BKLAAS%ch3@sc.intel.com
disclaimer: I didn't say nothin'
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Date: Sat, 4 Mar 89 14:38 EDT
From: FENYES@gmr.com
Subject: TROUBLE WITH REAR-WINDOW INIT
I want to report a problem I am having with an INIT
posted to the INFO-MAC archives - REAR-WINDOW. This
looks like a really useful init but I cant seem to
get it to work. It is supposed to allow copying from
one window to another, completely hidden window.
I downloaded REAR-WINDOW from the archives and
bin-hexed it using version 4.0. That created an init
that showed its icon on bootup but then didn't seem to
work as advertised.
Holding Command-Tab I selected a file from the top window
by clicking on it. Then I released the keys, expecting the
the lower window to pop to the front - but nothing happened.
Without the lower window to copy to I was faced with the
normal situation and could only move the file around on the
topmost window.
Is this download not working or am I missing something in
how to make it work?
Peter Fenyes
General Motors Research Lab
FENYES@GMR.COM
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Dear Gentle programmer:
MacApp is an object library for a complete Macintosh application.
The programmer provides code for his application specific objects, MacApp
provides the complete implementation of all standard interface features.
Or at least that's the theory. MacApp's class structure was reorganized
in the new version. Also, this version has a MacApp-specific resource
editor, called ViewEdit. I hope we get a good introduction to both.
Windowing systems are great for a user, but without an object library
and a graphic interface editor, they are tedious for the programmer.
Programmers should be able to look forward to this kind of environment
for windowing systems (except for the hapless OS/2 folks.)
Witness NeXT's introduction of a set of object libraries and "Interface
Builder" among its programming tools.
Our next meeting will be on
Wednesday, Mar 8↑th, at 7pm when
Steve Friedrich,
Engineering Lead for the MacApp project
from
Apple
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MacApp, version 2.
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It is at the end of Escondido Road. Meetings are free of charge and open
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Subject: Help needed with Cricket Draw 1.1
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I have been using Cricket Draw 1.1 for quite some time now. I am
having a problem pasting objects into other applications (like MS Word,
for example). I can copy and paste within Cricket Draw, but I just
cannot paste an object copied from Cricket Draw into another
application. Any suggestions regarding this will be highly
appreciated.
Thanks.
Ameet Bhansali
(ameet@portia.stanford.edu)
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From: swenson@isl.stanford.edu (Norman Swenson)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Help needed with Cricket Draw 1.1
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In article <689@Portia.Stanford.EDU> ameet@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Ameet Bhansali) writes:
>
>I have been using Cricket Draw 1.1 for quite some time now. I am
>having a problem pasting objects into other applications (like MS Word,
>for example). I can copy and paste within Cricket Draw, but I just
>cannot paste an object copied from Cricket Draw into another
>application. Any suggestions regarding this will be highly
>appreciated.
>
I have had trouble copying graphics (actually formulas as pictures)
FROM MS Word under Multifinder in the past. I hit on a work-around
that works for me; you might give it a try. Instead of copying
directly into Word, try copying from Cricket Draw, THEN open the
scrapbook and paste there. Now copy from the scrapbook into Word.
The scrapbook must be closed before you do the initial copy in Cricket
Draw. If you want to do subsequent copies from Cricket Draw, close the
scrapbook before each one. I think this has something to do with the
way multifinder handles the clipboard contents (anyone out there
know?).
I don't know if this will work in your case, but it enabled me to copy
graphics from Word to other programs.
Norm
swenson@isl
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Subject: 4MB Memory for sale
To: su-macintosh@lear.stanford.edu
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I have four megabytes of genuine apple memory, still new and in its
original shrink-wrap container, for sale. Asking $275/MB. Please
call me at 328-3515 or reply to this account.
David
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I have 4 megabytes of brand-new genuine apple memory I don't need.
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Please call me at 328-3515 or reply to this account.
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I understand PostScript fairly well, and I have no trouble doctoring
the LaserPrep file so I can upload PostScript generated by command-F
and print it from a Unix system.
But I just ran into a problem I've never had before: the file I got
with command-F refers to the non-existent font Helvetica-Narrow. Now,
I figure that if I were talking to a real LaserWriter the driver would
ask the printer about its fonts, see that there's no such font, and
download a definition for it. I also figure that Helvetica-Narrow is
actually a synthetic font made by compressing Helvetica.
The thing I need to know is how I can find out what the code is that
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 7 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 47
Today's Topics:
databases...
ffixer.hqx
GSA suppliers of Apple Macintoshes
Hayes 2400M Smartcom
HigherMenus INIT
Japanese word-processing - summary of responses
looking for Fortran callable graphics library
More fonts
Rodime hard disk and Apple Scanner
Spanish Spelling Checker
Thunderscan resolution?
Updated BINHEX4.PAS for MacPascal 2.0?
Upgrade info request
Voice Recognition For the Mac
World Population DA
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 15:34:48 EST
From: Damian%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: databases...
Hello again!
Does anybody know of any data base program that allows the user to
define a field of up to 50 pages? I don't think Double-Helix will do
it although I might be wrong.....
I heard something here on the net about a product called Doppler that alllowed
you to define the number of copies available of a program on a file server..
I don't have much more info than that....but if someone knows anything
about eitherr of these topics I would be very appreciative....
Damian Roskill
Damian@umass
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 00:21 EST
From: BEATROUS@vms.cis.pittsburgh.edu
Subject: ffixer.hqx
Attached is the Macintosh application 'Floppy Fixer', version
1.0, which recovers files from damaged Macintosh diskettes.
Unstuff the program and documentation with StuffIt.
Frank Beatrous
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsbugh, PA 15260
beatrous@pittvms.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/util/floppy-fixer.hqx; 101K]
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Date: Tue 7 Mar 89 14:59:01-EST
From: FAUSETT@radc-tops20.arpa
Subject: GSA suppliers of Apple Macintoshes
Does anyone know of a GSA supplier of Apple Macintoshes OTHER than FALCON
MICROSYSTEMS. We've had such bad service from them that we're desperate to
find another GSA source.
Mark Fausett (fausett@radc-tops20.arpa)
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 89 10:54:21 EST
From: Adriene <ADRIENE%YALEADS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hayes 2400M Smartcom
I just received some product information from HAYES Micro Products.
There is now a 2400 Baud modem (internal for MAC II) which can be SHARED
by others on the network. (just like any other network device) I believe
its called the 2400M.
Th
It claims that the MAC II will show little or no degradation of performance
while others are using its modem...
CAN THIS BE TRUE? Has anyone used this product yet? Many of our clients
could use a product like this. Any info, tips, or experience on this product
would REALLY be appreciated.
Respond to me personally, or to the list. I will summarize any responses to
the list.
Thanks Everyone!
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Date: 7 Mar 1989 02:10 EST
From: mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu
Subject: HigherMenus INIT
HigherMenus is an INIT that will let you bring a hierchical menu into the
menubar. If you have a particular item that you are choosing a lot, and
it's stashed away a few levels down, this INIT is for you!
It also complements hierDA nicely in that you can have a Control Panel
menu that you can choose cdevs from.
Press the option key while choosing the menu item with a submenu attached
to it to bring the submenu into the menu bar. Option-click on a menu title
in the menu bar to remove it.
There is a $5 shareware fee for HigherMenus. Version 1.03.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/highermenus.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 17:25:55 GMT
From: Stuart MacFarlane <mcvax!hci.hw.ac.uk!stuartm@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Japanese word-processing - summary of responses
Thanks to a number of people who sent me information on Japanese word
processing on the Mac. As promised, here is a distillation:
KanjiTalk is the Macintosh Operating system in Japanese (Kanji). Menus
and the Finder, etc. are all in Kanji.
Contact:
APDA
Apple Computer, Inc.
20525 Mariani Avenu, Mail Stop 33G
Cupertino, CA 95014-6299
The only Japanese word processor that was mentioned is EGWord. People
seem to think that it works OK. It resembles Word. Available from:
Qualitas Trading Co (6907 Norfolk Rd, Berkeley, CA 94705)
for US$499 (ouch!),
or from:
Ergosoft Corporation
5F Taneda Building
1-2-5, Moto-Akasaka
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107, Japan
Phone: +81-3-478-2234
for Yen59000.
Discounted prices may be available in Japan - a helpful correspondent
is checking.
There is some confusion about whether EGWord works with or without
Kanjitalk - it seems to depend on the version number of EGWord. I'm
still working on this...
I am warned that EGWord works best with system 4.2, and sometimes
crashes on exit on system 6.0.2. I am also warned that extra RAM might
be needed. I am advised to consult technical note #138, and to
subscribe to a mailing list called JAPAN; I haven't done either
yet...
I haven't yet contacted the above addresses, so I can't fill in the
details. Mail me in a few weeks if you want more up-to-date
information.
Stuart MacFarlane ARPA: stuartm@hci.hw.ac.uk
Scottish HCI Centre, UUCP: ..{backbone}!mcvax!ukc!hwcs!hci!stuartm
Heriot-Watt University, JANET: stuartm@uk.ac.hw.hci
Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HX Tel: 031-225 8432 ext19
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 12:02 EST
From: <ANANDI@EMRCAN>
Subject: looking for Fortran callable graphics library
Some of our users are attempting to move their FORTRAN programs from
mainframe to Macs. These programs use DISSPLA subroutines to plot
on various devices like CALCOMP plotters, Tektronix graphics
terminals etc. We would like to advise our users as to the choice of
FORTRAN (77) callable graphics library which they could use on their
Macs.
Computer Associates to find out if they have a version. They
promised to call me back. That was seven days ago. I am still waiting.
Any features or limitations of the product?
Do you know of any other FORTRAN callable graphics library for the Mac
environment?
If you want, you can send your reply directly to me at ANANDI@EMRCAN.
BITNET
I would also like to know of similar product in the IBM-PC environment.
Thanks in advance.
Atulesh Nandi
Energy, Mines and Resources, Canada
ANANDI@EMRCAN
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1989 16:35:16 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: More fonts
There is a new subdirectory in the font directory called "adobe". It contains
a vast array of new Adobe screen fonts, and a file which describes the
copyright restrictions on them. In brief, you may download them for your own
use, but not redistribute them.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 13:02:46 EST
From: Holly_Schneider@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Rodime hard disk and Apple Scanner
I'm having trouble getting an Apple Scanner to work with a Mac II that has
a 140MB internal Rodime drive.
The scanner works without problem on a Mac II with an Apple hard drive.
I have tried many different combinations of SCSI device ID#s, but none of
the combinations solves the problem.
Rodime suggested adding a second SCSI terminator to the scanner, which
helped eliminate some problems but not all. The scanner appears to
capture the document, but in actuality is not able to save it to the
Rodime drive. We have tried it using both the Apple Scanning software and
OmniPage.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Holly Schneider
Microcomputer Manager
Office of the Provost
University of Michigan
Holly_Schneider@um.cc.umich.edu
(313) 763-7654
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 17:00 EST
From: "Beth Allen, Academic Computing Intern" <$BETH%OBERLIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Spanish Spelling Checker
Does anybody know of a Spanish Spelling Checker that will work with Word
3.02? I seem to remember reading a review of foreign language spelling
checkers in some magazine recently, but I can't track it down.
Thanks,
Beth Allen
$BETH@OBERLIN (BITNET)
or
SEA1943@OBERLIN (BITNET)
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 18:16 AST
From: J_MENDEZ@acupr.upr.cun.edu
Subject: Thunderscan resolution?
I hope this question isn't too stupid, but can someone tell me at what
resolution does Thunderscan (Thunderware) scan? In what file formats are
the images saved? Anyone around there have any good/bad experiences with
the product?
Thanks for your help.
Jose Mendez
University of Puerto Rico
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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 89 15:48:50 CST
From: "Morgan K. Lee" <NU129584%NDSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Updated BINHEX4.PAS for MacPascal 2.0?
Does anyone have an updataed version of BINHEX4.PAS program that can
run under MacPascal 2.0? The program was probably created for MacPascal
1.0; I got an error message "Incompatibility between types has been
found" on the program statement "GENERIC(JSRINDIRECTA0, REGRCD)."
Morgan K. Lee
NU129584@NDSUVM1.BITNET
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 7:56:10 EST
From: "CPT Steven M. Mahoney" <smmahone@crdec1.apgea.army.mil>
Subject: Upgrade info request
Hi,
This is probably the subject of an article in the archives somewhere.
I have a MAC 512 E. I am looking to upgrade to a plus with 2 MEG of RAM.
What are some good routes to do this. I am familiar with the MACSNAP line.
I am unaware of "other" alternatives to upgrade. If you could pass along
info on where this information is stored, it would really help. Thanks.
STEVE MAHONEY
smmahone@crdec1.apgea.mil
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Date: Tue, 07 Mar 89 16:36:28 CST
From: Bill Goffe <B234WLG%UTARLVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Voice Recognition For the Mac
Some time ago there was a request for voice recognition devices and software
for the Mac. In the Feb. 5, 1989 New York Times on p. 10F there was an
article dealing w/ such a device. It is made by Articulate Systems Inc. of
Cambridge, Mass, (617) 876-5236. Their Voice Navigator can be used to
recognize as many as 200 words at each level of a command (?). They note
that it can be used w/ paint and cad programs to call for special tools
rather than constantly using a mouse. Sounds handy to me. The cost is $999.
They say it will be available in the second quarter.
Bill Goffe
b234wlg @ utarlvm1
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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 89 13:08:18 PST
From: riley%cs@ucsd.edu (Chris Riley)
Subject: World Population DA
This is a desk accessory that shows the current world population.
It is updated each second and provides a relatively accurate
estimate of the current population.
The DA is free. Click in the DA window for information.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/world-population.hqx; 9K]
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∂08-Mar-89 0936 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu HARD DISK TROUBLES WITH A MAC II
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From: Han Chiu <H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: HARD DISK TROUBLES WITH A MAC II
To: SMUG@hamlet.stanford.edu, SU-Macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu,
Su-computers@hamlet.stanford.edu, consult@med-isg.stanford.edu,
p.pddoc@hamlet.stanford.edu, FLRC-MITL@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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To Whom it May Concern:
I have a Seagate Internal 48MB Internal Hard Disk for the Mac II which is about
43MB Full. My Mac II is the basic model with only 1mb internal memory.
The system that it is running on is 6.0.2 with a variety of inits which include
Shield, R Watcher, Vaccine, Kill Virus, Suitcase, Quick Keys, Facade, Remember,
and possibly a few others. When using programs on the disk and creating
new files I find the hard disk to run just fine. However when I try to copy
something onto the hard disk I find that when the computer reaches
the updating desktop point it routinely takes 10-16 seconds to update th
desktop. This seems like an unusually long time. I have used HD tune up
and have a fragmentation rate of less than 1 percent.
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions please send them to
my direction.
H.hanchiu@hamlet
Thanx
Han
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From: Tantek Celik <tantek@portia.stanford.edu>
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To: su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
Subject: Re:HARD DISK TROUBLES WITH A MAC II
When you are first starting up the machine,
as soon as you get the Welcome to Macintosh system message,
hold down the control,option,command, and shift keys.
When the desktop comes up, instead of mounting the hard disk,
it'll ask you if you really want to rebuild the desktop on the hard disk.
you want to click "ok" or "yes". This will take a few minutes, and should
speed up your hard disk.
Other ways of speeding up your disk include:
Using fewer hierarchical levels of folder (less depth)
Not using the finder at all. In other words, set some other program
as the startup application (HyperCard for example) and pick up a program
called DiskTop. I think it is put out by CE software but am not sure.
DiskTop is basically the finder in a DA, and does not deal with a lot of
the desk top bs that the finder does. I think version 1.2 is available
as shareware.
-Tantek
∂09-Mar-89 1232 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu resedit
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From: Han Chiu <H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: resedit
To: k.kleeberg@hamlet.stanford.edu, p.pddoc@hamlet.stanford.edu,
su-macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu, su-computer@hamlet.stanford.edu,
smug@hamlet.stanford.edu, macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu
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Does anyone know where you can get documentation for resedit
and what the latest version is?
Also does anyone know how to change the id number of a template say
if I want to copy a template from another program into mine
and find that the template id number is the same?
Please send copies of your replies to this account.
Han
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 9 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
68030 bug in TMON
A/UX Shutdown procedure for Non-superusers
Ada for Mac IIx
Answers to memory questions
Data Sharing
Hypercard, Macs and Modems
Hypercard problems
Ignisound V1.5
Interrupt button
Jasmine's DirectPrint
Looking for SU-MacIP comm. software
mice
Talking Moose 1.21 on a Mac II
The search for a "kinder quieter SE"
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 20:44:30 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: 68030 bug in TMON
The 7th March issue of MacWeek (MacInTouch column) has the following fix for
TMON v2.8.1, to make it compatible with 68030-based Macs (ie, IIx, SE/30...).
o Open TMON w/ ResEdit.
o Open MonC resource & duplicate 'MonC ID 2'.
o Select the new resource just created and give it ID=3.
o Close the MonC resources, and repeat the procedure w/ resource 'MonI ID 2'.
This info was provided by Eugene Evans at ICOM Simulations, and all flames,
bug reports, etc, should be sent to him (Hell, I don't even have TMON:-})
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch
US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 89 11:07:30 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A/UX Shutdown procedure for Non-superusers
We just got an A/UX machine which will be used by several different
people (though
only one at a time -- no serial port log-ins or ethernet clients). The
"shutdown" command can be issued only be the superuser. If a non-superuser
comes in, powers up, logs on, does some work -- how does he shut down?
Is it OK to just power the machine off at the "login:" prompt? If not,
what? I don't want to scramble our file system -- I also don't want to
give the superuser password to everybody, or have to babysit each use
just to log off.
Also, we have to shut down A/UX to get back to Mac OS (which most of the
people on our Mac II prefer).
------------------------------
Date: 08 Mar 89 0035 PST
From: Arthur Keller <ARK@sail.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ada for Mac IIx
Are there any (preferably certified) Ada compilers available for the
Mac IIx? If so, home much memory and disk do they need to run effectively?
Thanks.
Arthur
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 10:31:24 -0500 (EST)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Answers to memory questions
I received a number of responses to my first two questions, but not to the
third. So here is a summary of the answers to the first two questions.
>Hi,
> I have a couple of questions about Mac simms. I removed two 256K simms from
my Mac >Plus, when I upgraded it to 2.5 MB.
>
>Is there a way to tell the speed of these simms by the age of the Mac Plus, or
by looking at the >simms?
You can tell the speed by the last two digits on the chip. -15 means 150 ns and
-12 means 120ns.
>Are Mac simms and IBM simms interchangeable as long as the simms are fast
enough?
It is possilble to use IBM simms in Macs, but not Mac simms in IBMs. IBM simms
are 9 bit chips. The nineth bit is used for parity checking, and according to
Lee Larson,
"statistical analyses have shown that there is no significant
increase in reliability in using that ninth chip as IBM does. It is only
used once, during the boot-up process. It has as much chance of failure
as any other chip in the system, so 1/9 of the time, the parity chip
is the one that goes. (More parts ==> More failures)"
>Is it possible to use Mac simms in a 512KE, ie. does the 512KE macs have simms
slots?
I haven't gotten an answer on this question.
Thanks to all the people who responded.
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Tue 07 Mar 1989 22:47 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Data Sharing
Could anyone out there tell me how simple it would be to share the data
contained within a HyperCard stack, among a number of users on an AppleTalk
network.
Optimally we would like to have, say 6 Macs, with perhaps two of them wishing
to access the same HyperCard file (not necessarially at the same time), but
without having to worry about merging the changed data from two copies of
it every day.
What software would make this sharing possible, and would be quick, and
reliable. I was thinking AppleShare, but I want to research all the
possibilities.
We will probably also be sharing a number of other applications...
Any help is greatly appreciated...
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Date: 8 Mar 89 12:10:00 EST
From: "EJN" <ejn@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Hypercard, Macs and Modems
I have a Hypercard stack that will dial a list of phone numbers and see if a
CONNECT is made to a computer. I am interested in knowing if there is a way
that I can modify this stack to 1) detect when someone answers the phone and
2) deliver a digitized message? I am looking for a way to use my
Machintosh and Hayes modem to call members of our computer club and leave
a message telling of meeting times.
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 23:56 EST
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: Hypercard problems
I have previously indicated problems with hypercard sounds quiting and
eventually corrupting cards. I recently received version 1.2.2. While
I have not been able to extensively test it for more than 1 hour, it
seems to have cured the problems. Sounds now work, even after using
DAs. Also, cards don't seem to get corrupted anymore either.
-- Doug
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Date: 9 Mar 1989 10:22 EST
From: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu
Subject: Ignisound V1.5
This is a cdev which allows you to play a sound (snd resource)
at startup.
Written by Steve Bollinger
Copyright (c) 1989 Steve Bollinger and Mushyware
All Rights Reserved
This may be freely distributed in an unmodified form.
See inside for details.
Shareware $10
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/ignisound.hqx; 36K]
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 10:05:10 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ardec.arpa>
Subject: Interrupt button
Here's a question I've been wondering about for some time.
Back when I used a Mac+, if something happened which froze the Mac, or
caused a system error, I could (sometimes) escape to the Finder by pressing
the interrupt key on the side of the machine, and typing 'G 40F6D8' in the
debugger window which appeared. This saved the hassle of rebooting,
particularly when SCSI disks like to be shutdown properly.
Now, my boss has gotten me a shiny new SE! But typing 'G 40F6D8' does nada.
It simply returns me to the debugger window. Typing 'G FINDER' sometimes
gives me a 'Restart or Resume' dialog box (DSAT, right?), but most times,
the Resume option isn't hilited, so I have to restart the mac anyway. And
wait while the HD straightens itself out...
Does anyone have any suggestions as to the proper way to recover from this?
(ie, what to type in the debugger window?) I will summarize to the net.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch
US Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: Tue 07 Mar 1989 22:48 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Jasmine's DirectPrint
Has anyone out there used, or heard anything good/bad about Jasmine's new
"laserprinter" the DirectPrint?
Problems, advantages, etc...
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 89 13:49:40 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Looking for SU-MacIP comm. software
I am looking for the source host of the SU-MacIP software usable for
communicating on the Internet from a Mac via a variety of mediums. I saw
version 2.0 working somewhere and it's FTP interface looked a lot more
friendly than NCSA's.
Since this is Stanford developed software, I should assume that it is
to be found within the '.Stanford.EDU' domain, but in which host ?
Thanks for any pointers.
Juan Courcoul
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Date: 6 Mar 89 11:05:00 EST
From: mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu
Subject: mice
I need to order a replacment mouse for a MAC II. Can anyone out there on the
net recommend a mouse? Send replies to mikero@lns61.tn.cornell.edu; if there
are enough replies, I'll summarize to the net.
_______ Michael Roman
/ | Cornell University
| | Wilson Synchrotron Lab
_________/ | Ithaca, NY 14853
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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 09:41:08 edt
From: BRUCE_KAHN@DGC.MCEO.DG.COM
Subject: Talking Moose 1.21 on a Mac II
CEO summary:
I picked up the most recent copy of Talking Moose and have yet to
be able to get it to work on the two II's we have here. We have
tried under Finder and Multifinder (I dont recall their versions but
can check if it matters).
We had no problems with the FTP or the unpacking. We cant get it
to do anything under Finder and it enters what appears to be an
infinite loop when run under MultiFinder (the watch stays up for > 5
minutes so we aborted it). Has anyone else had problems? Is there
something I especially need to do?
Bruce (KAHN@ADAM.DG.COM)
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 08:18:39 PST
From: nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil (Peter Nardi)
Subject: The search for a "kinder quieter SE"
The noise from the fan on may SE is becoming very distracting.
Mobius offers a replacement called "The SE Silencer" which will
replace original fans in pre-December 1987 Mac SE's. Has anyone had
experience with this fan? Is it more quiet? Does it work? I purchased
my SE in Feb of 1988, how can I determine the manufacture date? Are there
any other fans out there worth looking at? Any information would be
greatly appreciated.
-=<Pete>=-
nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, Ca.
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∂09-Mar-89 2134 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu EE 192A, "MacPhysics" Course, Spring Quarter
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EE 192A: "MacPHYSICS"
Spring Quarter, mwf 1:15-2:05
EE 192A, "MacPhysics", is a Spring Quarter project course open to
engineering and science students at any level who want to learn about
(a) programming the Macintosh computer and (b) techniques for
visualizing and demonstrating physical and engineering phenomena on
personal computer screens.
Contents of the course will include
o Introduction to programming the Macintosh computer including
event-driven programs, the Macintosh interface, using Resources
and the Toolbox, and graphic displays;
o Introduction to elementary numerical methods for simulating
physical problems on computers;
o Elementary principles of 2D and 3D computer graphics and
animation;
o And an overview of the use of computers for the visualization
and display of engineering and physics phenomena.
The course should be accessible to anyone with background in calculus
and differential equations, elementary programming experience, and an
interest in the objectives of the course. Science, engineering, or CS
students at the advanced junior through first or second-year grad level
are welcome.
In addition to occasional problem sets, each student will be expected to
write a computer demonstration program on some topic of special interest
to him or her (with special preference for topics from EE electronics
courses). Class materials will be presented primarily using Microsoft
QuickBASIC for the Macintosh plus Toolbox routines; but students may do
projects using either QuickBASIC or any other language they prefer
(e.g., Pascal or C).
Initial class meeting Wednesday, April 5, 1:15-2:05, in Meyer Forum
Room; subsequent class meetings mwf 1:15-2:05 in EE Macintosh Cluster,
ERL 122. If interested, please send advance e-mail to Professor A. E.
Siegman (siegman@sierra).
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From: jamie williamson <B.BONEBRAIN@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Tabs in Hypercard?
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 10 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 48
Today's Topics:
A/UX Shutdown procedure for Non-superusers
Answers to memory questions
Books on Tutorials?
CMS Disk Drives
Databases capable of storing large amounts of text
DOES APPLE HAVE A POC FOR DEALER COMPLAINTS?
Interrupt on MacSE
Screen fonts
Unix mail for the Macintosh
What have I done?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Thu, 9 Mar 89 15:45:56 PST
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuq@apple.com>
Subject: A/UX Shutdown procedure for Non-superusers
> If a non-superuser comes in, powers up, logs on... how does he shut down?
If you want this, the easiest way to allow it and still have some control
is to set up a special reboot account. Create account 'reboot' with UID=0
and the login shell as /etc/reboot. You can then put a normal password on it
so people can't reboot your machine without a password. When they're done,
they log out, then log in as reboot.
While rebooting from multi-user isn't necessarily the best thing to do, if
the system is essentially quiet, there shouldn't be any problem. I've tried
it a few times and haven't had any problems.
A cleaner way that requires more steps is to use shutdown instead of reboot.
Shutdown will take you single user (equivalent to "init 1"), and the user
could execute the reboot command from there. That shouldn't have any
problems doing this, but it's an extra step.
Reboot shuts UNIX down and takes you back to the SASH partition. If you want
to power it down completely, use "powerdown" instead of reboot.
chuq
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 11:29:38 EST
From: jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey M White)
Subject: Answers to memory questions
In reply to:
>From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Is it possible to use Mac simms in a 512KE, ie. does the 512KE macs have simms
>slots?
The answer to this question is no. The original Mac had 16 (2 rows of 8) 64k
chips soldered onto the motherboard, for a total of 128k RAM. The 512k Mac
switched to 256k chips, for a total of 512k RAM. Note that it was the
soldering of the chips to the motherboard that made user upgrades very
difficult, if not impossible. The Plus was the first machine to use simms.
Jeff White
Univ. of Penn. - CETS
jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 08:51:04 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: Books on Tutorials?
My boss is looking for books on tutorials on the Mac. Does anyone have any
pointers to such a beast? He claims to have seen an Apple publication once.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.arpa
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
------------------------------
Date: 9 Mar 89 22:14:13 GMT
From: rjc@ncsc1.att.com (Robert Cook consultant ncsc5)
Subject: CMS Disk Drives
Hey, I have owned a CMS 40M hard drive for almost a year now. Yes I did call
for support one time and had a similiar experence (no response) as others have.
However, the Neighborhood Computer Store (where I bought it) took a look and the
only problem I had was duplicate file names in various folders. I fixed that
and have enjoyed good performance and reliability with my particular disk.
Maybe, I'm lucky or whatever, but I'm happy with the product. Not necessarily
with the company support (or lack thereof).
R. Cook
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 01:17:53 EST
From: Alexis Rosen <decwrl!decvax!ccnysci!alexis@labrea.stanford.edu>
Subject: Databases capable of storing large amounts of text
I just tried FoxBase on a 155K text document. It absorbed it into a memo
field without problems. So It could certainly handle 50 pages of text.
However, memo handling in FoxBase is not currently very good. You can present
it to the user for editing or examination, and the editor is very very nice.
It's NOT textedit-based, so its swift even with 150K text fields. You can
also search in the field for text.
But that's it. Nothing else.
Fortunately, the new FoxBase will support complete control over memo fields.
You will be able to manipulate them however you like. These features may make
it into V2.0 (available late April or early May), which I have in an early
alpha form. They may wait until V2.1, though, which would mean waiting until
July. (Note that they're quite accurate about ship dates, historically.)
If that's good enough for you, get FoxBase. Otherwise, you're stuck, since as
far as I remember the other databases all keep at maximum one TextEdit
record's worth of text (This certainly applies to 4D and Helix. Omnis can't
even do that much. Dbase is also limited to 32K).
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.uucp
------------------------------
Date: Fri 10 Mar 89 14:12:06-EST
From: FAUSETT@radc-tops20.arpa
Subject: DOES APPLE HAVE A POC FOR DEALER COMPLAINTS?
Earlier I asked for GSA sources other than Falcon microsystems for
Apple equipment. I was deulged with responses saying
1. Falcon is the Only Apple-Authorized GSA source.
2. They typically give terrible service (although they appear to have
improved in the southwest).
Is there a person or organization at Apple responsible for dealer
quality control? If so, I'd like to forward those responses in the
hope that Apple will do something. Having the single GSA source be
this bad reflects poorly upon Apple. When the service is bad enough,
it makes other types of equipment look attractive.
Mark Fausett
-------
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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 08:22:41 EST
From: jonathan@starbase.mitre.org (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: Interrupt on MacSE
the proper ExitToShell for the macintosh SE is G 409B24 at the debugger
prompt. (for a cute slideshow, try G 41D89A to see the MacSE developers).
jonathan leblang
jonathan@mitre.org
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 89 18:20:45 EST
From: Asif T <CEHYDRO%VTVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Screen fonts
I noticed that Adobe posted a whole lot of fonts on this archive, I was
excited about this, but when I tried to print out a document all I got
was a bitmap representation of the screen fonts, does some one know of a
way to download these fonts to the Laser Writer ?? Can it at all be done??
Please post your reply as I suspect your mail might have a bit of a
problem in getting to me.
Thanks
Asif Taiyabi
1711 Whipple Drive, Apt #9
--------------------------------------------- Blacksburg, VA 24060
|"If the listener nods his head when you are| (703) 951-2689
| explaining your program, wake him up" |
| -- Alan Perlis |
---------------------------------------------
[The Adobe fonts we have in our archive are only screen fonts. They cannot
be downloaded to the LaserWriter as PostScript outline fonts. You have to
buy the PostScript fonts from Adobe. -Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 10:52:13 -0600 (CST)
From: David Wilson <David.Wilson@scarecrow.waisman.wisc.edu>
Subject: Unix mail for the Macintosh
> Could anyone give me pointers to Mac MH? I have MH, and am
> interested in the Mac front end. I am looking for more information
> on the program, how to get it, whether the source is public domain.
MH stands for Message Handler. It is an alternative Unix mail system
written by the Rand Corporation and which is in the public domain. The
way to make Internet mail available to Macintosh users, without forcing
them to log into another computer with Telnet, is to install MH on some
mail server, and use Stanford University's SU-Mac/IP & SU-Mac/MH on the
Macintosh. MH can use several different protocols to send mail between
computers, including the popular SENDMAIL.
MH contains a special version of POP (Post Office Protocol). SU-Mac/MH
depends on the added features. Thus MH MUST BE installed on the machine
that acts as mail server for the Macintoshes. A standard Unix mailer
with POP2 is not good enough. MH6.6 is distributed by the Univ. of
Delaware. Directions for getting MH are included when you order
SU-Mac/MH. (FTP anonymously from louie.udel.edu:portal/mh-6.6.tar.Z)
Macintosh mail users give the name of the mail server computer in their
mail addresses, not the name of their own machine. Thus they can move
between Macintoshes with ease. The Macintosh mail users do NOT have to
be added to the mail server as legal Telnet users. MH keeps a database
of Mail users separate from the list of legal users.
Mac/MH provides for creation, editing, and filing of messages, and also
includes an "address book" facility. A compatible PC version is also
available.
A site license for SU-Mac/IP and SU-Mac/MH is $100. The PC version costs
another $100. A check must be send with the order; purchase orders
cannot be used. This product is not in the public domain, but the cost
is nominal. Send the order to:
Laura Kenny
Networking Systems
115 Pine Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4122
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 89 15:38:13 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.arpa
Subject: What have I done?
Someone asked me for a list of things that I have written and placed on
Info-Mac and that got me to wondering, so I released a few things that I had
been meaning to make public and put together this list.
Jon
Program Description
------- -----------
Pathname FKEY Places full pathname of a selected file onto clipboard.
Randomizer Changes startup files (like screens and sounds).
Lone Ranger Changes creator of any type of files on any HFS subtree.
ShowSizes Displays relative sizes of folders & files in them.
PlaySound World's simplest uncompressed sound file player.
- For Hypercard
Dinosaurs Pictures of dinosaurs and info about them.
doFKEY Execute an FKEY from a script.
SetDirectory Set Standard File dialogs to a certain directory.
GetClipboard
PutClipboard Get and put variables (and fields) to the clipboard.
Black&White Tells whether the screen is black and white or not.
PopUp Menu Definative Popup menu function.
Filename
NewFilename New and old filename functions. Includes SetDirectory too.
GetVolume
SetVolume Hypertalk control of the volume. Sets the control panel too.
Program Name on Sumex-Aim.Stanford.Edu
------- ------------------------------
Pathname fkey/hfs-pathname.hqx
Randomizer init/randomizer.hqx
Lone Ranger util/loneranger-19.hqx
ShowSizes util/showsizes.hqx
PlaySound sound/playsound.hqx
Dinosaurs hypercard/dinosaurs-part4.hqx
doFKEY hypercard/xcmd-dofkey.hqx
SetDirectory hypercard/xcmd-setdirectory.hqx
GetClipboard hypercard/xcmd-get-put-clipboard.hqx
PutClipboard hypercard/xcmd-get-put-clipboard.hqx
Black&White hypercard/xfcn-black-and-white.hqx
PopUp Menu hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu.hqx
Filename hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx
NewFilename hypercard/xfcn-filestuff.hqx
GetVolume hypercard/xcmd-volume.hqx
SetVolume hypercard/xcmd-volume.hqx
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 13 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 50
Today's Topics:
'PICT' to X Bitmap converter.
Acct'ing software for pub. co.
Canvas 2.0
Crunched Shell?
Exittoshell for Mac SE
Help needed with system error ID=12
Jasmine's Directprint
Jasmine DirectPrint
Mac II Error Codes
Preditor 1.0 Demo
PrintField xcmd
Soft Step
Sound manager
SU-Mac/IP and /MH
Transferring 1-2-3 files to a mac (WKS format?) [questions about excel]
WindowList 1.21
Wingz unsmooth contour charts
Wingz user interface problems (long)
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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 19:05:10 -0500
From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Subject: 'PICT' to X Bitmap converter.
This is XBitmap, a utility program I wrote to convert
Macintosh 'PICT' files, such as those created by MacDraw, into
bitmap files suitable for use with X Window System programs. It
can also be used to view X Bitmap files, view 'PICT' files, and
to save an image as a 'PICT' file. As a 'PICT' viewer, the
program is moderately useful even to those who have no dealings
with the X Window system (lucky dogs!)
This program exists to fill a gap in Jef Poskanzer's
"Portable Bitmap Toolkit" (pbm), which can convert a number of
formats to and from MacPaint files, but which has no way of
accessing 'PICT' files. Unfortunately for portability, I am
neither smart enough nor patient enough to write a portable C
program which can parse 'PICT' files on a non-Macintosh
computer. Therefore, I decided to let the Mac ToolBox call
DrawPicture() do all the dirty work, and wrote the program as a
Macintosh application. [HW]ell, chances are that if you have
'PICT' files, then you have a Macintosh to view them on.
This program is a first effort in writing a graphics
converter-filter program, and has a lot of shortcomings:
Saved 'PICT' files really contain a BitMap wrapped up in a
Picture. If you load an Object-Oriented 'PICT' file into
XBitmap, and then print out a 'PICT' file, all of the objects
are lost. You get the same image, but it can no longer be
scaled attractively, nor can separate objects be manipulated by
a drawing program.
Editing functions are non-existent. I just wanted a
converter. Although the program does allow you to view an
image, I included this mainly for debugging.
X format Bitmap files are huge. They should be compressed
before uploading them to your X client machine. Note: "Bitmap"
is correct for X, "BitMap" is correct for Macintosh, "bitmap" is
correct in the general case. X Bitmap is probably the worst
non-Mac bitmap format I could have chosen, but since I currently
do a lot of work on a machine running X Windows, and I just HAD
to have a certain MacDraw document as my backdrop on this
machine, I wrote the program this way.
The only bitmap format supported is "X Bitmap." Those
desiring to create other formats, e.g. Sun raster, could convert
first to X Bitmap, upload the file, then run pbm to get whatever
other format you desire. This is, admittedly, inconvenient.
The program is free. In lieu of releasing "versions" of it
with increasing version number, I plan to upload the source code
next, and wash my hands of it. I am sending the compiled
version now for the benefit of those with neither the
inclination nor the ability to compile C programs on the
Macintosh (more lucky dogs!)
Earle R. Horton. 23 Fletcher Circle, Hanover, NH 03755--
Graduate student, scientific programmer.
He who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for
the kingdom of winners. In any case, 'BACK' doesn't work.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/xbitmap.hqx; 29K
/info-mac/source/c-xbitmap.shar; 27K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon 13 Mar 89 12:17:55-PST
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@lear.stanford.edu>
Subject: Acct'ing software for pub. co.
I'm posting this for a friend. Please reply to the net or directly to me.
Thanks in advance.
We are looking for an accounting package for a publishing company that sells
textbooks and videotapes, along with trade books, to bookstores and universities
in the United States, Australia and Canada. We must keep track of several books
and eleven videotapes with various different discounts, according to quantities
ordered. We also must keep track of royalties to authors, credits to bookstores
>From previous returns, postage, numbers of books to one university that might be
serviced by several different bookstores, and professors at those universities
using the books. We would want the information posted on an invoice to be
automatically entered in the university account and in the bookstore account,
with the information going to a "ledger sheet" for each bookstore that would be
tallied at the end of the month for a balance sheet. We also would need to enter
returns and credits to the bookstore accounts.
We have an average number of 2500 bookstores and 350 universities that we must
keep track of. We would also want the address information on the bookstores
mergeable into mailing lists.
We would need an ongoing inventory of each book and videotape and want to search
out each book/video amount on hand. We would also need to search out accounts
receivable individually and collectively.
We would want to print out monthly statements of accounts due.
We are working with a Mac SE with a 45 megabyte hard disk.
We would need to print out the invoices, the statements and a monthly balance
sheet
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@LEAR.STANFORD.EDU
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 10:52:23 EDT
From: Norbert Mueller <K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Canvas 2.0
Hello,
just before we went out to buy Canvas 2.0 a visitor here wanted to print his
Canvas files on our ImageWriter LQ in color. While color worked Ok there were
big problems with text on the LQ. Has anybody had similar experience, or is
there a known fix to this behavior (wrong character spacing)?
We know it works with LaserWriters.
Thanks for any comments.
Norbert Mueller
Institute of Chemistry
Johannes Kepler University
A-4040 LINZ
AUSTRIA
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 16:23 EST
From: JURGEN E BOTZ <BOTZ@ecs.umass.edu>
Subject: Crunched Shell?
A couple of months ago, I saw a message posted to one of the digests that
the "Crunched Shell" collection of C source objects was available and in
the public domain. Could someone out there please post this to the info-
mac archives..?
Also, is it possible that someone could post the latest versions of ResEdit
and Macsbug? Or does apple frown on such activity now? Do we care?
Thanx in Advance...
Jurgen E Botz (Botz@UMAECS)
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 08:51:21
From: <LANGOWSKI%FREMBL51.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Exittoshell for Mac SE
The proper way to call exittoshell for ANY Mac is to type the following
two lines in the mini-debugger:
SM 0 A9F4
G 0
This will put an _Exittoshell trap instruction into location 0 and jump to it.
Always safe, and doesn't rely on absolute ROM addresses.
-jl-
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 21:29 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help needed with system error ID=12
Dear net,
About two weeks ago we installed system 6.02 on our MacII's (2 Mb). The system
however does not run without problems. In some occasions the Mac crashes
with an id=12 (unimplemented core routine error). This happens sometimes
when compiling FORTRAN code with Absoft 2.3 compiler and when changing
the message icon while using the Broadcast utility. Who can help us out
with this nasty thing ? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 89 14:32:52 PST
From: decwrl!sun!tc.fluke.COM!moriarty@labrea.stanford.edu (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: Jasmine's Directprint
In article <8903092311.AA06365@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Greeny writes:
>Has anyone out there used, or heard anything good/bad about Jasmine's new
>"laserprinter" the DirectPrint?
>
>Problems, advantages, etc...
There was a demo of it the other night at the Seattle Mac dBUG meeting. I
can give you a breakdown of it's good/bad points (mostly from calling and
talking to Jasmine -- the presentation was one of the worst I've ever seen.
More on that later...).
GOOD:
* Runs at about the speed of a LaserWriter II NTX, but at the price of a
LW II NT. RISC architecture is the reason.
* Uses a liquid crystal shutter -- no rotating mirrors. Sharper, clearer
images (we tested a few things, and this seems to be the case, though
the difference wasn't as apparent to me as it was to some of my
companions who are graphic designers).
* Very lightweight and small.
* Standard LaserWriter font set comes with it (though they're not made by
Adobe, they're Bitstream fonts).
* "100% PostScript Compatable" We didn't get a chance to test this with
some complex SuperPaint documents, but they were taking all comers up
front, and nobody's stuff bombed.
BAD:
* Doesn't work with Adobe downloadable fonts. This is supposedly one of
the reasons things are so cheap -- no Adobe licensing fees. This isn't
a problem if you haven't invested in Adobe Font libraries (Bitstream
makes the same fonts for a good deal less $$, I understand from my G.D.
friends), but if you *have* bought into Adobe, it's a major drawback.
* Doesn't work with labels, transparencies or envelopes, according to the
Product Manager, just standard size paper (I don't know about legal
size, though).
* It's "new technology", i.e. the first one of the bunch. This wouldn't
worry me, but...
... the presentation that the Product Manager gave was so apologetic that I
was wondering whether this thing was buggy or not (he described it as "the
Mac 128K of LaserWriters", and kept talking about a) the bugs they'd had in
developing it and b) how they were working hard on the second generation of
LQS laserprinters). Two co-workers from Fluke who had come to see the demo,
and were thinking of buying one, didn't come away with a very comfortable
description of the product, and they both purchased Apple LW II NTs the next
day...
So I guess the conclusion is that it seems to be a very nice box for a lot
of people's needs, but from the presentation (and the presentation alone --
it seemed to be working alright), I'm a bit nervous about the machinary.
"For the love of
Jesus, Mr. Chiun."
"Now you've
done it."
"For Jesus? Oh, no.
We never got a
day's work from Him."
----
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 12:37 PDT
From: "BRIAN KLAAS, CH3 POLE J7, MAILSTOP CH3-69" <BKLAAS%CH3@sc.intel.com>
Subject: Jasmine DirectPrint
HOWDY!
I recently got some information on the QUME CrystalPrint Publisher, and I
beleive both are the same (but no guarantees) seeing as QUME is a huge
printer manufacturer, and, well, Jasmine just plain is not.
Marking Engine
Casio LCS-130
Processor
WEITEK XL-8200, a 32-bit, RISC architecture, raster image processor.
(I beleive I heard that it operates at 4 MHz?????)
Memory
Memory
1.5 Meg ROM, 3 Meg RAM
INTERFACES
Appletalk, RS-232, and centronics parallel
SIZE
15.7"W x 13.4"D x 9.1"h (35.2 lbs)
Fonts
Bitstream Dutch (times equivalent) (how close??? not sure)
Bitstream Swiss (Helvetica)
Courrier
Symbol
ITC Avante Garde Gothic
ITC Bookman
New Cent. Schoolbook
Bitstream Swiss Narrow (you guess it...New Helivitica Narrow)
Zaph Calligraphic (Palatino)
ITC Zaph Chancery
ITC ZAPH Dingbats
Printing Protocal
PostScript-compatable set (how compatable???? I just don't know)
Other
Allows downloadable fonts, says solid blacks (don't all print manufacturers?)
I have sent back for some sample printouts, but have not heard anything yet,
also do not know if it needs its own driver, or uses apples. (possible
incompatabilities in the future)
I will relay more information as I find it.
Brian Klaas
Bklaas%ch3%sc.intel.COM
BKLAAS%CH3%sc.INTEL.COM@relay.cs.NET
Disclaimer: No one beleives what I say anyway, so why should you?
------------------------------
Date: 13 Mar 89 10:57 EDT
From: Joe_Murphy.CAC.CAC@a.darpa.mil
Subject: Mac II Error Codes
Is there a reference for the error codes that appear when you get the
sad Mac icon on a Mac II? They are in hex and the ones on the Mac II are
different from the older Macs. Also, on the older Macs you could do a
memory test by pushing the interrupt button before it booted. On the Mac
II when you does this it only beeps (actually it kind of plays a little
song). I cannot find a reference to these in Inside Mac or the Macintosh
Hardware Reference Guide.
Help Please!
Joe Murphy
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 89 12:58:53 pst
From: tomc@pdx.MENTOR.COM (Tom Carstensen)
Subject: Preditor 1.0 Demo
Preditor 1.0 is the complete programming editor for the Macintosh.
Some of its main features are: Tags (finds routine and type definiions)
True Rectangular Editing, Text Collapsing, Macros, Unlimited Undo/Redo,
integrated with MPW (marks and document positioning), 6 language support
(bolds reserved words, understands comment and quote delimeters, etc).
Grep-like searching, Complete tab support (example: convert all tabs except
those in comments), Excellent window management w/ Multifinder, and more.
Preditor is scheduled to be commerically released Febrary 17, 1989.
Preditor 1.0 Demo, Evatac Software, Copyright 1988,89.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/preditor.hqx; 150K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 09:00 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PrintField xcmd
Greetings,
Has anyone out there gotten the PrintField xcmd (from Kevin Calhoun?) to print
more than one page? We are trying to use it to print a lengthy field to
AppleTalk ImageWriters. It prints a full page (if the field is that long) and
then stops. It exhibits the same behavior printing to the LaserWriter and
regular (direct connect) imagewriter.
I have also tried a printfield xcmd from Mark Scherfling which allows font,
size, and attribute specification, but it doesn't work at all (with AppleTalked
ImageWriters).
Any Idea?
Thanks,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 10:25 EST
From: "Thomas R. Blake" <TBLAKE@bingvaxb.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Soft Step
Folks,
A couple of weeks ago, I asked for information on the Soft Step memory
upgrades. I got a number of requests for any information I received.
Well, I received no information. (Sorry).
Tom Blake
P.S. For those who may have missed the original message, Soft Step is a line of
memory upgrades which consist of SIMM's with 1 or More SIMM sockets built on to
them so that upgraders need not throw out their original chips. I.E. one
product comes with .75M worth of RAM. You put you .25M SIMM onto this SIMM,
and it becomes a 1M SIMM.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 09:28:09 CST
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Sound manager
Hello, I'm passing this question along for a client of mine. He would
like to see some C source code that utilizes the soundmanager toolbox
routine. We would appreciate it if someone could send, or direct me to,
some sample code. Thanks,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=---> CB Lih <---= "Picked up for questioning."
Macintosh Support
BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905
US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas
155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 11:20:06 EST
From: Richard Muller <rlm@camp.hampshire.edu>
Subject: SU-Mac/IP and /MH
Do these packages work for Macs connected to Unix mail hosts via
a Kinetics FastPath box? Other LocalTalk/EtherNet boxes?
Richard Muller
Hampshire College
Amherst MA 01002
rmuller%hampvms.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
rlm@camp.hampshire.edu
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 89 23:52:59 EST
From: Jordan Hayes <jordan@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Transferring 1-2-3 files to a mac (WKS format?) [questions about excel]
Hi,
I have a MacIIx with a PC-5.25" drive, and i'm able, using Apple File
Exchange to read and write files of a few formats, but I can't seem to
get WKS files to work in Excel. Every reference I have seen to this
says that Excel "knows how" to read WKS files, and indeed it can
*write* to that format, but the Open File dialog box does not display
WKS files I copy over from my PC. Is there a problem with using the
"default translator" in AFE for WKS files? Is there a special
translator for this? Is it available PD? Am I just doing something
stupid?
Thanks.
/jordan
Jordan Hayes
CitiCorp, NA
(guest of Columbia University)
------------------------------
Date: 12 Mar 1989 04:32 EST
From: mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu
Subject: WindowList 1.21
WindowList is an INIT that allows the user to pop up a menu of open windows
by command-clicking in the title of the current window. This allows for
easy access to windows that are totally obscured by windows in front of it.
WindowList carries a Shareware price tag of $5.
-- Dean Yu,
Author
[Archived as /info-mac/init/windowlist.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 89 22:25:08 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Wingz unsmooth contour charts
Does anybody know how to get completely unsmoothed contour charts in
Wingz? I have tried to select the object/chart info command and
unchecking smooth, but it still seems to do some kind of interpolation
of the values. A related issue is that the legend contains patterns
for a continuous range of values while my data only has three discreete
values.
I want a contour chart which retains one square for each point in the original
data.
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 17:00:28 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Wingz user interface problems (long)
I bought Wingz a few days ago and discovered the following user interface
problem while trying out the program:
I had generated a bar chart and tried to change the scale of an axis:
Select the axis and choose the Axes>Scale Info... command from the
Graph menu. Unfortunately I entered some erroneous numbers into the
resulting dialog box which meant that upon clicking OK, my chart
disappeared and was replaced with the error message
Scale min must be < max.
This message is fine in itself (precise, not condemning of the
user error, and almost constructive) but unfortunately
it overpaints the entire graph area. Now, if I had immediately
reissued the Graph>Axes>Scale Info... menu command, my axis would
still have been selected and I would have been able to change the
scale min value. However (like the stupid user I am) I panicked
and clicked elsewhere first before going to the menu. This meant
that the axis was no longer selected and therefore could not
be changed. And since the error message overpaints the entire
graph area, I could not click on the axis to select it...
As a result, I was now in a user interface deadlock, where I could
not select the axis to remove the error before the error had already
been removed; but at the same time I could not remove the error
without selecting the axis first.
Another problem is not so much a user interface problem for the
interactive user of Wingz as is is a user interface problem for the
"user" of the information generated by Wingz (e.g. a reader of output
>From the program).
The problem is that you can generate graphs containing several pie
charts which are then scaled relative to the size of the values
they represent. All very nice until you realize that the scaling is
done by making the *radius* of the circles proportional to the underlying
values rather than making the *areas* of the circles proportional to
those values.
Of course anybody with a minimum understanding of geometry will immediately
realize that this means that the areas of the pie charts are proportional
to the *square* of the underlying values. Usually it is the
area of a circle which is used to estimate its "worth" by eye
(just consider how you would estimate how many people could be served
>From a real pie) and this again means that the graphs generated by
Wingz can be misleading for the casual, non-mathematician viewer.
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Today's Topics:
'Sad Mac' codes defined (long)
1-2-3 files to EXCEL using AFE
Answers to Home Stacks, Multi-Launching, and Switch-Launching
ApplicationMenu 3.4
Daylight Savings Time
Finder Setup Help
HyperCard/Oracle programming comments
Hypercard problems
Info-Mac Digest V7 #50 (RESEND)
Request for info: multi-user accounting packages for Universities
TransSkel with Lighspeed C 3.01
Two Pascal Questions...
WKS to Excel
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 11:15 EST
From: <CHRIS%FANDM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Chris Iverson)
Subject: 'Sad Mac' codes defined (long)
The following is exerpted from an article that originally appeared in "Apple
Direct" magazine.
> On the old ROMS:
When you hit the interrupt button on the side of your Macintosh during the
boot process, you should get a sad Mac icon with 0F 000D and some dots cycling
under the icon to indicate that the Macintosh is performing a memory test. \
This numeric code is in two parts: The firsttwo characters are the "class code"
and the next four are the "subclass code". The class code tells what part of
the diagnostic program found the error, and the subclass code tells what the
error is. In the case of a bad RAM chip, the subclass identifies the bad chip.
> On the new ROMs: The sad Mac error codes are changed to incorporate
additional power for testing and to support a 32-bit world. Generally, the
same codes are used...but they are displayed differently.
The traditional Mac error codes are dislayed as follows:
0F0003
Where "F" indicates an exception occurred, and "3" indicates an illegal
instruction occurred. On the SE and II family, the display would appear:
0000000F
00000003
The new power-on error codes have the following format:
XXXXYYYY
ZZZZZZZZ
Where XXXX is the internal test manager state information (ignore this), YYYY
contains codes that indicate either an exception code or the test number for a
power-on test failure. The ZZZZZZZZ code contains additional failure info to
help track down the problem.
YYYY error codes:
$0001: ROM checksum test failed. Ignore Z field.
$0002: First small chunk of RAM tested failed. Z field indicates which RAM
bit(s) failed. This chunk of RAM is always in bank B.
Example: $AABBCCDD
AA=8-bit mask for bits 31-24
BB=8-bit mask for bits 23-16
CC=8-bit mask for bits 15-8
DD=8-bit mask for bits 7-0
$0003: RAM test failed while testing bank B, after passing the chunk tested for
$0002. Z field indicates which bits failed, as in code $0002.
$0004: RAM test failed while testing bank A. Z field same as for $0002.
$0005: RAM external addressing test failed. Z field indicates the failed
address line.
$0006: Unable to properly address the VIA1 chip. Ignore Z field.
$0007: Unable to properly address the VIA2 chip (Mac II only). Ignore Z field.
$0008: Unable to properly address the Front Desk Bus. Ignore Z field.
$0009: Unable to properly address the MMU. Ignore Z field.
$000A: Unable to properly address NuBus. Ignore Z field.
$000B: Unable to properly address SCSI chip. Ignore Z field.
$000C: Unable to properly address the IWM chip. Ignore Z field.
$000D: Unable to properly address the SCC chip. Ignore Z field.
$000E: Failed Data Bus test. Z field indicates bad bit(s) as a 32-bit mask for
bits 0-31. This error may indicate a bad SIMM or data bus failure.
$000F: Reserved for Macintosh compatibility.
$FFxx: A 680__ exception occurred during power-on testing. The xx indicates
the exception:
$01 Bus error
$02 Address error
$03 Illegal instruction error
$04 Zero Divide
$05 Check Instruction
$06 cpTrapCC, Trap CC, Trap V
$07 Privelege Violation
$08 Trace
$09 Line A\
$0A Line F (the backslash on the previous line is a typo)
$0B Unassigned
$0C CP protocol violation
$0D Format exception
$0E Spurious interrupt
$0F Trap 0-15 exception
$10 Interrupt Level 1
$11 Interrupt level 2
$12 Interrupt level 3
$13 Interrupt level 4
$14 Interrupt level 5
$15 Interrupt level 6
$16 Interrupt level 7
$17 FPCP BRA orSET on unordered condition
$18 FPCP inexact result
$19 FPCP divide by zero
$1A FPCP underflow
$1B FPCP operand error
$1C FPCP overflow
$1D FPCP signalling NAN
$1E PMMU configuration
$1F PMMU illegal operation
$20 PMMU access level violation
There you have it folks: Everything you always wanted to know about sad Mac
error codes, but didn't want to be bored to death reading about. I hope this
is helpful.
Chris Iverson
F&M Tech Support
Disclaimer: I'm just a grunt, don't take me seriously...
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 8:42:35 EST
From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <sussmann@pica.army.mil>
Subject: 1-2-3 files to EXCEL using AFE
>I have a MacIIx with a PC-5.25" drive, and i'm able, using Apple File
>Exchange to read and write files of a few formats, but I can't seem to
>get WKS files to work in Excel. Every reference I have seen to this
>says that Excel "knows how" to read WKS files, and indeed it can
>*write* to that format, but the Open File dialog box does not display
>WKS files I copy over from my PC. Is there a problem with using the
>"default translator" in AFE for WKS files? Is there a special
>translator for this? Is it available PD? Am I just doing something
>stupid?
There is a "trick" that must be performed before Excel can
recognize WKS files. Use your favorite utility to change the
file type of the converted file to "TEXT". Then Excel can
"see" it. AFE makes it "xbin" (or something like that). When
you open the document, EXCEL will read the header and figure
out that it is a WKS and convert it for you. It would be
nice if there was an option in AFE to do this for you. The
casual user will probably never figure out what is going
wrong. I know, it took me two weeks to get it to work.
Ken
U.S. Army Production Base Modernization Activity
Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 09:37 CST
From: "Kevin W. Mullet, UNT Academic Computing Services" <KEV@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Subject: Answers to Home Stacks, Multi-Launching, and Switch-Launching
Thanks to all who replied to my recent query on Info-Mac.
To recap, I'm supervisor of a Novell 2.15 network which has
several 2-floppy SEs as nodes in our academic lab. I needed
a good way to use all the fonts and DAs we have available. The
problem I had was that I couldn't make the network disk a
startup disk (thus effectively precluding remote boot or switch-
launching) and it's out of the question for us to add hard disks
to our Macs to enable us to store the fonts and DAs locally.
I need to store them on the network.
Thanks to the following people for either providing answers, or
showing interest in my dilemma. If I miss anyone, it's
unintentional.
* Contributers *
Aron Roberts, Univ. of California at Berkeley
Tim Dierks, Notre Dame
Kurt Christensen Texas Instruments Corp.
Michael Niehaus Ball State University
Rand P. Hall Merrimack College
Nicholas L. Hayes Drake University
Aron Rogerts University of California at Burkeley
Bill Lipa Info Mac Moderator
* Questions & Answers *
1: HOME STACKS -- I wanted to know what it was that designated
a hypercard stack as a HOME stack. I also wanted to know
how to make Hypercard multilaunchable (useable by more than
one person concurrently on a network).
"[...] version 1.2.1 and later versions of
Hypercard CAN multilaunch from a network. The
trick is to set the shared bit, using ResEdit, of
Hypercard, then placing it and the Home Stack into
a non-writeable folder. Then you can launch
Hypercard as many times as you want."
"[...] one needs to set the "can't modify stack"
property for these [shared version 1.2 or greater]
stacks."
"[...] There's nothing special about the "Home"
stack except its name. [...]"
2: MULTI-LAUNCHING -- I wanted to know, in general, how to
make applications multi-launchable on a network.
"[with older versions of ResEdit] a 'Cached' bit needs
to be set [in the application you want to
multilaunch]. With newer versions of ResEdit, you
need to click the 'Shared' bit."
"In current versions of ResEdit, it is the SHARED bit,
not the CACHED bit which controls whether or not the
Finder will allow you to launch more than once. A
program which does not write to itself nor use a
temporary file with a hard-wired name is a good
candidate for this bit-switching trick. Be sure your
license allows the software to be used by more than
one person at a time before turning this bit on."
"It's also a good idea to be legal :-). We've
actually gone out and baught 40 copies of our
applications for out 40 public Macs."
3: SWITCH-LAUNCHING -- Since our two-floppy Macs didn't have
the disk space available to use all the laser fonts we have
available by putting them on their individual startup
disks, I asked how to do this, assumedly by switch-
launching on the network.
"You might want to try getting Font/DA Juggler+
from AlSoft. They make multi-user versions that
would enable a local system to use fonts that are
kept on a remote file server. [...]"
**** "[...] Using the Font/DA Mover, you can load fonts
and DA's directly into application files. You
have to open the application from inside the
Font/DA Mover. " (I used this solution.)
I hope this message is helpful enough to justify its length.
Thanks again to all who replied.
-Kevin Mullet
Microcomputer Support,
University of North Texas Academic Computing Services
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 16:19:05 -0800
From: lsr@apple.com
Subject: ApplicationMenu 3.4
Enclosed in ApplicationMenu 3.4, which should replace version 3.3 in the
archives (and on users' machines). This version fixes a bug which could
cause a crash if you try to activate ApplicationMenu when there are no menus
in the menu bar.
(This came up in the context of launching an application under MultiFinder
when there wasn't enough RAM for the app's recommended partition size. When
the Finder puts up its alert, there sometimes aren't any menus in the menu
bar.)
If you have version 3.3 of ApplicationMenu you can preserve all your current
settings by dragging version 3.4 to your hard disk, and before rebooting,
opening the Control Panel and selecting ApplicationMenu. Then reboot so
that the new code can install itself.
Sorry for the confusion.
Larry Rosenstein
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/applicationmenu-34.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 11:08 EST
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BKNLVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings 1.0 is a Control Panel Device that will allow your Macintosh
to set its own clock forward or backward an hour at the appropriate times of
the year, automatically. It's FreeWare. The StuffIt archive contains a short
MacWrite document and the "Daylight" Control Panel document/INIT. Enjoy!
Greg Smith <Smith@Bucknell.Bitnet>
Systems Analyst
Bucknell Computer Services
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
(717) 524-1801
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/daylight-savings.hqx; 22K]
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Date: 15 Mar 89 07:09:00 EST
From: "ROBERT MCCOWAN" <mccowan@ccf3.nrl.navy.mil>
Subject: Finder Setup Help
Some time ago, a tip was given in the Digest on setting up
the finder so that double-clicking on a window's title bar
brought forward the window one level higher in the
hierarchy. Unfortunately, when upgrading my system, I
changed that setting. I can't recall what I needed to do
change to enable this feature, and would appreciate any help
with my memory . I'm pretty sure that ResEdit was involved.
This would be a good tip for the Tips directory in the
archives.
Thanks
Bob McCowan MCCOWAN@NRL.ARPA
------------------------------
Date: 14 Mar 89 09:24 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HyperCard/Oracle programming comments
We currently use Oracle/VMS for a test patient information database which will
eventually be shared (in one fashion or another) over an Ethernet with several
Mac IIs and a IIx. We have a copy of the Network version of Oracle/Mac to
play with, to see how/how well it will work with the VMS version and with other
products we want to use in the same environment. Since we are new Mac
adopters, and fairly new Oracle adopters, we have some questions! Some of
these are really HyperCard/HyperTalk-specific, I think, and others are Oracle-
specific. Anyone with info/comments on any of these? AdvTHANKSance!
1) Will applications we produce in Oracle/Mac-via-HyperTalk/HyperCard be
compatible with SuperCard?
2) Since HyperCard itself only has ONE WINDOW, and since we're running on a
Mac II with the bigger-than-an-SE screen, can we use XCMDs of our own or
somebody else's devising to open up additional windows on the screen? I
recognize this may make the HyperCard window "inactive" while "our" window
is open...
3) Oracle/Mac doesn't have much graphing capability to speak of, either by
itself or as part of the HyperCard functionality. Can we/how easily can
we move data out of an Oracle database into another product for graphing?
Can this be done through HyperCard itself, a la question #2 above?
4) Oracle/VMS (don't know about Oracle/Mac) has LONG text fields. Don't know
but I suspect they're NOT longer in the Mac version than a TextEdit field
can handle--at least, I hope not. Question is this: If we pour text from
the VMS version down into the Mac/HyperCard version, will it go into a
HyperCard TextEdit window within the card boundary properly, e.g., scroll-
able text? We have had problems on other platforms with having to manage
scrolling of text ourselves (more like what you'd have to do at the Mac
interface level--how much has Oracle/HyperCard done for us?)
5) What third-generation languages, besides "C", can you precompile on the
Mac for inclusion in Oracle/Mac programs? The manual seems to indicate
they have only their "Pro-C" compiler. Having used neither very extensive-
ly, we kind of lean to LSP (and then to LSC), which we used in DevEd 102
classes.
We're going to be asking these and lots of other questions of our Oracle reps,
as well, so I can report back to the net if anyone is interested.
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or WB8VNV (NTS)
===============================================================================
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'!
===============================================================================
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Date: 10 March 1989 19:31:42 CST
From: <PUDAITE@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Hypercard problems
"Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa> reports that HyperCard 1.2.2
seems to have fixed sound problems he encountered. However, I still
get crackling or whining sounds when running my MacBlitz stack with
HyperCard 1.2.2 on Mac II and Mac IIx (no problems on Mac+). I have
also had XCMDs crash when using callbacks that invoke HyperCard's
"play" command, even very short sounds like 'play click "gt"', if the
sounds are played in quick succession.
Paul R. Pudaite
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 15:22:43 CDT
From: "James N. Bradley" <ACSH%UHUPVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #50 (RESEND)
RE Soft-Step
I called them after seeing an ad. They don't recommend the .75 SIMM
because they bought it during the RAM crisis and it costs too much.
Other solutions:
They'll sell you a 1MB adapter that will allow you to plug 4 256K's in plus
3 1Mb SIMMS for $855
They'll sell you 4 of the 1MB adapters for a Macintosh II for $195
They'll sell you 4 of the 1MB adapters for a Macintosh SE for $169 but
these require low-profile SIMMS. There were one or two other configurations
available but I'm afraid my notes aren't very good. They advertise regularly
in most Macintosh trade rags so you'll have to watch for their 800 number
since I lost it.
Jim
Acknowledge-To: <ACSH@UHUPVM1>
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Date: 14 Mar 89 22:31:00 EST
From: hamm@biovax.rutgers.edu
Subject: Request for info: multi-user accounting packages for Universities
Wanted: Multi-user accounting software for University research labs
We are looking for information about software to support non-profit and
grant management functions in a University setting. We're interested in
any such software which will run on PCs, Macintoshes, microvaxes, unix
boxes or some combination of these. The most critical requirement is that
the software support *multiple* concurrent users (at least 6, preferably
open-ended), either over a network or via async terminal connections. We
have seen numerous nice single-user packages, but these no longer suffice
for our needs.
The shopping list of functions include support of custom Purchase Order
formats, vendor database support, complete line-item tracking, payroll
committments and projections, flexible reporting, etc. -- all consistent
with accounting for multiple principle investigators with multiple funding
sources.
I'd appreciate any and all information on products, experiences,
or recommendations. Please e-mail directly to me, as I'm not on all the
lists I'm mailing this too.
Thanks,
Greg
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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 19:57:18 EST
From: FULIGIN%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: TransSkel with Lighspeed C 3.01
Howdy,
I recently downloaded TransSkel for Lightspeed C, and it looks great,
but when I try to build one of the example applications (MiniSkel in
particular, but it seems to happen for all of them), I get a link error to
the effect of 'qd_ not found'. Is this an incompatibility with the latest
version of LightSpeed C (3.01p whatever-the-last-patch-that-was-posted-was),
or am I missing something (entirely possible - I'm new to mac programming)?
Is there a simple solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Peter Lee
Fuligin@UMass.BITNet or
lee@cs.umass.edu
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 14:38:23 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Two Pascal Questions...
I'm somewhat of a beginner at programming the Mac (using Turbo
Pascal) and have a few questions.
1. Two programs I'm writing need to display data in what is
essentially a columnar format. After looking through Inside
Macintosh (volume IV in particular), I thought that using the
List Manager would be an easy way to get the data to line up
AND handle all the scrolling needed (an added plus for me, see
problem 2 below).
I call the appropriate List routines and indicate that I want
it to display the vertical and horizontal scroll bars. All of
the text is inserted into the individual cells. When the window
is drawn, the scroll bars show up and the thumbs move up and
down, but no text shows up. I've checked all the obvious
things such as making sure the Quickdraw pen is active and down,
that LUpdate knows to update the window, etc. to no avail.
Does anyone have any ideas on getting this to work? Is there
something I'm overlooking? Given that Borland hasn't really
done anything with Turbo Pascal for the Mac since 1987, I would
have no problems believing that this is in some way due to
Turbo not being fully aware of all the List manager routines.
2) One of the most puzzling areas for me in programming the Mac
involves windows and handling update events. Are there any
books available which do a respectable job explaining how to
handle these areas? Does anyone have some clearly annotated
source code that demonstrates good window management?
I will appreciate any and all comments or suggestions on either of
these topics. Replies may be sent directly to me or back to the
list (I have no preference...) THANKS
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 08:17 EDT
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: WKS to Excel
We had the same problem. The solution is to change the converted file's
filetype to TEXT. Then Excel will "see" it and open it just fine. There
are several DA's and programs that will let you do this.
Jeff
uucp: ...rutgers!yale!slb-sdr!shulman
CSNet: SHULMAN@SDR.SLB.COM
Delphi: JEFFS
GEnie: KILROY
CIS: 76136,667
MCI Mail: KILROY
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 16 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 52
Today's Topics:
Bouncing ball demo
getting started in LSC--help!
GIF specifications
I need a scripting language
Need AppleShare Administrators book
New mailserver command
Novell vs. MacJanet
Osaka 16L1 font in KanjiTalk v2.0
Query on Mac CPU Upgrades
Remember 1.3
Request for info
System error 2; Network question
Thunderscan resolution
Window cdev
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 15:05:29 -0600
From: Charles J Reiman <cjr20670@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Bouncing ball demo
I have this program I've written that I would like to have placed in info-mac
at stanford. It's a simple graphics demo that is sort of a crazy cross
between a bouncing ball and a physics lecture. Please give it a try and post
it. If you do post it, let me know so I can be sure I'm doing this sumbission
correctly.
Thanks! Charlie Reiman cjr20670@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/bouncing-ball-demo.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Thursday, 16 March 1989 9:29am
From: ZODA537@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu (J.A.HAYES)
Subject: getting started in LSC--help!
Hello, net. We (spouse & I) have a copy (legal) of Lightspeed
C and I know diddly about it. My wife is trying to teach
herself C in this language, is good in Hypercard, and I'm
a fair LSPascal programmer, but we're having trouble
getting started. Can anybody point us to a tutorial in
electronic or printed form that would get us through the
basics of programming *in a Lightspeed C environment*?
I'm afraid the manual that comes with the compiler is
just not very helpful as it assumes you know how to program
in the first place, while other C manuals assume you know
how to use your C compiler. Any input would be appreciated.
I suspect this is not of general interest (though who knows?)
so you could mail directly to me unless you want to make a
more widely-read plug. If I get sufficient responses I'll
summarize to the net. Gracias!
Josh Hayes, Zoology, University of Texas at Austin
zoda537@uta3081.bitnet
zoda537@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 10:37:59 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GIF specifications
A few weeks ago, I asked for someone to send me the Graphics Interchange
Format (GIF) specifications. The replys were mixed.... half of the people had
the specs, and the other half wanted a copy, so it seems that the Archive
is a good place for it.
I also recieved some 'C' source code to do the encoding and decoding,
but it is not specifically for the Mac. If there is sufficient demand,
I could also send the code to Info-Mac.
For all the people that responded, thanks for your interest and help.
-Reed
SXWRR@ALASKA (BITNET)
SXWRR@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Internet)
[Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/gif-format.txt; 32K]
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 21:24 CST
From: "Kevin W. Mullet, UNT Academic Computing Services" <KEV@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Subject: I need a scripting language
I need to find a program.
I'm writing a tutorial for Aldus PageMaker that is essentially
a HyperCard Stack that I occasionally shell out of to demo and
test the user on certain features of PageMaker.
I need to find a program that will allow me to shell out of
HyperCard and run controlled scripts of actions in PageMaker,
occasionally polling the user and performing logical constructs
based on user replies and (if possible) the contents of the
screen.
I vaguely remember reading about such an animal in a fairly
recent magazine, but I'll be dashed it I can find it. So this
is why I'm polling the experience of the Net. Has anyone ever
seen, heard, or used such a thing?
Please send all replies to me. I'll summarize them and mail
them to the list.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin Mullet
University of North Texas
Microcomputer Support
BITNET: KEV@UNTVAX
INTERNET: KEV@VAXA.ACS.UNT.EDU
THENET: NTVAXA::KEV
StaticNet: (817) 5652316
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Date: 16 Mar 89 07:19:06 GMT
From: zz1he%sdcc19@ucsd.edu (Heather Ebey)
Subject: Need AppleShare Administrators book
I am installing AppleShare 2.0.1. Though the books that come with it
cover all the basics, they don't go into the nitty/gritties of how
to really optimize AppleShare or short cuts for entering and deleting
500-2000 users each quarter.
I can't seem to find a book, something like Tips and Tricks of
AppleShare Administration. Does such a book exist? I checked both
APDA and Tech Alliance. I didn't see anything in their catalogs.
Please e-mail me the title/author of any book you know of along these
lines.
Thank you.
-----------hebey@ucsd (Internet, Bitnet, UUCP )-------------
Heather Ebey, Micro Support Voice: (619) 534-2448
UCSD, Academic Computing Center, C-010, La Jolla, CA. 92093
-------------All views expressed are my own-----------------
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 12:40:27 CST
From: "Mark R. Williamson" <MARK%RICE@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: New mailserver command
[Here's a message from the maintainer of the Info-Mac archive server
for Bitnet at Rice.]
If you haven't tried it yet, you might try the new $MACARCH DIR
command, which allows you to get just a portion of the contents listing
as a smaller file which should traverse the network faster than the full
$MACARCH CONTENTS file. "$MACARCH DIR" alone returns a list of the top
level Info-Mac archive directory (mostly just subdirectory names), while
"$MACARCH DIR INIT" for example will return just the file names in the
subdirectory named INIT. At the moment, this only works for a single
level, so DIR ART includes some ART/GIF/blah files and DIR ART/GIF is an
error, but I hope to extend it to arbitrary subdirectories.
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 22:05:48 EST
From: Jim Streb <STREB%YORKVM2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Novell vs. MacJanet
We are currently planning a mac lab with 25 machines and would like to hear
>From any MacJanet or Novell Netware 2.15 users. If anyone out there has
ANY experience, good or bad, with either product, please address your
comments to me. I will post summaries to the list.
Some things to keep in mind when comparing network software: how fast
does the network seem, how many workstations are you running, what type of
application software are you using, what physical media are you using, e.g.,
are you using Ethernet, Applenet, phonenet, etc.
Thanks in advance.
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 14:04:06 GMT
From: mcvax!cs.aber.ac.uk!cho@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Osaka 16L1 font in KanjiTalk v2.0
I am attempting to install KanjiTalk 2.0 on an English, twin 800k, 1Mb, Mac Plus.
Both the font disk and system disk are inserted and the following warning
message (in Kana) appears 'Osaka16L1 ga isosuto dekimasen deshita' (I think)
Any ideas what has happened ? I try running macDraw( v1.9.5) and the
font menu thinks that points 9,12,18 and 24 in Osaka and Kyoto font are resident,
but 18 and 24 point KanjiKana seem hopelessly chunky :-(
Chris Orgill, tel +44 970 623111 x3227
Computer Science Department, cho%cs.aber.ac.uk@uunet.uu.net (ARPA)
University College of Wales, cho@uk.ac.aber.cs (JANET)
Aberystwyth, Dyfed, United Kingdom. SY23 3BZ.
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Date: 15 Mar 89 22:47:00 EST
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nbs.gov>
Subject: Query on Mac CPU Upgrades
In the days prior to the Mac II there were a few of us who went out and got
68020 cpu "bolt-ons" for the Mac+. This is easier on the SE and even easier on
the Mac II (where you go for higher clock or 68030).
I am interested in doing a survey of who uses what 3rd party cpu upgrades, in
what machines, how well they perform, etc. I use a Novy Systems 68020, so I
am interested in hearing the experiences of others. The large recent review
articles in MacUser and MacWorld make it sound like the cpu upgrade board
business is thriving. Is this the case?
If I get enough responses, I will summarize back to info-mac.
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 16:36:02 -0500
From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Subject: Remember 1.3
Enclosed is Remember 1.3. New features include color support and
buttons to advance calendar month and year. Enjoy!
Ken Hancock '90 | BITNET/UUCP/
Personal Computing Ctr Consultant | INTERNET: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
DISCLAIMER? I don't get paid enough to worry about disclaimers.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/remember-13.hqx; 89K]
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 09:34:30 EST
From: abm@mbunix.mitre.org
Subject: Request for info
I'm trying to locate some educational software that will teach/drill basic
english grammar to high school level kids. Preference is for MAC+ but might
be able to use AppleII.
Thanks in advance
Alex Murphy
abm@mbunix.mitre.org
(617) 271-2284
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Date: 16 Mar 89 01:20:00 CST
From: "Sharbutt, Albert" <z3als@ttacs1.ttu.edu>
Subject: System error 2; Network question
I have two questions: first, I have had trouble with applications quitting
and generating error number 2 (odd address). The problem usually occurs when
launching an application, but also happens when pasting or other operations.
I switched from system tools 5.0 to 6.0.2, but that didn't correct the problem.
I also tried removing inits and cdevs. It doesn't seem to matter what program
is run or whether multifinder is on. Has anyone else had the same problem?
What can be done to fix it?
Second, I have been trying to contact a friend who is connected to a distant
DECnet. She is able to send mail to me on on DECnet to an InterNet gateway.
Since her system is not on InterNet or BITnet, it seems that any mail I send
to her would need to be sent via InterNet or BITnet to a gateway, then send
on via DECnet, but I have been unable to do this. Are gateways truly one-way,
or is there a way to get a message through?
Thanks for your help...
BITnet: Z3ALS@TTACS1
InterNet: Z3ALS@TTACS.TTU.EDU
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 22:39 CST
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Thunderscan resolution
We use Thunderscan quite heavily, and for its price it gives us amazingly
competent results. The scanning resolution can be varied by changing the
magnification of the image being scanned. Magnification ranges up to 800%,
but the manual cautions that beyond 400% Thunderscan is not really reading
any more detail in the image, just interpolating. At any rate, scanning at
400% and printing at 25% magnification still works out to a respectable 288
dots (*samples* would be more appropriate) per inch spatial resolution. And
you also get 5 bits of gray-scale resolution (32 grays).
The scanned image can be saved in Thunderscan's own SCAN format (which can
be imported directly into such programs as ImageStudio), TIFF, and EPSF. If
gray-scale information is not important, and all you need is a bitmap, then
also PNTG (MacPaint) and PICT formats are available. As far as I could de-
termine, PICT2 is not supported -- though it might be because we have it
hooked up to a MacSE (no Color QuickDraw ROM support).
On the down side:
- Sloooow: a full page at 400% magnification could easily tie up your Image-
Writer for the better part of an hour. There's no workaround -- the limit is
in the mechanics of the printer.
- Again because of all the mechanical going-ons, there are minor mis-
alignments of scanlines. Also, you have to nurse the printer-turned-scanner
for the first few lines until it settles down and you are satisfied that it
is not pouring scrambled garbage into the Mac. The "edge sensing" 1/2 inch
wide white stripe on the LEFT is critical to proper operations, and works best
if it is directly incorporated into the image to be scanned. Other limitations
on image size are due to the need to get the top of the picture underneath the
paper bail (approx.1" margin, TOP), the need to have the paper firmly pressed
against the platen until the end of the scan (1/2" ca., BOTTOM); and TS's
penchant for scrambling the image if it is made to scan the entire width of
the sheet of paper (1/2" ca., RIGHT). The manual says that TS will also work
with a wide-carriage ImageWriter, but I haven't had a chance to verify that
claim.
- Apple turned the cards several times on TS with respect to its power require-
ments. In the pre-Plus Macs, the serial ports provided enough power on one of
the pins to power TS. That was eliminated from subsequent Macintosh models,
and TS therefore came up with an ungainly contraption (included in the price
of purchase) which draws power from the external drive port (the port is still
available for its intended purpose -- connecting floppy drives). Since such a
port is missing from the II and IIx, to use TS with those Macs you need an
extra-cost power accessory (that's why we have our TS plugged into an SE). I
have no idea, as of this writing, how things might once again change with
the IIcx external drive port.
- I hoped that the scanner would work through our ImageWriter's AppleTalk card
interface, and be visible across the network. Nice try, but... I guess it
would have been asking too much from such a simple thing.
- We've had problems scanning at 400% and saving as SCAN. ImageStudio will not
interpret the files properly. However, if the same image is saved as TIFF there
are no problems -- and I couldn't determine who's to blame, TS or ImageStudio.
Hope all this helps. Best regards.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 11:43 PST
From: "Vladimir Ivanovic 415.423.7786" <IVANOVIC%VAXR@circus.llnl.gov>
Subject: Window cdev
When I use the cdev Window, a combination cdev-INIT which puts a
'Window' item in the menu bar of every application, my mouse pointer
blinks. My first question is: Is this a Good Thing? or a Bad Thing? or
an Irrelevant Thing? Is someone polling something which causes the
mouse pointer to blink?
My second question (prompted by the polling above) is: Has anyone else
noticed that the Mac slows down whenever (the demo version of ) Comment
2.0 is installed? I assume that since some comments are potentially
deliverable at a certain time, that Comment polls the clock to find out
when to deliver a reminder. Is there another reason why things slow
down? I've found that typing in Word 3.01 is unacceptably slow with
Comment installed, hence I haven't bought the real version.
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From: "Mike Hewett" <hewett@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
To: su-macintosh@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: 2 Mac Problems
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1) Has anyone had problems setting up a dual-monitor system? I am
working with a system that has a 12" Apple B/W monitor and a 24"
Moniterm Viking monitor. I can use either monitor, but if I try
to use both, the mouse freezes up. I've tried resetting the parameter
RAM and rebuilding the desktop. Any ideas?
2) I have a font called 'Calligraphy' installed in my System file, and
it works fine in MS Word. But in MacDraw and PageMaker, the characters
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #53
To: info-mac-list@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Info-Mac Digest Fri, 17 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 53
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Need AppleShare Administrators book
New electronic music list
nVIR A and B
request for info
Weird MS-Word problem
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1989 16:58:27 PST
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Recently we have received a number of false alarms about viruses in the
archives. In order to reduce the number of such alarms, please observe the
following procedure before reporting a virus:
1. Download Virus-RX (the latest version) from the virus directory. Put it on
a floppy disk and write-protect the floppy. You can be sure that Virus-RX
is free of know viruses because it checks itself for infections and
changes its name to "Please throw me in the Trash" if it finds anything.
2. Download a fresh copy of the file you suspect from sumex. Without running
it, put it on another floppy and write-protect the second floppy.
3. Use Virus-RX to scan the second floppy. If you find an infection, be sure
to let us know about it. If you don't, look elsewhere for sources of
infection before telling us about it.
The only problem with this procedure is that Virus-RX does not detect the
ANTI virus, so if you suspect an ANTI infection you must check the file by
hand with ResEdit or use Virus-Detective.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 11:44:52 MST
From: Jim Howard <KGJHH%ASUACAD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Need AppleShare Administrators book
There really is nothing like that available. Also there is no good way of
entering large numbers of accounts yet. What's more Apple considers the
formats of the Appleshare accounts file proprietary so we cant write an
application to add and delete large numbers of accounts at a time. We also
understand that there is a upper limit to the number of accounts you can
have on an AppleShare server that no one can really determine, but which may
be as low as 2000. I recommend you do what we are doing, look at MacJanet
>From Waterloo Microsystems. It was developed by and at a university which
has to deal with these kind of administrative problems. Apple Computer does
not really care much anymore about educational sites and their problems at
least as far as I am able to determine from their support and responses.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 12:32 EST
From: "Kevin Cole at Gallaudet U. Washington DC" <CADS_COLE%GALLUA.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: New electronic music list
There's a new list for those of you who like to play with synthesizers and
micros. It's been up for about a month now, and I'm helping the moderator get
the word out about it. Here's the info:
EMUSIC-L@AUVM.BITNET (and EMUSIC-D@AUVM.BITNET)
EMUSIC is a complementary pair of lists (EMUSIC-L for undigested mail,
EMUSIC-D for the moderately edited digest) devoted to the discussion of
Electronic Music.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): synthesis methods,
algorithmic composition, psychoacoustics, timbral research, instrument
design, MIDI troubleshooting, new tricks for old machines, musique
concrete, pedagogic methods, performance techniques, reviews of current and
historical musical and technical trends, announcements of events, papers,
homegrown sounds and software.
The EMUSIC-D FILELIST contains the archive of the discussions to date as
well as data files, programs and other materials of interest to the Elec-
tronic Music community.
To add yourself to the list, send the command
SUBSCRIBE EMUSIC-L Your_Full_Name (for undigested mail)
or
SUBSCRIBE EMUSIC-D Your_Full_Name (for digested mail)
via mail to LISTSERV@AUVM.BITNET or LISTSERV%AUVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
(Internet) where Your_Full_Name is your real name (not your userid). To
remove yourself from the list send the command
SIGNOFF EMUSIC-L (or SIGNOFF EMUSIC-D)
Moderator: Eric Harnden <EHARNDEN@AUVM.BITNET>
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 89 18:28:00 PST
From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu
Subject: nVIR A and B
There has been some confusion over exactly what the nVIR A and nVIR B
viruses actually do. In fact, I don't believe the details have ever
been published. I just finished spending a few days researching
the two nVIR viruses. This report presents my findings.
As with all viruses, nVIR A and B replicate. When you run an infected
application on a clean system the infection spreads from the application
to the system file. After rebooting the infection in turn spreads from
the system to other applications, as they are run.
At first nVIR A and B only replicate. When the system file is first
infected a counter is initialized to 1000. The counter is decremented
by 1 each time the system is booted, and it is decremented by 2 each
time an infected application is run.
When the counter reaches 0 nVIR A will sometimes either say "Don't
Panic" (if MacinTalk is installed in the system folder) or beep (if
MacinTalk is not installed in the system folder). This will happen
on a system boot with a probablity of 1/16. It will also happen when
an infected application is launched with a probability of 31/256. In
addition, when an infected application is launched nVIR A may say
"Don't Panic" twice or beep twice, with a probability of 1/256.
When the counter reaches 0 nVIR B will sometimes beep. nVIR B does not
call MacinTalk. The beep will happen on a system boot with a
probability of 1/8. A single beep will happen when an infected
application is launched with a probability of 15/64. A double beep will
happen when an infected application is launched with a probability of
1/64.
I've discovered that it is possible for nVIR A and nVIR B to mate and
sexually reproduce, resulting in new viruses combining parts of their
parents.
For example, if a system is infected with nVIR A, and if an application
infected with nVIR B is run on that system, part of the nVIR B
infection in the application is replaced by part of the nVIR A
infection from the system. The resulting offspring contains parts from
each of its parents, and behaves like nVIR A.
Similarly, if a system is infected with nVIR B, and if an application
infected with nVIR A is run on that system, part of the nVIR A
infection in the application is replaced by part of the nVIR B
infection from the system. The resulting offspring is very similar
to its sibling described in the previous paragraph, except that it has
the opposite "sex" - each part is from the opposite parent. It behaves
like nVIR B.
These offspring are new viruses. If they are taken to a clean system
they will infect that system, which will in turn infect other
applications. The descendents are identical to the original offspring.
I've also investigated some of the possible incestual matings of these
two kinds of children with each other and with their parents. Again,
the result is infections that contain various combinations of parts
>From their parents.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
Applelink: a0173
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 89 09:27 EST
From: Louie@bco-multics.hbi.honeywell.com
Subject: request for info
Are there any users of SuperGlue (from Solutions, Int) &/or OpenIt!
(from TENpoint0) out here?? If so, I would like to hear any comments
you have on these programs (ease of use, usefulness, comparison, etc).
Also, if anybody is familiar with MultiClip (from Olduvai) &/or SmartScrap
(from Solutions, Int) ... I would also appreciate receiving comments from
you, too.
Please send responses directly to me at:
Louie@BCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM
I will send a summary if others are interested. Thanks.
Dan Louie
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 00:02:28 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Weird MS-Word problem
I've experienced a really strange problem when running Microsoft Word
3.02 on an AppleShare network. Sometimes, Word files that once contained
several thousand characters of text are turned into empty files. In
other words, someone creates a Word file on the server (both Word and
the file are on the server) and saves it, and everything is fine. If
that person quits and someone else opens the file from a different
machine on the network, the file is empty -- there's nothing there.
This doesn't happen very often: maybe twice a week, and it just started
recently.
The weird thing is that if I change the file type to "TEXT" and then
open it again in Word, everything is there. All the weird Word
formatting stuff is there too, but the original text can be reconstructed
if necessary.
It seems that Word is somehow corrupting the file when it is saved. I've
never seen anything like this. It could be some strange interaction between
Word and AppleShare. I don't want to use the V-word, but I'll say that
I checked the server with Virus RX v1.4a2, and we have virus protection
software on all the machines on the network.
If anyone has ever seen anything like this, let me know. I haven't
ever seen anything like it.
Incidentally, all the machines on the network run system software
version 6.0.2, and we have Word 3.0.2 and AppleShare 2.0.1.
-Greg
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Greg Brail ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
(401)521-9599 ST601396@brownvm.BITNET
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Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Using a HP Inkjet with a Mac--some questions
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I would like to know a few things about using a HP Inkjet printer with a
Mac (+,SE,II).
(1) Can one print as easily as one can from an Apple LaserWriter?
(2) Is printing from all applications possible with the same printer driver?
(3) Is the HP Inkjet a Postscript printer?
(4) How does the print quality compare with the Apple LWs?
Comments will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 19 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 54
Today's Topics:
Cheap hard disks [Forwarded message]
Disinfectant 1.0
MacDraw 1.9.5 and AppleShare 2.0 Problems
NASA's Computer Virus Video
Password Protecting Folders
Weird MS-Word problem
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 17:40:51 +0100
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Cheap hard disks [Forwarded message]
For those of you who are suffering from a chronic shortage of hard disk
capacity, as well as other interested parties, I would like to announce
what may be the "deal" of the week.
Newbury Data, manufacturer of Newbury Hard Disk Drives, is in the process
of liquidating their current inventory of hard disks. I am informed that
the company is withdrawing from the U.S. market due to the unprofitable
nature of the hard disk business at this time.
I discovered this during my search for a high capacity drive at a
reasonable price, and was directed by an associate to Mike Montgomery of
Newbury Data.
After talking with Mr. Montgomery, it became clear that Newbury desired
to part with their inventory in a most expeditious manner, and as such I
inquired as to whether or not Newbury Data would be willing to deal with
individual customers in order to liquidate their stock.
Mr. Montgomery replied in the affirmative, that they would indeed be
willing to do so, and as such I suggested to him that I post this
article. To that end, the following is a list of the drives in stock and
the price for each:
MODEL # CAPACITY ACCESS INTERFACE PRICE
NDR340 50 mb. 39 ms. ST506 $ 395.00
NDR1085 85 mb. 26 ms. ST506 $ 595.00
NDR1140 140 mb. 25 ms. ST506 $1095.00
NDR2190 190 mb. 28 ms. ST506 $1095.00
NDR3170 170 mb. 28 ms. SCSI $ 895.00
NDR3280 280 mb. 28 ms. SCSI $ 995.00
NDR3380 380 mb. 28 ms. SCSI $1095.00
NDR4175s 175 mb. 19 ms. SCSI $ 995.00
NDR4380s 380 mb. 19 ms. SCSI $1395.00
NDR4175 175 mb. 28 ms. ESDI $ 895.00
NDR4380 380 mb. 28 ms. ESDI $1095.00
NDR4175e 175 mb. 19 ms. ESDI $ 995.00
NDR4380e 380 mb. 19 ms. ESDI $1395.00
Terms are COD.
The drives are new and come with a 12 month factory warranty.
The drives may be serviced, either in or out of warranty, by Daisy Disk,
Corp. which is located in Salisbury, MA. and which also maintains a
field office in Los Angeles, Ca.
According to Mr. Montgomery, the availablity on these drives is limited
to those in stock, and it is first come first serve, no back orders will
be taken.
Parties interested are requested to call Mr. Mike Montgomery, Newbury
Data, at 213 370-0775, and state that you are calling in response to the
article posted on usenet.
Please Note: I have NO connection whatsoever with Newbury Data, so
please NO FLAMES. I am posting this only because it is a d**mned good
deal for anyone wanting a good drive at a truly decent price.
BTW, I have been using a NDR1140 for over two years here without any
problems running it with an RLL controller (210 mb.). And I bought one
of the NDR3380's this afternoon for my own use.
One final note, the capacities of the drives is UNFORMATED CAPACITY.
Noel
--
Noel B. Del More | {decvax|harvard}!zinn!ubbs-nh!noel
17 Meredith Drive | noel@ubbs-nh.mv.com
Nashua, New Hampshire 03063 | It's unix me son! `taint spozed tah make cents
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 89 13:32:39 PST
From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu
Subject: Disinfectant 1.0
Disinfecant 1.0 is the first public release of a new program to detect and
remove Macintosh viruses.
Features:
- Detects and repairs files infected by Scores, nVIR A, nVIR B, Hpat,
AIDS, INIT 29, ANTI, and MacMag. These are all of the currently known
Macintosh viruses.
- Scans volumes (entire disks) in either virus check mode or virus
repair mode.
- Option to scan a single folder or a single file.
- Option to "automatically" scan a sequence of floppies.
- Option to scan all mounted volumes.
- Can scan both MFS and HFS volumes.
- Dynamic display of the current folder name, file name, and a thermometer
indicating the progress of a scan.
- All scans can be cancelled at any time.
- Scans produce detailed reports in a scrolling field. Reports can be
saved as text files and printed with an editor or word processor.
- Carefully designed human interface that closely follows Apple's
guidelines. All operations are initiated and controlled by 8 simple
standard push buttons.
- Uses an advanced detection and repair algorithm that can handle partial
infections, multiple infections, and other anomalies.
- Careful error checking. E.g., properly detects and reports damaged and
busy files, out of memory conditions, disk full conditions on attempts
to save files, insufficient privileges on server volumes, and so on.
- Works on any Mac with at least 512K of memory running System 3.2
or later.
- Can be used on single floppy drive Macs with no floppy shuffling.
- 8500 word online document describing Disinfectant, viruses in general,
the Mac viruses in particular, recommendations for "safe" computing,
Vaccine, and other virus fighting tools. The document can be saved as
a text file and printed with an editor or word processor. We tried to
include everything in the document that the average Mac user needs to
know about viruses.
I wrote Disinfectant with the help of an international group
of Mac virus experts, programmers and enthusiasts: Wade Blomgren,
Chris Borton, Bob Hablutzel, Tim Krauskopf, Joel Levin, Robert Lentz,
Bill Lipa, Albert Lunde, James Macak, Lance Nakata, Leonard Rosenthol,
Art Schumer, Dan Schwendener, Stephan Somogyi, David Spector, and
Werner Uhrig.
These people helped design and debug the program, edit the document,
locate copies of the viruses for testing, and analyze the viruses. I wrote
all the code, but I could not have written the program without their help.
Disinfectant is an example of a new kind of cooperative software
development over the internet. It was developed over a period of three
and a half months starting on December 1, 1988. During this period I sent
out nine development releases and nine Beta releases to the working group,
and we exchanged several hundred notes. The result is a program that is
much better than any one of us could have produced individually.
We are offering this program free of charge as a public service. We hope
that the Mac community finds it useful.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
AppleLink: a0173
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/disinfectant.hqx; 94K]
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 12:23:28 CST
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacDraw 1.9.5 and AppleShare 2.0 Problems
Howdy!!
I have a 2 problems that I would like to Bring forth to the net. They
are concerned with 1) MacDraw 1.9.5 Crashing and
2) AppleShare Crashing
Both problems occur on the following configuration:
17 Mac +'s and II's tied into Appleshare (an SE w/ 4meg of ram is used as the
file/print server). We are tied into Ethernet and have AlisaShare
running in the same Zone (but I don't think this has anything do do
with it). The Macs are all running under System 6.0.2 with the
the following INITS: Suitcase II, Vaccine, and Facade.
MacDraw 1.9.5 --
The problem here can be described as simple, but I have not found a
fix for it. Whenever a document is printed that contains vertical
text (Text rotated 90 degrees from horizontal, reading either up
or down), a crash (ID -02) results. I should add that this only
started happening after we upgraded to the new System from 4.1.
Has anyone else had this problem?? Is there a simple fix? Or is an
upgrade required??
AppleShare 2.0 --
This probelm has got everyone stumped. Running AppleShare on a SE
with 4meg of Ram, Rodyme 100meg disc and LaserShare, there has been
5 ocasions in the past 6 weeks where the network came to a complete
halt. Users trying to recieve or send packets to the server (both
running the application and printing) become locked up. The Macs
are not able to re-boot (we have the disks made for auto-login), and
the only solution for the users is to just shutdown.
Those that are running applications from hard drives are Mac-ing
along just fine until they need to print to the spooler, then they
become locked up.
I was was watching the Rodyme when the Crash happend once, and the
red LED that shows the disk is doing something was just going off so
rapidly, I thought the Drive had lost its mind.
Since we are connected via Ethernet to many other devices (which ones
I don't know, but could find out if it would help to solve this
problem), we went to our Networking guy. He ran Traffic Watch, but
that did not offer any insight. All of the Mac's were found, but
there was no packet transfer out of the ones that were locked up.
The only solution that I have found for this is to cold start the
Server. I should mention that the Server SE is left on 24 hrs and
is checked thoroughly for viruses each morning. Has this happend to
anyone else??? Or does anyone with greater Mac knowlege than me have
any solutions???
Any insight or suggestions to these problems would be appreciated. Please
direct your questions and help to X098MF@TAMVM1.BITNET
Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.BITNET
Comp Srvcs Cent Graphics Lab TMFHELP@VENUS.TAMU.EDU
Texas A&M University "Gig'em Aggies!!"
College Station, Texas
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 89 16:08:49 CST
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: NASA's Computer Virus Video
Send Replies and Comments to: Michael Farlow
Texas A&M University
X098MF@TAMVM1.Bitnet
TMFHELP@VENUS.TAMU.EDU
Due to the increase in interest on the subject of Computer Viruses and
the Macintosh, I feel it it prudent for me to share some information that
I have found recently that may help make us more aware of what is
happenning when an infection occurs. And as GI Joe says, "Knowing is
half the battle."
The following is a transcription of an article found in the March 7th
issue of MacWeek written by Emily Brower:
"Mac users looking for information on computer viruses can get an
eduction from a video tutorial released by NASA's Macintosh Users
Group.
"The 20-minute video, created on a Macintosh II using MacroMind's
VideoWorks II Interactive, includes detailed informatin on how to
detect virus infection using ResEdit. The tape also reviews his-
torical information on virus development and lists possible future
uses of computer viruses, including indutstrial espionage, electro-
nic warfare and network destruction.
"According to the videotape, self-replicating code was perfected in
the pre-virus 1970s by computer war-game programmers -- hackers
who wrote small programs that did battle with other programs in the
computer's memory. Self-replication was a standard defense technique
employed to protect their code from destruction.
"Along with this historical perspective, the video gives a graphic
demonstration on using ResEdit to detect infections from Scores to
nVIR strains. The demonstration does not address detection of more
recent viruses such as INIT29 and ANTI.
"Copies of the tape are available from NASA for $15, while the 10-
disk VideoWorks Tutorial can be purchased for $20. Users groups
are encouraged to distribute the tape and programs to their members.
"For more information, write to:
David Lavery
President, NASA Macintosh Users Group
NASA Headquarters Mail Code RC
Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology
600 Independence Av., SW.
Washington, DC 20546"
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 22:34:11 CST
From: RAGAN%CDCCentr.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Password Protecting Folders
Folder Locker/Unlocker allows you to password protect folders
on your disk. Once protected, the contents of a folder
cannot be examined, deleted, replaced, etc. unless the folder
has been unlocked using the password. This is a limited
functionality version of the full product. It still permits
protecting one folder and the overall security is reduced
over that of the full product.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/folder-locker.hqx; 30K]
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Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 14:35 EST
From: Michael Travers <mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Weird MS-Word problem
I've had a problem with shared volumes as well. I'ved closed a file
on one machine, and attempted to open it on another, bu get the complaint
that the file is busy. When I quit word on the original, the file becomes
unbusy. Apparently Word is making a file busy during the duration of a
session, as opposed to during the time that the file is open.
-alan
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 21 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 55
Today's Topics:
?A/UX compatibilty with "Real" UNIX?
Aynchronous Sound Code
BITNET mail follows
HC typing tutor script question
Reply to Scripting query & a question about SCREENSAVER.
Rodime Driver Patch from Earle Horton
Sit Story
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 10:02 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ?A/UX compatibilty with "Real" UNIX?
Greetings,
There is some debate here at Colgate on the relative compatiblity of A/UX with
other UNIXes, such as MACH on the NEXT computer. Not being a UNIX user, I need
your opinions on this to help decide which platform makes a good choice for the
Computer Science Dept's proposed WorkStation lab. They think they want a
large capacity server/workstation and 5 to 6 smaller capacity client
workstations. By capacity I mean hard disk. They are of the opinion that A/UX
is not very compatible with other UNIX implementation, though I'm not sure what
exactly they plan to try to port to their workstation environment.
Any reactions, opinions, or suggestions you might have would be greatly
appreciated. I'm sure there is interest in this question on the net, so why
not just post your answers to it?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 15:34:28 -0800
From: lsr@apple.com
Subject: Aynchronous Sound Code
Enclosed is the source for an MPW Pascal unit that shows how to play
anychronous sounds with the Sound Manager. I have tried this unit only on
System 6.0.2; supposdly there are bugs in earlier versions of the Sound
Manager. This unit also doesn't check for the existence of the Sound
Manager, I assume that you do this at a higher level.
I used this in a simple MacApp program that will open any file and allow you
to play any snd resource in the file ansynchronously. (I started this with
the idea of allowing copy & paste, but haven't gotten that far yet. If
there is interest, I can post that program.)
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014
AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM
UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal-asynchronous-sound.txt; 6K]
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Date: 20 Mar 89 11:17 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: BITNET mail follows
HERE IS AN INTERNAL DOC I WROTE IN PART DEPENDENT ON WHAT I LEARNED FROM
OTHER NETTERS--THANKS TO ALL!
LONG--3 PAGES SINGLE-SPACED!
========================================================================
Notes on Macintosh-to-ADI Connection for Dial-Out Communications
Although the Mac II which we borrowed from Apple, during testing in the
IR&D Lab, proved to work well with Mac240 through the IBX telephone
system's ADI to our VAX 750 and other dial-out connections, we have
been unable to make our new Mac IIx or Mac II's perform similarly.
With the help of Jolynda Bowers and our Apple reps, I believe we have
the "problem" isolated.
[Archived as /info-mac/report/mac-to-adi-connection.txt; 6K]
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 22:48 GMT
From: <LAUBISCH%COLOLASP.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HC typing tutor script question
I am trying to create a spell-checker for a typing tutorial stack.
The user enters text into field ("text"), which they copy from
an example field ("example"). When they are finished typing, they
can click on an Errors button, to display the number of errors.
The problem with my script is: if the user leaves out a word, or
adds one (like "t he" instead of "the"), it throws off the rest
of the calculation.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
on mouseUp
repeat with i=1 to number of words in field "text"
put word i of field "text" into it
if word i of field "example" does not equal it then
select word i of field "text" --Highlights the error
wait for 2 seconds
select empty --Unhighlights it.
add 1 to field "errors" --Adds to error display field.
end if
end repeat
end mouseUp
Lynn Laubisch SPAN zodiac::laubisch
LASP, Campus box 392 INTERNET laubisch%zodiac@vaxf.colorado.edu
University of Colorado BITNET laubish@cololasp
Boulder CO 80309 phone (303)492-8162
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 89 16:18 CST
From: "Kevin W. Mullet, UNT Academic Computing Services" <KEV@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Subject: Reply to Scripting query & a question about SCREENSAVER.
Hi!
I recently this message to InfoMac:
>Subj: I need a scripting language
>[...]
>I need to find a program that will allow me to shell out of
>HyperCard and run controlled scripts of actions in PageMaker,
>occasionally polling the user and performing logical constructs
>based on user replies and (if possible) the contents of the
>screen.
>[...]
>Has anyone ever seen, heard, or used such a thing?
Thanks to the following people for their replies:
Rich Akerboom Dartmouth Univ.
Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ. of Denmark
Joe McMahon NASA
Here's a what they said. I've got a follow up question after all
this:
=============================
>"check out Tempo II from Affinity Microsystems (boulder
>co, i think). available from MacConnection for $85 or
>so. as far as i know, the most powerful macro system
>for mac. check with them first to see if it will do
>what you need, though. and when using it, try to avoid
>scripting mouse clicks, especially double clicks. what
>i mean is use menus and controls (buttons, scroll bars,
>etc) but avoid things like selecting a document to open
>by clicking on it since it may move. [...]"
=============================
>"[...] the program ScreenRecorder from Farallon is
>claimed to be able to do what you want. I don't have any
>personal experience with the program, but I have been
>very satisfied with MacRecorder (sound digitizer) from
>the same company. ScreenRecorder 'lets you record any
>Macintosh screen session - then you can replay it
>instantly or later, on your Mac or anyone else's.
>... ScreenRecorder includes an XFCN for Apple's
>HyperCard software that lets you replay from within
>HyperCard' (quoting Farallon's ad)"
=============================
>Check out Tempo II or QuickKeys. These both allow you
>to play macro games such as you desire; I think Tempo
>II is a bit more sophisticated, but QuicKeys is easier
>to use.
=============================
=============================
=============================
What I'd like to know now is what experiences anyone has had with
Farallon's Screen Recorder. Can it do branching based on items not
in the clipboard, such as onethefly variables, etc...? Basically,
I'd like quick notes from people summing up their opinion of the
product, what they use it for and what the think the two or three
top PROs and CONs are.
Please reply to me, and I'll sum up all replies to the net.
Thanks,
Kevin Mullet
University of North Texas Academic Computing Services
Microcomputer Support
BITNET: KEV@UNTVAX
INTERNET: KEV@VAXA.ACS.UNT.EDU
THENET: NTVAXA::KEV
Staticnet: (817) 565-2316
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 18:03:53 PST
From: trewitt@miasma.stanford.edu
Subject: Rodime Driver Patch from Earle Horton
This might be useful for the archives, if you have this driver also.
------- Forwarded Message
>From: earleh@northstar.dartmouth.edu (Earle Horton)
Organization: Project NORTHSTAR, Dartmouth College
Date: 20 Mar 89 19:00:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Incredibly cheap hard disks.
[This describes a patch to the Rodime Driver Utility to allow it to work
with non-Rodime disks.]
In article <280@nessus.UUCP> pst@nessus.UUCP (Paul Traina) writes:
>From article <1420@ccnysci.UUCP>, by alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen):
>< According to an article in misc.forsale, Newbury Data is getting out of the
>< USE drive market. They're dumping their products at fantastic prices. For
>< example, 19ms 380MB SCSI drive for $1395.
><
>< The question is, can these be used with A/UX? Has anyone done it? (How about
>< with the regular Mac OS?)
>
>I've just purchased one-- I'll be writing a MacOS driver with support for
>the new partition map (if necessary), and depending upon the generic
>SCSI driver built into A/UX to deal with it when in A/UX mode.
If you LIKE writing MacOS drivers, just hit 'n' now.
Get the "Rodime Driver Utility," version 2.03. It's on sumex,
and also rascal, I think. It's a formatter, driver installer,
partitioner, and so forth for Rodime disks. It was distributed to
these archives by Rodime for the benefit of Rodime owners. If you
don't think it's "nice" to use it for non-Rodime disks, hit 'n' now.
Boot with MacsBug installed, and the new disk connected. Start
up the Rodime program. Escape to MacsBug. (I use 6.0, earlier
versions may use different register names, etc.) Commands entered to
the debugger start with '>' and comments start with ';'.
> GT SCANSCSI
; Choose from the SCSI menu, "Scan SCSI bus."
; Debugger breaks at SCANSCSI
> MR
; You should now be at UPDATESC+000C
> SM A5-10F0+n 1
; Wherein 'n' is the SCSI address of the new disk, an integer from 0
; to 6. Substitute "ra5" for "a5" with older MacsBug.
> G
; The driver utility program now converses with your disk. During
; this time, it may or may not emit error messages, which it shows using
; a modal dialog box. I got "An error has occurred in InquiryDisk Media
; Verification. Code = 4." I chose to ignore it. I wasn't, however, working
; with a Newbury hard disk, but rather with an Apple disk, for reasons which
; I will reveal later.
;
; If there are not very many error messages, attempt to format and partition
; the disk using the Rodime Driver Utility.
;
The Rodime driver seems to know how to set up A/UX partitions.
More exciting to me is that the driver can handle multiple "Apple_HFS"
partitions at once. I have an Apple HD SC 80, which is a very nice
disk, except that there is no way, using Apple software, to set up
multiple MacOS-mountable partitions on it. The Rodime software gave
me three independent MacOS partitions (could get more) which makes it
somewhat easier to deal with a disk this size, with the kind of stuff
I have on it. The driver mounts all three as separate disks, which
the Finder thinks are mounted on "Rodime SCSI Device."
Performance seems the same as with the Apple HD SC Setup driver,
which I had been using for lack of anything more interesting. The
Rodime program does allow you to specify interleave and other
interesting hardware-type junk, as well as allowing more interesting
partitioning schemes.
Disclaimer: Be reasonable, folks. This procedure is for some poor
graduate student (like myself) who somehow gets a SCSI disk which
doesn't come with software that does what [s]he wants. Use it on your
disk, on your Mac, and you will probably like the results. Install it
on 20 of them at your employer's place of business, and the fecal
matter will sooner or later hit the air circulation device.
Earle Horton
------- End of Forwarded Message
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 16:07:14 CST
From: brianc@saintjoe.edu (Brian Capouch)
Subject: Sit Story
I have been on a long, arduous journey attempting to access
the archives at White Sands Missle Base in New Mexico. I know that
you folks don't maintain that archive, but hope that perhaps my plight
will be something that you've encountered before, and that you might
be able to point me towards a solution.
We have no trouble accessing the info-mac archives whatsoever.
The "product mix" we're using is as follows:
1. We begin an "ftp" session and connect to the server
using our Sun 3/150.
2. We download your .hqx files in ASCII mode; the WSMB files,
which are predominantly .sit files, we do in tenex mode.
3. The trip to the Macs from our
Suns is done over our Ethernet, using the Mac/IP product which we obtained
from Stanford.
Somehow, the .sit files from the WSMR server are not recognized as sit files
by the Unstuffer. We have tried to transfer them from the Suns to the Macs
using each of the three possible modes built into Mac/IP (binary, MacBinary,
and ASCII). Nothing seems to matter; the files are un-unstuffable, and
as it turns out we aren't therefore able to download software from that
server.
The people at WSMR suggested we contact Stanford, as they suspect
the Mac/IP product is doing something unsavory in the transfer from our
Suns, since (according to them) the "tenex" mode is the proper ftp mode
for transferring these files.
Any help you could give us would be greatly appreciated.
Brian Capouch
St. Joseph's College
brianc@saintjoe.edu
[No idea. Anyone else know? -Bill]
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mac.developers.;@polya.Stanford.EDU@labrea.stanford.edu
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Just a reminder that the Macintosh Developer's meeting on Display
Postscript is postponed until the second Wednesday of April, the 12↑th.
For those object language programmers who can't get by without a fix,
there is a Software Entrpreneur's Forum SIG tonight on OOPS. Sorry
for the short notice, these announcements arrive by mail with just
a few days to spare.
Title: Object Oriented Tool Integration
Date: 21 Mar 7pm
Location: 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto (Parc Place systems.)
For information, contact Dean Ritz, at 415/859-1043
-johnmark
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 21 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 56
Today's Topics:
A/UX compatibility with "real" unix?
Fade to Black
FoxBase Utilities
getting started in LSC--responses
LISTSERV-Punch question
Mac Interrupts
MAC SE prices
Mouse Driven Keyboard
Nightwatch - don't buy it!
Results of CPU board survey...
Sit Story
Translating picture formats.
Vendacard system
Warning v1.1
Weird MS-Word problem
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 08:57:34 PST
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuq@apple.com>
Subject: A/UX compatibility with "real" unix?
I don't know what you mean by compatibility, but I wonder about people who
claim it isn't compatible with "real" Unix. A/UX 1.1 is SVR2 with many
Berkeley enhancements, you can get X windows for it, it's fully confirming
to FIPS #151 and Posix, runs NFS, RPC and Yellow Pages and I've pulled nu
many programs off the net recently and they've compiled with no problems.
If that's not compatibility, what is?
chuq
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Date: 19 Mar 89 18:03:44 PST (Sun)
From: decwrl!apple!cxsea!blm@labrea.stanford.edu (Brian Matthews)
Subject: Fade to Black
Attached is version 3.1.1 of Fade to Black. It fixes three problems with
version 3.0:
- In one spot, Fade to Black failed to check a memory allocation. If
this allocation failed, Fade used a 0 pointer for various operations,
eventually crashing or resetting the machine.
- In those cases where Fade did check for a failed memory allocation, it
beeped each second while it tried to fade and couldn't get enough
memory. This could be more than annoying, so now Fade just beeps the
first time it can't allocate memory each time it fades.
- In certain cases while running Multifinder, Fade would attempt
Quickdraw operations with an invalid value in A5, crashing the machine.
It now sets up A5 correctly.
Brian L. Matthews blm@cxsea.UUCP ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm
[Archived as /info-mac/init/fade-to-black.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 01:56:43 EST
From: Alexis Rosen <decwrl!decvax!ccnysci!alexis@labrea.stanford.edu>
Subject: FoxBase Utilities
Here are three utilities I wrote to make programming FoxBase a little more
convenient.
The first program, FoxBinder, takes a collection of program files and
"procedurizes" them into one. It automatically inserts the necessary
"Procedure xxx" lines before each module, and a "Set Procedure To" command
at the beginning of the generated file.
The second program, FoxMenus, takes any resource file with one or more
menu resources and generates a new foxbase program which creates menus
just like the ones in the resource(s). (Even icons, marks, and command
keys.) There are different option for naming the menu array so there
won't be conflict with your other code.
The last program, MenuChange XCMD installer, installs an XCMD into any
file you chose (or it will create a new file for you). The XCMD, callable
by foxbase, will alter FoxBases menus in any way the toolbox allows (and
one way it doesn't). Now you can add check marks, icons, or command keys
to your user menus. (You can do it to FoxBase menus too, but that seems
fairly profitless...) You can add new menus or menu items, and delete
menus and items. While all of these tasks can be done with FoxBase
commands, the XCMD can be ten to a hundred times faster. You also don't
need to carry around state information about disabled menus and items.
Lastly, it doesn't flicker the menu bar every time you make a change.
These three programs all have detailed help screens. The help may be
printed.
All three programs are in one binhexed stuffit archive.
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
[Archived as /info-mac/app/foxbase-utilities.hqx; 42K]
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Date: 21-Mar-89, 8:00EST
From: zoda537@uta3081.bitnet ("Josh Hayes")
Subject: getting started in LSC--responses
Well. My power supply went blooey, and a couple days later
when I got back on line there were ALL THESE RESPONSES waiting
for me. Thanks to everyone who wrote back. Here's the gist
of what they say:
1. First, several folks recommended getting a few things
>From the sumex archives, to wit:
info-mac/source/c-generic-da.hqx
" " "/c-generic-init.txt
" " "/c-transdisplay-20.hqx
" " "/c-transedit-20.hqx
" " "/transskel-c-201.hqx
These things are skeletons of proper program constructions for
each of the categories, i.e. da, init, and so forth. I understand
they're public domain, but am not sure about whether they're
free- or shareware. Caveat emptor.
2. Rich Siegel sez that the manuals for LSC 3.0 contain some
chapters with detail about getting going in the Mac environment,
thus the upgrade is certainly worth it if you haven't already.
3. I was directed to a package called "SimpleTools", supposedly
in sumex archives somewhere. This may be the same as the stuff
listed above; I have not yet found a file or subdirectory of
that title but I haven't looked very hard.
4. Chris Eliot supposed I had Kernigham and Ritchie: The C
Programming Language as a source. Also included two tips:
a. Include the correct libraries always. Failure causes
lots of link errors (a problem I have been having...)
b. Be aware of the "require prototypes" option, which will
catch some otherwise sneaky bugs.
5. Possible vaporware from Michael Webb (confirmed by a nameless
person at THINK): Programming The Macintosh In Lightspeed C, due
out soon from Addison-Wesley (I was told April). Hosanna.
6. Finally, a HUGE list of stuff from Eric Keller, which follows;
a. Shildt and Herbert: "C: The Complete Reference" Osborne
McGraw-Hill.
b. "C-Extender"; software (?) from Invention Software, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, (313)996-8108. Two volumes, reported
price $70 (per volume? Both?). Aids in developing menus,
windows, buttons, and other Mac-ish things.
c. Inside Macintosh. All of it. Ho, ho, ho. But I see his
point and others pointed out the same thing: to program
on the Mac you have to understand the Mac. Sigh.
d. Takatsuka, Huxham and Burnard: "Using the Macintosh
Toolbox with C" Sybex.
e. Mednieks and Schilke: "C Programming Techniques for the
Macintosh" Sams (Indianapolis).
f. Finally, when you get to be a whiz, join APDA for a measly
$20/yr. My only problem is that I'll have to sell my Mac
to buy all this stuff in the first place....
Thanks to all who wrote back. Hope this helps other budding
C programmers out there.
Josh Hayes zoda537@uta3081.bitnet
Zoology Dept. zoda537@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 89 20:34 PDT
From: "BRIAN KLAAS, CH3 POLE J7, MAILSTOP CH3-69" <BKLAAS%scdtst@sc.intel.com>
Subject: LISTSERV-Punch question
Howdy,
I have downloaded a couple of programs from the LISTSERV at rice. The
files with character length > 80 come accross in LISTSERV-Punch format.
Does anyone know of a program on the mac that will decode these files? I
am sure it is a pretty simple thing to do...I have the instructions, and
a sample program in C and Turbo-Pascal, but neither seam to work on the
VAX here correctly. I do not know enough about either language to easily
correct the problems.
Any help would be appreciated,
Brian Klaas
BKLAAS%CH3@sc.intel.com BKLAAS%CH3%sc.intel.com@relay.cs.net
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 10:55:38 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Mac Interrupts
I've received the following replies to my queries about interrupt codes for
the Mac SE. This is what you type when you hit the programmer's switch on
the side of your mac. My thanks to those who responded. The respondees and
their suggestions follow.
John Doner <doner%henri@hub.ucsb.edu>
Jonathan Leblang <jonathan@starbase.mitre.org>
Jon Schachter <jonath@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Kenneth Sussmann <sussmann@pica.army.mil>
G 409B24 (Mac SE ROM ExitToShell instruction)
Frank Beatrous <beatrous@pittvms.bitnet>
collaudg@cfruni51.bitnet
Declan A. Rieb <darieb@sandia.gov>
jl <langowski@frembl51.bitnet>
Larry Rosenstein <goofy!apple.com!lsr@apple.com>
SM 0 A9F4 (Mac ExitToShell instruction - machine independent)
G 0
Chris Sterritt <sterritt%sdevax.decnet@ge-crd.arpa>
David Fedor <ST602284@rownvm.bitnet>
SM 0 3F3C 0002 A895 (ROM independent way to do it)
G 0
James Li <jamesli@uwav1.acs.washington.edu>
SM FA700 A9F4 (More bomb-proof than G 409B24 or SM 0 A9F4/G 0)
PC FA700
G
Karl <kwaldman@wash-vax.bbn.com>
Use Macsbug
Patrick Beard <beard@ux3.lbl.gov>
Macsbug 6.0 or TMON
Margret Buckley <buckley@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
G 4080D5CE (Mac II only)
Hope this helps all.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 16:08:35 EST
From: Erwin Alex Prassler <prassler@ai.toronto.edu>
Subject: MAC SE prices
Hi folks,
I would like to sweaten my life by buying a Mac SE 20MB, a
printer and a modem. However, I am not only a novice in this
newsgroup but also in North America (I arrived from Europe a
few days ago) and, of course, I have no idea where to make a
good deal. So, I would appreciate any piece of information
about reasonable prices and places where I can buy that stuff.
Thanks in advance.
Erwin (e-mail: prassler@ai.toronto.edu)
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 11:04:37 CST
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mouse Driven Keyboard
Hello, does anyone know if the desk accessory 'Mouse Driven Keyboard' is
available through BITNET or FTP? The DA presents an onscreen keyboard
which can be used with the mouse to provide keyboard input. It was
written by John Halleck. Any information or the DA itself would be
appreciated.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=---> CB Lih <---= "Picked up for questioning."
Macintosh Support
BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905
US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas
155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 08:53:37 CET
From: "Willem N. Ellis" <A429WILL%HASARA11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Nightwatch - don't buy it!
I was dismayed to discover that the Nightwatch hard disk protection
program, that I had just obtained from Camelot Computing, Reading, UK,
refused to be installed on system versions later than 4.3, now that version
6 is around quite some time.
The manual advices that a user refuses to accept the package if the
envelope containing the disk has been opened. Yet, only after that has been
done does the limitation to the old system version becomes apparent. The
manual tells nothing of the sort.
Athough I do appreciate that the program intercepted my attempt to be loaded
on an untested system version (6.0.2), I am upset by the discovery of the
degree of system dependency. Given the life expectancy of Macintosh system
versions, the system dependency of the Nightwatch hard disk protection
means that a user has to stick with an antiquated system version after
some six months.
What would be the result if a user inadvertently installed a newer
version of the system on a hard disk that is protected by the current
Nightwatch version is another point that is not covered by the manual.
W.N. Ellis, Institute of Taxonomic Zoology,
Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
bitnet: a429will@hasara11
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Date: 20 Mar 89 23:02:00 EST
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nbs.gov>
Subject: Results of CPU board survey...
These are the only replies I got to my query about folks who use accelerator
baords in a Mac+ or SE.
***************************************************************************
I am using the Dove MachIISE (now called Marathon) w/1Meg, no 68881 on a
2.5M SE w/Warp 9 P30i 30M hard drive. I initially had bad problems getting
the accelerator to work with the Warp 9, but had good tech support from
both companies. The problem was never really solved, but a workaround was
found by using the 68881 PAL (not the 68881 itself), which seemed to affect
boot timing (the Warp 9 was crashing when the 68020 booted).
The performance improvement has been disappointing, compared to ad copy
claiming as good as MacII. Most things DO run faster (1.5-2x) and I cant
do without it now, but a Mac II it aint. The II has much faster disk access
and transfer rate, as well as 32-bit memory.
There are still some bugs and annoyances with the Dove board: you cant format
floppies without turning off the cache, and you cant turn off the cache
w/o a System crash. Who needs floppies anyway?
Rich Fozzard
fozzard@boulder.colorado.edu
**************************************************************************
I'm using a Supermac accelerator for my MacPlus. Basically very
pleased with the speed (I've got the equivalent of a Mac II in my
Plus now), but extremely frustrated with the many bombs created by
oxydation between the CPU feet and the bolt-on. This is especially
painful in the hot and humid summer months. I am running an extra
external fan that blows air into the lower left slits and am
definitely reducing the failure rate that way. This summer, I will
move the Mac into an airconditioned environment. I find that when
oxydation occurs, the only thing that will really fix the problem
is to turn the machine off and to bang it solidly on a moderately
soft surface, such as a carpet! This is truly antidiluvian and I've
been tempted many times to get the board removed, but then, I just
couldn't face going back to MacPlus-type speeds. So I keep banging.
I'm also ordering a MacSE-30 this week for working outside the
airconditioned office.
Eric Keller
******************************************************************************
To which I can add that the Novy systems boards do not work well either when
*clipped* onto the 68000. Much better to have pins soldered onto the 68K and
attach the board to the pins. After frustrating daily-weekly failures I have
run my Mac+ with Novy systems 16 mhz 020/881 for almost two years--absolutely
flawless performance and 1.15 times Mac II speed. I also had early problems
with disc drive compatibility, but Novy and MacBottom each have come out with
drivers that solved the problem.
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 08:02:15 CST
From: Frank W. Peters <peters@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Sit Story
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #55 You wrote:
> I have been on a long, arduous journey attempting to access
>the archives at White Sands Missle Base in New Mexico.
...
> 3. The trip to the Macs from our
>Suns is done over our Ethernet, using the Mac/IP product which we obtained
> from Stanford.
We have had a great deal of trouble with preserving the macintosh file
type and creator information when transfering files between suns and Stanford's
Mac/IP package. Do you have one of the many packages that will allow you to
modify the creator and type of a file? If so, use it to set the creator and
type of your .sit file to 'SIT!' (case sensitive I think). Stuffit should
recognize it then and, based on our experience, it should unstuff fine.
Have a happy day
Frank Peters
========================================================================
| Systems Programmer | Mississippi State University |
| Phone: (601) 325-2942 | Computing Center and Services |
| Internet: peters@CC.MsState.Edu | Post Office Drawer CC |
| BITNET: PETERS@MSSTATE.BITNET | Mississippi State, MS. 39762 |
========================================================================
"What if I wanna worry? What if I *like* being unhappy??"
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Date: Tue 21 Mar 89 09:16:26-EST
From: FAUSETT@radc-tops20.arpa
Subject: Translating picture formats.
Does anyone know of a utility to translate TIFF format files to grey-scale
picts? To sun raster images?
Thanks,
mark (fausett@radc-tops20.arpa)
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Date: 21 March 1989, 08:53:56 EDT
From: David William Wrage <IRPGMR7@OUACCVMB.bitnet>
Subject: Vendacard system
Quick background on my situation:
1 LaserWriter Plus
1 ImageWriter //
8 Macintosh SEs (no hard drives)
LocalTalk/AppleTalk network
Here's what I'm thinking about getting:
The venda card system by XCP to regulate the use of the LaserWriter.
Problems:
Is there any way to keep one user from printing out while another user's
card is in the vendacard machine?
Better yet, is there a better system than XCP for this situation?
Here are the specs:
1. Every Mac must have access.
2. It must be thoroughly compatible with LocalTalk/AppleTalk
3. It must be able to somehow keep users from printing out their
stuff with somebody else's card in the system.
(Heck, if I have to go to a coin-operated machine, I will)
Conclusion:
If anybody out there has a situation like this and has found a solution,
send me info or an address or even a phone number so that I can find out
how to solve my dilemma.
David William Wrage a.k.a. The Frenchman
'I don't have a nifty saying yet, but I'll think of one.....'
Address: IRPGMR7@OUACCVMB.BITNET
US Mail: David Wm Wrage
Alden Instructional Support Lab
Alden Library Room 260B
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio 45701
United States
Telephone: (614) 593-2660
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1989 22:15:35 PST
From: William Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: Warning v1.1
This is the latest version of the Warning init. Warning checks your System
file for the known types of viruses each time you start up. If it finds an
infection, you are presented with an alert which describes the situation and
asks you whether to continue or reboot. It is designed for use by non-
technical people; no knowledge of viruses or of ResEdit is required.
Warning does not check applications for viruses and only checks the System at
startup. Therefore, it does not provide complete security against viruses.
However, since it is so easy to use (you just put it in your System Folder
and forget about it), it may give you more protection in practice than
programs like Virus RX which must be run manually.
Changes since previous versions: Get Info text added so users can verify that
they have downloaded the file correctly; checks for ANTI and AIDS added.
This program may not work correctly on international systems because
I do not know a robust way to determine the name of the Finder. The global
called FinderName is not initialized at INIT time.
Bill Lipa
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/warning-11.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 05:10:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Weird MS-Word problem
Apparently, Word fails to close a file until you either quit or issue the
next open command...
If you don't want to open/quit a copy of word (or can't), use a D/A such
as DeskZap to close the open file. This can be very dangerous if the file
really is open (in a window) and there are unsaved changes...
DeskZap should be in the info-mac archives.
Once again, a big thanks to Microsoft for so carefully following the Inside
Mac guidelines--- :-( (seriously; Word is excellent BUT it does too many,
non-standard, evil things).
b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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I just had my Mac II upgraded to a Mac IIx today, and have a couple of
weird things I wanted to ask about. Information and advice
appreciated. Please mail to my e-mail address listed below.
I have a Mac II(x) with Apple color monitor, color memory upgrade for
256 colors, and 8mb memory.
With the II, I could boot the machine, and the "Welcome to Macintosh"
window would appear on my color background screen. The little Mac
picture in the left of the Welcome screen would be in color, and the
INIT icons would appear on the same screen.
Now, the Welcome screen in in black-and-white, then the screen is
cleared and the INIT icons appear on a blank screen with my background
initialized.
Why the change? Is this just cosmetic (new ROMs?), or the signal of
something more serious?
Also, I can't find a piece of software to actually tell me that it's a
IIx with 68882. MacEnvy and MacSpeed both are confused. Are they
just outdated, or might this too be the sign of a problem?
Finally, I'm running system 6.0.2. Should I upgrade to 6.0.3?
Most of these questions should have been answered my my vendor
(bookstore at Stanford), but the person I dealt with there didn't know
these answers...
Plese send to:
philf@lindy.stanford.edu
...!sun!lindy.stanford.edu!philf
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 29 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 57
Today's Topics:
A/UX... What & How Much?
Apple Employees and the Laser
Bad Gif mailing list addresses
Help with Xmodem & ARC sources for MAC ...
IBM-PC AppleShare Server
Info-Mac Digest V7 #56
MacDraw crashes printing sideways.
MS Word user interface problem with percent done indicator
Printer Alternatives for Mac
Recovering Deleted Card
SIT files from simtel20
VendaCard system
Weird MS-Word Problem
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: MON, 20 MAR 1989 14:57 JST
From: Ronald D. Notestine <DOUGLAS%JPNNUCBA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A/UX... What & How Much?
I see a lot of references to A/UX, but never any information on where
it can be bought or how much it is. (Or, if it would be of any use to
a stand-alone user.)
One thing I do know is that, over here in Japan, the shops have not
seen it and do not know if it is the country yet.
Does anybody have any info? Have I missed an Info-Mac posting on this?
Will the wrath of the moderaters descend upon me? I shall tune in
tomorrow...
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 13:37:47 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple Employees and the Laser
>> I'm curious to learn from Apple Employees about Apple's reaction to
>>the Laser series computers. I'd also like to know what their personal
>>opinions are on the Lasers and their effect on the Apple ][ community.
>>Of course, if Apple corporate policy discourages such comment from its
>>employees I'll understand if there is no comment.
>>
>> David R. Brierley
>
>I'm confused as to what you want here. In one sentence you say "Apple's reac-
>tion" and in another you talk about "[our] personal opinions." I can't say
>anything about the former, but as for the latter, I am on the opinion that if
>something suits your needs and you like it, then buy it. This philosophy can
>apply to all of Laser, Franklin, and Apple computers.
Apple's reaction on the other hand has been to 1) sue Franklin (and win),
2) try as hard as they can to get U.S. Customs to prevent the Laser from
being imported (they managed to hold up deliveries a couple of months),
3) try to get Customs to prevent importation of Mac clones on the same
grounds (violation of copyright) - Customs is busy analyzing the Tiawanese
Mac ROMs against Apple's copyrights. As ROMs get bigger and more complex,
it's going to be more and more difficul (and time consuming) for Customs
to determine whether importers' computers comply with U.S. copyright
regulations (Customs IS reduced to doing the job because Tiawan's government
refused to honor US copyrights -- can't sue 'em in Tiawan and recover losses).
Apple has been EXCEEDINGLY public and vocal about using every legal maneuver
in the arsenal to prevent Mac cloning (even the Mac's look and feel -- BTW
a first page story in this week's InfoWorld says Apple has won the opening
round of their suit against Microsoft and HP <the issue was the scope of
Apple's earlier agreement with Microsoft>). I presume that if Apple's
lawyers could find a way to bankrupt the Laser makers and sellers they'd
do so (IBM doesn't like cloners much either). I'd expect any real attempt
to clone the IIgs would be opposed with the same vigor as the opposition to
Mac clones (the Laser //c clones are, as far as I know, a "done deal" at this
point).
Apple's lawyers are still muddling over what to do about the "Blue Mac" (an
inexpensive Mac clone that uses honest to goodness Apple Mac ROM's bought
>From an Apple VAR <Value Added Retailer> who, so far, has been able to
"grey market" Macintosh ROM chips without Apple finding out and cutting off
the supply)
Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls
>From Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 89 19:58:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Joseph Darweesh <md32+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Bad Gif mailing list addresses
If on of these addresses is one that you sent to me to use to send you
gif pictures, then I have bad news...
These addresses don't work for me. If you'd still like to be on the gif
mailing list then please send me an address that should work and I'll try
again. Otherwise, you won't be getting any gif pictures.
Here are the bad addresses:
unet!unet!aschool@Sun.COM
COSTELLO@amstel.llnl.gov
t33872s@puukko.hut.fi
-Mike Darweesh
-Carnegie Mellon University
-md32@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1989 17:54:53 CST
From: "EVAX::CS_LINDAHL"@utarl.arl.utexas.edu (MULTIHACKER)
Subject: Help with Xmodem & ARC sources for MAC ...
Anyone:
Can anyone help me find SOURCE CODE (preferably LightSpeed C) for
ARC (an MS-DOS packing utility) and XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM? I ham writing
a standalone "idiot-proof" application on the MAC and I wish to incorporate
both of these facilities in the code ...
I have FTP access, so if they are in an archive other than INFO-MAC on
SUMEX-AIM I can download them.
Thanx,
Charlie S. Lindahl
Automation and Robotics Research Institute
University of Texas at Arlington
ARPA: B649CSL@UTARLG.ARL.UTEXAS.EDU
CSNET: CS_LINDAHL@UTA.EDU
PHONE: (817)284-6122
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 07:25:33 PST
From: buaas@trout.nosc.mil (Robert A. Buaas)
Subject: IBM-PC AppleShare Server
Can anyone provide the company name and telephone number for the
producer of the AppleShare Server software product that runs on
the IBM PC? I saw a reference in the trade news several months
ago, but parted company with the issue prematurely. Thanks in
advance.
--bob
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1989 16:58:21 PDT
From: goofy!Apple.COM!lsr@apple.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #56
In article <8903212255.AA12886@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) writes:
> Subject: Mac Interrupts
>
> I've received the following replies to my queries about interrupt codes
for
> the Mac SE. This is what you type when you hit the programmer's switch on
I have a couple of comments about these.
> SM 0 3F3C 0002 A895 (ROM independent way to do it)
> G 0
Be careful! This doesn't do an ExitToShell. It does a restart. If you
were trying to preserve some data in another application under
MultiFinder, this isn't the thing to do.
> James Li <jamesli@uwav1.acs.washington.edu>
>
> SM FA700 A9F4 (More bomb-proof than G 409B24 or SM 0 A9F4/G 0)
> PC FA700
> G
This is good only on a 1Mb Mac Plus or Mac SE. The address used here is
the start of screen memory on a 1Mb machine, but the address will vary
depending on how much RAM is in the machine. On Mac II familiy machines
the screen memory is in an entrirely different place. FInding the correct
address of the screen memory is more involved.
I don't think this variation is any less bomb proof than storing the
instruction in memory location 0. The only potential problem with storing
in location 0 is that a program would have a bug and tries to access that
memory location. Storing into that location may make the address illegal,
which could cause crashes in these buggy programs. To avoid this, you
would have to find a different place to store the instruction. (There are
a couple of scratch areas in low memory, but I don't know how they are
used by the ROM.)
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist
Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr
AppleLink: Rosenstein1
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 09:20 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacDraw crashes printing sideways.
Michael Farlow recently wrote of a problem he's having with MacDraw printing
rotated text and crashing (ID=02). We have the same problem, with some
additional twists. We're running version 1.9.6, System 6.0.2 on MacPluses and
SEs, connected to a LaserWriter Plus. We *CAN* print these documents from
MacIIs or SEs (running same software) on a LaserWriterII NT! We are using
LaserWriter and LaserPrep 5.2 all around.
_New development_
I just thought I'd check... Rotated text documents do NOT crash the Mac if we
use LaserWriter and LaserPrep 4.0 with the LWPlus.
Any ideas gang?
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 12:38:55 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MS Word user interface problem with percent done indicator
Microsoft Word vers. 3.02 has a problem with its percent done indicator
when saving files containing lots of graphics: Basically its just
sits at 33 percent for a long time without changing the indicator
(even though it has plenty of disk access).
The problem is probably that the designers only consider the
amount of text in the file when calculating the percent done indicator.
For the user, however, the percent done indicator should indicate the
proportion of the total work done, and this of course includes time
to save graphics.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 09:53 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printer Alternatives for Mac
Greetings,
A professor here is wondering whether the HP LaserJet with a Grappler interface
is a viable alternative to the LWSC? More generally, it'd be interesting to
see people's comments on printers they've tried and/or use with the Mac, other
than the standard ImageWriters and LaserWriters.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 11:55 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Recovering Deleted Card
OK all you HyperSuperHackers,
Can a card be recovered if it has been deleted, but the stack has not been
compacted? Does anyone know the file format of HC well enough to give any
suggestions? This is a card containing a button with a script that I'd rather
not have to reinvent... I know, I should have protected the card from deletion,
but who'd have thought that the clear key on the num keypad deletes the
current card?
Here's how it happened, just to warn you. I have a macro (MacroMaker) that
hides the card window (under multifinder) assigned to command-clear. The caps
lock key was down, and I hit command-clear, which deleted my card!
Thanks for your help.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 18:37:58 EST
From: Atul Kacker <akk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: SIT files from simtel20
Brian Capouch reported having problems using the .SIT files obtained
>From the simtel20 archives. The first thing I would check for is to
see if the file type and creator are correct. They should be SIT!
The file attributes can be changed using a program like DeskZap or
McSink or ... Stuffit should be able to recognize the files. Good Luck.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 09:49 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: VendaCard system
David Wrage wonders about our experience with vendacards on LaserWriters.
Here's ours from Colgate, with a few comments of my own.
NOTE: I use the term "vendacard" generically, without specific reference to a
particular brand of card or card reader.
First of all mine own... Don't do it. I know that the idea of "cost recovery"
on Laser printers is a popular one, but if you're not doing cost recovery
across the board (mainframe pages, cpu time, i/o time, etc.) then why attempt
it in just this case? Most (even small) installations with any sort of
mainframe have one or more VERY EXPENSIVE printers attached to it, through
which reams of paper are run every day, with no attempt to recover the cost of
1) purchase 2) maintenance fees 3) or paper/ribbons. The gizmo on our main
line printer which is supposed to fold the output neatly into the bin (and
doesn't even do that consistantly) cost more than a LaserWriter. Who, exactly,
are we trying to bamboozle? End of agitated speech.
Colgate has two LaserWriter II NTs slated for connection to small Mac
networks with a vendacard on each one. I say slated, because the vendacard
dealer here can't figure out how to connect it to an NT. So, we finally put
the card reader on an old LWPlus, and put one of the LWIIs in its place in the
office. The other LWII, long since out of warrantee, still sits in the store
room waiting for a miracle, or something. (Cost recovery!)
Until recently, our one public LW was connected, as is common, to ONE dedicated
Mac. When I learned that nearby Hamilton College attaches several Macs to one
LW (with vendacard) and hasn't experienced a riot or fist-fight, I sprang into
action. Now, all (10) of our Macs in our main user room are connected to the
one LWII NT which still has the vendacard. So far there has been only
rejoicing on the part of the users (students). To them, it is much more of a
hassle waiting for a dedicated Mac to print from than losing an occassional
15cents by leaving their card in while someone else starts to print.
So, my advice is: If you MUST use a vendacard, don't use a single dedicated Mac
for the LW, but put it on the localtalk network where it belongs... your users
will love you for it. And don't worry about one user printing on another
user's card, unless you also worry about whether they keep their doors locked,
and their car keys in the ignition!
Good Luck.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
Disclaimer - These are definitely my own opinions, no one else here has any.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 15:48:55 EST
From: Greg Brail <ST601396%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Weird MS-Word Problem
Last week, I posted a message about a situation in which certain MS-Word
files stored on an AppleShare server were being made into empty files.
I had never seen anything like it, so I posted to Info-Mac in the hopes
that someone would have seen a similar problem and would be able to
explain what is going on.
Since then, more strange things have disappeared from our network. It
seems someone has been deleting things from the fileserver. With regards
to the Word file, someone opened some files, deleted everything, and
saved them again. This network, by the way, is at the student newspaper
at Brown University. It is not one of the networks managed by Brown.
Since then, we have tightened security on the network and have
restricted access to the building. Unfortunately, there are people
here who would love to make life difficult for us.
Sorry to go public about a problem that wasn't really a computer problem.
The folks at Microsoft and some here at Brown have assured me that
Word doesn't do anything like that.
While I'm on the subject, does anyone know about a way to get a list
of who logged into an AppleShare server and when? Features like this,
which I believe can be implemented on "real computers," would be
useful now that AppleShare is being used by more and more organizations.
Sorry about the scare, and thanks for listening. At least I didn't
say it was a virus. :-)
-Greg
------------------------------
Greg Brail ST601396@brownvm.brown.edu
(401)521-9599 ST601396@brownvm.BITNET
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 29 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 58
Today's Topics:
[DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!Re: Windows cdev
amusing item
BITNET mail follows
CL/1, anybody?
Flowchartting App.
Foxbase+/Mac
MIDI Manager
RWatcher
Spelling Coach crashes...
ThunderScan
Undocumented "feature" in Foxbase+
Using Color Icons...
Yet another strange MS-Word Problem
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 07:10:12 PST
From: "DASnet" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!Re: Windows cdev
I tracked down the blinking cursor to be an interaction of "Windows" with
Multifinder 6.1. This will be fixed in the next release. If this is not the
case on your system (you aren't using Multifinder 6.1, please tell me).
Joachim Lindenberg
author of "Windows" cdev
GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
=END=
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 10:16:26 est
From: siochi@vtodie.cs.vt.edu (A. Siochi)
Subject: amusing item
I was cleaning out my files the other day when I came across this gem. I do not
recall who sent it to me, much less who the author is.
ELECTRONIC GRAINS
The Vegetable Computer was invented in 1842 by Charles Cabbage,
regarded by many as the father of the field. Cabbage called his computer
the Agricultural Engine. Modern versions consist of rose and rose of
integrated carrots connected to a flower supply by a maize of wires. Input
is from pea switches, yard weeder, and tell-he's-ripe. A hayseed vine
printer may be used to generate hard coffee, while a vegetable display
unit supports interactive composting. Main memory consists of interleaved
beet-addressable magnetic corn. Secondary store consists of plough discs
and grape drives. All peripherals are daisy chained.
A later version of the Agricultural Engine was known as AR-16
(after Agricultural Revolution). It was based on the sack discipline,
first perfected by the Barrow Combine, and sprouted a high-swede paper
tape reaper for the first lime.
Early computer consumed large amounts of power. Many required
their own electric spud-station to seed them and had to overcome the
problem of providing adequate Lentilation. Such problems caused many
a furrowed brow in the pasture and we cannot expect to avoid harrowing
days ahead. However, the many fertile minds that constitute the rate-
of-the-cart computer technology cannot fail to produce the harvest of
the future, particularly with the bloom of very large scale irrigation.
Artificial pollination techniques grafted on paralled earthworms will
soon be producing computers proudly proclaiming "I think, therefore
I yam." All chokoes aside, we can look beyond the melon-cauli thymes
through the winnow of the ears till the salad days ahead. Lettuce advance
to the world to two marrows. To those reactionaries who would turn back
the docks we say, "hoe! hoe! hoe!".
Herb and Russel Sprout,
Rice Presidents,
Assocn. for Cultivating Machinery
------------------------------
Date: 24 Mar 89 10:39 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: BITNET mail follows
Date: 24 March 1989, 09:26:58 EST
From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
We are trying to get on AppleLink with our Mac IIx, but are having trouble
using the AppleLink 4.0 disk with our Intecom IBX digital branch exchange.
There is an IBXv4.0.CCL script to use, but it doesn't seem to match the timing
the ADIs (Asynchronous Data Interfaces--take the place of modems on the
digital phone system).
We've gotten hold of the CCL documentation manual, including the quick ref
manual, and have learned how to print out the CCL script. It appears from the
manual that some things may be hard-coded which could cause problems; e.g.,
a "+++ATH" seems to be hard-coded as a hang-up string, which is fine for
Hayesian modems but means bupkis to the ADI.
We'll keep looking over the script, in hopes of modifying it to work on our
ADIs and our IBX--but has anyone else out there managed to successfully
AppleLink through an IBX? We finally managed to solve the timeout problem
on the ADIs by strapping RS232 line 4 to line 20 in the usual Mini-8-to-DB25M
"modem" cable, to keep the ADI happy that the line is occupied.
Any comments, help, appreciated; will summarize to the net if enough folks
seem to need it...
Ted
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or AppleLink
==============================================| U1091 (you-one-zero-nine-one)
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'! | or NTS WB8VNV
===============================================================================
------------------------------
Date: 24 Mar 89 10:46 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: CL/1, anybody?
Date: 24 March 1989, 10:41:26 EST
From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: CL/1, anybody?
Would like to talk with anyone using/knowledgable about CL/1. Would also
like to know addresses/contacts to reach following CL/1 software developers:
Fairfield Software, Fairfield IA (ClearAccess)
Andyne Computing (Graphical Query Language)
Neuron Data, Palo Alto CA (Nexpert Object)
We have Oracle/VMS and are looking for nice ways to integrate info from its
databases into other Mac applications. Oracle/Mac seems extremely limited, as
it uses HyperCard as a front end (and all the limitations that imposes on
graphics, etc.). We are, however, interested in exploring how hard we can
push that front end, for additional windows, colors in windows, etc.--kind of
like what we're hearing Supercard will do...
Ted
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or AppleLink
==============================================| U1091 (you-one-zero-nine-one)
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'! | or NTS WB8VNV
===============================================================================
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 14:40:11 EST
From: DJ WOOD <DWOOD@UDCVM>
Subject: Flowchartting App.
I was told by one of my instructors that a local Macuser group(Washington Apple
Pie) has a program that allows the user to graphicly create flowcharts. If any
of my fellow mac-netters know of such a program, please send my the infomation
directly. If by chance you have some shareware that will fulfill my request ple
ase send it to me.
NOTE: I don't need any one of you telling me that I can use a paint/draw progra
m. That defeates the purpose.
Thanx
DJ WOOD
------------------------------
Date: 23 Mar 89 09:10 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Foxbase+/Mac
Date: 23 March 1989, 09:06:46 EST
From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Foxbase+/Mac
Well, based in part on your replies, plus our own reviews of the literature
and our own situation vis a vis programming experience/time to develop new
applications, we have bought Foxbase+/Mac as our "low end" dbms environment.
We're really happy with it so far, and the future looks bright as they are
supposed to be testing an Oracle/Mac link which would let Foxbase+ code reach
into Oracle databases (we're already an Oracle/VMS shop).
Does anyone out there have any other templates you've developed or traded for?
We'd like to see anything you feel comfortable sharing, and would gladly
exchange for any new templates we create. Thanks!
===============================================================================
Theodore Allan Morris | 231 Bethesda Avenue, ML# 574
University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1 or AppleLink
==============================================| U1091 (you-one-zero-nine-one)
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'! | or NTS WB8VNV
===============================================================================
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 09:53:48 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MIDI Manager
In the April issue of Electronic Musician there is a reference to Apple
showing the "MIDI Manager" at the winter NAMM show (p. 12). Does anyone
out there have any information on this??? Is it the long awaited fixes to
the Sound Manager, or is it an entirly different package? When will this
be available to the general public, and where can I get it????
Thanks in advance,
Reed Rector
sxwrr@alaska (bitnet)
sxwrr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (internet)
p.s. Concerning the source code for the GIF encoder/decoder..... I am having
some problems getting the encoder to work, and I want to make sure that it
is a problem with my use of it, and not a bug in the source before I post
it to the archive. So for all those that sent me messages asking me to
send this stuff to the archive, I'm not ignoring you, and I should have the
problems ironed out in the next couple of weeks. I'll post 'em then.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 18:49:05 PST
From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu
Subject: RWatcher
Many people have asked me if and when I'll be updating RWatcher to catch the
new viruses (as configured RWatcher only catches Scores and nVIR). I thought
I'd take this opportunity to reply. Until recently I planned to update it, but
now I DONT'T plan to update it!
I originally wrote RWatcher for those non-MPW programmers who refuse to use
Vaccine because of its constant complaints about the creation of CODE
resources. Vaccine's checks are much stronger than RWatcher's, so I've always
recommended Vaccine for everybody else. Now there's a new INIT/cdev called
GateKeeper, by Chris Johnson, that has even stronger checks than Vaccine's,
and can be configured to grant "exemptions" to individual programs. So I now
recommend that programmers who won't use Vaccine get GateKeeper and configure
it to make their development tools exempt.
So as far as I'm concerned RWatcher is defunct - it served its purpose for a
brief period of time, but now there's a better tool.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
AppleLink: a0173
CompuServe: 76666,573
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 16:15 PDT
From: JAMESLI@toby.acs.washington.edu
Subject: Spelling Coach crashes...
Anyone using the desk accessory Coach Professional have
problems with it crashing (usually no system bomb, just
lockup) when using it with Word (3.02)? The problem is
fairly random, crashing sometimes after a minute of
use, and other times after half an hour. It does crash,
however, just about each time the two programs are used
together, even if Coach is loaded but not being used.
I've talked with the folks at Deneba who make Coach and
they swear that they don't have any idea what's going on.
We've got system 6.02 running with multifinder on an
AppleShare network (about a dozen SEs and IIs). The INITs
we use are the following: Init CDEV, On Cue, Pointing Device,
Pyro3.3, QuickKeys, SFVol INIT 1.5, Shield INIT, SoundMaster,
Suitcase II, and SuperClock!. I suspect it is one (or a
combination) of these INITs (the catch-all rationale for
the Mac crash), but in about eight hours of fiddling with
the order and such of these INITs I come up with nada.
Anybody with information, even if it pertains to one of
these INITs crashing other programs, please call me collect
at (206) 545-1920. Or use internet.
P.S. 4th Dimension rumor from January developers meeting
in this area: Vaccine and Pyro (? version) said to cause
4D crashes. (In truth, we've tried running 4D with and
without these INITs and, especially in the multiuser mode,
the program still crashes all the time...)
James Li, Systems Manager
The Washington Technology Center, Seattle
internet: JAMESLI@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
Rewards for info.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 12:19:10 CDT
From: decwrl!ucbvax!pro-party.cts.com!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: ThunderScan
After reading the informative article from Sandro Corsi, I have another tip or
two concerning the use of ThunderScan and the ImageWriter:
I've found it works much better to place the image to be be scanned directly
against the rear of the platen when winding it in -- on the _wrong_ side of
the metal protector that surrounds the platen. (Insert a business card,
sticky-note, or other suitable object behind the metal protector to make the
printer think that there is paper in the machine.) The image is more tightly
held this way, and therefore, there is less chance for slippage.
If you take the little magnet off of the "key" that ThunderScan provides with
the scanner, and glue it underneath the sensor, you won't have to worry about
the key any longer and can run the printer with the cover off. Obviously,
keep your hands (and anything else that doesn't belong) out of the printer
when the protective cover is missing in this way. I never did like leaving
the cover on, this included printing envelopes, etc, so there are other
reasons for this simple fix.
I used an Imagewriter I in the above, not sure that the same exact advice
would hold true for an IW II.
Don
------------------------------
Date: 24 Mar 89 15:17 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Undocumented "feature" in Foxbase+
We were having a problem with Foxbase+/Mac, which we called in to Fox
with no success.
When we opened up our application, and the user would start entering
data, we wanted to be able to have them click to open a second window
which contains a scrollable text box of all valid data choices, and an
OK and CANCEL button set. Foxbase+ offers this functionality in a
window which looks very much like a modal dialog box.
However, it WASN'T a modal dialog box--clicking outside of it in the
"main" window made the main window active...while your code is still
trapped, waiting for a selection from the text box, an OK, or a
CANCEL. No activity in the main window is turned on. Sure, if the
user is smart/lucky enough to go back to the dialog window, s/he can
click an appropriate response, but we needed to have the box be a TRUE
modal dialog box, i.e., can't click out of it until you deal with its
options.
Our programmer finally figured it out when looking at some other
generated code produced by Foxbase+, in a dialog box with only radio
buttons and OK/CANCEL: the attribute <FIXED> for the SCREEN command.
This is not documented among the attributes in the manual.
Fox's first response to the problem of clicking outside the dialog box
was "Why would anyone want to do that?" I guess they never heard of
fiddlers, novices, or end-user physicians :-). When we called them
back and talked to another tech, he said, "Yeah, I use that in all my
code--but I never knew what it did!"
Anyone else out there have any interesting "non-documented" "features"
we should know about?
Ted
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 13:14:52 CST
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using Color Icons...
Recently, our we aquired a Mac IIx for our Graphics Lab. I saw the stuff for
the color Icons in the archives and downloaded it. What I would like to do is
to place the Icons that I have created into Facade. I know how to do it with
B&W Icons, but I cant seem to get to color ones to go there. What do I have
to do to make this work???
Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.BITNET
Texas A&M University X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU
CSC Graphics Lab
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 15:22:52 CST
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Yet another strange MS-Word Problem
The Setup: MS-Word v3.02, (on AppleShare 2.0), System 6.0.2, Vaccine,
Suitcase II and Facade as INITS
The Problem: When the user is editing his document, he can see all of the
Paragraph in question. But when he prints, Word consistently drops (does
not print) the last 3 words of the paragraph. When I looked in the
Page Preview mode whilst trying to solve the problem, The 3 words were
there. But when I print just that page (the document is 80 pages long),
they disappear again.
What is going on????? Did I miss a Feeding time with my LaserWriter II-NT and
it is eating random words as a light snack??
If there is a solution, or any ideas, please send them to:
X098MF@TAMVM1.Bitnet or
X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU
Thanx,
Michael Farlow
Texas A&M University
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 29 Mar 89 Volume 7 : Issue 59
Today's Topics:
Apple II assembler on Mac ?
How to build new desktop on server ?
How to find the Finder during bootup (should work w/international)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #56
Magnavox (Philips) 14" Color Monitor for Mac II
Other INFO Digest
Plotter Drivers
postscript converter
Questions about archives
TK/Solver as a Technical Tool: What Happened To It? (long)
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 18:03 EST
From: "Harry E. Bates" <E7P2BAT%TOWSONVX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple II assembler on Mac ?
Hello List !
I have occasion to write assy. language progms. for the Apple IIe.
I really like the Mac interface. Does anyone know if there is a good
assembler for the Apple IIe (6502) that works on the Mac+ II etc.?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Harry E. Bates
Department of Physics
Towson State University
Baltimore, MD 21204
(301) 321-2441
HBATES@TOWSONVX
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 18:35 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How to build new desktop on server ?
Dear Net,
Does someone know how to build a new desktop file on a server volume ?
We are running a 20 Mb disk with a special interface box called
Ferroshare. Somehow the desktop file got ruined. Any help is greatly
appreciated.
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 89 04:15:57 EST
From: Alexis Rosen <decwrl!decvax!ccnysci!alexis@labrea.stanford.edu>
Subject: How to find the Finder during bootup (should work w/international)
Bill Lipa writes:
> This program may not work correctly on international systems because
> I do not know a robust way to determine the name of the Finder. The global
> called FinderName is not initialized at INIT time.
The Finder name is stored in the Boot Blocks of the boot disk. Don't
confuse that with the Startup File name. I don't remember the offset to
the Finder name offhand but a few seconds with any sector edtor should tell
you what you need to know. As far as I know, this method will work with
international systems also (but no promises).
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 89 01:54 EDT
From: JEFF WASILKO--PRESIDENT PRINTER'S DEVILS LOCAL 49 <JJW7384%ritvax.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #56
Real Subject: Program to convert files from punch format.
Someone asked about a program to convert network files that are sent in the
Punch format. I have a program written by Eric Thomas that does the job quite
well. It's written in C and runs on our VAX/VMS systems quite well.
I'll be happy to forward it to anyone who sends me mail, or to the moderators
to be placed in the archive (if they desire it).
+----------------------+------------------------+-----------------------------+
| RIT VAX/VMS Systems: | Jeff Wasilko | RIT Ultrix Systems: |
|BITNET: jjw7384@ritvax|Rochester Inst. of Tech.| UUCP: jjw7384@ultb.UUCP |
| or try: +------------------------+-----------------------------+
|UUCP: {psuvax1, mcvax}!ritvax.bitnet!JJW7384 |'claimer:Nobody ever cares |
|INTERNET: jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu| what I say. I guess |
| jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cornell.cit.cornell.edu| I don't need one. |
+-----------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
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Date: Sat, 25 Mar 89 14:09:34 PST
From: WHITNEY%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Phillip R. Whitney ICC @ CSUB)
Subject: Magnavox (Philips) 14" Color Monitor for Mac II
I'm trying to get some information on the Apple Macintosh 13" color monitor
compatible made by Magnavox (Philips Consumer Electronics Company). The
model # is 9CM080 and is supposed to be "compatible" with the standard
Apple Macintosh II color card. The nearest location to view the monitor is
over 100 miles away ... a bit too far to drive just for a peek.
A few stats about the monitor from the glossy sent to me by the company:
14-inch (13 viewable) diagonal, .29 dot pitch CRT.
Image size 240mmx180mm (nominal)
Bandwidth: 26 MHZ Horizontal Frequency: 35kHz
Vertical Frequency: 66.7 Hz
I'm interested in the monitor because the retail cost is $695 as compared to
Apples monitor which is $999. The monitor also comes with a two year
warranty as compared to the non-standard 90 day from Apple. Street price for
the Magnavox is in the high five hundreds.
My questions are:
Has anyone SEEN one of these monitors?
How does it compare to the Apple (Sony) monitor?
Brightness, Contrast, Trueness of color, Bending of images, does the
resolution compare favorably with the Sony (Clearness of characters,
distortion, is a circle a circle on the screen)
Does the monitor make horrible noises or run hot?
Is there an observable flicker or scan?
And just general impressions!
Thanks for any info you can provide. Please respond directly to me and I will
summarize for the net.
Thanks in advance,
*****************************************************************************
Phil Whitney
Instructional Computing Coordinator
CSU Bakersfield (805) 664-2307
Bitnet: HPILLIP@CALSTATE
ARPANET: HPILLIP%CALSTATE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
*****************************************************************************
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 14:46:33 PST
From: WEYH@chili.hac.com
Subject: Other INFO Digest
Does someone have a list of other INFO Digest such as INFO-MAC?
I know there are many of them but I don't have there net addresses.
I have a special intrest in Networking, VAX, PC's, HyperCard, and SQL/INGRES.
The addresses for the request of related (both specific and wider intrest)
would be appreciated.
Thank You,
Darwin C. Weyh Hughes Aircraft Co., EDSG
Phone: (213) 616-4836 ARPA: WEYH@CHILI.HAC.COM
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 00:25:39 CST
From: Jeff Balvanz <GR.JLB@isumvs.bitnet>
Subject: Plotter Drivers
I'm relaying this for a friend and consulting client here at
Iowa State. What Steve is looking for is a program that can take
either MacPaint or MacDraw format and convert it into LINE-DRAWING
commands for a Tek 4663 plotter. He already has a program
(MacDraft) that drives an HPGL plotter, but not the Tek plotter
(which is either larger or better resolution. . .I'm not sure
which). Anyway. . .what he wants to be able to do is either a)
drive the Tek 4663 plotter from MacDraw or MacDraft or b) find a way
to capture the stream going out to the HPGL plotter so that he can
write a translation program for HPGL to whatever the Tek plotter uses.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Jeff Balvanz BITNET: GR.JLB@ISUMVS (preferred)
Senior Technical Consultant INTERNET: GMMPC@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU
Microcomputer Services PHONE: (515) 294-8683
Iowa State University Computation Center USMail: 104 ATANASOFF* HALL, ISU,
AMES, IA 50011
*
Inventor of the digital electronic computer
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 08:41:15 PST
From: NESSETT@nmfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: postscript converter
Is there anyone out there that knows of a program that converts postscript into
a MacWrite or MS Word document? (NB: I don't mean bring in postscript so that
it can be printed. I want to edit the information represented by the
postscript file). Please E-mail me as well as responding to Info-Mac. Thanks.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 10:11:12 est
From: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Subject: Questions about archives
Mac II, 4MB RAM, 40MB HD, Finder 6.1, System 6.0.2, Under Multifinder
I've recently been trying to download some of the files from the
info-mac archives and have encountered some difficulties.
First, although I have StuffIt 1.13, I've been trying to get 1.5.1. I
un-binhex the archive and get "StuffIt 1.5.1 Extractor". When I run
the extractor I get an error message saying that 117k is required and
that I'm 33,000,000+ bytes short. If I go ahead and continue the
extraction, the StuffIt I get doesn't seem to work right, it bombs out
with "File ended unexpectedly" errors.
My next problem concerns Fade-to-Black. I unpack it and follow the
directions, but it seems to fail during the "Add...". It gets to
"Closing the system file" then beeps. If I chose the DA it just
beeps.
Some of these archives include doc files, e.g. "Fade to Black doc".
If I double click on the doc I get the ever-so-helpful message "Could
not be opened, application busy". What application's busy? If I try
to use TeachText to read it, the file doesn't even show up in the list
of choices. Getting "info" on the doc file is no help either. How's
a mere Homo Utilitatus (user) supposed to read the doc?
General Gripe: Why don't ALL of these archives include a readme file
that says what they are and how to install and use them? I've
downloaded several other things that I was unable to figure out, and
there was documentation to help.
Any help would be appreciated.
========
dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil
"The ultimate metric that I would like to propose for user
friendliness is quite simple: if this system were a person, how long
would it take before you punched it in the nose?"
-- Tom Carey
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 89 13:44:29 PST
From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: TK/Solver as a Technical Tool: What Happened To It? (long)
In Germany in 1984 a colleague showed me a version of "TK/Solver!"
(sp?) for the Macintosh which ran on a 512K Fat Mac, and impressed
me very much. You typed all the equations for a given problem into
an Equation Window. These did not have to be simple assignment
statements, or be entered in any special order; you could type
equations like
sin(2*pi*x+theta) + c = a*x↑2 + b*y↑2
with functions and variables on both sides of the = sign.
As you typed equations into the Equation Window, all the variables
you used were automatically collected in a Variables Window, where
you could either assign values to them, if they were intended to be
inputs, or leave them unassigned if they were intended to be
outputs. There was full editing in both windows, and a simple
procedure to step any of the input variables through a sequence of
values or a range with controlled limits and step size.
When you had everything entered, you clicked a "SOLVE" button and
the program implicitly solved the complete set of equations using
the specified inputs to find all the unknown outputs, assuming you
had enough equations to determine a solution. No programming or
worrying about how to do the iterations was involved. If the input
contained a sequence of values, the output could be a table of
outputs versus inputs, or an auto-scaled plot of any variable
versus any other variable. The program had all the usual
capabilities for Saving and Opening sets of equations, exporting
results, printing results, and so on, and the whole system seemed
to work beautifully.
It seemed to me this program was obviously going to be the analog
for the scientific and engineering world of the spreadsheet for the
business and financial world -- the VisiCalc for the slide rule
set. I would have sworn that it would spread like wildfire -- I
had visions of students doing problem assignments with zero
brainpower by just typing in all the equations in the textbook and
values for all the known variables, and letting SOLVE find all the
unknowns.
Instead, this version of TK/Solver! was never widely distributed
and now seems to have disappeared completely (I gather there were
commercial difficulties with the software firm involved). More
surprisingly, no major competitors have appeared, even though this
would seem to have been a natural, and even though versions of
TK/Solver! exist for other machines, e.g. for hp desktop machines.
The only similar program I know of for the Mac is Borland's
"Eureka", which seemed to me to be a poorer-quality version of what
I remember seeing in Germany, and which does not seem to have had
much success either.
Of course Mathematica and other considerably more complex programs
are becoming available now, though Mathematica is very much more
expensive and requires a fully loaded Mac II. But why did
TK/Solver! or some similar program for the Mac never take off the
way spreadsheets did? Are there just a lot more business and
financial spreadsheet customers than scientific and engineering
customers out there? Or was it just a fluke that this idea did not
get picked up by others and spread more widely? Even with
Mathematica today, I'll still like to have a small, simple,
inexpensive TK/Solver! descendent to run on my Mac Plus. What
happened?
--------
A. E. Siegman siegman@sierra.stanford.edu
A. E. Siegman siegman@sierra.stanford.edu
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Does anyone know if Illustrator files can be brought into PowerPoint
(via the Scrapbook, Clipboard, as EPS, etc.)
I don't have PowerPoint...I did an illustration and someone (after
the fact) has asked me of the possibility of bringing this file into
PowerPoint.
What might be helpful is if someone could tell me what types of
files PowerPoint can accept and I'll go from there.
Please respond via e-mail.
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From: Mark Richer <richer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
To: philf@lindy.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez)
Cc: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Change from Mac II -> Mac IIx
In-Reply-To: Your message of 29 Mar 89 02:34:32 GMT
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.607317401.richer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
System 6.03 is recommended for the mac IIX. It fixes some problems, but they
might not be related to anything you are doing. For example, I think
there are some appletalk fixes and I'm not sure you are on a network.
We have a Mac IIx and we have had some problems. First of all the color
vide card was not working correctly --- you could only tell there was a
problem when the color tables changed. Two ways to see if you have such
a problem --- run the Mac IIX demonstration disk and look at the demo
on software applications. It cycles through some gray scale images.
If there's something wrong with your vide card you will see a moment where
the display is messed up. Like a jagged line across the screen. You can
also see a similar effect by going in the control panels and changing
color on the color wheel.
Although the dealer found that the problem went away when the video card
was moved from slot 3 to 4, APple agreed to replace the card.
The other problem we have had has not been resolved. We have a IIX with
an internal 80mb drive. We have constant problems whenever we do disk
io on the internal drive. We have had many crashes, files getting damaged
,
the disk not being verifiable by Apple's disk first aid utility, etc.
The dealer could not find a problem using their diagnostic software. they
claimed we had a virus. We ran dozens of experiments and finally know
for 100% that something is wrong with the hardware --- the drive, the SCSI
controller or something. However, Apple has placed the burden of proof
on us and now we are awaiting a response through the dealer as to what action
Apple will take. I suppose they will start replacing parts like the hard
drive --- they never just replace the whole machine which would mean they
have the burden if figuring out what iw wrong. The dealer and the customer
have to take the time. Since I am a certified developer I bought the machine
directly from APple. therefore the dealer has nothing to gain except
regaining warranty costs. At first Apple refused to pay the $60 when
Computerland (SF) could not find a hardware problem --- Computerland wanted
me to pay $60. As I had a number for Apple tech support I should have had,
I called and bitched quite a bit. They finally decided to pay the $60
despite their claims we had a virus (which just wasn't true).
By the way the problem with the IIx drive only happened during i/o.
eventually
the only software we had on the drive was the system and MPW (apple's
programming software). Whenever we compiled we had problems like
crashing, etc. The same propblems NEVER happen when the same software
and program is compiled on an external dataframe drive connected to the
IIX.
I have heard other people have had problems with the IIx.
Good luck (I hope you have no problems).
mark
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From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 2 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 60
Today's Topics:
Crashes with Coach
GNU e?grep 1.3 executables
GNU e?grep 1.3 sources
HyperCard intro stack
Info-Mac Digest V7 (2 msgs)
Macs and Wangs...
New version of macps & prepfix
no longer supported software, or software by defunct companies
Other INFO Digest
Repair 1.5
Rolodex
Spiro!
Spy!
Straight into my living room...
TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet for Mac?
THINK C 3.02 Updater
ToMultiFinder Version 3.0
What with Giffer cluts?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 20:58:26 CST
From: Jeff E Mandel MD MS <AS01MEF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Crashes with Coach
James Li writes regarding crashes with Coach, and mentions that he is
using the INIT On Cue. My experience with this INIT indicates that the
ORIGINAL version (not the new version with the sword in the icon)
can cause some wierd and unexplained crashes. I traced down the problem
about six months ago while writing a very strange IO driver, and my
recollection is hazy, but essentially the problem is that if your application
messes with the menu bar in the wrong way, and you are running MultiFinder,
and have Backgrounder running, you will eventually get clobbered. This
is because Backgrounder has
no menu list, and the bug in On Cue permits it to get confused
about menu lists and think they are proc pointers, and eventually you execute
the proc at memory location zero, and boom! If you are running with MacsBug,
and look in the AppName global (DM 910), you will see "Backgrounder" is the
current application. Fortunately, there is a workaround for this problem.
Get the current version of OnCue and/or throw away the old one.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 20:46:34 CDT
From: "David D "Zoo" Zuhn" <zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Subject: GNU e?grep 1.3 executables
Here is a port of gnu e?grep 1.3 to MPW. This file contains
executables for grep and egrep, both of which use UN*X syntax
regular expressions. Source code is contained in a different
posting.
Dave Zuhn
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/mpw-gnu-egrep-13.hqx; 108K]
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 89 20:47:02 CDT
From: "David D "Zoo" Zuhn" <zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Subject: GNU e?grep 1.3 sources
Here are the sources for gnu e?grep 1.3. They are written for
mpw C 3.0. The original code is by Mike Haertal. Macintosh
modifications by David Zuhn.
David D Zuhn
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
zuhn@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/source/mpw-c-gnu-egrep-13.hqx; 154K]
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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 89 09:29:04 -0600
From: Robert J. Hammen <hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>
Subject: HyperCard intro stack
This is a HyperCard stack to be used in teaching introductory HyperCard
seminars. It contains an underlying help system describing what each
card is for. It's free.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/hypercard-intro-11.hqx; 209K]
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 08:58:35 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7
If the server is an AppleShare server, you rebuild the desktop just as
you would a local hard disk. Hold down the COMMAND and OPTION keys while
the server volume is being mounted. You will then be asked if you wish
to rebuild it. Say YES and sit back for a while: it can take several
minutes.
Bret Ingerman INGERMAN@SUVM.bitnet
Microcomputer Consultant
Syracuse University
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 09:02:38 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7
To receive a list of current BITNET servers and what audiences they
target, send the following message to LISTSERV@MARIST
SUBSCIBE NETMONTH your_full_name
To learn more about BITNET and the various types of servers, send the
following message to LISTSERV@MARIST
GET BITNET USERHELP
Bret Ingerman INGERMAN@SUVM.bitnet
Microcomputer Consultant
Syracuse University
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 23:56:14 EST
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Macs and Wangs...
I need to transfer word processing files from a Wang ALLIANCE system to a
Mac. I know that I can transfer the files from an ALLIANCE system to a Wang
VS system, and then to the Mac (using one of several different products)
without losing formatting information. Is there a way to do this *without*
having to go through the VS (i.e. directly go from the ALLIANCE to the Mac).
Supposing that no such system exists to directly go from an ALLIANCE to a
Mac, does anyone have any comments about the systems that go between a Wang
VS system and a Mac?
Finally, does anyone know of an e-mail product that supports both Wangs and
Macs?
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 15:05:45 PST
From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
Subject: New version of macps & prepfix
Here is version 2.1 of macps & prepfix, to replace the current version.
Macps is a Unix program that takes an uploaded PostScript file created
on a Macintosh (by typing Command-F at the LaserWriter dialog box) and
includes an appropriately modified LaserPrep file so that the result
can be sent to a PostScript printer from Unix. Since the Apple
LaserPrep files are copyrighted, I've included a program, prepfix, that
reads version 4.0 and up LaserPrep files, and edits them so that they
are compatible with Unix, and are even electronically mailable.
CHANGES IN VERSION 2.1
Version 2.1 of prepfix uses a safer method for turning on bit-smoothing
for non-Apple printers. This should get around some of the problems
people have been having with specialized macros in the LaserPreps that
are Apple printer specific. The -l and -p options in version 1.1 have
been replaced with the single -l option, and the limit on the number
of printers you can specify has been removed.
Also, prepfix removes some other various macros that cause
unpredictable problems, and a problem with Apple LaserWriter II/NTs
(but not other Apple printers).
Version 2.1 macps has several new options. The -c option allow you to
specify the number of copies to generate (overriding any multiple copy
option that was specified on the Macintosh). The -d option allows an
alternate directory to look for the macps.config file. Finally, the -r
(raw) option suppresses the conversion of 8-bit binary into ASCII, and
is useful for some graphics programs that manipulate gray-scale images,
and produce 8-bit binary PostScript output.
Macps will even work with a NeXT laser printer, but (at least the 0.8
version of the operating system) will not do bit smoothing. Beware,
though, that if you print Macintosh patterns at 400 dpi, they will
look funny.
Edward Moy Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU
ucbvax!violet!edmoy
[Archived as /info-mac/unix/macps-12.shar; 38K]
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 10:54:13 EST
From: alan@ems.media.mit.edu (Alan Ruttenberg)
Subject: no longer supported software, or software by defunct companies
This question has come up a number of times, so I am sending a message
to ask if anyone knows anything about this. If I have software which
was written by a company no longer in business, can I freely give it
away. If not what is the status of this sort of thing. This has come
up twice for me. Once for objectllogo whose status is unclear at apple
now, and more recently for tksolver which a recent message claimed is
no longer available.
-alan
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 9:29:28 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Other INFO Digest
>Does someone have a list of other INFO Digest such as INFO-MAC?
>I know there are many of them but I don't have there net addresses.
>I have a special intrest in Networking, VAX, PC's, HyperCard, and SQL/INGRES.
>The addresses for the request of related (both specific and wider intrest)
>would be appreciated.
>
>Thank You,
>Darwin C. Weyh Hughes Aircraft Co., EDSG
>Phone: (213) 616-4836 ARPA: WEYH@CHILI.HAC.COM
>
If you have FTP access, connect via anonymous FTP to nic.ddn.mil (26.0.0.73)
or (10.0.0.51). Change directories to 'netinfo' and download the file
'interest-groups.txt'. It is available as either one large (~265k) or seven
smaller files.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: 20 Mar 89 01:00:52 GMT
From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Subject: Repair 1.5
Repair's nVIR recognition is now independent of the infecting agent
CODE resource ID and the System file INIT resource ID. (This
generalization is not in response to a known variant; it is just a
precaution.)
For some varieties of nVIR, previous versions of Repair would fail to
recognize infection in a System file even though it recognized
infection in applications. Version 1.5 extends Repair's recognition
generality to System files.
brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/repair-15.hqx; 20K]
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Date: 30 Mar 89 10:27 EDT
From: Joe_Murphy.CAC.CAC@a.darpa.mil
Subject: Rolodex
I am looking for a simple Rolodex program to maintain and print names
and phone numbers. If possible I would like to print these in a format
suitable for personal organizers/ Filofaxes.
Thanks in advance!
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 21:43:03 MST
From: Andrew Stone CS.DEPT <stone%hydra.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu>
Subject: Spiro!
Spiro! is a new form of software I dub "Cyberdelics". This
program generates and animates various mathematical functions,
producing mind-expanding artforms: you are the artist.
Onscreen scrolls change the variables in the functions, my 5
year old daughter has great fun with it. For color Macs only (sorry).
If you like it, send me more algorithms to incorporate into the
next version!
--andrew 505-345-4800
||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
|| Andrew Stone ?? Able was I ||
|| stone@hydra.unm.edu <> ere I saw Elba ||
||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
[Archived as /info-mac/app/color-spiro.hqx; 60K]
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 19:49:29 EST
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Spy!
The Spy! CDEV displays Hard Disk space remaining, SysHeap, AppHeap and Stack
at the top of the screen. Written by Ed Kandrot of Cricket Software, it is
free.
Downloaded from Info Center BBS (914) 565-6696.
tom c
Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit
offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
-or- tcora@ardec.arpa
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/spy.hqx; 11K]
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 08:31:58 EDT
From: Rocky_Olive@apex22.ceo.dg.com
Subject: Straight into my living room...
Please submit to Info-Mac Digest readers...
I've been reading info-mac for about 5 months now and it has really
helped me prepare for my future Mac purchase! I've used Mac's on
and off ever since the original Mac (my college days at North
Carolina State University - go wolfpack!), but I was always too poor
to own one. Now that I have a "real job", I can stop dreaming and
start buying (SE? SE/30? IIcx? ...?)!
I still need to be frugal, though, so I have been carefully planning
my purchase. This newsletter has been VERY helpful and I hope to
continue to learn from some of the (obviously) more experienced Mac
users. And, of course, I want to start trying out some of the
archived goodies out there, along with submitting some of my own
future works (mostly games, probably).
This system will (of course) be for home use, so access to internet
may be slightly more difficult. Here's the only way I see it:
Mac<==modem==>HostAtWork<==>CorpHqHost<==ftp==>StanfordArchives
? ? ?
1) Now...my problem is this: I can get the .hqx files from the
StanfordArchives to my HostAtWork, but how should I get them to the
Mac? Will a terminal emulator running in ANSI mode retrieve files
to the Mac? Or is there something better?
2) By the time the .hqx files get to the HostAtWork, they are in
(Data General's) AOS/VS format. DG has software to transfer to DOS,
but I can't find anything for MacOS. Will AppleFileExchange help me
here? Any other options?
3) And how do I get the de-archiving utilities without the terminal
emulator? And vice versa? Or am I just missing something here? I
would be glad to "support" shareware authors for software that is
useful in getting me setup.
4) Lastly, I intend to connect to CompuServe from home. Any info on
suitable terminal emulators? Modems?
Thanks so much!
Please reply directly to me and I'll summarize.
Rockford L. Olive
Data General Corp.
Technology Drive
------------------------------
Date: 29 Mar 89 18:32:10 PST (Wednesday)
From: "Bruce_Hamilton.OsbuSouth"@xerox.com
Subject: TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet for Mac?
We have a Mac II/ Laserwriter gathering dust. I'm thinking of getting an
Ethernet card for it plus appropriate software and turning it into a
Postscript print server.
I'd appreciate recommendations on Ethernet cards and software for TCP/IP,
XNS, FTP, Telnet, print server, etc. We have vanilla Mac OS (does it have
a name?), not any flavor of Unix. (We do have lots of Suns running Unix,
if that helps.)
Kindly cc: me by e-mail, since I don't subscribe to the Digest or scan the
newsgroup.
Thanks,
--Bruce
CSNet: Hamilton.osbuSouth@Xerox.COM
UUCP: xerox.com!hamilton.osbuSouth
213/333-8075
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 89 11:00:18 EST
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: THINK C 3.02 Updater
This patcher fixes substantially the same bugs as the 3.01p4 patcher, and
addresses an incompatibility with the "SADE MultiFinder".
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/think-c-302-updater.hqx; 115K]
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 22:33:25 EST
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: ToMultiFinder Version 3.0
ToMultiFinder
Version 3.0
March 29, 1989
by Rich Siegel
ToMultiFinder is a program that offers the following features:
- Easy choice between Finder and MultiFinder, for users who
don't always want to use MultiFinder.
- Ability to run multiple startup applications BEFORE running
the Finder or MultiFinder - useful for programs such as
SuperSpool/SuperLaserSpool, the InBox startup program, or
others. (This is functionality that the Finder does not offer.)
- Ease of use. Set it and forget it; ToMultiFinder can be configured
to perform certain actions automatically after a variable time delay.
This means that you can start your machine, go get some coffee and
a muffin, and come back, and the Mac is ready for your use.
- Low cost. ToMultiFinder is shareware, which means that you only
have to send in the money if you use the program. The cost in this
case is only $15.
- Steady enhancements. As long as ToMultiFinder remains popular,
upgrades will keep coming. This new version 3.0 is the direct result
of user requests, all of which were accompanied by the appropriate
shareware fee. Upgrades are freely available via most information
services.
If you use ToMultiFinder, and have comments (good or bad), please contact
me. ToMultiFinder can be distributed freely, but may not be used as
incentive to purchase another product without my express written permission.
Also, this file must accompany the "ToMultiFinder" application.
ToMultiFinder is copyright )1989 by Richard M. Siegel. Portions are
copyright )1988 Symantec Corporation.
If you know of a BBS or information service that doesn't have ToMultiFinder
in its archives, please send it there.
I can be reached:
Richard M. Siegel
11 Hammond Street #9
Waltham, MA 02154
(617) 647-4825 [Nights and weekends]
To install ToMultiFinder, place it in your system folder, and use the
Finder's "Set Startup" command to set ToMultiFinder as the startup
application, and Finder as the startup shell (that is, not MultiFinder).
ToMultiFinder comes preconfigured to not run MultiFinder, and to wait
forever for user action.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/tomultifinder-30.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 18:04:02 EST
From: Eric Brunelle <eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: What with Giffer cluts?
Bonjour!
Last month I downloaded Giffer to our lab's only Mac II (sigh). You
should have seen the folks playing like kids with Danielle and Sondra
and the like. I even catched my boss, late one evening...
This month I came across ScreenMaster and !DeskPict. I tried to use
them to make my favorite GIF picture respectively StartupPicture and
background. It almost worked, but I never was able to get the clut
right. It insists on coming up with the standard palette. I tried
using the Klutz DA inside Giffer to save the clut and paste it in the
PICT2 file with ResEdit, but to no avail (the pasting worked but the
picture still had the standard palette). I can understand that it
might not work with the background but it should work with the Startup-
Picture. What am I doing wrong? Could it be the System version
(our II still uses 5.0 (4.2))? By the way, ScreenMaster docs mention
that it works with PixelPaint documents, but I don't have PixelPaint.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Brunelle | "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau de croire a la lumiere."
BNR-Montreal | -- E. Rostand
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 3 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 61
Today's Topics:
Applescanner problems
Debugging XCMDs
Disinfectant 1.0 Bugs
Flowcharting App.
How can I recover a scrambled card?
Mac ==> 3812 printer
Mac to PC Graphics Conversion
Milo and a PD/SW Print Spooler
other INFO-groups
Problem harmonizing Adobe Palatino
ResEdit 1.3d1 -- part 1 of 7
Simtel20 Problems
Taxes and shareware
TOPS repeater use with KINETICS FP
UPGRADE for the Mac-SE
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 11:57 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Applescanner problems
I'm posting the following for a colleague. Any help would be appreciated,
and should be sent directly to me. My original inclination is to mistrust
the device driver for the scanner, since the Apple Scan software is prone
to the same sort of `failed to reallocate data buffer' error message.
Seems like it's not purging RAM properly...
[original message follows]
The problem occurs in Hyperscan when I try to reposition the white cross
to change the contrast and/or brightness of a scan or when I try to change
the halftone pattern using the Option key together with the Up or Down
arrowkey. I get the error message "Failed to reallocate data buffer." I
have traced the source of this error message to the card script of the
"Halftone" card, specifically to the calling of the halftone XCMD in both the
"on mouseDown" and "on arrowKey" handlers. In addition, if I invoke the
"histo" handler from the message box I also get the error, possibly on the
call to checkError hyperScan ("Plot Histogram"). The "Effects" card which
allows you to click one of 30 buttons to change the dithering pattern
seems to work even though it too invokes a call to the halftone XCMD, but
an even stranger thing happens here. If I put a debugging statement such
as "put abc into msg" into the "on mouseDown" handler of the card script,
the same error occurs as on the "Halftone" card. Removing the debugging
statement allows the call to the XCMD go through with no error!
I am using the Apple Scanner connected to a 1 Meg Mac II (could it be a low
memory problem and if so is there any way around this short of
upgrading?) and am running the latest versions of both the scanner
software and Hypercard (1.2.2). I would appreciate any help on this
problem, as we cannot use Hyperscan effectively if we cannot control the
contrast and brightness settings.
******
Matt Wall
Research and Academic Computing
Brandeis University
WALL@BRANDEIS.Bitnet
(617) 736-4587
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 19:17:54 PST
From: PUGH@nmfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Debugging XCMDs
Someone asked a while back about how to debug an XCMD from within Lightspeed
Pascal. Well, it ain't possible. The thing to do is debug it from within
Hypercard and that is easy as long as you have sufficient hardware support.
Here's what I do:
I use Hypercard and MPW with both running under MultiFinder. I compile and
link my XCMD directly into a test stack which cannot be accessed by Hypercard
at the time of the link (i.e. have Hypercard sitting at home while you are in
MPW) or the link will fail due to the file being open. Now you can pop over
and test the XCMD in Hypercard. I know it's obvious, but here's the fun part.
In your code, use debugging statements of the form:
sendCardMessage('put "Starting crummy code"');
sendCardMessage('wait 5 secs');
sendCardMessage(Concat('put "Variable x = ',numtostr(x)));
sendCardMessage('wait until the mouse is down');
sendCardMessage('wait until the mouse is up'); { remember debouncing? }
I also seem to recall a problem with NumToStr. It is defined as:
FUNCTION NumToStr(num: LongInt): Str31;
but Pascal complains about the Str31 being incompatible. I simply changed the
Hypercard callback to be defined as
FUNCTION NumToStr(num: LongInt): Str255;
Since Hypercard will not return anthing bigger than 31 it doesn't matter what
the definition is. The structure is the same. Typical Pascal cheating. I
personally don't see why they used Str31 anyways. Seems kind of limiting to
me. Of course, you have to avoid using Str255 in XCMDs anyway since a field
or container simply won't fit in one.
That's how I debug XCMDs. Any better methods?
Jon
PS
I spoke with some guys beta-testing Supercard and they were using my XCMDs
in Supercard too. Talk about compatible! They even offered to send me money!
Who says shareware is dead? Granted you can't live off of it, but it buys me
lift tickets.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 08:00:45 PST
From: jln@accuvax.nwu.edu
Subject: Disinfectant 1.0 Bugs
Disinfectant 1.0 has been released for about a week and a half
now, and for the most part it seems to be working well. There
have been a few bug reports, however, and I want to let you know
that I'm working on a 1.1 release to fix them. It will be at
least a few weeks before I release it. I want to wait a bit until
I'm certain that we've discovered all the problems in 1.0.
Until then, watch out for the following problems.
Some kinds of "damaged" files could cause version 1.0 to hang,
bomb, or put up its "out of memory" alert. Version 1.1 will do
a better job of checking for damaged files. If you get a bomb,
hang, or out of memory alert while scanning with 1.0, try removing
the file that was being scanned from your disk and then scan the
disk again.
Scanning an active server disk in 1.0 is problematic. If other
users create or delete files or folders while the scan is in
progress, it can sometimes cause other files or folders to be
skipped or scanned twice. This is a problem shared by almost all
programs which scan disks. We've designed and implemented an
improved disk scanning algorithm for 1.1 to avoid this problem.
Note that in any case we continue to recommend that you take
servers out of production to scan them. This is the only way to
avoid file busy errors and insufficient privileges errors.
Version 1.0 evidently doesn't work at all over a TOPS network.
We'll try to find out why and fix it if possible. For now you
should not attempt to scan non-local disks over TOPS.
Disinfectant works on unenhanced 512K Macs with System 3.2 or
later, but it requires the "Hard Disk 20" file. We overlooked
this in our testing of version 1.0. Version 1.1 will check to
make sure this file is present, and issue an alert if it is
missing.
Version 1.0 doesn't properly display its icon in the Finder,
because we forgot to set the "bundle bit" when we shipped the
program. This stupid mistake will be fixed in 1.1.
If you run 1.0 on a GateKeeper-protected system to try to repair
infected files, and if you forgot to add Disinfectant to
GateKeeper's list of privileged applications, you will get
"unexpected" error messages. In 1.1 we will try to special-case
these errors and issue a better message that mentions GateKeeper
explicitly.
We received reports that in some cases Disinfectant claims that
a file is infected, even when other virus tools report that the
file is uninfected (e.g., Virus Rx 1.4a1 and Virus Detective).
This is possible, since Disinfectant uses stronger checks than
most of the other tools. The files sent to us were indeed
partially infected, but not contagious. We'll document this
possibility in version 1.1.
The version 1.1 document will correct a few minor typos and errors,
and we'll add a "Version History" section.
Thanks to everybody who's written about Disinfectant - I enjoy
and appreciate your notes. Special thanks to those people who
have reported bugs.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
AppleLink: a0173
CompuServe: 76666,573
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 15:14 CST
From: <MPARK%UTMEM2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Flowcharting App.
The flowcharting application is Design/2.0 from:
Meta Software Corp.
150 Cambridge Park Drive
Cambridge, MA 02140
It began life and is principally still an application
for programmers to draw flowcharts and other kinds of
data-flow diagrams. It can be used to create and animate
entity relationship diagrams. It can also inspect block
oriented code (such as Pascal or C) and extract data-
flow relationships from it. It is also extensible,
meaning that tools can be added to it.
For all its features and medium-range price (several
hundred dollars), it is not their high-end product.
For, I believe, several thousand dollars, Meta Software
sells a very sophisiticated application for computer-
aided software engineering.
Mel Park
Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiolgy
Univerisity of Tennessee, Memphis
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 09:40:26 PST
From: Mike_Dustan@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: How can I recover a scrambled card?
I don't know if I'm asking the impossible, but here goes...
A client of mine has a 500K HyperCard stack with well over 400
cards in it. Two cards in it have become damaged; any attempt to
read them produces the message "Unable to read background or card
ID xxxx" (or something similar; the message was relayed to me
late at night over the phone). HyperCard promptly quits to the
Finder. This happens when you go to the cards in question or sort
or compact the stack.
There are two backgrounds in the stack; one contains a single
card with printing buttons and scripts and things. The other
contains all the data cards. No cards have individual scripts;
everything is done with background scripts, buttons and fields,
plus a large stack script. I use a number of XCMDs and XFCNs,
particularly Jon Pugh's HPopUpMenu (real slick, that!),
GetFileName, SetFileType, Sort and Find. All of these live in my
Home stack and don't seem to clobber anything else, so I don't
really suspect them (do I?).
The cards of the stack are hard-linked (i.e. by their card IDs)
to other stacks, so recreating the stack is essentially out of
the question.
Are there any tools, tricks, workarounds or the like that I can
use to either zap the offending cards out of existence, or
twiddle them so HyperCard can at least read them? Are there any
stack verification utilities that can scan a stack and pronounce
it well-formed? (Hello, Apple?)
Please E-mail me if you know of anything; time is of the essence
here.
Mike_Dustan@cc.sfu.ca <--should reach me.
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:06:53 CST
From: Larry Pickett <C4898%UMSLVMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac ==> 3812 printer
Has anyone managed to get a ibm3812 page printer to print MAC
produced graphics? Specifically what would be the most efficient
procedure for porting MAC graphics into a VM Publish document?
Acknowledge-To: <C4898@UMSLVMA>
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 15:40:05 MST
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac to PC Graphics Conversion
Does anyone know of a way to convert Mac graphics (bitmap, PICT or
whatever) to IBM graphics format? I would also like to know it it is
possible to convert the other way, even though the quality of the graphic
would probably be lousy. We are considering the purchase of an Apple
scanner, but some of the graphics we do must used on an IBM-AT, hence the
need for the conversion.
Also, does anyone have any experience with the new Hewlett Packard
scanner? I understand that it is both Mac and IBM compatible and the
number of gray levels can be set by the user. Please reply to me directly
and I will summarize for the net. Thanks.
==========================================================
Bob Bolt Bitnet: BBOLT@UALTAVM
Instructional Tech Centre CI$: 75410,2754
University of Alberta
==========================================================
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Date: Sun, 2 Apr 89 21:12:36 CDT
From: Chris Cleeland <cleeland@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Milo and a PD/SW Print Spooler
I have two questions:
(1) There was a posting around January of a demo copy (probably in beta test)
of an application named "Milo". I had heard of the program, and it's
reputation of making anyone's life easier if they worked with higher-level
mathematics much. I downloaded it (all six parts, about 400K after
unstuffing) and can only get it to enter the application. All it says
is that this demo copy has expired. None of the files that I downloaded
with it would open, and nothing that I tried to do would work. My
question is, does anybody know either who posted this on info-mac, or,
does anybody know how I can contact the original author of Milo, so as
obtain another *working* demo copy of the application?
(2) I also have a friend who does extensive work in Excel as part of her
work-study job here at Tulane University. She regularly (about once a
week) has to print out 23 specially formatted worksheets. This process
consumes about 2 hours of her time, God willing that the printer doesn't
screw up. She's confined to the following system: vanilla Plus (1 meg),
Imagewriter II, external floppy. I would like to know the following: Is
there a print spooler available in either the public domain or a share-
ware product that works (or even *might* work) with this setup? If no
PD or SW product exists, is there anything that's not too pricey
available commercially?
Reply to:
Internet: cleeland@rex.tulane.cs.edu
ARPA: cleeland@rex.UUCP
Thanks in advance,
Chris Cleeland
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 10:04 PST
From: "Vladimir Ivanovic 415.423.7786" <IVANOVIC%VAXR@circus.llnl.gov>
Subject: other INFO-groups
Darwin C. Weyh asks:
Does someone have a list of other INFO Digest such as INFO-MAC?
The answer is: Yes! The latest and greatest Arpanet information can be
found on SRI-NIC.ARPA. Here is an old copy (but still basically
accurate) of the overview. The index to the interest groups is in
NETINFO: and is called either INTEREST-GROUPS.TXT or a set of smaller
files called INTEREST-GROUPS-#.TXT where # ranges from 1 to 7.
================================================================================
Welcome to the DDN Network Information Center! The following public
directories are located on the SRI-NIC.ARPA computer system:
DDN-NEWS: DDN Management Bulletins and DDN Newsletters
IEN: Internet Experimental Notes
IDEA: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Idea Papers
NETINFO: Contains Admin. notes, Documents, Host/TAC info,
Domain/Internet info, PC/Kermit info, NSC/HA lists,
Network program info, DDN Vendors Guide and DDN New
Users Guide
NETPROG: Network programs for WHOIS, HOSTNAME, getting the NIC
host table and host table compiler
PROTOCOLS: Network Protocols Information
RFC: Requests For Comments
To get a listing of filenames within one of these directories while using
FTP, use the "dir" (directory) command, as in "dir RFC:".
Each directory contains an index or indexes to the files within that
directory:
DDN-NEWS:DDN-NEWS-INDEX.TXT
IEN:IEN-INDEX.TXT
IDEA:IDEA-INDEX.TXT
IDEA:IDEA-INDEX-ABS.TXT
NETINFO:NETINFO-INDEX.TXT
NETPROG:NETPROG-INDEX.TXT
PROTOCOLS:PROTOCOLS-INDEX.TXT
RFC:RFC-INDEX.TXT
Copies of these indexes are also stored in this directory for your
convenience.
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 17:40:12 PST
From: Jay Lieske <JHL@naif.jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Problem harmonizing Adobe Palatino
I have downloaded the palatino.hqx file from the font/adobe
directory. After running it through Font Harmony (the Suitcase II
utility) and check/fix-ing the screen fonts all is well. However,
when I try to 'harmonize' the styles the machine blows up every time.
I have downloaded the file twice, so it might be a problem with the
Sumex file or it might be a problem with Font Harmony. Font/DA mover
seems to think everything's OK.
-Jay Lieske
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:19:32 PST
From: lauac%QAL.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu
Subject: ResEdit 1.3d1 -- part 1 of 7
This is the latest version of ResEdit in a Stuffit archive.
--- Alex
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INTERNET: lauac%qal.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/resedit-13d1-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/resedit-13d1-part2.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 07:27 PDT
From: "BRIAN KLAAS, CH3 POLE J7, MAILSTOP CH3-69" <BKLAAS%CH3@sc.intel.com>
Subject: Simtel20 Problems
Hi,
I had some similar problems with simtel20 in the past, but I no longer have
FTP access so I have forgotten how to use it. The problem that is being
encountered I beleive is due to incorrect FTP and Kermit procedure. The file
has to be FTP in TENEX???? format, and then Binary kermit down to the mac.
The mac should be in MACBINARY Kermit, and I found that it worked with
VersaTerm, but not redryder 9.4.
It has been a while since I used the server, so oI do not remember exactly,
look in the README on the server, I think that helps out a little bit (but
not much).
Brian Klaas
BKLAAS%CH3%sc.intel.com@relay.cs.net
BKLAAS%CH#@sc.intel.com
disclaimer: void where prohibited by law.....
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 11:42:51 EST
From: alan@ems.media.mit.edu (Alan Ruttenberg)
Subject: Taxes and shareware
I go to school at MIT, and want them to send some money for shareware
that I use. However they say that they need social security numbers of
people who they make payments to in order to make payment. Has anyone
else had this problem. Any suggestions? Should shareware include a ss#
as a matter of policy so that easy payment can be made? Or is this
legally unnecessary. Opinion? Facts?
-alan
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 15:59 EST
From: "John L. Jamison x8508" <JAMISON@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: TOPS repeater use with KINETICS FP
Has anyone been able to connect a localTalk network, extended through the
use of TOPS repeaters, to a FastPath 4 successfully? We're having some
problems. Any thoughts are much appreciated.
John Jamison jamison@campus.swarthmore.edu
Sys/Net Mgr jamison@swarthmr.bitnet
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081
215.328.8508
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:56:33 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: UPGRADE for the Mac-SE
>> Apple has already announced an upgrade for the SE to the SE-030 (due this
~~~~~~~
>> Spring - still vaporware as far as I know - the price quoted in InfoWorld
>> was $1,000
>
>A friend of mine bought a SE/30 (on the the drawing board it was know as
>the MAC SEx (really!) ) so it's not vaporware, but it's costs lot more than
>$1,000.
Your friend had to buy the case, monitor, and keyboard too :-) The upgrade is
just a swap of motherboard and disk drive. I don't believe the upgrade is
available as yet (I've seen both an SE-030 and a IIcx in my local computer
store; I wonder when a 20 MHz or 33 MHz model will be available?).
/s Murph
I bought the latest computer;
it came fully loaded.
It was guaranteed for 90 days,
but in 30 was outmoded!
- The Wall Street Journal passed along by Big Red Computer's SCARLETT
FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 4 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 62
Today's Topics:
[DCGQAL]TOM.CHAVEZ!Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #58
Answers to memory questions
Apple IIe for the MAC
Backup Help Wanted ...
FKEY programming info
Fullwrite Crashes
HELP! Lightspeed C
Info-Mac Digest V7 #55
Leprechaun Demo -- part 1 of 10
Reversi/Othello Help
those darn CLUT's
TK/Solver?
TK/Solver for the Mac
TOPS repeater use with KINETICS FP
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 10:19:24 PDT
From: "DASnet" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [DCGQAL]TOM.CHAVEZ!Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #58
Re: Subject: MIDI Manager
In the April issue of Electronic Musician there is a reference to Apple
showing the "MIDI Manager" at the winter NAMM show (p. 12). Does anyone
out there have any information on this??? Is it the long awaited fixes to
the Sound Manager, or is it an entirly different package? When will this
be available to the general public, and where can I get it????
Thanks in advance,
Reed Rector
____________________________________
The Apple MIDI Management Tools provide a new way for an application to access
the MIDI interface. The new MIDI driver provides the interface. An
application (or DA for single finder) called PatchBay provides a graphical
interface for connecting ports and timing between applications and devices.
The best feature about the new MIDI Manager is that multiple MIDI applications
are supported under MultiFinder, with real-time interaction and data sharing.
The development package will be available from APDA (the Apple Programmers and
Developers Association) in early May.
If you have other questions, feel free to send me mail.
Tom Chavez
Product Manager, Apple MIDI Management Tools
Apple Computer, Inc.
Internet: Tom.Chavez@applelink.apple.com
=END=
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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 22:42 EST
From: Robert W. Kerns <RWK@fuji.ila.dialnet.symbolics.com>
Subject: Answers to memory questions
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
It is possilble to use IBM simms in Macs, but not Mac simms in IBMs. IBM simms
are 9 bit chips. The nineth bit is used for parity checking, and according to
Lee Larson,
"statistical analyses have shown that there is no significant
increase in reliability in using that ninth chip as IBM does. It is only
used once, during the boot-up process. It has as much chance of failure
as any other chip in the system, so 1/9 of the time, the parity chip
is the one that goes. (More parts ==> More failures)"
Well, I don't know what IBM actually does, but it is NOT the purpose of
parity checking to improve the reliability. As Mr. Larson said, it does
indeed slightly degrade reliability.
The reason why real computers have parity bits is to eliminate UNDETECTED
errors. It is usually better for the system to crash than for you to get
a wrong answer because of a memory error.
Better than parity checking is ECC -- Error Correcting Code. This uses
additional bits to not only detect errors, but additionally, to correct
the error if it is no more than one erroneous bit. Double bit errors
are detected, but not corrected. Unlike parity checking, ECC can improve
reliability, especially if single-bit errors are logged when corrected,
and any defective boards replaced at a future service visit.
If memory serves, I believe 4 bits is not enough bits to implement ECC
for a 32-bit word, but 8 bits is more than enough; I think it's about
6 bits, but I don't want to think too hard.
ECC is less expensive (proportinally) for larger word widths.
As you can see, ECC is more expensive than parity checking. But I think
it is very bad that Apple does not at least provide parity checking. It
makes it hard to trust results on the Mac, and it makes it hard to identify
problems. Intermittent software problems can really be bad memory, but
how can you tell?
I'm perfectly willing to pay an extra 20% for my memory to get the extra
reliability of ECC.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 89 21:28 EDT
From: <J_KAZURA%UNHH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple IIe for the MAC
In Vol7 Issue 59,
Harry Bates asked if there was an assembler for the IIe that works
on a MAC. Well there is, its called " ][ in a MAC " It's made by
COMPUTER:applications, Inc.
12813 Lindley Drive
Raleigh, NC 27614
(919) 846-1411
Hope this helps,
Joe Kazura
Computer Specialist
University Technology Center
University of New Hampshire
(Disclaimer: I didn't do it!)
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 08:15 CST
From: SWANGER@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Backup Help Wanted ...
I have a small, non-networked Public Mac Lab (8 SE's with 20mb hard drives). I
would like to set up all of our supported software on one of the Macs exactly
like I wanted it, then I would like to use a backup program to create a
'Baseline' set of diskettes from this Mac's hard disk. I would then use this
baseline set of disks to restore each of the other 7 Macs. In theory, each of
the Macs would be set up exactly the same. If some user trashed the hard disk,
it would be easy to erase the disk and restore the software from the baseline
diskettes.
I tried this with HDBackup, Apple's famous program. It seemed to work, except
some file attributes were ignored. Files that were locked on the original hard
disk were not locked on the restored hard disk. Mactools allows you to
'protect' a file. This prevents users from copying an unauthorized (i.e.
licensed) file from the hard disk (well, sort of... if the user has HDBackup
they can copy the file). Files that are 'protected' on the original hard disk
are not protected on the restored hard disk. At least invisible files were
still invisible on the restored disk. I also tried this with FASTBACK (from
Fifth Generation) and met with the same results.
I want a Backup program that will allow you to backup a hard drive to diskettes
and then restore these diskettes to another hard drive. Afterwards, the second
hard drive should be set up EXACTLY like the original drive, not reasonably
close.
I would appreciate any help with this!
David Swanger
Academic Computing Services
Auburn University, Al 36849
205-844-4813
SWANGER@AUDUCVAX <-- BITNET ADDRESS
SWANGER@AUDUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU <-- INTERNET ADDRESS
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 89 00:33:45 EDT
From: David Ascher <ST501649%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FKEY programming info
This has probably been talked about before, but ``where can I find info
on programming an FKEY for the Mac''? I couldn't find anything in the
TechNotes. Any other idea?
Thanks for any help
David Ascher
E-mail: ST501649@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (ARPANet/BITNet)
SnailMail: P.O. Box 3209, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
NewEnglandTelNet: (401) 863-6603
# include disclaimer.h;
Flames, mail, and love letters gladly accepted.
------------------------------
Date: 3 Apr 89 13:46 EDT
From: Joe_Murphy.CAC.CAC@a.darpa.mil
Subject: Fullwrite Crashes
We have a user here who has had repeated crashes with Fullwrite when she
prints. After several crashes, we reload the system files, the Fullwrite
files and network drivers/printer drivers (anything which the crash
might have corrupted) but the problem inevitably reappears. Today we
swapped out the cpu and replaced it with a new one, but I expect the
crashes to continue. Machine crashes whether under Multifinder or
Finder.
Configuration is:
Mac II 4 megabytes or RAM
SuperMac Video 8 board
CMS 60 (was Dataframe 60)
Local Talk connection to 3Com network
System 6.02, LaserWriter 5.02, 3Com 1.3.1
Dimmer INIT, SuperClock, Responder and init CDEV.
FullWrite 1.0
I suspect Fullwrite, but several others are using it without problems.
The machine crashes with various error codes, ID=3 to ID=11. This only
happens when she prints. We also have had the 3com mail program crash
when the machine prints. I suspect something about the software
configuration is causing the problem. Does Fullwrite fragment memory? Is
it doing something illegal with the print manager that might cause other
applications to crash? Could it be the Localtalk cabling? An act of god?
Thanks in advance,
Joe Murphy
Computing Analysis Corp.
DARPA IRC
NETS: jam@a.darpa.mil, jamurphy@a.isi.edu
BIX: jamurphy
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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1989 16:41 PDT
From: GORR <GORR@uwacdc.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: HELP! Lightspeed C
(I hope I sent this to the right place)
I receintly purchased Think's Lightspeed C for my MAC SE and I am having
problems getting the first example in the book to work. It gives
me a linking error problem. I have a MAC SE with 2 800k drives and 1 meg.
of memory...not the best stats, but according to the manual, the first
example should work...I think the problem is that the disks are set up
incorrectly (the disks are the backup copy I am useing) and in the
manual it explains how to set up Lightspeed C on a 2 drive system, but
the way the manual explains it, doesn't work...I've tried all sorts of
things, but nothing seems to work.
If you have any ideas, or I left something out that may lead you to
discovering the solution, please send Email to:
GORR@UWACDC.acs.washington.edu
Thanx...
The the first example in the manual is:
#include <stdio.h.
Main ()
{
printf("hello world\n");
}
------------------------------
Date: 1 Apr 89 05:18:41 GMT
From: Alastair Milne <milne@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #55
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 89 16:07:14 CST
>From: brianc@saintjoe.edu (Brian Capouch)
>Subject: Sit Story
>
...
>
> We have no trouble accessing the info-mac archives whatsoever.
>The "product mix" we're using is as follows:
>
> 1. We begin an "ftp" session and connect to the server
> using our Sun 3/150.
>
> 2. We download your .hqx files in ASCII mode; the WSMB files,
> which are predominantly .sit files, we do in tenex mode.
>
> 3. The trip to the Macs from our
>Suns is done over our Ethernet, using the Mac/IP product which we obtained
> from Stanford.
I don't know anything about this phase. I use MacKermit0.9(40) over
a phone modem from home. But a byte stream should be a byte stream,
right? Which is what Kermit in binary mode sends (unless there is some
unfortunate extra "intelligence" in a particular implementation).
>Somehow, the .sit files from the WSMR server are not recognized as sit files
>by the Unstuffer. We have tried to transfer them from the Suns to the Macs
>using each of the three possible modes built into Mac/IP (binary, MacBinary,
>and ASCII). Nothing seems to matter; the files are un-unstuffable, and
>as it turns out we aren't therefore able to download software from that
>server.
I was in just this situation. I used Art Schumer's MacSnoop to look at
the files I'd got at byte level. I found a very interesting thing: the
SIT file I wanted appeared to be embedded in an encapsulating format which
included at least the true SIT file's name, creator, and type. There was
also other binary information in the area preceeding the start of the true
file, but I wouldn't care to think about trying to decipher it.
So I made myself a small application which simply extracts the embedded
file, presenting the recovered name, creator, and type in a dialogue box,
in case you want them changed. This does create a StuffIt archive, and
Stuffit does recognise it. It protests it -- presumably there is more to
the file than just the archive, and the undecipherable information
probably tells, among other things, just where the archive ends. But
despite the protest, StuffIt sees and uses an intact archive. This has
let me obtain a number of SIT files from simtel20 -- which is very
fortunate, because, as I'm sure you know, they have a massive archive.
I've sent a note to Robert Thum (simtel's Mac archivist) about this, and
he has been very obliging; but he doesn't recognise the problem, or at
least, hasn't done so far. My description astonished him. To paraphrase
his response, ftp should download exactly what's in his archive: no more
and no less.
>... since (according to them) the "tenex" mode is the proper ftp mode
>for transferring these files.
It certainly was for me. Before I remembered to use "tenex" in ftp, I got
*REAL* garbage, interpretable as absolutely nothing.
If people are finding this necessary, I will be happy to send in the
little application for people to use as they want. It's crude, but it
gets the job done. Considering the great good I've had out of the
various archives so far, I'd be pleased to make a contribution in return.
My question about the whole business is this: how is a program like Kermit
supposed to know the creator and type with which to create a file it's
receiving? (I suppose the same question may apply to Mac/IP.) Unless
both ends are prepared to use attribute packets, what is to tell MacKermit
the type and creator? And since I first ftp the files from Simtel into a
UNIX directory (specifically DYNIX running on a Sequent Balance), and
UNIX doesn't keep file attributes, how could UNIX Kermit find those
attributes to send (supposing that it supports attribute packets)?
(It seems almost impossible that the encapsulating fields could in fact by
an attempt at attribute packets: apart from the fact that they're supposed
to precede file-header packets in the Kermit protocol, and are therefore
unlikely to be available for even a buggy Kermit to embed in the file,
they should be almost entirely printable characters, and these are almost
entirely binary.)
Alastair Milne
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:30:05 PST
From: lauac%QAL.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu
Subject: Leprechaun Demo -- part 1 of 10
This is the latest version of the Leprechaun Demo as of March 30 -- 2.5.6.
It is in a Stuffit archive.
--- Alex
UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!qal.berkeley.edu!lauac
INTERNET: lauac%qal.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/leprechaun-part1.hqx; 156K
/info-mac/leprechaun-part2.hqx; 156K
/info-mac/leprechaun-part3.hqx; 142K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 13:01 CDT
From: John DeSoi <john@murph.tamu.edu>
Subject: Reversi/Othello Help
I'm implementing the game Reversi, or Othello if you like that name
better (I know, boring, but its for an AI project). Everything is
working ok but it seems rather slow and stupid. Does anyone out there
know of any references on computer implementations of this game in
particular? I could not find any. I really need to find an improved
static evaluation function. I saw a couple of nice implementations on
the Mac a while back; any comments/suggestions/ect. from anyone with
experience on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
John F. DeSoi
Laboratory for Software Research
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3112
(409) 845-4306
BITNET: desoi@tamlsr
INTERNET: desoi@lsr.tamu.edu
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 23:29 EDT
From: LXC0300%ritvax.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: those darn CLUT's
PROBLEM WITH MODIFYING THE COLOR LOOKUP TABLE:
The function change_clut() shown in the source listing section was
used to modify the CLUT for 256 grey levels under Finder 6.0 and it
worked just fine if each entry is protected right after modification.
The reason for doing this is because there are eight entries that are
some how "reserved" and the only way to modify their contents is by
protecting them right after modification. The first for loop generates
the 256 grey level table and stores them in the ColorSpec array mytable.
The function SetEntries() then sets mytable to be the new CLUT as
described in Inside Macintosh V. The second for loop then calls
ProtectEntry() to protect the entries from being changed.
However, under Finder 6.0.2, it is no longer possible to protect the
entries right after modification of the CLUT. The function SetEntries()
still works, but calling the function ProtectEntry() afterward no longer
protects the entries.
QUESTIONS:
1) What else needs to be done before or after modifying the CLUT?
2) Are there other ways to modify the CLUT beside using the function
SetEntries()?
SOURCE LISTING:
change_clut()
{
int i, start, count;
ColorSpec mytable[256];
unsigned short greyvalue;
Boolean protect = TRUE;
start = 0;
count =255;
greyvalue = 0xffff;
for(i=0; i<256; i++)
{
mytable[i].value = greyvalue;
mytable[i].rgb.red = greyvalue;
mytable[i].rgb.green = greyvalue;
mytable[i].rgb.blue = greyvalue;
greyvalue -= 0x0100;
ProtectEntry(i, FALSE);
}
SetEntries(start, count, mytable);
for(i=0; i<256; i++)
ProtectEntry(i, TRUE);
}
I would appreciate any comments and suggestions regarding this problem.
Lenny Chen BITNET: LXC0300@RITVAXC
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 11:10 PDT
From: Arnold_Tang@spd.3+.3com.com
Subject: TK/Solver?
I have it on good authority that when Lotus acquired Software Arts
(the guys who wrote VisiCalc and TK/Solver), they sold the rights to
some company in the Midwest. Lotus may be able to provide their name
and support information.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 89 13:54:34 PST
From: DORY%ORN.MFENET@nmfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: TK/Solver for the Mac
I believe that support for TK/S for the Mac was dropped a couple of
years ago (or the owner at the time went out of business) but have seen
reference to a new version soon to appear. Reference must have been in
MacWeek or InfoWorld if not on Info-Mac, and was in the last week or
so.
Must confess that this bit of not much info at all is just an
excuse to see if I can really access Info-Mac via this route.
B. Dory Oak Ridge National Laboraatory
DORY%ORN.MFENET@NMFECC.LLNL.GOV
.
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 10:28:14 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: TOPS repeater use with KINETICS FP
>Has anyone been able to connect a localTalk network, extended through the
>use of TOPS repeaters, to a FastPath 4 successfully? We're having some
>problems. Any thoughts are much appreciated.
>
>John Jamison jamison@campus.swarthmore.edu
>Sys/Net Mgr jamison@swarthmr.bitnet
>Swarthmore College
>Swarthmore, PA 19081
>215.328.8508
>
John,
I'd recommend that you send mail to <info-appletalk@andrew.cmu.edu> on
this subject. If you wish to be put on the list, mail to <info-appletalk-
request> at the same host. This list deals with the sort of problems you
(and others) are experiencing.
tom c
Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit
offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
-or- tcora@ardec.arpa BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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From: mansour@am-sun1.stanford.edu (Mansour Kamyar)
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
Subject: recovering a resource fork when mixed up with info part
I have down-loaded a macintosh resource file which was not uploaded with
macbinary. Therefore, the info part and resource part are put together, so
when the file is down-loaded they end up in the data fork. I need to know
how long the info part of a file is and its format so that I can subtract
it and get the resource part. Then I need to know the macbinary protocol in or
order to create a new info part and with macbin program create a macbinary
file and down-load it properly.
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 5 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 63
Today's Topics:
Amazing Statements
Apple II tools for the Macintosh
Carpet 2.0 (part 1 of 6)
Digital Simulation Program Sought
DistillPS (latest version)
Funny stuff
Macromaker delays ?
Milo
SimCity Demo
SIT story
SND Player Code Request
Straight into . . .
That Tree Program
VirusDetective 2.2.1
wanted: scheduling program
XCMD, XFNC, and QuickBASIC
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 23:42:16 PDT
From: PUGH@nmfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Amazing Statements
Just a couple of notes...
I updated the file /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu.hqx with a very minor
bug fix. It used to crash if you had two ;; like so. It wasn't supposed to
and the fix consisted of 4 characters. If you care, download the new version.
I guess I would recommend it, after all, I thought it was annoying enough to
fix.
Also, I just got my SE/30 and I like it. Now I just need a screen saver that
works with it. Dimmer doesn't work and I really doubt that AutoBlack will
work either (due to the lack of a second video buffer or is there one?). At
any rate, I will play with this for a few days before making any serious
reports. Now I need to find a desktop INIT that will work since I want to use
all my old b&w screens. StartUpDesk doesn't seem to function either. I'll
have to start pawing through the archives, I guess.
Finally, anybody got a cheap engine for an 85 Olds Firenza? Sheesh. Even my
car blows up, but it doesn't have a reset button. If you feel sorry for me,
send in a shareware payment, I really need them now. :↑( Thanks to everyone
who has sent the lifegiving cashish though. It keeps me posting. Of course,
I should look on the bright side of life (whistle here), I survived the latest
earthquake. My Mac didn't even flinch. ;↑)
Jon
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 10:55:07 PDT
From: C43CJK%ENG4.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com
Subject: Apple II tools for the Macintosh
With regard to the question about an assembler for the IIe that runs on
the MAC. "][ in MAC" is an Apple IIe simulator that will allow to run
DOS 3.3, ProDOS, etc on your Mac. This of course gives you access to
assemblers, compilers, etc.
I suggest you also contact APDA about the status of the 6502/65816
cross development environment that runs under MPW. This tool set
includes an assembler and compiler (though I think the compiler only
produces code for the IIgs).
I don't have my APDA catalog at work, so I can't give you a part number.
/----------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------\
| Craig Keithley | C43CJK@ENG1.GM.HAC.COM | (805) 968-5981 |
| GM DSO-SBO | C43CJK%ENG1.GM@HAC2ARPA.HAC.COM | |
\----------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------/
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Date: 29 Mar 89 17:00:27 GMT
From: kw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Whitley)
Subject: Carpet 2.0 (part 1 of 6)
A carpet is a kind of two dimensional rectangular fractal. Carpet is a
program which allows you to interactively create and manipulate carpets.
With some experience, you will be able to create patterns of astonishing
complexity and beauty. Simple color is supported. A tutorial help
document and a number of samples are included.
Kevin Whitley
kw1r@andrew.cmu.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/carpet.hqx; 200K]
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Date: 5 Apr 89 09:27:01 GMT
From: eleazar!xxiaoye@dartvax.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Digital Simulation Program Sought
I just downloaded DigSim 2.0 from sumex archives. DigSim is a digital
logic simulation program written by Brian Rauchfuss. This latest
version 2.0 I download was written in 1986. Not too surprisingly, this
version doesn't run well under the latest system software, sytem 6.02,
finder 6.1 and Multifinder 6.0.1 (both Multifinder and Finder). What I
mean by "not run well" is that it starts ok, and all the functions
works fine, except one. It crashes a lot (not all the time) when one
tries to open a previously saved file (no, I don't think that this is
deliberately disabled).
Does anyone know of any more recent versions of DigSim ? If you have it,
can you email it to me or send it to sumex-aim archives ( I think that
posting to comp.binaries.mac is quite slow).
I know of several other logic simulation programs. However, none of
them has a function of that DigSim has -- subcircuit (customized
circuit libraries). If you know of any program that has this function,
would you please tell me where I can get it ? This is for educational
purposes, therefore, PD/Shareware is preferred.
thanks in advance.
________________________________________________________________________
Xiaoxia Ye INTERNET/BITNET/UUCP: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth College For more info: finger xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 06:19:34 -0400
From: James Fitzwilliam <syap@vera.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: DistillPS (latest version)
This Stuffit 1.5 archive contains the following files:
DistillPS, a Macintosh application
README, the about file originally distributed with the above
still.ps, a postscript language routine for compressing and
optimizing Postscript files
These items were obtained as a set from comp.binaries.mac; however, I have
substituted a more recent version of still.ps (version 10 edit 08) which was
posted somewhat earlier on comp.lang.postscript. Program is by Glenn Reid
of Adobe; permission to distribute is contained in the about... in the
application's apple menu.
Your anonymous ftp service is very valuable, and I appreciate it greatly.
James Fitzwilliam
syap@vera.cc.rochester.edu
...!rochester!vera!syap
GEnie: FITZWILLIAM
[Archived as /info-mac/util/distillps.hqx; 94K]
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 12:07 PST
From: "Vladimir Ivanovic 415.423.7786" <IVANOVIC%VAXR@circus.llnl.gov>
Subject: Funny stuff
I recently discovered that some of my applications were being changed
into unlaunchable, generic documents. My research shows:
1. No obvious pattern of which applications were converted except
they are always in folders within folders, e.g.
Disk:Folder:Folder:Application. The altered applications have
different Finder locations when "viewed by icon".
2. Disinfectant 1.0 reports no infection.
3. Option-Command double-clicking does launches them, seemingly
OK.
4. I am using the DeskTop Manager v2.0.1, patched (I beleive) to
allow dismounts and have had no previous problems in months.
5. If change the file type and creator from garbage to what it
should be, the icon comes back and the application seems to work
fine. I did this with Mac240, HyperCard and Cricket Graph.
6. I derez'ed an altered copy of Mac240 that I had corrected the file
type and creator, and a good, backup copy and then compared them.
They were identical.
7. A backup tape I made using Peripheral Land's MacBack Plus MB+60
v4.4 showed that the applications had already been converted.
Now... v4.4 is a new version... and it looks at every file...
and Peripheral Land's software is by far the worst I've ever
seen for the Macintosh... but v4.32 has worked (barely) in the
past. The date of the backup was before I noticed the converted
applications.
Does anyone have any ideas on what's happening? Anyone had anything
similar happen to them? Has anyone ever used MB+60 v4.4 successfully
on a 2MB Macintosh Plus?
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 15:02:31 +0100
From: A0061%DK0RRZK0.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Macromaker delays ?
How does one use Macromaker to insert delays between actions ? This is needed
to do an automatic login using NCSA Telnet ...
..Claus Kalle...
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 10:07:10 EST
From: David J. Sturman <djs@gertie.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Milo
Milo is commercially available from
Paracomp, Inc.
123 Townsend St.
Suite 310
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 543-3848
and when I checked in February they told me it was $241.
It was written by Ron Avitzur, an undergraduate at Stanford University.
I've used Milo quite a lot and found it incredibly useful! In one case
it was indispensable. However, it does a poor job of printing and you
cannot change the font. I find Expressionist better for formatting
equations for printing and Milo best for working out mathematics.
David Sturman
MIT Media Lab
/* I have no affiliation with Paracomp or Ron Avitzur */
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 89 14:38:45 PST
From: lauac%QAL.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu
Subject: SimCity Demo
This is a demo of a commercial game called SimCity. It is a city-simulation
game, and you (the player) are the mayor. Sparse documentation is included,
but no text commands are necessary.
--- Alex
UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!qal.berkeley.edu!lauac
INTERNET: lauac%qal.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/simcity-part1.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/simcity-part2.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 22:12:10 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: SIT story
If your server (or BBS, or whatever) is storing files in .SIT format,
and they are not .HQX-encoded, then they are almost certainly stored in
"MacBinary" format. MacBinary is an 8-bit encoding scheme which stores
file-name/type/creator/Finder-flags information, the file's data fork,
and the file's resource fork all in one binary file. You can think of
MacBinary as a sort of 8-bit-binary equivalent for BinHex encoding.
Most of the more recent terminal-emulation programs for the Mac can
recognize a MacBinary-encoded file when you begin downloading (e.g. with
XMODEM, ZMODEM, or Kermit protocols), and will automatically decode
the transmission and recreate the file with all of its original
characteristics intact. Similarly, these programs will automatically
perform MacBinary encoding when you upload a non-text file via XMODEM etc.
Unfortunately, MacKermit does not perform MacBinary encoding or decoding.
I gather that various people have investigated the possibility of adding
this feature to MacKermit, but have been deterred due to the complexity
of the C-Kermit file-transfer modules. Apparently, it would be very
difficult to hack MacKermit support into these modules without wrecking
their machine-independent characteristics.
If you get a copy of BinHex 5.0 (*not* 4.0), you can use it to perform
conversions between normal Mac files and MacBinary-encoded files.
You could thus download files using MacKermit's binary-file protocol,
and then pass 'em through BinHex 5.0 to convert them to useful
form.
Another approach would be to retire MacKermit, and use another term'ulator
program that does support MacBinary. If your host/mainframe supports
XMODEM, there are many possibilities including FreeTerm 3.0 (free),
MiniTerm, Red Ryder, MicroPhone, VersaTerm, ZTerm, and probably about
a zillion others. I believe that VersaTerm supports the Kermit
protocol with MacBinary conversion, so you might be able to acquire
MacBinary download capability from your server without having to
switch away from the Kermit protocol.
--
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
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Date: 5 Apr 89 09:04:05 PDT (Wednesday)
From: Piersol.PASA@xerox.com
Subject: SND Player Code Request
I'm looking for some public domain C code for playing back SND resources.
I'm most interested in code to play back Hypercard SND's, as opposed to the
System file variety, but either will do. MPW C code would be wonderful, but
I feel confident I can translate if needed. I vaguely remember some mention
of such code many months ago on this list, but can't find anything in my
own archives. Anyone know where I can find some?
Thanks,
Kurt
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 89 12:36 EDT
From: HENRY YEE <HENRY@atc.bendix.com>
Subject: Straight into . . .
IN%"Rocky_Olive@apex22.ceo.dg.com"
IN%"Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.EDU"
In response to your questions from Info-Mac, Vol. 7, Issue 60.
1) To get files to the MAC you will need a terminal emulator program with the
same file transfer protocol on both the MAC and the host. XMODEM and KERMIT
are very popular and can be found in terminal programs like FreeTerm, Red
Ryder, and MacTerminal. Your host needs a program with the same protocol.
You can get KERMIT for your host computer from Columbia University Center for
Computing Activities for the cost of the magnetic tape. They will need to
know particulars about the mainframe and the operating system, so be prepared
with that information.
2) The CorpHqHost and the HostAtWork must be able to treat the files as binary
files. On the VAX several bytes may be stored in a single word, but the
KERMIT side seen by the MAC only sees bytes going back and forth.
You won't need any software to convert from one file format to another as
long as your host computer is not expected to do anything with the file other
than store it. Of course, you will not be able to get anything intelligible
>From the file through the operating system.
3) I don't understand the question, "How do I get the de-archiving utilities
without the terminal emulator?" You will HAVE a terminal emulator to use your
modem to connect to the host computer. You can get the utilities from the
Archives, local user groups, or MAC bulletin boards. The basic ones are PIT
(PackIt), SIT (StuffIt), ARC (Archive), and ZIP. Info-MAC has standardized on
SIT.
4) CompuServe may be accessed through reqular terminal emulators. Services
like Prodigy need special software because the display screen consists of
backgrounds generated in the PC and data from the Prodigy host.
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Date: 1 Apr 89 02:01:05 GMT
From: chickman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Craig Hickman)
Subject: That Tree Program
This is an interactive program that draws fractal trees. It has
several options that you might find interesting including the ability
to draw curved branches and save the trees in PICT format for use in
MacDraw, PageMaker, etc.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/that-tree-program.hqx; 60K]
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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 11:21 EST
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective 2.2.1
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and optionally its size, name, id or size
range. Once the offending resource is found it can optionally be removed
>From the file (use this feature with caution). The user can update the
search list at any time. Shareware.
Version 2.2.1 puts back the "Check This Folder" button and fixes -43 errors
with certain INIT's.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-221.hqx; 60K]
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 11:52 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: wanted: scheduling program
The private language school I work for has a fairly simple
Macintosh software need which so far we have found unmet
by any product we have tested.
The need is this: We must schedule, from week to week,
classes involving certain students, with a certain teacher,
in a certain room. All we need is a program that would allow
us to RreserveS a given resource (teacher, classroom) for a
given time, so as to avoid double booking (sort of like an
airline reservation program, I guess). Ideally this program
would allow a graphic overview of the situation for any upcoming
week, and a record of which times were used and/or open for
any given resource (teacher, classroom).
Any ideas in netland?
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1989 13:13:10 CST
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: XCMD, XFNC, and QuickBASIC
Can QuickBASIC be used to create XCMDs and XFCNs for HyperCard?
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 6 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 64
Today's Topics:
[DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.1
Catalog and Extent B*-Tree files
Daffy's laugh
Dead Dataframe 20
FTP to Mac
FTP unSTUFFING problems
Help: Disk editor needed.
Mac II Diagnostic Sound program
Message Box Command Recall Script
More Cross Development Tools for the Macintosh
Real fonts
Space sound
TKSOLVER
ToMultiFinder 3.01
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 04:17:38 PDT
From: "DASnet" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!BroadCast 1.1
BroadCast 1.1 fixes the bug, that causes it to crash occasionally while
"answering" to a message. It also fixes a couple of other minor bugs.
In case you don't know what BroadCast is for...
BroadCast is a tool to exchange short messages between Macintoshs. It is
installed by dragging it into the system folder on all Macs. To send a message,
open the chooser and select first broadcast, then one or more recipients. Click
OK and enter your message. You may select an icon to accompany the text. Voila.
The receiver will get a dialog on his screen. The dialog shows the icon, text,
the time the message was received, the sender and two buttons: OK and Answer.
The answer is used as the direct path back to the sender without opening the
chooser.
There is a Columbia AppleTalk version available to REGISTERED USERS ONLY.
It consists of a daemon that registers all the users of one box, and of a tool
that allows unix users to send messages to other unix or macintosh users.
BroadCast is shareware: it costs $25 per zone, or $100 per entire appletalk
network. Send your money (check), and you'll receive the disk with all the
files.
Joachim Lindenberg, Sommerstrasse 4, 7500 Karlsruhe 1, West Germany
GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
[Archived as /info-mac/init/broadcast-11.hqx; 28K]
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Date: 5 Apr 89 21:09:00 CST
From: "Sharbutt, Albert" <z3als@ttacs1.ttu.edu>
Subject: Catalog and Extent B*-Tree files
Help!
My hard disk has been slowing down considerably lately. The fragmentation
index according to Symantec Utilities was 1%, but I defragmented the disk
anyway. There were large blocks of empty space on the disk, so the tune-up
should have been very effective. However, the desktop update is still very
slow (the desktop is only 154K). Using Fedit, I found out that the Extent
B*-Tree and Catalog B*-Tree are each 495K. If my understanding is correct,
these files have a record of every file you ever put on your disk, so
temporarily storing and later erasing a large number of files (as I have done
several times) adds a lot to the size of the tree files.
Questions:
1) Am I correct in assuming that my system slow-down is due to the size and
complexity of these tree files?
2) If so, does anyone know of a way to rebuild them? Rebuilding the desktop
does not affect them.
Thanks in advance for sending me your comments/suggestions!
-Albert
BITNET: z3als@ttacs1
INTERNET: z3als@ttacs1.ttu.edu
THENET: ttacs1::z3als
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 21:43:31 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: Daffy's laugh
The beginnings of a series of digitized sounds from various sources
including but no limited to:
The Prisoner, Monty Python, Warner Bros. cartoons,...
I have tried to digitized phrases which I have not seem digitized elsewhere
so this should be all new.
This file Daffy duck's famous nutty laugh.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu or
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/daffy-laugh.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 16:42:22 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Dead Dataframe 20
A DataFrame 20 with XP prom has decided to die, seemingly because of a
bad bearing (it heats up and never stabilizes). So the MicroScience
disk has to be thrown out.
Now we wonder - is it possible to mount another 20MByte harddisk, e.g.
a SeaGate, in the DtaFrame chassis, using the SuperMac prom and power
supply. We can get those cheaply, whereas buying a whole new DtaFrame
seems such a waste.
Any info would be appreciated.
-- Sigurd
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 89 14:32:41 CST
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FTP to Mac
This is about problems transfering Simtel20.arpa binary files with FTP.
I've found a way to do it on my equipment and perhaps this will apply
to other situations. I'm going from simtel20 to CMS mainframe to Mac SE.
First I open an anonymous connection to 26.2.0.74 (Simtel20.arpa).
The tenex command isn't available to me so I use: TYPE l <--(lowercase l) 8
That's: type l 8
before attempting transfer. I then use Red Ryder 9.4 to download to the
Mac. On the CMS side the only setting I enter is: SET FILE BINARY.
On the Red Ryder side I use kermit (of course) with SPECIAL KERMIT ~Q
HANDSHAKE selected (that's carat Q or control Q, whatever is above the
number six in the number row). I also select RECOGNIZE AND CONVERT
MACBINARY FORMAT FILES. Then it's just a send from CMS and a RECEIVE FILE
-- KERMIT... on the RedRyder side. And it works!
However, if I could get Kermit 0.9(40) to do it, that would be preferable.
So... Please Alistair Milne, post that de-encapsulating program. Thanks.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 16:00:18 CDT
From: "David Richardson, UT-Arlington" <B645ZAX@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu>
Subject: FTP unSTUFFING problems
In recent digests, there has been talk of ftp files not being recognized by
stuffit. Someone (who?) downloaded it in MacKermit 0.90, looked at the file
in MacSnoop, and found the information normally in the directory part of
the disk. This same person extracted the "good part" of the stuffit file and
ran it though stuffit ok, albeit with some grumbling of stuffit.
*disclaimer: all of the above is from memory. Don't flame me on the digest.
Diagnosis:
It sounds as if your file was not processed correctly with Macbinary. Most
modem programs, including Red Ryder and MacKermit (I think) are Macbinary-
compatable. Perhaps you have Macbinary-detection disabled? Solution: Run
Binhex5 (NOT binhex4) on the file.
If the filename in the archive ended in .hqx, ignore the above. Running
it through a de-binhexer (like in Stuffit) should result in an OK stuffit
file.
-David Richardson, The University of Texas at Arlington
Bitnet: b645zax@utarlg Internet: b645zax@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,texbell, <backbone>}!utarlg.arl.utexas.edu!b645zax
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PhoNet: +1 817 273 3656 (FREE from Dallas, TX) Arlington, TX 76019-2053
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 89 11:38 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help: Disk editor needed.
Dear net,
Is there a good public domain or shareware disk editor available from
sumex-aim. Especially one that is capable of searching for byte
sequences in the data fork. Thanks in advance.
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 03 Apr 89 12:48:37 -0700
From: Lance Nakata <nakata@jessica.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac II Diagnostic Sound program
This came across the net. It is the application that shows you what the
various sounds a II makes when it boots and what problem the sound means.
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/mac-ii-diagnostic-sounds.hqx; 8K]
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 12:04:43 PDT
From: PUGH@nmfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Message Box Command Recall Script
Here is an improvement over a similar script I saw posted some time ago. It
makes use of the doList XCMD which should be in the archives. I'll look and
post it if it isn't. That part isn't mandatory though.
What this does is keeps track of all the commands you type into the message
box. { In all cases here, return and enter are equivalent. } When you press
return, it logs your message (after checking to see that it is unique) and
then executes it. If you have the Option key down then it cycles through your
last commands until you find the one you want and either edit it or just
execute it again. If you hold the Command key down then you are presented
with a dialog box (courtesy of the doList XCMD) that has all the remembered
commands for you to choose from. You may then edit or execute the one
selected.
The scripts are fairly simple, but they make use of a loop that can grow slow
if you do a lot of commands on a Mac Plus, but I've never had that happen on
the faster machines. The Mac+ is why I added the Shift key modifier to erase
the log file though. I found that you seldom need to erase it as not many
different commands pass through the message box. More often, I find myself
doing the same command for a series of cards or backgrounds and it is easier
to do it by hand once than write a script. I also agree with someone else I
was reading that the message window should be multiline so you can do repeat
loops and such in it.
Share and enjoy!
Jon
>--- le script ---<
on enterKey
if parseMsg() then pass enterKey
end enterKey
on returnKey
if parseMsg() then pass returnKey
end returnKey
function parseMsg
global lastMsgs, lastNum, maxNum
if lastNum is empty then put 0 into lastNum
if maxNum is empty then put 0 into maxNum
if the optionKey is down and the shiftKey is down then
put empty into lastMsgs
put empty into lastNum
put empty into maxNum
put empty
return false
else if the optionKey is down then
if lastNum <> 0 then put maxNum into lastNum
put line lastNum of lastMsgs
subtract 1 from lastNum
return false
else if the commandKey is down and maxNum > 0 then
put lastMsgs into junk
repeat with i = 1 to the number of chars of junk
if char i of junk is return
then put "," into char i of junk
end repeat
if junk is empty then
answer "You have no saved commands"
return false
end if
doList "Execute","Cancel",junk,one
get the result
if it is not empty then put it
return false
else
put true into newLine
repeat with i = 1 to maxNum
if the msg = line i of lastMsgs then
put false into newLine
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
if newLine then
add 1 to maxNum
put the msg into line maxNum of lastMsgs
end if
put maxNum into lastNum
return true
end if
end parseMsg
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 23:47:07 PDT
From: C43CJK%ENG1.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com
Subject: More Cross Development Tools for the Macintosh
I've located some more information about cross development systems for the
Macintosh.
o MPW IIgs - Cross Development System
MPW IIgs Tools v.1.0 --- APDA# A77Z0012/B $50.00
includes linker and file transfer tools. Generates ProDOS 16 or
ProDOS 8 load files. Makes object files into libraries, etc.
MPW IIgs - Assembler v.1.0 --- APDA# A0005LL/B $100.00
actual assembler for five different incarnations of the 6502:
65816, 6502, 65c02, NCRCX02, and the Mitsubishi 740 microcontroller.
MPW IIgs - C and Pascal Compilers $150 and $175 respectively.
Full feature compilers that generate code for the 65816.
(C Compiler - A7Z2001/B Pascal Compiler - A7G0032)
o Memocom Univeral Cross Assembler
An Editor and cross assembler for $299.00
Some months ago I spoke with the people at this company about their
product, and I am impressed with the wide range of targets (from a
single program):
32010 320c25 68000 64180 8086 68hc11
6301 8051 6805 1802 65816 6502
Super8 COP800 6809 8048 8096 8085
Z80 Z8 SMC4050 3870 7000 and a few others
The one feature I want (which they don't have) is a linker. I asked
about this and got the standard response: "We're considering several
different enhancements". None-the-less, if you can live with
reassembling the whole target every time, then this might be the
program for you. I'm still waiting for the linker.
Memocom Development Tools 1920 Arbor Creek Drive
Carrolton, Texas 75010
(214) 446-9906
/----------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------\
| Craig Keithley | C43CJK@ENG1.GM.HAC.COM | |
| GM DSO-SBO | C43CJK%ENG1.GM@HAC2ARPA.HAC.COM | |
\----------------------+---------------------------------+---------------------/
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 02:20 EST
From: "R. Allen Jervis" <C78KCK%IRISHMVS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Real fonts
Has anyone been able to get the REALfonts init
>From Diskworld to work at all? I've tried every
thing from 3.2 -6.1 and on macs from 512- mac 2's
I can't seem to hit the right combination.
The documentation says that the system has to be
4.1 or newer, but it doesn't seem to make a whit
of difference.
The init is supposed to change the font menu so that
the various fontnames are displayed in the fontstyle
that they represent. A great idea! It should have been
that way to start with!
R.allen Jervis
c78kck@irishmvs.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 20:58:31 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: Space sound
This is a new digitized sound from a Warner Bros. cartoon - remember the
little Martian guy. Digitized using MacRecorder 4/4/89.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu or
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ]
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/space-modulator.hqx; 65K]
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 89 15:52:57 EDT
From: "Anton R. Schep" <N410104%UNIVSCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TKSOLVER
In a recent infomac digest there was a question about the availibility of
TKSolver for the MAC in this country. The company (Universal Technical Systems)
which markets TKSolver for the IBM, says they will bring out a new version of T
KSolver for the Mac in a couple of weeks. You can contact them at (800)435-7887
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Date: Tue, 4 Apr 89 18:05:26 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: ToMultiFinder 3.01
This version of ToMultiFinder has a less confusing dialog; the
"Use Attached" switch is now "Run Startups", and some other cosmetic
changes have been made.
R.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/tomultifinder-301.hqx; 18K]
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 7 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 65
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
I am a Wabbit
MacroMaker Delays
Milo and a PD/SW Print Spooler
OPTICAL JUKE BOX
RPC, TCP/IP, Mac Os
So Long Methusela
Something to ponder, the "Sad Mac" virus...
Theldrow 2.2
Unmounted harddisk
Video Tape Decks and Macs
Where's the KABOOM?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1989 16:23:15 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
I had to delete ResEdit because Apple complained. They said it was too buggy
and not for public distribution.
There are some new Dataframe files in a new dataframe subdirectory inside of
the util directory. I don't know what they do because they didn't come with
explanatory text.
We need a new copy of the Adobe Times screen font, which I deleted by
mistake. Could somebody please send us one?
MACSERV@PUCC is apparently operational again. Bitnet users close to PUCC may
want to use it instead of LISTSERV@RICE to avoid shooting files halfway
across the United States.
Sending us large files: please make every effort to AVOID splitting files
which you are submitting to Info-Mac. If you must, be sure that you put the
segment number in the Subject line of each segment. Otherwise it is very
tedious for us to put files back together (at 1200 baud).
We have urgent need for a Unix program to convert between BinHex files (.hqx)
and binary files (.bin) such as those on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.
Werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu send me a few programs but it looked like a
difficult thing to do on a routine basis. Are there any nice ways to do this?
As soon as I find out about this I'll put the new Hypercard stack containing
all of the Tech Notes in the tn directory.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 17:55:38 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: I am a Wabbit
This sound is classic Bugs Bunny - "Uh, don't spread this around....but,
uh, confidentialy,....I AM A WABBIT!"
Play with one of the many pd/shareware players or convert to a snd
resource and use it with Hypercard.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/i-am-a-wabbit.hqx; 108K]
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 09:50 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: MacroMaker Delays
>How does one use MacroMaker to insert delays between actions?
It's a kludge, but...
I have noticed that MacroMaker seems to record the time you spend looking at a
menu. So, clicking on a menu title, and just holding the menu open for a while
and then releasing it will add a delay (albeit with a menu showing) to your
macro. Perhaps just clicking in the menubar, not on a title, would work too.
Yep, I just tried it, and it works! Simply hold the mouse button down while
the mouse is in the menubar (to the right of all menu titles) for the desired
delay period. The real question is "Is this a feature or a bug?" ;)
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 89 19:00:32 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Milo and a PD/SW Print Spooler
> All it says
> is that this demo copy has expired. None of the files that I downloaded
> with it would open, and nothing that I tried to do would work.
I don't know if there is a more recent demo for Milo, but you might want to
try setting your system date back a few months, before it "Expired".
-Reed
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 16:37:55 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: OPTICAL JUKE BOX
Help again!!!
This time, my question is on optical disk.
Has anyone use a jukebox system for the Mac? I need a HUGE (H U G E)
storage for image files. And I need all files to be on-line - hence
a cartridge solution will not work.
Thanks for reading.
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 16:30:44 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: RPC, TCP/IP, Mac Os
Help !!
I want to use a Mac II running system 6.0.2 and ethernet to communicate
with a database program on a SUN 4. Has anybody any experience with that?
Can I run RPC on the Mac that talks with the SUN processes?
In other words, how can I use the Mac as the front end which accesses
workstations applications at the backend?
How does APPLE connect MACs to its CRAY and use Macs as the display?
How? How ?
Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 18:15:24 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: So Long Methusela
A favourite line of mine from a fairly old Bugs Bunny - occurs as Bugs
is burying Elmer.
"So long Methusela (sp?)"
Play with SoundEdit or any of the many pd/shareware players available at
sumex.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/so-long-methusela.hqx; 50K]
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 14:09:21 EST
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Something to ponder, the "Sad Mac" virus...
I've been doing some research on viruses here at the office and I thought
struck me, perhaps someone on InfoMAC or Virus-L can contribute something to
this:
The Brain virus that afflicts MS-DOS systems has the capability to infect the
bootstrap code on a floppy disk. This makes it a particularly nasty virus
because a "warm restart" will not cause the virus to go away; it will still
be in the bootstrap code that is kept in RAM.
My question is this: Why can't the bootstrap code on tracks 0 and 1 of a Mac
disk be infected? Would Vaccine prevent such an infection?
My suspected answers are (1) it can be done and (2) no, Vaccine would be
totally ineffective against it.
If my suspicions are indeed correct, how likely is it that Don Brown could be
persuaded to update Vaccine to prevent this?
David M. Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 13:14:48 CDT
From: gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu (Glenn Andreas)
Subject: Theldrow 2.2
Below is Theldrow, version 2.2. The good news is that there are
a lot of bug fixes, tons of new things, and it is faster. The
bad news is that it is only the first scenario still, but I'll
post the second one separately when I finish it. For those of
you not familiar with the game, it is a graphic adventure game
similar to Wizardry, sort of. It is complete with online help.
It is freeware (actually, it is more like jobware - hopefully
some one will be impressed with this and give me a job - resume
available upon request), so enjoy.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
= "Whether you like it, or don't like it, sit | - gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu - =
= back and take a look at it, because it's the | Glenn Andreas =
= best going today! WOOOOoooo!" - Ric Flair | =
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[Archived as /info-mac/game/theldrow-22-part1.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/game/theldrow-22-part2.hqx; 153K
/info-mac/game/theldrow-22-part3.hqx; 151K]
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 89 15:22:57 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Unmounted harddisk
I had the interesting experience of having the Finder tell me
to "Please insert the disk 'HD20'" which is the internal hard disk
on my SE - ysing just the same prompt as is normally used when
switching floppys.
Doing a command-period did not help, the message just reappeared,
and finally the system crashed. Actually it showed the bomb with
the "restart" button and when I clicked that button, it again
asked me to insert my harddisk.
I don't think that I did anything wrong except inserting a floppy
disk in the drive at the same time as the finder was regenerating the
desktop windows after I had quit from another program.
(I use System 6.0.2 and the corresponding Finder 6.whatever)
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 08:38 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Video Tape Decks and Macs
Greetings,
Do you have any experience with interfacing random access VCRs to Macs? I know
about the Video-Disk possiblities, but here at Colgate we are into creating
our own videos, and therefore use tape (VHS). We have Aston boxes connected to
PC compatibles, but don't want to spend $1000 for the technical "developer's
package" to figure them out for more generic use.
Are there random access VCR that accept serial input for control ala video disk
player?
Thanks much,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 89 18:15:49 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: Where's the KABOOM?
Another sound gleaned from Warner Brothers cartoons (Martian guy).
"Where's the KABOOM? There was supposed to be an earth shattering KABOOM"
Play with SoundEdit or any of the many pd/shareware players available at
sumex.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/wheres-the-kaboom.hqx; 70K]
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Subject: How does mac-sundry work?
To: su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
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How is mac-sundry set up? If I send a message to it, can all those people
who send messages to it from non-Stanford sources read them? Or is this
just the Stanford extension of some larger net and these messages are just
forwarded to us? Also, how come I seem to have little luck responding
to the messages on mac-sundry? If I type m(m) to send a reply to the
sender, most of the time mm responds "?Unrecognized host name". Is there
some extra routing I need to do to get my messages out?
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Brian - Mac sundry was set up when score did not have usenet news,
so a bunch of usenet bboards were piped to it. Yes, it is only
read only. Short of having access to rn, postnews, and so on
from a un*x machine I don't know how to post to it. -j
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Digital Equipment Corporation is holding a Technical Symposium on Friday,
April 14, 1989 for faculty, staff, and students. The symposium runs from
10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the CERAS lobby and focuses on the latest hardware
and ULTRIX operating system software available from Digital.
From 10:00 - 11:30 a.m., a DecWindows tutorial is offered, and at 11:00 a.m.
begins a discussion on software prototyping for applications development.
Parallel sessions start at noon with "Digital's RISC Product Family" and "OSF-
Where is it going?". Sessions continue at 1:00 pm.m with "ULTRIX Distributed
Systems" and "Digital's Consolidated CDROM and License Management Strategy",
and at 2:00 p.m. with "Comparative File Server Paradigms" and "Joint Research
Opportunities with Digital."
From 12:00 - 3:00 p.m., you can see demonstrations of Digital products and
third party software presented on DecStation 3100, VaxStation 3100, and
VaxStation 3520 workstations. Third party applications software include Adobe
Systems "Display Postscript", Neuron Data Systems "NEXPERT", Xerox Park "Small-
talk", Natural Language Inc. "Natural Language," DecWindows, DecWrite, Dec-
Paint, and Digital's 2-D and 3-D graphics.
A panel discussion from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. features representatives of Stanford
faculty, researchers, and system managers discussing their computing environ-
ment and its evolution, and their experience with Digital equipment.
For more information, contact Cathy Smith, AIR, at 723-3478, or csmith@jessica.
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You can post to "mac-sundry" (which is really the Usenet group called
comp.sys.mac) by sending mail to:
comp-sys-mac@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Bill Lipa
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Adobe has developed a screen version of the Postscript language that
they pioneered for laserprinters. A system using this "Display
Postscript" uses the same graphics language for both the screen and
hardcopy images. What an idea!
Apple was the first to adopt Postscript laserWriters soon after the
Mac was announced in 1984. Display Postscript was not announced until
a bit over a year ago. Apple has been reluctant to embrace it, since
it means abandoning their proprietary QuickDraw graphics. Still
D. P. can be expected to have a significant effect on the Mac world.
This demonstration of D.P. is graciously offered by Dave Gelphman.
After he left Stanford, he started work with Adobe. He promised
to talk about what he has been doing after some new hardware was
released. Yes - we will have a NeXT machine for the demonstration.
What: Display Postscript imaging
Who: Dave Gelphman, Adobe Systems
When: Wednesday, April 12↑th 7pm
Where: courseWare Lab, basement of Sweet Hall
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Subject: Paradise Lost
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As luck would have it, the bootup disk for my Paradise Mac 10 hard drive
went bad while I was backing it up. The disk recovery programs claim
it's quite dead. If you happen to have one of these little beasties,
I'd be eternally grateful if I could make a (er, *two*) copies of it...
-=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "Research Scientists need Porsches, too!"
->paulf@shasta.Stanford.EDU | -- Bloom County
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To: su-market@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU
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Cable for Mac 512K to ImageWriter II $12.00
Cable for Mac 512K to Hayes Modem $12.00
Mouse Pad $ 8.00
(or all for $30.00/best offer)
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∂12-Apr-89 1201 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu AutoCad for the Mac
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A few weeks ago I asked about Mac CAD programs. Our lab just
got the just released AutoCad for the Mac. I haven't spent
much time with it, but it looks like what we need. -j
∂12-Apr-89 1535 @hamlet.stanford.edu:maile@jessica.Stanford.EDU Demonstrations of Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh
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On Wednesday, April 19, 1989, faculty, staff, and students can attend demon-
strations of Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Macintosh. Microsoft representatives
are giving one hour demonstrations, from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m., and 1:30 - 2:30
p.m., in Turing Auditorium. A question and answer period follows each session.
The presentations cover new enhancements in Microsoft Word from version 3.0 to
4.0, such as automatic linking capabilities between Microsoft Word, Microsoft
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layout capabilities, customizable menus and keystrokes, and built-in access to
Microsoft Mail. The presentations also cover upgrade information, and an over-
view and comparison of Microsoft Word versus other word processors for the
Macintosh.
For more information, please contact Tom Goodrich, AIR/IRIS at 723-2897.
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 11 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 67
Today's Topics:
Boomerang 1.3
Info-Mac Digest V7 #66
Making a copy of the screen
Multi-Finder's system heap
NExT-style WDEF
Print Drivers for HP LaserJet and DeskJet
Simtel .SIT files
Spelling Coach bug summary...
Variable sized "Hyper Cards" needed
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 89 22:19:33 -0400
From: changwoo@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Chang P. Woo)
Subject: Boomerang 1.3
Boomerang is an INIT utility that simplifies the use of the Standard File
(SF) Dialog. (This is the dialog that appears when you choose Open... or
Save As... from the File menu.) Boomerang automatically remembers folders
you open or close with the SF Dialog. You can later move back to any of
these folders instantaneously.
Boomerang is FREEWARE, and give it to your friends if you like. However, I
reserve all rights to it. If you have any bug reports or comments, please
send to:
Hiroaki Yamamoto
UCLA Dept. of Physics
405 Hilgard Ave.
Los Angeles CA 90024
(213) 825-5672
CompuServe:76407,3251
Delphi:HIROYAMAMOTO
[Archived as /info-mac/init/boomerang.hqx; 33K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 13:10:53 -0400
From: William C. DenBesten<denbeste@andy.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #66
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
> I recently upgraded my Mac+ to Sytem v. 6.0.3 and Finder v. 6.1
>
> Since then, when I double-click a document created by one of my applications,
> the Finder is unable to find the application itself, givng me the message
> that "The application is either busy or missing", when neither is the case.
This is usually caused because there is a document [ie file that has a
type != APPL] that has its bundle bit set. Before system 6.0 this did
not keep the finder from finding the application.
--
William C. DenBesten
denbeste@bgsu.edu
denbesten@bgsuopie.bitnet
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 16:16 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Making a copy of the screen
I am looking for a tool that will make a copy of the screen in the
clipboard. What I am trying to do is copy the screen when hypercard is
running. I need it all to be in picture format, no buttons etc (thats
why copy card won't help). I have tried a number of things from the
archive and am able to make a paint file, but it include an entire page,
not just the screen. Hence I have to use a utility that allows me to
select the screen image. However, I can't get the selection rectangle
exact enough on the average, and the result looks poor. While all it
takes to do this is write an XCMD that copies the screen image into a
clipboard picture, I would rather find something that already exists
since I have never done any of those things before.
-- Doug
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 08:23 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Multi-Finder's system heap
I am encountering some interesting growth in the system heap using
multi-finder (system 6.0.3). All seems fine until I use a desk
accessory. Then the system heap grows. The problem is that it never
shrinks back down after the DA exits. Hence, if I use the calculator a
number of times, the heap grows about the same ammount each time I use
the calculator. Not all the DA's exhibit this feature, but many do. As
a result, my available memory for applications shrinks. What forces the
system to shrink the system heap (other than a reboot)?
p.s. my notes to info-mac-request are being returned by sumex with the
note that the addressee is unknown.
-- Doug
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 21:41:45 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: NExT-style WDEF
This INIT makes all of your windows resemble windows on the NExT workstation.
I didn't write this, but I know who did. :-)
[Archived as /info-mac/init/next-style-windows.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 16:20:45 EDT
From: Matt Rhodes <rhodes@ll-vlsi.arpa>
Subject: Print Drivers for HP LaserJet and DeskJet
Hello,
We have a couple of mac se's and plus's running system 6.0.2,
finder 4.1 and have access to a couple of HP LaserJet and/or DeskJet
Printers. The obvious question is can we use these printers easily
>From this environment? I heard talk of the availability of printer
drivers for the HP machines. Has anyone had some experience with these
drivers and could you tell us the exact expense of installing this
configuration (cables,software, etc.). Please reply directly to
me at:
rhodes@ll-vlsi.arpa
I will summarize for the net.
Cheers,
Matt Rhodes
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Date: 11 Apr 89 15:33:00 MST
From: "5268 Spires, Shannon V." <svspire@sandia.gov>
Subject: Simtel .SIT files
I finally got .SIT files to FTP from the Simtel at WSMR. Stuffit
unstuffs them perfectly without a hitch. This works for us:
We're FTPing from the Simtel to a Vax running VMS, then using
Kermit on the Vax and MicroPhone in Kermit mode to get files
>From the Vax to a Mac II. The problems were in the FTP, not
in Kermit. You can rule out Kermit at your site by simplying
creating a Stuffit archive of some Mac files, uploading them
to your host, and redownloading with Kermit. If there are no
problems un-stuffing them, Kermit isn't at fault. To do the
FTP to VMS:
Once connected to Simtel, cd to the directory you want:
*cd PD3:<MACINTOSH.APPL>
Then when you know what file you want, do
*TENEX
*QUOTE TYPE L 8
*GET filename (assuming filename is a .SIT file)
DON'T USE BGET!
Before doing a DIR or anything else after the GET, do
*QUOTE TYPE A
to get back to ASCII mode.
This transfers the file to a VMS host intact. Then use
Kermit in SET FILE TYPE BINARY mode to transfer to your
Mac, where you should also specify BINARY and RECOGNIZE
MACBINARY if possible.
Stuffit then works fine, with no error messages.
Shannon Spires
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 17:31 PDT
From: JAMESLI@toby.acs.washington.edu
Subject: Spelling Coach bug summary...
Many thanks to the responses to my query regarding Spelling Coach
crashes. Apparently, there are many more folks who've used the
program with disappointing results than I thought. I'm hoping that
this summary (and the solutions it provides) will enable other
disgrunts to start using Coach again. It's a fantastic program, now
that we've fixed it.
First, Peter Freund of Sweden wrote: "Hi. I just want to tell that the
Coach DA stinks. At least Coach Help, the INIT. The program I use
most for tests is SoftPC. This usually complains (translation: doesn't
run) if there are any problems with an INIT. SoftPC and Coach DA?
No way. Hopes that helps a little. Just as a separate application,
Coach is quite nice and fascinating."
Jeff Mandel of Tulane wrote: "James Li writes regarding crashes
with Coach, and mentions that he is using the INIT On Cue. My
experience with this INIT indicates that the ORIGINAL version (not
the new version with the sword in the icon) can cause some weird
and unexplained crashes.... essentially the problem is that if your
application messes with the menu bar in the wrong way, and you
are running MultiFinder, AND have Backgrounder running, you
will eventually get clobbered. This is because Backgrounder has no
menu list.... the bug in On Cue permits it to get confused...and
eventually you execute a procedure at memory location zero, and
boom! Fortunately, there is a workaround for this problem. Get the
current version of OnCue..."
Larry Rosenstein of Apple wrote: "Someone reported a bug with
Spelling Coach related to my ApplicationMenu INIT (which is a
simple version of OnCue). When I tracked it down I found a bug in
System 6.0.2, which was brought out by a problem with Coach. The
problem is calling the GetMenuBar call when there is no menu bar.
If you do this, the system will access a random memory location,
which can cause a crash. The result depends on the contents of
memory location 0, and Coach aggravates the problem by storing
into that location (because of some very bizarre code). I wrote an
INIT to fix the system bug, and on my machine it allowed Coach to
run with MacWrite. The INIT is enclosed below. Install in your
System Folder and reboot. I don't know if this will fix your problem,
but it might help. Let me know what happens either way. (This file
must be converted with BinHex 4.0)
-----begin cut here------
:#%CTH%0[B@0S!%P1593rN!3!N!J"cm5X!*!%!3#3!`'B!*!$Q!#3!cIZrI*`2b$
C8FMrr"em!!Rqq4!Yl8KQ&NKYfI*)E[lb3JK'DAK$Ef&MD(J#!*!$58j*9$q3"!#
3$%P1593rN!3!N"LJ''5A!*!'!FmY!!E[*'F+2c`!$NkY"c*J$L"YlX"#%'!')'h
Z`%)3+fhdh[6D3QhmRK!Yk-GR$&1Yk-J[,HM)6Ud$mK!'CaK)EHmi2bi!##mYlc!
r,HmZ(c`!!8kY#'T-h`$i6PiJAe426Y#18%&68c*&6N424Na*6N8!!"S()b#3"J)
k)!!"!*!$P'!!!(J!N!3J1!SFCJB[3!!%6R8[1[rZ6R@T1`!%!!!)!!!,C`5R4Q!
#SdC1G3J!!!YR"+C(B!+L4djeF"DP(QB1+%JL6%(krla`&U!Z3N"1G8MR!4"(q[r
#3NF`%fB'60m)J%jeBEJTL(!!@%F`'c)E3I33!''fB1*"q[q%S5LJ+@'iCJ!!"Q(
)6R8r2!!"UFK1G3!!!3#3!`'B!*!$Q!#3!cF!)HLN#`B!N!-F!$)!!%P1593!N!-
+!*!%)!#3"`40B@PZFE-:
-----end cut here------
We are indeed using an old version of On Cue, I discovered. We've
got an order in for an upgrade. Meanwhile, we've successfully
BinHexed the INIT provided by Larry Rosenstein and it has fixed
the problem.
P.S. 4th Dimension 2.0 rumor. 4D 2.0 has not yet been released as a
beta version, and the best guess that my source at Acius had for a
market release date was "hopefully before next year..."
Thanks to all.
James Li, Systems Manager The Washington Technology Center
University of Washington, Seattle Internet:
JAMESLI@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 16:04:14 PST
From: nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil (Peter Nardi)
Subject: Variable sized "Hyper Cards" needed
Help!
I'm doing some work integrating text and graphics in a hypertext format
using hypercard. The resolution of my graphics suffers because of the small
fixed card size. Are there any hypercard products available that sport
variable card size? It's really a drag to have a full page monitor
on a mac II and only be able to use a small 3 X 5 section in the middle.
I've heard of supercard, a hypercard compatable package, but I don't know if
it's available yet.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Pete Nardi
nardi@nps.cs.navy.mil
Naval Postgraduate School
smc 1710
Monterey, Ca. 93940
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∂13-Apr-89 0528 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Geting 6.03
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How/where do we get Finder/etc. 6.03? How much? Does it fix any
notorious bugs?
Does anyone know how much the upgrade to Microsoft 4.0 from 3.0 will
be for those who purchased the academic version ($75 w/manual)?
Thanks!
Scott
∂13-Apr-89 1131 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Need info about SLITEX
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I would like to know if there exists a Macintosh version of the SLITEX
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will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Ameet Bhansali
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I managed to find another copy of the boot disk. Thanks to all who offerred
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 13 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 68
Today's Topics:
architectural program for MAC IIcx
DissBits Source
FullWrite and FullImpact for $99
Larger card sizes for HyperCard
MACNET-L at YALEVM
Molecular Graphics Demo (part 1)
New version of DeskCheck
Read/write IBM disks
Request for Information on Operating U.S. Macs in Europe
Rubberhead
Screen-font for use with the HP DeskJet
Source to Image 1.12
Tiff File Format
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 11:06:09 PDT
From: swoo@smdvx1.intel.com
Subject: architectural program for MAC IIcx
I am posting this for my sister.
My sister will soon become an independent architect. She will
soon purchase a MAC IIcx. Please recommend a professional-level
architecture and interior space planning package that will run on
a MAC IIcx.
She will also appreciate any other recommendations regarding
hardware requirements and software programs for an aspiring ar-
chitect.
Thanks in advance.
swoo
Disclaimer: The above are my personal opinions, and in no way represent
the opinions of Intel Corporation. In no way should the above be taken
to be a statement of Intel.
ARPA: swoo%smdvx1.intel.com@relay.cs.net
CSNET: swoo@smdvx1.intel.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 12:19:35 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: DissBits Source
Through the good offices of Ephraim Vishniac, I have acquired a copy of
the sources for Mike Morton's DissBits code. I have not attempted to modify
it or make it work; the sources are in TLA format and will have to be
converted to assemble under MDS or MPW.
Rich
[Archived as /info-mac/source/assembly-dissbits.hqx; 94K]
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 10:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: FullWrite and FullImpact for $99
Hi,
Ashton-Tate's (213-538-7726) has an educational discount for FullWrite
Professional, FullImpact, and other products. FullWrite and FullImpact cost
just $99 plus shipping. All you have to do is send them a school PO and they'll
ship it.
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
P.S. I'm just a satisfied customer.
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 10:28:01 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Larger card sizes for HyperCard
In Vol. 7, Issue 67 Pete Nardi writes:
>fixed card size. Are there any hypercard products available that sport
>variable card size? It's really a drag to have a full page monitor
>on a mac II and only be able to use a small 3 X 5 section in the middle.
Ain't that a fact!! Apple has asked a local museum to submit a proposal
for a grant outlining use of Macs running Hypercard for exhibit
purposes, and I've been helping them to design the systems. As you can
imagine, they were less than overjoyed to discover that Hypercard is
restricted to the small screen size, thus rendering its use for display
purposes extremely limited. They approached Apple with the problem, and
were assured that Hypercard would be updated to handle large window
sizes, although I don't believe any timeframe was mentioned. I know
this doesn't do you any good at the moment, but I thought you just might
like to know... :-) Gregg
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
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Minicomputer Specialist | Box 1482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 09:32:26 EDT
From: Adriene Nazaretian <ADRIENE%YALEADS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MACNET-L at YALEVM
Hello Everyone,
For your information there is a listserver at node YALEVM that deals with
Macintosh NETWORKING.
We discuss problems/solutions to networking quirks and interconnectivity
(bridges , gateways, etc.)
We also discuss what type of network setups we are using.
Remember: MACINTOSH NETWORKING ISSUES.
To subscribe to this just enter the following command:
TELL LISTSERV AT YALEVM SUB MACNET-L put-your-name-here
The list has recently quieted down, Anyone out there who wants to subscribe,
please do so and send some mail describing your network setup and any problems
you have encountered with their appropriate solutions.
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 17:44:45 EDT
From: Norbert Mueller <K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Molecular Graphics Demo (part 1)
Hello,
This is the latest demo version of the Molecular Graphics Program
Ball & Stick
(Stuffed and Binhexed as usual).
Those interested in the full version may obtain the relevant information
>From me via air mail.
The following excerpt from a Macintosh document describes the main
features of the program. The demo version differs only in
the number of atoms allowed (40) and prints are labelled as
demo printouts.
B&S (Ball & Stick) is a user-friendly program for
display, manipulation, and printing of three dimensional
molecular models. B&S has been designed at first as a
desktop-publishing tool for scientific texts. Several recent
extensions make B&S a versatile instrument for scientists,
engineers and teachers in chemistry, physics, molecular
biology, crystallography, and related fields. The scope of
the program has now been extended far beyond the needs of
mere desktop-publishing by incorporating facilities to
examine and change structural parameters via a unique,
floating geometry information and manipulation window
(/↑Info Window↑>) and popup dialogs.
B&S can display wire-frame, stickball and space filling
models of molecular structures consisting of up to 32,000
atoms depending on available memory size. Stereo images,
perspective, zooming, and arbitrary orientation in space can
be chosen by simple pull down menu commands and user
friendly dialogs.
High quality printouts may be obtained taking full advantage
of the maximum resolution offered by the printer in use. B&S
optionally uses PostScript( ↑gray scales on appropriate
printers. This applies in particular to the Apple
LaserWriter family. B&S is compatible with most color
devices currently available (color screens of any size,
color printers, and plotters). Color printing is even
possible on computers with black and white screens only when
an ImageWriter II or LQ are used.
Standard TEXT-files (ASCII), provide structure input.
Coordinates downloaded from a database query can be
immediately read with no or only minor modification. Besides
Cartesian coordinates conformational (internal) coordinates
(bond lengths, bond angles and dihedral angles) are also
accepted as input, which offers a simple way to construct
new molecules.
Images created by B&S can be saved in the standard
PICT-format. This format can be read by many graphic
programs available, which may therefore be used to modify
the pictures. The Clipboard can also be used to transfer
images created by B&S to other applications such as word
processing and page layout programs.
Animated displays (/computer movies>) can be generated by
transferring frames to an animation program like
VideoWorks↑II or HyperCard . This task is greatly
facilitated by two batch operation commands and the
HyperCard Stack MovieMaker that comes bundled with Ball↑&
Stick.
Features:
= Maximum atom number 8,000 (hardware dependent) 32,000
atoms on a Macintosh II or IIx
= 4 model types:
- Wire frame
- Ball and stick
- Simple space filling
- Space filling
= Depth shading (wire frame model)
= Mouse-selectable atoms
= Cumulative rotation - of all atoms or of fragments
around a coordinate or atom defined axes
- via Euler angles
= Mirror image
= Stereo views
= Orientation of planes or axes parallel to coordinate
planes or axes
= Unique floating information display window for atom specs,
distance, bond angles and dihedral angles
= Interactive manipulation of geometry parameters
= Saving of coordinates and pictures
= Batch operation to create animation file series
= HyperCard stack MovieMaker bundled with Ball & Stick,
used to assemble and play animated displays
=99 customizable atom types (radii, patterns, colors)
= Customizable program settings
= Loading and saving of settings
= Fullscreen display and color background option, e.g. for
taking screenshots with a camera
= 64 -step grayscale on printers supporting PostScript(
= Color shading or optional dithering
= Faster screen refresh
= Complete manual
Compatibility: Ball & Stick runs on Macintosh computers
>From the 512KE upward including the Macintosh II and IIx (at
least 1MB of main memory is recommended for good
performance). It supports color with appropriate hardware is
present (color screens and printers) and is MultiFinder
and A/UX compatible. A special fast version for Macintosh
computers with MC68020 or MC68030 processors and floating
point coprocessor is also available: Ball & Stick II.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/ball-and-stick-part1.hqx; 143K
/info-mac/demo/ball-and-stick-part2.hqx; 123K]
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 13:20:25 EDT
From: ephraim@think.com
Subject: New version of DeskCheck
Following is a new version of DeskCheck, my bundle-inspection utility.
Please replace the obsolete version in the info-mac archives. In
addition to the tests performed by the old version, this one checks
that:
Files without resource forks don't have the
bundle bit set.
Files without bundles don't have the bundle
bit set.
Each ICN# listed in each BNDL has some non-zero
bits in its image area.
Each ICN# listed in each BNDL has some non-zero
bits in its mask area.
For more information, read the TeachText file "About DeskCheck."
Full source code is included. The user interface is still completely
brain-dead. Maybe next time...
Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
"Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for:
God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
[Archived as /info-mac/util/deskcheck.hqx; 39K]
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Date: 89-04-13 18:01:19 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Read/write IBM disks
Does anyone know about a sony driver for a standard Mac II that will
allow to read and write 3 1/2" IBM disks with 720KB ?
This feature should be implementable if the sony is driven at constant
speed and using an interface similar to that of the newer 68030 machines.
I didn't try out system 6.03 (I just don't have it) which enables a
FDHD drive for IBM disks, but I doubt it would work.
Another solution for a cheap software interchange with the other world
via disk could be an alternative.
K.Schnathmeier
TU Hamburg, W.Germany
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET>
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 02:08 EST
From: <TEMPLON%IUCF.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Request for Information on Operating U.S. Macs in Europe
Seems like I have heard this one discussed before; I thought it
should be in the sumex 'tips' directory, but no luck. If you will e- mail
responses, I can pretty them up and submit a file for tips.
My question concerns taking Macintoshes and associated equipment
overseas. Right now I have a two-floppy SE and an Imagewriter II. I am
looking quite seriously to purchase a hard drive.
I also am facing a serious possibility to go overseas (Holland) in
about 8 months' time, for a period of at least two years, and am
concerned about laying out 500+ bucks for something I won't be able to
use during that period. SO, do any of you know:
1) Can standard U. S. grade Macintoshes operate in Europe? With
or without a new power supply?
2) The same info for Imagewriters and for various brands of hard
drives?
Thanks for any responses in advance.
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
templon@iucf.bitnet or templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 89 23:02:36 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: Rubberhead
One of my favourite lines from Warner Bros. cartoon featuring Duck Twacy.
" Rubberhead! I'm going to rrrrrrrrub you out,see...rrrrrrrub you out."
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/rubberhead.hqx; 80K]
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 15:09:59 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Screen-font for use with the HP DeskJet
This posting contains a screen-font I've hacked up for use with the
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet printer and the DataPak Software driver for
this printer.
The DeskJet comes equipped with a letter-quality Courier font.
Printing using this font (in any of its stylistic variations) is fairly
quick... 15 to 30 seconds per page is typical... and the font looks
quite good at 300 DPI. However... the font's character-width does not
match the widths of any of the commonly-provided Mac screen fonts. The
DeskJet font is 10-pitch (also available at 16.67 and 20 pitch), while
the fixed-pitch Mac screen fonts (Monaco and Courier) are closer to 12
pitch. This mismatch causes problems when printing... words that
overlap, lines that run off the right edge of the page, and so forth.
The enclosed font-file is a partial solution to that problem. It
contains three font-sizes/pitches that match the spacing
characteristics of the DeskJet's font in 10-pitch, 16.67-pitch, and (6
point) 20-pitch. The fonts should work properly on any Mac that has
the 128k or 256k ROM, within any word-processing program that enables
the fractional-font-width feature. They work with WriteNow ("Use
printer spacing"); I'm told that they work with Word 3.0x as well.
These font-variants started life as copies of three public-domain
screen fonts; I added fractional-width information with ResEdit (an
_ugly_ task!), merged them into one new font-family, and used Font
Harmony to resolve any conflicts between their font-numbers and any of
the commonly-used Apple and Adobe fonts. The fonts aren't complete;
they don't include some of the more esoteric international characters.
I've included a ResEdit file that contains a set of three STR#
resources. If you have the DataPak Software driver for the DeskJet,
you should add these resources to a copy of your driver; the driver
will then "understand" that the Mac screen-font called DeskJet
corresponds to the printer's Courier font. I've also included
instructions for making a one-byte patch to the driver that fixes a
defective escape-sequence. If you install these fonts, install the
STR# resources, and make the patch as suggested, you'll be able to mix
the letter-quality DeskJet font, Mac screen fonts, and Mac graphics on
the same page without needing to specify the "precision placement"
option (which slows down the printer somewhat).
These fonts might be useful to people with other drivers and/or other
printers... if you have a need for a 10-pitch typewriter-style font,
check it out.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
[Archived as /info-mac/font/deskjet.hqx; 14K]
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 17:37:48
From: wayne@alw.nih.gov (wayne rasband)
Subject: Source to Image 1.12
This is the 14,000+ lines of Lightspeed Pascal source code for Image
1.12, a public domain program for the Macintosh II for doing digital
image processing and analysis. Image can capture, enhance, measure,
edit, animate, print and pseudocolor images. It reads and writes TIFF
and PICT files, providing compatibility with many other Macintosh
programs, including ImageStudio, PixelPaint, and Digital Darkroom. It
supports many standard image processing functions including histogram
equalization, contrast enhancement, density profiling, smoothing,
sharpening, edge detection, and noise reduction. It can measure lengths
and x-y coordinates, and compute the average density and area of user
defined regions of interest. Length and area measurements results can be
calibrated to provide real world values. All measurements can be saved
in spreadsheet compatible formats.
Density calibration can be done against standards with user specified
units. Eight different curve fitting methods are provided for
generating calibration curves.
Image provides MacPaint-like editing of color and grayscale images,
including the ability to draw lines, rectangles, ovals and text. It can
flip, rotate, invert and scale selections. It supports multiple windows
and 8 levels of magnification. All editing, filtering, and measurement
functions operate at any level of magnification and are undoable. It
uses digital halftoning to print images on PostScript printers and
Floyd-Steinberg dithering for printing on non-PostScript printers. It
supports either the Data Translation QuickCapture card or Scion Image
Capture 2 card for digitizing images using a TV camera. Acquired images
can be shading corrected and frame averaged.
File must be uncompressed with Stuffit 1.5.1.
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal-image-112.hqx; 242K]
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Date: Thu 13 Apr 1989 01:32 CDT
From: <MMPR004%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Tiff File Format
The following describes the tiff file format. I will get more information
on the format and post what I have found.
--------------------------- Cut Here --------------------------------------
Tag Image File Format Rev 4.0
(The following is an excerp from a memorandum by Aldus and Microsoft)
Revision Notes
This revision of the TIFF specification has been given a Revision number.
It is really the fourth major revision so the Revision number was set to 4.0.
Abstract
This document describes TIFF, a tag based file format that is designed to
promote the interchange of digital image data.
The fields were defined primarily with desktop publishing and related
applications in mind, although it is conceivable that other sorts of imaging
applications may find TIFF useful.
The general senario for which TIFF was invented assumes that applications
software for scanning or painting creates a TIFF file, which can then be read
and incorporated into a "document" or "publication" by an application such as
a desktop publishing package.
The intent of TIFF is to organize and codify existing practice with respect to
the definition and usage of "desktop" digital data, not to blaze new paths or
promote unproven techniques. Yet a very high priority has been given to
structuring the data in such a way as to minimize the pain of future additions
TIFF was designed to be a very extensible interchange format.
TIFF is not a printer language or page definition language, nor is it intended
to be a general document interchange standard. The primary design goal was to
provide a rich environment within which the exchange of image data between
application programs can be accomplished. TIFF does not support object
oriented graphics or text; it is strictly designed for image data.
TIFF assumes nothing about operating systems other than the operating system
supports something like a "file", defined as a sequence of 8-bit bytes. The
largest possible TIFF file is 2**32 bytes.
and so on....
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/tiff-file-format.txt; 19K]
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 16 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 69
Today's Topics:
Automatic Shutdown cdev/INIT - does one exist?
Copying Screen Images to the Clipboard
d'Librarian 2.48d by JohnLim
H19 emulator
HyperCard Stack Recoverer
Jasmine Laser Printer
LaserWriter Test Page
Mac II reverse video
MacWrite Rulers
Newbury Data disk drives
new system installed
New Version of Giffer. (1.03)
QMS 2200PS on appletalk network-any problems?
The unsit program in info-mac/unix
TurboBox/(Stuffited))
Using Mac SE in Europe
Writing WDEF's
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
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Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 89 12:54 CDT
From: General Delivery <POSTMASTER%TAMVENUS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Automatic Shutdown cdev/INIT - does one exist?
I would like to know if anyone has seen an INIT or cdev which works
similar to a screen saver (such as PYRO!), but instead of blanking out the
screen it would shut down the system. I work within a university system,
and am the unofficial system manager for our local network of eight Macs.
With the number of students and staff who use our systems, both during and
after hours, there are quite a few users who unknowingly modify files, or
save documents to the hard disks, or introduce viruses to the systems. I
have finally found a way to inform these late-night users of any important
items - a startup document called MacWelcome which I got from Educorp - but
there is no way to ensure that the Macs will be shut down between users. In
fact, most of the Macs are on 24-hours a day since nobody bothers to shut
them down (I wouldn't trust many of them to know how).
What would be nice is a configurable cdev/INIT which would, after a
preset amount of inactivity - no printing, no mouse maneuvers, or modem
communication in use - quit all open applications, possibly save any open
documents (as APPLICATION-NAME.UNTITLEDxx in a configurable volume/folder),
and perform a ShutDown. This would mean that, after one person has finished
using the Mac, and the system has been idle for ten minutes or so, the Mac
would shut itself off and await the next user with the "You may now turn
off your Macintosh safely" dialog with Restart button.
I don't know if anyone has written anything like this, or if it is
even possible (though it would be useful in a university environment). At
least in my case, with MacWelcome, I can leave a message to users about any
new software, or which folder they can find their document in if they return
to find the Mac shut down. (I have found that no one bothers to read the
printed notes which I have used many times while we experienced numerous
outbreaks of Scores and nVIR. It's funny how few people there are at this
university who know how to read.)
I am rather new to the network, and am not completely sure of my network
address. I do get the digest, and will be looking in it for any answers.
Thanks in advance for any responses!
-------------------------------------------------
Dave Martin
Geochemical & Environmental Research Group (GERG)
Texas A&M University - Oceanography Dept.
-------------------------------------------------
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 89 14:54 EST
From: "Thomas R. Blake" <TBLAKE@bingvaxb.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Copying Screen Images to the Clipboard
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 16:16 EDT
>From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
>Subject: Making a copy of the screen
>
>I am looking for a tool that will make a copy of the screen in the
>clipboard...
Doug,
There used to be a dandy little utility in the archives. I believe it was
just called FKEY-9. It is one of the handiest little utilities I've ever met.
Press Shift-Command-9, you get a little angle iron. Place it in the upper left
hand corner of the region you want to copy, press and drag to the lower right.
The region you select will be copied to the clipboard.
If you can't find it in the archives, drop me a line, and I'll ship you off
a copy.
TBLAKE@BINGVAXB.BITNET (Sure Bet) Thomas R. Blake
TBLAKE@bingvaxb.cc.binhamton.edu (Shaky) Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing
SUNY Binghamton
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Date: 14 Apr 89 19:23:30 EDT
From: BARRY@s66.prime.com
Subject: d'Librarian 2.48d by JohnLim
I'm forwarding a copy of the demonstration version of d'Librarian
2.48d that I recieved from John Lim. Warning: d'Librarian 2.48d DOES
NOT work properly if Semantic Utilities for the Macintosh (SUM)
Version 1.02 or 1.1 is installed and running - John says this is due
to a bug in the SUM Shield INIT. d'Librarian 2.48d works fine if the
Mac is started with SUM deactivated. The REAL version of
d'Librarian works properly with BOTH SUM 1.02 and 1.1. You can
get the real version for A$30 from John Lim in Australia; send
Internet mail to munnari!munmurra.mu.oz.au!jkjl@uunet.UU.NET
Barry Wolman | barry@s66.prime.com
Principal Technical Consultant | 492 Old Connecticut Path
Prime Computer | Framingham, MA 01701
| 508/626-1700, ext. 4187
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/d-librarian-248d.hqx; 95K]
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1989 12:34 PDT
From: GORR <GORR@uwacdc.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: H19 emulator
Is anyone aware of a shareware, freeware, etc. terminal program that
will emulate H-19 for the MAC?
It must be almost perfect.
If so, please send mail to: GORR@UWACDC.acs.washington.edu on how I
can get a hold of it.
thanx. :)
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 15:57:24 PDT
From: Mike_Dustan@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: HyperCard Stack Recoverer
Here's Recover, which recovers damaged HyperCard stacks, albeit
slowly. (I got it from AppleLink; I hope nobody there minds!) It
has instructions built in. Note that it can't recover damaged
cards, nor can it recover every damaged stack. It creates a new
stack by copying and pasting after itself all the undamaged cards
it can find. Scripts and backgrounds are all preserved.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/stack-recoverer.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Fri 14 Apr 89 14:23:10-MST
From: Alan Lichty <Lichty@science.utah.edu>
Subject: Jasmine Laser Printer
Does anyone have any experience with Jasmine's DirectPrint LCS (liquid
crystal shutter) printer? We are looking for an inexpensive
networkable alternative to Apple's Laser offerings and would like to
hear from someone who has tried DirectPrint or even seen output from
one. Are there are other similarly priced printers ($4,000 list) that
are worth considering instead?
Send replys directly to me (lichty@science.utah.edu) and I will
summarize back to info-mac. thnx in advance for any replies.
Alan S. Lichty
Programmer/analyst
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 12:06 EDT
From: <PORTERG%VCUVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Greg Porter)
Subject: LaserWriter Test Page
I don't usually butt in on these discussions, preferring to read the
wisdom of others, but the way *I* get rid of the test page is to simply pull
the paper tray out an inch when I turn the danged thing on. When it warms up,
shove it back in. Voila! No test page.
Greg Porter
PORTERG@VCURUBY (Bitnet)
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 02:28 CDT
From: John DeSoi <john@murph.tamu.edu>
Subject: Mac II reverse video
Does anyone know of any software that will reverse the video (that is,
display white on black) of a Mac II. CloseView would have been great
except for that stupid rectangle that is attached to the mouse cursor
when the magnification is turned off. Thanks.
John F. DeSoi
Laboratory for Software Research
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3112
(409) 845-4306
BITNET: desoi@tamlsr
INTERNET: desoi@lsr.tamu.edu
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 13:23 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@dockmaster.arpa>
Subject: MacWrite Rulers
I have downloaded thsome of the TechNotes from the archive. They are in
MacWRite format. When I display them, the ruler dimensions do not match
what is on the screen or what is printed. It is as if the ruler has
shrunk so that the horizontal line at the top of each indicates that it
is from 1 1/8 " to 7 1/8". However, both on the screen and on paper it
is 1 3/16" to 7 1/2".
As a result, when I convert the file to WriteNow for speed, it uses the
indicated ruler numbers for the tabs and things get messed up. I end up
having to completely reformat the file by hand. How can I easily fix
the ruler in MacWrite?
-- Doug
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 00:57:57 PDT
From: calius@composite.stanford.edu (Emilio Calius)
Subject: Newbury Data disk drives
I have just ordered one of the remaining Newbury 4380S drives. I
remember seeing a couple of postings from previous buyers, but at that time
I wasn't planning to get any hard disks. Now I would like to get in touch
with those of you who are using these drives for mutual support purposes.
Any information on software, cases, etc. is most welcome.
If you can, please respond by mail. Thanks for your help.
Emilio P. Calius
Structures & Composites Lab
Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Stanford University
(415)723-3524
** It is occasionally the curse of visionaries to see their visions fulfulled.
-- author??
God made the world in six days, and was arrested on the seventh.
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Date: 14 Apr 89 01:47:33 GMT
From: libby%xroads.UUCP@noao.edu (Libby Bellitter)
Subject: new system installed
I have a mac 512 that has been upgraded to a plus,i also have a 20 meg HD the
problem i am having is after installing the news sys some of my old programs
will not run (ex. mcwrite) I keep getting 02 and 03 error is there a way to
fix this. I am in need of help at this time. Please mail your ans to me
thank you for your time
libby
Wolfbait
ps i am on crossroads
--
\ / C r o s s r o a d s C o m m u n i c a t i o n s
/\ (602) 941-2005 300|1200 Baud 24 hrs/day
/ \ hplabs!hp-sdd!crash!xroads!libby
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 17:55:09 -0700
From: rdsesq@jessica.stanford.edu
Subject: New Version of Giffer. (1.03)
New version of Giffer that fixes some bugs. Works well on a Mac II
with only 2 megs.
Got it for hubcap.clemson.edu. A great spot for getting GIF files.
rob snevely
rdsesq@jesscia.stanford.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/giffer-103.hqx; 75K]
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Date: 16 Apr 89 16:22:02 GMT
From: murray@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Murray Karstadt)
Subject: QMS 2200PS on appletalk network-any problems?
We are thinking of putting a high speed (22 ppm) QMS printer on an
appletalk network. Does anyone know of any problems with this or had any
experience with the QMS 2200ps printer, if so please drop me a line. I have to
put in the printer order fast, so the quicker your response the better
thanx
murray
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 89 14:54:08 EDT
From: James H. Cloos Jr. <jcloos@vax2.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: The unsit program in info-mac/unix
Hello,
I've been unable to get the unsit program I ftped from sumex-aim to compile
on this machine. (A VAX 11/750 running 4.3BSD.)
I was wonderring if anyone had gotten it to compile, and if so, what mod's
they made.
Alternatively, a working binary is OK.
Thanks for any suggestions, as I'd like to be able to convert files right
>From hqx archives into separate bin files.
-JimC
--
James H. Cloos, Jr.
JCloos@Vax2.CIT.Cornell.EDU
JCloos@CrnlVax2
...!cornell!vax2.cit.cornell.edu!jcloos , perhaps.
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 89 20:54:55 GMT
From: donahn@mica.berkeley.edu (Don Ahn)
Subject: TurboBox/(Stuffited))
Been playing around with 3D graphics on the mac recently, and here's something
that I've whipped up. The shape is based on the original BoxSphere demo, but
the program saves screens for faster playback later. Adjust the number of
screens to fit in the memory available. The default (36 screens) requires
about 800k. Currently only works on a Plus or SE. Enjoy!
[Archived as /info-mac/app/turbo-box.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 89 00:07:44 bst
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Using Mac SE in Europe
In reply to the question in info-mac:
I use an SE from the US. No problems: Apple have been clever enough
to provide a power supply which handles a wide voltage range without
even a switch to set. (Bravo!)
If your machine is to be used by Europeans then it would be wise to get
the System file adapted for the appropriate local country, or they
will dislike you for printing US dates on word processing documents etc.
In the UK we also dislike the term "Trash"... I believe there is a utility
called Localiser to do this for you; alternatively you can buy local
System files quite cheaply.
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 89 23:12 CDT
From: <BPB9204%TAMSTAR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Writing WDEF's
After downloading "NeXT-style-windows" and seeing the results(when they did
occur), I started wondering about writing a WDEF.
Here's my question: does anybody have WDEF "shell" in Pascal, preferrably
LightSpeed Pascal? I have access to Turbo Pascal, and possibly a C compiler
somewhere. For those who might have a wdef shell, would you please mail it
to me? I enjoy programming, so using someone else's code would be for an
example and programming enrichment only.
Thanks for helping a future Bill Atkinson. (Give me a few more months
and I'll write my own code.)
Brent Burton
BPB9204@TAMVENUS or
BPB9204@TAMSTAR
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 17 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 70
Today's Topics:
BINHEX4-MACPASCAL-V2
Disinfectant 1.1
FullWrite and FullImpact for $99 apiece
Ham Radio and the Macintosh
Hard Disk Problems
JMP: Not SAS on the Mac
LaserWriter Test Page
MPW help recieved...
Read/write IBM disks
Request for Information on Operating U.S. Macs in Europe
undeletable folder
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 20:30 CST
From: Bob Beaudoin <REBDN@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Subject: BINHEX4-MACPASCAL-V2
Morgan K. Lee <NU129584%NDSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> writes:
>Does anyone have an updated version of BINHEX4.PAS program that can
>run under MacPascal 2.0? The program was probably created for MacPascal
>1.0; I got an error message "Incompatibility between types has been
>found" on the program statement "GENERIC(JSRINDIRECTA0, REGRCD)."
Here's a new version of the program. It works with MacPascal v2.0 on my system
(Mac+, System 3.2, Finder 5.3). Perhaps it will work under LSP as well. (I
understand LSP was designed to run MacPascal programs, but I don't know if this
includes programs that use the InLines and Generic procedures.)
For anyone who's interested, the only change from the old version is the
addition of four more bytes of filler space at the end of the record Regrcd.
This is necessary to keep the Generic procedure happy.
Bob Beaudoin
Dept. of Mathematics, F.A.T.
Auburn University
Bitnet: rebdn@auducvax
Internet: rebdn@ducvax.auburn.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal-binhex-40.txt; 18K]
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 20:20:54 PDT
From: jln@acns.nwu.edu
Subject: Disinfectant 1.1
Disinfectant Version 1.1 Announcement & Press Release.
April 16, 1989.
Disinfectant 1.1 is a new release of a program to detect and remove
Macintosh viruses.
Version 1.1 recognizes the new MEV# virus that was discovered in Belgium a
few weeks ago. Version 1.1 also fixes a few bugs and adds several new
features. For a detailed list of all the changes see the new section titled
"Version History" in the online document.
We recommend that all Disinfectant users obtain a copy of the new version.
With version 1.1 we are also now distributing a formatted version of
the document, with screen shots and other pictures, a table of contents,
etc. See the online document for details on how to obtain a copy.
Version 1.1 has been posted to CompuServe, AppleLink, comp.binaries.mac,
and info-mac. It should be available from those sources soon, as well as
>From many other bulletin boards, commercial online services, user groups, and
Internet archive sites.
Features:
- Detects and repairs files infected by Scores, nVIR A, nVIR B, Hpat,
AIDS, MEV#, INIT 29, ANTI, and MacMag. These are all of the currently known
Macintosh viruses.
- Scans volumes (entire disks) in either virus check mode or virus
repair mode.
- Option to scan a single folder or a single file.
- Option to "automatically" scan a sequence of floppies.
- Option to scan all mounted volumes.
- Can scan both MFS and HFS volumes.
- Dynamic display of the current folder name, file name, and a thermometer
indicating the progress of a scan.
- All scans can be canceled at any time.
- Scans produce detailed reports in a scrolling field. Reports can be
saved as text files and printed with an editor or word processor.
- Carefully designed human interface that closely follows Apple's
guidelines. All operations are initiated and controlled by 8 simple
standard push buttons.
- Uses an advanced detection and repair algorithm that can handle partial
infections, multiple infections, and other anomalies.
- Careful error checking. E.g., properly detects and reports damaged and
busy files, out of memory conditions, disk full conditions on attempts
to save files, insufficient privileges on server volumes, and so on.
- Works on any Mac with at least 512K of memory running System 3.2
or later with HFS.
- Can be used on single floppy drive Macs with no floppy shuffling.
- 11,000 word online document describing Disinfectant, viruses in general,
the Mac viruses in particular, recommendations for "safe" computing,
Vaccine, and other virus fighting tools. We tried to include everything in
the document that the average Mac user needs to know about viruses.
I wrote Disinfectant with the help of an international group
of Mac virus experts, programmers and enthusiasts: Wade Blomgren,
Chris Borton, Bob Hablutzel, Tim Krauskopf, Joel Levin, Robert Lentz,
Bill Lipa, Albert Lunde, James Macak, Lance Nakata, Leonard Rosenthol,
Art Schumer, Dan Schwendener, Stephan Somogyi, David Spector, and
Werner Uhrig.
These people helped design and debug the program, edit the document,
locate copies of the viruses for testing, and analyze the viruses. I wrote
all the code, but I could not have written the program without their help.
Disinfectant is an example of a new kind of cooperative software
development over the internet. It was developed over a period of three
and one half months starting on December 1, 1988. During this period I sent
out nine development releases and nine Beta releases to the working group,
and we exchanged several hundred notes. The result is a program that is
much better than any one of us could have produced individually.
We are offering this program free of charge as a public service. We hope
that the Mac community finds it useful.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
AppleLink: a0173
CompuServe: 76666,573
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/disinfectant-11.hqx; 105K]
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 21:07:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: FullWrite and FullImpact for $99 apiece
Hi all,
I need to clarify my previous post about FullWrite and FullImpact and
Ashton-Tate's Education Program.
First, FullWrite is $99 and FullImpact is $99 through Ashton-Tate's Education
Discount Program. They are not bundled together for $99. I don't think
students can get that price since Ashton-Tate wants a school purchase order
(PO). However, I'm not sure so give them a call to find out at (213-538-7726).
Another possibility for students is to ask your book store or computer store to
order it for you from Ashton-Tate Education Discount Program.
Second, I don't know if it applies world wide or just in the United States,
and I don't know Ashton-Tates e-mail address.
Third, I got version 1.0, but I heard that version 1.1 is available as a free
upgrade.
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 09:41 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <Peter@griffin.drea.dnd.ca>
Subject: Ham Radio and the Macintosh
I am posting this request for a friend.
They are very much into both Ham Radio and Macintosh Computers, and
would like to know if there exists any equipment, software etc for
interfacing the two.
I realize that this may have been discussed before, but I don't have any
pointers. Please reply to me directly, and I will gladly repost a
summary in the near future. Many thanks for any assistance provided.
Peter J. Gergely
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 18:04 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Problems
A student at the university at which I teach came to me with the following
problem: his Macintosh starts up normally (SE with 20MB internal HD). If he
drags a document into the system folder, he gets a message asking whether
he wants to initialize the hard disk. If he restarts the computer, he gets
the same message on restart. If he leaves the computer off for 15 minutes or
so, everything works fine. This is occurring a couple days after he brough
his computer in and we reinitialized the hard disk and installed a fresh
system (6.02).
Frankly, I am baffled by this one...
Any pointers as to possible reasons for the difficulty would be appreciated.
I should also note that we initialized the hard disk because he was
having a similar problem before. we were unable to duplicate some documents
>From the Finder. Apple's SCSI setup program returned a message to the effect
that the disk failed the test on testing. On reinitializing, we did note that
the disk SOUNDED as if it had some troubles on reformatting...
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 11:44 EDT
From: Al MacBest <BEST@ruby.vcu.edu>
Subject: JMP: Not SAS on the Mac
At the recent SUGI meeting, SAS Institute was demoing an alpha version of
their new product for the Macintosh. SUGI is the SAS User's Group
International. The new SAS product is called JMP. To quote from the
flier:
"JMP, a forthcoming package for statistical visualization, combines
all the steps of data exploration into one highly interactive process."
My assessment is that it's a dynamite product! It does Regression/ANOVA
(univariate), Logistic Regression (with ordinal or categorical dependent
variables), and contingency table analysis. It also has a Mac-Spin-like
3D spinning plot, Bar-charts & Box Plots, Correlation, Principal components,
and a lot more. One of my favorite features is a "Calculator" that allows
the user to create variables as functions of other variables. The neat thing
is that the expressions don't have the old FORTRAN look-and-feel; its' more
like Expressionist (or other Equation-generator DA's). It also has IF
statements that, amoung other things, allow you to assign colors, shapes, etc.
under program control. Nice.
What it is NOT is "SAS on the Mac". SAS is millions of lines of C-code that
they are not going to port to the Mac for numerous reasons. JMP is a 500K
application that does statistical graphics & analysis. The only part of SAS
that is "in" JMP (as I understand it) is the GMP/Logistic/Corr/etc. numerical
algorithms. JMP was built from the ground up my John Sall and his team at
SAS Institute for the Macintosh (only).
If there is interest in this product, perhaps I can put up more information.
If you'd like to be put on a mailing list to receive more info (as it comes
out), send me Name, Company, Address (street, city, Zip, Country), and (if
you like) your phone number. I'll also record your Network address and
attempt to keep the network informed of developments.
******************
Al Best Rt 4 Box 1129, Ashland VA 23005
phone 804-752-7588 every day but Mon & Thu; on M&Th: 804-786-8600
BITNET BEST@VCUVAX
*****************
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 13:56:11 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter Test Page
While Greg Porter's solution works, it does require manual intervention.
Another option is acquiring CE Software's DiskTop utilities. This comes
with two DA's, DiskTop (an excellent Finder substitute), and LaserStatus
(which permits you to reset the printer, check it's status and download
PostScript fonts or programs) and a program called Widgets.
One of the items available in Widgets' LaserWriter menu is 'Disable Startup
Page', which does away with the page permanently, until you do an 'Enable
Startup Page' (or your friendly service rep. resets the whole thing).
BTW, I enthusiastically recommend DiskTop. Going for $27 as per
MacWarehouse's ad in the May issue of MacUser, it's really a steal.
Juan Courcoul
A satisfied DiskTop owner
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Date: 17 Apr 89 15:29:37 EDT
From: T.R.Garman@me.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: MPW help recieved...
Thanks for the responses to my MPW question.(all who replied)
I am using MPW ver 2.0. The error that I get from the linker
is as follows:
error: linker # -45 error adding resource.
No further info is provided. There is no listing of link
errors in the MPW manual.
I was given one possible solution, using vaccine, I need
to try turning on MPW switch on vaccine. I will try this tonight.
Thanks again,
T.R. Garman
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 16:57 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Read/write IBM disks
There is a relatively cheap ($295 list) HARDWARE solution just introduced
by a California company called Kennect -- (408) 370-2866 (no mail address
provided). Their gizmo, called Rapport, plugs into the EXTERNAL floppy port
of a Mac (for those models that have one -- the II and IIx need not apply)
and allows reading 720K IBM disks in the INTERNAL floppy drive. There is a
brief description of the whole apparatus in the latest issue (May) of
"MacWorld", on page 111.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 89 17:04 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Request for Information on Operating U.S. Macs in Europe
The relevant info is neatly summarized in the latest issue (May) of
"MacWorld", on page 226. As far as your equipment is concerned:
- The Mac SE (like all Macs after -- but not including -- the Plus) needs
only a plug adaptor thanks to its self-configuring power supply.
- All Apple external hard disks -- no mention of third party products --
have the same kind of globe-trotter power supply. Internal drives, and
all other equipment that draws power from the Mac, such as keyboard and
mouse, should have no problem as long as the Mac itself has no problems.
- The Imagewriter II does NOT have the same adaptability, and a step-down
transformer (rated @ 270 W minimum) would be necessary. In addition,
unlike the IW I, Apple does not recommend using a U.S. IW II on 50Hz
A.C., although some users seem to have done it without problems.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 18:08 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: undeletable folder
A colleague copied some files from a floppy to a SCSI drive. The documents
within the folder failed to copy. Now he has an empty folder that he
can not delete--he gets a "file busy" error. Restarting does not solve
the problem, he cannot delete the folder, nor can he close it from
a program written to just close a file. On running some disk utility, he
finds that "two files own the same block." (I think he was using one of the
SUM utilities.)
Is there any way to correct the problem without reformatting his hard disk>
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∂18-Apr-89 0126 schaefer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu troff on a Mac
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To: ksl-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
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Subject: troff on a Mac
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 01:25:29 -0700
From: Carl Schaefer <schaefer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Does anybody know the answer to this?
thanks,
Carl
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 20:07:42 CDT
From: Chai@csvax.cs.ukans.edu
To: postmaster@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: TROFF on Macintosh
Do you know of any program that will process TROFF files on the Macintosh?
So as to print it on an imagewriter or a laserwriter? If you don't, could you
tell me who I might ask? Thank you.
Ian
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∂18-Apr-89 2042 B.BSK@macbeth.stanford.edu Help sending stuff to mac-sundry?
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From: Brian Keller <B.BSK@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help sending stuff to mac-sundry?
To: su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
Message-Id: <12487223218.87.B.BSK@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU>
A week or so ago, somebody replied to my question on sending postings to
mac-sundry. They said to post mail to 'comp-sys-mac@ucbvax.berkeley.edu',
but when I tried this, the address was not recognized. If you have any
info on the routing from LOTS, please let me know.
Thanks in advance!
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∂18-Apr-89 2113 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Anyone Getting Academic Word Upgrades?
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From: philf@lindy.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez)
Organization: Stanford Data Center
Subject: Anyone Getting Academic Word Upgrades?
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Reply-To: lindy!philf@labrea.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez)
To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Has anyone yet received an upgrade offer from Microsoft to update the
Academic Edition of MS Word 3.0 to Word 4.0? The folks at
ComputerWare tell me that Microsoft is actively shipping updates, but
I haven't heard a peep from Microsoft (my software is registered, or
at least I mailed the card). Any chance they're putting Academic
Edition users at the end of the queue?
pmf
∂19-Apr-89 1251 sujansky@sumex-aim.stanford.edu PASCAL file/database systems
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1989 12:51:07 PDT
From: Walter Sujansky <sujansky@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Subject: PASCAL file/database systems
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.609018667.sujansky@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Does anyone know of code for or public domain access to indexed file systems
or full-blown database management systems developed in PASCAL (preferably
Lightspeed, though not necessarily) which run on a MAC II? I am interested
in developing an application in PASCAL which will smoothly interface with
a large database and provide rapid access to data instances (i.e. more rapid
than sequential search). I would like to have the flexibility of using a
DB larger than that accomodated by my 2MB RAM (i.e. I want to store the data
to and access it from my hard disk dynamically).
If no applications of this sort exist in the public domain, I would consider
purchasing an off-the-shelf commercial system. Thus, any and all suggestions
are appreciated. Thanks. -Walter Sujansky (Sujansky@sumex-aim)
∂20-Apr-89 1505 @score.stanford.edu:calius@composite.stanford.edu mail to AppleLink
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From: calius@composite.stanford.edu (Emilio Calius)
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To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
Subject: mail to AppleLink
Cc: su-computers@score.stanford.edu
I'm sure that this has been discussed before, but could somebody
tell me how to send e-mail to someone on AppleLink ?
Thanks.
Emilio P. Calius
** It is occasionally the curse of visionaries to see their visions fulfulled.
-- author??
"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."
-- Bill Hoest
∂21-Apr-89 1316 goddard@sierra.stanford.edu Laserwriter
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From: goddard@sierra.stanford.edu (Lance C. Goddard)
To: su-macintosh@sierra.stanford.edu
Subject: Laserwriter
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.609192745.goddard@>
I'm thinking of upgrading my Laserwriter IINT to a IINTX.
Since it says in the manual that the old board (the NT board)
is yours to keep, is there any reason not to sell it to
someone who wants to upgrade to an NT from an SC? If there
is no problem with this, is there anyone who has an SC
who would like to get an NT upgrade for half of the cost
of the NT to NTX upgrade? $807 plus tax, etc.
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From: Alex Bronstein <S.SALUT@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: mail to AppleLink
To: calius@composite.stanford.edu
Cc: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu, su-computers@score.stanford.edu
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Here is the old answer I got from the Apple Mail Wizard:
Alex
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From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
Subject: Re: Reaching APPLE employees at APPLE.COM
In-Reply-To: <12455726107.77.S.SALUT@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU>
To: Alex Bronstein <S.SALUT@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU>
Cc: su-computers@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 88 12:57:28 -0800
Sender: fair@apple.com
"Apple.com" is a VAX-11/780 in Apple Products (R&D) that is run by
Engineering Computer Operations. It has a connection to the Internet
through CSNET, although we will be joining BARRNET soon. We don't
have accounts or aliases here for every employee, although those who
ask are free to get one.
To REALLY get to Apple Employees electronically, you have to send mail
to AppleLink, Apple's Corporate mail system. We can't make the
directory available (privacy concerns & corporate policy prevent it),
so you'll have to know the account name of the person you're trying to
get to in advance.
To mail into AppleLink from outside, given that you know an AppleLink
ID, (e.g. D1234), mail to either
D1234@applelink.apple.com
or
apple!applelink.apple.com!D1234
We handle all the header-hacking mess between us and a third-party
gateway service called "DASNET".
When your correspondent gets your letter, it will appear to him thus:
From: DASNET
Subject: You@YourHost.YourDomain
To: D1234
Note that the true return address is shown in the Subject: field,
rather than in the From: field (where it ought to be). We're stuck with
this kludge for now. Unfortunately, this means that hitting the REPLY
button on the AppleLink side will NOT do the Right Thing. Your
correspondent will have to cut/paste or retype the address into the
To: field, thusly:
Subject: whatever
To: You@YourHost.YourDomain@DASNET#
Ugly it may be, but it's better than no gateway at all...
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 21 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 73
Today's Topics:
BUSY FOLDER
Compiled HyperCard
Fax to Mac...
help needed with 24bit color environment
IMPACT PRINTERS
Info-Mac Question
MasterJuggler
Montage
Printing thru a comm link to Postscript Printer?
Programming Mac Help
Question: Linear Pgming, Simulation, ViewEdit
SF&I 1.01
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 20:55:51 EDT
From: Jean Brunet <R31631@UQAM>
Subject: BUSY FOLDER
I tried the various trick given to delete a so called busy folder without
success, I still get a -47 error. If I copy this folder from my hard disk to a
disquette I can delete it (the copy on the disquette) without problem but I
still can not delete the one on the hard disk nor copy over it from disquette
to hard disk. Any suggestion! Note that the folder is empty ( 0 K). I would
like to avoid to initialize my hard disk. Looking for a saviour!
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 10:14:10 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Compiled HyperCard
I remember reading in one of the mags about a product that would allow
you to "compile" hypercard scripts. Does anyone know anything about this,
where I can get it, and exactly what purpose it serves?
Bret Ingerman INGERMAN@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU
Microcomputer Consultant
Syracuse University
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 10:15:11 EST
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Fax to Mac...
Amongst the various fax modems available for the Macintosh, I seem to recall
there is one (perhaps more at this point) that is capable of receiving
facsimilies without being connected to a Mac (for example, at night you could
turn off all the office machines, and just leave the fax modem on. If any
facsimilies arrive overnight, they are saved in the modem's internal storage
and printed in the morning).
What is the name and manufacturer of this fax modem?
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: 21 Apr 89 09:59:21 GMT
From: unido!ifistg!braunl@uunet.uu.net (Thomas Braeunl)
Subject: help needed with 24bit color environment
We just bought a RasterOps ColorBoard 104 for the MacII
with a 24bit environment but only little documentation.
I'd like to access it via Turbo Pascal and need a routine
for displaying a pixel or drawing a vector in a 24bit color.
If anybody knows how to do this, please let me know by mail.
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Thomas Braunl e-mail: unido!ifistg!braunl@seismo.css.gov
Univ. Stuttgart IFI, Azenbergstr. 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 1, W.-Germany
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 09:39 EST
From: <TOM%FANDM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Tom, Tech. Support)
Subject: IMPACT PRINTERS
Janet Stroup asks about impact printers for the MacII.
I have not tried the following on the MacII but it is proven on the 512K,
Plus and SE.
We use Daisywriter 2000. They can be used by almost any computer on the
market. They have both serial and parallel connections depending on the
cable configuration and dipswitch settings. They can be set to emulate the
NEC, Diablo, Qume sprint, Atari 825, Centronics 737, Daisywriter and dumb
printer. Most of our offices use MSWord so we install the Serial Printer
and Diablo drivers that come with the program and run Diablo 630 emulation
on the printer.
The beauty of the printer is that for maintenance, we can swap them between
computers at will. Operation is as simple as any printer of the type.
They have given us reliable service for several years now. They tend to be
a little touchy about mechanical adjustment of the ribbon mechanism but we
have never had to repair any electronics in them and we have a base of about
20 of these printers.
Now here's the bad part. They are no longer made. A few months ago we
called the factory source and were given the bad news, but at that time
they were still remanufacturing the printer. We purchased two more, not
because we needed them, but because we like them so much for their
reliability and versatility. We paid about $750 for them if I recall
correctly. They would, I imagine, still have remanufactured units
available. I inspected our new units and found them to be as new for all
practical purposes.
Support has always been good. I've needed to order a few gears and some
other minor parts and they have always been in stock. The parts list also
includes a full line of replacement boards, mechanical parts, and just
about everything else. When I last spoke to the folks, they assured be
they would continue to remanufacture and support this unit.
The other news is that the printer is made by Brother and is comparable to
the Brother HRI printer (whatever that is).
Our factory source is: Complete Electronics
9272 Jeronimo, Bldg. 116
Irvine, CA 92718
(714) 458-0130
Brother's number is 800-526-3537
This info is a year old (May 1988) but I would suspect they are still
around and doing well.
Have a good day!!!!!
*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
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Tom Mahoney
Computer Electonics Technician
Computer Services
Bitnet: Tom@FANDM P.O. Box 3003
Applelink: A0159 Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
FAX: (717) 291-4143 (717) 291-4005
Disclaimer: If I really said any of this, I'll probably change
my mind by the time you get it.
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 13:57 CST
From: <CCLARK%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Question
I have been unable to use 256 color pict files as desktop pictures. For
some unknown reason the desktop comes up in 16 colors, not 256. I am
positive that the original pictures are 256 color. Also, the software
that I've tried includes the shareware program DeskPict as well as the
commercial package ColorDesk (cdev).
Anyone have any suggestions?
Cole Clark
CCLARK@UTMEM1
University of Tennessee, Memphis
BIT Center
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 10:08:21 MDT
From: BBOLT@UALTAVM.BITNET
Subject: MasterJuggler
I have been using MasterJuggler for a couple of months and have found it
to be a very good product. But, I have encountered a bug which AlSoft has
not been able to help me with. I have installed my most often used
applications in the Application List popup menu. Some of the applications
are on my local hard drive and others are on an AppleShare server volume.
The problem is that every couple of weeks, all of the applications from
the server volume become disabled (grey) on the menu, even though the
volume is mounted. The only way to fix it is to reinstall the applications.
AlSoft had not heard of this problem and had no suggestions. Has anyone
else encountered this? Any suggestions on how I can get around this
would be appreciated because it is a pain to have to reinstall.
Bob Bolt
BBOLT@UALTAVM
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 10:18:51 MDT
From: BBOLT@UALTAVM.BITNET
Subject: Montage
I have access to a Montage film recorder and would like to try it out.
But, the only software that can drive it is PowerPoint, which I don't
own. I would like to use MORE II or MacDraw II and have been told that
the files must be in PICT format to use with the Montage. Has anyone had
experience with this setup? I am particularily interested in how I can
assign the colors with a monochrome SE.
Bob Bolt
BBOLT@UALTAVM
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Date: Thu 20 Apr 89 09:54:15-PST
From: ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Printing thru a comm link to Postscript Printer?
I am in the need of the ability to print to a postscript printer that
is on a terminal server connected to my communications port. On my
companies PC's we use a communications program to make a connection to
the printer and then print out using the serial port for output. The
Macintosh does not seem to have this capability to print thru the
serial port. Is there some sort of utility, either commercial or public
domain, that can redirect printer output to the communications line?
Please respond to me directally, I am new to this newsletter, and may
not be recieving it yet.
Rick Rohan ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 10:10:15 EST
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Programming Mac Help
I'm hoping that some of you can help with this. If there is enough
interest, I will summarize for the net:
We are interested in programming our own XCMD's and XFN's for HyperCard.
What I would like is a list of the software products and books that are
needed to do this. I am an experienced programmer, just not on the Mac.
For the sake of argument, assume that we have nothing and know nothing
about Mac programming.
On a related note, what software / books are necessary to program
applications on the Mac?
Please reply to me directly, or, to the net (direct is preferred).
Thank you.
Bret Ingerman INGERMAN@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU
Microcomputer Consultant
Syracuse University
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 89 11:58:49 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Question: Linear Pgming, Simulation, ViewEdit
Hi net,
two colleagues of mine have asked me to ask you for the availability
of the following packages for the Macintosh:
- Are there any programs for
a) linear programming/optimization (e.g. simplex method)
b) discrete simulation (GPSS, Simula, ...)
Public Domain or ShareWare products are preferred, but information
about commercial programs is also welcome.
- There should be a prototyping tool called "ViewEdit" that generates
MacApp classes. Its user interface is said to be similar to
SmetherBarnes' Prototyper.
Does anybody know anything about availability/sources/price
of this product?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 89 14:18:51 EDT
From: ephraim@think.com
Subject: SF&I 1.01
Enclosed is version 1.01 of SF&I, my SCSI Formatter and Installer.
Version 1.01 corrects two problems:
1. The previous version reset the SCSI bus while
searching for SCSI devices. This nasty behavior
has been removed. Instead, a "Test Unit Ready"
command is issued to each selectable device.
2. In case of an error, the previous version always
insisted that no Sense data could be obtained.
(Unless it really couldn't, in which case it
displayed garbage.) This has been corrected.
There are no changes to the device driver.
Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
"Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for:
God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
[Archived as /info-mac/util/scsi-formatter-101.hqx; 31K]
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In response to user requests, the Stanford Data Center has completely
rewritten MacSamson 1.1 (a Stanford-developed communication and file transfer
package). MacSamson 2.0 corrects previous software limits and incorporates
many requested features and enhancements.
If you use MacSamson to log onto Forsythe, two features that MacSamson provides
that other terminal emulation software doesn't are downloading and expanded
printing capabilities. You can use the "save" command in Folio to download a
search result to an Apple Macintosh diskette or hard disk or to AppleShare
volumes. For example, "save 8/20 full to A:example" saves your search result
in a file named "example" on the A disk drive. If you use Prism, you can take
advantage of the "download/save" option on the print screen to download your
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You can also use MacSamson to print to a variety of printers. If your
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to the appropriate print prompt. MacSamson will also support printing to local
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New MacSamson features include session logging, auto-dialing, and full support
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connections, as well as a few added features. In addition to Telnet sessions,
MacSamson 2.1 will also support FTP (File Transfer Protocol), Whois
(electronic mail directory), and finger (user account information)
capabilities.
To pick up a free copy of MacSamson 2.0, bring a blank diskette to the
Forsythe Information Desk. Or, if you are already using an older version of
MacSamson, log onto Forsythe and download the new version of MacSamson by
typing the command UTIL GETSAM. For more information about MacSamson (or
Folio), contact Tony Navarrete of the Stanford Data Center at 723-1662.
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 18 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 71
Today's Topics:
American MAC's in Europe
CAUTION! Mounting HDs in MACIIcx...
Image capture & display
impact printer for Mac IIs
MacTrek 0.99
MacWelcome
MacWrite printing problems
More on printing rotated text in MacDraw I
Operating U.S. Macs in Europe
ResCicn 1.0b3
Retrospect Archiver Demo Stack (part 1 of 4)
software diagram editors
Text Compression Algorithms?
The Mac and amateur radio
Undeletable Folder
Undeletable folders
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 8:55:50 EST
From: "CPT Steven M. Mahoney" <smmahone@crdec1.apgea.army.mil>
Subject: American MAC's in Europe
I have just returned from Germany and found no problems with using either
MAC 512, 512E, or Plus's. I saw numerous Imagewriter I and II's being used
with no problems. These were American MAC's. The American military sells
them through the P.X. system overseas.
For MAC Plus's and smaller a transformer is required. I had a nice one for
my MAC and Imagewriter II, with surge suppression, for $80 retail. If you
are near american military, used transformers can be bought for about 50%
retail. I saw many Imagewriter II's in use with none of the problems
warned about by Apple.
Foreign Public Domain is interesting (if you can read the language) with
many programs not available here. I tried sending this direct, but the
message could not make it.
Have a fun time in Europe.
STEVE MAHONEY
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 10:38:53 EDT
From: rb@chroma.med.upenn.edu (Richard J. Bookman)
Subject: CAUTION! Mounting HDs in MACIIcx...
If you are going to purchase a third party hard disk for
a MACIIcx, you should pause for a moment (or perhaps afew
weeks) until the manufacturers have time to come up with
the correct mounting hardware for the MACIIcx.
A recent experience:
I called Hard Drives International (Arizona - 1-800) to order
another Quantum drive. I told the sales rep that this was for
a MACIIcx (cx...not x) and asked whether they had the correct mounting
hardware for this new machine. hold on...i'll go ask the guys in
the tech room...yeh...no problem...this kit works for all the MAC IIs.
The drive arrives with the UNI-MAC installation and formatting kit...
for the SE or II or IIx. This kit does NOT work for the MacIIcx!
More phone calls: HDI tech support finally says we're sorry...our best
information was that...we didn't know until today (Now that is scary!).
UNI-MAC tech support says...of course that kit
doesn't work for the cx...we'lll have the new cx kit ready in thirty
days. HDI says to check on Wednesday (4/19). Stay tuned!
Lesson: No matter the extent to which you think you have asked
all the right questions...it doesn't help unless you ask the
right person.
No flames intended...the quantum drives are great...HDI delivers
quickly...I'm assuming that they will fix their mistake.
For now, the drive is resting on the cx's funny looking plastic
shelf, humming away, working wonderfully...so long as I can keep the cat
>From bumping into the box!
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Date: 18 Apr 89 10:02 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Image capture & display
Date: 18 April 1989, 09:56:36 EST
From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Image capture & display
We are assembling an Ethertalk network of 8-9 Mac II/IIx/IIcxes and a MicroVAX
with each workstation having at least 4M RAM and 40MB local storage. Another
department has an application running which has slaved a Philips-type laser-
disk player to an MS-DOS pc running dBASE III+ to select records under dBASE
and select frames to display on the laser-disk player.
Not only do we want to port this application to the Mac (not too difficult...),
but we also want to have the image data from the laserdisk ported down the
Ethernet to the requesting workstation (problem #1) and displayed on the same
monitor as the Mac's own stuff (problem #2). We would like to NOT resort to
a two-cable system, unless necessary, and especially would NOT like to have to
use a two-tube system.
What products, announced or real, do you folks know about which would be useful
in assembling this networked image databank application?
Thanks for any responses...
Ted
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University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
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==============================================| or AppleLink U1091
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 17:55:28 -0400
From: stroup@itd.nrl.navy.mil (janet l stroup)
Subject: impact printer for Mac IIs
I'm in the market for an impact printer for the Mac IIs in our
secretaries' offices. We can (re)create our standard (single page)
forms using the scanner/TrueForms/LaserWriter combination, BUT
there are still several forms that come in carbon packs that we
*have* to use (why anyone would rather have a fuzzy 9th carbon copy
instead of a nice crisp original-quality LaserWriter page I'll never
know). We've come up with a reasonable set-up for one of the Macs,
using Hypercard and attaching an old Diablo printer, and now we'd
like to do the same for the other Macs in our group.
I am aware of only one Mac-compatible impact printer, the Apple
Daisywheel Printer, which seems like a good deal because it's reasonably
priced, easy to connect and use, and easy to get parts for since its
innards are basically a Qume Sprint 11. Are there any others on the
market? What about a serial-to-parallel adapter and an Epson, Okidata,
Panasonic, IBM, or other parallel printer? Are these easy to use, e.g.,
will I have to write my own driver software for these?
Any suggestions, recommendations, or pointers to other info would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Janet Stroup stroup@itd.nrl.navy.mil
HCI Lab, Code 5533 (202) 767-0491
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, DC 20375-5000
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 00:11:07 -0500
From: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Subject: MacTrek 0.99
MacTrek is a Star Trek trivia game I started working on very shortly
after trying out a program you may have seen yourself, called, I think,
Star Trek Trivia Game. As soon as I'd tried it, I thought, "I can do
better than that." You may find this a bit conceited... unless you've
tried this other program.
In any case, MacTrek 0.99 is the current version of the result. As you
can tell by the version number, it's just about finished. I'd call
this version 1.0, but I'm not THAT convinced that this version is
perfect. That's up to YOU to tell ME.
If you've seen a game called MacTrek before, chances are it WAS NOT
this one. I discovered recently that there's another program out there
with the same name. The other MacTrek is a Mac implementation (a
fairly decent one, actually) of the old mainframe Star Trek game, which
was also implemented on several micros earlier this decade and last.
I hope you enjoy using this program as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Please write to me to tell me your thoughts, feelings, etc. I can be
reached at any of the below addresses.
Mark H. Anbinder thcy@crnlvax5.bitnet
312 Highland Road thcy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY 14850 Mark Anbinder/FidoNet:260/407
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Date: 18 Apr 89 7:59 EDT
From: Joe_Murphy.CAC.CAC@a.darpa.mil
Subject: MacWelcome
Hello,
I am in search of a program that could be used to display a "message of
the day" to Mac users on a LocalTalk/EtherTalk network. Such a program
would display a message once to each user when they logged on. Does such
a program (INIT?) exist?
In digest #69 someone mentioned MacWelcome. What is it?
Joe Murphy
Computing Analysis
DARPA IRC
NETS: jam@a.darpa.mil, jamurphy@a.isi.edu
BIX: jamurphy
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 10:45:49 PDT
From: broder@venera.isi.edu (Ben Broder)
Subject: MacWrite printing problems
I am experiencing a strange problem on my MacSE.
When I try to print MacWrite documents only the first page
is printed in full, subsequent pages come out blank.
I am running MacWrite 4.5 off of a hard disk with System 6.0.2
and I'm not sure where to start in debugging this problem.
Should I try replacing MacWrite, or the System file, or the
Imagewriter file?
Thanks for your help,
Benjamin Broder (broder@vaxa.isi.edu)
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Date: 18 Apr 1989 1227-PDT
From: DKAVNER@ecla.usc.edu
Subject: More on printing rotated text in MacDraw I
We have just unfortunately discovered the problem with printing rotated
text in MacDraw reported last month by Peter Jorgensen. We have several
Mac Plus/SE/IIs connected to two LaserWriter Pluses. The Macs have from
1 to 5 meg RAM and we use MacDraw 1.9.5 and MacDraw II.
Everything used to work fine under System 4.2 and LaserWriter/LaserPrep
5.0. We recently upgraded to System 6.0.2 and LaserWriter/LaserPrep 5.2.
Now MacDraw 1.9.5 crashes (ID=02) when printing vertical text without
MultiFinder on the Plus and SE, I haven't tried a II. Yet, it works with
background printing under MultiFinder! MacDraw II works with or without
MultiFinder.
Several of the Macs do not have MacDraw II or the memory to run
MultiFinder continuously. Our interim solution is to reboot under
MultiFinder to print. I really do not want to try a mixed System
6.0/LaserWriter 5.0 combo after having been burned badly on System
3.2/LaserWriter 5.0 with the Mac Pluses.
Any ideas? How about a combination of option settings?
Doug Kavner
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 20:53:50 WET DST
From: Flash Sheridan <flash%cs.qmc.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Operating U.S. Macs in Europe
It's the wrong way around, but I used my English Fat Mac & ImageWriter in
the States using just a transformer. No problems; the hardest part was just
getting a socket the right shape; I ended up buying new power cables.
From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom
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Date: 7 Apr 89 14:00:38 GMT
From: migeon@inria.UUCP (Maurice Migeon)
Subject: ResCicn 1.0b3
[ResCicn 1.0b3]
This is a cicn package for ResEdit (use it an 1.2b4 version or
later). Should work on Mac Plus & SE but we have only IIs...
If not use your favorite debugger and tell me when it does.
Hope you like it.
Frederic, Jean-Michel, Maurice.
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/rescicn-10b3.hqx; 41K]
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Date: 11 Apr 89 00:00:26 GMT
From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Subject: Retrospect Archiver Demo Stack (part 1 of 4)
There's been a fair amount of interest in Retrospect. This stack
describes Retrospect (a new file archiving system by Dantz software
currently under testing). Requires HyperCard and StuffIt.
Chuq Von Rospach -*- Editor,OtherRealms -*- Member SFWA
chuq@apple.com -*- CI$: 73317,635 -*- Delphi: CHUQ -*- Applelink: CHUQ
[This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.]
USENET: N. A self-replicating phage engineered by the phone company to cause
computers to spend large amounts of their owners budget on modem charges.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/retrospect-stack.hqx; 145K]
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 17:35:09 BST
From: PHY6JEM%CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: software diagram editors
I looked at this one too, Design isn't the only product on the
market.
There's a demo version of Design 2.0 out on UUCPnet and possibly
available from some of the Bitnet servers too. I've not seen the
real thing nor do I know whether the demo reflects the latest version
but from the demo it looks quite good. MetaSoftware also do Design/IDEF
which is specifically aimed at those who wish to draw IDEF diagrams.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to what an IDEF diagram is.
Lastly there is Design/OA which is a"development system for generating
customized object-oriented graphics applications". From the flier it
seems to be a toolbox which allows Lightspeed C programmers make Design
type pictures from within their code. Pricey at 5000 dollars too!
Educorp have a demo version of MacBubbles which is an editor for
dataflow diagrams. It might do some other diagrams too but I didn't
get very far with it. I got the feeling that it was a demo of an
alpha test version. Its dated 1987 so it might have improved by now.
The address is Starsys, 1113 Morlee Drive, Silver Spring, MD20902 and
the price quoted was 779 dollars.
Advanced Logical Software, 9903 SantaMonica Bvd. Suite 108 Beverly
Hills Ca90212 make something called Anatool aimed at Yourdon-DeMarco
SASD fanatics. In addition to the diagram editor it has a data
dictionary generator and possibly a pseudocode generator. I've not
seen a demo but since its 1675 dollars I've little interest in doing
so.
Andyne Computing Ltd, 544 Princess St, Suite 212, Kingston Ontario
Canada K7L 1C7 do ERvision which draws and analyses Entity-Relationship
diagrams for database design. Cost 150dollars. Other products include
some tool for MASCOT realtime methodology and some SQL dtatbase stuff.
I've not seen any of these working.
Then there are a couple of British products that you mayn't have
heard of.
Burway Software Services, Burway, Rickmansworth Road, Northwood,
Middlesex, HA6 2RD, GB; publish DiagramMaker. Again I've not seen it
in action but it seems to be a simple tool allowing you to draw various
boxes and link them up. Rubberbanding is supported as well as some
degree of heirarchy between related diagrams. The best bit is the price
of 69pounds.
The one I'm buying is MacCadd from Logica UK Ltd, 64 Newman St,
London, W1A 4SE, GB. It costs 235 for the entry level version 4.0.
It does flowcharts and dataflow diagrams and structure charts and
finite state machine diagrams and anything else you can think of.
You can tell it the rules of the diagram you're drawing and then it
makes sure you stick to them. The more advanced, more expensive version
5.0 produces data dictionaries and probably does more too. The
diagrams and their rules are held in files as PROLOG statements in
a format defined in the manual. This means you can see and fiddle about
with the objects in the object oriented drawings using a text editor!
Its big drawback is that at version 4.0 you can't save your diagrams
in PICT or Macdraw format, just in MacCadds own internal format.
The application's name is a bit silly too.
I have no connection with any of the companies whose products I
describe. Opinions are my own. I just hope this might save someone
a bit of research. Hope it reaches Info-mac ok this time.
John McMillan
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Date: Tue 18 Apr 89 11:10:46-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Text Compression Algorithms?
I'm looking for an easy-to-implement text compression algorithm. An example
would be best--I don't have any background in data compression, though I once
read (and nearly understood) a summarized explanation of Huffman encoding.
I have about 25 pages that I need to compress to fit on a floppy with other
stuff. C would be best, but Pascal is ok. Thanks for any information.
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 21:46 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: The Mac and amateur radio
I finally remembered to look this up when I was at home.
Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU 75 Kreger Dr Wolcott, CT 06716-2702
He is the author of the On Line column in QST. I understand he
maintains at least a listing of Mac programs that are useful for hams.
Occasionally he discusses them in the column.
-- Doug
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 19:31:10 PDT
From: Jay_Handel@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Undeletable Folder
> A colleague copied some files from a floppy to a SCSI drive. The documents
> within the folder failed to copy. Now he has an empty folder that he
> can not delete--he gets a "file busy" error. . . .
Drag the problem folder to the trash can, and then turn off your Mac
using the "Shut Down" command in the Special Menu. When you turn
your computer on again, the folder should be gone.
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 01:06:03 PST
From: JHL@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Undeletable folders
Message-ID: <890418010603.0000084C0C1@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV>
I had a similar problem of not being able to delete a folder
and have left some comments on the old MacTutor bulletin board. In
my case all files in the 'Condemned folder' beginning with alpha letter
greater than M had disappeared. I was able to resolve the problem without
reformatting the disk and have had no problems since (the event happened
about 9 months ago). It turned out (using Fedit) that the 'valence parameter'
of the catalog B-tree indicated (incorrectly) that there were some sub-
directories to the 'Condemned folder'. I was able to change that valence
parameter, and then upon re-mounting the hard disk (i.e. either mount from
a floppy or rebuild the desktop) was able to delete the actually empty
folder. In my case originally there were some files in the condemned folder--
it was my MPW directory--and I was able to SEE them (but not to delete them)
using Qued/M. I was able to DELETE them (but couldn't see them) using
MPW once I knew their names. So I copied them with QuedM and then cleaned
out the condemned folder with MPW and then ultimately deleted the condemned
folder with Fedit after changing the valence parameter.
In my case the problem occurred after a bomb in MPW when the
condemned folder had been open.
Good luck on the problem. If the MacToot board is no longer up
and you can't find the string of my messages, let me know and I'll try
to find them in my archives. -Jay Lieske
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End of Info-Mac Digest
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∂24-Apr-89 1718 E.EGDIRDLE@hamlet.stanford.edu WANT OLD MAC+
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Subject: WANT OLD MAC+
To: SU-MACINTOSH@hamlet.stanford.edu
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HAS ANY BODY OUT THERE GOT AN OLD BEIGE MAC+ THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SELL TO
ME FOR SOMETHING LESS THAN WHAT I WOULD PAY FOR A NEW ONE AT MICRODISC? I REALLY
WANT THE OLD TYPE ONLY. SINGLE FLOPPY AND OLD 128K ROMS ARE ESPECIALLY NICE.
CALL ME AT 415-723 9326
LEE ELDRIDGE
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∂24-Apr-89 1729 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Mac programmers for an office automation group
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Subject: Mac programmers for an office automation group
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Please see the posting on su.jobs -j
∂24-Apr-89 1946 M.MAILE@macbeth.stanford.edu "Why UNIX?" seminar announcement
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From: Ho'oikaika Loo <M.MAILE@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: "Why UNIX?" seminar announcement
To: gsb@gsb-how.stanford.edu, su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu,
partners@forsythe.stanford.edu, clusters@jessica.stanford.edu
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AIR presents a seminar entitled "Why UNIX?" on Wednesday, April 26, 1989,
for faculty, staff, and students. The seminar runs from 1:15 - 3:00 p.m.
in CERAS 112 and offers a conceptual overview of the UNIX operating system,
with details on what it is and who can benefit from its use.
Topics for discussion include the different flavors of UNIX, and the
similarities and differences between UNIX and other operating systems. A
view of the various UNIX workstations is also offered, and how they compare
to other workstations, such as those available from IBM, DEC, Sun, Apple,
and NeXT. Also under discussion are the potential pitfalls involved in
using UNIX, and a comparison of the pitfalls of other machines.
For more information, please contact Shirley Gruber, AIR/IRIS, at 723-1939,
or send email to shirley@jessica.
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∂24-Apr-89 2141 kunieda@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Japanese Mac
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 21:39:09 PDT
From: Etsuo Kunieda <kunieda@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
To: su-macintosh@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: Japanese Mac
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.609482349.kunieda@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Dose anyone know about Kanji Talk:Japanese Mac OS ? Can I use Kanji on a
laser printer? I want to take a Mac-2 system to Japan.
Thanks.
∂25-Apr-89 0042 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu INIT 29 Virus
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Date: 25 Apr 89 05:57:22 GMT
From: philf@lindy.stanford.edu (Phil Fernandez)
Organization: Stanford Data Center
Subject: INIT 29 Virus
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To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Today my boyfriend brought home a Mac disk from a machine in his
department (Materials Science), and it turned out to be infected with
the INIT 29 virus. Is this new news that INIT 29 is running around
Stanford, or am I just out of touch?
pmf
∂25-Apr-89 0113 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: Japanese Mac
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Date: 25 Apr 89 08:12:34 GMT
From: noguchi@polya.stanford.edu (Masahiro Noguchi)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Japanese Mac
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Reply-To: noguchi@polya.stanford.edu (Masahiro Noguchi)
To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
In article <CMM.0.88.609482349.kunieda@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> kunieda@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Etsuo Kunieda) writes:
>Dose anyone know about Kanji Talk:Japanese Mac OS ? Can I use Kanji on a
>laser printer? I want to take a Mac-2 system to Japan.
>Thanks.
I am using Kanji Talk 2.0 on MacII with LaserWriterIISC. It is working well.
I have heard that Postscript-based LaserWriters like IINT and IINTX are
too slow for Japanese processing (about 8 pages/hour!!!). I am not sure if
it is true but you had better check it. (LaserWriterIISC is
QuickDraw-based and basically has no prob
∂25-Apr-89 1123 GILBERTSON@score.stanford.edu Question
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Date: Tue 25 Apr 89 11:21:50-PDT
From: Edith Gilbertson <GILBERTSON@score.stanford.edu>
Subject: Question
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
Cc: gilbertson@score.stanford.edu
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I am ordering an Apple SE; can I hook up another brand printer to
the Mac (Panasonic?). Are there any problems with that? Please
let me know by email, or call 725-1431. Would you send your phone
number to me?
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∂25-Apr-89 1128 usenet@labrea.stanford.edu Re: INIT 29 Virus
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Subject: Re: INIT 29 Virus
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References: <2881@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
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To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
In article <2881@lindy.Stanford.EDU> philf@lindy.UUCP (Phil Fernandez) writes:
>
>Today my boyfriend brought home a Mac disk from a machine in his
>department (Materials Science), and it turned out to be infected with
>the INIT 29 virus. Is this new news that INIT 29 is running around
>Stanford, or am I just out of touch?
>
>pmf
We have seen INIT 29 a few times at LOTS2, but mostly in isolated
incidents. The Disinfectant application available on the machines
there can detect and kill this virus.
Steve
∂25-Apr-89 1943 P.PITNER@hamlet.stanford.edu 380 MB SCSI hard disk for sale
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From: philip pitner <P.PITNER@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: 380 MB SCSI hard disk for sale
To: su-macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu, su-market@hamlet.stanford.edu,
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For Sale:
380 MB (unformatted) external SCSI hard disk
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New drive price... $2,500
Note: two drives for sale
Contact p.pitner@hamlet.stanford.edu
This is a very reliable drive at a great price!
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∂26-Apr-89 1459 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #74
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #74
To: info-mac-list@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Info-Mac Digest Mon, 24 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 74
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Can Imagewriter be used with IBM PC?
Hard Disk Backup for an A/UX SYSTEM?
Info-Mac Digest V7 #73
Information about Script Manager
MacOS Applications under A/UX 1.1?
MacWelcome
PICT/TeX and other goodies
QUARK XPRESS
Sharp color Scanner
Terminal Emulators in Hypercard
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1989 15:11:30 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
New stuff in the archives which I FTPed:
1. 2Mb of the most popular sound files from wsmr-simtel20.army.mil. These are
all in the sound directory.
2. A HP Deskjet printer driver with source from kampi.hut.fi. The source is
in the source directory (which has been subdivided into c and pascal
sections) and the rest is in util.
And I mistakenly deleted a whole digest issue, so if you sent us a message
recently and you haven't seen it in a digest, better resend. All of the files
>From that issue are properly stored in the archives, so don't bother about
those. Sorry about that.
Those of you who didn't receive issue 71 can pick it up from the archives;
72 has vanished into the telephone network.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 01:35 EDT
From: JEFF WASILKO--PRESIDENT PRINTER'S DEVILS LOCAL 49 <JJW7384%ritvax.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Can Imagewriter be used with IBM PC?
This summer I will be using an IBM PC to do some programming work, and was
wondering if there is a way that I could use my Imagewriter II with the IBM. I
really don't have the room on my desk (or elsewhere) for another printer.
If it's possible, could someone let me know what cables/adapters are necessary.
I'm not above making my own cable, it someone knows the pinouts.
Thanks for the help...
Jeff
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 10:56:19 CDT
From: Frank W. Peters <peters@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Backup for an A/UX SYSTEM?
Hello,
I have recently acquired an Apple Macintosh IIcx with A/UX, Apple's
version of UNIX for their systems. My next purchase will be some sort of
backup system (I am currently borrowing an Apple 40meg tape system from a
co-worker).
I'm interested in any hints or suggestions about what I should get. In
particular, do any third party tape systems work with A/UX (that is, can they
be accessed as standard UNIX /dev devices from within A/UX)? Is anyone using
one of the many removable disk units currently available for backup? If so,
how well does it work? How do you like it? What advantages/disadvantages
does it give over a tape system? and, finally, does anyone have any other
suggestions about systems for doing disk backups?
Please send any responses to me directly. I will post a summary to
the net if interest warrents.
Thanks
Frank Peters
========================================================================
| Systems & Networks Programmer | Mississippi State University |
| Phone: (601) 325-2942 | Computing Center and Services |
| Internet: peters@CC.MsState.Edu | Post Office Drawer CC |
| BITNET: PETERS@MSSTATE.BITNET | Mississippi State, MS. 39762 |
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"What if I wanna worry? What if I *like* being unhappy??"
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:18 CST
From: AEEVERETT%UALR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #73
The program that compiles HyperCard scripts is called "CompileIt!",
distributed by Heizer Software, costs about $100. It is supremely slow
and deals with only a small subset of HyperTalk commands. However, it is
very good for straight mathematical calculations that do not require
callbacks to HyperCard. It supports ROM calls.
Please let me know if there is something else out there that might do better.
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Date: 24 Apr 89 13:56 -0600
From: KRISHNA DESIKACHARY <desikacharyk%wnre.aecl.cdn@relay.ubc.ca>
Subject: Information about Script Manager
Does anyone know any articles, references etc. where an account of
APPLE's SCRIPT MANAGER For NonRoman Scripts is given. I am looking for
a description of Script Manager capabilities in order to decide whether
to buy it or not to build an Editor for Indian Languages. So, please let
me know if you know of any such documentation before I enrich Apple with
my order. Thank you.
DESIKACHARY,K
Whiteshell Nuclear Research DESIKACHARYK@WNRE.AECL.CDN
Pinawa, MB ROE 1LO
(204)753-2311 EXT 3062
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 10:58:08 CDT
From: Frank W. Peters <peters@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: MacOS Applications under A/UX 1.1?
Hello,
I recently acquired an Apple Macintosh IIcx with A/UX 1.1, Apple's
UNIX system. Release 1.1 offers greater support for the Mac's toolbox
routines than did 1.0.
With this in mind, I'm interested in hearing from anyone who knows
of any MacOS applications that run under A/UX 1.1. I'd like to compile
a list (which I'd make available to anyone interested of course) of such
software (both sharewware/public domain and commercial). Have any of the
major macazines (MacUser, MacWorld and the like) begun adding this kind
of information to their reviews? (Hmmmmm..mebbe I should write 'em a
letter suggesting it...)
Please send any replies to me and I will post a summary to the net
if interest warrents.
Thanks
Frank W. Peters
P.S. If any vendors want to drop me a note saying "our product works
just spiffy with A/UX" I won't mind at all. Don't be shy...
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| Phone: (601) 325-2942 | Computing Center and Services |
| Internet: peters@CC.MsState.Edu | Post Office Drawer CC |
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"What if I wanna worry? What if I *like* being unhappy??"
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 16:30 CDT
From: <BROOKS%TAMVXOCN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacWelcome
xxx wrote in the digest (V.7 #71) asking about MacWelcome(TM) 1.3.
I had mentioned it in my request for an automatic shutdown cdev. It is a
startup application (set in Finder using the Set Startup... selection in
the Special menu) that puts text on the screen - up to 100 lines of 255
characters each. It then proceeds to transfer to another program, or goes
on to Finder/MultiFinder when the OK button is clicked. At least, that's
what it says it does.
You are supposed to be able to convert plain text files into the
WelcomeMessage file. I have not been able to get it to do so properly. Also,
the thing continually gives errors of 'Cannot get resource' causing the
application to either bomb or quit unexpectedly. Documentation is very
sparse. There is no text formatting - no font selection or styles or sizes -
and no scroll bars, meaning on a normal Mac screen, you can only read about
twenty-four lines of text - not the 100 lines that the program can use. The
idea is a good one, but it needs much more work. I don't have much info
on the programmer, but what I have follows, as well as where I got it from.
MacWelcome(TM) 1.3 by Chris Klugewicz (c)1988, freeware
purchased from Educorp, 531 Stevens Ave, Suite B
Solana Beach, CA 92075
Disk#2518
It says it is freeware, and I guess if anyone would like me to I'll
upload it to the archives. Like I said, after I tried using it, I found
that it didn't work quite as well as I thought it would. It may just have
some conflicts of interest with the system or the various INITs and cdevs.
It might just be easier if someone writes one that works well.
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Dave Martin DAVE@GERGA
Geochemical & Environmental Research Group
(Texas A&M University - Oceanography Dept)
10 South Graham Road
College Station, Texas 77840
(409) 690-0095
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 15:38 CDT
From: John DeSoi <john@murph.tamu.edu>
Subject: PICT/TeX and other goodies
Does anyone know of an utilities for converting PICT files into some
format that would be compatible with TeX? Or PICT to some other VMS
graphics format? Also, I have heard rumors that there are BINHEX
utilities for VMS and UNIX which let you specify wildcard pathnames to
operate upon. Any help in finding any of the above would be greatly
appreciated.
John F. DeSoi
Laboratory for Software Research
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3112
(409) 845-4306
BITNET: desoi@tamlsr
INTERNET: desoi@lsr.tamu.edu
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 09:00 EDT
From: "Cogito Ergo ZOOM." <ACSAZ%SEMASSU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: QUARK XPRESS
Hello, I'm a new member to your list and I've got a question concerning
Quark Xpress 1.1. For some reason Xpress is trying to download Times and it
changes all the text to courier. Any suggestions? Also, Mac User has reported
2 new Mac Viruses. I would appreciate any information on them. I think they
are called hPat and Init 29. To the best of my knowledge we don't have then
at my school yet.
Many thanks,
Alex Zavatone @ Southeastern Mass University
Library Macintosh Software Chief
[To solve virus woes I recommend Disinfectant 1.1 and GateKeeper 1.1, both
of which can be found in the virus directory in our archives. -Bill]
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Date: Mon 24 Apr 89 10:49:19-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Sharp color Scanner
Does anyone know where I could get access to a Sharp color scanner for 8-10
hours in the SF Bay Area? The only store I've found that carries them,
ComputerWare in Palo Alto, doesn't rent them. I'm interested in info on any
other color scanners, but Sharp seems to be the leader. It must be color--
grayscale won't do. Surely there's a service bureau somewhere that rents them,
or where I could send stuff for scanning? Thanks for any info.
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: 24-APR-1989 12:54:15.14
From: Jennifer Kleiman <JKLEIMAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Subject: Terminal Emulators in Hypercard
I'm interested in writing a terminal emulation program that could capture text
off of our vax and send it to MacIntalk, or any other speech synthesizer. Does
anyone know of an existing terminal emulator that would do that? Or, failing
that, XCMD and XFCNs that access the serial port, so that I could write a
terminal emulator in Hypercard. Failing that, does anyone know what good
references exist for writing XCMDS and XFCNS? I'd like to write this mainly in
Hypercard, as I know it handles MacIntalk and other speech synthesis easily.
Jennifer Kleiman
JKLEIMAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu
JKLEIMAN@wesleyan.bitnet
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Today's Topics:
4D Crashes...
Character Map 1.1
chemistry CD ROMs
Fading memories (400K disks)
Foreign Language Systems
ftp gif picture problem
help needed with 24bit color environment
Looking for a hard disk management utility..
MacArc
Mac II Neural Net Program
Macwelcome/MacPassword
serial port connection to hardware
Shutdown cdev/INIT
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Wordprocessorproblem
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 16:12 PDT
From: JAMESLI@toby.acs.washington.edu
Subject: 4D Crashes...
I'm interesting in finding out if anyone who is using 4th
Dimension in its multiuser custom mode is experiencing an
undue number of crashes. We've got about six custom databases
here and two of them crash all the time. They seem to crash
SEs more than IIs, and they seem to crash more in MultiFinder
than Finder. Most of the crashes are the screen lock (sometimes
screen trash) variety, but occasionally we still see the
"4D has unexpectedly quit" message (which I believe is a Multi-
finder error).
ACIUS tells me that system 6.0.2 has an undocumented bug with
imbedded variables in text areas. For that matter, they warned
me against using ANY greater than or less than (><) signs in
any layouts. Other than that, they didn't have much of an idea
of what might be wrong (other than the usual "it's either bad
code, bad structure, or bad records").
One other thing. Does anybody know how I can get a version of
Macintalk which works with the 4D externals "4D Say" and "4D
Play" by Djundi Karjadi?
James Li
Systems Manager, The Washington Technology Center
Internet: JAMESLI@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 11:45:29 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Character Map 1.1
This is Character Map DA 1.1. There have been a couple of complaints about
version 1.0. In particular it did not work
- under MultiFinder
- with desk accessories
- with certain word processors.
Version 1.1 corrects all these misbehaviors. Instead of generating keyboard
events, it now inserts the characters clicked at into an editable line of text
that can be selected and inserted into your word processor document via the
Clipboard. A short documentation in TEXT format is included.
For all those who don't know what Character Map is for: It is a replacement for
Apple's Key Caps DA. Character Map displays a table of ALL available characters
in a selected font and allows you to (more ore less) directly insert these
characters into your text or graphics document(s). There is no more need to
memorize option-shift combinations or - even worse - key sequences.
The best about Character Map is that it is FREE. Enjoy it.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/da/character-map-11.hqx; 8K]
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 15:07:17 EDT
From: Norbert Mueller <K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: chemistry CD ROMs
Hello!
We are currently searching for CD-ROMs with chemical oriented databases,
in particular we would like to know if there are any plans to publish
data collections like the cambridge crystallography data file or the
brookhaven protein data base on CD ROM and if these will be in a Mac-
readable format.
Thanks for any hints from netland.
Norbert Mueller
Institute of Chemistry
Johannes Kepler University
A-4040 LINZ
AUSTRIA
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1989 08:02:32 EDT
From: FAC0395%UOFT01.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (J. Feustle)
Subject: Fading memories (400K disks)
A colleague handed me several 400K disks the other day with the
complaint that she could no longer access the data on them. Sure
enough, she can't. When I put the disks in my SE, I'm asked if
I want to initialize them, which I don't. I've tried the recovery
program in the SUM Utilities with no success. It looks like the
media has lost a key portion of its magnetic strength, something
that I understand was chronic with the early disks/machines. Oh,
the disks have not been used for at least a year and a half.
I would much appreciate any suggestions that you could give. I'd
hate to have to tell my colleague that her research is now but
a faded memory (ugh!).
Thanks,
Joe Feustle
FAC0395@UOFT01.BITNET
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 14:19 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Foreign Language Systems
Greetings,
Do you have any experience with Foreign Language Systems on the Mac? Do I
really have to purchase a Foreign Language system from APDA to see it and try
it out?
We need to have HyperCard TextEdit (fields) work in German, and it seems to me
that the best way to do that would be to use a German System (or at least 'intl'
resources that are in it.
Thanks,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 89 21:56:24 PDT
From: lwong%sal55.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu (Lawrence Wong)
Subject: ftp gif picture problem
I am experiencing some difficulty when trying to down load gif files from
certain anonymous ftp sites. I believe that the files are NOT archived in
the BinHex format. Thus, when I use ftp, I tried both binary and ascii
mode without any sucess. The procedure that I normally go through is first
using ftp from my Unix account and then once completed, I use a Mac II using
Telenet to transfer the files from my account. When using gif, I just get
lines! What am I doing wrong?? I would really appreciate any help.
You could mail me the solution and I will write a summary back to be posted.
Thanks!
Lawrence Wong
lwong@girtab
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 08:55 U
From: <JINTEIK%ITIVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: help needed with 24bit color environment
>We just bought a RasterOps ColorBoard 104 for the MacII
>with a 24bit environment but only little documentation.
>I'd like to access it via Turbo Pascal and need a routine
>for displaying a pixel or drawing a vector in a 24bit color.
>If anybody knows how to do this, please let me know by mail.
As I understand it, Apple should have announced the 32-bit
version of Color Quickdraw by now (by 17th April according
to MacWeek). As the RasterOps color boards are compatible with
Apple's 32-bit Color Quickdraw, I don't think you would need
any hardware specific knowledge to access the 32-bit color.
According to MacWeek, Apple will be making the new Color Quickdraw
available free to developers and BBSs. It comes as a patch 'PTCH'
file that you leave in your System Folder. You'll need System 6.0.3
too.
>=======================================================================
>Thomas Braunl e-mail: unido!ifistg!braunl@seismo.css.gov
>Univ. Stuttgart IFI, Azenbergstr. 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 1, W.-Germany
>=======================================================================
=================================================================
J.T. Teh
Systems Engineer / Macintosh Developer
Information Technology Institute
NCB Building, 71 Science Park Drive, Republic of Singapore 0511.
BitNet Address: jinteik@itivax.bitnet
Internet Address: jinteik%itivax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Disclaimer: "My opinions are mine! All mine!" (Merry chuckle!)
=================================================================
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 11:27 EDT
From: <ELJAZZAR%UTKVX3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Looking for a hard disk management utility..
I am looking for an application that can be used in a lab environment.
What I am interested in is an application (INIT/CDEV/whatever) that can do
the following:
After installing and configuring the software on the Mac's hard drive, I
would like to have the application automatically purge all data that was added
after the original configuration (basically, any/all folders and files
added by the students..)
I know there is such a product for the IBM PC (called DiskManagerPC), but have
never seen anything similar for the Mac.
Any information on such a product is appreciated..
Mohamad El Jazzar
UT Computing Center
Knoxville, Tennessee
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 15:56 cdt
From: #CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: MacArc
Does anyone know of anything that will create/extract IBM .ARC
<SEA ARChives>? I have MacArc V .003, but that won't create them.
I've tried calling the 2 numbers given in the help file, but
one is disconnected and the other just rings. Everyone else
only has .003 as well. Does anyone know if that was the last
release?
Charles
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 20:38:43 PDT
From: wetter@csvax.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Subject: Mac II Neural Net Program
This is a copy of a program I wrote for part of my senior thesis. This
program allows you to make and train simple three layer neural networks on the
macintosh. Examples for a decoder, XOR and parity network are included, as
well as source code to do your own neural nets. Hopefully, people will send
me additional training methods besides the current backprop method which I will
include in future versions. Also I need suggestions for the user interface for
a method of putting in patterns with more then six inputs, without resorting to
editting the input files.
THIS PROGRAM ONLY RUNS ON A MAC II OR ABOVE. (020, 881 and color required).
If you would like a mac plus version, send me assembly to do the training and
thinking cycles; otherwise don't bother me, I'm trying to graduate.
For those of you who are interested, this program actually has little to do
with my senior thesis, mostly I wrote it for fun. This program has on-line help
, gratuitous color menus, and an extra window ( the senior thesis part which
doesn't do anything yet), and is a good example of how much fun you can have
with TranSkel.
Have fun,
Pierce
[Archived as /info-mac/app/neural-nets.hqx; 104K]
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 09:57:37 EDT
From: "A. Nazaretian" <ADRIENE%YALEADS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Macwelcome/MacPassword
Dave MArtin (Texas A&M University) asked about a way to shutdown a mac
so that his MacWelcome program can display a message when starting up, after
being shutdown after a specified period of inactivity on the mac.
If you are doing the coding yourself, perhaps you should contact
the author of MacPassword. There is a portion of code in there that will
return you to that "you may shut off your mac safely - restart" message.
If you combined the Pyro code with the shutdown manager portion of macpassword,
you would achieve that effect.
The Author of MacPassword is
Art Schumer
13814 176th Place NE
Redmond Washington
98052
---ALN
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 14:35 CDT
From: <JJM3383%TAMSIGMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: serial port connection to hardware
Hey everybody!
I am just starting on a project to use serial-port output to drive a multi-
plexer to eventually drive a standard remote control unit. I am looking for 2
things:
1. An example of C or pascal code sending serial output signals.
and 2. An Idea of how to implement a serial load to flip-flops to
drive a multi-plexer.
If I seem naive, it's because I have only had one introductory digital
circuits design class. If I manage to make heads or tails of this I will
submit a report for the group. The Idea is to run my stereo in the other room
with a desk accessory.
thanks,
...jeph
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 16:50:38 CDT
From: dittman@skvax1.csc.ti.com
Subject: Shutdown cdev/INIT
In Info-Mac Digest 7.69, Dave Martin is looking for a Shutdown cdev/INIT.
I have been working on one for a while which will shut down the Mac at a
specified time and/or after a specified number of hours/minutes/seconds
have passed. I don't have any "shutdown after x minutes of idle time"
in the program, but I could add it. If anyone out there has any ideas
they think would be good for this program, send them directly to me. I'll
either add them in or not. I'm not sure how soon the program will be
ready.
(needless to say, this program only works on machines with soft power.)
Eric Dittman
Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
dittman@skvax1.csc.ti.com
Disclaimer: I don't speak for Texas Instruments or the Component Test
Facility. I don't even speak for myself.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 10:51 PDT
From: JAMESLI@toby.acs.washington.edu
Subject: uShare
Anyone out there familiar with uShare by Information Presentation Tech-
nologies of California? We just received their info packet and, as we've
not heard of them before, are wondering if the package works as well as it
sounds it should. uShare allows a UNIX-based machine (including
Sun, Apollo, Unisys, and MIPs, but not currently NeXT) to be used as an
AppleShare server, with its Ethernet connections to the rest of the world
at large intact. It comes with transparent mail software in the form of a
DA that acts like InBox, QuickMail, or Microsoft Mail and allows a user to
transparently access UNIX mail to send messages beyond the Mac LAN. It
also allows remote access to the file server via the Ethernet backbone
that the UNIX machine is connected to for other machines (and
theoretically other Macs at remote sites). I'm wondering how stable the
package is compared to the traditional AppleShare software and Mac file
server (particularly with the latest article in MacUser decrying the use of
IBM 286 compats as file servers). Theoretically something like an Apollo
should outperform our Mac II file server by a long shot. But I won't believe
it until I know it's already been done.
James Li
Systems Manager, The Washington Technology Center
University of Washington
Internet: JAMESLI@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 89 10:04 N
From: <RCST9%HEITUE5.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Ernst '42' Mulder)
Subject: Wordprocessorproblem
Well well well, not only Word gives weird problems!
Using WriteNow 2.0 I got a weird uncomprehensible problem too. I typed
a paragraph. Then desided it was a wrong paragraph and selected it and
deleted it. So far so good. The paragraph wasn't in the text anymore.
Or was it?
Printing the file to a LaserWriter, it suddenly reappeared in the printer
output! It wasn't in the text, it still appeared in the output.
Anyone to explain this thing to me?
Ernst.
>
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 28 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 76
Today's Topics:
ArcMac 1.3c
Character Map 1.1
Color slide makers for the mac
Combining .HQX
Everex Educ. Discount
Info-Mac Digest V7 #75 (2 msgs)
Information about Script Manager
Jasmine DirectPrint
Need help installing Facade INIT
PICT and Ventura
RoboCop Sounds
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 22:13:11 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: ArcMac 1.3c
Attached is the current version (1.3c) of the shareware compression
utility ArcMac, which uses the MS-DOS/other standard
file compression schemes. ArcMac produces archives which
can be extracted by PKArc or Sea's Arc, and extracts such.
A simple de-archiver, ArcPop (to extract the compressed ArcMac),
and documentation are included.
direct from the author:
Don Gilbert
<BitNet> GilbertD@IUBACS <InterNet>GilbertD@Gold.Bacs.Indiana.Edu
PS. I've noted some talk about stuffit users asking for wild
card file handling. ArcMac has always featured command lines,
wild cards, and batch processing. If I find the time, there will
be a major upgrade to ArcMac this year to include .zip, .sit,
and .pit formats, binhex, MPW shell tool and Hypercard callable
forms. Those interested in such, send your encouragement my way.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/arcmac-13c.hqx; 177K]
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 04:51 EDT
From: alanr@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Character Map 1.1
Here is a further suggestion for charactermap. I use sonata font, which
is a 20 pt font. It would be good to have charactermap have a choosable
size, or to print in the smallest real font size above 9 pts, say.
Also, the new version seems to have some trouble displaying sonata and
other fonts. Only a few of the possible characters are displayed, mostly
just show a grey area. This did not seem to be a problem with the
earlier version.
Thanks for the great work, Guenther.
Alan Ruttenberg
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 89 21:41:38 EDT
From: David Ascher <ST501649%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Color slide makers for the mac
Hi everyone.
Does anyone have any experience working with 35 mm color slide makers for
the Mac? Any info will be appreciated. If necessary, I will summarize
for the net. Specific use is creation of slides to accompany biology
talks. i.e., interface with a good drawing program (a la freehand) is
required. Prices, performance, support, operating costs, speed, all
is welcome! Thanks.
David Ascher
E-mail: ST501649@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (ARPANet/BITNet)
SnailMail: P.O. Box 3209, Brown University, Providence RI 02912
NewEnglandTelNet: (401) 863-6603
# include disclaimer.h;
Flames, mail, and love letters gladly accepted.
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 19:56 cdt
From: #CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Combining .HQX
Is there an application that will automatically combine the large
.HQX files and strip the message headers?
If not, what do other's use? MS-Word or MacWrite?
Thanks,
Charles
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 10:20:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lester Paul Diamond <ld0h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Everex Educ. Discount
Everex is offering an educational discount on much of their equipment in the
EMAC line. This includes internal and external hard drives, tape units and
scanner. The discount is available to anyone associated with a university.
They seem to measure that by whether they can ship it to you at some university
address. In addition, if you can wrangle a purchase order number they will
ship to you and give you 30 days to decide to keep the unit.
Examples of prices are:
EMAC-40 Plus (19 ms access, external) $629 best mail order ~$800
EMAC-60 Impact (29 ms access, external) $695 best mail order ~$800
The 40 Plus uses a Quantum drive while the Impact series uses Epson drives.
The guy to contact is Gil Takemori at (800) 821-0806 Ext. 2585. He is
Associate Sales Rep.
Mention my name to him. It won't make a difference in price, but I think he
might be interested in seeing what kind of response this gets. I'd also
appreciate it if you could me a message too. I'd like to see how many people
pick up on this. I just happened on this deal, and I ended up getting the 60
Impact HD for a SE I use. Gil was extremely helpful, a pleasure to do business
with. He knows I'm posting this, but I'm doing it on my own initiative in
response to all the inquires about what drives to buy. By the way, the 80 meg.
Impact drive got a very good review in MacWorld this month and uses the
Quantum drive. It is $958 through this deal.
Lester Diamond
LD0H@ANDREW.CMU.EDU
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 06:13:29 PDT
From: goofy!apple.com!blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #75
In article <8904262114.AA04269@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Norbert Mueller) writes:
> We are currently searching for CD-ROMs with chemical oriented databases,
> in particular we would like to know if there are any plans to publish
> data collections like the cambridge crystallography data file or the
> brookhaven protein data base on CD ROM and if these will be in a Mac-
> readable format.
I can't comment on whether they'll be usable, but almost every CD being
published today for MS-DOS or VMS is in High Sierra or ISO 9660 format.
Both of these formats are completely readable on the Macintosh; by
default, all files appear as plain text files with a creator of 'hscd'.
This allows anybody to write a program to do useful things with such a CD.
(If you have a file that needs it, you can add Mac type, creator, and
finder flags, using our extensions to ISO 9660; contact me for further
details.)
As an example, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has
published a couple of CDs of scientific images. A person at JPL (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory) has written a Macintosh program to read VICAR
images and display them. Presto, it works with the NASA CD.
--Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 08:57:06 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #75
Regarding the questions about 32-bit Color Quickdraw, the patch file and
a new LaserWriter driver are available now on AppleLink. They should
show up shortly at dealers (and if you need them badly, all dealers have
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 09:11 U
From: <JINTEIK%ITIVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Information about Script Manager
> Does anyone know any articles, references etc. where an account of
>APPLE's SCRIPT MANAGER For NonRoman Scripts is given. I am looking for
>a description of Script Manager capabilities in order to decide whether
>to buy it or not to build an Editor for Indian Languages. So, please let
>me know if you know of any such documentation before I enrich Apple with
>my order. Thank you.
You can get the Script Manager Developer's Package from APDA. The order
number used to be KMSSMD before APDA was taken over by Apple. I don't think
Apple has an Indian System yet but you could check with them. You can
contact them on AppleLink on APDA. You should be able to send them mail
through the net at APDA.apple.com I think.
>DESIKACHARY,K
>Whiteshell Nuclear Research DESIKACHARYK@WNRE.AECL.CDN
>Pinawa, MB ROE 1LO
>(204)753-2311 EXT 3062
=================================================================
J.T. Teh
Systems Engineer / Macintosh Developer
Information Technology Institute
NCB Building, 71 Science Park Drive, Republic of Singapore 0511.
BitNet Address: jinteik@itivax.bitnet
Internet Address: jinteik%itivax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Disclaimer: "My opinions are mine! All mine!" (Merry chuckle!)
=================================================================
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Date: Thu 27 Apr 89 11:17:07-MDT
From: Alan S. Lichty <Lichty@science.utah.edu>
Subject: Jasmine DirectPrint
I posted a request for information about the Jasmine DirectPrint LCD
printer and promised a summary of the responses. Email has dwindled
down, so I guess its time to summarize. Many of the responses
requested that I not include personal names, corporate names, or
direct quotes, so I will have to paraphrase the text as best I can.
Many thanks to those who took the time to respond. Your opinions and
feedback have been taken into account and are greatly appreciated.
When I first posted my request, I was unaware that the Jasmine
printer uses a postscript clone RIP rather than a controller by Adobe.
For my own purposes, I must admit that I am unwilling to purchase one
of these clones instead of "the real thing" unless the price
differential is considerably more than is the case here. Since we are
at a university with consortium pricing, we are going to purchase an
Apple Laserwriter II NT based on the advice of several respondents.
So much for our decision - here what feedback I got:
The print engine is a Casio LCD. Qume is OEMing the machine to
Jasmine, so much of what follows applies equally to Qume's
Crystalprint product.
1) Since the Jasmine printer uses postscript clone technology, much of
the discussion revolved around whether font scaling was actaully
possible given the encription scheme Adobe uses for the 'hints' to get
better resolution. According to one respondent, Adobe fonts cannot be
used with this printer. For anyone who has an investment in
downloadable fonts, this isn't a trivial problem. The printer comes
with (clones of) the standard 35 LaserWriter fonts. I cannot make
conclusions about the clarity and smoothness of the output since I
haven't actually seen an example. The feedback from respondents was
mixed - "respectable" was an often used descriptor, but noone claimed
that the font clarity was indistinguishable from an Adobe
interpreter's output.
2) Tangled with the font clarity issue is the debate over true
postscript vs. postscript compatable controllers. The responses
almost bordered on a religious war. There were those who swore by the
Wietek chip and its speed whilst having no complaints about smoothness
and clarity and these responses were contrasted with those who
wouldn't even consider the clone technology unless there was at least
a $1000 price difference. One correspondent has tried using this
printer with unix machines and the like and reports that the
postscript compatability is very good.
3) The Weitek chip is apparently FAST. At least one satisfied user
claims at least 5 times the speed of a Laser NTX in complex graphics
output. This user has 3 megs of RAM on his printer. Some responses
suggested that the printer comes with only 1 Meg, but can support 3 as
an option. I don't know whether the claim for speed is dependent on
the purchase of extra RAM.
4) The paper tray was a problem child for all - it only holds about
100 sheets - and there are no third party paper feeders such as those
for the LW II. Not too bad for a personal printer, but a fatal
problem for an office with high throughput.
5) Since most all of the discussion of LCD printers was limited to
almost identical machines (postscript clones) I was not able to tease
out just how good LCD technology might be if a true postscript
interpreter was onboard.... this could make for an interesting
discussion at another date.
6) Toner replacement is quite different than the cartridges for Cannon
engines. The "toner pack" consists of an imaging drum and 3 toner
reservoir cartridges. It was pointed out that this scheme could
potentially lead to messy toner spills although no one claimed to have
suffered this fate (yet). Blacks are described as "very black".
That's the jist of the info I received - quite frankly if I were to
consider such a machine, I would spend a lot of time examining output
>From the various offerings with some text and graphics of my own
choosing. It appears that there is a great deal of personal judgement
involved in the issue of clarity and smoothness of the final product
and long-winded discussions of how the various products compare doesn't
really answer the final question.
Alan S. Lichty
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 09:51:30 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Need help installing Facade INIT
Ok, after two evenings I'm ready to say uncle.
I've been attempting to install Facade, a little INIT by Greg Marriott which
allows you to customize your disk icons. The help file which accompanies
Facade gives the following instruction:
> Place named ICN#s into the INIT file for each volume you want to dress
> up.
I'm assuming that this means ResEditing the INIT resources of your System
file - I've tried a few things, but to no avail. Is there anybody out
there who can give me a more detailed set of instructions for installing
Facade? Any help would be _much_ appreciated. - Gregg
(Running Mac II, 6.0.2, MultiFinder, 4-bit color, host o' INITs and CDEVs)
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 1482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 89 10:45:05 CDT
From: hyde@ngstl1.csc.ti.com (Clint Hyde 343-7709 Strong Typing is for people with Weak Memories!)
Subject: PICT and Ventura
I'd like to read some PICT files into Ventura (yeah, I know that's on a PC)
but it fails. I copied the files from Mac to PC using Kermit in binary mode,
(which seems to be right for paint files). is there something special I
should do? or is there a better way to transfer the files?
-- clint
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Date: 27 Apr 89 04:05:34 GMT
From: Rob Elkins <relkins@vax1.acs.udel.edu>
Subject: RoboCop Sounds
Enclosed is a fine collection of digitized sounds from the film RoboCop,
These are classics such as
"Dead or alive, you're coming with me!"
"Dick, You're FIRED!"
"Stay out of trouble."
The ED209 shutdown sequence (makes a great shutdown sound)
the sequence from NukeUm, (another quality home game from Butler Brothers)
as well as others.
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/robocop-various-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/sound/robocop-various-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/sound/robocop-various-part3.hqx; 153K]
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 29 Apr 89 Volume 7 : Issue 77
Today's Topics:
Answers to VCR Controllers
ASharePonder INIT
Can Imagewriter be used with IBM PC?
Cheap Fortran compiler required.
Default radio buttons in Word print dialog
Five years and counting!!
Making ARC files (was: MacArc)
MS Word 3.0 file format info needed
Rebuilding the Desktop File
start screen init
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 10:17 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Answers to VCR Controllers
There seemed to be some interest in controlling VCRs from HyperCard, so I'm
posting the responses I got to my query.
I received the following two replies to my VCR interfacing query on the nets.
----1---- from Internet
>From: GOV%"dru@MSR.EPM.ORNL.GOV" 13-APR-1989 13:09:59.79
Check out VIDEO-BUILDER, from TeleRobotics Int'l, Inc, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
(615) 482-1900. VideoBuilder (a program that accompanies CourseBuilder) allows
you to program random access from a VCR. They have written a Mac-VCR interface
that includes a VCR-driver.
----2---- from AppleLink
Item 3279918 17-April-89 13:19
>From: TINDELL1 Tindell, Michael
To: U0523 Colgate U, Erving Pfau, P Jorgensen
Sub: Low-cost serial VCR control
There is at least one product that will connect to the 5-pin control jack that
is common on higher-end consumer VCRs and allow RS-232 serial control. The
controller uses the VCR's frame counter rather than timecode, so acurracy is
dubious; but for low-cost editing, etc., it is probably worth a look. The
company which makes it is FutureVideo Products at 29901 Weatherwood Ave.,
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 Telephone 714-495-2621. Last I heard they were working
on a version that will use audio track timecode for improved accuracy. Let me
know about any other solutions for low-cost serial control that you know about.
Mike Tindell
Apple Advanced Technology Group - New Media
Link Tindell1 or
408-974-1961
A few phone calls also led me to this source:
BCD International, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
405-843-4574
They sell a product called VideoLink for 1295 (Cheap???) It uses "verbose"
ASCII commands like "FFWD 24" for fast forward 24 frames.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that I will be building my own interface
>From Radio Shack parts. I'll either be marketing it really cheap (like $100)
or just distributing plans and parts lists free. I think it's ridiculous that
I can get a 1200 baud modem for under two hundred bucks but have to pay over
five for something which does alot less.
Hope this information is of some use.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 28 APR 89 14:46:37
From: DERIDDER%SARA.NL@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: ASharePonder INIT
*
Here is ASharePonder, an INIT which takes the name from the AppleShare
Prep file and pastes it to the ChooserName. So if the user autologs on
a server the choosername will always be correct after logging in.
(Because ASharePonder runs before Responder the Network Manager
always sees the correct name.
Usage : %Place the INIT in a system folder. (Or a shared INIT folder.)
Notes : %The INIT has to be operated after AppleShare and before Responder.
%first release: 27 February 1989 Kees de Ridder.
Kees de Ridder,
Free University,
Chemical Dept.,
de Boelelaan 1083,
1081 HV Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
deridder@sara.nl
tel. (0)20-5485347
[Archived as /info-mac/init/appleshare-ponder.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Fri 28 Apr 1989 09:26 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Can Imagewriter be used with IBM PC?
If you have an Image Writer II on your desk, I assume you have a Mac on
your desk too. What kind of programming work are you doing? Personally,
I would get a copy of SoftPC 1.3 which would let you Mac emulate a PC
and therefore, make full use of any attached Mac Printer. Granted, it
isn't as fast has a hardware version, but it's not bad. However, it does
require 2mb of RAM and at least a 68020 processor (Mac IIanything, SE/30,
or any accelerated machine). Educational price is $149; List price $399.
After seeing version 1.2, I ordered 2 copies of version 1.3.
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
PS. SoftPC is from Insignia Solutions: 800-848-7677
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 22:28 EDT
From: V112PDL5@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: Cheap Fortran compiler required.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good Fortran compiler in the 100-150
dollar range for a Macintosh Plus with 2 floppies and a meager 1 megabyte of
memory. All the other ones I've encountered seem to require MPW and cost
upwards of $250.
- Mark Crowmell
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Date: 28 Apr 89 11:46 +0200
From: Stein Arild Stromme <stromme%rose.uib.uninett%NORUNIX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Default radio buttons in Word print dialog
How do I change the setting of the default choice of radio buttons
in a dialog box? The particular one that I have in mind is the paper
feed option in the print dialog of Word 3.02. This always defaults to
"automatic", even if "manual" is selected earlier in the same session
and for the same document. I seldom use automatic paper feed in my
Imagewriter II, and would like to change this default.
Is it possible to edit the Imagewriter document such that the paper
feed option defaults to "manual" for all applications? (And, at the
same time, have the Laserwriter print dialog default to "automatic"?)
Thanks for any help. E-mail to me, and I'll summarize to the net.
== Stein Arild Stromme <stromme@rose.uib.uninett>
== Mathematical Institute or
== University of Bergen <nmasr@nobergen.bitnet>
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 22:01:46 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Five years and counting!!
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the May 1989 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
Fifth Anniversary.
This is the 5th anniversary issue of the Vaporware column.
May '84 - the earliest Apple IIx (became the IIgs) rumors.
May '85 - Jazz for the Macintosh is late (and disappointing
when it finally did arrive) and IBM PC-2 rumors
prove unfounded (or Big Blue got "cold feet?").
May '86 - Rumors of a cartridge that makes an Atari ST
Macintosh compatible (if you can find an Apple
dealer who'll sell genuine ROMs) and announcement
of the Migent "Pocket Modem" (both products now
exist).
May '87 - Details about Andy Hertzfeld's "Juggler" (became
MultiFinder) for the Macintosh and the
introduction of the nicely designed, but too late,
National Semiconductor 10 MIP, 32-bit 32532
processor (twice as fast as anything from Intel or
Motorola).
May '88 - More details about the Intel 80486 (now known as
the i486), Motorola announces a 33 MHz 68020
(never made it into a Macintosh), and MIPS
Computer Systems announces the M3000 family said
to be 20 times as fast as a VAX 11/780.
Son of SCSI.
The American National Standards Institute X3T9.2 Committee,
commonly known as the SCSI Committee is nearing completion
of a new SCSI-2 standard. Formal adoption of the new 32-bit
data path (the existing SCSI path is 8-bit) is expected in
1990 or 1991. The new standard offers a maximum transfer
rate of 40 Mbytes per second (the existing standard is 4
Mbytes), and features "command queuing" - a way in which a
controller can accept new commands while executing previous
ones. Interfaces for SCSI-2, which is upward compatible
(current SCSI devices will work on SCSI-2 interfaces), are
already being advertised by some vendors.
- PC Week 10 April
16 Mbyte Floppy Disk Drive.
Panasonic is preparing to ship a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive
with a storage capacity of 16 Mbytes per disk. The
Panasonic 3511 drive is SCSI compatible and has a 60
millisecond average access time and a 2M-bit-per-second data
transfer rate. The drive can achieve its extremely high
capacity only with special 35,000 bits per inch (542 track)
metal disks developed by Panasonic, but it can read disks
written on lower capacity (2 Mbyte) drives. The 3511 will
be available in limited quantities this month with mass
production scheduled to begin in July. The drive will sell
to manufacturers for about $500. - PC Week 20 March
PS/2 Model 55SX Delayed.
Quality assurance problems have delayed the introduction of
IBM's 80386SX (the 16-bit bus version of the 32-bit 80386
processor) replacement for the PS/2 Model 50. IBM has
recently been embarrassed by a spate of defective Model
70-A21 machines failing at customer sites and, naturally,
wishes to avoid a similar experience. The new announcement
date, assuming production problems can be resolved, is May
16. the Model 55SX is expected to list for between $3,000
and $4,000. - InfoWorld 10 April
Accelerated Mac II?
Motorola has announced a 50 MHz version of its 68030 CPU.
The 12 MIP chip is a reduced geometry version of the 33 MHz
version of the same processor (the 68030 also is available
in 16 MHz and 25 MHz versions). The semiconductor industry
has not produced cache RAM chips with the 12 to 13
nanosecond access times needed to support a processor
running at 50 MHz. However, Motorola's technical marketing
manager for the microprocessing group, Jim Nutt says that a
one-wait-state design using 25 to 30 nanosecond SRAM will
still yield 10 MIP performance (approximately 2.5 times the
speed of the new Mac SE-030 and Mac IIcx). Apple is
expected to increase the speed of the Mac IIcx to 25 MHz - a
50% performance boost - in August (the SE-030 later in the
year). Sample quantities of the 50 MHz 68030 are priced at
$650. - InfoWorld 10 April
Fastest 803836.
The newly announced 33-MHz version of the 80386 CPU is the
last of the line (Intel's new processors are the i486,
previously known as the 80486). Notably absent from the
manufacturers showing 33-MHz PC's at last month's Comdex
were both IBM and Compaq; both are expected to release
models later this year. - PC Week 10 April
Prototype i486 PS/2.
The day after Intel's formal announcement of the i486 (aka
80486), IBM held a "technology" demonstration of a 25 MHz
version of the new processor (a pre-production sample
delivered in March) in a modified PS/2 Model 70 (upgraded in
only three hours). Preliminary benchmarks indicate double
the performance of the Model 70-A21 (25 MHz 80386).
Subsequent models of the i486 are expected to clock at 50
MHz, although IBM engineers are said to have been running
one at 64 MHz in a Boca Raton lab. Although i486 systems
are expected to be priced at $15,000 to $20,000, Brian
Roemmele, president of a New Jersey consulting firm, expects
competition to drive the price below $10,000 by 1991.
- PC Week 10 and 17 April and InfoWorld 17 April
PC Compatible Mainframe.
Intel and Prime Computer have announced joint development of
a "Emitter Coupled Logic" (ECL) implementation of the i486
processor design. The ECL i486 should be available as early
as 1992 and is expected to deliver 120 MIPS (eight times the
performance of the 50 MHz microcomputer version).
- InfoWorld 17 April
Apple IIgs+ and "Budget" Mac.
An enhanced Apple IIgs, with an improved user interface
toolbox and more built-in memory (but no mention of
increased processor speed), may appear as early as this
month's AppleFest. Apple insiders are saying this new
version will be the last member of the Apple II line. John
Sculley has been quoted once again as promising a "budget"
Macintosh Plus compatible for "under $1,000." Might that
product be a MacCard for the IIgs (see January's column)
creating the "Golden Gate" computer first described in last
November's column?
- BRCC Scarlett March and Random Access 1 and 8 April
Mac Compatible ROM's for the Masses?
Chips & Technologies (famous as a maker of PC-clone ROM
sets) has just about finished a set of Macintosh ROM clones,
and clone system software also is nearing readiness for
announcements. The chips are just what owners of Atari
MacCartridge (May 1986 column, see above) and the makers of
BlueMac and Akkord's "Jonathan" (see last month's column)
need. Akkord will begin shipping Mac clones (without ROM's
while awaiting customs clearance) within four months. Chips
& Technologies ROM's are expected to retail at about $100
and Akkord is planning a retail price for Jonathan
(initially a Mac+ compatible without ROM) at $800.
- PC Week 17 April
PC Compatible "Calculator."
Atari is set to begin shipping the CPC Folio, an 8 inch by 4
inch by 1 inch pocket PC compatible very similar to the
$2,000 Pocquet (last month's column). The Atari, which will
operate for six to eight weeks on three AA batteries, will
retail for $299. The one-pound CPC Folio includes a word
processor, dairy, calendar, calculator, communication
program, and Lotus 1-2-3 compatible spreadsheet in ROM. The
128K of RAM is large enough to permit a spreadsheet of up to
127 columns by 255 rows. The supertwist LCD can display 8
lines of 40 characters or act as a "moving window" for an 80
by 25 character screen.
- InfoWorld 20 March and Random Access 1 April
NeXT OS Release 1.0
One software developer, working with the developer's version
of the NeXT operating system (currently Release 0.9) says
"Today, it crashes every 30 minutes. Two weeks ago, it
crashed every 30 seconds. That's a logarithmic rate of
improvement." It remains to be seen whether all of the
remaining bugs can be swatted by the scheduled delivery date
of the first general release (called 1.0) of the operating
system scheduled for 1 July. - InfoWorld 10 April
New Quickdraw Features.
Apple will be adding the ability to create and manipulate
scalable outline fonts to QuickDraw. The new feature will
give Macintoshes with as little as 1 Mbyte of memory many of
the same features as Display PostScript. - PC Week 3 April
AppleLink Macintosh Edition.
Apple and Quantum Computer Services are promising to make an
AppleLink (Personal Edition) available for Machintosh users
before the start of Summer. - InfoWorld 20 March
Programmable Mouse.
Enough of this debate about whether computer mice should
have one, two, or three buttons. Later this month, Prohance
Technologies will begin shipping their 40 key Powermouse 100
($195). Frequently used commands such as copy, erase, and
format can be executed from the mouse (without users having
to shift their hands to the keyboard). The Powermouse 100
works with IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 and compatibles and includes
preprogrammed definition tables for Lotus 1-2-3.
- InfoWorld 3 April
Supermicro Supercomputing.
By 1991 Intel plans to deliver a prototype of its massively
parallel Touchstone supercomputer. The long term goal is to
build a 2,000 CPU system using Intel's i860 RISC processors
(code-named N-10 before being announced in March - see
February's column) each with the number crunching power of a
Cray-1, to deliver a total performance 1,000 times more
powerful than anything now available from Cray. The $28
million prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency will probably have "only" 512 processors.
- Business Week 17 April
Extended Data Services for DOS LAN Stations.
In a moderate change in strategy, IBM is placing more
emphasis on OS/2 Extended Edition as a server product. IBM
says it is committed to providing "Remote Data Services"
under OS/2 which will permit DOS workstations to utilize
Extended Edition's data access facilities. Thus, network
sites can install Extended Edition on a network server while
permitting workstations to continue using DOS.
- InfoWorld 17 April
Plastic Energy.
Rumor has it that the LapMac (when it finally appears) will
be very heavy (17 pounds) due to the weight of the battery
needed to make it truly portable. That problem may be
greatly reduced once commercial versions of plastic
batteries become available. Plastic batteries were
discovered at a Japanese university a decade ago but have
languished in laboratories all over the World awaiting an
application suitable for their capacity. Plastic power
packs for laptop computers which can hold a charge (shelf
life) for years are expected to be one-third the weight of
conventional batteries. - PC Week 3 April
IBM's Color LCD.
IBM and Toshiba have jointly developed a 14 inch, 16 color
Thin Film Transistor (TFT) active matrix display with a
resolution of 720 by 550 pixels. An IBM spokesman said
plans have not yet been made for a specific product using
the display. Toshiba executives say not to expect a color
laptop until 1991.
- PC Week 27 March and Random Access 1 April
Optical Memory.
NEC has announced the first practical optical memory. While
this first chip stores only 1,000 bits, that is about the
capacity of the first silicon DRAM chips of the early 70's.
Optical memory processes as well as records, much as a human
eye, but unlike the imaging chips in a video camcorder, the
image can be retained almost indefinitely while consuming
very little power. - Business Week 24 April
Lateware.
More than a year after its first preview, Lotus's Notes, a
workgroup productivity product, remains at least six months
away from release. The OS/2, DOS Windows software is a
workgroup information manager closely related to Lotus's
Agenda, a personal information manager. MicroPro, maker of
Word Star, has filed suit against the subcontractor hired to
develop a Macintosh word processor. The as yet unnamed
program (Mac Star?) is on indefinite hold. MicroPro has,
however, announced Word Star 5.5 with some additional
desktop publishing-like features. OS/2 Presentation Manager
applications are few, but Microsoft's OS/2 product marketing
manager, Mark Mackaman, says 7 more applications will be
added to the 3 now available within three months. He also
noted that 370 of 850 announced OS/2 applications now are
shipping.
- InfoWorld 27 March and 17 April and Random Access 14 April
/s Murph
I bought the latest computer;
it came fully loaded.
It was guaranteed for 90 days,
but in 30 was outmoded!
- The Wall Street Journal passed along by Big Red Computer's SCARLETT
FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 15:27:05 EDT
From: "Chris Davis" <smghy6c%buacca.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Making ARC files (was: MacArc)
> Does anyone know of anything that will create/extract IBM .ARC
> <SEA ARChives>? I have MacArc V .003, but that won't create them.
ArcMac (keeping these two straight isn't too easy, is it?) will create
ARC files. It will also unARC them, of course. I believe it is available
>From the ftp archives on sumex-aim.
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 89 20:02:04 +0200
From: "Andreas Zell" <unido!ifistg!zell@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: MS Word 3.0 file format info needed
We urgently need information about the internal file format of MS Word
3.0 documents on the Macintosh. One of my students wants to write a
document conversion program Word <-> LaTeX and needs information about
Word's file format. Or does such a conversion program exist already?
Does anybody know how to obtain such information about Word 3.0? We
have written to Microsoft Germany but haven't received an answer so far.
Any kind soul around who could e-mail or s-mail us a specification?
Many thanks in advance,
Andreas
============================================================================
Andreas Zell uucp: zell@ifistg.uucp
IfI, Univ. Stuttgart, Azenbergstr. 12, D-7000 Stuttgart 1, FRG
============================================================================
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Date: 28 Apr 89 11:38:37 +0000 (Fri)
From: munnari!utscsd.oz.au!gregw@uunet.uu.net (-a8000033-g.webb-cen-200-)
Subject: Rebuilding the Desktop File
Does anyone know of a utility, public domain or otherwise, that will
rebuild the Desktop file without loosing the Get Info information.
I currently save a copy of the FCMT resource with ResEdit, rebuild the
Desktop file with CMD and OPTION held down while rebooting, and
finally paste back the saved resource. This is not only time
consuming, but also inefficient because comments from deleted files
remain in the FCMT resource.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Greg Webb
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Date: 28 APR 89 10:45:13
From: DERIDDER%SARA.NL@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: start screen init
Here is an init which shows a message (which is placed on a server) during
System startup.
Usage :
Place the INIT in a system folder (or a shared INIT folder).
Place a textfile made with Edit on a server.
With ResEdit make STR 129 in the INIT the full pathname to that file.
That's all!
When there is no textfile the INIT will do nothing.
Free University,
Chemical Dept.,
Kees de Ridder,
de Boelelaan 1083,
1081 HV Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
DERIDDER@SARA.nl
[Archived as /info-mac/init/display-startup-text.hqx; 7K]
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 1 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 78
Today's Topics:
A/UX Hard Disk backup
ArcMac -- additional suggestions (DeltaSave ?)
Chemistry CD-ROMs
Combining .HQX
Combining Large HQX files
DIRectory 3.0 Demo and DIReader
Facade
Facade INIT installation
Hebrew fonts?
HyperCard Report Problem
Iconia 7.0 Demo
Initializing appletalk-ip routing using K-star/Kinetics
Jasmine cdev problem with MultiFinder
Macs and Ham Radio
my sounds
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UUCP for Mac
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 00:06:03 EDT
From: Alexis Rosen <cucard!ccnysci!alexis@columbia.edu>
Subject: A/UX Hard Disk backup
Recently, Frank Peters asked about unix backups.
There are a few backup products that will back up a partition image, but there
is only one which will work under A/UX, doing true file-by-file backup. It
is the Irwin DC2000 product. Currently it can do 120MB on a tape, but they
should have a 300MB DC600 by this summer. I've played with this product quite
a bit and it looks very very nice. You can have cron back things up for you
at three AM, for example. The backup program takes command-line options,
but if you invoke it with none it pops up looking like a real Mac app. It
even uses color.
These guys really seem to know what they're doing. When we get our A/UX box
I have every intention of getting their tape, even though I'm usually a
happy and satisfied MicroNet customer.
BTW, they also have lots of other really neat products coming. Not to mention
a few neat ones already shipping.
---
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 19:17 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: ArcMac -- additional suggestions (DeltaSave ?)
Don Gilbert asks for encouragement for his major ArcMac revision project --
so here's plenty of cheers for this most deserving of programming endeavour
(especially now that StuffIt is apparently being taken commercial). I would
also like to put forth a suggestion for an added feature. In fact, this is
slightly off the mark -- but still related to archiving and compression.
In my work, I often create several closely related versions of the same
file. Some of these are bound for the trashcan, but some I want/need to
keep. Since I work mostly with raster graphics programs, the typical file
will be anywhere between 2 and 3 MBytes, and some can be quite a bit
larger. Maintaining a thorough archive, therefore, is rather
space-consuming and, since I have no alternative but to dump stuff to tape,
also difficult to access.
I have always wondered whether it would be possible to generalize the
version-control systems available for source-code text files to arbitrary
binary files, i.e. -- instead of saving version 154 all over again, compare
it with version 153 and save the differences only. I imagine that in some
cases it would be necessary to have some knowledge of the file structure,
but in general a file is a file is a file -- and as long as you can piece
it back together correctly, the originating application should have no
problem reading it back.
In graphics, besides saving vast amounts of space in files that are subject
to frequent revisions (CAD being another example), it would also be helpful
with repetitive kinds of imagery -- such as animation (each frame being
only slightly different from the previous one). Analogous benefits could be
had in fields other than graphics. Also, where necessary, this could
facilitate keeping an audit trail. And, it would make for much more
efficient use of write-once media.
Ideally, such capability would be implemented within the standard Save file
dialog box (possibly as an INIT which adds a "Save as delta" checkbox ?) But
also a separate standalone application to compare and save files already on
disk would be quite helpful.
Is this entirely off the wall, or is there a chance of throwing it into the
Great Archiving Cauldron ? Thanx for listening, anyway.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 19:20 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Chemistry CD-ROMs
K360171%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Norbert Mueller) writes:
> We are currently searching for CD-ROMs with chemical oriented databases
A company called "Bureau of Electronic Publishing" (in spite of the name,
and their eagle logo, these folks are NOT a government agency) puts out a
catalog of CD-ROM titles which includes the following:
"Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering" $3,100
"Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology" $ 840
"Powder Diffraction File" $5,900
"Registry of Mass Spectral Data" $2,645
Generally they specify an IBM PC as required equipment but -- as mentioned
by Brian Bechtel in Info-Mac Digest V7 #76 -- if you did get the ISO 9660 /
High Sierra software upgrade for your Apple CD SC, then there should be no
problem in accessing these disks (of course, if they require special
software to be searched, and the software only runs on PCs, then things are
a bit more complicated).
The Bureau ships the CDs in the catalog for an additional $5 fee (there is
a 20% surcharge for foreign orders). Their address is:
P.O.Box 43131
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
(201) 746-3031
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 9:39:28 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Combining .HQX
#CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu writes:
>Is there an application that will automatically combine the large
>.HQX files and strip the message headers?
>If not, what do other's use? MS-Word or MacWrite?
>
>Thanks,
>Charles
>
Look in the <info-mac> archives. There's a utility called Unity 1.0, which
does just what you want. I think it is in the utility directory. As a
suggestion, tho... Why mess around with downloading multiple segments of
.hqx files? Combine them on your Internet host, using 'cat' for example, on
a UN*X host. Then you only have to download one file.
Or, to go a step further, (once again, assuming you run unix) and download
xbin and macbin from <info-mac>. Compile them and use xbin to decode .hqx
files into the three MacBinary file components. You'll get (from file.hqx):
file.rsrc, file.data & file.info. Use macbin to combine those three into a
Macintosh file. Benefits include, fewer files to download, smaller files to
download (macbinary files are smaller than their .hqx representations), use
of the processing power of your host to do the scutwork of file conversion.
Disadvantages, of course; you gotta use the stupid command line syntax,
unix file names must be used, etc.
The files you get look like this. I ftp'd arcmac-13c.hqx from <info-mac>,
then ran xbin and macbin on it...
This is the file I started with:
-rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 176740 May 1 09:07 arcmac-13c.hqx
Running xbin created these:
-rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 103670 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.data
-rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 128 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.info
-rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 25962 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.rsrc
Running macbin created this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 tcora fsa 129792 May 1 09:14 ArcMac.ARC.bin
Note that the Macbinary file is ~73% the size of the .hqx file. Takes less
time to download, that way.
tom c
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 09:34 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Combining Large HQX files
Original Question:
>From: #CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
>Subject: Combining .HQX
>
>Is there an application that will automatically combine the large
>.HQX files and strip the message headers?
>If not, what do other's use? MS-Word or MacWrite?
>
>Thanks,
>Charles
My Response:
On a VAX running VMS 5.0 I simply use the copy command to concat the various
parts into one big file, which I then download using Kermit. It has worked
most recently with Image-112-Part1 & Part2.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 23:15:55 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: DIRectory 3.0 Demo and DIReader
New version of DIRectory 3.0 Demo - The icon-based disk catalog program.
Also included - DIReader which is capable of reading documents
created by DIRectory.
DIRectory 3.0 Demo and DIReader are freeware. Please feel free to
give it to anyone who wants a copy.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/directory-30.hqx; 213K]
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 19:43 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Facade
You actually need to edit the Facade init itself. Use ResEdit to modify the
ICN# resource of Facade; create as many ICN#'s as you like (or as
many as the program can handle--don't know if there's an upper bound, but if
there is it's above twenty at least), or modify old ones, or whatever suits
your fancy. Once you've got some pictures you like, Get Info on a given ICN#
and change that ICN#'s name to the name of the disk you want to have that icon.
Restart your Mac with Facade in the system folder and voila! Note that since
each ICN# can only have one name, if you want a single icon to be used for more
than one disk, you'll have to duplicate it and rename the copy to the other
disk's name. And, of course, if you change the name of a disk, you'll have to
change the name of the ICN# or it will revert to the standard disk icon. Also
note: the ICN#'s ID numbers are totally irrelevant, except that ID=128 is the
icon it shows at startup to let you know the program is running.
-Josh Smith
JBS92@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU
or JBS92@SWARTHMR.BITNET
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 09:07:34 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Facade INIT installation
Thanks to everyone who responded to my question concerning the installation of
the INIT Facade - I was making the problem much harder than it needed to be.
One note of which may be of interest, one which I didn't notice in the
documentation: holding down the shift key when booting bypasses Facade - you
get the Facade Failure icon during boot (the broken down buildings instead of
the normal Facade Success icon, and your disk will mount with the standard
icon. - Gregg
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 11:54:54 EDT
From: Larry Kolodney <LKK@ai.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Hebrew fonts?
Can anyone tell me of the existence or availability of Macintosh Hebrew
fonts? I'm not on this list, so please mail directly.
Thanks,
larry kolodney
lkk@ai.ai.mit.edu
lkk@eddie.uucp
lkk@mit-eddie.uucp
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Date: Mon 01 May 1989 07:52 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HyperCard Report Problem
Hi all....I was fooling with Hypercard 1.2.1 the other day and when I tried
to print 43 copies of a report, it refused to do so, and only printed one
copy. So I tried less than 43 -- say 2 -- and it still refused to do so.
Needless to say, this is a real pain. Is there a bug fix for this?
I'm using system 6.0.2, finder that goes with it...etc...
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 89 23:14:50 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: Iconia 7.0 Demo
Iconia 7.0 Demo
Using Iconia is a fast and easy way to create application and
document icons used by the Finder. Iconia performs resource
compilation which makes the use of ResEdit superfluous when
creating the bundle structure. New or modified icons are directly
visible in the Finder, without rebuilding of the Desktop file.
Icons can be copied from programs, be read from MacPaint documents
or PICT files. The Clipboard and Scrapbook are fully supported.
Features
* Large icon and mask editor with preview.
* Tool set in separate window.
* Edit commands with multiple format support(ICN#, ICON, CURS, SICN and PICT)
* Import of icons from any file(ICN# and ICON)
* Import of any part of Paint/PICT files.
* Decompile of complete bundle structure.
* Compile directly to any file.
* Support of application document icons.
* Automatically uses aproppiate resource IDs for cdevs.
* Complete version data editing.
* Complete 'vers'-resource editing.
* Automatic updating of Desktop file.
* Default mask generation.
* Online short manual for quick help.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/iconia-70.hqx; 92K]
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 05:50 EDT
From: "John L. Jamison x8508" <JAMISON@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Initializing appletalk-ip routing using K-star/Kinetics
I have a user who needs to do an application layer network program to
communicate between an IBM PC and an Apollo (HP?) Unix machine. He'll be using
TCP/IP embedded within AppleTalk from an IBM-PC with a LocalTalk PC card to a
Unix host using TCP/IP. The LocalTalk segment is connected to Ethernet using a
Kinetics FastPath with KSTAR routing configured.
Unfortunately he has no programmer's interface to AppleTalk or TCP/IP for the
PC and handle the protocol himself. In fact, this is more or less the point
of his Engineering project- to make the interface himself. (please no replies
like "why the hell does he want to do this" :-) )
Has anyone done this? Anybody out there know how to do any of the
following:
(1) Initialize the IP routing of the FastPath- he'll be using a "static
address" and must presumeably communicate with the FastPath II (FPII) so
that it does IP routing for this appletalk node machine.
(2) embed the IP packets within AppleTalk packets for net sends.
(3) strip away IP packets from AppleTalk packets received.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John Jamison
System and Network Manager
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081
jamison@campus.swarthmore.edu
jamison@swarthmr.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 12:36 MET
From: Ed van Zon <V_ZON%AGRD04%HWALHW50.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Jasmine cdev problem with MultiFinder
Hello Netlanders,
Recently I purchased a Jasmine DirectDrive 100, and divided the disk into
four partitions using the Jasmine software that comes with the drive. I
arranged things so that two partitions are mounted automatically at startup,
the other two must be mounted manually before they can be accessed.
But strange things are happening when I use Jasmine's Control Panel device v1.2
under MultiFinder to mount the partitions. The moment the Finder displays
the icon of the newly mounted partition, the Control Panel window disappears
and everything freezes (even the interrupt button doesn't respond). Restarting
is the only way to continue.
It doesn't happen always; the first two weeks it didn't happen at all, but
the problem seems to appear more frequently as time passes. Right now, it
almost certainly goes wrong.
There is no problem when using Jasmine's Driveware application, or when
I startup with the Finder. Removing all other INIT's doesn't help one
bit, so the problem narrows down to the interaction of the Jasmine cdev/INIT
with MultiFinder. (I'm using System release 6.02.)
Since I like to use MultiFinder and it would be very convenient to manage
my partitions from the Control Panel, I would appreciate any suggestions
to eliminate the problem. I would also like to hear if any of you encountered
the same problem, or had no problem at all.
Thanks in advance,
Ed van Zon
Wageningen, Netherlands.
E-mail to: V_ZON%AGRD04@HWALHW50.BITNET
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 22:46:13 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: Macs and Ham Radio
Since the mail on Ham Radio and the Macintosh seems to have subsided, I
would like to submit a 'Personal Digest' of all the mail that was
received. Included below is the digest of all the ham radio and the
macintosh messages that were received.
Peter J. Gergely
---------------
Gergely's Personal Digest (4/28/89 10:47:20)
Responses to information on Ham radio and the Macintosh
Today's Topics:
get on list
The Mac and amateur radio
Re: Ham Radio and the Macintosh
Mac's and Ham Radio
ham radio and mac
Re: Ham Radio and the Macintoshes
Possible Mailing lists of interest
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/macs-and-ham-radio.txt; 16K]
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 89 02:17:12 EDT
From: Loring Holden <hold_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: my sounds
Since I have gotten so much use out of the Sumex archives, I thought I would
try to give something back in return. Below is a list of sounds that I have
(over 200 sounds totalling about 15 meg). If you are interested in getting any
please send me the name of the sound you want and the disk it is on...
Also what prompted me to send this offer is that a friend at another site wants
some of my sounds, and I thought it would be better to send them to Sumex for
everyone to enjoy rather than just to him. The sounds are samples of the
Phonemail anwsering service on the Rolm PBX system. Here and at Columbia Rolm
is used, and I'm sure that other schools use it as well..
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/lorings-sounds.txt; 17K]
[We will archive the most popular sounds here on sumex, so be sure to send
Loring your votes. -Bill]
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 8:37:40 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Need help installing Facade INIT
To use Facade, you do have to hack resources. But not in the system file.
Open Facade w/ RedEdit. Change the names of the various ICONs (or ICNs, I
forget which) to match the names of your various hard disk partitions and
floppy disk names. Then reboot and those disk will have those names!
tom c
Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit
offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
-or- tcora@ardec.arpa BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: 30 Apr 89 11:20 -0500
From: Darren R Besler <dbesler@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Subject: UUCP for Mac
Does anyone know about a program for the Mac that allows uucp file transfers
and uucp mail transfers with Unix machines?
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 2 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 79
Today's Topics:
BACKUP QUESTION
Combining .HQX (2 msgs)
Ethernet vs LocalTalk
ftp gif files solution
Graphics file conversion
Hebrew fonts...
Jasmine cdev problem with MultiFinder
Kermit problem
Macintosh Technical Notes - 0 About Macintosh Technical Notes
Multi-launch an app
SCSI Accelerator 2.10
StuffIt going commercial
Unity + multi-pt. binhexed files
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: 2 May 1989 08:00-EDT
From: MENDELSOHN@a.isi.edu
Subject: BACKUP QUESTION
Can anyone help on the following problem: I would like to
perform automatic incremental (or even full) back ups of
individual mac's on an appletalk network to a central location.
By automatic I mean no interaction on the part of the users or
network manager would be required other than the occasional
changing of a tape or disk. I have 9 Mac II's and one Mac plus
that I would like to use for this task. We also have a
connection to a Vax through a kinetics fastpath. What hardware
and software is available to solve this problem? We are also
interested in putting appleshare on the same Mac plus. So please
express your preferences on appleshare and apple share-like
products, also. THANK YOU.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 9:48:09 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Combining .HQX
Dave <dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL> writes:
>>From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
>>Why mess around with downloading multiple segments of .hqx files?
>>Combine them on your Internet host, using 'cat' for example, on
>>a UN*X host. Then you only have to download one file.
>
>Why mess around with downloading first to an intermediate host when
>one can ftp directly to the Mac using, say, TOPS Terminal?
>
>-Dave (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)
If I understand the way these things work, you need to have a TCP/IP
connection to your host to do FTPs. I don't (yet), so I have to FTP to our
DEC 8600 host, then Kermit from the host to the Mac. That was the topic I
thought I was replying to...
tom c
Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit
offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
-or- tcora@ardec.arpa BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 11:05:58 EDT
From: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Subject: Combining .HQX
>From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@ARDEC.ARPA>
>Dave <dsill@RELAY.NSWC.NAVY.MIL> writes:
>>Why mess around with downloading first to an intermediate host when
>>one can ftp directly to the Mac using, say, TOPS Terminal?
>
>If I understand the way these things work, you need to have a TCP/IP
>connection to your host to do FTPs. I don't (yet), so I have to FTP to our
>DEC 8600 host, then Kermit from the host to the Mac. That was the topic I
>thought I was replying to...
The topic was combining .hqx files. I wanted to point out that not
everyone wants, or needs, to ftp files to an intermediate UNIX or VMS
host before putting them on the Mac. You mentioned a program in the
sumex-aim archives that does this on the Mac, but I haven't been able
to find it.
-Dave (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 10:15:33 EDT
From: magill@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Network Planning)
Subject: Ethernet vs LocalTalk
>According to the review, a move to an Ethernet network would result in
>only an incrimental gain in performance. The biggest gain was for
>large file transfers, which had an increase in performance of 43%.
>The average gain was about 20% (?), overall.
>
>Its my feeling that the CPU speeds must be increased in order for the
>advantages of Ethernet to be realized. Comments, anyone?
>
The biggest problem I had with the MacUser review was its LocalTalk
bias. For watever reason, they picked a methodology which showed no
benefit for Ethernet OR for the faster CPUs when used as servers.
The MACII/IICX/SE30 all had a performance plateau at the same place -
implying that the LocalTalk Speed was a limiting factor,
not the speed of the CPU since the 3 have different CPU speeds.
And I don't even want to guess about the performance difference with
the "radius cdev" thrown in.
I happen to agree with the other comment, that the primary reason for
choosing Ethernet in a homgenious environment is quite simple -
CONNECTIVITY. A MAC with an Ethernet board and one of the TCP/IP based
packages can fully participate in the Internet. And if you want to
do NSF type file sharing....[Internet = Internet/NSFnet/ARPAnet, not
Apple's 'internet'.]
But it all depends upon what your goal is. Apple Talk (or whatever it's
name is - can't keep them straight anymore) has an inherent speed
limitation based upon the chip set used in its implementation. No single
MAC can best that 248K rate (I don't have the number handy but seem to
recall that number). Now for interactive use - the MAC as a terminal
via a "gateway box", it doesn't much matter because you can't
type anywhere near that rate. But if you want to up/down-load files,
not only to hosts but to MAC servers, and hosts acting as MAC servers,
then the speed differences begin to make a big difference.
Ditto for the number of stations. The bandwidth implications of the
discussion become more important as you add more and more stations.
A small work group environment of 20-30 macs, a file server and a
print server, are "probably best served" (read bang for the buck) by
"out of the box AppleTalk". However, adding a couple of file servers,
or NFS or connectivity to the Internet, and then the advantages of
being a direct peer on the Ethernet begin to outweigh the increased
costs. [I don't have any hard data here, just intuitive estimates.]
So, look at where your packets go.
If they just go mostly to LaserWriters, and occasionally to a FileServer,
and once in a while to the Internet, then AppleTalk/"gateway thing"
is probably the answer for you.
But if most of your folks are going to spend 1-2 hours a day in a telnet
session on a host to read mail or news [When are we going to see an NNTP
agent for MAC/TCP?????], and if they need to transfer files back and
forth frequently, and if you plan to use NSF, then Ethernet is the
only way to fly.
One thing I've learned in 20 years in the computer business -
It doesn't matter what the hardware can do or how cheap/expensive it is -
if it does not do what your users want it to do, then it isn't worth the
powder to blow it to xyzzy.
William H. Magill Manager, PENNnet Operations Planning
Data Communications and Computing Services (DCCS) University of Pennsylvania
Internet: magill@dccs.upenn.edu magill@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
magill@upenn.edu
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 15:14:09 PDT
From: lwong%sal54.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu (Lawrence Wong)
Subject: ftp gif files solution
I would like to thank everybody for the help and suggestion. To summerize,
when making a binary transfer of a gif file:
1. Make sure to turn of the MacBinary Enable on NCSA Telenet before
doing the transfer. Thus the file can be read by Gif.
2. Another soultion: Change the file type to TEXT using ResEdit.
Again thanks for everybody's help.
Lawrence Wong
lwong@girtab
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Date: Mon, 01 May 89 16:09:47 CST
From: Bill Hayes <IANR012%UNLVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Graphics file conversion
Does anyone have information about a package called Meta? A statistics
programmer I know is interested in converting SAS graph files into PICT
formatted graphic files. Any information would be appreciated.
Bill H.............
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Date: Tue, 02 May 89 11:17:38 EDT
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Hebrew fonts...
Check out (1) Super Hebrew and Laser Hebrew, both available from MacConnection
and other mail-order houses I'm sure, and (2) Davka Corp. in New York, which
makes Hebrew fonts, as well as Hebrew (i.e. right to left) versions of RSG
and some other applications.
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Date: Tue, 02 May 89 00:54 cdt
From: Richard <Tilley%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Jasmine cdev problem with MultiFinder
I had a similar problem with a DD140/512KE/MacSnap548S.
The disk would freeze, with the red access light on, during I/O
intensive operations like quitting to the (uni)Finder when lots of
windows were open. The problem got worse over a period of a month.
It also got worse as the disk warmed up. The disk worked best
inside the fridge with the mac in front of the closed door.
The disk would freeze after a random interval, sometimes even
before the happy mac face. The best way to reproduce the problem
was to do a "Validate Sectors" in the DriveWare application.
"Test Disk" always passed. Reformatting fixed it for a while.
I got a replacement from ComputerWare that doesn't have that
problem but has developed the habit of spinning down a few times
each morning when it is turned on. It first speeds up, then the
speed wavers a bit and it dies with the characteristic "click"
that sounds like a solenoid. The fan stays running, the light normal.
This problem goes away once it is warm.
Disclaimer: I'm not at home so a few details above will be inexact.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 17:10 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Kermit problem
Greetings,
I'm having trouble getting 8bit characters transferred from one system to my
Mac II using Kermit 0.9(40). I have tried about everything, and have come to
the conclusion that for some reason Eighth-bit prefixing is not being
recognized by Kermit on the Mac, but it is being performed by the sending
Kermit. I have tried changing parity, setting Mac Kermit to TEXT and Binary
file types, etc. The Kermit documentation states that Macintosh Kermit does
support 8th-bit prefixing.
Can you straighten me out?
Thanks much.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 30 Apr 89 17:00:30 GMT
From: bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long)
Subject: Macintosh Technical Notes - 0 About Macintosh Technical Notes
Technical Note #0 (this document) accompanies each release of Macintosh
Technical Notes. This release includes revisions to Notes 52, 120, 126,
129, 176, and 189, new Notes 228-232, and an index to all released
Macintosh Technical Notes.
[These files will be showing up in the tn directory reasonably soon.]
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Date: Tue May 2 08:58:54 1989
From: ucla-se!ucla-an!hermix!lance@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
Subject: Multi-launch an app
I have an app that wants to be multi-launched and I cannot find any info
about doing such a thing. I have not found any info about launching
ANY programs from inside an app. Can it be done??? If so, how???
Any and ALL help would be appreciated very much!!!!
Thanks,
Lance Ellinghouse
--
Lance Ellinghouse
Mark V Systems, Ltd.
UUCP: ...!hermix!lance
ARPA: ucla-an!hermix!lance@ee.UCLA.EDU
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Date: 29 Apr 89 03:01:05 GMT
From: dolf@uva.UUCP (Dolf Starreveld)
Subject: SCSI Accelerator 2.10
Some one and a half year ago, somebody put on the net an INIT file that
was reported to improve SCSI disk performance considerably. However,
that file contained a huge bug. Shortly after that I put on the net a
quick hack that fixed that bug. Since system 6.0x came out, I noticed
that the init no longer installed the patches. The reason was that the
init code checked the piece of code it was going to patch for the
occurrence of certain instructions so that it could be sure that it was
patching the right thing. After some hacking I found out that the
patches were still applicable, but they had to be applied at a
different position in the SCSI manager code. Thus, I fixed the INIT to
check for both cases and handle them correclty. In the process, I also
added an icon to the init, which will only be shown when the patches
are really applied. I am sending out the archive below containing
several variants of the INIT (see the READ_ME file) and some
documentation. In the documentation it is explained how it works and
for whom it will work.
Dolf Starreveld Phone: +31 20 592 5056/+31 20 592 5022, TELEX: 10262 HEF NL
EMAIL: dolf@uva.uucp (...!mcvax!uva!dolf), or dolfs@hasara5.bitnet
SNAIL: Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
[Archived as /info-mac/init/scsi-accelerator-21.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 19:26 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: StuffIt going commercial
Sorry -- didn't mean to startle the public... it may not be all that bad after
all. The news was in the "Knife" column (p.90), "MacWeek", March 28. It
basically says that Lau, who's planning to get a degree, is turning over
marketing of an enhanced "StuffIt Deluxe" to a new company called Aladdin
Software. Supposedly, & I quote, "original shareware supporters will not be
abandoned" [...] "the world has not yet seen the last Lau shareware product".
Hard to say what the implications will be... concurrent share- and shop-ware
version of the same product could end up with the former being just a feeble
teaser for the latter. On the other hand, StuffIt is, I think, far more
important as a file format standard than as an application -- and no-one so
far has clamored for improvements to the file format itself. As long as people
stick to that standard, I guess a little competition in this field wouldn't
hurt -- different developers trying different approaches and adding features
to their file-archiving utilities.
Sandro
P.S. - pass this on to the digest if you think my previous message needs the
additional clarification.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 09:21 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Unity + multi-pt. binhexed files
Unfortunately for those of us on Bitnet, multiple-part files are a necessity
because of Bitnet's 300k size restriction. I've searched the Rice and PUCC
archives for Unity, however, and I can't find it (my indices are only about
three weeks old.) Not that I can't do the cutting and pasting, etc., in
the editor, but if someone has gone to the trouble of writing an applicatio
n to make my life easier, I can't just ignore it, can I? So could
someone please post Unity to Rice? Thanks...Matt Wall
[Actually, please send it to us here at sumex. Since Rice is a shadow archive,
we have to put the file in here in order for it to show up there. -Bill]
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If you select a range within, e.g., a text document, then Shift-Click
anywhere within the selection, the selection shrinks by unselecting
everything after the point at which the Shift-Click is done.
There seem to be many cases where I want to Select All in a document,
then unselect a few lines at the beginning of the document -- for
example to change font or ruler settings everywhere within a long
letter or report except for the letterhead or title lines at the
beginning of the report, which have different fonts and ruler
settings.
Seems as if using Option-Click or Command-Click to "Deselect
backwards", just as Shift-Click "Deselects forward", would be a useful
addition to the interface specifications in this case.
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 3 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 80
Today's Topics:
?Palette manager...
De'stuffit'ing many archives at once.
Font-Trebler
Graphics file conversion
Kermit problem
META file information
New PS-EXPRES release
organizational charts
Printers
Shift key and INIT's
The lost Unity
Use of Imagewriter with those other machines
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 22:11:00 EDT
From: seh%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: ?Palette manager...
I'm building an application which requires a large number of colors (216)
on a Mac IIx using Lightspeed C. Im using LSC 3.01, Multifinder 6.0.1,
and System 6.0.2. I use NewPalette to get a new palette, SetEntryUsage
and SetEntryColor to set tolerant colors (tolerance=0) and SetPalette to
add the palette to a particular window. This works fine up to a limit,
but somewhere between 180 and 200 colors the last colors in the palette
dont come out right. There are no other applications using color running
at the same time under Multifinder. I thought ActivatePalette would swap
in all the entries in my windows palette when my window was activated, so
I would expect all the colors to appear. Is there a limit Im overlooking
or am I simply misinterpreting something in Volume V of Inside Macintosh?
If the palette manager wont accomplish this task is there a basic approach
to this using the color manager? Diving in REAL deep with the new mac, -Steve
cccccccccc
Stephen E. Halpin seh@umass.bitnet
(please send responses directly to me.. finals are coming soon and this thing
is due by then..)
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 20:57 CST
From: david paul hoyt <YZE6041%UMNACVX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: De'stuffit'ing many archives at once.
If you have a lot of stuffit archives to decompress it can be a pain to
individually open/select/save each archive. To greatly speed up this process:
1) In finder select all the archives you wish to decompress.
2) Launch the stuffit application.
3) Immediately hold down the shift key. You must do this before any
archive window is opened and held until it starts to save the
uncompressed files. At this point you can walk away. The time-window
is pretty slim here, so if it doesn't work at first, quit Stuffit and
try again.
4) One side note here, if you are running under multifinder you can not have
Stuffit already active. This only works when you first launch Stuffit.
---
david | dhoyt@vx.acss.umn.edu
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Date: 89-05-03 20:15:34 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Font-Trebler
Imagewriter and Laserwriter are well introduced printers in the
Macintosh world. You can get a lot of fonts for these two and
applications for doubling existing fonts in a smart way do also
exist.
None of these is true for the Imagewriter LQ. A lot of programs
will not really work with an LQ printer, others as all the
paint and draw programs only have 9 needle patterns for the screen
or postscript patterns for the Laserwriter.
Using these patterns with an LQ, you will get a poor resolution.
Could anyone tell me, how to get highres-patterns in MacDraw ?
Another point are the LQ fonts. Four of these are supplied with
the printer itself. Getting more big fonts seems to be nearly
impossible | A font trebler could be a solution, but searching all
the net I only found font doublers for the standard Imagewriter.
Klaus Schnathmeier
TU Hamburg-Harburg
W. Germany
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET>
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Date: Wed, 3 May 89 16:19 CDT
From: <MWW%TNTECH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Michael W. Wheeler)
Subject: Graphics file conversion
>Does anyone have information about a package called Meta? A statistics
>programmer I know is interested in converting SAS graph files into PICT
>formatted graphic files. Any information would be appreciated.
>Bill H.............
The Meta application is copyrighted by SAS Institute Inc.,
SAS Circle Box 8000
Cary, NC 27512-8000
(919) 467-8000
I'd suggest calling them for more information on their distribution
and licensing policy.
The Meta application comes with Version 5 or later of base SAS and
SAS/GRAPH software. On our VAX/VMS system it was located in a
directory called [SAS518.USER.MACINTOSH] under the file name of
META.HQX (However the BinHex file was double spaced!) I can tell
you that it will require at least a Mac 512Ke. The application
contains color and pattern-mapping capabilities as well as
ImageWriter II color printing support.
The Meta application has an online help facility. The Meta applications
converts a metafile that was specificly created for the Macintosh on the
host machine via the:
GOPTIONS DEVICE=MAC COLORS=(BLACK RED GREEN BLUE MAGENTA CYAN YELLOW);
SAS program statement. The metafile must then be downloaded to the
Macintosh and converted with the Meta application.
Ask your computer center or local SAS Software Consultant to allow you
to read the following report titled:
SAS Technical Report: P-186
Producing Macintosh Graphics
from SAS/GRAPH Output
Michael W. Wheeler ( Bitnet address: mww@tntech )
Systems Programmer (and local SAS Software Consultant)
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5071
Cookeville, TN 38505
(615) 372-3977
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Date: Wed, 03 May 89 07:42:56 EDT
From: CES00661%UDACSVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Kermit problem
In Info-Mac #79 <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
(Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist) writes:
>> I'm having trouble getting 8bit characters transferred from one system
>> to my Mac II using Kermit 0.9(40). I have tried about everything, and
>> have come to the conclusion that for some reason Eighth-bit prefixing
>> is not being recognized by Kermit on the Mac, but it is being
>> performed by the sending Kermit. I have tried changing parity,
>> setting Mac Kermit to TEXT and Binary file types, etc. The Kermit
>> documentation states that Macintosh Kermit does support 8th-bit
>> prefixing.
I have had exactly that problem and found a detour and another problem in
the process. The detour is to start up Kermit on your Mac. This is
important since this works only once (!). Make your connection/whatever
but before starting a transfer pull down the file settings box and make
BINARY and DATA fork the defaults. Start the transfer and if the other end
is set up to send binary it should work. BUT, the first time only. If you
want another file start over from the top (restart Mac Kermit). (I also
always use even parity, but I have to since I'm talking to an IBM mainframe
for most of these transfers).
In coming to this method of making it work, I also found that once you
have transferred a binary file this way, you can't go back and then do a
normal text file either. Luckily most of my file transfers are non- binary
8-)
BTW, this ritual seems to always work. What got confusing was that once
in a while I could get a second or third binary file to work. But it just
wasn't reliable (50% or less) so now I stick with the simple but working
incantation I just described.
I'll cross post this note to INFO-KERMIT and see if anyone there has any
ideas. I would have done it sooner but I thought 'I' was crazy! 8-)
Good luck,
Bob
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Date: 05/03/89 09:39:42 EST
From: DAVID%SERVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (DAVID=HALL)
Subject: META file information
Bill Hayes asked the following:
>Does anyone have information about a package called Meta? A statistics
>programmer I know is interested in converting SAS graph files into PICT
>formatted graphic files. Any information would be appreciated.
SAS has produced a technical Report (P-186) "Producing Macintosh Graphics
>From SAS/GRAPH Output." That explains everything very well.
Check with SAS or the SAS Site coordinator at your site for a copy. It is only
20 pages long, and covers the subject very well.
Basically SAS provides the META software in HQX format on their release tape.
The META application converts the SAS/Graph metafile into PICT format. To
produce a metafile that can be used on the MAC, you must use the SAS/GRAPH
Metagraphics driver on the host session. You must configure the host to know
the proper Device (DEV=MAC) for the driver.
We have used this product and it works well. The only caution, is that
SAS/GRAPH output files made under META tend to become VERY LARGE.
Furthermore, You must be able to download them from the host to the MAC.
This takes time (via KERMIT).
Then the application must be run to convert.
This also takes time.
David Hall
David@SERVAX.BITNET
University Computer Services
Florida International University
CC : DAVID=HALL
CC : MAILER@STANFORD
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Date: Wed, 3 May 89 12:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kim Costello <kimiko+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: New PS-EXPRES release
The National Science Foundation is accepting proposals in electronic
form as part of an experimental program called EXPRES. This is being
done to speed and simplify the proposal review process. Specifically,
you are encouraged to send proposals as PostScript files. PostScript, a
trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc., is a standard language for driving
laser printers. There are several advantages to preparing your proposal
in PostScript:
1. It will be less expensive in duplication and mailing costs because
you need send only one paper copy to the NSF.
2. Electronic transmission takes only minutes.
3. Proposals look better because they are printed freshly on laser
printers rather than being duplicated on copiers multiple times.
4. The NSF can extract data from the electronically-prepared forms,
making it easier to track your proposal.
The investigator may prepare the technical body of the proposal using
whatever document creation tools he or she wishes. The job of preparing
the budget, filling out the forms, and assembling the proposal can be
done by the investigator or another person, often a department secretary
or a grant office. We provide some programs to help them. These programs
can be run on UNIX, VMS, Macintosh, and PC systems. Proposal templates
for some common document processors are available, too.
There are different ways to obtain the software depending upon your
computing circumstances. In each case, you will receive a file guide.ps
which you should print on a PostScript printer, and read for further
instructions.
1. Macintosh and PC users can request a disk by sending email to
ps-expres@andrew.cmu.edu
or regular mail to
PS-EXPRES
Information Technology Center
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Be sure to specify Mac or PC and the disk size.
2. People with NSFNet/ARPANet connections can get the code in source
and executable form via FTP. First, connect with a particular
machine at CMU by typing the following commands:
ftp 128.2.12.15
ftp>Name: anonymous
ftp>Password: anythingyoulike
ftp>prompt
ftp>ascii
ftp>cd common
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
This will retrieve files everyone needs.
If you simply want to run the software, copy everything
from the appropriate machine-specific
binary directory below. For example, to retrieve
the PC executable programs type
ftp>binary
ftp>cd pc
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
ftp>ascii
The machine-specific directories are:
mac (apply BinHex 4.0 to files after retrieving)
pc
rt (apply chmod +x after retrieving)
sun3 (apply chmod +x after retrieving)
vax-unix (apply chmod +x after retrieving)
We haven't figured out how to distribute VMS
binaries yet, so VMS users will have to rebuild
the software themselves.
The following directories contain document
processor templates for proposals:
scribe
tex
latex
troff
For example, to retrieve the tex template, type
ftp>cd tex
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
You may also want to retrieve a set of blank
forms used by the processor templates by
typing
ftp>cd blanks
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
If you want to modify or rebuild the software retreive
the source code by typing
ftp>cd src
ftp>mget *
ftp>cd ..
The src directory contains
SREADME: instructions for building
executables
C-Programs and Header files: *.c and *.h
UNIX-specific files: Makefile
VMS-specific files: compile.com, descrip.mms
Macintosh-specific files:
*.r, NSFForms.make, nsfmenus.c,
window.c, nsfwndw.h
PC-specific files: *.MAK
To exit type
ftp>quit
3. If you are a UNIX user but cannot use the FTP
connection, request the software by email. If
you send a request to
ps-expres@andrew.cmu.edu
We will send you the non-binary software in the
form of shar files.
4. If you do not need any of the software, but want
to submit proposals electronically, contact NSF
at the following address:
Gerald B. Stuck
National Science Foundation
1800 G Street NW
Room 401
Washington, DC 20550
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Date: 05/03/89 09:08:58 EST
From: DAVID%SERVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (DAVID=HALL)
Subject: organizational charts
We are looking for a program (commercial ,shareware, or freeware ) that will
help us make organization charts.
We have been using the various Drawing programs. However, since our charts
get very long, and recently we have had to make a lot of changes, I thought
it might be worth asking if there is something developed to do this easier.
(there is a package for the IBM PC called Org Plus and Org Plus advanced that
is a "database" that records all the relationships, then draws them)
The drawing/painting packages work fine, however at times, the user has to
move the finished chart around to make it look okay on the printer. This is
especially true when the Laser printer output cuts a box in half.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thank you
David Hall
DAVID@SERVAX.BITNET
University Computer Services
Florida International University
"The State of Florida University in Miami"
CC : DAVID=HALL
CC : MAILER@STANFORD
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Date: Wed, 03 May 89 10:36:59 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printers
A friend is looking for an inexpensive printer for his Mac Plus.
I'd appreciate hearing experiences with dot matrix printers other
than the Imagewriter II (the achilles heel of the Mac). I saw a
Seikosha advertised for $235. Is that an Imagewriter clone? Are
there any drawbacks to it for a single user system?
Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet
Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
32 Hillside Avenue |
Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500
(203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
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Date: Mon, 1 May 89 23:39:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Shift key and INIT's
> holding down the shift key when booting bypasses Facade
Supposedly, this is supposed to be a standard feature of INIT's... But not
very many actually support it.
b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Wed, 3 May 89 08:55 CDT
From: JSCHACHTER@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu
Subject: The lost Unity
The program Unity 3.1, which concatenates text files is located in the
"util" subdirectory under the name of "text-file-concatenator.hqx".
[See, now you know why we want you to suggest a file name when you mail
in your file!! -Bill]
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Date: 3 May 89 12:32:00 EDT
From: "LEE, CRAIG R" <crl@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>
Subject: Use of Imagewriter with those other machines
In response to the guy who wrote about using an Imagewriter with PCs,
The Imagewriter is just a plain old serial printer when hooked up to
a non-Mac. A cable should be easy enough to fabricate, though I'm not
that technical.
I also know that WordPerfect for PCs comes with a software
driver for the Imagewriter for use with its programs.
Craig Lee
CRL@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
CRL@ifasgnv.bitnet
"Oh No, How will we survive without `Bloom County'?"
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Date: 4 May 89 17:54:39 GMT
From: duggie@jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
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To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Apple is not completely consistent on this point. The MPW editor,
rather than truncating a selection from the end, truncates from the
nearest end of the selection, in terms of characters. So if you
shift-click towards the beginning of the selection, the beginning
text is deselected, and if you shift click towards the end, the
final text is. I find this quite convenient.
The main problem with MPW's technique is that blank lines count as
only one character. The method I used in my own editing code was to
first check lines, and truncate according to whether the distance to
the beginning or end in lines was shorter. If they were equal, then I
would check the character count.
I find both this and Prof. Siegman's method preferable to the
technique of shrinking from the endpoint, which I have also seen. In
my experience it is to easy to lose track of which end is the
endpoint. Additionally, Prof. Siegman's example (using select all
from a menu) illustrates a case where the endpoint is not defined.
Apple may have clarified their user-interface guidelines somewhat, all
I have been going on is page 40 of Inside Mac Volume 1, which doesn't
specify exactly how shrinking is to be done. Perhaps there is some
official word now.
Doug Felt
Courseware Authoring Tools Project
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From: Joseph Harder <P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Fried logic board on Mac Plus
To: su-macintosh@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <12491367165.15.P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU>
I know someone who just had to replace the logic board on her 14 month
old Mac Plus to the tune of $245 through Microdisc.
Is this a common problem? Microdisc was not very helpful at diagnosing
what, in 14 months of limited use, could have "caused" the problem.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Is Apple aware of and sympathetic
to the problem, or would nasty letters help?
Mine is A-OK after the same 14 months, so perhaps it's a really isolated
problem.
Thanks,
Joe Harder (p.harder@gsb-why.stanford.edu)
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 4 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 81
Today's Topics:
Color Pattern Maker
Command History for Hypercard
Fonts for ImageWriter LQ
FoxBase Utilities
GDraw 1.0
Giff Files/CLUT Resources
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
Localtalk/PC Questions
MacBinary 1.0.1
Printers
Rebound
Regarding the Kermit problems...
SCSI Tools CDEV 1.0
Spiro! 1.1
TappyType CDEV 0.94
TeX Previewer
Using NCSA TELNET...
What are Word 4.0 features?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 01:00:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Norman William Franke, III" <nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Color Pattern Maker
The following program will allow the creation of color patterns, or 'ppats'
on a Mac II. They then can be used as desktop patterns by using ResEdit to
paste them into the System file. It can make 8, 16, 32 or 64 square pixel
patterns from a color PICT file. Documentation is included as well as some
sample patterns. Color Pattern Maker is shareware for $8.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/color-pattern-maker.hqx; 47K]
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Date: 26 Apr 89 17:00:31 GMT
From: martin@m2.ti.com (Steven Martin)
Subject: Command History for Hypercard
If you use the message box, you will love this! After installing
Command History for Hypercard, you can select previously typed commands
>From a "History" menu. You can also recall previously typed commands
to the message box so they can be reexecuted. This is $10 shareware,
the first offering from Steve Martin (no, not THE Steve Martin)
--
Steve Martin USENET: {ctvax,im4u,texsun,rice}!ti-csl!martin
ARPANET: SMARTIN@CSC.TI.COM COMPUSERVE: 72727,1471
GENIE: S.MARTIN8 PHONE: (214)-995-0698, 404-1061
What I am is what I am, are you what you are or what?
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/command-history.hqx; 39K]
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 11:13:32 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Fonts for ImageWriter LQ
>From:Klaus Schnathmeier:
>Getting more big fonts seems to be nearly impossible...
If you have access to a PostScript printer, the program "FontSizer" will
produce screen fonts in any size you like (up to 127 point) for any
PostScript font. Therefore, you could use it to make 3x size screen fonts
of New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Bookman, etc. that would provide high
quality printing on the ImageWriter LQ.
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Date: 30 Apr 89 00:00:59 GMT
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Subject: FoxBase Utilities
Here are three small utilities I wrote for FoxBase programmers.
The first, FoxBinder, will take many FoxBase program files and merge
them into one large "Procedure" file, along with the appropriate "Set
Procedure" and "Procedure procname" lines.
The secend, FoxMenus, will take any resource file with MENU resources
and write a FoxBase procedure which will create menus as specified in
the resources.
The last one, MenuChange XCMD, is an XCMD which allows you to add,
delete, or modify FoxBase menus once they are already in use. While
FoxBase can do this already, using the XCMD is a much better approach
since it's MUCH faster, and the menu bar doesn't flicker annoyingly.
You also don't have to carry menu state information around in globals
if you use this XCMD.
All of these programs come with built-in documentation which can be
printed by any text-capable word processor. (That's actually the
neatest hack in these programs...)
These programs are copyrighted by me, but may be freely distributed.
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
[Archived as /info-mac/app/foxbase-utilities.hqx; 44K]
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Date: 29 Apr 89 18:00:40 GMT
From: cjr20670@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles J Reiman)
Subject: GDraw 1.0
Here's a simple graphics demo that is sort of a crazy cross between a
bouncing ball and a physics lecture.
Thanks! Charlie Reiman cjr20670@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/gdraw.hqx; 10K]
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 15:39:17 cdt
From: "Rose,Eric R" <ROSEE%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Giff Files/CLUT Resources
Hello to the net.
I have been collecting GIFF files for some time, but find myself unable to do
anything with them. The Giffer advertises the ability to save in PICT0 or
PICT format, but unfortunately, saving in these formats removes the color
palette from the picture and substitutes the system palette. Anyone who has
tried this knows that the results are considerably less than satisfactory.
My primary goal is to save them so that they can be opened in a color
graphics application such as Pixelpaint. I have tried using the KLUTZ DA to
try to save the color palette of the GIFF files while they are on screen, and
then load the color palette directly into Pixelpaint, but it has not done me
much good. The files which KLUTZ saves cannot be read directly into
Pixelpaint, nor does substituting the CLUT resource alter the color palette
of the Pixelpaint document.
Do I need a newer version of KLUTZ, Giffer, or a totally new approach?
Anyone with any ideas, please write back to me. My bitnet address is
ROSEE@GRIN1.Bitnet
Many thanks.
Eric Rose
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Date: Thu, 04 May 89 10:45:05 PLT
From: the Center of Kumqwat <60255873%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The robocop sounds that were placed in archive have a password on them...
Anybody know what it might be...???
|From the Musings of: This machine ||
|Wilhelm (Rafial) Fitzpatrick is ||
|60255873%WSUVM1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Not Buddha ||
[The password is null; just hit return. I edited the file header to say this.
- Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 3 May 89 21:12:40 PDT
From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
If you select a range within, e.g., a text document, then Shift-Click
anywhere within the selection, the selection shrinks by unselecting
everything after the point at which the Shift-Click is done.
There seem to be many cases where I want to Select All in a document,
then unselect a few lines at the beginning of the document -- for
example to change font or ruler settings everywhere within a long
letter or report except for the letterhead or title lines at the
beginning of the report, which have different fonts and ruler
settings.
Seems as if using Option-Click or Command-Click to "Deselect
backwards", just as Shift-Click "Deselects forward", would be a useful
addition to the interface specifications in this case.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 4 May 89 11:14:25 EDT
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: Localtalk/PC Questions
We've just persuaded local management to buy a localtalk/PC card for the clone
that competes with our Macs for the laser printer (a NEC Silentwriter), but we
frankly have no idea how to use it. The idea is to allow the PC to talk to the
Silentwriter on the Appletalk network, rather than on its current parallel
interface, so we don't have to walk down the hall to the Silentwriter every-
time we need it and switch it back and forth between the network and the PC.
Do we need some special software for the card? If not, how do we tell the
various PC applications (or DOS, for that matter) to use the card instead of
its normal interfaces? Will all become clear when we get the documentation that
comes with the card (we're getting the genuine Apple(r) card)?
Please reply directly; I don't get this distribution reliably. Internet:
BITNET: williams@cbl.umd.edu.
Thanks in advance,
Bill Williams
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Date: Wed, 3 May 89 10:28 EDT
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BKNLVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacBinary 1.0.1
To the moderators:
I posted the following the other week, and it has shown up in the archives, but
I believe that the message was destined to show up in V7, #72, which never made
it around. So, here is a repost:
------------------------------------------------
This StuffIt archive contains the MacBinary application and a MacWrite
document. Some methods of downloading MacBinary files (FTP to a Mac,
for example) can only download to the data fork of the Macintosh file.
The MacBinary program will translate such data files into their correct
components (info,data,rsrc). There is an Upload feature to translate a
Mac file into a MacBinary data file, suitable for uploading via FTP.
The True MacBinary setting is for the case of catenating the three
pieces of a MacBinary file on unix into one text file prior to
downloading. With some versions of xbin and macget, the resulting forks
on unix are not padded out to the 128 byte blocks that the MacBinary
standard specifies. Turning True MacBinary off will handle this case.
The MacBinary utility will only create True MacBinary II files for
Uploading, regardless of the True MacBinary setting. The Delete after
Download setting will delete the input data file after successfully
translating it to a Macintosh file.
This is version 1.0.1.
Please feel free to post this package on other servers. It's freeware.
+----------------------------+------------------------------------+
| Greg Smith | BITNET: smith@bucknell.bitnet |
| Systems Analyst | smith@bknlvms.bitnet |
| Bucknell Computer Services | INTERNET: smith@bucknell.edu |
| Bucknell University | smith@coral.bucknell.edu |
| Lewisburg, PA 17837 | AT&Tnet: (717) 524-1801 |
+----------------------------+------------------------------------+
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/macbinary.hqx; 27K]
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 09:35 EST
From: GODDEN@gmr.com
Subject: Printers
>A friend is looking for an inexpensive printer for his Mac Plus.
You don't need a printer that 'emulates an Imagewriter' at all. Any
dot matrix printer will do. Just get yourself a smart cable called
The Grappler, made by a company called Orange Micro, to handle any
required code translations. It plugs into the parallel port on your
cheap printer and connects directly to the Mac. The cable has some
dip switches which you set according to the printer you have (MANY
printers are supported), plug it in and away you go. It sells
around here retail for $129, and my dealer told me I could return
it if there was any problem getting it to work (there wasn't).
I have it connecting a $200 Panasonic 1080i and I get great looking
output, both text and graphics. I have no connection with Orange
Micro. I just like their product. (It also works with Apple II GS.)
-Kurt Godden
godden@gmr.com
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 19:07:58 EDT
From: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Xiaoxia Ye)
Subject: Rebound
Here is Version 0.95 of Rebound, written by Fred Reed, the author of
OnCue from IMI Software.
"Rebound is modern variant of Andy Hertzfeld's SFScrollInit, but it has
more flexibility and works better with current applications."
--MacWEEK May 2, 1989
There is supposed to be a short documentation accompanying this init,
but I don't have it. It is really easy to set up:
1) Drag SFscrollInit out of system folder if you have it previously
install. If not skip this step
2) Put Rebound in System Folder
3) Restart your Macintosh
In the original documentation, it mentioned some features like holding down
command shift keys while invoking the open/save dialog will bypass
Rebound, etc. I don't quite remember, just experiment it yourself. I
don't think that it will do any harm (but there is no guarantee).
[Archived as /info-mac/init/rebound.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 15:50:38 EDT
From: George_Clarkson@mts.rpi.edu
Subject: Regarding the Kermit problems...
We often get users who are pulling our their hair because transfers
of binary data using Kermit appear to work but the resulting file
is garbage. This occurs with Mac users, PC users and mainframe users.
The solution at our installation is to set up the communications
parameters on our phone switch and the micro to specify:
7 data bits
Even parity
1 stop bit
No other communication setting works with our digital PBX for transferring
binary data.
George R. Clarkson
Scientific Applications Consultant
Information Technology Services
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
(518)-276-2752
userfmc7%mts.rpi.edu@itsgw.rpi.edu (INTERNET)
userfmc7@rpitsmts.bitnet (BITNET)
------------------------------
Date: 29 Apr 89 09:00:29 GMT
From: macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak)
Subject: SCSI Tools CDEV 1.0
SCSI Tools is a small Control Panel Device (cdev to programmers)
that has two functions. One, it provides a status display of your
SCSI bus with lights corresponding to the 8 (0-7) id's. The second
function is that it can mount SCSI hard disks with the mount button
(buttons have drop shadows).
SCSI Tools is free for non-commercial distribution.
It was written by Paul Mercer, pmercer@apple.com.
--
Jim Macak <lakesys!macak@csd1.milw.wisc.edu>
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/scsi-tools.hqx; 30K]
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 19:47:54 MDT
From: Andrew Stone CS.DEPT <stone%hydra.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu>
Subject: Spiro! 1.1
Here is the latest version of Spiro!, a cyberdelics freeware geometry
maker for the MacII (greyscale or color is kind of required). Now supports
multiple screens, zooming, printing, clipboard, and a host of new math
functions. You can overlay the various drawings to create metadrawings...
andrew
||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
!! Andrew Stone !! the fictive milieu of !!
!! stone@hydra.unm.edu <> contemporary society! !!
||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||<<??>>||<<++>>||<<-->>||<<==>>||<<++>>||
[Archived as /info-mac/app/spiro-11; 87K]
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Date: 27 Apr 89 04:00:50 GMT
From: sl161022@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
Subject: TappyType CDEV 0.94
This is version 0.94 of TappyType, an "atmospheric" Control Panel
device. It's freeware, so please try it out and let me know what you
think. Any suggestions for improvement will be welcome.
Note that TappyType is now compatible with QuicKeys(TM). The previous
release (V 0.91) was not.
Sincerely,
Colin Klipsch
Indiana University at Bloomington
sl161022@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/tappy-type-094.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Tue, 2 May 89 08:51 CDT
From: Robert A Lentz <LENTZ@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu>
Subject: TeX Previewer
TeX Preview will preview TeX on the Macintosh, displaying an
entire page in a window (reduced view of page) along with controls to
Zoom and to flip through the pages or stop after each one. The total page
cound as well as the current page is displayed. Printing is also an option.
I hope this fulfills at least partly the needs of those who have asked for
a TeX previewer.
Robert Lentz
lentz@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu
lentz@nuacc
[Archived as /info-mac/app/tex-preview.hqx; 122K]
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 13:33 CDT
From: <BMC4841%TAMVENUS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using NCSA TELNET...
Hi,
If anyone could shed some light on how to use NSCA TELNET v2.1 on a MacII with
a built in ETHERNET card, I'd really appreciate it.
Problem: Can't connect to any host. I've tried switching from appletalk to
ethertalk, but that doesn't help. I've tried configuring the network, but the
Mac keeps bombing. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Bruce Cherniak
BMC4841@TAMVENUS
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 10:53:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Salmento <ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: What are Word 4.0 features?
Could someone tell me if Word 4.0 supports the following features?
Automatic numbering of any arbitrary elements. (ie. Chapters,
sections, sub-sections, tables, figures, equations...)
Cross referencing of these elements by a user defined template.
(ie. Equation 4.1, Table 3.1, Figure 2 on page 8)
Citing from a user created bibliography database
In short, I would like to know if word can do most of the things that
Scribe does but on a mac. Not that I like Scribe, but it does handle
large documents with lots of equations, citations, and cross references
well.
John Salmento
ziggy+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: 5 May 89 16:06:03 GMT
From: bbell@polya.stanford.edu (Robert F. Bell)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: WANTED: Mac Courseware Programmer
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Reply-To: bbell@polya.stanford.edu (Robert F. Bell)
To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Part Time Opening for Macintosh(TM) Programmer
I am programming courseware for E30, an introductory course
in thermodynamics. The professor I am working for has
obtained funding for another part time programmer. We are
building a set of 5 tutorials which use animation and
interactive graphics to explain the basic concepts in thermo
and allow students to perform thermo "experiments" and solve thermo
problems on the Macintosh.
We are looking for someone who has previously programmmed
on the Mac (any language) and has worked with the toolbox
and quickdraw. Your responsibilities would include: adding to the
animation and graphics in a partially completed tutorial(written
in LS Pascal(TM). I know enough about thermo to handle any
thermo/number crunching so you can handle the interesting programming.
This program needs to be completed so it can be shipped with the other
tutorials in the set by the middle of the summer.
We are looking for someone to work about 10 to 20 hours/week, starting ASAP
and continuing thru summer quarter(20 hours/week).
Can pay upto $10/hr depending on experience.
Reply to : bbell@polya or
Bert Bell @ 723-4039
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Date: 5 May 89 21:39:09 GMT
From: jaxom@apple.com (Lance Saleme)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Subject: Re: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
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I think you need to read the manual on this problem...the consistent way to
decide where to reduce the selection is to remove from the 'end' of the
selected area. This means that if you decide that you want to select an
entire document and then remove a "few lines from the top" then you should
begin your selection at the BOTTOM of the document and end it at the TOP.
This now leaves the end-of-selection area pointing at the top so that a
shift-click will reduce the selected area from there.
<shesh> It's a bit tough to describe in words. Just try placing your
insertion point at the end of the given document then scroll to the top and
select the entire document with shift-click. By drading or shift-clicking
again you can reduce or enlarge the desired selection from the top.
Hope this helps,
Lance Saleme
Senior Software Engineer...No, I'm not old, just senior...er...nevermind.
[These opinions are mine and ONLY mine...no company is willing to pay for them]
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 5 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 82
Today's Topics:
Copyfile XCMD
Getting file names from refnums
Helium????
HP DeskJet Driver
IBM-PC to Imagewriter II
Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
Joining text files
Printing code example
Promodem 2400
Screen savers and SPY!
Shrink-wrapped virus
Source Codes for INIT/CDEV's
Subject: Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #81
Weird PageMaker Problem
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 14:21 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Copyfile XCMD
Greetings:
Can anyone give me some clue as to how to use the COPYFILE XCMD by J. Brad
Hicks (I believe)? I have tried the following syntaxes:
COPYFILE("file" "newfile") (returns "expected ")" but found " " ")
COPYFILE("file newfile") (the result is -2 (invalid queue element)
COPYFILE("file,newfile") ( ditto)
COPYFILE("Vol:file,newfile") (ditto)
And many other permutations of the above. Thanks alot... by the way, is this
xcmd in the archives, I did look for an example stack, apparently I threw out
the one from which I got this xcmd, after copying it into my Home Stack.
Thanks for your assistance,
Peter (helpless) Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: May 5, 1989 12:00 PST
From: dwb@apple.com
Subject: Getting file names from refnums
In article <17812@srcsip.UUCP> mnkonar@srcsip.UUCP (Murat N. Konar) writes:
>
>I am writing an INIT/cdev combo where the cdev and an INIT
>installed patch need access to the INIT file to read
>resources. Short of hardcoding the file name, how can I
>get the name of my INIT file from during INIT time for
>use later? Getting the file number is easy, but how
>do I use that number to re-open the file from inside a
>patch or cdev? I can't find any file opening routines
>that take this number as an argument, nor can I find any
>routines that take this number as an argument and return
>the name of the file. I know this must be possible since
>a number of cdevs seem to do this.
The following code (completely untested and written off the top of my
head) should do what you want. The code should also work for applications
if executed immediately upon entry, ie., before the application opens
any additional resource files. You'd have better luck in applications
if you replaced the call to CurResFile with CurApRefNum. CurApRefNum
is a short at 0x900.
OSErr GetMyFileInfo(short *myRefNum, char *name)
{
FCBPBRec pb;
pb.ioNamePtr = name;
pb.ioVRefNum = 0;
pb.ioRefNum = CurResFile(); /* get the refNum of the INIT file */
pb.ioFCBIndx = 0;
PBGetFCBInfo(&pb, false);
*myRefNum = pb.ioVRefNum;
return pb.ioResult;
}
Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle)
David W. Berry (A/UX Toolbox Engineer)
apple!dwb@sun.com dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 12:15:38 EDT
From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Helium????
I downloaded some sound effects and appear to have a bit of a
problem. All but one appears to have been done in a helium
atmosphere ... EXTREMELY high and quick. Gotta be something
I'm doing. (I got ONE to play properly, but don't recall
doing anything different) Any suggestions? I'm referring
specifically to the various Warner Brothers FX available
here. (The one I got to work OK was non-WB ... Lizardo saying
"Laugh While You Can - Monkey Boy".)
I want to use them as a less mundane "start up" sequence ... but
Martin the Martian looses his impact at 78 rpm.
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 13:21:26 EDT
From: "Collins, Herman" <SYSHERM%UKCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HP DeskJet Driver
I'm interested in the HP DeskJet driver that was mentioned here
recently, but I had some problems when I retrieved it. I FTPed it
>From Stanford to my VM machine, then to my Mac. I unpacked it in two
ways (BinHex/Packit and Stuffit), but the type and creator were garbage
in many (all?) of the files. In particular, I couldn't read the manual,
even after setting the type and creator and trying Edit, MacWrite, and
Words 1.0 and 3.0. Has anybody successfully retrieved this? I'm
particularly interested in the source; I don't have a DeskJet, but I
might be able to modify it to driver a funny plotter we have.
Herman Collins
128 McVey Hall Bitnet: SYSHERM@UKCC
University of Kentucky Internet: sysherm@ukcc.uky.edu
Lexington, Ky. 40506-0045 Phone: 606-257-2256
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 16:58:38 pdt
From: burke%pepvax.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: IBM-PC to Imagewriter II
This is a delayed response to Jeff Wasilko's need to hook an Imagewriter II
printer to an IBM-PC (INFO-MAC v7 #74). I made a cable to mate the two so
long ago, today I had take the cable apart to see what I had done. Assuming
that you have a serial interface in the PC, the following should be helpful.
When I originally made the cable I consulted Apple's Peripheral Interface
Guide (pn 072-0213A) for guidance. This guide is very useful to help in
making strange cables for any of Apple products. The specifications for
the beast are as follows:
male din-8 end female db-25 end
-------------- ----------------
pin# 1 6 & 8
2 4 & 5 & 20
3 3
4 & 8 7
5 2
6 n/c ** All other pins are not connected.
7 n/c
I find that soldering on those little din-8 connectors is really hard, so I
just cannibalized an Imagewriter to Mac cable (pn M0187) to get the din-8
with a wire already on one end. I then soldered a female db-25 to the end I
had cut off. The alternative to this home grown approach is to buy the cable
to hook an Apple II Super Serial Card to Imagewriter II (pn A9C0314) and then
make a db-25 female to female gender changer that has this pin out:
female db-25 female db-25 end
Apple cable end IBM-PC end
--------------- ----------------
pin# 2 2
3 3
6 6
7 7
8 8
20 20 & 5 & 4 ** All other pins are not connected.
Besides the cable the IBM-PC will need to have the printer
output redirected by the following DOS commands:
C:\>MODE COM1:9600,n,8,1,p ** Assuming the PC has a hard disk
C:\>MODE LPT1: = COM1: ** and DOS is on the hard drive.
Another tip would be to set the dip switch SW-1-6, OPEN to get the
Imagewriter II to print at 10 cpi pitch (like default on Epson and
Okidata printers) not 12 cpi (the Imagewriter default pitch). Since
the Macintosh prints "graphics" not "text" in the BETTER or BEST
print mode, the switch setting will only effect the Macintosh printing
FASTEST mode whan the Imagewriters bulitin Courier font is used.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 10:00 CST
From: AEEVERETT%UALR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
We here at UALR have recently acquired LaTeX software from DECUS which
includes a TeX to PostScript translator. There is a version of this
software for the PC, and I would like to see some manageable version
for the Mac.
While I'm at it, I might as well bring up the issue of pulling
TeX -> PostScript documents into a Mac application like PageMaker
as an EPS file.
Albert Everett
Academic Computing Services
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
bitnet: aeeverett@ualr
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Date: 5-MAY-1989 12:02:04.30
From: BPARSIA@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Subject: Joining text files
In addition to the Unity utility, I think that Stuffit (ver 1.51?) has a
"Join" (as well as "Split") command that will join text files. I believe
it is in the same menu as the Hexing/Dehexing and unpacking commands are.
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Date: Thu, 4 May 1989 16:11:09 PDT
From: William J. Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printing code example
Here is a printing code shell I got off comp.sys.mac.programmer. It's supposed
to have code for some special cases that only trip you up 1% of the time.
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal/printing-example.txt; 9K]
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 12:56:18 AST
From: JOAO CANDIDO PORTINARI <USERJCP%LNCCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Promodem 2400
⊗Hi:
I acquired a Prometheus ProModem 2400 and need your help to use it. I have no
User's Manual and would appreciate if anyone on the net could kindly inform me
on how to set the dip switches. Also, to which Hayes commands will it respond
(I tried AT&V, which on Hayes SmartModem 2400 gives you the complete
configurations, but the ProModem answered ERROR to that command).
Thanks!
Joao C. Portinari (USERJCP@LNCC)
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 09:17 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Screen savers and SPY!
Greetings:
Does anyone know of a screen saver that will blank out SPY!? (If you don't
know SPY!, and are a programmer, you should check it out. It continuously
displays, above the menubar, your startup volume's free space, the sizes of the
system heap, Application heap, and stack. It's free from Cricket Software,
(don't know if it's posted in the archives.)
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 15:41:04 EDT
From: Anup Patel <patel@mitre.mitre.org>
Subject: Shrink-wrapped virus
Around the end of last year, I read in a magazine or E-Mail about a software
manufacturer who sent out brand new shrink-wrapped disks that contained a
virus.
Does anyone rember who it was, or can tell me where to find the information?
Thanks
Anup Patel
The MITRE Corp.
m20011@mwvm.mitre.org
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 17:33 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Source Codes for INIT/CDEV's
Hello all,
I am an aspiring programmer with some good ideas, but I lack the
background in Macintosh software architecture. I would like to write INIT and
CDEV resources, but I need something to work with. Could somebody out there
who has written these types of resources publish some kind of skeleton program
(I'm using LightSpeed Pascal, but C is fine also) that I could use as a
guideline? It would be much appreciated.
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter Thompson
By day, an ordinary college student...
...by night...an ordinary college student.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 11:48:03 PDT
From: John Peterson <jp@apple.com>
Subject: Subject: Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #81
>
> Could someone tell me if Word 4.0 supports the following features?
> Automatic numbering of any arbitrary elements. (ie. Chapters,
> sections, sub-sections, tables, figures, equations...)
> Cross referencing of these elements by a user defined template.
> (ie. Equation 4.1, Table 3.1, Figure 2 on page 8)
> Citing from a user created bibliography database
>
> In short, I would like to know if word can do most of the things that
> Scribe does but on a mac. Not that I like Scribe, but it does handle
> large documents with lots of equations, citations, and cross references
> well.
>
No. What a turkey. Word 4.0's manual is actually thicker than
Scribe's (approaching 500 pages) yet it still doesn't have these basic
features. It does now have a mathematics mode, but the user interface
is a ghastly eqn/TeX like thing (e.g., ".\I.\SU(...") instead of something
like MathType or Milo.
I have seen kludgy bibliography databases for Word, implemented with
Hypercard and Word's "print merge" facility. It's not the real thing though.
FullWrite does real cross referencing, and a crude bibliography facility.
However, it's still not robust or complete enough to do the job right.
Stepping back, it seems really sad that after five years we still don't
have a WYSIWYG word processor with all the necessary features that
Scribe, LaTeX, or the Unix troff tools have.
As Brian Reid said, "What You See is All You've Got." Sigh.
Cheers,
jp
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 09:04 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Weird PageMaker Problem
Greetings:
Has anyone seen this one before?
I had several TIFF gray scale files to print. I placed one into a PM 3.01
document and printed the document. I did this first on a Mac II with 8bit
color, 5MB RAM running under MultiFinder (700K allocated to PageMaker), system
6.0.2. The printout, on a LaserWriter IINT was very nice, just as expected (I
let PM do the halftoning). Now I did the same process, same TIFF file, on a
MacII with 4bit Monochrome. Same LaserWriter, same system version, no
multifinder, 2MB RAM. The image prints out as if it were posterized, i.e.
fewer grays! PageMaker claims, and I believe them, that the gray scale
capacity of the monitor should have nothing to do with how a TIFF image gets
printed out. But what happened.
Any ideas?
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
P.S. I ended up printing all the files from the color MacII.
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∂05-May-89 2323 zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Imagewriter LQ problems
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Date: Fri, 5 May 1989 23:24:17 PDT
From: Leslie Zatz <zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
To: su-macintosh@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: Imagewriter LQ problems
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.610439057.zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
I am posting this on several BB's. There are unsolved problems with this
printer despite the recent factory rewoking of the paper path. Printing is
inconsistent. Aplle aware of problem but not going public or withdrawing
printer from market. Suggest avoid this machine if any other alternative.
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Date: 6 May 89 18:23:43 GMT
From: johnmark@polya.stanford.edu (John M. Agosta)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Interface Guidelines: Shrinking a Selection
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References: <CMM.0.88.610258358.siegman@>
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To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
Prof. Siegman writes:
> Seems as if using Option-Click or Command-Click to "Deselect
> backwards", just as Shift-Click "Deselects forward", would be a useful
> addition to the interface specifications in this case.
Why not have an intelligent deselection that leaves the larger part
selected, so it behaves differently at each end of the selection? Then
you don't need to set aside another command key combination.
Interestingly, shift clicks in MS Word deselect depending on which end
you start from. They deselect from the click to where you *ended* the
selection. Consistent with this, if you select all,(cmd-opt-M) there is no
way to partially deselect from either end.
-johnmar
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 8 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 83
Today's Topics:
'TEXT' file resource fork destroyer.
Delphi & Usenet digests
flex & bison
GIF Image compression routines
GIF image decompression
Helium????
HPDJ Driver Manual
ImagewriterLQ, problems
Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
Info-Mac Digest V7 #81 (shrinking a selection)
Microsoft & Claris start-up screens
Music composition software for the Mac
PMMU & Multifinder ?'s
Pocket Forth
Replaying sounds
Scanning, Character Recognition
Simple question about laser printers...
TeX Preview
Using MacKermit
Yet another text joiner
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 02:21:08 -0400
From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Subject: 'TEXT' file resource fork destroyer.
This Stuffit archive contains the source and executable to an MPW
Tool which destroys the resource fork of 'TEXT' files.
Depending on what is in the resource fork, this can be either a
very useful tool, or a very dangerous one. You decide.
Earle R. Horton
[Archived as /info-mac/util/text-resource-fork-destroyer.hqx; 17K]
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Date: 7 May 89 00:01:12 PDT (Sunday)
From: JWenn.ESAE@xerox.com
Subject: Delphi & Usenet digests
Has any replacement moderators for the Delphi or Usenet digests been found?
It's been a couple of months, and our site hasn't recieved any.
Thanks
/John
JWenn.esae@Xerox.com
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 10:46 CDT
From: <STEVEN%AUDUCVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: flex & bison
Someone has graciously posted the source code for flex and bison in the
archives. Does anyone know of someplace I can get the _executable_ versions
of these utilities? In particular, in the form of plain applications rather
than MPW tools. I have no access to MPW C or Aztec C, which is what the source
provided is written in. Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 14:43:07 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GIF Image compression routines
Well, I finally got around to it... This set of 'C' routines will create a GIF
file from image data. It is a SHAR type archive, so if you don't have a UNIX
machine, you will have to de-archive it by hand (pretty straigtforward process).
-Reed
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/gif-image-compression.shar; 17K]
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Date: Fri, 05 May 89 14:42:38 -0900
From: Reed Rector <SXWRR%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GIF image decompression
As promised weeks ago, here is some 'C' source code that will read and
decompress a GIF image file. (This program converts it to a Sun Raster image,
but it is no great problem converting for use in other programs)
Any problems or questions, just let me know
-Reed
SXWRR@ALASKA (Bitnet)
SXWRR@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (internet)
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/gif-image-decompression.txt; 16K]
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 09:23:49 EDT
From: dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Subject: Helium????
>From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
> I downloaded some sound effects and appear to have a bit of a
> problem. All but one appears to have been done in a helium
> atmosphere ... EXTREMELY high and quick. Gotta be something
> I'm doing. (I got ONE to play properly, but don't recall
> doing anything different) Any suggestions?
Grab a copy of the Sound Master CDEV. It lets you select the speed
at which sounds are played, as well as to set-up different sounds for
startup, shutdown, disk insert, beep, keyclick, etc.
-Dave (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)
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Date: Sat, 06 May 89 00:42:37 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HPDJ Driver Manual
In issue #82, Herman Collins asks about the HPDJ manual.
The HPDJ manual has a file type that matches that of WriteNow. There
is a DA that can translate the file to MacWrite format called WNTranslator.
However, I do not know if it is available in the archives.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 1989 23:21:52 PDT
From: Leslie Zatz <zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: ImagewriterLQ, problems
The LQ has serious problems. I have had a two replacements including
the latest one with the factory reworked paper path. The printer produces
inconsistent "scrunched" lines of type which may be in the headers or
the body. Apple appears to be aware of this problem and they have made
a settlement with me but I don't think they are going public with this info.
Suggest people avoid this machine if they want printing quality they
should have for its price. I am disappointed that Apple is not taking
the machine off the market and recalling the ones they have sold but
I see no sign of their doing so thus far. BUYER BEWARE!!!!!
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Date: Sat, 6 May 89 23:13 EDT
From: alanr@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
Date: Fri, 5 May 89 10:00 CST
From: AEEVERETT%UALR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
We here at UALR have recently acquired LaTeX software from DECUS which
includes a TeX to PostScript translator. There is a version of this
software for the PC, and I would like to see some manageable version
for the Mac.
Albert Everett
There is a package called MacTex by FTL systems which runs on the mac.
They are based in Toronto, Canada. Since they can typeset and print tex
>From the mac, they can generate postscript (via command-k trick at
worst). I don't have an address for them, but the product is at least
available through the MIT microcomputer center, and you could call there
for more information.
-alan
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Date: Fri, 5 May 89 12:55:33 EDT
From: reg@lti.com (Rick Genter x18)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #81 (shrinking a selection)
Apple may have changed this, but in the 1985 edition of Inside Macintosh,
they talk about how Command-Click (or maybe it was Option-Click -- I don't
think so, but I don't remember) can be used to form discontiguous selections.
Unfortunately, there is virtually no program out there that uses this;
several have overriden it for their own purposes (Word 3.01 uses the funny
Click to select a "sentence").
An extended selection can be shrunk by using Shift-Click if it was created by
Shift-Click. That means you have to put the insertion point at the beginning,
scroll to the end, do Shift-Click, then scroll back to where you want it to
really end and do Shift-Click again. Of course, why do the first Shift-Click
at all....
- reg
--
Rick Genter ...!{buita,bbn}!lti!reg
Language Technology, Inc. reg%lti.uucp@bu-it.bu.edu
27 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970 (508) 741-1507
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 09:28:58 EDT
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: Microsoft & Claris start-up screens
Anybody know how to modify the startu-up screens put up by MS Word, Excel,
and Claris Macdraw? You know, the ones that you have to "customize" when you
start the program the first time. I've changed colleges, and it's a bit
embarrassing to have the thing start up every time with the name of my old
employers (with whom I am not well pleased!) displayed in 18-point bold!
Please reply directly to me, and if this is a new question and there is suf-
ficient interest I will summarize to the net. By the way, is such a change
running afoul of Microsoft's or Claris's licensing agreements? It doesn't say
anything about these "custom" screens in any of the documentation, but they
must have some reason for hiding them (they're not in plain text in any of the
resources I could find).
-W2
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Date: Sat, 06 May 89 11:01:13 EDT
From: "Christopher M. Condon" <CONDON%YALEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Music composition software for the Mac
A friend of mine is graduating University of Boston with a degree in
music performance and education (or something like that). He is going
to be buying a Macintosh SE soon, and my friends and I thought that
music-composition software might be an appropriate gift (among others).
Does anyone have any suggestions about what products are good, prices,
features for which we should look, etc...?
Thanks for your help...
- Chris
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Date: Sun, 7 May 89 20:44:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Craig William Schell <cs2f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: PMMU & Multifinder ?'s
I've been hearing various things about using the PMMU(68851) and an INIT to get
8 megs of "RAM on your hard disk." Basically I'm looking for a more cost
effective way of getting more RAM than popping 4 megs of SIMS into my
MacII. Multifinder is great but my 2 megs is not enough.
Is this true? What is the total price? What is the difference in performance?
Craig W. Schell
Information and Decision Systems Major
Carnegie Mellon University
cs2f@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sat, 6 May 89 16:28:48 -0500
From: think@emx.utexas.edu (s. moon)
Subject: Pocket Forth
This is the entire Pocket Forth. I hope it is transmitted correctly
this time. Pocket Forth is completely free.
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/pocket-forth.hqx; 161K]
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Date: Sat, 6 May 89 13:02 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Replaying sounds
In order to replay sound files properly, you have to play them at the proper
speed; you may have been replaying them at the wrong velocity. SoundCap and
the SoundPlay DA, as well as the SoundMaster cDEV, will let you change the
speed at which sounds are replayed; try them at a slower speed and see if that
does the job.
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Date: Sun, 7 May 89 16:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nickolaos Sahinidis <ns1b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Scanning, Character Recognition
I would like to transform a large amount of printed data into a text
file.
Does anyone have experience with scanners and character recognition
software ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Nikos
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Date: Mon, 08 May 89 15:10:36 EDT
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Simple question about laser printers...
I was asked today how the old QMS Big Kiss laser printer is connected to the
Mac. I responded off the top of my head with "Localtalk", but not being
familiar with the Big Kiss printer (other then hearing about it), I could not
answer with any certainty. So does anyone out there have a Big Kiss printer,
and could tell me how it is connected to the Mac?
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 11:37:58 +0200
From: ole@idt.unit.no
Subject: TeX Preview
I downloaded TeX Preview and have been able to look at the example DVI
file provided. BUT: how can I use it on my own files? I tried using
ResEdit to set file type and creator but with no success.
Is this just a demo for that specific DVI file or what ??
(Some months ago I tried an (older?) version of this with no sucess,
and when trying to reach the people at SARA I got no response)
Ole Solberg
Div. of Computer Science and Telematics
Norwegian Institute of Technology
Trondheim, Norway
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 09:43 EST
From: "Thomas R. Blake" <TBLAKE@bingvaxb.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Using MacKermit
> I have had exactly that problem and found a detour and another problem in
>the process. The detour is to start up Kermit on your Mac. This is
>important since this works only once (!). Make your connection/whatever
>but before starting a transfer pull down the file settings box and make
>BINARY and DATA fork the defaults. Start the transfer and if the other end
>is set up to send binary it should work. BUT, the first time only. If you
>want another file start over from the top (restart Mac Kermit). (I also
>always use even parity, but I have to since I'm talking to an IBM mainframe
>for most of these transfers).
Arggh....
No No No!
Under "Settings" choose "File Defaults".
Click "Attended: dialog on each file received".
Now, when you download a file, you'll get a dialog which will allow you to
specify Text/Binary Data/Resource And where to save the file under what name.
If you are downloading a batch of files, use a wildcard for your SEND command,
and then at the dialog box, click "Proceed Automatically". (All files will be
downloaded in the specified manner).
Thomas R. Blake
Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing Services
SUNY Binghamton
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Date: 8-MAY-1989 14:07:52.42
From: BPARSIA@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Subject: Yet another text joiner
While zipping through the info-mac archives, I stumbled on yet a third way
to join hqx files. In the hypercard dir. there is a file called
"Merge-hqx-Files.hqx". The posting states that it is imperfect, but it
might be of interest to the hyper-hackers out there.
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Gentle Programmer:
As promised, for this Wednesday's Mac Developer's meeting at Stanford
we'll have a discussion with the author of the recent Mac virtual
memory product:
Who: Jonathan Garber, of Connectix
What: "Virtual" - VM for the Mac
When: Wednesday, May 10↑th, 7pm
Where: courseWare lab, Sweet Hall basement, as usual
Connectix (sp?) is a 6 person firm and this is their first product.
It should be interesting to see how they did it. Virtual is not their
only planned product, but it's probably too early to get a sense from
them of what else they are working on next. Jon will be coming back
from the Apple Developer's conference however, where, I understand
major announcements are being made about Mac system software. He'll
have some conference news, and some insight for us into what Apple's
virtual memory product for the Mac will be like.
Next meeting(s) I am looking for speakers on 32 bit quickdraw and
other new system software.
-johnmark
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I have been trying to write code in Turbo Pascal which would COPY a
QuickDraw picture into the desk scrap (so that it could then be PASTEd
into any other application). My QuickDraw picture consists of simple
MoveTo and LineTo commands. I have tried calling the function
PutScrap, but this just does not work. The exact syntax I have used
is as follows:
MyLongint:=Longint(MyPicture↑↑.picSize);
MyScrap:=PutScrap(MyLongint,'PICT',@MyPicture);
where MyPicture is the QuickDraw picture I am trying to COPY. The
QuickDraw picture itself seems to be okay, since I am able to
reproduce it by a single call to the procedure DrawPicture.
Inside Macintosh (Vol I) makes this look pretty straightforward, but I
just cannot seem to get this to work. Does anyone have any pointers
(no puns intended!) as to what might be my problem?
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 9 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 84
Today's Topics:
CORRECTED PC to Imagewriter cable
DeskJet Driver Manual and Document Formats
LaserJet and Deskjet Drivers
laserprinting MS Works with pictures
Looking for neural net stack
MacTrek 0.99a (UPDATE)
MATHEMATICA
Microsoft Startup Screens
MPW, NEXPERT help needed...
Originization Charts
Please add to binaries MacCompress3.2
Producing Documentation
Scroll Limit cdev 1.0.sit.hqx
System 7.0 disclosure
Virtual Memory for the Mac (Pmmu and multifinder)
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 17:17:52 pdt
From: burke%pepvax.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: CORRECTED PC to Imagewriter cable
This is a CORRECTION to my response (INFO-MAC v7 #82) to Jeff Wasilko's
need to hook an Imagewriter II printer to an IBM-PC (INFO-MAC v7 #74).
Since I posted the information about interfacing the Imagewriter II to
an IBM-PC, I learned two important things about life. They are as follows:
1) Never trust wiring contractors. I learned Friday night, that the
folks that put the data wire in the print room in our Academic Computing
Lab crossed some wires in all of the db-25 rs-232c lines. This makes the
specs for the cable incorrect for any installation other than here.
2) If something works well, we generally don't question whether it is
right or not. We figured that since most other equipment around here was
working OK, nothing was wrong with the wiring. When we got a new
printer on Friday that would just not work through the lines, we looked
at the wiring and found a BIG problem.
Since then I have re-thought the cable specs and these pin-outs for the
cable itself and the gender changer will work anywhere.
The cable's specs are as follows:
male din-8 end female db-25 end
-------------- ----------------
pin# 1 5 & 6 & 8 ***** CORRECTION *****
2 4 & 20 ***** CORRECTION *****
3 3
4 & 8 7
5 2
6 n/c ** All other pins are not connected.
7 n/c
The db-25 female to female gender changer specs are:
female db-25 female db-25 end
Apple cable end IBM-PC end
--------------- ----------------
pin# 2 2
3 3
6 6 & 5 ***** CORRECTION *****
7 7
8 8
20 20 & 4 ***** CORRECTION *****
** All other pins are not connected.
Sorry for any problems that the errors might have caused.
Todd A. Burke
Academic Computing
Pepperdine University
Culver City, CA
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 18:39:52 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: DeskJet Driver Manual and Document Formats
>I'm interested in the HP DeskJet driver that was mentioned here
>recently, but I had some problems when I retrieved it. I FTPed it
>From Stanford to my VM machine, then to my Mac. I unpacked it in two
>ways (BinHex/Packit and Stuffit), but the type and creator were garbage
>in many (all?) of the files. In particular, I couldn't read the manual,
>even after setting the type and creator and trying Edit, MacWrite, and
>Words 1.0 and 3.0. Has anybody successfully retrieved this?
Were the type and creator "nX↑d" and "nX↑n" by any chance? That's
what I got when I downloaded the file which is perfectly fine,
because that is the type and creator for WriteNow. I used WriteNow
version 2.0 to read the file. A version 1.0x of WriteNow may also
work, but I didn't try.
This brings up an important issue. Should documentation be
distributed in formats that require the use of a commercial program
to read it? If not, what is the alternative?
TeachText certainly doesn't cut it, unless someone can show me an
application that takes formatted word processor files (like a Word
file) and converts this to a TeachText document with all
formatting in place. Since TeachText only allows styled text via a
PICT, your word processor document would have to be converted into
a series of PICTs. I'm sure there is bound to be some problems
with that.
Programs like "DOCter" and "Take a Letter" are only slightly better
than plain text files, because you can just click on them, but they
still only allow plain text. A styled text editor like "MicroWrite"
shows some promise, but it's not enough to standardize on. MacWrite
format files can be handled by most word processors, but if you
make a long complicated document in Word or WriteNow or whatever
and save it in MacWrite format, I guarantee you the conversion will
not be perfect. Andrew Welch has a promising looking program in
his "Document Reader" format files, but this does not seem to be
used by anybody else yet.
So, is anybody (Apple?) working on a solution to the problem of no
standard, public-domain, comprehensive document format? (And please
don't suggest PostScript as a solution.)
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 May 89 18:11:04 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: LaserJet and Deskjet Drivers
In response to someone's question about using printers like the
Hewlett Packard Deskjet with the Macintosh...
I am currently working on evaluating products to use LaserJets
and Deskjets with the Mac, but I don't know when I'll be able to
complete my report, so here is a brief summary:
Products to use the LaserJet and Deskjet with the Mac:
(1) Grappler LS - Orange Micro
(2) PrintWorks for the Mac Laser Version - SoftStyle
(3) MacJet - Laser Connection (QMS) (Laserjet only)
(4) MacPrint - Insight Development (LJ II and IID, Deskjet)
(5) Printer Interface III - DataPak (Deskjet only)
(6) JetLink Express - GDT SoftWorks (not yet realeased)
(7) HPDJ Driver - Freeware
I haven't tried MacJet yet, so I can't comment much on it. For
some of these drivers, you need at least 1MB of memory in your
LaserJet if you want to do full page 300dpi graphics. The
Deskjet prints like a dot matrix (in strips), so no memory
upgrade is needed for it.
(1) The Grappler works by using the ImageWriter LQ driver with an
INIT that captures the print stream and changes it into Deskjet (or
LaserJet) code. Therefore, it is compatible with anything that
works with the IWLQ (including HyperCard). It uses 4x size screen
fonts to get "best" output (ie. 48 point Times is needed to print
best quality 12 point Times). The program does an excellent job
on graphics, but (like the IWLQ) is nearly useless at using the
printer's internal fonts or font cartridges.
(2) PrintWorks has lots of bells and whistles, but they don't all
work as well in the Laser Version as they do in SoftStyle's
excellent Dot Matrix version. The spooling feature is so slow
that for draft printing, it's slower to get back to work than
programs that don't spool at all. The preview function clearly
shows you that what you see in Word's preview is not what you'll
get using this driver and an internal printer font. For use with
the Deskjet, you need to have at least 2MB of memory in your Mac
to do 300dpi printer, but none of the other drivers require more
than 1MB.
(* NEWS FLASH - I just received an update to this product that
promises to fix most of the above mentioned shortcomings (including
allowing printing of 300 dpi graphics on 1MB equipped Macs).
I will be testing it ASAP.
(3) A quick glance through the manual indicates that MacJet is
similar to MacPrint (described below). This is another one that
needs to be tested ASAP.
(4) MacPrint 1.0 does an excellent job with a LaserJet Series II
or Series IID printer. Version 1.1 promises to do the same for
the Deskjet and Deskjet Plus and will be released mid to late
May apparently. What is really impressive about MacPrint is that
it provides a program that generates screen fonts (from the
normal Courier, Times, Helvetica) that properly match the
spacing of the internal and cartridge fonts on your printer.
These new fonts are named with an "LJ" prefix, so that if you
use them in a document, the program automatically uses internal
or cartridge fonts. Otherwise, it uses 4x size Mac fonts in
graphics mode. This auto switching between text and graphic
modes based on font chosen provides a lot of flexibility in your
documents. MacPrint worked with everything I tried *including*
a HyperCard "print card".
(5) Printer Interface III is easy to install, fast for text mode
printing, and reliable. However, it does not provide fonts or a
way of creating fonts that match Dekjet internal or cartridge
fonts. A determined user created some screen fonts to match the
Deskjet's internal Courier font and posted this on Sumex - I
don't know how far this goes to solve the problem, but it should
be provided by the maker's of the driver instead of by the
users.
(6) JetLink Express is not out yet and I haven't tested it, but
I do know that it will provide a capability that none of the
other drivers have. And that is a set of outline based fonts
that can be scaled and rotated to any size or angle. This
provides some PostScript-like capability on the DeskJet. GDT has
not indicated that they are going all the way yet in supporting
internal or cartridge fonts, however. Further comment should
be reserved for after it has been released.
(7) The freeware HPDJ driver looks pretty impressive considering
the price. It has about the same restrictions as the Grappler -
it doesn't allow graphics to be mixed with text printed using
internal fonts and it provides no screen fonts to match internal
fonts. Like the others, it uses 4x size fonts for printing in
graphics mode. Unlike the Grappler, the HPDJ driver is a
standard Chooser level device, which actually means it works
with less software, but is a more "proper" design. The deskjet
fonts mentioned in (5) were made for use with the Printer
Interface III product, but they be a useful addition to the HPDJ
and the Grappler LS as well.
And the winner is... Well, I can't fairly pick a winner until
I've finished testing every product, but if I had to make a
decision right now, I'd go for MacPrint 1.0 or 1.1 with the
LaserJet and MacPrint 1.1 with the Deskjet. For the Deskjet, I
would also really like to have the capabilities of JetLink
Express. I would also buy SuperLaserSpool (which is compatible
with MacPrint and should be compatible with JetLink) and a Times
Roman font cartridge. The freeware HPDJ driver is the obvious
choice if you've run out of spare cash.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 8 May 89 23:51:12 PDT
From: C44JMS%AVIARY.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com
Subject: laserprinting MS Works with pictures
Hello world...
This is mostly an experiment to see if this mail gets through. Can
anyone explain the following:
I recently created a flyer, containing both graphics and text,
as follows:
-Used SuperPaint to create the basic graphic artwork. Saved
as a .PICT file.
-Copied the .PICT file into a PosterMaker Plus layout file; used
PosterMaker Plus to add fancy lettering. Saved the layout as a .PAINT
file.
-Pasted the .PAINT file into a Microsoft Works word processing
document and used Works to add the remaining text.
So far, so good! I have done all the above on a plain vanilla
Plus, 1M, no hard drive. Printed out on my ImageWriter with no
problems whatsoever, except the obvious degradation in resolution.
I looked at the output and thought, not bad, but it would look great if
the word-processing text was printed using laser fonts (Palatino and
Chancery). So I took it to my neighborhood laser-print shop and
tried to print the document (this is now a Works word-processing
document containing art) on their Laser Writer. The laserprinter
would not take it. The furthest I got was an error message: "There
is not enough memory to complete the operation. Please close unneeded
files"(or something to that effect). Clicking OK followed by ctrl-.
caused the operating system to crash. (I don't recall an error message
associated with the "restart" dialog box).
Examining the laserwriter queue showed that a PostScript error
message was generated referencing 'initframe' followed by a message
stating that the document is OK, but cannot be printed.
Aside from comments on whether or not I created my flyer
the hard way ... does anybody out there know why the Laser Writer
crashed on a document that the ImageWriter handled with no difficulty?
Dr. Jo (Joan M. Saniuk): c44jms@aviary.gmgate.hac.com
------------------------------
Date: 9 May 89 10:55:00 CST
From: hacke@mdc.com
Subject: Looking for neural net stack
I am looking for a HyperCard stack called "NeuralStack One: Letter Learner"
or something like that. I need it quick for research I am doing on my
thesis (The author said he would surface mail me one, but that will be
several weeks).
It is on the BMUG (Berkeley) board, but I cannot get on it. If someone
would send it here, or E-mail me a binhex version, or they can send
it to my computer, or tell me where it is, I would be most thankfull!!
Post to me (hacke@mdc.com) as I just requested to join this list and
don't want to miss your note.
Thanks
Keith Hacke
hacke@mdc.com
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Date: Sun, 7 May 89 11:47:45 EDT
From: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder)
Subject: MacTrek 0.99a (UPDATE)
MacTrek is a Star Trek trivia game I started working on very shortly after
trying out a program you may have seen yourself, called, I think, Star Trek
Trivia Game. As soon as I'd tried it, I thought, "I can do better than that."
You may find this a bit conceited... unless you've tried this other program.
In any case, MacTrek 0.99a is the current version of the result. As you can
tell by the version number, it's just about finished. I'd call this version
1.0, but I'm not THAT convinced that this version is perfect. That's up
to YOU to tell ME.
* For those who have seen version 0.99, please note that you do not need
* this update if your old copy works properly on your system configuration.
* Version 0.99a simply fixes an incompatibility between the sound manager
* and MacTrek when TMON is being used on a Mac Plus or SE. This seems to
* be the only configuration that currently requires this version. I am
* currently working on version 0.99b, which has several other changes, but
* for now, there are no significant changes in this version.
I hope you enjoy using this program as much as I enjoyed creating it! Please
write to me to tell me your thoughts, feelings, etc. I can be reached at any
of the below addresses.
Mark H. Anbinder thcy@crnlvax5.bitnet
312 Highland Road mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY 14850 Mark Anbinder/FidoNet:260/407
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Date: Tue, 09 May 89 15:01:33 IST
From: Arie <AARIE%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MATHEMATICA
I wonder what is the latest version of "MATHEMATICA" on the Mac. I'm
currently using v1.1.
BTW, are there any interest groups on "MATH..." (on BITNET).
Arie(AARIE@BGUVM.BITNET)
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Date: Tue, 9 May 89 08:36:18 EDT
From: jonathan@starbase.mitre.org (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: Microsoft Startup Screens
The name and organization information is stored in the DATA fork of the
application. That's why you can't see it with resedit. Modifying it directly
usually does not work, however, if you use a tool such as MacSnoop that will
zero out the DATA fork, the next time you start the program, it will ask you
for the customization information again. This may also work for Claris products.
As always, try this with a copy of the program whenever messing with the data
or resource forks of applications.
Jonathan A. Leblang
The MITRE Corporation
The views expressed above are my own and do not reflect the position of
my employer.
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Date: 8 May 89 13:18:26 EDT
From: T.R.Garman@me.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: MPW, NEXPERT help needed...
I am looking for some information about programming
MPW with NEXPERT OBJECT.
Has anybody tried this?? I need routines, sample programs,
Info on books, or pointers to people who have had success doing this.
ANYTHING !!!
If you have any info on this, send to:
tgarman@me.ri
Thanks, T.R. Garman
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 17:57:44 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Originization Charts
>From: DAVID%SERVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (DAVID=HALL)
>Subject: organizational charts
>
>We are looking for a program (commercial ,shareware, or freeware ) that will >
>help us make organization charts.
Try out the shareware program "Designer Draw". I haven't checked
the archives for it, but if you can't find it, send me a message.
This program provides all the common org chart and flow chart
symbols. Arrows and lines are dynamically connected.
(ie. you move a box and the connecting line moves with it.)
Les Ferch
userlsf@mtsg.ubc.ca
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Date: Sat 6 May 89 17:18:00-PDT
From: lloyd chambers <M.MA@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Please add to binaries MacCompress3.2
MacCompress v3.2 by Lloyd Chambers
m.ma@othello.stanford.edu
P.O. Box 3442
Stanford, CA 94309
MacCompress is a fast general-purpose file compression program for the
Macintosh 512K Enhanced and later machines. Its powerful features include
compression of folder hierarchies and ability to import/export unix compress
files.
MacCompress is fast, reliable, and free. Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/maccompress-32.hqx; 77K]
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 17:00 CST
From: RINEWALT%TCUAVMS.BITNET@icsa.rice.edu
Subject: Producing Documentation
We need help in producing quality documentation of student software design
projects. A screen dump of a menu, alert, etc. looks horrible after scaling.
1. Is there a PostScript version of the Chicago font?
2. Is there an alternative to redrawing all the pictures in an object-
oriented program? For example, is there a tool that will generate an
object-oriented representation of items from the resource fork of a
file?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Dick Rinewalt Computer Science Department Texas Christian University
RINEWALT@TCUAVMS.BITNET
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Date: Sun, 7 May 89 8:16:48 CDT
From: macak@lakesys.lakesys.com (James Macak)
Subject: Scroll Limit cdev 1.0.sit.hqx
Scroll Limit CDEV (Version 1.0) provides a "missing control" with a Control
Panel Device (CDEV) that allows you to select the action rate and threshold
delay of your scroll bars. This should help slow the run-away speed of
scrolling on the new "super-charged" Macs.
The following binhexed StuffIt file contains the Scroll Limit cdev and
documentation text.
Scroll Limit is copyrighted "freeware" written by Ken McLeod.
Jim Macak
macak@lakesys.UUCP (James Macak) or lakesys!macak@csd1.milw.wisc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/scroll-limit.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Tue, 9 May 89 08:24:34 PDT
From: Mark B. Johnson <mjohnson@apple.com>
Subject: System 7.0 disclosure
System Software Directions Overview
On May 9, 1989, Apple will disclose future system software plans
to third-party developers attending the annual World-Wide
Developer's Conference. The disclosures will cover the core
technologies under development for inclusion in the next major
Macintosh System Software release, System 7.0.
The purpose of the disclosure is to ensure that developers have
the time and information necessary to capitalize on the new
features and functionality of System 7.0. By doing this, we
believe that many new, more powerful applications will be
available at the time System 7.0 is introduced. We will also take
this opportunity to hold an informal press seminar to begin
educating the media on Macintosh System Software.
Below is an overview of the core feature set planned for System
7.0. While it's still too early in the development cycle to
announce a customer availability plan or introduction date, we
will begin seeding developers with code in the fall. As we make
further progress on System 7.0, we will provide additional
details.
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/system-70-features.txt; 18K
/info-mac/tech/system-70-questions.txt; 41K]
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Date: Mon, 8 May 89 23:53 EDT
From: "John L. Jamison x8508" <JAMISON@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Virtual Memory for the Mac (Pmmu and multifinder)
One submitter asked about the use of the PMMU and virtual memory for the
Mac.
Connectix has written a virtual memory INIT which makes use of an installed
PMMU to give up to 8 megabytes of usable memory, irrespective of how much
RAM is physically present. The cost is on the order of $300.00, but you
must have a PMMU installed, which to some jacks up the price another
several hundred bucks.
Their is a small blurb announcing the product in the June issue of MacUser.
Apparently their product has problems with certain DMA devices or boards
which access RAM directly- this access does not go through Memory
Manager trap routines and thus cannot be handled by system software.
Also note that Jean-Paul Gassee has promised virtual memory in the Mac OS
by year's end- of course this won't happen on time - but you might
save some money waiting for the _real_ thing.
John Jamison jamison@campus.swarthmore.edu
System and Network Manager jamison@swarthmr.bitnet
Swarthmore College
- I have no affiliation with Connectix, etc.
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End of Info-Mac Digest
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Subject: Footnotes in Word
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I am writing my dissertation on my Mac using Word, and needless to say,
will have a few footnotes.
However, even when I select Automatic Numbering, most footnotes come
up "1". My latest five were labeled 1,1,1,1,2. Any ideas about this?
Thanks,
Joe Harder (P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU)
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Apple Computer, in cooperation with Academic Information Resources (AIR),
will help computer shoppers decide "Which Mac Should I Choose?" at a presen-
tation on Tuesday, May 16, 1989. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome
to attend. The seminar and demonstrations are of particular interest to
graduating students and others who will be leaving Stanford and want to take
advantage of Microdisc, the University's discounted computer purchase plan.
Representatives from AIR, Apple, and the Stanford Bookstore's Microdisc program
will discuss important considerations involved in selecting and purchasing
Macintosh equipment. This seminar will be held from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. in
CERAS 112.
In addition to the seminar, demonstrations of Macintosh equipment, ranging from
the Macintosh Plus to the Macintosh IICX, will be held from 11:30 a.m. - 2:30
p.m. in the CERAS lobby. Also, representatives from Microsoft Corporation will
be assisting Apple with the demonstration of a variety of software packages.
For further information, contact Pamela Bell, AIR/IRIS, at 723-5420.
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Subject: Re: Problem with mac-sundry?
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Is anyone else getting a message from bboarding mac-sundry as follows:
"?Bboard mail file format funny - Invalid date format -- MAC-SUNDRY"
It means there's a problem with the contents of the mail file
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Date: 11 May 89 02:40:33 GMT
From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
Subject: Re: Footnotes in Word
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>From article <12492956845.54.P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU>, by P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU (Joseph Harder):
>
> I am writing my dissertation on my Mac using Word, and needless to say,
> will have a few footnotes.
>
> However, even when I select Automatic Numbering, most footnotes come
> up "1". My latest five were labeled 1,1,1,1,2. Any ideas about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Harder (P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU)
> -------
I believe by default Word is set up to restart footnote numbers on every
page. This can be changed in the Section dialog, I think.
--
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 10 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 85
Today's Topics:
Creating documentation with Screen Dumps...
DeskJet Driver Manual and Document Formats
Font & Sound Valet updater
Font Harmony Updater
HigherMenus 2.0
Imagewriter LQ
Info-Mac Digest V7 #79
Joining Files Together
Macintosh Virus Video
NASA Virus VideoWorks demo..
NeWS, X-windows on Mac OS ?
Questions about Broadcast v1.1
Reply to Org Charts
Star Trek sounds
Suitcase II updater
Using Kermit
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The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 11:44:48 CDT
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Creating documentation with Screen Dumps...
Dick Rinewalt asked for some information on how he should include screen dumps
within the documentation for programs and applications. His problem was that
when ever he scaled the picture, resolution dropped considerably. Below is a
copy of what I sent to him since I think that many of you might benefit from
this technique.
---------------/-/----------------
For your documentation, producing screen dumps is probably the best way to
decribe what the user will see and do. As the saying goes, a Picture is worth
a thousand words. If your down scaling is producing horrid results, then you
may not be using the correct application(s) to produce your docuemntation.
I have created several handouts for our User Assistance group here at A&M using
MS-Word v3.02 to create the text, and the Camera DA to produce the screen
dumps. Now here is the twist that allows me to scale my screen dumps with
minimal loss of resolution: I open the screen dumps (they were in PAINT format)
with SuperPaint, did any editing that was necessary, then (this is the
important part) saved them in PICT format. (I should add that no scaling was
done at this point) I then integrated the graphics with the text using Page-
Maker v3.0. PageMaker allows you to scale your graphics by holding the SHIFT
key and dragging any corner. This will ensure that your scaling is
proportional.
Using this method, most of my screen dumps were reduced to about 1/2 of their
original size and just about every menu was readable. I would be happy to send
an example to you (a PostScript format sent in sit/hqx) if you would like to
see and judge for yourself.
If you have any questions, feel free to send e-mail.
Michael Farlow
CSC Help Desk & Graphics Lab Consultant
Texas A&M University X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (InterNet)
X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet)
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% Farlow and do not in any way constitute the views, policy, or %
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 12:45:10 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: DeskJet Driver Manual and Document Formats
Les Ferch brings up an interesting question, one which has occured to me
>From time to time.
>
>This brings up an important issue. Should documentation be
>distributed in formats that require the use of a commercial program
>to read it? If not, what is the alternative?
>
[Deleted commentary on various formats for distribution]
>
>So, is anybody (Apple?) working on a solution to the problem of no
>standard, public-domain, comprehensive document format? (And please
>don't suggest PostScript as a solution.)
>
For the most part, applications which are distributed via this net or BBS's
are documented in either MacWrite or text file format. I personally prefer
this method, as most, if not all, word processing programs can read (if not
write) MacWrite format files.
Our office has standardized upon the use of one word processing application,
as, I suspect, many others have as well. In our particular situation, MS
Word does all that we ask it to, and is the only WP app installed (at least
officially [which means by me!]) on any of our machines. But, Word can't
read WriteNow files. So, I have to take files with type and creator nX↑n,
and extract the text from them just to read them. A bit inconvenient, to say
the least.
Les does make a good point, however. What is to become of the programmer who
slaves over creating a good, well illustrated doc, using WP app 'XYZ'. He
takes the file he created with XYZ and saves it in MacWrite format. I
suspect that much of his hard work will be, not so much lost, but
'rearranged.' We all know and understand the limitations of MacWrite as a
word processor, which is why we don't use it.
If the same ace programmer saves his doc as text only, BANG! go his
graphics, fonts, formatting, all the rest.
So, what is the solution? Do we standardize on one particular format? (Most
reasonable, in my mind) Do we continue the way we do thing now, kind of
helter-skelter? (Most likely in my mind) Do we convince the developers of
word processing applications to provide read and write cabability for _all
other_ WP apps? (Totally impractical, but this is just talk, after all.) Or
is there some other solution?
If folks want to email me their comments, I'd be glad to 'summarize to the
net'.
tom c
Bill the Cat sez: "Remember. If some weirdo in a blue suit
offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil UUCP:...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
-or- tcora@ardec.arpa BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Mon, 08 May 89 00:58:20 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font & Sound Valet updater
Contains Font & Sound Valet Updater. Updates Steve Brecher's
Font & Sound Valet to version 1.1
[Archived as /info-mac/util/font-sound-valet-updater-11.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Mon, 08 May 89 01:04:27 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font Harmony Updater
Contains Font Harmony Updater. Updates Steve Brecher's
Font Harmony to version 1.2
[Archived as /info-mac/util/font-harmony-updater-12.hqx; 32K]
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 02:56:42 EDT
From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Subject: HigherMenus 2.0
HigherMenus is an INIT/cdev combination that I wrote that allows the user to
begin heirarchical menus into menu bar. It's great if you find yourself
constantly using a sub-menu, and you don't want to go down a menu, then
over. HigherMenus requires 4.2 or later. Documentation is included in this
BinHex package.
-- Dean Yu
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/highermenus-20.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Tue, 9 May 89 09:43:24 CST
From: decwrl!ucbvax!pro-party.cts.com!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Imagewriter LQ
My understanding was that Apple was going to replace each and every IW LQ sold
in the past couple of years due to their inherent low quality. Think that is
very generous of them. After all, the buyers of this product surely looked at
the print quality, etc., before originally spending dollar bills.
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Date: Tue, 09 May 89 13:09:27 HAE
From: Patrice Gosselin <SACPAT%LAVALVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #79
I don't have any information about Meta but I know a communication
software called VersaTerm Pro that can do this when you execute the sas/graph
program on your Mac.
This program is (unfortunately) not shareware or freeware. You can buy
it for 300$ here in Canada.
Look for version 2.10. The company is called Abelbeck Software.
Patrice Gosselin
Services a la clientele
Centre de traitement de l'information
Universite Laval
Quebec
Canada
G1K 7P9
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 08:10:12 CDT
From: Butch Kemper <X040BK%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Joining Files Together
There is a posting in the Info-Mac archives "filesplit-11.hqx" that
contains a utility that does what is wanted. It does require the file
parts to have a special name format which is easily determined by
using the utility to split a file.
Butch
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Date: Tue, 09 May 89 12:07:32 CDT
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Macintosh Virus Video
Several people have asked me for a copy of the posting I put up in March for
about a video that NASA is putting out about Macintosh Viruses. I have tried
to send copies to you, but unfortunatly I am not able to decipher you addresses
correctly and thus the file gets dumped into the dead-file area. So, for those
who asked, and for those who want to know, here is the article again.
Michael Farlow
Mac Enthusiast
CSC User Assistance Group
Texas A&M University
Disclaimer: Any opinions stated here are my own, and should not be construed
as the position or policy of Texas A&M University.
*+*+*+**+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*
The following is a transcription of an article found in the March 7th
issue of MacWeek written by Emily Brower:
"Mac users looking for information on computer viruses can get an
eduction from a video tutorial released by NASA's Macintosh Users
Group.
"The 20-minute video, created on a Macintosh II using MacroMind's
VideoWorks II Interactive, includes detailed informatin on how to
detect virus infection using ResEdit. The tape also reviews his-
torical information on virus development and lists possible future
uses of computer viruses, including indutstrial espionage, electro-
nic warfare and network destruction.
"According to the videotape, self-replicating code was perfected in
the pre-virus 1970s by computer war-game programmers -- hackers
who wrote small programs that did battle with other programs in the
computer's memory. Self-replication was a standard defense technique
employed to protect their code from destruction.
"Along with this historical perspective, the video gives a graphic
demonstration on using ResEdit to detect infections from Scores to
nVIR strains. The demonstration does not address detection of more
recent viruses such as INIT29 and ANTI.
"Copies of the tape are available from NASA for $15, while the 10-
disk VideoWorks Tutorial can be purchased for $20. Users groups
are encouraged to distribute the tape and programs to their members.
"For more information, write to:
David Lavery
President, NASA Macintosh Users Group
NASA Headquarters Mail Code RC
Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology
600 Independence Av., SW.
Washington, DC 20546"
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Date: Tue, 09 May 89 13:32:49 EDT
From: Anup Patel <patel@mitre.mitre.org>
Subject: NASA Virus VideoWorks demo..
I just saw NASA's VideoWorks production of computer virus explanation. Does
anyone know where I can get a copy of this program? Also, is there a current
version or is this the only one?
Any help is appreciated.
Anup Patel
The MITRE Corp.
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 10:53:15 cdt
From: an12404@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (Eric Sisson)
Subject: NeWS, X-windows on Mac OS ?
Does anyone know of any implementations of NeWS (Sun's Network extensible
Window System) or X-windows running under the Macintosh OS (rather than A/UX)?
To save network bandwidth, please send replies directly to me, and I will
post a summary to the list.
Thanks in advance.
Eric M. Sisson Internet: an12404@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu
Applications Analyst BITnet: AN124041@UTHVM1
Department of Biomathematics THEnet: MDACC::AN12404
University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas 77030 voice: (713) 792-2608, 792-2600
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Date: Tue, 09 May 89 18:52:47 CDT
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Questions about Broadcast v1.1
Greetings Info-Mac'ers!!
My question involves a usefull INIT called Broadcast v1.1. For those of
you who are unfamiliar with this INIT, it allows users on a LAN to send
messages to other nodes running Broadcast. It will even cross A-Talk
zones.
We use it in our labs to remind the student users that the lab is closing
and other useful messages.
My question is this: Is there (or could one be created) a version of
Broadcast that is _receive_ only?? So that the users could only "listen"
to what the Server Mac (the only one that can send messages).
Like I mentioned earlier, we use Broadcast alot, but we are starting to
get complaints from users who are getting messages from users at other
labs (linked via Ethernet) who just wanted to see who is out there.
I tried sending E-Mail to Broadcasts author, Joachim Lindenberg, but for
reasons unknown to me, I have not been able to get my mailer to recognize
his address. So if anyone has any information, or is willing to create a
new program to fit my needs, please send it to me.
Michael Farlow
CSC Help Desk & Graphics Lab Consultant
Texas A&M University X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (InterNet)
X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet)
"A computer's efficeiency decreases as the urgency
for information retrieval increases."
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Date: Wednesday, 10 May 1989 15:30:49 EST
From: m00322@mwvm.mitre.org (PAUL LOCHER)
Subject: Reply to Org Charts
In response to the quiry about a commercial package to do organization charts.
There are several packages in the market place. The one I think is great and
easy to use is MORE - the original and II. You can do things in a tabular/data
base style for ease of entry and maintenance and then convert it to an
organization chart style for output. There is a lot of capability and
flexibility. Hope this helps.
Incidentally, the above are my thoughts and do not represent the views of my
company.
PAUL LOCHER
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Date: Tue, 9 May 89 14:43:06 EDT
From: holla@gatech.edu (Craig Hollabaugh)
Subject: Star Trek sounds
Here are some Star Trek sounds
captain's log
enterprise door
i shall be mercifull
he's dead jim
prepare to attack
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/star-trek-various-part1.hqx; 129K
/info-mac/sound/star-trek-various-part2.hqx; 117K]
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Date: Mon, 08 May 89 00:46:37 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Suitcase II updater
Contains Suitcase II Updater. Updates Steve Brecher's
Suitcase II to version 1.2.3
[Archived as /info-mac/util/suitcase-ii-updater-123.hqx; 49K]
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Date: Tue, 9 May 89 12:32 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Using Kermit
Original question:
"... how to transfer binary files to Mac using Kermit 0.9(40)?"
Suggested Method 1:
>> I have had exactly that problem and found a detour and another problem in
>>the process. The detour is to start up Kermit on your Mac. This is
>>important since this works only once (!). Make your connection/whatever
>>but before starting a transfer pull down the file settings box and make
>>BINARY and DATA fork the defaults. Start the transfer and if the other end
>>is set up to send binary it should work. BUT, the first time only. If you
>>want another file start over from the top (restart Mac Kermit). (I also
>>always use even parity, but I have to since I'm talking to an IBM mainframe
>>for most of these transfers).
>
Suggested Method 2
>Arggh....
>
> No No No!
>
> Under "Settings" choose "File Defaults".
>
> Click "Attended: dialog on each file received".
>
> Now, when you download a file, you'll get a dialog which will allow you to
>specify Text/Binary Data/Resource And where to save the file under what name.
>If you are downloading a batch of files, use a wildcard for your SEND command,
>and then at the dialog box, click "Proceed Automatically". (All files will be
>downloaded in the specified manner).
Unfortunately, the first method descibed above is the only one I've been able
to get to work. I tried method 2 but still do not receive the file as binary,
i.e. the eighth-bit bytes come through as two bytes, an ampersand and another
character. Method 1 has the desired effect of recognizing the ampersand as the
eighth-bit prefix, and recreating the proper characters.
Thanks for both suggestions, any others?
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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∂10-May-89 2150 BREESE@score.stanford.edu Re: Footnotes in Word
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From: Jack Breese <BREESE@score.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Footnotes in Word
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
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> I am writing my dissertation on my Mac using Word, and needless to say,
> will have a few footnotes.
>
> However, even when I select Automatic Numbering, most footnotes come
> up "1". My latest five were labeled 1,1,1,1,2. Any ideas about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe Harder (P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.STANFORD.EDU)
Use Tex.
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∂11-May-89 1209 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Imagewriter LQ problems
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From: ackthpht@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Frederik Goris)
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Subject: Re: Imagewriter LQ problems
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References: <CMM.0.88.610439057.zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
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To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
In article <CMM.0.88.610439057.zatz@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> Leslie Zatz writes:
>I am posting this on several BB's. There are unsolved problems with this
>printer despite the recent factory rewoking of the paper path. Printing is
>inconsistent. Aplle aware of problem but not going public or withdrawing
>printer from market. Suggest avoid this machine if any other alternative.
Apple in fact is giving brand new (and improved) LQ's to anyone who reports
problems such as noise or scrunching up of lines at the top and/or bottom
of the page. Just go to your local Apple dealer and ask for details. If you're
on campus, just drop on by Microdisc (in the bookstore).
∂11-May-89 2009 K.KINCAID@macbeth.stanford.edu Pict to clipboard
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From: William S. Kincaid <K.KINCAID@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Pict to clipboard
To: SU-Macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
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Try:
MyLongint := ⊗ZeroScrap;
MyLongint := GetHandleSize(MyPicture);
MyScrap := PutScrap(MyLongint,'PICT',MyPicture↑);
The problem is PutScrap wants a pointer and you were passing it the
address of a handle.
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 11 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 86
Today's Topics:
ARANDA: software to automate program documentation and reuse.
C programming
DesignerDraw
digitizing boards ?
HyperDrive KE memory expansion
Info-Mac Digest V7
Info-Mac Digest V7 #84
Large hard drives for Mac II
LaserWriter II NT Problem...
LaserWriter LQ
MacBinary and BinHex 5.0
scsi accelerator
System bomb 28 in rom Dequeue with MacPlus
Wanted: Chemical Engineering Process Diagraming Program
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 9:34:14 CDT
From: Werner Uhrig <werner%molokai.sw.MCC.COM@mcc.com>
Subject: ARANDA: software to automate program documentation and reuse.
[ below follows an excerpt from the "Letters Column" of MacTutor,
of May 1989 (a magazine for Macintosh software developers).
It describes a software product named ARANDA developed by
Soft-SET Technologies of Vancouver, Canada.
I spoke with Bill Campbell, mentioned in the article, last week,
and he promised me a beta-copy ASAP.
Bill also told me that the initial release is for Pascal,
COBOL is to be next (unintelligable mumblings about a 'good reason'
which I suspect means that someone gave a financial incentive :-)
then C. ]
The microelectronics industry uses CAD software to develop complex
IC's automatically through software. Now, thanks to a new software
development utility called Aranda, software development will benefit
>From the same type of design automation that IC designers have enjoyed
for several years.
Aranda is a compiler specific utility that opens and reads computer
source code text files, parses the language syntax and builds an
interactive symbolic flow chart representation that is linked by
hypertext to the original program listing. Edit changes to either the
graphical flow chart representation or the source code itself results in
the other representation being updated automatically. Code can be cut
and pasted in symbolic form, detail hidden or expanded, call links
between modules called out and many other design tools used to
facilitate and automate the software design process. But the important
feature any programmer will love is that finally, software documentation
and flow charts can be created after the fact and linked dynamically to
the code so that the documentation and the code stay up to date at all
times. Have a strange program you don't understand or didn't write, but
are required to maintain or upgrade? No problem! Just run it through
Aranda and the entire program structure, design and variables will be
extracted and symbolically and graphically represented. The authors ran
the entire MacApp source code through Aranda and out came a giant flow
chart of the entire MacApp module tree in just a few seconds! Aranda
can be used in a top-down software design enviroment from the beginning
of the design cycle, as an expert system editor, or in bottoms-up
redesign to extract the program structure and facilitate upgrades and
maintenance of programs already written. Modules can be documented by
appending interactive notes to the source code or equivalent flow
charts, and the notes travel with the modules as they are cut and pasted
into new programs. Now the dreary process of documenting and specifying
the software design is automated and extracted from the source code
itself, leaving the programmer free to do the fun stuff: writing code,
not documentation.
Aranda is a product of Soft-Set Technologies of Vancouver in Canada
and benefits from University work that allows the authors to generate
new parsing engines for different compilers in a matter of days. MPW
Pascal, Lightspeed Pascal and C versions are going into beta site
testing now with Cobol, PL1 and C++ versions to follow. Pricing and
product availability have not yet been finalized, but people who should
know inside Apple are already drooling over the prospect of beta testing
this product, something Apple normally never does for third party
software. For more information, contact Bill Campbell at (604)734-1622
or AppleLink CDA 0380. MacTutor will be using this product as it
becomes available, and we will have much more on this when we see the
beta version, which should be shortly after Apple's Developer
Conference, where Aranda will be introduced for the first time.
< end of quoted letter >
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 10:57 EDT
From: KWALDMAN@wash-vax.bbn.com
Subject: C programming
I am having trouble with some C programs I have written. I am
using LightspeedC and am trying to create an as an Excel document.
The file can be read by Excel but I was wondering if there was a way
to create the File so I can double click on it and have it start up as an Excel
document. The LightspeedC manual doesn't seem to mention that nor does "C
Programming Techniques for the MacIntosh". I do not have Inside MacInitosh.
Thanks in advance.
Karl
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 10:53:44 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: DesignerDraw
Here is DesignerDraw, a program that is very useful for making
flow charts, originizational charts, etc.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/designer-draw.hqx; 65K]
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Date: 11 May 89 16:45:38 EDT
From: Sergio.Sedas@rouge.edrc.cmu.edu
Subject: digitizing boards ?
I need information concerning digitizing tablets for the Mac.
Would someone have any suggestions, comments, ideas etc. I don't
know what is available, and their ratings.
Thanks,
Sergio
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 01:11:44 EDT
From: cperry@starbase.mitre.org (Chris Perry)
Subject: HyperDrive KE memory expansion
I'm running a 512KE with a 20 Meg Hyperdrive using the "706"
ROMS. Those of you who have the internal Hyperdrives (the old
ones, not the FX20s) know the daughter board takes up a fair
amount of space. When I asked a technician at a local computer
store if memory expansion (e.g., using the MacSnap 2.5 Mbyte +
SCSI upgrade) were possible, he answered flatly that it was
not: no room inside the box.
Question: is this true? Do I have any alternatives to expand
memory in a 512KE with an internal Hyperdrive?
Replies to info-mac or directly to me. Thanks * 10↑6.
Chris Perry
cperry@gateway.mitre.org
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 11:45:35 EDT
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7
David Rinewalt recently asked about a way to convert bitmapped to object
oriented graphics since screen dumps were looking poorly when printed.
What I do is to take the screen dump using Camera. I then place it into
PageMaker 3.0. To scale a graphic proportionally (so that you don't get
ugly looking output), hold down the SHIFT key while scaling.
Better yet, if you hold down BOTH the SHIFT and COMMAND keys, not only
will the object be resized proportionally, but it will be resized in such a
way to optimize output for the priner currently selected with the chooser.
Doing it this way, I have been able to get quite readable 1/4 size screen
dumps.
Bret Ingerman Ingerman@suvm.acs.syr.edu
Microcomputer Consultant
Syracuse University
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Date: 11 May 89 14:03:38 GMT
From: hegg@edstip.eds.com (Kevin Hegg)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #84
Dick Rinewalt, Texas Christian University requested a Postscript
version of the Chicago font. I believe that one is posted on Genie.
Sorry, but I can't help you with the second request.
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 16:35:55 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Large hard drives for Mac II
We are researching large hard drives for the Mac II for a user here, and we
have had very little experience with 3rd party drives, and no experience
with large drives (300 meg and up). If anyone has had any noteworthy
experiences, either good or bad, with large drives, your comments would
be much appreciated. Please respond directly to me. Thanks much in advance.
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 14:14:07 CDT
From: Michael Farlow -- Captain Video <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter II NT Problem...
I have had an odd problem occure with my LaserWriter II NT, and I'm hoping that
someone out there in Info-Mac Land might have some insight.
The Setup:
LaserWriter II NT on a 11 Mac network with the latest versions of AppleShare
and LaserShare.
The Problem:
Here in our student Mac lab, we have imposed a time limit of 15 minutes for a
signle page to complete printing. This affects graphics and page layout
software more than it does the Word Processors. When ever we need to can a
job that has taken that long, we delete it from within the print queue, and
then rather than wait for the printer's RAM to flush itself, we turn the
printer off, wait 5 seconds, and then turn it on again.
What happens is that for some reason the piece of memory that remembers the
LaserWriter's name and page count gets flushed. Changing the name is back to
what it is supposed to be is no big deal, but the problem is beginning to
border on being a nuiscance(sp?).
What I am hoping to find out is if there is anything that I can do to stop this
or if the printer needs to be sent to the shop for repair. Has this occured to
anyone else??? Any opinions/tips/hints/advice will be appreciated, and if
there is enough response, I will summarize to the net.
Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU
CSC User Assistance Group & Graphics Lab Consultant X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet)
Texas A&M University
(409) 845-1365
***********
Any opinions expressed here are my responsibility and in no way reflects the
policy, rules, regulations, or other legal type things of Texas A&M University.
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 08:26:11 EDT
From: Anup Patel <patel@mitre.mitre.org>
Subject: LaserWriter LQ
>From literature sent by Apple, here's what I understand of their printer swap
project. To have your IW LQ replaced, the printer must be checked by a Apple
Certified technician. It should show signs of excessive loudness, have print
marks on the top and bottom 1.5" of printout, and have a serial number less
than (I think) 183101013(?).
So not all LQ's will be replaced.
Anup Patel
The MITRE Corp.
{I'm told I should have a discaimer so: I do not speak for my organization, even if I did, no one would pay attention.}
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 17:12:48 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: MacBinary and BinHex 5.0
I downloaded the program "MacBinary" thinking that it probably
did the same thing as "BinHex 5.0" which has been around for
years and still works just fine. After testing out both programs,
I came to the conclusion that they do indeed do the same thing. I
wonder why Greg Smith went to all the trouble of writing
MacBinary when BinHex 5.0 was already available?
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 13:27:04 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: scsi accelerator
The updated scsi accelerator posted here recently contains a number of
variants of the driver. However, two of the files in the .SIT archive
have exactly the same name and length. I first assumed that the same
file just got archived twice by accident, but a CRC check on the files
showed that they are not the same. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Date: Thu 11 May 1989 20:27 CDT
From: <MMPR004%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System bomb 28 in rom Dequeue with MacPlus
I have a miniscribe 20scsi drive which is giving me fits. It is now currently
updated to system 6.0.3 from a known good disk, and running on a macPlus with
1meg. Everything is normal, except one problem. Anytime a program is set
as the startup program, it will always bomb out with a system error 28, or
the stack has moved into application heap. The program will bomb, just when
it is starting. When the bomb occurs, the machine is in Dequeue in rom,
at +2b6, which +2b4 would be _SysError, which is where the PC most likely was
at bomb time. The system would bomb with 6.0.2 also. If the finder is used
as start-up, everything seems to run fine.
But, this drive did not do this before I used it to set up my SE/30 w/4megs.
I changed the system to 6.0.3 for the se/30, so I could set up the 80meg drive
using the 20meg drive. (I reformatted the se/30 drive with different drivers
since the apple driver seems to be extremely slow.) I then put the older 6.0.2
system back on the 20meg drive.
Note that this problem of bombing will also occur with a SE, but not my se/30.
I have checked the boot blocks to make sure no strange information was in it.
All seems to be fine with that. I have gotten rid of anything that may possibly
use memory, and installed, and taken directly from a untouched(locked) system
disk everything. The Dequeue bomb still happened.
I could just reformat the drive, but the problem would make me wonder my whole
life. I think it may be from something the se/30 and the newer system put on
the drive, as the se/30 can boot off of it just fine as startup drive, and a
program set as startup.
I haven't paid much attention to this, as the person using it always boots up
into finder, so I haven't had to do anything with it, but am just wondering...
What does it want, or possibly need? I have even taken a good system from
another 20 macplus 6.0.2, and just copied the whole system folder over the bad
20,and the same problem occurs. So...it must be something else. Is it related
to the se/30???? Sort of like a hd20 with 64krom mac, and using a newer
system on the hd20, and an older(or newer) system on the boot up disk.
Can Anyone give me a possible cause for this strange problem?
Scott Hutinger mmpr004@ecncdc.bitnet (lots of I's eh?)
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 12:05:02 EST
From: stuart%jeffrey@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (Stuart Harvey)
Subject: Wanted: Chemical Engineering Process Diagraming Program
I need to draw diagrams of chemical engineering processes on the Macintosh.
Can anyone recommend a program for doing this. The program must have
clipboard capability or at worst be able to save the diagrams to a PICT
format file.
Stuart Harvey
stu@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu
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∂12-May-89 0916 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu Antiviral Protection By Locking programs?
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Subject: Antiviral Protection By Locking programs?
To: smug@hamlet.stanford.edu, su-macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu,
Flrc-Mitl@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, Consult@med-isg.stanford.edu,
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In this day and age of viruses even those of us with antiviral programs
are wary that there may be new viruses that go undetected by most antiviral
programs. I know that if you lock your disk and then put it into
another machine you are protected, but can you protect yourself and your
programs simply by locking them. In otherwise does locking files on
a disk such as your system file protect this file from infection when
it is placed in an infected environment. I know this is a cumbersome way
to protect a system and/or files, but could it be the most reliable?
Also any thoughts on what is the best antiviral program on the market?
Please send a copy of your reply to this account.
Han
PS. Aside from infecting programs has anyone heard of a virus infecting say
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∂12-May-89 1409 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Footnotes in Word
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From: erberman@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Eric Berman)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Footnotes in Word
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To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
If your footnotes are in multiple sections, and each section has the "restart
footnotes at 1" option turned on, this may be why you keep getting all 1's.
What version of Word are you using?
--Eric Berman
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 12 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 87
Today's Topics:
6.0.3 again
[DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!Windows 2.0
A Testing of HP Driver.
BinHex 5.0
Designer Draw
Excel-openable files (double-clicking)
Foghorn Leghorn sounds
Hard Drive Access
ImageWriter LQ
MacBinary and BinHex 5.0
Scanning, Character Recognition
Virtual Memory for the Mac (Pmmu and multifinder)
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1989 15:32:20 CDT
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 6.0.3 again
Ok, I know those of us without an SE/30 or a Mac II(c)x don't *need*
System 6.0.3, but is there any *harm* in using it? We the System Upgrade
program and I know some users are going to want to get 6.0.3 just
because it's new and and free (to them). I will probably be the person
administering the program. Should I discourage users who don't need
6.0.3 from using it? Thanks,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=--> CB Lih <--= "A man who is sometimes all he's cracked up to be."
Macintosh Support
BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905
US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas
155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Acknowledge-To: <CL06076@UAFSYSB>
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 12:20:36 PDT
From: "[DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [DCGQAL]GER.XSE0010!Windows 2.0
Windows 2.0
Copyright 1988,89 Joachim Lindenberg, Sommerstrasse 4,
7500 Karlsruhe 1, West Germany. All rights reserved.
Windows is an INIT/control panel extension that will add a windows menu
to the finder and other applications. You can configure the running
applications (and this is the big improvement in comparison to 1.x)
in the control panel.
(For the curious programmer: Windows does not know about Multifinder)
Windows is shareware. If you like and use it, send me $10.
International users: Send your check, turning it into cash
costs me $ 0.30.
Joachim Lindenberg
GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/windows-20.hqx; 27K]
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Date: Fri, 12 May 89 16:19:50 EET
From: Jouni Santara <LK-JOUNI@fintuvm>
Subject: A Testing of HP Driver.
Hi Guys, here we have some GOOD news...
Frustrated to use only Apple's own low-quality
or high-priced printers? Why don't you switch to
HP DeskJet or LaserJet. Now this is possible for
all Mac users, because a FREE driver software seems
to work with the most applications of Mac.
Disadvantages?
-Terrible SLOW with the highest quality output mode
(300 dpi, 5-10 min/page) and
-not compatible with the applications written by
"weird programming methods". For this I can say
that I have been able to demonstrate problems
with Word (3.01, my favourite, sigh) text editor
and HyperCard (another sigh). The available document
lists a quite comprehensive list of other unworking
applications.
-Minor problems with the Finder when trying to tell
for application the using of LaserJet mode (eq you
have to check the corresponding box BEFORE
starting the application),
-possible bigger problems with MultiFinder (haven't
tried YET).
-Finally, I did NOT get it work with other speed
than at the 19200 baud via serial line between Mac
and LaserJet, although the driver program includes
selection button for 1200 and 9600 baud speeds. My
printer just returned magical error code 40.
Advantages?
+The price of HP DeskJet Professional is about 900
and the quality is said to be "uniformly excellent
and stood up against that of most laser printers".
My tests have been done by using HP's LaserJet.
+No problems when trying MacWrite, WriteNow, and a
couple of other programs. Again, the documentation
lists more tried applications.
+The C source code of program is available and it
could serve as a base when wanting to write your
own driver for different printer or improve this
one.
A conclusion: A high-quality output with ALL the graphics
you believe to need does not have to be expensive any more -
more work is needed to make it functioning under MultiFinder
and all Mac applications.
Still, folks: it works and that is great.
J.Santara
Computing Centre
Turku university
Finland
[This is the driver which I put in the archives recently. I believe it is
in the util directory. -Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 11:46 EST
From: "Thomas R. Blake" <TBLAKE@bingvaxb.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: BinHex 5.0
>Date: Thu, 11 May 89 17:12:48 PDT
>From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
>Subject: MacBinary and BinHex 5.0
>
>I downloaded the program "MacBinary" thinking that it probably
>did the same thing as "BinHex 5.0" which has been around for
>years and still works just fine. After testing out both programs,
>I came to the conclusion that they do indeed do the same thing. I
>wonder why Greg Smith went to all the trouble of writing
>MacBinary when BinHex 5.0 was already available?
Is MacBinary Free? BinHex 5.0 is Shareware.
Tom Blake
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 12:51:14 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Designer Draw
It turns out that the shareware version 1.0 of Designer Draw (April 1987)
works fine on a Mac Plus, SE, or SE/30, but will not work on any Mac II
series machine. I suspect the problem is related to the bigger screen.
We have tried it set at 1 bit video, but you still get the error message
"not enough memory to complete this operation" right after leaving the
title page. Turning the instruction cache off doesn't help, and we're not
running under MultiFinder. Could anyone suggest some possible fix, or is
there a newer shareware version of this program?
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 13:55:12 EDT
From: ckd%bu-pub.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu
Subject: Excel-openable files (double-clicking)
Someone (I forgot who) wanted to know how to make the files
their program produces double-clickable (automatically opening
Excel).
The answer: when you write the file to disk, make sure the Creator
code is "XCEL". Since Excel reads the files already, I suspect the
type code (XLBN) is already correct.
No, I don't remember how to do this--I think there's a call called
SetFileInfo or somesuch. (I'm not a Mac programmer yet, for lack
of time.)
*****************************************************************************
* Chris "Data" Davis ! BITNet: smghy6c@buacca.bitnet ! NCC-1701D *
* Student Consultant ! InterNet: ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu ! ___ *
* Boston University ! smghy6c@buacca.bu.edu ! ---===========--- *
*---------------------+---------------------------------+ o \|/ o *
* DISCLAIMER: I said it and nobody else is responsible. ! `-< * >-' *
* "You all look like happy campers to me." -Dan Quayle ! *
*****************************************************************************
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 14:18:57 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: Foghorn Leghorn sounds
The enclosed file contains several lines from Warner Bros cartoons featuring
Foghorn Leghorn. Enjoy. Unfortunately this will be the last series of
sounds I'll be able to post for a while since I'll be graduating from S.U
on May 14th.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/foghorn-leghorn-various.hqx; 192K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 12:59:46 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Hard Drive Access
Is there a freeware or shareware program around that will make a
hard drive unmountable if a person boots a machine with their own
floppy? If so, using that along with Lockout 2.0 would provide
pretty good security.
I know that you can use some device-dependent driver when setting
up some hard drives that will render the drive unmountable unless
you have that particular driver on the floppy boot disk, but I'd
rather have something that I can install after the fact.
------------------------------
Date: 12 May 89 15:32:18 GMT
From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Subject: ImageWriter LQ
Apparently, it was Apple's original intention to
replace only LQs with demonstrable problems.
However, they have been deluged with replacement
requests and apparently decided to replace all.
The result is an indefinite backup. Whereas I
was told originally that I'd have my replaced
LQ within a week, I've now been waiting for
six weeks with no end in sight. I talked to
Apple Customer Service yesterday, and they
make no prediction on how long it would take.
They advised me to get my LQ back and wait
until my dealer has the new one in hand. (I
would if I didn't do most of my work on a
laserprinter.)
My information comes from Apple or from what
Apple told my dealer (actually the university).
Steve Goldfield
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 12 May 89 10:57 EDT
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BKNLVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacBinary and BinHex 5.0
Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca writes:
>I downloaded the program "MacBinary" thinking that it probably
>did the same thing as "BinHex 5.0" which has been around for
>years and still works just fine. After testing out both programs,
>I came to the conclusion that they do indeed do the same thing. I
>wonder why Greg Smith went to all the trouble of writing
>MacBinary when BinHex 5.0 was already available?
I haven't been able to get ahold of BinHex 5.0, yet, but I'll take your
word for it that BinHex also decodes MacBinary data files. The reason I
bothered to write MacBinary was that we only used BinHex 4.0 here when we
DID use BinHex. Usually, we just use StuffIt to unBinHex files, or mcvert
on our Unix box. The problem was that some of us used NCSA Telnet 2.1 to
download unBinHexed files, and that program didn't yet know how to handle
MacBinary format. I wrote MacBinary to address this need, not knowing about
BinHex 5.0's extra ability. I posted it because I had seen references from
other people with needs similar to mine. I thought that they might benefit
>From what I had done, rather than having to re-invent the same wheel that I
had re-invented. ;-) NCSA Telnet 2.2 has just come out and it understands
the MacBinary format, making MacBinary 1.0.1 even less necessary. That's
the nature of the Macintosh world, though. There is always something better
on the horizon, or already available.
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Greg Smith | BITNET: smith@bucknell.bitnet |
| Systems Analyst | smith@bknlvms.bitnet |
| Bucknell Computer Services | Internet: smith@bucknell.edu |
| Bucknell University | smith@amethyst.bucknell.edu |
| Lewisburg, PA 17837 | AT&Tnet: (717) 524-1801 |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
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Date: Wed, 10 May 89 05:40 EDT
From: alanr@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Scanning, Character Recognition
Date: Sun, 7 May 89 16:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nickolaos Sahinidis <ns1b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
I would like to transform a large amount of printed data into a text
file.
Does anyone have experience with scanners and character recognition
software ?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, Nikos
I've used a program called READ-IT
Vendor: (from the about box)
OLDUVAI Corporation
7520 Red Road Suite A
South Miami, Florida 33143
Tel: 305-665-4665
I've used it some, trying to understand when it might be useful. My
impression is that if you have a lot of text in one font (for instance a
book or at least many pages) then it might be useful, but only when
scanned at a reasonably high resolution. I've used it at 300 dpi from an
apple scanner, and found that after training it for a while, It started
to do ok, but not perfect. The reason that you want a reasonably large
text is simply that there is an overhead associated with training the
thing for your font, if it is not one of the ones supplied. I suspect
that no matter what you will still be left with some editing to fix it
up. You may want to give it a try. If you have further questions, you're
welcome to give me a call at 617-253-0608.
-alan
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 10 May 89 03:39 EDT
From: alanr@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Virtual Memory for the Mac (Pmmu and multifinder)
Date: Mon, 8 May 89 23:53 EDT
From: "John L. Jamison x8508" <JAMISON@campus.swarthmore.edu>
One submitter asked about the use of the PMMU and virtual memory for the
Mac.
Connectix has written a virtual memory INIT which makes use of an installed
PMMU to give up to 8 megabytes of usable memory, irrespective of how much
RAM is physically present.
Apparently their product has problems with certain DMA devices or boards
which access RAM directly- this access does not go through Memory
Manager trap routines and thus cannot be handled by system software.
John Jamison jamison@campus.swarthmore.edu
- I have no affiliation with Connectix, etc.
If you order this product, then I suggest you first request, if
possible, an evaluation copy, if you are depending on you favourite
program running correctly. A while ago I tried this with Allegro Common
lisp and found that it did not work. As I soon after upgraded with real
memory, I abandoned the project.
I did use it with multifinder and a number of other mac applications, so
I don't mean to imply that it is likely that your application won't
work. Also, I have heard good things about Connectix support, and
responsiveness in fixing bugs and imcompatibilities. The intention of
this message is just to warn you it is possible that the connectix
product doesn't work with all software
- I have no affiliation with Connectix, etc.
-alan
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Today's Topics:
6.0.3
Allegro CL
Color Pattern Maker 1.1
Desginer Draw
digitizing boards ?
Finally, Peer-to-Peer non-dedicated AppleShare, this month!!!
Hypercard
Info-Mac Digest V7 #83
Insect DA
Launcher
MAC picture format
NFS Source?
pmmu
Repoman sounds
THINK Pascal 2.01 Patcher
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Date: Fri, 12 May 89 20:53:13 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: 6.0.3
> Ok, I know those of us without an SE/30 or a Mac II(c)x don't *need*
> System 6.0.3, but is there any *harm* in using it?
I don't believe so. 6.0.3 has the "hooks" for using the newly-released
32-bit Color QuickDraw; QD32 has some pretty neat capabilities (dithered
images, for example) that some of your folks might want to play around
with. There's no harm in using 6.0.3 on any machine from a Plus on
up... it differs very little from 6.0.2.
If you have any external hard disks that you like to keep in a bootable,
ready-to-use condition, you should probably install 6.0.3 so that they
can be used on any machine.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 14 May 1989 17:43:28 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Allegro CL
If this has been discussed before, perhaps someone
can refer me to the proper archive...
Anyway, I am embarking on a development effort soon
that will be very difficult without object-oriented
programming. What has been the general experience
with OOP in Allegro Common Lisp?
In particular, every review I've seen of it mentions
that Allegro's non-standard object system has not
been "optimized" and is perhaps not suitable, therefore,
for serious development work. True? Somewhat true?
Also, has anyone tried using the Portable Common Loops
package?
If there is interest, I can summarize for the net.
Thanks,
John Sotos
Johns Hopkins Hospital
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 11 May 89 17:50:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Norman William Franke, III" <nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Color Pattern Maker 1.1
This is version 1.1 of Color Pattern Maker, a program which will create 8, 16,
32 or 64 square ppats for use as desktop patterns. Version 1.0 had a bug
that caused an error if one tried to save a 64 * 64 ppat, this is fixed in
this version. Color Pattern Maker is shareware, $8.
Norman Franke
nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/color-pattern-maker-11.hqx; 51K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 May 89 07:57 EST
From: "Steven W. Holland" <HOLLAND%RCSSWH@gmr.com>
Subject: Desginer Draw
> It turns out that the shareware version 1.0 of Designer Draw (April 1987)
> works fine on a Mac Plus, SE, or SE/30, but will not work on any Mac II
> series machine. I suspect the problem is related to the bigger screen.
Designer Draw is now out as version 3.1 which runs on Mac II's. It is
available from Compu$erve MACBIZ data library 3 under the name Design.sit.
The shareware fee is $45. The nearly 100K file contains a 23 page user
manual and several examples in addition to the program.
-Steve Holland, GMR
____________
Message Was Also Addressed To ...
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Date: Fri, 12 May 89 23:41 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: digitizing boards ?
Sergio <Sergio.Sedas@rouge.edrc.cmu.edu> asks about graphic tablets for the
Mac...
If you can get hold of a copy, the February 89 issue of "The Active
Window", put out by the Boston Computer Society's Mac Group, carries a
comparative review of Mac tablets by Lawrence San (p.38).
To make a long story short, he recommends the Kurta IS/ADB over the
Summagraphics Bit Pad Plus. He also mentions a product by CalComp, but does
not include it in his tests due to unavailability.
My personal experience... about a year ago I bought ten Kurta IS/ADBs with
corded styluses (you can also get them with cordless styluses, and with
corded/cordless pucks) for our Mac II's. Aside from occasional stylus
switch flakyness, the things proved a good investment. HOWEVER -- we are
only interested in having a responsive medium (i.e. -- something you
control with your fingertips instead of your elbow) for freehand drawing. I
cannot vouch for their accuracy in precise tracing applications such as CAD
and drafting (besides, such applications would be best served by pucks --
and we haven't bought any). On the subject of corded vs. cordless -- stick
with the old-fashioned ways. I've tried cordless styluses at Kurta's booth
at a couple of conventions, and derived the impression that responsiveness,
and possibly resolution, are inferior.
San's article provides the following addresses:
Kurta Corporation
3007 East Chambers St.
Phoenix, AZ 85040
1-800-44-KURTA
Summagraphics Corporation
60 Silvermine Rd
Seymour, CT 06483
1-800-221-9244
CalComp, Inc.
2411 West La Palma Ave.
Anaheim, CA 92801
1-800-CALCOMP
AutoEase, Inc. (third-party drivers for Kurta & Summagr. tablets)
1325 South 800 East #315
Orem, Utah 84058
1-800-752-3273
In addition, it is possible that in the meanwhile also GTCO came out with
an ADB tablet.
BTW -- the foregoing ONLY applies if you have a Mac from the SE or II
families (i.e., with ADB ports). If you have a Plus or older you'd have to
look for a tablet with a serial port interface. In my early days I used a
Summagraphics serial MacTablet on a "Slim Mac", with fairly good results --
but that was a long time ago... I doubt whether they even make them
anymore.
Best,
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 13 May 89 04:28:31 EDT
From: Alexis Rosen <cucard!ccnysci!alexis@columbia.edu>
Subject: Finally, Peer-to-Peer non-dedicated AppleShare, this month!!!
Finally, a Peer-to-Peer non-dedicated distributed AppleShare!
For a long time now, people have been wishing for an AppleShare server
which didn't require a dedicated Mac. For just as long, people have been
buying TOPS instead. But now we are beginning to see just how bad TOPS
really is. It's totally incompatible with AppleShare, and Sun has no
interest in or desire to implement AFP compatability in the near future,
despite markting claims to the contrary. There are also a host of bugs
that make using DBMSs with TOPS difficult to impossible.
Finally, a solution is at hand. IPT will shortly be releasing
Peer-to-Peer AppleShare, which does NOT require a dedicated machine for
file service. You can read all about it on page 1 of next week's
MacWeek, but here is a summary:
1) Peer-to-Peer AppleShare runs on Macs, PCs, and Unix machines.
2) Price for the Mac software is *** $150 *** per server!
3) Claimed speed is "slightly faster than AppleShare."
4) Fully compliant with AFP.
5) Does NOT send out garbage serial-number packets on the net.
6) To be released by June 1.
Now, all this comes from talking to their marketing VP. She is a very
capable person technically, so the chances of her being wrong because of
a lack of understanding the subject are pretty much nil. As to whether
or not they are overestimating their speed or compatability, I will know
soon, as we are receiving beta copies early next week.
Note that the price for setting up a network initially looks like it's
about 1/2 the price of a TOPS network. After all, TOPS is $289 per Mac
while this is $150 per Mac. (I am using list prices here for
convenience, but this should scale down to street prices pretty evenly.)
In fact, IPT's server is MUCH cheaper even than that. For example, one
of my clients has a network of about 100 Macs and a few dozen PCs.
Forgetting the PCs for now, it would cost $28,900 to network them on
TOPS, and probably only ten percent of the machines (or less) would
actually be file servers. So they could actually buy AppleShare on eight
dedicated Mac SEs to serve the net, at the same price. In fact, they did
just that, before I started working with them.
On the other hand, consider the cost of setting up this same net with
Peer-to-Peer Appleshare. If you want ten machines as servers, your total
cost is *$1500* since you only need to buy copies of the software for
the servers. All the other machines on the net use the AppleShare client
server software that comes with all Macintoshes.
For smaller networks, when less money is available, the difference is
even more impressive. For a ten Mac network, with one server, TOPS would
cost $2890, and AppleShare would cost $2600 (or more, depending on what
kind of Mac you use for a server). IPT's AppleShare would cost $150.
Also note that Tops consumes almost 70K more memory than the AppleShare
Client software. That means that every user who doesn't need to serve up
his disk gets back 70K. That's enough room for QuickMail, QuickKeys, or
a bunch of smaller INITs, for example. On a 1MB Mac, it could instead
mean the difference between being able to run MultiFinder or not.
Administrators of large networks will be glad to know that IPT's server
does not send out serial-number packets every few seconds, unlike TOPS.
These packets can really clog a large network. They are especially
antisocial when you are putting Macs on an EtherNet cable along with
lots of other machines, a practice which is becoming more and more
common at universities and large companies.
When I get the Beta copies next week, there are a number of interesting
questions that I will then be able to answer. For starters, how much
memory does a server use? How much does this slow down the CPU? How does
is respond under heavy load? Is it *really* compliant with AFP,
including byte-range locking and the Desktop Manager calls?
Will this software really performs according to IPT's claims? I'll let
you all know, but for now it seems likely that they've done it right.
IPT has been in the business since the Mac first came out, so they've
got the experience to do it.
Assuming it works, this will have an incredible impact on the Mac
market. It will demolish TOPS virtually overnight, which might well be
what Sun really wants anyway (after all, Sun's game plan calls for NFS
to rule the world, not TOPS, and they've done nothing to integrate the
two in almost two years). It will also consolidate the Mac networking
market around AFP, and put even greater pressure on 3Com to finish up
it's AFP services sooner.
It is interesting to watch history repeat itself. In early 1986
InfoSphere, publisher of MacServe, virtually owned the networking
market. 3Com was only a bit player. There was nothing else, except this
upstart called TOPS. The great thing about TOPS was that it allowed
people to use the same folders on the same disks at the same time,
whereas MacServe only let one person have write access to a given disk
(or volume, actually) at the same time. InfoSphere refused to upgrade
their product and as a result their market share went from upwards of
90% to about 0% today. (Amazingly, from the ashes of MacServe rose
Liason, a truly wonderful product which bridges multiple AppleTalk
nets.)
Today, the same thing is about to happen. TOPS dominates the market.
They are starting to lose market share to AppleShare because they are
incompatible with AFP (and thus certain important programs, such as
FoxBase). But they still hold their position on the basis of TOPS's
ability to run in the background and serve folders from every Mac on the
net. Now IPT is introducing a product that does all this, and is also
fully compatible with AFP and AppleShare, at a fraction of the price.
For every thing there is a season, and TOPS' season is just about over.
It's about time.
Perhaps it would be wise to wait until I post my evaluation early next week
before you call them. If you want to talk to them right away, though,
their address is:
Information Presentation Technologies (IPT)
23801 Calabasas Road
Suite 2008
Calabasas, CA 91302
Their telephone number is (818) 347-7791. I spoke to Olivia Fazela, but
probably anyone there can answer questions.
Mention that you saw my posting on the net- It won't get you a deal, but
the more respect companies have for the net as an influence on their sales,
the better it is for all of us...
I have absolutely no affiliation with either IPT or TOPS, except as an
unsatisfied customer of TOPS' and as a Beta site for both companies.
Copyright 1989 by Alexis M. Rosen.
Please do not reprint this (distribution on the internet is OK) because
it will serve as the basis of the review I am writing.
---
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)
You can also try alexis@sci.ccny.cuny.edu, but it may not work yet.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 15 May 89 09:51:58 EDT
From: Mike Lutas <MLUTAS%SBCCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypercard
I just borrowed Hypercard 1.2 for a test drive on my 1M Mac SE and without fail
it crashes whenever I want to change fonts in a field or look at a button icon.
HELP!
Mike
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 07:27:52 EDT
From: David_Detlefsen@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #83
Is there something I'm missing here? Try this script
in Hypercard. I'm using Hypercard 1.2.2 on an SE/30 with
Finder 6.03, System 6.1 and 2 megs of RAM.
on mouseUp
global array
put empty into array
repeat with x = 1 to 5
put x into item 2 of line x of array
end repeat
repeat with x = 1 to 5
put line x of array
wait 120
end repeat
end mouseUp
The results I get are that the x goes into item 2 of the first
line while going into item 1 of subsequent lines. If,
however and of course, you put something into item 1 to
occupy space, things work out as expected.
on mouseUp
global array
put empty into array
repeat with x = 1 to 5
put "dummy" into item 1 of line x of array
end repeat
repeat with x = 1 to 5
put x into item 2 of line x of array
end repeat
repeat with x = 1 to 5
put line x of array
wait 120
end repeat
end mouseUp
David Detlefsen
University of Michigan
Chemistry Department
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 10:07:51 EDT
From: ephraim@think.com
Subject: Insect DA
Enclosed is the very latest version of the Insect DA. This version
works properly on the Mac 128, 512, 512e, Plus, and SE. It does not
work properly on the Mac II and later models because:
1. It seems not to hook HideCursor correctly. This probably
isn't too hard to fix, but I haven't looked into it.
2. It assumes the screen depth is one bit (i.e., monochrome).
This could be tough to handle properly.
This latest version uses its own local random number generator so that
it needn't care about A5. (The toolbox _Random is a quickdraw
routine, and depends on access to the quickdraw globals via A5.)
Complete source code is included. The insects are VBL tasks, so this
might be interesting even if you don't want little bugs crawling up
your screen.
Ephraim Vishniac / Internet: ephraim@think.com / AppleLink: ThinkingCorp
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214
"Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for:
God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)
[Archived as /info-mac/da/insect.hqx; 18K]
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Date: Sat, 13 May 89 14:15:18 EDT
From: Wayne Folta <folta@tove.umd.edu>
Subject: Launcher
This is Launcher, a free utility that launches other programs. I got
it directly from CompuServe. Instructions are included, but you
basically make as many duplicates of Launcher as programs you want to
launch. The first time you launch each Launcher, it prompts you for
the program and optional file that you wish Launcher to launch. Launcher
can also change your colors (for example, set colors to B&W for programs
that require this). On the downside, each copy of Launcher takes up ~14
Kbytes. It claims to work on ALL Macs ever made, and I have run it
for several months on my Mac SE.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/launcher.hqx; 71K]
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Date: Sat, 13 May 89 13:30:52 LCL
From: Sedat ALIS <SEDAT%TRYILDIZ.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MAC picture format
How can I find Macintosh's(MacDraw) standard picture format?
Thank you.
Sedat
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 14:14:50 EDT
From: Dave_Busse@sdatl1.ceo.dg.com
Subject: NFS Source?
A friend of mine has the problem of integrating a couple of Macs into
a Sun System network. Does anyone know if NFS is in the public
domain or is in anyother way available in any form for the Mac? I
think he is interested in source code, but would be willing to look
at anything. His primary concern seems to be cost. He gets to
attempt this project with little or no funding......
Thanks in advance for any info.
Dave Busse
dave_busse@sdatl1.ceo.dg.com
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Date: Sat, 13 May 89 08:32:17 EDT
From: Raynaud <ULMO031%FRORS12.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: pmmu
About products that use the PMMU to give extra RAM :
_ first, the PMMU has been done exactly for this job.
_ second, it works just fine. The only problem is to find a PMMU at a decent
price. So if anybody knows ?
When you have the PMMU, you only lack software, which is not so
difficult to write, and probably soon, we will see in the Public Domain
an equivalent of Virtual.
So, if I could find a not too expensive PMMU, it would be all I need.
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 14:20:18 EDT
From: djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu ( Number_6 **)
Subject: Repoman sounds
This file contains some classic quotes from the film Repoman. Be warned that
some may offended by the language in one sound but hey, if you've seen Repoman
you'll already be used to it.
Unfortunately this will be the last series of sounds I'll be able to post for
a while since I'll be graduating from S.U. on May 14th.
Douglas J. Hill - djhill@rodan.acs.syr.edu
RSDJH@SUVM [ BITNET ] or
User #1 at Europa BBS (315)-426-8092
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/repoman-various-part1.hqx; 168K
/info-mac/sound/repoman-various-part2.hqx; 156K]
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Date: Thu, 4 May 89 15:52:53 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: THINK Pascal 2.01 Patcher
This Is a superset of the 2.0p1 patcher, and fixes the additional crasher
that occured when clicking rapidly on the spray can.
R.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rich Siegel
Staff Software Developer
Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel
"She told me to make myself comfortable, so I pulled down my pants
and sat in the pudding." -Emo Phillips
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/think-pascal-updater-201.hqx; 57K]
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From: Joseph Harder <P.HARDER@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: moving a mac and hard disk across the country
To: su-macintosh@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU
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I will be moving to Philadelphia in August, using a professional mover,
and would like to know the best way to move my MacPlus, Imagewriter, and
hard disk. Obviously, I will back up the hard disk (possibly twice),
and am planning to package things in their original cartons.
Anything else I should know? Can movers be trusted with computers?
Thanks, Joe Harder (p.harder@gsb-why.stanford.edu)
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Subject: Reconditioned drives
Expires:
References:
Sender:
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A friend of mine swears he saw an ad recently for someone
(a store or business, not an individual) who was selling
reconditioned Jasmine and other drives. Does anyone
remember seeing this ad or know of a source for
reconditioned drives that is fairly reputable?
Valerie Maslak
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 16 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 89
Today's Topics:
6.0.3
Allegro CL Object System
Apple-Addresses, updated
How to Modify the LW Test Sheet Info??
icons for Absoft's MacFortran 2.4
Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
Info on statistical programs needed
LAN Mail
MacBinary 1.0.1 is free
One more Finder enhancement request
Postscript(R) files....
Reading Program Help?
Three wishes
topsTerm on MAC SE
WARNING! Possible INIT conflict with Suitcase II 1.2.3
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Date: 16-MAY-1989 15:08:51 GMT
From: AEIC0456%VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 6.0.3
In issue 87 CB Lih asked whether models other than the II(c)x and SE/30
should be upgraded to System 6.0.3. I've had 6.0.3 on a Mac plus for
nearly a month now - lots of staff have been using it to run applications
such as Draw, Word, Cricket Graph etc. with no problems. I installed it to
keep all machines consistent but I noticed that James Li in issue 75 (4D
crashes ...) reported an undocumented bug in System 6.0.2.
The business about the Excel files not opening when double clicked may
be fixed with ResEdit if the problem is that the creator is not 'XCEL' -
just select the file from within ResEdit, then GET INFO about it and type
XCEL in the creator box.
By the way anybody know of a decent guide to ResEdit on the Net. Like most
things on the Mac you can teach yourself so much but a bit of background
on this particular program would be welcome. Or is there no alternative than
to digesting the Inside Mac Volumes.
George Munroe, Queen's University Belfast
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 13:44 EST
From: GODDEN@gmr.com
Subject: Allegro CL Object System
I just got Allegro CL for an SE/30. It states in the Allegro manual
that their OOP system is not optimized and they specifically do not
recommend its use for serious development. On the positive side, the
manual also states that in the future they will be converting their
OOPS to CLOS, but no indication when that might be. Of course, you
could always write your own OOPS inside Allegro...
Incidentally, I'm in the process of running the Gabriel Common Lisp
benchmarks in Allegro on my SE/30. When I finish, I can prepare a
summary and submit to the net. At this point having run only a
half-dozen of the benchmarks, it appears that the 68030-based Mac's
perform *approximately* like a VAX 750 running CL. However, there is
MUCH variation. Interestingly, the SE/30 outperforms a Symbolics
3640 by a factor of three on my own benchmark of a tree-recursive,
tail recursive version of Fibonacci (because the Allegro compiler
changes tail-resursion to a jump, while Symbolics retains the function
call (misc reasons for doing so)). Of course, I don't mean to imply
that an SE/30 running Allegro comes anywhere near ANY Symbolics machine
for Lisp hacking.
-Kurt Godden
godden@gmr.com
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 20:30:30 CDT
From: B645ZAX@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu
Subject: Apple-Addresses, updated
Here is a newly (5/13/89) corrected version of the file
info-mac/misc/apple-addresses.txt. For those who have already downloaded the
file, the only signifigant change is a way to access Applelink through
Bitnet. This is for those people who do not have Internet/ftp access, but
can activate the shadow archives at RICE.BITNET and elsewhere.
Applelink can be reached by sending mail
TO: XB.DAS@STANFORD
SUBJECT:{applelink address}@APPLELINK!real-subject-goes-here
-David Richardson, The University of Texas at Arlington
Bitnet: b645zax@utarlg Internet: b645zax@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,texbell, <backbone>}!utarlg.arl.utexas.edu!b645zax
SPAN: ...::UTSPAN::UTADNX::UTARLG::B645ZAX PhoNet: +1 817 461 4799
USMail: 1904 Silverleaf Drive, Arlington, TX 76013
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/apple-addresses.txt; 3K]
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 15:21 EDT
From: <ELJAZZAR%UTKVX3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How to Modify the LW Test Sheet Info??
Is there any way to customize the LaserWriter Plus' test sheet other
than using The Namer?
What I am trying to do is have the printer's name printed in smaller
size so that I can fit more information in that field (LW #, Date,
etc.) It would be even better if the name field it could be modified
to print more than one line.
Thanks..
Mohamad El Jazzar
UT Computing Center
Knoxville, Tenn.
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Date: 16 May 89, 01:38:35 CST
From: Robert J.Brenstein 453-6418 GA0095@siucvmb (618)
Subject: icons for Absoft's MacFortran 2.4
The following is binhexed and stuffed file which replaces generic icons
of MacFortran files. Installation information is enclosed as well.
This submission is a modification/improvement of the present absoft-
fortran-icons entry in the macserve archive. Its freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/absoft-macfortran-icons.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 18:49:28 EDT
From: Paul Placeway <paul@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #80
In Info-Mac #80, CES00661%UDACSVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
Date: Wed, 03 May 89 07:42:56 EDT
From: CES00661%UDACSVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Kermit problem
In Info-Mac #79 <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
(Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist) writes:
>> I'm having trouble getting 8bit characters transferred from one system
>> to my Mac II using Kermit 0.9(40). I have tried about everything, and
>> have come to the conclusion that for some reason Eighth-bit prefixing
>> is not being recognized by Kermit on the Mac, but it is being
>> performed by the sending Kermit. I have tried changing parity,
>> setting Mac Kermit to TEXT and Binary file types, etc. The Kermit
>> documentation states that Macintosh Kermit does support 8th-bit
>> prefixing.
I have had exactly that problem and found a detour and another problem in
the process. The detour is to start up Kermit on your Mac. This is
important since this works only once (!). Make your connection/whatever
but before starting a transfer pull down the file settings box and make
BINARY and DATA fork the defaults. Start the transfer and if the other end
is set up to send binary it should work. BUT, the first time only. If you
want another file start over from the top (restart Mac Kermit). (I also
always use even parity, but I have to since I'm talking to an IBM mainframe
for most of these transfers).
In coming to this method of making it work, I also found that once you
have transferred a binary file this way, you can't go back and then do a
normal text file either. Luckily most of my file transfers are non- binary
8-)
BTW, this ritual seems to always work. What got confusing was that once
in a while I could get a second or third binary file to work. But it just
wasn't reliable (50% or less) so now I stick with the simple but working
incantation I just described.
(Sorry about the delay, I was catching up with other news...)
Between all of the people who work on C-kermit of various flavors, we
think we have this finally licked. I have tried changing all sorts of
things back and forth, switching Text and Binary, parity, etc. on both
sides and haven't had this happen in the new version.
The next version of Mac Kermit should be ready for beta testing in
about a week. If you are interested in beta testing the new Mac
Kermit, and on the internet, and *promise* not to upload the beta copy
to a BBS, send me mail.
-- Paul Placeway
paul@cis.ohio-state.edu
(Mac Kermit coord.)
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 10:08 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info on statistical programs needed
Dear Net,
We are looking for a statistical program to do:
1) simple statistics such as mean, st. dev. median, percentiles,
correlation etc.
2) t-test, linear regression, fitting of user defined functions,
3) anova, split-plot etc,
4) basic non-parametric tests,
5) good graphing and reporting facilities,
I have seen a demo of StatView (1.0) which seems to meet our requirements.
Questions:
Is StatView still the one to go for or are there better programs ?
Any information is greatly appreciated.
Daniel van Kraalingen
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 10:43:28 EDT
From: David_S._Allan@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: LAN Mail
I am setting up a small LAN consisting of about a dozen Macs and half
a dozen PC's. We will be running AppleShare on an SE. I am now looking
for the best mail program to install.
What are the comments of folks on the net regarding your experiences with
InBox, QuickMail, and Microsoft Mail? Have you used any other mail
programs? How easy are they to use (for non-computer types) and to
administer? How well will it work in a larger net, say 100 nodes?
You are welcome to reply directly to me or to the net. I will summarize
to the net after I collate the responses.
Thanks!
David_Allan@ub.cc.umich.edu
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 17:03 EDT
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BKNLVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacBinary 1.0.1 is free
Tom Blake asks:
> Is MacBinary Free? BinHex 5.0 is Shareware.
Yes, MacBinary is FreeWare.
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Greg Smith | BITNET: smith@bucknell.bitnet |
| Systems Analyst | smith@bknlvms.bitnet |
| Bucknell Computer Services | Internet: smith@bucknell.edu |
| Bucknell University | smith@amethyst.bucknell.edu |
| Lewisburg, PA 17837 | AT&Tnet: (717) 524-1801 |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 22:24 EDT
From: Ross Scott Rubin <DB8Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: One more Finder enhancement request
While I'm Finder-bashing, how about an INIT or patch which will MOVE files
>From volume to volume. Manual deletion is a royal pain, Option-drag would
be a pretty obvious choice.
Thanks again.
Ross Scott Rubin Cornell University
Bitnet: DB8Y@CRNLVAX5
Internet: DB8Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
CompuServe: 72137,2627
"I used to be disgusted but now I try to be amused." --Elvis Costello
DISCLAIMER: Is a lot better than dat claimer.
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 14:22:25 EDT
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Postscript(R) files....
Two questions regarding the creation and use of Postscript(R) files.
1 -- How does one create a Postscript(R) file from the Print dialog box. I
recall this is possible, but I don't remember the procedure.
2 -- Is there a Public Domain or Shareware utility to download Postscript(R)
files to a Laserwriter?
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 22:19:58 CST
From: Phys300%UNLCDC3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Reading Program Help?
I am going to try teaching my son to read using the techniques
discussed in the WRITING TO READ book by Martin and Friedberg. They
developed a method under the sponsorship of IBM. Not surprisingly
they use IBM computers. From the description of the software in
the book, I think I can duplicate what they do without too much
difficulty using Hypercard.
But before I reinvent the wheel, I thought it wise to ask the
net if anyone knows of a reading/writing program available for the
Macintosh. Any pointers will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Glenn Sowell PHYS300@UNLCDC.BITNET
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
(402) 472-6602
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Date: Mon, 15 May 89 22:18 EDT
From: Ross Scott Rubin <DB8Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: Three wishes
1) The Finder is where we're supposed to be able to manipulate files, right?
So why must I enter something like DiskTop while in the Finder merely to
change a file's creator? If someone is looking for a programming project, how
about an INIT that changes the Get Info boxes to display editable Finder file
attributes.
2) If INIT writing isn't your thing, could anyone cook up an application that
could change en masse creators, for instance, find all files of type TEXT and
make the creator nX↑n (WriteNow) or MWII (MacWrite II), for instance?
3) In the wholly unrelated dept., could anyone post or mail me a MacPaint or
OpenIt file that displays all the current Adobe fonts at 24 point including
their number?
Thank you very much.
Ross Scott Rubin Cornell University
Bitnet: DB8Y@CRNLVAX5
Internet: DB8Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
CompuServe: 72137,2627
"I used to be disgusted but now I try to be amused." --Elvis Costello
DISCLAIMER: Is a lot better than dat claimer.
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 07:39:36 CDT
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: topsTerm on MAC SE
I am experiencing a problem running topsTerm on a MAC SE and would
like to know if anyone else has run into this problem.
I am using a MAC SE with a Kinetics Etherport SE board installed. I have
downloaded the software, decoded and unstuffed it, placed the files in the
folders that are recommended, and rebooted the system.
After the system boots, I get the "TCP/IP NOT CONFIGURED" menu, as expected
since I do not have KIP installed on the network. I select the "CONFIGURE
BY HAND" option, and enter my internet address. The system crashes with
a system error of 2, and will continue to crash until I remove the
TCP/IP memory file from the system folder.
I have tried the software with a barebones system file, but get the
same crashes.
Any suggestions? (In case you wish to experiment with topsTerm, it is
available from orstcs.cs.orst.edu under the directory pub/topsTerm).
Thanks,
Eddie Mikell
Mississippi State University
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 10:25:12 PDT
From: TOLLIVER%ATF.MFENET@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: WARNING! Possible INIT conflict with Suitcase II 1.2.3
I have discovered a possible INIT conflict with the new Suitcase II 1.2.3 and
others (but I'm not sure which others). I downloaded and applied the 1.2.3
updater without problems. However, when I replaced the old Suitcase II 1.2.2
with the new 1.2.3, I could no longer boot. In the interest of possibly
saving others some trouble, here, in approximate chronological order, is what
happened and what I did about it.
Sometime after all of my many INITs loaded but before the desktop appeared
and my start-up application had begun, the Mac would crash (into MacsBug).
Returning to Suitcase II 1.2.2 fixed the problem. Configuration is Mac II, 5
Mb, System 6.0.2, Multifinder, a whole host of INITs and cdevs, some
freebie's and some commercial. For the curious, I found a number of possible
cures and INIT conflicts. One was to remove SUM's HD Partition INIT. Another
was to use "init cdev", holding down the space bar to get the list of INITs
to allow, and disallow HD Partition INIT. No surprise there. But another
solution was to simply start up with "init cdev" and allow *EVERYTHING*,
including HD Partition INIT, to be used. NO CRASH!!. But only when using the
space bar to get the list and choosing everything could I boot. That is, NOT
when just ignoring "init cdev" and letting it use the default, which was
everything. But who wants to hold down the space bar everytime they boot up.
So is it Suitcase II 1.2.3, HD Partition INIT, or "init cdev"? Well, taking
"init cdev" out of the System Folder did not help matters. Just made it hard
to boot at all since I could no longer easily disable HD Partition INIT or
Suitcase II or anybody else. Had to boot from a floppy.
Alternatively I could hold down SHIFT to disable Suitcase II, with or without
HD Partition INIT, and...no crash!
Or I could hold down the COMMAND key todisable Multifinder...no crash.
Or I could Set Startup to Finder instead of Multifinder...no crash. (Not the
same as holding down COMMAND since COMMAND also disables some INITs as well.)
Disabling the start-up application under MultiFinder did not help.
So the crash occurs under the following circumstances: MultiFinder active, HD
Partition INIT active, Suitcase II 1.2.3 active, "init cdev" active but not
in "interactive mode", and lots of other INITs active. It seems that "init
cdev", when in "interactive" mode somehow sets a bit somewhere, initializes
some globals, or *something* that prevents the conflict that would otherwise
later occur.
I tried removing a few other INITs, but without "init cdev" to make it
slightly less painful, I did not have the patience to try many. Most made no
difference. Just as I was ready to permanently go back to Suitcase II 1.2.2
(the bug fixes to 1.2.3 shouldn't affect me anyway), I discovered one other
solution--remove the RWatcher anti-virus INIT. It has been effectively
superseeded by GateKeeper anyway. So now I'm back to my old setup, HD
Partition INIT and all. Now who do I blame it on? RWatcher, Suitcase II, HD
Partition INIT, all of the above, others...?
I doubt that anyone really knows what happened. But if anyone has any
insights or similar experiences with Suitcase II 1.2.3, I would appreciate
hearing them. And if I save someone else some trouble with the updated
Suitcase II, then it will have been worth my trouble to type all this in.
John Tolliver (Tolliver%atf.mfenet@nmfecc.llnl.gov)
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From: GA.VBM@forsythe.stanford.edu (Victor Bandeira)
Subject: RE: Reconditioned drives
Message-Id: <3161@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: usenet@shelby.stanford.edu
To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
=|>From: maslak@UNIX.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak)
=|>Subject: Reconditioned drives
=|>
=|>A friend of mine swears he saw an ad recently for someone
=|>(a store or business, not an individual) who was selling
=|>reconditioned Jasmine and other drives. Does anyone
=|>remember seeing this ad or know of a source for
=|>reconditioned drives that is fairly reputable?
Computerware is selling those drives. They are located at
490 California Avenue, in Palo Alto.
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From: GQ.PBT@forsythe.stanford.edu (Peter B. Tuttle)
Subject: Word 4.0 and PageMaker ??
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Anybody got any ideas why I can't PLACE a MS Word 4.0 document into
PageMaker 3.01? I get an "Internal Error: Invalid File Format
7601:5309" message irrespective of "Retain Format" or "Convert
Quotes" settings. The File Type and Creator of the Word Document is
WDBN and MSWD, just as Word 3 documents that PLACE just fine.
P. Tuttle, GQ.PBT@FORSYTHE, 723-1682
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From: erberman@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Eric Berman)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Word 4.0 and PageMaker ??
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The reason why you can't place word 4 documents into Pagemaker, even
though the creator and file type bytes are the same, is quite simple:
the file format has changed to incorporate Word's new features. I'd bet
you'd get garbage if you tried to load a word 4 document into word 3 too.
The fix? Simple. Save your word 4 file with a word 3 file format (use
the "File Formats..." button in the Save As... dialog box), and they
should import just fine. Of course, you'll lose nice touches like absolutely
positioned paragraphs (but can't PageMaker do that?) Actually, besides
absolutely positioned paragraphs and tables, I don't think you will lose
any information by saving in the word 3 format (but don't hold me to that).
Anyhow, from what I understand, PageMaker will have some sort of "filter"
coming out soon that will allow it to read Word 4 files. I don't know
any more details about this, however.
--Eric Berman
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From: morgan@Jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
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Subject: Word 4?
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Gee, so is MS-Word 4 finally out? Who knows what the upgrade policies
are for us registered owners of Word 3? Shouldn't I have got
something from Microsoft about this in the mail? (a slightly bitter *8↑).
- RL "Bob"
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 17 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 90
Today's Topics:
Batch Changing of TYPE and CREATOR
Capturing and printing PostScript
diff utility?
Ethernet with Gatorbox and fastpath
Follow up on Postscript(r)...
Hypercard anatomy
HyperCard Double Clicks
Info-Mac Digest V7 #87
Info-Mac Digest V7 #89 (4 msgs)
MacMETH and ETH Modula-2
Mac Moria
MacServe Xedit
Portable Common Loops in Coral Common Lisp
PostScript(R) files....
printers
Problem with running terminal emulators under Multifinder when
Three Wishes
Trouble with SUM
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 21:33:46 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Batch Changing of TYPE and CREATOR
>2) If INIT writing isn't your thing, could anyone cook up an application that
>could change en masse creators, for instance, find all files of type TEXT and
>make the creator nX↑n (WriteNow) or MWII (MacWrite II), for instance?
I think the DA "FileMaster" (posted recently) can do that.
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 21:30:02 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Capturing and printing PostScript
>1 -- How does one create a Postscript(R) file from the Print dialog box. I
> recall this is possible, but I don't remember the procedure.
>
>2 -- Is there a Public Domain or Shareware utility to download Postscript(R)
> files to a Laserwriter?
1. Hold down K or Command-K right after clicking on OK in the Print dialog
box. Hold until you see the dialog "Creating PostScript File".
Use F or Command-F if you want to include the LaserPrep file.
2. Yes. Adobe's "SendPS" and "DistillPS" programs and the DA "PS Printer".
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 16:34:05 PDT
From: mse%b2red.caltech.edu@deimos.caltech.edu (Martin Ewing)
Subject: diff utility?
Does anyone know of a diff utility for the Mac? This would be a program
that can tell if two files are the same, and, if not, will give you
list of hex or ascii differences.
This is something that belongs on every desk top, or so I think.
Martin Ewing
mse@deimos.caltech.edu
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 17:03:27 EDT
From: Geoffrey SCott <21530GRS%MSU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ethernet with Gatorbox and fastpath
I am interested in connecting a network with 40+ Macs using Farallon's
Star Controller to ethernet running TCP/IP. If anyone out there has
used or is using Kinetics Fast Path or Gatorbox I would like to know
how those products perform in large network environments. Also if
anyone has alternate suggestions to connecting to Ethernet through
appletalk I would like to know what they are. Please forward any
responses to my address below. Thanks in advance...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Geoffrey Scott +
+ Michigan State University +
+ Bitnet: 21530GRS @ MSU +
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Acknowledge-To: <21530GRS@MSU>
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 16:39:50 EDT
From: dmg@mitre.mitre.org
Subject: Follow up on Postscript(r)...
Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for information about
creating Postscript(R) files. For anyone that is interested, this is how you
go about it:
1 Prior to creating the Postscript(R) dump, make sure Background Printing is
turned off. This step is necessary iff you are using Multifinder.
2 Open the document up as you would normally, and bring up the Print dialog
box.
3 Click on the "OK" button, and immediately press and hold the Command-F
key, until a box appears "Creating Postscript(R) file". Command-F will
case a file to be created in the directory that the printing *application*
resides in. Alternately, you can use Command-K, which will also include
the necessary initialization commands, if the the computer that will
eventually be used to send the Postscript file to the printer does not have
LaserPrep on it.
The Postscript(R) dump can be printed using three utilities: SendPS, a free
application from Adobe, archived on /info-mac/util/sendps-121.hqx; PS Printer,
a free desk accessory; or Hyper PS, a Hypercard stack for sending Postscript
files to a Postscript printer.
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: 17-MAY-1989 08:23:11 GMT
From: AEIC0456%VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Hypercard anatomy
I am assisting a member of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department here
set up a Hypercard stack to enable easy coding of orthopaedic related
complaints and operations. The top level cards must contain reasonable
anatomical diagrams - we could draw these but it would take some time.
Last October's Mac User (UK) had an article about CD-ROM which mentioned
Apple's Learning Disc which they gave away to everyone who attended a
CD-ROM conference in Seattle. The article says that on this sampler there
is a stack created by 2 doctors at the Stanford University of Medicine
which looks as though it contains a lot of the diagrams we're after.
Does anyone have more details of this stack, know how to contact the
authors, or perhaps know of another possible source of such diagrams.
Any response would be greatly appreciated.
George Munroe, Queen's University Belfast
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 17:32 N
From: <ZWENNES_%HLSDNL5.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HyperCard Double Clicks
Does anyone have a XCMD to detect double clicks on buttons in HyperCard.
I wrote a script in HyperTalk, but that wasn't reliable enough. By the way,
who knows more about new HyperCard-versions with colour and large screens?
Has anyone any experience with the HyperCard-clone called 'PLUS'?
Alexander Zwennes
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 00:55:55 CDT
From: decwrl!ucbvax!trout.nosc.mil!pnet01!pro-harvest!pauls@labrea.stanford.edu (Paul Snively)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #87
Network Comment: to #46 by Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
I wouldn't worry too much about the fact that Connectix' "Virtual" has
problems with Allegro CL; Allegro plays a lot of WEIRD games with the Mac
memory mangler (sic) in order to even work. Hopefully someday Apple will be
more directly supportive of memory management systems that don't work the way
that the Mac's does (and now that Apple owns Coral they have more of an
interest in ensuring that).
By the way, I'm interested in talking to other Macintosh Lisp hackers, be you
Pearl Lisp, Allegro CL, or MacScheme+Toolsmith users. Look for a Lisp article
by me in MacTutor around July or so.
Paul Snively
ProLine: pauls@pro-harvest | pro-harvest +1 312 253 8239
UUCP: crash!pro-harvest!pauls | 24 hour operation
ARPA: crash!pro-harvest!pauls@nosc.mil | 300/1200/2400 bps
InterNet: pauls@pro-harvest.cts.com | Online since 1 April 1989
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 20:47 EDT
From: The key to mental stability is a one to one relationship with your sports
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #89
RE: creating PostScript files from print dialog box.
To create PS files from the print dialog box Mac-User said to use
command F Don't do it. It doesn't work. Jusr hold down the F key and press
Return. That should do it. I guess the F is short for File but it would
have made much more sense if Apple made the key P for PostScript.
have fun,
Alex Zavatone
Academic Computer Services
Southeastern Mass. U.
ACSAZ@SEMASSU
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 21:17 EDT
From: The key to mental stability is a one to one relationship with your sports
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #89
RE: Suitcase crashes
You mentioned that you were using suitcase with Macsbug. I have had
trouble with Macsbug before, including crashes afret system updates and
failure to boot. Maybe Macsbug is part of your problem?
Alex Z
(you know who I am buy now)
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 21:10 EDT
From: The key to mental stability is a one to one relationship with your sports
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #89
RE: PostScript downloader.
David, Two ways to download PS progs (including files produced from
a print dialog box) are probably right on your Mac already. If you have
Cricket draw the open box has an option to open a Postscript file. Once
opened Cricket Draw works much like a word processor for Postscript with
a nice feature called PostScript help as well.
The other method is resident within Microsoft Word 3.0 and above.
just open the file as text or by holding down shift and selecting open
>From the menu. Select the whole document (command-option-m or command and
click in the left margin) then hold down shift and select styles from the
format menu. This should show you all the resident format styles in Word.
One of these is a postscript format that converts all your text to BOLD
HIDDEN 10point New York. Word recognises any text in the PostScript style
and downloads it to your laser. So if you're a real PS hacker you can dump
a
(oops) graphic in PS form and include it in your papers just by putting the
PS text in the `PostScript' style from Word.
While I'm at it, you can add any style (like PostScript and Normal)
to your own Work menu in Word by doing a command-option + and clicking on the
desired style. Have fun with the PostScript, send mail if you hit any probs.
It's Miller time for this boy.
Have fun,
Alex Z
SMU (soon to be UMass Dartmouth but don't
hold your breath)
Academic Computer Services
ACSAZ@SEMASSU etc... . . . . .
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 19:11:31 EDT
From: Alecia Ballance <34L4PCN%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #89
Hello out there in Mac land. I have a few problems, and was
wondering if I could get some help.
1. We appear to be having a problem with MacPaint 2.0 (Claris) on our
fileserver. Everything appeared alright until a few days ago. The problem
appears when editing a MacPaint file that is saved on the fileserver. After
making changes to a file it will not let you save the file, it says that the
file is locked. However, the file is not locked (at least not in the info
box). The system will not allow the file to be trashed or copied to another
disk. These problems only appear with files which have been opened by MacPaint
since the problems began. No problems appear when then files are on a floppy
and the MacPaint on the fileserver is used. When the user shuts down and
reboots, everything is ok until they use the MacPaint and fileserver files.
We have installed a new MacPaint and reformatted and resetup the fileserver.
Also, the problems only appear on remote terminals, if you work at the
actual fileserver mac everything is ok. We are out of ideas. I think we
have tried everything. Any information would be appreciated.
In case it helps - we are running system 6.0 and finder 6.1 on a Macintosh
Plus. Also, AppleShare 2.0.1 and workstations running same versions of the
system and finder. And this is the only application which seems to be acting
up. Vaccine is running on the fileserver and Virus Detective didn't find
anything when it was run.
2. I also have a question about MacWrite version 4.5. When I checked
the size of a MacWrite v 4.5 today I had one which was 101K and one which was
102K. I was able to find another one which was 101K. Upon checking the
original, I found it was only 69K. Anybody have any ideas about this one?
I checked, and no virus was found.
Thanks in advance-
Alecia Ballance
Student Programmer - Central Michigan University
34L4PCN @ CMUVM
Acknowledge-To: <34L4PCN@CMUVM>
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 12:43 EST
From: EPP@cs.umass.edu
Subject: MacMETH and ETH Modula-2
How can I get my hands on MacMETH-Modula-2, Alex, and CoCo?
Is there a newer version of ETH Modula-2 than the one that appears
in the achieves?
ed c.
epp@cs.umass.edu
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Date: Tue, 16 May 89 23:23 CDT
From: <SRS9925%TNTECH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac Moria
Is anyone out there aware of a version of moria for the Macintosh?
Please respond directly to me and I will summarize for the net.
Thanks in Advance,
Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
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Date: 16 May 89, 16:44:32 CST
From: Robert J.Brenstein <GA0095@siucvmb.bitnet>
Subject: MacServe Xedit
Here is something for VM/CMS users who frequently request files from the
MacServe at PUCC archives. The MACSERVE XEDIT is a macro file which makes
it a zap to do this. It is written for the new format of MacServe archive.
The MACSERVE macro works on full-screen as well as line-oriented terminals.
On a full-screen it is assigned to a PF key (PF10 in the enclosed files).
While editing the RECENT or ALL catalog, press this PF key after placing
the cursor in the line with the file you want to get. The macro will send
the GET command to MACSERVE at PUCC for that file. On a line-oriented
terminal, locate a line with the desired file name and enter the MACSERVE
command (no operands) to achieve the same effect as described above.
This submission includes two files: MACSERVE XEDIT and PROFILE XEDIT. The
latter one is included to illustrate how PROFILE XEDIT could be like (for
those unfamiliar with this beast) and to show how to assign PF10 to be
the MACSERVE macro for the MacServe catalogs only. It assumes that the
catalogs are filed as MACSERVE ALL and MACSERVE RECENT, respectively.
Please, notify me (GA0095@SIUCVMB.Bitnet) if you encounter any problems.
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/vm-macro-macserve-xedit.txt; 12K]
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 12:48:36 WET DST
From: Flash Sheridan <flash%cs.qmc.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Portable Common Loops in Coral Common Lisp
(First, terminology. "Allegro" is wrong, but official. It's properly
called "Coral Common Lisp". There *is* an Allegro Common Lisp; it runs on
UNIX machines, and has nothing to do with CCL. This is getting to be a
serious hassle; I've gotten requests from Germany for Allegro by mentioning
Coral in comp.lang.lisp. Flame off.)
PCL works in CCL in 2 Meg. I haven't used it seriously, but nothing I could
do would be as serious a test as loading PCL, as it's written in itself.
It's roughly free, seems fast on the Mac, and is wonderful. CCL's own object
system looks pretty good too, but with PCL being pretty close to CLOS (the
Common Lisp Object Specification/System), think of it as obsolete. Coral
said so before Apple bought them; any comments now?
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 12:39:33 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: PostScript(R) files....
To create a PostScript file on your hard disk, select the Laserwriter from
the chooser (even if there isn't one connected!) - you'll have to make it
think that Appletalk is connected, so switch off your imagewriter if you
have one connected to the printer port.
Choose "Print..." from the File menu, click OK and immediately press and
hold down the F key until you see the message "Creating PostScript(R) File".
It will be created in the same folder as the application you are using,
with the name PostScript0 (or 1,2,etc as required).
If you want the Apple dictionary appended to the top of the PostScript
file (ie the "Laser Prep"), substitute clover-K for F in the above sequence.
You'll then have a text file which you should be able to send to any
PostScript printer.
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 10:18:06 +0200
From: Pottie Karl <FHGAPHS%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: printers
Are there any people who use a non-Apple printer on their macintosh ?
I would like to hear about their experience with those printers:
problems, specifications, what interface i need, do they work
with all programs, do they support all mac-functions....
In short: all information is welcome.
I am especially interested in 24 pin printers like Nec P2200,
Epson LQ....
thanks,
Karl Pottie
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Date: Wed 17 May 89 15:53:59-PDT
From: Kevin Adams <ADAMS@intellicorp.com>
Subject: Problem with running terminal emulators under Multifinder when
We are having a problem with users who run several applications, one of them
being a terminal emulator connected to a VAX/VMS host.
The problem occurs while a user has a connection (we use RS232, no LAN
connections) and they switch to any other application. If the VAX host wants to
use RMS to post something to the terminal, the process on the VAX goes into a
loop chewing up all available CPU time and performing numerous buffer I/Os.
When the user switches back to the terminal emulator, they usually get a message
saying something to the effect of an RMS timeout occurred and the VMS prompt
is displayed.
We tried contacting people at Apple, Versaterm and DEC, but nobody seems to
understand what is happening here. I suspect it's related to the flow control
used in the MAC's RS232 driver and the Versaterm software.
I have witnessed this problem at my former employer's site too. Has anyone else
seen this problem? Does anyone know a cure!?
Please send all responses to me and I will post a summary.
Regards,
Kevin Adams INTERNET: adams@intellicorp.com
Intellicorp
1975 El Camino Real West
Mountainview, CA 94040
(415)965-5517
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 10:24 CST
From: <MPARK%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Three Wishes
Regarding the second of the three wishes:
>2) If INIT writing isn't your thing, could anyone cook up an application that
>could change en masse creators, for instance, find all files of type TEXT and
>make the creator nX~n (WriteNow) or MWII (MacWrite II), for instance?
try loneranger, which is in the archives as a utility.
-Mel Park
University of Tennessee, Memphis
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 01:08 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Trouble with SUM
I've recently gotten around to trying to install SUM on my Jasmine 100 meg
Direct Drive, and have been unable to create the volume parameters files for my
custom partitions; when I try, it gives me an ID=02 system error shortly after
I tell it that my drive is a SCSI device (with the option key pressed, as per
the manual's instructions). I'm running an unmodified SE with two internal
floppies--no other drives to muck around with--and I have seven partitions used
out of 20 available, taking up 84 megs out of 101 available... Anyone seen or
heard of this problem before, or have any ideas about what's wrong or how to
fix it?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
| Reality: Josh Smith | "I swear, by my life |
|Internet: JBS92@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU | and my love of it, |
| BITNet: JBS92@SWARTHMR.BITNET | that I will never live |
| USMail: Josh Smith '92 | for the sake of another man, |
| Swarthmore College | nor ask another to live for mine." |
| Swarthmore, PA 19081 | -John Galt |
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Subject: Re: Word 4?
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In article <2343@Portia.Stanford.EDU> morgan@Jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes:
>
>Gee, so is MS-Word 4 finally out? Who knows what the upgrade policies
>are for us registered owners of Word 3? Shouldn't I have got
>something from Microsoft about this in the mail? (a slightly bitter *8↑).
>
> - RL "Bob"
Yep; it (* finally *) shipped to manufacturing in the middle of April; I
believe (if my MS sources are to be trusted, and they typically are), that
it was coming out of the factory within about a week, getting to customers
(could be stores, could be upgrades; I don't know) about a week later. I
just got my upgrade two days ago, but I don't believe that I was on the
standard upgrade list, so this may not mean anything for normal upgrades.
I think that the MS policy is for free upgrades (except shipping) to anyone
who bought v3.02 last summer and can prove it; it's like $75 for everyone else,
and yes, they are shipping.
--Eric Berman
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Subject: Mac Bag Suggestions
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I need to get a new bag for my Mac SE (with small keyboard.) I don't need
to put the Hard Disk into it. Any suggestions for Places/Vendors?
Jim
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To: su-macintosh@labrea.stanford.edu
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I would not count on any software lock to prevent virus infections.
The only sure way to do it is to physically write-lock the disk. You
can make applications more robust by placing CRC checks in them, or
by other methods.
A free anti-virus program that has shown itself to be very effective is
Disinfectant 1.1. It is available via anonymous ftp to SUMEX's info-mac
directory. Stanford staff and students can also get the program by
bringing a blank 2-sided disk to IRIS on the 3rd floor of Sweet Hall.
Commercial alternatives like Virex and Anti-Toxin are also available.
Symantec Corp. will have their own product soon.
And, yes, it is possible for a data file to become infected, but it
usually won't be contagious. Applications and system files are the
most likely files to spread viruses.
Lance
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 18 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 91
Today's Topics:
6.02 Difficulties
68020 Upgrade Boards for Plus
A MS Word 4.0 bug
Bugs in Rebound
DesignerDraw 3.1
diff for Mac
DSP boards for the Mac II
Ethernet with Gatorbox and fastpath
How to run a program from another program
HPDJ Driver/Deskjet+ Problem
Info-Mac Digest V7 #90 (2 msgs)
MacMETH, Alex, Coco
Mac network.. HELP!
MacWrite woes
PopUpMenu 2.0b
Postscript to Imagewriter LQ
Suitcase II crashes...
Summary: rebuilding the Desktop file
SuperClock!3.2
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 09:22:49 EDT
From: rmourant@lynx.northeastern.edu
Subject: 6.02 Difficulties
I have a program that runs fine under 6.02 on the SE but not on
the Mac II. The problem appears to be with desk accessories.
Has anyone had problems running applications under 6.02 on the
Mac II? The program ran fine on the Mac II under system 4.X.
Thanks for your help with the above problem.
rmourant@lynx.northeastern.edu
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 00:46 EDT
From: JEFF WASILKO--PRESIDENT PRINTER'S DEVILS LOCAL 49 <JJW7384%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 68020 Upgrade Boards for Plus
Does anyone have any recomendations for 68020/68030 upgrade boards for the Mac
Plus?
After seeing Apple's preliminary release info for System 7.0, it looks like
the new processors will be playing a serious role in future growth.
I'd really like to avoid dumping my Mac Plus (that used to be a 512ke).
Thanks,
Jeff
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|BITNET: jjw7384@ritvax|Rochester Inst. of Tech.| UUCP: jjw7384@ultb.UUCP |
| or try: +------------------------+-----------------------------+
|UUCP: {psuvax1, mcvax}!ritvax.bitnet!JJW7384 |'claimer:Nobody ever cares |
|INTERNET: jjw7384%ritvax.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu| what I say. I guess |
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 10:24:45 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: A MS Word 4.0 bug
The problem:
Word will occasionally forget to justify lines after deletions. Assume
you have a paragraph consisting of a number of lines. After deleting
the last word(s) of one of the lines, word will often not move the
first words of the next line up to the tail of the previous one even
though there may be space for them, resulting in an unsightly
unevenness of the right margin. This may happen both with and without
right justification on.
The workaround:
Toggling "Show paragraph marks" (command-Y), makes Word justify
lines correctly again.
Sigurd Meldal
Hard mail:
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Thormohlens gate 55 | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
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fax: +47 5 54 41 99
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 16:59 EST
From: Bruce <LEBAN@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Bugs in Rebound
The Rebound init recently posted is a nice improvement over the SFScrollInit
except for one detail: it's buggy. With certain applications, the text
entry box in the Save As dialog disappears! This happens with MockWrite
and FullWrite, to name two. There are probably others. Collect them all.
I removed it from my system folder without bothering to. If anyone knows
how to access the author, please pass it along. Thanks.
--- Bruce Leban Leban@cs.umass.edu.csnet Leban@umass.bitnet
Disclaimer: This line intentionally left blank.
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Date: 17 May 89 15:33 EDT
From: FAC1893%UOFT01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: DesignerDraw 3.1
Here is version 3.1 of DesignerDraw, which was downloaded
>From CompuServe. This file contains the $45 shareware
application, three examples, and a User's Guide.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/designer-draw-31.hqx; 132K]
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 14:26 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: diff for Mac
>Subject: diff utility?
>
>Does anyone know of a diff utility for the Mac? This would be a program
>that can tell if two files are the same, and, if not, will give you
>list of hex or ascii differences.
>
>This is something that belongs on every desk top, or so I think.
>
>Martin Ewing
>mse@deimos.caltech.edu
You want Compare. I think I got it from the archives, but it doesn't seem to
be listed under that name in the apps or util directories. It doesn't have an
about box, so I can't really tell where it's from anymore. I'm quite sure it's
in the archives somewhere... anyone?
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Thu, 18 May 1989 14:12:27 PDT
From: William Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: DSP boards for the Mac II
Is anyone aware of any digital signal processing boards for the Mac II or Mac
IIcx? I need to do 512-point Fourier transforms in under 10 milliseconds.
Bill Lipa
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 8:46:13 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Ethernet with Gatorbox and fastpath
>I am interested in connecting a network with 40+ Macs using Farallon's
>Star Controller to ethernet running TCP/IP. If anyone out there has
>used or is using Kinetics Fast Path or Gatorbox I would like to know
>how those products perform in large network environments. Also if
>anyone has alternate suggestions to connecting to Ethernet through
>appletalk I would like to know what they are. Please forward any
>responses to my address below. Thanks in advance...
>
To the best of my knowledge, they both work very well. To get a more complete
answer, mail to <info-appletalk@andrew.cmu.edu>, which is an Internet list
devoted to just such topics.
>
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>+ Geoffrey Scott +
>+ Michigan State University +
>+ Bitnet: 21530GRS @ MSU +
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Acknowledge-To: <21530GRS@MSU>
>
tom c
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 05:48 EDT
From: alan ruttenberg <alan@ems.media.mit.edu>
Subject: How to run a program from another program
Is it possible in multifinder or finder to execute some other program
>From within an application?, returning control to the original when the
second has quit? What about passing a start file, for instance starting
an editor as if clicking on one of it's documents.
-alan
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 13:48:52 PDT
From: anderson@duke.stanford.edu (Greg Anderson)
Subject: HPDJ Driver/Deskjet+ Problem
Has anyone tried the recently-posted HP Deskjet driver with the new
HP Deskjet Plus? We've had no luck at all using this driver with
a 1 Meg Mac Plus or a Mac II. Any advice as to cabling, settings etc.
would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg Anderson
Stanford University
anderson@oasis.stanford.edu
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 09:28 EDT
From: The key to mental stability is a one to one relationship with your sports
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #90
RE: Server bombs.
Is anyone familiar with the following AppleShare/MacWrite5.0 bug?
After the shutdown message occurs and anyone accesses MacWrite spell check,
the Mac locks up on exit of the spell check. We're running Mac plus's with
sys 6.0.2 and AppleShare V2.0.1. We also have the same problem that Alecia
(sorry about the spelling) has when a MacPaint doc is saved to the server,
it can't be saved again since MacPaint reports it to be locked.
any clues,tips, hints or insights greatly appreciated.
- Alex Zavatone
Library Mac Software Chief
Southeastern Mass U.
ACSAZ@SEMASSU <-- yup, that's me
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Date: 18 May 89 14:25:34 GMT
From: blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #90
In article <8905180127.AA07119@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
AEIC0456%VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu (George
Munroe) writes:
> Last October's Mac User (UK) had an article about CD-ROM which mentioned
> Apple's Learning Disc which they gave away to everyone who attended a
> CD-ROM conference in Seattle. The article says that on this sampler there
> is a stack created by 2 doctors at the Stanford University of Medicine...
> Does anyone have more details of this stack, know how to contact the
> authors, or perhaps know of another possible source of such diagrams.
> Any response would be greatly appreciated.
The doctors were Robert A. Chase, MD and Steven J. Freedman, MD. They are
associated with the Advanced Media Research Group, Division of Human
Anatomy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
94305. Telephone is 415/723-2404.
>From the credits, it appears that they scanned in images (with permission,
I expect) from "The Stereo Atlas of Human Anatomy" by Bassett and Gruber.
Additional anatomical drawings were done by Rebbecca Schwartz. (that's
the spelling given.)
The CD in question was given out at the 3rd Microsoft CD-ROM conference.
No more are available, and the legal setup for the disc prohibits pressing
any more.
--Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 08:40:35 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacMETH, Alex, Coco
In reply to a query from EPP@cs.umass.edu:
* MacMETH vs. ETH Modula:
ETH Modula is an implementation of the original 4-pass Modula-2 compiler.
It is rather slow and clumsy to use. As far as I know, it is not distributed
officially (at least not commercially). MacMETH is an implementation of the
now widespread single pass compiler. It is reasonably fast, but its user
interface is not very mac-like (requires typing file names, ...).
If you're looking for yet another Modula-2 compiler, I can recommend
MetCom Modula-2 (available through APDA). This compiler is very similar to
MacMETH, but it adheres to the Macintosh standards. Besides, the MetCom
system is more integrated. For example, you can start the compiler while
in the editor.
* Alex and Coco:
Both products were written by Peter Moessenboeck, a former colleague of mine.
Now, both programs are maintained by Heinz Dobler, who is currently working
on a further enhancement. He is also responsible for distributing the many
different versions of Coco and Alex (among them versions for IBM PC, Atari,
Apollo and IBM mainframes; there are Modula-2 and Pascal versions available).
Heinz is the one whom you should contact for further information. He can be
reached in the following ways:
BITNET: K331673@AEARN
Mail: Universitaet Linz
Institut fuer Informatik (Software)
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Austria
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 Ext. 396
Alex and Coco are semi-commercial products. This means that they are (nearly)
free for students and university staff. However, for commercial use, you
will need an official license (which is of course much more expensive).
BTW: Coco, its ideas and its implementation are described in detail
(including a complete source listing) in the book
"A Compiler Generator for Microcomputers"
by P. Rechenberg and H. Moessenboeck
Prentice Hall, 1989
For all those who wonder what I'm talking about: Coco and Alex are compiler-
writing tools, comparable to Yacc and Lex in the Unix world. Both are simpler
to use and easyier to understand than their Unix counterparts. These tools
have already proven invaluable in some of our projects.
Hope this helps
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 10:39 AST
From: RWILSON%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Mac network.. HELP!
We are looking for a "Dr. Ruth" of micro networks to advise us on
some networking difficulties. Any takers?
The following is an outline of: The Mac lab at Saint Mary's, some
ethernet data relating to Macs and PCs, questions regarding
throughput, speculation on topology.
The L162 Mac Lab at Saint Mary's University has 25 Mac Pluses, 5
Imagewriter IIs (4 on Max Buffers), 1 Laserwriter NT, and an
Abaton scanner. In the office there is a Mac SE for the
administrator and a Mac SE with two hard drives for the server.
This makes 33 nodes on an Appletalk segment. The server runs Mac
Janet software.
This lab works well (seldom crashes) in a random access situation
even with all work stations in use! The problem occurs when an
instructor takes a class through a lecture with all of the work
stations loading software simultaneously. The time to load 18 of
20 work stations (the limit of our MacDraft licence) with
MacDraft is 3min 15sec (no other activity only loading).
Sometimes the network bogs down and it can take 10 minutes or
more to get everyone loaded when the students are causing other
traffic. Adding more memory to the server does not improve
performance significantly (5sec which is close to the timing
error). Using an SE/30 cuts the time only slightly to 2 min 59
seconds.
Ethernet:
transmission speed 10 mbps
throughput c4 mbps
Localtalk:
transmission speed .23 mbps (230.8 kbps)
Hard drive transfer rates are in kBps (kilo bytes per
second). Throughput to and from a hard drive depends on the
software and the physical location of the information. In the IBM
PC world fast hard drives (13 ms track to track seek) and
controllers (1:1 interleave) will show 509 kBps (which translates
to 4 mbps). This is the same as the throughput on Ethernet.
We would like to know: What is the data transfer rate on
Macintosh hard drives? What is the maximum throughput to a Mac
through Ethernet (for particular boards or boxes)? One source
says 2 mbps for Kenetics card. Does processor speed affect
throughput? Does Localtalk/Ethertalk software affect throughput?
By using the figures from the table of minimums and maximums
we have made some approximations. One 10 mbps ethernet would have
the same transfer rate as forty three 230 kbps Localtalk lines.
The throughput on Ethernet is far less than transmission speed.
Short (few node) Localtalk segments may have a throughput close
to the transmission speed. In these cases 20 Localtalk segments
with a throughput of .2 mbps may be supported by a single
Ethernet line from a server (baring any other bottle necks).
___________
| | |
|----| server |
| |_________|
|
| _________ _____ _____ _____
| | | | | | | | |
|----| bridge |====| Mac |=====| Mac |=====| Mac |
| |_________| |_____| |_____| |_____|
|
| _________ _____ _____ _____
| | | | | | | | |
|----| bridge |====| Mac |=====| Mac |=====| Mac |
| |_________| |_____| |_____| |_____|
|
|--- (ETHERNET) ===== (Appletalk)
We are considering two methods to implement the network
shown above. The cheaper solution using Novell and an AT bridge
has been ruled out for lack of software protection and
administration software for educational environments. The other
method is to use an Ethernet card in the Mac SE server and
Fastpath bridges to the localtalk segments. Buffering of the file
transfers from ethernet to the slower Localtalk should be
handled on the Kenetics bridge.
We would appreciate any information on performance of
classroom labs. Please respond to our bitnet addresses directly.
We will post a symmary of the information received to the net.
R. Wilson and Joy Aberback, bitnet:RWILSON@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA
Micro-coordinators JABERBACK@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA
Computing Services
Saint Mary's University
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 13:09 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: MacWrite woes
We had a recent nVIR attack here at Swarthmore, which typically increased
MacWrite 4.5's filesize from 69k to 73k... Are you totally sure you don't have
a virus? I don't know how extensively you've checked, but it might be
worthwhile to try more than once (if you haven't already). If you have tried
multiple checkers, then the only thing I can really suggest is going in with
ResEdit and trying to see what exactly is different between your originals and
the larger versions--but not being a fully certified MacHacker (grin), I have
no clue what you would be looking for or what you would want to do with it once
you found it... The safest thing is probably to replace the larger versions
with the originals, and see if it happens again--if it does, it may well be a
virus.
-Josh
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 12:36:58 EDT
From: Andrew Gilmartin <ANDREW%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PopUpMenu 2.0b
PopUpMenu 2.0b
Every since I wrote PopUpMenu, some eighteen months ago, I have been
asked for several fixes and additions. I have resisted up until now for
I have seen better pop-up-menu externals come over the nets, but in each
case their author's are asking for money. Since the initial idea was
mine and Jack Mello's I felt it was time to place an updated version
onto the nets.
This HyperCard external function presents the user with a pop-up-menu
>From which she would then select an item. If no item is selected NULL
is returned to your HyperTalk script. Otherwise, the ordinal number of
the item selected is returned.
PopUpMenu is called with one or two arguments. The first argument is
the menu. This menu is a series of menu items. Each item is separated
by either a comma, semi-colon, carriage-return, line-feed, or tab.
Each item's characters will be added to the menu with AppendMenu; Thus,
any of the AppendMenu meta-characters can be used (except for the
hierarchical menu meta-character--I am generally opposed to hierarchical
menus). There is nolonger a limit on the size of the menu (menu
items, however, can not be greater than 255 characters long).
The second argument is the number of an item to be checked. If this
argument is missing then no item will be checked.
Please note that it is no longer necessary to include positioning
coordinates for the pop-up-menu. These now default to the current mouse
position. To maintain compatibility with PopUpMenu 1.x the horizontal
and vertical coordinates can still be given but they will be ignored.
Usage example.
on mouseDown
get PopUpMenu( "Color,Mono,Psychedelic", 3 )
if it is empty then
answer "Nothing was selected."
else
answer item it of "Color,Mono,Psychedelic" && "was selected."
end if
end mouseDown
PopUpMenu 2.0b consists of a help stack containing the external
function, LightSpeed C source code, and LightSpeed C project.
PopUpMenu 2.0b is *not* in the public domain. My terms for commercial
use are simply acknowledgment and a full working copy of the finished
stack for our Computing Resource Center (a kind of reference library for
computing here at Brown). Please write for further information or to
report bugs.
Good luck with your stacks!
-- Andrew Gilmartin
Computing & Information Services
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-7305
ANDREW@BROWNVM (bitnet)
andrew@brownvm.brown.edu (internet)
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-popupmenu-20b.hqx; 36K]
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Date: 89-05-18 17:53:37 MEZ
From: TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET
Subject: Postscript to Imagewriter LQ
Some documentations in the net have Postscript format and
are supposed for being printed on a Laserwriter. This and
the fact that many of the newer applications have no, or no
full support of a standard printer could be bypassed with a
sort of Postscript interpreter program.
This application would be fed with a Postscript textfile and
print it on a standard Imagewriter LQ with a suitable resolution.
This would be the same what the Laserwriter's Postscript driver
does with the difference of doing it in the Mac's main memory
and with the Mac's main processor.
Does anyone know if all this can be done or, even better, was
already done ? If such a programs exists, where can it be found ?
K. Schnathmeier
TU Hamburg-Harburg
W. Germany
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET>
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 06:38:34 EDT
From: Stephen_Sayer@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Suitcase II crashes...
When I first upgraded from Suitcase to Suitcase II, I was unable to boot.
By process of elimination I found that there was a conflict between
Suitcase II and Shield INIT (versions 1.2.2 and 1.0 respectively). All I had to
do to fix it was change the order in which they loaded by imbedding a space in
the name of the Suitcase II init (use an option-space to do that). They both
laoded fine after that. Perhaps getting Suitcase II to load earlier could solve
your problems as well...
.
Incidentally, I run Macsbug routinely since I run a beta copy of Nova Link BBS
software and have had few problems except with a few applications that don't
get along with it.
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Date: 18 May 89 17:30:06 +0000 (Thu)
From: munnari!utscsd.oz.au!gregw@uunet.uu.net (-a8000033-g.webb-cen-200-)
Subject: Summary: rebuilding the Desktop file
Thanks to everyone that responded to my request for help with rebuilding the
Desktop file without losing the Get Info comments.
The suggestion most people came up with was to use Disk Express. It has a
'Desktop Optimize' option to clean up the Desktop file.
The other worthwhile suggestion, was from Anton Rang, who offered me a copy of
his 'Fix Desktop' utility. Fix Desktop does three things: deletes surplus file
comments, deletes surplus bundles, and fixes bad application lists. I have
tried this and it works just fine. Fix Desktop is in the public domain and
will be posted shortly. Thanks Anton.
Greg Webb
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
UUCP : {mcvax,uunet,ubc-cs,ukc}!munnari!utscsd.oz.au!gregw
Bitnet : gregw%utscsd.oz.au%munnari.oz@cunyvm.bitnet Greg Webb
JANET : munnari!utscsd.oz.au!gregw@uk.ac.ukc Computing Services Div
ARPA : gregw%utscsd.oz.au@uunet.uu.net University of Technology
ACSnet : gregw@utscsd.oz PO Box 123 (15-73 Broadway)
AppleLink: AUST0231 BROADWAY NSW 2007 Australia
Telex : AA-75004 (NSWIT) Fax: +61-2-281-2498 Telephone: +61-2-218-9580
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Date: Wed, 17 May 89 23:27:12 pdt
From: burke%pepvax.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SuperClock!3.2
Here is an update to SuperClock!3.1. I found version 3.2 on a
local board and I am just passing it along to others.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/superclock-32.hqx; 20K]
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 19 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 92
Today's Topics:
Apple Developers programs and payment
Bugs in Rebound
Clock Format on MacII
Cobol for the Mac?
comp.sys.mac.programmer & sound manager problems
Compare (diff for Mac)
Creating PostScript Files
diff utility
diff utility errata...
How To Do (Almost) Everything You Wish Finder Could Do
I have enough people to beta Mac Kermit
JetLink Express
More 7.0 information
Request for Hypercard Stack
scr_color on Mac IIcx running A/UX 1.1?
Suitcase II crashes...
SuperClock 3.3
Text Diff Program
Type a file - help
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Fri 19 May 1989 10:13 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple Developers programs and payment
Below is partial information about the Apple development programs:
The Apple Partners program will be available to commercial developers, such as
independent third-party developers, VARs, software publishers, system
integrators and OEMs, who intend to market and resell their products. The new
Apple Associates program will be available to those developing non-commercial
customized solutions such as corporate in-house developers, MIS professionals,
consultants, scientists, researchers, educators, industry analysts and
distributors in the business, education, and government areas.
What I still do not understand, is if they expect people in education and
government areas to join, how can they accept only cashiers checks or money
orders? I believe I lost my mind. Universitites are not the easiest place
to work, as you always need purchase orders for anything greater than $300
dollars where I am. This allows the university to keep better tabs on the
money, while sometimes(as in this case) creating problems.
If anyone knows this to be true, and uses purchase orders, and did join
Apple Developers, please let me know what you did to join. I be losing my
mind again......
Thank you,
Scott Hutinger Macomb Projects mser001@ecncdc.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 19:11 EDT
From: alanr@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Bugs in Rebound
Date: Thu, 18 May 89 16:59 EST
From: Bruce <LEBAN@cs.umass.edu>
The Rebound init recently posted is a nice improvement over the SFScrollInit
except for one detail: it's buggy.
I couldn't figure aout how it was better than sfscrollinit. It seems to
do exactly the same thing. No documentation was given, so the only
feature I see is the fact that the scroll position in find file is
remembered. Further, rebound causes a second redraw of the file names,
resulting in the dialog flickering when brought up. I also reinstalled
sfscrollinit.
-alan
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 19:11 EDT
From: alanr@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Clock Format on MacII
I have a wierd problem with the clock on my macII. It has decided that it always
wants to have the hours be two digits, even when in 12 hour mode. So the time
gets displayed as 01:34 PM, instead of 1:34 PM. Does anybody know why this happens,
and how to fix it. I'm guessing that it is some mode set in the clock chip.
-alan
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 11:31:04 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Cobol for the Mac?
A friend of mine has the double misfortune of running a Cobol program
on an IBM pc. Now he lusts for a Mac, and would like to port the Cobol
code to such a beast. The problem is: there is no Cobol compiler for
the Mac. Or am I mistaken? Please email info on the existence and
usefulness of Cobol compilers to me, and I'll sumarize.
Sigurd Meldal
Hard mail:
Department of Informatics | Arpa:sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no
Thormohlens gt.. 55 | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
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Norway |
phone: +47 5 54 41 53
fax: +47 5 54 41 99
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Date: Fri 19 May 1989 00:31 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: comp.sys.mac.programmer & sound manager problems
I realize that this probably belongs in comp.sys.mac.programmer, but I have
no idea where this is. If anyone could help me find where it is, it would
be appreciated(or how to get it from bitnet).
Has someone used the Sound Manager with an Async call with SndPlay? I just
started using it tonight, and got the sounds to play sync. All my async
calls will play fine, but will not dispose of the channel created with
SndNewChannel. I have set the userRoutine to my SndDisposeChannel function
(mpw 3.0 C) which I thought would automatically be called once the 'snd '
format 1 was finished playing. Problem is, my UserRoutine is never called
once the sound is done playing. My question is:
Does the async call automatically call your UserRoutine function, or do you
need to poll for the end of the sound with CallBack to see if the sound is
completed? Or, does the callBackCmd need to be installed first, before
SndNewChannel is called? If the callBackCmd is not installed, does the
userRoutine still get called, or is it ignored? Or...will the call to
SndDoCommand() only be completed once the sound is finshed, even if the
SndDoCommand is called? From the looks of the struct SndChannel, it seems
that it really wants the callBackCmd along with the Callback routine(User-
Routine)?
Or...should I find comp.sys.mac.programmer?
Thanks,
Scott Hutinger
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 09:02 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Compare (diff for Mac)
>Subject: diff utility?
>
>Does anyone know of a diff utility for the Mac? This would be a program
>that can tell if two files are the same, and, if not, will give you
>list of hex or ascii differences.
>
>This is something that belongs on every desk top, or so I think.
>
>Martin Ewing
>mse@deimos.caltech.edu
Compare comes with THINK (LightSpeed) Pascal 2.0. I don't know what their
policy on distribution on the net would be. Perhaps they would like to post
it. The program seems totally undocumented (at least I can't find any
word of it in their manual or on either distribution diskette).
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 12:38:54 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Creating PostScript Files
In an earlier message, I made an error in stating how to produce
PostScript files from the standard print dialog.
The correct method is:
Press and hold down any one of K, F, or Command-F, right after clicking
on OK in the Print dialog, to produce a PostScript file *without*
Apple's LaserPrep. (ie. These files will only print on an initialized
PostScript printer.)
Press and hold down Command-K, right after clicking on OK in the Print
dialog, to produce a PostScript file *with* Apple's LaserPrep included.
(ie. These files will print on an un-initialized PostScript printer.)
Be sure to release the key after you see the message:
"Creating PostScript File".
PS. I tested this using a Mac Plus and System 6.02.
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 13:22 PDT
From: JAMESLI@toby.acs.washington.edu
Subject: diff utility
Advanced Software Inc., of Sunnyvale California has a new product
out called DocuComp which compares documents. I believe it even
compares documents created by different applications. Unfortunately,
I don't have any more information on the company, but would
appreciate comments from people who've used it...
James Li
JAMESLI@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 15:48 PDT
From: JAMESLI@max.acs.washington.edu
Subject: diff utility errata...
Advanced Software, Inc. phone: (408) 733-0745. Software is
available through Computerware and Egghead, retails for $159.
(This is info only. I have no association with ASI, but am
very interested in seeing their product firsthand.)
James Li
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 14:04:06 EDT
From: aes@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Andrew E. Scheck)
Subject: How To Do (Almost) Everything You Wish Finder Could Do
To those non-programmers (and LightSpeed users) who are trying to change
file creator/type; do wild-card folder/catalog/directory listings, file
copies and moves; compare files for differences; and many of the other
useful but non-trivial tasks that people have been writing DAs and small
applications to perform, learn about the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
(MPW). The MPW shell can be an extremely powerful adjunct to the Finder
doing all of the above mentioned operations quickly and easily. It is also
one of the best text editors around offering standard mouse and keyboard
editing plus editing by scripts and full-featured find, replace and search
operations. All of this can be done by typing in commands or through the
use of the shell's dialog user interface. There is *a lot* there. Check
it out!
A.E. Scheck
J.W. Jurvis
Johns Hopkins Univ./Applied Physics Lab.
Laurel, MD
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 23:40:26 EDT
From: Paul Placeway <paul@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: I have enough people to beta Mac Kermit
Thanks; I've been overwhelmed by the response, and I now have more
than enough people to beta test Kermit.
-- Paul Placeway
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Date: 19 May 89 11:15 EST
From: MELTSNER KENNETH J <MELTSNER@crdgw2.crd.ge.com>
Subject: JetLink Express
↓
Date: 19-MAY-1989 11:10
>From: meltsner@crd.ge.com (Ken Meltsner)
Sender: MELTSNER
Subject: JetLink Express
To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu@smtp@tcpgateway
--------
We recently received a "pre-release" copy of JetLink Express. JLE
allows you to print to a LaserJet from a Macintosh. It runs at 19,200
baud (fixed speed in this version; final release will let you run at
your favorite speed). It comes with outline fonts for Times, Symbol,
Courier, and Helvetica. When the final release is available, they
will have a library of outline fonts to match the full LaserWriter II
set. JLE is a product of GDT Softworks.
The fonts are okay, although the Times looks funny in the smaller
sizes. I suppose this is proof that Adobe hinting does work. The
different resolutions are nice and allow you to push out quick drafts.
The only real difficulty with the driver is that font changes are
time-consuming. We expect that this will be less of a problem when
the final version arrives; we'll get a copy of SuperLaserSpool as
well.
In summary, it does work (even through our Baytech printer sharer!)
and allows us to fit Macs into offices that previously had PC's. It
makes a good adjunct to the (less-common) networked LaserWriters since
documents can print on either without any changes. GDT also mentions
that they intend to take advantage of the System 7 outline fonts,
etc., which should make the package even more useful.
Ken
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Date: Fri, 19 May 1989 16:37:48 PDT
From: William Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: More 7.0 information
[This message was forwarded from comp.sys.mac.programmer.]
I just got my hands on the binders of System 7.0 documentation from the
developers conference and they contain some interesting details that
weren't part of the general announcement. The documents are labeled as
"subject to change", but the information is very specific (down to trap
calls, data structures, etc.). Here are some of the things that caught
my eye:
* There's a new "environment" call, Gestalt. It supercedes SysEnvirons,
which replaced Environs. It seems to return more information than
SysEnvirons could (e.g., system versions below 4.1), but otherwise is
similar. Guess what -- there's no "is MultiFinder running" field :-).
The fact that MultiFinder is always running under 7.0 should bring an
end to that argument.
* The Window Manager explicitly supports "layers", depth-wise
groupings of windows (as in MultiFinder). This will make it much easier
to implement floating tool palettes, tear-off menus, etc.
* The Menu Manager supports tear-off menus (big surprise).
* The chapter on Outline Fonts doesn't mention anti-aliasing or
multiple-bit depth devices -- maybe next time.
* Virtual memory is implemented using demand paging, with low memory and
the system heap locked into physical memory. That could be a pain for
users with 2M, since the System 7.0 system heap is reputed to weigh in
at ~900k. The new SCSI Manager is re-entrant, so it can handle page
faults during SCSI operations, and there's a fall-back option if your
paging disk doesn't use an updated SCSI driver.
* MultiFinder 7.0 launches DAs into their own layers, so no more DA
Handler.
* Users can add programs and DAs to the Apple menu by putting them in
the Apple Menu folder. Programs can put items into the Apple menu --
selecting the item sends an event to the program. DAs written for
System 7.0 can be launched from the desktop by double-clicking.
* No more scrunched icons in the Small Icon view, Apple menu & menu bar:
programmers can specify a small icon (SICN) to use instead.
Programmers can also specify 4 and 8 bit color versions of the icon.
Selecting such an icon in the Finder will redraw it with darker colors
instead of inverting it.
* Fonts, DAs, sounds, etc. can be added to the system file by dragging
them into the System icon. The System Icon can be opened up by double
clicking and the resources can be dragged out. This sounds like a
special case of the resource-moving interface in Andy Hertzfeld's
Servant.
* The new Desktop Manager supports reading and writing finder comments.
It's about time.
* There's something called the Real-Time Event Sequencer that seems
useful for multi-media applications. It will schedule Sound Manager
calls and calls to application routines.
* Also in the sound/multi-media department there's Macintosh Audio
Compression and Expansion (MACE), which lets developers squeeze more
sampled sound into limited storage. On the Mac II and its successors
compression and expansion/playback takes place in real time.
All in all it looks good, but programming the Mac isn't getting any
easier.
Jim Matthews
Dartmouth Sofware Development
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Date: 19 May 89 10:43:00 EST
From: "EJN" <ejn@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Request for Hypercard Stack
I am looking for a Hypercard stack -- GROUPIES3.2, written by Sioux Lacy and
discussed in Windoid Issue # 8, Dec 1, 1988.
Groupies is a Hypertalk tool that was created to manipulate groups of objects and/or fields as members of a group. Then you can drag a group to a new
location.
I looked in the archives and it was not listed. Could someone post it?
Earl Nall
EJN@ORNLSTC
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 00:48:03 CDT
From: Frank W. Peters <peters@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: scr_color on Mac IIcx running A/UX 1.1?
Hello,
I have access to two apple A/UX boxes. One is a Mac II running A/UX 1.0
and the other is a Mac IIcx running A/UX 1.1. Both systems have 256 color
cards.
On the Mac II/1.0 system the scr_color program alters the screen colors
as documented. I am unable, however, to make it work on the IIcx/1.1 system.
I get no error message...the screen simply remains black and white.
The manual entry for scr_color says:
> It is only useful when
> the screen is in 1 bit per pixel mode (see console(7)) and you
> are using the basic terminal emulator.
I am assuming that the II/1.0 system is in this mode by default and
the IIcx/1.1 is not. Unfortunately, all of my efforts to put it in the
correct mode have failed. I have tried altering the /etc/ioctl.syscon
file to match that of the II/1.0 system and have tried using stty -g to
make their stty settings identical...all with no success.
Does anyone have any pointers to how I can get this working?
Thanks
Frank Peters
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"What if I wanna worry? What if I *like* being unhappy??"
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 01:01:36 PDT
From: lauac%QAL.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu
Subject: Suitcase II crashes...
>By process of elimination I found that there was a conflict between
>Suitcase II and Shield INIT (versions 1.2.2 and 1.0 respectively).
The Shield INIT version 1.0 was very buggy, and was recalled quickly
by Symantec. It was replaced by version 1.02.
The current version of the Shield INIT and Symantec Utilities for the
Macintosh (SUM) is 1.1.
--- Alex
UUCP: {att,backbones}!ucbvax!qal.berkeley.edu!lauac
INTERNET: lauac%qal.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
FIDONET: Alex.Lau@bmug.fidonet.org (1:161/444)
/
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 17:02 EDT
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BKNLVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SuperClock 3.3
Put SuperClock! v3.3 into your System Folder. After restarting your
Macintosh, it will load in a small piece of software that displays the
time at the right end of the menu bar. This software is FREE.
New features for v3.3 include:
o fixes the VERY temporary version 3.2 and its fatal bug (sorry);
o the clock will not be installed if the shift key is held down at
startup time
o whether or not to "chime" on the hour (you select the sound, so
choose wisely!). It will only chime when the clock is visible on the
menu bar.
o an option to let you either use the menu bar's text color or
select another color for displaying the clock (for those of you that
have color, that is)
SuperClock! was written by Steve Christensen.
The StuffIt archive contains the SuperClock! cdev/INIT and a MacWrite
document (the above is excerpted from that document) describing all the
features of SuperClock!
Greg Smith <Smith@Bucknell.Bitnet>
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/superclock-33.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Thu, 18 May 89 21:29 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Text Diff Program
I have used a program named TextDiff. It is version 0.9 dated 26 Oct 86
and it seems to do the job. I found it on either the Sumex or the
Simtel20 archives. I can't remember which one since I got it some time
ago.
-- Doug.
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 10:37:49 EET DST
From: yosial%techunix.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu (Yosi Almog)
Subject: Type a file - help
Shalom,
Can someone help me? I want to do this:
1. While in the finder, I want to darken icon of a text file.
2. Click on an icon that is on the menu line.
3. Look at the content of the file I signed.
The function is similar to DOS 'type'.
Thanks, Yosi.
BITNET : yosial@techunix Phone(work): 972-4-292173
Domain : yosial@techunix.technion.ac.il
ARPANET: yosial@techunix.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
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∂20-May-89 1228 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu QuickDraw Picture Question
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Subject: QuickDraw Picture Question
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Do the QuickDraw OpenPicture and ClosePicture commands freeze the PenMode
(and other Pen attributes)?
More precisely, can I define a picture (not using any pen commands inside
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My experiments say I can't; but I wonder if there is any way to do this?
∂22-May-89 1841 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Mac Bag Suggestions
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I need to get a new bag for my Mac SE (with small keyboard.) I don't need
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I would not count on any software lock to prevent virus infections.
The only sure way to do it is to physically write-lock the disk. You
can make applications more robust by placing CRC checks in them, or
by other methods.
A free anti-virus program that has shown itself to be very effective is
Disinfectant 1.1. It is available via anonymous ftp to SUMEX's info-mac
directory. Stanford staff and students can also get the program by
bringing a blank 2-sided disk to IRIS on the 3rd floor of Sweet Hall.
Commercial alternatives like Virex and Anti-Toxin are also available.
Symantec Corp. will have their own product soon.
And, yes, it is possible for a data file to become infected, but it
usually won't be contagious. Applications and system files are the
most likely files to spread viruses.
Lance
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 22 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 93
Today's Topics:
800K MFS disk
Backdrop and the SE/30
Backdrop problem: Update
Butterworth filter
CD-Player and CD+G (graphics)
Clock format
hypercard problem
New Mirror Site
Noise reduction
RoseAnn Barr sounds--part 1 of 3
SetClock2.sithqx
Software to examine ROM addresses?
Some Programming Questions
WriteNow 2.0 bugs?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: 22 May 89 15:20:00 MST
From: "2614 Rieb, Declan A." <darieb@sandia.gov>
Subject: 800K MFS disk
Is there a way to initialize an 800K floppy so that it does not use HFS?
I know how to force a 400K to have HFS (command-erase).
Thanks.
Declan A. Rieb INTERnet:DARieb@Sandia.GOV
Org 2614 (Computer Consulting) DARieb@Sandia-2.ARPA
Sandia National Laboratories dxxr@LANL.GOV
Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800 Bell: (505) 844-6338
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Date: Sat, 20 May 89 10:29 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Backdrop and the SE/30
I was using Backdrop INIT (version 1.1, I think; not sure) with my standard
two-floppy + external HD, 1 1 meg without any difficulties, but when I
recently switched over to an SE/30, it has started behaving strangely. The
backdrop I was using was a star centered on a chaotic black and white field;
when I started up, everything looked fine. However, whenever the Finder redrew
the desktop (after I had closed a window, say), it did so with the star about
three inches to the left, wrapped around the screen! Why's my backdrop moving
around? :~)
The SE/30, incidentally, is also a standard 1 internal FDHD + external HD, 1
meg jobber. Also, though I did switch over to System 6.0.3, the backdrop was
wandering while I still had 6.0.2 running...
-Josh
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Date: Sat, 20 May 89 14:38 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Backdrop problem: Update
Additionally, it only does this sort of thing under Finder--when I close a
MacWrite document, the desktop stays exactly as it should have been. I'm only
running Finder (not Multi-), by the way (not enough memory).
-Josh
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Date: Sat, 20 May 89 15:43:45 EDT
From: Eric Keller <FONETIKS%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Butterworth filter
Info-Mac-Request@Sumex-aim.stanford.edu
I wonder if anyone could direct me to a fast implementation
of a 1st, 2nd and 3rd order Butterworth filter for
application to successive samples of a digital signal.
Thanks, Eric Keller.
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Date: Mon 22 May 1989 08:36 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CD-Player and CD+G (graphics)
I just got a new Alphaville cd "The Breathtaking Blue" (music), and noticed
that it had on it: CD+G or +Graphics. It stated that "This compatct disc
contains full CD sound, plus Graphics. The graphics on this disc can be
displayed only after a CD Graphics Adapter or a new CD Graphics Player is
connected toyour audio system. Graphics from the disc may then be displayed
on any TV set or monitor."
I have an Apple cd player, and it will not see the files? or area where the
graphics are. Would this require a different cd-player to see the graphics?
Does anyone know if the graphics are just pictures? If they are just pictures,
does this require a new Driver to access the graphics? Where in the world
do they keep the directory for finding the graphics?
All I see are the music tracks in the Macintosh directory. Anyone have any
information on this?
Scott Hutinger
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 22:14:07 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Clock format
> I have a wierd problem with the clock on my macII. It has decided that
> it always wants to have the hours be two digits, even when in 12 hour
> mode. So the time gets displayed as 01:34 PM, instead of 1:34 PM. Does
> anybody know why this happens, and how to fix it. I'm guessing that it
> is some mode set in the clock chip.
The clock-display style is part of the so-called "international"
information. The Mac System permits you to adapt your date and time
display-formats to suit local convention. Leading zeros on the hour,
minute, and second are one of the many things that can be adjusted.
The information is encoded in the INTL 0 and INTL 1 resources in your
System file. You can adjust it with a little CDEV called "Simon",
which I believe was posted to Info-Mac some time ago.
You can also use ResEdit to change the settings. The version I'm using
(1.2) has a very nice pair of editing windows for INTL 0 and INTL 1.
There's a lot of other interesting stuff buried in those resources...
check 'em out! Formal description lies on pages 495-513 of volume I
of Inside Macintosh.
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Date: Sat, 20 May 89 13:43 EDT
From: <UN107065%WVNVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: hypercard problem
I created a stack using HyperCard version 1.2.1.
When I tried to use it today it gave me the message:
"New file format requires
new version of HyperCard"
I had created the stack using ver. 1.2.1 only.
Has anyone encountered the same message?
I was working on this stack for two weeks and have made several
backups, but the backups give me the same dialog box message
shown above.
Any solutions?
Thanks,
Neil Hazari
UN107065@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 17:56:49 CDT
From: Chris Myers <chris@wugate.wustl.edu>
Subject: New Mirror Site
wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] mirrors the info-mac archives every night
at 5:00 AM CST. This is an official service of the Washington University
Office of the Network Coordinator and is currently available to the public via
anonymous FTP.
Sometime this summer we hope to add a mail-based archive server so that
people without access to the Internet (or BITNET) can retrieve files from our
archives.
The info-mac archives are in the directory /systems/mac/info-mac. There is
a file named "arrangement" in the top-level directory of the archive that
describes the structure of the archives.
A complete list of all files contained in the archives can be obtained
by copying either "ls-lR" or "files.lst". Both listings are made every night
at about 10:00 PM CST. The first is made using the UNIX ls -lR command,
and the second is made using the UNIX find -ls command.
Chris Myers
Software Engineer
Washington University Office of the Network Coordinator
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Date: 89-05-20 11:23:58 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Noise reduction
The introduction of the newer Mac II series brought a lot
of new facilities and speed, but also an awful fan noise.
The newest child of the Mac II family seems to be cured of
this problem, but what could be done with the older ones ?
Concentrated work is sometimes impossible, when the fan's
whistle is tearing you out of your deep thoughts.
For this fan is designed to cool machines full of interface
cards on a hot summer day with uninterrupted work and all
of this is (normally) not true, I thought about a
fan's speed reduction to get my peace.
Does anyone know, how this could be done and how it would
affect the working security of my Mac II ?
K. Schnathmeier
TU Hamburg-Harburg
W. Germany
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET>
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Date: Fri, 19 May 89 16:25:12 CST
From: Steve Middlebrook <C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: RoseAnn Barr sounds--part 1 of 3
The Networks may have killed her, but she can live on in your Macintosh!
Attached is a Binhexed version of a Stuffit archive containing six
digitized sounds from RoseAnn Barr's TV show. Included are RoseAnn
saying "Whose lame-brained idea is this, anyway?" and "You've obviously
mistaken me for someone who cares." and her TV hubbie saying "Nobody can
warm up my big ol' butt like you, babycakes!"
The archive is huge, but worth it if you are a fan of Ms Barr. Sent in
three parts.
Steve Middlebrook
Washington University
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/roseann-barr-various-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/sound/roseann-barr-various-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/sound/roseann-barr-various-part3.hqx; 150K]
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Date: Sat, 20 May 89 00:06:08 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: SetClock2.sithqx
SetClock 2.0
Set Clock will connect you to a master clock driver that
automatically synchronizes itself, to within 1 millisecond
and set you Mac clock to within one second by making a 10
second phone call to (416) 445-9408 in Toronto or
(804) 424-5631 in Chesapeake, VA.
FreeWare by Jim Leitch.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/setclock-20.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 09:31 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Software to examine ROM addresses?
Howdy...we have a user who's interested in obtaining a shareware or pd
application to examine ROM addresses on a Mac Plus. I'm aware of some
products which do this, but is there anything in the archive?
Matt Wall
Research and Academic Computing
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254
WALL@BRANDEIS.bitnet
WALL%BRANDEIS.bitnet@eddie.mit.edu
(or in a pinch, matt%cs.brandeis.edu@relay.cs.net)
Disclaimer: Do not tell proverbs in Winter, or the toads will come.
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 10:25:54 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Some Programming Questions
Hi,
I'm somewhat of a beginner at programming the Mac and have
a few of questions regarding printing from within an application.
1) Inside Macintosh describes the printing grafport and says that
your application should simply draw in this port just as it
did in the grafPort to display stuff on the screen. The current
printer driver file takes care of converting those Quickdraw
calls into the appropriate form for the printer. That makes
sense if I'm drawing circles in the application window, but
is there a quick way to tell the Print Manager to print text
stored in a TextEdit record? My application uses TextEdit to
display & scroll stuff on the screen and doesn't draw "directly"
to the grafport (ala DrawString('This is some text')). Note: I
am aware of the text streaming procedure PrCtlCall but I don't
want to make things THAT direct...
2) If there ISN'T a quick way to print text in a TE record, if I
use something like DrawString, will the Print Manager generate
the PostScript code for a LaserWriter, or will it send a bit
map of the resulting page to the LaserWriter. (Not that this
doesn't really matter, I'm just curious...)
3) Inside Mac also suggests swapping out the main program segment
during printing and reloading it after completion of the printing.
Is this truly necessary if your application isn't going to
print reams of paper. Mine will generate at most 2 pages.
4) Finally, I want to create a document with my application's
special "data file" icon. I've created the icon resource and
have specified all the required bundle information yet data
files still show up in the Finder with the generic document icon.
The creator is set properly so that double clicking on the
document launches the application and the resource fork of the
compiled application does contain the "data document" icon I
want. I just can't figure out how to tell the file manager to
add that icon resource to a file that I create within the
application.
Hints or suggestions? Thanks...
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: 22 May 89 18:48 EDT
From: science@nems.arpa (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: WriteNow 2.0 bugs?
I have been experiencing some crashes (mostly lock-ups) with WriteNow 2.0,
and wondered if others have found the same things. Bombs have occurred
when editing largish (a few hundred kB) files converted from text into
the WriteNow internal format, and with smaller files when doing a largish
amount of editing (select all the document and change fonts, add tabs to
rulers, etc., on a 10kB letter). I'm running a Mac Plus with 2.5 MB and
System 6.0.2 with MacsBug and SuperClock 3.0 under MultiFinder, with
WriteNow 2.0 in its default (400kB) partition. Is there anything obvious
that I'm doing wrong? I just bought the program a few weeks ago, and
like it a lot except for these crashes, which happen every few hours of
use.... Tnx for advice ... ↑z (science@nems.arpa)
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I download BDC from sumex info-mac, and tried to run it, but it had to have
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>I download BDC from sumex info-mac, and tried to run it, but it had to have
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>have that file ? Do you know the email address for asking questions about
>info-mac in sumex ? Any comment will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
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beforehand, though.
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It may be a vague question, but what is a good price for
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 23 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 94
Today's Topics:
2 Questions
Fortune II cdev
Leading Clock Zeros
New Version of Hypercard Problem
Password Utility V1.2
Ram-cache Problems
Spelling checker for Textures?
SuperClock 3.3 bug?
tektronics 420x emulator?
Using Apple LaserWriter with MS-DOS?
VirusDetective 3.0
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 12:34:15 EDT
From: Damian%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 2 Questions
Could someone please tell me how to disable the Cover page that the
Laserprinter IInt prints out each time you turn it on?
I am also interested in anyone's experience with CAD/CAM programs for
the Mac. I am looking for something fairly cheap with most of the power
of AutoCAD (PC...yeahgnh!) but with the better Mac interface.
Thanks,
Damian Roskill
Damian@ucc.umass.edu
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 23:37:16 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: Fortune II cdev
!Fortune II cdev
Displays one of 3683 fortunes at startup. Online help
is provided.
FreeWare by Arthur Britto II.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/fortune-part1.hqx; 168K
/info-mac/cdev/fortune-part2.hqx; 169K
/info-mac/cdev/fortune-part3.hqx; 140K]
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 08:28:59 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Leading Clock Zeros
Dave Platt came up with a possible solution to the leading zero on the clock
problem which has occasionally plagued mine and other's Mac IIs.
Well, nice try Dave...
I'm sitting here staring at the obnoxiously persistent leading zero on my
clock as displayed by both Hypercard and SuperClock. It is now resisting even
a reboot, which always cleared it up before. On your suggestion, I checked
into the INTL resource, but sure enough, the leading zero flag is turned off.
So there is something else going on...
Jon
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 May 89 08:43:37 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: New Version of Hypercard Problem
I also received the Hypercard message:
"New file format requires
new version of HyperCard"
on one of my old stacks when I upgraded to Hypercard 1.2.2. I solved the
problem by getting a backup that worked, so I have no clue as to the reason
or cure for this message, but it has happened to others.
Jon
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 May 89 11:55:36 bst
From: Ralph Martin <ralph%computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Password Utility V1.2
Here is Version 1.2 of Password, a utility to prevent people from booting
up your hard disk without first supplying a password.
Changes from earlier versions: The password is now blanked out to stop
people from reading it over your shoulder.
This is shareware, but upgrading is free for people who have already paid the
shareware fee.
(With acknowledgements to Brian Bechtel of Apple for filterproc idea).
[Archived as /info-mac/util/password-12.hqx; 11K]
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Date: 89-05-23 08:16:07 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Ram-cache Problems
Recently I could upgrade my Mac II to 5 MByte and I thought it to
be a good idea, using a big ram-cache of 512 KByte. All worked
fine and really the drive was speed up until some strange
difficulties came up last week. I wanted to change a dialogue
string in an application using FEdit and whatever I did, the
dialogue refused to change.
What happend was, that the old version was kept in the cache and
lauching the application ment, lauching this old version.
This part of the problem seems quite funny, but yesterday I
had serious difficulties. I copied some files and, being
succesfully copied on the hard disk, I deleted the originals.
Then I ran an application that caused a complete crash, so
that the RESET-button had to be pressed.
The Mac's restart brought a big surprise:
Not only that the original files were away, the copies had also
dissapeared.
The only safe solution seems not to use such a big cache, or does
anyone out there know something better ?
Klaus Schnathmeier Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET> W.Germany
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Date: Tue, 23 May 1989 8:35:54 EDT
From: LYONS@scri1.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons)
Subject: Spelling checker for Textures?
Is there a spelling checker DA available which will work within Textures?
Texture's source files are just ASCII text. Ideally the spelling checker
would ignore words beginning with / and text between $'s, and would allow
customization of the dictionary, word correction in place, etc.
_____________________
Jim Lyons \ Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
904/644-4274 \ Florida State University
lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu \ Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 22:54:48 PDT
From: Jon Newman <newman@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: SuperClock 3.3 bug?
I think I have found a bug in SuperClock 3.3. When I clear the check box
for the new "chime" item, my Mac crashes. I am running an SE with System 6.0.2,
SingleFinder, and all kinds of suspicious INITs and CDEVs, so this may not
apply to everybody.
Jon Newman
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 14:13 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: tektronics 420x emulator?
Is there a tek 4205 or 4207 emulator available for the mac. I hate the idea
of shelling out enough money to buy a IIx for a terminal...
Thanks
-Fred
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 8:49 MET
From: "Willem van der Scheun, SARA, Afd. Netwerken" <SCHEUN%HASARA5.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using Apple LaserWriter with MS-DOS?
We have some AppleTalk networks connected to an Ethernet backbone. On that
Ethernet backbone we also have several MS-DOS systems. Does anyone know
about possibilities for using the Apple LaserWriter from these MS-DOS systems?
Willem van der Scheun
SARA
Amsterdam
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Date: Mon, 22 May 89 18:34 EST
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective 3.0
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and various attributes. Once the offending
resource is found it can optionally be removed from the file (use this
feature with caution) or file deleted. The user can update the search list
at any time. Shareware.
Version 3.0 adds ability to read/write search list from/to a file;
revamped help system (can even copy help to clipboard); multiple search
criteria per string; file modification dates always reported/logged and
still more!
Unpack with StuffIt after downloading.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-30.hqx; 70K]
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I am interested in getting an external hard disk for my brother's
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 24 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 95
Today's Topics:
7.0: No aliased Fonts
800K MFS disk (2 msgs)
800K MFS disks
DIGLIB -> PICT Converter? TIFF format?
disabling LW startupe page
Dynamic Resources while sitting on Quantum 80 (arg)
Environment Control Software??
Ethernet with Gatorbox and fastpath
Experiences with Novell 2.15
Hypercard & more
Init Icon Display
Looking for Geological materials for MACs
Madonna sound
sound/musicworks-jukebox.hqx
sound/soundplay.hqx
TextEdit
Virtual
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Date: Wed, 24 May 1989 15:49-EDT
From: Ralph.Hyre@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: 7.0: No aliased Fonts
>From: William Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
>* The chapter on Outline Fonts doesn't mention anti-aliasing or
>multiple-bit depth devices -- maybe next time.
Some kind of plane group usage needs to be worked out, I suspect.
Nobody has a card that lets you do 32-bit color that I'm aware of
24-bit color + 8 bits of extra stuff. (maybe as 4 monocrhome planes
for independent fuzzy fonts in each window.)
I imagine that more people will start clamoring for this once
more people play with 32-bit quickdraw and figure out the neat
things you can do with it.
Hopefully System 7.0 will be modular enough that different font
technology can be mixed in.
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 20:25:08 EDT
From: ckd%bu-pub.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu
Subject: 800K MFS disk
> Date: 22 May 89 15:20:00 MST
> From: "2614 Rieb, Declan A." <darieb@sandia.gov>
> Is there a way to initialize an 800K floppy so that it does not use HFS?
Yes, there is; boot (using a 512Ke or newer machine) with Finder 4.1 or
earlier (in other words, an MFS-only version) and then format the disk
normally. The 128K (and probably newer) ROMs will assume 800K, but it will
have an MFS directory.
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> Org 2614 (Computer Consulting) DARieb@Sandia-2.ARPA
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 16:44 EDT
From: HENRY YEE <HENRY@atc.bendix.com>
Subject: 800K MFS disk
IN%"darieb%sandia.gov@relay.cs.net"
IN%"Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.EDU"
Declan A. Rieb,
I don't know how to format MFS on an 800K disk unless you have one of the
older MACs. If you just need to transfer files to the older mac, you could
format the disk on the MFS system, then use it in the HFS MAC and drag the
files to that disk. The older MAC will be able to open and use such files.
Henry Yee IN%"Henry%atc.bendix.com@RELAY.CS.NET"
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 11:16 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 800K MFS disks
To create an 800K MFS disk, all one has to do is format the disk in an 800K
drive using a pre-HFS Finder. The first HFS Finder (official) was Finder 5.3,
released in June, 1986. There were pre-release versions floating around
in the fall of 1985 at the time the HD20 was introduced. The last MFS
finder was created April 8, 1985, and was numbered, I believe, Finder 4.1--
but the creation date is the best way to go...
Jim Clark
UT Martin
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Date: Wed, 24 MAY 89 17:03:08 PDT
From: <MICRO2.KLOPP@crvax.sri.com>
Subject: DIGLIB -> PICT Converter? TIFF format?
We here at SRI use Lawrence Livermore's DIGLIB routines to process the output
>From the ORION post-processor for their finite element codes DYNA and NIKE.
The DIGLIB routines translate ORION points and drive Tek & Graphon terminals
and make PostScript code for LaserWriter Pluses.
Does anyone know if there is a DIGLIB driver/converter that will output Mac
PICT files? We know PICT file format and probably could conjure up something,
but we don't want to reinvent the wheel. Any help/directions would be warmly
received.
Also, can anyone tell me the format of a TIFF file or where I can find it?
Thanks,
Rich Klopp
micro2.klopp@crvax.sri.com
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 11:11 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX2.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: disabling LW startupe page
If you use SendPS or other utility that downloads postscript to the lw
directly, the following will disable the printing of the statup page:
0 serverdict begin exitserver statusdict begin false setdostartpage end
Another alternative is to pull the paper tray out suitably long when
restarting the printer.
With the above, change "false" to true to enable printing of the startup
page.
Jim Clark
UT Martin
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Date: Wed 24 May 1989 11:04 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Dynamic Resources while sitting on Quantum 80 (arg)
Below is an example from ResEqual tool using MPW 3.0. Notice that I have
a creepy disk. All of the below were run within a 1minute time period. Also
notice that sometimes I will have no difference at all. Sounds like a creepy
virus, or creepy drive. Maybe my se/30 does not like its quantum 80, and
is trying to tell me to reject it! I have recently just noticed this in the
last 2 weeks. Creepy only bytes single bytes. Anyone else see something
like this? My..my. Guess it just goes to show you, use apple SCSI drivers
unless you want conflicts like this. This ONLY happens when an APPLE CD-SC
and scanner is hooked up to the mac. Guess I cant use either one of them if
I want to have a GOOD hard drive! Quite the trade off. Maybe I best go back
to the slower apple scsi driver.
File #1: MPW Shell /* used for mac compiling */
File #2: c:MPWGS:MPW gsShell /* used for IIGS compiling */
Resources have different contents
Resource Type = "CODE" ID = 7
Contents of resource in file 1 at offset 7697
40 3D 40 FF D8 26 6C 00 58 3D 6C 00 34 FF E2 4A @=@..&l.X=l.4..J
Contents of resource in file 2 at offset 7697
41 3D 40 FF D8 26 6C 00 58 3D 6C 00 34 FF E2 4A A=@..&l.X=l.4..J
File #1: MPW Shell
File #2: c:MPWGS:MPW gsShell
Resources have different contents
Resource Type = "CODE" ID = 9
Contents of resource in file 1 at offset 14124
FF AD F1 00 70 00 10 10 60 0C 70 01 2F 00 2F 07 ....p...`.p././.
Contents of resource in file 2 at offset 14124
52 AD F1 00 70 00 10 10 60 0C 70 01 2F 00 2F 07 R...p...`.p././.
Resources have different contents
Resource Type = "CODE" ID = 21
Contents of resource in file 1 at offset 11606
40 3D 48 00 00 00 FA 00 00 00 FA 00 00 00 FA 00 @=H.............
Contents of resource in file 2 at offset 11606
7D 3D 48 00 00 00 FA 00 00 00 FA 00 00 00 FA 00 .=H.............
Plus multitude of other test...all different.
Anyone else have scsi conflicts? I want to listen to music while am on the
mac.
Scott Hutinger
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 08:40:45 EDT
From: Anup Patel <patel@mitre.mitre.org>
Subject: Environment Control Software??
I'm looking for software that will control electrical appliances, room
temperature, and other things in an office/home. I've heard of such software,
but don't know if they exist or being developed. Any pointer, ideas, or views
greatly appreciated.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 09:24:03 bst
From: Sak Wathanasin <uklino!sw@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Ethernet with Gatorbox and fastpath
>Star Controller to ethernet running TCP/IP. If anyone out there has
>used or is using Kinetics Fast Path or Gatorbox I would like to know
We have a GatorBox which talks to our Sun 386i. Works well, but is very
slow. I timed a Finder copy of a 300+ K file. Time to Mac II running as
AppleShare fileserver on Ethernet (using EtherTalk): 6.24 secs; to Sun
using GatorBox: 1m 2.73 secs; to Sun using FTP (NCSA Telnet): 14.79 secs.
The file was transfered from the internal HD on my MacII which has an
Ethernet card. Noone else was using the Sun or Ethernet when I ran my test
(of course, there is always background traffic on the net).
Cayman have promised an upgrade (real soon now), and I hope that there are
substanstial imrovements.
Sak Wathanasin
uucp: ...!ukc!uklino!sw
JANET: sw%uklino@uk.ac.ukc
BITNET: sw%uklino%ukc.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet
other: sw%uklino.uucp@ukc.ac.uk
phone: (+44) 242 222333 x206
snail: c/o R & D, Linotype Ltd, Bath Road, Cheltenham, Glos. GL53 7LR, UK
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 12:09:10 EDT
From: rpk@goldhill.com
Subject: Experiences with Novell 2.15
Novell NetWare 2.15, which is the first version to support the
Macintosh, is great -- when it works. We (at Gold Hill) upgraded from
Advanced Netware 2.0a; as a PC house porting software to the Mac,
Novell's product was moving in just the direction we are.
Installation of the software at the server end is an involved process,
but what did you expect ? Dayna provides the Appleshare/Novell Core
Protocol conversion, so all that is needed for software on the
Macintosh client is Appleshare. (Novell also provides a Network
Control Center application and a NetWare DA for manipulating
Novell-specific features. These are not neccessary for file access.)
Novell restructured its file system so that all Macintosh HFS features
could be supported.
Gold Hill has three servers. The Mac work is in R&D, so we plugged
the Novell-supplied LocalTalk board in the R&D server, a Compaq
Deskpro 386/20 with Storage Dimensions disks (connected with a Novell
disk coprocessor board). After installing the VAPS (auxilliary
processes that provide NetWare with added functionality -- in this
case, LocalTalk/Ethernet bridging and AppleShare/NetWare protocol
translation), everything seemed to work. For example, the server
indeed acted like a spooler for our Laserwriter, so both Macs and the
PCs on the Ethernet could spool to it. On the other hand, we could
access the files residing on the non-R&D servers, but *not* the R&D
server itself. It turns out that the LocalTalk board and the disk
hardware (Storage Dimensions and/or Novell) conflict. It was possible
to access the other servers because no disk activity occured during
the transaction. Or maybe it was a fluke. Getting intelligent
answers from Novell customer service is probably harder than
disassembling their code.
With this conflict, we decided to perform the bridging with a separate
PC, an old Compaq Deskpro that was lying around. After the usual
ration of installation pain, we could access all three servers from
the Macintosh. However, the setup is unreliable:
(*) The print spooling mechanism is very flakey. This was
corroborated in this week's issue of InfoWorld. (It seems to work
very reliably under our initial setup, however.) The server seems to
either not find the LocalTalk printers, or forget that they are there.
(*) The bridge software is fragile, just trying to deal with protocol
translation. Macintosh clients are doomed if the message "ASP packet
sequence error detected" appears on the monitor of the bridge. (I
believe that this lossage was also mentioned in InfoWorld.) The Mac
hangs. My guess is that this is partially AppleShare's fault -- there
doesn't seem to be a graceful recovery from link-level errors where
bridges are involved. There are two solutions:
* Reboot the Mac. Unfortunately, this is a messy restart and
will cause you to wait longer because the desktop file has to
be rebuilt.
* Reboot the bridge. A much better approach. AppleShare will
gracefully recover. Your volumes will go away, but at least
you'll have a chance to save your work locally.
Conclusions:
NetWare for the Mac is great when it works. When it doesn't, the
experiences can range from bothersome to painful. Other people might
have better experiences than ours with Mac NetWare if their
configurations differ. Performance over LocalTalk is OK, if not
spectacular. Also, PC performance seems to have degraded, at least
with directory operations. (Some users reported performance
*increases* in the InfoWorld article.) If you have a problem, be
prepared to speak slowly and use small words with Novell
representatives.
Novell is preparing a fix to be released in June. (My guess is that
most of the bugs are a result of hasty integration of Dayna's
software.) It will be interesting to see if overall performance
increases when NetWare 386 is released; I assume that there would be a
lot of installations that could take advantage of it.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 May 89 18:06 EDT
From: The key to mental stability is a one to one relationship with your sports
Subject: Hypercard & more
ACSAZ@SEMASSU, 23-MAY-1989
Hi, I'm wondering if nyone knows the script to eject a disk in
heypercard. Also, do I need NETMBX privs to access the archives?
Alex Z... . . .
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 18:26:57 CDT
From: Hare%CDCCentr.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Init Icon Display
Too many INITs and the icons are gone! Does anyone know of some
way (perhaps an init) to display inits icons at start-up
time such that when the right edge of the screen is reached,
the icons move up a row, or scroll up a row (that would save
Guardian's Shield which appears to be hard coded into the
last row but one).
Lawrence D. Hare
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Date: 24 May 89 09:21:00 PST
From: art@sage.acc.com
Subject: Looking for Geological materials for MACs
I am interested in finding any available material, that runs on a MAC,
which would be useful for teaching Geology and/or Paleontology. I would
be interested in any graphics, MAC programs or HyperCard stacks.
Please respond directly to me, since I don't normally read this list.
Thanks in advance for any leads.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Art Berggreen Advanced Computer Communications |
| <art@sage.acc.com> Santa Barbara Street |
| (805)963-9431 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 17:14:07 CST
From: Steve Middlebrook <C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Madonna sound
Attached is a binhexed version of a stuffited SoundEdit file.
It is a sampling of Madonna screaming "What do you mean it's not in the
computer?" from the end of "Act of Contrition" off her latest album.
Makes a wonderful shutdown sound!
Steve Middlebrook
Washington University--St. Louis
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/madonna.hqx; 40K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 09:57:32 EST
From: sbm@cs.purdue.edu
Subject: sound/musicworks-jukebox.hqx
There is a packit file called sound/musicworks-jukebox.hqx in the
info-mac archives that unpacks into several data files and an
application called "JukeBox" which simply produces a bus error whenever
it is launched on a Mac II or Mac+ under System 4.2/Finder 6.0. The
same functionality could be reproduced in a much smaller file.
Steve Munson
sbm@Purdue.EDU
sbm@Purdue.CSNET
----------
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 15:23:04 EST
From: sbm@cs.purdue.edu
Subject: sound/soundplay.hqx
It looks like sound/soundplay.hqx also crashes on launch on a Mac
II. I think I got another bus error.
Steve
----------
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 13:31:37 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: TextEdit
Can anyone tell me what the rationale is behind Apple's new Styled TextEdit?
(It's in Inside Mac Vol 5). I'd always thought that it was impossible to
build a proper wordprocessor using TextEdit anyway, because of the inability
to handle tabs and justification, let alone the 32K text limit.
Even Apple acknowledge this (in Technical Note 203 I think). So why did they
bother?
Brian Candler
BTC10@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 23 May 89 23:26 EST
From: LOBSTER@northeastern.edu
Subject: Virtual
I've been using Virtual V1.5 on a 2meg MacII for about a month. At first it
didn't work with 32Bit Quickdraw and the Think Pascal V2.0 Debugger but the
most recent version is robust. It even works with the ABSoft v2.4 debugger.
Suddenly I understand the attraction of MultiFinder.
------------------------------
End of Info-Mac Digest
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∂26-May-89 0958 RLM@score.stanford.edu Hello, CD-ROM/Music info?
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Subject: Hello, CD-ROM/Music info?
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
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Simple, perhaps naieve, question: Can I hook a Sony cd player up to
a MacIIcx and use it a ROM player, or even play just play the music
via the Mac?
Thanks, Robert
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Date: 26 May 89 20:34:10 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Subject: Re: Hello, CD-ROM/Music info?
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In article <12497112962.12.RLM@Score.Stanford.EDU> RLM@SCORE.STANFORD.EDU
(Robert L. Miller) writes:
> Simple, perhaps naieve, question: Can I hook a Sony cd player up to
> a MacIIcx and use it a ROM player, or even play just play the music
> via the Mac?
Assuming you mean a consumer quality audio CD player:
1) You don't have the extra error correction circuitry to accomodate data
i/o.
2) You don't have the SCSI port so that the Mac can talk to it and tell it
where to seek.
3) The motor isn't up to snuff. Claim is that some major Japanese
manufacturer tested some consumer audio players and they lasted about 24
hours.
So the answer is, no.
--Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My opinion, not Apple's"
∂26-May-89 1801 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Paradise HD + SCSI HD
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Date: 27 May 89 00:28:59 GMT
From: mvj@playfair.STANFORD.EDU (mvj)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Paradise HD + SCSI HD
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To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
I have a functioning Paradise Mac20 hard disk attached to my
Mac+ and I am about to acquire a SCSI hard disk. The question is can
I still make use of the Paradise once the SCSI is in place? If this
is possible I might use the Paradise for relatively inactive storage.
Another question arises from the fact that the Paradise disk uses the
printer port. Would it be possible to print when the Paradise is attached
but not mounted?
Any information or suggestions will be appreciated.
∂26-May-89 1914 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #96
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 26 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 96
Today's Topics:
A few questions for inclusion in Info Mac Digest
answer to Anup Patel, 24 may
Can filenames be automatically printed with the doc?
Command Line Interface
creepy drive problem related to bad scsi cable
DMCS 2.0
Help: source code for a 68000 assembler ?
Hyperfiction
INXS Devil inside sound
Leading clock zeros (IM7-94)
Mac to Mac connection via SCSI
MusicWorks Jukebox
OCR Font
Ram-cache Problems
Resubmission of MW Jukebox info
TextEdit
Transforming IBM VM/SP LISTING files into Mac semi-formatted text
Vision sequencer
Word 4.0 Symbols
Yet another word 4.0 bug
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 11:06:14 +0200
From: Jan Engelen <FHEDA02%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A few questions for inclusion in Info Mac Digest
Hello,
I would appreciate if anyone can help me with the following problems:
*1) When I installed new DA's with Lucky31, I received for some of them,
instead of an action, the very dramatic announcement that my harddisk
is unreadable and I have the option to reformat it (which I refuse, as
there is nothing wrong with it...).
*2) I'm looking for a database programm (actually a bibliography organizer)
that permits the export of text files in formatted form (e.g. as MSWORD
merge files). I can not use one of the standard export facilities (e.g.
Filemaker has 4 of them), as they produce plain ascii files. Inside
Filemaker, one can use fonts etc., but this info is NOT exported.
Any good suggestion?
*3) Does anyone have (preferably shareware or freeware) terminal emulation
programs for the European public data services using protocols such as:
- PRESTEL
- MINITEL/TELETEL
- Bildschirmtext (BTX)
Thanks a lot.
Jan Engelen
Vloerstraat 67
B-3020 Herent(Belgium)
e-mail: FHEDA026BLEKUL11 (Bitnet)
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 10:47:29 pdt
From: farr%jplmrs.span@witch.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: answer to Anup Patel, 24 may
Anup Patel was looking for environment control software. While I donUt know of
software, per se, I know of a company that makes a box that has analog and
digital inputs, A to D converters, AC-line device control, and interface to a
variety of computers. Plus some software. Price is around $400. The company is:
Remote Measurement Systems
2633 Eastlake Av., E.
Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98102
(206) 328-2255 (voice)
Have fun.
Tom Farr farr%jplmrs.span@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Lab or 5258::farr
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 13:43 EDT
From: V120J88X@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: Can filenames be automatically printed with the doc?
We require that the filename of our drawing (Cricket) and word
processing documents (Word 4.0) be printed at the bottom of
eprintedd page so we can easily locate them on the Mac later.
The brute force solution is to type it in a footnote or add text to
the bottom of the drawing. But is there a way to automate this?
Afterall, the Laserwriter knows the filename of the document being
printed.
Joe Fritz
V120J88X@UBVMS
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 18:47:58 -0400
From: xxiaoye@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Xiaoxia Ye)
Subject: Command Line Interface
Enclosed is a command line interface application. You need to unbinhex
and unstuffit first. The help files are included in the archive.
P.S. Sorry, I didn't mention author's name here, since I can't remember.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/command-line-interface.hqx; 90K]
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Date: Thu 25 May 1989 12:01 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: creepy drive problem related to bad scsi cable
I reported problems with my scsi devices, namely my se/30's internal hard
drive. Very strange problem indeed.
[ se/30 ] --> [ apple cd- ] -> [ apple scanner ] -> terminator
Just like to docs say. I noticed that my hard drive problems went away
when my cd-player was re-located at the end of the chain. Also the
problems went away when the terminator at the end of the scsi chain was
removed. Now, since this is not correct...I tried all new cables.
Strangely, the problem was the system cable, which goes from the se/30 to
the first scsi device. Now why this cable would work correctly with the
scanner as the first device, is beyond me. I know very little about scsi,
but know enough not to BEND, CRIMP, nor abuse the cables. The bad cable
is also new, bad in the sense that it would not work with the cd player as
the first device.
WORD OF CAUTION: If you get any scsi devices, watch out for single byte
errors from your internal hard drive. They can really be pain, and hard
to detect, unless you are looking for them.
Does this make sense to anyone? Is the scanner scsi port different than the
cd-player scsi port?
Scott Hutinger
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 25 May 89 11:37:55 EST
From: DJ WOOD <DWOOD%UDCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: DMCS 2.0
DEAR MUSICIANS,
I AM HAVING A BIT OF A PROBLEM RUNNING Deluxe Muisc Constrction Set 2.0 on
my mac ][. I have installed a copy on my HD-20 that is connected to a mac +
and it works fine. But when I try to run my master disk on a SE or a ][ it
tells me that my disk is unauthorized.
P L E A S E H E L P
Thanx
DJ WOOD
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 25 May 89 08:44:35 EDT
From: keough@mbunix.mitre.org
Subject: Help: source code for a 68000 assembler ?
Would anyone out there have source code available for a 68000 assembler?
It would save a lot of time on a project I'm working on for use in an
assembly language/computer organization class in my academic environment.
Any source language, or any feature (/bug) set, would be helpful.
thanks,
Jerry Keough
(through August) (all the time)
The MITRE Corporation Math Dept., Boston College
keough@mbunix.mitre.org keough@bcvms.bitnet
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Date: 24 May 89 22:49:00 EDT
From: "ADAM ENGST" <pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Hyperfiction
This is a piece of hypertextual fiction along with a discussion of
hyperfiction as a genre. Both were written using StorySpace, a beta-test
release program. Included is ReadSpace, which allows one to read StorySpace
documents but not to make any changes or see the structure.
-Adam Engst
pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/hyperfiction-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/app/hyperfiction-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/app/hyperfiction-part3.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/app/hyperfiction-part4.hqx; 75K]
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 17:28:30 CST
From: Steve Middlebrook <C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: INXS Devil inside sound
Attached is a binhexed, stuffited SoundEdit file. It is a sampling from the
INXS song "Devil Inside" where the Aussie boys sing "Every single one of us--
a devil inside." Has been a popular start-up/shutdown sound around here.
Steve Middlebrook
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/inxs-devil-inside.hqx; 72K]
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 10:19 H
From: <KSEAH%NUSDISCS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Kenneth C L Seah)
Subject: Leading clock zeros (IM7-94)
Jon...
Apple shifted the INTL 0 and 1 resources into itl0 and itl1
respectively. ResEdit will allow you to open itl0 and itl1 and
edit them. The system uses itl0 rather than INTL 0 for its
international settings. INTL 0 and 1 are (probably) kept around
for compatability - yes - some programs still use them.
Kenneth Seah
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Date: Thu 25 May 1989 20:35 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac to Mac connection via SCSI
Is it possible to Connect two macs back to back via their SCSI ports?
My problem is that I have two Mac II's, each with an internal hard disk
(one has a 40mb Seagate with SCSI address=0; the other has a 90mb Wren
with SCSI address=3) and I'd like to be able to transfer a large number
of files between the two drives.
To avoid Finder conflicts on one of the drives, I was planning to boot
one of the machines on a floppy and then unmount that hard-disk (drag it
to the trash), that way, only one Finder would have access to both of the hard-
drives. That CPU would then be responsible for transfering the data between
the drives. However, will there be any problems with two CPUs on the same
SCSI bus (naturally, both CPUs have an SCSI address of 7)? I need to leave
both machines powered up to power both hard drives.
Now, if all my assumptions are correct, what kind of cable will I need?
Just a standard 25 pin male-male cable? Anything else?
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
mucm000@ecncdc.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 11:28 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MusicWorks Jukebox
MusicWorks Jukebox requires that you have the MusicWorks demo file
also in the archives. Under no circumstances will the applications work
on a Mac II,b should work on a Plus--you might have to use an MFS
disk and/or older Finder, however The JukeBox program is crude, but
MusicWorks has never been upgraded since its introduction in Fall, 1985.
How's that for support? (At least I have never been informed of an
upgrade.)
There is a public domain version of ConcertWare+ that runs on a II. Like
PD MusicWorks, it will only allow you to play the files, but not aler
them. (THat should be ALTER them)
Jim Clark
UT Martin
(Note: so far as I know, PD ConcertWare+ is not in the archives)
------------------------------
Date: 24 May 89 12:51:00 EST
From: "1159-DIRECTOR/OVERSEAS OPS" <nauen@ILCN-WREED.ARPA>
Subject: OCR Font
Would very much appreciate any information whatsoever about a source for
an OCR font, which would allow us to automate preparation of official
Army messages, also known as cables or twixes.
Please reply to me directly, as I am not on info-mac. When I tried to get on a
few months ago, I was told that I couldn't subscribe directly, but would
instead have to set up a sublist here at our host. For whatever reason (fear
of infection and disease, general apathy, who knows?) there is no interest
among our host administrators for such an arrangement.
Ric Nauen, Overseas Operations
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
E-mail: <nauen@wrair.arpa>* Telex: 192894 WRAIR-HQ
Telephone: (202)576-3442 (DSN)291-3442
Facsimile: (202)576-3114 (DSN)291-3114
Cable (military/government): DIRWRAIR WASHINGTON DC//SGRD-UWZ-O//
(civilian/commercial): WRAIR WALTER REED WASHINGTON DC 20307-5100
*Our official hostname is 'ilcn-wreed.arpa'. On 1 June 1989 it will
change to 'wrair-emh1.army.mil'.
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 11:06:40 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ram-cache Problems
>Recently I could upgrade my Mac II to 5 MByte and I thought it to
>be a good idea, using a big ram-cache of 512 KByte.
RAM caching is like aspirin in times of headache; a pill or two will make
you better, but the whole bottle will definitely make you ill !!
Having 512k worth of un-updated disk blocks on volatile RAM is not a
good idea. Rather than going into a discussion of how it works, I
suggest you get a copy of TechNote # 81, 'Caching', where it is all
explained. It is available in the info-mac archives, as /tn/tn081.hqx
Regards,
Juan
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 11:35 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Resubmission of MW Jukebox info
(This replaces my previous posting which was somewhat garbled
by local tranmission errors)
MusicWorks Jukebox requires that you have the MusicWorks demo file
also in the archives. Under no circumstances will the applications work
on a Mac II, but should work fine on a Plus--you might have to use an MFS
disk and/or older Finder, however. The JukeBox program is crude, but
MusicWorks has never been upgraded since its introduction in Fall, 1985.
How's that for support? (At least I have never been informed of an
upgrade.)
There is a public domain version of ConcertWare+ that runs on a II. Like
PD MusicWorks, it will only allow you to play the files, but not alter
them. (So far as I know PD ConcerWare+ is not in the Info-Mac archives)
Jim Clark
------------------------------
Date: 25 May 1989 00:36:47 EST
From: Stew.Rubenstein@lhasa.harvard.edu
Subject: TextEdit
In response to Brian Candler's query regarding TextEdit:
I use styled TextEdit to allow small blocks of styled text in a MacDraw-like
program that I wrote and market called ChemDraw. I believe MacDraw uses
it too.
There are lots of places besides word processors which could use styled
TextEdit. In my opinion, any application of any kind which allows the
editing of text, but only single-font unstyled text, is behind the times
and should be fixed. Of course, the fix ought to start with Apple making
it easier to use styled text - it should be set up so that you have to do
something special to get unstyled text for some special application.
Stew Rubenstein
Internet: rubenstein@harvard.harvard.edu
AppleLink: D1481
CompuServe: 76525,421
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 20:52:53 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Transforming IBM VM/SP LISTING files into Mac semi-formatted text
I am looking for a way to transport IBM VM/SP LISTING type text files,
with carriage control characters into some suitable Mac text processor
document, without losing the scant formatting afforded by the carriage
controls. The idea is to transform the CC chars into the appropiate format
for the text processor to understand: i.e, transform the '1' into an
equivalent 'skip to next page', the '0' into a 'double space before',
etc.
I would like the resultant Mac document to be in MacWrite, MS Word,
MS Works, WriteNow or PageMaker format. I'm thinking of either a program
to read the text file and output a file in the proper format or perhaps
a macro.
Does anybody have something along these lines ? Any help will be greatly
appreciated.
Juan Courcoul
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 24 May 89 16:25 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Vision sequencer
I and others are trying to find a copy of Opcodes new Vision sequencer.
Would someone mind either posting it to the SUMEX archives or Emailing
me a copy. Thanks.
Stan Armstrong.
Religious Studies Dept
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, N.S.,CANADA, B3H 3C3
(902)420-5866
USENET: att!clyde!watmath!water!dalcs!armstrng
BITNET:ARMSTRONG@STMARYS.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 24 May 89 14:10 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Word 4.0 Symbols
One of the more annoying features of Microsoft Word 4.0
is the use of a rather pale gray for the special
symbols displayed after a show-paragraphs command.
While this is not a problem unless you are actually
using the color capabilities on a so-equiped system, it
certainly is a pain to go back aand forth between 2- and
8-bit mode to be able to easily see the symbols.
I took a look through the resource fork (with Resedit) but
couldn't find an edit-able resource to correct the problem.
I called Microsoft's support line..the person I spoke with
didn't think I could change the characteristics of the
symbols and so...I turn to the net to see if anyone has
found a way to correct this. Thanks.
David Elbert
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388 3711 x5652
Elbert@midd.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 16:15:16 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Yet another word 4.0 bug
The problem:
Fractional widths on and right justification does not work - the lines
are no longer all right justified (some or most may be, but not all).
The workaround:
Drop either right justification or fractional widths. Both
unacceptable.
Are we in for another word 3.0 public beta-release debacle?
-- Sigurd
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 28 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 97
Today's Topics:
Appleshare and TOPS...
comp.sys.mac gateway?
Converting mainframe carriage controls
Databases (2 pages)
DiscClip - preserve clipboard between reboots
Dragger 1.2
HPDJ Driver/DeskJet+ Problem solved!
Mac and Picture Archives
Music FUN 1.0 (Demo)
Oracle/Mac sample stacks wanted
PostScript
Spelling checker for Textures?
Virtually new operating systems
Where to get information about Tiff files
Word and fractional widths
WriteNow 2.0 lockup problems fix
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
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Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 12:40:19 EDT
From: (David Gursky) <dmg@mitre.mitre.org> <dmg>
Subject: Appleshare and TOPS...
Is it possible for a specific volume to be accesible through both Appleshare
and TOPS *simultaneously*?
The problem I am looking at is sharing files among Macs and Suns. I'm
concerned about the problems I have heard about lately with TOPS, and that
TOPS does not (nor will it in the future if I understand correctly) AFP.
Consequently I want to move away from a completely TOPS-based solution. At
the same time, I will need to share files among SUN workstations, and the only
solution I am aware of for this is TOPS. [Oh, I should restate that. I need
to share files among SUN workstations and Macs.]
Regards,
David
Disclaimer: Dis is soup. Dis is art. Soup. Art. (Apologies to Lily Tomlin)
David Gursky Internet: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive, MS Z080
McLean, VA 22102 703.883.7790
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 May 89 14:14:45 EDT
From: thoyt@ddn-wms.arpa (Thomas Hoyt)
Subject: comp.sys.mac gateway?
Hi,
Does anyone know how to access the newsgroups comp.sys.mac or comp.
sys.mac.programmer from an Internet site? Is there a gatewayed mailing
list like info-apple(comp.sys.apple)? Alas, we are not connected to
Usenet here. Post directly to me...I can summarize if interest warrants.
Thanks.
******
Thomas Hoyt | "Government Computers for Government business..."
CRC Systems, Inc. | "NO FUN ALLOWED..."
thoyt@ddn-wms.arpa | "Oh no...it's written in COBOL..."
******
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 May 89 18:38:34 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Converting mainframe carriage controls
>I am looking for a way to transport IBM VM/SP LISTING type text files,
>with carriage control characters into some suitable Mac text processor
>with carriage control characters into some suitable Mac text processor
>document, without losing the scant formatting afforded by the carriage
>controls. The idea is to transform the CC chars into the appropiate format
>for the text processor to understand: i.e, transform the '1' into an
>equivalent 'skip to next page', the '0' into a 'double space before',
>etc.
I know know how to handle the '1' for skip to next page. Simply do a
search and replace with some sufficiently powerful editor or file
manipulator like McSink or Add/Strip. Search for a carriage return (CR)
followed by '1' and replace with CR followed by a Ctrl-L. Note that in
McSink, a CR is specfied by \R and a form feed (Ctrl-L) by \F. Word will
interpret the Ctrl-L as a page break. Word can also be used for the search
and replace, but will bog down on large files. Use ↑P for a CR (Paragraph
break) and ↑L for Ctrl-L when doing search and replace in Word.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 May 89 15:13:32 -0400
From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (William (Liam) Grant)
Subject: Databases (2 pages)
Here at work, we would like to keep a list of articles in some
sort of database. Standard bibliography stuff and some local info.
[IE Title, Author, Date, Magazine, Local Source (Whose office, and which
drawer), etc.]
Hypercard seemed ideal for this at first, just create a card catalog type
of stack and type it all in. However, then we tried searching through it.
My boss would like to be able to search a particular field for a particular
string. [IE. A command would allow him to search the title field for all
titles containing the string ↑Navy↑ and get back a list of titles.]
For short databases, searching for just the next card might be all right,
but this is too ungainly the way things are here.
Also, being selective to just one field would help. A lot of these
articles seem to have quite a few words in common with the authors names or
the magazine names.
Can I do this in Hypercard ? How ? (I can program, but am just starting
Hypercard [READ, opened the shrinkwrap last night on my copy]). Can anyone
recommend other software packages instead ? Reasonable prices only. I
don;t want to spend a grand on this.
Thanks.
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
William (Leprechaun Liam) Grant Grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Code 5541 (202) 767-2392
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C. 20375
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 25 May 89 11:49:55 BST
From: np%doc.imperial.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Subject: DiscClip - preserve clipboard between reboots
DiscClip is a simple program which preserves the contents of the Clipboard
between reboots. IM 5 states that the Shutdown Manager saves the clipboard
to disc when you Restart/Shutdown - this gave me the idea, unfortunatly
I found that (at least on a Mac Plus Sys 6.0.2) the Clipboard isn't saved...
This program should be set as your startup application (if run from
the finder it will clear the Clipboard and replace it with whatever was
on it at the last shutdown). FreeWare - enjoy.
UK Mac'ers: This file may be retrieved from macserve at irlearn (Dublin)
via bitnet or fileserv%irlearn@earn-relay from Janet sites.
Nigel
[Archived as /info-mac/util/clipboard-saver.hqx; 4K]
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Date: Sat, 27 May 89 17:56:00 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Dragger 1.2
[Dragger 1.1]
Dragger is a Control Panel document which lets you drag images,
such as windows or the thumbs of scroll bars, as solids, or as
semi-transparent shapes, instead of by their outlines. It's
free but copyrighted -- you can't sell it.
I find this particularly useful for laying out DITLs in ResEdit,
but it also lets you see how much of the material in a window
will be obscured or off the screen while you're still dragging.
Version 1.2 allows the user to specify the largest window size
to be dragged as a solid. Windows largest than this are still
dragged as outlines.
Oliver Steele
UNC-CH Linguistics
steele@cs.unc.edu
...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/dragger-12.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 23:57:28 PDT
From: anderson@duke.stanford.edu (Greg Anderson)
Subject: HPDJ Driver/DeskJet+ Problem solved!
A few days ago I posted a request for help in getting the new HP DeskJet+
printer to work using the HPDJ Driver that had recently been posted to
the net. As it turned out, cable confusion was the culprit--
a modem cable is not the same as a printer cable (thanks, Apple!),
though they certainly look the same. The HPDJ Driver appears to work
equally well with the DeskJet and the new DeskJet+, based on what
I've read in comp.sys.mac; I don't have a DeskJet to make a direct
comparison.
Thanks to Olli Arnberg, one of the authors of the HPDJ Driver, for
his quick response to my plea for help.
Greg Anderson
Stanford University
anderson@oasis.stanford.edu
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 May 89 23:35:43 19
From: "Darren" <dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Subject: Mac and Picture Archives
In this package is a list of all the Mac and Picture archives that I
know of. In it is a directory listing (ls -CR), the internet routing
number and the date the archive was taken. I will be doing this once
a month sometime in the middle to the end. If you see any errors or
omissions then please send them to me at the address below. (I only
need the name and internet number).
--
Torin/Darren Stalder/Wolf
Blessed Internet: dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
Be! Bitnet: dstalder@gmuvax
ATTnet: 1-703-883-5747
Hail uucp: multiverse!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!dstalder
Eris! Snail: 1350 Beverly Rd., Suite 115-223/McLean, VA 22101/USA
DISCLAIMER: I have enough problems getting credit what I do do for
work, much less this stuff.
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/archive-listings.hqx; 190K]
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Date: Thu, 25 May 89 16:04:20 EDT
From: William Ermey <MU406000%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Music FUN 1.0 (Demo)
This is the Demo Version of Music Fun 1.0, a new interactive,
game-like learning environment to practice basic skills of music
THEORY.
Subjects covered in the program include: note names; layout of the
piano keyboard; major and minor key signatures; scales (including
major, three forms of minor, church modes, wholetone, and
pentatonic); intervals and their inversions; triads and seventh
chords and their inversions; clefs (optionally, soprano, alto, tenor
and bass); and ear-training practice.
Answers are accepted by typing, playing notes on a keyboard (full
MIDI compatibility in full version), or placing notes on the staff.
MUSIC FUN WAS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM ERMEY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MUSIC
AT BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Requires System 6.0 & 128K ROM or later, and StuffIt 1.5.1 for
off-line decoding.
Doc in MacWrite format.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/music-fun.hqx; 195K]
------------------------------
Date: 26 May 89 10:25 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Oracle/Mac sample stacks wanted
Date: 26 May 1989, 10:23:54 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Oracle/Mac sample stacks wanted
We're ready to get started in earnest leaning what Oracle/Mac and Oracle/VMS
can do together--but the samples in the Oracle/Mac package leave quite a bit
to be desired ( :-( ). Does anyone out there have any sample stacks for Oracle
you can post me--or post to the net, for wider distribution? Either way, I
(and I bet lots of others!) thank you.
===============================================================================
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University of Cincinnati Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574
Medical Center Information and Communications | 513-558-6046 (W), 731-3451 (H)
Information Research and Development | WMLBTAM@UCCCVM1, NTS WB8VNV,
==============================================| or AppleLink U1091
Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'! | (you-one-zero-nine-one)
===============================================================================
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 11:28 EDT
From: <PORTERG%VCUVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Greg Porter)
Subject: PostScript
In several of the ftp archives there are collections of *.ps art,
which I am assuming are PostScript. Downloading them, I indeed find they are
text files chock full of PS code. Now, as a relative amateur, I have no idea
in hell of how to get my NT to take this and turn it into "pritty picksures".
Help?
Greg Porter
PORTERG@VCURUBY (Bitnet)
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 10:21:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: David Wilson <David.Wilson@scarecrow.waisman.wisc.edu>
Subject: Spelling checker for Textures?
> Is there a spelling checker DA available which will work within Textures?
> Texture's source files are just ASCII text. Ideally the spelling checker
> would ignore words beginning with / and text between $'s, and would allow
> customization of the dictionary, word correction in place, etc.
Spelling Champion does handle text files as well as MacWrite files through
version 5.0 and Word files through version 3.01. There is not much of a
market for independent spelling checkers anymore, so I had not been
planning on any futher work on Spelling Champion. I am, however, willing
to supply Spelling Champion source after the proper non-disclosure forms
have been filled out. It is written in Softworks C under MDS. The
modification to make it ignore words beginning with / and text between $'s
should not be hard. If there is a market for Textures spelling checkers,
we could come to some marketing agreement.
Spelling Champion is an application rather than a DA.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 27 May 89 14:28:20 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Virtually new operating systems
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the June 1989 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
Apple Operating System Upgrades.
Apple has announced System Software 5.0 for the IIgs
(release date this Summer) and System 7.0 for Macintosh
systems with a minimum of 2 Mbytes of RAM (release date
first quarter 1990). The new IIgs system includes AppleTalk
access and generally improved performance. Software written
for the new ExpressLoad development tools will load up to
four times faster than current versions. The big news about
Macintosh System 7.0 is virtual memory (protected mode
multitasking is expected in version 8.0 currently planned
for 1991), but the Interapplications Communications (IAC)
architecture may be as important. Applications written
using the IAC tools will be able to dynamically share data
among applications (either running in other windows at a
single workstation or on another workstation in a network).
A Macintosh with either a 68030 processor or a 68551 memory
management unit and a 68020 will be required to implement
virtual memory. Rumors say Apple will by-pass A/Ux 1.2 and
await version 2.0 (under development under the code name
"Space Cadet") in about a year.
- Apple Press Releases 5 and 9 May and
MacWeek 2, 9, and 16 May
Future of MS-DOS.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has told members of the Boston
Computer Society that his company is working on another
major upgrade (5.0) of the DOS operating system. He also
said Microsoft plans to remove the operating system's
current memory constraint. A 32-bit (80386) version of OS/2
which also will be i486 compatible is scheduled for release
sometime next year. - InfoWorld 1 May and PC Week 8 May
Floptical Drives For the People.
Quadram of Norcross, Georgia plans to begin shipping Brier's
25 Mbyte (21.4 Mbytes formatted) floptical disk drives (see
last January's column) on September 1. An internal model
($800) and an external model ($1,000) will be offered under
the brand name QuadFlextra. Media will retail for $20 a
disk. A 50 Mbyte drive (43.2 Mbytes formatted) which also
will read standard 720 Kbyte and 1.44 Mbyte 3.5 inch disks
is anticipated by next January. - PC Week 1 May
Apple Product Announcements.
Current plans call for multiple network product
announcements on June 12 including TokenTalk, a NuBus
token-ring adapter, for the Macintosh II family (available
by the third quarter of the fiscal year for between $1,200
and $1,300). The schedule for the LapMac has slipped again
(what else is new?), and introduction of the 25 MHz IIcx
(see last month's column) also has been delayed. Apple
plans to announce both in time for the Christmas selling
season - that is, by October 15. By year's end, look for an
announcement of a 33 MHz 68030 Mac scheduled for limited
production as early as next January. The current Mac SE and
SE-30 will be replaced by the end of 1990 by a similar color
Mac. - MacWeek 25 April and 16 May
The Unknown Computer.
This summer IBM will officially introduce a "personal
mainframe" which Big Blue has been selling since last
August, but only to customers who requested it. The
MCA-based Personal System/370 combines a PS/2 Model 60 or 80
with a $25,000 computer formally titled the 7437 VM/SP
Technical Workstation. The Personal System/370 runs VM/SP 5
and CMS. - PC Week 24 April
EISA Hardware.
Demonstration prototypes of the first Extended Industry
Standard Architecture (AT-bus card compatible) computers and
32-bit add-in boards should finally be ready by mid-summer.
Volume shipping of the new computers should begin about the
time of Fall Comdex. - PC Week 1 May
Faster Math Coprocessors.
Integrated Information Technology has announced plug and
object code compatible math coprocessors to compete with
Intel's 80287 and 80387 chips. The IIT-2C87 is twice as
fast as the 80287 and the IIT-3C87 is 50 percent faster than
the 80387 (they execute floating point instructions in fewer
clock cycles). Volume quantities are scheduled for the
third quarter at prices which match Intel's.
- InfoWorld 24 April
If the i486 Isn't Fast Enough.
If you long for even more power than offered by the i486
PC's which will begin arriving next year (see last month's
column), you'll be able to get an immediate two to threefold
performance gain by adding a floating-point coprocessor from
Weitek. The Abacus 4167 chip is expected to be available in
sample quantities in September with full production planned
for next February. A $1,000 retail price is anticipated.
- PC Week 8 May and InfoWorld 8 May
Upward Compatible.
Cheetah International has announced a 33 MHz 80386 computer
for the third quarter this year that is designed for an easy
plug-in upgrade to an i486 system - InfoWorld 24 April
Lap Atari.
If you've grown tired of waiting forever for a LapMac, Atari
expects to begin offering a 15 pound portable version of the
popular ST, known as Stacy, this month. The Stacy laptop
has an 8 MHz 68C000, 1 Mbyte of RAM, a 640 by 400 supertwist
LCD display, and a track ball to serve as a mouse. The
rechargeable battery pack has a capacity of five to eight
hours. A single floppy version has a list price of $1,495
while a Stacy with a 20 Mbyte hard disk will retail for
$1,995. - InfoWorld 24 April
Laptop RISC Workstation?
Sun has licensed its S-bus technology to Mission Cyrus, a
Vancouver, BC start-up which is hard at work on a SPARC
portable. Mission Cyrus hopes to introduce a portable RISC
workstation early next year. - InfoWorld 24 April
8 Mbyte Spreadsheet Anyone?
Microsoft Excel Version 2.2 for the Macintosh is due to ship
before the end of the second quarter. The new release
averages 40 percent faster than the current version (1.5)
and can address up to 8 Mbytes of memory. Excel 2.2 is
functionally compatible with the MS-DOS Windows version (the
two products share 80 percent of their code), and a
Presentation Manager version is under development. Excel's
graphics still pale by comparison to those produced by
Informix's Wingz. - MacWeek 2 May
MS-DOS Software from Claris?
Although Claris officials deny it, rumors persist that, once
the firm goes public, there will be a Windows version of
FileMaker. Claris is a licensed Windows developer and
Windows FileMaker code was obtained when the company
purchased Nashoba software. - MacWeek 25 April
New Language Products.
Borland is suspending work on Turbo Basic and Turbo ProLog
in order to concentrate on Turbo Pascal, C, and Assembler.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning a continuing string of
announcements for new versions of Quick Pascal, Quick
Assembler, and professional C. - InfoWorld 15 May
Norton Utilities for the Mac.
Peter Norton is about to release a book tentatively titled
"Inside the Macintosh," and a package of disk management and
data recovery utilities for the Mac is under development for
release "in this decade" (purists will note that 1990 is the
last year in the current decade). - MacWeek 25 April
Bits of Data.
Apple's unit sales of personal computers in 1988 exceeded
IBM's for the first time since the IBM-PC was introduced in
1981. According to the Software Publishers Association,
educational software sales in 1988 were: Macintosh $5
million, Commodore $5.4 million, Apple II $80.0 million
(that is, if Apple does drop that II line, buy stock in
Video Technologies -- makers of the successful series of
Laser 128 Apple clones). IBM has been referred to in this
column and elsewhere as "Big Blue" for years, but the
company didn't get around to registering the nickname until
last year. Now IBM's lawyers are trying to get computer
products distributor Big Blue Products (incorporated in
1984) to stop using the name (nearly as much fun at the
Beatles' Apple Corp record label trying to keep Apple
Computer from putting it's name on "musical" products like
the IIgs).
- InfoWorld 15 May, MacWeek 16 May, and InCider June
Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
(203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM]
-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
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Date: Fri 26 May 1989 10:26 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Where to get information about Tiff files
Information and sources can be found from:
Dest Corporation
1201 Cadillac Court
Milpitas, CA 95035
c/o Research & Development
(408)946-7100
The phone number will give you the front desk, and they will then turn you
over to a pre-recorded message telling how to get the Tiff library.
Bears Rivers is no longer handling this package, and has turned this over to
Dest Corp.
Send a $25.00 check to them, with information about what machine(ibm or Mac)
and they will ship Macintosh Source and object files, TACS Documentation,
Demonstration Programs and source. The source code is in MWP 2 C. It will
not compile without changes to the source code even if CCVT is used. Every
thing comes on Two disks, including documentation. Documentation is also
given to you in hard copy format. I also think they wanted your "company"
name, your name, phone number, address, shipping address.
I have the package, and if someone where to call Dest, and get the "OK" to
put it on the net, that could be done. But $25.00 dollars is pretty cheap
for all the information that is received. Too bad they do not have an
updated version for easy Mpw 3.0 compilation. When converting the code to
Mpw 3.0 C source, it shows how much more information, and possible bugs could
crop up in the older C compilers. I have found some "minor" mistakes or
oversights which Mpw 3.0 C points out, such as not casting to the type they
had set up. Also I have only changed the MPW tool td (tiff dump) over to 3.0 C
so far, and its a small program.
The documentation states that Manny Vellon from Microsoft (Windows Marketing
Group) is working with Tiff. This is not true anymore.
Also...an oversight; They have a Disclaimer and Product License Agreement, so
I doubt they would want the package sent over the net...but you never know.
Hope this was not too long, and gives some more information about where to
get Tiff information. Also I posted a small file about the tiff file:
19071 Apr 13 18:23 ./misc/tiff-file-format.txt
scott hutinger
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 18:48:20 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Word and fractional widths
>The problem:
>Fractional widths on and right justification does not work - the lines
>are no longer all right justified (some or most may be, but not all).
Are the lines no longer right-justified on the screen, printout, or both?
Under Word 3.02, fractional widths and right-justified text printed fine,
but did not show on screen as right justified. This was not a bug, but
just one of the "features" of using fractional widths (besides the slow
display speed) in Word.
I have found that using Adobe's screen fonts (which include bold, italic,
and bold-italic fonts) produces results that look as good as using
fractional widths, without the drawbacks.
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Date: 25 May 89 06:58 EDT
From: science@nems.arpa (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: WriteNow 2.0 lockup problems fix
In answer to my query, John_Anderson@NeXT.COM has been exceedingly helpful;
he reports that the problem is associated with making large numbers of ruler
changes (format alterations), and that he is mailing me a fix for it. His
attitude is great: "I will make every effort to fix every last bug and
give everyone who has any problem a fixed version. Feel free to pass it along
to other people who have similar problems. We like to have happy customers..."
As I hope I made clear in my previous msg, I already like WriteNow a lot
better than any other WORD processor; this user-oriented response by the
company strengthens that feeling.... ↑z
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∂29-May-89 1724 P.STINSON@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Using BinHex 5 to decompress sounds
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Subject: Using BinHex 5 to decompress sounds
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I've had trouble un-binhexing some (but not all) of the "sound" packages
available
on the info-mac archives on sumex.
A "cover letter" attached to the source code for BinHex (also in the info-mac
archives)
indicates that some files with names that are "too long" can be compressed with
BinHex, but can't be uncompressed. Is that what's been happening here?
Specifically, I have had the problem trying to decompress the Roseann Barr
sounds
with BinHex 5. Thanks in advance for any help!
Chris Stinson
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Using BinHex 5.0 doesn't work very well for some reason. Use either BinHex 4.0
or StuffIt 1.5.1. StuffIt seems to be the most robust in my experience.
Bill
∂30-May-89 1240 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu DRAM for Sale...
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Subject: DRAM for Sale...
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I have 4 256K SIMM's for sale. They are 120ns.
Price: $145.00 for all 4.
Beats the bookstore by $50, not to mention the real world.
If you are interested, contact me via e-mail rdsesq@jessica.stanford.edu
rob
∂30-May-89 1555 H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu Changing the Disk ICON
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From: Han Chiu <H.HANCHIU@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Changing the Disk ICON
To: su-macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu, smug@hamlet.stanford.edu,
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In a February 1987 Mac USER page 108- 134 they discuss how one can "dress your
mac for success". By this they mean use resedit and fedit to change the welcome
message, full screen startup screen and the DISK ICON. The latter is supposedly
done by setting the ID # of any desktop icon on the disk you wish to have
the disk icon changed to 129. Since this is an old article I've presumed that
this technique no longer works, if anyone knows how to get it to work
or has anyother ideas besided using FACADE, please let me know.
Han
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∂31-May-89 0119 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #98
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #98
To: info-mac-list@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Info-Mac Digest Tue, 30 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 98
Today's Topics:
[DCGQAL]FALK2!Re: Can filenames be auto...
[Info-Mac Digest V7 #96]
Anybody have x-, y-, & z-modem source?
Appleshare on Suns
Color/grey scale graphics in Word 4.0 - how to print?
creepy drive problem related to bad scsi cable
FDHD drive compatibility
HPopUpMenu version 2
Info-Mac Digest V7 #96
Mac II fan noise - an Apple approved solution
MACs vs PCs
Mac Yacc
OCR font (Postscript)
Outline fonts
Printing PostScript files
Procyon Common Lisp
Rationale for new TextStyle:Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #95
SAS for Mac
Scrapz DA
Scrollinit
Update for Boot Check INIT
Word and fractional widths
word counter
Yet another Word 4.0 bug (from Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>)
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 00:14:45 PDT
From: "[DCGQAL]FALK2" <XB.DAS@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: [DCGQAL]FALK2!Re: Can filenames be auto...
In Info-Mac digest 7/96 Joe Fritz (V120J88X@UBVMS) asked:
> We require that the filename of our drawing (Cricket) and word
> processing documents (Word 4.0) be printed at the bottom of
> eprintedd page so we can easily locate them on the Mac later.
>
> The brute force solution is to type it in a footnote or add text to
> the bottom of the drawing. But is there a way to automate this?
> Afterall, the Laserwriter knows the filename of the document being
> printed.
There is a product called "PostScript Job Log", which prints the name of the
document, the user who printed it, the number of pages, and the processing time
of the LaserWriter in a 4 point font on the very last page of each print job
sent to the LaserWriter.
The program is currently under development, but it should be available by the
end of June. For more information contact:
Hard+Soft Computer Marketing GmbH
Seilersttte 16
A-1010 Wien
Austria (Europe)
Phone#: [43] (222) 513-4755
FAX#: [43] (222) 513-7671
Hope this helps.
Alexander Falk
=END=
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Date: Sat, 27 May 89 10:45:17 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: [Info-Mac Digest V7 #96]
1. Prestel emulation: when I was a Prestel subscriber, I used the Pretzel
desk accessory; I have version 1.6, but I'm sure there have been
subsequent releases, so I am reluctant to upload it to the archives.
It works very well, supports the graphics (but not double height/flashing,
I don't know about colour), and even has ResEdit-programmable function
buttons. Shareware fee (at the time I paid it) was UK#10 or equivalent
to the famine relief charity of your choice.
2. SCSI Mac to Mac: sounds very dodgy! I didn't think you could unmount a
hard disk by dragging it to the trash; however (on my SE at least) you
can force it not to mount the internal HD at all by holding down Command-
Option-Shift-Delete (!!) while booting from floppy.
Having done that, you'd need a 25 to 25 way cable with all pins
connected (see Inside Mac V4 p252 for pinout), and hope that the Mac
isn't confused by another machine taking over bus mastership!
The SCSI standard in fact allows multiple bus masters just as you want;
it's a shame that Apple's subset of SCSI doesn't support this.
Brian Candler
BTC10@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX
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Date: Sat, 27 May 89 17:06:57 CDT
From: "David Richardson, UTA" <B645ZAX@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu>
Subject: Anybody have x-, y-, & z-modem source?
A freind of mine (who cannot get info-mac) is looking for sources or detailed
protocal descriptions of the Ymodem, Zmodem, Xmodem-CRC, & Macbinary
protocals. If you know of any other protocals he should include in his BBS,
please let him know.
If you know where he or I can get them, mail both of us, or, if you have them,
mail him. I can get files for him through ftp or LISTSERV (on Bitnet).
He is Andy Kuykendall, ANDY.KUYKENDALL@F13.N130.Z1.FIDONET.ORG, Fido 1:130/13
-David Richardson, b645zax@utarlg.arl.utexas.edu or @utarlg.bitnet
span: utspan::utadnx::utarlg::b645zax +1 817 461 4799, Also: Fido 1:130/13
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Date: Mon, 29 May 89 16:48:06 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Appleshare on Suns
>"... I will need to share files among SUN (and Mac) workstations, and
>the only solution I am aware of for this is TOPS..."
Appleshare server software is available for the Sun and I think it is
free. We have it working on our Sun server here at the UBC Computing
Centre and that way, we can pass files amongst all the Macs very
easily using the Appleshare workstation software that comes with every
Mac. I didn't set it up, so I don't know any other details. I'm sure
someone else on the net can elaborate.
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Date: Mon, 29 May 89 12:21:39 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Color/grey scale graphics in Word 4.0 - how to print?
I have a MS Word 4.0 document with a glorious picture of the Golden
Gate Bridge. On screen it is reproduced in colors, but when printed it
comes out stark black and white. How can I get the laserwriter to
print it using grey scales? The same problem arises when I want to
print grey scale pictures.
-- Sigurd
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Date: Sat, 27 May 89 17:55 EDT
From: <ELJAZZAR%UTKVX3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: creepy drive problem related to bad scsi cable
> I reported problems with my scsi devices, namely my se/30's internal hard
> drive. Very strange problem indeed.
>
> [ se/30 ] --> [ apple cd- ] -> [ apple scanner ] -> terminator
Remove the terminator.. Somewhere in the CD-ROM installation manual, it says
not to use a terminator if you have an "internal" hard disk. Maybe that's the
problem..
Mohamad El Jazzar
UT Computing Center
Knxville, Tenn.
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 09:45 EST
From: <J_RICHAR%HVRFORD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FDHD drive compatibility
Does anyone have experience moving DSDD disks back and forth between
the 800K and 1.4MB drives? Apple is very non-committal about whether they
are 100% compatible.
And while I'm asking: has anyone had trouble with 800K disk drives
in SEs or Mac IIs bought last summer? We bought 12 SEs, and five or six boot
disks go bad each week. It's always the same problem -- physical damage to
one of the first sectors on the disk. Usually, all files can be recovered with
First Aid Kit or SUM, but the disk can not be reinitialized. We sent one system
back to Apple, but they claimed they couldn't find any problem. They said it
might be inadequate power.
Send responses to either question to me or info-mac. I will summarize
if appropriate.
Jan Richard
Haverford College
Bitnet: J_RICHARD@HVRFORD
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Date: Fri, 26 May 89 14:16:41 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: HPopUpMenu version 2
Here is version 2 of my HPopUpMenu XFCN for Hypercard. It fixes two bugs that
only seemed to occur infrequently (to some people) and adds an installation
button. Thanks to all the people who sent in Shareware payments. I hope this
proves as useful for everyone as it has for me.
HPopupMenu provides an hierarchical popup menu anywhere on a card. The menu
can have or not have submenus (which means it can function as a regular popup
menu - only one XFCN does both). It adjusts itself to the card window for
large monitors. It can have an almost unlimited (I said almost) number of
menu items (1056 to be precise). Its syntax is flexible (commas or
semicolons). It can popup or pulldown. You can select the main menu item of a
submenu (honest, this was trouble to do). All the menu meta-characters work
(this would have been hard to prevent). It slices, it dices, and it is
essentially free (unless you like paying people for their hard work).
Share and enjoy.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.llnl.gov
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
If you shoot a mime, do you have to use a silencer?
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu-20.hqx; 33K]
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Date: Sun, 28 May 89 21:53:51 EDT
From: john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #96
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #96 you write:
>Date: Fri, 26 May 89 13:43 EDT
>From: V120J88X@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
>Subject: Can filenames be automatically printed with the doc?
>
>We require that the filename of our drawing (Cricket) and word
>processing documents (Word 4.0) be printed at the bottom of
>eprintedd page so we can easily locate them on the Mac later.
>
>The brute force solution is to type it in a footnote or add text to
>the bottom of the drawing. But is there a way to automate this?
>Afterall, the Laserwriter knows the filename of the document being
>printed.
>
>Joe Fritz
>V120J88X@UBVMS
Sure. In fact, you can get the document name in the same way
that the LaserWriter does, from statusdict/jobname.
Enter the following three lines of PostScript code into your
MS Word document and format it with style "PostScript".
statusdict/jobname get(document: )search{pop pop(;)search
{3 1 roll pop pop}if/Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont
72 36 moveto show}{pop}ifelse
This will display the name of your document (or "Untitled1" etc.)
at co-ordinates (72, 36) from the lower left corner of your page
in 12 point Helvetica. Two caveats: (1) if your document name has
a semicolon embedded in it, everything after the semicolon will
be truncated in accordance with PostScript conventions; and (2)
graphic characters whose Macintosh and PostScript encodings are
different may be incorrectly represented. You can alter the
PostScript to fix this if you like, but (1) document names shouldn't
have semicolons in them and (2) I can't think of a way to do this
that doesn't rely on a knowledge of the names of certain procedures
in the current version of appledict.
You can do the same trick with Cricket Draw, although it gets
a bit more complicated. You have to build an EPSF document
that contains those three lines of PostScript, and then use
the Get Document menu command to include it into your CD document.
In both cases, if you are going to be doing a lot of this you
will presumably want to set up a template document that has
the PostScript in it to use as stationery.
Please send e-mail if you have any questions re: the above.
John
--
john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329
trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john
dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}
--
john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329
trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john
dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 13:39:41 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Mac II fan noise - an Apple approved solution
Yesterday I received a little gadget, which reduces the fan noise to
practically nothing. And it is approved by Apple, so the warranty,
Apple Care etc. are not invalidated.
The gadget is a sensor which regulates the fan speed. Cool mac -> no
noise, hot mac -> full wind tunnel blast.
My mac has an ethernet card and a Supermac color card, and the fan is
barely idling.
I got my fan controller from Nova Norway, but the original source is
NOVA AB
Kampegatan 16
41104 Goteborg
Sweden
The company has an American branch (or is it vice versa?):
NOVA INTERNATIONAL
435 N. 34th Str.
Seattle, WA 98103
USA
-- Sigurd Meldal
SDA & I am just a happy customer.
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Date: 26 May 89 14:50:00 CST
From: "UL1::BRADLEY" <bradley%ul1.decnet@ua1.eglin.af.mil>
Subject: MACs vs PCs
E G L I N A F B
I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M
Date: 26-May-1989 02:39pm CDT
From: DON E BRADLEY
BRADLEY
Dept: AFATL/XPM
Tel No: 904 882 8235
TO: _MAILER! ( _DDN[INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU] )
Subject: MACs vs PCs
I am working as a consultant for a group of people who are very heavy into
producing technical documentation. I have always been a PC user and have no
direct experience using a MacIntosh computer. My people are very interested
in using desktop publishing (e.g. Interleaf and Ventura) with additional
graphics support. I need to create a briefing that discusses the pros/cons of
the MacIntosh vs PC environments for this application (large technical
publications with extensive graphics). If anyone has produced such a document
(or anything that compares Macs to PCs), I would appreciate it if you could
mail me a copy. I am not a member of INFO-MAC, so please send any replies
directly to me. If there is enough interest, I will consolidate the responses
and put them back out on the net.
Thanks,
Don Bradley
DDN Address: BRADLEY@EGLIN-VAX.ARPA
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Date: Sat, 27 May 89 20:56:10 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Mac Yacc
I recently downloaded Mac Yacc from an outstation of the Info-Mac archives. It
claims to be version 0.3 (3/15/86) in the About box, and version 0.4 (3/18/86)
>From the Finder info window.
There are a number of minor problems with it:
1. '\n' in productions is interpreted as character code 13, rather than code 10
(the latter is what THINK C returns, for Un*x compatibility). Workaround:
either use '\012' or get the lexical analyser to return a NEWLINE token.
2. The program ignores the HFS; it will only open and create files in the root
directory. Why on earth this should be is anyone's guess.
3. Error reports in the output file (ie shift/reduce and reduce/reduce
conflicts) are output as a few characters of garbage instead of the appropriate
message, which makes grammar debugging a bit harder.
However, it otherwise appears to do its job well, and I am just writing this to
enquire if anyone knows of a later release of the program, and from where I
could get hold of a copy. (Also, the workaround information may be of use to
someone).
Brian Candler
BTC10@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX
"Feudalism - it's your count that votes!"
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Date: 28 May 89 18:02 EDT
From: rrenfro@dtoa1.dt.mil (Richard Renfro)
Subject: OCR font (Postscript)
In the never-ending quest for a simpler workplace, we would
like to make it easier to produce naval messages. The present
system requires manually (ugh!) typing the message on a pre-
printed form with a special OCR typeball. What we'd like to do
is have the Macintosh produce the entire message, form and
all. The only thing holding us up is finding a Postscript OCR
font.
Any clues would be appreciated!
Thanks
rrenfro@dtrc.arpa
Richard Renfro
David Taylor Research Center
Code 1401
Bethesda, MD 20084 - 5000
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 12:31:12 PDT
From: minow%bolt.DEC@decwrl.dec.com (Repent! Godot is coming soon! Repent!)
Subject: Outline fonts
Outline fonts is a Hypercard stack that demonstrates the Macintosh
system 7.0 outline font capability. There is some information about
the way font information is stored (including an example showing how
a character outline is converted to a bitmap) and a series of
screen images showing how fonts actually look in a "real" application.
Martin.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/outline-fonts-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/hypercard/outline-fonts-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/hypercard/outline-fonts-part3.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/hypercard/outline-fonts-part4.hqx; 110K]
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Date: Mon, 29 May 89 17:15:56 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Printing PostScript files
> In several of the ftp archives there are collections of *.ps
>art, which I am assuming are PostScript. Downloading them, I indeed
>find they are text files chock full of PS code. Now, as a relative
>amateur, I have no idea in hell of how to get my NT to take this and
>turn it into "pritty picksures".
You need the program "SendPS", "DistillPS" or the DA "PS Printer".
These should be available on Sumex.
Alternatively, you can put the code in Microsoft Word 3.0x or higher
and format the text as style "PostScript". See your manual for details.
Word will then send this text as PostScript instead of as plain text.
Another way is to set the TYPE of the file to EPSF and place this into
a program that accepts EPSF files, like PageMaker.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 26 May 1989 22:17:28 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Procyon Common Lisp
Apparently Procyon Common Lisp is real, but
I have never heard a whisper of advertising
about it. Apparently also, it is distributed
in the USA by Expertech, which I failed to
find in my Fall 1988 Mac buyer's guide.
Can anyone help with pointers to Expertech?
Thanks.
John
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 27 May 89 12:51:58 WET DST
From: Flash Sheridan <flash%cs.qmc.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Rationale for new TextStyle:Re: Info-Mac Digest V7 #95
Don't know what Apple's rationale was, but I wanted programs to use it so
that when I copy something from Acta to WriteNow I don't lose the styling
info.
---
>From: flash@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Reply-To: sheridan@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Portal,MacNet: FlashsMom
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 May 89 13:27 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SAS for Mac
I glibly told someone the other day that SAS was available for the Mac,
thinking later that what I might have seen was an ANNOUNCEMENT for SAS,
or MINITAB.
Any news, pointers, rumors would be appreciated.
Jim Clark
UT Martin
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 May 89 23:41:48 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: Scrapz DA
Scrapz Demo - A new Scrapbook DA
Scrapz is an enhanced scrapbook desk accessory which offers new
features. By letting you group the items any way you like Scrapz
will increase the usefullness of your scrapbook. Each group is
represented by a user defined icon and a name. A group is reached
by selecting its icon. Each item, picture or text, can be viewed
through the resizeable Scrapz window. Pictures can be shown either
in actual size or scaled to fit in the window. Scrapz has full colour
support. Text can be displayed with or without automatic line wrapping
and with style. If the items are to large to fit in the window you
can still look at any part by scrolling in any direction.
Scrapz allows complete or partial copying of pictures and text.
Scrapz directly imports Scrapbook, Scrapz, PICT and TEXT files.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/scrapz.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Mon, 29 May 89 08:38:16 EDT
From: FALK%NORUNIT.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Scrollinit
Hello!
Just downloaded cdev SCROLLIMIT from the archives, but I have problems.
The cdev applicationsmenu (v3.4) dont't work when SCROLLIMIT is active.
I'v tried to rename and change order of inits and cdevs, but without success.(On
Anybody out there who knows about a cdev (Simon ???) to change and set
items in Itl0 and Itl1 resources (international format parameters)
Regards Christian
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 May 89 17:39:21 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Update for Boot Check INIT
Attached is an update of John Rotenstein's nice Boot Check init.
This update works properly for MacII class machines, powering
down the machine rather than presenting a shutdown dialog endlessly
if unauthorized user attempts to boot. It works as before for
MacSE/+ class machines.
-- Don Gilbert, dogStar software, gilbertd@gold.bacs.indiana.edu
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - - - - - -
Boot Check is a simple security system designed to keep irritating
visitors off of your hard disk. This is done by performing a security
check when starting the system.
While it can be easily circumvented by booting from floppy, most
irritating users don't tend to be technically capable of realising this fact.
And if, by chance, said irritating users happen to discover your
keyboard code, it can be easily and quickly changed.
The file is in StuffIt format, with an instructions file enclosed.
Distributed under the HappiWare System --
IF YOU LIKE IT, REMEMBER TO SMILE!
John Rotenstein Internet johnr@runx.ips.oz.au
PO Box 165
Double Bay, NSW 2028. UUCP uunet!runx.ips.oz.au!johnr
AUSTRALIA.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/boot-check.hqx; 10K]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 May 89 09:21:26 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Word and fractional widths
The lines show as justified on the screen, but often are not on the
printout. The context is: Word 4.0, System 6.0.2, MacII, Adobe
Palatino font as distributed through the info-mac archives.
-- Sigurd
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 29 May 89 08:17 GMT
From: HOLEMANS%ccv.UIA.AC.BE@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: word counter
Hello,
I'm looking for a program that counts words (specific one of all words) in
a text. The program has to be written in Pascal, Fortran or Basic and should
do his search on one of the following file types : Mac World, Word, Word
Perfect or full ASCII text.
As I'm not a member of this list, please respond to me personally.
Thanks,
W. Holemans
Computer Centre
University of Antwerp
Belgium
EARN/BITNET : HOLEMANS @ BANUIA51
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 08:24:20 EDT
From: (David Gursky) <dmg@mitre.mitre.org> <dmg>
Subject: Yet another Word 4.0 bug (from Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>)
Someone left a message about this problem on the Twilight Clone here in DC.
Check the Page Setup command and ensure that Fractional Widths are enabled.
Word 4.0 does not ship with this feature enabled, you have to activate it
yourself.
Regards,
David
Disclaimer: Dis is soup. Dis is art. Soup. Art. (Apologies to Lily Tomlin)
David Gursky Internet: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive, MS Z080
McLean, VA 22102 703.883.7790
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Subject: changing the icon for your boot (hard) disk
To: SU-Macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
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Try the INIT metioned in this month's MacTutor. Here is the code:
#define NULL 0L
#define FALSE 0
#define TRUE 0xFF
main()
{
Ptr icn;
int error;
HParamBlockRec pb;
cntrlParam cpb;
Handle resHandle;
pb.volumeParam.ioNamePtr = NULL;
pb.volumeParam.ioVolIndex = 1;
error = PBHGetVInfo(&pb, FALSE);
cpb.ioRefNum = pb.volumeParam.ioVDRefNum;
cpb.ioVRefNum = pb.volumeParam.ioVDrvInfo;
cpb.csCode = 21;
error = PBControl(&cpb, FALSE);
icn = *(Ptr *) &cpb.csParam[0];
resHandle = GetResource('ICN#', 256);
BlockMove(*resHandle, icn, 256L);
}
Build it as a CODE resource, type INIT; add any desired ICN# with a resource
ID of 256. Put the file in the System Folder, eh voila!
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Floppy drive taken from Mac SE. $125/offer
Reply to besser@helens.Stanford.EDU or call
(415)723-1136
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From: dmr@csli.Stanford.EDU (Daniel M. Rosenberg)
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Almost whenever I print a reasonably complicated PageMaker 3.01 file
on our LaserWriter Plus, it will print the first few element (in
order of layout) and leave everything else blank. If I immediately
re-print the file, the missing stuff often makes it. I did not
have this problem with a LaserWriter II when we had one here.
Am I running into a bug, or out of memory on the printer?
Thanks for any info,
Dan
--
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 31 May 89 Volume 7 : Issue 99
Today's Topics:
Article submission.
Bitnet for Macs?
Bug in Superclock 3.3
Caramba Bawamba!
Color/grey scale graphics in Word 4.0
Help needed with FERROSHARE SERVER
Info-Mac Digest V7 #94
Leading Clock Zeros Cured!
Mac Hack!
Mac II fan noise - an Apple approved solution
MacsBug and SE/30s
MNP Protocols
MS Word 4.0 bug?
Networking with just modems
OCR fonts
OCR fonts available from Adobe
SFPGetFile
Sound Playing Application?
Toolbox & Pathnames Under A/UX
xlisp source
ZMODEM description and sources
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 16:35 MST
From: "John W. Robson" <ROBSON@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu>
Subject: Article submission.
"I am looking for GROUPIES3.2, written by Sioux Lacy and discussed in Windoid
Issue #8."
If you have Windoid 8 you have Groupies - in fact, two copies. Groupies is the
script of the "Groupies Demonstration Card" - card 5 of 13 with ID 4667.
Groupies is also in the text of scrolling card field 3 with ID 18 of the main
Groupies card - card 4 of 13 with ID 10516.
It is a neat utility - well worth using and studying.
John Robson <ROBSON@ARIZRVAX>
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 08:16 PDT
From: KONRAD%UCBCMSA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Bitnet for Macs?
I would be grateful for any information, tips, leads, on implementations of
BITNET software for the MACH operating system and MACOS for Macintoshes
(a la JNET for VMS and the Penn State software for Unix). We would like to
obtain capability of sending all three entity forms (messages, files, and mail)
>From machines running MACH and MACOS that, of course, also have mail software
and network connectivity.
I received the communication below indicating that the products required
to put a MAC on internet or BITNET are not available. Do you have
further information?
Thanx.
Allan M. Konrad
Staff Scientist
Office of Computing Resources
_________ Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
| |
| | BITNET: KONRAD AT UCBCMSA
| | LBLNET: AMKONRAD AT LBL
↑ ↑ INTERNET: KONRAD AT CMSA.Berkeley.Edu
>I too would like to connect a Mac directly to BITNET and bridge my LANs mail
>to the larger net. Unfortunately, I don't think it can be done, yet.
>
>We are most interested in mail, and from what I understand, that would not
>require an RSCS emulator on the Mac. What you need is a bisynch card for the
>Mac that is NJE compatible. Then you connect the LAN to your local RSCS net
>as a NJE remote. Tell your mailer about the LAN and let it gateway mail for
>you. You could define a subdomain for the macs--something like ECS.WUSTL.EDU
>for us. MAILER@WUVMD (WUVMD is our BITNET host) acts as the gateway and
>sends all the lans mail over the NJE line to the Mac. He receives it, munges
>it into LAN-style mail (we're using CE Software's Quickmail which lets you
>write bridges for this kind of work) and delivers it.
>
>Only problem is no one makes an NJE card for the Mac. I talked to several
>vendors who make cards that let you hook a Mac to a 3270 cluster controller
>and two of them said "We seem to get a lot of requests for what you want, but
>we don't have a product in that area." I don't know why not.
>
>The other option here is to connect to the campus-wide ethernet. The cost,
>however, is prohibitive. That would get us mail and TCP-IP functions (like
>ftp) which aren't of much interest to us.
>
>If you receive any encouraging info on this topic, I would love to hear it.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:45:31 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Bug in Superclock 3.3
Jon Newman writes:
"I think I have found a bug in SuperClock 3.3. When I clear the check box
for the new "chime" item, my Mac crashes." (etc...)
Are you using the GateKeeper CDEV, Jon? If so, it will cause the problem you
mention.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 17:44:13 EDT
From: Eric Keller <FONETIKS%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Caramba Bawamba!
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
In the recent issue of MacUser magazine, Jim Seymour dropped a
bombshell for all programmers interested in converting their Mac
programs for use in the five times larger IBM-compatible market. I
quote:
"Put simply, Apple has raised a lot of hell about people who make it
easy to get supposedly Mac-like stuff onto PCs. Just ask the house
counsel at Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, who are still slogging
through the pretrial paperwork of Apple's interface-infringement
suit against them.
All the foregoing is very much in my mind as I ponder Apple's
probable reaction (at least internally) to the shipment by Bawamba
Software of a new package of conversion utilities that allow Mac
developers to port their Mac programs more or less easily over to
OS/2 and DOS.
Even worse (from Apple's vantage point) is that the programs, once
converted, come up on IBM PC screens not under the OS/2-Presentation
Manager interface or the DOS/Windows interface--but looking and
feeling (if you'll forgive the expression) just as they did on the
Mac.
Ouch!
Bawamba's Multiplatform Compatibility Package (mercifully, MCP) is a
grabbag of about 600 C-language subroutines that provide to the PC
the "services" in the Mac's ROM.
The more closely a Mac program follows Apple's recommended
programming guidelines, the more easily it converts to the worlds of
DOS and OS/2.
Double ouch!
Needless to say, the Bawamba package has attracted a lot of
attention in the developer community. I don't have any word yet on
how buggy this software is or on performance comparisons for
converted programs running on PCs versus those same programs running
on their native Mac, so let's not go too far with this."
Does anyone have Bawamba's address and phone number? Despite the
"lot of attention", this is the first I've heard of this Bawamba
Wonder.
Eric Keller
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:48:50 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Color/grey scale graphics in Word 4.0
Apple's recently-released LaserWriter 6.0 driver and prep-file support
grey-scale printing on the LaserWriter, as well as color printing on
color-capable PostScript printers. The 6.0 driver has been released
as part of the 32-bit Color QuickDraw release package. I'd suggest
that you camp on your dealer's doorstep and pester him/her to get a
copy of this release-set from Apple (if one hasn't already arrived)
and to let you copy it.
If you install LaserWriter 6.0 on one of your Macs, you should install
it on all Macs on the same network... if you try to mix 5.2 and 6.0
on the same net, your LaserWriters will be forced to reset and
reinitialize themselves frequently.
I understand that the grey-scale printing in the 6.0 driver is quite
functional, but is also quite slow.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 30 May 89 19:05 N
From: <KRAALING%HWALHW50.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help needed with FERROSHARE SERVER
Dear Net,
I have two questions:
1)
We are using a Ferroshare server (with Ferroshare software V1.7/4.76)
connected to a 20 Mb Apple HD. (This solution is cheaper
than buying a Mac). Very frequently we have troubles
with this system. Icons get screwed up and messages such as: "disk needs
minor repairs" show up. Also sometimes the disk and server crash
unexpectedly. We are using 13 Mac II's (2 Mb RAM, 40 Mb Hd), two
LaserWriter II NT's, three ImageWriter II's, localtalk and system
software is 6.0.2. Does this sound familiar to someone. Any help is
greatly appreciated.
2)
If the first problem cannot be solved we have to consider letting a Mac
do the work. What programs exist to let a Mac become a server ?
Any PD or ShareWare solutions ?
Thanks in advance.
Daniel van Kraalingen / / / / /
Department of Theoretical Production Ecology / / / / /
Agricultural University of Wageningen / / / / __ /
The Netherlands /____ /____/ /__/ /__/
kraalingen@hwalhw50.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 29 May 89 23:04:47 CDT
From: decwrl!pnet01!pro-harvest!pauls@labrea.stanford.edu (Paul Snively)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #94
Network Comment: to #52 by Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
As a developer who has been writing for the Mac for over 4 years, and went to
NeXT developer training in January (yes, I actually have hands-on NeXT
experience, I can tell you that the recent posts about DP being both "foreign
technology" and a real MIPS-drag are both true.
Another good example of Apple's fanaticism with respect to "not invented here"
is MPW. MPW exists because Apple needed tools with which to write their
System Software, including ROMs, System Tools disks, things like Font/DA
Mover, etc. Since they insist on controlling their development tools, they
wrote MPW. That's why MPW was originally available to developers through APDA
for a pittance relative to other development systems, and why some of the
third-party compiler developers screamed bloody murder at the
price-performance ratio that MPW represented.
BTW, DP on the NeXT box has several little tricks, like DPWrap and
Compositing, to make it livably fast, even on the good ol' 25 MHz 68030 NeXT.
Paul Snively
________________________________________________________________________
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InterNet: pauls@pro-harvest.cts.com | Online since 1 April 1989
________________________________________________________________________
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 30 May 89 17:55:13 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Leading Clock Zeros Cured!
Kenneth C L Seah writes:
> Apple shifted the INTL 0 and 1 resources into itl0 and itl1
>respectively. ResEdit will allow you to open itl0 and itl1 and
>edit them. The system uses itl0 rather than INTL 0 for its
>international settings. INTL 0 and 1 are (probably) kept around
>for compatability - yes - some programs still use them.
Well, sure enough, there's the culprit. itl0 had the leading zero flag set
and clearing it fixed the problem. Now to figure out who's been setting it...
Jon
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 14:16 CDT
From: <SRS9925%TNTECH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac Hack!
I would like to inquire if anyone is aware of a version of NETHACK
(i.e. HACK), a hacked up rogue clone, available for the macintosh. If not,
does anyone know where I can get the source (from any machine) for it.
Thanks in Advance,
Stephen Shaw
SRS9925@TnTech
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 19:15:13 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Mac II fan noise - an Apple approved solution
>This sounds GREAT!! How does it attach? Do you have to
>go into the power supply? How does apple aprove it?
Simply (:-)), yes, hmm?
The control unit goes into the power supply, the sensor goes above
your internal harddisk. It is made to order for Apple Sweden (we are a
little bit more concerned about the working environment here in
Scandinavia) and is approved by them (I don't know about Apple US), if
installed by an authorized techie. I installed it myself (don't tell
anyone) by following the simple instructions enclosed with the kit.
>And... the biggie... How much does it cost??
>(A rough conversion to American dollars would be appreciated.
> I may have 100% swedish ancestry, but I don't know
> the exchange rate. Of course, you may not have any clue
> yourself! )
In Norway it costs about 500 NOKs, make that 55US$ + local VAT/sales tax.
-- Sigurd
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:09:14 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MacsBug and SE/30s
Hi,
Has anyone else seen MacsBug "double space" text in an SE/30?
This is not double spacing where there is a blank line between each
line. Instead, there is a blank row of pixels between each normal
row of pixels in text. While I'm not terribly concerned with the fact
that it's hard to read (I'm not an expert at debugging programs at
the register level), I wonder if this might be an indication of
a greater incompatibility between MacsBug and the new system or ROMs.
This is not a random occurrance. It happens every time.
By the way, this is MacsBug version 5.4 (the one distributed with
Lightspeed Pascal). I have this same version on my standard SE at home
and it does not have this problem.
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 23:35:04 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: MNP Protocols
Does anyone have copies of the protocols for MNP error correction?
I wish to incorporate MNP level 2 into a terminal program I have written.
I don't know of any other Mac comms programs that support it.
Thanks,
Brian Candler
BTC10@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 30 May 89 13:49 EDT
From: Peter Szolovits <psz@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: MS Word 4.0 bug?
The bug you mention about fractional widths causing the apparent
non-justification of lines may in fact be a "feature" that was also
present in Word 3.0x. Try to print your document and make sure that it
indeed prints badly justified before you complain too vehemently. If
the print test works, then what is happening is simply that the screen
display algorithm can't show fractional-widths correctly; rather than
scrunching characters into unreadability, it just lets the right margin
flop around a bit. Display postscript or the promised outline fonts in
Rel 7 should give the basis for better solving this problem, as would
300dpi displays!
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 17:10:47 CST
From: Steve Middlebrook <C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Networking with just modems
I am working with a group social service agencies who want to "network"
a mac in each of their offices. They are talking about sharing mailing lists
and databases. I would like to see them get into e-mail, sharing a printer,
BBSs and the likes. Problem is that this all going to be done with modems and
phone lines, and I'm not sure how sophisticated a "network" we can expect.
Dialing into commerical services and public bulletin boards is not a problem.
File Transfers using Red Ryder or some such package on both ends is technically
easy, but will require coordination and expertise which will limit its use.
I might be able to swing an extra machine to act as a server. I don't know
anything about BBS software for the Mac, though. Are there good cheap programs
out there that support mail, news, and file retreival? These agencies deal in
a fair amount of highly confidential info, so security is also a must.
Beyond running a private BBS, is there some way to support "finder like" file
sharing over modems? What about sharing the LaserWriter? What if we had
dedicated phone lines? Can you do appletalk over a dedicated phone line?
Any info, similar experiences or war stories appreciated! Thanks
Stephen T. Middlebrook *****
Educational Computing Services *** ***
Washington University *** ***
One Brookings Drive *** ***
Campus Box 1221 *** Washington ***
St. Louis, MO 63130 *** University ***
(314) 889-5313 *** ***
BITNET: C94882SM@WUVMD *** St. Louis MO ***
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:11:30 PDT
From: Ellen_Sangster@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: OCR fonts
>From: rrenfro@dtoa1.dt.mil (Richard Renfro)
>Subject: OCR font (Postscript)
>In the never-ending quest for a simpler workplace, we would
>ike to make it easier to produce naval messages. The present
>system requires manually (ugh!) typing the message on a pre-
>printed form with a special OCR typeball. What we'd like to do
>is have the Macintosh produce the entire message, form and
>all. The only thing holding us up is finding a Postscript OCR
>font.
Linotype makes 2 PostScript OCR fonts, OCR-A and OCR-B. They're
listed as Volume 76 in Linotype's latest font brochure.
If you need to fill out forms more challenging than a simple memo,
you might want to check out the Claris SmartForm package. It lets you
design, then fill out electronic forms. I saw the "designer" part
demo'ed a couple of weeks ago, and it has some very nice tools
for quickly creating complex forms.
Ellen Sangster
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., CANADA
Ellen_Sangster@cc.sfu.ca
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 13:23:20 CDT
From: "Edward A. Garay" <U12570%UICVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: OCR fonts available from Adobe
> In the never-ending quest for a simpler workplace, we would
> like to make it easier to produce naval messages. The present
> system requires manually (ugh!) typing the message on a pre-
> printed form with a special OCR typeball. What we'd like to do
> is have the Macintosh produce the entire message, form and
> all. The only thing holding us up is finding a Postscript OCR font.
Adobe's type library package #58 contains 3 PostScript fonts:
OCR A, OCR B and a MICR font. Since it only has 3 fonts, I assume
the package costs as little as $95. For more info on the Adobe type
library, call 800-83-FONTS.
--- Ed Garay
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 13:33 EST
From: Jeffrey S. Lee <LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SFPGetFile
Greetings...
Is anyone aware of a method of making the SFGetFile or SFPGetFile dialogs
return a folder name, instead of a file name? Even with using the filter and
Dialog hooks, I can't get either of them to return with a folder name.
Thanks in advance,
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|Jeffrey S. Lee |LEE_JES@CTSTATEU.BITNET |
|Faculty Computing Center |LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU |
|Central Connecticut State University|LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU|
|New Britain, CT | |
+------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this letter are my own, and do not |
| necessarily reflect those of the Connecticut State University |
| system. Nor do they reflect light. |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
"Edmund, you've killed Nursie! That's horrid!"
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 10:46:46 EDT
From: Rocky_Olive@apex22.ceo.dg.com
Subject: Sound Playing Application?
I just bought a Mac IIcx, 1Mb RAM, 40Mb Internal HD, and an 8-bit
color video card driving a 640 x 480 color monitor. I really love
it! I have run into a few things and I could use some help:
1. The MacWrite that I used on the SE's at NC State Univ. won't work
on my IIcx at home. Is there a version that does work?
2. I've gotten some sounds from the sound directory, but I don't have
an application to run them. What do I need and how do I get it.
3. A lot of other programs that I've downloaded bomb (with various
ID's 2,10,etc). I assume that these are Plus, SE applications
and because I have a IIcx, there's not much I can do. Is there
anywhere that has PD/ShareWare software that is for Mac II's?
Please respond directly to me. Thanks! Rocky...
rocky_olive@apex22.ceo.dg.com
"He has set me free!"
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 20:52:24 edt
From: mcdowell@vtodie.cs.vt.edu (Brian McDowell)
Subject: Toolbox & Pathnames Under A/UX
I have recently encountered a problem while integrating some existing graphic
routines under Unix into a Macintosh Driver routine under A/UX 1.1 The problem
is encountered when I use SFGetFile to prompt for another input Data file.
I have no problem using the procedure except I can't figure out how to change
the CURRENT working directory so the standard fopen can access the files.
If I was using the toolbox file routines I would have no problem, however the
routines I am using can't use the toolbox so they will remain portable (the
driver is not intended to be ported for obvious reasons).
Is there any way to generate a full pathname based on the vRefNum returned
by SFGetFile so that it can be used as the file name instead of changing
directories or to use chdir thru a system call, or is there a better way.
I don't know if you guys answer particular questions like this, however I am
getting desperate. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Brian McDowell
Virginia Tech
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 16:54:56 EDT
From: frege@caen.engin.umich.edu (YoungPa So)
Subject: xlisp source
Dear Sir,
I have recently downloaded the xlisp 2.0 for Macintoshes, and found your
e-mail address. I am also interested in the source code (if possible in
THINK (Lightspeed) C. I am a Computer Science student at the Univ. of Mich.
If you know the way to get a copy of the source I would very much
appreciate if you message me the way.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Y. P. S. (frege@caen.engin.umich.edu)
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:43:48 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: ZMODEM description and sources
The sources for "sz", an excellent Unix XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM package, are
available for anonymous FTP on UUNET.UU.NET; they can be downloaded from
/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume12/zmodem/part01.Z, part02.Z,
and part03.Z. Remember to download these files in binary mode... they're
compressed shar files.
A description of the ZMODEM protocol can be found on the MacCincy BBS;
I don't have its phone number handy, but Andy should be able to find it
in the FidoNet nodelist (it's actually located in Kentucky). Check
the telecom section; the protocol description is there, as is the
current version of ZTerm (a very nice X/Y/ZMODEM-capable terminal
emulator for the Mac).
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 6 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 100
Today's Topics:
1 Mbyte SIMMs
2 Questions
3270 access for networked Macs
Amateur Astronomy Software for the Mac
APPLE TAKES A BIG BITE FOR FREEDOM
Bad Disks
Bibliography programs
Broadcast receive only
Converting sounds
FAA DUAT flight briefing seems to like IBM
FullWrite footnotes
Interpoll & the SE/30
Micah Storage Systems
Objects-in-C 1.02
PICT info needed
SetClock2.sithqx
SuperClock 3.3 bug
Undigestifier
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Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: 01 JUN 89 15:41:25
From: DERIDDER%SARA.NL@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 1 Mbyte SIMMs
Hello
At our department we have developed a 1 Mbyte SIMM.
Does anyone know a place in EUROPE were we can obtain
printed circuit board with a thicknes of 1.3 mm (1/20").
Kees.
Free University,
Chemical Dept.,
de Boelelaan 1083,
1081 HV Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
tel.: (0)20-5485347
DERIDDER@SARA.NL
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 89 18:14:38 EDT
From: Greg Mouning <GAM%YALEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 2 Questions
> Could someone please tell me how to disable the Cover page that the
> Laserprinter IInt prints out each time you turn it on?
>
The following postscript commands work for me using an Apple Laserwriter Plus,
I don't have a Laserprinter IInt to try it out with.
000000
serverdict begin exitserver
statusdict begin
false setdostartpage
I use the MSWORD 3.02 program and save the above lines as a "TEXT ONLY" file.
Then I use the SENDPS utility to download it to the laserwriter and the next
time I power on the machine the cover page no longer prints.
In order to start the cover page again change the "false" to "true" and the
next time you power on the laserwriter the cover page will begin printing
again. Please post this in the archives, thanks.
Sorry I don't any experience with CAD/CAM programs.
Acknowledge-To: <GAM@YALEVM>
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Date: 1 Jun 89 10:37 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 3270 access for networked Macs
Does anyone out there have any information on black boxes which might sit out
on an ethernet and "serve" 3270 terminal communications over the network to
distributed Macintoshes? We'd like to avoid having 9 Mac workstations each
have to have their own coax pulled from a controller to the workstation and
its associated MacIRMA/MacMainFrame board, by having a multiport
connection from the Ethernet to the controller and having the Macs access
the Ethernetted multiport device. I think such things exist for pcs on an
Ethernet; how about for Macs?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Ted
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 22:43:11 PDT
From: nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil (Peter Nardi)
Subject: Amateur Astronomy Software for the Mac
Could anyone recommend a good astronomical program for the
Macintosh. I would like to be able to perform time conversions,
calculate RA & DEC for celestial bodies and various other useful
amateur astronmer calculations.
Two programs I've read about in Sky & Telescope Magazine
are: "Voyager, the Interactive Desktop Planetarium" and "Sky
Travel Planetarium by Deltron". Does anyone have any experience
with these programs, or know anyone that does? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
-=<Pete>=-
Pete Nardi
nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, Ca.
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 18:20:36 CST
From: robert font <NCUT012@TWNMOE10>
Subject: APPLE TAKES A BIG BITE FOR FREEDOM
Don't you remember our hope that Apple and the personal computer could
help take humanity across the big step towards freedom of communication
between all men everywhere. Now Apple has the chance to really get their
message across if they still have the guts and feeling that made us Apple
users into almost religious fanatics.
Now is the time to act. Now is the time to show the world where our
idealism and our hearts really are. Princeton this morning contributed
$200,000 towards buying computer equipment so that Tienanmen students can
establish a computer network and publish a newspaper.Let's encourage Apple
to stand up and take a bite for freedom. So please send this message:
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: Rumor: Apple takes a big bite for freedom by donating :
: one millon dollars of computer equipment to the :
: students in Tienanmen Square. :
: LONG LIVE APPLE AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS! :
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 19:20:32 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Bad Disks
> "...Usually, all files can be recovered with First Aid Kit or SUM,
> but the disk can not be reinitialized..."
If a disk really is physicaly damaged, then you certainly may not
be able to format it. But I thought it might be worth mentioning
that occasionally disks can get screwed up in such a way that the
Finder rejects them without providing the dialog to let you format
the disk. In this case, you can usually format the disk with a
formatting program like "Fast Formatter".
Fast Formatter is archived as /info-mac/util/fastformat.hqx
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 16:28 AST
From: Stan Armstrong <ARMSTRONG%HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bibliography programs
What has your experience been with bibliography programs? Is
there a clear winner? What shareware is available? Are the
commercial programs worth the price? What about Hypercard
programs? My own interest is for scholarship in the humanities,
but the experiences of people in the sciences may be helpful to
others. If you will Email to me, I will summarize to the net.
Thanks.
Stan Armstrong.
Religious Studies Dept
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, N.S.,CANADA, B3H 3C3
(902)420-5866
USENET: att!clyde!watmath!water!dalcs!armstrng
BITNET:ARMSTRONG@STMARYS.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 10:49:32 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Broadcast receive only
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a message that requested information on how
to make Broadcast 1.1 receive messages but not allow messages to be sent.
I have discovered a way to do exactly that. All you have to do is change
the file type from RDEV to INIT. Doing this will prevent the icon for
Broadcast from appearing in the Chooser. Anyone with an unaltered copy
of Broadcast can send messages to any computer on the network with
an original or modified version. Those with the altered version cannot
respond in any way. Use ResEdit or any other similar utility to change
the file type. We have been using this in our lab to notify students
of lab closing times and other information.
Bob Bolt
Micro Labs Supervisor
University of Alberta
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 89 21:05:58 PDT
From: David Lu <jetson@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: Converting sounds
Recently, I tried my hand at unloading sound files (via FTP) from
info-mac. However, I am having problems converting them to usable files.
I must be using the wrong procedure, so could you please let me know
how to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
jetson@portia
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Date: Fri 02 Jun 1989 00:45 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FAA DUAT flight briefing seems to like IBM
This September, the FAA is starting to phase in more of the Automated Flight
Service System. This will allow people with a Pilots License to call a 1-800
number to gather flight information. The smart FAA has brought three vendors
into the arena for the DUAT(Direct User Access Terminal System). Among these
are:
Contel Federal Systems 800-345-DUAT
DataTransformation Corp 609-228-3232
Lockheed DataPlan, Inc. 800-767-DUAT or 408-866-7611
This allows the pilot to get weather briefings and allows flight plans to
be filed in the FAA's computer system via modem (hopefully >300&1200).
The reason I am even bothering with this, is a quote from AOPApilot (Aircraft
Owners and Pilots Association) by Marc E. Cook. "Moreover, computers capable
of receiving basic text over the modem (such as the Apple Macintosh, which
otherwise doesn't generally talk to IBMs) also can gain access to DUAT."
Now...think of all the pilots that know absolutely nothing about computers.
Ah...I better get an IBM since it talks to the FAA's IBM 9020 Air Route Traffic
Control Center and automated flight service stations.
Now, if Apple would just spend a some of its $15 million Desktop Media Blitz
on trying to do more with the DUAT market. I would much rather parse "FRM
DCA TO 20NE BWI TO 10SW HAR TO AGC TO CKB TO IAD TO DCA ....." on my Mac,
rather than my IBM. And, I would much rather have the graphics on my mac
than my Heavy 20ton IBM pc(since my mac goes home with me every night).
Quote from Dan Woods of Lockheed. re: graphics. "... Software for the
Macintosh is next." Notice next...when is next? All the pilots will have
IBM's by then. Is it just too hard for them to write for the Mac, or do
they feel the market is IBM?
Sorry for the apparent divergence from the subject...but this is an EXTREAMLY
IMPORTANT step the FAA is taking, and it seems to be IBM oriented from
what press I have seen. Of course all EGA graphics can be converted, and
lucky I can write my own parsers...and have the full current FAA Airport and
Navaid Database. But feel sorry for those poor lost pilots that don't, and
also have a Macintosh.
Scott Hutinger
I know Apple has some Pilots in its mists...hmmm laptop IFR macintosh?
------------------------------
Date: 01 JUN 89 09:50:22 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: FullWrite footnotes
In spite of my curling up with the two manuals and digging through
every reference that I could find, I have yet to find a way to
standardize end-of-page footnotes. Specifically, I'm referring to the
number, not the footnote body.
When customizing FullWrite footnotes, the user is presented with
many options for changing the footnote number that is within the text
body, however, there is no way of killing the period and superscripting
the footnote number at the end of the page.
Am I missing something? Is it something so simple that I'm going
to feel stupid when the solution is found? Please say 'yes'.
Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 17:02:33 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Interpoll & the SE/30
We've gotten our first SE/30 in (finally), and it seems to be working well.
The only niggling little problem we have is with Interpoll. The SE/30 shows
up in the search window ok, but isn't listed as such. Rather, it appears as
a Mac II! I added the SE/30 (as well as Mac IIx & Mac IIcx) strings to
Interpoll resources ID=101 & 102, but it made no difference. We're using
Interpoll v1.0. Any suggestions?
tom c
"What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?"
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 11:52 CDT
From: BATE%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Micah Storage Systems
I purchased a hard disk from Micah Storage Systems about a year ago,
and it failed. I returned it to them for warranty repairs, and have
never seen it again. Apparently Micah went under shortly after I
shipped them the drive, but the courts, Better Business Bureau,
Consumer Affairs, etc. seem to know nothing about it. Can anyone out
there tell me what became of Micah? A late-night flight to Mexico,
perhaps? -John Bate <bate@ccm.UManitoba.CA>
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 09:40:32 EDT
From: Gavin_Eadie@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Objects-in-C 1.02
This is the shareware, explorer's release of a portable
object-oriented programming environment for the C pro-
gramming language. The kit contains the complete objects
environment, a bunch of simple, but useful demo classes
and this, EXPERTS ONLY, documentation - enough for ex-
perienced C programmers that know something about object-
oriented techniques to take advantage of them in the
excellent C environments now on the Mac.
It is supplied as a verion 3, LightSpeed C project but
the source files are simple text files that should be
readable by any of the Macintosh C compilers.
The full release will come with complete documentation
and an EXTENSIVE set of classes for developing Mac
applications - a persistent object store, a complete
Model-View-Controller system for accessing the Mac
toolbox, 2D & 3D PHIGGS-like imaging spaces integrated
with the MVC system, a polymorhpic, object-oriented
spreadsheet system, and an embeddable Common Lisp
subset interpreter with OIC interface.
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/objects-in-c.hqx; 104K]
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Date: 31 May 89 19:53:00 GMT
From: cg-atla!haigis@decvax.uucp (Brad Haigis)
Subject: PICT info needed
I am developing a translater to convert PICT and PICT2 format files
into our draw format and am having trouble finding
detailed meanings for many sub-opcodes (comments) that are produced
in MacDraw 1.1 and MacDraw 2. Many of these sub-opcodes are
undocumented in the Inside Macintosh manuals as well as the Mac
Technical Notes. There are also many opcodes whose
description in our Mac notes is ambiguous.
I am looking for any type of help/advice. APDA had nothing of
any use.
Thanks
--
Brad Haigis
Agfa Corp, Agfa Compugraphic Division (508) 658-5600 x5339
Wilmington MA. ulowell!cg-atla!haigis
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Date: Tue, 23 May 89 15:53:57 EDT
From: Peter Jones <MAINT%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SetClock2.sithqx
Is it possible for an IBM-PC or other machine to access the MAC set clock and
be able to set its time by emulating the MAC's protocol, when it runs
SetClock2?
Peter Jones MAINT@UQAM (514)-282-3542
"All's well that ends." :-)
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 21:48:19 PDT
From: Jon Newman <newman@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: SuperClock 3.3 bug
Date: Wed, 31 May 89 09:45:31 CST
>From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Bug in Superclock 3.3
>Jon Newman writes:
>"I think I have found a bug in SuperClock 3.3. When I clear the check box
>for the new "chime" item, my Mac crashes." (etc...)
>
>Are you using the GateKeeper CDEV, Jon? If so, it will cause the problem you
>mention.
Yes, I suppose it would. Sorry, though, GateKeeper crashed everything I have
and I dropped it from my system long ago. By the way, I have received one
confirmation of SuperClock's bugginess, although I still can't guarantee the
problem is not incompatibility with some random INIT.
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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 89 18:17:50 IST
From: "Jonathan B. Owen" <GDAU100%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Undigestifier
Does anyone know of an undigestifier which runs on an IBM or preferebly
on a Mac. For those of you who never the term undigestifier before,
it is a program that breaks up a digest, such as the one you are reading
now, into individual files, each containing only one letter.
Also, I would be very interested in hearing about the street-price of
swapping an SE logic board with an SE/30.
Thanx,
Jonathan
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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 89 10:48:48 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Use MacsBug 6.x on SE/30s
In the last digest, I posted a question about a problem with MacsBug
(version 5.4) on the new SE/30 machines. I received direct responses
>From Scott Hutinger, John Watlington, and Herman VandenBoom and
all three stated that a newer (6.0) version of MacsBug works properly
on the SE/30 (and presumably on the IIcx).
Just thought I'd let the net know... (Thanks Scott, John, and Herman!)
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Someone recently showed me a IIcx where system took up more than
a Meg of ram when running under multifinder. How does the system
(I guess most of it is system heap) choose its size? -j
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Mac 512KE w/Mac+ keyboard. External 800K drive.
Price around $950 flexible. Nat Kuhn. 857-0160 please call
before 10p.m., or reply to this email address, kuhn@cellbio.stanford.edu.
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From: Lance Nakata <K.Kirin@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: System ram size >1 Meg?
To: johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU
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One other thing to consider: whenever "About the Finder..." reveals
the System file has allocated a large chunk of RAM for itself, I
always check to see if the Control Panel's RAM Cache is turned on.
Apple's System keeps getting larger, but it's not up to a meg of RAM
yet. Someone may have played with the cache and forgot to turn it off.
Lance
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 10 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 101
Today's Topics:
Clipboard Magician
Common Loops
DAmenuz .9978 (was called hierDA)
DeskPict & cRGBinit which fixes DeskPict, This is last file
Dragger 1.4
FlashWrite CDEV
Info-Mac Digest V7 #97
LODE-3.sit.hqx
minimal MIDI interface plans
Pheta
Postscript help
Unsafe software?
Word 4.0
Word 4.0 BugList 89/05/31
XCMD example in Think C
ZTerm 0.8
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 14:28:25 PDT
From: Ed Lai <lai@apple.com>
Subject: Clipboard Magician
Clipboard Magician is a DA that let you display the content of the scrap, it
also have a collection of code resource components (currently over 40) that
let you manipulate the scrap data. For example for the text scrap, there is
a text editor to edit the text scrap.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/clipboard-magician.hqx; 116K]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 13:25:46 EDT
From: Menachem Jona <jona-menachem@YALE.EDU>
Subject: Common Loops
I am using Allegro Common Lisp on the Mac and heard that PCL (Portable
Common Loops) was availible in the public domain. If this is indeed
the case, could someone kindly direct me to it so that I may download
it.
Thanks for the help.
Kemi Jona
ARPA: jona@cs.yale.edu
BITNET: jona@YALECS.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 12:45:41 -0600
From: t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs)
Subject: DAmenuz .9978 (was called hierDA)
Here's the latest version of hierDA now called DA menuz. It adds the capability
to set which modifier keys are required to popup the menu of menus. It fixes
a lot of bugs. It now loads in system heap space so theres fewer problems with
MultiFinder and is suppose to be faster as a result.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/da-menuz-09978.hqx; 27K]
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Date: Thu, 1 Jun 89 14:57
From: <SENSORY%SUNRISE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: DeskPict & cRGBinit which fixes DeskPict, This is last file
This file must be unBinHex'd and then unStuffIt'ed
it contains 3 files:
DeskPict V1.0 an init which makes a file
named DeskPicture in your
System Folder containing a
PICT resource with id=0
into your desktop pattern.
DeskPict ReadMe instructions and information
concerning DeskPict. READ THIS
cRGBinit an init, which when used in
conjunction with DeskPicture
will cause the proper colors
in the PICT to be loaded into
the CLUT's of a Mac II. It
also causes the update region
of the DeskPicture to be updated
at speed close to that of
monochrome mode. (normally
DeskPict updates very slowly)
if you hold the mouse button
down, it will beep; otherwise
it will put up the PICT,install
itself and change the CLUTs.
This init was written by
me, Mike Schechter and is
free to anyone who wants it.
I may be contacted at
isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/init/deskpict-package.hqx; 33K]
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 23:58:29 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Dragger 1.4
[Dragger 1.4]
Dragger is a Control Panel document which lets you drag images,
such as windows or the thumbs of scroll bars, as solids, or as
semi-transparent shapes, instead of by their outlines. It's
free but copyrighted -- you can't sell it.
I find this particularly useful for laying out DITLs in ResEdit,
but it also lets you see how much of the material in a window
will be obscured or off the screen while you're still dragging.
Version 1.4 fixes some bugs that could occur with large windows
(larger than 640x480) on large screens. Dragger now works
with multiple screens, although it will not work on windows
unless all the screens are one bit deep, nor on controls
unless the window they're in is on a one bit screen.
Thanks to Jon Pugh at LLNL and Jeff Miller at Apple for
bug reports and technical assistance.
Oliver Steele
UNC-CH Linguistics
steele@cs.unc.edu
...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/dragger-14.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 09:56:18 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: FlashWrite CDEV
FlashWrite is a cdev that you put in your System Folder. Then you just
hit a keystroke and FlashWrite, a full featured note pad/scratchpad/
text editor pops up in the middle of whatever you are doing, even in
dialog boxes. You can have up to 10 pages of information, 32k worth
each, plus a special scratchpad for writing on the fly and you can
import/export text. FlashWrite is great because it is easy to use,
fast, convenient, and you can use it for phone numbers, notes, things
to do, anything you need access to instantly. This is truly a
unique program, worth a look. Comes with complete documentation.
>From Andrew Welch & Mark 3 Software.
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/flashwrite.hqx; 79K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 07:28:46 CDT
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #97
I am attempting to set up a learning lab for Apple II GS's networked to a
Mac which is being used for the server. It will be used as a hands on lab
for teachers, short courses, etc.
Does anyone know of a newsgroup which could assist in this effort? The
documentation for the appleshare for the IIgs is awful.
Thanks!
Eddie Mikell
Mississippi State University
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 07:29:36 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: LODE-3.sit.hqx
Here is a set of Lode Runner screens that I picked up off CompuServe
a while back.
Dennis Cohen
[Archived as /info-mac/game/lode-runner-screens.hqx; 5K]
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Date: Wed, 31 May 89 13:20:01 LCL
From: LIBHTK%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: minimal MIDI interface plans
I am cross posting the following to both the Info-Mac and Emusic-L
lists. I forget where I FTPed this from but I learned about through
one of the one of the above lists. I don't think this has been
directly posted in either list before.
I haven't the foggiest if the thing actually works. If anyone gets
around to building it before I do (likely), please post their results.
-- Tom Keays "I will not be pressured into
LIBHTK@SUVM (BITNET) prejudging the past"
MINIMAL MAC--MIDI INTERFACE
===========================
Well, here it is all you MIDI fans. THE ultimate in
simplicity!! This is a simple schematic for a serial
to MIDI converter.
There are two functions performed here. One is the
conversion from current loop to RS-422. The second function
is supplying the 1 MHz signal for the serial chip to sync
up with the 31.5K baud rate of MIDI.
>>>>>>> DATA FLOW >>> (MAC TO MIDI INSTRUMENT) >>>>>>>>>
+-------+ +------+
To MAC 4 10|26LS32 | |7407 |
Serial >------+ |11 1| |2 +------+ 5
Port 5 9| +-----+ +-----+R=220 +-----< \
DB9 pin >------- | | | +------+ \ (5 pin DIN socket)
Numbers | | | | | MIDI OUT
+-------+ +------+ / (to instrument)
+------+ +------+ 4 /
+5 volts -+R=390 +--+ +5 volts -+R=220 +-----<
+------+ | +------+
+-------+ | +------+1 +------+ 4
8 6|26LS31 | | |MCT2 +-----+R=220 +-----< \
>------+ |11| 5| | +------+ \ (5 pin DIN socket)
9 5| +--+--+ | | MIDI IN
>------- | 4| |2 5 / (from instrument)
| | +-+ +------------------< /
+-------+ | +------+
|
v
Ground
<<<<<<<<<<<<< DATA FLOW << (MIDI INSTRUMENT TO MAC ) <<<
+-------+ +------+
7 10|26LS31 | |1 MHZ |
>------+ |9 8| OSC |
3 11| +-----+ |
>------- | | |
| | + |
+-------+ +------+
Power connections:
GROUND +5
----- --
7407 7 14
26LS31 8,12 4,16
26LS32 8,12 4,16
OSCILLATOR 7 14
Notes:
The optical isolator MCT-2 above can probably be any relatively
fast optical coupler. Note that the 390 ohm resistormay need to be
adjusted to make sure the output does not saturate. Using a scope
while feeding a MIDI signal in should show you whether the signal
looks clean.
The diagram has been drawn to show MAC signals on the left
and MIDI signals on the right. There have also been allowances made
for the fact that 80 column ascii displays are not **exactly**
graphics terminals. Also note that the MAC pin numbers are for the
DB9 connector **NOT** the 8 pin mini-DIN connector!!
The age old question of where to get power for this always
remains. On the pre-MAC-PLUSs, there was power available from the
serial port connector. I solved this problem by finding a 7 VDC
AC adapter at a parts store and using a 5 volt voltage regulator
IC to bring it down to 5 volts. This is left as an exercise for
the student.....
The 26LS31 and 26LS32 are the same type of chips which are
used in the MAC for RS-42? conversion. I got them from a store in
Santa Clara California (Anchor Electronics (408) 727-3693). They
also have 1 Mhz Oscillators as well.
I have built several variations of this over the last two
years and have had good success using a variety of music software
with them.
John Hengesbach
(205)772-1669
uunet!ingr!henges
Intergraph Corporation
Huntsville, AL 35807
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 08:38:44 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: Pheta
Here is part 1 of 3 of the game, Space Station Pheta.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/pheta.hqx; 215K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 08:41:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John E. Haberland" <jh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Postscript help
I've sent the following postscript to my Laserwriter and IINT to stop the
ever-so-wasteful initialization pages on startup:
0 serverdict begin exitserver statusdict begin false setdostartpage end
I realize that setting the 'false' to 'true' will return the printers to
normal. But what I'd like to be able to do is send a postscript command
that will produce the page only once, and not have it be permanent. The
reason I want this capability is to monitor the amount of pages produced
per toner cartridge (the IINT seems to use buckets of toner more than the
Laserwriter). Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
John Haberland
Senior, Economics and Industrial Management
Assistant Systems Coordinator
Carnegie Mellon University
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:42 PST
From: CHOE@phast.phys.washington.edu
Subject: Unsafe software?
Upon downloading DISKBENCH.HQX yesterday (7 June '89)
I tried it on my Mac Plus with 60 Mbyte (Seagate) drive, CMS drivers.
It hummed, accessed the disk, and printed a speed number. Then the
machine froze. Mouse inactive (no cursor), no disk access, no
response to keyboard. So, I reset the Mac. It didn't boot because
THE BOOT TRACKS ON THE HARD DISK WERE ERASED OR CORRUPTED.
There was apparently some data on the disk, but attempts
at recovery were not successful (didn't have Disk First Aid handy,
but Symantec Utilities found lots of files or fragments). I ended
up reformatting.
There was no warning of any special precautions needed, and
no way to abort the program once started. No documentary warning
either, and IT ATE A HARD DISK. This program is at the very least
unmannerly, and at worst a logic bomb. Has it ever been known to
function?
The file in question is in UTIL, and it should be sequestered
or tested or destroyed, in my opinion.
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 19:07:12 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Word 4.0
One improvement I've noticed is that Word now does a much better job
of handling margins in Word<->MacWrite conversions.
Unless I'm missing the obvious, it seems to me Microsoft put the "Number
From.." in the wrong place. It is in the document format menu, whereas in
the IBM Word 4.0, the same feature is under division format (the equivalent
on the Mac being "Section" format). With "Number from" in document format,
how in the heck are you supposed to skip a few page numbers in the middle
of a document for later manual insertion of some figures? On the IBM version
you just put in a division (section) break and change the "start number" for
that division.
And another thing. I miss the [x] for clearing all tab stops - you are now
forced into doing it by choosing normal style, but this resets your font
and size to whatever you have "normal" set to. The [x] in "short menus"
acts the same as selecting "normal" style in "full menus".
Overall though, Word 4.0 is a big improvement over Word 3.0x. I really
can't see any reason not to use Word, except for people who need a smaller
program.
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 09:41:15 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: Word 4.0 BugList 89/05/31
Bugs and requests for Microsoft Word 4.0. This file is in Word 4.0
format.
Please send reports and suggestions by US mail please. Please post this
file on any bulletin boards you frequent.
This is the second edition dated May 31, 1989.
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/report/msword-40-bugs.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Tue, 30 May 89 10:18:32 EDT
From: man@cs.brown.edu
Subject: XCMD example in Think C
Several people have lately been wondering how to write an XCMD in Think C.
I have included the source for an XCMD which copies one file to another to
provide an example for people. Included is also the C version of the Hypercard
glue routines (slightly modified for Think C) and the document describing how
to use them. My next posting will contain the actual CopyFile XCMD.
--Mark
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/xcmd-example.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 00:49 EDT
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BKNLVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ZTerm 0.8
This is version 0.8 of ZTerm, by David P. Alverson. ZTerm provides VT100
emulation and file transfers using X, Y, or Z Modem protocols. ZTerm
also supports MacBinary transfers and CompuServe Quick-B. The shareware
price is $30.00. The StuffIt archive comes with the application and a
user manual.
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Greg Smith | BITNET: smith@bucknell.bitnet |
| Systems Analyst | smith@bknlvms.bitnet |
| Bucknell Computer Services | Internet: smith@bucknell.edu |
| Bucknell University | smith@amethyst.bucknell.edu |
| Lewisburg, PA 17837 | AT&Tnet: (717) 524-1801 |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/zterm-08.hqx; 182K]
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From: "John M. Agosta" <johnmark@polya.stanford.edu>
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
Subject: 32 bit quickdraw talk, this Wednesday
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Gentle Mac programmer:
The first "system 7.0" talk is on "32 bit QuickDraw", an extension
to color quickdraw, to allow the full palette of 16 million colors
to be displayed at the same time. Color quickdraw's 8 bit
deep color model allows 256 out of the full palette to be displayed.
We won't have to wait for system 7 for this since 32 bit quickdraw
is already released.
What: Full Color - Apple's 32 bit quickdraw
Who: Bruce Leak
Date: This Wednesday, June 14↑th
Time &
place: 7pm, Sweet Hall, development lab, as usual.
Bruce graduated Stanford with a Masters, in 1985. He wrote the
extensions to Color Quickdraw. Color quickdraw uses a "chunky"
model, where the bits in each long word are allocated to
different colors. Eight bits for each primary color uses 24 bits.
The rest may be used for a "transparency" channel, to blend
overlays of color. The quickdraw model has the freedom to allocate
different numbers of bits to each color.
Next month, on July 12↑th, Dave Collins will speak about
"Inter Application Communication."
-johnmark
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 14 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 102
Today's Topics:
800K MFS disk
Cairo-Shootout.hqx
Current directory & disk
Fixing 3.5" disk errors
Help!!! Strange behavior noted while loading INFO-MAC archives...
Info-Mac Digest V7 #95
MS-DOS CD-ROM databases on Macs
Persistent alarms?
PUZZL.HQX
Selecting a folder in SFGetFile
Stunt Copter
SuperClock 3.3 bug
Undigestifier
Zero-Gravity.HQX
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: 2 Jun 89 14:35:00 MST
From: "2614 Rieb, Declan A." <darieb@sandia.gov>
Subject: 800K MFS disk
> Is there a way to initialize an 800K floppy so that it does not use HFS?
>
(By the way, the application is for moving files via floppy between other
systems and Macintosh. At least one application (IBMPC side) needs flat disks.)
Thanks to all of you who answered. To summarize the results, one must use an
old MFS system to initialize such a disk. Most correspondents agree that
System 2.0 and Finder 4.1 will do the trick -- clearly you will have to boot
>From an OLD system disk, do the ERASE, and then boot back into the real world.
The other suggestion (untried) is to do the above once, and then use a disk
copy routine (SUM's Quick Copy, e.g.) to build new MFS disks. (Therefore,
initialize the first disk once, and write protect it, and DON'T LOSE it!)
Seems as if it should work.
There were some suggestions that some combination of option,clover,shift and
ERASE would work. I tried those, and no luck.
Declan A. Rieb INTERnet:DARieb@Sandia.GOV
Org 2614 (Computer Consulting) DARieb@Sandia-2.ARPA
Sandia National Laboratories dxxr@LANL.GOV
Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800 Bell: (505) 844-6338
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 10:10:56 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: Cairo-Shootout.hqx
New unlocked version of the great arcade game by Duane Blehm. All
features of this shooting gallery game are unlocked and functioning.
The game requires an increasing amount of skill with great animated
graphics and sound. This version is being released in Duane's memory at
the request of his parents. Please download this version and help them
distribute the new one to replace the locked editions. Keywords: Game,
Cairo, Shootout, Arcade
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/game/cairo-shootout.hqx; 67K]
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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 89 10:28:49 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Current directory & disk
In the Mac digest I received Thursday, June 1, there were a few
questions on determining the current working directory, etc.
using the File Manager routines. I guess I'm not the only one who
would vote "The File Manager" chapter in Inside Mac Volume IV
the single most confusing piece of published material ever written.
I have a couple of questions related to that which hopefully aren't
just restatements of those same questions.
1) From within an application, how could one determine the
reference number of the directory (folder) in which the
application is stored? I am aware of the GetAppParms procedure
(described in Chap 2, Volume II) but it returns a reference #
for the path to the RESOURCE file being used by the application.
(Note that since the application's resources are typically
stored in the resource fork of the application, this ref #
is essentially the ref number for the application itself.)
However, if I understand the File Manager chapter in Vol IV
correctly, a "path" to a file is NOT the same as the volume
reference for the disk/folder containing that file. Is this
correct? How could one find the vol ref from the path ref?
2) The File Manager chapter (in both Volume II and IV) describes
two routines, GetVol and GetVRef which can be used to get
volume reference info related to a disk or file. For reference,
the Pascal declarations are shown below...
FUNCTION GetVRefNum(pathRefNum:INTEGER; VAR vRefNum:INTEGER):OSErr;
FUNCTION GetVol(volName:StringPtr; VAR vRefNum:INTEGER):OSErr;
From my efforts at using these, it appears that if one uses
GetAppParms to find the path reference to the application's
resource file and pass it to GetVRefNum, that function will
set vRefNum to a number which indicates the physical drive on
which the file associated with pathRefNum resides.
Regardless of what a SFPutFile or SFGetFile dialog brings up
as the current directory, vRefNum is always -1 if the application
was stored on the internal hard drive, -2 if it was on the internal
floppy, etc.
When GetVol is used, vRefNum DOES change as one changes the
current directory via SFPut or SFGet. I was encouraged by this
but, as a test, I tried calling GetVol while in directory A and
stored the returned vol Ref in the global variable theDir. I
then used the Open item in my program to load a file in some
other directory, (presumably setting the current directory to
that other directory) then called a procedure which contained
the statement
theError:=SetVol(nil,theDir)
Upon return, theError equaled 0 (meaning no error) yet when
I tried opening another file, I was NOT back in directory A.
(Note that SetVol is designed to use either the first OR the
second parameter to set the default volume, hence the nil pointer.)
I guess my question comes down to this: Can information about
the current directory & related stuff be determined using the
"high level" File Manager routines or does this require the
use of the lower level PB________ routines?
Thanks in advance for any pointers (no pun intended) you can supply.
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: Sun, 04 Jun 89 20:51:16 MST
From: bklaas@sedona.intel.com
Subject: Fixing 3.5" disk errors
Hi,
Does anyone know of a utility that will mark bad sectors on a floppy
disk. I have several disks that have one bad sector on them, but the
Mac refuses to initialize them.
Thanks,
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Date: Mon, 5-Jun-1989 18:16:22.24 CST
From: <rcd2403%tamchem.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu> (R. C. Davis)
Subject: Help!!! Strange behavior noted while loading INFO-MAC archives...
Hello, MacUsers!
I have a serious concern with my recently purchased Mac Plus (w/68020 add-on).
Last week I un-Stuffed (thanx Ray!) some archives from Info-Mac. The archives
in mention are SCSI Bus, Staircase 1.0.3, SuperClock! 3.3, Spy!, TappyType,
and Windows. I promptly ran Disinfectant to check for viruses on the floppy
they were on. I also have GateKeeper installed, and it didn't detect any virus-
like behavior.
I proceeded to place these INIT/Cdev's in my hard disk's system folder to "try
them out." (BTW, I'm running on System 6.0.2.) I noticed when I looked at
Staircase from the control panel, there was no "help." And there was no
indication what exactly this thing was supposed to do; just an advertisement
about some software to be available soon. So I proceeded to take it out of my
System Folder.
I don't remember exactly the sequence of events that happened, but I think
after trying to use Staircase...
1. I could not launch a program by clicking a document created by
that program UNLESS the program was in a window open on the desktop.
This was not the case UNTIL I put the above mentioned stuff in my
System Folder. (Note: this did not change when I tried to boot my
Mac from a floppy in the internal drive.)
2. A few of the icons changed to the "generic" icon (blank document
page for cdev's, "MacWrite"-like icon for applications). If I tried to
copy an INIT or Cdev from the floppy to the hard disk, the icon
of the copied program (on the hard disk) would be the "generic" icon.
No other items in the System Folder were changed -- only items that
are added are changed ... except the follwing...
3. All MacWrite (I'm using v4.5) documents on the whole hard drive
where changed to the "generic" document icon (blank page). They were
still MacWrite documents, though.
Well, I deleted all these new items and tried to figure out what happened.
I went to Dallas over the weekend, but in thinking about it I can't understand
what happened. I'm just a MacNovice, and since the Mac was purchased used
without documentation (I know, but since it was in very good shape and at the
price it was hard to pass up!), I just can't turn to page N in the manuals and
do this and that (BTW, if anyone can tell me where I can get these, I'd
appreciate it!)
One thing that was pecular was that when I copied Staircase to my hard disk,
it sure took a long time (especially for a 25K file). Today, I copied
Staircase to my hard disk again, then looked at the size of the files using
Disk Librarian. When I copied Staircase, the unusually long time to copy got
me suspicious. The space used had really jumped. What had happened is that
the invisible file Desktop had increased in size 32K. Isn't this unusual?!
Please, if you have any suggestions or comments SEND/MAIL THEM DIRECTLY TO ME.
I need to figure out this problem A.S.A.P., the Mac will be used heavily this
summer...
Is this a new "virus"? Or is this something much simpler and easier to take
care of?
Again, thanks for any help.
Ricardo Davis
..............................................................................
Dept. of Chemistry THEnet: CHEMVX::RCD2403
Texas A & M University BITnet: RCD2403@TAMCHEM
College Station, TX 77843-3255 USA Internet: RCD2403@CHEMVX.TAMU.EDU
Tel. (409) 845-0612
..............................................................................
Quote for the day:
"The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the
spiritual fiber of a nation more than its wealth."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Date: 2 Jun 89 21:09:29 GMT
From: apctrc!gpb6!zcnj01@uunet.uu.net (Cecil N. Jones)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #95
>------------------------------
>
>Date: 24 May 89 09:21:00 PST
>From: art@sage.acc.com
>Subject: Looking for Geological materials for MACs
>
>I am interested in finding any available material, that runs on a MAC,
>which would be useful for teaching Geology and/or Paleontology. I would
>be interested in any graphics, MAC programs or HyperCard stacks.
>
>Please respond directly to me, since I don't normally read this list.
>
>Thanks in advance for any leads.
>
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Here are some companies which sell geological software. I don't know
anything about their products. Some may not be available on the mac,
but some are. I don't know if they would be suitable for teaching
purposes.
Computer Systemics geoLogic systems, ltd.
806 Hill Wood Drive 1325 South Kihei Road, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78745 Kihei, Maui, Hawaii 96793
808-879-7796
Geotech Computer Systems RockWare, Inc.
7338 S. Alton Way 4251 Kipling St. #595
Suite 16F Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Englewood CO 80112 303-423-6171
303-740-9432
Cecil N. Jones Amoco Production Co. Tulsa, OK
@apctrc.uucp
The opinions expressed are solely my own.
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Date: 2 Jun 89 15:08 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: MS-DOS CD-ROM databases on Macs
Disappointingly few CD-ROM database publishers are releasing MacOS-version
search software for their database disks. Even though the disks are in
High Sierra format (and thus the data, itself, is "readable"), they perceive
the Mac as a "secondary" market which they'll get to "later this year" or
"soon." I was at the Medical Library Association Annual Conference last
week in Boston, and although CD-ROM databases were all the rage, only one,
small, vendor had Mac-version searching for his Medline CD-ROM disks.
Well, fools rush in...
A sister organization is contemplating the purchase and installation of the
SilverPlatter "MultiPlatter" package, a 6-disk jukebox with up to four
Ethernetted MS-DOS boxes for searching. We're already working up a 9-
workstation Mac Ethernet, so...
To pick up on the learning curve, we've borrowed an Apple CD drive from our
local Apple District office. We're also using a Mac II (our IIx is tied up
right now), 4Meg, 40M HD, and SoftPC 1.3. We've gotten so far as to get
SoftPC to recognize the CD-ROM drive/diskvolume as an MS-DOS-readable drive
volume, and gotten the database publisher's search software loaded into the
MS-DOS partitions under SoftPC appropriately. The MacOS recognizes the High
Sierra-format data disk in the Apple CD Drive (at least, it comes up in the
desktop and SoftPC recognizes it's subdirectory(folder) names.
Now comes the rub (we're so close!). MS-DOS search software expects to have
to rely on the Microsoft CD Extensions (MSCDEX.EXE) to talk to the CD drive
hardware. As far as SoftPC itself is concerned, MacOS has taken care of
making the connection to the CD drive. The particular publisher we got this
database from supplied HITACHI.SYS for their Hitachi-bundled drives; I think
the Apple CD Drive is a Toshiba.
1) Can we fake MSCDEX.EXE into not bothering with looking for <drive>.SYS?
2) Can we obtain a <AppleCD/Toshiba(?)>.SYS?
3) Can we stand to have MacOS trying to interface with the CD drive, and
MS-DOS-under-SoftPC trying to, also?
If we can solve these problems, I think we'll have opened up a LARGE market
for what is currently an under-served population. If anyone has any insights,
or a device driver <driver>.SYS we can try, please let me know. Meanwhile,
we've got our Apple folks checking, Insignia (publishers of SoftPC) checking,
and will call MicroSoft if we have to!
Thanks in advance for any help/comments.
Ted
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Date: 2 Jun 89 13:52:00 MST
From: "2614 Rieb, Declan A." <darieb@sandia.gov>
Subject: Persistent alarms?
Has anybody know of the whereabouts (name, publisher, cost, etc.) of a
small utility, DA or CDEV which allows a user to keep an appointment
calendar (date, time, text info) which would cause the alarm to ring when
appointment time is near....and KEEP RINGING it at (selectable?) intervals
until the user has cleared it.?.?.?
I've looked at the HyperCard Stack BPhone, and the Reminder? DA, but neither
will persist in reminders (at least I can't find such a feature.)
Declan A. Rieb INTERnet:DARieb@Sandia.GOV
Org 2614 (Computer Consulting) DARieb@Sandia-2.ARPA
Sandia National Laboratories dxxr@LANL.GOV
Albuquerque, NM 87185-5800 Bell: (505) 844-6338
or
Pablo Garcia PGarcia@Sandia.GOV
Org 1414
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 10:08:20 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: PUZZL.HQX
New unlocked version of the great jigsaw puzzle by Duane Blehm. All
features of this puzzle game are unlocked and functioning. The program
will convert any MacPaint type drawing into a jigsaw puzzle. You drag
the pieces into the frame and build the picture. Very challenging and
fun. This version is being released in Duane's memory at the request of
his parents. Please download this version and help them distribute the
new one to replace the locked editions. Keywords: Puzzle, Jigsaw,
MacPaint, Game
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/game/puzzl.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 11:06:38 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Selecting a folder in SFGetFile
A while back somebody wanted to know how to select a folder in SFGetFile.
Well, everything you need is in the File Mgr/SFGetFile chapters in IM vol. 4.
But -- here's a Pascal function that'll do the trick.
Pass this as the "theHook" routine to SFGetFile/SFPGetFile
FUNCTION theHook (theItem:integer; dialog:DialogPtr): integer;
VAR
dirparamblock: CInfoPBRec;
dirname: Str255;
SFSaveDiskPtr: ↑integer;
BEGIN
IF theItem = 103 THEN {fake event for opening of folder}
BEGIN
dirparamblock.ioCompletion := NIL;
dirparamblock.ioNamePtr := dirname;
SFSaveDiskPtr := Pointer ($0214);{low-memory global}
dirparamblock.ioVrefNum := -1 * SFSaveDiskPtr↑;
dirparamblock.ioFDirIndex := -1;
dirparamblock.ioDirID := longint(reply.fType);
{N.B. "reply" above is the reply parameter to SFGetFile}
err := PBGetCatInfo(@dirparamblock, false);
END {oh yeah - "err" is just a scratch integer}
theHook := theItem;
END;
and once you call PBGetCatInfo, "dirname" will have the name of your directory.
Note that as written SFGetFile will proceed to open the directory as usual.
Presumably you do not want to do that and would want to change "theItem" to
something like 100 (nullEvt) or getCancel.
As long as I have everybody's attention, I'm looking for a Co-op job for the
fall (Sep-Dec) term and would like to work with Macs. If anyone out there
wants a dedicated Mac student, please call or fax:
Alex Curylo phone (604) 298-8913 fax (604) 858-7844
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 10:05:20 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: Stunt Copter
Programmed by Duane Blehm. Latest version with dragable window. Very
challenging and fun. This version is being released in Duane's memory at
the request of his parents. Please download this version and help them
distribute the new one to replace the old editions. Keywords: Copter,
Stunt, Game, Arcade
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/game/stunt-copter.hqx; 50K]
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 09:27:26 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: SuperClock 3.3 bug
Jon Newman writes the following regarding a bug in SuperClock 3.3:
>OK, try this:
>When you first get SuperClock 3.3, the new check box (I forget, this was a
>select-sound box? A select-something box, anyhow) is unchecked. When you
>check it, the window expands to let you choose one from a list of things.
>If you click the box again WITHOUT selecting any of these things, the
>window shrinks back and the Mac dies. Confirmed?
I tried what Jon suggested re: hitting the "chime on hour" check box twice
without doing anything else, and he's certainly correct. Just came back
>From a restart! I had the gatekeeper init in overide, so it had no effect.
Looks, acts, and walks like a bug to me... <grin>
Don
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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 89 18:17:50 IST
From: "Jonathan B. Owen" <GDAU100%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Undigestifier
Does anyone know of an undigestifier which runs on an IBM or preferebly
on a Mac. For those of you who never the term undigestifier before,
it is a program that breaks up a digest, such as the one you are reading
now, into individual files, each containing only one letter.
Also, I would be very interested in hearing about the street-price of
swapping an SE logic board with an SE/30.
Thanx,
Jonathan
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 10:02:24 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <GERGELY@[192.12.62.20]>
Subject: Zero-Gravity.HQX
Programmed by Duane Blehm. You guide a spaceman around his spaceship and
keep him off the walls. The game requires an increasing amount of skill
with animated graphics and sound. This version is being released in
Duane's memory at the request of his parents. Please download this
version and help them distribute the new one to replace the old
editions. Keywords: Gravity, Space, Game, Animated, Arcade
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/game/zero-gravity.hqx; 52K]
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 14 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 103
Today's Topics:
3270 access for networked Macs
astronomy software: note my real address is FS300050@YUSOL
Bridge games
Cheap 800k drives.
Converting text files to MacWrite
DAmenuz .9976 BUG!
Folders XFCN
hypertalk question
IBM Mouse Balls
IBM Printer
Info-Mac Digest V7 #100
Internal Drives for the Plus
IPT's Personal Server Network (distributed peer-to-peer AppleShare)
Library Stack for XMCD, XFCN, ICON, snd + associate resources.
Looking for the program ISETL
MacinTalk Stack + Global Storage Facility for XCMD's
Modifed LaserPrep
Need XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM source
numeric keypads
Proposed XCode registry service.
Pub Domain OPS5
QuickBASIC, Anyone?
Request
Simon
XCMD Miscellany Stack
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Date: Wed 07 Jun 1989 16:12 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 3270 access for networked Macs
>Does anyone out there have any information on black boxes which might sit out
>on an ethernet and "serve" 3270 terminal communications over the network to
>distributed Macintoshes? We'd like to avoid having 9 Mac workstations each
>have to have their own coax pulled from a controller to the workstation and
>its associated MacIRMA/MacMainFrame board, by having a multiport
>connection from the Ethernet to the controller and having the Macs access
>the Ethernetted multiport device. I think such things exist for pcs on an
>Ethernet; how about for Macs?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Ted
TriData Systems of Sunnyvale, CA, makes a box called the Netway 1000AE
that attached directly to LocalTalk (I'm not sure If they make an Ethernet
version or not) and host up to 16 sessions to the mainframe. They have
software for Macs and PCs on Localtalk. The box lists for about $4000, so
that comes out to about $250 per Mac (and the more macs you have on your net,
the more you an spread the cost). When I saw them at the Mac Connectivity
Conference, they were offering to let people try it out for 30 days.
Give them a call. 800-TRI-DATA
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 12:03 EDT
From: MCCALL%QUASAR@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: astronomy software: note my real address is FS300050@YUSOL
Recently, there was a request on Info-Mac for information about
astronomy software. I made a similar request some time ago, so
I thought it was time I conveyed what I have learned.
First, I have been using "Voyager: The Desktop
Planetarium" with a Mac SE/30, both for fun and for educational
demonstrations (with an nView Viewframe II+2). Voyager is an
outstanding piece of software. Besides enabling one to look at
the sky at any time from any place in the solar system
at any speed, it is possible to examine the orbital motions of all
the planets and one extra body of choice (the orbit can be programmed).
>From the standpoint of a university educator, Voyager is revolutionary.
A wide variety of astronomical concepts can now be ANIMATED in the
classroom. Furthermore, the program is so well designed that the
keyboard isn't even necessary. It is possible to execute classroom
demonstrations under mouse control only, so the keyboard need not
be carried to class. More comprehensive reviews of Voyager have
appeared in Sky and Telescope and MacWorld. At the price of $100,
you can't go wrong. Buy it from Carina Software, 830 Williams St.,
San Leandro, CA 94577, 415-352-7328.
Second, Professor Larry Staunton at Drake University has developed several
astronomical demonstrations in Basic. After some frustration with Fortran,
he chose Basic because of its speed, graphics capabilities, and accessibility
to students. The user interface is simple
and the animation effective. Demonstrations include Kepler's Laws,
retrograde motion, and two and three body orbits.
His software may be used as a template for
developing further demonstrations (I plan to develop one to demonstrate
parallax and proper motion). A brief description of his work appears
in Wheels of the Mind, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1988. For more information,
contact Larry Staunton, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake
University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311, 515-271-3033, Bitnet LS7301R@DRAKE.
That's the limit of what I know now. Presently, I am looking
into using VideoWorks II and Wingz for further development of
animated demonstrations. Any more information about astronomical
software or software which might be applicable for developing
astronomical demonstrations is always appreciated. My address is
Marshall McCall, Department of Physics, York University,
4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J1P3, Canada, 416-736-2100x3773,
Bitnet FS300050@YUSOL.
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 08:05:56 CET
From: "Willem N. Ellis" <A429WILL%HASARA11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bridge games
Hello MacWorld
A friend of mine, who does not have access to the net, asked me to inform
about the availability of bridge games for the Mac (SE), preferably following
the ACOL bidding system. He possesses Artworks 5.0, but this seems to be
very unsatisfactory.
Please answer directly, as I don't wish to clog the mail with this sort of
stuff. If I get interesting replies I'll send a summary.
Many thanks!
Willem Ellis
a429will@hasara11.bitnet
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Date: Wed 07 Jun 1989 16:28 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Cheap 800k drives.
Has anyone has any experiece with those cheap 800k drives on the market from
Cutting Edge? I see most the mailorder places are selling them for $175.
We're putting in a lab of 10 Mac Plus' ( :-(, I wish there were SEs or SE/30s!)
and we're planning on purchasing 10 of these for student use.
Any known problems? incompatibilities? failures? etc.
Thanks in advance,
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL 61455
MUCM000@ECNCDC.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 89 15:00:51 EDT
From: David Rubin <RUBIN@graf.poly.edu>
Subject: Converting text files to MacWrite
First off, I am not a Mac user so please excuse any unfamiliarity.
A user is trying to upload a text file to his Mac from a UNIX machine
using Kermit. He then wishes to edit the file using MacWrite. We are
able to upload the file using Red Ryder without a problem. We then
open the file under MacWrite, and it supposedly will convert it to the
proper format. This sort of works, but we get a lot of extra characters
after each line (they show up on MacWrite as boxes). When we open the
file, MacWrite asks if a new-line should be treated as a paragraph or
line break. Whichever one we choose, we still get those boxes.
I assume these "boxes" are strange control characters or something. I
would like to know if there is a better way to get an uploaded text file
converted to MacWrite format (or possibly some other popular word processor).
Please respond only via E-Mail, since I am not a member of this discussion
list. Thanks in advance for any help...
David Rubin | INTERNET: RUBIN@graf.poly.edu
Polytechnic University | BITNET: RUBIN@POLYGRAF
Brooklyn, NY |
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 11:06 CDT
From: <BMC4841%TAMVENUS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: DAmenuz .9976 BUG!
There seems to be a problem with DAmenuz v.9976. When trying to run MAC Tools
v7.2 a dialog box appears saying something about the a minimum configuration
updater being used for system update.... RESTART!
Well, I've been using system 6.02 for months now with HierDAs v.9967 and had
no problems at all.
Any ideas?
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 15:33:58 EDT
From: "Darryl E. Marsee" <demarsee@suvm.acs.syr.edu>
Subject: Folders XFCN
Does anyone know of a HyperCard XFCN that will return the name of a
folder given it's alphabetical sequence number in the directory of it's
parental folder? For example, if I have a disk called 123 on which
there is a folder A that contains folders B, D, and E, I would like the
following results:
FOLDERNAME("123:A",1) = "B"
FOLDERNAME("123:A",2) = "D"
FOLDERNAME("123:A",3) = "E"
FOLDERNAME("123:A",anythingelse) = ""
Many Thanks & Regards,
Darryl Marsee
Syracuse University
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 12:02:29 CST
From: Steve Middlebrook <C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: hypertalk question
Inside a script, how can I tell if the menubar is shown or hidden?
GET VISIBLE OF MENUBAR dies a big death. My several reference books
are silent on this.
stm
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:23 EST
From: REWING%TRINCC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: IBM Mouse Balls
I thogt all of you might get a kick out of this memo, which was forwarded
to me today.
Sub: Big Blue Mouse Balls!!!
FILE: MOUSE BALLS AO (IGL191) 05/05/89 06:28:03 PAGE 1
ESD PRODUCT SERVICE SUPPORT
SUBJECT:NEW RETAIN TIP
Hi,
The following was forwarded to me by a friend who used to work at Big Blue and
was given this by a Big Blue friend who found it in the IBM service manual.
This was actually put into the manual as a serious bulletin! Enjoy it!!!
Record number: H031944
Device:D/T8550
Model: M
Hlt count: UHCOOOOO
Success count: USCOOOOO
Publlcation code: PC50
Tip key: 025
Date created: 089/02/14
Date last altered: A89/02/15
Owning B.U.: USA
Abstract: MOUSE BALLS NOW AVAILABLE AS FRU (Field Replacable Unit)
TEXT:
MOUSE BALLS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AS A FRU. IF A MOUSE FAILS TO OPERATE,OR SHOULD
PERFORM ERRATICALLY,IT MAY BE IN NEED OF BALL REPLACEMENT.BECAUSE OF THE
DELICATE NATURE OF THIS PROCEDURE,REPLACEMENT OF MOUSE BALLS SHOULD BE
ATTEMPTED BY TRAINED PERSONNEL ONLY.
BEFORE ORDERING,DETERMINE TYPE OF MOUSE BALLS REQUIRED BY EXAMINING THE
UNDERSIDE OF EACH MOUSE.DOMESTIC BALLS WILL BE LARGER AND HARDER THAN FOREIGN
BALLS. BALL REMOVAL PROCEDURES DIFFER,DEPENDING UPON MANUFACTURER OF THE MOUSE.
FOREIGN BALLS CAN BE REPLACED USING THE POP-OFF METHODJ AND DOMESTIC BALLS
REPLACED USING THE TWIST-OFF METHOD. MOUSE BALLS ARE NOT USUALLY STATIC
SENSITIVE,HOWEVER,EXCESSIVE HANDLING CAN RESULT IN SUDDEN DISCHARGE. UPON
COMPLETION OF BALL REPLACEMENT,THE MOUSE MAY BE USED IMMEDIATELY.
IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT EACH SERVICER HAVE A PAIR OF BALLS FOR MAINTAINING
OPTIMUM CUSTOMER SATISFACTION,AND THAT ANY CUSTOMER MISSING HIS BALLS SHOULD
SUSPECT LOCAL PERSONNEL OF REMOVING THESE NECESSARY FUNCTIONAL ITEMS.
P/N33F846Z -- DOMESTIC MOUSE BALLS
P/N33F8461 -- FOREIGN MOUSE BALLS
SAS KEYWORDS:
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8560SYSMISC 8570SYSMISC 8580SYSMISC
USERID (RSSTEWART) NODEID (BCRVMl)
INT.ZIP 1225, DEPT 2AW, TL 443-4597 (407-443-4597)
ESD PRODUCT SERVICE SUPPORT,BOCA RATON,FL.
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 89 19:10:30 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: IBM Printer
I've been offered an ancient (circa 1981) IBM 5242 printer which was
originally connected to an IBM System/23. It would be nice to be able
to connect it to a Mac plus and dedicate it to mailing labels, but I
have little information about it and don't want to spend a lot of time
checking it out with no assurance of it working. Has anyone had any
experience with that dinosaur?
My Mac is connected to an Appletalk network (including a Laserwriter
and Imagewriter II, but I hate using the Imagewriter for labels), so
the 5242 would probably have to be connected through the modem port.
Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet
Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
32 Hillside Avenue |
Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500
(203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
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Date: 7 Jun 89 12:37:00 EST
From: "J O GARTLEY" <gartley@aldncf.alcoa.com>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #100
Interpoll 1.0 problem with SE/30 can be fixed by upgrading to interpoll 1.0.1
-------
SuperClock 3.3, I just wanted to confirm that I have have bombs also when using
this version.
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Gartley@aldncf.alcoa.com
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Date: Thu 08 Jun 1989 11:06 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Internal Drives for the Plus
The May 9th issue of MacWeek had an article (page 3) called "Internal drives
for the Plus". It says Integrated Data Sotrage Systems Inc. of San Jose CA
(408-441-0500) is selling Seagate and Conner drives with the hardware
necessary for mounting in the Mac Plus. Has anyone had any experiences with
doing this? They're only supposed to consume 7 to 9 watts and raise the
internal temp by 1 to 2 degrees.
Does anyone have any experiences with this product line? The 40mb model uses
a CONNER mechanism with a 5 year warantee. I'm not familiar with this drive.
Any comments on it?
Thanks,
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
mucm000@ecncdc.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 03:16:48 -0500
From: spector@vx2.gba.nyu.edu (David HM Spector)
Subject: IPT's Personal Server Network (distributed peer-to-peer AppleShare)
(I wrote this to comp.sys.mac last week. So far, it is still accurate.)
After some delays, I finally received the IPT software today. Its official
name is "IPT Personal Server Network."
I have just started to play with it. It is very very rough around the
edges, but the important point is that it appears to work! Sometime next
week I will post my benchmark suite, and results for AppleShare and IPT-PSN.
Novell results will follow a bit later.
The title of this (and my earlier) article says "this month." From the
state of the software, I'd say that that's an overoptimistic estimate, but
not by a whole lot. I'd guess early June.
So far, there don't seem to be any conflicts with the DeskTop Manager INIT
with it running on _both_ the server and the client. I don't know how it
would behave in a mix-and-match environment but I expect it would be OK.
Memory consumption on the server machine appears to be minimal. I've noted
RAM usage increasing by 30-50K with the server active (this is quite a bit
less than TOPS, for example) but I have not done extensive tests on this yet.
The user interface of the administrator program is where the rough edges
come in. It's quite ugly and there are a few visual anamolies. Still, I am
very encouraged by their response to my bug reports, since they are generally
of the form "Wow, I'm glad you found that, we'll fix it right away." For
those of you who remember my article about Beta-testing, this is a company
that apparently knows how to do Betas right.
Have a good weekend, more will follow next week.
---
Alexis Rosen
temporarily at spector@vx2.gba.nyu.edu
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (last resort)
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:48:09 BST
From: np%doc.imperial.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Subject: Library Stack for XMCD, XFCN, ICON, snd + associate resources.
This stack is a library for you to keep all your XCMD, XFCN, ICON, snd
and CURS resources in. You can copy resources from other stacks
(or applications) into the library and paste them from the library
into other stacks. XCMD, XFCN and snd's each have their own description
card, ICON and CURS are stored 20 per card. All XCMD/XFCNs used by this
stack are included in the library descriptions, these are ResHandle - for
resource copying/renaming/deleting/listing/ICN#->ICON conversion etc.,
SortLines - for sorting the lines of a field and StandardFile - for
StandardFile get/put dialogs.
Copyright FreeWare, no commercial use without agreement. Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/resource-library.hqx; 98K]
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 16:32:53 CDT
From: jaf@wucs1.wustl.edu (Andy Fingerhut)
Subject: Looking for the program ISETL
There is a program which deals with sets, tuples, and other discrete
mathematics structures called ISETL. According to a book I have seen
(which describes how to use it. I don't remember the title or author),
there is a Mac version which comes with source and manual, and it is
freely copyable and available to all. I haven't seen it in any archives
anywhere. If someone has a copy, I think that it would make a fine
addition to the sumex archives. I would very much like a copy of this
program.
Andy Fingerhut | Look towards tomorrow,
jaf@wucs1.wustl.edu | 'cause the past is gone
Washington University, St. Louis MO | -- Randy Stonehill
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:37:44 BST
From: np%doc.imperial.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Subject: MacinTalk Stack + Global Storage Facility for XCMD's
This posting contains two stacks (a) a MacinTalk stack (b) a stack
containing XCMD & XPRC's which provide a global variable storage
service for XCMD/XFCN's.
(a) MacinTalk: This stack provides and interface to MacinTalk,
a simple "Speak and Spell" example is given and a card to explore
MacinTalk's phonetic system. The stack also XCMD/XFCN's to enable
events to be generate for ANY key and to read/set the volume level.
(b) Globals: This provides a service to other XCMD/XFCN's by allowing
them to store global values between calls. The interface is via an
XPRC (my restype short for eXternal PRoCedure) which is called from
your XCMD/XFCN to request/access your own private global storage.
This facility is used by the MacinTalk interface to save internal state
between calls to the speech XCMD. There are seperate XPRC for C and Pascal
and sample LSC code to show their use.
Both stacks Copyright FreeWare, no commercial use with agreement. Enjoy.
UK Mac'ers: This file may be obtained from the sumex shadow archive
at irlearn, fileserv%irlearn@earn-relay from JANET.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/macintalk-stack.hqx; 47K]
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Date: Tue 06 Jun 1989 22:51 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Modifed LaserPrep
I saw this on the appletalk discussion group. Would someone with FTP ability
(I wish I were on Internet :-( ) like to get the program he mentions and
post it to this list (so it can get on MACSERVE@PUCC!).
thanks... Fred
>Date: 6-JUN-1989 16:01:37.45
>From: Richard Silverman <RSILVERMAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
>Subject: MODLPREP
>To: AT@eagle.wesleyan.edu
>
>To all,
>
>A couple months ago, I made a modified LaserPrep file available which
>implemented trailer pages for the LaserWriter, along with suggestions on how to
>add other features. It turned out that most people using it were not familiar
>with PostScript, and had difficulty implementing new features from the brief
>descriptions I gave. Therefore, I have now prepared a single prep file with all
>the enhancements people have suggested built in in a standard way. Each
>individual feature can be enabled or disabled by simply editing the
>"configuration section" at the end of the file to suit your needs. The feature
>currently implemented are:
>
>* Limit the number of copies per job.
>
>* Print a trailer page after every job, with user and document name,
> number of pages, and optionally a charge for the job.
>
>* Limit number of pages in a job.
>
>* Disallow manual feed (aborts job if manual feed is specified).
>
>I believe this will be much easier for people to use, and for me to maintain.
>I will continue to add features to the package, as time allows. Thanks to
>everyone for suggestions and bug reports.
>
>The files are available via anonymous FTP from ANNAS.WESLEYAN.EDU
>(129.133.30.2), in the directory "modlprep".
>
>P.S. - I invite anyone who uses this package to e-mail me directly, so that I
>can compile a list of regular users for bug reports, fixes, etc.
>
> Richard Silverman
>
>arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Computing Center
>bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan Wesleyan University
>CIS: [72727,453] Middletown, CT 06457
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 08:18 CDT
From: B609CSE%UTARLG@uta.edu
Subject: Need XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM source
Does anyone know where C source (preferably LSC 3) for
XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM is? No I am not writing
YACTE, just a lit'l DA to automatically upload postscript.
Thanks.
Jeef Smith
B609CSE@UTARLG
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 11:52 CDT
From: John DeSoi <john@murph.tamu.edu>
Subject: numeric keypads
Does anyone know of a source for those stand-alone numeric keypads that
used to be available for the Mac 128K and 512K? Or maybe a source for
used Mac+ keyboards? Will a Mac+ keyboard work properly with a 128K and
512K (I assume it will work with a 512KE)? Thanks.
John F. DeSoi
Laboratory for Software Research
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3112
(409) 845-4306
INTERNET: desoi@cssun.tamu.edu
BITNET: jfd5947@tamvenus
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 13:19 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Proposed XCode registry service.
Greetings:
There are many, many fine XCMDs and XFCNs on various nets and developer stacks,
and I compliment all of the "hackers" who have spent hours putting them
together.
The problem is, there seems to be noone who is taking/accepting responsiblity
for the registration/assignment of names for these things. This results in two
problems:
1) Several similar Xcode resources have been "published" by different
authors who have choosen identical names for their work. I spent
much time trying recently to get COPYFILE to work, only to discover
that the syntax I was using, and being told to use, was for the
COPYFILE _XFCN_ and I was using the COPYFILE _XCMD_! I also have two
different DELETEFILE xcode resources, etc.
2) X-code authors are not receive their due credits because it is so easy
to lose track of where a particular x-code came from.
I propose, if it doesn't already exist, a central registry of x-code. I know
about various depositories (sumex@aim for example) and I am NOT proposing to
duplicate that function. Only the function of registering names, authors,
versions, and sources for these things.
I would be happy to serve as the moderator, although my BITNET only connection
might be limiting (?).
What I envision is a simple list of these things with the other information as
deemed appropriate in a stack that would be available for downloading over the
net. A "New XCode" bulletin would be issued whenever a new resource is
registered. Every month or so the new resources would be incorporated into the
stack. Again, This stack would not contain any code resources, just the
information about them.
So, whaddayasay?
If it sounds good, let's do it... or has someone already?
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 09:17:28 EST
From: jsmith@ctc.contel.com (James T. Smith)
Subject: Pub Domain OPS5
Where can I find a public domain OPS5 (CMU's expert system shell) for
the Mac ?
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 17:59:15 PDT
From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
Subject: QuickBASIC, Anyone?
Anyone else out there using Microsoft QuickBASIC as a Mac programming
environment?
Are there any user groups or on-line forums that focus on QBASIC?
-Tony Siegman, Stanford University
-siegman@sierra.stanford.edu or rw.aap@forsythe.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 14:56 CDT
From: APL%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Request
Since I don't have the ability to, could someone please download the
file VISIONLAB10.HQX from HUBCAP.CLEMSON.EDU and place it in the
Info-Mac Archives?
Thanks...
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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 20:25:46 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Simon
Here is the cdev Simon, which lets you change the standard Mac date
format. Be warned that some programs may no longer sort by date
correctly after changing format. This is version 1.0.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/simon.hqx; 13K]
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 17:00:05 BST
From: np%doc.imperial.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Subject: XCMD Miscellany Stack
This stack contains two XCMD's:
* PopupField: Ths XCMD given a file description will draw
frontmost window the same size and position as the field
and containg the same text. The style of the window depends
on the style of the field, all standard window types (document,
alert, dialog, round corner etc.) are supported. the source field
need not be visible. the window remains until a mouse click.
* SetCursor: USE AT APPLES WRATH! This XCMD allows you to move
the cursor around and even disconnect it from the mouse...
Tested only on a Mac+ Sys 6.0.2, should work on others (its plays
with undocumented low-memory globals, tut, tut!)
Copyright FreeWare. No commercial use without agreement. Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd-popupfield-setcursor.hqx; 11K]
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 15 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 104
Today's Topics:
Ada compiler and ECAD query
A Finder Bug
Allegro Common Lisp 1.2.2 Record and Rom trap problems
Any more specific information on Listmanager than IM vol IV?
A PD init to re-map the DataDesk to an Extended Apple Keyboard
Apple support of Chinese Students
BinHex Conversion Drudgery, Apple File Exchange
Ethernet Boards for the Mac II
FAA DUAT flight briefing seems to like IBM
Flight simulator on a Mac II ?
Help! Having Mac problems...
Info-Mac Digest V7 #101
Interpoll
Machine types & Interpoll 1.0
Milliseconds versus the Macintosh
Problems with Laser Printer 6.0 Drivers
Sound analysis software
Undigestifier
vocabulary/spelling tutor
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 7 Jun 89 14:21:32 CDT
From: evans@lvagw3.csc.ti.com (Eleanor J. Evans @ 462-5330)
Subject: Ada compiler and ECAD query
I need some ammo to help convince someone to buy a mac. Does anyone know
about Ada compilers and/or ECAD software?? Existence and quality are both
relevant.
Also, how about Lisp preferences? I've read discussions before, so please
send mail directly. (I didn't save them because I thought Macdom was too
far in the future for me - I bought a Mac Plus yesterday!!! :-))).
Eleanor
evans@lvis.ti.com
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 89 21:47:32 PDT
From: mse@b2red.caltech.edu (Martin Ewing)
Subject: A Finder Bug
Is the following a known bug? Does Apple read these things? (Send me a
T-shirt, please...)
[Finder: 6.1 / System: 6.0.2
Mac II, 2 MB, various hard or floppy disks]
If you have a folder containing files of the form ".xxx", with leading periods,
an attempt to duplicate the folder or to drag the folder to another device will
fail with ID=01 (Finder) or a reinitiation of the Finder (Multifinder). [The
"reinitiation" of MF comes with the loss of a few hundred K of available memory.
If you repeat the operation, eventually you will get an "unable to start Finder"
message - or words to that effect.]
This error occurs repeatably if the duplication is tried immediately after
booting. It is probabalistic afterwards.
Inside Mac (IV-90) claims that "File names... consist of any sequence of 1 to 31
printing characters, excluding colons."
Martin Ewing
Caltech Radio Astronomy
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:48 EDT
From: "Thomas R. Ridley" <TRRRC%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Allegro Common Lisp 1.2.2 Record and Rom trap problems
I have been starting to investigate Allegro's interface to the ROM toolbox
but I've been having some problems and I wondered if any one out there could
collaborate my findings.
1. The default values for Pascal Records are not used by Make-Record. I have
had to explicitly set the field values with rset to get anywhere.
2. There is no set-record function as described in the Allegro Documentation.
3. The correct call for pointer addition is %inc-ptr not %inc-pointer.
4. Even with correct Parameter Block values, Low-Level File/IO traps often
crash spuriously.
5. There is now way to acess the "High-Level" Toolbox functions from Allegro.
If any one has had good luck doing this type of work I'd like to get in touch.
The Reason for my bypassing the Higher-Level lisp calls is mostly for speed
requirements.
Thanks in Advance
Tom Ridley
RIT Research Corp.
BITNET: TRRRC@RITVAX
USENET: rochester!ritcv!ma!trr1442
Tel: (716) 475-7041
------------------------------
Date: Fri 09 Jun 1989 15:17 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Any more specific information on Listmanager than IM vol IV?
List Manager Question:
Does anyone know where information can be found about the Correct method of
temporarily hiding a list? Through trial and error I found a method that
works, but not really sure why?
LActivate(false,temp_list); // must be performed before the LDoDraw
LDoDraw(false,temp_list);
switch(current_cell){
case 0: temp_list=List1; // set the current list by another list
case 1: temp_list=List2;
....
}
LDoDraw(true,temp_list);
LActivate(true,temp_list);
If LActivate is not performed first to disable a list, then the next temp_list
will not have an active Scroll Bar, unless it was created(LNew) before the
other lists; with the Oldest list created of all that have been selected,
being the list which works correctly.
Inside Macintosh vol IV does not even talk about this. Has anyone seen any
information which gives List Manager specifics, or better detail than Inside
Macintosh vol IV- Fifth Printing, April 1988. LActivate has a small paragraph,
which does not say that it must be called in a certain manner( first or last).
Scott Hutinger mser001@ecncdc.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 00:50:52 EDT
From: gall@nexus.yorku.ca (Norman R. Gall)
Subject: A PD init to re-map the DataDesk to an Extended Apple Keyboard
Even with all of it's limitations, I think Macromaker is one hell of a
lot better than MasterStrokes. Does anyone have an INIT to allow me
to use Macromaker with my Mac-101?
Even if I have to hack something, I still want to switch this around.
Failing this, I understand Quickeys now comes with a remapping INIT.
I'd rather use MacroMaker... it's free. I've already paid too much for
MasterStrokes. It really is a shame that this keyboard doesn't act
like an extended Apple...
Thanks,
Norman R. Gall
--
York University Department of Philosophy Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you
can solve their problems." -- L. Wittgenstein
_____________________________________________________________________________
Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. Men
become insensitive.
-- Eneg, "Patterns of Force," stardate 2534.7.
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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 11:38 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Apple support of Chinese Students
I'd like to commend Princeton University for its generous donation to the
Chinese students.
I'd also like to commend Apple Computer, Inc. for it's (rumored) support of the
Chinese Students fighting for a more democratic society. The equipment and
support they provide will mean a tremendous amount to that struggle. As
someone whose parents have worked and taught in China (in the 40's and 80's),
whose brother was born there, and who was conceived there, I feel some
connection with that country and its people. Our family is enjoying a lengthy
visit by an old friend (from the 40's) who was imprisoned during the 60's and
70's because of his knowledge of English and association with foreigners. He
finally retired from a position of English Teacher, after having been restored
to grace. Now his future, indeed the future of tens of thousands of Chinese
who study English/American and who believe in democracy is in question.
Perhaps the most significant contribution Apple can make would be in providing
FAX technology. Our Chinese student friends tell use that much real news is
being made available to people in China by way of clippings from American
newspapers which are FAXed to businesses and Universities there. I'm sure
there are not enough FAXes at either end of the line.
I am personally quite willing to get involved in any way that I can. I heard
on the news this morning that there is some BITNET activity in support of the
struggle... Does anyone know more?
A tiny effort on each of our parts could mean so much.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 13:37:14 EDT
From: rpk@goldhill.com (Robert Krajewski)
Subject: BinHex Conversion Drudgery, Apple File Exchange
Is there a quick way to decode many BinHex files in one fell swoop ?
There doesn't seem to be a way from Stuffit, at least.
Apple File Exchange offers a way to convert many files at once. Has
anybody though of writing an HQX->Mac File driver for Apple File
Exchange ? This would be a good way to leverage AFE, instead of
changing Stuffit or BinHex (if anybody still uses that).
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 17:34:39 EDT
From: rpk@goldhill.com (Robert Krajewski)
Subject: Ethernet Boards for the Mac II
So, in terms of performance, compatibility, and quality, is an
Ethernet board an Ethernet board an Ethernet board ? The only one I
could find in a Mac Connection ad is one from Dove Computer (Fastnet
III, I beleive).
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 11:19 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: FAA DUAT flight briefing seems to like IBM
Scott Hutinger writes about a soon-to-be-available FAA weather briefing on-line
system, and laments that it seems to be oriented towards the IBM (MS-DOS)
platform. That's a true assessment, unfortuneately, but the FAA is not the
only player. I know of a project nearing completion (Beta version ready by
September) of a Mac program that will far surpass anything that could be done
on a "PC". How about intelligently getting weather information based on your
flight plan? How about on-screen maps of airports, etc.
All I can say right now is that a commercial flight instructor I know is
working on this (He's also an excellent programmer, VAX system guys, etc.) and
is very close to being finished.
Stay tuned...
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 89-06-12 16:30:14 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Flight simulator on a Mac II ?
Recently I saw the impressive Microsoft Flightsimulator running on
a Mac SE. Its quite a nice and impressive piece of software, but all
trials with my Mac II failed and Microsoft's catalog told me, that
this would not work. Since both machines are not so different and
since I have enough disk and memory space it is hard to understand,
why it should be impossible porting the simulator to newer machines.
Does anyone with good connections to Microsoft know, if such an
upgrade is planned and when it can be achieved, or is it possible
to convert the old version by oneself ?
Klaus Schnathmeier
TU Hamburg-Harburg
W. Germany
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET>
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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 11:44:20 CDT
From: "R. C. Davis" <RCD2403@venus.tamu.edu>
Subject: Help! Having Mac problems...
>From: THOR::RCD2403 "R. C. Davis" 9-JUN-1989 11:40:14.27
To: THOR::JWK4946
CC: RCD2403
Subj: RE: Help! Having Mac problems...
Jeff,
Thanks for the tip -- if you know Trey's THOR or CHEMVX userid, could you send
it to me?
What happened is that the Desktop file grew so that it maxed out my 30Mb hard
disk ... to the point that it was unbootable or unreadable. Thankfully, I had
everthing on floppies except my Mac Technical Notes. So I just reinitialized
the hard disk and restored the files. (Let this be a word to the wise who
don't backup their hard disk(s) and say, "It'll never happen to me...")
I've learned my lesson about messing with free/share-ware INITs and CDEVs --
try `em out on a "test" floppy system disk! (I guess that goes for other
programs as well.) Then (maybe) put them on the bootable hard drive.
Ricardo
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Date: 12 Jun 89 06:02:49 GMT
From: bgsuvax!maner@cis.ohio-state.edu (Walter Maner)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #101
>From article <8906110004.AA06125@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>, by Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> I am using Allegro Common Lisp on the Mac and heard that PCL (Portable
> Common Loops) was availible in the public domain. If this is indeed
> the case, could someone kindly direct me to it so that I may download
> it.
>
Here is a posting I saved from sidney%acorn@LIVE-OAK.LCS.MIT.EDU:
Portable CommonLoops (PCL) is available for free from Xerox PARC. Even
though Gold Hill includes a copy with our GCLisp 3.0, that is for the
convenience of our customers who would like a copy, and we do not make
any attempt to support it. PCL is evolving rapidly towards the
emerging CLOS standard, with new releases appearing frequently. It is
currently available for at least 9 Lisp implementations that I know
of. The most current source and documentation is available via
anonymous ftp from parcvax.xerox.com. The file /pub/pcl/get-pcl.text
contains more information. Requests for information about the
CommonLoops mailing list can be sent to commonloops-request@xerox.com.
Sidney Markowitz <sidney%acorn@oak.lcs.mit.edu>
--
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BITNet MANER@BGSUOPIE
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 19:01:54 EDT
From: jonathan@starbase.mitre.org (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: Interpoll
There is an update to Interpoll (i think 1.0.1) that lets it know about
the SE/30
Jonathan Leblang
jonathan@mitre.org
THE MITRE CORPORATION
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 10:19:39 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Machine types & Interpoll 1.0
Tom Coradeschi posted a question about a problem with Interpoll 1.0
not recognizing his SE/30 as an SE/30. Instead, it said his machine
was a Mac II. I'm not familiar with Interpoll but I am familiar with
the methods most applications use to determine machine types.
Most applications which do things that are heavily dependent upon
the hardware in the machine look at either the ROM version numbers
(available using the Environs procedure) or the type of CPU in the
machine (available via SysEnvirons) and make assumptions from there
For example, the version numbers of the ROMS in original Mac IIs is
120. I would bet an application written back in 87 which depended upon
having that ROM present assumes any ROM version above that indicates
that some flavor of the Mac II is being used, not a new (then unheard
of) machine.
Note that the SysEnvirons procedure will return info about pretty much
anything a program would need to know (the CPU, machine type, presence
of Color Quickdraw, etc.). Given that many people have upgraded
machines with new CPUs and that some of the new Macs have the ROMs
in SIMM modules, writing a program that looks at a single piece of
information and assumes everything from that one piece is NOT a
good idea. Some of the older programs around may do this simply
because before System 4.1, there really wasn't any formal method for
finding this type of information
I'm not sure whether Interpoll's failure to recognize an SE/30 as such
will cause any great problems. Most applications use the hardware
info to make sure a program is "downward compatible." That is, if
they do something which takes advantage of special hardware on one
machine, they need to avoid trying to do that on a "lower class"
machine. The only problem one might see with a program seeing an SE/30
as a Mac II would be if it used that faulty information to make
assumptions about the size of the disply (a definite programming
no-no). Otherwise, an SE/30 probably looks very much like a Mac II
>From most programs' perspective.
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 09:47:04 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Milliseconds versus the Macintosh
I'm doing some human timing studies with a Mac and some discrepancies are
showing up, so I thought I would ask you personally ;↑) to find out if you
have done any timing with a Macintosh. I am using the Time Manager to do some
millisecond quality timing of human reaction times, and am wondering about the
accuracy. First of all, the Time Manager only allows you to schedule one
event for the future instead of being able to schedule a periodic wakeup which
would be more accurate for a timer. This means that my millisecond request is
probably taking more than a millisecond. This error is increased the longer
the timer runs. Longer steps of 2 or more milliseconds will reduce this
error, but not by much. My other choice is a timer loop, but that has the
problem of differing machine speeds and calibration. This doesn't even bring
up the issue of trying to read the ADB keyboards with their built in 5 ms
latency.
All in all, I have a working timer that behaves like I want but I don't know
if I should believe the accuracy. I am also curious about how constant any
error might be. Do you have any experience with this? If so, please write or
post. I would like to avoid going to external hardware, which is the next
step.
Jon
N L pugh@nmfecc.llnl.gov
M A L National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center
F T N Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
E L PO Box 5509 L-561
C Livermore, California 94550
C (415) 423-4239
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Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 15:53:15 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Problems with Laser Printer 6.0 Drivers
Apparently some software is not fully compatible with the new 6.0
LaserWriter drivers (available on AppleLink). SuperPaint 2.0 has a
definite problem with them, as do several of the utilities that send
PostScript files to the printer.
A fix is forthcoming from Silicon Beach for their product. I spoke with
them today and they were aware of the problem and were waiting for material
to come back from duplication.
$ BRUCE A. CARTER | OFFICE: (208) 385-1250 /
$ COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR | MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 /
> BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, ID 83725 <
/ BITNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU INTERNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU $
/ APPLELINK: U0919 CIS: 76666,511 PLATO: CARTER/IDAHO/PCA $
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 15:49:31 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Sound analysis software
Is anyone aware of any sound/voice analysis packages other than MacSpeech
Lab? A faculty member here is doing a study of bird and animal sounds, and
needs something more sophisticated than the software that comes with
MacRecorder. MacSpeech Lab is a little pricey at around $3500 for an SE and
$5000 for a Mac II. Are there other options available?
$ BRUCE A. CARTER | OFFICE: (208) 385-1250 /
$ COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR | MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 /
> BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, ID 83725 <
/ BITNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU INTERNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU $
/ APPLELINK: U0919 CIS: 76666,511 PLATO: CARTER/IDAHO/PCA $
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 89 11:23 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Undigestifier
I have developed a stack which could easily be modified to "undigest" infomac (
or other) digests. I use it for Infomac, HyperHackers, and Inf0-IBM digests,
and will be posting it shortly. It countains some rather nice (I think)
features like automatically updating my Archives stack with new entries to the
Mac archives as they are posted in the digests; Auto-indexing of topics; simple
hyper-text click and find type stuff, and import, print, export functions.
Look for it in the next few days.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
------------------------------
Date: 11 Jun 1989 23:44:44-EDT
From: Jonathan.Stigelman@ampere.ece.cmu.edu
Subject: vocabulary/spelling tutor
I'm looking for a vocabulary (definitions)/spelling tutor for my two
younger brothers. They're not in high school yet, but something like an
SAT preparation program might do the job.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Jonathan, stig@cs
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 17 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 105
Today's Topics:
[Info-Mac Digest V7 #102]
Blackout Screen Saver
Cheap 800K Disk Drives
Cheap 800K Drives
Computer conferencing software
C Tools
Gauntlet Editor 1.0b1 binary submission
HDBackup problem
HYPERCARD AND COLOR
Is There a Serial Epson Print Driver?
LW Initialization File
LW Test Page control and Page counter
MacArch Xedit
Menu Madness
Mystery Box (game)
NetHack...now Omega
outline fonts
Sphere Demo 0.90
Supercalc to Excel
Tar version 2.0
Tile
using laserwriter w/ IBM Pcs
VD 3.0 Bug :-(
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 10:11:13 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: [Info-Mac Digest V7 #102]
To find the volume ref number from a path ref number, use the function
GetVRefNum (I.M. p IV-107).
I must admit I am confused by the File Manager chapter too!
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 09:06:12 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Blackout Screen Saver
Here is Blackout, a screen saver that behaves like Dave Oster's
old Stars DA, without the smiley faces. Documentation is included.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/init/blackout.hqx; 48K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 02:20:37 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Cheap 800K Disk Drives
In V7 number 103, Fred Seaton asked about the Cutting Edge Disk Drives.
I have had three of them. I had to return them all. I had different
stories from the mail order house and Cutting Edge about why they did
not work. I gave up and bought a true blue <<grin>> Apple Drive. I
have had no problems with it!
***********************************************************************
* From the computer of: Michael Kazlow (Bitnet: KAZLOWF@PACEVM) *
* Mathematics Department *
* Pace University *
* 1 Pace Plaza *
* NYC, NY 10038 *
* (212) 346-1451 STARTING JULY 1 *
* *
* Warning: The information contained herein maybe worth the *
* paper it was written on. *
***********************************************************************
Acknowledge-To: <KAZLOWF@PACEVM>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 08:32 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Cheap 800K Drives
>Subject: Cheap 800k drives.
>
>Has anyone has any experiece with those cheap 800k drives on the market from
>Cutting Edge? I see most the mailorder places are selling them for $175.
>We're putting in a lab of 10 Mac Plus' ( :-(, I wish there were SEs or SE/30s!)
>and we're planning on purchasing 10 of these for student use.
>
>Any known problems? incompatibilities? failures? etc.
I personally own a Phaser 800 and have never had any problems with it. I have
recommended the Cutting Edge drive to several people here, and haven't heard
any negative reports from them.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 02:45:44 -0500
From: Noshir Contractor <nosh@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Computer conferencing software
I am planning on implementing a computer conference for a course i am
teaching in the fall 1989. Are there software programs that will allow me to
do that on a set of Mac SEs and Mac IIs that are connected via Apple talk
to a file server?
Any recommendations would be much appreciated? Please send mail to:
CONTRACT@UIUCVMD.BITNET
or the address on the header of this meesage.
Also, are there any implenetations of Group Decision Support Software on
Macs?
/nosh/
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 13:36:24 EDT
From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <sussmann@pica.army.mil>
Subject: C Tools
Here is a nice utility for C programmers. It:
Formats C source files similar to the cb utility on UNIX
Strips control characters from files
Generate prototype functions from C source files
Converts Pascal to C code (additional
work will be required by the programmer)
Cross references C files,
Checks for correct number of opening and closing
brackets/braces and use of = in lieu of == in
decision statements
Generates a flow of function calls from C source files
This is version 1.37 written by Graham Haddock and includes
documentation by the author. Freeware for non-commercial use.
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/c-tools.hqx; 63K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 08:59:28 -0400
From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Subject: Gauntlet Editor 1.0b1 binary submission
Gauntlet Editor 1.0b1
This is a little hack I wrote up the other day to modify
save files from the new Macintosh version of Gauntlet.
It's Freeware, and will modify score, health, keys, potions,
as well as special attribute potions. Release notes are
included in the stuffit file below.
Ken Hancock
isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/game/gauntlet-editor-10b1.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 06:55:41 PDT
From: C43CJK%ENG4.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com
Subject: HDBackup problem
I'm having a problem with HDBackup skipping over a damaged file on a floppy.
When HDBackup reaches the damaged file it asks if I want to continue with
the next file... Answering yes, HDBackup immediately indicates that it has
completed the restoration of all the backed up files (which it has not).
I am then instructed to insert the disk containing "Back up changed...files".
None of the back up floppies are recognized as this disk.
I've attempted to repair the damaged file on the floppy...No luck.
I've deleted the file...No luck.
By the way, this file is divided between the end of this floppy and the
beginning of the next one.
I believe my salvation lies in removing that file's entry in the
InvisiHDBo3b (invisible) file on the floppy.
Has anyone encountered and solved this already?
I am not looking forward to restoring files one at a time or decoding
the structure of the InvisiHDBo3b file.
Thanks!
Craig Keithley
+---------------------------------+
| C43CJK%ENG1.GM@HAC2ARPA.HAC.COM |
+---------------------------------+
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 89 18:11:12 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HYPERCARD AND COLOR
Hello.
I am trying to write an xcmd that displays tiff pictures on HyperCard.
The way I do it is to get the HyperCard port, render the TIFF picture
onto an offscreen pixmap, and then use copybits.
The porblem starts when HyperCard refreshes the screen, and the picture
(256 gray) of course disappeared. I have seen Videoworks II HyperCard
Driver works, and the color frames didn't disappear when the HyperCard
screen refreshes.
Can someone tell me how to do this please? Also, I read of a xcmd package
called ColorCards. Has anyone seen it? Are there any such implementations?
Thanks.
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Date: Wed 14 Jun 89 07:39:58-PST
From: ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Is There a Serial Epson Print Driver?
Is there some sort of driver available that can run a serial Epson
compatible printer--public domain or at least shareware, hopefully.
It doesn't need to have graphics capability. All it needs to do print
text. I have access to a laser printer for the more advanced stuff. I
just need something to print drafts, or source code listings.
Thanks in advance,
Rick Rohan
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 14:33 EDT
From: <ELJAZZAR%UTKVX3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LW Initialization File
Hello,
Can postscript commands be permanently saved on the Apple LaserWriter?
(and disabled later of course..)
I have an initialization file that I don't want to have to download every
time the printer is turned on..
Mohamad El Jazzar
UT Computing Center
Knoxville, Tenn.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 08:32 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: LW Test Page control and Page counter
Here (Finally) are two useful files for all of you out there who have been
trying to suppress the test page of a laserwriter, and also find out how many
pages have been printed. These two files, when dehexed and unstuffed, are Word
3.02 files, and should simply be printed to the laserwriter with word.
I'm sorry that the earlier posting was binhexed wrong (with linefeeds). I now
know better (I think :)).
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[Archived as /info-mac/util/msword-laser-utilities.hqx; 5K]
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 23:53:44 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: MacArch Xedit
Here is something for VM/CMS users who frequently request files from the
Listserv at RICE $MacArch archives. The MACARCH XEDIT is a macro file which
makes it a zap to do this. It is written for the new format of $MacArch archive
The MACARCH macro works on full-screen as well as line-oriented terminals.
On a full-screen it is assigned to a PF key (PF10 in the enclosed files).
While editing the RECENT or ALL catalog, press this PF key after placing
the cursor in the line with the file you want to get. The macro will send
the GET command to LISTSERV at RICE for that file. On a line-oriented
terminal, locate a line with the desired file name and enter the MACARCH
command (no operands) to achieve the same effect as described above.
This submission includes two files: MACARCH XEDIT and PROFILE XEDIT. The
latter one is included to illustrate how PROFILE XEDIT could be like (for
those unfamiliar with this beast) and to show how to assign PF10 to be
the MACARCH macro for the $MacArch catalogs only. It assumes that the
catalogs are filed as $MACARCH ALL and $MACARCH RECENT, respectively.
If you have already downloaded the MacServe macro, please note that
the PROFILE XEDIT in this submission supercedes the other one.
If you have got this one first, make sure you don't replace it.
The previous version does not support the MACARCH macro.
Please, notify me (GA0095@SIUCVMB.Bitnet) if you encounter any problems.
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/vm-macro-macarch-xedit.txt; 12K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 02:10:45 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Menu Madness
[Menu Madness]
Menu Madness illustrates some suggestions for text menus,
and a couple of more WYSIWYG ways of choosing arbitrary
font sizes.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/menu-madness.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 89 10:36:11 PDT
From: trewitt@miasma.stanford.edu
Subject: Mystery Box (game)
This is Mystery Box version 1.00 by Kieth Lambert.
It is $5.00 shareware.
Mystery Box consists of a 8x8 grid which contains from 1 to 8 (you control
the difficulty) hidden obstacles. The goal is to figure out where the
obstacles are. The only tool available is to send a "ray" into the box that
will be deflected or absorbed by the obstacles. By seeing where the ray
comes out of the box, you can make gueses about where the obstacles are.
You can shoot as many rays (make as many tests) as you want, but you get
better scores the fewer rays you use.
It is very entertaining, if you like puzzles.
Detailed instructions are contained in the program.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/mystery-box.hqx; 57K]
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Date: 12 Jun 89 15:38:39 GMT
From: parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Gary Parnes)
Subject: NetHack...now Omega
Okay, we now have Nethack for the Mac...now, is Omega out for the Mac.
Or am I just wishful thinking?
Gary
/=============================================================================\
| "You're obviously misinformed... everything | Gary Parnes |
| EAST of the San Andreas Fault is going to | Computer Science Engineer |
| fall into the ATLANTIC Ocean." | University of Pennsylvania |
| *** parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu *** | *NOT* Penn State, Dammit! |
\=============================================================================/
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 01:27:10 EDT
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: outline fonts
Question: I am just about convinced that I want an HP DeskJet printer for
my Mac+, and I'm planning to use the Grappler LQ interface. However, I am
concerned that it may become incompatible with the outline fonts in System 7.0.
(I am planning on eventually getting a Mac IIcx to take full advantage of 7.0)
I am also interested in Bitstream's SoftFonts packages, namely the complete
set of LaserWriter fonts, packaged as SoftFonts B35 (anybody know where to get
that except directly from Bitstream, preferably at a price somewhat reduced
>From Bitstream's $395? If anyone has any idea on any of these topics,
please write to me directly. Also, if anyone has any hands-on experience
with this printer or those fonts, I'd love to hear from you before I sink the
kilobuck.
Many thanks.
Mike Kobb
mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 02:09:54 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Sphere Demo 0.90
[Sphere Demo 0.90]
Sphere Demo was inspired by the Sun sample program spheresdemo,
although I didn't look at the source code so this one's kosher.
It dithers a few different ways, and takes advantage of color
in a non-Palette Manager-compatible way for some smooth gray-
scale shading, should you so choose. It needs some more work
done to it (that Palette Manager unfriendliness, for instance),
but I haven't touched it in over a year and it looks like I'm
not going to, so I'm posting what I've got.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/sphere-demo.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 09:54:13 CDT
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Supercalc to Excel
I'm sure that someone has tried this and would appreciate any suggestions
on the best way to undertake this task.
One department on campus has some Supercalc files,(IBM verison) for
various records they are keeping. They have since been supplied with
some Macintoshes, so they wish to convert their files to Excel....
My first attempt was to re-save the Supercalc files as ascii, ftp
them over to the macintosh and them open them under Excel. This
sort of works, but the problem is everything is under one colume, ...
it does not remember the column settings of the originial program.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Eddie H. Mikell
Mississippi State University
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 08:56:08 CDT
From: cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff)
Subject: Tar version 2.0
This is the binary and documentation for version 2.0 of Macintosh tar.
This version includes several bug fixes, a customized Standard File
dialog for directory selection, and is known to work with systems 6.0.2
and 6.0.3. The sources (now MPW compilable) are in a separate StuffIt
archive.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/tar-20.hqx; 54K
/info-mac/source/c/tar-20.hqx; 60K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 01:38:52 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Tile
[Tile]
Tile is a simple program I wrote for playing with some tilings
of the plane and their duals. You can explore a small class of
tilings with it, and also create some interesting patterns.
Click on a cell to change its state; I'll leave it to you to
figure out how it works.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/tile.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 02:47:12 -0500
From: Noshir Contractor <nosh@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: using laserwriter w/ IBM Pcs
Are there software/hardware options that allow one to route stuff from a
IBM PC,XT,AT to an Apple laserwriter?
/n/
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 89 11:33 EST
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VD 3.0 Bug :-(
There is a subtle bug (or not so subtle bug depending upon how you look
at things) in VirusDetective 3.0 that causes "Data" scans to fail on
the second and subsequent resources *if and only if* they are (1) not
the only test in a search string and (2) if more than one resource
matches previous tests in the same search string. E.g. "Resource
INIT & Size<800 & Data 1234" would always fail on the second and
subsequent INIT resources that were less than 800 bytes long.
The "Resource Start" searches always worked since only one resource
is ever tested. Thus the only consequences with using 3.0 is that
it may not find a virus in a System file (unless you remove the
"Size<x" portion of the System search strings) but all applications
will be properly tested.
Version 3.0.1 will be uploaded as soon as I have verified the fix with
the user who reported the problem (hopefully by this weekend). All
registered users will receive notification of this update (it may
take a while to get the postcards from the printer) and all users who
paid for and received a 3.0 diskette will automatically get 3.0.1
mailed to them for free as soon as possible. Of course any users
who register now will have their checks and diskettes held until the
new version is released.
Sorry for any inconvenience as this bug slipped by both me and my small
horde of beta testers (who may wish to remain anonymous now) :-(.
Jeff
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∂18-Jun-89 1315 nakata@jessica.stanford.edu Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
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>From: postmaster@apple.com (Erik E. Fair)
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I have been asked to post the following announcement widely.
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
NOTICE TO INTERNET AND USENET USERS
It has been reported to Apple Computer, Inc. that a copy of
portions of its copyrighted source code, which were stolen, has been
posted on USENET. This is to notify all users of USENET that Apple's
source code is copyrighted, contains valuable trade secrets and is
protected from unauthorized use or disclosure by law. The copy of
Apple's source code placed on USENET was obtained illegally, without
Apple's consent or authorization. Any copying or use of Apple's source
code constitutes willful copyright infringement and knowing possession
of stolen property, and may result in both civil and criminal
penalties.
Apple has notified the appropriate authorities who are
investigating the theft of its source code. In addition, Apple
directed its Legal Department to pursue remedies against anyone who
makes unauthorized use of its source code. If you have any information
regarding unauthorized use of Apple's source code, please contact Ken
Moore at Apple Computer, Inc.
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>Forwarded from comp.sys.mac:
>From: postmaster@apple.com (Erik E. Fair)
>Subject: Official Legal Announcement regarding Apple's Source Code
>Date: 13 Jun 89 18:22:34 GMT
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>
>I have been asked to post the following announcement widely.
...
> It has been reported to Apple Computer, Inc. that a copy of
>portions of its copyrighted source code, which were stolen, has been
>posted on USENET...
As was also posted in comp.sys.mac: No one seems to have actually SEEN such
source code. All that comp.sys.mac got was a report that someone else had
seen such code, without the code itself. Don't panic (but you weren't going
to anyway, were you :-).
Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya)
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 18 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 106
Today's Topics:
Application Font CDEV
assistance with database for managing cryogenic storage tanks
Batch conversions of Binhex Files...
Bibliographic Software
Database Advice
Exabyte helical scan tape drives
Finder Bug
GateKeeper Permissions list (finally!)
How Do I Trash This Folder??
Improving speed of MacWrite II
Milliseconds
MultiLaunch controlling
Need XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM source
Resedit version 1.2
Stat Packages
SuperClock! version 3.3
SuperClock 3.3
TeX previewer
Update of Brown Univ. Term program needed
UUCP for the Mac
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 0:17:23 EDT
From: mikeoro@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Subject: Application Font CDEV
This is a CDEV written by me, Michael O'Rourke, to allow people to change
the default application font. It is pretty simple and straightforward,
giving a list of all fonts installed that exist in 12 point. To choose
a new font, you just click on one.
This program is HappyWare, if you like it , smile.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/application-font.hqx; 5K]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 17:26 MDT
From: GERKEN%BIOL@cc.utah.edu
Subject: assistance with database for managing cryogenic storage tanks
Our laboratory is currently evaluating database management systems
for our cryogenic storage tanks. We currently have 10,000 vials stored and
we are planning to increase our capacity by another 50,000 vials over the
next 5 years. We would like to be mac based but we have a new vax 3600
with 64 Mb of memory and 500Mb of available disk storage currently available.
If you have any advise and/or know of someone that may already have
already solved this problem, plese contact me. I would appreciate the help.
Steve Gerken,
Gerken@Biology.Utah.Edu
801-581-7096
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Date: Fri 16 Jun 1989 02:35 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Batch conversions of Binhex Files...
I was on GEnie tonight and noticed a program which would handle the batch
BinHex conversions of files that someone recently requested. I consequently
downloaded it from GEnie, and uploaded it here. I didn't have time to use
it and since I dont need it anyway, it is getting deleted from my hard drive.
But hopefully it will serve the purpose of whomever needed it.
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: GREENY
Disclaimer: I just upload em, I don't take responsibility for em...:->
[Archived as /info-mac/util/batch-binhex.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 12:57:53 CDT
From: Bill Goffe <B234WLG%UTARLVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bibliographic Software
Sometime back somebody asked about bibliographic software. In response,
I recently came across an ad a program called EndNote. The ad (in a
recent issue of Science) says that it can contain 32,000 references
with up to 32,000 characters in each. It works with Word, WriteNow, Word
Perfect and MacWrite. After making a reference in the text and finishing
the text, it makes up the bibliography for you (given your desired style).
You can also access the database while writting by using a desk accessory.
I haven't used this critter, but it looks like it could be useful.
Contact Niles & Associates, 2200 Powell, Suite 765, Emeryville, CA,
94608, (415) 655-6666. A demo is $5, while the program is $129. They
also sell software for keeping your track of your budget and payroll if
you're on a grant.
Bill Goffe
b234wlg @ utarlvm1 (bitnet)
The standard disclaimer applies.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 22:25:27 EDT
From: thoyt@ddn-wms.arpa (Thomas Hoyt)
Subject: Database Advice
Greetings, NetMac'ers:
This is an urgent request from someone who doesn't have time to digest
the reams of information about software that come out in Mac Magazines
every month. I need opinions/advice/recommendations about databases that
can be easily tailored to school administration applications.
The software will be used to keep track of fund-raising
pledges/donations for a small, private school as well as a variety of
mailing lists of donors, faculty, staff, students, alumni, etc. The amount
of data is relatively small overall (< 5000 records max), and reporting
need not be too fancy (just mailing labels and a few simple
reports). SIMPLE financial calculations are essential, and a simple
script language would be nice.
We tried HyperCard this last school year, but it was just too slow and
cumbersome on our Plus. Any recommendations need to run on a MacPlus w/1
meg memory. Unless you think this is of interest to the net, post to me.
MANY Thanks.
******
thoyt@ddn-wms.arpa | "Oh no...it's written in COBOL..."
Thomas Hoyt | "Government Computers for Government business..."
CRC Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA -- 703-359-9400 | "NO FUN ALLOWED..."
******
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 10:06 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: Exabyte helical scan tape drives
does anyone have experience with the Exabyte 2.3 GigaByte heical scan tape
drives available from various companies (eg, PCPC Jetstream)? We want to get
a drive for use with both a MacII and a microVax II. For the mac, we need
backup software, and for the vax a Q-bus SCSI tape controller.
The trouble is, no one who will sell for a reasonable price serves both
markets, so they can't say for sure whether the mac drive will work with a the
vax, or whether there is mac software which will support their tape drive.
Any insights will be greatly appreciated. If I learn anything and interest
warrants, I will summarize to the net.
Thanks,
-Fred
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 14:40 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Finder Bug
Martin Ewing Caltech Radio Astronomy reports:
>[Finder: 6.1 / System: 6.0.2
> Mac II, 2 MB, various hard or floppy disks]
>
>If you have a folder containing files of the form ".xxx", with leading periods,
>an attempt to duplicate the folder or to drag the folder to another device will
>fail with ID=01 (Finder) or a reinitiation of the Finder (Multifinder). [The
>"reinitiation" of MF comes with the loss of a few hundred K of available
>memory.
>
>This error occurs repeatably if the duplication is tried immediately after
>booting. It is probabalistic afterwards.
I have verified this on a MacII 5MB System 6.0.2 Finder 6.1 running under
MultiFinder. Attempting to duplicate a folder containing four files all of
whose names began with a period dumped me into MacsBug with a Bus Error at
address 4080680A. I did an EA which relaunched Finder and MultiFinder, and
then was able to duplicate the folder (twice). Register A0 had an address that
was off the charts - 6400????.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[The reason for this is probably something to do with the fact that drivers
have names beginning with a period. I remember reading a TN a while ago that
explicitly stated that applications should refuse to create files with names
starting with a period. Sounds like a hack to me, though. -Bill]
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Date: 15 Jun 89 20:26:56 GMT
From: jalden@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Joshua M. Alden)
Subject: GateKeeper Permissions list (finally!)
Hello.
You may recall that some time ago I posted a request that people
send me their configurations for GateKeeper so that I could compile a
large list. Well, a number of people replied this time, so here is the
compilation. If anyone has any additions or corrections, please send
them to Virus@mac.dartmouth.edu. DO NOT 'r' to this message. Send
directly to Virus@mac.dartmouth.edu. Thank you.
Blitzmail File(Other)
Blitznotify Res(Self)
Binhex File(Other)
ClockAdjust Res(Self)
DA Handler File(Other)
Dimmer 1.3 Res(Other)
Disinfectant Everything
DiskFit File(Other)
DOCtor File(Other)
Excel Res(Other,System)
FastBack File(Other)
Finder File(Other)
FKey Manager Res(Other,System)
FKey/Sound Mover (part of MasterJuggler) Res(Other,System)
Floppy Recover File(Other)
Font/DA Mover Res(Other,System)
Font/DA Utility (part of MasterJuggler) Res(Other)
Fontsie Incompatible
HD TuneUp (part of SUM) File(Other)
HFS Backup File(Other)
HFS Recover File(Other)
Hypercard Res(Other)
initcdev File(Other)
KSP Res(Self)
Layout Res(Other)
LS C File(Other) Res(Other)
LS Pascal 1.1 & 2.0 File(Other) Res(Other)
MacDraw II File(Other)
Macintalk Res(System)
MacWrite Turn off "User Alerts" in "If Errors Occur"
MenuEdit Res(Other)
Microsoft Excel Res(Other,System)
M0ire Res(Self)
NCSA Telnet (2.2 and later) File(Other)
Oracle's XCMD's Res(Other)
Packit III File(Other)
RAM Disk INIT Res(Self)
REdit File(Other) Res(Other)
ResCopier Res(Other,System)
ResEdit File(Other) Res(Other,System)*1
Resource Resolver (part of MasterJuggler) Res(Other)
Scanner File(Other)
Spooler (INIT part of LaserSpeed & TOPS Spool) Res(Self)
Stuffit & Unstuffit File(Other)
Think C File(Other) Res(Other)
TOM\C3\INIT Res(System)
TOPS Res(Self)
Turbo Pascal File(Other) Res(Other)
VersaTerm File(Other)
*1 ResEdit needs different settings between nothing and everything.
Those above are probably most frequently used, according to survey.
/---------------------------------------------------+--------------------------\
| Josh Alden | HB 48, Dartmouth College |
| Private mail: Joshua.Alden@dartmouth.edu | Hanover, NH 03755 |
| Virus mail: Virus.Info@dartmouth.edu | (603) 640-5397 <- temp. |
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 12:27 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How Do I Trash This Folder??
I have a strange problem and would love some help.
After copying a non-beta version of ResEdit off
Apple's "Phil and Dave's Excellent CD," I removed
the files from the folder and tried to trash the
empty folder (named ResEdit1). When I issue and
"Empty Trash" messr. Mac replies "The Trash couldn't
be emptied (a file was busy or a folder was not
empty).". After responding OK to this alert, the
empty folder is replaced to its position in any other
folder or on the desktop.
I have tried several things:
I can rename the folder without change in behavior.
I can duplicate the folder and trash the copy.
I cannot trash the folder even when I boot from another
disk.
I cannot find anything of help by using various disk/file
editors (they can work on files and volumes but not
on folders).
I have tried various random (but sometimes lucky) methods
to change something (trying to quit with the folder
in the trash; rebuilding the desktop file both from the
finder and from Alsoft's DiskExpress utility; I have
done a complete DiskExpress run).
According to everything I can see (including looking for invisible
files, this folder is truely empty; I don't understand how a
folder can be busy.
Can someone think of another tactic? I'd rather not backup-
reformat the disk-restore, and I don't find that particularly
satisfying anyway...there must be something interesting
hidden in this problem.
Thanks in advance..
David C. Elbert
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388 3711 x5652
Elbert@midd.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 15:08 EST
From: "Rand P. Hall" <RAND@merrimack.edu>
Subject: Improving speed of MacWrite II
Was anyone else surprised when they saw how slow MacWrite II was on a
1MB machine? Me too.
In a conversation I had with someone at Claris I learned that they
planned to take out the built-in translators because they bloat the
size of the application--limiting the memory available for `real'
code. They're going to take T/Maker's approach and place the filters
in a folder near the application. This isn't going to happen for a
while so I said to myself, `Self, why don't you get out your (t)rusty
copy of ResEdit and do it yourself.'
It turns out that there are two sets of filters, import and export, of
course. They are of the resource type FLTI and FLTE, respectively.
Just cut out the filters you don't want to use. The more the better.
Claris (and/or Quark) were nice enough to just flag a disk i/o error
if you should try to use one of the filters after you've bagged it.
Rand P. Hall rand@merrimack.edu (csnet)
Director, Academic Computing 508.683.7111
Merrimack College
315 Turnpike Rd. "There is elegance in simplicity."
North Andover, Mass. 01845 - Kimball S. Maddocks
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 17:33:08 PDT
From: oster%SOE.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Milliseconds
I experimented with the Time Manager recently. I built a little task that
just incremented a counter every millisecond. I discovered that it was slow
by about 10% compared to the wall clock, and slowed by a second 10% is I
moved the mouse vigorously while the timer was running. I've heard a rumor
that the Time Manager was rewritten in System 7.
--- David Phillip Oster --"Unix Version 7 was an improvement not
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --only over its predeccessors, but also its
Uucp: {uwvax,decvax}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --successors."
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 09:34:08 CST
From: Larry Pickett <C4898%UMSLVMA.BITNET@umrvmb.umr.edu>
Subject: MultiLaunch controlling
Somewhere I've seen reference to a program which will control the number
of copies of a program present on a file server (AppleShare) that can
be used at one time. We have 13 Mac's on a net and have purchased
10 copies of MSWord. I can either create 10 separate copies on separate
server disks or use some sort of control program so everyone uses the
same server disk but we don't exceed our limit. Any information?
Acknowledge-To: <C4898@UMSLVMA>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 17:20:53 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Need XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM source
Jeef(?) Smith <B609CSE%UTARLG@uta.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know where C source (preferably LSC 3) for
>XMODEM, or YMODEM, or ZMODEM is? No I am not writing
>YACTE, just a lit'l DA to automatically upload postscript.
I'd saved the following. Hope it helps...
tom c
>From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: ZMODEM description and sources
The sources for "sz", an excellent Unix XMODEM/YMODEM/ZMODEM package, are
available for anonymous FTP on UUNET.UU.NET; they can be downloaded from
/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume12/zmodem/part01.Z, part02.Z,
and part03.Z. Remember to download these files in binary mode... they're
compressed shar files.
A description of the ZMODEM protocol can be found on the MacCincy BBS;
I don't have its phone number handy, but Andy should be able to find it
in the FidoNet nodelist (it's actually located in Kentucky). Check
the telecom section; the protocol description is there, as is the
current version of ZTerm (a very nice X/Y/ZMODEM-capable terminal
emulator for the Mac).
[I believe the zmodem files from uunet.uu.net are also in info-mac/unix.
-Bill ]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 00:42:58 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Resedit version 1.2
Apple has released new versions of Macsbug 6.1
and Resedit 1.2. Resedit 1.2 seems much faster
and more reliable than previous releases based
upon an initial evaluation. The only drawback
is it size. Its over 300K. But I guess all power
has its price. For those who use Resedit the new
version is a must!
***********************************************************************
* From the computer of: Michael Kazlow (Bitnet: KAZLOWF@PACEVM) *
* Mathematics Department *
* Pace University *
* 1 Pace Plaza *
* NYC, NY 10038 *
* (212) 346-1451 STARTING JULY 1 *
* *
* Warning: The information contained herein maybe worth the *
* paper it was written on. *
***********************************************************************
Acknowledge-To: <KAZLOWF@PACEVM>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 16:36:56 CDT
From: James Beard MD <beard@wuibc3.wustl.edu>
Subject: Stat Packages
Can anyone provide help selecting a statistical package for use on the Mac? My
critical requirements are:
1) It must have some built-in time-related analysis procedures. By "time
related analysis" I mean the ability to detect shifts or patterns in some
variable that is recorded over time. I want to explore ways of dividing up time
into periods that are "interesting" because some outcome variable differs among
them.
2) Is extensible by programming to allow the development of tests and procedures
that are not built in. Preferably, the programmer should be able to use the
tools that the program itself uses to run its built-in procedures (not have to
write his own matrix inverter, for example).
Suggestions will be appreciated.
James Beard (beard@wuibc2.wustl.edu)
Institute for Biomedical Computing
Washington University
700 S. Euclid
St. Louis, MO 63110
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 10:26:05 EDT
From: gall@nexus.yorku.ca (Norman R. Gall)
Subject: SuperClock! version 3.3
Just a note: I've been using it for about 2 months (?) now and have
NEVER had a problem with ANY of the features (which I try to test out
when I get any software...) Maybe you guys have all gotten a corrupt
copy from the same source???
nrg
--
York University Department of Philosophy Toronto, Ontario, Canada
internet: gall@nexus.yorku.ca bitnet: gall@yorkvm1
_____________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 89 08:27:46 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: SuperClock 3.3
For the record, neither my SE/30 or my Mac II have problems with SuperClock
3.3 although I must say that I think the sound should be played asynchronously
like TimeKeeper does.
Jon
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 02:12:20 PDT
From: David_Dalton@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: TeX previewer
I have tried the TeX previewer archived on sumex-aim.stanford.edu as
/info-mac/app/tex-preview.hqx, and found that it worked well on the
included sample 'DVI file'. However, I was unable to get it to read a DVI
file produced on a SUN. I intend to try decomposing the Macbinary DVI file
into data and info files, and combining the info file with a mainframe or
SUN produced DVI file to get a new Macbinary file. In case this doesn't
work or if there are complications, does anyone know how to convert a
truly DVI (device independent) file to a form readable by the previewer?
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1989 13:53 CDT
From: Frank Wu <IFRA%UMINN1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Update of Brown Univ. Term program needed
Does anyone know if is a new version of Brown University's Term program?
The 'tab' key doesn't seem to work when connected to our mainframe. I
am connected to a IBM 4381 running VM/CMS 5, with TVI950 selected as
terminal type.
P.S. I have version 4.36
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Date: 15 Jun 89 21:48:46 GMT
From: eleazar!boomer@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Rich Akerboom)
Subject: UUCP for the Mac
Has anyone written a UUCP for the Mac? UUCP stands for Unix-Unix Communication
Program as I understand it. It provides for dial up connections between
Unix hosts and is the basis for USENET's dialup services (some of USENET
runs on the Internet). I am unsure of what services UUCP provides beyond
store and forward mail, but I believe there are several. Someone here in
New Hampshire told me that there was UUCP for many platforms and thought
that someone must have done this for the mac too.
If anyone has information, would they please respond to me directly as
I am behind on some of these groups and might miss the message. I will
summarize if the responses warrant it. Also if anyone can enlighten or
correct my understanding of UUCP, please feel free. Thanks
Rich Akerboom Internet: boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
Usenet: decvax!dartmouth!eleazar (I think decvax knows
where dartmouth is!)
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∂18-Jun-89 2330 @score.stanford.edu:A.JIML@GSB-WHY.Stanford.EDU Re: What happened to Sumex again?
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Sumex-2060 is down, probably forever. You should be using SUMEX-AIM
now.
Jim
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You can get to sumex via anonymous ftp to either
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∂19-Jun-89 0937 RLM@score.stanford.edu Word 4 - Memory Hog?
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Subject: Word 4 - Memory Hog?
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
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I installed Word 4 on my machine and when I launched it, it politely
asked me for a megabyte of expensive RAM real estate. But, of course,
it would settle, if it really, really had to, for ALL of what RAM was
left.
Uhhh....
Okay. I haven't RFM'd the the manual yet, but Word 3 only took 384K.
Wazhappen here? Is there a mem config prog I can run? Does new
improved Word really need that big a spread? Did Microsoft let a hog
get out the gate or is it really a factor of 2 upgrade?
Disgruntled but open to reasoning and appreciative of answers.
Robert
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> I installed Word 4 on my machine and when I launched it, it politely
> asked me for a megabyte of expensive RAM real estate.
In the RFM (8↑), Appendix A, Operating Limitations, page 397, is
listed:
> MultiFinder memory
> requirements: 384K (minimum), 512K or more (recommended)
But it ships with 1Meg as the default. Use "GetInfo" from the File
menu in the Finder to change it to whatever you want. I'm happily
running it at 768K.
- RL "Bob"
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 19 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 107
Today's Topics:
Acknowledge?
Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote
Bugs in Sargon IV?
Buttons
Computer conferencing software
Converter DA.hqx
File manager query (Finding directory where the application is)
Font Harmony Updater version 1.2.1
GifConverter 1.04.1 (demo version)
HELP! (HD20SC won't forget or learn!)
Help with network accessible files
Hooking Mac II to NEC Color Printer
HyperCard and CD-ROM
Info-Mac Digest V7 #104
Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
Is there a serial printer driver for Epson printers?
June 89 Tech Notes Info
Machine types & Interpoll 1.0
Pyro Updater 3.3.1
SuperClock Bug (maybe not)
Terminal program: Fawn+ 1.00
Thanks .. re: Uploading to MacWrite
Truchet
Using LaserWriters with DOS machines
VirusDetective DA 3.0.1
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6].
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: 19 Jun 89 12:50 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Acknowledge?
Date: 19 June 1989, 12:46:55 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Acknowledge?
Does anyone out there have info re: Acknowledge? It was described to us
as a Mac user's interface to host applications (communications host--as
in dial-up or networked configurations).
We don't know anything more about it, and haven't seen any recent ads (well, we
weren't looking for them, then, anyway...)
Thanks for any help,
Ted
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 16:55:00 +0200
From: Jan Engelen <FHEDA02%BLEKUL11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote
Hello,
In answer to my question on bibliography programmes with a WORD or
MacWrite output (as to keep intact character formatting and fonts), I received
two indications: Pro-Cite and Endnote.
Demo versions of both programmes seem to exist.
Can anyone send me a copy thereof, or better yet, make it available on
a server?
Also, any good (or bad) experiences with these programms are welcome.
Jan Engelen
Kath. Univ. Leuven
FHEDA026BLEKUL11 (Bitnet)
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 16:54:20 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Bugs in Sargon IV?
I bought a copy of Sargon IV the other day. It plays well, at least it beats
me most of the time. But I think I have found a few bugs, and want to know
if anybody on the list has seen them. I'm using a vanilla Mac+
with Sys. 6.0.2 and an Ehman Eng. 32M hard drive. I've loaded it onto my
hard disk, but I noticed the same bugs when using just the program disk
and the hard drive not booted.
After saving a game, then playing more, and deciding to choose Save again,
the program saves the newest version, but crashes (id=25, I think) when
coming back from the save. Annoying. It will also stochastically crash
sometimes when choosing Take Back from the Options menu. Very bothersome.
Has anybody seen these bugs? Also, the system fonts (when using the
program disk) look like Geneva, but it seems as though they are using
a size that isn't installed in the system, so it looks funny.
A related matter. Does anybody have any experience with both Sargon IV and
Chessmaster 2000? Which plays better chess? Which has the better interface?
Which has nicer graphics? If the bugs are real, I'll take Spinnaker up
on their money back offer and get C. 2000.
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| |
| Michael Webb |
| user6lnu@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| University of Michigan Physics Department |
| |
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 22:12:51 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Buttons
[Oliver's Buttons]
Drop this Startup document in your System Folder, and reboot,
to get push-buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes that are
a little bit different from the standard Mac ones. Thanks to
whoever wrote the MainWDEF Startup document (Eric?) for the
idea as to how to distribute this.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/init/buttons.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 20:49 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Computer conferencing software
In reply to Noshir Contractor <nosh@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
( InfoMac v7 n105 )
> I am planning on implementing a computer conference for a course i am
> teaching in the fall 1989. Are there software programs that will allow me
> to do that on a set of Mac SEs and Mac IIs that are connected via AppleTalk
> to a file server?
I have used Timbuktu to teach classes for the past two semesters. The
program allows you to put up the screen of one Macintosh on as many other
Macs on the network as needed (I've had as many as 14 "onlookers"). It is a
bit slow for the rasterGraphics-intensive things we do, but it is still
invaluable -- you can rely on everyone seeing everything there is to see on
the teacher's screen. For text-only stuff (or strictly vector graphics)
even speed should not be a problem. If desired, the "spectators" can become
"participants": everyone's keyboard and mouse can control the host computer
(of course, it is advisable to take turns -- or the ensuing tug-of-war will
lead nowhere).
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 17:42:17 -0500
From: jdm@emx.utexas.edu (James Meiss)
Subject: Converter DA.hqx
Converter DA:
This is a desk accessory for conversion between
currencies. It stores the rates for 18 different countries* and will
convert between any pair of countries. It uses pop-up menus to choose
the currencies. Simply type in the amount in one currency and hit
enter or return to calculate the equivalent value in the other currency.
I use this desk accessory to help me enter my financial
data after a trip overseas. In order to facilitate this entry,
the DA has an "auto enter" feature which will post the result of the
conversion to the event que and send the desk accessory behind the
window of the current application. What happens is that you type the
amount in pounds sterling (say), hit enter, and the amount in US $ (say)
is entered in your spreadsheet, Dollars and $ense document etc.
This desk accessory is completely free. I only ask
that if you have any suggestions, comments, criticisms or praise,
that you let me know!
Jim Meiss
jdm@emx.utexas.edu
jdm@fusion.utexas.edu
*Rates supplied are from the NY Times June 16, 1989.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/converter.hqx; 16K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 09:39:26 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: File manager query (Finding directory where the application is)
On application startup, the default directory is the one which contains the
application. So if you call FSOpen or whatever with vRefNum=0 the operation
will be performed in the same directory as the application, as long as you
haven't changed the default directory with SetVol. I have tested this, and it
works.
I expect you may be able to get an explicit working directory somehow, perhaps
by GetVol, but I've not tried this.
The chapter in Inside Mac Vol IV on the File Manager is horrible. If a function
returns a 'vRefNum', is this a volume reference number, a directory ID, or a
working directory reference number??
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 00:50:55 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font Harmony Updater version 1.2.1
This program will update Steve Brecher's Font Harmony to version
1.2.1. This file is stuffed.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/font-harmony-updater-121.hqx; 32K]
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 23:19:45 PDT
From: kcr@sun.com (Kevin Rushforth)
Subject: GifConverter 1.04.1 (demo version)
Several people have asked about a program to display GIF images on a
monochrome MAC+ or MAC SE. Here is version 1.04.1 of "GifConverter
Demo", a GIF display utility which I downloaded from CompuServe. It
runs on a MAC+, MAC SE or a MAC II. This program may be freely
distributed, but it is copyrighted by Kevin A. Mitchell. Please do not
send questions/comments about this program to me. Send them to the
author, Kevin Mitchell, who can be reached on CompuServe at
74017,2573.
--
Kevin C. Rushforth | "If winning is not important,
Sun Microsystems | then commander, why keep score?"
| - Lt. Worf
ARPA: kcr@sun.com |
UUCP: <most-backbone-sites>!sun!kcr |
[Archived as /info-mac/art/gif/gif-converter.hqx; 90K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 14:46 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: HELP! (HD20SC won't forget or learn!)
Greetings,
We have here an internal HD20SC in a Mac SE which has experienced some sort of
brain damage. We can't erase files, nor can be copy files onto it. I tried
rebuilding the desktop file :( , deleting the desktop file (using ResEdit) :( ,
it fails the HS20SC Setup test and initialization. All of the files that we
have tried seem to be retrievable :) , A Read Only Hard Disk... how novel, how
useless... any ideas?
What's your favorite replacement? :(.
Thanks,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 15:30 EST
From: LASSEZ LES BON TEMPS ROULER <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help with network accessible files
Hello,
I am looking for some ideas and hopefully someone out there has done this
already!
We have a student lab here with Macintosh IIcx's (130 of them) that are in the
process of being connected to our VAX cluster as a file server. We will be
using AlisaShare to serve from the VAX to the Macs - all the applications will
be on the VAX, and students will simply connect from their machine and see the
VAX as a "hard disk", of sorts. Anyway, the problem is that we would like to
put documentation for many of the supported programs on the VAX and have it
accessible by students through some easy to use interface like HyperCard,
DAtabase, or even a simple text editor DA.
Does anyone out there have any experience with this, or even some ideas? I not
only need to come up with a way to access the data, but also how to put the
data there in the first place. That is, do I have to scan all this stuff in, or
does anyone know if it exisits in ASCII form already?
We will be using the standard stuff, MS Word, Excel, File, Draw, Paint, etc. I
know I can extract the help files from many of these programs, and I may end up
doing that. However, any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Dan Henderson
Computing Consultant,
Boston College
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 14:21:04 EDT
From: Ghassan Alkhoja <ALKHOJA%GWUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hooking Mac II to NEC Color Printer
Hi,
Does anyone have any experience in hooking up a Mac II to a NEC color
printer. Specificaly the NEC CP6/7 dot matrix. I am considering
buying a Mac II but do not want to get rid of my NEC color printer. Do
I need special software/hardware, or cabling to accomplish this? Or is it
not possible. Thanks in advance for all your help.
Ghassan Alkhoja
Computer Information and Resource Center
The George Washington Uiversity
BITNET - ALKHOJA@GWUVM
INTERNET - ALKHOJA@GWUVM.GWU.EDU
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 20:51 MDT
From: Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HyperCard and CD-ROM
Does anyone have experience bringing straight ascii files into HyperCard
off of a CD-ROM. I am developing an application which does just this
and was trying to determine how efficient this method is. Please reply
to Reitman@UNCAMULT.Bitnet.
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Date: 19 Jun 89 17:01:35 GMT
From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #104
#>Date: Thu, 08 Jun 89 15:53:15 MDT
#>From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
#>Subject: Problems with Laser Printer 6.0 Drivers
#>
#>Apparently some software is not fully compatible with the new 6.0
#>LaserWriter drivers (available on AppleLink). SuperPaint 2.0 has a
#>definite problem with them, as do several of the utilities that send
#>PostScript files to the printer.
A question: Is this a new 6.0 driver which replaces the old 6.0
driver or do you mean the new 6.0 driver which replaced the old
5.0 driver? I haven't noticed any problem with SuperPaint 2.0
and the 6.0 driver I am using. How can one identify the problem
driver and what other advantages does it offer which would prompt
one to wish to use it?
#>A fix is forthcoming from Silicon Beach for their product. I spoke with
#>them today and they were aware of the problem and were waiting for material
#>to come back from duplication.
#>
#> BRUCE A. CARTER | OFFICE: (208) 385-1250 /
#> COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR | MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 /
#> > BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, ID 83725 <
#> / BITNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU INTERNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU
#>/ APPLELINK: U0919 CIS: 76666,511 PLATO: CARTER/IDAHO/PCA
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 13:16:55 PDT
From: daybell%aludra.usc.edu@usc.edu (Donald Daybell)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
I am looking for a spellchecker that I can use while in an application,
rather than having to quit and do a seperate spellcheck. Are there any
such programs, and if so, which ones are the best. (Perhaps a DA?)
Mail me of reply here.
Don Daybell daybell@aludra.usc.edu
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 12:40:48 CDT
From: "Bob B. Funchess" <S090726@umrvma.umr.edu>
Subject: Is there a serial printer driver for Epson printers?
There is a serial printer driver for the Epson family but the only one I
know of is not PD. The program is EpStart (by SoftStyle) and is available
for around $50 from several mail-order houses. We have a Mac + and an
Epson LQ-800 printer and the program has worked fairly well with them.
SoftStyle supplies several screen fonts with the program that match the
spacing on the internal printer fonts (used in "Draft" mode), so if these
are used, you can get NLQ out of the printer. Mac screen fonts print OK
but not as good as on an ImageWriter. The driver also handles graphics.
I have a cabling diagram for hooking the printer to the Mac I can send to
anyone who's interested. Reply directly to me.
<Bob|ZENO|Funchess>
S090726@UMRVMA (.EDU for Internet)
Acknowledge-To: <S090726@UMRVMA>
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 22:57:18 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: June 89 Tech Notes Info
Here are the June 1989 Tech Notes. 233-244 are new.
19 How to Produce Continuous Sound Without Clicking
86 MacPaint Document Format
161 When to Call _PrOpen and _PrClose
180 MultiFinder Miscellanea
184 Notification Manager
193 So Many Bitmaps, So Little Time
208 Setting and Restoring A5
212 The Joy of Being 32-Bit Clean
229 A/UX 1.1 Toolbox Bugs
230 Pertinent Information About the Macintosh SE/30
233 MultiFinder and _SetGrowZone
234 NuBus Physical DesignsQBeware
235 Cooperating with the Coprocessor
236 Speedy the Math Coprocessor
237 TextEdit Record Size Limitations Revisited
238 Getting a Full Pathname
239 Inside Object Pascal
240 Using MPW for Non-Macintosh 68000 Systems
241 Script ManagerUs _Pixel2Char
242 Fonts and the Script Manager
243 Script Manager Variables
244 A Leading Cause of Color Cursor Cursing
[Archived as you might expect in the /tn directory. -Bill]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 15:58:43 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Machine types & Interpoll 1.0
Thanks to all who responded to my query about an SE/30 not being reported as
such by InterPoll. The solution was simple. Get out the System 6.0.3 disks
supplied with the machine and install Responder v1.0.1 in the System Folder.
The user had gotten his hands on v1.0 somewhere and installed it, instead.
Also, STR#'s 101 & 102 (I think, this is from memory) in InterPoll need to
have strings added for SE/30 (as well as Mac IIx & IIcx while I was at it).
It all works fine, now.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 01:00:44 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Pyro Updater 3.3.1
This program will update Steve Brecher's Pyro to version
3.3.1. This file is stuffed.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/pyro-updater-331.hqx; 29K]
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 21:45:28 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: SuperClock Bug (maybe not)
>I tried what Jon suggested re: hitting the "chime on hour" check box twice
>without doing anything else, and he's certainly correct. Just came back
>From a restart! I had the gatekeeper init in overide, so it had no effect.
>Looks, acts, and walks like a bug to me... <grin>
I just tried the same thing and no bomb here folks. I may have got
SuperClock 3.3 from a different source (can't remember for sure).
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 14:25:58 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Terminal program: Fawn+ 1.00
Here is "Fawn+ 1.00", a terminal program which implements the SSMP protocol,
widely used in UK academic circles. It also features a dumb terminal with split
scrollback and has selectable PAD types.
This program is Freeware - you may use and distribute it as widely as you like,
as long as you don't make a profit from doing so.
It was written by Iain Sharp and myself; any correspondence should be addressed
to Iain (IS111@UK.AC.CAMBRIDGE.PHOENIX) as I am about to leave university.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/fawnplus.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 12:19:10 EDT
From: David Rubin <RUBIN@graf.poly.edu>
Subject: Thanks .. re: Uploading to MacWrite
I want to thank the many people who responded to my problem with
uploading text files from UNIX to MacWrite using Red Ryder.
The problem turned out to be extra Line-Feeds generated at the UNIX
end, and Red Ryder has an option to strip them (many public domain
programs can also strip them).
Thanks again for your help...
David Rubin | INTERNET: RUBIN@graf.poly.edu
Polytechnic University | BITNET: RUBIN@POLYGRAF
Brooklyn, NY |
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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 22:13:10 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: Truchet
[Truchet]
The "Computer Recreations" column of the July 1989 Scientific
American mentions Truchet tiles. This program creates random
tilings from Truchet tiles and from some variants, including
some tiles created by my colleague Greg Turk. Fingerpaint
with the mouse button.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/truchet.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 09:32:04 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using LaserWriters with DOS machines
Some posted a question in a previous INFO-MAC digest involving
LaserWriters and DOS machines. I'm sure there are ways to hard-wire
a LW and a PC together but I think the easiest way to do this is via
some sort of AppleTalk network. My department at WU uses a TOPS
network to connect the micros we use. Using TOPS on a DOS machine
requires a minimum of:
- a FlashCard (a card which handles the AppleTalk)
- DOS TOPS (the server software)
If you wish to use a LaserWriter from PCs, the PCs also need NetPrint
(also written by TOPS). You also need a PostScript driver for any
programs you wish to use (for example, we have a POSTSCR driver that
we use in Microsoft Word). When you print, you select the PostScript
driver, print the document which spools it to disk, then you run
NetPrint to send it to the LaserWriter.
Although this isn't as transparent as selecting the PostScript driver
and having the stuff sent directly, you do have access to all LW fonts.
As for TOPS as a whole on DOS machines... (contact me directly, I don't
want to bore the net with DOS horror stories :-) )
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Date: Sat, 17 Jun 89 14:28 EST
From: Jeffrey Shulman <SHULMAN@sdr.slb.com>
Subject: VirusDetective DA 3.0.1
VirusDetective is a DA for tracking down viruses (or any resources) in files.
You specify the resource type and various attributes. Once the offending
resource is found it can optionally be removed from the file (use this
feature with caution) or file deleted. The user can update the search list
at any time. Shareware.
Version 3.0.1 corrects a problem where Data scans would fail in certain
situations (evident in the System file searches but *not* in the application
searches). Update postcards will be going out to all registered users this
week. All those who paid to receive 3.0 will be getting 3.0.1 free of charge.
Unpack with StuffIt after downloading.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/virus-detective-301.hqx; 75K]
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Today's Topics:
Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote (and Scholar's Aid II)
ColorFinder
Converting SuperCalc Files
Epson Driver
Fullwrite footnotes
Hard Drive Quality
Help!!! Strange behavior noted while loading INFO-MAC archives...
Little black bands on color screen
MacSnap memory expansion
Mathematica university discount?
Statistical Software
Super Folders -- Folders that won't die.
Using LaserWriters with IBM machines
Using LW with IBM PCs
WANTED- pictures of military vehicles
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 10:02:50 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Bibliography programmes: Pro-Cite & EndNote (and Scholar's Aid II)
There is a third piece of bibliographic software: Scholar's Aid II. It
is in final beta test, the only thing lacking is the manual. There is
a demo package (handling up to twenty citations, I believe).
Scholar's Aid II does: Citations, reference lists based on your
favorite file tool (i.e. you are not locked into some proprietary
bibliography data base representation format), formatting (and simple
reformatting) of reference lists, cross references within a paper
(e.g. references to figures, chapters, tables, etc) with automatic
numbering.
Scholar's Aid II works with Word (1.05, 3.0(1), 4.0), and is available
>From Headworks Software, 19016 Ashworth Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98133,
USA. I believe the price is $55. The author (Stuart Strand) is
reachable (and available) on the net address sstrand@blake.acs.washington.edu.
-- Sigurd Meldal
SDA, just a happy customer, etc.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 08:38:13 -0700
From: rdsesq@jessica.stanford.edu
Subject: ColorFinder
ColorFinder is a startup document (INIT) which allows your applications,
documents, folders, volumes, and other icons to be displayed in full color.
This is done as a patch to CopyBits which identifies when the Finder is
drawing icons.
Done by Chris Derossi
[Archived as /info-mac/init/color-finder.hqx; 44K]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 22:06:18 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Converting SuperCalc Files
If I were you, I'd first see if the newest version of SuperCalc can
save in SYLK format. If it can, then you can read SYLK files
directly with Excel and retain all formulas and formatting. If it
can't, I'm sure SuperCalc can at least save in DIF format. The
trick then is to find a program that can read DIF and save SYLK.
I'm sure there's something on the PC that can do this - maybe Excel
or Lotus 1-2-3. If none of those ideas work, you can get your text
files into shape using the Parsing feature of Lotus 1-2-3 on the
IBM, or the program Add/Strip on the Mac. I think Add/Strip is in
/info-mac/util/. Hope this helps.
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 21:38:58 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Epson Driver
>Is there some sort of driver available that can run a serial Epson
>compatible printer--public domain or at least shareware, hopefully.
>It doesn't need to have graphics capability. All it needs to do print
>text. I have access to a laser printer for the more advanced stuff.
>just need something to print drafts, or source code listings.
There are lots of Epson drivers around (two come to mind)...
- PrintWorks for the Mac from SoftStyle Inc.
- PrintLink from GDT Softworks
The SoftStyle program works very well and even though you don't
care, it supports graphic printing. Best of all, it works very well
with the fonts built into the Epson. It is not freeware or
shareware, but I've seen it advertised for US$43 from one of the big
mail order houses.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 12:26:46 PDT
From: Peggy Lerch <peggyl@ashtate.a-t.com>
Subject: Fullwrite footnotes
In response to your request for information about customizing
footnote styles in FullWrite, I found the following...
It turns out that there is a way to omit the period and
superscript the note number in the note itself, but really it's
just a workaround. If you use this workaround, however, then
subsequently insert or delete any footnotes, you will have to
renumber them all by hand:
1. Set the base style for footnotes to Superscript (select
Style-Base Styles).
2. Begin a new note (select Notes-Footnote).
3. Define a custom symbol to be the number of the note (select
Footnote-Other Symbol).
4. Set the current style to SUBSCRIPT (select Style-Subscript)
and type the note. The note number will appear superscripted
even though, in fact, the text is subscripted.
Good luck.
Peggy Lerch
Ashton-Tate
Advanced Development
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:06 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Drive Quality
Hello all. A friend of mine is about to buy an internal hard drive and we
were wondering if people out there could give us some feedback on the drive
quality. The three types he is choosing from are Ehman Engineering, Osicom
Technologies (MacBest,) and CMS Enhancements. All three of these companies
sell hard drives for very appealing prices, but at prices that low, their
quality automatically becomes somewhat suspect. I would appreciate it if
anybody who has one of these drives could drop me a line and tell me what
they think. Please post directly to me, and if needs warrant, I'll post
a summary to the net. Thank-you
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." - Hunter Thompson
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 89 10:13:11 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Help!!! Strange behavior noted while loading INFO-MAC archives...
On Jun 5, 1989, R.C. Davis writes:
>Help!
>...
>I don't remember exactly the sequence of events that happened, but I think
>after trying to use Staircase...
Ricardo, I have had the same sort of problem occur, and was able to fix it on
my SE by resetting the PRAM (parameter ram). With the SE this is done by
pressing the Cmd-Option-Shift while accessing the Control Panel DA. With the
Plus the same thing can be accomplished by unplugging the Mac and removing its
battery for five or ten minutes. After restarting, you'll have to reset the
time, date, and possibly other settings from the Control Panel.
By the way, Staircase is used by hitting Control and a number from the
keyboard which (counting from left to right on the menus at the top of the
screen) will bring down the menus such as "File," "Edit," etc. without using
the mouse.
Hope this helps to solve your problem.
Don
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 03:59:13 EDT
From: "jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu (John V. Goodman)" <jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Little black bands on color screen
I wonder if anyone has seen this problem before and/or has a solution:
I have a brand new MacIIcx with 40M/5M and the extended video card;
System 6.0.3 and all that.
When using the color wheel in 256-color mode, if I change the
brightness, or the red, green, or blue with the arrows, thin (~1/4")
black braided bands, stretched horizontally across the screen, flicker
at random vertical locations. In 16-color mode they still appear, but
they are thinner.
And in 256-color mode, when I actively shift all the colors on the
screen (say, with "Animate" from !Spyro!, or rotating the color palette
in Image 1.03), I get even *more* intense flickering from even larger
black, "braided-looking" lines.
This is bugging me, since everything else works fine.
I would appreciate it if anyone knowing the cause of this could explain.
I still have the option of bringing it back under warranty.
Thanks,
Internet: jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu (John V. Goodman)
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 07:53:20 CDT
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: MacSnap memory expansion
Since the release of system 7.0 is going to require at least 2 meg of memory,
I have been looking into expanding the memory on my mac plus.
I would like to know the experiences anyone has had with using the
MacSnap expansion. Will it work with all software, or just most of it, and
will it (hopefully) work with the new finder?
Thanks!
Eddie H. Mikell
Mississippi State University
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 12:23 EDT
From: Carl R. Manning <CarlManning@life.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Mathematica university discount?
When Mathematica was announced and demo'ed in Boston (BCS-Mac), Wolfram
Research announced there would be a deal for students at universities to
get Mathematica for the Mac at a very large discount thru the
university. However, the terms the university must meet for this deal
seem overly restrictive (e.g. *every* Mac sold must be sold with
Mathematica, jacking up the price), so I was wondering:
o Does anyone know any university which has accepted the terms of the
deal, and is selling *every* Mac with Mathematica?
o Does anyone know a university which has worked out their own
private terms with Wolfram Research? On what terms are they
selling Mathematica?
Thanks,
CarlManning@ai.mit.edu
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:35:47 CDT
From: Bill Goffe <B234WLG%UTARLVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Statistical Software
As far as statistical software goes, you might want to take a look at
RATS. It is written for serious econometric work and has many features
dealing with time series analysis. For instance, it can do ARIMA models,
transfer functions, spectral analysis, simultaneous models, as well as
maximum likelihood, probit, logit, etc. It is also programable and includes
control fetures like DO loops and WHILE. The interface is command driven,
which you may see as a drawback, but given the number of features, it is
difficult to see how one could run it with dialog boxes. Luckily, past
commands are stored and one can edit them. I don't know of anybody who
has used the Mac version, but I've got a number of friends who've used
the PC version. For advanced time series work, it seems to be the standard
among economists. While complicated, it can do most anything you want. In
reading a PC review of it, I recall where several other PC stat programs
use algorithms from RATS.
If interested, contact:
VAR Econometrics
P.O. Box 1818
Evanston, IL 60204-1818
(312) 864-8772
Bill Goffe
b234wlg @ utarlvm1 (bitnet)
The standard disclaimer applies.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 00:50:41 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Super Folders -- Folders that won't die.
In INFO-MAC V7#106, David Elbert asks about a folder that can not be
erased because the a file is busy or the folder is not empty (even
though it appears empty). A folder or a file can appear busy if an
application (program, da, or init) thinks that a file in the folder is
still there or still open. Not all applications close its files cleanly.
However, usually the problem described happens because of some
confusion (due to cross linkage) in the file allocation table. It is
usually much easier to reformat and restore from backup them to track
down the sectors that are linked to two different files.
Acknowledge-To: <KAZLOWF@PACEVM>
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 13:58 EST
From: Thomas R. Blake <TBLAKE%BINGVAXA.BITNET@bingvmc.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Using LaserWriters with IBM machines
Folksies,
We've all heard horror stories about TOPS so I won't go into that. The
method we have been using here is AppleShare-PC. Using AppleShare, you can
assign a LaserWriter as LPT1-x. You can either say that it is a PostScript
printer, or that it is an Epson LQ2500. The way I set it up is...
LPT1 = Epson LQ2500
LPT2 = Postscript
The Epson emulation supports all sorts of commonly found Epson drivers,
thereby giving support to most any kind of program that walks in. And with it
on LPT1, a simple DOS PRINT command will work.
So for instance, WordPerfect 5.0 has the Apple LaserWriter Plus/NT/NTX
driver installed for LPT2. PC-Write has the Epson LQ2500 driver installed as
LPT1 etc.
The Epson emulation and such have worked very smoothly for us, and
management is quite pleased. Added bonus, you get the file services
AppleShare-PC was *intended* to provide! (Management sympathisizes with print
services, file services are another matter.)
TBLAKE@BINGVAXA.BITNET Thomas R. Blake
Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing Services
SUNY Binghamton
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 13:35 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Using LW with IBM PCs
RE: Subject: using laserwriter w/ IBM Pcs
>Are there software/hardware options that allow one to route stuff from a
>IBM PC,XT,AT to an Apple laserwriter?
An AppleTalk PC card and the software that come with it can be used connect a
PC into an Appletalk with access to the LaserWriter. Many programs require and
intermediate print file which you then send to the LW using the LWPRINT.EXE
that comes with the card. Some newer programs (PageMaker) can print directly
through the card to the LW. This card is good for programs that produce
PostScript or Diablo 630 output.
Another solution is the TOPS PC card and TOPSPrint software. This has the
advantage of doing Epson to PostScript translation, so any program that can
format for and Epson (as if an Epson is an Epson is an Epson... ;-) ) can be
used.
I've used both, alot, and prefer the TOPS, but since it costs more, we make do
with the Apple. But be forewarned... getting MS-DOS computers to talk to the
LaserWriter is the easy part.... getting them to speak fluent PostScript is
another matter.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 11:53:08 EDT
From: hinkle@brl.mil
Subject: WANTED- pictures of military vehicles
I think some of you may be sick of seeing this, but...
I want to find a source/supplier of Mac-usable pictures of
tanks and assorted military vehicles for use in presentation
graphics. I have access to a Mac+ and Laserwriter, and
Mac Paint and Draw, and soon will have "other stuff", says the
owner. I need side, front, etc, views of NATO Warsaw Pact
equipment for making overhead slides and reports. Any help
would be GREATLY appreciated, because it will be back to
REAL cut and paste if I don't find any pictures.
_______________________________________________________________
Gerry Hinkle: U. of Delaware refugee, and 2002 restoration expert
/>brl.mil
hinkle@->brl.arpa pick an address, I've been told all 3!
\>vim.brl.mil
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 20:33:10 EDT
From: nexus@shogun.us.cc.umich.edu (Joseph Nowak)
Subject: Word 4.0, Mac Plus and Datadesk 101 Keyboard bug
(This is the third time I am sending you this message.
I noticed that the second posting of this message
inadevertantly contained two offending dashes thanks
to mush mail)
There is an unresolved bug using a DATADESK INTERNATIONAL
MAC 101 keyboard with MS Word 4.0. The annoyance regards the
displaying of function key equivalents in the menus of MS
Word 4 when using a non ADB version of the Mac 101
keyboard: it just won't display them. Note that Word DOES
respond when the function key combinations are pressed on a
Datadesk, but users of these keyboards may never learn the
function key equivalents for commands without the handy
pneumonic device of seeing them each time they go to the
menus.
In Word, There is a toggle setting available under the
"Commands..." dialog box called "Show Menu Function Keys."
Even with this switch set on, Word only shows the command
keys available on the Mac Plus keyboard in the menus, not
the function key equivalents that are available from the
Mac 101 keyboard.
Calling Microsoft revealed that Word 4 checks the computer
that is being used to see if it has an extended keyboard on
an ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) port. Only then will it display
the function key equivalents in the menus. (Note that as a
result, using a Datadesk Mac 101 keyboard on an a Mac SE or
Mac II doesn't cause this difficulty. That is because the
ADB port is used to connect the keyboard.) Datadesk pleads
that there is not a way to tell Word that it has an
extended keyboard on a non-ADB port.
If anyone has come across a work around for this problem,
please let me know.
I have already called Microsoft and DataDesk International
regarding this problem. They both acknowledge the problem
but seem unconcerned about solving it. It would seem an
easy matter for Microsoft to add a switch under the
"Commands..." menu such as "Extended Keyboard in use". I
think that the problem would have a better chance of being
resolved if more owners of the Datadesk called both
Microsoft and Datadesk International regarding this
difficulty. After all, Microsoft and Datadesk co marketted
the Datadesk keyboard. I quote from the box that the Mac-
101 keyboard is shipped in, "No wonder the MAC-101 is the
only keyboard Microsoft(r) recommends for Word(r)." Let's
make them stick to their word.
Here are the pertinent phone numbers if you are interested
in calling:
Datadesk International Tech Support 818-780-1675
Microsoft Technical Support 206-454-2030
==============================================================================
In Real Life: Joseph Nowak
Microcomputer Consultant
U of M Computing Center User Services
Via Internet: nexus@hogun.us.cc.umich.edu
Via UUCP: uunet!mailrus!shogun.us.cc.umich.edu!nexus
Working for but in no way representing the University of Michigan.
==============================================================================
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 09:48:45 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Zmodem now on GEnie
GEnie information service just began accepting Zmodem uploads and downloads
for the Macintosh. If you don't have Zmodem abilities, check out the D/L area
here, or do a search on GEnie for the file ZTerm0.8.sit ($30 shareware).
Zmodem is _considerably_ faster than the old Xmodem and (I believe) even
speedier than CompuServe Quick-B. ZTerm provides VT100 emulation and file
transfers using X, Y, or Z Modem protocols. ZTerm also supports MacBinary
transfers and CompuServe Quick-B. An absolute must for anyone using the
national services.
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 21 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 109
Today's Topics:
Astronomical Software Query (Summarized Responses)
Bawamba's Mac->IBM conversions
Color Tables
Converting Supercalc Files
Driver for Panasonic 202x Optical Disk Drive
Flight Simulator on a Mac II
How do I get side-by-side paragraph formatting in Word 4.0?
Latest ResMENU...
Mac+ keyboards work with older Macs
Mandatory booting from a hard disk
MIFF (Multimedia Interchange file format)
pucc info-mac archives
spell checker for hyper card
The amazing cdev shrinker!
The indescribable Nothing cdev...
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 19:44:56 PDT
From: nardi@cs.nps.navy.mil (Peter Nardi)
Subject: Astronomical Software Query (Summarized Responses)
I sent a message to the net asking for input on
astronomical software for the Mac. The responses I got were very
helpful, Thanks to all! I also dug around the
interest-groups.txt file at sri-nic.arpa where I came across a SIG
called "astronomy@bbn.com." While the list deals mostly with
astronomical events in the Boston area, I was able to get some
good input from the moderator of the list.
I've summarized the responses I got (both from info-mac &
the astronomy@bbn.com moderator) and for those interested
in Astoronomy & such I think you'll find the responses useful.
-=<Pete>=-
Pete Nardi
nardi@nps.cs.navy.mil
Naval Postgraduate School
smc 1710
Monterey, Ca. 93940
------
If you have access to the usenet, you might post a message to sci.astro
which is a fairly active newsgroup, otherwise, if you send a message
to astronomy@bbn.com that will go out over the arpanet newsgroup.
------
I've seen the program called Voyager for the Mac and I can honestly say
that this is most advanced astronomy package for personal computers
I have seen to date. A professor in my department has a MacII with a
nice color monitor and he bought this program.
It is the fastest, most visually appealing and user friendily astronomical
education program. My first impressions were most lasting. I have yet to
see other program on the Mac, Apple, Amiga or PC that comes close to
the design of this package. I do not know if will perform the orbits you
wish to calculate, because I haven't been able to use the program
much. (I have an Amiga and PC, but no Macs.)
NASA JFK Space Center, Educators' Resource Lab, phone 407-867-4090, has
Apple software free for the taking, if you can get to the Center.
A couple of programs you would want to ask about is:
Astrografix (apd/02)
Go-Gravity and Orbits (apd/07)
New Go Program: Gravity and Orbits (apd/10).
There are more programs but these three should help you if you want to
port the Apple code to Mac. This stuff is intended for educators, so
I would state you're doing this as community service, etc...
Another source is a distributor from New York, if you have money.
Dynacomp, Inc., 178 Phillips Rd.,Webster, NY, 14580, phone - 800-828-6772.
They have alot of software, some public domain stuff, which you have to pay
for the disks on which it is copied.
I would also check Compuserve, and other bulletin boards. I'm sure they
have free software, if you have time to search through all their listings.
------
There is a stack that I got off the net that calculates the positions of
planets for a given day and time. it also calculates events of Jupiter's
moons. it is shareware.
There is also an educational hypercard stack called Sol's Neighbors that
permits you to plot the spacial relationships among various stars near
to us. Kind of fun, but not terribly significant.
------
You will find literally thousands of astronomy programs on
CompuServe, many of them for the Mac.
The cost is not unreasonable when you consider what you get.
-----
I bought the "Voyager" program out of impulse after reading a review of
it in the Jan or Feb issue of MacUser, and I have been amazed. MacConnection
has it for $63.
I can't begin to list everything it will do. It has a huge instruction
manual, but you really do not need to use it except for reference.
It will of course allow you to print star charts for your region. It will allow
you to draw a sky-line to produce an accurate chart for say your back
yard. You can determine what magnitude objects should be listed on the
chart, Messier objects, clusters, double stars, etc, about 17,000 total objects
I believe.
It can be customized to your lat and long, which helps in calculating time
conversions (sidereal and the like). It will run and update the stars
on the screen in real time, or you can speed them up and see how objects
track through the sky. It tracks planets for the next several centuries, and
allows you to enter satellite data (which I get from the space-research
network of internet), and displays their tracks (I have actually been able
to track these satellites, and can set up my scope in advance, something I
have never been able to do before).
It allows for different planes of observations, such as being an observer on
the moon or Jupiter.
------
I have been using "Voyager: The Desktop Planetarium" with a Mac SE/30,
both for fun and for educational demonstrations (with an nView Viewframe II+2).
Voyager is an outstanding piece of software. Besides enabling one to look at
the sky at any time from any place in the solar system
at any speed, it is possible to examine the orbital motions of all
the planets and one extra body of choice (the orbit can be programmed).
>From the standpoint of a university educator, Voyager is revolutionary.
A wide variety of astronomical concepts can now be ANIMATED in the
classroom. Furthermore, the program is so well designed that the
keyboard isn't even necessary. It is possible to execute classroom
demonstrations under mouse control only, so the keyboard need not
be carried to class. More comprehensive reviews of Voyager have
appeared in Sky and Telescope and MacWorld. At the price of $100,
you can't go wrong. Buy it from Carina Software, 830 Williams St.,
San Leandro, CA 94577, 415-352-7328.
Second, Professor Larry Staunton at Drake University has developed several
astronomical demonstrations in Basic. After some frustration with Fortran,
he chose Basic because of its speed, graphics capabilities, and accessibility
to students. The user interface is simple
and the animation effective. Demonstrations include Kepler's Laws,
retrograde motion, and two and three body orbits.
His software may be used as a template for
developing further demonstrations (I plan to develop one to demonstrate
parallax and proper motion). A brief description of his work appears
in Wheels of the Mind, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1988. For more information,
contact Larry Staunton, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Drake
University, Des Moines, Iowa 50311, 515-271-3033, Bitnet LS7301R@DRAKE.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 23:08:43 EDT
From: Eric Keller <R34334%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bawamba's Mac->IBM conversions
Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Some time ago I asked about Bawamba, the company that is
selling a Mac-to-IBM conversion program for ANSI-C, wondering
how to get in touch with them. Thanks to the two people who
responded. In essence, the information I got is as follows:
"Bawamba's phone number is (818) 843-1627. Screenplay Systems
(Bawamba's parent company) is at 150 E. Olive Ave., Suite
305, Burbank, CA 91502, (818) 843-6557. MCP will be priced at
$995 with step license royalties starting at $2500." Of
interest is also that their implementation autosenses CGA,
VGA, and EGA format, that the sound manager and other Mac-
specific features are not supported, and that resource forks
are decompiled and recompiled as resource files. Color may
come later. I called the number, and got very helpful
information.
Eric Keller
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 23:09:16 edt
From: mcdowell@vtodie.cs.vt.edu (Brian McDowell)
Subject: Color Tables
I have a 'clut' resource that I am trying to make the active color table,
sort'a like the Klutz DA does it. I have tryed everything I can think of
using the palette manager routines and the new Window manager routines
for the Aux. Window Record, but to no avail.
What is the best way of doing this from Lightspeed C. Either setting the
system clut or a windows clut will be fine, I have managed to change the
cluts, but never with expected results.
Any help would be appreciated.
-Brian
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 13:37 EST
From: George Nassas <GEORGE%LAUVAX01.LAURENTIAN.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Converting Supercalc Files
I believe SuperCalc can save files in Lotus WKS or WK1 format which Excel
can take in nicely preserving formatting and formulas for you. No need to
mess around with SYLK or DIF or text files.
- George
------------------------------
Date: 21 Jun 89 16:31 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Driver for Panasonic 202x Optical Disk Drive
Date: 21 June 1989, 16:24:48 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Driver for Panasonic 202x Optical Disk Drive
We are currently using a Panasonic 2026 laser disk drive interfaced to an
MS-DOS box.
We are using a dBASE III + application to go through and select the frame
numbers associated with a patient's records to show both the data (on the
computer screen) and the associated video (x-rays on the NTSC screen
hooked up to the player).
We're interested in finding out if anyone has a driver for the Panasonic
so we can interface it to the Mac and move the application over to the
Mac environment (probably using Foxbase+/Mac).
If anyone has a driver, or leads on one, or comments, etc., please
lemme know! Thanks!
Ted
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Date: 21 Jun 89 12:16 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Flight Simulator on a Mac II
Date: 21 June 1989, 12:15:34 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Re: Flight Simulator on a Mac II
I KNOW this isn't what you wanted, but we've had a lot of fun watching
MS-DOS flight simulator running on our IIcx under SoftPC 1.3...
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 13:56:42 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: How do I get side-by-side paragraph formatting in Word 4.0?
Word 4.0 understands the side by side format of paragraphs, since I can
import Word 3.01 documents with that style, and it works fine. Word
4.0 even lists side by side as a formatting element in the style sheet
of such styles imported from Word 3.0 documents.
However, I cannot find side by side as an option anywhere in Word 4.0,
the only way to set it is by using a style or paragraph imported from
a Word 3.0 document.
This is not acceptable. Any hints (and I am not interested in hearing
about tables - there actually is a good reason why side by side is
better than tables in my case)?
-- Sigurd
Hard mail:
Department of Informatics | Arpa:sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no
Thormohlens gt.. 55 | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
N - 5006 Bergen | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!anna!meldal
Norway |
phone: +47 5 54 41 53
fax: +47 5 54 41 99
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 11:03:00 -0600
From: u-atgoat%ug@cs.utah.edu (Alan T Goates)
Subject: Latest ResMENU...
This is the newest working version of ResMENU. It was originally tested with
ResEdit 1.2b4.1, but it also works with the release version of ResEdit (1.2).
There are a couple of cosmetic bugs that I know of, but this version is
completely functional. There should be a newer version sometime "real soon now".
Luv -n- Hugs
Al
[Archived as /info-mac/tech/resmenu.hqx; 27K]
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 13:07:41 PDT
From: Lloyd Robinson <LROBINSON@kl.sri.com>
Subject: Mac+ keyboards work with older Macs
In Info-Mac-Digest, 14 Jun 89, Vol. 7 Issue 103, John DeSoi asks "Will a
Mac+ keyboard work properly with a 128K and 512K . . . ?" The answer is
yes. The keyboard for my original 128K got flaky about the time the Mac+
came out. I bought a Plus keyboard (I wanted the numeric keypad anyway).
Apple claimed compatibility at the time. That same keyboard is still
working with a 512K that has been extended to an E, and has had
third-party memory added as well as a SCSI port. Sorry, I don't know
where to buy Plus keyboards or stand-alone keypads.
-------
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 15:35 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mandatory booting from a hard disk
I'm looking for a way of hacking the system so that it looks for the hard disk
(or a specified SCSI device) *first* before going to the floppy drives for
a boot volume. The idea is to ensure that a public hard disk is booted off
a particular system (loaded with appropriate anti-viral inits). Putting a
metal bar across the floppy drives is not an alternative. RSVP to me, and I'll
summarize to info-mac.
Matt Wall
Brandeis University
WALL@BRANDEIS.bitnet
Disclaimer: I would be stunned if anyone at work cared what I say.
-----------*new subject*
PS to all the TeXers out there who have tried the TeX Previewer in the
archives: I have hacked, slashed, and burned this in most ways I can concieve,
and tried umpteen different file transfer combinations, tried dvi files from
two different platforms of TeX, and I can still only get the thing to work with
the sample file included with the previewer. I'm certain that it's only a
demo, as advertised. The search for p.d. MacTeX goes on...
- m
------------------------------
Date: Wed 21 Jun 1989 10:18 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MIFF (Multimedia Interchange file format)
Has anyone seen any more information on this new and upcoming file format?
I realize that it will not be a true format till probably next year, but
would like to know if anyone has any more information on it.
It would be nice to be able to link ANY type file to a region of picture. With
the picture being different types. Of course ANY is sort pushing it!
scott hutinger
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 10:05:07 EDT
From: SHAPIRO%OUACCVMB.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: pucc info-mac archives
Greetings,
I recently requested the following two files from the INFO-MAC
archives at PUCC.BITNET, they are :
/util/autoblack-new.hqx
/cdev/moire-222.hqx
I would like to report that I could not make the moire-222.hqx file
execute after running it through binhex 4.0. I am probably doing something
wrong and would like to get any instructions that are available from
someone who has made this software work.
With regards to the autoblack-new.hqx program, I have been successful
in installing this software on a MAC SE here but could not get this
program to function on a new MAC SE30 or on a MAC II. Again, if anyone
can offer any pointers I would appreciate it greatly.
Thanks!
Brian Shapiro
Assistant Manager, Information Center
Ohio University Computing and Learning Services
Haning Hall
Athens, Ohio 45701
(614) 593-1015
SHAPIRO@OUACCVMB.BITNET
SHAPIROB@OUACCVMA.BITNET
!att!oucs!uucpbds!shapiro
shapiro@pdp.cs.ohiou.edu
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 89 03:09:31 -0500
From: Noshir Contractor <nosh@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: spell checker for hyper card
Hi. Does anyone know of a spell-checker that works within Hypercard?
My goals is to cleanse any typos before circulating stuff entered in the stacks.
/nosh/
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 21:33:59 AEST
From: munnari!runx.oz.au!johnr@uunet.uu.net (John Rotenstein)
Subject: The amazing cdev shrinker!
Introducing the cdev shrinker!
A fully reversible utility for the dedicated Macintosh hacker.
Without giving away what it actually does (that's a surprise!), let's just
say that it is totally safe, quite useful and a reasonable simple hack.
It's fully Suitcase compatible, user friendly and fun to be with.
The shrinker is distributed under the HappiWare System:
IF YOU LIKE IT, REMEMBER TO SMILE!
But seriously, if you do like it please send me a postcard of your home town.
Is that too much to ask?
I try to reply to all the cards I get, but don't always have time. Original
cards and original locations tend to raise my interest!
(Apologies to Larry Rymal of Texas -- the Postal sorting machine chewed up
your card and I don't know your address!)
John Rotenstein
PO Box 165
Double Bay, NSW 2028.
AUSTRALIA!
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/shrinker.hqx; 15K]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 89 21:35:11 AEST
From: munnari!runx.oz.au!johnr@uunet.uu.net (John Rotenstein)
Subject: The indescribable Nothing cdev...
Introducing Nothing cdev...
There's nothing to say but nothing itself.
Nothing is automatically reversed when another cdev is selected.
If you close the Control Panel with Nothing active, you'll have to choose
Nothing afterwards, then another cdev. Got that?
Nothing, by John Rotenstein.
Distributed under the HappiWare System:
IF YOU LIKE IT, REMEMBER TO SMILE!
John Rotenstein
PO Box 165
Double Bay NSW 2028.
AUSTRALIA!
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/nothing.hqx; 5K]
------------------------------
End of Info-Mac Digest
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Cc: su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Word 4.0 Memory
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Jun 89 10:02:27 -0700.
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 11:38:21 -0700
From: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu
(It occurred to me this might be of general interest. - RLM)
Laura:
> What is a good amount of memory for Word 4.0 to use?
As the Reference manual says (page 397), 384K is the absolute minimum
partition, and 512K is the minimum they recommend using.
> Does any of the functionality decrease if the memory is decreased?
It should be the case that the performance will be poorer, but the
functionality will be unchanged (bugs willing). The performance will
be especially bad if you use lots of special functions, like spelling,
outlining, page view, etc, as each will have to be swapped into memory
as you use it and swapped out when not.
> If Word 4.0 does not need the extra memory, why was it shipped with
> the extra memory as the default size?
I imagine their thinking was that people with lots of memory would be
happy to have it perform well out of the box, and people with not
enough (a measly 2 megabytes!) would learn how to change it.
> How do you change the size?
Click once on the Word program icon. Select "Get Info" from the File
menu. At the bottom of the Info window there's a box that says
"Application Memory Size". You can type whatever you want in there;
512 is probably the smallest you would want to go. One way to tune
things is to set it small, then run Samson and Word concurrently.
Return to the Finder and choose "About the Finder" from the Apple
menu. The Largest Unused Block number is all free memory, so you can
increase the Word memory use to take up most of it. It's a good idea
to leave some (maybe 128K?) free to run desk accessories and
background printing and such.
- RL "Bob"
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 17:01:55 PDT
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #110
To: info-mac-list@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 22 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 110
Today's Topics:
Bug in Flashwrite 1.0
ethernet board in MacII
How do I get side-by-side...?
Info-Mac Digest V7 #107
LSpeed C/Macintalk Question
Poisson's Equation
Printing Excel Formulas
Pro-Cite demo disks, PBS in general
side-by-side paragraphs in MSWord 4.0
SoftPC mini-review
strange output
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Lance Nakata, Jon Pugh, and Bill Lipa.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any
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Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 15:14:36 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Bug in Flashwrite 1.0
I just downloaded the Flashwrite 1.0 CDEV from the Info-Mac archives.
It's a dandy little thing, but it contains one 'undocumented feature' which
is somewhat annoying to me: when you hold down the Command key to bypass
the Multifinder on startup, Flashwrite shows its INIT icon, but is not avail-
able for use. I use a Mac SE/30 with 4 MB of RAM and an extended keyboard.
I am currently running System Software 6.0.2 (SE configuration). I tried
6.0.3 (Dutch version): same thing. Perhaps it's quite easy for the programmer
to iron this out (I don't quite see why anyone would want to bypass INITing
Flashwrite|).
Jan M.L.Martin
Quantum Chemistry
Department SBM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
B-3610 Diepenbeek
Belgium
LUCTHSCH@BDILUC11.BITNET
Disclaimer: IBM just changed its name. It's no longer: Italian Branch of
the Mafia, now it's called: I'd Buy Macintosh.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 11:20:13 CDT
From: Tom Eskridge <eskridge@austin.lockheed.com>
Subject: ethernet board in MacII
We have an AUX MacII w/ and ethernet board, but we are not running AUX
because of it's size and utility (or lack of). My question is how can
we access the ethernet without AUX? Any PD software out there for doing
this?
Cheers,
Tom Eskridge
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 08:56:54 PDT
From: Mike_Dustan@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: How do I get side-by-side...?
Yes, it can be done. It's roundabout, probably because Microsoft
really thinks you should use tables for the kind of thing you
usually do with Side-By-Side. However, here's how:
1. Get Full Menus showing if they aren't already; choose Full
Menus from the Edit menu.
2. Choose Commands... from the Edit menu. This puts up a dialog
box of every command that Word can possibly execute (and an
impressive list it is, too.)
3. Find Side By Side (good thing they're in alphabetical order).
Click on it, then click on the Add button near where it says
Menus. By default it will drop into the Format menu but you
could put it anywhere you want. Now you have Side-by-Side as a
menu-selectable command.
Your menu configuration is saved as part of the Word Settings
file, so your command will be there every time you start Word.
Explore the Commands dialog box to find out how to add your own
keyboard shortcuts, move commands around and so on.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 09:52:56 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #107
Regarding the request for a clarification of LaserWriter 6.0 problems, I
was not aware that there was more than one version of the 6.0 drivers. I
downloaded the new set, along with the Apple Color Disk material from
AppleLink shortly after they first became available. I am not aware of a
good way to identify the problem drivers other than to draw something in
SuperPaint with parts in both the paint and draw layers and then try to
print it. It will (or at least has for us and apparently several other
SuperPaint users) either print a blank page, or it will generate a PostScript
error.
Silicon Beach has since sent us a replacement SuperPaint 2.0 which works
fine.
We have also subsequently discovered that material in Aldus Pagemaker that
is near the edge of the page will not print with our 6.0 drivers while it
prints fine with the level 5 drivers. Maybe we need a new set of level 6.0
drivers since I was not aware there was an update (and apparently with no
version number change... I hate that).
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$ COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR | MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 /
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 13:52 PST
From: <TEMPLE%UCRVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LSpeed C/Macintalk Question
I would like to play with the Macintalk library that is included with the
Light Speed C package, but the macintalk.h header file is nowhere to be
found.
Could someone either point me in the right direction or send me a copy
of the header? I've looked at the program NUMBERTALK, but the header
had been stripped from the project before it was uploaded.
My thanks in advance,
roBert P. Templeton
Department of Sociology
University of California, Riverside
BITNET: TEMPLE@UCRVMS
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 10:48:15 EDT
From: Jim Burns <jab@VLSI.LL.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Poisson's Equation
I would appreciate knowing what programs are available for the MAC
which solve the 2-dimensional Poisson's equations for heat flow and
electrostatic applications.
J. Burns
jab@ll-vlsi.arpa
------------------------------
Date: 22 Jun 89 1315 PDT
From: Arthur Keller <ARK@sail.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printing Excel Formulas
Excel (and other spreadsheets) normally display the formula only of the
current cell. To check a spreadsheet's worth of formulas or to teach
someone how to use a spreadsheet technique or for documentation, it would
be useful to be able to print all of the formulas corresponding to a
spreadsheet.
Does anyone have or know of a program that can take a Excel format file or
SYLK file and print out the formulas in it?
Arthur
------------------------------
Date: 22 Jun 89 18:16:52 GMT
From: pweent@spanglebaby.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Pro-Cite demo disks, PBS in general
There is a Pro-Cite sampler disk which is free for the asking (call or write
address below), as well as a demo disk. The sampler comes with a brochure
and allows you to navigate a sample database. The demo package includes
the full documentation and a fully featured version of Pro-Cite that will
only allow each database to have 32 records.
Personal Bibliographic Software also has availiable 'Biblio-Links' to
several popular online services (Dialog, Knowledge Index, BRS, Medline, etc)
and this fall we will be release Pro-Search, a searching and navigating
front end to DIALOG.
For more information, a free sample disk, etc, call:
313/996-1580 and ask for Product Support.
or write:
Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc
PO Box 4250
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
ps - all the above products are also available for MS-DOS.
-----
Brian Hall
Internet: pweent@spanglebaby.cc.umich.edu (preferred)
AppleLink: D0017 (shared)
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 13:12:59 EDT
From: jonathan@starbase.mitre.org (Jonathan Leblang)
Subject: side-by-side paragraphs in MSWord 4.0
You can select the side-by-side format for paragraphs in MSWord 4.0 by
using the commands item under the edit menu. If you use this format
often, you can add side-by-side to any menu. (why are you using side-by-
side, you can use tables and make your life much easier).
Jonathan A. Leblang jonathan@mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive McLean VA 22102
703 883 5761
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Date: 22 Jun 89 14:46 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SoftPC mini-review
Date: 22 June 1989, 14:12:04 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: SoftPC mini-review
I got a note from Jan Erik Mostr|m <jem@sm.luth.se>, and thought
others might have been interested in my answer. Jan Erik, I hope
you don't mind...
>I saw in you article that you have used SoftPC. One of user wants to
>have access to PC programs and is considering to buy SoftPC.
>I would be grateful if you could answer som questions.
>
>Does it work with all DOS programs ? Is it very slow ? How much
>memory is required ? Is it expensive ? What would you recommend,
>SoftPC or a PC clone ?
We felt SoftPC was the better choice for us over the AST card. Not everyone
will have the same set of circumstances we found ourselves in, though.
First, we knew were going to have to buy MS-DOS compatibility, one way or
ther other. Second, we were comparing Multifinder and OS/2, not Multifinder
and MS-DOS, so we were looking at SoftPC-or-AST vs. OS/2-MSDOS-Compatibility-
Box.
For other reasons, we were leaning toward the Mac (user interface, Multi-
finder's ability to manage multiple "concurrent" communications sessions
with existing off-the-shelf software, etc.). In looking at SoftPC vs. AST,
we considered how we needed to be able to use MS-DOS. For the networked
Macs we were installing, we wanted people to be able to bring MS-DOS data
files they'd created elsewhere and bring them into the Mac environment
(even to the point of touching them up with MS-DOS applications at that
site) but did not want them to necessarily use the Mac workstations to do
the bulk of their MS-DOS work. Therefore, speed became less of an issue.
Furthermore, we had decided that, because of peripheral card options, we
would be using Mac IIs instead of SEs. This gave us at least a 68020 pro-
cessor, which helped, speed-wise.
The AST-86 board for the SE gives you an 8MHz PC in a Mac, so far as I
recollect. The AST-286 board for the Mac II gives you an 8MHz AT in a Mac,
so far as I recollect. SoftPC gives you a 4.77MHz PC in a Mac. You can
theoretically run Windows-286 on an AST-286 (!?) but not under SoftPC.
SoftPC requires approx. 2Meg, although there is a "smaller" version, also
shipped, which doesn't run quite as fast (I think it sets up caches or other
buffers to try to speed things along, in the larger version). It's the
smaller version which is 4.77MHz-like, I think, although I'm not sure.
Over here, it only costs a few hundred dollars ($260 University price seems
to stick in my mind...) as compared to almost $1000 for the AST-286 board.
We didn't feel that for us, the price/performance ratio was favorable for
the AST board--but I've outlined how little MS-DOS processing we hope to be
doing on our Macs.
If you figure that a PC clone, plus LocalTalk adapter board, will cost lots
more than SoftPC and almost certainly still more than an AST-286, I'd go with
the Mac-plus-MS-DOS-emulator before I'd go with Mac-plus-PC-clone. If the
"production" MS-DOS processing requirement fits your situation, you will
probably be better off with the AST-286 and a Mac II/IIx/IIcx. If you're
buying into the SE/SE/30 environment, where you have a choice of SoftPC vs.
AST-86, I think >I< would buy the SE/30-plus-SoftPC and extra memory for the
SE/30...others may prefer the AST-86 option especially if your looking only
at SEs and not SE/30s.
We've gotten SoftPC to work with almost everything we've tried. The only
exceptions were real hacks to begin with (e.g., we couldn't get an MS-DOS
bibliographic CD-ROM search engine to read a CD-ROM in the Apple CD ROM
drive, although SoftPC could read the directory of the disk itself, etc.--
because the search engine wanted an Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions device
driver, and SoftPc itself was content to go through the BIOS, where the
Mac handled hooking up to the Drive and disk sucessfully). Flight Simulator
RUNS under SoftPC (but it's slooooooow). So do dBASE III+, Lotus 1-2-3,
WordStar, WordPerfect, DataEase, etc., etc., etc.
I hope this helps. Best of luck!
Ted
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 11:49:28 MET
From: Ger Groothuijsen <U070022%HNYKUN11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: strange output
Hello Macfans,
Last week I detected that output from my ImageWriter II printer (its
connected to an SE with 2 Mb RAM and 40 Mb HDU, System 6.0.2) contained
some characters that I didn't put in the text.
In MacPaint output appeared the character "f" at the right side of the
picture at irregular intervals (at least I didn't discover any regularity).
In MacWrite text appeared the characters "KO". Always at the end of lines,
also in irregular intervals.
This strange "printer behaviour" dit not happen with newly produced text
but only with existing text files. Paint files I didn't yet check.
The first time I noticed these things was when I used the Full Write
Professional demo from Ashton Tate.
Does anyone recognize the above?
Ger Groothuijsen,
PC Support, University of Nijmegen
The Netherlands.
EARN/BITNET adress: U070022@HNYKUN11
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 23 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 111
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
[Printing Excel Formulas]
American-Made Macs in Europe: summary of replies
CAD Program for Boat Design
Copying Files
Core War beta-testers wanted
Custom bibliography entries in FullWrite
FastBack II query
Hard Drive Quality
help with "xxx.Z" files
HyperDA and SuperCard
Info-Mac Digest V7 #109
Kensington Turbo Mouse ... Plus?
Leading Clock Zeros
Little black bands fixed (?)
Need FTP for Mac
Printing Excel Formulae -- Reply
Printing Excel Formulas (2 msgs)
sick Plus
Startup palette
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1989 20:19:52 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
I have created a new directory called "apple". This directory contains
hallowed binaries direct from Apple Computer. It is divided into four
subdirectories: code, docs, stacks, and tn. The old tn directory no longer
exists.
Stacks contains a more up-to-date version of the Technical Notes stack, as
well as the Questions and Answers stack for all of those commonly asked
programming questions.
Tn contains the latest set of notes (which I think we had already).
Docs contains various revisions to Inside Macintosh (ie Sound and Script
Manager chapters) and some miscellaneous stuff I hadn't seen before.
Code contains sample code from Apple. Many of the routines seem quite
interesting. Check it out!
The names in these directories follow Apple's conventions rather than those
of Info-Mac. For example, there can be more than one period in a file name.
I left them this way in order to avoid retyping millions of names. If someone
wants to come up with a Unix script that renames files in a given directory
>From (say) "tn.stack.3.1.part1.hqx" to "tn-stack-31-part1.hqx", we'd sure like
to see it! Also the names of tech notes have changed from tn001.hqx to
tn.001.hqx.
Hopefully we will be able to restore the old file name scheme pretty soon,
because if we don't, some non-Unix shadow archives will be out of luck.
Bill Lipa
Info-Mac
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 11:33:41 BST
From: Brian Candler <BTC10%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: [Printing Excel Formulas]
You can do this in Excel! (Version 1.5 anyway...)
Select "Display..." from the "Options" menu, and check "Formulas". All cells
will have their formulas displayed on-screen. Unfortunately you have to set
the column widths (but this should be an advantage, as a complete set of column
widths are kept for the formulas view as well as the data view, so you can
switch between them).
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Date: 22 Jun 89 22:35:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: American-Made Macs in Europe: summary of replies
This is a summary posting of replies I received to the question:
"What is involved in taking an American Mac to Europe
and using it there?"
Thanks to all who responded.
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
[Archived as /info-mac/report/american-macs-in-europe.txt; 11K]
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 10:12 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CAD Program for Boat Design
Another one of my requests for information about obscure Macintosh software...
I have a friend who's new to computing and wants to buy a Mac. He's setting up
his own business designing and building small sailboats. He's certain he's
heard of an excellent CAD program for the Mac that's specifically for boat
design.
I have searched all the trades, the Buyer's Guide, etc., looking for evidence
of this program, without effect. My request:
1) does anybody know of such a program or relevant info about software
companies doing similar things?
2) is there anybody out there using Macs for boat design or knows of somebody
whom I might refer my friend to?
This is important, because his wife is lobbying for a PC instead !! (8-)
Again a thousand thanks in advance...
Matt Wall
Brandeis University
WALL@BRANDEIS.bitnet
Disclaimer: Diogenes
Drink: Black Coffee
Novel Most Recently Read: SPSS-X User's Guide
Saying: ``Mmmph.''
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Date: Fri 23 Jun 89 11:28:17-EDT
From: Rick Greenawalt <RGREENAWALT@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Copying Files
I am working on a project in which I need to take a list of files and copy
them from one volume to another. Is there a simple/standard way to get the
files and their attendent resources to the desktop of the second volume?
Thanks in advance.
Rick Greenawalt
rpg@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Apple-Link: R6406
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 22:46:49 PDT
From: Jon Newman <newman@portia.stanford.edu>
Subject: Core War beta-testers wanted
I am reworking the Robert Martin Core War simulator to meet the new ICWS '88
standards, and also to improve its performance and interface. For those of you
who are unfamiliar with Core War, it is "the ultimate game for hackers,"
described by A. K. Dewdney in his Computer Recreations article in Scientific
American. In this game, rival programs in the Core War language attempt to oust
one another from the core of a simulated computer. Three contests have been
held pitting rival programs from as far away as the Soviet Union against one
another. This Macintosh simulator should prove helpful for Core War programmers
tired of the poor interface of the PC McDaniels simulator, while providing full
compatibility with the latest Core War language standard and hopefully
improving the speed of the Robert Martin simulator.
Those wishing to become beta sites should send EMAIL to
newman@portia.stanford.edu,
or better yet, send snail mail to
Jon Newman
1809 Imperial Ridge
Las Cruces, NM 88001.
I will probably have left the Bay Area by the time a first beta version is
ready, but I will send the program myself. I don't want money, just bug reports
and suggestions! Victory in Core!
Jon Newman
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 02:40:02 EDT
From: levine@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jonathan Levine)
Subject: Custom bibliography entries in FullWrite
Is there any way to modify reference styles in FullWrite? I need to be able to
reference in APA format: (Name date) in the text, and Name date. Title, etc. in .
in the reference list.
Jonathan
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 13:03:57 PDT
From: TOLLIVER%ORN.MFENET@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: FastBack II query
Has anyone out there seen/used the new FastBack II? What do you think of
it compared to the other products on the market? I know that MacUser just
had an article on backup programs, but, as usual, the information content
was rather low. Besides, they were using the original FastBack, not the II
version. I have recently evaluated Redux 1.5, DiskFit 1.5, and HFS Backup
3.0 and have almost settled on Redux as the best fit for my needs. But now
I see the new ads for the new FastBack II and might be convinced to change
my mind. So I'm collecting opinions of anyone who cares to respond.
Thanks,
John Tolliver (Tolliver%atf.mfenet@nmfecc.llnl.gov)
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 18:58 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Drive Quality
Well, with regards to my previous question about hard drive quality,
thanks to all the people who sent me a letter. Here's my summary of the
results:
CMS Engineering: Two of the people who responded are on their THIRD
drive, the first two having been returned under
warranty. They advise staying away or being sure that
you are in touch with a GOOD dealer as you might be
spending a long time arguing the finer points of your
warranty with him.
Ehman Engineering: All of the people who responded were happy with t
their drives. In fact, I think I'll get one of
these.
Of course, one person offered the advice that it was better to buy
a drive of reliable quality (at a higher price) since that way you are certain
you won't have to shell out big bucks airmailing the hard drive back to the
manufacturer when it crashes.
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 01:27 EDT
From: <UN107065%WVNVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: help with "xxx.Z" files
I use VAX/VMS to ftp files from other sites. Some of the
files I have found in the archives have a "xxx.Z" format.
When I download this type of file on my Mac (using MacBinary)
and try to extract the tar files using the Macintosh tar program,
I get error messages. What am I doing wrong?
I understand that the file can be extracted on a unix machine
but unfortunately I do not have access to one. Is there another
way to extract a "xxx.Z" file.
I would appreciate any info.
thanks,
Neil Hazari
un107065@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 20:31 EST
From: PETER CHEN <PETCHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: HyperDA and SuperCard
Hi,
I am currently working for a computer lab, we are trying to establish
some on-line help by using HyperCard. There is some problems regarding this,
however. First, is it true that HyperDA does not handle graphics? Second,
what do the people who have tried SuperCard think of it? We are seriously
considering the option of developing in SuperCard. If anybody has solutions
to the problem with HyperDA or suggestions regarding SuperCard, I would very
much appreciate your reply.
Thank you,
Peter Chen CCIS FSDC Tech Writer
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 11:48:01 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #109
Regarding the request for a HyperCard spelling checker XCMD, such an XCMD
has been developed by Dr. Dana Ludwig as part of a medical information
package. Dana can be reached at:
Dana Ludwig, M.D.
Medical Information Associates
535 Starboard Drive
San Mateo, CA 94404
Dana is looking for a public domain dictionary that can be used with the
XCMD. Currently a limited medical vocabulary is used.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 15:14:07 CDT
From: evans@lvgeo.csc.ti.com (Eleanor J. Evans @ 462-5330)
Subject: Kensington Turbo Mouse ... Plus?
I found a Kensington Turbo Mouse ADB at my local Soft Warehouse, but
since my mouse isn't connected with an ADB port, like the Mac SE and
Mac II, I can't use it. They referred in the documentation to a
"Mouse Plus". Has anyone seen or used one of these? Does anyone
know where I can get one? I'd really appreciate an address for
Kensington.
Eleanor Evans
evans@lvipl.ti.com
P.S. A Turbo Mouse is a really nifty little trackball. Big trackball.
Whatever.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 08:07:01 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Leading Clock Zeros
I finally figured out what was causing the itl0 and itl1 resources to get
their leading zero bits set (which was, if you recall, reflected in all the
clock and calendar displays). The guilty culprit was/is (ta da!) MacAlmanac,
the DA that tells you a bunch of useless astronomical data. Consider it
pitched.
Jon
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 19:19:01 EDT
From: John V. Goodman <jvgoodma@wam.umd.edu>
Subject: Little black bands fixed (?)
Well, the problem I described earlier (little black bands flickering across the screen during color changes) has been...well, ameliorated.
At the advice of Nick Pilch, I moved the card to a different slot.
I had had the card in the slot closest to the edge of the
computer (furthest away from the power supply, I figured, and also the one the "MacintoshIIcx Owners Manual" shows the card being put into). I switched it
to the middle slot and the bands have gone away completely.
Of course, the question is now, If the slots are all supposed to be
identical, how come switching the card can do this?
Maybe the card's still screwy; who knows. Since I bought the computer
>From a University outlet with the educational discount, the service
stinks and I would have to do without the computer for three weeks
while they send my video card back to the factory for another!
(Apparently they do not stock spare cards for exchanges.)
And I'd rather not do that. So, while the problem may not, technically,
be fixed, I'm satisfied. Thanks to those who gave advice.
John V. Goodman
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 08:35:50 EDT
From: "Doug Ashbrook" <JDA%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Need FTP for Mac
Does anyone know of a program that will allow me to do FTP transfers
>From my Macintosh IIx? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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BITNET: JDA@NIHCU <-- preferred address
INTERNET: JDA@CU.NIH.GOV or jda%nihcu.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
National Institutes of Health, Computer Center, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 12:26:46 EDT
From: John Andrews <AP027008%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Printing Excel Formulae -- Reply
To print formulae in Excel, use the Display command from the Options menu to
display the formulae on the screen, then print -- voila, the formulae will
print instead of the values (and I think the column width will automatically
double, too).
Note that with macro sheets, the process works in reverse -- Excel prints macro
formulae by default, but can display and print the cell values from the last
run of the macro if you change the display option. This is useful for
debugging.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 10:14:12 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Printing Excel Formulas
>Excel (and other spreadsheets) normally display the formula only of the
>current cell. To check a spreadsheet's worth of formulas or to teach
>someone how to use a spreadsheet technique or for documentation, it would
>be useful to be able to print all of the formulas corresponding to a
>spreadsheet.
>
>Does anyone have or know of a program that can take a Excel format file or
>SYLK file and print out the formulas in it?
>
To print formulas in Excel (at least w/ v1.5), select "Display..." from
under the "Options" menu. Click on the "Display Formulas" checkbox and print
as usual. If the formulas are much longer than the data they normally
display, you'll have to reformat your columns, so the whole formula is
visible. That's it!
Another Excel related question, which came up as I was verifying the method
I've just described. How does one unprotect a worksheet if you can't
remember the password? There's gotta be a way. My boss has my manual at
home, (and he's on travel to boot) so I can't look it up - assuming it is
even in there:-{.
>Arthur
>
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 08:22:12 PDT
From: Mike_Dustan@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Printing Excel Formulas
Try displaying formulas (choose Display... from the Options menu
and click Formulas). Then save the worksheet as Text. Works every
time. The format is ugly, but everything's there.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 15:11:41 CDT
From: evans@lvgeo.csc.ti.com (Eleanor J. Evans @ 462-5330)
Subject: sick Plus
Help! My Mac is REALLY sick. It keeps spontaneously rebooting.
I have tried it with a noise suppression circuit, and the problem
seems to be lessened (though that may be anomalous, because it is
very sporadic), but the behavior has not gone away entirely.
The machine cycles, rebooting several times before finally coming
up again. The reboot has occurred in a couple of different packages,
all of them games, actually (this is a new/used machine). I'm working
on a 2 1/2 year old Mac Plus that I just bought. It was reported by
the seller (and previous owner) to have had no previous problems - no
need for service.
I'm not sure which details might be relevant - it has just 1 meg,
I'm running System 6.0.2, the bomb occurs with the system I got
>From the seller on floppy and with the system that came on the hard
drive I just bought.
The software I've been running is a set of games I've used in many
machines over the last few years - Solitaire, Golf, (both by Michael
Casteel ??), Billiard Parlour, Iago, Reversi ... I have several copies
of all of these programs ... I think they are part of a PD disk
distributed by one of the user groups, as well.
The spontaneous reboot has occurred both while trying to click a
response, and while a program was just sitting there on the screen.
It has also occurred in the Finder, just sitting on a desktop.
The machine never comes up cleanly. It always cycles, beeping
randomly, sometimes staying blank for several seconds, sometimes
bringing up a screen before beeping and/or blanking again.
Occasionally I even get the black lines across the screen. :-(
Can anybody suggest a solution?? The noise suppression circuit
I am using claims to have EMI/RFI circuitry. Is there a broader
band circuit? Would using one help? Should I try doubling up
on the circuitry? Is this even the right direction to be looking?
Or should I just take this to a dealer and fork over large amounts
of money???
Eleanor Evans
evans@lvipl.ti.com
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Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 20:32 EST
From: PETER CHEN <PETCHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Startup palette
Hi,
I was trying to install some GIF picture as the startup screen by
using DeskPict. I first converted it in to Res ID=0 pict file and renamed it
as DeskPicture. The picture loads up on the screen, but the palette returned
to default 16 colors and ruined the picture. Is there any way to get around
this? In other words, how can I startup with the palette come with the
picture?
Thank you,
Peter Chen CCIS FSDC Tech Writer
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 15:13 MET
From: ZWENNES_BAN%HLSDNL5.BITNet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SuperCard
Hi Mac-users,
Has anyone seen SuperCard, the HyperCard look-alike? If you've seen it,
maybe you can answer these question:
- Is SuperCard able to use HyperCard's XCMDs and XFCNs?
- Does SuperCard support multiple windows?
- How fast is SuperCard?
- How much does SuperCard cost and where can I buy it?
- Are there anymore HyperCard-like programs (I know about PLUS) ?
Greetings,
Alexander Zwennes BITNET: ZWENNES_BAN@HLSDNL5
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Date: 22 Jun 89 22:02:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: TeX Preview Demo
I, too, tried the TeX previewer demo some time back. I had the same
problem of not being able to look at any other DVI file than the one
provided. After posting a question, I heard from the author (Rick
was the first name, and he was employed with SARA in Amsterdam, but
that is all I remember) who said that the problem was with the version
of TeX. Apparently there is a TeX-80 and a TeX-84 (or something like
that, the correct numbers escape me); the previewer only works for the
earlier TeX; now most people use the newer version. He said that there
is a version of TeX preview that will open dvi files created with the
newer version of TeX.
This is all from memory of about 2 years ago, so please no
flames if it is not 100% correct! But I am sure that this was the
heart of the problem; it was NOT file transfer mode. If you want
more information, you can contact the author at the bitnet node
hasara5.bitnet; if I remember right the address is rick@hasara5.bitnet.
If that doesn't work, perhaps postmaster@hasara5.bitnet can point
you in the right direction.
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
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>From a new MAC user: I've been using an XT, have a HP
LaserJet II printer. Just got a Mac Plus and want to link
it to the LaserJet II. Got a Grappler (for parallel) unit
with a switcher. The XT (Word Perfect 5.0) works fine but
the printout from the Mac loses some letters, doesn't insert
blank lines at para return, adds some characters, etc.
Is there hope that I can get a reasonably useful channel
from the Mac to the LJ II?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Bob
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Today's Topics:
CAD Program for Boat Design
Color XCMD?
help with "xxx.Z" files
Hiding LaserWriters on LocalTalk
Introduction
Neuro-net Stackware
program support
Sargon IV bugs
Screen Save program (to avoid updates)
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 19:15 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: CAD Program for Boat Design
>From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>:
> I have a friend who's new to computing and wants to buy a Mac. He's setting
> up his own business designing and building small sailboats. He's certain he
> heard of an excellent CAD program for the Mac that's specifically for boat
> design.
It's called MacSurf (no kiddin'!). It's put out by:
Graphic Magic, Ltd.
P.O.Box 185
Cottesloe 6011
Perth, Western Australia
ph. 011-61-9-383-2114
Un-claimer: I've never even seen the stuff. I'm just quoting from the
Winter'89 issue of the "Macintosh Buyer's Guide" -- the reason why you
couldn't find it is that it is listed under "Architecture" (as in "Naval
Architecture"!!! -- it figures, doesn't it? ;-).
BTW -- before your friend gets on the phone long distance with DownUnder,
you might want to mention that the U.S. list price is a cool $4,500. The
[many] add-on modules are about half a grand apiece.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 17:20:27 -0900
From: DANIEL K LASOTA <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Color XCMD?
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a HyperCard XCMD that would let one call up color
displays outside of the HyperCard window.
Also is there anyhting available that would allow a sequence of
color picts to be shown in succession so as to allow
animation?
I know that there is such an XCMD for black and white picts
but I really need one for color.
Thanks,
Dan LaSota
FTDKL@ALASKA
Duna nuna nuna .... BATMAN!
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 22:02:03 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: help with "xxx.Z" files
The xxx.Z files are the result of compression using the Lempel-Ziv
compression algorithm, usually output from the "compress" utility on
UNIX systems.
In order to get the contents back to their original shape, you have to
uncompress on a UNIX host, or use the "compress" utility program
(available from the info-mac archives as util/maccompress-32.hqx, I
believe). The result can be untar'ed (if it is a tar file) or handled
in the otherwise appropriate manner.
Note that the xxx.Z files are binary, and ftp has to be in the
appropriate mode.
-- Sigurd
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 22:40 EDT
From: CHGARNETT%AMHERST.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Hiding LaserWriters on LocalTalk
I just installed some Macs for student use here at Amherst,
and have run into a problem. Students laserprint here by creating
postscript files and transferring them to our VAX where they get queued to
a PrintServer 40. All the new Macs are connected to an existing
LocalTalk network in our staff offices, so they can use our FastPath box
to get decent transfer speeds for the postscript files. We have a
LaserWriter in our office, too, and that's the problem.
The problem is: The LaserWriter in the office shows up in the
chooser, so people who don't hold down Command-F at the right time are
tying up the "internal use only" LaserWriter. They don't ever see their
printouts, either! (*grin*)
So, the question: Does anyone know anything about hiding devices
on the LocalTalk network so they can only be seen from certain nodes, or
visa-versa? We could always buy another FastPath box and configure them so
they don't pass LocalTalk packets back and forth, but that's a pricey
solution. Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks!
***************************************************************************
* Craig Garnett * E-Mail: CHGARNET@AMHERST (bitnet) *
* Micro Specialist (yeah, right) * S-Mail: Box 2240, Amherst College *
* Amherst College * Amherst, MA 01002 *
* * Phone: (413)542-2526 *
***************************************************************************
* "They can put a PS/2 in my office, *
* but they can't make me use it." *
***************************************************************************
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 16:22 CDT
From: Dan Miser <MISER@macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: Introduction
Hello,
I have just finished the first version of Combiner, the
utility for text file concatenation. This program will strip headers
and footers off of a file and paste the files together. Perfectly
ready for using binhex. I would appreciate any comments or bugs sent
to me. This program is free-ware. There should be a new version in
mid-July to improve the speed issue, but this is just something to get
people going, since there have been numerous requests for a program
like this.
Disclaimer:The author makes no warranties whatsoever, of any kind!!
Use at your own risk after testing on trivial data.
Binary (stuffed and binhexed) follows.
******************************************************************
** Dan Miser Phone: (608) 262-0282 **
** 1210 W. Dayton Madison, WI 53706 **
** Internet: miser@vms3.macc.wisc.edu Bitnet: miser@wiscmacc **
******************************************************************
[Archived as /info-mac/util/combiner.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 18:47 EST
From: <SEIFFER%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Neuro-net Stackware
I have been trying to locate a Neuro-Network stack. I thought that I had
seen one once somewhere. However, I have looked through the public domain
servers here at IU and through the Info-mac archives as well as a few other
archives. I haven't seen it anywhere.
Am I just imagining things or has someone really created such a beast in
Hypercard? The one I'm thinking of actually allowed the user to build a
small network and could watch it run.
Could anyone out there point me in the right direction? If I can't find a
stack, some other program that might be useful for assiting instruction in
the development of neuro-nets (connectionist networks) would work as well.
Thanks in advance.
Kurt A. Seiffert
IUB - UCS
seiffer@iubacs.ind.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 16:23:48 EDT
From: Oliver Steele <steele@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: program support
I've entered several programs into the info-mac archives at sumex, and
I thought I'd keep people up to date on them. I've also received
several requests of similar natures, and wanted to let people know
what I was doing about them. Programs are described below by where
they occur on sumex; the names of the programs are pretty close to
the part after the '/'.
app/sphere-demo: People want source code. I'll mail the sphere
drawing routines to anyone who wants them, and I'll post them after I
comment them. I'll probably post all of the source as soon as I get a
chance to make it readable. Sorry; I don't want to spend the time to
make it a screen idler.
app/tile, app/truchet: I'll clean up my source code and post it, if
anyone's interested. Anyone want to combine tilings and cellular
automata?
cdev/dragger: Yes, I'm working on color. No, the next version won't
flicker as much. Yes, I know it bombs under VersaTerm. No, you can't
have source code (yet) (I know, I'm unreasonable). And there's a
display bug that can show up if you have two monitors. I'm working on
all of these, and should have the gleaming version 2.0 out in something
over two weeks.
init/buttons: The two comments about "Oliver's Buttons" are "I want
source code!", and "I like them all except the push button. Can you
give me the old push button back, but let me keep the others?" I'll
post source code, and add an option for a Classic Push-button.
util/menuedit-11: 1.1 is still the latest version. (Well, there's a
1.2 that I sold a (nonexclusive) license for to UpTime magazine and
that a few user groups might have, but there aren't any substantial
differences that I can think of). Right now I'm not doing any work on
it, but that's still possible. If I decide not to work on it I'll
post the source and let the net take it over. This partly depends on
how good ResEdit gets and how good ResMenu has gotten (I haven't
looked at it lately), because the only extensions I want to make will
make it nicer for programmers and ResEdit and ResMenu already address
their needs, and everything a non-programmer would want to do with
MenuEdit, I think it does pretty well already. Known bug: if you
change a single-character menu item (like -), it can mess up your
menu. But you'll see that this has happened immediately, and can do a
"Revert".
app/menu-madness, demo/picture-menu: Basically toys, more for giving
people ideas about ways to do things than for anything else. I don't
have any plans for these.
The other reason for posting is to announce my new address, for anyone
who has questions, comments, or suggestions about any of the above (or
about anything else). I'm moving to California, and will presumably
be reachable as steele@apple.com after about a week.
steele@cs.unc.edu will probably go away after a little while. The
post office and my parents will forward from my USNAIL address of 1209
Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27514, indefinitely, and I don't know
when I'll have a permanant CA address, so that's the Post Offal way to
reach me. For what should be obvious reasons, I won't be doing much
in the way of posting or mailing source code or answering letters for
at least a week.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oliver Steele ...!decnet!mcnc!unc!steele
UNC-CH Linguistics steele@cs.unc.edu
and after Sunday:
Apple Computer, Inc. steele@apple.com?
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 11:17:04 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Sargon IV bugs
Moderator, please post this for me.
The other day, I posted a little report of bugs in Sargon IV. I called the
very helpful people at MacConnection, and they promised to send me a new one,
as they thought that I must have gotten a bad disk. It turns out that the
whole lot of disks they got from Spinnaker was bad, so they will get some
new good ones in a reasonable time frame. The service at MacConnection is
great!
I wouldn't treat this as a dig to Spinnaker. Maybe their quality control
was bad, or more probable, something happened in shipment. The Sargon IV
program is very well done, and it plays excellent chess (after all, it
never makes a mistake like most people do--to beat it you have to play
mistake free and be smart as well). The documentation could be updated, but
it is nevertheless excellent. I haven't been in contact with the people
at Spinnaker on this, so I don't know what their response is. I'm sure
there is a logical explanation. I recommend Sargon IV.
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| |
| Michael Webb |
| user6lnu@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| University of Michigan Physics Department |
| |
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Ubiquitous disclaimer:
I'm just a physics droog, even the lasers don't listen to me.
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 17:06:29 EDT
From: sterritt%sdevax.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com (Chris Sterritt -- 354-4862 or 8*747-4862)
Subject: Screen Save program (to avoid updates)
Hello,
Doing a little recent archaeological work (that is, cleaning
off my desk) I ran across a photo-copied page from an April, 1986
Byte magazine with a neat hack in it. It's a set of calls, one
function and one procedure, that save the screen in an off-screen
area, then restore it, so that no update events happen.
The main purpose of this is to be able to put up dialog boxes,
etc., without having to redraw your screen when they go away.
Much of what it does is clever, and is PROBABLY correct,
but some of what it does (for example, always assuming that the
menu bar is 20 pixels high -- anyone know how to find this out?)
seems dangerous, so use at your own risk.
I've included a test program, and the Think pascal project
necessary to run it, so you alternate-compiler types can just
ignore that file.
Enjoy,
good luck!
-- chris s.
====================================================================
== Chris Sterritt --- sterritt%sdevax.decnet@crd.ge.com ==
== Disclaimer/Quote: ==
== "And this song can't be sued/I assume..." --- T. Tikaram ==
====================================================================
[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal/screen-saving-routines.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 19:53 MDT
From: Keenan%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Search/find functions of Hypercard
Does anybody know of any tools (e.g. freeware) to speed up the
search/find functions of HyperCard? Thanks.
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 17:10:16 EDT
From: sterritt%sdevax.decnet@crdgw1.ge.com (Chris Sterritt -- 354-4862 or 8*747-4862)
Subject: SmallTalk/V (Mac)
Hello,
I was wondering if someone (anyone!) who has tried the SmallTalk/V
for the Mac could send me info about it. I'm thinking of getting it, and
would appreciate email about the product.
A few easy questions:
Does it support multiple inheritance?
Does it produce standalone applications?
Does it compile, or interpret, or some combination? (Is its code
fast?)
Also, if anyone has used Apple's Smalltalk, I'd appreciate hearing
>From you as well. Of course, if you've used both and can compare/contrast,
I'd be overjoyed (well, almost :-).
I'll collect replies (email please!) and summarize to the net.
thanks very much in advance,
chris s.
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== Chris Sterritt --- sterritt%sdevax.decnet@crd.ge.com ==
== Disclaimer/Quote: ==
== "And this song can't be sued/I assume..." --- T. Tikaram ==
====================================================================
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 12:08:15 PST
From: greydog@pro-ldm.cts.com (Steve Ebener)
Subject: Spellchecker questions
*Don Daybell asks.
*I am looking for a spellchecker that I can use while in an application,
*rather than having to quit and do a seperate spellcheck. Are there any
*such programs, and if so, which ones are the best. (Perhaps a DA?)
*Noshir Contractor asks
*Hi. Does anyone know of a spell-checker that works within Hypercard?
*My goals is to cleanse any typos before circulating stuff entered in the
*stacks.
To both of these questions, my answer is to use Spelling Coach Pro. (I'm
using it now.) I find that it will work in any application, including
HyperCard. (Although you have to change the command key codes to use it
effectively in HyperCard.)
The main draw backs of "Coach" is that it is NOT shareware, it's somewhat
expensive ($105 mail order), It must run off a HD (to use it's full
capabilities-- full definitions.), and it's large (It came on four 800k
floppies.)
Other than the things mentioned above, I have found that Coach is probably
one of the best spell checkers around. Oh, and it works as a DA.
This is my opinion only. I don't work for them, I only use it. (Every day.)
Steve Ebener
Eugene, Oregon
↑<*~*Greydog*~*>↑
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ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-ldm!greydog@.nosc.mil
ProLine: greydog@pro-ldm
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 22:00:07 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Spontaneously-rebooting Mac
Spontaneous reboots may be a sign that your Mac's power supply is either ill,
or misadjusted. One way to check this would be to use a good voltmeter
(preferably an analog meter) to monitor the +5 voltage at one of the
external access points... say, on the output-handshaking pin on one of the
Mac's serial ports. If the voltage is more than about a tenth of a volt
more or less than 5 volts, or if it jumps up or down when the machine
reboots, then the power supply needs attention.
A power supply that's adjusted too low, or too high, can be adjusted by a
competent technician (one with Mac experience, of course).
I believe I remember reading that the power supply in the Plus contains an
overvoltage-protection circuit, which "crowbars" the +5 (shorts it to ground)
if the voltage rises too high. This protects the Mac's circuitry, but causes
the Mac to reset. This _might_ be what you're seeing.
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 26 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 113
Today's Topics:
Batchbin3k?
BookEnds biblographer
Convert .hqx into AppleShare(CAP) files
Deskzap
drawing grayed text
More on SoftPC 1.3
Public domain TeX for the Mac exists!
Rappaport plug
Search for a decent lib program for Absoft Fortran 2.4
Spell Checker for HC
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 22:48:32 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Batchbin3k?
I just tried Batchbin 0.51 posted here recently. Under the menu
"Conversions" there are two items - "MAC=>IBM" and "IBM=>MAC".
On my Mac Plus, the second item "IBM=>MAC" is greyed out, so I
can batch convert files *to* MacBinary, but I can't do the opposite.
There was no mention in the docs about this. Has anyone else
had this experience with Batchbin?
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 17:01 N
From: <MLAMMI%FINKUO.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: BookEnds biblographer
BookEnds Reference Management System is HyperCard Stackware
and it costs $99. Latest version is 1.1, as far as I know.
It is provided by
Sensible Software, Inc.
335 E. Big Beaver, Suite 207
Troy, Michigan 48083
(313) 528-1950
MS-DOS version is also available (I don't have experience on
that, though).
Features:
- Database size is limited only the free disk space.
- It has categories for author, title, editor, journal, volume, pages,
date, publisher, loacation, keywords, abstract, and classification
- Each category can have up to 30 000 characters
- Convenient import abilities including:
1. Tab delimited text files (data type typical for most database
applications in MacWorld)
2. Other BookEnds databases (from MacIntosh, Apple II or IBM-compatibles)
3. Dialog
4. MedLine/MedLars
5. BRS, MESH format
6. BRS, Generic format
7. MedLine Knowledge Finder (CD-ROM)
- Generates alphabetical listing of all unique authors and keywords in
a database
- Export to text files and to other BookEnds stacks
- Duplicate references can be deleted
- A Journal Glossary with abbreviations of the journal name for easy
source entering
- Boolean AND, OR and NOT searches supported (although a bit limited)
- References can to searched by scanning the stack, by the absolute number
of the reference, with Search command (scans all the desired categories),
or by Find command which scans only one category at the time.
- Matches can be sorted by any two categories
- Output can be formatted easily. 10 editable formats can be used at
one time. The order of categories,as well as author and editor names
can be formatted (Fonts and styles cannot be formatted)
- Output can be:
1. Printed
2. Sent to a text file
3. Sent to the word processor you like best
- MultiFinder compatible (not copy protected)
These are the main features, some others are still available
Our experience so far:
We have some 3400 references now, and the worst possible search
(that is, searching all the categories and collecting the matches
using quite simple AND or OR logics) will take our Mac II (5 MB)
about 9 and a half minutes. Searching from one category without a
match list collected is almost immediate. By using short search strings
the search will be faster.Mac Plus is irritatingly slow (the job
would take some 20 min).
The most important feature for us is the Import capability. We can
import references from Datastar's (in Switzerland) MedLine database
>From the on-line log file with a converter program written in Fortran.
I get the log file from our library and run a conversion application
in our mainframe (VAX) and transfer the file to Mac II using the FTP
protocol and Import the references. This takes only some 5-10 minutes
in all.
Datastar's MedLine can be imported without the conversion by using
BRS, Mesh format Importing in BookEnds, the drawback is that BookEnds
cannot separate the categories in the reference source, so the source
will go into category Journal. Also the authors do not always import
correctly.
We are quite satisfied with BookEnds, but it could be faster. It
might be possible to Import references from CCOD (Current Contents
on Disk), since CCOD can output the references in MedLine format.
I don't have any experience on that. Anyway, this would add the value
of this package.
Mikko Lammi
Department of Anatomy
University of Kuopio
Finland
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 14:28:50 EST
From: Hans Eriksson <munnari!ditmela.oz.au!Hans.Eriksson@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Convert .hqx into AppleShare(CAP) files
Given a number of .hqx files on your favorite CAP-server, how do you
get all files extracted the easiest way?
Is there a utility that takes a .hqx file, and unpacks it into the
three files used by AppleShare(CAP) ('.finderinfo/file',
'.resource/file' and 'file')? There are several ones to convert into
.bin and macput format but I have not seen a CAP one.
/hans
Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au)
CSIRO/DIT, 55 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia (we are GMT+10)
Tel: +61 3 347-8644 Fax: +61 3 347-8987 Home: +61 3 534-5188
On a years leave from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (hans@sics.se)
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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 89 22:54:08 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Deskzap
Does anyone have a version of Deskzap newer than 1.3a8? That version
works OK, but some of the file dialogs will work *real* slow when
certain other inits like MacroMaker are loaded.
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Date: 26-JUN-1989 21:33:05.30
From: Richard Silverman <RSILVERMAN@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Subject: drawing grayed text
Hello all,
Is there a standard way to draw grayed text (or text using any pattern
in general) with QuickDraw? Unless I've missed something, it's not available
directly, but is of course used all over the place. Is there a generally
accepted way of doing it? Thanks,
Richard Silverman
arpa: rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu Computing Center
bitnet: rsilverman@wesleyan Wesleyan University
CIS: [72727,453] Middletown, CT 06457
[The answer (for items in a DITL) can be found in Apple's Macintosh Development
Questions and Answers stack in the /info-mac/apple/stacks directory. -Bill]
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Date: 26 Jun 89 15:08 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: More on SoftPC 1.3
Date: 26 June 1989, 14:49:53 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: More on SoftPC 1.3
I've had a couple of questions raised about SoftPC after my last missive to
the net, so I thought I'd summarize here in case others were interested.
===
Al Best asked about 8088/80286 emulation, >640K/EMS/EEMS/RAM disk, and
HDFD drive support.
SoftPC is 8088 emulation only. There is no mention in the manual of any
mechanism for installing E/EEMS or RAM disk software but it might be fun to
try! In version 1.3, the HDFD >IS< supported; this is one of it's improve-
ments over 1.21. And yes, SAS on a plain XT is a real dog speed-wise; I
doubt you'd want to try to run it under SoftPC.
===
Klaus Schnathmeier pointed out that although Flight Simulator for MS-DOS
"runs" under SoftPC, it's really an unacceptable implementation--I guess
you could most likely compare it to submitting your flight corrections in
batch mode! He also notes that the older version of Flight Simulator for
the Mac does >NOT< run on the Mac II(x/cx?).
Re: CGA vs. EGA/VGA: SoftPC 1.3 still only supports CGA.
Re: LQ-ImageWriter printing: I haven't tried this, but the SoftPC manual says
that for applications which don't support PostScript printers or the Apple
ImageWriter, you should install them for the Epson FX-80, set up SoftPC for
Epson FX-80 emulation, and then SoftPC sends printing out to the Mac's
PrintManager, where your ImageWriter is supposed to be already known to the
system. I don't know how good/bad the printing results would be, though...
===
I hope you folks who aren't interested in SoftPC don't mind this intrusion
too much. Thanks for your indulgence!
Ted
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 18:43 +01:00
From: "Lukas Nellen TP 6.3 ext 73949" <NELLEN%vax1.physics.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Public domain TeX for the Mac exists!
In digest #107, Matthew Wall mentioned the search for a p. d. MacTeX. Thanks to
Andrew Trevorrow, it now exists and is called OzTeX.
OzTeX includes a previewer, a PostScript driver, the CMR fonts in the standard
sizes and font metrics for the LaserWriter builtin fonts. It also includes a
userguide (written in LaTeX) and the source code (in MODULA 2).
OzTeX was developed on a 1M Mac+ running the finder. But it runs happily on a
Mac II under multifinder, if you tell the multifinder to give it enough memory.
The preview display on a big screen is excellent and the fonts are well tuned
for printing on the LaserWriter. The userguide mentions transfering DVI files
>From other system, so you should be able to use OzTeX to preview DVI files
created on a different machine. Using OzTeX is straightforward if you know TeX
- the fun of using the Mac! I don't think our secretary wants to go back to
using the VAX :-).
OzTeX doesn't have an integrated editor, so you have to use either a DA, like
the included \Sigma edit, or use your favourite editor/wordprocessor.
I don't know who does the re-distribution of OzTeX in the US or other areas.
For UK users, OzTeX is available from the ASTON TeX archive. Or send 10
unformatted disks and return postage to
Peter Abbott
Computing Service
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham B4 7ET
-- Lukas
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 17:21 N
From: <MLAMMI%FINKUO.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Rappaport plug
Hi Mac people,
In this list there was a note on the Rappaport plug which
enables your Mac read MS-DOS files just by attaching it into
the external drive port of the Macintosh.
I would like tohear of your experience on this product, can it
do the job properly? Any comments are appreciated, if there are
enough responses I will summarize to the list.
I think there was a mention of the converter for Mac to remove
the extra spaces from files transferred from VAX. Is it in Info-Mac
files? Again, replies are more than wellcome.
Mikko Lammi
Department of Anatomy
University of Kuopio
Finland
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 09:50 GMT
From: DELAAT%HUTRUU51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Search for a decent lib program for Absoft Fortran 2.4
To all Absoft Fortran (version 2.4) users:
I am developing huge fortran programs for use in experimental
physics (data aquisition, analysis, fit, plot etc. programs).
These programs call a lot of subroutines for grafics, analysis
and I/O control which are common to all those programs.
I have around 200 of such common subroutines. The easiest way to
do development is to make a real library of those 200 subroutines
(like on the vax) and link them with the individual programs.
The problem I have is that the supplied lib program on the ABSOFT
distribution is awfull. One has to type every from the 200 names
and should nowere make an error or one has to start over again.
Moreover, I need to do the work twice since we use MacSE's and
MacII's, so a library with and one without floating point use.
The question: does somebody know if there exists a lib program
that either accepts commandfiles or wildcards and of course still
deliveres libraries usable with Absofts link program.
If so please notify me and if possible send me the program in
binhexed or stuffitted way or tell me where to buy it.
Thanks.
mail adress: DELAAT@HUTRUU51.BITNET
C.T. de Laat
Fysisch Laboratorium
Rijks Universiteit Utrecht
princetonplein 5
Utrecht
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 08:18:03 EDT
From: Michael J Antonio <MIKEA%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Spell Checker for HC
This is kind of a cludge (sp?), but it works for me.
First, get all the fields into a file
on spellCheck
go to card 1
put "TheFields" into fName
open file fName
repeat with y = 1 to the number of cards
repeat with x = 1 to the number of bg fields
get bg field x
write it & return & "c'" & return to file fName -- C ced. or whatever
end repeat
go next card
end repeat
close file fName
end spellCheck
Now you spell check the document, and reverse the above script (I use the
fileName XCMD. Use your favorite in its place).
on endCheck
go card 1
put fileName("TEXT") into file fName -- Choose the file "TheFields"
open file fName
repeat with y = 1 to the number of cards
repeat with x = 1 to the number of bg fields
read from file fileName until "c'"
put empty into the last char of it -- kill "c'"
put it into bg field x
read from file fName until return -- kill extra return
end repeat
go next card
end repeat
close file fName
end endCheck
This is fast and effiecient, and works wonderfully under MF.
MikeA
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 28 Jun 89 Volume 7 : Issue 114
Today's Topics:
GEnie Helper v3.6
Getting DiskFit v1.5 to work with Apple 40SC Tape Unit
HELP WITH FONT/DA JUGGLER
Info-Mac Digest V7 #106 (2 msgs)
Public Domain TeX
QuickTimer and periodic actions, with many applications under MultiFinder
Scientific software
searchReplace XCMD--new version 1.5
SE to SE/30 upgrade
SimCity...
StatWorks
StatWorks 1.2
SuperClock! 3.4
System 6.0.2, MacTools 7.1, and Font/DA Mover problems
Virus protection
Where can I get sources to Moria?
Word personalization
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 10:01:14 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: GEnie Helper v3.6
GEnie Helper is a procedure file for Red Ryder 10.0 and later. Allows you to
automate much of your GEnie session, getting and sending mail, etc. and
running them unattended, if you so desire. With documentation, it is in
StuffIt format. Downloaded from Info-Center BBS (914) 565-6696.
tom c
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 10:57:51 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Getting DiskFit v1.5 to work with Apple 40SC Tape Unit
Greetings!!!
Being one of the ppl assigned with the upkeep of the A-share net in our
lab, I sought long and hard for a backup utility to suit our needs. The
one I decided on and summarily purchased was SuperMac's DiskFit v1.5
(The network version). The main reason I chose it was that it would
restore all the A-share folder privs (which other programs wont do) and
perform incremental backup of A-share'ed volumes.
I have an Apple 40SC Tape unit that I am supposed to use for backups.
But, I can't DiskFit to mount the Tape drive. And the killer here is
that the documentation (and the outside of the box) says that it will
work with almost any tape unit. I tried my friends Jasmin DirectTape,
still no go.
If it is possible, could someone send me the init that will allow me to
use the Apple Tape unit with this program? This plus any hints/tips
for usage will be appreciated.
Thank a bunch!
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% Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (InterNet) %
% CSC Help Desk & Graphics Lab Consultant X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet) %
% Texas A&M University (409)845-1365 %
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% Disclaimer %
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% Any opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of Michael %
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 09:15:26 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HELP WITH FONT/DA JUGGLER
Help!!!!!!
I recently borrowed Font/DA Juggler Plus for test. I tried it on one
Mac II and it worked fine. Then I connected two Mac IIs together with
AppleTalk and one of the machines wouldn't load in FONT/DA Juggler Plus.
The first machine that booted up first loaded FONT/DA perfectly. The second
machine displayed the icon with a cross. What have I not done? I have no
documentation and all reviews in MacWorld and MacUser does not talk about
networking and FONT/DA together.
Please reply to me at ISSTTH@NUSVM.
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 01:36:53 EDT
From: John.Alcock@f2819.n206.z1.fidonet.org (John Alcock)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
Steve Gerken:
>> We would like to be mac based but we have
a new vax 3600 with 64 Mb of memory and 500Mb
disk storage.
Your requirements seem to call for Double Helix. It has the
advantage, in your case, of allowing the application to be designed
in DH, and then allowing the application to be *easily* transferred
to your VAX platform, where it will happily run under Helix VMX.
If you need to modify the design, its a simple matter to transfer
back to the Mac design station, and back to VMX/VMS when you're
done. It's a very nice environment: I've designed and delivered
such a system to a client who currently has over 80,000 records
with many related subfiles running on a VAX 3300 with 20+ Macs
acting as front-ends. Your Helix VMS application can also be used
by the VAX terminals, as usual, but not as prettily. Basing it on
the VAX also removes any backup or speed concerns you may have. Call
Odesta Corporation in Chicago for further details of VMX - they have
a videotape available demonstrating the complete system, including
Mac to VAX and back again interface. "Batman" it ain't, but it's
helpful nevertheless.
--- Tabby 2.0
--
John Alcock via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH
UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!206!2819!John.Alcock
INET: John.Alcock@f2819.n206.z1.FIDONET.ORG
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Date: 27 Jun 89 17:16:45 GMT
From: dg-rtp!roths@dg-rtp.dg.com (Robert Rothschild)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #106
I have a hardware problem with my Mac Plus. It's vanilla, no upgrades, one
lonely little meg.
Three months ago my clock started running slow. It loses many hours every day.
I replaced the battery twice. Every time, the clock starts to lose time
within a few weeks. Any ideas what is going on?
Note - I am not losing my other PRAM settings. Also, this problem appeared
at the same time that my hard drive died of a bad power supply. I
think I may have been hit by lightning.
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 22:45:17 CDT
From: c3ar%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Subject: Public Domain TeX
In Digest #113, Peter Abbott announces the availability of OzTeX, a public
domain version of TeX for the Macintosh. (See his posting for a
description.) I have agreed to help redistribute this in the US. I
received version 1.1 from Australia today and almost simultaneously
the powers-that-be here advised me that they will make available a spot on
one of our machines for anonymous ftp. I am also searching for other
archives that are willing to make this available.
When I find out the exact address of the machine on which this will be
placed here, I will send another anouncement. In the mean time, anyone
interested can send me email at one of the addresses below. Be forwarned
that the total OzTeX delivery is very large (it takes ten 800k diskettes),
mostly because it contains the full set of CM fonts. The fonts used are in
standard PK format, so any additional fonts on mainframes can be ported
easily to the Mac.
--Walter
_____________________________________________________________________________
Walter C3arlip c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
(the "3" is silent) c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 17:22:56 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: QuickTimer and periodic actions, with many applications under MultiFinder
For the tips directory?
With QuickTimer (part of the QuicKeys 1.2 release) came the
possibility of automatic saves (and other useful actions) at timed
intervals. Lovely, I thought, and set about defining automatic saves
every 5 minutes (I am paranoid).
As suggested in the manual, I let a bizarre key combination (e.g.
command-shift-ctrl-option-keypad-zero) denote the "save" menu choice,
and defined the sequence "Periodic" to consist of this keystroke.
In QuickTimer I set it to execute every 5 minutes, and I started
typing. And what do you know, five minutes later my file was saved.
Joy! Except that five minutes later I was in another application, and
it did not have a save command - it beeped angrily at me. There were a
number of attempts to remedy the situation - let me give the procedure
that works:
The problem:
I want an application specific action at regular intervals. For some
applications it is a save, for some it is to do nothing at all, for
some it is something else. The default is to do nothing.
The solution:
Enter the Universal part of QuicKeys on the control panel.
Define a sequence which performs the default actions, in my case
NOTHING, and assign an unused keystroke to it (e.g.
command-ctrl-option-keypad-zero). Call it "empty" or something
similarly descriptive.
Define another sequence which consists of the keystroke assigned to
"empty". Assign another unused keystroke to that, and name it
"Periodic".
In QuickTimer, enter the wished-for interval for periodic actions.
For each application which should do something with the set intervals,
define a sequence performing the action, and assign it the keystroke
used in the "Periodic" sequence defined earlier.
The result:
Periodically, QuickTimer will perform the keystroke given in the
sequence "Periodic". If that keystroke is assigned to some action by
QuicKeys for the application you happen to be in at that time, then
QuicKeys will perform that action. If no such assignment exists, the
action assigned to the keystroke in the Universal part will be
performed, i.e. the default action (which still is nothing, in my
case).
This does not ascertain automatic saves (e.g. I am in another
application every time QuickTimer triggers the periodic action), but
it certainly is a vast improvement to manually saving work at
appropriate intervals.
-- Sigurd
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 12:19 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: Scientific software
Hello,
I am trying to locate a program for the Macintosh that will let the user create
3D images such as molecules, or other biological science-related images, and
then distorte/mutate the image, rotate it, etc. I am presently looking at Super
3D by Silicon Beach as a temporary solution, but it will not let me mutate, or
"torque" the image. Does anyone have any experience with scientific software
like this, or at least have some ideas of where I might look?
Thanks for any help!
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 18:31 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: searchReplace XCMD--new version 1.5
The following is version 1.5 of the SearchReplace XCMD. The SearchReplace
XCMD offers a word processor style method of searching and replacing
strings in hypercard fields. The new version fixes a gross bug in the old
one and features an improved interface.
Maurice Volaski
v050fn5r@ubvms
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd-searchreplace-15.hqx; 56K]
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 14:56:28 PDT
From: wong@icsl.ucla.edu (Bennett C. Wong)
Subject: SE to SE/30 upgrade
Hi all,
Anybody have any experience with the SE --> SE/30 logic board
upgrade? I'm toying with the idea of going ahead and getting
it, but I had some questions. First, I have a 2-800K drive SE.
I don't forsee the need for the Superdrive, but I want to know
if my 2-800K drives will still work, ie. is there enough
room inside with the new board? (I don't have to worry about an
internal hard drive). Second, will my old power supply be able to
handle the new 030 board and a video card installed in the 030
Direct Slot? I read someplace that the SE/30 power supply is
"auto-configurable". What about the old SE power supply? Finally,
are there any problems with this upgrade that I haven't considered
and what are the pros and cons with this upgrade versus 1) buying
an 020 accelerator board and 2) selling the SE and just buying an
SE/30? Pleas e-mail to me directly and if there is enough interest,
I'll summarize to the net.
Bennett Wong ( wong@icsl.ucla.edu or wong@ee.ucla.edu)
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 09:31:22 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: SimCity...
Purchased the "SimCity 1.1" city simulation software last week, and am really
impressed with this fine software. One takes on the role of a city's mayor
and attempts to balance multitudes of competing factors so that people want to
live in your city, pay taxes, and etc. The realism, sounds, and graphics
(traffic helicopters, airplanes, etc) are fantastic, and this program is
destined to become a classic. The documentation even includes a short talk on
successful city planning as well as source books for such.
The software is available mail order (MacConnection and others will get it to
you via next day air for $3) for under $30. "SimCity" is by Maxis and
distributed by BroderBund.
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Date: 27 Jun 1989 11:45:40-EDT
From: Anne.Meixner@maxwell.ece.cmu.edu
Subject: StatWorks
My advisor wants me to use StatWorks (by DataMetrics Inc)
to do some data analysis. This is a spreadsheet based program,
and I've been able to figure out how to use all the neat analysis
tools without a manual (which my advisor has misplaced).
However, I'm generating the data on a Vax and want to download
a file to the MacIntosh . Thus I need a manual to inform me
of the expected format.
So if anyone out there as a copy of the StatWorks
manual that I could borrow for a few hours or has experience
in downloading files to StatWorks I'd appreciate the help.
Thanks,
Anne Meixner
annem@maxwell
x6638
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Date: 28 Jun 1989 14:30:44-EDT
From: Anne.Meixner@maxwell.ece.cmu.edu
Subject: StatWorks 1.2
I have a copy of StatWorks 1.0. Apparently this version
does not allow you to read in files other than the ones you create.
That is unlike CricketGraph it does not allow you to read in
a Text file which you have in the correct format. From a 1987
article in "BYTE", version 1.2 of StatWorks should enable me to
do this. Would anybody happend to this version (or a more recent one)
that I could copy.
If so please reply in your favorite mode of communication.
Thanks,
Anne Meixner
annem@maxwell
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 9:56:16 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: SuperClock! 3.4
Version 3.4 of the popular menuclock SuperClock! follows With documentation
it is in StuffIt format. Downloaded from Info-Center BBS (914) 565-6696.
Another bugfix release, I understand.
tom c
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offers you some MS-DOS. JUST SAY NO!"
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 09:27:06 CDT
From: "Craig S. Cottingham" <UC528665%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System 6.0.2, MacTools 7.1, and Font/DA Mover problems
After running Font/DA Mover, the system bombs when it tries to open a window
on the desktop. I con't even get into MacTools -- it bombs on launchin.
Do I need the latest versions to run under 6.0.2? (I don't know right off
which version of Font/DA Mover I'm using.)
_Craig S. Cottingham
uc528665@umcvmb
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 14:00:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John E. Haberland" <jh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Virus protection
My office LAN consists of thirty Mac SEs and Pluses connected to a Mac II
server (40 meg) running Appleshare and Lasershare. My problem is that last
week I found out that Interferon (being the inferior application it is) fails
to detect nVIR a and nVIR b viruses. After running Disinfectant, to my
dismay, I found that my entire server (and nodes) was infected. I cleaned the
server and every disk in the office. I also installed Vaccine on all the
systems disks as well as in the server's systerm folder. Does Vaccine (being
in the server's system folder) prevent a virus from installing anywhere on the
server? Are there special inits for servers that do this? Does Gatekeeper do
a better job than Vaccine? Am I correct in thinking that viruses only attach
themselves to applications and not documents? Any help would be immensely
appreciated as I don't want to go through another fiasco like this again.
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 89 19:57:49 -0900
From: DANIEL K LASOTA <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Where can I get sources to Moria?
Hi Everyone,
I want to convert a mainframe adventure game called Moria over to
the Mac.
I'd at least like to start with the source code for the Vax/VMS.
I really have no idea about the version numbers on these things
but I have heard that many exist.
One such alternative version of Moria is called IMoria.
Thanks alot,
Dan LaSota
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 15:22:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John E. Haberland" <jh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Word personalization
Does anyone know how to change the personalization box in Microsoft Word?
The manual says to copy the master because once you personalize it MS says
it can't be changed. Unfortunately my master has died and I wish to change
the personalization on my only working copy. Which resource fork does the
information lie in? I think I could ResEdit it if I could only find the
proper fork. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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∂30-Jun-89 1642 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Appletalk with an ibm-pc?
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From: casbs@csli.Stanford.EDU (Lynn Gale)
Organization: Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Subject: Appletalk with an ibm-pc?
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I would like to hear from any of you who have used an IBM-PC on an
Appletalk network. In particular, there is a board for the pc called
the LocalTalk PC card, which when connected with a LocalTalk connector
apparently lets the pc share resources with a Mac, using software
called Appleshare PC (which I presume comes with the hardware).
I haven't been able to come up with any specific info about this
process, so I was hoping somebody on the net had some first-hand
experience. We have a Mac II with an internal hard disk and we were
wondering if the PC (no hard disk) could use some of its storage.
Some specific concerns are:
(1) is the interface straightforward from the pc-user's viewpoint,
i.e., does the Mac's hard disk look like just another disk drive to
DOS applications?
(2) will this work on a simple dual-floppy pc (no hard disk)? Can the
appleshare software and an application (e.g. Microsoft Word) share one
320K disk, with the other disk free for the user's own documents? Or,
even better, could the DOS applications software be stored on the Mac
hard disk?
(3) if users are on both machines simultaneously, is there any obvious
interference in performance?
(4) any other negatives to watch out for?
Thanks much!
Lynn
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From: johnmark@polya.Stanford.EDU (John M. Agosta)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: Appletalk with an ibm-pc?
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To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
Lynn - I don't have first hand experience with the ApplesharePC product,
but I have been looking over some of the compatibility questions.
One thing you didn't list was the memory usage on the PC. Apparently
appleshare uses about 120k of RAM - there are options that are RAM
resident that can use another 100 k or so. I don't know what MS WOrd
requires in memory, but this is more than enough memory left for
WOrd Perfect.
THere is also a related product, the TOPS flashcard, which does not
have a driver for appleshare. TOPS provides similar services between
Mac and PC. It uses about twice the RAM memory of a.s.
The public domain port of appleShare to unix, known as CAP also does
not support use from a PC client, because it does not have some of
the file system mapping in place.
NOw your particular concern:
> We have a Mac II with an internal hard disk and we were
> wondering if the PC (no hard disk) could use some of its storage.
WIth a.s. you'd have to dedicate the Mac II for file serving. There are
background servers promised rsn, but none shipping. However, you can
use TOPS to file share (either way - both machines can be servers or
clients, or both) in your case.
-johnmark
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Today's Topics:
All the news that fits, we print :-)
HyperEgine
Images to PICT
Info-Mac Digest V7 #114
Mac Moria
MandelZot 2.0
missing laserwriter pages & find file
More on mail...
Quickmail & Gatekeeper...
quit
Reply to my Questions about Allegro
Re Scientific software, 3d distortions
Socket support for Appletalk
Startup and Shutdown sounds
Using Network DiskFit v1.5 with the Apple Tape Drive
Vaccine, GateKeeper, and Servers
Vision Lab 1.0 (Demo) stuffed and binhexd
Word personalization (3 msgs)
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 22:18:46 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: All the news that fits, we print :-)
VAPORWARE
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Who Needs OS/2?
Windows 3.0 (see February's column), scheduled for release
in the fourth quarter of this year, will let MS-DOS
applications run in as much as 16 Mbytes of memory. Beta
versions require an 80386 processor, but the released
product is expected to support '286 machines as well. The
user environment is an icon-based shell similar to OS/2's
Presentation Manager. Individual applications can address
more than the 640K normally allowed by DOS using the
processor's "protected-mode." Window's also can use disk
storage as "virtual memory" on systems with less than 16
Mbytes of installed RAM. - PC Week 5 June
Real HyperCard under MS-DOS.
Spinnaker Software is beta-testing a Windows application
that gives PC users full access to Apple's HyperCard
environment. Unlike PC hypertext programs, Owl's Guide and
Bright-Bill-Roberts HyperPad, Spinnaker's program,
code-named "WildCard," will read and write Macintosh
HyperCard "stacks" (transferred to MS-DOS disks or
downloaded from on-line services). WildCard supports
full-color bit-mapped images and, because it is compiled, is
said to execute at least 40 times faster than the current
version of HyperCard. WildCard is expected to be available
in September for under $100. - PC Week 29 May
Forthcoming IBM Hardware.
As reported in this column (March '89), the 33 MHz PS/2, to
be designated the Model 75, will have an enhanced MCA bus
capable of 12 to 15 million instructions per second (MIPS)
to be increased to 35 MIPS by year's end. Along with the
Model 90 (a "tower" model designed to be a server), the
Model 75 will have banks of 15 nanosecond cache memory and a
314 Mbyte hard disk. Models 75, 90 and (80386SX-based) 35
(see April's column) are scheduled for release this fall,
and i486 versions of the 75 and 90 are anticipated in the
first quarter of next year. Next April, IBM will once again
try to appeal to the home and education market (Son of
PCjr?) with an under $2,000 80386SX computer featuring a 40
Mbyte hard disk, CD ROM, a digital sound chip, and Microsoft
Windows. - InfoWorld 22 May and PC Week 5 and 12 June
The In-House Clone.
In a last ditch effort at survival IBM's typewriter division
is rumored to be preparing to announce a product line
code-named "Blue Grass," a low-end personal computer product
assembled from imported components and priced well below the
Model 30. In short, Blue Grass will be an IBM-PC clone with
an IBM nameplate! - InfoWorld 5 June
Forthcoming Macintosh Hardware.
Apple is expected to offer a 25 MHz Macintosh IIcx (perhaps
sporting a slightly different model name) with a built-in
8-bit color video adapter and a 030 Direct slot (see
February's column), mainly for third-party cache-RAM
products, as well as three NuBus slots in October (the date
depends on the release of the required operating System
6.0.4). The new machine will allow users to add less
expensive 1 by 9 memory modules and will only cost about
$1,500 more than a similarly equipped IIcx. Early next
year, the IIcx is likely to be superseded by a less
expensive 16 MHz version of the new machine. The next
generation of the Mac II line featuring six slots of a 20
MHz NuBus implementation (double the present speed) and a 33
MHz 68030 will debut next January. A low cost Mac using the
16 MHz 68000HC processor that will be in the long delayed
lapMac (finally coming in October?) is in the early stages
of development. - MacWeek 23 May and 6 June
Multiplatform Compatibility Package (MCP).
Bawamba Software is beta testing MCP, a series of libraries
that allow developers to quickly port their Macintosh
applications to the MS-DOS, OS/2 and Unix environments. MCP
incorporates the Open Look interface, developed jointly by
AT&T and Sun Microsystems, in order to provide an
alternative to the Macintosh interface and allay developers'
fears of "look and feel" litigation. In the process, MCP
makes the Open Look interface available on the Macintosh so
that developers can design applications which look the same
across all platforms. - InfoWorld 5 June
After NeXT.
There may be a NeXT machine with a Motorola 68040 CPU
(merely a processor switch) in the interim, but the NeXT
generation on the drawing board will use up to four Motorola
88000 RISC chips and feature a 1-gigabyte Canon
magneto-optical disc with a 30 millisecond access time for
mass storage. - InfoWorld 5 June
World's Fastest DRAM.
IBM's Yasu, Japan manufacturing plant has produced sample
one megabit memory chips which are two to three times faster
than current one-megabit RAM. The experimental CMOS chip
has a 22 nanosecond retrieval rate compared to the 65
nanosecond rate of the one megabit chips recently put into
volume production at IBM's Essex Junction, Vermont plant.
- InfoWorld 5 June and Business Week 19 June
Versatile FAX.
This August Solutions Inc. will ship a custom version of its
Macintosh Backfax software for the Tefax System from
Relisys. The Tefax system integrates the functions of a FAX
(attached to a Macintosh or stand alone), a printer, a
scanner (200 dots per inch), and a modem (up to 9600 baud).
The $1,595 Tefax system uses an RS232C interface and is
compatible with any 1 Mbyte (or more) Macintosh.
- InfoWorld 5 June
Color Portables.
This month's leaders in the race to offer the first color
laptops (see last December and January's column) are Sharp,
Mitsubishi, and Toshiba. The screens are based on a
thin-film, double-matrix transistor technology which
provides high display speed and superior contrast in
comparison to previous supertwist LCD screens. At $6,000,
the 12 MHz 80286-based Mitsubishi with an 11 inch VGA screen
will have the least expensive list price of the three. The
20 MHz 80386 Toshiba T5200 also has an 11 inch VGA display
and is expected to have an $8,000 base price but cost up to
12,000 when fully configured. Sharp's 20 MHz 80386 model
8000 with a 14 inch, backlit VGA display, 2 Mbytes of RAM
(expandable to 8 Mbytes), a 3.5 inch 2 Mbyte drive and a 40
Mbyte hard disk will cost about 10,000.
- InfoWorld 29 May and PC Week 5 June
Coming Soon?
A more "Mac-like" Word Perfect (2.0) featuring most of the
features of the MS-DOS version 5.0 is slated for year-end
release. FullWrite Professional remains on schedule for
year's end, but XyMac, based on XyWrite IV for MS-DOS which
is expected in the fall, may be a long time coming. SAS
Institute plans two Macintosh statistics products for late
summer named JMP (Professional for about $500 and "Start"
for less than $100). JMP features 3-D graphics, including
the ability to rotate the graphics, and is a completely new
program rather than a port of the well-known SAS statistics
package. Letraset is considering splitting Ready, Set, Go!
into two desktop publishing products (tentatively Ready,
Set, Go! Plus and Ready, Set, Go! Professional). A new
Print Shop for the Apple //e, //c, and IIgs similar to the
recently released new MS-DOS version is in beta-test and
should ship by October.
- InfoWorld 29 May and MacWeek 6 and 13 June
Still Waiting.
More than a year after Lotus president Jim Manzi proclaimed
that Unix versions of 1-2-3 would be forthcoming the company
has not settled on a release schedule for Unix, DEC/VMS, or
IBM mainframe versions. Microsoft announced it couldn't
make the planned end-of-June deadline for shipping the
Presentation Manager version of Excel, but did say they
expected a version for Hewlett-Packard's New Wave in the
fourth quarter. Shipping of dBase IV version 1.1 has
slipped into the third quarter (Ashton-Tate's current
bug-fix and work-around file for version 1.0 filled 1,500
lines on Compuserve at the end of May).
- InfoWorld 5 and 12 June
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 07:23 EST
From: PETER CHEN <PETCHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: HyperEgine
Hi,
Thanks for many generous replies regarding my previous
question on HyperDA. One of the suggestion is to acquire HyperEngine
and compile the help stacks as units of the application. I am not
quite familiar with HyperEngine. Could somebody enlighten me on its
function? If it's possible, please also tell me where I can get
HyperEngine.
Thank you very much.
Peter Chen FSDC CCIS Rutgers University
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 10:36:34 -0900
From: DANIEL K LASOTA <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Images to PICT
Hi Everyone,
I am looking for a way to convert images that are stored in
byte format into PICT format.
The images were generated on a VAX with a fortran program
that dumped values into an array.
I would of course like to have it so that the dimensions
of the numerical array become the dimensions of the PICT in pixels.
Thanks,
Dan
Disclaimer: No one will claim me.
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 16:55 EDT
From: New from REMCO - Tabletop Fusion Kits! Be the life of the party! Impress
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #114
ACSAZ@SEMASSU, 29-JUN-1989
RE:personalizing Word
To personalize word use Fedit+ and you'll find the ownership in the
data fork.
Alex Z... . . .
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 16:39:22 -0700
From: wilson@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (James E. Wilson)
Subject: Mac Moria
>I want to convert a mainframe adventure game called Moria over to
>the Mac.
There already exists a Macintosh version of Moria, by Curtis McCauley.
It is a port of the UNIX moria 4.87 sources (of which I am the author). My
Umoria sources are based on VMS Moria 4.8, which is the latest 'official'
Moria version.
Anyways, Curtis's program is in beta test at the moment, and is currently
available via anonymous ftp from ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU, in the directory
pub/wilson. There are two known bugs, both minor but somewhat annoying.
For more info on Moria (any version) send me mail.
Jim Wilson wilson@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 89 17:12:40 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: MandelZot 2.0
This posting contains version 2.0 of MandelZot, a program for exploring
the Mandelbrot set and its surroundings. This version supercedes
versions 1.4.1 (posted earlier this year) and 1.5.1 (distributed to a
few people via email).
The biggest change in version 2.0 is the addition of a colorset editor.
With this editor, users of Color QuickDraw-capable machines can
customize the color palettes used to display MandelZot images. The
colorsets can be stored as part of an image file, can be stored in small
stand-alone colorset documents, and can be loaded into and transferred
between different images. The colorset editor is quite flexible; many
different visual effects and coloring schemes are possible.
Other new features include support for color PostScript printers,
compatibility with 32-bit Color QuickDraw, the addition of a
virus-detector, and a few bug fixes.
This StuffIt document contains the application itself, the release notes
(in TeachText format), and a folder containing several sample colorset
documents. You'll need StuffIt 1.5.1 or later (or UnStuffIt or UnStuff
DA 1.5.1 or later) to unarchive this, as the colorset files are stored
as a hierarchically-maintained folder.
The full documentation file (in MacWrite format) follows in a separate
posting.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
[Archived as /info-mac/mandelzot-20.hqx; 123K
/info-mac/mandelzot-20-docs.hqx; 133K
/info-mac/mandelzot-20-samples.hqx; 39K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 09:50:49 -0700
From: ksc@chem.ucla.edu (Kim Cary)
Subject: missing laserwriter pages & find file
1) Our "Find File" d.a. won't work; it and the system were reinstalled from
the system tools diskette, when it was discovered that it wasn't working.
Environment: 4.2/6.0; SE w/ HD20SC. Any ideas why it just won't put up the
dialog to search for files? This is driving the operator crazy.
2) Thirteen macs on a phonenet/TOPS network; MSWord 3.01 on the individual
hard disks (each machine has one). When printing docs from the "storage
server" (80mb CMS, external) manual feed print jobs don't finish printing -
no bomb or message about problems, just missing the last few pages. Subsequent
jobs print fine. Any ideas on why? Is this likely a problem with the
LaserWriter Plus, or with the network?
Thanks for your help!
ksc@uclachem.chem.ucla.edu
...{cepu,ucla-cs}!uclachem!ksc (UUCP)
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:22:45 EDT
From: (David Gursky) <dmg@mitre.mitre.org> <dmg>
Subject: More on mail...
The office LAN I use will soon connect to MITRE's corporate LAN. We would like
to be able to receive out mail from Internet at our Mac's, rather than having
to go to one of MITRE-Washington mainframes. MITRE's gateway (mwunix.mitre.org)
will be a Sun 4 (I think; maybe a Sun 3) in a few weeks. How can we get the
Sun to forward mail to our Macs.
We currently run Quickmail on the Macs, but if there exists a product better
suited to the task (I understand Quickmail addresses are pretty hideous), by
all means, suggest it.
[Note: Are there any Mac mail products that conform to X.400 and X.500?]
Regards,
David
Disclaimer: Dis is soup. Dis is art. Soup. Art. (Apologies to Lily Tomlin)
David Gursky Internet: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive, MS Z080
McLean, VA 22102 703.883.7790
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:16:00 EDT
From: (David Gursky) <dmg@mitre.mitre.org> <dmg>
Subject: Quickmail & Gatekeeper...
Has anyone out there on the net encountered problems with CE Software's
Quickmail (1.0.5) and Gatekeeper (1.1). We have had a report of Quickmail
crashing on systems equipped with Gatekeeper. I have not seen this happen,
and I'm not entirely convinced that the blame lies with the interaction of
both of these as much as does with Quickmail 1.0.5.
Isn't there a Quickmail 2.0 out RSN?
Regards,
David
Disclaimer: Dis is soup. Dis is art. Soup. Art. (Apologies to Lily Tomlin)
David Gursky Internet: dmg@mwunix.mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation 7525 Colshire Drive, MS Z080
McLean, VA 22102 703.883.7790
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 14:00 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: quit
Does anyone know of a large area scanner (20"x28" or
more) for the Mac?? I need at least 300 dpi but would
love higher resolution. I need a large format for map
work; I don't need gray-scale capabilities (simple 2-bit
line art).
I have been trying to do the scans in small bites and
put them together later but so far I haven't found
a software package that can deal with such big
images. If anyone knows of one I'd love to hear about
it.
Thanks for any clues..
David Elbert
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802)388 3711 x5652
Elbert@midd.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 11:15 EDT
From: "Thomas R. Ridley" <TRRRC%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Reply to my Questions about Allegro
IN%"alms@spt.entity.com" 28-JUN-1989 11:55:05.78
To: TRRRC@RITVAX
CC:
Subj: Allegro Common Lisp 1.2.2 Record and Rom trap problems
This is a reply I received from Apple about my Allegro 1.2.2 Lisp problems
>Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 16:48 EDT
>From: "Thomas R. Ridley" <TRRRC%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Allegro Common Lisp 1.2.2 Record and Rom trap problems
>I have been starting to investigate Allegro's interface to the ROM toolbox
>but I've been having some problems and I wondered if any one out there could
>collaborate my findings.
>1. The default values for Pascal Records are not used by Make-Record. I have
>had to explicitly set the field values with rset to get anywhere.
This is documented in the release notes. It was done for speed reasons.
>2. There is no set-record function as described in the Allegro Documentation
This is also documented in the release notes. Again, the macros expand very
efficiently. If you want something to funcall, you can write a function which
encloses the macro.
> 3. The correct call for pointer addition is %inc-ptr not %inc-pointer.
Also in the release notes.
>4. Even with correct Parameter Block values, Low-Level File/IO traps often
> crash spuriously.
This isn't in the release notes. It shouldn't actually happen. Perhaps a
well-placed call to without-interrupts would help the situation. There's
probably a more 'real' solution, but I can't say from the few number of
bits I have. Again, it shouldn't be crashing.
/*Authors Note : The above problem was with a bug in my ParamBlockRec
Definiton */
> 5. There is no way to acess the "High-Level" Toolbox functions from Allegro.
That's correct. Allegro consistently uses the "assembly language interface"
described in Inside Macintosh, rather than the "Pascal Interface". On the
other hand, it also provides a much higher level interface for a variety of
things (i.e. object-oriented windows and such), so it's not all bad news.
> If anyone has had good luck doing this type of work I'd like to get in touch
> The Reason for my bypassing the Higher-Level lisp calls is mostly for speed
> requirements.
A logical bug in version 1.2 slowed down lisp file io a lot. It should be
about 6 times faster in 1.3 (due out septemberish).
Thanks in Advance
Tom Ridley
RIT Research Corp.
No problem. I don't have access to INFO-MAC (I don't think). Could you
forward this there?
-andrew shalit
apple computer
disclaimer: I'm one of the culprits who implemented the software in question.
End of fowarded message.
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Date: 29 Jun 89 08:31:00 EST
From: "ZZT" <zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Re Scientific software, 3d distortions
Re: Scientific software, 3D distortions
One possible to the question about "mutating? (?) or "torquing" molecular
images is Ball&Stick (version 2). If you build the molecule by spcifying
bond lengths and angles then you can change individual angles. This is
simplest if you only want to rotate one bond (and everything attached to it),
if you need to elastically deform the entire molecule Ball&Stick might be
difficult to use. If you have questions about the program, you can reach
Norbert Mueller in Austria (who sells it) at BITNET%"K360171@AEARN" .
Jon Tischler on ARPANET zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov
or BITNET zzt@ornlstc
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Date: 29 Jun 89 18:11:33 GMT
From: andersnb@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Brian Anderson)
Subject: Socket support for Appletalk
Hi Netland,
We're attempting to port some code to the Mac II that was designed for
a Unix system and uses sockets. Has does anyone have or has heard of
a set of routines that implements the socket interface on top of
Appletalk? We would like UDP datagram support if possible. This will
run in Mac OS (no A/UX code please!). Thanks for your support!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Brian G. Anderson |
NYU Ultracomputer Research Project |||
715 Broadway Rm. 1006 |||||
New York, NY 10003 |||||
(212) 998-3346 --- //\ ---
arpa: andersnb@cmcl2 ----/ \----
uucp: {ihnp4,seismo}!cmcl2!andersnb ---- ----
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 16:20 CDT
From: <9663SUTC%MUCSD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Startup and Shutdown sounds
Hello,
How do you create a startup and shutdown sound? I plenty of sound resources
but I do not know how to use them at startup and shut down. Your help will
be appreciated!
Thanks
John Sutcliffe
Marquette University
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 08:14:24 EDT
From: Kathy S Brown <KATHY%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Using Network DiskFit v1.5 with the Apple Tape Drive
Below is the original posting about Network DIskFit v1.5 with Apple's
40SC Tape Drive. Although this tape drive is not the fastest, it does
work with Network DiskFit. We have been using it here at Brown since
NDF v1.4. We too had trouble with v1.5, mostly because System v6.0.2
takes up so much room on floppy, which one needs to boot from to backup
the server. For our AppleShare servers (one a Plus and one an SE,
each with an 80 mg Hard Drive), the key was to have enough CONTIGUOUS
space on the HD for the Tape Cache file. Although its over 600k, leave
it there after the backup, so it can be used the next time. The other
important piece you need is the tape driver, ULDataStream version 2.02.
(Which I thought came with NDF v1.5 - else call SuperMac Tech Support).
The other fussy thing about DiskFit, is when to eject the tape. DO IT
ONLY when you see the eject prompt - else you may have to start all over
at rebooting! But hey - it all works and having NDF on the server for
users to use helps too.
Now I have a question. A few users have complained about their first
disk in a smartset getting corrupted. I haven't experienced this myself
but does anyone know if this is a "real" problem, and what is the
workaround? These users claim they had to do the entire backup again.
Thanks in advance.
Kathy Brown, Academic Services, Brown University
kathy@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 09:41:29 EDT
From: Joe McMahon <XRJDM%SCFVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Vaccine, GateKeeper, and Servers
> ... Does Vaccine (being
>in the server's system folder) prevent a virus from installing anywhere on the
>server? Are there special inits for servers that do this? Does Gatekeeper do
>a better job than Vaccine? Am I correct in thinking that viruses only attach
>themselves to applications and not documents? ...
Vaccine protects the system on which it is booted. Therefore, installing it on
your server protects your server. I'd recommend GateKeeper for the server,
though, as its operation is much more automatic; you tell it what you want to
allow and by whom, and it silently permits or denies access as you require,
logging any invalid accesses. There is at least one virus (INIT 29) that can
attach itself to documents.
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 08:26:24 PDT
From: GFA0009%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Vision Lab 1.0 (Demo) stuffed and binhexd
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/vision-lab.hqx; 254K]
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 89 12:36:26 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Word personalization
re/personalizing Microsoft Word: Of *course* Microsoft tells you it can't be
changed. (What would be the point of putting it in otherwise? :-)
Most of the 'personalizable' programs (Microsoft, Claris, I think
Videoworks, etc.) save the personal information in a very standard way: in
data fork of the application. Zap the data fork, and next time you boot up,
it'll ask you to customize it again.
If you don't like mucking around like that, there's a program called
"Anyonymity" available off many bulletin boards that will replace the
personalized information for you or destroy it completely.
- Alex Curylo, student, Simon Fraser University
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Date: 89-06-29 09:30:34 MEZ
From: TU80070%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Word personalization
No John, you are wrong |
This information does not lie in any resource fork, but in the beginning
of the data fork. First you have a length byte there, then the desired
string followes. I hope you are not going to personalize a "borrowed"
copy (*grin*).
Working with Microsoft products, you have to recognize them to be of
a strange design. The menu-resource for example is not shown in the
resource fork (although existant) and so not accessible to ResEdit.
It is just "hidden" between all the other resources and can only be
changed with a sector-editor. To me this is a problem, for the german
word-version did confuse all the command codes. Either application
>From any developer is shut down with Command-"Q", not those of Micro-
soft. They instead use Command-"B" for the german word "Beenden". Every
attempt to nationalize computer products is welcome to me, but this
is the wrong way |
With best regards,
Klaus Schnathmeier TU Hamburg-Harburg
<TU80070@DHHUNI4.BITNET> W. Germany
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:23:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "John E. Haberland" <jh4h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Word personalization
I thank everybody for their help in 'repersonalizing' my Word 4.0. For those
of you who didn't see how it's done, here it is. Use a program that
recognizes data forks like MacSnoop or REdit and open the data fork. Then
using the programs' respective commands, set the EOF to zero and relaunch.
The program will then prompt you to personalize it just like a clean master
would. You can also use this method for other personalizable applications
like MacWrite, Excel, and the like.
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∂02-Jul-89 2202 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu German keycaps wanted
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I am looking for a German system for a Mac Plus or a DA that would
change the keyboard from American to German keycaps (I'm tired of
typing three keys, i.e. option u followed by the vocal, to get one
umlaut).
Please send mail to this account or phone: 415-325 36 17
thanks,
Raimund
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∂03-Jul-89 0124 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Help: How do I hilite a button?
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I'm busy writing my first "serious" Mac application, and I need some
help figuring out a detail about button handling in dialogs.
My application runs a dialog containing a few radio bottons, and eText
field, and an "OK" and "cancel" button. The dialog is loaded with
GetNewDialog from the program's resources.
I want the "OK" button to be emphasized, that is, I want it to have a
second, bold outline around the button. I can't seem to figure out
how to do this successfully.
I'm even more confused because I was using resEdit to poke around that
the DLOG/DITL resources for some other programs. In many cases, I
found dialogs defined for other applications with enabled "OK"
buttons, but with no bold outline around the button visible from
resEdit. Yet when I run one of these applications, the "OK" button is
emphasized, sure enough.
So, how do I make my "OK" button pick up a double outline? Is there
some magic I haven't figured out, or am I just doing something dumb?
Please reply directly to me,
philf@lindy.stanford.edu
...sun!lindy.stanford.edu!philf
Thanks...phil
∂03-Jul-89 0935 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: Help: How do I hilite a button?
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> So, how do I make my "OK" button pick up a double outline?
You have to write your own code to do this, the Dialog Manager doesn't
know anything about double outines. See p. 407 of Inside Macintosh,
volume I, for an example.
"When all else fails , read the manual."
-johnmark
∂03-Jul-89 1224 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Hiliting a button: RTFM
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about hilighting a
button. A special thanks to the few people who even ansered my
question instead of sending snide remarks: RTFM. :) :)
Now, for all the people who responded to me asking that I share the
answer with them: Sure enough, it's in Inside Mac, plain as day. See
pp I-406/406. Unfortunately, Inside Mac I-V can get to be a tad
overwhelming while writing ones first application, and I just plain missed
it.
phil
∂03-Jul-89 2124 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu QuickDraw/TextEdit question
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Hopefully someone can explain the following to me, and offer a solution.
My application prepares an off-screen bitmap, and draws a fairly
complex background image into it. Then, I open a window and use
CopyBits to copy the background image to the active window grafPort.
I use the off-screen bitmap because the image needs to be sized and
srolled, and copying-in a rect from the bitmap seems much easier and
faster than regenerating the image. Anyhow, this all works great.
My problem comes when I overlay a TextEdit Rect on top of the image.
Sequence looks like:
<generate image off-screen>
<New Window>
<CopyBits to new window's grafport>
<allocate text-edit record, destRect and viewRect == full window rect>
I find that TextEdit blanks the each line into which I enter text.
That is, if I start type into the first line of the TextEdit rect,
that entire line is cleared to white, wiping out the background image
I had placed there.
Similarly, as I move down to subsequent lines, the full line is
blanked as soon as I enter the line.
I checked the pen mode for my TERec -- it's srcOr, which in theory
should just OR bits into my image, not copy white bits. I want the
textedit image to simply overlay the background image in my window,
and not clear anything.
Can anyone explain what's going on here? Am I being dumb, or is this
some fact of life that I have to work around? Any help would be appreciated.
phil
∂06-Jul-89 1426 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 6 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 116
Today's Topics:
ColorFinder info
FONT/DA JUGGLER PLUS (FDJP
Font DA/Juggler proglems
HELP WITH FONT/DA JUGGLER
HP DeskJet summary
Mail from Participate at the University of Iowa
OzTeX (Version 1.1) Available by Anonymous FTP
Peripheral land TurboFloppy 1.4
Persistent alarms?
PopUpMenu 2.0b2
Scientific 3D software
Scientific modelling software
Serial Port slowing Bootup
SimCity...
statistical software for the mac
SuperCharger/SE
Two system folders
Updated (I think) version of ColorFinder
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 10:20:19 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: ColorFinder info
Well, I must note that ColorFinder won the best hack of the year award and I
must agree. It is marvelously well done. Someone was kind enough to post it,
which we must thank Chris Derossi for allowing, but there were no instructions
included. Well, through some hacking I have figured out the way to make my
icons come out in color using pd tools found in the info-mac archives.
Here goes...
First, get the files init/color-finder.hqx and util/color-icon-editor.hqx
which are on Sumex-Aim.Stanford.Edu in the info-mac directory. Make sure you
have ResEdit or some program you can use to copy resources and renumber them.
Next, find the ICN# you want to replace in the program. Use ResEdit to copy
it to the file ColorFinder, changing the ICN# number if necessary to prevent
conflicts. The ICN# doesn't matter, but you must know what it is because you
are going to make a cicn by the same number.
Now use the Color Icon Editor to open the ICN# and do the coloring thing.
This is the really important part because ugly icons are bad juju. Also, due
to the pd aspect of this program, it asks you to pick a file and then asks you
to TYPE IN the ICN# number. More bad juju and another reason that you need to
know the number.
Finally, save the cicn in ColorFinder under the same number as the ICN#.
Repeat for as many icons as you can stand to do and then reboot to see your
work. Of course, this assumes that you actually put ColorFinder into your
System Folder.
What ColorFinder seems to do is look at every icon the Finder puts up,
probably by patching PlotIcon, and comparing it to the ICN# resources that it
has. If it finds a match (i.e. the bit patterns match, not the numbers or
names) then it looks up the number and uses the cicn by the same number
instead. Quite a marvelous bit of hacking and well deserving of the Hack of
the Year award.
Now the big trick is to build up a collection of color icons in one place. I
am willing to do such a thing. Mail binhexed ResEdit files to me at
pugh@nmfecc.llnl.gov and I will post them to Sumex after a bit.
Jon
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 89 15:48:28 SST
From: ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: FONT/DA JUGGLER PLUS (FDJP
Hello everybody.
This is a summary of the replies I've got concerning running the same
copy of FDJP on several machines.
First I must clarify that I am trying FDJP out with a friend's copy. I am
NOT pirating it !!!
FDJP is serial number protected. On boot time, it checks if the same copy
is in use over the network. If it is, it ex-ed out and does not load.
Thanks to all who replied. I wonder if Master Juggler works like that too?
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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 89 08:04 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font DA/Juggler proglems
In regards to the query as to why Font DA Juggler would not work properly
over a network: both Font DA Juggler and Master Juggler check the
network to see if two copies of itself with THE SAME SERIAL NUMBER are
loaded concurrently. If it finds a copy of itself, then it will fail to
load. Alsoft distributes a version for networks, but I have no idea
as to how much this version costs.
Jim Clark
UT Martin
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 11:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: HELP WITH FONT/DA JUGGLER
Font/DA Juggler is COPY PROTECTED! On a network, when it loads, it checks
all other machines to see if they are running the same serial number
of F/DA Juggler. If a matching serial number is found, the currently
booting machine WILL NOT LOAD F/DA Juggler.
<mild flame on>
Kind of a bummer if you are a registered user, but you happen to
boot after someone took a copy off of your machine without you knowing (office
environment, school environment, original disck, many different ways this
could happen...). Kind of detrimental if you are a DTP specialist and
really NEED those fonts to complete that important document, but can't
get to them because someone you don't know copied F/DA Juggler behind
your back...
<mild flame off>
Question (point): How often does F/DA Juggler listen to the localtalk
network to see if there is another one asking for serial number?
How long does it take to check the net for others with the same serial
number?
one of the reasons why I chose SuitCase II over F/DA Juggler...
b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sun, 2 Jul 89 22:29:40 EDT
From: postmaster@movies.mit.edu
Subject: HP DeskJet summary
Thanks to all the people who responded to my request for information on using
the HP DeskJet with the Mac, and on compatibility with Sys7.0 outline fonts.
This is a summary of the replies I got:
1: The consensus is that the original DeskJet is SLOW (2ppm printing from its
resident fonts, worse on graphics). This should be improved by the DeskJet+
which was recently released, and is now selling at most places for what the
DeskJet cost before. It has a Z180 processor, compared to the Z80 in the
original, so its output from its resident fonts is at twice the speed, and they
claim up to a five-fold improvement in graphics. HP also claims better
resolution with the new model.
2: The Grappler LS and LQ interfaces are SLOWER. They are inits which use
a modified ImageWriter LQ printer driver, plus spooling, plus some fonts from
Bitstream. However, apparently the spooling is inefficient and significantly
slows down the Mac. Also, the software doesn't work with the HP's internal,
cartridge, or downloadable fonts.
The solution proposed in one reply is to use a program called MacPrint
>From Insight Development, and also get SuperLaserSpool from SuperMac
Technology. MacPrint (which apparently is implemented as a special printer
driver) supports the internal cartridge fonts, both the DeskJet and the +,
4x fonts in graphics mode (which will probably be fairly slow), and will
automatically switch between text and graphics modes depending on context and
font chosen. The manufacturer has also promised outline font support when 7.0
rolls around. (SuperLaserSpool is a nice print spooler, and if the DeskJet is
as slow as promised in graphics mode, it would be a definite necessity.)
Both of these programs are available mail order for under $150 total. If
you are an educator, you can probably get the DeskJet+ for under $600 (I've
seen it advertised in Boston for $575). We lowly student types get stuck with
higher prices, but usually the dealers offer some discount for students.
3: Finally, the one remaining drawback of this printer is the fact that the
ink is water-soluable. I have pages printed on one of these machines that I
got from a demo, and the ink runs badly if the pages get wet. This is quite
unfortunate, and if anyone has any solution to this problem it would be most
welcome.
Conclusion: Well, for under $800 (if you're an educator) you can get a quiet,
high-quality printer which matches a laser for sheer resolution. It is slower
than a laser, doesn't support PostScript (but nothing does for this price), and
the output is susceptible to running if it gets wet. On the other hand, it
costs MUCH less to maintain than a laser ($14 to replace the printer cartridge
every few thousand pages, or a few bucks to refill it with fountain-pen ink, as
compared to $100+ to replace a LaserWriter's toner cartridge). It also has
very good reliability, with mean time before failure in the hundreds of
thousands of pages. All in all, I'm convinced, and as soon as my bank account
permits, I'm going shopping...
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 10:59 CDT
From: <CEDROCPA%UIAMVS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Mail from Participate at the University of Iowa
Problem: When I try to print in the background (from any of several
applications), PrintMonitor tells me that the document failed to print and
asks if I want to try again. In fact, though, the document _has_ printed.
This problem is new (i.e., I've been able to background print before), but I
can't associate it with any changes in my configuration.
Configuration: Mac Plus, 2 megs, System software 6.0.2, small PhoneNet based
network (5 Pluses/SE's and one LaserWriter II).
Plea: Does anyone have any guess as why this is happening?
Respond to: CEDROCPA@UIAMVS (BITNET) and I will summarize if the responses
are interesting.
Thanks
Tom Rocklin
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 89 16:49:56 -0500
From: c3ar%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Subject: OzTeX (Version 1.1) Available by Anonymous FTP
Thanks to the generosity and hard work of Andrew Trevorrow, a free, public
domain (in as much as TeX is ever public domain) version of TeX for the
Macintosh is now available by anonymous ftp. The program is called OzTeX
(Version 1.1) and includes Modula-2 source and all necessary fonts and
input files. The ftp address is
Name: tank.uchicago.edu
Address: 128.135.4.27
In the near future (thanks to Craig Ruff), OzTeX might also be available from
Name: handies.ucar.edu
Address: 128.117.64.4
As usual, use the login name "anonymous" and use your own login id for a
password. Once logged in, you will find the parts of OzTeX in
subdirectories of pub/sources/OzTeX. Everything has been preprocessed with
Stuffit-1.5.1 and binhex. You will need at least version 1.5.1 of Stuffit,
since the archives contain folders. The subdirectory
/pub/sources/OzTeX/binaries contain copies of the stuffit archives before
stuffing. Other subdirectories contain the OzTeX program, OzTeX sources,
OzTeX inputs (e.g., AMSTeX, LaTeX, etc.), and Font binaries of various
sizes in binhex'd stuffit archives. Of course, Stuffit-1.5.1 and binhex4
are available by anonymous ftp from the info-mac archive, at
sumex-aim.stanford .edu (36.44.0.6).
Here is some more detailed information about the program and implementation:
OzTeX is a public domain version of TeX for the Macintosh written by Andrew
Trevorrow. TEX is the typesetting system developed by Donald Knuth at
Stanford University. OzTeX was written by translating Knuth's original
code to Modula-2 and then porting to the Macintosh.
The OzTeX delivery includes the OzTeX program; a complete set of TFM files
for the computer modern font set and TFM files for selected Adobe fonts;
input files of LaTeX and AmSTeX; full Modula-2 source code for OzTeX; and a
complete set of font files (in PK format). OzTeX includes a screen
previewer and the capabilities of initex to create new format files.
OzTeX should work on any Macintosh Plus, SE, II or newer model. It will
not work on a 128K or 512K Mac. OzTEX was developed on a Mac Plus with 1
Meg of RAM and a 20 Meg hard disk. This is just about the minimum hardware
configuration, given the large amount of memory required to run OzTEX and
the large amount of disk space needed to store all the font information.
OzTeX can only print on a PostScript-compatible printer.There is currently
no support for other types of printers. If you plan to use an Apple
LaserWriter (any model) the installation should be straightforward.
- Source code will be supplied. Everything is written in
TML Modula-2 (which requires MPW). There is about 35,000 lines of
code.
- The application includes a DVI previewer, a PostScript
driver, and of course TeX (actually IniTeX so users can create their
own formats, although Plain and LaTeX will be supplied).
The TeX module passes Knuth's trip test (for version 2.0
at least).
OzTeX is designed to be an open and expandable TeX system. It reads font
information from standard TFM and PK files, and creates standard DVI files.
If you have access to a Unix or VMS mainframe then you'll be able to Kermit
such files to and fro without any extra processing. A basic set of TFM
files and 300dpi PK files will be supplied. PostScript printer fonts are
also supported.
The author says that OzTeX is somewhat below TeXtures 1.0 and MacTeX 1.1 in
features, somewhere between in seed of typesetting/previewing/printing and,
of course, way ahead in cost.
There is currently NO integrated text editor (and I'm not sure that one is
really necessary, what with MultiFinder and good DA editors available).
Support for inclusion of graphics is currently minimal.
The previewer ignores \special commands and the PostScript driver only
allows inclusion of a file, along with optional PostScript code.
OzTeX can be used with AMSTeX and LaTeX and the appropriate input files are
part of the OzTeX delivery.
Now some more details about the delivery:
The OzTeX delivery is stored here packed as Stuffit-1.5.1 archives
(Version-1.5.1 is necessary, as the stuffit files contain folders), which
have been run through binhex and broken into pieces. The index below
indicates what parts of OzTeX reside in what directories here.
pub/sources/OzTeX
/oztex: OzTeX binaries (stuffit/binhex)
/ozsrc: OzTeX sources " "
/ozinp: OzTeX inputs " "
/pk300: OzTeX fonts " "
/pk329: " " " "
/pk360: " " " "
/pk432: " " " "
/pk518: " " " "
/pk622: " " " "
/pk746: " " " "
/binaries OzTeX stuffit files pre-binhex
Any inquiries about OzTeX can be sent to oztex@tank.uchicago.edu.
I am still looking for a bitnet-server site that is willing to accept this,
for those of you on bitnet who are unable to ftp.
--Walter
_____________________________________________________________________________
Walter C3arlip c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
(the "3" is silent) c3ar%zaphod@UCHIMVS1.bitnet
_____________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 23:09:42 EDT
From: Churn_Hway_Wang@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Peripheral land TurboFloppy 1.4
Has anyone used PLI TurboFloppy 1.4? What is your comment?
Because Mac II can not have a external floppy drives, it
seems to be a good candidate. The bonus is read and write
IBM disks.
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 08:52:59 LCL
From: LIBHTK%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Persistent alarms?
Declan Rieb asked about a utility, DA, or Cdev which allows the
user to keep an appointment calendar, etc. with a ringing alarm.
Smart Alarms is such a critter -- very good too. Sold by
Imagine Software (list price $49.95, but cheaper through
19 Bolinas Rd. MacConnection, etc.)
Fairfax, CA 94930
It is a 4 1/2 mice rated program (MacUser, Oct.86). Anyway I really
like it and it sounds like it does everything Declan was asking for.
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 09:04:41 EDT
From: Andrew Gilmartin <ANDREW%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PopUpMenu 2.0b2
In the PopUpMenu 2.0b1 I had removed parameters for positing the
menu. A number of people have since asked me to return this
feature. PopUpMenu 2.0b2 has optional positioning parameters. I
have also included handling for empty menu items (this previously
would hang the Mac).
-- Andrew Gilmartin
Computing & Information Services
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
ANDREW@BROWNVM (bitnet)
andrew@brownvm.brown.edu (internet)
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-popupmenu-20b2.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 16:53 EST
From: HENRY YEE <HENRY@atc.bendix.com>
Subject: Scientific 3D software
IN%"DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu"
IN%"Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.EDU"
You can distort/mutate and rotate 3D images using Mac software sold by
Graphsoft
8370 Court Ave.
Ellicott City, MD 21043
(301) 461-9488
The president of Graphsoft, Richard Diehl, says that they have existing
products that can do these things. He also wants you to be aware that there
are possibly other software packages designed specifically for your purposes;
for instance, ChemDraw. If you give him a call, I'm sure he can help you one
way or another.
Henry Yee
IN%"Henry@atc.bendix.com"
IN%"Henry%atc.bendix.com@RELAY.CS.NET"
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 11:49 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: Scientific modelling software
Thanks to all who replied to my request for scientific modelling software. As a
synopsis, the demo of ball-and-stick in the archives is a good example of
rotation of molecular models, as well as experimenting with different atoms,
molecules, etc. It seems that kinkos courseware exchange carries a molecular
editor program that I haven't seen yet, but comes recommended. Also, several
CAD programs such as Claris CAD and AutoCAD will let you draw 2D objects that
can be re-shaped. IDD's Dreams has a nice animation feature that can animate 3D
rotation or generation.
Dan Henderson
Boston College
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 89 00:45:41 BST
From: Andrew <AJM19%phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Serial Port slowing Bootup
I recently wrote an Imagewriter emulator program for the BBC micro that
allows me to print from my Macintosh SE into the BBC's RS232 port and then out
to an Epson look-alike printer. The program works fine, but the overall setup
causes some strange things to happen.
When I have the BBC plugged into the Mac the Mac takes ages to boot up.
Occasionally the SE will also beep a number of times before it manages to start
the bootup procedure. This happens whether or not the BBC is switched on.
Unplugging the serial cable returns everything to normal.
Do these symptoms look like a short somewhere? Is the Mac power supply
overloaded, and hence doing its fancy shutdown procedure? Is this what
gives the double or triple beeps? Why would just the startup procedure be
slowed down? (After startup things seem to be working normally.)
Answers to any of my questions would be most appreciated. Please reply to me
directly at
AJM19 <AJM19%uk.ac.cambridge.phoenix@uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss>
or via InfoMac if you have any problems reaching me.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew Mason
Darwin College
Cambridge
UK
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\ If this sentence were to finish now. /
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 10:10:32 PDT
From: decwrl!apple!iuvax!uiucuxc!fluke!moriarty@labrea.stanford.edu (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: SimCity...
>From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
>Purchased the "SimCity 1.1" city simulation software last week, and am really
>impressed with this fine software. One takes on the role of a city's mayor
>and attempts to balance multitudes of competing factors so that people want to
>live in your city, pay taxes, and etc. The realism, sounds, and graphics
>(traffic helicopters, airplanes, etc) are fantastic, and this program is
>destined to become a classic. The documentation even includes a short talk on
>successful city planning as well as source books for such.
>
>The software is available mail order (MacConnection and others will get it to
>you via next day air for $3) for under $30. "SimCity" is by Maxis and
>distributed by BroderBund.
Absolute agreement on the quality of the program, but I find that Maxis has
a *lousy* way of selling their color, Mac II multifinder-compatible
*non-copy-protected* version of SimCity. (The one you can get from
MacConnection is black and white, non-multifinder compatible, and
copy-protected.) You can't buy the Mac II color version directly -- you
have to buy the B&W version first, then upgrade to the color version. HAVE
to. I can't say that I think much of Maxis' marketing strategy.
Outside of that, I think it's an excellent game. Spent an entire 8-hour
period two Sunday's ago playing the thing -- literally could not put it down.
"We're in big trouble!"
"Think positive,
Helpermier!"
"*You're* in big trouble."
-- Mister Boffo
---
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INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
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Date: 30 JUN 89 09:12-
From: DECNET%DERDBS5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: statistical software for the mac
Date: 30-JUN-1989 09:11:17.38
>From: I627 AT DERDBS5
To: GATEWAY::"info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu"
Subj: statistical software for the mac
A colleague of mine has the following question: Is there a statistical software
called "SPSS for the macintosh" ?
He said that there exist software packets
called "SPSS for MSDOS" and "SPSS for diverse mainframes". The authors come
>From the university of chicago. Their names are Nie and Hull
Thanks for every information
Martin Nagler
Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
IMMD VI
Martensstrasse 3
8520 Erlangen
West Germany
Electronic Mail: na@derdbs5.bitnet
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 89 13:55 CDT
From: APL%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SuperCharger/SE
Does anyone have any comments on the SuperCharger/SE accelerator
sold by DPI? <see page 136 of July MacUser>
Its a 16MHz 68000 based accelerator that can be turned on and off
through the Control Panel. It doesn't say anything about ram,
so I would assume that it would work nicely in a 1meg machine and not
consume too much memory.
I've been told by friends that I should get more ram before I buy an
accelerator, but with people predicting ram is going to keep falling
until the end of the year, I think someone would be silly to buy ram
now if it wasn't out of dire need.
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 12:23:04 BST
From: Stuart MacFarlane <stuartm%hci.heriot-watt.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Two system folders
We have a Mac+ and an Apple HD20. We'd like to be able to use either
the English operating system, or the Japanese version (Kanjitalk).
This seems to mean having two system folders on the hard disc, with
some method of telling the mac which one we are using at present.
(Alternatives involve moving lots of stuff in and out of the system
folder by hand each time, this is tedious. Putting one system on a
floppy and booting from that doesn't work, because applications on the
hard disc default back to the hard disc system folder when they exit.)
I've heard that there is a PD program called (?) `system shifter'
that might help; can someone tell me how to get hold of this? Or,
has anyone solved this problem any other way?
Please mail me and I'll post a summary.
Stuart MacFarlane JANET: stuartm@uk.ac.hw.hci
Scottish HCI Centre at Heriot-Watt, UUCP: ..!mcvax!ukc!hwcs!hci!stuartm
Heriot-Watt University, ARPA: stuartm@hci.hw.ac.uk
Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HX, Scotland Tel: 031-225 8432 ext19
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 89 13:18:27 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Updated (I think) version of ColorFinder
This is another version of Chris Derossi's ColorFinder INIT. It's 80k
bytes long in .hqx form, which I believe means that it has a larger
collection of color icons than the version posted to Info-Mac some time
ago. This version is dated 6/16/89.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/color-finder.hqx; 81K]
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End of Info-Mac Digest
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∂07-Jul-89 1245 N.NOODLE@macbeth.stanford.edu MSWord 3 AND 4 on the same network?
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Does anyone know if there will be any problems on an Appletalk network if
some users are running Word 4 while others are still running 3.02?
I have heard that this causes printer driver problems and maybe messes up
Word 3 users' computers (causing system crashes).
Canyon Chan
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>Does anyone know if there will be any problems on an Appletalk network if
>some users are running Word 4 while others are still running 3.02?
>I have heard that this causes printer driver problems and maybe messes up
>Word 3 users' computers (causing system crashes).
I've done it. The only problem is that Word 3 users won't be able to read in
Word 4 files. That can be fixed by storing files in Word 3 format and
setting that file format to be the default, but then you lose things like
tables and Word 4 specific features.
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∂07-Jul-89 1929 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu How do I implement a toolbox window like MacPaint 2.0?
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From: philf@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Phil Fernandez)
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Subject: How do I implement a toolbox window like MacPaint 2.0?
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I'd like to implement a "toolbox" window like those displayed by
MacPaint 2.0, Freehand, Hypercard, etc. I.e., I little pseudo-window
that sets pen modes, etc. I don't particularly want it to be a
tear-off window like Hypercard -- I'll just activate via a menu
choice, and deactivate it via a little close box or a menu choice.
My question is, how do I implement this beast? It's clearly not a
"real" window -- clicking in it doesn't deactivate my active
application window. Yet it's not confined to my application window
boundary.
Can anyone give me insights into the "right" way to do this?
Thanks...please mail directly to me:
philf@lindy.stanford.edu
...sun!lindy.stanford.edu!philf
phil
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From: kari@xanadu.COM (Kari Dubbelman)
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Subject: Re: How do I implement a toolbox window like MacPaint 2.0?
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To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
Seeing that you have at least two open questions that I can answer...
You have hit upon two of the (more) weak spots in the Mac toolbox.
Most other things at this programming level exist and work well.
Inside Mac tells how to do these things. You cannot program the Mac
without IM volumes I, IV, and (if you have color) V. Period. You
probably also need IM-II and the TechNotes stack would not hurt.
But to answer the button question, there is no built-in way to do it
and this is a serious oversight in the Mac toolbox. IM (I-407)
recommends you do something like this (with int16 a portable 16-bit
integer; Warning - shooting-from-the-hip programming below)
void
highlightbutton(dialog,itemNumber)
DialogPtr dialog;
int16 itemNumber;
{
Rect displayRect;
int16 itemType;
Handle itemHandle;
GetDItem(dialog,itemNumber,&itemType,&itemHandle,&displayRect);
SetPort(dialog); /* Possibly unneccesary */
PenNormal(); /* Probably unnecessary */
PenSize(3,3);
InsetRect(displayRect,-4,-4);
FrameRoundRect(displayRect,16,16);
}
but this causes minor problems in modeless dialog boxes - this routine
has to be called in the window update routine also, otherwise covering
windows will cause (pieces of) the highlighting to disappear when
removed. (Modal dialogs work OK).
Second question, about a floating tool selection window:
There is a system for doing exactly this, based on a variable called
GhostWindow (I-287). I have not tried this myself, but concensus among
developers I've listened to seems to be not to use this "feature"
since it causes more problems than it solves. Just be careful so as
not to deactivate any other window if you get a hit in the tool
selection window. You may benefit from making this window have a
built-in PICT handle for its contents - Draw the window in MacPaint,
cut it with the lasso, cut it to the clipboard, go into MacDraw, Paste
it out of there and save the picture as a PICT file. Then go into
ResEdit and grab the PICT resource from the MacDraw save file and put
into your programs resource file. Install it as the Window PICT and
you have your icons. Highlight areas with InvertRect as appropriate.
(Haven't tested this either... Caveat Implementor as the Romans used
to say)
-Kari
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 10 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 117
Today's Topics:
A line-counting XCMD?
A message sent yesterday
Apple-approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
AppleShare server won't boot off a floppy.
CAP with FastPath4&K-Star
Diamond (new archieve/backup utility)
How to specify suggest applications sizes
HPopupMenu XFCN Update
Implementing Kermit protocol
Info-Mac Digest V7 #115 (2 msgs)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
MacGENie Macros
Multiple systems
News on Oracle/Mac products?
PROGRAMMABLE FRAME GRABBERS
Request for Charting program...
Reversing the video
Scientific modelling software
Smartalarms...
Supporting MultiFinder
System 6.0.2, MacTools 7.1, and Font/DA Mover problems
System 7.0 speculations
TTI CTS8000 tape drive
Two system folders
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1989 9:00:44 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: A line-counting XCMD?
I hope this is an easy one:
Given a Hypercard field and some text, is there an easy way to
determine how many lines in the field will be required to display
the text? (The vertical number of pixels would be equally
suitable.) I need to know *before* the text is displayed, so
I can decide whether to make the field a scrolling one or not.
There is definitely a way to do this, using the toolbox routine
TECalText and the nLines part of a TE (TextEdit) Record.
However, the process of writing an XCMD to do this is becoming
so ungainly that I am beginning to fear I have overlooked some
other simple way. In particular, Hypercard, if it uses a TE
record, must make this calculation itself.
(The problem with the XCMD is accessing all the decriptors of
a field [font,textsize,textstyle] and converting ones like font
name into a font number.)
I am open to suggestions both vague and specific.
Thanks.
John
sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1989 23:08:39 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: A message sent yesterday
Yesterday i posted a message seeking a method to
invert the screen. Today I found the file
reversescreen.hqx in /info-mac/util. Although I
was able to Binhex it into a .pit file, UnStuffit
1.5.1 did not recognize the file (that is, the file
did not come up in the menu of openable files).
Any suggestions?
John
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Date: Thu 6 Jul 89 12:29:28-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple-approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
Could some kind soul repost the address for this again? It was somewhere in
Seattle, I think. The product sensed temperature and varied the fan speed
accordingly. The note with the address just fell off the end of the queue
here on HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU. Thanks in advance.
Brodie Lockard
HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 20:50 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: AppleShare server won't boot off a floppy.
I'm having a puzzling (to me at least) problem with a Mac SE running
AppleShare 2.0 server software. Everything works fine otherwise, but
whenever I try to boot off the Server Administration disk, the SE after
brief rumination ejects the floppy and proceeds to boot off the hard disk
-- jumping straight into the server application. I've tried to substitute
other startup floppies -- to no avail. Apparently I've stumbled on the way
to make a server 100% secure -- except I can't get in myself.
I imagine the problem has an obvious solution -- but I badly need someone
to point me in the right direction. Any suggestions highly appreciated.
Thanks.
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 89 12:49:57 -0700
From: cpd@aic.hrl.hac.com
Subject: CAP with FastPath4&K-Star
I recently upgraded my FastPath to a FastPath4 equivalent and started running
K-Star instead of KIP. I was running several CAP packages before (like
papif) and now the CAP packages won't run. Any Suggestions? Anybody
know where the latest version of CAP is. I am running CAP 5.0
Thanks
-Charlie Dolan
cpd@aic.hrl.hac.com
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 13:49:44 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: Diamond (new archieve/backup utility)
I've tried a new archiever. It's called Diamond (version 2.1,
demo). It packs considerably better than StuffIt (se below for
figures). Diamond is somewhat slower than StuffIt to pack,
but it unpacks extremely fast.
I've done some 20 tests with Diamond, and the unpacked packed
archive has always been identical to the source (incl positions
and colors of icons).
It has three levels (fast, medium and compact). While the size
of the archive is about the same in my tests, the time spent
differs quite a lot. "Fast" is probably the best alternative.
It works with MultiFinder, but not in the background. It gives
some time (very little, but better than nothing) to background
applications.
It can pack a file, a folder, or a volume. If the destination
doesn't have enough free space, it just asks for another disk(s).
If you have an extra hard disk, it's convenient to backup one
disk to a single file on the other. This is generally not
possible in backup programs.
Times are measured on a Mac II, 5MB, System 6.0.3, MultiFinder
and a dozen inits. StuffIt configured to try LZW and Huffman
and to not allow background tasks.
Method Size Saved Time to Time to
pack unpack
Unpacked Application 590278
StuffIt 402079 31.88% 0.45 0.56
Diamond, fast 308579 47.72% 1.28 0.19
Diamond, medium 304446 48.42% 2.07 0.18
Diamond, compact 303931 48.51% 2.43 0.17
Unpacked Stack 349562
StuffIt 191841 45.12% 0.27 0.28
Diamond, fast 162627 53.48% 1.04 0.10
Diamond, medium 156681 55.18% 1.27 0.10
Diamond, compact 154820 55.71% 1.44 0.10
Unpacked Docs Folder 330816
StuffIt 182545 44.82% 0.45 0.36
Diamond, fast 142490 56.93% 1.09 0.12
Diamond, medium 142430 56.95% 1.35 0.12
Diamond, compact 142426 56.95% 1.48 0.12
(Application: MacWrite II, Stack: Apple's Q&A 3.1,
Docs folder: ten documents (MacWrite, Word, MacPaint,
MacDraw etc)).
I'll try to get permission to post the demo to infomac@sumex
and comp.binaries.mac. Diamond is developed by SOFT Technologies.
Their address is
SOFT Technologies
Denis SERSA
9, rue des lilas
67640 FEGERSHEIM, France
Tl. (33) 88.64.31.74
Fax. (33) 88.67.13.73
Applelink: SOFT.TECH
Standard disclaimers apply.
--
Roland Mansson, Lund University Computing Center, Box 783, S220 07 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46-46107436 Fax: +46-46138225 Bitnet: roland_m@seldc52
Internet: roland_m@ldc.lu.se or roland_m%ldc.lu.se@uunet.uu.net
UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic!ldc.lu.se!roland_m AppleLink: SW0022
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 89 09:51:56 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: How to specify suggest applications sizes
Hello (again),
I posted two questions to a previous INFO-MAC which I have answered
on my own, thanks to the long holiday weekend. Nonetheless, I think
others might find this information useful.
1) How do you specify the Suggested application memory value that
the Finder displays when a user does a Get Info... on an
application?
Answer: You create a SIZE resource with an id of -1. (NOTE: The
SIZE resource has been around probably as long as MultiFinder
has been around, yet Inside Macintosh makes NO mention of it.
Come on, Apple...) A SIZE resource consists of a word (a 16
bit Integer) and two long words (32 bits) which are used to set
the actual and minimum sizes (measured in bytes).
The first word value is actually used to set 6 flags which provide
info about whether the application knows about MultiFinder, whether
it is a background-only procedure and things like that.
Specifically,
bit Parameter
----------------------------------------------------
15 Save Screen (Switcher)
14 Accept suspend events
13 Disable option (Switcher)
12 Can background
11 MultiFinder aware
10 Only background
9 Get front clicks
8-0 (reserved)
The RMaker source statements that create a SIZE resource are
listed below.
Type SIZE = GNRL
,-1
.I ;; first component is a 16 bit integer
22528 ;; decimal representation of desired flag value
.L ;; second component = actual application size
204800 ;; 204800 = 200k
.L ;; third component = suggested minimum size
204800 ;; again, 200k
Note that the above example sets bits 14, 12, and 11, which would
be what most standard applications need.
2) How does one get MultiFinder to display a reduced size version of
your application's custom icon in the upper right corner, etc.?
Answer: I finally got this to work but I'm not sure if it is
because I finally figured out bundles or because I set the
"MultiFinder aware" bit in the Size resource.
I hope someone (anyone! :-) ) finds this useful...
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 10:07:29 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: HPopupMenu XFCN Update
I fixed a couple more bugs in my Hierarchical Popup Menus XFCN. They all had
to do with parsing bad parameters, so there is no functional changes. It
is now more resistant to bad programming.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xfcn-hpopupmenu.hqx; 30K]
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 89 14:59:34 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Implementing Kermit protocol
Hello,
My department purchased CE Software's QuickMail electronic mail
package for our networked Macintoshes. One of the features of the
QuickMail program is the ability to create a "bridge" between the LAN
hosting QuickMail and other systems. Our department is hoping to
design a bridge which would allow us to access e-mail sent to our
CMS accounts through our Macs. This involves having our custom
bridge somehow sign on our system, download any incoming mail, upload
any mail sent from our LAN to the outside world, etc.
My question involves transferring the files to/from the
mainframe. One of our goals is to have this bridge transfer these
mail files automatically on (say) an hourly timetable. This means
the solution to this problem can't involve having someone manually
handle the task of downloading incoming mail from the mainframe and
uploading any outgoing mail from the LAN. (THAT I could handle! :-) )
The desire to transfer mail automatically (in a background mode) poses
two main problems...
1) First of all, the script procedures within QuickMail only
support XMODEM. Since we have an IBM mainframe (VM/SP), XMODEM
can't be used in our case.
2) I can't use the MacKermit program "as is" because:
a) There's no way to run a program in a "shell" and have the
calling program resume control when the "shelled" program
is through.
b) Even if there was a way to run Kermit in a "shell" of sorts,
the current version of MacKermit doesn't have any login
script capabilities. If a "shell" could be used, I'd be
willing to figure out a way to add script capabilites to
Kermit, but...
Columbia University (the Kermit Server) has a version of Kermit
for MS-DOS machines that was written in Pascal that I'm thinking
of obtaining to see what the Kermit encoding/decoding routines would
look like. Has anyone else ever attempted their own rudimentary
communications using Kermit? If so, I'd love to hear any suggestions
or words of wisdom. THANKS...
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: 5 Jul 89 07:39:41 GMT
From: munnari!ditmela.oz.au!Hans.Eriksson@uunet.uu.net (Hans Eriksson)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #115
I want to build a stack that acts as a user friendly interface to a
unix program who have a dull line-oriented dialog. That dialog should
of course be presented with the bells & whistles of a mac.
Is there a stack (or something) that can do some of the
terminalhandling towards the unix system? The Mac will be connected
via a terminal connection (vt100).
There is a VT100 stack somewhere. Can that be modified to enable my
stack to capture the output from the unix system and present it to the
poor user in my way. Of course, I'd want to sne dcommands back to the
unix system also.
/hans
--
Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au)
CSIRO/DIT, 55 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia (we are GMT+10)
Tel: +61 3 347-8644 Fax: +61 3 347-8987 Home: +61 3 534-5188
On a years leave from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (hans@sics.se)
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 17:47:43 EDT
From: joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #115
I ran quickmail 1.?? and am now running 2.01 both with gatekeeper 1.11
with no problems whatsoever.
Quickmail 2.0 has been available for some time....
Seymour
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 08:40:01 PDT
From: hplabs!infmx!ape!cortesi@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (David Cortesi)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
>Info-Mac Digest Thu, 6 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 116
>From: postmaster@movies.mit.edu
>Subject: HP DeskJet summary
>3: Finally, the one remaining drawback of this printer is the fact that the
>ink is water-soluable. I have pages printed on one of these machines that I
>got from a demo, and the ink runs badly if the pages get wet. This is quite
>unfortunate, and if anyone has any solution to this problem it would be most
>welcome.
I think you should talk to a graphic artist. Surely watercolorists
and workers in other soluble media have solved this problem already?
The phrase "charcoal fixative" drifts up from a dim memory of
high-school art classes...
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 89 15:45 MDT
From: <JHREIHER%COLOSPGS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Don't worry, be happy :~{])
Subject: MacGENie Macros
I have a question about macros for the MacGENie comm program; How in the
bloody blue blazes do you get the @#&#$*~&! things to work! I've tried several
combinations of settings,(I even read the manual! ;->) and still can't get
my dialup and logon macro to work. What should I do?
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 20:25:52 EDT
From: David_S._Allan@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Multiple systems
Stuart MacFarlane writes:
>We'd like to be able to use either the English operating system, or the
>Japanese version (Kanjitalk). This seems to mean having two system folders
>on the hard disc, with
>some method of telling the mac which one we are using at present.
I recommend buying some kind of partitioning program (such as Alsoft's
MultiDisk or Symantec Utilities) to divide your disk into separate volumes.
You can then put a separate system on each partition. Switching between
systems will be a matter of switch-launching to the system you want
(by command-option double-clicking the finder of the desired system) and
dismounting the other partition by dragging its icon to the trash (if
desired).
David Allan
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Date: 6 Jul 89 11:28 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: News on Oracle/Mac products?
Date: 6 July 1989, 11:26:15 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subj: News on Oracle/Mac products?
Has anybody out there seen/played with a copy of Oracle/Mac 1.1? It
is supposed to have come out in June and be more useful than the
"toy" which was 1.0.
Anybody heard of any beta sites for a SQL*Forms package for the Mac
product?
Ted
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 89 08:26:38 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PROGRAMMABLE FRAME GRABBERS
Hello folks.
I know lately I have been asking MANY questions. I can't help it since this
is the fastest way to get info since I am Singapore.
My question is whether anyone has bought any programmable frame grabber boards?
TrueVision sells a couple, but they are very expensive. I need alternative
24-bit frame grabbers such as the RasterOps 324, but the advertisements did
not say anything about programming the board through Think C 3.0 or some other
language.
Please reply directly to me at ISSTTH@NUSVM
Thanks.
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Date: Tue 4 Jul 89 04:51:01-PST
From: 323ELLIOT%ECD1.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Request for Charting program...
Hi Mac-netters!
I have an interesting problem: I'm responsible for designing a proposal to the
European Space Agency for our organization and I need a program that will let me
graphically design the work packages. Basically, it should look like a tree
chart with the ability to split each box in two: one part is for the title of
the work package, the other for the work package number (ideally, there should
be a line drawn between the name and number). Ordinarily, MORE II would be
sufficient. In fact, I want something that functions like MORE II in outline
mode (so that I can drag the various packages around and reorganize them as I
see fit), but numbers each box automatically (this is probably practically
impossible, but it doesn't hurt to ask :-). The main drawback of MORE is that
when it generates the tree chart, it won't do boxes in this format:
__________
| main |
|_________|
| __________
|-| sub |
| |__________|
| __________
|-| sub |
|__________|
except in the bottom most level currently shown. I.e., I can't do this:
__________
| main |
|---------|
| 1000 |
|_________|
| __________
| | sub |
|-|----------|
| | 1100 |
| |__________|
| | __________
| | | sub-sub |
| |_|----------|
| | 1110 |
| |__________|
| __________
| | sub |
|_|----------|
| 1200 |
|__________|
In fact, MORE isn't designed to do this kind of thing at all (only org charts,
really). So if anyone knows of any program that CAN do this, I would be most
grateful...
While I'm on a wish list, each work package would, of course, have a full
description. It would be REAL interesting if there was a page-layout-type of
program that could generate the above tree chart from an outline and then use a
template to let me fill in what each work package actually is. As I change an
order, name, or number in the outline, it would automatically be updated in the
tree chart and document wherever it is referenced. We have a piece of software
that will in effect do this on our big ibm mainframe, but as you all well know,
graphics and user-friendliness are not big blue's forte.
So, if you have any ideas or suggestions please respond to me personally and I
will summarize...
Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
DLR
Cologne, West Germany
Please send replies to:
elliot@star.stanford.edu (or ecd1::323elliot for SPAN people)
Disclaimer: building a better space program so you don't have to.
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1989 14:12:28 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Reversing the video
Is there a robust method to change a Macintosh
display from black-on-white to white-on-black?
I don't know what the human factors experts say,
and I don't care: eye strain invariably results
(for me) after only a few hours of working with
black-on-white screens.
My eyeballs thank you.
John
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 20:10:40 EDT
From: David_S._Allan@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Scientific modelling software
Dan Henderson of Boston College was looking for a program to manipulate
molecular models (building, rotations, etc.). Several people directed him
to the Ball & Stick demo in the archives. This is an excellent program.
The main shortcoming, in my mind, is the tedious procedure for executing
rotations. Still, well worth the download, especially for color use.
Another program to be considered is Molecular Editor from Kinko's
Academic CourseWare Exchange. M.E. is probably good for student use, but
it is limited to a Mac Plus-sized screen and monochrome graphics. Still,
quite reasonably priced.
No one mentioned Chem3D, by Cambridge Scientific Computing (617) 491-6862.
CSC is the same company that publishes ChemDraw, a great 2-D program.
This program is full-featured and pretty powerful. Its price is steep, but
a substantial discount for a student license is available. I believe that
the author of the program reads this digest; he may provide more information.
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Date: Thu, 6 Jul 89 21:47:18 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Smartalarms...
In Info-Mac Digest V7, #116, LIBHTK%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
recommended SmartAlarms as an excellent application for setting up reminders
on you Mac.
I agree wholeheartedly. SmartAlarms is much better than Comments, and unlike
Comments, does not take up as much RAM to operate (Comments is a real memory
hog if I recall).
*HOWEVER*, Imagine Software is no longer licensed to distribute SmartAlarms
in the United States. Do not try and buy SmartAlarms from Imagine. Imagine
has recently introduced their own reminder application which looks surprisingly
like SmartAlarms.
JAM Software (the Australian Company that wrote SmartAlarms) has set up an
American subsidiary (also called JAM Software) that you can get the real,
honest to goodness, SmartAlarms from. They are very nice and technically
competent. The correct address is...
JAM Software
P.O. Box 1345
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
415.663.1041
JAM will want $99 for SmartAlarms if you buy it from them, but MacConnection,
et. al. will have it for less.
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 89 15:05:00 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Supporting MultiFinder
I've written a program that as far as the basics goes, runs fine under
MultiFinder (no crashes, no memory problems, etc.) However, it's
missing a few of the final touches. For example, how can I specify
the "Suggested memory size:" value that is shown when a user does a Get
Info on the file? Also, it's been my experience that when my application
is running under MultiFinder, most of the time I get the generic applicat
icon in the upper right and a few times I'll get a reduced version of
my application's custom icon (which is what I want). The reduced version
of my custom icon is always shown in the list of active applications
in the Apple menu, though. Where does the Finder want this information
stored?
THANKS as always...
Michael Hanrahan
ECS
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: 3 Jul 89 11:00:00 EDT
From: "J. SCOTT WEAVER" <fweaver@bigvax.alfred.edu>
Subject: System 6.0.2, MacTools 7.1, and Font/DA Mover problems
In v7-114, Craig S. Cottingham writes:
>After running Font/DA Mover, the system bombs when it tries to open a window
>on the desktop. I con't even get into MacTools -- it bombs on launchin.
>Do I need the latest versions to run under 6.0.2? (I don't know right off
>which version of Font/DA Mover I'm using.)
I have had no problems under System 6.0.2 with either MacTools 7.1 or Font/DA
Mover 3.8 (provided with System 6.0.2). It is safest to turn off Multifinder
when using Font/DA Mover but this is not essential.
J. Scott Weaver
fweaver@ceramics
fweaver@bigvax.alfred.edu [192.31.254.1]
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 11:48:18 IST
From: "Jonathan B. Owen" <GDAU100%BGUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System 7.0 speculations
I was very impressed reading about system 7.0 and await eagerly for
it's release.
I read the System 7.0 notes found in the MacArch archives (LISTSERV@RICE)
and saw little mention of the improvments scheduled for the Finder.
As any other Mac user, I too have my views on how to improve the finder.
I have not really orginized my thought in the matter, but the following
comes to mind:
o I would like to see a standard Control Device for setting the port
used for communication (read Modem) with all it's relative parameters,
such as speed, parity, etc. Maybe even a modem setup string sent to
the modem at boot. This would eliminate the need for each comm.
program to have it's own implementation.
o I think each application should have it's own menubar within it's
window (possibly scrolling the menubar, for small windows) instead
of todays menubar.
o Desk Accesseries should "float" like Hypercard's tools menu. How
many times did YOU have to bring back the Notepad each time
you switch to anoter application? I can't count that much :)
o The finder should include a tree structure view of an HFS volume.
o Having a pull down menu from a window's title bar of the enclousing
folders would be great (like in MacTools) for navigation (this is
one step futher of double clicking in the title bar in system 6.03).
o The ability of temporarly making a window into an icon ("iconization")
is a good solution for working with many applications/windows/DAs
at once.
Any thought?
JB
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 09:29 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: TTI CTS8000 tape drive
Greetings,
We just bought a TTI CTS8000 DAT drive to backup our VAX 780... and love it.
Since it's a SCSI device, we were wondering if anyone has used one for
backing up Mac hard disks? Are there any drivers for it floating around?
Thanks in advance,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 01:39:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Duncan Warr <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Two system folders
I find that the Blesser Utility works wonders when trying
to change the startup system. I have a 2 meg Mac II that
has the Marathon 030,33MHz chip installed. I often use the
Blesser Utility to change from system 6.0.3 to a smaller
system, namely v4.2. I do this when I'm trying to run
large graphics programs such as Studio8 or what have you.
I'm sure that the same results could be achieved for you.
If you have trouble finding the Blesser Utility please let
me know. I believe that it is public domain software so
it should cost you nothing. However, I'll ahve to look up the
archive that has a copy of it.
Good Luck!
Adam C. Duncan
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh Pa. 15213
aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu
Please respond if you need help. Blesser is definately
your answer.
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Just as the Enterprise's transporter room lets people appear
automatically in new places, the system 7.0 Data Publication Manager
links pieces of one document with another. It allows the user to
create "live links", by a new menu command, "publish", akin to "copy"
that makes part of a document public; so that, with a "subscribe"
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By: Dave Collins, of Apple Computer
In: the courseWare Lab, basement of Sweet Hall, Stanford University.
The Data Publications Manager is the highest level of the "Inter -
Application Communication" features of the new system. Dave has been
developing applications in MacApp (never miss a chance to mention it,
do I) called dpWrite and dpDraw to allow user testing.
Next month I will be looking for other speakers on System 7.0. If you
want the whole story at once, Mac SEF will sponsor a panel discussion on
it tonite July 11↑th, at Apple. Call Tony Meadow 415/644-9400 for details.
I may be reached at 415/965-1990. -John Mark Agosta
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string from the keyboard and I delete a mistake with the delete
key, an unprintable character is read in and the character I wanted
to delete is not deleted. Does anyone have any suggestions on how
to fix this?
Also, is there a break or interrupt command that can be used to get
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 11 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 118
Today's Topics:
Abaton Fax Modem
Apple sells Adobe stock (opinion)
bird-anatomy-part1.hqx
ColorFinder info
Databasing Info-Mac
Diamond 3.2 Demo
Distribution of color SimCity
File Exchange Bug
Fortran compilers for the Mac
Gatekeeper 1.1.1
Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
Inter*Poll (again!)
Keystroke Recorder for the MAC
Might and Magic
Public domain software request
Ram Upgrades
Rapport(tm) drive controller
serial port stack and parser needed
Text files as a database?
Two system folders
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 07:45:04 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Abaton Fax Modem
I am thinking of buying an Abaton Interfax fax modem and Abaton sheet
feed scanner. This combination is being offered by a local reseller
for under $1000 Cdn (about $800 US) packaged with Digital Darkroom. I
think Abaton is trying to dump its sheet feed scanners, but the price
seems to good to pass up. Has anyone had any experience with this
scanner or modem? I am most interested in the modem's ability to receive
a fax in the background. Can this be done on a 1 meg Mac?
Bob Bolt
BBOLT@UALTAVM
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Date: Fri 7 Jul 89 16:49:53-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Apple sells Adobe stock (opinion)
Apple just announced that they're selling their Adobe stock and will be
developing their own clone to PostScript. As a developer, and as a user, I
feel the need to comment.
After the Mac was introduced to the public, it took Apple over three years to
produce a native development environment for it (MPW). In the meantime (and
while Macs were available to developers but not the general public), developers
limped along with a Lisa, or Aztec C, RMaker, and early versions of ResEdit,
before decent products like TML Pascal, LSP, and LSC came along to lift us out
of the Stone Age. There still isn't a good (read WYSIWYG) version of ResEdit,
despite the obvious need for over five years now. Recent "support" for clut
and pltt resources is as awful as menu editing has always been. Months ago,
NeXT's Interface Builder was twenty times what ResEdit should have been years
ago.
After an admirably clear set of documentation in Inside Mac I-III, we were
given information in IM V that is poorly organized, poorly explained,
incomplete and sometimes just plain wrong. Apple has never been quick or
generous with example code, but examples for color QuickDraw appeared on
AppleLink just last summer, 18 months after the Mac II was introduced.
Furthermore, though AppleLink's Tech Support boasts a 48-hour turnaround time,
I know several people who wait many days for an answer, and sometimes get none
at all (myself included).
More recently, we've had the "Year of the CPU." That's a great concept for
users, but for developers it's a nightmare. There are now six models of
Macintosh in production, as well as three out of production, which still do
exist and are used by real people who sometimes buy software. There's no way
an independent developer, or even a small company, can test new software on
every CPU, let alone every configuration. Oh, and by the way, what's your
screen size? Is MultiFinder on? Are you in 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-bit mode (or 16,
24 or 32)? Are there multiple monitors? How much RAM is there? Is your RAM
cache on? What keyboard are you using? What System? Finder? INITs?
Printer? Network?
All the options are great for users (in general), but developing reliable Mac
software is becoming harder every month. Apple should be making things easier
for developers, not harder. We're told System 7 will bring "toolboxes," to
simplify our job. Presumably, it will also bring dozens of new ROM calls, and
more things to test. But it looks like a step in the right direction.
Now we're told that Apple is going to compete directly against Adobe and
PostScript, which helped give the Mac a life-saving boost when the LaserWriter
came out. How nice of them. Is Apple trying to get us to despise them?
PostScript is as much of a standard as anything that exists in this crazy
industry. But Apple's going to make their own version, a clone. What are the
chances that it will be 100% compatible with real PostScript? Did you say
zero? More incompatibilities. More things to test. More ways to break.
Developers suffer. More testing is needed. Revisions are needed. Costs go
up. Users suffer. Apple suffers (or maybe they'll just raise their prices
again).
Apple had better start thinking more about their developers. Right now I'd
rather develop on a NeXT. Maybe next year will be the Year of the Printer.
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
[These opinions have nothing whatever to do with Stanford University.]
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Date: Mon, 3 Jul 89 13:42:03 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: bird-anatomy-part1.hqx
bird-anatomy.hqx, part 1 of 3
This is the award-winning Bird Anatomy Hypercard stack by
Patrick Lynch, version 1.2. It is marvelous for anyone
interested in birds and for hypercard programmers looking
for a well put together stack.
posted by Don Gilbert, BioComputing Office, Indiana U.
GilbertD@Gold.Bacs.Indiana.Edu
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/bird-anatomy-part1.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/hypercard/bird-anatomy-part2.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/hypercard/bird-anatomy-part3.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/hypercard/bird-anatomy-part4.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/hypercard/bird-anatomy-part5.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/hypercard/bird-anatomy-part6.hqx; 70K]
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 15:05:56 EDT
From: Dick Dramstad <rad@mbunix.mitre.org>
Subject: ColorFinder info
One of the nice things about ColorFinder is its interaction
with the Facade INIT. If you've used Facade to customize the way your
hard disks, appleshare volumes, tops volumes, and floppies show up on
your desktop, and you use icons that colorfinder knows about, you get
multicolor icons on your desktop for free. With the 6 remote volumes
I have mounted, my desktop turns into a nice parade of little cartoon
icons. (You can't imagine how much more productive these two INITs
have made my life. :-)
Dick Dramstad
rad@mbunix.mitre.org
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 14:10 CST
From: <HRAMAGLI%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Databasing Info-Mac
Has anyone already invented the wheel out there??
We are looking for a database system or reference system that is already set
up to index Info-Mac Digest. We would like to use this as a reference system
for our Macintosh support specialists. Does anyone have such a system already
functioning? We really don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Thanks for your help.
Howard
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 23:59:12 +0200
From: Roland Mansson <roland@dna.lth.se>
Subject: Diamond 3.2 Demo
I've tried a new archiever. It's called Diamond (version 2.1,
demo). It packs considerably better than StuffIt (se below for
figures). Diamond is somewhat slower than StuffIt to pack,
but it unpacks extremely fast.
I've done some 20 tests with Diamond, and the unpacked packed
archive has always been identical to the source (incl positions
and colors of icons).
It has three levels (fast, medium and compact). While the size
of the archive is about the same in my tests, the time spent
differs quite a lot. "Fast" is probably the best alternative.
It works with MultiFinder (partition size at least 410kB), but
not in the background. It gives some time (very little, but
better than nothing) to background applications.
It can pack a file, a folder, or a volume. If the destination
doesn't have enough free space, it just asks for another disk(s).
If you have an extra hard disk, it's convenient to backup one
disk to a single file on the other. This is generally not
possible in backup programs.
Times are measured on a Mac II, 5MB, System 6.0.3, MultiFinder
and a dozen inits. StuffIt configured to try LZW and Huffman
and to not allow background tasks.
Method Size Saved Time to Time to
pack unpack
Unpacked Application 590278
StuffIt 402079 31.88% 0.45 0.56
Diamond, fast 308579 47.72% 1.28 0.19
Diamond, medium 304446 48.42% 2.07 0.18
Diamond, compact 303931 48.51% 2.43 0.17
Unpacked Stack 349562
StuffIt 191841 45.12% 0.27 0.28
Diamond, fast 162627 53.48% 1.04 0.10
Diamond, medium 156681 55.18% 1.27 0.10
Diamond, compact 154820 55.71% 1.44 0.10
Unpacked Docs Folder 330816
StuffIt 182545 44.82% 0.45 0.36
Diamond, fast 142490 56.93% 1.09 0.12
Diamond, medium 142430 56.95% 1.35 0.12
Diamond, compact 142426 56.95% 1.48 0.12
(Application: MacWrite II, Stack: Apple's Tech Q&A 3.1,
Docs folder: ten documents (MacWrite, Word, MacPaint,
MacDraw etc)).
Diamond is developed by SOFT Technologies.
Their address is
SOFT Technologies
Denis SERSA
9, rue des lilas
67640 FEGERSHEIM, France
Tl. (33) 88.64.31.74
Fax. (33) 88.67.13.73
Applelink: SOFT.TECH
Standard disclaimers apply.
+++
The text above is about ver 2.1. I've now got ver 3.2, and it
is included below. Major new feature: ability to include
unpacking code. It is still only 32kB (of which 9kB are
PICTs!).
FULL VERSION THAT CLOCKS OUT 1 MONTH AFTER FIRST USE
ALL FEATURES AVAILABLE
+++
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/diamond-32.hqx; 44K]
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Date: Fri 7 Jul 89 16:57:44-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Distribution of color SimCity
In Maxis' defense, it's not really their decision to sell color SimCity only
via an upgrade. Their distributor, Broderbund, can't (or doesn't want to) sell
two versions of the game, in two separate boxes. Shelf space in stores is
a rare commodity. They could put both disks in every box, but that raises
the price for everyone by selling both b&w and color users an extra disk they
don't need.
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 16:07:39 EET
From: "J.Santara" <LK-JOUNI@mammutti.utu.fi>
Subject: File Exchange Bug
Folks,
A guy from one of our faculties just bought a brand-new
SE30 macintosh and game to show it to me (to make me envy
with my poor Mac+ I guess...). He is interested in Mathematics
and because of this wanting to use TeX. So, I gave him a
version of OzTeX. They already had a version for PCs called
PCTeX. This raised an interesting question to transfer files
>From Mac to PC and back. We tried the File Exchange utility
coming with the machine. The consequences were interesting:
it works fine when you remember to name the files beforehand
for the limits of DOS (8 character for name and three for type
or something like that) but if you forget to do this it is
creating *directory* from the viewpoint of DOS.
Can somebody there in netland verify this result?
Is there really this kind of "feature" in Apple's application
or are we doing something terribly wrong? Perhaps, this guy
got an old version of program...
Also, it would be fascinating to hear if there is any cheap
DA for this special purpose: to move files between these worlds.
J.Santara
Computing Centre
Turku university
Finland
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 16:41 EDT
From: "David G. Durand" <DURAND%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Fortran compilers for the Mac
For a presentation I will be giving on Mac programming languages, I need
information about Frotran compilers for the Mac. I don't use Fortran at all
myself, but many of those I will be talking to will want to use it. Any
information about compilers that you have used and what you liked/disliked
about them would be valuable.
If people send mail directly to me, I will post a summary of whatever I
learn. Thanks for the help.
David G. Durand O_o
Manager of Technical Services =( )= Ack!
Brandeis University U
Waltham Mass.
Network:
DURAND@BRANDEIS.BITNET
DURAND%BRANDEIS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1989 20:06:53 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Gatekeeper 1.1.1
I have put the latest version of GateKeeper in the virus directory. This
version (1.1.1) replaces the old 1.1.
What are the differences? Quite a few. There are some interface improvements
which allow more flexible matching of names. Internal errors can be turned
off if you so desire. A bug which could result in a scrambling of the
privilege list has been fixed. And GateKeeper comes preconfigured for most
applications which need privileges so you don't have to mess around as much.
The StuffIt archive contains a more detailed listing of the changes. Suffice
it to say, though, that if you routinely use GateKeeper you ought to upgrade.
Bill
PS. I also just installed a new version of the searchreplace xcmd and
of mcvert. Sorry, I lost the blurbs.
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/gatekeeper-111.hqx; 109K
/info-mac/unix/mcvert.shar; 55K
/info-mac/hypercard/xcmd-searchreplace-151.hqx; 55K]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 10:24:51+0900
From: kddlab!atr-hr.atr.junet!mzeren@uunet.uu.net (Mark Zeren)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #116
I am looking for information about statistical analysis packages,
especially those oriented to the social sciences, that are availible
for the Mac.
A friend who is currently working with SPSS on the IBM PC is hoping
to move into the Macintosh world some time before the beginning of 1990.
Is there a version of SPSS for the Mac? How about SAS? What kind
of hardware (and therefore money) will be required? If this software
exisits, how much does it cost? What will be the easiest way to move
her large data bases from the PC to the Mac.
If you can offer any info, suggestions, etc. they would be much appreciated
Please use E-mail.
Mark Zeren - mzeren%atr-hr.atr.junet@UUNET.UU.NET - ATR Kyoto
_mjz_
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 89 14:38:32 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Inter*Poll (again!)
OK, so I got good help w/ my question about SE/30's not showing up properly
on Inter*Poll. Now another question. I'm running Inter*Poll _from_ an SE/30.
When I launch the app, I get a dialog box telling me:
"No workstation name
registered... Be sure
to install Responder INIT
in System Folder."
I click OK, and life goes on. The problem is that I have Responder
installed in the system folder. And when I do a device lookup, I most
certainly do exist (and show up as an SE/30)! Any suggestions?
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 18:11:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chris Neuwirth <cmn+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Keystroke Recorder for the MAC
A colleague of mine doing writing research wants to know "Does any know
of a keystroke recorder which works on a MAC SE or Mac II?" Program
needs to produce a time stamped data file recording all keystroke and
mouse events. Would be nice if it had a playback feature as well.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Neuwirth
English Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
cmn+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sun 09 Jul 1989 00:28 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Might and Magic
Hi all!
I was wondering if anyone out there has played Might and Magic by New
World Computing, and if so, if they were as irritated by the "key disk"
copy protection as I am. Also, if they were (even if they weren't), I was
wondering if anyone out there had come up with a patch to remove this
copy protection.
I bought my hard drive for speed, ease of program use, and convenience of
data storage/retrieval. Usually I copy the programs which I purchase to
my hard drive, then lock the original master disks off-site in a data safe
at work (along with my weekly backups). However, due to the copy protection
on this program, I am forced to take an unnecessary risk.
Can anyone out there help me, or direct me to someplace (someone) that can?
Thanks in advance.
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: Greeny
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1989 09:54 EDT
From: Stan Horwitz <V4039@vm.temple.edu>
Subject: Public domain software request
Hello each and every mac lover. Anyway, I have a Mac SE sitting on my
desk. It has all these folders on it! Some of of these folders have even
more folders stuck in them! I like to view these folders and folders
within folders as large icons. However, these icons are not alphabetized
and I would like them to be so. Ideally, I would like to be able to click on
the Special's clean up selection and have the present panel alphabetized
as well as neatened up. Is there any pd software around which does this?
Any pd software which does this will be welcome. If anyone has such a
program, please be a pal and send it to me or tell me how it can be obtained.
Thanks oh so much,
Stan Horwitz
Acknowledge-To: Stan Horwitz <V4039@TEMPLEVM>
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 20:14:11 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ram Upgrades
The upcoming System 7.0 is making me think about upgrading some Mac +'s
I'm responsible for from 1 to 2 Megs. A call to a "friendly" Computerland
resulted in a quote of $800 per upgrade, compared to mail order prices
of @$150 for a 1 meg SIMM.
Clearly, the $650 markup is a bit high, so I'm curious about how others
have increased their internal memory. Is it a routine do it yourself
project?
Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet
Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
32 Hillside Avenue |
Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500
(203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 10:19:47 EDT
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: Rapport(tm) drive controller
Hello Fellow Netters:
I recently received, as I am sure many of you did, a flyer in the mail from
Image Catalog advertising their Rapport Drive Controller. This controller
plugs into your external drive port and allows your INTERNAL drive to
read/write 720K MS-DOS diskettes (with some software as well, I assume).
Plugging an Apple external drive into the controller will permit you to work
with MS-DOS disks as well as format Mac disks for 1.2M. All this for $295.
For an additional $400, they will add their own external drive that will
format disks at 2.4M (on HD diskettes).
Does anyone have any experience with these folks? Does their product work as
advertised? Does it do anything wierd? I'm mostly interested in the MS-DOS
transfer end of things. Thanks.
Michael J. Paisley PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
Materials Science & Engineering PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
229 Riddick Laboratories PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
Campus Box 7907 Office: (919) 737-7083
North Carolina State University Messages: (919) 737-2377
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 FAX: (919) 737-3419
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 11:32:39 +1000
From: Hans Eriksson <munnari!ditmela.oz.au!Hans.Eriksson@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: serial port stack and parser needed
On a Sun-unix machine, I have a line-oriented command interpreter
(shell). I want to write a nice user interface to that using
HyperCard. To do this I have to:
Access the shell. This can be done either via the serial port and log
in a a normal terminal (hmm, the 'normal terminals' are
getting pretty rare nowadays with X etc.) or via a TCP/IP.
Is there a package that would give me such access?
I have heard of a VT100-stack. What does that give you?
Parsing the output. I guess, yacc (a Unix program
yet-another-compiler-compiler) is not available in HC.
Is there a package that could assist me in the parsing of the
output from the shell?
/hans
Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au)
CSIRO/DIT, 55 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia (we are GMT+10)
Tel: +61 3 347-8644 Fax: +61 3 347-8987 Home: +61 3 534-5188
On a years leave from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (hans@sics.se)
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 89 16:50 MDT
From: Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Text files as a database?
Does anyone know of a program or set or procedures that allow text files
to be manipulated like fielded data files. In other words, I have a set
of 9500 text files which are tab delimited. I would like to treat each
individual text file as a data record. Then I would like to perform
find and search functions among all of these text files. The ultimate
goal would be to pull them into HyperCard, which is easy using the
standard open, read and close file commands. Reply herer or
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 89 11:02:26 PDT
From: Jim Budler <jim@eda.com>
Subject: Two system folders
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>I've heard that there is a PD program called (?) `system shifter'
>that might help; can someone tell me how to get hold of this? Or,
>has anyone solved this problem any other way?
>Please mail me and I'll post a summary.
> Stuart MacFarlane JANET: stuartm@uk.ac.hw.hci
I got System Switcher off of Compuserve.
It works just fine. I can mail you a copy if you wish.
jim
--
Jim Budler address = uucp: ...!{decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim
domain: jim@eda.com
voice = +1 408 986-9585
fax = +1 408 748-1032
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 12 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 119
Today's Topics:
A cure for water-soluble DeskJet ink
Apple-approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
AppleShare won't boot from a floppy (response)
Application font default CDEV
Aussie bird songs
CD Rom Info Wanted
Color Batman Logo
documentation for MultiFinder
FastFormat800
HP Deskjet Ink
HyperDA address
Info-Mac Digest V7 #117
Info On Using Epson LQ-500 With MAC II
Ink smear on HP DeskJet
MicroEMACS update.
Need advice on replacing a hard drive mechanism.
Physics and Astronomy fonts
Recording screen/mouse events
Red Ryder question
Screensaver for IIcx and SE
Shangai 2.0 Demo
SmartAlarms & MacConnection...
stubborn Rgn's
Unity 3.1.1 (a text file concatenator)
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 08:17:19 CDT
From: "Craig S. Cottingham" <UC528665%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A cure for water-soluble DeskJet ink
Try acrylic spray. It should be available at university bookstores or
office supply stores.
_Craig S. Cottingham
uc528665@umcvmb
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 23:06:40 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Apple-approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
>Could some kind soul repost the address for this again?
Yesterday I received a little gadget, which reduces the fan noise to
practically nothing. And it is approved by Apple, so the warranty,
Apple Care etc. are not invalidated.
The gadget is a sensor which regulates the fan speed. Cool mac -> no
noise, hot mac -> full wind tunnel blast.
My mac has an ethernet card and a Supermac color card, and the fan is
barely idling.
NOVA INTERNATIONAL
435 N. 34th Str.
Seattle, WA 98103
>From Info-Mac May 31, 1989
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 08:19:51 EDT
From: "Bret Ingerman 315-443-1865" <INGERMAN%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AppleShare won't boot from a floppy (response)
This may seem a little stupid, but perhaps your internal disk drive on
the SE is no good. You might want to try adding an external drive and then
try booting from that.
Bret Ingerman ingerman@suvm
Microcomputer Consultant
Syracuse University
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 18:32:58 EDT
From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Subject: Application font default CDEV
Application Font is a very plain CDEV which allows you to easily change
the default application font. It displays a list of all installed fonts
that exist in 12-point size. It does NOT care whether these are fonts
opened with some program such as SuitCase* or Font/DA Juggler Plus*. Once
the CDEV is closed, the default font will IMMEDIATELY be changed, no need
to reboot.
It was written by Michael O'Rourke, )1989 Micro F/X, All Rights Reserved.
Distributed under the HappiWare system. If you like it, smile!
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/application-font.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 13:04:59 CST
From: Steve Middlebrook <C94882SM%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Aussie bird songs
Attached is a binhex of a stuffed file containing four digitized
Australian bird songs. Included are the red wattle bird, the whip bird
and the infamous kookaburra. If you aren't into bird songs, these sounds
also make nice "jungle background" for games etc.
Steve Middlebrook
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/aussie-bird-songs.hqx; 171K]
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 19:30:00 PDT
From: GPR001Y%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: CD Rom Info Wanted
I am looking for information on CD Rom Drives. I have only tried the
Apple CD SC drive and it was VERY slow. I have seen one with a 32k buffer,
would this help the speed any? Does the Apple drive have a buffer? Also, are
there any new advancements on the horizon? Thanks for the help and I'll
summarize to the net.
****************************
*Mark Elpers *
*Humboldt State University *
*BitNet: GPR001Y@CALSTATE *
*GEnie: M.Elpers *
****************************
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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 89 13:34:38 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Color Batman Logo
Here is a very nice color Batman logo for your desktop. It comes
to me via the MacCircles BBS (415) 426-0362.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/art/color-batman-logo.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 15:59:29 EDT
From: zben@camelot.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Subject: documentation for MultiFinder
In response to two separate complaints in Digest V7 #117, information on the
SIZE resource and other programming interfaces to MultiFinder can be found in
the document "Programmer's Guide to MultiFinder".
The copy I am looking at is marked APDA# KMB017 but I undoubtedly ordered it
long before Apple took APDA back. The Spring 1989 APDA catalog lists it as
item number M7044 for $20.00 and sizes it at 90 pages, which is approximately
the length of the older copy I have. It includes several example programs in
both C and Pascal. Well worth the $20.00 ...
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 18:32:11 EDT
From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Subject: FastFormat800
FastFormat800 (Version 1.0)
===============================
Written by Michael
O'Rourke Copyright )1988,1989, Micro F/X; All Rights Reserved
FastFormat800 is a mass disk initializer. Its only function is to initialize
any disk stuck into any drive as an 800K disk. It does NOT prompt you about
anything, so if you stick in the wrong disk -- TOUGH!
When launched, FastFormat800 will eject any floppies in any drive. After that
point, any disk stuck in will be erased as an 800K disk. It will notify you
of any problems it has when erasing the disk(s). It allows you to specify
the name the disks should be initialzed as.
It is distributed under the HappiWare system. If you like it, SMILE!
[Archived as /info-mac/util/fast-format-800.hqx; 19K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 13:46:58 edt
From: amanda%intercon@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Subject: HP Deskjet Ink
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #117, David Cortesi writes:
> I think you should talk to a graphic artist. Surely watercolorists
> and workers in other soluble media have solved this problem already?
Yup. It's called `fixative,' and should be available in any art supply
store. What you probably want is waterproof fixative, as opposed to
"workable" fixative. Just spray it on after the ink is dry, and poof--
it's smudgeproof and waterproof. If you spray too much, you can end up
with a slightly shiny page, though. I use a brand designed for use with
calligraphy called "Blair Calligracote." Works great.
--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
--
amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 16:29 EST
From: PETER CHEN <PETCHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: HyperDA address
Hi,
Could somebody post the address and telephone number of the
company producing HyperDA?
Thank you,
Peter Chen
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 10:25:16 -0400
From: William C. DenBesten<denbeste@andy.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #117
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> I'm having a puzzling (to me at least) problem with a Mac SE running
> AppleShare 2.0 server software. Everything works fine otherwise, but
> whenever I try to boot off the Server Administration disk, the SE after
> brief rumination ejects the floppy and proceeds to boot off the hard disk
> -- jumping straight into the server application. I've tried to substitute
> other startup floppies -- to no avail.
It sounds like your internal floppy drive is not working. Things to check:
o Boot your server admin disk off another mac to make sure that the disk is ok
o Try putting an external drive on the machine and booting off of that.
o If your hard drive is external (or you are comfortable inside a mac) try
moving the hard drive to another machine.
If an external floppy works, I would probably not have the internal
repaired. I do all the administration and software installation while
the server is up. I have to shutdown maybe 10 times this year. 3 were
due to planned power outages. 4 were crashes (One time, others were
on the server) [ I was trying to delete 500 Quickmail messages at once
and my system heap was too small ]. The rest of the times, I was
performance testing with various hardware.
Two other tricks that I have come across:
o I installed a file copying utility in my appleshare admin program on
the server. This allows me to move things into the server folder
while the server is still up.
o I did not put a screen saver on the filer server. It uses cycles and
(theoretically) slows down the server. I turn the brigntness off instead.
--
William C. DenBesten
denbeste@bgsu.edu
denbesten@bgsuopie.bitnet
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Date: 10 Jul 89 08:53:19 PDT (Monday)
From: "Ira_Scharfglass.ElSegundo"@xerox.com
Subject: Info On Using Epson LQ-500 With MAC II
All,
I am about to purchase a MAC II and have an Epson LQ-500 at home with my
PC. I'd prefer not to have to purchase a printer right now, because Apple
printers tend to be expensive, and I'd like to get a Laser Printer or HP
DeskJet at some time in the future.
Can anyone give me info on using the LQ with the MAC with the Grapler-LQ by
Orange Micro, or any similar product??
Thanks,
Ira
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 10:34 EST
From: HENRY YEE <HENRY@atc.bendix.com>
Subject: Ink smear on HP DeskJet
IN%"postmaster@movies.mit.edu"
IN%"Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.EDU"
Follow-up on HP DeskJet
If you're worried about the ink being water-soluble on the HP DeskJet, make
a xerox copy. Any FAX that we want to file is immediately copied before it
fades (darkens). You may want to think of the DeskJet copy in the same way
as the inter-neg in photography, a disposable intermediary between the disk
file and the final copy.
Henry Yee
IN%"Henry%atc.bendix.com@RELAY.CS.NET"
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 17:03:45 -0400
From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Subject: MicroEMACS update.
This is a maintenance update to MicroEmacs 3.9e as adapted to the
Macintosh. It fixes some shortcomings in both the program and in
documentation. I have been using this revision level of the program
for two months, and am fully confident in its performance and
reliability. It carries the same warranty as previous revisions,
namely, none. Since I am in the final throes of completing my
doctorate, it is extremely unlikely that I will find time to answer
any mail concerning this revision of the program, ever. Sorry.
Things which are new:
This file, a Binhexed StuffIt archive, contains some documentation.
Specifically, a help file, a tutorial, and a short document describing
some of the changes I have made are included for your edification and
amusement. With these, a user who has not previously encountered any
flavor of emacs might have some hope of being able to figure out what
is going on.
The buffer menu now shows non-active buffers (i.e. those that have not
been read into memory yet) in shadowed style. Furthermore, active
buffers appear at the top of the buffer menu. This is real handy when
launching microemacs and a couple dozen documents from the Finder or
MPW Shell.
The window size and location are saved between invocations of the
program. The startup file, "emacs.rc," is used for this purpose. It
is up to you to create one and place it in the System Folder. An
empty TEXT file named "emacs.rc" will do fine if you don't have any
startup commands. MicroEmacs will create the resource fork.
The program no longer supports 64k ROMs. This is because I no longer
have access to a 64k ROM machine for testing. 64k ROM users who wish
to use this program should acquire the ROM upgrade.
Earle R. Horton
[Archived as /info-mac/app/microemacs-39e.hqx; 128K]
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Date: 12 Jul 89 19:09:00 PST
From: "JONATHON GUTOW" <gutow@bogart.stanford.edu>
Subject: Need advice on replacing a hard drive mechanism.
All Knowledgable Netters--
I need advice on replacing a hard drive mechanism. Thank you in
advance to all who respond. Please respond via e-mail to me unless
you think what you have to say is of general interest.
My problem is as follows. I have an old serial hard disk that was
put together by Apple for demonstration purposes. The drive
mechanism is near to failing--it gets stuck on about 50% of the
drive startups and randomly looses its place and wonUt recover. I
think that the head is getting stuck. I have a perfectly good case
and power supply. The disk drive has controller cards which are
then connected to the Macintosh A communication port through a
card that is called an applebus card. The computer IUm presently
using this with is a Mac+ equivalent minus the SCSI port, ie this
is a mac512 that has been upgraded.
I am interested in the answer to two questions:
1) What is the most cost effective way of making myself a 20-40Mb
SCSI disk making use of the power supply and case?
2) Is there some drive mechanism that I can just replace the
Apple Widget drive mechanism with and continue to run the system
as I Have? A corallary to this question is: can this drive mechanism
then latter be converted to SCSI if I choose?
Thanks again,
Jon Gutow
Gutow@bogart.stanford.edu
Jon Gutow
Chemistry Department
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 17:23:21 BST
From: PHY6JEM%CMS1.UCS.LEEDS.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Physics and Astronomy fonts
As a lonely little astrophysics group we have a requirement for an
assortment of special symbols in our wordprocessing texts.
In particular we need a range of roman and greek characters with bars
over them to denote anti-particles, a perfect circle with a dot in it
for solar mass and even a 'C' with a hacek over it for Cerenkov.
These characters appear in written texts, so formula generators such
as Mathwriter and Formulator are not all that useful.
We need both bitmapped sceen fonts and downloadable postcript forms of
these characters. I've seen some bitmap only fonts (like Dayton) that
answers some of our problems but not all of them.
I have access to Fontographer. Its clear that with a bit of effort
I can take a little bit of Times, a bit of Symbol and a bit of Dingbats
and make the characters we want.
But surely someone else has already solved this problem.
Or is everyone else using TeX??
So come on accelerator labs and observatories; what's the solution?
John McMillan
Haverah Park group /South Pole Air shower experiment
Dept of Physics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS29JT, Great Britain.
PHY6JEM @ UK.AC.LEEDS.UCS.CMS1 (Janet)
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 10:32:32 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Recording screen/mouse events
To the fellow who wants to record mouse/key events:
I believe the product "Katmandu" from WOS Data systems (the Timbuktu people)
does what you want. Farallon now sells it as "Screen Recorder" because they
think "Katmandu" didn't describe the product's function (As opposed to
"Timbuktu" which of course is blindingly obvious :-)
If it doesn't, what I'd do is write an INIT to patch the GetNextEvent/
WaitNextEvent traps, and install a routine to save any events that come
thru the pipe to a datafile on disk. Should be reasonably trivial...
Alex Curylo...Simon Fraser University...tel 604-298-8913
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 09:23:27 PDT
From: BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Red Ryder question
I am using a Mac running Red Ryder to send and receive messages on Bitnet.
After some custom configuration with Quickeys, it now operates quite well
as a VT100 terminal. But, I can't find a way to capture messages on the
Mac as text files. Using RR's "Capture incoming data to text file" option
captures the text, but also contains a high percentage of garbage
characters. The "Remember screens" option does not seem to remember
screens that contains messages even with the "Remember lines before full
screen clear" option turned on. I can copy and paste the text to a text
processor, but if the message is longer than 1 screen, this is a tedious
process. Does anyone know how this might be done?
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 09:15 EST
From: Roberta Russell <PRUSSELL%OBERLIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Screensaver for IIcx and SE
Can anyone recommend a public domain screensaver that will work on both the
SE and IIcx and (most important) will function *after* the system
is shut down? M0ire cdev2 only works from the Finder or an application,
and JClock hangs the IIcx. Users on our public Mac network are instructed
to choose Shut Down and not to turn off the machines...Thanks in advance,
Robin Russell
Academic Computing Services
Oberlin College
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Date: Sat 8 Jul 89 23:33:01-PDT
From: Brodie Lockard <I.ISIMO@macbeth.stanford.edu>
Subject: Shangai 2.0 Demo
Enclosed in the demonstration version of Shanghai 2.0. Shanghai is a
deceptively simple strategy game using Mah-Jongg tiles. It's very easy to
learn, but can be quite addicting. Shanghai was MacUser's game of the year in
1986 (see the July '86 issue for a review). New features since version 1.0:
o No copy protection
o Runs on all Macs from 512KE on up (demo version runs on a plain 512K)
o Completely MultiFinder friendly
o 3-D tiles with realistic shadows on all Macs (tile designs have been
enlarged)
o All artwork is in 256 colors on color Macs (color Macs can still play the
black and white version)
o Runs in all color modes, and under 32-bit QuickDraw
o Optional music and sound effects
o Optional background pictures appear beneath tiles on color Macs
o Optional alert when there are no more moves
o Will open games saved with version 1.0
o Does not shut down your Mac when you quit
Features retained from version 1.0:
o Games can be played as solitaire, challenge (one on one with timed moves), or
tournament (any number of people play the same tile layout; high scores are
recorded; optional timed moves)
o Comprehensive on-line help
o Option to show all moves, backup a move, or peek
o Games can be saved in progress
This demo includes most of the features of the full-featured game, but will
only play one configuration of tiles. For the full version, see your dealer or
mail order house, or call Activision at (415)329-0500. Enjoy!
Brodie Lockard
I.ISIMO@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/shanghai-20-part1.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/shanghai-20-part2.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/shanghai-20-part3.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/shanghai-20-part4.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 08:00:44 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: SmartAlarms & MacConnection...
A follow-up on my previous message about SmartAlarms.
MacConnection no longer carries SmartAlarms.
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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 89 11:29 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: stubborn Rgn's
I have been having a peculiar problem with doing regions that contain
move and line commands. If I do the following:
HInchGridRegion:=NewRgn;
OpenRgn;
move(0,byQuarter); {byQuarter is 18}
line(0,1);
CloseRgn(HInchGridRegion);
it doesn't work. I have the checked the pen location, and it does change, but
the size of the region's RgnBBox does not. It stays at 0,0,0,0.
If I try the same thing with rectangles, it works fine.
Maurice
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 89 18:31:00 EDT
From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Subject: Unity 3.1.1 (a text file concatenator)
Unity (Version 3.1.1)
===============================
Written by Michael O'Rourke
Copyright )1988,1989, Micro F/X; All Rights Reserved
When a program comes in 5,6, or even 3 separate 30K text documents, it is a
royal pain to have to use a text editor to bring them together in one file.
Unity alleviates this troublesome task. In other words, Unity is a text file
concatenator. It allows you to combine textfiles with such options as not
showing files after they are used and erasing files after use. It lets you
put the resulting file into the first file or a new file.
This is a bug fix to fix a problem on the IIcx. It also adds new features.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/unity-311.hqx; 24K]
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 13 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 120
Today's Topics:
A line-counting XCMD?
Alphabetizing Icons
Applefax
Cairo-shootout query
Cleaning up & alphabetizing icons (was Public domain software request)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #118
Need help with .hqx files
NFS and Mac IIs
Reply to inquiry re Rapport Drive controller
Segment unloading when Printing?
Sending a BREAK signal in RedRyder?
sending postscript in a pict file
Serious bug in early copies of Microsoft Excel 2.2 for Mac
Up With PostScript
Word 4.0 Problem
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Date: 11 July 89, 15:51:29 CST
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: A line-counting XCMD?
To figure out the number of lines displayable in a text field you don't
need XCMD (if you know the number of lines of text you want to show).
A HyperTalk function can do that. Try the following script:
function visLines cardId
put the textHeight of card field id cardId into lineHite
get the rect of card field id cardId
put item 4 of it - item 2 of it into fieldHite
put fieldHite/lineHite into fieldLines
return trunc of fieldLines
end visLines
The calling would look something like this:
...
get id of card field "theInfo"
if visLines(it) > nLines then
set style of card field id it to scrolling
else
set style of card field id it to rectangle
end if
...
If you don't know the number of lines, things are getting complicated
since you need to figure out how text is broken (wrapped) between lines.
If you happen to use a proportional font, you can still come up with
a HyperTalk script to do it, but you need a XCMD otherwise.
If the field is unlocked (meaning that user types the text in), you
may try to click after the last word, get the mouse location and use
the information about the field rect to calculate whether to change
the field style or not. I haven't actually tested this, but it should
work after some fiddling and diddling with HyperTalk.
By the way, you need PackIt III utility to unpack .pit files.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 15:54:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edward John Sabol <es2j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Alphabetizing Icons
I don't know of any program that will let one alphabetize Finder icons, but I
do have something better. The Finder will do this with a little effort. Here's
how to do it:
1. Make the window you want to alphabetize the active window. Also, the window
containing the icon for that folder should be visible somewhere.
2. Select "by Name" from the View menu.
3. Type command-A to select all the files in the folder.
4. Drag all of the files to the shaded folder icon and drop them in it.
5. Select "by Icon" from the View menu. The icons will now be in alphabetical
order.
I remember getting this tip from an old issue of MacUser a long time ago, so
don't credit me for discovering this technique.
Edward J. Sabol Internet: es2j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 11:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrea Pauline Mark <am3g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Applefax
Has anybody out there ever used an Applefax Modem?
I have had one for four months and find it useful
for sending faxes from my computer. I am wondering
whether they are popular among Mac User's or (probably)
not well known.
I am also going to be selling it, as my need for
a fax is now over. If anyone is interested or has
questions or comments, let me know.
Andrea
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 07:16:37 PDT
From: WING%ATF.MFENET@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Cairo-shootout query
Some time ago I downloaded Stunt-Copter, Zero-Gravity, and Cairo-Shootout
>From the game folder. They were all un-binhexed and un-stuffed with Stuffit
1.5. Stunt Copter and Zero Gravity work fine (my daughter thanks you).
However Cairo Shootout bombs. Under Multi-Finder it issues an "the application Cairo Shootout 1.2a has unexpectedly quit, out of application memory." message.
This message is issued at load time. Under Finder it starts to load, puts up
its menu bar, then freezes. The results are the same on a MAC-II (5MB) and
a MAC-IIx (4MB). Has anyone else commented on this behavior? I repeated
the down-load with the same results. Since both other games run fine on this
configuration, I assume (incorrectly?) that it isn't a problem with the
CPU. Any thoughts, could the HQX file be corrupted? Thanks again. BW
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 09:51:11 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Cleaning up & alphabetizing icons (was Public domain software request)
It doesn't take any public-domain or pay-for-it software to perform a
combined "alphabetize" and "clean up". The Finder will do it for you.
The trick is undocumented, as far as I know, but it works perfectly.
Here's how to clean up and alphabetize the contents of a folder "Foo":
1) Open the Foo folder.
2) If the Foo window covers up the Foo folder icon (on the desktop or
in a disk or another folder), move the window out of the way so that
you can see the Foo folder icon.
3) Select "View by icon" or "View by small icon".
4) Select "View by name".
5) Enter command-A (Select All) to highlight all of the alphabetically-
sorted names that appear in the Foo window.
6) Click on any one of the highlighted icons in the Foo window, and drag
the entire highlighted list of files from the Foo window over to the
Foo folder icon... drop them in the folder.
7) Select "View by icon" or "View by small icon",... choose the same view-
style that you chose in step (3).
You will now find that the icons (or small icons) in the Foo window have
been sorted alphabetically and placed on the cleanup-grid locations.
Apparently, this trick works because of two little Finder characteristics:
(a) When you drag around a bunch of files that are sorted by name, the
Finder performs the move in alphabetic order, and (b) when you drop files
into a disk or folder icon, the Finder assigns positions for them
according to the last graphic (icon or small-icon) view-style that you
had used in the corresponding window.
I infer that the same trick would work if you did a "View by type"
instead of a view-by-name; the files would be cleaned up and sorted
according to their types rather than their names.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 10:09:55 CDT
From: Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #118
>Date: Fri, 07 Jul 89 20:14:11 EST
>From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: Ram Upgrades
>
> The upcoming System 7.0 is making me think about upgrading some Mac +'s
>I'm responsible for from 1 to 2 Megs. A call to a "friendly" Computerland
>resulted in a quote of $800 per upgrade, compared to mail order prices
>of @$150 for a 1 meg SIMM.
> Clearly, the $650 markup is a bit high, so I'm curious about how others
>have increased their internal memory. Is it a routine do it yourself
>project?
>
Just upgraded via CompuRite here in Houston. $375 for 2 1MB chips, $45 for
installation, plus tax came to about $450 total. Computerland quoted
me $650 and I told them that they were grossly overpriced.
By the way, remember to ask for the 256K chips back after the upgrade. When
I take my Plus to 4MB I can get the Softstep adapter and only have to buy
one more 1MB SIMM.
By the way, does anyone know if System 7 requires 2 or 2.5M? Softstep was
selling a 1-2MB upgrade for $279 a couple of weeks ago.
Jim Bradley
P.S. I have no affiliation with Softstep products, just lots of 256K chips
lying around with nothing to process.
Acknowledge-To: <ACSH@UHUPVM1>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 17:18:47 PDT
From: marks@sun.com (Mark Stein)
Subject: Need help with .hqx files
Hi there,
I am a veteran UNIX hacker who has recently moved into the Mac realm.
I've been trying to get up to speed on procedures for downloading stuff
>From info-mac (in binhex format) to my mac, but have not suceeded in
actually getting anything to run yet (probably due to some unknown
error on my part). Anyway, I am seeking any and all helpful hints on
what software I need (and where to get it), tips on downloading
procedures, and comments on what I have attempted already.
Here's my environment:
Mac II running Red Ryder 10.3
2400 baud dialup to a Sun4 workstation
Kermit on the Sun
I downloaded the unix tools from the info-mac archive and compiled them
on my Sun. From reading the various README files and source code, I
think that I have a basic understanding of the various file formats
(binhex, macbinary, stuffit, and PIT), but a not-so-good understanding
of which of them is used when, the best way to download each of them,
and what tools to use on the mac once they are there.
OK, so here's what I have tried:
- use mcvert to convert util/binhex4.hqx to binhex_4_0.bin (type APPL)
- use kermit to send binhex_4_0.bin to the mac
- Red Ryder is supposed to recognize the macbinary format (it
appears to) and write the mac file. Red Ryder's kermit seems
to think that the file is only 256 bytes long (in the xfer
status), yet transfers the entire file. The file appears in
Red Ryder's "delete" file menu, yet does not appear when the
finder displays the folder.
I have also tried downloading other files (using xbin as well as
mcvert) with similar lack of success. Any and all comments and
pointers (especially on how I can bootstrap the process!) gratefully
accepted via email!
Thanks...
--Mark Stein <marks@sun.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 13:55:57 EDT
From: gavin@caf.mit.edu (Gavin C. H. Zau)
Subject: NFS and Mac IIs
I have a system of PCs connected to a MIPS M120 running
NFS to seerve files. Now I am considering purchasing some
Mac IIs for graphics work. Is there a NFS for the Mac IIs
connected through an ether net. If not is there a alternative
file serving method. An important point is that data files has
to be accessible by both the PCs and the Mac IIs. Thanks.
Gavin Zau Dept of Chemical Engineering, MIT
gavin@caf.mit.edu mefl@eagle.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 19:04 PDT
From: Ron Webster <IC6JRHW@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: Reply to inquiry re Rapport Drive controller
This is a reply to Michael J. Paisley's inquiry, which appeared in Info-Mac
Digest Volume 7, Issue 118, 11 July 1989, regarding Kennect Technology's:
Rapport and Drive 2.4 (I hope I sent this to the right place):
Dear Mr. Paisley:
The Rapport unit you mentioned in your note is a Kennect Technology
product. Hang with me a moment as I seem to divert. I purchased a Turbo
Floppy 1.4 from Peripheral Land, Inc. (PLI). The PLI drive is in direct
competition with Kennect's Rapport and Drive 2.4. The PLI drive provides
for MS-DOS-to-Mac (and vice versa) translation (via Apple File Exchange,
which is part of the Apple system software--no other software is required).
I believe the Kennect Technology unit also translates via Apple File Exchange.
The PLI unit works very well (I have translated probably a hundred files
in the past month, since obtaining the PLI drive).
I considered the Kennect Technology combination but opted for the PLI drive
because of cost (more on this shortly). The PLI drive reads and writes
MS-DOS 720 KB and 1.4 MB formats; it also reads and writes Apple's 1.4 MB
format (stupid as it may seem, it does not handle Apple's 800 KB format).
I needed the 1.4 MB Apple format in addition to the MS-DOS-to-Mac
translation, so if I had gone the Kennect Technology route, I would have
needed both Rapport and Drive 2.4--$295 + $495 = nearly $800! The PLI
drive cost our group $321 (UCLA gets an educational institution discount).
When I found out that the PLI drive would not handle Apple's 800 KB format,
I began regretting the order. I wish I had the Kennect Technology combo.
Rapport + Drive 2.4 will handle MS-DOS 720 KB and 1.4 MB as well as all
current Apple standard formats (800 KB and 1.4 MB--I don't know if the
400 KB format is supported). In addition, the combo provides for 1.2 MB
on standard density diskettes (Apple files) and 2.4 MB on high density
diskettes (again, Apple files). Even though the 1.2 MB and 2.4 MB formats
are not standard, and diskettes so formatted could only be read on systems
that had Rapport and an external drive (or Drive 2.4 in the case of 2.4 MB),
these formats could prove handy. I for one prefer backing-up my files on
floppy disks (rather than cartridges or cassettes) because I often have to
reload files, and reloading is much faster from floppies. Having 2.4 MB
diskettes would cut down on diskette accumulation over time.
In sum, if you have the money, I recommend going with the Kennect Technology
combo--you can start out just buying Rapport and add Drive 2.4 later (since
you indicated that MS-DOS-to-Mac translation is your primary concern). And
I assure you that you will be happy with your purchase. As I stated above,
the PLI translates between MS-DOS and Apple formats quickly and easily. I
spoke with the people at Kennect Technology several times as I was going
through my decision process, and I have confidence that their products will
work at least as well as PLI's. I'm limited by grant funding, but I plan
to get the Kennect Technology combo as soon as I can fit it into our
budget.
One hitch. When I translate MS-DOS files to my Mac, the transfer handles
linefeeds in such a way that I end up with a non-printable character at
the beginning of every line of the resulting Mac file (the character is
actually a linefeed--code hex 0A). This has not been a problem, however,
even for fairly large files. I simply launch an ASCII text editor (e.g.,
QUED), select and copy one of the linefeeds (in "Show Invisibles" mode they
show up as squares on the screen) and paste it into the search string box
dialog box that appears when "Find and Change" has been selected, and I
globally replace it with no character. It takes only a few seconds.
One other word (I'm not sure this is clear from the ads): These file
exchanges work only for text (straight ASCII) files. If you want to
exchange files from spreadsheets or word processors, you're essentially
out of luck. Any decent word processor has a "save as text" facility.
And some programs have MS-DOS and Mac companion programs that may be able
to exchange files via a connectivity product such as the PLI drive or
Kennect Technology's Rapport. Word Perfect for the Mac, for example, is
able to read and write files in IBM-PC Word Perfect format.
Ron Webster (BITNET: IC6JRHW@UCLAMVS; ARPANET: IC6JRHW@OAC.UCLA.EDU)
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Date: Wed 12 Jul 1989 18:17 CDT
From: <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Segment unloading when Printing?
Does anyone have any Good reasons for Unloading all segments while your
print routine is printing? I would assume that the segments are unloaded
only if you have a large print routine. Of course it could also be that
the print manager/drivers takes up some more memory? My application is
relatively small 100k, and at the moment runs fine under 300k size under
multifinder. The print routines seem to work just fine at the moment.
If anyone knows where I can find more information on this subject, could
you let me know? I have about 1 more week of work till the application
is ready for Alpha, and I am not too sure about the segment unloading.
Maybe I am close to a crash(?), or is it just common sense with Large Programs?
Thanks,
Scott Hutinger -> w.i.u. macomb IL
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 12:54:34 EDT
From: David Rubin <RUBIN@graf.poly.edu>
Subject: Sending a BREAK signal in RedRyder?
Is it possible to send a BREAK using RedRyder communications software?
If so, how is it done?
Please respond by E-mail since I do not read this list... Thanks.
David Rubin | INTERNET: RUBIN@graf.poly.edu
Polytechnic University | BITNET: RUBIN@POLYGRAF
Brooklyn, NY |
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 18:55 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: sending postscript in a pict file
I am trying to have Cricket Draw or any program that reads in PICT files to
read in PicComments containting postscript code, so that when one of these
packages prints, it prints using the postscript information in the
picComments, not the screen representation.I have tried sending it basically
the same file that I send to the laserwriter, but it doesn't work, at least as
far as printing is concerned.
Anybody know how to do this?
While we're on the subject of postscript, does any one know the file format
for doing an EPSF file such that when it is imported it displays a screen
rendtion of what is contained in the postscript code.
Maurice Volaski
Dept. of Physiology
SUNYAB
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 10:59 EDT
From: Peter Szolovits <psz@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Serious bug in early copies of Microsoft Excel 2.2 for Mac
Yesterday I discovered a serious bug in Excel 2.2 for the Mac that
causes incorrect calculations though everything (except the results)
looks fine. The problem has apparently been corrected within a month
after Excel 2.2 started shipping, though according to Microsoft tech
support the newer versions are not identified by a revised minor version
number (boo, hiss!). Several thousand of the original, "damaged" (read
"buggy") programs were shipped. If your ORIGINAL Excel program has both
a creation date and a modified date of Fri, May 5, 1989, 12:00 PM, then
you have the buggy version. (It's not enough to look at the mod date of
the copy you're using, because that gets changed when you make various
option changes in Excel -- apparently.) If you do have this bug, you
can call customer support to get a newer (claimed fixed) version.
Here's how to reproduce a simple version of the bug:
1. Open a new worksheet.
2. In cell C1 enter the formula =A1+B1
3. In cell A1 enter the formula =1+2. C1 then shows 3, as it should.
Now suppose that you had really meant to enter that "=1+2" in cell B1
instead of A1. You can't just cut the A1 cell and paste it into B1
because that will screw up the (relative) references in C1. So instead
you are going to copy the formula "=1+2" from A1 to B1.
4. Click on A1 to select it.
5. Select the contents of the formula bar (by dragging over it, say)
6. Cut it via Cmd-X
7. Click on B1
8. Paste (Cmd-V) to enter the formula into B1.
You will then see blank in A1, 3 in B1 and 0 in C1. The formula in C1
still says =A1+B1, so all looks fine, but the wrong number results.
This is, of course, one of the real nighmares of any spreadsheet user,
and will make me sweat next time I prepare a budget. This bug does not
appear, by the way, in the older version 1.5. Also, at least for this
simple example, saving the worksheet to a file, quitting Excel, then
re-opening the spreadsheet again will fix it, though a simple recalc
won't.
Disclaimers: the usual; I'm certainly not advertising for Microsoft!
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 14:25 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Up With PostScript
As another developer with interests in graphics,
I can't help but throw my two-cents in the\
commentary on Apple divesting itself of
Adobe stock. First, I have no idea about
the smarts of taking their $90M and running...
seems to me big bucks are an OK thing. BUT,
the implication that they are cashing in on
PostScript is another issue. I agree with
most of Brodie Lockard's recent note on Apple's
problems for developers and the potential
confusions and incompatablities to be caused
by Apple's "replacement" for PostScript.
I think there are two issues 'tho. One is
Apple's plan to write their own PostScript-
clone interpreter to keep the costs of their
printers down (cynics read: to keep Apple's
profit margin up). I don't like clones 'cause
I hate irritating, waiting-to-be-discovered
differences between implementations. The other
issue is the apparent move, on Apple's part, away
>From PostScript as its printing environment.
The enhancement of QuickDraw has its good points
and I see the tradeoffs of heading towards
Display PostScript BUT I'd hate to think that
Apple's "lead" would relegate the Mac to
second class status for PostScript development
environments. I'd hate to see the Illustrator's
and Freehand's of the future being developed
on other platforms and only being partially,
at best, ported to the Mac.
The discussion of "Turbo"QuickDraw as up to
everything that PostScript can offer is
just plain wrong. I don't support
PostScript because it is a defacto standard
but because it is a well thought out,
reasonably mature, extensible Page
Description Language which meets nearly
all the needs demonstrated or projected for
graphic applications (OK it's the pits with
bitmapped images..). I don't see QuickDraw
getting there anytime soon. The talk of
outline fonts in QuickDraw is nice...but
PostScript is a hell of a lot more than
outline fonts!! I like Bezier curves, rich
and easy coordinate transformations, ASCII code
(for easy transmission and modification after
you've left you're application), compatability
that has encouraged the National Science Foundation
to make PostScript the lingua franca of scientific
grant proposals for networked submission, and
yes I like the stack-dictionary programming style --
I find it powerful, easy (after a short learning curve),
and interesting.
So as Hans and Frantz might say, "Apple, you can
hear me now and believe me later...PostScript's
got muscle. Don't throw away one of the biggest
advantages of your system."
David Elbert
Geology Department
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388 3711 x5652
Elbert@MIDD.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 06:06:27 MST
From: ICBAL%ASUACAD.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Word 4.0 Problem
Date: 13 July 89, 05:59:36 MST
>From: ICBAL at ASUACAD
To: INFO-MAC-REQUEST@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU at ARPA
I work in a Math Dept. where MS Word and MathType is the favored
combination for preparing tests, referee's reports, etc. But there is a
big problem with Word 4.0 which has sent us scurrying back to Word 3.02:
When an equation is created in MathType (or any other equation
processor) and is pasted into a Word paragraph, it is pasted
sitting "on the baseline" and must be selected and subscripted in
order to line up properly with the line of text it is pasted into.
This is the same in both word 3.0 and 4.0. However, Word 3.0 will
"close up" the space above the pasted line as soon as the equation is
subscripted; but Word 4.0 will not--resulting in a very large gap
above the line containing the equation. This makes for very unsightly
paragraphs. The problem seems to exist with any pasted graphic.
Does anyone know of a solution to this problem with Word 4.0?
I appears that Microsoft wants us to use Word's built-in formulas
(which we don't like) or none at all.
Bruce Long
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University BITNET: ICBAL@ASUACAD
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∂13-Jul-89 2253 usenet@shelby.stanford.edu Re: MacDraw II
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From: rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini)
Organization: Stanford University, Dept. of Geophysics
Subject: Re: MacDraw II
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To change patterns:
(1) Select objects you wish to change.
(2) Click the box to the left of the top pattern bar to set fill pattern,
then the desired pattern itself.
(3) Click the box to the right of the top pattern bar to set line pattern,
then the desired pattern itself.
∂14-Jul-89 0914 siegman@sierra.stanford.edu Low Memory Globals: Application Name?
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From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
To: su-macintosh@sierra.stanford.edu
Subject: Low Memory Globals: Application Name?
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.616436049.siegman@>
The manual for Microsoft QuickBASIC gives a sample program which
enables one to find the name of a compiled application, from within
the application, by PEEKing in memory locations &H910 and following.
Is this something unique to QuickBASIC? Or to a single model of the
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∂14-Jul-89 1002 HILLER@score.stanford.edu Postscripted Logo on Word 4
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From: Bonnie Hiller <HILLER@score.stanford.edu>
Subject: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu, info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Cc: hiller@score.stanford.edu
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I'm using Word 4 to produce business documents for the Computer Forum.
I want the Stanford Logo on our letterhead, and I have a postscripted
version that I use. The problem is this:
When the logo prints on the first page of any document, it prints
about a quarter of an inch too low and prints over the return address.
On all subsequent pages of the document, the logo prints where it
should.
I have tried putting the logo postscript information in the body of
the document, I've put it in as a first header and as a plain header.
I've tried it in all of these places as hidden text.
When I called Technical Support at Microsoft they had me make a small
change to the name of the Word Settings document in the Systems folder
and told me to start up Word again. That didn't work, and they seemed
mystified.
So far the only solution is to take my one page document, copy it so I
have two pages saying the same thing, and then print it. The second
page comes out ok, and the first page I use as a file copy.
Does anyone have a solution or at least some suggestions towards a
solution for this problem?
-Bonnie
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Date: 15 Jul 89 04:40:55 GMT
From: crys@Apple.COM (Cris Rys)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
Subject: Re: Low Memory Globals: Application Name?
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As of now, address (hex) 910 contains the current application name.
It is not just a feature of Microsoft Basic.
-cris
Disc: my thoughts and expressions are my own. Use at own risk.
(If anyone would care to listen to them anyway....)
∂16-Jul-89 1242 @score.stanford.edu:gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Re: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
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From: Tom Gruber <gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
To: Bonnie Hiller <HILLER@score.stanford.edu>
Cc: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri 14 Jul 89 10:02:02-PDT
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.616621403.gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
The bug is explained in the file called "using postscript with word" in the
postscript folder. Here's how they explain it:
Background Printing
If you use a print spooler or use Background Printing with MultiFinder to
print documents containing PostScript commands,
a System bug causes PostScript graphics on the first page of a document to be
printed incorrectly. (The PostScript graphics are
shifted down and to the right.) PostScript graphics are printed correctly on
all other pages of the document.
You can work around this bug at least two ways:
* Insert a blank page at the end of your document and print the document
back-to-front.
* Print the entire document using the print spooler or Background
Printing. Then turn off the print spooler or Background Printing and
reprint only the first page.
∂17-Jul-89 0032 macmod@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Info-Mac Digest V7 #121
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 16 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 121
Today's Topics:
Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
Apple FTP Now Available
A stupid question Re: Color-Finder....
blesser
Color Icons
email
Esperanto Course stack
First-Aid
hiding the menu bar
Info-Mac Digest V7 #120
Kudos for source code
Memory ..... etc.
Red Ryder
Red Ryder question
Reversing the Video
Set Volume DA
System Switcher.sit
Thanks
Unloading segments while printing
Using an Epson with a Mac II
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 11:48:46 EDT
From: Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
I called Nova International about a week after this topic was first posted.
What they told me was:
1. Theyd gotten about 20 calls since it was posted.
2. Installation requires a little soldering of the fan
power wires.
3. The product was implemented by their European office,
and was not yet available in the U.S
4. They would take my name and address, and call me when
then product became available in the U.S.
I suspect that cutting and soldering wires will invalidate an Apple warranty.
(Although Id buy one for each Mac II anyhow.)
So far I haven't heard anything from them.
--Pete Poorman
Control Data Corporation
9894 Bissonnet, Suite 229
Houston, Texas 77036
713-778-6274
Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 06:27:03 PDT
From: Mark B. Johnson <mjohnson@apple.com>
Subject: Apple FTP Now Available
Apple Developer Technical Support is proud to offer a new service
to the Apple II and Macintosh development communities: Anonymous
FTP to an Apple Internet host loaded with the most up-to-date DTS
tools and documentation available.
FTP is the user interface to the ARPANET standard File Transfer
Protocol, and it allows you to transfer files to and from a remote
network site. To access and retrieve files from the Apple
archive, you should FTP to apple.apple.com (130.43.2.2) using
account:anonymous and password:guest. Once you logon, change
directories to pub/dts/ (cd pub/dts/) and get the README file (get
README) which explains the archive content and structure. If you
are unfamiliar with FTP or do not know if you site supports it,
use your on-line help or check with your local site administrator.
You will always find the most current Technical Notes and Sample
Code posted in the dts/ directory, as well as other documents or
materials relevant to development on an Apple platform.
Look in the help/ directory for a current list of all the archived
files (dir-yy-mm-dd) and a list of the most recent additions
(recent-yy-mm-dd). The following is a basic outline of the
directory structure and the contents of the archive:
README - General info about content and structure
aii - Apple II information
tn - Apple II Technical Notes
ftn - Apple II File Type Notes
sc - Apple II Sample Code
help - Helpful info about these directories
dir-YY-MM-DD - Directory of all files in the dts/ directory
recent-YY-MM-DD - Directory of all files added within 14 days
mac - Macintosh information
docs - Macintosh Technical Documentation
hacks - Useful, unsupported hacks
mpw - Current MPW Interface files
q+a - Macintosh Q & A Stack
sc - Macintosh Sample Code
sys.soft - System Software information
tn - Macintosh Technical Notes
press - Apple Press Releases
Tools and utilities sold by APDA (e.g., ResEdit, etc.) are not
available from this archive due to licensing restrictions. In the
future, if we can make these sorts of tools available and still
please our attorneys, we will.
This service is long overdue, and we thank the many volunteers on
the networks who maintain other archives and make Apple's tools
and documentation available to the masses. If you normally get
your files from these other sites, you should be able to continue
doing so, as we are working with these people to make sure that
their files are updated on a much more timely basis than in the
past.
This archive site is just a small effort in Apple's attempts to
provide our developers with the best tools and developer technical
support in the industry, and we are very interested in your
feedback. Please send comments and suggestions to us at one of
the addresses listed below.
Thanks for your suggestions and patience in making this archive
site reality. Special thanks to Erik Fair of Apple Engineering
Computer Operations; Lance Nakata, Bill Lipa, and Jon Pugh of
Info-Mac and SUMEX; and Werner Uhrig of the University of Texas.
Mark B. Johnson
Developer Technical Support
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AppleLink: mjohnson
USMail: Developer Technical Support
Apple Computer, Inc.
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Cupertino, CA 95014
[Note: we intend to provide a shadow of everything "important" in the apple.com
archive. In fact, that's where everything in the apple directory comes from.
"Important" means Macintosh technical stuff, like tns, sample code, etc.]
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 15:18:44 -0400
From: cuzzivog@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Les Cuzzivoglio -Syscon Corp-)
Subject: A stupid question Re: Color-Finder....
This is probably a stupid question, but here goes anyway....
I recently downloaded Color-Finder and have been using it. The documentation
claims that you can add new cicns to the color-finder for customizing it. My
question is: How does one create CICNs?? Is there an easy ResEdit-type way
to simply draw a CICN?? Or must I actually develop them as hex data??
Any input would be greatly appreciated....
LC
css.itd.nrl.navy.mil
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 04:11:14 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: blesser
Blesser allows you to run more than one system file on a Hard disk.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/blesser.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 12:06:15 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: Color Icons
I have been using the ColorFinder for a few weeks with no problems.
I just downloaded the newer one (which supposedly differs only
by having a larger number of icons included). However, this version
bombs the system (id 27) during booting once a while. Assuming that
the INIT itself is not changed, the only explanation I can up with
is that the problem is caused by duplicate icons (meaning that there
are identical icons with two different res ids). Is it possible?
ColorFInder and Ceditor are now missing a companion program: Icon
Mover which is capable to move ICONs, ICN#s, and cicns and be smart
enough to assign the same res ids to cicns as to corresponding
icons and optionally pair those as required. Anyone working
on anything like this?
Finally, does anyone has any idea why the Apple in the Apple menu
would not be displayed in its proper colors? I have turned color
permanently on only after installing the ColorFinder and just lately
realized that Apple should be the Rainbow Apple now not B&W Apple.
I checked that the original system diskette does show all colors
which means that something in my customizing turned this off.
Any ideas what I did and/or how to get the Rainbow Apple back?
Robert
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:03:54 est
From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!pfr654@uunet.uu.net
Subject: email
Hello from Oz.
Does anyone out there have a Mac 512 enhanced with the HyperDrive 2000 from
General Computer (or GCC)? Ours is continually crashing, with either system
3.2/finder 5.3; system 4.1,4.3/finder 6.02. Any ideas? Is it just the power
supply for the 512 not being enough for the extra Ram, hard disk and fan?
If so, should it be possible to power at least some of these separately
>From the Mac's power supply. On the other hand, is it just the versions of
the system and GCC's HyperDrive Drivers (Version 3 Release 2) clashing?
The machine still works, but it crashes reasonably randomly every few
hours, particularly when writing to a floppy disk (very messy!). The hard
disk is always OK though, so we haven't lost any valuable data (mainly
because we now keep valuable data away from the machine!). We don't really
want to toss out the enhancement, and feel that it could be something
simple.
Phil Ryan
Physics, Australian National University, Canberra
email: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 89 04:30:31 -0400
From: moore@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Doug Moore)
Subject: Esperanto Course stack
Mike Urban has substantially improved his Esperanto hypercard stack since
its creation. The latest version includes digitized sounds as well as pictures.
Please replace the old version with this version in the archives. Thank you.
Doug Moore
>>>
The message that follows comprises a (StuffIt, Binhexed) stack containing
a complete introductory course in the international language Esperanto. It
is submitted for inclusion in the INFO-MAC archives. Those with little or
no interest in Esperanto may find that it contains some useful presentation
ideas. Initial feedback has been very positive.
This stack works MUCH better when the MacinTalk driver is installed.
Comments and suggestions are always appreciated.
Mike Urban
TRW
urban@rand-unix.RAND.ORG
or
...!trwrb!trwspp!urban (UUCP)
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part1.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part2.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part3.hqx; 152K
/info-mac/hypercard/esperanto-part4.hqx; 140K]
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 10:06:41 -0400
From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (William (Liam) Grant)
Subject: First-Aid
Hello, I am looking for a piece of utility software for recovering files
>From a hard disk. Symantec Util. is on order for us at the moment, but I
was told by the technician who came in to check the hard drive out (yep, it
passed with flying colors, leaving no idea why these files just flew away.)
That SUM was good at recovering a whole drive, but that "First Aid" was
better at recovering individual files. This was NOT the Apple version
called "Disk First+Aid", but a program by someone else. Does anyone know
who? Or have any other suggestions?
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
William (Leprechaun Liam) Grant Grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Code 5541 (202) 767-2392
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C. 20375
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:32 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: hiding the menu bar
I want to photograph the color monitor to make slides of graphs and drawings.
The menu bar makes the results seem somewhat unprofessional. Is there an
application to hide the menu bar from any program available?
Thanks in advance for any info...
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:05:24 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #120
re segment unloading while printing:
The historical reason for doing this is that on early (128K) Macs your typical
application had roughly zero RAM available when the user wanted to print
something. Since the Print Manager creates a bitmapped Quickdraw image of
each page and sends that to the ImageWriter in its graphics mode, which
obviously takes memory -- and a lot more in "High" quality -- either your
application would die or the Segment Manager would thrash, thrash, thrash
before it got anything done.
Since of course we all now have 8 Meg of system memory :-) there's no need
to worry about such things anymore.
BTW, remember that all your printing code will be obsolete under System 7.
Alex Curylo...Simon Fraser University...tel 604-298-8913
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 22:55:20 PST
From: JHL@naif.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Kudos for source code
Many thanks to Apple's Developer Technical Support and to
Info-Mac for posting the sample source code in /apple/code. That's very
worthwhile. To follow one good deed with another, how about giving us
some sample code for using the new Sound Manager routines--something
using a canned 'snd' resource and something calculating the resource
on the fly (for example, where one has a simple harmonic oscillator and
the tone is proportional to the speed would be nice).
Keep up the good work. -Jay Lieske
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 09:54 EDT
From: <J_KAZURA%UNHH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Memory ..... etc.
Hello all,
I just wanted to note that 7.0 will require 2.0mb of RAM according to
all articles I have seen on the subject.
Memory upgrades.... I just (Thursday) upgraded my SE to 2.5mb I bought
2 1mb simms for $129 (US) they are rated at 80ns, they are surface mount, but
not low-profile. They came with out-of-date instructions: my board has jumpers
not resistors and I have to use simm sockets 3 & 4 NOT 1 & 2 as the instructions
said I did. The simms come with a lifetime warranty and 30 day money back
guarantee. For $15 I had the them Federal Expressed, they did come 2 days later
(I ordered at 5pm EDT).
Finally the company that I graced my business with is:
South Coast Electronics
700 S. Flower St. #2200
Los Angeles, CA
90017 (800) 289-8801
The whole thing cost me $273, I had a friend who is an authorized Apple
Technician install them, my SE's warranty lives on!
I am not affiliated with the above company, just stating the facts as I see 'em.
Joe Kazura [J_KAZURA@UNHH]
Computer Specialist & Quasi Student Rep.
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 08:28 CDT
From: <CC_BRYSO%SWTEXAS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Red Ryder
Regarding Red Ryder and the capturing of text
information, you should use the the capture
incoming text to a file menu selection but adjust
the file transfer preferences to strip line feeds
and other control characters. The "strange"
characters are mostly line-feeds and form-feeds.
To strip embedded carriage returns try the DA
McSink or the commerical couterpart Vantage.
These da's will remove internal hard-returns.
If you have Microsoft Word or a word processor
that lets you look for control characters, you can
also remove the "strange" characters. In Word, I
believe you can use Change All to replace "~10"
with nothing. (~10 represents a line-feed
character and ~12 represents a form-feed) Using
Word it is also possible to strip internal
hard-returns fairly easily by placing a special
character such as "#" at the end of each "true"
paragraph and then using Change All to replace
"~p" with nothing. Then go back and replace the
special character "#" with "~p". Make sure the
special character is not found normally in your
text.
Bill Bryson
SWTSU
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 11:22:06 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Red Ryder question
>I am using a Mac running Red Ryder to send and receive messages on Bitnet.
>After some custom configuration with Quickeys, it now operates quite well
>as a VT100 terminal. But, I can't find a way to capture messages on the
>Mac as text files. Using RR's "Capture incoming data to text file" option
>captures the text, but also contains a high percentage of garbage
>characters. The "Remember screens" option does not seem to remember
>screens that contains messages even with the "Remember lines before full
>screen clear" option turned on. I can copy and paste the text to a text
>processor, but if the message is longer than 1 screen, this is a tedious
>process. Does anyone know how this might be done?
>
What version of Red Ryder are you running? Version 10.3 allows the save text
option to strip out all the control characters you're seeing. Also, you need
to set the number of saved screens to be greater than 1. On a 1Meg machine,
you can save ~30 screens, no sweat.
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:41:27 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Reversing the Video
John Sotos asks the following on 7/5/89:
> Is there a robust method to change a Macintosh
> display from black-on-white to white-on-black?
> I don't know what the human factors experts say,
> and I don't care: eye strain invariably results
> (for me) after only a few hours of working with
> black-on-white screens.
=-=-=-=-
There is a small INIT called "Reverse Screen INIT" that will do what you're
looking for, John. The INIT is available for download from GEnie and other
similar services.
Don
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 09:37:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Norman William Franke, III" <nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Set Volume DA
This is Set Volume, which is a DA that lets you set the volume of the Mac's
speaker. I wrote it because the control panel is too slow comming up, and I
seem to change the volume a lot. This DA can optionally beep when you
change the setting, and save the setting into PRAM if you'd like, and
remembers it location on the screen for the next time you open it. Set
Volume is freeware.
Norman Franke
nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/da/set-volume.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 89 04:26:03 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: System Switcher.sit
The Switcher programs allows you to run more than one version of the
Mac Operating System off the same hard disk. This program is similar
to Blesser. It also works with the Japanese language version of the
Mac Operating System.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/system-switcher.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1989 08:53 EDT
From: Stan Horwitz <V4039@vm.temple.edu>
Subject: Thanks
To all of you who were kind enough to tell me how to alphabetize my folders
and files I say thanks. You can stop flooding my reader with responses as the
answer is now clear but I do apreciate your efforts. Thanks again.
Stan Horwitz
V4039 AT VM.TEMPLE.EDU
Acknowledge-To: Stan Horwitz <V4039@TEMPLEVM>
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 23:29:27 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Unloading segments while printing
Inside Mac recommends unloading all unnecessary segments in order to
maximize the amount of memory available to the printer-driver.
Many printer-drivers create page-image bitmaps by allocating a big chunk
of memory, setting it up as an off-screen bitmap, replaying the spooled
picture information and drawing it into the bitmap, and then sending the
bitmap to the printer (in a printer-specific fashion).
Creating a full-page bitmap can take quite a bit of memory (say, 1 meg
or so for a 300 dot/inch image on a DeskJet or something similar). If
the printer-driver can't get enough memory to create a full-page bitmap,
it must "band" the image. It will get a smaller bitmap-buffer (say,
large enough for 2" of height), play the spooled PICT once to image the
top 2" of the page, send the data to the printer, clear the bitmap, play
the PICT again to image the next 2", send that data, etc. This may slow
down the printing process significantly, because QuickDraw must make
many passes over the same PICT, drawing the image into the bitmap buffer
each time (with different clipping and origin values each time).
Memory conservation during the printing process isn't _quite_ as vital
as it was back in the days of the 128k Mac. Consider the plight of the
application that tried to print an image with only 5 or 10k of free
memory in the heap! These days, Macs are bigger and applications can
_usually_ depend on having somewhat more free memory... but even today
it's possible for an application to paint itself into a corner
(allocating too much heap-space) and then have trouble printing.
So, I guess it's still good practice to unload all unnecessary code
before printing, and again when calling the "print a spooled picture"
routine. It can make a difference in printer throughput.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 89 09:47:04 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Using an Epson with a Mac II
Howdy, Ira. There are several solutions available. One approach is to
use the Grappler LQ, which supports most 24-pin printers; it makes the
printer "look like" an ImageWriter LQ. Another approach is to use
a software-driver-plus-cable combination that Epson is now offering;
it's listed in the current Icon Review catalog for $69, and comes with
several font bitmaps. A third approach is to use a similar software-
driver marketed by GDT SoftWorks.
Re the DeskJet: it's a really nice printer for use with the Mac. Based
on what I've heard (I haven't seen one yet) I'd suggest buying a DeskWriter
rather than a DeskJet... it's substantially faster, and comes with a
driver supported by HP, rather than requiring a third-party driver (e.g.
the Printer Interface III from DataPak, MacPrint, the Grappler LS, etc.).
A used DeskJet, plus a third-party driver, is probably the _cheapest_
way to get yourself 300 DPI printout capability... it's not the fastest,
but is quite effective.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 17 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 122
Today's Topics:
CD-ROM's: The really BIG question.
Comments on File Translations
C vs Pascal
downloading Mac files from Bitnet (was: help with .hqx)
Driver refNums
Equations and MSWord
Info on Timbuktu
Postscripted Logo on Word 4
System icons different?
turning postscript into epsf
Two system folders
Unix program submission
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 89 12:37 MDT
From: Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: CD-ROM's: The really BIG question.
Thanks for the many response re: using text files as a database. Most
answers had UNIX solutions, however the maker of an old indexing
HyperCard stack, TEXAS, has released a beauty of a stack which is a big
improvement over TEXAS, called TEX v.5.1. It is available on info-mac
as "tex-05.hqx", compu$erve and genie as "TEX 5.1". Thanks to "5268
Spires, Shannon V." <svspire at SANDIA.GOV> for the tip.
TEX is very clever, but it is magnetic disc based. Parsing is still too
slow for CD-ROM, which is too slow in the first place.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now, The big question on everybodies mind is:
HOW DO WE CREATE A DATA INDEX THAT WILL POINT TO AN ADDRESS LOCATION ON
THE CD-ROM.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can do this for the audio tracks on CD-ROM. You can do this for
video frames on videodisk.
How do we do this for data?
The ideal answer would include: A way to simulate the CD-ROM drive
locations while creating an index on magnetic medium, like a 600 meg
hard drive.
So that we: Can create an index that points to start and end "address"
locations of data (or whatever) by character, paragraph, string, chunk,
etc. (you get the idea).
FRANKLY ("Don't call me Frank" Airplane, the movie), this is the $64,000
question that must be answered if those of use developing
full-text-retrieval-software search-engines for CD-ROM are to suceed on
the Macintosh.
The answer in the "AppleCD SC Reference" is: "First, take the existing
CD-ROM retrieval engine and port it to the Macintosh operating system"
Which doesn't do any of us who *don't* have DOS based search engines any
good.
It reminds me of Steve Martins joke about how *not* to pay tax on a
million dollars. "First," he says, "get a million dollars...Then don't
pay taxes on it...When the judge asks you why you didn't pay tax on a
million dollars tell him 'I forgot'. When he asks you 'how can you
forget to pay tax on a million dollars', just say "Well excuuuuuuse me!"
:-)
"Ok, Get a CD-ROM search engine."
.eply herer
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 14:31:27 CST
From: CK Farn <HT6B0001%TWNMOE10.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Comments on File Translations
I have a comment on Ron Webster's reply on Jul 13, 89 Vol 7 No 120
regarding translations between Mac and MS-DOS files.
We have been using a MacLink+ marketed by Dataviz which comes with
three parts: a cable, a Mac disk and a PC disk. The Mac disk include
not only the Maclink+ program, but also a set of file translator that
can be used to translate files between Mac and PC. The translators are
compatible with Apple AFE program, so that one can make use of these
translators from AFE. I remember reading somewhere that Dataviz also
markets the translators seperately. The product is good and reliable
and I highly recommend it over transfer via TEXT. It will handle
among other: 1-2-3/Excel, MS WORD/MacWrite, Binary/binary, Text/Text,
Wordstar/MacWrite, WordPerfect/MacWrite ....... My version can only
recognize WordPerfect 4.2 but not 5.0 though.
Regarding the funny ASCII codes, the easiest way to eliminate them is
using a DA called DESKZAP, which allows you to eliminate these codes
easily.
Best Regards,
Farn
+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 89 14:35:30 EDT
From: Timothy Miller <TSM%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: C vs Pascal
I'm just curious: Does anyone know what approximate ratios of mac C programmers
to mac Pascal programmers might be?
Tim
tsm@brownvm.brown.edu
tsm@brownvm.bitnet
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 89 00:08:15 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: downloading Mac files from Bitnet (was: help with .hqx)
Getting Macintosh files from Bitnet archives (MacServe at PUCC or
Listserv at RICE) is actually quite a simple process. Those archives
have two kinds of files .txt and .hqx. Both of them are text (meaning
ASCII) files as far as Bitnet and host computers (be it IBM, VAX, or
SUN) are concerned. The difference is that txt files contain only
verbal information whereas hqx files contain binhexed versions of files
in Macintosh format (applications, inits, cdevs, non-TEXT documents...).
Since the files are both text until they get to your Macintosh, you
download them the same way--do not try to convert them on the computer
you use to access Bitnet. However, if the hqx files come in parts as
it is a case with many larger submissions, you should combine them on
the host computer before downloading to the Macintosh--you will have
to download less files and it is usually simpler to append files to
each other on those computers. Once those files are on the Mac, you
can look at them with any text editor (Edit or Qued or JoliWrite or
MockWrite or whatever you like). Txt files need to further processing;
however, hqx files need to be unhexed. Before doing that it is a good
idea to remove the info which is usually above the line telling that
whatever follows needs to be "treated" with Binhex 4. The colons present
in the info will confuse Binhex and you will get CRC error. If you don't
have the Binhex 4 application, you need to get it from a friend or the
local Macintosh User Group. (Warning: Binhex 5 is a completely different
program not a newer version of Binhex 4.) If you have Binhex 4, start
it up and select the Upload to Application item from its File menu, then
select the file you want to convert to Macintosh format. The second
dialog will allow you to rename or place into any folder. Typically, one
just approves whatever it is shown there--the default name will be that
of the file before it was binhexed. Alternatively, you can use StuffIt
(version 1.5.1 is recommended) which has an option to decode Binhexed
files. From experience, I would recommend to have both of the programs.
I noticed that some files binhexed (I believe) with Stuffit produce
CRC errors when unhexed with Binhex but decode fine with StuffIt. You
may need StuffIt anyway since quite a few hqx files actually are StuffIt
archives. By the way, StuffIt is a shareware and you should also look
for it among your friends or in the local MUG. Another program which may
be needed is PackIt III (latest I saw was version 1.3 I believe). You
need to get it just as the other two. PackIt is an older compression
utility but there are still quite a few packed files in the archives.
You can recognize between the two by the suffix appended to the file
name (after it is unhexed): .sit means StuffIt archive and .pit means
PackIt archive. Each of these two has also a sibling program, Unstuffit
and Unpackit, respectively, which work only one way. If you get them,
they will do as well as the full versions for downloading.
As far as the downloading process, you can use any modem and communication
package you like. It neither makes a difference if you use Kermit or
Xmodem as long as files are transferred correctly.
I hope that the above notes, as brief and condensed as they are, will
help Mark and all other readers of this digest who have problems with
retrieving Macintosh files from Bitnet archives.
Robert
[One comment: if you use StuffIt 1.5.1 to decode the .hqx files, you do NOT
have to strip the file header (the stuff before the This file must be
converted... line). -Bill]
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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 89 14:12:29 EDT
From: Timothy Miller <TSM%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Driver refNums
I'm in the process of writing a screen saver. The best and most likely to be
compatible way of getting periodic control to check for events and do the
drawing if the mac is idle seems to be to write a driver to use the accRun
control call from SystemTask. However, all the refNum/unit table slots that
aren't used for Apple drivers, desk accessories, or scsi drivers are reserved.
Is there an "Apple reccomended" or "correct" way to determine what refNum I
should use? Should I just write the driver as a desk accessory, require the
user to install it, and load it in at startup with an init? (This last method
doesn't seem too good if desk accessories are going away in the near future.)
Currently I have the driver in a file along with an init. The driver is marked
as sys and locked so that the init can open the driver and then detach the
resource to keep the driver around across launches and after the init file is
closed.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Tim
tsm@brownvm.brown.edu
tsm@brownvm.bitnet
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Date: 14 July 89, 08:03:00 MST
From: ICBAL%ASUACAD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Equations and MSWord
I work in a Math Dept. where MS Word and MathType is the favored
combination for preparing tests, referee's reports, etc. But there is a
big problem with Word 4.0 which has sent us scurrying back to Word 3.02:
When an equation is created in MathType (or any other equation
processor) and is pasted into a Word paragraph, it is pasted
sitting "on the baseline" and must be selected and subscripted in
order to line up properly with the line of text it is pasted into.
This is the same in both word 3.0 and 4.0. However, Word 3.0 will
"close up" the space above the pasted line as soon as the equation is
subscripted; but Word 4.0 will not--resulting in a very large gap
above the line containing the equation. This makes for very unsightly
paragraphs. The problem seems to exist with any pasted graphic.
Does anyone know of a solution to this problem with Word 4.0?
I appears that Microsoft wants us to use Word's built-in formulas
(which we don't like) or none at all.
Bruce Long
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University BITNET: ICBAL@ASUACAD
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Date: Sun, 16 Jul 89 23:13 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Info on Timbuktu
Mohamad El Jazzar requested further info on Timbuktu. The reply may have
wider interest, so here it goes:
Timbuktu was produced and originally marketed by WOS Data Systems. The
company has since been taken over by Farallon, which is now in charge of
sales. I believe, however, that tech development still takes place at WOS's
original location. Both addresses follow:
Farallon Computing, Inc.
2150 Kittredge Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
(415) 849-2331
fax: 841-5770
WOS Data Systems, Inc.
1321 Wakarusa Drive
Suite 2010
Lawrence, KS 66044
(913) 843-8101
I bought the product over a year ago, so I'd rather not provide pricing
info which would surely turn out to be outdated. At one point MacConnection
did carry Timbuktu -- and they still might. Refer to their current ad on
any Mac magazine for a reliable "street price".
Essentially, what the program does is replace the screen of any Mac "guest"
on an AppleTalk network with the screen of one Mac "host". If desired, the
keyboards and mice of any of the guests can be used to control the host.
The user at the host machine has full control over access privileges, and
password protection can be used if desired.
The main advantage of the program is that more than one person, regardless
of physical location, can work on the same project and exchange
contributions immediately. In a teaching lab situation, it solves at the
same time the problem of showing the entire class what's going on (without
the logistic problems and expense of a projection system), and of providing
the teacher with feedback as to the students' progress. It also seems to
encourage participation from those not bold enough to stand up and walk to
a blackboard: everyone remains seated at the respective workstations,
resulting in noticeable anxiety abatement.
Problems I have encountered (using slightly-outdated version 2.0.1):
* hardware incompatibilities:
Since Timbuktu uses broadcasting to allow multiple guest connections, our
AppleTalk ImageWriter had to be taken off the network. This is a hardware
problem in the IW AppleTalk interface, and it is high time Apple came out
with an upgrade for it. The problem can be mitigated by segregating the IW
in a different zone and setting Timbuktu not to broadcast across bridges.
Timbuktu and broadcasting also caused our GatorBox to crash repeatedly.
Again, the fault was apparently on the hardware side, and Cayman
(GatorBox's makers) were very helpful in tracking down and solving the bug.
This, BTW, reminds me to point out that "AppleTalk network" means just that
-- regardless of transport layer, so that guests and host can be on any
combination of LocalTalk and Ethernet (and, I imagine, Token Ring as well).
* speed considerations:
Timbuktu works better if it only has to relay QuickDraw commands to draw
the host screen on the guest Mac. However, it is possible to force
transmission of a bitmap for those applications (typically, paint programs)
that twiddle the bits directly. Obviously, in the latter case there is a
lot more network traffic involved, and everything gets noticeably slower.
*interaction limits:
Timbuktu will take over the entire screen of the guest (in fact, if you
have multiple screens, the non-menu ones will be visible, but inactive). It
would be nice if it displayed in a window, so as to allow cut-and-paste
betweeen host and guest. In fact, since logging into a host involves some
waiting on a busy network, it would be even nicer to have multiple sessions
going on in multiple windows, allowing one-click-away switching.
File transfer between host and guest is available in the new version (3.0),
but I cannot comment on it as yet.
The host mouse and keyboard have priority over other input attempts, but
the guests are all on the same level. It's easy in our lab to have a
student start a drawing -- and watch it turn into garbled scribbles because
someone at another guest Mac jerked the mouse. It would help if input at
one guest locked out momentarily inputs from all other guests.
Tech support may cause some concern, because (as of a couple of months ago)
there are, apparently, just two people in charge -- and when they're out
for lunch you're out of luck. However, the program is fairly
straightforward and no major problems should come up.
The package's "anti-piracy" scheme involves entering a valid serial number
at each workstation. The number is recorded on a configuration file, and
can be changed at any time -- but no two workstation on the same net can
have the same number at the same time.
Hope the above is of help. Best regards,
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Fri 14 Jul 89 10:02:02-PDT
From: Bonnie Hiller <HILLER@score.stanford.edu>
Subject: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
I'm using Word 4 to produce business documents for the Computer Forum.
I want the Stanford Logo on our letterhead, and I have a postscripted
version that I use. The problem is this:
When the logo prints on the first page of any document, it prints
about a quarter of an inch too low and prints over the return address.
On all subsequent pages of the document, the logo prints where it
should.
I have tried putting the logo postscript information in the body of
the document, I've put it in as a first header and as a plain header.
I've tried it in all of these places as hidden text.
When I called Technical Support at Microsoft they had me make a small
change to the name of the Word Settings document in the Systems folder
and told me to start up Word again. That didn't work, and they seemed
mystified.
So far the only solution is to take my one page document, copy it so I
have two pages saying the same thing, and then print it. The second
page comes out ok, and the first page I use as a file copy.
Does anyone have a solution or at least some suggestions towards a
solution for this problem?
-Bonnie
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:46:54 CDT
From: Revised List Processor (1.5o) <LISTSERV%RICE@rice.edu>
Subject: System icons different?
I have a problem. My system, Finder, Clipboard and scrapbook icons
have all changed. Sounds like the scores virus, right? Well maybe.
I have already found two virus programs on my hard disk drive, so
I have done a lot of reading. I know that the scores virus changes those same
icons, however it changes them to documents, mine changed to better drawings of
the mac plus with shadded screens? In addition my drive is testing clean, I am
testing with various shareware and PD packages. Could it be scores or is it
something else? Hopefully, its not a virus at all, but something I did like
putting a file in the system folder or making my system file to large.
Any ideas?
Lee Brannon ---------- CCREBEL @ INDST
[Colorfinder?]
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 14:44 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: turning postscript into epsf
> While we're on the subject of postscript, does any one know the file format
> for doing an EPSF file such that when it is imported it displays a screen
> rendtion of what is contained in the postscript code.
According to MacWeek of july 11 p. 20, Smart Art by Emerald
City Software, 415-324-8080, "can open PostScript text files. download
the postscript commands to your laserwriter, pull back the image from
the printer, display it on the sceen and save it as an EPS file."
It's sold by macZone (1-800-248-0800) for $89.
I've never seem the product, nor have I bought anything from MacZone.
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Date: 17 Jul 89 06:18:36 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Two system folders
A very simple way to maintain two system folders is to simply drag the
Finder out of the folder you don't want to boot and drag the
appropriate copy of the Finder into the folder you DO wish to boot.
You usually have to open and close the folder to "bless" it.
Simple. Uncomplicated.
scott
truesdel@ics.uci.edu
--
Scott Truesdell
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 89 16:18:22 -0700
From: johnroc@ucsco.ucsc.edu (John Rocchio (x2578))
Subject: Unix program submission
Here is a shar file that contains a set of shell scripts, awk scripts and
c programs to ask for and retrive a given number of days worth of
submissions to info-mac. Mail questions or comments to johnroc@ucsco.ucsc.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/unix/info-mac-access.shar; 16K]
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 11:33:25 CDT
From: Revised List Processor (1.5o) <LISTSERV%RICE@rice.edu>
Subject: Where to begin?
Fellow Mac evangelist and Macinoids, I am currently trying to
expand my knowledge of the macintosh inerds and I keep running into
brick walls. I am using Resedit and several ICON changing packages to
try and create my own ICON# and ICONS, however I have little knowledge
about the subject and all my efforts end in frustration. For example:
I added some icon resources to a HyperCard stack, this worked, but I changed
the ICON for the stack (In resedit it shows its changed) and when I go back
to the desktop its still the same? Can ICONS for Documents and Stacks be
changed?
I read someplace about having to rebuild the desktop, so I tried that, the only
change that took effect was that my icons for Kermit V.09(40) changed back to
pictures of Kermit the frog!
So, I guess what I am asking is for assitance in finding
information on the following topics :
RESEDIT
the DESKTOP
ICONs
ICN#s
and changing resources period.
I have the last two years of MACUSER and last years MACWORLD and ofcourse
access to the INFO-MAC DIGEST archieves, so if anyone knows of some helpful
information in these publications or the name of a good book could you please
send me a message.
Thank you all Lee Brannon
CCREBEL @ INDST
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 13:43:05 EDT
From: man@cs.brown.edu
Subject: WordRef 1.0: cross-referencing and bibliography for Word
Here is an application and HyperCard stack I developed for producing cross-
references and bibliographies using Word 3/4. It is yet another facility
which uses the Print Merge facility of Word, but I have tried to do it in
a way which is more general than any of the systems which preceded me, so
that it should be able to handle virtually any cross-referencing and
bibliography needs. It is a ShareWare package and may be distributed
not-for-profit as long as the application, stack, and document are all
kept together.
Some of the features are:
o No limit on the number of counters (variables) used for cross-
references
o Variables can be combined in general arithmetic expressions
o Increment operators are included for convenience
o Variables can have strings interspersed with numbers
o Can scan Word files directly (if Fast Save is off)
o There can be any number of Word files or bibliography files in a
single manuscript
o The bibliography files are kept in the ever popular BibTeX format
o A HyperCard stack is provided for maintaining the bibliography
files
o Several different citations styles are provided to go at the point
of reference
o A user-definable style sheet is used for formatting the
bibliography entries.
Enjoy!
--Mark
[Archived as /info-mac/app/wordref.hqx; 179K]
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If I have a postscript file, (produced somewhere else like on a unix system
or the like) and transfer it down to a mac is there any easy way to
print it? If I do something like printing it from Microsoft word
I just get the postscript commands.
-Castor Fu
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 18 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 123
Today's Topics:
1st Aid Software
Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
BroadCast 1.1
CD-ROM's: The really BIG question.
color icons
Creating Color Icons.....
C vs Pascal
DeskWriter
Equations and MSWord
Info-Mac Digest V7 #121
Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
Macintosh Reference Book
Mac Plus power supplies
Postscripted Logo on Word 4
Postscript Logo on Word 4
Segment Unloading When Printing
Simulation/arcade software?
System Icons different...
TeXtures
Wireless Trackball for Mac-II
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 09:58 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: 1st Aid Software
In response to William Grant's query, 1st Aid Kit is from 1st Aid Software;
42 Radnor Road, Boston, MA 02135; (617) 783-7118.
We use 1st Aid Kit extensively here at BC, and have found that it is excellent
for recovering lost files and floppys, as well as rebuilding volume and file
directories on hard disks. The only drawback I have found is with it's MFS
version, which is implemented differently than the HFS version and is much more
cumbersome to work with. Often it does not work at all; however, if you are
only working with HFS floppy and hard disk, I recommend it highly.
Dan Henderson
Computing Consultant,
Boston College
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 15:03:02 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: Apple-Approved Mac II Fan Noise Solution
Here is some clarification concerning the fan controller (it is funny,
Nova Norway seems to know more about this than Nova International):
2. Installation requires a little soldering of the fan
power wires.
There are at least two versions of the power supply for the MacII.
Depending on which version you have, you either slip the fan
controller right in there, or you have to fiddle around with a
soldering iron, due to incompatible plugs. They are in the process of
getting versions for both types of plugs, in which case the soldering
will become unnecessary.
3. The product was implemented by their European office,
and was not yet available in the U.S
It will be shown at the MacWorld show in Boston.
I suspect that cutting and soldering wires will invalidate an Apple
warranty.
It has to be installed by an Apple techie if you are particular about
the letter of the law, anyhow. If you have the type of power supply
where soldering is unnecessary then you leave no traces, even if you
should (God forbid) install it yourself.
Sigurd Meldal (SDA & just a very happy customer)
Hard mail:
Department of Informatics | Arpa:sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no
Thormohlens gt.. 55 | meldal@anna.stanford.edu
N - 5006 Bergen | Uucp: ...decwrl!glacier!shasta!anna!meldal
Norway |
phone: +47 5 54 41 53
fax: +47 5 54 41 99
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 10:43:54 EDT
From: Michael J Antonio <MIKEA%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: BroadCast 1.1
Does BroadCast 1.1 work with system 6.0.3? I just installed it on a vanilla
6.0.3, and it crashed with an ID of 11.
Any ideas?
MikeA
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Date: 18 Jul 89 07:30 EDT
From: science@nems.arpa (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: CD-ROM's: The really BIG question.
Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET in Info-Mac Digest V7 #122 mentions my TEX, TEXAS,
etc. HyperCard stacks. Some slight corrections & additional comments:
- current version is still 0.51 (not 5.1!) from last fall; only change
from 0.5 which I think is in the archive is in handling umlauts, accents,
etc. properly in the Context view; if anybody wants to upload 0.51
to replace 0.5, and to upload source code, etc., please feel free to
do so (I don't have time and my net connection is not good for big
files)
- I haven't tried TEX (or the associated qndxr.c, brwsr.c, generic indexing
and browsing programs that work on Suns, VAXen, etc.) on CD-ROM media;
a heavily-rewritten version was used by Broderbund on their Electronic
Whole Earth Catalog CD, but I don't know any details
- since Apple has dropped me from their Developer's program, I can't afford
to do much more Macintosh work on free-text indexing/browsing to give
away, but I do have a bunch of ideas in the queue and if I can manage to
get some of them implemented later this summer, I'll post source code
(basically, I figured out a nice mouse-driven way to do full boolean
searching, using multiple windows into subsets of the database, and
I plan to include full user control of font and alphabetization during
the index-building phase, as requested by a bunch of linguists). Next
version of the program will probably be named 'Free Text', if that isn't
already owned by some company's lawyers, and will be free software in
the RMS/GNU sense
If anybody has other ideas/suggestions to try to work in to the next
indexer/browser release, pls let me know ... for instance, does anybody
really need to see the word list sorted right-to-left? How important is
the ability to browse multiple files at once?? Etc.... ↑z
(science@nems.arpa)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 13:41 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: color icons
In regards to a recent query as to editing color icons:
there are two utilities in the info-mac archives to do this:
util/color-icon-editor.hqx is a full-fledged color icon editor that can
be used to edit a black/white icon into a color one by copying the black
and white icon to a cicn. This is probably the easiest way of
creating color icons, especially for use with color finder.
Another utility is
tech/rescicn-10b3.hqx
This is a Resedit TMPL that must be installed in Resedit 1.2 (you may
have to have the official release version or one very close to it for
it to work. I distinctly recall never getting it to work with
SOME pre-release version of resedit 1.2. Anyway, this can be used
to edit color icons from resedit, but the colors are harder to work with.
The main advantage is that you do not have to know the ID number of
either a color icon or b/w icon in advance as you must with color-icon-editor.
Since most applications have ID numbers of 128,129 etc. for its icn#, this may
not be too much of a problem, but for the ones in color finder, you must first
use Resedit to get the id numbers, then switch to color-icon-editor.
Jim
UT Martin
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 20:25:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Creating Color Icons.....
In regard to one of the question on how to create color icons,
here are some suggestions. I had a lot of experience with these
as a friend of mine has produced a full fledged color icon
editor application. You should see it real soon.
Some options for creating color icons are:
1) Work out the long tedious calculations in hex.
(I don't like this way at all. Too much Time for one
icon. This is the best way to create a color cursor
though. I have a hack that I can post if anyone is
interested. The hack allows you to create your own
color cursor. Send me mail if interested and I'll post
it.)
2.) There is a version of Res-Edit that does allow you
to edit color icons. This part of the program is
fairly buggy though. I crashed it several times doing
color icon creations. I am not sure of the version
that has the color icon editor. One way to check though
is to go into ResEdit, make a new file, and create a cicn
resource. If you open the resource and it let's you edit it,
you're in! If not, try a different version!
3.) Here is a method that I have not done testing on yet,
however, I have succesfulyt colored other resources this
way.(ie. Aldus' startup screen, pallettes, etc.)
The problem with this method is that it depends directly
on the way the program that you are editing handles the
display of their icons, dialogs etc. If the port that the
program uses is strictly a black and white one, you will
probably run into problems. What you do is to copy the
resource from Res-edit and paste it into a color graphics
editor. Color the resource, and paste it back into the
resource file of whatever you took it from. Beware! this is
tricky and buggy! It only works for some types of resources,
and you must take care to keep the dimesions intact! Otherwise
the program that uses the resurce will not like you at all.
Be careful! It didn't take Einstein to figure this out and
it doesn't work as well as any of his ideas either.
4.) My friend has written a color icon editor. It is beautiful.
By far the best program ever written for the editing of color
icons. You'll have to take my word for it. He will be releasing
it sometime in the near(I hope) future. Whether he sells it,
sharewares it or what I don't know. Look for it though and get it
when he releases it! You won't be dissapointed. His e-mail
address is wa0h@andrew.cmu.edu
A little proding from those in netland might help!!
5.) Some of the other currently available icon editorsmight
handle color icons. I don't know I have not tried any of them.
You'll be responsible for this one on your own.
Extra Huge Discalimer:
These are strictly my ideas and I do not represent any of the
people or companies mentioned in this article. I simply am
offering ideas on color icons.
*****************************************************************
* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
*****************************************************************
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 07:39:00 PDT
From: drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: C vs Pascal
It depends on who you ask. The C programmers I know say that they comprise
about 60% of the market, the Pascalers claim to be 50-60% of the market. I
happen to be both and use each about equally. Looking around here, it's
about 50-50, at Ashton-Tate it was about 70-30 Pascal, at Microsoft it's
almost all C, at Symantec it's about even (from the people I've talked to).
According to APDA sales figures, they sell about equally with C having a
lead of 1-3 percent (but for MPW C, there are no alternative sources while
TML gives you an alternative source for MPW with a Pascal compiler). If
you say that it's about even, you'll be real close. Remember, real programmers
use whatever is available at the time that will get the job done.
--
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
------------
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 16:19:07 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: DeskWriter
I have heard rumors of a new HP printer called the DeskWriter, which is
supposedly compatible w/Macintosh, and comes with some good resident fonts,
etc. Has anybody heard anything more concrete about availability, price,
print mechanism, etc? Thanks!
--Mike Kobb
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 12:04:43 HAE
From: Patrice Gosselin <SACPAT%LAVALVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Equations and MSWord
----> Question
When an equation is created in MathType (or any other equation
processor) and is pasted into a Word paragraph, it is pasted
sitting "on the baseline" and must be selected and subscripted in
order to line up properly with the line of text it is pasted into.
This is the same in both word 3.0 and 4.0. However, Word 3.0 will
"close up" the space above the pasted line as soon as the equation is
subscripted; but Word 4.0 will not--resulting in a very large gap
above the line containing the equation. This makes for very unsightly
paragraphs. The problem seems to exist with any pasted graphic.
----> Answer:
You should try to remove Auto from Line Spacing in the Menu Paragraph. I can't
guarantee the result since I don't have Mathtype. But it's worth a try.
(Instead of Auto, place the real size you need) Maybe you'll need to make this
specific line as a paragraph to avoid all the lines around it getting as wide
as the one containing your formula.
Patrice Gosselin
Services a la clientele
Centre de traitement de l'information
Universite Laval
Quebec
Canada
G1K 7P9
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 16:17:08 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #121
Dear fellow-MacIsts,
does anyone know the answer to the following stupid question: is there a way
to interface an Epson-compatible 24-pin printer (like the LQ-500) with the Mac
and have it do anything sensible? You may reply either to me directly, or to
the Info-Mac digest. (My address is LUCTHSCH at BDILUC11.BITNET)
Thanks in advance,
J.M.L.Martin
Quantum Chemistry
Department SBM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
B-3610 Diepenbeek
BELGIUM
Disclaimer: IBM is no longer the acronym to Italian Branch of the Mafia. Its
official reading (after 9 months of dicussion in four independent
top-secret task groups) is now: I'd Buy a Mac
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 09:44:19 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
I have a problem. My system, Finder, Clipboard and scrapbook
icons have all changed. Sounds like the scores virus, right? Well
maybe.
I have already found two virus programs on my hard disk drive,
so I have done a lot of reading. I know that the scores virus
changes those same icons, however it changes them to documents,
mine changed to better drawings of the mac plus with shadded
screens?
[Colorfinder?]
This does indeed sound as if the ColorFinder INIT (or a similar one called
Icon Colorizer, I believe) has been installed in your System folder. If
either of these INITs is present, many of your desktop icons will be
replaced with nicer-looking cicn (color icon) patterns. ColorFinder's
icon for "System" files (e.g. System, Scrapbook, etc.) is an image of a
Mac II, displayed in color; the color-icon for the System folder is a
folder with a miniature Mac II in the center. MacWrite documents appear
much as they did before, except that the top of the icon is displayed in
blue. The generic application icon (hand holding pen, writing on
document) is mostly unchanged; the pen is displayed in color.
If this is the sort of thing you're observing, and if a good virus-
detecting program (e.g. Disinfectant) says that your system is not infected,
then don't worry.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 09:10:05 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Macintosh Reference Book
Greetings,
There is a book that will soon be appearing from Addison-Wesley titled
"Dr. Macintosh - Tips, Techniques, and Advice on Mastering the Macintosh"
by Bob LeVitus that I recommend every Macintosh user in the world buy.
Even if you don't use a Macintosh I think you should buy this book. The
fact that I am quoted in the book on pages 259, 268, 285, 286, 287, and 289
has nothing to do with this recommendation (well, maybe a little... *heh*).
* BRUCE A. CARTER OFFICE: (208) 385-1250 *
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 08:22:12 PDT
From: palkovic%almond.hepnet@lbl.gov (John Palkovic)
Subject: Mac Plus power supplies
Hello there. Is this Info-Mac? If not ignore the following message.
My Mac Plus died on me last week after less than 7 months of ownership. It
was purchased new in Dec. '88. I have described the symptoms over the phone
to a Mac technician at the local dealer and he agrees with me that it is
probably the power supply gone bad. Of course he will gladly replace it for
$206 parts and labor. After calling around the area I have ascertained that
this is the best deal available for me. I would buy the supply and install it
myself but then the 90 day parts and service warranty on the new supply would
be voided. My question for those of you out there in Mac land is are there
any alternatives to having the supply replaced at an Apple dealer? Are there
any companies which sell reliable replacements for the Plus power supply? Can
I expect to replace my power supply every six months now?
I am quite discouraged by this turn of events. I think the Macintosh is
one of the greatest things to happen in computing. Is it common knowledge
among computer repair technicians that Macintosh power supplies are
unreliable? I remember reading in a recent issue of Info-Mac about someone
who had sold their plus and bought an SE after replacing the supply for the
second time in two years. Now I know why the warranty is for only 90 days.
Please post replies directly to me.
John Palkovic bitnet: palkovic@fnalad
decnet: FNAL::PALKOVIC
DISCLAIMER: This space intentionally left blank.
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 14:32:28 EDT
From: Tom Downey x2558 11/333 <tdowney@bbn.com>
Subject: Postscripted Logo on Word 4
The READ ME file that came with my version of Word 4 says that there is a bug
in printing PostScript on the first page of a document. The workaround listed,
which has worked for me and explains your results, is to arrange
things so that the first page does not include PostScript (e.g., a blank page,
printing back-to-front, print it twice, etc.). Your first page with Postscript
came out wrong (the bug apparently causes the Postscript image to be in the
wrong place on the page) but the second page worked fine. This only occurs with
in-line Postscript code; I have documents with encapsulated PostScript figures
(from Freehand) on the first page, and these work ok.
Tom Downey
tdowney@bbn.com
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 12:05:56 EDT
From: Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Postscript Logo on Word 4
This problem (misplaced Postscript graphics on the first page) sounds
exactly like a known problem described in the file "Using Postscript
with Word" which comes on the Word 4.0 distribution disks. (It's in the
"Postscript Glossary" folder.)
Quoting from that file:
"If you use a print spooler or use Background Printing with MultiFinder
to print documents containing PostScript commands, a System bug causes
PostScript graphics on the first page of a document to be printed
incorrectly. (The PostScript graphics are shifted down and to the
right.) PostScript graphics are printed correctly on all other pages of
the document.
"You can work around this bug at least two ways:
* "Insert a blank page at the end of your document and print the
document back-to-front.
* "Print the entire document using the print spooler or Background
Printing. Then turn off the print spooler or Background Printing
and reprint only the first page."
I'm a little suprised that Microsoft Technical Support didn't mention
this.
There are a couple of other files full of interesting tidbits on these
disks, mostly hidden in folders. In particular, all users of Word 4
should probably read the file "Word 4 ReadMe", which contains errata for
the manuals.
--Pete Poorman
Control Data Corporation
9894 Bissonnet, Suite 229 Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Houston, Texas 77036 USERK1Y6@UMICHUM (Bitnet)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 11:21:40 EDT
From: Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Segment Unloading When Printing
"Unloading" a segment doesn't actually remove it from memory.
It just marks it so that it can be removed if the memory is needed
for something else.
So I'd say go ahead and "unload" all your uninvolved segments when
printing. If the memory isn't needed for printing then the system will
automatically leave the segments in RAM, and there won't be any negative
effects. If the memory *is* needed for printing then your users will be better
off if you "unloaded".
--Pete Poorman
Control Data Corporation
9894 Bissonnet, Suite 229
Houston, Texas 77036
713-778-6274
Peter_Poorman@um.cc.umich.edu (Internet)
USERK1Y6@UMICHUM (Bitnet)
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 09:26:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Yozie <dy0b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Simulation/arcade software?
I'm not sure this is the appropriate bboard for this question, but here
it is anyway.
I was wondering if I could get some recommendations for good
simulation/entertainment programs for the macintosh. What I'm looking
for is something that's relatively simple to learn, has good graphics
and animation, and would involve an extended playing time. Perhaps
something on the lines of Harrier Strike Mission II, but with more
strategy and maybe less arcade-oriented.
Thanks for the info,
David Yozie
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 10:43:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: System Icons different...
If you are running color Finder and the proper cicn and
icn# resources are there, then ColorFinder will put the
color icons in place of the old ones. It does not sound
like you have a virus. Your system file has become larger
because of the new icons. I would go into res-edit and
take a look inside your system and finder files. In
particular, look in the icn# and cicn resources of each.
Remember, if you installed cicns in the sytem files cicn
resource file, you're system will get bigger. ColorFinder
won't make the system file itself bigger but you will see
a RAM decrease. Hope this helps.
Good Luck!
*****************************************************************
* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
*****************************************************************
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 15:01:05 EST
From: Alan Stein <STEIN%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: TeXtures
I just obtained TeXtures for my office and realized that it was
not ordered with Latex. Can Latex be obtained from an archive without
having to purchase it?
Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet
Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN
32 Hillside Avenue |
Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500
(203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein
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Date: 18 Jul 89 02:18:12 GMT
From: kurt%pyr@gatech.edu (STIREWALT,RICHARD ERICK KURT)
Subject: Wireless Trackball for Mac-II
Does anyone know of a remote controlled (that is, wireless connection)
trak-ball or mouse for a Mac-II? Any information would be helpful. We
would like to buy one, but if someone can give references to technical
information on the construction of such a device that would be fine also.
Thanks. Please reply via e-mail as I don't normally read these groups.
Thanks again.
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% Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 %
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% ARPA: kurt@pyr.gatech.edu %
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Word will print postscript. One needs to format the postscript commands
to style "PostScript" so that when they are printed, they will be interpreted
rather than simply printed as text. This feature is documented on pp. 284-288
of the Word 4.0 user's guide. Undoubtably, the documentation for earier
versions of Word cover this feature. Try looking under "PostScript" or some
such in the reference manual.
Incidentally, one can also generate postscript from virtually any program.
Choose the laser printer as the printing device and turn off background
printing. When you want postscript, print as usual, except type option-F
just after clicking the O.K. button on the print dialogue box. The computer
will say something like "generating postscript file" and produce a file
named something like "postscript0" (or 1 or 2 or whatever). You can then
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 19 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 124
Today's Topics:
appletalk-daisychain or star
Broadcast problem
Changed icons for system files
ColorFinder and Color Icons
C vs Pascal (2 msgs)
Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
Macintosh-II Memory Prices
Need a Mac text-searching utiltiy
PlaySound
Printer driver for LaserJet?
SecureInit 1.8
Windows 2.1
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 15:35 CDT
From: Fred Schulz <CHEE77@uhvax1.uh.edu>
Subject: appletalk-daisychain or star
Is it ok to connect several appletalk nodes together using
a star configuration, or must they must be daisy-chained. We have about
10 macs, a laserwriter and an imagewriter II - several of the
macs' and the imagewriter's phoneNet connections emanate from a 1-to-5
modular plug adapter. Printing to this imagewriter II is much slower than
printing to a imagewriter II on a similarly equipped, but completely daisy-
chained, appletalk network in another area. Switching printers changes nothing.
Could the star configuration be the cause of the problem?
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 08:21:00 EDT
From: Michael J Antonio <MIKEA%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Broadcast problem
Well, I feel kind of silly, because my problem with BROADCAST was that I
hadn't installed the AppleShare Workstation. I just dragged the AppleShare
and ApplePrep into my system folder, and expected it to work. HOWEVER,
I'm a bit dissapointed that BROADCAST crashes the machine because of this.
Couldn't it just put up a message saying that it can't work, and then
refuse to work? It would have made a lot more sense, and I would have
figured out the AppleShare problem when my servers failed to mount.
Thanks to everyone who sent mail,
Mike"I'm leaving, so don't send me any mail"A
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 17:15 EST
From: Bruce <LEBAN@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Changed icons for system files
Lee Brannon (CCREBEL @ INDST) writes:
> I have a problem. My system, Finder, Clipboard and scrapbook icons
> have all changed. Sounds like the scores virus, right? Well maybe.
> ... to better drawings of the mac plus with shaded screens ...
> Any ideas?
This is probably not a virus. Several distribution disks for BCS included
a system file with hacked icons (macs with shaded screens to be precise)).
It's easy to get this icon instead of your existing icons due to features
of the Finder which try to copy icons when you copy files. You probably copied
a file with one of these icons in it without realizing it (perhaps inside a
folder). Reinitializing the desktop will solve the problem IF you already
deleted the file. (command-option on entry to finder, restart under
multifinder, or for hackers, under multifinder with macsbug and no running
applications, "es" and then hold down command-option). If not, I guess you
can look for all files of type ZSYS with the bundle bit set. DiskTop can do
the first part and then do a get info to see if the bundle bit is set.
Good luck.
--- Bruce Leban
leban@cs.umass.edu
leban@umass.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 12:07:37 EDT
From: rpk@goldhill.com
Subject: ColorFinder and Color Icons
I've been using the Color Icon Editor (ResCicn from Equileo in France,
posted to Info-Mac) pasted into ResEdit 1.2. I had real problems with
earlier versions of ResEdit, but all you Apple Partners out there
should have ResEdit 1.2 by now, right ? It's a little buggy
(especially Undo and the line tool), but it works. I've limited
myself to 16-color icons -- I didn't realize that there were color
icon editors out there that weren't as flexible (in terms of pallette
size and selection) as ResCicn.
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Date: Wed 19 Jul 1989 08:17 CDT
From: "Scott Hutiner" <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: C vs Pascal
About C and Pascal. I bought Both C and Pascal due to the fact that MacApp
was only available with Pascal. APDA sold a bundle with C and Pascal
which was very reasonable. Needless to say, I only used the Pascal to
compile the MacApp sources. But, I decided to wait for C++. Maybe APDA
should see who purchased C, Pascal and MacApp.
Scott Hutinger -> Macomb Projects.WIU
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 13:39:52 BST
From: ms@racal-itd.co.uk
Subject: C vs Pascal
At the risk of starting a religious war...
It's interesting that C has become so popular in the Mac developer community,
given that the Toolbox is oriented to Pascal. I wonder if this is just because
more people came to the Mac with C experience, or if it partly represents a
frustration with using Pascal. (How many Assembly Language Notes refer to
relatively simple pointer coercions or global memory accesses?) Hypercard's
XCMD/XFCN interface, which uses an argc/argv-ish convention with null terminated
strings, seems almost perverse given its initial "almost-part-of-the-system" status.
BTW, any rumours about a C++ 2.0 compiler in the wind? I'd love to see a
programmer's interface of Lightspeed C quality put to use on C++.
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+
| Mark Smith, Racal Imaging Systems Ltd., | ms@ritd.co.uk |
| Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, | || |
| England RG24 0NW (tel: +44 256 469943) | ..uunet!ukc!ritd!ms |
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 16:59:56 PDT
From: rb-dc1!wcody@uunet.uu.net (Bill Cody)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #122
When the SE/30 was announced several months ago, I read about Apple's plan
to offer an SE to SE/30 upgrade path. I need more memory and processor
speed; should I go with the SE/30 upgrade or spend money on a 3rd party
68030 plug-in board?
Has anyone taken the SE to SE/30 plunge who can shed some light?
Thanks!
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 16:01:18 PDT
From: nomdenet@venera.isi.edu
Subject: Macintosh-II Memory Prices
Soon my pocketbook will contain enough $$$ to satisfy my craving for more
memory and a hard disk for my Mac II, so in late June I checked prices
of both 256KB and 1MB SIMMs. The recent messages anent memory upgrades
prompted me to share the results of my survey.
From the pages of MacUser and Macworld I compiled a list of about 20 memory
sellers, whom I proceeded to call. Herewith are the top ones, with prices
per SIMM, and notes:
American Micro Distributors, Inc. (714) 840-5560
1MB SMD, 100ns: $139
lifetime guarantee
Intel chips, their boards
in business 7 years (brokering chips)
assembling SIMMS for 2 years
accept P.O.s
CDC Enterprise (714) 630-4633
1MB SMD, 120ns: $139
256KB SMD, 120ns: 37.50
one-year warrantee
one-day repair/replacement policy
"will meet any reasonable competition"
Digi-Grahpics (801) 544-2009
1MB SMD, 100ns: $149
1MB DIP, 100ns: 129
256KB SMD, 100ns: 40
one-year guarantee
in business 4 years; Mac upgrades, SIMMs for 1 year
accept P.O.s
Mac Friends (800) 331-1322
256KB SIMMs: $37.50
"American-made quality"
MacLand (800) 333-3353 (602) 820-5802
4x1MB SMD, 100ns: $598
one-year warrantee; replacement
accept P.O.s
MacProducts USA (800) 622-3475
1MB DIP, 100/120ns: 149
lifetime guarantee on SIMMs, 1-year guarantee on chips
Newer Technology (800) 678-3726 (316) 685-4904
256KB low profile $ 65
1MB high profile 150
1MB low profile 155
80 ns
five-year guarantee
Open Mac Enterprises (415) 682-0440
min. 1-year warranty
Ram II+II: 4MB CMOS DIPs, 120ns: $580
in business 4 years
much university, government, & Fortune-500 business
accept P.O.s
South Coast Electronics (213) 489-7824
1MB SMD, 80ns: $129
30-day money-back guarantee
lifetime guarantee
immediate shipping
credit card or C.O.D. only
5 years, memory products for PCs, PS/2s, Compaqs
Mac SIMMs for 6 months
Western Automation (800) 227-4637 (303) 449-6400
1MB DIPs, 120ns: $149
one-year factory warrantee
Since '79, in CAD market
SIMMs are a side line
These prices date from the second half of June, though South Coast's 7/13
price to Joe Kazura indicates the prices probably haven't changed much.
(I did get the distinct impression that 1MB SIMMs might continue declining
through at least the summer.)
Standard disclaimers apply; your mileage may vary. To date my sole
dealings with these companies have been phone calls; Ma Bell provides my only
connection with them.
A. R. White
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, California
90292-6695
(213) 822-1511, x162
(213) 823-6714 facsimile
ARPA: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 10:15:43 CDT
From: Jeff Balvanz <@ccvax.iastate.edu:GR.JLB@ISUMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Need a Mac text-searching utiltiy
I'm on a mission from the office of the Provost here. We are
looking for a program to scan Mac files for a specific text string
to locate all the files on a volume containing that string (sort of
like grep, I think). Since the task is fairly simple (again, I
think) there ought to be something out there, possibly in the public
domain, but in my random searching of the info-mac archives and the
software catalogs I haven't been able to identify anything. I will
accept either PD or commercial solutions. Thanks in advance.
Jeff Balvanz BITNET: GR.JLB@ISUMVS
Senior Technical Consultant INTERNET: GR.JLB@WYLBUR.IASTATE.EDU
Microcomputer Services PHONE: (515) 294-8683
Iowa State University Computation Center USMail: 191 DURHAM CENTER, ISU,
AMES, IA 50011
"6502 (compatibles) FOREVER!"
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 10:22:37 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: PlaySound
Here is a newer version of PlaySound, the simplest sound player in the
Macintosh universe. It puts up an SFGetFile dialog and allows you to select a
file of type FSSD (as created by SoundCap, SoundWave, and Sound Recorder) and
it plays it. If you hold the option key down it will play it repeatedly. Any
sound can be interrupted by a mouse click. When you pick Cancel, it quits.
Changes in this version: A bigger dialog box. Less crashes due to better use
of the Sound Manager (from tips in the Apple Q&A stack). A SIZE resource for
MultiFinder.
Share and Enjoy.
Jon
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/programs/playsound.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 08:48:37 EDT
From: Richard Goldenberg <golden@VLSI.LL.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Printer driver for LaserJet?
I have a Mac SE and I have access to a HP LaserJet Series 2 printer.
Can someone tell me the story on Printer Drivers for the LaserJet? Is
there a Public Domain Driver? Thanks in advance.
Richard Goldenberg
golden@vlsi.ll.mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 16:08:19 EDT
From: Peter Galko <PTRPB%UOTTAWA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SecureInit 1.8
Recently I obtained the latest version of an application/init
which would seem to me to be of interest in a lot of university
environments where many users may have access to the same
Macintosh. The product is known as SecureInit and the latest
shareware version is provided below, which reportedly will work
until sometime in September (this is version 1.8; the full-
featured commercial version is version 2.0 which also available
now).
Basically this program is able to maintain to a large extent a
given configuration to the system software on a mac volume (by
automatically restoring selected files upon startup from pristene
versions, deleting unauthorized files from the system folder,
etc.), restrict users from running appliactions from unathorized
volumes, etc. Only someone with the application an password can
alter the configuration once a volume has been "protected".
The list of features from the shareware documentation is as
follows (these features can be enabled or disbled as required):
1. Close all windows of selected disks/volumes at startup.
2. Make the system folder invisible.
3. Replace the system file at startup if it seems to have
become corrupted, and then restart your Mac.
4. Replace any master or user selected files in the system folder
every time you restart your Mac. (ImageWriter and LaserWriter
drivers and even the Finder are often corrupted by system crashes)
5. Delete any undeclared file in the system folder. (Useful in
destroying unknown init's, files, etc...)
6. Lock all the applications.
7. Verify the applications on the protected disks/volumes
8. Disabling corrupted applications on protected disks/volumes
and changing their Icon.
9. Lock selected files in the system folder.
10. Lock the "protected" disks/volumes if the the Mac is started from
another volume.
11. Eject any system diskette being inserted in any drive and
unmount any non-declared System disks/volumes to prevent
a hard disk configuration from being changed by anyone else
other than than the user or the master having the SecureInit*
application and knowing the configuration password.
12. Prevent a user from running any application from anywhere
other than from the Mac's protected disks/volumes.
13. Purge oldest non-declared files. This means you can make a list
of never-to-delete files, and other files will be deleted as
necessary when disk space is needed for new files. Empty files
can also be automatically deleted.
14. The SecureInit* init's may be installed into the system itself.
15. SecureInit* will let you do all this to any disks/volumes
that are on-line.
16. In the commercial version (2.0-A), every configuration can be
password protected.
The documentation for the application is a bit rough (the author
is from Switzerland and English is not his first language), and
the documentation with the comercial version is only in French
but the author has told me that he is negotiating with some
North American distributor to provide the English translation
and distribute the program in N.A. The shareware edition below
is in English (though not fluently).
Finally, I disclaim any connection with the author of the program
or his company except as a short time user of the program!
[Thanks to Peter for his heroic efforts to send this file to Info-Mac despite
many bad connections. Also, I remember hearing that this program may have
some important bugs which could delete files on your hard disk. Use with
care! -Bill]
[Archived as /info-mac/init/secureinit.hqx; 190K]
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 89 03:25:48 PDT
From: GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
Subject: Windows 2.1
...This version fixes a bug, that causes "Zoom" to select a wrong
window sometimes.
For those that don't know: Windows is an control panel extension that will add
a windows menu to the finder and other applications. You can configure each
application separateley in the control panel.
Copyright 1988 Joachim Lindenberg, Sommerstrasse 4,
7500 Karlsruhe 1, West Germany. All rights reserved.
Windows is shareware. If you like and use it, send me US $10.
International users: Send your check, turning it into cash
costs me just $0.50.
Joachim Lindenberg
GER.XSE0010@applelink.apple.com
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/windows-21.hqx; 28K]
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To: su-macintosh@csli.stanford.edu
Subject: HyperCard xfcns
I need some advice on how best to do some quite complex
communication between HyperCard (actually, SuperCard)
and C. Is there anyone out there who has experience in
this kind of stuff?
Thanks.
Peter Sells
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 20 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 125
Today's Topics:
Advice sought: disk driver software
Article for the list.
BundAid v1.1
Do-it-yourself Memory upgrades - one user's experiences
Excel Problem
Horizontal scrolling in the list manager
IBM .pic format?
MIDI and HyperCard.
MS-DOS-to-Mac file transfer
Multifinder questions
Que 1.0
Screen Shot Installer v1.0
Sending postscript among applications
Start up screens
Suggestion - info-mac/init and info-mac/cdev
Which products do developers use?
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 16:10:06 -0400
From: Joel B Levin <levin@bbn.com>
Subject: Advice sought: disk driver software
I am looking for pointers and/or advice concerning disk driver and
related software for a new SCSI disk. It is a CDC WREN III 155MB
formatted SCSI external drive which is, however, unequipped with Mac
specific software.
I would appreciate any information you might have, which could range
>From names of commercial packages which would do the trick to
PD/shareware software to (for instance) advice on how to configure
Ephraim Vishniac's SF&I package to work with this drive.
I don't have the drive in my hands yet; however, it seems to have all
the required hardware (terminators, etc.). I don't know if it comes
with the manual. I intend to hook it up to my vanilla SE.
I appreciate any help. Please reply by e-mail. I'll be glad to pass
on what I learn to any who request it.
/JBL
=
UUCP: levin@bbn.com (new) or {backbone}!bbn!levin (old)
INTERNET: levin@bbn.com POTS: (617) 873-3463
"The night was"
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 14:53:02 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Article for the list.
Dear NetLanders:
We are currently configuring a Mac setup for our research effort.
We need a sophisticated mathematical package to do calculations
related to our research. I have seen Mathematica, but not used it.
I have also briefly seen MatLab for the Mac. I would appreciate it
if someone with experience in this area could give us a pointer to
the best software available. We mostly do complicated numerical
integrations (one and two variable) and plots of multi-Lorentzian
curves. We want great flexibility, and outstanding graphics capa-
bilities. We would also want to import experimental data and plot
it in publication ready form. Graphing routines that allowed for
multiple spectra and hidden lines would be super. If someone could
compare and contrast the leading programs, that would be great.
It would be ideal if the candidate program had a library of
routines similar to that available on a VAX. (Ever hear of the plasma
dispersion function [alias complex error function]?).
If you could respond directly to me, I will summarize and upload here
to info-mac. Any information is greatly appreciated.
Respond to:
Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
or to:
Webb@umiphys.bitnet
Thank you!
Michael Webb
University of Michigan Physics Department.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 16:29:22 -0400
From: boomer@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Rich Akerboom)
Subject: BundAid v1.1
This is a new version of the BundAid application that is already
in the sumex archives. BundAid scans over a disk and fixes the
bundle bits--this removes the problem that results in the
"Application Busy or Missing" error message that occurs sometimes
when a user double clicks on a document. This is version 1.1.
This stuffit archive contains the BundAid application and a
TeachText file of information.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/bundaid-11.hqx; 20K]
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Date: 19 Jul 89 19:46:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Do-it-yourself Memory upgrades - one user's experiences
Mr. Moderator and Colleagues:
Due to the recent "flurry" of postings about memory upgrades,
I thought I would share my experiences. I just upgraded my Mac SE from
1 to 2.5 meg.
Getting the memory was very easy. The best price I found (and also
the place with the nicest and seemingly most knowledgeable people I talked to)
was from Newer Technology. Their prices are comparable to everybody else's
(not much lower) but all their SIMMS are *80 ns* as opposed to 100 or 120 ns.
This would be important if the SIMMS were ever to be transferred to a machine
with a clock speed of > 16 MHz (their math, not mine.) Other people are
charging about $180 for 80 ns SIMMs, Newer Tech wanted $155 or something
like that. They also assemble the boards in-house.
The installation was pretty easy, although I was nervous. The
SIMMS came with complete instructions for installation in the Plus, the
two versions of the SE (resistor vs. jumper memory config. ID), the II,
the IICX, and the SE/030, and were quite easy to follow. I did have a
bit of help from one of the electronics techs downstairs. Only a few tools
were needed: a LONG Torx driver (get this at electronics supply stores), a
putty knife or wide-blade screwdriver (for opening the case), a small pair
of cutters (to clip the resistor), and a small "jeweler's" screwdriver to
help in getting the SIMM out of the socket. Also some type of static
protector strap MUST be worn; I performed the whole operation on an
anti-static mat in one of our electronics shops.
One thing the instructions don't tell you - you can get the logic
board out more easily by lifting it up about 1.5 inches (until all the tabs
are free of the guiding slots) and then rotating.
I would recommend that anyone considering a do-it-yourself upgrade
who has not mucked around with electronic "guts" have someone familiar with
computers, etc. around to help; there are some things you could damage if
you make the wrong move (e.g. yourself if you touch a charged CRT!) But
all in all it was pretty easy. The worst thing that happened to me is
that my system floppy chose the crucial first-boot-after-the-upgrade moment
to go bad on me, and I thought I had blown up my Mac!! Inserting another
system disk showed that everything was OK, but talk about heart failure...
For those who would rather get the good memory prices by ordering
through a third party but who would rather not stare at MacGuts, your local
Mac dealer will upgrade it for you (you supply the chips) for about $40 (at
least that is what my dealer said.)
good luck
Jeff
------------------------------
Date: 20 Jul 89 15:11 EDT
From: rrenfro%dtoa1.NAVY.MIL@dtrc.arpa (Richard Renfro)
Subject: Excel Problem
OK, here's a stumper -
Imagine, if you will, a MacII with 8MB RAM, Apple 13" RGB
monitor, external 140MB Rodime hard disk partitioned into
40, 30, and 70MB segments, booting off the 40MB part. System
is 6.0.2, with no enabled inits other than Aask. Several
desk accessories, but no startup or backdrop screen. After
booting the system with Multifinder, attempting to run Excel
1.5 results in the message 'The file "Excel 1.5" could not
be opened/printed (fragmented memory)'. No difference if
any of the many inits are installed, or if other programs
run first, or if Excel 1.06 is used. Each of the Excel
programs has the application size set to 1MB. The 'about
the Finder' info shows that the Finder has 256K (about 60%
used), system has 970K (85% used), and 6966K free. When the
system is rebooted without Multifinder, both of the Excels
run. Other programs don't exhibit this feature.
Gee, I thought that 8MB would be enough for almost
anything.... What's going on Here? Any
ideas/suggestions/comments??
InterNet: rrenfro@dtrc.arpa
Genie: r.renfro
Phone: 301/227-3329
David Taylor Research Center
Bethesda, MD 20084-5000
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 12:25:36 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Horizontal scrolling in the list manager
We have problems in getting the list manager to scroll horizontally.
Since we have list items which are fairly long we want the users to be able
to scroll the list horizontally as well as vertically. We are able to
get it to show a horizontal scroll bar OK, but when the user tries to scroll,
the list scrolls all the way to "the end" and the window ends up containing
white space only. It seems as if it is scrolling to the next cell in a
spreadsheet-like manner instead of just scrolling the characters of the
currently displayed list elements.
Vertical scrolling (the normal for Mac lists) works fine.
Is there some special trick in using the list manager with horizontal
scrolling???
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 15:19:11 +0200
From: Sigurd Meldal <sigurd@eik.ii.uib.no>
Subject: IBM .pic format?
I have received a file from the IBM world. It was an .arc file, which
MacArc unpacked into a .pic file. This is supposed to be a picture,
but I cannot figure out what the format is, nor do I have any tools
for viewing it.
Any pointers?
In appreciation,
-- Sigurd
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 15:45 EST
From: JWK%OPUS@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: MIDI and HyperCard.
Is anyone aware of any commercial or PD XCMND's that allow sending/receiving
MIDI information from HyperTalk? Would the MIDI toolbox from Apple be of
any use in this application? Thanx.
Joe Klingler
Image Analysis Research Center
Medical College of Ohio
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 21:02 PDT
From: Ron Webster <IC6JRHW@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: MS-DOS-to-Mac file transfer
I thank Mike Kobb and C. K. Farn for their recommendations of DESKZAP
to delete the "funny ASCII codes" that appear as a result of transferring
IBM-PC files to the Mac via Apple File Exchange and a properly configured
floppy drive. When I wrote my initial remarks (printed in v. 7 #120 of
the Info-Mac Digest, 13 July 1989, in response to an inquiry by Michael
Paisley that appeared in v. 7 #118 of the Info-Mac Digest, 11 July 1989),
I had transferred a number of files from my IBM-XT to my Mac SE using
PLI's Turbo Floppy 1.4 drive and Apple File Exchange. I had performed
these transfers during several brief sessions requiring quick turn-around,
if dirty results, but I had not made any study of the procedure until I
needed to transfer a large number of files in one sitting.
With an afternoon of work facing me, it seemed prudent to probe the
Apple File Exchange software. There is an option in the Mac-to-MS-DOS
menu ("Text translation") that provides for editing the linefeed out of
carrier return-linefeed pairs. Thus, for text file transfers, no subsequent
editing is required, and DESKZAP is not needed.
As for my remark that the procedure is pretty much limited to the
transfer of straight ASCII (i.e., text) files, again I was trying to be brief
and address only Mr. Paisley's immediate concern (which was the integrity
of these hardware-based translation accessories). Actually, any MS-DOS
file can be transferred to the Mac via Apple File Exchange and the hard-
ware I described in my previous message by "simply" adding the required
filter to Apple FIle Exchange. Other connectivity or translation systems
(such as the one referred to by Mr. Farn in Info-Mac Digest v. 7 #122,
17 July 1989) require something on the order of these filters--some of
the systems may provide the filters. The filters can be user-supplied
(for those users with sufficient sophistication), and I understand that
filters can be obtained from third-party sources (I cannot provide any
specific references at the moment).
There are clear advantages of systems such as PLI's drive or the
products from Kennect Technology over other methods of transferring
files between IBM-PCs and Macs. In the case of Mr. Farn's cable + two
diskettes (one for the IBM-PC and one for the Mac), this is not an efficient
way to transport files between PCs and Macs that are distal. My group
at UCLA is splintered: We have Macs and PCs located on various floors
of the Center for the Health Sciences, as well as a number of units located
blocks from campus. In addition, several of our people have personal
computers at home, whereby it is sometimes necessary for a person to
bring MS-DOS files from home and edit them on a Mac at work (or Mac
files to be edited on an IBM-PC). Cabling is out of the question.
Even for systems located proximally, having to employ unit-specific
software (i.e., one software diskette for the Mac and one for the IBM-PC)
and running a cable between the two micros is not nearly as elegant as
simply plugging an MS-DOS diskette into a floppy drive attached to a Mac.
Moreover, a cable-based system provides a link between only two micros.
Any IBM-PC with a 3-1/2" drive can read or write diskettes to any Mac
that has one of the hardware translators attached (e.g., Kennect
Technology's Rapport or PLI's Turbo Floppy 1.4 drive; as for those who
do not have a 3-1/2" drive in their IBM- PCs or XTs, the cost of installing
such a drive is minimal but there are considerable benefits, even apart
>From providing for MS-DOS-to-Mac file transfers via floppy disks).
From what I've been able to gather, the floppy-drive-based approaches
adopted by PLI and Kennect Technology suffer from no particular
limitations that might make them less attractive than other file
translation systems; but they do offer the real advantage of simplicity
and convenience. (I refer to Kennect Technologies Rapport unit as a
floppy-drive-based system because, although it will by itself, without
Kennect's Drive 2.4 companion unit, provide MS-DOS-to-Mac translation,
it does so by enabling Apple's floppy drive to read the MS-DOS disks.)
Finally, for those who are interested, I transferred 131 files,
comprising 286,720 bytes of MS-DOS disk storage, onto my Mac in
9 minutes! By placing all MS-DOS files to be transferred into a
single directory on the MS-DOS disk, Apple File Exchange will translate
the entire directory of files, unattended, from a single request
(simply request that the directory be translated to the Mac). I
consider 9 minutes to be fast given the task, but perhaps it seemed
so brief in part because I did not have to nurse the process--I was
free to leave the machine and attend to other matters.
I hope this information proves helpful to those who, like myself,
work in the "inter-racial" (actually, "inter-special" is probably more
accurate) IBM-PC/Mac microcomputer environment.
Ron Webster
-------------
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 11:04:04 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Multifinder questions
I'm new to using multifinder, so please bear with me while I ask a few
questions which may have already been answered...
What is the general basis for memory use under MF? I'm using an SE/30
w/2Megs, system 6.0.3, finder 6.1.
Monofinder:
system uses 386k, finder 160k.
Multifinder w/ Word 3.01 & Red Ryder 10.3 loaded:
system uses 590k, finder 140k.
Multifinder, no appls loaded:
system uses 556k, finder 160k.
What causes the added size to the system file under MF? Is it the need to
load in the DA Handler? I thought that was only loaded when you actually
_use_ DA's.
Another question revolves around the menu icons. At times, clicking on the
menu icon does not cause a switch to another loaded application. Repeated
clicking all around the area of the icon does nothing. I end up going under
the Apple (DA) menu and selecting another app there. Is this a known
peculiarity of Multifinder, or is it due to the applications themselves?
Could it be due to SuperClock! v3.4, which displays the time right next to
it? I've played around with removing SuperClock!, etc, but the problem is
intermittent, so I cannot trace its source reliably...
Please email me, and I'll summarize....
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 22:29 EDT
From: Rob Kassel <rob@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Que 1.0
This is Que, a suite of programs for transferring messages
between CE Software's QuickMail 2.0 and UNIX machines. It's
not public domain, but it is free. Enjoy!
Rob Kassel
M.I.T. Spoken Language Systems Group
545 Technology Square, Room NE43-204
Cambridge, MA 02139
Internet: rob@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu
AppleLink: mit.sls
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/que.hqx; 34K]
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 05:44:02 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Screen Shot Installer v1.0
The attached StuffIt archive contains an installer for an FKEY to take
full-size snapshots of any size or depth screen. The snapshots are
saved in PICT format.
Complete information is in the "ScreenShot Info" file, also in the archive.
The package is shareware.
-Rich
[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/screenshot.hqx; 12K]
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 09:57 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Sending postscript among applications
After all the responses I got to my question how does a program like Cricket
Draw send both a screen representation to a program like PageMaker such
that Pagemaker prints it with Cricket Draw's postscript information, I am
suprised that noone knows how, or at least they haven't responded.
In any event, I was able to find out that the EPSF file format, one that does
the above, was created by the makers of Fontographer, and that they publish
the secrets of this format, which I am having mailed to me. In case, if there
is anyone else who wants to get in on the method, here is how to reach them:
Altsys Corporation
720 Avenue F, Ste. 109
Plano, TX 75074
1-214-424-4888
Maurice
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 09:49:15 EDT
From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Start up screens
I would like to change the start up screen from the standard
"welcome to macintosh". Is there a simple way to do this??
Can it be changed BACK in a simple manner? (I have an SE with a hard
drive).
**********************************************************************
* Kim A. Dyer | *
* Computer Services | OF ALL THE THINGS I'VE EVER *
* Central Michigan University | LOST, I MISS MY MIND *
* Mt. Pleasant, MI | THE MOST *
* (3c257f7 @ CMUVM) Bitnet | *
**********************************************************************
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 07:01:44 -0600
From: dce@solbourne.com (David Elliott)
Subject: Suggestion - info-mac/init and info-mac/cdev
Given the increase in the number of items that are both inits and
cdevs, organization of these is getting increasingly confusing.
I'd like to suggest that these directories be combined into one
directory, and then divided into subdirectories by functional
similarity.
My first inclination (from about 2 minutes thought) would be to call
the directory "sys", and have the following categories:
custom - Items to customize your system (application
font, pointing device, etc.)
util - Items that make things easier (hierDA, boomerang,
etc.)
info - Items for monitoring and getting info about
your system (who's who, macenvy)
clock - Clocks. There are probably enough of these
to warrant a new directory
fun - Fun things (fortune, fish!, etc.)
David Elliott dce@Solbourne.COM
...!{boulder,nbires,sun}!stan!dce
[David raises a good point, which is how do we want to arrange the directory
structure so as to make the archives easy to use. Personally, I feel
that too much subdividing can make things difficult for FTP users, because
they continually have to hop around searching for the files they want.
(There are always some files which do not fit into a preordained structure).
However, directories like util and app are a bit unwieldy at the moment.
Init and cdev, in my opinion, are not urgently in need of subdivision.
Comments? Please send them to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. -Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 14:17 N
From: NIKE%IMICLVX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Which products do developers use?
I'd like to hear from the many developers who read this list
how many of them use products that are supposed to make the
developer's life easier. In particular I am thinking about things like
MacApp and similar products I have read being produced from independents;
and also code generators, like Prototyper from Smetherbarnes; or
packages like XVT from API that should allow you to port your code
easily on a variety of graphical user interfaces. Or any other
product for this purpose I may even not heard of.
I'd like to know what you think: relying on MacApp, or any other
product, makes developing faster but makes you dependent on the
correctness of yet another layer of software; and you have to hope that
the company producing it continues to support it.
I myself am a student in computer science, and informations about the above
matters will be very useful for my graduation thesis; also, I may
become a Mac developer myself in a while.
Many many thanks
Matteo Vaccari, NIKE@IMICLVX.BITNET
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 23 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 126
Today's Topics:
Arc to PNT?
Backing up a cartridge drive; DeskWriter thanks
ColorFinder and Color Icons
ColorIconEdit/ColorFinder
CursorEdit, cursor editing program
Disktop 3.0.4
Do-it-yourself Memory upgrades - one user's experiences
Expensive SE/30 video cards
Fade to Black 3.2
Help
HP DeskWriter
Hypercard and C help wanted ...
Info-Mac Digest V7 #123
Info..., a super-Get Info...-type desk accessory
insertion points and cmd-period in XCMDs
Lines, color demo for the Mac II
MacII SIMMS Chips...their uses...
Newest version of FKEY MANAGER
opening (gasp!) Macs
PICT
PostScript bug/MS Word
RS-232 to mini-DIN 8
SIMM pricing information
ugly vertical fonts
Word and MathType
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
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/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 15:57:56 CST
From: d.m.p.@pro-party.cts.com (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Arc to PNT?
Reading about the program MacArc has got me wondering exactly what that
program does. Can it de-arc a graphics file, for example, which can then be
viewed as a Paint or Pic file? If not, is there a program that will take a
file that has been arc-ed and make it into a file that is usable by the Mac?
Thanks.
Don
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 14:47:15 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Backing up a cartridge drive; DeskWriter thanks
Has anyone out there had any experience backing up a removable-cartridge
hard disk to a second cartridge? Can this be done relatively painlessly? I'm
considering a cartridge drive to expand my storage, and it would seem to be
the ideal to back up the cartridge drive and my 20Mb fixed hard disk to a
second cartridge, using some form of compression. Is there software that
would make this friendly if you have lots of RAM (I have 2.5Mb now, and will
probably have 4 soon), requiring a minimum of swapping of the cartridge? Also,
how rough is it on the drive to swap the cartridge a lot? (I'd certainly be
doing incremental backups, and it would be really nice if some backup software
existed that would figure out all of what needed to be changed, then made
the changes in bunches, rather than changing each file as it went along. I
assume that good backup software works this way, but since I've only backed-up
to floppy before, I haven't really seen the results...)
Also, does anyone have any thoughts on cartridge drives in general? They
seem to be a really good value, since for an extra $100+ you can add another
42Mb of storage (not online, of course, but archival). How are they with
reliability? Recommended brands? Vendors? What are the fastest drives?
Finally, thanks to the folks who responded to my question regarding the
HP DeskWriter. John Gersh was nice enough to mail me a summary of the
responses to DeskWriter questions from comp.sys.mac. If there's sufficient
interest, I can post that summary here, or I could mail it to individuals.
--Mike
------------------------------
Date: 22 Jul 89 02:16:26 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: ColorFinder and Color Icons
Latest version of ResCicn is 1.0b6, which works with 32-bit Color
QuickDraw. I need to reget the latest version from Frederic as I
received the first 1.0b6 which had a serious memory management bug,
then a fix, but I lost track of which was which (simply by being stupid
and in a mad rush as usual!).
The last version to work -- quite cleanly, I might add -- with regular
color QuickDraw is ResCicn v.1.0b4. This goes right into the release
version of ResEdit 1.2. Still has the problems w/ selection tools and
lines -- Apple's fault, not Frederics.
The version (1.0b6) that works w/ 32-bit QD does not have the same
problems. According to Frederic, Apple cleaned up their act
considerably w/ 32-bit QD. Oh, yeah... it gives zoom boxes on the
individual views. Some other nice hacks.
ResCicn v.1.0b6 is implemented slightly different from the preveous
releases. Frederic has seperated out the color edit routines from the
TMPL as ResColor CPAK resource so that he may add new editors as
necessary without having to redo the edit routines each time. V.1.0b6
comes with ResCrsr for color cursors and he says he is ready to jump
right on any new icon formats Apple may have up their sleeve for System
7.0.
I will post ResCicn v.1.0b4 here if someone will initiate this new-bee
as to what formats are acceptible, what to do if the file is too big
to fit in a single post, how big is too big, and what newsgroup it
should go in.
I will post ResCicn v.1.0b6 as soon as I get the versions straightened
out.
--the Trues
--
Scott Truesdell
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 12:58:16 PDT
From: James Jennings <jennings%tp5@rand.org>
Subject: ColorIconEdit/ColorFinder
When I use ColorIconEdit to examine the cicn's that are stored in
ColorFinder I find that the image often appears scrambled. Has anyone
else noticed this bug? Is there a workaround?
James Jennings
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 00:20:53 EDT
From: Zeba Kimmel <ST702546%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CursorEdit, cursor editing program
This is a program I wrote a long time ago on a 512K Mac to change
the cursors in the System file. What with System updates, some things
about it now work in a weird fashion (noticeably the animated icon effect
that stopped working with System 4.1), but it's still serviceable.
[Archived as /info-mac/util/cursor-edit.hqx; 28K]
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 15:14:48 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Disktop 3.0.4
I've been running Disktop 3.0.4 for some months now and I keep seeing sproadic
problems with my Mac; when I launch Double Helix, the cursor freezes up and
I have to quit; Microsoft Word mysteriously quits; Canvas 2.0 goes into an
infinite loop.
These problems do not go away on a restart. Not only must I shut the Mac down,
but I must *power it off* for these problems to go away. Consequently I'm
inclinde to believe the problem is Disktop, not Double Helix, MS Word, or
Canvas.
I'm running System 6.0.2 on a 2M Mac Plus. The problem occurs in both Finder
and Multifinder.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 12:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Do-it-yourself Memory upgrades - one user's experiences
A few warnings w/SE upgrades:
There are two styles of upgrade-- one requires you to clip a resistor and put
the 1 meg simms in memory slots 1 & 2. the other requires you to move a
jumper and install the new simms in slots 3 & 4... check out the tech
note before doing anything.
1 meg simms can be had for $119 for low profile, 100ns parts w/a 5 year
warranty. available from the Chip Merchant.
for 80ns low profile w/a lifetime warranty, there is another company that
will sell them for $129/SIMM.
I will post a summary to info-mac....
b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 16:27 CST
From: David Swanger <SWANGER@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Subject: Expensive SE/30 video cards
I am considering purchasing an Apple Macintosh SE/30. One of the reasons I am
interested in the SE/30 is that it has the capability to use an external
color monitor if it has the correct video card. I have a NEC MultiSync monitor
at home that I would like to use with the SE/30. The NEC works very well with
a Mac IIx at work. This IIx has an Apple 8 bit video card. The suggested list
price for this Apple card is 648 dollars. I am able to get this card for 460
dollars. Apple doesn't have a version of this card (at least not one that I am
aware of) for the SE/30, so I called RasterOps and asked about their SE/30 8
bit video card. They told me that the list price was 1850 dollars. I consider
this to be extremely expensive. I've since heard that this card can be found
for around 1200 dollars. That is still over twice what I paid for the monitor.
I know companies are in business to make money, but this seems kind of
extreme.
Does anyone know of any 3rd party video cards for the SE/30 that are reasonably
priced?
David Swanger
Academic Computing Services
Auburn University, Al 36849
205-844-4813
SWANGER@AUDUCVAX <-- Bitnet
SWANGER@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU <-- Internet
------------------------------
Date: 21 Jul 89 14:15:08 PDT (Fri)
From: 6sigma!blm@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Brian Matthews)
Subject: Fade to Black 3.2
Enclosed is a BinHex'd Stuffit file containing Fade to Black
version 3.2 and documentation. Previous versions of Fade to Black
determined whether or not they could run based on the ROM type.
Unfortunately, this meant that Fade didn't work on the SE/30, or
on machines with the Mac II ROMs but only a monochrome screen. Now
Fade examines the depth of the screen to determine whether or not
to Fade. This means it will now work on all monochrome Macs (512K,
512KE, Plus, SE, SE/30) and color Macs in one bit/pixel mode.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/fade-to-black-32.hqx; 74K]
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 15:37:59 MDT
From: SYTANG%CSUGREEN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Help
One of our SE just become noisy, the floppy drive also spin with noise.
the two internal floppy cann't read disk -- it keep insist to
reinitialize a good diskette.
It's a SE with two internal floppy drive no hard drive.
Any suggestions on what want wrong? how to check?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions provided.
======================================================
Shoou-yu Tang, Colorado State Univ., Physics
sytang@csugreen.ucc.colostate.edu
sytang@csugreen.bitnet
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 89 19:22:57 EDT
From: vbob@umd5.umd.edu (Bob Shields)
Subject: HP DeskWriter
Hewlett Packard has announced their "DeskWriter" printer for the Macintosh
family. The following information is taken from their "Technical Data"
brochure. The printer is designed exclusively for the Macintosh, and comes
with its own print driver as well as screen fonts for Helvetica, Times,
Symbol and Courier (which are built into the printer). The rest of the
LaserWriter II NT fonts are available at extra cost either as a single
family or as an entire package. The fonts are fully scalable up to 250 points
and support plain, bold, italic and bold-italic versions, plus outline, shadow
and userline styles. It uses the AGFA Compugraphic "Intellifont" type scaling
technology which creates bitmaps from Intellifont-formatted type outlines.
The output resolution is 300 x 300 dpi ("Best" mode) or 150 x 150 dpi
("Faster" mode). It can process letter, legal, A4 paper and #10 envelopes.
I understand the best type of paper is quality bond paper (like company
letterhead) with standard "copier paper" a close second. Since it is a
thermal inkjet printer (same basic hardware as the HP DeskJet Plus), the
more porous paper usually used in dot-matrix printers has a tendency to
"bleed". The sheet-feeder holds up to 100 sheets (envelopes are fed manually).
A speed comparison using a single page with mixed text and graphics, run from a
Mac SE with 2.5Mb of memory running under MultiFinder, shows the LaserWriter
II-NT taking 133 secs, the DeskWriter 151 sec, a GCC PLP 164 secs and an
ImageWriter II 357 secs.
It connects to the Macintosh through a serial port and can use the standard
ImageWriter printer cable. HP advertises compatibilty with any Mac from the
"Plus" up. I have a feeling the outline technology requires more than 512K
of memory, and probably runs much better on machines with more than 1 Mb.
The brochure gives a 60,000 page life with a MTBF of 20,000 hours (assuming
2000 hours power-on and 12,000 pages per year; 20-25 pages per day average,
50 pages per day maximum).
The list price of the printer is $1195, however, local stores gave me prices
>From "list down" to $860 (though the lowest was from an HP-authorized dealer
who handled only IBM-compatible computers and would obviously give me limited
support). It seems to me that around $900 is a good price. They are all
supposed to get their demo units by the end of July (no-one had one as of
July 20), but I don't have any dates for customer delivery yet.
Bob Shields (vbob@umd5.umd.edu)
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 22:06 CST
From: David Swanger <SWANGER@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Subject: Hypercard and C help wanted ...
I am interested in using Hypercard in conjunction with the C programming
language. How easy is it to:
* Create an input screen with Hypercard,
* Enter values into variables using this screen,
* Pass these variables into compiled C functions which calculate results
from the input data,
* Return these results to Hypercard and print them to an output screen
I have several C programs that were written specifically for MS-DOS machines
that I would like to port to the Mac. These routines have the I/O and the
calculations separated (reasonably), so I would like to move the functions
that perform the calculations to the Mac. With some of my programs, user
input can affect the makeup of future input and output screens. For example,
one input screen could say:
How many values are to be entered:__
If you entered the number 6, the next input screen would have 6 input
statements, if you entered the number 12, the next input screen would have 12
input statements, etc. Is it possible to dynamically create input screens in
Hypercard, the size of and number of inputs which depend on a value entered by
a user?
The size of an output screen could vary drastically too. For example, if
a program calculated an amortization table, the size of the output screen
would depend on the number of periods input by a user. Is it possible to
dynamically create an output screen (scroll-able) in Hypercard that can grow
to the size of the data 'printed' to it?
I'm not sure if I have the time (or the expertise) to learn the Toolbox now,
but if it is possible (and fairly easy) to combine Hypercard and C, I would
like to give it a try.
Does anyone out there have any experience with this kind of programming? If
so, I would certainly like to hear from you.
Thanks for any and all help.
David Swanger
Academic Computing Services
200 L Building
Auburn University, Al 36849
205-844-4813
SWANGER@AUDUCVAX <-- Bitnet
SWANGER@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU <-- Internet
U0442 <-- Applelink
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 12:03 CST
From: BRAD%GACVAX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #123
In response to Mike Kobb's questions about the new HP DeskWriter. We received
one on the 17th. With two days of testing, I would recommend it. Alot like the
DeskJet, only no grappler software needed. We have ing graphics erWriter we hav
e been using.
The cost for one is around $600 (+) if you can get an Academic discount. I don'
t know what the retail would be.
As to Fonts shipped and available, Fonts shipped with are:
Courier
Triumvirate
Times
Symbol
Fonts available are:
Palacio (Palatino)
Century Schoolbook
Bookman
Avant Garde Gothic
Triumvirate Narrow (Helvetica Narrow)
Zapf Chancery
Zapf Dingbats
These fonts can be purchased from HP for $ (?).
The printer is an inkjet, taking any type of paper and even size and envelopes.
If you have more questions, contact an HP dealer or call 1-800-376-4772 for your
nearest HP authorized dealer.
Brad Delahunty
Gustavus Adolphus College
Brad@gacvx1
Disclaimer: This is my first attempt /manual. All ideas are no onene..........
........
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 00:25:31 EDT
From: Zeba Kimmel <ST702546%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info..., a super-Get Info...-type desk accessory
This is a desk accessory that allows you to attach comments and notes to
files of any type that are much larger and less prone to erasure than Get
Info... comments. Also manipulates plain text files, changes type and creator,
and does other stuff too.Has a built-in help, but the auxiliary file named
Info... Me has more information; when you select the desk accessory from the
Apple menu, open this Info... Me file first to read it.
[Archived as /info-mac/da/info.hqx; 37K]
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 18:45 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: insertion points and cmd-period in XCMDs
I am working further on the SearchReplace XCMD that I recently posted.
One of things I am trying to add is a command-period abort feature in
a routine that repeatedly finds and replaces strings within hypercard.
In a regular program, the abort procedure works fine, but in the XCMD,
it does not respond to keydown events, only to autokey events. It is
as if hypercard flushes keydown events during the callbacks. Anyone
have any ideas about this?
The second problem I have run into is more puzzling. On a Mac Plus, the
XCMD seems to run fine. On a Mac II, as soon as drag the XCMD's modeless
dialog, or even as much as click in the title bar, the insertion point
stops blinking! So long as I don't do a mousedown in the title bar, the
insertion point blinks just fine.Anyone have any ideas about this?
Maurice Volaski
Dept. of Physiology
University at Buffalo
v050fn5r@ubvms
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 00:18:17 EDT
From: Zeba Kimmel <ST702546%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Lines, color demo for the Mac II
This is just a small color demo for the Mac II only. It is not MultiFinder
compatible (won't crash but looks weird). Simplistic, but fun to watch.
[Archived as /info-mac/art/color-demo.hqx; 19K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 14:11:27 EDT
From: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart [Jonathan III])
Subject: MacII SIMMS Chips...their uses...
Submission: Concerning Memory SIMMS Chips for SE/II
Date: July 21, 1989
Info-Mac Submission
Dear Sir(s)/Ma'am(S):
Being unfamiliar with the format of submissions to this digest,
I'm taking a post-luck shot and working it from there. The problem is
listed as below....
I own a MacSE 68000 currently equipped with 1 Meg (256k SIMMS),
and a 20Meg HD Internal. I have recently been offered the opportunity
to obtain the original SIMMS chips that were in a MacII, base 2 Meg,
system and was wondering if that will do for me what I hope it can.
Having been unable to get a straight answer, I ask this: Can the SIMMS
chips that were originally installed into a MacII be used in an SE,
expanding it from the one meg to the 2.5 meg as a normal installation
kit would do? Any information would be greatly appreciated..
Please reply to email, and any info discovered will be gladly passed on.
Thanx in advance....Ace
| Ace Stewart (Jonathan III) |A /\ |
| Affiliation: Eastman Kodak Company. Rochester New York | _/ \_ |
| Internet/ARPA: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu | \_ _/ |
| Bitnet: jstewart@sunrise.bitnet | /\ A|
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 10:27 ADT
From: Peter J Gergely <Peter@griffin.drea.dnd.ca>
Subject: Newest version of FKEY MANAGER
Here is the latest version of FKEY Manager (3.0) that I could find. It
is downloaded from GENIE, and only works on the machines having 128K
roms or larger.
- Peter
[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/fkey-manager-30.hqx; 134K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 11:34:18 PDT
From: palkovic%almond.hepnet@lbl.gov (John Palkovic)
Subject: opening (gasp!) Macs
In info-mac volume 7.125 Jeff Templon <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu> writes
regarding SIMM installation
> Only a few tools were needed: a LONG Torx driver (get this at electronics
> supply stores) ...
It turns out that a LONG 3/32" allen wrench will work just fine for getting the
case of a plus or SE open. It has to be LONG to get at the two fasteners
recessed in the handle region at the top of the case. Allen wrenches are
generally easier to find than Torx drivers.
John Palkovic
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept. of Physics
and
Fermilab
bitnet: palkovic@fnalad
phonenet (312) 840-4915
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 22:56 EST
From: <SAPER%HUXTAL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Mark A. Saper)
Subject: PICT
I'm new the Mac world and am very interested in bringing graphics
>From the outside into MacDraw. Currently I do this with Versaterm.
I'd prefer to be able to generate polygons and other PICT primitives
on my host computer and then download the picture to the MAC for
editing. I would appreciate receiving a suitable set of C or Fortran
subroutines that I can modify to run on a VAX/VMS machine that would
generate PICT format that I could then download to the MAC.
This is for macromolecular structural studies that I am involved with.
Please contact me directly as I am not on the distribution list.
Thanks, Mark Saper, HHMI and Harvard. (saper@xtal0.harvard.edu)
------------------------------
Date: Fri Jul 21 11:13:44 1989
From: microsoft!scottla@sun.com
Subject: PostScript bug/MS Word
Re: the postings on the bug that causes PostScript effects embedded in
Microsoft Word documents to print incorrectly on the first page of a
job when print spooling is enabled
The bug was in Apple's LaserWriter driver. It has been fixed in
version 6.0 of the driver.
-Scott Larson
Composition Supervisor, Microsoft Corp.
------------------------------
Date: Friday, 21 Jul 1989 14:56:50 EST
From: m20992@mwvm.mitre.org (Paul Hargrove)
Subject: RS-232 to mini-DIN 8
Does anyone know the pin equivalences between the mini-DIN 8 connector and
the 25-pin "standard" RS-232 connector. If so please E-mail the info to me at
m20992@mwvm.mitre.org it would be much appreciated.
*
* Paul
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 12:33:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: SIMM pricing information
These were taken from the back of MacWeek... Chip Merchant advertised at $129,
but has since dropped their price to $119.
The Chip Merchant
1 meg SIMMs, 100NS, low profile, 5 year guarantee: $119 (Video upgrade
for $69)
800-426-6375 or 619-268-4774
"Prices subject to drop without notice"
South Coast Electronics
1 meg SIMMS, 80ns low profile, lifetime Warranty, same day shipping: $129
800-289-8801 or 213 489 7824
FAX: 213-489-0266
Digi-Graphics
1 meg SIMMS, 100ns DIP, 1 yr gurantee: $129.
801-544-2009
Take your pick-- the second one sounds like the best deal to me.
b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 16:50 EST
From: <FEASTER%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ugly vertical fonts
Hi,
We at the Speech Research Lab our pulling our respective hair out, trying
to get a decent vertical Times font to print on our Laserwriter IISC. We've
tried Cricket-Graph, Excel, and Word to no avail. The goal is to print a
graph in portrait mode, with horizontal text at the top and vertical text along
the side. When we saved the output on diskette and printed it on another lab's
Laserwrite IISC, the vertical font came out beautifully, so there must be
a problem with our Mac setup. (The vertical fonts print, but they look sloppy,
with poor resolution).
We are running system 6.0.2. Does anyone have a remedy for the situation?
Thanks,
Mickey Feaster
I.U. Speech Research Lab
feaster@iubacs.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 19:56:59 MST
From: ICBAL%ASUACAD.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Word and MathType
I posted a message a while ago regarding the failure of Word 4.0 to close up
the gap created when a MathType equation (or any graphic) is pasted and
subscripted. Several people supplied me with the solution (sort of):
Never use "Auto" paragraph spacing. Call up the "Paragraph" dialog box and
enter the number of points WITH A MINUS SIGN IN FRONT OF THE NUMBER.
That minus sign will keep the lines of text spaced the same regardless of the
size of the pasted graphic. Naturally, you can create style sheets with this
setting, or even change your "normal" style to reflect this. It works fine.
But this means that if a very large equation or graphic is pasted in, it will
overlap the lines of text above and below. If that happens you will have to
make the line into a separate paragraph and increase the spacing for that
paragraph only.
I can now live with Word 4.0, but this sure is klutzier than 3.02.
Bruce Long
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University BITNET: ICBAL@ASUACAD
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 24 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 127
Today's Topics:
Backing up a cartridge drive; DeskWriter thanks
Batman Startup Screen??
DeskWriter Summary
Do it yourself memory upgrades
Expensive SE/30 video cards
Font/DA Mover...
Inside info on the HP DeskWriter printer.
MacArc
Memory expansion for a LaserWriter Plus
Scientific Calculator & attempted INIT installation!
SuperPaint 2.0
Targa images on a MAC II
torx screwdrivers
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 07:50:33 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: Backing up a cartridge drive; DeskWriter thanks
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
> Has anyone out there had any experience backing up a removable-cartridge
>hard disk to a second cartridge? Can this be done relatively painlessly? I'm
>considering a cartridge drive to expand my storage, and it would seem to be
>the ideal to back up the cartridge drive and my 20Mb fixed hard disk to a
>second cartridge, using some form of compression.
I own a MassMicro Duet (two cartridge drives in one case) and use that for
backups, etc at home. Retrospect will work, as will HFS Backup and probably
quite a few others. I tend to just do a bulk Finder copy to start with and
then manually do the incremental updates on a folder/file basis. It takes
a little more discipline than would the automated tool; however, I like to
have my backups in Finder-copyable form. I probably ought to check out
Network DiskFit, but I have a working routine and follow the adage that "if
it ain't broke, don't fix it."
> Also, does anyone have any thoughts on cartridge drives in general? They
>seem to be a really good value, since for an extra $100+ you can add another
>42Mb of storage (not online, of course, but archival). How are they with
>reliability? Recommended brands? Vendors? What are the fastest drives?
As stated above, I have the Mass Micro (and so do a lot of the people I know)
and we're happy with them. A few people that I know have PLI units and are
quite pleased with those. There really isn't a huge difference between the
various vendors (the basic unit is the same). MacBottom makes good products,
but I don't have any first or second hand knowledge of their removable, so I
can't recommend in either direction there. There was an article in one of
the recent MacWorld issues on removable drives, you might want to check it
out.
--
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
------------
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 09:19:50 EDT
From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Batman Startup Screen??
Is there a way to modify the Batman StartupScreen so that it works on
an SE?? It looks great (what I can see of it) - but obviously designed
for s MacII.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 22:14:05 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: DeskWriter Summary
Well, I was going to wait and see how many people wanted this info, and respond
to people individually. Unfortunately, the some of the mail I tried to send
bounced, so I'm just going to post this now. Thanks again to John Gersh, who
was nice enough to provide the information culled from comp.sys.mac!!
--Mike
[Archived as /info-mac/report/deskwriter.txt; 16K]
------------------------------
Date: 23 Jul 89 20:26:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Do it yourself memory upgrades
Hello all -
Last week I posted an article concerning my experiences upgrading my
Mac SE from 1 to 2.5 megs. Today's digest contained what I *think* is a
reply to that message from William Bumgarner; at least the subject field of
his article was the same as mine. I do not wish to cause a ruckus, but in
all fairness to the company I dealt with, I felt I had to respond to one
point in his article.
Mr. Bumgarner warns the list that there are two different Mac SE
memory configurations (correctly.) He then points us to the tech notes
in order to learn the specifics. My posting clearly stated that the
instructions that came with the upgrade I purchased covered BOTH memory
configurations for the Mac SE. Perhaps Mr. Bumgarner missed that part
of my posting.
dislcaimer - I don't even know anyone in Kansas, let alone anyone at Newer
Tech!
Jeff
------------------------------
Date: 24 Jul 89 15:34:21 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Expensive SE/30 video cards
David Swanger <SWANGER@ducvax.auburn.edu> writes:
> ... so I called RasterOps and asked about their SE/30 8
>bit video card. They told me that the list price was 1850 dollars. I consider
>this to be extremely expensive. I've since heard that this card can be found
>for around 1200 dollars. That is still over twice what I paid for the monitor.
>I know companies are in business to make money, but this seems kind of
>extreme.
>Does anyone know of any 3rd party video cards for the SE/30 that are reasonably
>priced?
I can suggest a possibility:
Generation X phone: 408/739-4570
"The Vision '030A" is an 8-bit 640-by-480 pixel color board with 72 dpi
resolution that is compatible with Apple's standard 13-inch RGB
monitor. It lists for $995 and come with special software for creating
and managing a virtual desktop.
This is still a bit pricey. I don't like it either. There is an
explanation, though. At this time, there is not much volume in selling
add-in SE/30 cards. The mfg's have to make up their R&D and mfg costs.
If and when volume increases, I predict that prices would come down.
--
Scott Truesdell
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 13:31:49 EDT
From: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart [Jonathan III])
Subject: Font/DA Mover...
As of late, I have been running into some very unusual occurances
concerning the Font/DA Mover utility. I have been moving DA's back
and forth into seperate files (for use with the Font/DA Juggler
system) and have upon occasion been noticing that certain DA's
will not even show up in the windows on F/DA Mover! Is there a
specific problem that others have notices that perhaps I am missing.
ResEdit says the files are correct, as does F/DA Mover on any
other Mac....would it be interference from an INIT or another DA?
(aka has anyone else had this little problem?)
Thanks in advance all...Ace
| Ace Stewart (Jonathan III) |A /\ |
| Affiliation: Eastman Kodak Company. Rochester New York | _/ \_ |
| Internet/ARPA: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu | \_ _/ |
| Bitnet: jstewart@sunrise.bitnet | /\ A|
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 08:58:01 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: Inside info on the HP DeskWriter printer.
The following info comes from HP engineers in Vancouver who work on
the DJ and DW.
Michael
I have gotten mail asking for details on the new HP DeskWriter so here goes:
What is a DeskWriter and how does it relate to a DeskJet+? The
DeskWriter is a 57K baud serial 300DPI graphics only printer designed
specifically for the Apple Macintosh computers. Mechanically, the
DeskWriter is the same as a DeskJet+.
Electrically, the DeskWriter has the same processor running at the
same speed as a DeskJet+ but has electronics and firmware optimized
for high speed serial graphics and is in the standard Mac color scheme
(not the HP color scheme). From a user interface the DeskWriter looks
much like a DeskJet+ but has a simpler keypannel and no font cartridge
slots. A new 2D data compression mode was added to the printer and
driver (patent pending :-) ) that achieves remarkable compression
rates eliminating the IO from being a bottleneck in virtually all
cases (scanned images are sometimes an exception). comes with a
Chooser compatable QuickDraw driver that uses scaleable outline fonts.
All font scaling and filling is done in the Mac, not in the printer.
The DeskWriter driver will work with all Quickdraw compatable
applications, but not, of course, PostScript only applications. The
DeskWriter driver requires at least 1 Meg of RAM (2 recommended) and a
hard disk.
Several outline fonts come with the driver, Courier, Times, Symbols,
and Triumvirate (like Helvetica). More optional fonts are available.
On a MAC II the printer performs at a page per minute rate. When
doing text only the DeskWriter is about 1/2 to 1/3 as fast as a
LaserWriter. When doing heavy graphics oriented printing the
DeskWriter performance is comparable (and sometimes faster) than a
LaserWriter. Performance when printing from a Mac Plus or Mac SE is
about 1/2 to 3/4 as fast as printing from a Mac 2. Besides outline
font scaling and filling the driver also supports raster fonts (4X
fonts recommended for best quality) and polygon smoothing.
The DeskWriter retails for $1195 compared to the $995 price of the
DeskJet+. The price difference is mainly due to the cost of
developing and supporting the Mac driver that comes with the printer
and royalties that go to the company that supplies the outline fonts
(and some of the font scaling technology). Once you get the original
copy of the DeskWriter driver all updates will be free from your local
dealer (the new driver will be copied onto your original disk). I
suspect the street price of a DeskWriter might get close to $800 but I
don't know for sure. Before making any decisions on buying a new
personal use Mac printer go to your dealer and see a demo of the
DeskWriter. I think you will be pleased. There is really no
comparison between the DeskWriter and its driver with any of the
DeskJet drivers available for the MAC both in performance and quality
of output.
Hope this information helps.
Dave Neff
hpvcfs1!neff
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 10:27 EST
From: HENRY YEE <HENRY@atc.bendix.com>
Subject: MacArc
IN%"d.m.p.%pro-party.cts.com@RELAY.CS.NET"
IN%"Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.EDU"
Don Peaslee,
Programs like StuffIt, PackIt, and Arc (short for archive) create a single
file out of related files (they don't really need to be related), and provide
data compression in the process.
Can it de-arc a graphics file which can then be viewed as a Paint or Pic
file? Yes, provided that you started with one; that is, what was put in is
what you get out.
Henry Yee
IN%"Henry%atc.bendix.com@RELAY.CS.NET"
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 22:25:38 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: Memory expansion for a LaserWriter Plus
We currently have in my department a stock Apple LaserWriter Plus printer,
with 1 MB of memory. However, for an increasing number of printing tasks,
this is proving to be insufficent. Is there a way to increase the memory
on the machine ? The printer is (way) out of warranty and there are no SIMM
or DIP sockets to be found on the motherboard.
Any help would be appreciated.
Juan
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Date: 24 Jul 89 10:18:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Scientific Calculator & attempted INIT installation!
Yesterday I attempted to install the DA program
/info-mac/da/scientific-calculator.hqx
in my system. (I was evaluating DeskTop Calc before that, which I really
liked, but it was unpredictable in deciding to push the x register into
the y register when starting a new operation; at least, it didn't work
like HP RPN calculators! Does anyone know how to contact the author?
His name is Lars Sundstrum or something close.) I installed the DA
scientific-calculator with Vaccine running, as I always do, but this time
I got a "permission to install INIT resource in system file?" dialog.
I clicked "denied" and got returned to the finder with a "serious problem"
dialog. Then I discovered that my system file (at least the DAs) had been
corrupted; pulling down the apple menu presented a list of unreadable mess,
except for the Chooser and Control Panel, which seemed to be OK. Fixing
required a complete system reinstallation!
I would like to try the scientific calculator program, since it claims to
be an RPN calculator, but I don't know what this INIT is that it wants to
install. Do any of you resource kings out there know what is going on?
Is this a virus?
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 19:18:57 MST
From: bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com
Subject: SuperPaint 2.0
I am thinking about upgrading to SuperPaint 2.0 ($50). Has anyone
tried the new version and is it worth it or not??????
Thanks
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Date: 24 Jul 89 11:53:00 EST
From: "Scott J. Allen" <scott@guvax>
Subject: Targa images on a MAC II
Hello,
Does anybody know how to display Targa color images on a
MAC IIcx with 8 bit video display? The Targa images came
from an IBM PC using SCANNIT! from Howtek. We would like a
targa to MAC II conversion program, if one exists.
Please send replies directly to:
SCOTT@GUVAX.BITNET
or
EDU%"SCOTT@GUVAX.GEORGETOWN.EDU"
Thank you,
Scott Allen
(202) 687-6096
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 09:03 EDT
From: BARRETT2@mps.ohio-state.edu
Subject: torx screwdrivers
if you're having trouble finding a tool to open your mac, go to your local
NAPA store and get part number (I believe) 3153, which is the appropriate
screwdriver 17 inches long.
- tom
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I'm using Lightspeed Pascal (2.0), if that matters, and I'd like to know how
to get the volume reference number of the currently active system folder.
What's the trick?
-Fred
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Problem:
Printing on legal size paper does not work. Everything is set
up correctly (I believe). Cassette is letter size so manual feed
is being used. The pagesetup is being set for legal size and
in Word in print preview it looks exactly legal size with
a page full of legal text. But, when printing, it only prints
a letter size amount of info and that is what comes out of the
printer. It seems to believe that its job is now finished so
the rest of the page still is stuck in the printer and must be
pulled out manually.
The obvious solutions has been tried: replace all software with
new copies, viruses had been checked for (none), version numbers:
system 6.0.2, laserwriter 5.2, laserprep 5.2.
Another SE on the appletalk network has the same problem - so
this suggests (but doesn't proove) that it is a problem with the
printer.
So HELP. Any good ideas out there? Thanks in advance.
Palle@jessica.stanford.edu.
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 25 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 128
Today's Topics:
BeepShuffle INIT
Changing MultiFinder's default memory size
DA Handler
Data Driven Graphics Package
error trapping
HELP! With Linotron
Hypercard Problems?
IBM leads the way
Kermiting MacPaint Files
LaserWriter 6.0 Problems revisited
MacArchive stack, second sending
Mac II future
MacII temp. sensor = quieter fan
Proper language(s) for XCMDs
Sound Master
SuperClock 3.5
SuperPaint 2.0 upgrade
Upload for Kim Dyer
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 02:17:26 edt
From: "Alex D. Chaffee" <chaffee@emily.uvm-gen.uvm.edu>
Subject: BeepShuffle INIT
Bored with hearing the same old beep every time you make a mistake?
Well, GET EXCITED, because BeepShuffle INIT makes your Mac pick a new
sound from the system file each time! Actually, it picks from all
installed "snd"s, so it works with Suitcase. It will only work with
System 6.0x (but won't install itself if it won't work.) Full THINK C
3.0 source code included. Freeware.
Alex Chaffee
chaffee@emily.uvm.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/init/beepshuffle.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 12:16:38 PDT
From: William Lipa <lipa@polya.stanford.edu>
Subject: Changing MultiFinder's default memory size
Is there a relatively simple way to change the size of MultiFinder's default
memory allocation (which is used when the program does not have a SIZE
resource)? I would prefer to give such programs 1M instead of 384K.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the significance of 384K? What's so great
about this particular size?
Bill
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 11:11:36 EST
From: DJ WOOD <DWOOD%UDCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: DA Handler
Will someone plase tell me how to use the startup document Da Handler.
I got my system update from a friend and he didn't know what it was.
Please post in the digest so others will be helped by this info.
Thanx,
DJ WOOD
UDC COSDET Center
LAB TECH.
LaTex 'til I grow up
------------------------------
Date: 25 Jul 89 08:48:00 EST
From: "EJN" <ejn@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Data Driven Graphics Package
Does anyone know of a graphics package for the Macintosh that has the
same features as MIRAGE (from Zenographics) has on the IBM? MIRAGE
is an expensive package (approx $1,400) that will among other things import
data from data files or databases to be plotted.
I have production graphs that need to be plotted each month and I want to
build templates for each of these plots and then each month just update
a text file (or database) and then run the plots. The plots should be
redrawn with the new data. I need a high powered graphcs package that
can do more than EXCEL or Cricket Graph.
An example of the capability I need is this. I would like to produce a
bar chart, with the highest bar being a different color than the others.
The highest bar will change from month to month so I would like the
software to take care of this for me.
I am having a hard time finding if software of this type is available on
the Macintosh.
Thanks for any help.
Earl Nall
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
Oak Ridge, TN.
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 16:13 EST
From: PETER CHEN <PETCHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: error trapping
Hi,
After searching through a couple HyperTalk books and coming up
with nothing, I am wondering--
Is there any way to do error trapping in HyperTalk?
Thanks in advance,
Peter Chen Rutgers University
CCIS FSDC
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 10:10:33 EDT
From: magee@lti.com (Mike Magee x30)
Subject: HELP! With Linotron
I am trying to research a problem for a netless friend. Is there any
experience out there with using a Lino L300 with a Mac? The situation
follows:
She has an existing facility using Linotype terminals and "typeview"
connected to a L300 2540 dpi printer. She wants to go Mac and use Pagemaker,
but has been told that there is some very expensive hardware ($4k-26k) required
to productively interface the yet to be acquired MacII to this printer.
1) Is is true that this type of hardware is required??? ;-(
(I'm not familiar with this equipment, but I'm VERY skeptical.
I would have to believe that the L300 is just another serial
device requiring yet another driver.)
2) Does anyone have any experience with this type of configuration?
(Given the perfect match, people HAVE to be doing this.)
3) I seem to remember Macworld doing an article on this issue some
time back, but can't locate it. Does anyone remember which issue?
Many thanks to anyone who replies.
-Mike Magee
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 11:28 EDT
From: <LGREEN%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypercard Problems?
Can anyone tell me why the copy of Hypercard we have on our color Mac II
has decided to stop processing visual effects? It works in every other
aspect except for visual effects. I tried disabling Gatekeeper,lowering
the ram cache, removing the startup picture, and restarting between all of
these measures.
The Mac II has 5 megs, no unusual inits beside Gatekeeper, and a 40MB hard
drive. I hesitate to do the obvious : copying a "working" hypercard from
the master disk because I would like to know what is wrong first. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Lyman Green
User Services Consultant
Wheaton College
Norton, MA
Bitnet: LGREEN@WHEATNMA
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 09:22:24 BST
From: ms@racal-itd.co.uk
Subject: IBM leads the way
Reading through the OS/2 v1.1 Programmer's Toolkit Manual (don't ask), I came
upon this gem in the Introduction. Words shown in upper case are italicized
for effect in the original:
A Presentation Manager (PM) program explictly creates one or more
windows to present functions to the user. A PM APPLICATION SHOULD
INTERACT IN A COMPATIBLE WAY WITH OS/2, AND OTHER PM APPLICATIONS
(INCLUDING THE USER SHELL). In particular, A PM APPLICATION SHOULD
CATER TO THE NEEDS OF THE USER. Unlike CONVENTIONAL PC programs,
these requirements directly affect how you design and write your
applications, and mean that YOU MUST PUT CODE IN YOUR APPLICATIONS
TO FULFIL THEM.
Pretty radical, huh? This "user-friendly" stuff could really catch on.
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+
| Mark Smith, Racal Imaging Systems Ltd., | ms@ritd.co.uk |
| Rankine Road, Basingstoke, Hampshire, | || |
| England RG24 0NW (tel: +44 256 469943) | ..uunet!ukc!ritd!ms |
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------+
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Date: 25 Jul 89 17:31:31 GMT
From: esosun!kobryn@seismo.css.gov (Cris Kobryn)
Subject: Kermiting MacPaint Files
In the process of Kermit-ing files from the Mac->Sun->Mac
I am munging the files. Conversion of the MacPaint files
on the Sun to X-bitmap format results in a distorted/shifted,
although recognizable, picture. Transferring the MacPaint
files back to the Mac results in a file MacPaint does not
recognize.
I have used Versaterm's Kermit in Text, Binary and MacBinary modes
with bad results. I am using Jef Poskanzer's Portable Bitmap
Toolkit (3/28/88) for the bitmap conversion, but don't feel
this is the problem since the MacPaint files don't transfer
back properly. I suspect the problem may lay on the kermit
residing on the Sun.
Please advise.
-- Cris Kobryn
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 07:53:21 PDT
From: casagrande%crcvax%nssdca.span@io.arc.nasa.gov (LOUIE CASAGRANDE)
Subject: LaserWriter 6.0 Problems revisited
We have just installed the 6.0 LaserWriter and Laser Prep and v. 1.3
PrintMonitor, all created May 8, 1989, 12:00 am. I have found a problem
printing a certain MacDraft (I know, it's a clunky program) document. The
document is a ruler, a black-filled rectangle with white lines and hollow text
(Helvetica 12). PrintMonitor returns an "Error: Stack Underflow, Offending
Command: exch" message, followed by the alert "A PostScript error has been
generated by the LaserWriter driver; the document is okay but cannot be
printed." If the control button "B&W" is hilited in the print... dialog box
instead of "Color/Gray-scale" then the document prints. Other MacDraft
documents with black-filled shapes, white lines, and hollow text print okay
with "Color/Gray-scale," as do all other applications I've tested (Word 4.0,
Excel, MacPaint, and VersaTerm Pro). Has anyone managed to track down the
problem and/or determine the correct version of 6.0 (i.e. the right creation
date & time or even a number change)?
Thanks,
Lou Casagrande (516)346-6379
Grumman Corporate Research Center, Mail Stop A02-26
Bethpage, NY 11714-3580
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The usual disclaimers and datclaimers apply.
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 89 08:47 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: MacArchive stack, second sending
Greetings:
Here is the MacArchives stack that I've developed to deal with the every
changing (growing) archives. If you use my InfoMac Digest stack then this
stack will always contain the latest files in the archives. Click on a file
entry to have it's name added to a list of files to get. This list can be
saved to a text file for uploading and sending when you close the stack. The
list is formatted for sending to listserv@icsa.rice.edu, i.e. like:
$MAC GET filename.ext
Enjoy
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/macarchives.hqx; 179K]
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 22:52 EDT
From: AELevy@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Subject: Mac II future
At our company we have the opportunity to buy a new MAC II , 40 Meg HD,
1meg system for 2300 w monitor, the color is 2900. My concern is will
this system be obsolete real fast. Is Apple going to announce something
in August that will not run on the II? I assume I will get the PMMU
chip for memory management. Thanks, Allan
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 15:07:24 EDT
From: David J. Sturman <djs@gertie.media.mit.edu>
Subject: MacII temp. sensor = quieter fan
I called Nova International about their "gadget" for reducing the fan
noise in the MacII. (They are in Seattle, WA at (206) 548-9339.) They
have made something that sits between the fan and the power supply and
has a temperature sensor that extends over to the hard disk and memory
area (usually the hottest part of a Mac). The device regulates the
speed of the fan according to the temp. However, the device was
developed for the European market and is not ready yet for the U.S.
They expect it to be available in a short time (in the $50-$80 range)
and are taking names of those interested to be notified when it is
available.
David Sturman
MIT Media Lab
(Usual disclaimer ... I am not affiliated with Nova International,
their subsidiaries, relatives, or casual friends.)
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 17:04:00 cdt
From: "Wolf,Phill" <WOLFP%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Proper language(s) for XCMDs
In hopes of writing an XCMD or two to finish a project here, I have the
enviable opportunity of ordering Any Programming Language I Want for it.
I speak C and Pascal. I am aware only of Turbo Pascal and Aztec C for the Mac
in the low-price bracket. Can anyone recommend one or the other, or some
similar package, for writing XCMDs?
Phill Wolf
<WOLFP@GRIN1.BITNET>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 15:12:17 EDT
From: dmg@retina.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Sound Master
We're having problems using the Sound Master cDev on our SE/030s. When we
try to use it, the Mac bombs with an ID = 33. As it works on our other
Macs (albeit we have not other 030s to test it on), does anyone have a
suggestion to make this work?
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 12:25:55 EDT
From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <sussmann@pica.army.mil>
Subject: SuperClock 3.5
Here is SuperClock version 3.5. It's mainly bug fixes. A feature
was added to allow the chime function to chime the same number of
times as the hour.
Ken
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/superclock-35.hqx; 21K]
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 11:39:00 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SuperPaint 2.0 upgrade
Brian Klaas asks:
> I am thinking about upgrading to SuperPaint 2.0 ($50). Has anyone
> tried the new version and is it worth it or not??????
The new version has a number of new features, including plug-in tools,
auto-trace, 8-color support, Bezier curves, and support for resolutions
higher than 300 dpi.
SuperPaint 2.0 is a decent paint program, but doesn't really offer
anything special, and isn't exactly a speed demon. It comes with a library
of plug-in tools, and you may create your own as well - however I find
these only marginally useful. The 8 colors, are, well, only 8 in
number. The auto-trace can be useful, especially when working with
scanned images. And of course Bezier curves are nice to have.
I have also noticed that it munches RAM. I'm working with a Mac II, 8-bit
color, 2 megs, and MultiFinder, and I can open only a fraction of the
sample color files provided. Perhaps this would improve under the Finder -
I no longer have the demo so I can't check.
If you are running a color system, and/or you use SuperPaint regularly, it's
probably worth the $50. I should probably also note that I have had the
opportunity to use Studio/8 recently, and so may be a little spoiled - it
is a very impressive package.
Hope this is of some help! - Gregg
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Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 89 14:33:34 MDT
From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Upload for Kim Dyer
In answer to Kim Dyer's request:
>I would like to change the start up screen from the standard
>"welcome to macintosh". Is there a simple way to do this??
>Can it be changed BACK in a simple manner? (I have an SE with a hard
>drive).
There is such a program, called Icon Exchanger, I am enclosing version
6.1, which I know works with System 6.02. It has been stuffed with
StuffIt and BINHEXed.
Eric Peters
[Archived as /info-mac/init/icon-exchanger.hqx; 13K]
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Subject: MacDraw II, Word 4, and arrows...
To: "su-macintosh" <su-macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu>
When pasting MacDraw II (1.1v2) drawings in Word 4.0,
arrowheads are no longer properly aligned with their lines.
Does anyone know of a fix or work around?
I've called Claris tech support, and they have been very helpful
(actually trying this out while I was on the phone). They
agree that it is a problem.
Almost all of my drawings have arrows in them so Draw/Word pasting
is almost useless to me. Currently I'm relying on "physical paste."
thanks for any help,
Mark
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 26 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 129
Today's Topics:
"Proper" language for XCMD development - opinion
Business Caculator Request
ColorFinder's Icons
DA Handler
DA Handler Startup Document
DFaultD/QuickKeys Interaction Problem
DisArm
HC Visual Effects on Mac II
HELP! WITH LINOTRON
Hypercard Problems?
Info-Mac Digest V7 #128 (5 msgs)
Languages for XCMDs
Mac and Lino 300
Making COMMAND-F default
Proper language(s) for XCMDs
RAM testing of SIMMs
suggestion for archives
SuperCard and Videoworks driver
SuperPaint 2.0 upgrade
Thanks
Transferring MacPaint w/ Kermit protocol
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 11:08 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: "Proper" language for XCMD development - opinion
Phil
I heartily recommend LightSpeed Pascal. It has an absolutely wonderful
debugging environment, and is not too expensive. Stay away from Turbo... it's
generations behind LS.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 10:51:59 EDT
From: decwrl!decvax!formtek!pen@labrea.stanford.edu (Phil Nickerson)
Subject: Business Caculator Request
Has anyone seen a ShareWare/FreeWare desk accessory which has business
functions. There is a plethora of scientific calculator desk accessories,
but I haven't seen a business calulator DA.
If you have one which is ShareWare or FreeWare, please mail it as a(n) .HQX
file to pen@formtek.UUCP. Thank you!!
(You might consider posting it to Comp.binaries.mac and to the archives.)
-Phil
Philip E. Nickerson,Jr. |UUCP {pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!pen
(412)937-4900|(800)FORMTEK| decvax!formtek!pen
"Programming is simply |Snail Formative Technologies, Inc., Foster Plaza VII
debugging a blank page!" | 661 Andersen Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15220
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 14:56:20 EDT
From: rpk@goldhill.com
Subject: ColorFinder's Icons
Just taking a random survey, it looks like most of its ICN#s and cicns
aren't marked as purgeable. Does this really make a difference ?
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 9:55:48 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: DA Handler
>Will someone plase tell me how to use the startup document Da Handler.
>I got my system update from a friend and he didn't know what it was.
>Please post in the digest so others will be helped by this info.
>
>
DA Handler is used by Multifinder to run desk accessories. If you aren't
using Multifinder, go ahead and trash it. If you are using Multifinder, you
run it every time you open a DA.
>
>Thanx,
> DJ WOOD
> UDC COSDET Center
> LAB TECH.
>
>
>LaTex 'til I grow up
>
tom c
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 11:06 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: DA Handler Startup Document
>Subject: DA Handler
>
>Will someone plase tell me how to use the startup document Da Handler.
>I got my system update from a friend and he didn't know what it was.
>Please post in the digest so others will be helped by this info.
The DA Handler is an application that runs automatically under MultiFinder when
you select a Desk Accessory from the Apple Menu (if you're running
MultiFinder). In other words, all DAs in the MultiFinder environment run in
the DA Handler application's zone rather than the "current" application's zone
(in memory). Thus, when you quit an application, the desk accessories remain
open.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 06:41:05 PDT
From: casagrande%crcvax%nssdca.span@io.arc.nasa.gov (LOUIE CASAGRANDE)
Subject: DFaultD/QuickKeys Interaction Problem
I found that if DFaultD is allowed to load alphabetically, then QuickKeys
(v. 1.1) would not load properly (its startup icon would appear, but the key
combinations would not work and it would not appear in the control panel).
Renaming DFaultD to ZDFaultD, forcing it to load after QuickKeys (probably
anywhere after), made everything copacetic. Hope this helps.
Lou Casagrande
Grumman Corporate Research Center
Mail Stop A02-26
Bethpage, NY 11714-3580
(516)346-6379
>From BITNET: "CRCVAX::CASAGRANDE"@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
>From ARPANET: CASAGRANDE%CRCVAX%NSSDCA@AMES-IO.ARPA
>From SPAN: NSSDCA::CRCVAX::CASAGRANDE
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are strictly those of Ralph, the
Wonder Llama.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 13:18:04 -0500
From: think@emx.utexas.edu (s. moon)
Subject: DisArm
HI!!
I like the program DisArm by Bob Arning, but it is old, 1986.
what is new version ? Can you upload it?
And the new version can disassemble DA 'drvr' code ?
Or is there any other program which can do the job ?
Thanks. s j moon
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 11:06 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: HC Visual Effects on Mac II
>Subject: Hypercard Problems?
>
>Can anyone tell me why the copy of Hypercard we have on our color Mac II
>has decided to stop processing visual effects? It works in every other
>aspect except for visual effects. I tried disabling Gatekeeper,lowering
>the ram cache, removing the startup picture, and restarting between all of
>these measures.
On card 3 of "stack version 1.2 release notes", under "more info..." you'll
find the answer. Quite simply, HyperCard visual effects don't work on color
Macs (too slow). You must set your Monitors Control Panel device to Black &
White and the number of Grays to 2.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 09:17:57 EDT
From: ZAK%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HELP! WITH LINOTRON
> 3) I seem to remember Macworld doing an article on this issue some
> time back, but can't locate it. Does anyone remember which issue?
Personal Publishing magazine did an article entitled "Going Lino" late
last year--November or December. Publish! magazine deals with high-quality
output on a regular basis. Both magazines can be found in Waldenbooks or
B. Dalton.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 16:35:40 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: Hypercard Problems?
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>Can anyone tell me why the copy of Hypercard we have on our color Mac II
>has decided to stop processing visual effects? It works in every other
>aspect except for visual effects. I tried disabling Gatekeeper,lowering
>the ram cache, removing the startup picture, and restarting between all of
>these measures.
**** FLAME ON ****
This is an old and well-known "feature" of HyperCard. Visual effects only
work when the bit-depth is set to 1 (2 color) for "performance" reasons.
Mac II owners have squawked about this from the time HyperCard was released
and will probably continue to squawk about it for a while yet. There are
a number of strange and non-intuitive things of this sort about HyperCard
and those, with the addition of dismal performance, are the reason I won't
use it. I could put up with one or the other, but the combination is just
more than my ulcer can handle.
**** FLAME OFF ****
--
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
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Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 08:11 MET
From: Alexander Zwennes <ZWENNES_BAN%HLSDNL5.BITNet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #128
______HyperCard Problems______
The visual effects only work when the Mac II is switched to black-and-white. You
could use the Control Panel, but there's a nice FKEY called 'Switch-A-Roo'
available. If you have the DoFKEY-XCMD for HyperCard you can automatically
switch the Mac to black-and-white whenever you start HyperCard.
Both 'Switch-A-Roo' and 'DoFKEY' are available at MACSERVE@IRLEARN.
Alexander Zwennes
ZWENNES_BAN@HLSDNL5
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 08:48:42 EDT
From: Andrew Gilmartin <ANDREW%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #128
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 89 17:04:00 cdt
> From: "Wolf,Phill" <WOLFP%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
> Subject: Proper language(s) for XCMDs
>
> In hopes of writing an XCMD or two to finish a project here, I have
> the enviable opportunity of ordering Any Programming Language I Want
> for it. I speak C and Pascal. I am aware only of Turbo Pascal and
> Aztec C for the Mac in the low-price bracket. Can anyone recommend one
> or the other, or some similar package, for writing XCMDs?
>
> Phill Wolf <WOLFP@GRIN1.BITNET>
I have written a number of HyperCard external commands and found that
the language I choose depends not on the complexity of the task but
how well the Macintosh Toolbox fits the task. If the toolbox has
everything I need then I use Pascal. An example of this would be
mounting and unmounting volumes. If, however, the toolbox does not
directly support my task I use C. String processing is a good example.
As the external command interface is geared to favour the C programmer
and my own experience has been that I tend to recode much of work in C
as the interface to the external matures (see PopUpMenu) I would
recommend that you use C.
In all cases I use THINK's Lightspeed Pascal and Lightspeed C.
-- Andrew Gilmartin
Computing & Information Services
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
ANDREW@BROWNVM (bitnet)
andrew@brownvm.brown.edu (internet)
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 10:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #128
Concerning the DA Handler:
The DA Handler is a startup documetn that allow your DA's
to function under MultiFinder. Without this installed
you will not be able to use your DA's when running MultiFinder.
Note, I have experienced some conflicts with other INIT's and
the DA Handler. However, I have not narrowed the conflict down
to a particular set of INITS. My problem arises when using
LightSpeed C and running the Debugger under MultiFinder.
Hope this helps those who were wondering what DA Handler is for.
*****************************************************************
* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
*****************************************************************
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 11:17:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #128
Concerning Changing the Welcome to Macintosh:
Changing the Welcome to Macintosh message and Icon
at boot time is not hard and is a neat little hack.
What I do is this:
1. Use MacSnoop to open the Data Fork
of the System file.
2. Search for the text Welcome to Macintosh.
3. Choose Modify Block and change the
message to what ever you want.
*** Your message can be no longer than
Welcome to Macintosh!!!******
4. Write the Block.
5. Exit the Program.
To change the icon, and by the way color icons can be used,
you need to open the system file in res-edit. Look for
a cicn resource in the system file. If one does not exist.
then make one. Paste the icon you want to appear at boot time
into this cicn resource. Then get info on the icon you just
pasted. Change the ID to 31. This is the ID that the mac looks
for when booting. Also, the Mac looks for cicn's first. If
none is present then ICN# and so on. The ID must be set to 31.
If not then the Mac will look until it finds 31. If
you have a cicn file in the system file already you will
probably see the Mac icon that is standard at boot. Get info
on this and chage the ID to something other that 31.
This method works fine with no none problems. I use it
and I like it.
Hope this helps.
*****************************************************************
* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
*****************************************************************
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 12:25:18 PDT
From: decwrl!infmx!ape!cortesi@labrea.stanford.edu (David Cortesi)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #128
>Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 10:10:33 EDT
>From: magee@lti.com (Mike Magee x30)
>Subject: HELP! With Linotron
>
> [My friend] has an existing facility using Linotype terminals and "typeview"
>connected to a L300 2540 dpi printer. She wants to go Mac and use Pagemaker,
>but has been told that there is some very expensive hardware ($4k-26k) required
>to productively interface the yet to be acquired MacII to this printer.
> 1) Is is true that this type of hardware is required??? ;-(
The Linotron phototypesetters are not native PostScript machines.
In order to process PostScript output they need to be front-ended by
a "raster image processor" (RIP), basically an Adobe-licensed
PostScript interpreter running in a Linotron-supplied box of chips.
Linotron charges a very pretty penny for their RIP, it was circa 25K$
a year ago. On the other hand, it is said to be one of the fastest RIPs
around, if that's any comfort.
Linotron has some sort of a low-level page-description language, but
I've never heard of any Mac software that produces it as output. It may
be proprietary, or it may just be too small a market.
> 2) Does anyone have any experience with this type of configuration?
> (Given the perfect match, people HAVE to be doing this.)
The idea of doing layout on the Mac, printing drafts on a Laserwriter,
and getting your camera-ready copy from a Linotron is very attractive.
But most people take their Mac diskettes out to a typesetting contractor
for the final step, and pay by the page. That's because the Linotron
is a BIG capital budget item as well as a wet-process machine that
needs a lot of attention to run.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 09:35:12 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Languages for XCMDs
Phill Wolf asked for suggestions about programming languages for
writing XCMDs. I haven't used EVERY compiler on the market but I can
recommend that anyone thinking of buying a compiler NOT buy Turbo
Pascal for the Mac. Here are my beefs with it:
- The editor is about as sophisticated as Teach Text. No, I take
that back. It's worse. It doesn't even let you use the
arrow keys on an SE or II keyboard. You have to use the mouse
to move the cursor around
- Borland's technical support is virtually non-existant. I sent
them a letter this past January and FINALLY got a response
in June which was just a listing of programs THEY got from other
Turbo users on Compuserve. The cover letter from them
said something to the effect of "Since Borland International
did not write these programs, we cannot provide any further
technical support for them. If you have further questions,
you may want to check the Turbo Pascal forum on CompuServe."
I don't know about anyone else, but I don't like having a
company who has ANY of my money referring me to other people
who ALSO have given that company some of their hard earned
money. That's simply an unacceptable way of treating customers.
Many people have a hard time beleiving a Borland product could be
this bad, principally because of the reputation of Turbo Pascal on
the PC. I've gotten the impression that Borland has "abandoned" their
Mac products because of Apple's look and feel lawsuits (many of Borland's
PC products use menus, etc.). Evidently, Philipe Kahn decided he
wasn't going to spend money developing Mac softare when Apple is
suing him and other software vendors for using Mac-like concepts in
PC products. Because of this, the current version of Turbo Pascal
for the Mac is version 1.1, dated sometime in mid 1987. Two years is
a long time to sit still when the system software has been upgraded
twice and five new models of Macintoshes have been released.
My Recommendation? Lightspeed Pascal (if you're a Pascal fan). I
bought it 3 months ago and found it to be a very well thought out
product. It produces tight code, can create different types of
code resources (applications, XCMDS, drivers, cdevs), and has a VERY
helpful SOURCE LEVEL debugger built in. (This is worth the extra
money by itself!) I've heard Aztec's compilers are pretty good as
well, but I have no personal experience with them.
I realize this may be more than you care to know, but I hate to see
anyone throw money away on Turbo. I can almost guarantee you'll
wind up buying something else eventually if you did buy Turbo.
Well, I hope this helps...
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 12:03:15 EDT
From: "Gerhard A. Kainz" <C210370%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac and Lino 300
I have done support for a macintosh network with something
like 40 macs and two lino 300.
To connect a Linotronic 300 to a Macintosh you nedd a Local-Talk
connection and a Raster Image Processor (RIP) from Linotronic which is indeed
rather expensive (don't know about US prices). The RIP will do all translation
necessary from Postscript to the stuff Lino prints with. Printing then is
as easy as printing on a LaserWriter (chooser etc...).
The experience with this installation is pretty good, except that the RIP
is a rather sensitive Localtalk device. If you have nearly 32 devices
(according to Apple this should work) you might get problems in acessing the
RIP due to electrical limitations, especially when your network is longer
than ??? feet. If so the RIP will not appear in the chooser.
Our way out of this
was to install bridges and divide the network into different zones.
These problems occured only in our network which really is pretty
large. I guess in a smaller environment everything should work fine.
In my brain there is a rumor about a newer LINO product, but as I am
no longer involved in this project I have no further information.
>> This is only MY experience ... Hope this helps ...
Gerhard A. Kainz, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 17:14 MET
From: Alexander Zwennes <ZWENNES_BAN%HLSDNL5.BITNet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Making COMMAND-F default
Hello MacUsers,
When I want to print with my Mac, I always make an postscript-file
(capturing it with command-F) and transport it to a VAX. Then I print it
on a DEC Scriptprinter. Does one of you know a way to make the postscript
dump to a file DEFAULT, so I don't have to press command-F every time I
want to print? Perhaps there's an INIT or something like that????
Alexander Zwennes
ZWENNES_BAN@HLSDNL5
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 16:43:08 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: Proper language(s) for XCMDs
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>In hopes of writing an XCMD or two to finish a project here, I have the
>enviable opportunity of ordering Any Programming Language I Want for it.
>I speak C and Pascal. I am aware only of Turbo Pascal and Aztec C for the Mac
>in the low-price bracket. Can anyone recommend one or the other, or some
>similar package, for writing XCMDs?
For writing XCMDs, I would recommend either of the THINK compilers (C or
Pascal). The Pascal compiler is a little less expensive ($149 vs $195 -
and soon to be $249). The Borland product was nice in its day, and for $35
or so, it is probably worth getting. Unfortunately, Borland's support has
been non-existent (or close to it) for the past year and there don't seem to
be any signs of improvement so far. The Manx product generates good code,
but the environment is abysmal and it isn't terribly popular.
--
Dennis Cohen
Claris Corp.
------------
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
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Date: Wednesday, 26 Jul 1989 15:24:37 EST
From: m11472@mwvm.mitre.org (Craig M. DeRose)
Subject: RAM testing of SIMMs
Info-mac,
Has anyone written a diag/appl. that tests the RAM and reports back a
pass/fail? We are having problems with various programs crashing. We've
checked for viruses, reloaded system and finder. The crash appears to be
at the same relative address 4080XXXX. I've thought about swapping SIMMs,
but the crashs are not repeatable. So I don't think it would be easy to trace.
Any help or pointers will be appreciated.
Thanks,
* Craig M. DeRose TeleCo: 703/883-7229
* The MITRE Corporation
* 7525 Colshire Drive ARPA: cderose@mdf.mitre.org
* McLean, VA 22102-3481 APPLELINK: N0764
* Mail/Stop Z331
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Date: 26 Jul 89 06:52 EDT
From: science@nems.arpa (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: suggestion for archives
The info-mac archives are great, but sometimes it's hard to locate an old
file by name alone ... so here's an idea for you to consider, Dear Moderators:
could somebody write a script to automagically go through a directory of
the archives and assemble into a single text file the leading lines of
each *.hqx file? The leading lines are almost always the original submission
message/description of what the file does, and provide a very nice free-text
summary of what the file is about.
then I could download the file(s) containing the descriptions and index and
browse it, or just grep through it, to find the *.hqx files I need to locate...
also, as new items are added to the archive, it would be easy to append
their descriptions to the summary file(s)....
-Tnx!- ↑z
[A number of people have wondered about this. The resulting file would be
pretty large (there are 2000 files in the archives right now), but perhaps
it would lead to more effective use of the archives. I don't have the energy
to write such a script right now. However, if somebody wants to send us one,
I'd be happy to try it out and see how it goes. -Bill]
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 10:41:02 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SuperCard and Videoworks driver
Help.
I am trying to create a tour on a Mac IIx with 4Meg of ram. I imported the
Videoworks II HyperCard driver into my SuperCard project. It works fine for
a while. The problem starts when I was trying to play a movie with sound.
After the movie stops, I tried playing a SND sound and no sound!!!. I then
restart the project without the movie and the sound played perfectly.
Please, can anybody help me? Is anybody from Macromind or Silicon Beach
reading this? Please help me, I really need the solution very soon.
My second question concerns the Sound Mgr. I read IM V and I tried creating
a new channel and playing a snd resource. I keep getting bus error with the
SndNewChannel. As I understand it, I call the routine as:
err = SndNewChannel (&chan, sampledSynth, 0x80, 0L);
What am I doing wrong?
I suspect that the Videoworks problem lies in the driver allocating fixed
channels and never releasing it. But why does it work with HyperCard?
Please reply to me at ISSTTH@NUSVM.bitnet - Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 20:27 EDT
From: Andre van Meulebrouck <vanMeule@allegheny.scrc.symbolics.com>
Subject: SuperPaint 2.0 upgrade
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 11:39:00 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Brian Klaas asks:
> I am thinking about upgrading to SuperPaint 2.0 ($50). Has anyone
> tried the new version and is it worth it or not??????
[...]
and isn't exactly a speed demon.
[...]
No it certainly is *not* a speed demon.
And of course Bezier curves are nice to have.
Yes, I especially like that. You can make freehanded stuff look less
freehanded.
I have also noticed that it munches RAM.
[...]
Yup. After spending a goodly amount of time building up a "complicated" object
by grouping other grouped objects, I tried to start making multitudenous copies
of the newly created object, and I wasn't able to make even one copy--not enough
memory (on a Mac II with 8 meg RAM). Sure, I could have juggled the static
allocations of various things, but I thought 2.0 already had plenty (and I
couldn't justify other applications having to bite the bullet), plus, I didn't
want to spend time frobbing Macintoshes when I had something important to get
done. So, I just wound up doing my illustrations by hand (in that amazing font
that looks just like one's own handwriting ;-).
Not having virtual memory can be a real lose lose. When one runs out of space
for an operation, one naturally wants the machine to just page something out and
keep going.
This is especially compounded by the trend of
put-everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink-in, because it can't page out all those
nifty goodies that are useful to other folks but not to me (and vice versa).
Perhaps with the advent of MacOS 7.0 things will be "better".
One flame I have about 2.0 is that it creates an annoying incompatibility
between the pre 2.0 version. I couldn't print work on the machine I was using
so, using sneaker-net, I put it on a floppy and tried to use a standalone Mac's
printer. Unfortunately, the standalone (older) Mac was absurdly cramped for
space--I couldn't use the pre 2.0 version to print 2.0 files, nor could I
install the 2.0 version on it. (That kind of incompatibility is only justified
if there's a *quantum* leap in the technology.)
One brownie point I'll give them is that they really took documentation
seriously--it's very professional and unusually well done.
Disclaimer & warning: MY OPINIONS ARE PURELY MY OWN.
Signature: "People who like this sort of thing will find that this is the sort
of thing they like." (Abe Lincoln).
=:0)
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 08:38:32 EDT
From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Thanks
Thank you to everyone who sent me information on how to change my
startup screen from the vanilla "Welcome to MacIntosh". Suggestions
ranged from quick and simple to complex ... and several inits were
mentioned. I will summarize in the next couple of days, so that
everyone can learn of the different ways that this can be done.
(I'm begining to think I was the only person who had a problem
getting it to work ... but even those who know ONE way might be
interested in all the OTHER ways it can be done.)
**********************************************************************
* Kim A. Dyer | *
* Computer Services | REALLY! THERE'S A DESK *
* Central Michigan University | UNDER HERE SOMEWHERE! *
* Mt. Pleasant, MI | I ACTUALLY SAW IT ONCE! *
* (3c257f7 @ CMUVM) Bitnet | *
**********************************************************************
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 89 21:11:24 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Transferring MacPaint w/ Kermit protocol
In Info-Mac 7.128, Cris Kobryn complains about not being able to transfer a
MacPaint file from a Mac to a Sun and to a second Mac.
1) Personnally, I suspect the Sun more than Kermit. Kermit is at once a very
dumb protocol and basically sends what it sees on the disk. The Sun's
filing system may not put the file back together in a manner condusive to
MacPaint when you go from the Sun back to a Mac.
2) Try this. Use Stuffit to create an archive with the MacPaint file(s) you
wish to transfer. After creating the archive, use Stuffit again to "Encode
Binhex File" (under the Other menu I think) on the new archive (when you are
prompted for a file name, use the same one you did for your archive, but
append ".HQX" to the end). The HQX file is now an ASCII representation of
your MacPaint file, which you should have no problem transferring from the
Mac to the Sun and back using Text Kermit.
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 27 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 130
Today's Topics:
ApplicationMenu 3.5
Batteries/Mice
boomerang cd{v
Business calculator
Can't get the Font Sizes to work
DFaultD cdev
Epson LQ software w/non-Epson printers
Graphics questions
Info-Mac Digest V7 #129
LaserWriter SC vs Gen. Computer PLP
Looking for a program...
Names.sit.hqx
Need info on the hp paintjet printer
pmmu for mac II
Postscript->Quickdraw->Postscript?
RAM Checker...
Restricting Access...
Scrapz Demo
Think C question
XCMD Debugging
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 18:40:30 -0700
From: lsr@apple.com
Subject: ApplicationMenu 3.5
Enclosed is ApplicationMenu version 3.5. This is an INIT/cdev that provides
a popup menu of all the currently running applications under MultiFinder.
Choosing an item from the menu switches you to that application. In
addition, if you have opened any DAs, the menu will contain an item for
switching to the DA layer. (The documentation file describes all the
features.)
This version fixes a couple of bugs which caused an incompatibility with the
ScrollLimit INIT (as well as others), and which caused the heap to be
trashed when using a heap scrambler. If you already have ApplicationMenu,
you should drag the new file to your System Folder, open the Control Panel
and select ApplicationMenu. This will copy your current settings to the new
file. Then reboot to activate the new version.
Send comments and bugs to me.
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014
AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM
UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/application-menu-35.hqx; 17K]
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Date: 26 Jul 89 16:57 EDT
From: Joe_Murphy.CAC.CAC@a.darpa.mil
Subject: Batteries/Mice
Remember when the SE came out and it was discovered the batteries were
soldered to the motherboard (giving the motherboard a life of 7 years so
said Apple, probably less)? The same was true of the II and initial
IIXs. Thus if the battery died the entire motherboard must be replaced.
Not all IIXs, but a shipment we just recieved have socketed (removable)
batteries on the motherboard. So maybe they are seeing reason. Also,
there is a new mouse that is much improved over the wimpy model that
replaced the first SE style mouse (the one with the black roller).
Actually the new mouse is quite nice. Maybe there is someone listening
out there...
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 18:40:43 EDT
From: gall@nexus.yorku.ca (Norman R. Gall)
Subject: boomerang cd{v
Boomerang v. 2.0b7 is a cdev that modifies the SF Dialog. Boomerang makes it
easy to use the SF Dialog in the following ways:
1) it automatically remembers folders and files opened or saved with the SF
Dialog,
2) when you open the SF Dialog, it selects the file or sets the scroll bar
position you used last time, and
3) it provides easy ways to jump to these folders and files: (a) popup menus
in the SF Dialog box, (b) shortcut keys and (c) a wildcard file search.
4) it remembers the scroll bar position and the file or folder selected when
you change folders, and when you come back to this folder, the scroll bar and
folder or file selection will be reproduced.
Boomerang is freeware by Hiroaki Yamamoto.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/boomerang-20b7.hqx; 84K]
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 11:15 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: Business calculator
In response to the request for a business calculator on the Mac,
I have seen a DA called 12-C that is a duplication of the HP 12C in DA form. It
comes in two parts (at least when I saw it), an INIT and a DA. I haven't seen
it in about a year, but it was great. If you run across it, or anyone happens
to have it, I would love to get a copy again! ( or any other RPN business
calculator).
Dan Henderson
Computing Consultant,
Boston College
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 19:00:48 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Can't get the Font Sizes to work
Fellow Mac-ers
Here is a problem that I have that I hope someone can help me with.
The Equipment--
A Mac IIx with 80meg HD & 4meg RAM, Apple 13" RGB Screen, System 6.0.3,
Finder Only, Vaccine, Suitcase II, AppleShare, and many other INITs and
CDEVs (I can send the list to those that ask).
The Problem--
For what ever reason, I am no longer able to get any screen font (except for
12 pt, it works fine) to show up on my screen. I have all the major sizes
(9 - 72) of Times, Helvetica, Symbol, and others loaded into a Font
Suitcase and am accessing them via Suitcase II. When the problem began to
occur, I checked and the sizes are still there.
I discovered the problem when 72 pt Times was being bitmapped on the screen
by MS-Word 4.0. I checked the Format-Character (CMD-D) and the pop-up menu
for the sizes said that I only had 12pt to choose from. I checked the other
fonts and Word said the same thing.
Another symptom of something being amiss is that MacDraw II does strange
things to the text if particular fonts (i.e. New York) like stacking all the
characters on top of each other, spreading them out at seemingly random
intervals across the baseline, and generaly making a mess and me frustrated.
BUT, if i change the font to Helvetica, it comes back normal ('cept for the
sizing, mentioned above).
If you need any more information, such as a list of inits/cdevs, or anything
at all, just e-mail to me and I will reply.
Also, I dont know if this is related, but when we use Illustrator 88 (v1.8.3)
we are unable to preview our illustrations in the proper colors. Instead, they
are displayed as patterns. I looked under the Preferences dialog box, and
when I clicked the button, I was shown boxes with names for the colors (cyan,
magenta, etc) but instead of colors, patterns were shown. Dbl-clicking on the
'color' brought up the color picker (which btw, looked fine....ie, no patterns)
and no matter what color I chose, a pattern was shown. >This< has gotten me
totally stumped.
I should add that I checked thouroughly for viruses using V-Detective, Virex,
Disinfectent, and others. All said that the system was healthy. I have not
yet tried re-installing the system files yet. But that is next for me to try.
I am hoping that someone can tell me what happend and how to avoid it in the
future. As before, if you need more information, just ask.
Thanks in advance.
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% Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (InterNet) %
% CSC Help Desk & Graphics Lab Consultant X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet) %
% Texas A&M University (409)845-1365 %
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% Disclaimer %
% %
% Any opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of Michael %
% Farlow and do not in any way constitute the views, policy, or %
% other legal type things of Texas A&M University. %
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 06:51:14 PDT
From: casagrande%crcvax%nssdca.span@io.arc.nasa.gov (LOUIE CASAGRANDE)
Subject: DFaultD cdev
I realized that I posted a message yesterday about an interaction problem
with DFaultD and QuickKeys, but I hadn't gotten DFaultD from Info-mac, so
here it is. Briefly, it is an init/cdev which allows you to attach default
folders (directories, hence the second D) to applications so that you're not
always dumped into the folder in which the application resides. It's
shareware ($7) and was written by Jon Gotow of Old Bridge, NJ.
Lou Casagrande
Grumman Corporate Research Center
Mail Stop A02-26
Bethpage, NY 11714-3580
(516)346-6379
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/dfaultd.hqx; 38K]
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Date: Thu, 27-Jul-89 00:54:41 PDT
From: portal!cup.portal.com!svoboda@sun.com
Subject: Epson LQ software w/non-Epson printers
I have never much liked the poor resolution and high price of Apple's
Imagewriter II printer, therefore, I recently purchased an Orange Micro
Grappler LQ printer interface and a Panasonic P1124 24-pin printer for my Mac
Plus. A possible 180 dpi and better paper-handling at roughly the same price
as an Imagewriter II were the basis for my decision.
After installing and testing the setup, I was not pleased. The Grappler
software used so much memory of my one megabyte Plus that I could print from
few of my large applications, such as HyperCard. The software also would not
print from my favorite page layout program, QuarkXPress 2.1. Since the
interface promised Imagewriter LQ compatability, I was not pleased. I also
wanted to access my printer's much faster internal LQ fonts on top of the
standard Mac screen fonts.
Then, while in my local computer store, I spotted a new package by EPSON
called "EPSON LQ Printer Software". The box read:
* Choose from a variety of 24-pin printers from the leader
in dot matrix technology. [Could this be EPSON? Nah!]
* Access Epson printer resident fonts for faster text printing.
* Provides full HyperCard compatibility.
* Includes fine tuned bit-map fonts in popular typestyles.
* Compatible with a variety of font packages for the Macintosh.
This looked like a solution to my problems, with one possible string
attached: my printer was not an Epson. However, my Panasonic P1124 was
supposed to be Epson LQ2550 compatible. I decided to buy the package (under
$60) and give it a try despite Epson's non-mention of compatibility with
non-Epson printers.
I set up my Grappler LQ as an (expensive) serial-to-parallel dumb
interface. I say expensive because I am sure one could get a simple
serial-to-parallel interface for much less. I tossed aside the serial cable
included with the Epson package and removed the Grappler software, replacing
it with the Epson software and fonts. To my pleasant surprise, the setup
worked without a flaw!
The setup works with all of my software. I can even map the printer's
internal fonts to the Mac's screen fonts, where the printer will make
appropriate user-selected substitutions. The software uses less memory and
allows me to use most of my Panasonic's special features, at a wide variety
of resolutions and combinations.
Assuming that the Epson package works with other Epson-compatible
printers as well, I strongly recommend its use over the Grappler LQ. If one
intends to use a printer without a serial interface, he will have to add one
to his printer or use a serial-to-parallel interface. The Grappler LQ
includes such an interface, but is more expensive.
If Epson would state on its packaging that their software is compatible
with Epson-lookalikes, I am sure they would sell more of their Epson LQ
software. But of course Epson is in the printer business and would rather
sell more of their printers than letting Mac users know they can get a
similar, often better, printer for less money.
Ed Svoboda
svoboda@cup.portal.com
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 15:12 EDT
From: Greg Porter <PORTERG@ruby.vcu.edu>
Subject: Graphics questions
I've got a couple unrelated questions:
1. I'm running vterm on a color Mac II, and using it to show SAS output from a
VAX. How do I port the SAS output directly to either:
a: a HP7475A plotter, or
b: a Laserwriter NT.
Since a real Tektronics terminal attached to the above plotter can do
this, I know it can be done. How do I tell the Mac to spit the output to a
device other than the screen. (Macpaint resolution screen dumps don't hack it).
2. Apparently many newspapers use Mac graphics for filler illustrations (Weather
maps, story-related items like "Engine #2 of such and such plane", etc.). I
presume many of these are done by a service which one can download from for a
fee, or can subscribe to, or some such. Basically, there must be some god-
awful big graphics libraries out there, and inquiring minds want to know how
to get at them, and what it will cost to do so.
Greg Porter
PORTERG@VCURUBY (Bitnet)
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 09:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Adam C. Duncan" <aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #129
Concerning ColorFinder Icons:
Yes! you should make the icons that you are using
purgeable. Not only that bu you should also make them
preload. These two things are definately suggested when
using ColorFinder. This way the system is free to move
the icons when necessary. I more memory is needed by your
system, you certainly don't want the icons to stand in the
way. Allow the system to move these by selecting the above
in Res-edit. If the system needs them again it will read them
in.
Hope this helps.
*****************************************************************
* Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu *
* Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 *
* GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 *
* *
*****************************************************************
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 11:59:32 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter SC vs Gen. Computer PLP
I am interested in buying a personal laser printer; either the
LaserWriter SC or the General Computer Personal Laser Printer. I have
heard both good and bad things about each of these printers. Does
anyone have any experience with either of these units. Please respond
to me directly and I will summerize for the net. Thanks.
==========================================================
Bob Bolt Bitnet: BBOLT@UALTAVM
Instructional Tech Centre CI$: 75410,2754
University of Alberta
==========================================================
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 19:36 EDT
From: Jeffrey S. Lee <LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Looking for a program...
Greetings...
Has anyone heard of a program (hopefully PD or ShareWare) which will
read a Mac sound file (SoundEdit or the like) and perform a Fourier analysis
on it?
- Jeff Lee
LEE_JES@CTSTATEU.BITNET
LEE_JES%CTSTATEU.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 9:35:43 EDT
From: Donald Redick <dredick@bbn.com>
Subject: Names.sit.hqx
[ Here is a program that generates 100 names for a
Roleplaying Game. It lets you select and save a name
to the clipboard. It has some on-line help.
Works well with Multifinder!
-- Donald J. A. Redick ]
[Archived as /info-mac/game/fantasy-names.hqx; 9K]
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 12:51:04 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: Need info on the hp paintjet printer
I'm looking for a low cost color printer for our small mac network.
Have any of you had experience with the HP PaintJet printer? I would
like to know
1) if it can be hooked into an appletalk network,
2) which drivers are best,
3) if the printer is mechanically reliable,
4) how fast it is (say relative to a DeskJet), and
5) any general comments you might have on the printer.
Also, I'm interested in any info on other cheap color printers.
Michael
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 20:44 EDT
From: AELevy@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Subject: pmmu for mac II
Several of us at work are buying MAC IIs and we need a good (cheap)
source for the PMMU chip. Hamilton Avnet told me 270 and 14-16 week
delivery - seemed a little long. Allan (The apple dealer does have them
in stock for $500 however)
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 12:47:35 EDT
From: COMB5%UMDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Postscript->Quickdraw->Postscript?
Hello all,
A friend is laboriously programming a VAX laser printer in Postscript and
can't see the effect of changes until printing. We would like to know if there
is any application that will perform a Postscript to Quickdraw to Postscript
file conversion. He wants to edit the file on a Mac and then download to the
VAX for printing.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Tom Schmidt (BITNET address COMB5@UMDC)
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 23:06:16 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: RAM Checker...
Craig,
As per your note in the latest Info-Mac, appended to this message is a usable,
public-domain RAM checker. It is free, and was developed by Provue. It
runs under both Finder and Multifinder under System 6.0.2 (warning: If you
run it under Multifinder, it will only check the RAM in the memory segment
allocated to it). The file is in BinHex (HQX) format, and you can use
Stuffit to do all the necessary decoding and decommpressing.
David Gursky
[Archived as /info-mac/util/ram-checker.hqx; 5K]
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Date: Thursday, 27 Jul 1989 08:46:54 EST
From: m20011@mwvm.mitre.org (Anup Patel)
Subject: Restricting Access...
Are there any products that will restrict access to a Macintosh using a
password. I've tried MacPassword, but I like to compare a number of products
before making a decision.
Anup Patel
The MITRE Corporation
M20011@mwvm.mitre.org
patel@mwunix.mitre.arpa
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 89 23:14:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gregory S. Fox" <gf0c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Scrapz Demo
I just pulled the Scrapz Demo off the .mac.binaries board and
have been playing around with it. It's very nice- you can organize
your scrapbook entries under multiple catagories, which are
represented by icons which you create. As I say, very nice. So, I
thought, I don't know if this is Shareware or whatever, but it seems
worthwhile, how much is it?
I pull down the "About..." box, and I read "Scrapz is available
>From Seagull Engineering of Sweden at US $69+12 (US $12 for world wide
shipping and handling)"
Holy cats! $81 for a moderately useful desk accessory? I am
mistaken? I mean, I like this product, but it begins to approach
cost-effectiveness to write my own.
So, go ahead, right? Well, maybe... I just wanted to see if
anyone has any idea why this thing is so expensive: is there some
lurking horror which makes this so?
-Greg
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 14:48:57 CST
From: Phys300%UNLCDC3.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Think C question
I have written a small application using the vanilla UNIX I/O in
Think C 3.0 (I like LSC better as a name!). It runs fine - a nice
fullsize window on my Mac + is created when I run under the Finder.
However, when I run under Multifinder or Switcher I get only a
window that is half the size of the screen vertically. This is
not a major problem, but I would like to understand what is
happening and what, if anything, I can do to correct it.
N.B. I am using the vanilla UNIX I/O because I am running the
same program on my Mac and a VAX so creating my own windows
is not the solution that I want.
Glenn Sowell
Dept. of Physics & Mathematics
Univ. of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
phys300@unlcdc3.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 14:20 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: XCMD Debugging
Hello all.
The spate of recent letters about the environment to create
XCMD/XFCNs in has put me in mind of one of my own beefs about creating
XCMDs. I've made a few, and I have always found that it is a pain to
write the program in LightSpeed Pascal, build and save it as a code
resource, launch ResEdit and copy the XCMD from the resource file to the
HyperCard stack, launch HyperCard and run the XCMD, only to have it
crash (for some bizarre reason) and have to go back and do it all over again
while trying to guess what went wrong. Well, call me spoiled, but I
am dying to find a way to cut down the number of steps necessary to
create a XCMD. LSP has a *great* source-level debugger that is absolutely
useless in this type of case. I've tried creating a shell program that
calls my XCMD, but that program cannot handle the hooks back to HyperCard
that come with the HC glue routines. So, any ideas on how to cut
a couple of steps out of the cycle?
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
"A Smith and Wesson beats four Aces" - Murphy
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From: denning@csli.Stanford.EDU (Keith Denning)
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Help! I am trying to print a document converted from MacDraw I format (really
generated in MacDraw 1.9 and retrieved from a Word 3.0 document) to MacDraw II
format. Everything goes through (it take a while) until I get message to the
effect that there is a PostScript error (identified as VMError 11) being gene-
rated by the LaserWriter driver (I'm using the latest one, though I've tried
earlier versions) even though my document is fine. What can I do???
Thanks for any suggestions.
Keith
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 28 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 131
Today's Topics:
8!XCMD Debugging
anon. ftp
Applecare seems to be required...
CLUT Resources and Apple ROM
Excel 2.2 performs poorly on the Macintosh Plus
Generation of 8-bit LUT's from 24-bit images.
Lightspeed and TML Pascals
LSC stdio window size
Mac games for 4 and 5 year-olds
Mac plus to Epson printing. Is it possible?
Ok.. several questions..
Password protecting a Mac...
POP2/SMTP mail client for Mac now available
PostScript -> QuickDraw -> PostScript (V7 I130)
Programming environments
Selling old Mac stuff
Serial Library posting
Snap 2.1 Screen Snapshot Utility (enclosed)
SoundMaster problems on the SEx
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 07:57:57 EDT
From: FULIGIN%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: 8!XCMD Debugging
>From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>...Well, call me spoiled, but I
>am dying to find a way to cut down the number of steps necessary to
>create a XCMD. ...
You can remove one step from the process by using Steve Maller's free "ResCopy"
XCMD (Apple wants $25 if you use it in a commercial product) to create a button
on your card which will automatically update your XCMD. This eliminates having
to run Resedit for every iteration. Please note that "ResCopy" does not allow
you to change the stack that is currently open. One solution is to make your
ResCopy button go to a stack with nothing in it but the ResCopy XCMD, from which
ResCopy can affect your target stack.
If you are not using Multifinder, you can also create a button which will launch
Think Pascal for you ('open "Think Pascal" using "My XCMD Project"'). This has
the added plus of returning you to HyperCard when you quit Pascal, but it also
induces a known bug in GateKeeper (HyperCard does a sublaunch, which GateKeeper
can't handle). If you are using GateKeeper, it will forget about the privelages
you have granted to Think Pascal while it is sub-launched, so you must use
GateKeeper's override function. This is a pain, but only if (A) you are using
"UniFinder" and (B) you are also using GateKeeper.
The final option (which I am now working on implemementing for myself, though
in C) is to create a Test Harness in the LightSpeed environment that will
let you test your XCMD there, at least initially, without using HyperCard at
all. The idea is to supply your own stubs for whichever HC entities your
XCMD calls. In most cases the stubs don't have to do anything - they're just
there to let the test harness compile and to verify that your XCMD calls the
right things at the right times. I find that this solution makes my
life MUCH more pleasant, since the LSC debugger was able to gracefully catch
bugs in my code that HyperCard was much less pleasant about - i.e. it
froze my system and occasionally trashed my test stack as well.
Hope these suggestions are of some use to you!
-Peter E. Lee
lee@cs.umass.edu or fuligin@UMass.bitnet
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 11:38:57 -0700
From: jwk@scripps.edu ("Two Sheds" Kupec)
Subject: anon. ftp
Postmaster: could you please forward this to the appropriate person?
Hello out there:
I have tried to download /info-macs/comm/ncsa-telnet-22.hqx with minimal
success. What I mean is that I can get the file to my sun via ftp, transfer
it to my 512ke via kermit, unbinhex it with 4.0, and unsit it with Stuffit
1.31. The text files are readable and the tellpass program works but the
main telnet application croaks with error 12 when I try to launch it from
the finder. I have gone through the entire download process twice to make
sure. Any thoughts or other complaints about this? Does the fact that I'm
using a 512ke make a difference. I haven't read the documentation for the
telnet/ftp suite as I don't have the proper software (apparently) to read
it. A response would be nice. How about telling me another source for this
stuff?
Thanks,
jwk (John W. Kupec, Programmer/Analyst, Scripps Research Foundation)
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:18:54 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Applecare seems to be required...
Well, just 10 days out of warrenty my SE/30 80Meg hard disk died. How
wonderful. Once again we see why Apple has a 90 day warrenty. Needless to
say, I am thrilled. I have a fairly helpful dealer, so I'll be able to get it
fixed, but it is still costing me a bunch of money for a brand new machine.
I'm going to be writing a letter to a few of the honcho at Apple to tell them
what I think. I recommend that others be wary too. I guess this also means
that you should add the cost of Applecare onto the cost of any new machine now
as they sure don't seem to be as reliable as they used to be.
Jon
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 9:18:53 cdt
From: "Rose,Eric R" <ROSEE%GRIN1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: CLUT Resources and Apple ROM
Calling all hacks:
I'm thinking of writing an Init, but before I do I need some background
information on the Mac II/IIx/IIcx color palettes. Having read Inside
Macintoh
V, I know that there are 5 color lookup tables in the Mac II family ROM -
reputedly the default color palettes for various screen depths. Does anyone
know how these resources are handled by the system? i.e., Are they loaded
into
RAM and then accessed directly, or is there a pointer/handle in the system
heap
which points to "The Default Palette?" What I am trying to do is reset that
handle or pointer (if it exists) to point to some other color palette - one
that I could load into memory and then lock into place - so that the system
color palette would never be used to draw the desktop.
Any ideas, tips, hints (helpful or otherwise) would be greatly appreciated.
Eric
(ROSEE@Grin1.bitnet)
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Date: 28 Jul 1989 1008-PDT (Friday)
From: mcjones@src.dec.com (Paul McJones)
Subject: Excel 2.2 performs poorly on the Macintosh Plus
Am I the only one disappointed by the slowness and limited memory
capacity of Microsoft Excel 2.2 running on a 1MByte Macintosh Plus?
This new release of Excel has apparently been optimized for a
multimegabyte Macintosh II, resulting in bad performance and limited
capacity on 1 MByte, 68000 machines such as the Macintosh Plus.
In fact, although I paid $100 to upgrade to 2.2, I now intend to
continue using 1.5 (and will be quite skeptical about future Microsoft
upgrade offers).
It could be that all the power users have upgraded to larger machines,
but that is no excuse for Microsoft not to warn the rest of us about
realistic RAM and CPU requirements for version 2.2. They should
consider continuing to sell version 1.5 (or perhaps a "stripped"
version of 2.2) for owners of "entry level" machines. I'd like to
hear from others who have used Excel 2.2 on a Macintosh Plus or SE.
Send me email; I'll post a summary.
More detail: For common operations, including loading the application,
and opening, saving, and printing documents, Excel 2.2 is as much
as 100% slower than Excel 1.5 running on my 1 MByte Macintosh Plus
with DataFrame 20XP. I've also found that the size of the largest
document that can be handled has shrunk by about a third.
I ran benchmarks comparing versions 1.5 and 2.2. I found that loading
the application slowed from 9 seconds to 17 seconds (perhaps not
surprising since the size of the application grew from 451KBytes
to 729KBytes!). Opening a document (a "database"--no formulas, about
1000 rows and 4 columns) slowed from 8 to 24 seconds. Print Preview
slowed from 6 seconds to 14 seconds (to display the first page).
As I ran these benchmarks, I noticed several signs that version 2.2
is now "thrashing" on a 1Mbyte machine:
a) I repeated all my measurements three times. With version 1.5,
there was little difference in the three trials, but with version
2.2, the first trial was often much slower than the next two,
indicating that not all the code could fit in RAM.
b) When I reran the benchmarks with the Macintosh's RAM cache
set from 0K up to 64K, the version 1.5 times hardly changed, but
some version 2.2 times slowed down, indicating that Excel's
internal memory management no longer had enough RAM to work with.
Paul McJones
mcjones@src.dec.com
(allegra, decvax, ucbvax)!decwrl!mcjones
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 11:48 EST
From: JWK%OPUS@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Generation of 8-bit LUT's from 24-bit images.
Is anyone aware of a program to automatically generate an 8-bit look up
table from a full 24-bit image? 32-bit quickdraw can perform the required
mapping for me once I have the 8-bit table, but I have to generate one
appropriate to the given picture in the first place. Thanks in advance.
Joe Klingler
Image Analysis Research Center
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 09:27 EST
From: <RICH%SUHEP.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Richard S. Holmes)
Subject: Lightspeed and TML Pascals
In the discussion recently of recommended programming languages, there's one
thing I've missed: a head-on comparison of TML Pascal II 3.0 and Lightspeed
Pascal 2.0. Can anyone make such a comparison? Can anyone point me to
reviews of these products? (The latest reviews in MacUser are from 1986 and
1987 respectively). How does Lightspeed's programming environment compare,
both in ease of use and in useful features, to MPW? Finally, is TML still a
viable entity? I notice they don't advertise much these days.
Rich Holmes
rich@suhep.bitnet
rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 21:00:31 EDT
From: CES00661%UDACSVM.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: LSC stdio window size
In Info-Mac Digest Volume 7, Issue 130 Glenn Sowell asks about resizing
the "UNIX IO" window in Think C. The following is from a
"most-often-asked-questions" file on Symantek's CIS forum:
4. Q. How do I resize the console window when using the stdio library?
A. The console normally shows as full screen when running under Finder, and
half-height when running under Multifinder. This allows for use of the stdio run
time library when using the source debugger. You can change the size to full
height when running under Multifinder by commenting out the #define _HALFWINDOW_
in the config.h file for stdio. Recompile the stdio project and bring your
project up to date by doing a Make or reloading the stdio library into your
project.
You can actually change the default size of the console window by opening
the stdio project (which is shipped in source code form), and opening the
printf-2.w.c file. Do a search for "NewWindow" and change the bounds parameter
to be the desired rectangle size.
Hope this helps,
Bob Rahe
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 12:59:40 -0400
From: Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com>
Subject: Mac games for 4 and 5 year-olds
Does anyone out there know of any shareware or freeware games for
4 or 5 year-old kids on the Mac? They may be educational, or
just fun. Pointers to games in an FTP-able archive would be just
great. Please mail replies to malis@bbn.com.
My 4 1/2 year-old son thanks you.
Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com> UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,uunet}!bbn!malis
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 18:31 EDT
From: MARK 'YANKIEKIWI' DODD <S71DDOD@toe.towson.edu>
Subject: Mac plus to Epson printing. Is it possible?
Hi all.
I am looking for a product that will let me use an Epson RX 80 or
an Epson FX286e printer from my Mac Plus.
So far I have only heard of an interface called Grappler C/Mac/GS.
>From asking dealers about it I have found out that it can have problems with
printing on the FX286e.
Has anyone heard of, or is currently using the Grappler C/Mac/GS
interface that can tell me of its performance. Is it worth the money?
Also does anyone know of any other produces that can acomplish this
serial to parallel conversion??
Thanx in advance for any advice or comments
Mark Dodd
Bitnet: s71ddod@towsonvx (or whatever ends up in the header)
Genie: M.DODD4
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 02:39:36 EDT
From: Wonko%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Ok.. several questions..
I am working on setting up a moderate size database (100's of records
but not 1000's) on a mac. I will have to do light searches on many
different fields. Here is the setup I am considering.
1) Mac SE. (not a SE/30 because Im NOT going to be doing heavy computation
at all.. just heavy I/O) Am I correct in assumin gthe SE/30 will not
get my much for speed?
2) The new HP ink Jet that was mentioned a few days ago on this list..
what is the quality of landscaped fonts?
3) Everex EMAC 60/60 60 meg Hardrive and 60meg tape backup. I can get
one for a little over $1000.. What are peoples experiences with these?
are there any better? more reliable?
4) Ok.. Here is the hard part.. what Database package should I use?
I remember 4th dimension was Hailed as the greatest before it came out
but then it Fizzeld.. I am leaning towards Dbase mac but only because
its semi popular, not too expensive, and a recognized name.. What
are my other altenatives?
Please reply to me and I promis to sumerize it all for the network.
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
'But the machine told me to hit "any key" to coninue and my
regular apple keyboard doesnt have an "Any key"!!!'
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
As I was instructing this one freshmen student I instructed her to
'take the mouse'. and she picked it up and held it in mid air and looked
at me niavely for my next instruction.. I laughed for almost an hour,
soo much for professionalism...
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 23:56:56 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Password protecting a Mac...
There is an application called "Nightwatch", which password encrypts the
directory of the disk you apply it on. This prevents the disk from being
accessed by anyone without a valid copy of Nightwatch and the password.
A word of warning. Nightwatch was originally very incompatible with System
6.0.x, and the manufacturer took their time with issuing an update. This is
not to say the same thing will happen when System 7.0 comes out next year,
but you should be warned.
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:46:36 CDT
From: Farhad Anklesaria <fxa@boombox.micro.umn.edu>
Subject: POP2/SMTP mail client for Mac now available
We recently finished developing and testing a HyperCard stack
that acts as a POP (Post Office Protocol) e-mail client for the Macintosh.
The stack is called POPmail and uses Apple's MacTCP drivers to
send and recieve SMTP e-mail by talking to a POP2 server.
With the POPmail stack, Macintosh users connected to an Ethernet network
(either directly or via a fastpath or gatorbox) can send and recieve E-mail
>From people elsewhere on the Internet. The POPmail stack hides the complexity of
standard mainframe environment so non-technical users are comforatable using
SMTP mail. In fact, we are using POPmail to provide e-mail access for the top 50
administrators (deans, provost, vice presidents, president) at the University of
Minnesota.
The idea behind POP is that a machine which is running all the time and is well
connected (such as a Unix host) can act as a post office for people with
accounts on the machine. The POP server holds mail until a user connects to the
POP server. When the user connects to the server, he fetches his mail and then
reads it on his machine. Because the POP client need only connect to the POP
server for a few seconds to fetch his mail, POP does not consume a lot of
resources on the POP server, so it is very possible to use a small Unix
workstation as a server for 50 - 100 users.
To run the basic POPmail stack you need a 1MB Mac. If you wish to be notified
when new mail arrives at the mail server, you will need enough memory to run
HyperCard under MultiFinder (ie more than 1MB).
The POPmail HyperCard stack works with standard POP2 servers as well
as an extended POP2 server we developed. We weren't happy with the standard POP2
server because when it validates a user, the user's name and password are
sent over the network in cleartext. We added DES encryption of the username
and password. So... users of the POPmail stack don't ever have their usernames
and passwords sent over the net in the clear. We are currently running
this extended POP2 server daemon on our SUN workstations, a NeXT computer,
and on Mac IIs running Apple's A/UX implementation of Unix.
While the software is done, we are still working on the manual... a preliminary
manual is available now with the software. The final version of the manual will
be done sometime next week. If you are interested in the POPmail HyperCard stack
for the Macintosh or the extended POP2 server daemon, you can retrieve them by
anonymous ftp from the directory pub/POPmail on boombox.micro.umn.edu
[128.101.95.95].
Our site license does not permit us to distribute Apple's MacTCP drivers outside
of the University of Minnesota. Consequently, you will have to obtain the
drivers yourself to run the POPmail stack. Apple will be happy to set you up
with a site license. You can get a single user copy of the MacTCP drivers from
APDA.
George Gonzalez grg@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Farhad Anklesaria fxa@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Mark McCahill mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu
Microcomputer & Workstation Networks Center
University of Minnesota
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Date: Fri, 28 JUL 89 07:43:49 PDT
From: "Micro Mauler" <MICRO2.SCHWER@crvax.sri.com>
Subject: PostScript -> QuickDraw -> PostScript (V7 I130)
Z A friend is laboriously programming a VAX laser printer in Postscript and
Z can't see the effect of changes until printing. We would like to know if there
Z is any application that will perform a Postscript to Quickdraw to Postscript
Z file conversion. He wants to edit the file on a Mac and then download to the
Z VAX for printing.
Z Any ideas? Tom Schmidt (BITNET address COMB5@UMDC)
The product LaserTalk from Emerald City Software allows
viewing of PostScript programs either during creation or
imported PS files. The host Mac must be connected to a
PostScript printer, which does the interpretation. An
excellent product and a must for serious PostScript
developers or novices who don't want to kill a tree
while learning. --Len Schwer Micro2.Schwer@crvax.sri.com
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 01:06:37 CDT
From: auvhess@cssun.tamu.edu (David Hess)
Subject: Programming environments
In the recent digests, there has been a lot of talk about programming
languages and which was best suited for what. During this Think C seemed to
get the most praise and remarks. The other environments looked familiar (I
fell into the Turbo Pascal trap also) but what got my attention was that
nobody ever mentioned Apple's own Macintosh Programmer's Workshop.
My question is: Is anybody using MPW? Do they wish they were using
something else? Or are only hard core developers using it? (There is plenty
of stuff for it in the archives.)
I am looking at investing in a programming environment soon and had
always leaned towards MPW (I have worked with version 2 before) but have never
really been able to sit down and compare Think C against it.
Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
Dave Hess
auvhess@cssun.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University
[I use MPW a lot and like it. However, it reminds me more of a Unix machine
with a nice editor than of a Macintosh programming environment like Think
Pascal. It has a great deal of power but a less friendly feel. I also find
debugging with Think products easier. But if you need the power (and by
this I mean things like scripts and project management), you ought to go
with MPW. -Bill]
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 07:33:51 CDT
From: Eddie Mikell <eddie@cc.msstate.edu>
Subject: Selling old Mac stuff
Does anyone have some suggestions on good places to advertise things you want
to sell related to Mac products?
I know it's illegal (immoral... whatever) to advertise over this net, so I'd
be interested in hearing where others have had luck selling diskdrives,
scanners, etc. I have tried the local newspaper, but it has a rather small
group of Mac readers, and thought there might me a bbs, net-group, periodical,
or whatever that might help.
Thanks
Eddie H. Mikell
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Date: Thu Jul 27 18:38:54 1989
From: microsoft!t-atulb@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Serial Library posting
The following file contains sample macro sheets and worksheets for
Excel 2.2. These macro sheets provide a set of external routines
to access the serial ports from within Excel macros, called the
Serial Library. Documentation is enclosed in a Microsoft Word 4.0
format file.
The Serial Library is used in a sample macro sheet entitled
CompuServe (also enclosed). This macro, given a column of stock
symbols, will log onto CompuServe and get the latest information
on those stocks.
The Serial Library will work only on Excel 2.2 (and higher) because
of the added CODE/REGISTER macro commands.
The source code for the Serial Library is being distributed in a
separate archive.
Enjoy!
Atul Butte
Microsoft Corporation
uunet!microsoft!t-atulb
[Archived as /info-mac/app/excel-22-serial-library.hqx; 87K
/info-mac/source/excel-22-serial-library.hqx; 74K]
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1989 9:27:21 PDT
From: Vaughan Johnson <vjohnson@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Snap 2.1 Screen Snapshot Utility (enclosed)
Knowledge Source, Inc. is releasing a shareware screen snapshot
utility, Snap 2.1 for the Macintosh, enclosed in this email.
Snap 2.1 runs under MultiFinder to let you take a snapshot of any
rectangular area of the Macintosh screen(s). A snapshot window can be
inverted, moved, copied to the Clipboard (and pasted into applications
such as HyperCard, MacDraw, or WriteNow), saved as a PICT file,
printed, or just left hanging around on-screen for reference. Snap
2.1 handles color, multiple monitors, and multiple snapshots. It runs
under MultiFinder so the user can take a snapshot of any running
application. Snap 2.1 adds these enhancements to version 2.0:
- updated virus detection
- revised memory handling so you can take more snapshots
- an expanded Help screen
- a Get Info command in the File menu that shows the size of a selected
snapshot, in pixel height, width, and depth.
Vaughan Johnson
Knowledge Source, Inc.
(415) 326-1374
[Archived as /info-mac/util/snap-21.hqx; 122K]
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 89 10:20:18 PDT
From: decwrl!apple!iuvax!uiucuxc!fluke!moriarty@labrea.stanford.edu (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: SoundMaster problems on the SEx
In article <8907252129.AA08659@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> dmg@retina.mitre.org (David Gursky) writes:
>Subject: Sound Master
>
>We're having problems using the Sound Master cDev on our SE/030s. When we
>try to use it, the Mac bombs with an ID = 33. As it works on our other
>Macs (albeit we have not other 030s to test it on), does anyone have a
>suggestion to make this work?
SoundMaster works on my SE/30 with no problems... with the exception of
intermittent silences from other applications that use sound under
MultiFinder. For instance, if I have SoundMaster installed, and open
SoundEdit to play a sound, it plays the sound the first time, but when I
open a second sound, the sound will not play through the speaker (though
SoundEdit seems to think that it's playing the sound.)
Two questions: What's the latest version of SoundMaster? Is Bruce Tomlin,
the fellow who created SoundMaster, still updating it? I paid my shareware
fee for it many moons ago, and was wondering what the status of SoundMaster
was -- I like it quite a bit.
"I went to a Grateful Dead Concert and they played
for SEVEN hours. Great song."
-- Fred Reuss
---
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INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
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Subject: MacDraw II and LaserWriter don't work...
To: su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
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Just a thought, but perhaps you are using the initial release of MacDraw
II (that is version 1.0) which did have a number of bugs. The latest version,
MacDraw II version 1.1, might be what you need.
Also, a "quick & dirty" way to print out that document is to save it as
PICT format and place it into PageMaker, from where it should print without
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 30 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 132
Today's Topics:
Another opinion on writing XCMDs
Applecare seems to be required...
applelink.apple.com IP number?
Boomerang 2.0b7
Fontnames from Hypercard?
Font problems
How complete is THINK C++?
HyperCard field formatting
Hypercard technique
Looking for PostScript maps of Bitnet and the Internet
Macintosh Software Prices
medium big hard drives
MS Word 4.0 Line Spacing
Postscript->Quickdraw->Postscript?
Preserving GET INFO comments
Whats wrong with the Mac ....
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
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/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 89 09:26:16 CDT
From: Jeff E Mandel MD MS <AS01MEF@vm.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Another opinion on writing XCMDs
I have recently been developing XCMDs to call Oracle's OCI
interface. I have been using MPW C 3.0, simply because I had
previously obtained MPW 2.02 on a grant, and doing the full
update bundle was something I could justify as "just an update
to software I already own." Having worked in Fortran (Absoft,
then Language Systems) and Assembler (MDS, then MPW) for
years, I am quite spoiled by just how easy C code is to debug,
especially with SADE. Of course, SADE does not permit
debugging under HyperCard, but my XCMDs all use ModalDialogs,
and only use the callbacks to get parameters, so debugging the
bulk of the XCMD as a standalone application is the best scheme
for me. When integrating the XCMD into my stack, I simply use a
makefile with the stack as the target. Since I work in
MultiFinder exclusively, I just have a button "HideFromLink"
which takes me out of the target stack when I go back to MPW
for modifications to the XCMD. I cannot say whether MPW C 3.0
is better than LightSpeed or Think, but it generally seems to
work. Of course, like all Apple products, good luck getting
technical support in timely fashion.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 17:57:06 MST
From: bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com
Subject: Applecare seems to be required...
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:18:54 PDT
>> From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
>> Subject: Applecare seems to be required...
>>
>> Well, just 10 days out of warrenty my SE/30 80Meg hard disk died. How
>> wonderful. Once again we see why Apple has a 90 day warrenty. Needless to
>> say, I am thrilled. I have a fairly helpful dealer, so I'll be able to get it
>> fixed, but it is still costing me a bunch of money for a brand new machine.
>> I'm going to be writing a letter to a few of the honcho at Apple to tell them
>> what I think. I recommend that others be wary too. I guess this also means
>> that you should add the cost of Applecare onto the cost of any new machine now
>> as they sure don't seem to be as reliable as they used to be.
>>
>> Jon
My father has recently purchased an SE/030 with a 40 Meg. Hard drive.
His died 3 weeks out of warranty. It looks like AppleCare is
becomming a necessity. As for me, I am ok until the soldered in
battery on my Mac II goes dead.
Has anyone else had similar problems with the SE/030?????
** Brian Klaas, Design Engineer *** DISCLAIMER: All opinions **
** Intel Corporation *** stated here are strictly my own. **
** InterNET -> bklaas%sedona.intel.com@relay.cs.NET UUCP: **
** {hplabs,decwrl,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel,amdcad}!intelca!mipos3!sedona!bklaas **
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28-JUL-1989 15:13 MST
From: POTHIERS%TUVA.SAINET.MFENET@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: applelink.apple.com IP number?
Can anyone tell me what the IP number for applelink.apple.com is? There
is a nice file in info-mac archives giving lots of apple adrs but I
don't seem to have the adrs in my host table. Thanks
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 89 03:55 EDT
From: Samuel Paik <D65Y@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Subject: Boomerang 2.0b7
I can't get this version of boomerang to work. An older (INIT only)
does work. I tried removing all my cdevs/inits and MacsBug.
Symptoms: I get the icon at startup, with a slash through it.
SF{Get,Put}File dialogs don't have the boomerang icon, and
act like normal, unenhanced dialogs.
System: 1MB Mac SE HD20. System Update 5.0 (System 4.2, Finder 5.0).
INITs don't matter, as I've tried removing all of them.
Standard DAs and FONTs (I use Suitcase II to include others)
Sam Paik
d65y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
...!rochester!cornell!vax5!d65y
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 89 15:49:52 EMT
From: HDBFS%NOBERGEN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Fontnames from Hypercard?
Is there a way in Hypercard to get the names of the fonts in the current system?
I am working on a stack that will provide userfriendly searching of
multiple fields, ditto sorting, and a report generating feature, using rtf-
file output, for any normal data stack. For this last function I need to access
all the names of the fonts in the system, so the user can choose between them.
How do I do this? Any ideas, hints, xcmds?
The stack will be selfconfiguring, and freeware, by the way.
Thanks in advance,
Espen Aarseth (of Paradigma fame...)
Section for Humanities computing
University of Bergen
Norway
HDBFS@NOBERGEN.BITNET
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 11:15:19 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font problems
Jan asked me to forward this to info-mac about my font problems. I'm
Happy to say that the problem has been resolved and a summary of how it was
fixed will be along shortly.
Michael
Disclaimer: My opinions are mine!!! ALL MINE!!!! <evil laugh>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dear fellow-Macist,
I think I know what's wrong. Probably you've got some sizes (like only 12 pt)
of Times installed in your system file, whereas you've got the full complement
in a separate suitcase file. The point is, that neither Suitcase II nor any sim
ilar utilities will allow you to split up a font family in several files (be-
cause only one FOND per family is supported in MacOS). Consequently, it retains
the first FOND of that family which is encounters in its search order. The open
application always comes first, then follows the system file, then any Suitcase
files in reverse order of opening. So if you've got only Times 12 in your sys-
tem file, and the whole gamut in a Suitcase, the system is not aware of them
because the FOND in the system file was loaded first and cannot be overriden,
and has only entries for Times 12.
Fortunately the cure is very simple: just remove all sizes of Times, Helvetica,
Symbol, ... or any fonts you'd like to keep in separate suitcases from your
system file using the Font/DA mover, and everything will come into place.
CAVEAT: the Font/DA mover will not remove Chicago 12, Geneva 12 and Monaco 9,
because the system needs them all the time. So any other point sizes of any
of these fonts should be copied into the system file, rather than kept in a
suitcase file.
Concerning your problem with MacDraw: I made the same observation. In my opi-
nion, it is simply due to New York (nor Geneva, Chicago, ...) not being a
Postscript font (and thus not in the LaserWriter). I keep telling everyone out
here to substitute Times for New York, Avant Garde or Helvetica for Geneva
and Courier (the only monospaced LW font) for Monaco, because that, in the end,
is the only viable solution to this and related problems with other packages.
The option 'font substitution' in the 'Page Setup' dialog does the same for you
but without adjusting sizes and formatting, resulting in similar problems to th
at above.
Hoping I have been of any help, I remain yours sincerely,
Jan Martin, Quantum Chemistry,
Department SBM, Limburgs Universitair Centrum,
Universitaire Campus, B-3610 Diepenbeek
LUCTHSCH at BDILUC11.BITNET
Disclaimer: IBM just changed its name to 'I'd Buy a Mac'
P.S.: please forward a copy of this item to Info-Mac at sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- we always have trouble with the gateways here
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 18:24:03 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: How complete is THINK C++?
I just read in MacWeek that Symantec is coming out with version 4.0
of its THINK C compiler sometime in August. This new version supports
object oriented programming by incorporating a subset of C++. Does
anyone know anything more about this compiler? For instance, how much
of C++ is included, and is all of the object oriented stuff a subset
of C++? I'm hoping, based on version 3.0's excellent adherence to
ANSI C, that version 4.0 will truly be a subset of C++.
Michael
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 11:19:42 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HyperCard field formatting
I keep running into a problem with HyperCard fields - it is very difficult
to format text because of the lack of tabs. Often I want to create a
single field that has a number of items on each line, but I want the
items to line up in columns in the field. Because of the proportional
fonts, this cannot be done with any accuracy. The only solution I can
see is to use a mono-spaced font like Monaco (yuk). I have never heard
of anyone else having this need for tabs - am I the only one? This
should be a natural feature for HyperCard. Does anyone know of a way
to work around this limitation? Perhaps an XCMD? There must be a way...
==========================================================
Bob Bolt Bitnet: BBOLT@UALTAVM
Instructional Tech Centre CI$: 75410,2754
University of Alberta
==========================================================
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 15:59:32 -0900
From: "DANIEL K LASOTA" <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypercard technique
Hi Everyone,
After reading Peter Chen's letter about error trapping for HyperCard I thought
I would post this as it may be of help to others as well.
I recently wrote a stack that allows one to edit, plot and print functions of
one variable. (I will post it soon). One of the main problems that I was
having was that if somebody tried to graph a function over a domain that the
function was not defined then HyperCard would stop executing my script and
display some SANE error.
This was of course unacceptable. I decided to play around with global
variables so that if HyperCard tried to plot the function in a region of bad
behavior then the person would see a note in the message box telling why the
function couldn't be plotted. This didn't stop the execution of the script
either.
This is the way it would work:
A person would have already written and edited a function and it would be
defined as f(x). Using HyperCard's ability edit the scripts in the stack I put
the definition for the function in the background script of the plotting card.
For instance, if a person was plotting the ArcSine function the background
script would look like:
function f(x)
return asin(x)
end f
When the person clicked on a "Plot Graph" button the following script would be
executed:
on mouseUp
global XtickInterval,YtickInterval,blowup
:
:
:
put f(x) into func
[At this point HyperCard would look for f(x) higher up in the stack and would
find it in the background script. There it would find that it had to compute
asin(x). So it would look even higher in the stack to find the definition of
asin(x). In the script of the stack it would find amongst other things:
function asin x
-- This performs the ArcSine function
global blowup
if abs(x) 2 1 then
put "The ArcSine is not defined for |x| 2 1." into blowup
return 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
exit asin
end if
return atan(x/sqrt(1-x~2))
end asin
This is where I could anticipate where things would go wrong. Each function
would have a line of script to determine if the function was trying to be
plotted in a "naughty" region. In this case if x was between -1 and 1 then
instead of trying to return a number I returned an artificial value for the
function, the long string of nines. In addition a helpful comment would be
placed in the global variable called "blowup"
After all that, script control would go back to the background and then back to
the original button script.
These were the lines immediately following the call for f(x) in the button
script:
if blowup contains "The" then
put blowup
next repeat
else
If the global "blowup" contained a message it would have the word "The" in it
and instead of trying to plot a nonexistent value the script would put the
comment in the message box :
"The ArcSine is not defined for |x| 2 1."
To summarize what I did was split up the plotting routine into the button,
background and stack script. The execution of the script would always reach
the background and if HyperCard didn't know what a function was (as in the case
of Arcsine) then the background script would act like a pointer to the
appropriate section in the stack.
If the function was misbehaving then it would return an artificial number and
put a message in a global. The user didn't have to worry about where the
function was mathematically defined and the plotting routine just kept going.
I realize this may have been a bit specific to my stack but I hope you will be
able to utilize the scheme presented here. I will try and post the stack soon.
Dan LaSota
Fairbanks, Alaska
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 89 23:00:39 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: Looking for PostScript maps of Bitnet and the Internet
Does anybody have or know of an FTPable host having PostScript-format
maps of Bitnet and the Internet, suitable for printing on a LaserWriter ?
Please answer direct; I'll post a compiled listing of hosts, if desired.
At the same time, could a PostScript section be started in the archives,
with people contributing their favorite PostScript code ?
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Juan
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------\
Juan M. Courcoul | Phone:
Postmaster / Listserv coordinator | (835) 820-0000 Ext. 4151
Dept. of Academic Services |
Monterrey Institute of Technology | BitNet:
Monterrey, N. L. 64849 | POSTMAST @ TECMTYVM
Mexico | PP838474 @ TECMTYVM
\-----------------------------------------------------------------------/
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Date: 28 Jul 89 12:29:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Macintosh Software Prices
After seeing Gregory Fox's puzzlement over the LARGE cost of the
Scrapz DA product, I feel compelled to add some similar thoughts of my own.
When I first got involved with the Macintosh about two years ago,
the trade magazines were full of two things: 1) ads for pretty cheap software,
and 2) lots of editorials telling everybody that you should buy NOW, because
the days of wine and roses are fading; the Mac is becoming a BUSINESS computer.
And sure enough, it has turned out to be true. I have seen many
programs that have gone from about $100 suggested price to over $200 STREET
price. Usually the only difference between the old version and the more
expensive one was a snazzier package, maybe a few 'business-oriented'
features, and slicker advertisements. Very few products have been upgraded
without experiencing a large price increase.
Mr. Fox points out that the shareware arena now seems to be
experiencing this same price inflation. It does not seem (to me) as thorough
as in the snazzware area; I point out the FREE products microEmacs and OzTeX,
and reasonably priced MEdit and StuffIt shareware products as examples.
On the other side, I watched one particular shareware text editor DA go from
$20 (V4.X) to $50 (the main difference seems to be that all the bugs are now
worked out.) I paid less than twice that for WriteNow!
It seems really awful that this sort of inflation has hit the shareware
market. My impression is that most of us (at least on this network!) aren't
the 'business' users for whom the price explosion was initiated.
There seems (to me) to be only one honest method of combatting this
inflation: do not buy or use these "overpriced" products, and support the
reasonably-priced ones that you do use. If a programmer were to find,
that no one was either buying OR using his "overpriced" product, he would
have two alternatives: 1) make no money on the product, or 2) cut the price
and see what happens. This would be especially attractive in the face of
obvious support (in the form of payment) for lower-priced products.
Please understand that I am not advocating just using this
"overpriced" shareware without buying; I would suspect that doing so
contributes to shareware price inflation. If more people sent in their
fees, perhaps a shareware programmer might feel less inclined to charge big
bucks. Just don't buy it or use it. This is the power of the open market.
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 21:59:28 EST
From: Robert Weaver <MAWEAVE%INDST.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: medium big hard drives
Dear Info-Mac'ers:
I am finally in the market for a hard drive. (I've been on a floppy
only system since Mar 85, and have lost patience.) What I'd like is
some commentary from the net.
The constraints:
(1) It should be >= 60Mb.
(2) It should have <= 28 ms access time.
(3) It should be external, compatible with MacPlus.
(4) It should be quiet.
Examination of several trade mags led me to the following:
WESTCOM COMPUTER
80 Mb Seagate $685 (60 Mb is $105 less)
28 ms access time; 40,000 MTBF; 1 year warr.; tech info & service avail
Some questions:
Is a quantum drive worth 40% more? Cuts the access time to 19 ms, and
seems to be more reliable. With system 7.0 going virtual, access time
is certainly important. However, I've become tolerant of floppy speed.
Someone called Peripheral Land advertises a 70 Mb "turbo"; ostensibly
25 ms access, but with some sort of a caching system that increases
average performance to 14 ms. Does anyone know anything about this?
It is 70% more expensive: is cutting the average time in half worth this
price?
I plan to use the machine for various academic pursuits: some research,
some writing, lots of file transfers, if that makes any differences.
Any comments anyone?
Robert Weaver BITNET: maweave@indst
Dept of Math and Comp. Science OFFICE: 1-812-237-7652
Indiana State University HOME : 1-812-466-4545
Terre Haute, IN 47809
disclaimer: this information was gathered from magazines and telephone
calls, and may be incorrect. I have no connection with any of the
companies above.
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 22:37:03 EDT
From: pete harrison <MERCURY@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: MS Word 4.0 Line Spacing
In response to problems that have been mentioned with regard to
line spacing in Word 4.0 when inserting equations into paragraphs.
I have faced the same problem and found a solution in the reference
manual. Try setting the line spacing in the format paragraph dialog
box to a negative number. If you use 12 point fonts and want space
and a half, set it to -18. This overrides the automatic spacing
that Word defaults to and that causes the problems with equations,
supersripts and subscripts. I have not tried this with MathType,
but I suspect it will work.
Pete Harrison
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 13:28 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Postscript->Quickdraw->Postscript?
Tom Schmidt writes:
> A friend is laboriously programming a VAX laser printer in Postscript and
> can't see the effect of changes until printing...
This might not help at all, but...
If
the Mac your friend intends to use is anywhere on an AppleTalk network, and
there is any PostScript printer on that network, and while he/she is trying
things out other people have no burning desire to use said printer
then
you might want to look into "Lasertalk", an interactive PostScript
programming environment which, among countless nifty features, also has the
capability to display the bitmap from the PS interpreter on the Mac screen,
so the programmer can look at the image without printing it. Lasertalk will
put the printer's interpreter in interactive mode while talking to it,
which effectively locks out every other user on the network. The program is
put out by:
Emerald City Software
P.O.Box 2103
Menlo Park, CA 94026
Lasertalk will work from an EtherTalk Mac across a bridge, but I have no
idea whether it will work if the printer is on anything other than an
AppleTalk network (such as, DECnet).
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 11:46:24 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Preserving GET INFO comments
Dear fellow-Macists,
I checked out the info... desk accessory from your archives. It is nicely pro-
grammed, but I am having second thoughts about it, as well as the 'CE Info'
in Disktop 3.0.1: both utilities actually add an extra resource to your files
that shouldn't be there, which is quite similar to what a virus does (some
antivirus utilities will be less than enthusisastic). More important, a special
utility is nneded just to read them, whereas the 'Get Info' command in the
Finder sits there for John Dick (as they say in Dutch). There is a third so-
lution I accidentally discovered yesterday:
the 'Get Info' comments are actually resources of type 'FCMT' in the desktop
file. Just open it with ResEdit, open a new File with RedEdit (just tap on
the file list before selecting 'New', copy the 'FCMT' resources from the desk-
top file, paste them to the new file, and close it. Then rebuild the desktop,
and before doing anything else, open the file created before and the desktop fi
le again, Copy the FCMT resources, and PAste them to the Desktop file. Et voila
| All your comments are back to normal.
The process looks involved for a novice user, but is only required occasionally
, generally on big hard disks or server volumes with Bundle bit problems (for
which the very useful BundAid comes in handy). I'm now writing a simple utility
to do the whole thing by itself.
Happy Mack-ing,
Jan Martin
Quantum Chemistry
Department SBM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
B-3610 Diepenbeek, Belgium
LUCTHSCH@BDILUC11.BITNET
Disclaimer: IBM is no longer the Italian Branch of the Mafia. It's now called
I'd Buy a Mac
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Date: 30 Jul 89 05:32:37 GMT
From: scott@heim.uucp (Scotty)
Subject: Whats wrong with the Mac ....
You know, not long ago I though Macs where cute toys. Now, consider myself a
MAC advocate. I'm constantly writing memos justifying "A MAC ON EVERY DESK"
making an analogy to the telephone etc. I like my Mac, and I also like UNIX.
But, I find it real frustrating when I want proces a group of files
on my mac and I have to go find 'em and click - Or heaven forbid I had a program
that did something to files fed to it (like unix commands tend to be written)
and I wanted to envoke a command with a list of files as entry parameters -or-
envoke that command once for each file in my list.
Is there something out there I can use like a command line interpreter?
thanx -
--
Scott Watson - "Inane little message goes here"
uucp: {rutgers,ames}!elroy!grian!heim!scott
Internet: scott@heim.UUCP
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Do you know of any laser printers for the Mac that print double
sided? We would like to print some legal documents on both sides of
the paper. Besides saving paper, it saves on storage space of the
documents. Since the users do a great number of these documents, it
would not be efficient for the user to print one side then walk to
the printer and feed the paper in again for it to print on the other
side. Hence, a laser printer that can print on both sides.
Any information about vendors, prices, or experiences using a double
sided Laser printer with a Mac would be very much appreciated.
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Here's one option: HP makes a LaserJet that prints duplex -- I think
it's called the LaserJet IID, but I'm not positive. You can use an HP
LaserJet with your Mac by getting an appropriate translation software
package.
One such package that fits your needs is called MacPrint, from Insight
Development Corp. It supports the full LaserJet line, and definitely
supports duplex printing on those LJ models with the feature.
phil
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 31 Jul 89 Volume 7 : Issue 133
Today's Topics:
A few thoughts
Boomerang 2.0b7
Database packages
Fontnames from Hypercard
Hard drives
Hardware problems
How complete is THINK C++?
Hyper Bulletins
Info-Mac Digest V7 #132
Really, I don't make these up myself!
regarding recent postings on batteries on MACIIs
SF&I, mounting SCSI Drives.
ShareWare tracker Stack
Sounds
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 09:05:31 CST
From: Michael Hanrahan <C09615MH%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: A few thoughts
I thought I'd add my peice to some postings in the last three INFO-MAC
digests.
Concerning SE/30s
=================
My department bought an SE/30 with an 80 meg hard drive and got it
it in our hot little hands around May 5th. By the beginning of June,
the hard drive failed to boot and was brought in to our Campus
Computer Store for repair. We waited close to 3 full weeks for a
replacement drive and that replacement drive just failed AGAIN this
past week. My advice? If you are buying any machines from Apple (ANY
machine, not just a '30), buy them without hard drives and buy the
hard drives yourself and make sure it isn't a Quantum.
If I had paid for this machine out of my own pocket, I would be
raising Cain with my Apple dealer. Unfortunately, I don't think Apple
has any incentive to improve their quality as long as people pay the
"Macintosh premium" for the machine and then give Apple even more
money for AppleCare for protection from problems which (for the most
part) should never occur.
About MPW
=========
I haven't used MPW personally, but the impression I've gotten about
it is the same as Bill Lipa's. It is probably the most powerful
environment available, but it borrows quite a few concepts from UNIX
which may annoy people who aren't particularly fond of UNIX (I count
myself in this group).
ShareWare Prices
================
If you use your Mac to make a few bucks, when you look at the price
a shareware program (or a commercial program, for that matter), try to
get an idea of how much time that program is saving you before saying
"This price is way outta line!" Most of the About boxes for shareware
I've seen don't demand payment just for putting the program on your
machine, they only want a payment if you find it "useful." I do NOT
think the shareware programmers are trying to ride the same rising
price spiral that commercial products are. You have to remember, the
Macintosh programming environment is MUCH MUCH more complex now than
it was back in the "good old days." Shareware vendors are simply
trying to recover a small (believe me, a SMALL) fraction of the
time and effort they've put forth to develop a decent program.
Enough said!
Michael Hanrahan
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 08:40:40 EDT
From: Norman Gall <gall@nexus.yorku.ca>
Subject: Boomerang 2.0b7
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
|I can't get this version of boomerang to work. An older (INIT only)
|does work. I tried removing all my cdevs/inits and MacsBug.
|Symptoms: I get the icon at startup, with a slash through it.
| SF{Get,Put}File dialogs don't have the boomerang icon, and
| act like normal, unenhanced dialogs.
I know this sounds stupid, but are you pressing anykeys or is the
CapsLock down when you boot? Remember, this version of Boom is a cdev
too. Go to the control panel and make sure that everything is turned
on properly.
n
---
York University |"It is one thing, to shew a Man that he is in an
Department of Philosophy | Error, and another, to put him in possession
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | of Truth." -- John Locke
_____________________________________________________________________________
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 89 00:21:02 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Database packages
Someone up above asked about database packages. This reminded me...back in
'85 I was develping with Omnis 3+. It was fast, it was robust, it networked
well -- but it was *REALLY* ugly. 4thD, of course, is the exact opposite on
all three counts :-), dBase Mac is ok but sorta lame, and FoxBase is a MS-DOS
program with an ill-fitting Mac tux. (Disclaimer: I've only been forced into
actually trying large projects with 4D. But I will never touch it again!!!)
Now, this spring I was working over in the UK. The last week I was there
Blyth started a massive PR push for Omnis V, which from the sample application
I played with looks like it has all the features + more of 4thD -- plus it is
**FAST**, and actually works over networks, unlike 4thD ;-)
But I got back to North America -- and have heard *nothing* for the last
three months. What happened? They haven't even written me to update by
Omnis 3.23 to V. Is there some reason for this massive indifference?
Alex Curylo USERQKMP@sfu (Bitnet)
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 89 23:14 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Fontnames from Hypercard
There is an XXFCN titled "FontName" that returns a list of all available
fonts in the system. This XFCN is in the Developer Stack that is
available in the archive.
-- Doug
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 10:36:34 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Hard drives
With my recently purchased SE/30 I got a GCC FI/80 -- and had the brilliant
good fortune to get one of the new Quantum mechanisms (access time 12 ms to
15 ms depending on whom you talk to). Suffice it to say that after a few
weeks with that floppies are unbearable and even the standard Apple HDs
provoke paroxysms with their pokiness.
Oh yeah -- all the HDs people are complaining about dying just out of
warranty are most likely Seagate 40s. Well-known to be bad news.
My point? hard disk brand name is irrelevant. What sort of mechanism it
has is what you should be worried about. Quantmum are excellent, Seagates
are Ok but flaky, Rodimes are trash.
alex curylo IDQKMP@SFU (Bitnet) 604-298-8913
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 89 23:19 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Hardware problems
I had an unusual situation that I can't explain. Last Friday, I had
several spurous reboots. At the time, I was debugging a program so
thought nothing about it. However, later it went off and did not
reboot. The power switch had no effect. I could not get it to power
back up. My hard disk came up fine, and both are powered from the same
wall outlet. So I figured the analog board on the Mac+ had died and
took it in for repair. The people there tried to power it up, and it
worked fine. So I brought it back home and it is now once again working
fine. I did notice that the line voltage here seems to be somewhat low.
I don't have any accurate meters here so I can't say for sure.
Is there a circuit in the Mac+ that senses low line voltage and either
powers down or wonn't let it power up below some level? I have never
seen such a feature discussed, but it is the only explanation I have
been able to hypothesize.
-- Doug
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 89 21:27:32 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: How complete is THINK C++?
The object extensions in THINK C 4.0 are a compatible subset of C++; all
methods are virtual, support is provided for direct and indirect classes,
single inheritance, and runtime binding. We also provide an additional
extension: if a method calls "inherited::foo()", the "inherited" is taken
to mean "call my ancestor's method of the same name". The behavio
of inherited:: can be easily ported to C++ by means of a macro.
R.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rich Siegel
Staff Software Developer
Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel
"When it comes to my health, I think of my body as a temple - or at least
a moderately well-managed Presbyterian youth center." - Emo Phillips
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 10:00:48 EDT
From: ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
Subject: Hyper Bulletins
[]
Here is a Hypercard stack I whipped up for use in the electronic music
studio here. It is basically a Bulletin board system designed to work
on a Mac which has many users. Each user can leave notes of general
interest for the other users. It is very simple, but hopefully useful.
This stack is freeware, You are free to change anything you want, but you
must keep the about card as is. Also, if you make any changes, please
send me the new stack so I can learn and maybe enhance future releases (and
with credit, where credit is due).
Enjoy!
-Andy J. Williams
--
Andy J. Williams '90 | <hello> | ack@dartvax.dartmouth.edu
31 North Main Street | set $NAME='inigo_montoya' | Systems Programmer
Hanover NH, 03755 | You kill -9 my ppid | Kiewit Computation Center
603-643-2177 | prepare to vi | Dartmouth College
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/hyper-bulletins.hqx; 28K]
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 89 23:56:01 -0400
From: Walter Maner<maner@andy.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #132
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
> But, I find it real frustrating when I want proces a group of files
> envoke that command once for each file in my list.
Try MPW!
CSNet maner@andy.bgsu.edu | 419/372-8719
InterNet maner@andy.bgsu.edu 129.1.1.2 | BGSU Comp Sci Dept
UUCP ... !osu-cis!bgsuvax!maner | Bowling Green, OH 43403
BITNet MANER@BGSUOPIE
[But MPW scripts cannot run user-compiled programs, can they? Not
sure... Bill]
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Date: Sat, 29 Jul 89 14:21:35 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Really, I don't make these up myself!
>From the Robert X Cringely column in the 24 July InfoWorld (did anyone
else notice that Cringely's column is the only page in that issue with
"July 31, 1989" at the top :-)
"I'm learning lots more about the Unix world and more since I came
across an undocumented, unannounced gateway that allows Compuserve nd
Internet users to exchange messages free. It's very easy to use, but
I'm sworn not to tell you how."
VAPORWARE tells all :-) details about the Compu$erve email gateway are
appended to this month's column. Note the date on the information;
someone was kidding Cringely when they told him he couldn't tell.
Enjoy.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the August 1989 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
i486 Announcements.
Although last January's report that PC's based on Intel's
new i486 CPU would be introduced by year end was greeted
with some skepticism, no fewer than four manufacturers (IBM,
ALR, AST, and Cheetah International) have announced i486
"upgrade" boards to be shipped "during the fourth quarter."
Cheetah International is offering a choice of a 33 MHz 80386
CPU or a 25 MHz i486 chip for the same $4,995 price. None
of the systems announced, thus, far have motherboards
designed specifically for the i486 and thus will not be able
to realize the full potential of the new processor. The
first complete i486 system may be announced by Sun in
November (see last February's column).
- InfoWorld 17 July and PC Week 10 July
100 MIP PC?
Even though the i486 exists only in sample quantities,
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has already begun discussing
the i586. At a presentation to the Capital PC Users Group
in Rockville, Maryland Gates asserted that "Over the next
five years we'll be able to take PC architecture up to 100
million instructions per second." - InfoWorld 17 July
Apple Splits with Adobe.
Apple has announced that it is developing its own PostScript
language interpreter (due by this time next year) in order
to add its own features and avoid royalty payments to
Adobe. Apple is selling all of its 3.4 million shares
(16.4%) of Adobe stock (after tax, Apple expects to retain a
nearly $50 million dollar profit on its November 1984
investment of $2.5 million).
- MacWeek 11 July and PC Week 10 July
Managing Windows Presentations.
OS/2 Presentation Manager 2.0 for the 80386 (and i486) which
is expected late next year will be able to transparently
translate unmodified MS-DOS Windows applications.
- PC Week 17 July
IIgs Chip Set in the K-12 Macintosh?
In spite of the guffaws from numerous friends at Apple, the
rumor that the company will market a single computer (see
the November 1988 and January and May 1989 columns) capable
of running both Macintosh and Apple 2 software refuses to go
away. In the latest version, the low-end replacement for
the Mac Plus (the so-called K-12 Mac) will retail for $1,299
and contain the Apple IIgs chip set. Maybe it will be
called the IIgs+? Considering the source, the whole concept
may be wishful thinking. - MacWeek 11 July
Mac Stacks of IIgs.
Gossip is that this Fall Apple will release software that
will let the IIgs run Mac Hypercard stacks (slowly).
- InCider August
Apple Takes a RISC.
A prepared statement from Apple says "We have chosen the
Motorola 88000 as the primary platform upon which we are
basing our RISC research. Since our research efforts are
only beginning, it is premature to say whether or not we
will have a RISC-based personal computer." Translation:
Apple's next Macintosh generation will be built around the
Motorola 68040. The 88000 is more likely to appear first
(as early as the first quarter of next year) as display and
sound controllers. Converting the main CPU to the 88000
would require a total rewrite of the Mac Toolbox (among
other things).
- MacWeek 27 June and 11 July and InfoWorld 10 July
What's Happened to the 33 MHz PS/2?
It doesn't look like IBM's 33 MHz 80386 Model 75 will make
its forecast August announcement (see last March's column)
because it is still having trouble getting Class B
certification from the FCC. The i486 board for the 25 MHz
Model 70 is a "peripheral" which isn't subject to the same
certification standards. It's possible that the i486 Model
70 will be available for sale before the Model 75.
- PC Week 10 July
PostScript Quality on Ordinary Laser Printers.
Zenographics is readying an inexpensive ($195) set of
software drivers for Microsoft Windows which will provide
sophisticated graphics and type-set quality output without
the expense of PostScript hardware. A fourth quarter
release is planned for the SuperPrint package which will
offer PostScript quality, scalable fonts, and support for
24-bit color output devices. - PC Week 10 July
IBM Brand Laser Printers.
This Fall IBM will announce three new laser printers based
on a modified version of the Ricoh six page per minute
engine. The low-end model with 512K of memory and 13
built-in fonts is slated to cost less than $1,600. The top
of the line model with full PostScript support will retail
in the $3,000 range - well below current PostScript laser
printer prices. - PC Week 26 June
New Laserjet.
Hewlett-Packard plans to introduce a new, low-cost four page
per minute laser printer in September. The under $2,000
printer will be the first shipped to the U.S. with the new
4-ppm Canon print engine. The printer will support a subset
of HP's Printer Command Language, including some graphics,
but will not have all the features of the Laserjet II
series. - InfoWorld 10 July
Low-Cost Line Printer.
Output Technology has announced plans to begin shipping in
late August a $3,995 printer with a 300 lines per minute
output. The Model 2132 will emulate any of the IBM
ProPrinter XL, Epson FX-286e, or Printronix P6080.
- PC Week 3 July
Toshiba Light.
Last month Toshiba began selling a 6 pound, book-size laptop
in Japan for the equivalent of $1,400. A U.S. version may
be available as early as this Fall. - InfoWorld 3 July
SAS Under OS/2.
SAS Institute has already released versions of its entire
line of statistical and decision support software for
MS-DOS. SAS plans to port its entire line to OS/2 under
Presentation Manager by the end of the second quarter next
year. The biggest attraction of the OS/2 versions will be
the removal of MS-DOS memory limits. - PC Week 10 July
MacMach.
Xinu, Inc., a Berkeley, California Unix developer,
demonstrated a Macintosh II running the Unix-based Mach
operating system at the Usenix Technical Conference. Mach
also is the basis of the NeXT operating system. Xinu is
still negotiating with Apple for distribution rights to
MacMach. - MacWeek 27 June
Vaporwatch.
Ashton-Tate and Fox Software are hurrying to see who can be
the first to ship new dBase/Fox-base software. dBase IV 1.1
which will fix numerous bugs that have retarded adoption of
version 1.0 as well as add some new enhancements is targeted
for "before October 1" while Fox is aiming for a
mid-September release of its latest dBase "work-a-like."
Ashton-Tate's Byline 2.0 has been delayed due to contractual
problems with the developer, but insiders expect the
problems to be resolved by Fall Comdex. Meanwhile A-T's
FullWrite 2.0 (September?) is so far behind that version 3.0
(January?) may overtake it. Apple's HyperCard version 2.0
(with multiuser, network support but without color) will be
delayed until after MacWorld in Boston this month. Now that
1-2-3 version 3.0 is finally out the door, attention is
turning to other Lotus products promised in 1987. Version
2.2 (for older PC's) will be released in September, 1-2-3/G
(Graphic, for the Presentation Manager) and Lotus DBMS (Data
Base Management System for networked 1-2-3) won't be out
until next year. Only four of the 22 Presentation Manager
promised last February for the end of June are on dealer
shelves. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says most developers
are now planning to ship later this quarter. The infamous
LapMac (too big, too heavy, too slow, and too expensive) may
have been quietly canceled.
- PC Week 3 and 17 July and InfoWorld 3 and 17 July and
MacWeek 20 June
Beware of Lawyers Reading Vaporware.
Lawyers for Ashton-Tate recently fired off a stern letter to
Wordtech Systems instructing them to destroy all marketing
literature and packaging material related to their dBase/SQL
product. The only problem is, Wordtech does not offer, has
not announced, and does not plan to sell a program by that
name. It seems Ashton-Tate's lawyers reacted a mistaken
report published in the April issue of the Netware Technical
Journal. - InfoWorld 10 July
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 17:43:38 -0400
>From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
Subject: Mail access to CompuServe
[This is going simultaneously to comp.mail.misc on the Usenet and
info-nets@think.com.]
To clear up some confusion and squash several dozen rumors which have
been floating around since sometime this past Wednesday or
thereabouts, I'm telling people about this now, although more official
(officious? :-) announcements will be forthcoming sometime Real Soon
Now.
CompuServe is email-accessible. The machinery to do so has actually
been in place for some months, but there has been an arbitrarily large
number of reasons why official, live status has not yet been granted
to the gateway. Technically, this is true, even as I write this.
To reach a CompuServe subscriber account of the form
7xxxx,yyy
swap the `,' for `.' and add @compuserve.com:
7xxxx.yyy@compuserve.com
This is necessary for RFC compliance. To reach employees of
CompuServe, they have somewhat more typical usernames inside the
csi.compuserve.com subdomain.
CompuServe subscribers can reach people Out Here from CompuServe's
mailers via the specification:
>internet:user@host.domain
The use of ">stuff:" is CompuServe's general gateway-access syntax; it
does not appear in anything on the Internet side of the gateway, but
rather RFC-compliant headers are generated.
Internet nameservers for compuserve.com are alive and responding, and
pathalias data for a (fictitious) host "compuserve" has been published
since last fall. Internet mailers must support MX records in order to
reach CompuServe. The MX host is saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu, a.k.a.
osu-cis. I understand that there is some magic that must be performed
on BITNET VM hosts in order to get there due to lack of MX support;
details from other BITNETters, not me.
[That's 7xxxx.yyy%compuserve.com@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu - Ed.]
Saqqara speaks with CompuServe approximately half-hourly, though this
will probably change as load is observed.
There are NO charges accrued to ANYBODY on either side of the gateway
for its use. CompuServe subscribers are charged their usual hourly
rates, but there is no gateway-specific surcharge.
The reason for this posting is that the gateway was mentioned rather
casually to info-nets@think.com, resulting in a rather impressive
flurry of queries, explanations, and test notes through the gateway.
The load has been, ah, remarkable. There were quite a number of
misconceptions about it (notably regarding charging, there being none
but others claiming that there would be), and I am hoping to prevent
further rumor-mongering. Vint Cerf presented this on CompuServe's
behalf to FRICC just this past Monday; there is "agreement in
principle" on the gateway's existence, but the formalities of the
situation have yet to be finalized.
Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not CompuServe.
Questions about the gateway => karl@cis.ohio-state.edu
Questions about CompuServe => postmaster@compuserve.com
Cheers,
--Karl Kleinpaste
Personification of the Mailer Daemon
Ohio State Computer Science
Instigator of the Internet/CompuServe mail gateway
no longer acting "postmaster@compuserve.com"
___________________________________________________________
(cccc) / \
( 0 0 ) | (Prof) Murph Sewall <Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET> |
(| > |) ___/ Marketing Department <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>|
( \__/ ) <___ School of Business ...psuvax1!uconnvm.bitnet!sewall |
(____) \_ U. of Connecticut *standard disclaimer applies* /
\__________________________________________________________/
(This .sig "borrowed" from Johnson Earls <Jearls@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu> Thanx!)
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 09:07 EDT
From: Gay Meredith <EGM%VTCS1.BITNET@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: regarding recent postings on batteries on MACIIs
You guys who are worrying about your batteries in MACIIs going dead are
worrying for nothing. Although the batteries are soldered, replacing them
DOES NOT require a new mother board. Your dealer, presumming he can read an
Apple tech manual, should be able to replace them. This is a standard fix for
any dealer and not an expensive repair compared to almost anything else you
need done. If your dealer tells you he has to replace the logic board to get
new batteries, I would suggest that you immediately look for another dealer.
- Gay Meredith
Apple Service Center, Virginia Tech
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Date: Sun Jul 30 12:59:50 1989
From: microsoft!t-jackk@uunet.uu.net
Subject: SF&I, mounting SCSI Drives.
I just started using the SF&I formatter program with an adaptec 4000
controller board. This works fine. My one problem is that on my SE,
the internal SCSI drive is ID 0. So, I set this drive to be ID 1. Now,
when booting my mac, it sees both SCSI ports as active, and then trys
to boot from ID-1 since it has the higher SCSI priority; so if there
is no system on this particular drive, my mac gives the disk with a
question mark in it icon. If I put a system in this drive, it boots
like a champ! What do you suggest I do, since I want to keep my system
software on my internal drive.
Any replies would be greatly appreciated.
Jack Kingsley
uunet!microsoft!t-jackk
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 21:46:28 EDT
From: gall@nexus.yorku.ca (Norman R. Gall)
Subject: ShareWare tracker Stack
Just a little stack to help you keep track of what shareware packages
you are trying out, when you got it, how much you should send in, and
when you should dump it if you don't keep it.
Hopefully, this will remind some of the users to send in those
payments...
Norm Gall
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/shareware-tracker.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 14:38:18 EDT
From: danmcd@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daniel Laurence Mc Donald)
Subject: Sounds
I have two questions about your sound libraries:
1. Is there a program that allows me to edit sampled sounds?
2. I had a problem un-BinHex-ing the RoboCop sounds. I joined them
using MS-Word, and decoded them using Stuffit v1.31 at work. I got
a CRC header error. I removed the email header and tried again,
same error. Any clues?!?
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Subject: LaserWriter Driver 6.0
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Is there any place on campus I can get the new LaserWriter driver?
That's version 6.0, not version 5.2 that comes with System 6.0
(confused yet?). I struck out at MicroDisc and IRIS, although I did
get a possible pointer to a place off-campus.
Thanks.
joe
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(Joe Pallas) writes:
> Is there any place on campus I can get the new LaserWriter driver?
> That's version 6.0
joe -
This is on the "32 bit quickdraw" distribution from Apple. I gave a
copy to Sean Varah (cello@jessica) for the courseWare lab in IRIS.
See if you can get it from him -johnmark
>
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Subject: MacII Dust cover wanted
To: su-mac@macbeth.stanford.edu
Message-Id: <12515181981.79.R.REHM@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>
My computer's getting dusty! I'm looking for
a nice lookin' (read: *not* plastic) dust cover
for my MacII--preferably a cover that would deal
with the monitor, CPU and keyboard all in one,
but a two-piecer would be ok too.
Any suggestions? Computerware has one sort, but
it doesn't meet the requirement of being "nice
looking' "--
Replies to R.REHM@MACBETH would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Kathy
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On the same note....anyone know where one can get a cover for an
imagewriter *with* a sheet feeder?
-Rick
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 3 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 135
Today's Topics:
BITNET mail follows
Changing SCSI Icons
directory comparer?
dying hard drives
Font Problems: Summary of the Solutions...
Hard Disks and Warranties
HP Deskjet Plus/HP Deskwriter
Info-Mac Digest V7 #133
Making COMMAND-F default
MathGrapher stack
mpw and think thought
NCSA Telnet 2.1e
PERSONAL VISION AND VIDEO BUS
PICT to encapsulated PostScript Question
Questions on Word 4.0
Screen to Clipboard Function Key
SE/30 Replacement Monitor
SuperBar 1.0
THINK C 4.0 and C++
Time to buy SIMMS?
Whats wrong with the Mac ....
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: 2 Aug 89 13:17 EDT
From: FAC1893%UOFT01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: BITNET mail follows
FROM: GARY E. PAWLAS <FAC1893@UOFT01>
SUBJECT: ANON. FTP PROBLEMS WITH NCSA-TELNET
"TWO SHEDS" KUPEC ASKED ABOUT PROBLEMS USING NCSA-TELNET,IN
INFO-MAC VOL.7, ISSUE 131, ON A SUN AFTER THE FILE WAS UNBINHEXED
AND UNSITED WITH STUFFIT. I HAVE NOT USED THIS APPLICATION BUT
HAVE BEEN USING OTHER APPLICATIONS DIRECTLY DOWNLOADED FROM
THE NCSA (NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS)
LOCATED AT THE U. OF ILLINOIS IN URBANA-CHAMPAIGN. THE OTHER
APPLICATIONS I'VE USED ALSO COME IN A VARIETY OF FORMS FOR MACHINES
OTHER THAN THE MAC, I.E. PC, SUN2, AND SUN3. FROM THE DOCUMENTATION
FILES I'VE EXAMINED THERE IS NO MENTION OF RUNNING THE MAC VERSION
OF TELNET ON THE SUN.
THE NCSA CAN BE REACHED VIA ANONYMOUS FTP AT
128.174.20.50 OR ZAPHOD.NCSA.UIUC.EDU
AVAILABLE IN THE HOME DIRECTORY IS A README.FIRST FILE DESCRIBING
THE CONTENTS OF THE OTHER DIRECTORIES.
OTHER APPLICATIONS FOR THE MAC INCLUDE "NCSA DATASCOPE" TO DISPLAY
AND MANIPULATE 2D ARRAYS OF FLOATING POINT NUMBERS AND APPLY
CALCULATIONS TO THE DATA AND "NCSA IMAGE" TO ANIMATE RASTER IMAGES,
GENERATE CONTOUR, AND 3D PLOTS AND PERFORM PALETTE MANIPULATIONS.
ALL OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE FREE VIA ANONYMOUS FTP AND INCLUDE
DOCUMENTATION AND SOME SAMPLE FILES. MOST FILES ARE IN STUFFIT FORMAT
AND HAVE THEN BEEN BINHEX'ED.
YOU CAN CALL THE NCSA CONSULTANT'S OFFICE AT
(217) 244-1144
GOOD LUCK! GARY PAWLAS <FAC1893@UOFT01.BITNET> (419)537-4437
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 89 13:23:57 EDT
From: DBecque%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Changing SCSI Icons
How do you change the Icon used by the Finder to represent your
SCSI hard drive? Using ResEdit I've tried to locate the ICN#
that is presently used but I cann't find it anywhere within the
System, Finder, or Desktop. One article in MacUser a long time
ago suggested pasting your new ICN# into the desktop and changing
the ID to 129 but this doesn't work anymore! Thanks
DBecque@UMass
help
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 89 09:46:43 -0700
From: clancy@ernie.berkeley.edu (Mike Clancy)
Subject: directory comparer?
Is there a program available to compare directories and modification dates
of files within directories?
I have a bunch of floppies that float between computers at work and at home,
and I need an easy way to tell which of the files on the floppies represent
the newest versions of the files. Also, I recently had reason to believe
that another user of one of the computers had accidentally deleted a few
files on the hard disk, and it would have been nice to have a way to compare
the disk's directory with that of a recent backup.
Mike Clancy
clancy@ernie.berkeley.edu
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Date: Tuesday, 1 August 1989 8:23pm CST
From: ZODA537%UTA3081.CC.UTEXAS.EDU@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: dying hard drives
Now wait a minute, don't blame Seagate for this one. I have
an in in a service shop and the scuttlebutt is that the culprit
is the Quantum drive--I agree, ordinarily a fine drive, but in
this case it seems to be a turkey. I am told by this person
that machines come in with dead drives all the time and they
are running about 20 to 1 Quantum, although they were sold
at this shop in about 2 to 1 ratio---it's significantly
different, for all you scientists out there. Advice? I
have no advice. I figure Applecare is required: you NEED
a warranty on your machine and associated stuff, and if Apple
isn't willing to provide a real warranty, I fear we just have
to grit our teeth and pay the extra $$. And, of course, pressure
them to up it to at least a year, anyway. Hmmph.
Josh Hayes, Univ. Texas Austin, Zoology Dept.
zoda537@uta3081(bitnet), or j.a.hayes@uta3081.cc.utexas.edu
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 89 17:12:28 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Font Problems: Summary of the Solutions...
A while back, I sent a posting that requested help when my fonts went screwy on
me. Well, I'm happy to say the the problem has been solved. Here is a summary
of what people sent to me:
Basically, you can't place fonts within both the System File and a Suitcase
that is accessed by Suitcase II due to FOND number conflicts. I had 12 pt. of
most of the fonts loaded in my System and all the other sizes loaded in suit-
cases. Turns out that this is stated in the Suitcase II manual, but honestly,
what computer hack actually reads the manuals??? :-}
As far as the problems with Illustrator (I was getting patterns instead of the
colors when I previewed my Illustration), I don't know what caused it, but the
fix was to re-install the System Files from my System Tools disk.
Thanks again to all those that responded to my plea.
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 89 12:34:54 PDT
From: rob@nrc.com (Rob Pawsner)
Subject: Hard Disks and Warranties
Add my story. 95 days after delivery, 5 days out of warranty, the
Quantum drive in my SE/30 4/80 has chronic power-up boot failures; the
icon says "Feed me a system diskette". Running off a diskette, the
SCSI Probe CDEV shows a Quantum out there, but nothing else can see
it, not even the SCSI Evaluator program.
The only fix is to power down (not reset), wait a random interval, and
try again. Sooner or later, the hard disk boots; it shows no damage at
all, and soft resets always work.
Question for the Apple staffers who contribute so much to Info-Mac:
What's the antonym of "evangelism"?
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 89 11:04:32 CST
From: decwrl!pro-party.cts.com!hplabs!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: HP Deskjet Plus/HP Deskwriter
I'm aware of the discussions regarding Hewlett Packard's water soluble ink,
but I am curious as to the performance and customer satisfaction with these
printers. How do they actually compare to the laser machines in day to day
use? What kind of type and graphic quality can be expected? Where can one
find the best prices for these printers?
Thanks for any and all thoughts or advice...
Don
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Date: 2 Aug 89 04:37:51 PDT (Wednesday)
From: VanDuyn.WBST207V@xerox.com
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #133
Doug,
RE: "I had an unusual situation that I can't explain. Last Friday, I had
several spurous reboots...."
I had a similar (actually exactly the same) problem with my mac. Spurious
reboots, just as if I had hit the programmers reset. Eventually I took the
whole machine to the dealer, and of course the problem never occured. Got
it back home, and off it went. So I played around and discovered heavy use
of the floppy would aggraviate the problem. MUST BE A POWER SUPPLY
PROBLEM. (Can you tell I am a SW type?) I also discovered that putting my
hand over the left top vent would speed the arrival of the symptoms. So I
took the thing back to the dealer, showed the sales force how to make it
happen (which took longer because they have airconditioning, and I dont!)
They proceeded to fix this and that, so I go tthe name of the service tech,
and called her direct and suggested replacing the power supply. She said
that would be fine, and I have never had a problem since.
Mitch
------------------------------
Date: 1 Aug 89 11:01:00 PDT (Tuesday)
From: "Kee_Nethery.PARC"@xerox.com
Subject: Making COMMAND-F default
To create a Command-F postscript file automatically, install MacroMaker
(Apple System Software) and create a macro "Vax Print" or something like
that. Then, have it record your printing and then pressing Command-F to
create the postscript file. It's possible you could create one "Vax Print"
that would work with all your software, but if not, you can just as easily
make a separate "Vax Print" for each application.
Kee Nethery
Kagi.Kee@AppleLink.Apple.Com
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 89 17:18:09 -0900
From: "DANIEL K LASOTA" <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MathGrapher stack
MathGrapher allows one to write, edit, plot, and print math
functions all within the HyperCard environment.
Includes extensive online help with math and with the stack
functions. This version is free.
Send comments.
Dan LaSota
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/math-grapher.hqx; 221K]
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 14:59:34 PDT
From: digiorgi%jplmad@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: mpw and think thought
ref: info-mac digest v7 #131
> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 89 01:06:37 CDT
> From: auvhess@cssun.tamu.edu (David Hess)
> Subject: Programming environments
>
> In the recent digests, there has been a lot of talk about programming
> languages and which was best suited for what. During this Think C seemed to
> get the most praise and remarks. The other environments looked familiar (I
> fell into the Turbo Pascal trap also) but what got my attention was that
> nobody ever mentioned Apple's own Macintosh Programmer's Workshop.
> ...
Having once been a serious devotee of MPW and been converted to THINK
these days, I thought I would add my own opinions to the mill.
MPW is a comprehensive, multilanguage environment targeted primarily
at commercial scale development for applications in the multi programmer
year class. THINK is a single language (well, two if you count inline
assembly in the C product) environment for those of modest means and aims.
Or at least that was my attitude until I started to attempt to
produce commercial code. I have in the past three months progressed
light-years beyond where I would have been with MPW C 3.0 because
I switched to THINK C: its faster compilation and excellent debugging
make me many times more productive. As far as I can detect,
there is little difference in the quality of the output code.
MPW's debugger, SADE, is just plain awful.
I don't want to bash MPW too much as I still use it continuously
for all sorts of things outside of writing code.
MPW has strengths: search, sort, programmatic editing, and compare tools;
the multi-user project management; the combination of ResEdit, Rez and Derez
for managing the creation and modification of Mac resource data; scripts.
Source code management power tools, in a sense.
Overall, I discover that these elements of the programming task consume
about 20% of my time; designing, writing and debugging code is the
other 70% (at least 10% of anyone's business time is spent in politics).
I feel strongly that development tools require balance and facility.
Like the word processor WriteNow, THINK's development teams have done
an excellent job of producing just the right collection of tools to get
95% of the job done with maximum facility. By leaving out the lesser used
power tools, THINK is easier to learn and become good at. Occasionally,
you really need a powerful tool to accomplish a specific end; there
MPW excels. (And yes, I also have an occasional need to use Word...)
Godfrey DiGiorgi
31JUL89
>> Disclaimer: who? <<
>> Definition - Self-aggrandizement: adding noise to a babble. <<
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 13:08:25 CDT
From: Tom Eskridge <eskridge@austin.lockheed.com>
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.1e
Where can I ftp version 2.1e ?
(the 'e' being the operative character)
Tom
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 89 15:38:58 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PERSONAL VISION AND VIDEO BUS
I have just read Orange Micro's Programmer's Guide for Personal Vision.
I don't have the product, yet, but I am very curious about its capabilities.
It captures at 8bits at 30 frames per second over the NuBus to a video display
card. It can't do that in real time at 16 or 24bits/pixel. Reason, NuBus is
too slow. But, aha, it can capture in real time at 16 or 24 bits with
a Video-Bus compatible display card. This seems to be something like the
NuVista 2M or 4M where the digitizer and display h/w are on one card, bypassing
NusBus. The difference is that NuVista has both on board and the advert is very
clear on that.
Now, just what in the world is a Video-Bus compatible card? Who sells these
babies, and how compatible are they with Mac s/w and h/w? Orange Micro claims
that the card currently can capture only at 16bits in real time with a Video-
Bus card. I wonder if they sell them as well.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 9:42:28 EDT
From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <sussmann@pica.army.mil>
Subject: PICT to encapsulated PostScript Question
I have a friend who doesn't have access to this net and wants to
know if there are any utilities to change a PICT resource to
encapsulated postscript. Does anyone know of such a beast? (I
don't even know what he's talking about!!)
Thanks
Ken Sussmann
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 89 16:38:24 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Questions on Word 4.0
Fellow Mac Nits--
I have a few questions brought to my attn by people who use the Macs in our
lab concerning 4.0 and its tabling feature.
1. How can I use Tab stops within the cells? I know that pressing Tab will
move the insertion point one cell to the right. I also know that when ever
I place a Decimal Tab in the cell Word automatically tabs to that position
so that my numbers will line up on the decimal. But there are times when
I use text within tables and want to side-by-side lists with bullets or
numbers. One work-around is to place a space or two where the tab should
be and then use the Search and Replace utility. It works, but it gets
very tedious.
2. Next, once a Table has been created, say with 10 rows, how can I insert a
carrige return between rows 6 and 7? Another way of saying this is how
can I break a table into 2 distinct parts? There have been times when Word
places a page break in the middle of my table and I want to break it so
that I can place a bit of text (ie. Cont'd) above the second part.
I'm hoping that someone out there has some answers, and I thank you all that
respond in advance.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 01:02 EDT
From: "Maj. Doug Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Screen to Clipboard Function Key
This is an update of a function key that copies all or part of the
screen as a picture into the clipboard. The original program did
not properly handle the clipboard under multifinder.
This is setup as function key 5, and needs to be added in to the
system file to operate using either ResEdit or FK Manager. The
FK number can be changed if desired.
To use it, put whatever you want to copy onto the screen. Then
activate the Fk. A cursor that is the top and left sides of a box
will appear. Move it to the upper left cornor of the desired
picture. Hold the mouse dowm and move the new cursor to the
lower right of the desired picture and release the mouse. The
picture will now be in the clipboard.
If you hold the mouse down less than 1/2 second, or don't move it
while the mouse is down, the entire screen will be placed into
the clipboard.
This program is public domain. Hopefully it will help someone.
-- Doug Hardie
[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/screen-copy/hqx; 3K]
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Date: 1 Aug 89 18:41:21 EDT (Tue)
From: muaddib@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us (David Pieczkiewicz)
Subject: SE/30 Replacement Monitor
I will be getting an SE/30 in a few weeks and have a question about
replacement monitors for the machine. I am somewhat new to Mac machines and
their architecture, so bear with me.
Coming out front with the question, is there such a product as an internal
color monitor? I am aware that the SE/30 has Color QuickDraw, but lacks a
color screen, and I am interested in the options available in the way of color
monitors. If such a product exists, does it require use of the 030-direct
slot, or can it use the onboard connector? (Assuming that the connector
is capable of more than monochrome transmission.)
Does this type of monitor exist, or is it just a pipe-dream on my part? I
am interested in color applications with the SE/30, but would rather not
take up extra desk space and power with a second monitor.
David Pieczkiewicz (muaddib@m-net.ann-arbor.mi.us)
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 89 13:40:39 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: SuperBar 1.0
SuperBar
This is a simple INIT which fixes the annoying flickering every
time the menubar is drawn. Specially useful if your are
sensitive to ugly screen updating. SuperBar is freeware.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/superbar.hqx; 5K]
------------------------------
Date: 31 Jul 89 16:34:52 PDT (Monday)
From: JWenn.ESAE@xerox.com
Subject: THINK C 4.0 and C++
The following information is taken from messages by Jorg Brown (programmer
at Symantec) on Compuserve & comp.sys.mac.programmer:
/John
=======================
-> Is it C++ or Objective C?
No. THINK C 4.0 is to C as Object Pascal is to Pascal. We have added
object oriented features to C in a syntax that matches that of C++'s
object extensions. The other more bizarre features of C++, like operator
overloading, inline functions, "//" style comments, have not been added.
It is conceivable that such features could be a part of another release
of THINK C, but in any case it was not worth holding up this release to
put in and test more language changes.
What's in this version is the ability to say:
struct object : superclass {
short someInstanceVar;
void someMethod(void);
};
routine() {
object *someObject;
someObject = new(object);
someObject->somemethod();
delete(someObject);
}
void object::someMethod() {
someInstanceVar += 1;
}
There are also a few other niceties, such as being able to test for class
membership, being able to use direct classes (i.e. they're pointed at and
don't have a handle like indirect (Pascal-like) classes do), and the
elimination of the "virtual" keyword. (If your linker is knowledgeable
about objects, it can figure out when you haven't overridden a method all
by itself.) Other features of C++, such as constructors, destructors,
function overloading, being able to say new(some_structure_type) and so
on aren't in this release. I hate to say it, but you should probably
assume that if you haven't heard that it's in this release, it's probably not.
If your experience is anything like our beta-testers', though, you'll be
a lot more excited about what you've got than what you don't. You can do
the same as object constructors in this release simply by using a line such as:
someObject = new(obejct)->instantiate(someInitializationStuff);
and similarly for many other features of C++; they're syntactic sugar in
the lnaguage that make it more readable but don't provide any functionality
that isn't there already. The main functionality of objects, however,
is hard to achieve without language support.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 10:43:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Yozie <dy0b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Time to buy SIMMS?
I finally got a chance to look through this month's MacUser, and I
noticed that the average price of 1 meg SIMMS was about $130. This is
the cheapest that I've ever seen them, and I was wondering if I should
buy now or wait for the prices to go down even further.
Also, I have an SE/30, and I'd like to know if there is any special type
(speed?) of SIMM that I must purchase.
Finally, does anyone know of a reputable (and cheap) mail order company
that sells these SIMMS?
Thanks.
David Yozie
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 10:21:59 +0200
From: Ingemar Ragnemalm <ingemar@isy.liu.se>
Subject: Whats wrong with the Mac ....
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>You know, not long ago I though Macs where cute toys. Now, consider myself a
>MAC advocate. I'm constantly writing memos justifying "A MAC ON EVERY DESK"
>making an analogy to the telephone etc. I like my Mac, and I also like UNIX.
>But, I find it real frustrating when I want proces a group of files
>on my mac and I have to go find 'em and click - Or heaven forbid I had a program
>that did something to files fed to it (like unix commands tend to be written)
>and I wanted to envoke a command with a list of files as entry parameters -or-
>envoke that command once for each file in my list.
>Is there something out there I can use like a command line interpreter?
Sure!
First and last: the MPW shell! If you can afford it and has enough space
on your HD, this is it! Many UNIX programs are running under the shell with
little or no modification (have I been told) and there are a large amount
of tools (commands/programs) for it. One problem, though: if you don't
highlight the part of a command line that you want processed (like everything
except the prompt) the entire line will be sent to the program asking for
input. No big problem.
There are also a few others:
CLIM, Command Line Interface for the Mac. I tried it once. I don't think
you can add new tools easily, but I may be wrong.
MOS, Martian Operating System. A subset is included in "ArcMac", but I
havn't heard of any complete version.
(I've been working on one myself a little, but I don't know if it's worth it.
I planned on making it a DA or FKEY. What features do you think it should
have?)
So, try MPW shell. It will solve your problems. (But why am I not using it?)
Yours,
Ingemar Ragnemalm
--
Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
..
University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
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∂04-Aug-89 1433 @hamlet.stanford.edu:gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Re: MacDraw II, Word 4, and arrows...
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To: "Mark Johnson" <mark@arden.stanford.edu>
Cc: "su-macintosh" <su-macintosh@hamlet.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: MacDraw II, Word 4, and arrows...
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> When pasting MacDraw II (1.1v2) drawings in Word 4.0,
> arrowheads are no longer properly aligned with their lines.
>
> Does anyone know of a fix or work around?
I struggled with this bug using McDraw II and Canvas. It's not MacDraw II.
It's the Mac's PICT format. McDraw II and the other modern draw programs
have done the sensible thing in inproving the precision with which objects are
measured and positioned. That is why you can have hairlines and custom
arrowheads, for example. Unfortunately, the PICT format has a limited
resolution of 1 point, which is over four pixels on the laserwriter and a
fairly coarse grid with respect to these draw programs. So what happens is,
your draw program converts its high resolution object description into low
resolution pict format when you copy it into Word. This causes the endpoints
of arrowheads and the thicknesses of fine lines to suffer when Word prints
them out.
The only workaround that I have seen is to use a program that can produce
encapsulated Postscript, such as Adobe Illustrator. Then instead of just
copying the artwork to the clipboard using command-C, copy the encapsulated
postscript to the clipboard (in Illustrator you do this with option-copy I
think). Then when you paste into the Word document, a huge postscript
"comment" is pasted along with the PICT graphic, and when Word prints, it will
use the postscript. This is give you exactly the same results from the
drawing program and from word, but makes the word file rather large (typical
figures take 80K of storage). The other drawback is that you have to use an
expensive and unfriendly drawing program.
A second option is to force your drawing program to loose precision when you
draw, so that it measures things in 1 point clunks. That way when you copy to
Word, what you saw from the drawing program is what you'll get in Word.
If anyone else knows a better workaround, I'd be grateful for the knowledge.
I hope this helps, and I hope Apple is listening...
--Tom Gruber
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From: frankf@Apple.COM (Frank Flynn)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <CMM.0.88.618269691.gruber@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> gruber@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Tom Gruber) writes:
>> When pasting MacDraw II (1.1v2) drawings in Word 4.0,
>> arrowheads are no longer properly aligned with their lines.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a fix or work around?
>
>The only workaround that I have seen is to use a program that can produce
>encapsulated Postscript, such as Adobe Illustrator. Then instead of just
>If anyone else knows a better workaround, I'd be grateful for the knowledge.
That is a fine work around. Most any program that will print to a
Laserwriter will give you a PostScript dump rather than a print the file
(that includes MacDraw) just hold down Command F right after you click OK
on the print dialog box. This will create a file called Postscript0 or
1 or 2.... just like screen shots.
Word 4 can easlily handel the raw postscript and include it in your finished
document.
Note you need to have choosen a Postscript Laserwriter driver (not the LW SC)
Good Luck
Frank Flynn frankf@apple.com
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 4 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 136
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Applecare is required!
Boomerang 2.0B7
CD-ROM catalogs
Fast FTP for the Mac/NCSA Telnet 2.3b2
Info About Script Interface System Standards requested.
Is there a shortage of the 8-Bit Color Video Board?
Looking for Greek postscript font
MS Word...
MultiFinder memory usage
Network simulation software...
New "nFLU" virus, Disinfectant 1.2
Personal Laser Printers
PICT->PostScript ; MPW
SE's with FDHD's
SLIP for the Mac?
Sound effect request
Thanks
What's a Benchmark?
XCMD & XFCN Creation
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1989 16:03:32 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
We are mailing the digests using a new method. If there are any problems,
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 04:01 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Applecare is required!
> ...it would seem that applecare is required...
ENOUGH! I have really had it with this discussion already. It would appear
that Apple does not appear to be listening to us and that something must
be done to "wake them up". Is there a network gateway that we can all
send an electronic form letter of the form:
" Dear Apple (John Sculley):
I am just your average American computer buyer who finds the Macintosh to
be an extremely innovative and engrossing machine. However, I simply can
not accept the fact that the quality of it is low enough that you can not
guarantee it for more than 90 days, when Korean IBM/PC clones are comming
equipped with a 1 year (or more) parts/labor warranty.
I firmly believe that increasing your warranty from 90 days to at least
1 year would be in the best interests of Apple Computer, and restore the
faith instilled in a large number of us who beleived that the Apple
Macintosh would be the "computer for the rest of us" in 1984, and are
still sticking by it now". Please provide us with the same support that
we have provided your company (and YOU) with.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
<your name here>
<your electronic address here>
"
With the number of people on this list flooding the Apple gateways with messages
of this form, Apple would not be able to profess to be so blind to the requests
of millions of Apple computer users. We of this list are not the only ones
to request an extended warranty period, Macworld recently completed a survey
of it's readers that also confirmed the wish for a >90 day warranty, and
somewhere in the range of 1 year.
I'm sorry if the flames are burning anyone, but I really get steamed when a
company that professed to be "Anti Big [Blue] Brother" in 1984 can't even
offer a warranty on equipment longer than "that other manufacturer".
With enough pleas perhaps Apple will listen to us.
Thanks for your support.
Bye for now but not for long
David S. "Greeny" Greenberg
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: GREENY
MACNET: GREENY
Disclaimer: #include<std_legal_stuff.h>
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 12:18:31 EDT
From: Norman Gall <gall@nexus.yorku.ca>
Subject: Boomerang 2.0B7
Please, oh, please, post the newest versions of this treasure to
sumex-aim.stanford.edu as soon as it is available. When this comes
out of beta-version, I'll be sending at least $30 as fee.......!
Thanks for such an outstanding product!!
Norm Gall
---
York University | "Philosophers who make the general claim that a
Department of Philosophy | rule simply 'reduces to' its formulations
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | are using Occam's razor to cut the throat
_________________________| of common sense.' - R. Harris
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 15:05:54 EDT
From: Mark Edward Toomey <MTOOMEY%UGA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: CD-ROM catalogs
I would appreciate any info on CD-ROM listings, catalogs,publishers
or subscription lists. Our college is considering purchasing a
Toshiba machine with links to Mac & IBM and would like to submit
a proposal on not only the hardware costs but the subsequent cost
of the CD-ROMs also. Areas of interest ( on disk) are statistical
simulation databases, nutritional analysis applications, and design/
graphics applications. PD & Shareware disks would also be useful.
Please send me any info direct and I'll be glad to summarize
when I've received some responses. Thanks.
Mark Edward Toomey
Computer Services Specialist
College of Home Economics
University of Georgia
BITNET: MTOOMEY@UGA
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 09:52:24 edt
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Fast FTP for the Mac/NCSA Telnet 2.3b2
> Does anyone know of a FAST telnet for the Mac. We're using
> NCSA Telnet 2.2. It isn't fast enough for some of the stuff we're
> doing. (Getting around 8 K/sec when we aren't under multifinder, worse
> otherwise)
>
> TIA,
> Steve Pothier
> pothiers%tuva.sainet@nmfecc.arpa
Steve,
I've recently started using NCSA Telnet 2.3b2 with my Mac II running
System 6.0.2, MultiFinder, 40 meg drive, and 2 meg RAM. In downloading
files from our MicroVAX II running Ultrix V2.0-1, my transfer rates are
between 15-25 K/sec. I don't know if the higher speeds are attributable
to the newer version, or to my hardware, or something on the mini's end,
but you may want to try it out (assuming this is fast enough). The new
version is dated 4/5/89. I am willing to send you a copy, however see
the note below.
Editors: I would post the new version, however the copy I have (which came
>From another institution that shall remain unnamed) was infected with
nVIR when I received it. Due to time constraints, I opted to attempt
disinfecting the copy with Disinfectant 1.1 instead of waiting for a clean
copy. It appears to be fine now, however I hesitate to submit
disinfected software to the archives. If you would still like me to
submit the new version, please let me know.
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: 3 Aug 89 9:01 -0600
From: KRISHNA DESIKACHARY <desikacharyk%wnre.aecl.cdn@relay.ubc.ca>
Subject: Info About Script Interface System Standards requested.
Dear fellow netusers,
Thanks for those who have replied re. my query about Script Manager
documentation sometime ago. It exists in Vol. V of Inside Macintosh, which I
managed to obtain and read. Now I have a further question. Inside Mac says that
the Script Manager interfaces with a Language Interface System such AIS for
Arabic and RIS for Roman, both of which have been written by Apple. Basically
it consists of Context Logic, Font and Sorting modules that are peculiar to a
language system. Such modules, as far as I know, do not exist for Indian
languages although the Inside Mac have references to these languages.
Now my question is this. I have written context analysis modules and defined
Fonts for Telugu and Sanskrit/Hindi languages. An Editor I have written
works within this environment to compose and edit these langauges quite
successfully. However,I wish to standardise this environment in the same way as
Apple's AIS. But I dont know where I can find information on the "standards"
and "methodolgy" required for this effort. Can anyone please suggest me where
I can find this info and tell me if similar work is being done by Apple or
someone else? May be inforation on how Apple built its AIS system will guide
me in the right direction. Any leads you may provide will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanking you in advance,
Yours sincerely,
K.Desikachary
Net Address: Krishna Desikachary <Desikacharyk&wnre.aecl.cdn>
Atomic Energy Of Canada, Pinawa, Manitoba, Canada.
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Date: Thu 3 Aug 89 07:54:26-PST
From: ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Is there a shortage of the 8-Bit Color Video Board?
What gives?... A month and a half ago I ordered a MacIIcx direct from
Apple's regional sales office here in Houston. It came only a few days
late with everything included except the 8-bit video card. After
calling about the card they said two more weeks...after two more weeks
they then said to wait another month...and after another month they are
saying to wait another 5 weeks. What's happening! is there some sort
of big shortage of 8-bit color video cards going around (I haven't seen
mention of it in the trade magazines), or is it just some inept sorts
working at their shipping office. Or maybe it is Apple's way of
invaidating the warrenty on my machine before it is even started up
(Oh no, Its got a 40Mb hard disk! :-( ). Is anyone at Apple listening
(My company has a big account and I have a big mouth). Has anyone heard
of a shortage for the 8-bit video card???
Rick Rohan
Lockheed @ JSC/NASA
Disclaimer: The above opinions are mine not my employers or the guys we
have in purchaseing.
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 13:41:06 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Looking for Greek postscript font
I am looking for a postscript font which contains the full Greek
character set. There is a grad student at our university who wants
to write her master's thesis in classical Greek. If anyone is aware
of a font that will print Greek characters, please contact me.
Thanks in advance.
==========================================================
Bob Bolt Bitnet: BBOLT@UALTAVM
Instructional Tech Centre CI$: 75410,2754
University of Alberta
==========================================================
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 08:49:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas Edward Van Lenten <tv0c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: MS Word...
I don't know, this may have been mentioned before, but there is also a
problem with the MS Word 4.0 Ref manual. Take a look and see if you pages
298-304 (The range is somewhere around there) and pages 317-318. They were
completely missing from my manual. The replacement manual arrived today (it
took a month to get). The packing slip say that this is "Rev B" of the manual.
Did anyone else get a messed manual?
TVL
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 11:36:36 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: MultiFinder memory usage
I only got a couple of replies to my query about System file sizes growing
under MultiFinder. I assume this is due to my being jus a little behind the
times, in terms of using MF:-}. At any rate, the following is Dave Platt's
reply, which pretty much puts it all in perspective. Thanks to those who
replied, either by email or phone.
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
Under MultiFinder, many resources from the System file are loaded into the
System heap, rather than into the various application heaps (one per
running application). This permits the resources to be shared between
multiple applications; there's no need for each application to load
(for example) its own copy of the Times 12 font bitmap.
If you have a debugger such as TMON or MacsBug, you might find it interesting
to examine the various heaps and see which resources appear where...
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
tom c
Electromagnetic Armament Technology Branch, US Army Armament Research,
Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
ARPA: tcora@pica.army.mil -or- tcora@ardec.arpa [201] 724-4344
UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora BITNET: Tcora@DACTH01.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 22:42:11 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Network simulation software...
Does anyone know of network simulation applications that exists for the Mac?
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 10:34:49 PDT
From: jln@acns.nwu.edu
Subject: New "nFLU" virus, Disinfectant 1.2
Another Macintosh virus named "nFLU" has been discovered at the
University of Minnesota. This virus is identical to nVIR B,
except for the name change.
Disinfectant version 1.2 has been configured to recognize nFLU.
We recommend that all Disinfectant users obtain a copy of this new version.
Version 1.2 also contains a few other minor changes. For a detailed
list of all the changes see the section titled "Version History"
in the online document.
Disinfectant is free.
Features:
- Detects and repairs files infected by Scores, nVIR A, nVIR B, Hpat,
AIDS, MEV#, nFLU, INIT 29, ANTI, and MacMag. These are all of the
currently known Macintosh viruses.
- Scans volumes (entire disks) in either virus check mode or virus
repair mode.
- Option to scan a single folder or a single file.
- Option to "automatically" scan a sequence of floppies.
- Option to scan all mounted volumes.
- Can scan both MFS and HFS volumes.
- Dynamic display of the current folder name, file name, and a thermometer
indicating the progress of a scan.
- All scans can be canceled at any time.
- Scans produce detailed reports in a scrolling field. Reports can be
saved as text files and printed with an editor or word processor.
- Carefully designed human interface that closely follows Apple's
guidelines. All operations are initiated and controlled by 8 simple
standard push buttons.
- Uses an advanced detection and repair algorithm that can handle partial
infections, multiple infections, and other anomalies.
- Careful error checking. E.g., properly detects and reports damaged and
busy files, out of memory conditions, disk full conditions on attempts
to save files, insufficient privileges on server volumes, and so on.
- Works on any Mac with at least 512K of memory running System 3.2
or later with HFS.
- Can be used on single floppy drive Macs with no floppy shuffling.
- Extensive online document describing Disinfectant, viruses in general,
the Mac viruses in particular, recommendations for "safe" computing,
Vaccine, and other virus fighting tools. We tried to include everything in
the document that the average Mac user needs to know about viruses.
John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
2129 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Bitnet: jln@nuacc
Internet: jln@acns.nwu.edu
AppleLink: a0173
CompuServe: 76666,573
[Archived as /info-mac/virus/disinfectant-12.hqx; 104K]
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 08:48:27 MDT
From: Bob Bolt <BBOLT%UALTAVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Personal Laser Printers
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for information on the
LaserWriter SC and the General Computer Personal Laser Printer. The
following are comments made by people on the net and local Mac users.
- PLP uses outline fonts for accurate scaling, but SC uses scaled down
bitmap fonts. The SC must have a size 4 times larger than the size you
want to print to achieve quality 300dpi. Also, the SC only has 4 fonts.
- System 7's outline fonts should be supported by both machines
- the PLP will not be able to print large documents on a 1 meg machine.
You must quit the application and run another application from GCC that
handles the print job. Adding memory to your Mac solves this one.
- the SC cannot handle any fancy postscript-like font manipulations.
The PLP can do some, such as rotated text.
- the SC is faster than the PLP, NT or NTX for most jobs.
- the PLP has trouble printing its outline fonts in HyperCard - they
come out as bitmaps
- reliability of the PLP was brought into question. Some of the local
dealers refused to even quote me a price, because they were tired
of the support required for this printer.
Although I am leaning toward the PLP, I am not satisfied that either
of these printers are a good value. One person informed me of a
liquid crystal postscript-compatible laser printer from Everex that
goes for $2600 (Education price) and a 30 day evaluation period. That
seemed to good to be true and, sure enough, this offer is not valid
in Canada (the story of my life). A dealer also informed me the GCC
will shortly be releasing a new model of PLP that addresses some of
the current model's shortcomings. So, I think I will just wait and
see what happens.
==========================================================
Bob Bolt Bitnet: BBOLT@UALTAVM
Instructional Tech Centre CI$: 75410,2754
University of Alberta
==========================================================
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 09:35:12 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: PICT->PostScript ; MPW
If you want to put a PICT into EPS, there's a program in the info-mac archives
(called DrawOver, i think) that does exactly that.
Re MPW/Think C: Certainly Think is quite suitable for large commercial
applications. As far as I know, PageMaker was developed using Lightspeed.
(how much bigger do you want? :-)
But MPW is *the* POWER development system. Of the Mac, of the world. Link
anything from anywhere, scripts to do just about absolutely anything, etc.
MPW is an *internal* apple tool that was developed to write things like
system software, Color Quickdraw, etc. etc. It was never intended to compete
with commercial languages like Think's.
But if you don't have a 50 person development team who each writes in a
different language ;-) you might as well forego the incredible memory and
space overhead of MPW.
Of course, if you use Think products you don't get to use MacApp, which may
even be a practical system at around version 5.0 ;-) (If I'm wrong in this
statement, I'm sure the resident Think person will correct me...)
Alex Curylo USERQKMP@sfu (Bitnet) 604-858-8161
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 11:34 EST
From: Thomas R. Blake <TBLAKE%BINGVAXA.BITNET@bingvmc.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: SE's with FDHD's
Folks,
Well, I checked AppleLink, and compared the price lists. As far as I can
tell, the price has not gone down any. But the SE does ship with FDHD's rather
than the old 800K's.
Thomas R. Blake
SUNY Binghamton
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 16:38:12 CDT
From: "Mark R. Williamson" <@rice.edu:MARK%RICEVM1.RICE.EDU@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: SLIP for the Mac?
Can any of the various Telnets for the Mac run across a serial line?
We have recently installed a SLIP-capable terminal server with 9600 baud
modems, and it surely would be nice to telnet in from home! Does MacTCP
support SLIP?
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 89 10:12:56 EDT
From: Kim Dyer <3C257F7%CMUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Sound effect request
I know someone out there was digitizing a bunch of bits from Warner
Bros. cartoons. I have one in mind that I would like. Wondering if
there is any chance they might have it.
There's a cartoon - I *THINK* it's an Elmer Fudd, but I could be wrong
- where the lead character is staying the night in a house which has
lephrchans. They stand one on top of another, and act as the "hotel
manager", then proceed to drive poor Elmer nuts. At one point the
"top" and "bottom" halves loose track of eachother. They end up
standing in front of Elmer, bottom half next to top half, and they
say "Now isn't this sight enough to set the heart crosswise in ya?"
WONDERFUL line. Anyone digitize it yet? I want to rig something
to startle a friend who comes over and plays with the Mac all the time.
**********************************************************************
* Kim A. Dyer | *
* Computer Services | THERE'S A DESK UNDER *
* Central Michigan University | HERE SOMEWHERE! *
* Mt. Pleasant, MI | I ACTUALLY SAW IT ONCE! *
* (3c257f7 @ CMUVM) Bitnet | *
**********************************************************************
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 23:09 EDT
From: <LGREEN%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Thanks
Since I haven't seen my thanks to all you netters yet in the Info-Mac
digest, I thought I would send to this address and see if this made it.
I had troubles with Hypercard, and many people (20 or so) responded to tell
me that all I had to do to get Hypercard visual effects to work was to change
the monitors cdev to 2 color mode. Thanks for everyone's help and prompt
response. Sincerely,
#########################################################################
Lyman Green * *
User Services Consultant * Lemon Curry? *
Wheaton College Norton,MA * *
Bitnet: LGREEN@WHEATNMA * *
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 18:30 EDT
From: "Roger Marks, NIST, Boulder, CO. 303-497-3037" <MARKS@enh.nist.gov>
Subject: What's a Benchmark?
Can I get some help on benchmarking? I need to get some kind of
comparison between a Mac SE/030 and some fast 386 machine in
number-crunching. I've been looking at Byte benchmarks, but they
aren't making sense. Having spent as much time as I can studying the "new"
Byte benchmarks [June '88], I get the impression that the low-level
numbers are supposed to provide useful information across CPU families.
On the other hand, I find these numbers for the Byte FPU math
benchmark:
IBM PC 71
IBM AT 46
Compaq 386/20 7
Mac II 175
Mac SE/020 149
Now come on--the IBM PC ain't twice as fast as the SE/020. So where
does this leave me? How can I convert benchmarks into a comparable
scheme? Or, where can I find comparable benchmarks? And, why would
Byte spend so much time developing benchmarks and end up with numbers
that are useless across CPU lines?
Thanks for any insight,
Roger Marks
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 21:26 EDT
From: DSchwartz@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Subject: XCMD & XFCN Creation
Recent postings have expressed the desire for an improved development
environment for XCMDs and XFCNs. The product "Wild Things" from
Language Systems Corp. (Herndon, VA - (703)478-0181 ) might be of some
interest.
Wild Things contains templates and support routines for producing XCMDs
and XFCNs in at least six languages, which include:
MPW Pascal
MPW C
Lightspeed Pascal
Lightspeed C
Language Systems FORTRAN
TML Pascal
Complete sources are included in ALL the supported languages for about
40 example XCMDs and XFCNs. The templates and the supplied step-by-step
instructions can be used to build routines fairly simply, I believe. My
own experience has only been with the FORTRAN portion, but the rest of
the languages seem to be just as straight forward to use as I found the
FORTRAN to be.
Also included is a neat MacPaint-like editor for ICON resources, stacks
showing the use of the supplied XCMDs and XFCNs, a test stack for
development testing, and the ResCopy XCMD from Apple for the placement
of new commands ( and other resources as well ) into stacks.
All in all this seems to me a well thought out and rather complete
package for XCMD and XFCN development. I'm not sure what the list price
is, but I believe the discount street price is slightly over $100.
Dana Schwartz
Laurel, MD
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Info-Mac Digest Sat, 5 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 137
Today's Topics:
A better monthly planner
Another DFaultD bug...
BITNET mail follows
Changing SCSI Icons
Dying Hard Drives
External floppy drive for Mac II
IBM 4216
Image 1.16
LZW Compression
Mac II ON Button
MacWrite question.
Making COMMAND-F default
MenuEditor 1.2 (Query)
MultiXfer
PackBits/UnpackBits Algorithm
PopupMenu CDEF
PostScript questions/request for info
Que 1.1
Query About New Product
Questions on Word 4.0
Radius Accelerator
Re Questions on Word 4.0
Text Editor request
Word 4.0 bug?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 89 19:28 PDT
From: MYSTERY@max.acs.washington.edu
Subject: A better monthly planner
This is a powerful Monthly Planner written in Hypercard...which
will become even more so in the near future..Enjoy! :=>
MystyMan@UWACDC.acs.washington.edu
or
Gorr@UWACDC.acs.washington.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/monthly-planner.hqx; 36K]
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 05:59:02 PDT
From: casagrande%crcvax%nssdca.span@io.arc.nasa.gov (LOUIE CASAGRANDE)
Subject: Another DFaultD bug...
Sorry I didn't notice this before I posted it, but it seems that DFaultD
causes my machine to insert the name of my hard disk into every "Please insert
disk ↑0" message. I haven't played around with any other INIT/ and/or CDEV
combinations which may be abetting this. Hope this helps clear up any problems
people may have been seeing.
Lou Casagrande
Grumman Corporate Research Center
Mail Stop A02-26
Bethpage, NY 11714-3580
(516)346-6379
>From BITNET: "CRCVAX::CASAGRANDE"@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
>From ARPANET: CASAGRANDE%CRCVAX%NSSDCA@AMES-IO.ARPA
>From SPAN: NSSDCA::CRCVAX::CASAGRANDE
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Date: 4 Aug 89 10:01 EDT
From: ATSDBL%UOFT01.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: BITNET mail follows
Date: 4 Aug 89
>From: David B. Lutz <ATSDBL@UOFT01.BITNET>
Subject: SE/II mouse adapter cable for Mac Plus
Is there any company out there that makes a 9-to-8 pin adapter that
would allow one to hook up a Mac SE/II mouse to a Macintosh Plus? We have
several reasons for wanting such an adapter:
- SE/II mice are preferred by most users
- when ordering replacement mice, it takes us much less time to get the
SE/II mouse than the old Plus mouse
- we have the SE/II mouse in stock.
Any information about such an adapter (if one exists) would be
greatly appreciated.
Dave Lutz
ATSDBL@UOFT01.BITNET
--------------------------------------
Disclaimer? I'd never disclaim 'er!!!
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 10:00:02 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Changing SCSI Icons
The icon-and-mask for a SCSI hard disk is provided by the disk-driver
software on a per-disk basis... it's not necessarily stored as an
ICN#. The Finder asks the driver for the icon by issuing a special
_Control call; the driver returns a bitmap of the icon and its mask.
The icon information usually originates in the program which formats
the disk and installs the driver (e.g. Apple's HD SCSI Setup). It's
sometimes hard-coded into the driver code (which is usually written in
assembler), and is sometimes stored as an ICN# in the installer program
and patched into the driver when the driver is written out onto the
newly-formatted disk.
It is _sometimes_ possible to change the disk's icon by modifying the
corresponding ICN# resource in the formatter/installer program, and
then using the "Update driver" command in the installer (if it has
one). If the icon/mask info is hard-coded in the driver itself, you'd
need to patch it with a bit-editor such as FEdit or MacSnoop.
A much better and safer approach is to use the Facade INIT. Facade
intercepts the "What's your icon?" _Control call, and substitutes a
new, user-selectable icon based on the disk's name. You can add new
ICN# resources to the Facade INIT (or its separate icon-file, depending
on the version); you simply add the ICN#, set its name to be the name
of the disk to which you want it to apply, and then reboot. You can
create customized icons for hard disks, network-disk volumes, floppies,
RAMdisks, and so forth.
Facade is freeware, and can be found in most good Mac archives
including (I believe) the Info-Mac archives.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 17:42:39 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Dying Hard Drives
>From the September MacWorld:
"APPLE TO FIX PROBLEM HARD DISKS
"Apple has extended the repair policy on its Apple Hard disk 40SC 40MB hard
disks with serial numbers 335507 to 1023016 due to the drives' high rate of
failure at start-up. Users of failed drives with serial numbers in that range
will receive another hard disk free through June of 1990, according to Apple.
The company will also reimburse customers who have already paid for repairs.
For more information, contact your dealer."
Hope this helps all you folks whose lamentations I've been reading of late...
--Mike
Disclaimer: I'm just quoting it as I read it. Neither I nor my employer have
anything to do with this announcement!
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 23:49:00 EDT
From: Churn_Hway_Wang@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: External floppy drive for Mac II
There is an article on August issue of MacUser regarding to
using an external floppy drive on a Mac II. I followed the instruction
to make a cable. One end of the cable is 20-connector which will be plugged
on the mother board of a Mac II. The other end is a female DB-19 connector
which will be attached to the plug of the external floppy drive.
However, it does not work. When the external floppy drive was plugged
on my Mac II and inserted a floppy, it said the disk is not readable
and asking to initialize the disk. I clicked O.K. The drive turned
a few seconds and said initialization failed.
I connected the drive to an SE. It worked fine. Then I doubled checked
the cable. The cable is O.K. I suspect the pin connection printed on
the magazine is wrong. Does anyone have the experience of
making such kind of cable.
The following is the pin assignment.
20-pin-connector DB-19
20 ------------------- 10
19 ------------------- 8
18 ------------------- 19
17 ------------------- 8
16 ------------------- 18
15 ------------------- 8
14 ------------------- 17
13 ------------------- 7 & 8
12 ------------------- 16
11 ------------------- 6
10 ------------------- 15
9 ------------------- 5
8 ------------------- 14
7 ------------------- 4
6 ------------------- 13
5 ------------------- 3
4 ------------------- 12
3 ------------------- 2
2 ------------------- 11
1 ------------------- 1
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 09:43 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: IBM 4216
In response to the question about the IBM PLP, I have one also, connected to a
Model 50. While it's connected to a PC you cannot use it on an Appletalk
network. To do so, you have to disconnect it from your PC, connect it to
Appletalk using the Appletalk port on the printer, and flip the dip switches
(*aaagh!*) to the Appletalk settings as per the manual. It will now work with
PS files from your Mac.
Good Luck,
Dan Henderson
Boston College
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 09:50:22 -0400
From: wayne@alw.nih.gov (wayne rasband)
Subject: Image 1.16
Image 1.16 is a public domain program for the Macintosh II for
doing digital image processing and analysis. It can acquire,
enhance, measure, edit, animate, print and pseudocolor images. It
reads and writes TIFF and PICT files and supports many standard
image processing functions, including histogram equalization,
contrast enhancement, density profiling, smoothing, sharpening,
edge detection, and noise reduction.
It can be used to measure lengths and x-y coordinates, and compute
the mean density and area of user defined regions of interest.
Length and area measurements results can be calibrated to provide
real world values.
It provides MacPaint-like editing of color and grayscale images,
including the ability to draw lines, rectangles, ovals and text.
It can flip, rotate, invert and scale selections. It supports
multiple windows and 8 levels of magnification. All editing,
filtering, and measurement functions operate at any level of
magnification and are undoable. It uses digital halftoning to
print images on PostScript printers.
It supports either the Data Translation QuickCapture card or Scion
Image Capture 2 card for digitizing images using a TV camera.
Acquired images can be shading corrected and frame averaged.
For full operation, Image requires a Mac II, Mac IIx, or Mac IIcx
with at least 2 megabytes of memory, but 4 megabytes, or more, is
recommended for doing animation, for simultaneously displaying
more than a handful of pictures, or for running under MultiFinder.
Image also requires an 8-bit video card capable of displaying 256
colors or shades of gray.
A 40 page manual in MacWrite format, a HyperCard reference stack,
and Lightspeed Pascal source code are available.
Version 1.16 feature a "magic wand" tool, 3D plots, improved frame
averaging, A/UX compatibility, better 32-bit QuickDraw
compatibility, and limited binary processing, including erosion
and dilation.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/image-116.hqx; 174K
/info-mac/app/image-116-docs.hqx; 184K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 16:08:08 edt
From: Rocky_Olive@dgc.mceo.dg.com
Subject: LZW Compression
CEO comments:
Attention programmers:
I was reading the /info-mac/art/gif/gif-format.txt document about
gif files, and I was doing great until the part about LZW compression.
I've heard of LZW compression before, but I've never seen anything
that explained the algorithm (in detail). I'm contemplating the
conversion of some image files to .gif format and I really would like
to know if anyone has (or can write up :-) ) some description and
examples of the LZW compression and maybe even how it relates to gif.
BTW, I don't have access to IEEE journals, so that's right out!
Please e-mail to me and I will post. Thanks, y'all!
CEO file contents:
Rockford L. Olive ~~~~ <rocky_olive@dgc.mceo.dg.com> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Data General Corp _ __
Technology Drive "If only Carroll Shelby could </\______/
Apex, NC 27502 do for America what he did (______)
919/362-4800x5392 for the Ford Mustang..." |\__ /|
919/362-4914 home anonymous \ | \
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 89 10:46:37 EDT
From: kerns@think.com
Subject: Mac II ON Button
The `on' button on my Mac II (Aircraft Carrier KBD) has quit on me. Does
anyone have any clues about whats wrong. I heard that a battery failure
could cause this problem, but the machine is still keeping time. The rest
of the keyboard works fine. I am using the rear switch to switch on.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 15:01:51 CDT
From: decwrl!hplabs!hp-sdd!pnet01!pro-harvest!johnw@labrea.stanford.edu (John Withers)
Subject: MacWrite question.
Comment to message from: Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators)
We have several Mac Pluses on a network with a Mac II. None of the Pluses
have a hard disk. When a user clicks on a MacWrite document on one of the
networked volumes, MacWrite emits an error if the file is larger than the
remaining space on the (almost full) startup diskette. Now for the question,
is it possible to specify another disk to be used for this (temporary?) work
space.?
John Withers
<johnw@pro-harvest> or <johnw@pro-carolina>
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 16:51:43 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Making COMMAND-F default
In a recent info-mac note, Kagi.Kee@AppleLink.Apple.Com writes
"To create a Command-F postscript file automatically, install MacroMaker
"(Apple System Software) and create a macro "Vax Print" or something like
...
Since I missed the notice about my new version of My-page-Setup.hqx,
maybe it didn't get into info-mac notes. You can use this program
to go one better on this command-F jive, and put a "Disk File" check
box on your laserwriter job dialog. Then whenever you want a
postscript file, click the "Disk File" check before hitting "Okay"
button. Sorry, but I could not find any way to make this a
default option.
You can find the current version of this printer-fixer program
here at info-mac, archived as
info-mac/util/my-page-setup-12.hqx
-- Don Gilbert
gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 89 15:17:23 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MenuEditor 1.2 (Query)
Dear fellow-MacIsts,
In Larry Loeb's excellent article on ResEdit in the July issue of Byte Magazine
mention was made of a program called MenuEdit 1.2, an extension to ResEdit to
make menu editing more friendly. It is supposed to lie around in the listings
section of the Mac conference on BIX (which I don't have access to). Could any-
one post a copy of this apparently very useful program to the archives?
Sincerely, Jan M.L.Martin
Disclaimer: IBM is now called: I'd Buy a Mac
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 89 12:08:39 EDT
From: Martin Dubuc <dubuc@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: MultiXfer
Here included is MultiXfer version 0.1b0. This program is
very similar to MCS (simultaneous upload/download/chat). The
current version allow somebody to use MultiXfer as a dumb terminal
when not in transfer mode. It does support (truly) MultiFinder.
This is a preliminary version. I would be glad to hear feedbacks
>From users (good and bad) as I intend to develop more features
in it.
Only works with System 6.0 and later (by now) if not used under MultiFinder
mode.
Martin Dubuc
dubuc@iro.umontreal.ca
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/multixfer.hqx; 42K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 06:53:35 PDT
From: buaas@trout.nosc.mil (Robert A. Buaas)
Subject: PackBits/UnpackBits Algorithm
Would someone more facil with 68000 machine language than I please send
me a C-language listing of these two ROM-resident routines? They must
be fairly simple... tks in advance/bob
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 9:41:10 EDT
From: Kenneth Sussmann (PBMA) <sussmann@pica.army.mil>
Subject: PopupMenu CDEF
Here is the source code for a popup menu CDEF that appeared in
the September 1988 issue of MacTutor magazine. I have translated
it from the original Pascal to C since I don't have a Pascal
compiler. Instructions are included.
Ken
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/popup-menu-cdef.hqx; 33K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 12:10:34 EDT
From: royt%pravda@gatech.edu (Roy M Turner)
Subject: PostScript questions/request for info
Hi--
I'm a bit concerned about Apple moving away from PostScript in the future.
Will they maintain some sort of compatibility? Will I, for example, still be
able to get PostScript from applications such as MacDraw to take print on
another computer, or, better yet, include in TeX files on another computer?
This is a valuable feature (when the other computer can print it), and I would
hate to see it go away.
On a related note, does anyone out there know of a product that can read
MacDraw II files and produce PostScript? I've had good luck taking PostScript
>From MacDraw using it; however, our LaserWriter barfs when it is handed the
PostScript produced by MacDraw II -- no matter what we try to do to it (i.e.,
different laser prep files (even the one dumped by the Mac), psprint, etc.).
Thanks.
Roy Turner
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 22:23 EDT
From: Rob Kassel <rob@goldilocks.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Que 1.1
Here is Que 1.1. This update fixes and enhances message header parsing.
Que is a suite of programs for transferring messages between QuickMail
and a UNIX machine via a Telecom or QM-Serial bridge.
Que is not public domain, but it is FREE!
Rob Kassel
MIT Spoken Language Systems Group
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/que-11.hqx; 33K]
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 89 10:54:03-1000
From: Arnold Edelstein <arnolde@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Subject: Query About New Product
I have seen an ad for Brainpower's ArchiText, which claims to be "a true,
relational hypertext manager for text information." Does anyone out there
have any information about this product?
Mahalo
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 89 08:02:23 -0400
From: Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com>
Subject: Questions on Word 4.0
> 1. How can I use Tab stops within the cells?
Use option-tab.
> 2. Next, once a Table has been created, say with 10 rows, how
> can I insert a carrige return between rows 6 and 7?
Select row 7 and use the "Insert <<para. symbol>> Above Row" command.
Andy
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 12:30:42 PDT
From: chan@icsl.ucla.edu (Kevin Chan)
Subject: Radius Accelerator
Hi,
I've been considering upgrading my Mac Plus by adding an
accelerator board. I would like some information about my
options and your experiences.
My Mac is an upgraded Mac Plus (upgraded from a 512K Mac)
and it has 4 MB of memory. It once had its power supply
replaced (a common occurance among Mac Plus's). Other than
that there has been no other problems.
I almost made up my mind that I will get a Radius 16 MHz Accelerator
for my Mac. The price is right and it appears to be well supported;
it is much cheaper than buying a Mac SE/30, II or my ideal machine, IIcx.
I need an accelerator (on the speed of a Mac II) for word processing,
graphics, and spread sheet work. Hence, I would like to know the
following things about a Radius 16 MHz Accelerator
1) How do they install it?
a) Do they cut out the old MC68000? Or do they piggy back?
I've read that you cannot switch from the MC68020 back to
MC68000 mode. Is it related to how they install the board?
b) How much hacking do they do to the casing of the Mac Plus.
I've read they would have to cut away at the case for the
board to be installed.
2) How much more power will it consume? I had my original power
supply replaced because it gave out. Apparently, Apple's designers
underestimated the power consumed by the Mac; their supply
barely supplies a "vanilla" Mac. Will adding a Accelerator kill
my power supply again?
3) Once the board is installed, how difficult will it be to add/remove
my memory? Will I have to pry the board aside, or can I slip the memory
in and out of my Mac?
4) Can I do the installation myself? The Mac Plus has NO slot for
accelerator boards, so I suspect installation will be a bear. I
can save labor cost by buying the board and installing it
myself, at the risk of ruining my mac. I am leaning on a
professional installation if it involves splicing wires,
cutting the CPU, or hacking the case.
5) I plan to buy the accelerator w/o the FPA. Can I buy the FPA at a
later date and install it myself? Will the board know that
the FPA is installed or will I have to pull some jumpers?
I plan do install the FPA myself.
6) How compatible is the board for sounds, video functions, floating
point operation(FPA), and memory usage? Are their patches sufficient?
What programs have compatibilty problems?
7) Is the SCSI port any faster? I have a Dataframe 30XP and am running
the most current driver; will it have any compatibility problem
with the Radius accelerator?
I have all the articles from MacWorld and MacUser about
accelerators, but they are a brief review and only one point-of-view.
What I would like to know is your personal successes and problems
with a Radius accelerator.
I would appreciate it if you can e-mail your responses to
chan@ee.ucla.edu
I will summarize all of the responses and submit them to info-mac.
Thanks,
- Kevin T. Chan
UCLA EE Dept.
405 Hilgard Ave. BH5704
Los Angeles, CA. 90024
(213) 206-1133
e-mail address: chan@ee.ucla.edu
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 09:24:20 PDT
From: Mike_Dustan@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Re Questions on Word 4.0
Michael Farlow asks about splitting a table into two and getting
a tab within a column of a table. Both can be done, and both are
"documented" (read "buried" :-)) within the Word 4.0 Manual.
To split a table into two, place the cursor on the row BELOW
where the split is to occur. Then type flower-option-spacebar.
Intuitive, don't you think? Anyway, it's on page 372.
To type a tab into a column in a table, instead of tabbing from
one column to the next, use Option-Tab. This is on page 376.
Hope this helps...
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 09:47 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: Text Editor request
Hello again,
I am trying to locate (I know, this is a *stupid* question...) a simple, small
text editor application, NOT a da, that I can use on a disk to read files
created by MacLindo. I know many of these exist, but I just can't seem to
remember any names! Sorry for such a trivial request of such great minds, but
any quick help would be greatly appreciated!
Dan Henderson
Boston College
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 09:11:26 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Word 4.0 bug?
Please post:
Dear Netlanders:
My wife was using 4.0 last night, and I noticed a little thing I hadn't
seen before. She has lots of page breaks iπn her document. Removing a
page break caused the margins on the ruler to jump two inches to the
left (that is, negative!). (Why do these things always happen when a
novice is using the thing??!!). This cause the margins for the whole
document to be rearranged, not just the particular paragraph. Also,
removing a hard return between adjacent lines had the same effect, but only
on the line immediately below the hard return. At one point, this caused
a whole line to completely disappear from the document, never to be
seen again. (I did this by using the horizontal scroll bar to move the
document back to the left so 0 was at the left edge of the screen. When
I pushed it back, with the scroll bar, to see the line at -2 inches, it
was gone. Did that make sense?). Did she secretly plant a bomb somewhere
in the document to bug me, is this a feature, or is there really something
wrong?
Reply to me or the net, it doesn't matter.
--------------------------------------------------
| |
| Michael Webb |
| University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
| |
| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| |
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 7 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 138
Today's Topics:
AppleCare
Appletalk example eanted
Application Builders
Batman & memory
Boomerang Problems
Changing SCSI Icons
Fast FTP for the Mac/NCSA Telnet 2.3b2
How do I change menu font from Chicago?
I lost my programmer's switch!
in need of uWrite
Large text files and HyperCard
Mac support of multiple drives on one SCSI ID
Miscellanea
NCSA Telnet 2.1e
Organizational charts
Performance of MicroNet's Syquest 42MB cartridge disks
Radius Accelerator
What do I do with /sound files?
Word Fun
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Date: 05 Aug 89 22:29 -0330
From: dgraham%leif.mun.ca@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: AppleCare
One of the few advantages of being a Canadian Mac user is that when I
bought my Mac I was given 1 year of AppleCare free of charge. (I
bought a second year and was rewarded when the power supply on my Plus
failed 1 week before the end of the year...). I don't know whether
this deal still applies or not, but it shouldn't have to: the warranty
should definitely be 12 months.
David Graham
dgraham@kean.mun.ca
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 16:47:22 EDT
From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
Subject: Appletalk example eanted
Can anyone point me where I could find one or two
examples of Appletalk code written in C, preferably
for MPW or Aztec? I'm looking for simple socket-socket
or name-name message passing.
Thanks, Mike (isr@rodan.syr.edu)
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 14:42:59 edt
From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham)
Subject: Application Builders
Dear MacNetters,
Has anybody had any experience with application building programs? Two in
particular I am currently looking at are Prototyper 2.0 (from SmethersBarnes)
and AppMaker 1.0 (from BOWERS Development). They both claim to let you build
menus, windows, dialogs, alert boxes, etc. They also both claim to let you do
it nicely and interactively, and then generate the source code (C or Pascal).
Any experiences with these two (or others)???
Thanks in advance.
Hisham A. Abboud
Computer Center
Catholic University of America,
Washington, D.C. 20064
Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA
Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU
or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 89 16:20 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Batman & memory
I have to say I *love* the Batman startup screen, especially in Color (except
I usually turn off my color becuase it slows down one of my terminal emulators),
however, today I went to run a utility and got the old "not enough memory"
message (sorry, my 4mb upgrade hasn't arrived yet), and About the Finder told
me that my system was consuming 519K !!! (w/o multi-finder). Since Batman was
the only change I made to my system in the last few weeks, I suspected him.
After removal, and restart, System went back down to 268K.
So, why is Batman eating 251K!!!!???? Just for testing purposes, I loaded
my Garfield startupscreen into the system folder, restarted, and system went
DOWN to 265K! (apparently, the Mac Startup screen loads an Icon or driver
into the system, accounting for the extra 3K?).
Help, I want my batman screen, but can't wait for Purchasing to approve my
memory order.
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
mucm000@ecncdc.bitnet
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 89 21:14 EDT
From: <LGREEN%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Boomerang Problems
This might be a possible problem. Using Disenfectant 1.2 I scanned my hard
drive and Boomerang came up with an error in the resource fork. Is there
something I should know? I am using the latest version which was recently
posted here on Info-Mac. Is it just my copy? Please respond with messages
here. Thanks in advance,
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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 14:45:30 PDT
From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu
Subject: Changing SCSI Icons
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>How do you change the Icon used by the Finder to represent your
>SCSI hard drive?
The SCSI icons are hard coded into the drivers. You can't edit them.
However, many SCSI formatting applications have the ICN#'s in normal
formats that can be edited. Then when the driver is written to the
volume, the new icon goes with it. I know that UniMac and MicroNet
utility software can be tweeked this way.
I like MicroNet's formatting software and have used it on my Apple
drives to glean as much as 10% more disk space on format. It's
proprietary, of course.
--scott
gone to Boston for a week!
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 89 17:48:39 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: Fast FTP for the Mac/NCSA Telnet 2.3b2
On Thu, 3 Aug 89 09:52:24 edt Greg TeHennepe said:
>Editors: I would post the new version, however the copy I have (which came
>from another institution that shall remain unnamed) was infected with
>nVIR when I received it. Due to time constraints, I opted to attempt
>disinfecting the copy with Disinfectant 1.1 instead of waiting for a clean
>copy. It appears to be fine now, however I hesitate to submit
>disinfected software to the archives. If you would still like me to
>submit the new version, please let me know.
The latest version of NCSA Telnet and related files (both for Mac and PC's)
are available on the InterNet host zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50).
Look for them in /NCSA_Telnet/Mac; the current version is 2.3 and it is not
infected (I've retrieved a copy and checked it a little while ago).
Also available is the documentation on it and (apparently) some source
files.
The host always has the latest version of NCSA Telnet and allows anonymous
FTP.
Enjoy,
Juan
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 14:31:44 EDT
From: austin@caen.engin.umich.edu (Richard Austin)
Subject: How do I change menu font from Chicago?
I would like to change the font used in my menus and window titles, etc., to
something other than 12-point Chicago. Can anyone instruct me on how to do
this? Does an application, init, or cdev handle this, or do I need to use
ResEdit? (ResEdit is OK if someone could give me detailed instructions--I
am NOT a mac programmer!)
(BTW, I use a Mac SE, System 6.0.2, if it makes any difference.)
Thanks,
Richard Austin
austin@caen.engin.umich.edu
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 17:22 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL%brandeis.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: I lost my programmer's switch!
Ack! I have lost my programmer's switch for my SE. (I suspect my cat, but an
inspection of the heating vents has been fruitless.) I have called and called
and called major and minor mail order suppliers, Apple dealers, and friends and
neighbors in search of a replacement. No dice. This would seem to be a trivial
part to replace, given that it probably prices out at 39 cents. Does anyone
have suggestions on where I might look?
Feel free to reply directly to me and I will post this tidbit of timely trivia
back to info-mac.
10**3 thanks...
Matt Wall - Switchless Programmer
WALL@BRANDEIS.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 12:52 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: in need of uWrite
I downloaded the think-pascal-help-system off sumex-aim. In order to
fully utilize its potential I need a program that will let me save styled text
with the styles saved as a resource. The author suggests his own program
called uwrite (where the u is the symbol for micron). I can't seem to find
this program on sumex-aim, however. Does anyone know where I can get it or
something like it?
Maurice Volaski
Department of Physiology
University at Buffalo
v050fn5r@ubvms
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1989 16:49:12 EDT
From: FAC0395%UOFT01.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (J. Feustle)
Subject: Large text files and HyperCard
I have a number of large --for HyperCard that is-- text files that
I want to import into several stacks that I am creating. I have
tried reading them in using the IMPORT TEXT button but that leaves
a lot of clean-up work to be done afterward. I've read the files
using delimiters every 14 lines --the size of the text field on
my card-- and read them by the number of characters. Same problem.
Does anyone know of a utility that will read text from a file until
it fills the card's text field (spaces included), then creates
another card, and so on until all text is imported? Here's hoping
for a better way.
Thanks,
J. Feustle
FAC0395@UOFTO1.BITNET
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Date: Mon 7 Aug 89 21:24:24-PDT
From: Arnold Tang <CON.TANG@gsb-how.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac support of multiple drives on one SCSI ID
Some SCSI controllers can support more than one physical drive
on the same SCSI I.D.
Does anyone know of any utilities that can help a Mac support
such a configuration?
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 89 18:53:00 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Miscellanea
#1. Using an SE mouse with a Plus
this is far more complicated than a 9<-->8 pin adapter. The ADB(SE/II)
mouse has a little microprocessor inside which sends packets along the ADB.
To translate these packets into Plus-compatible mouse signals is not trivial.
#2. External floppy for Mac II
Save yourself a lot of trouble...open up the external drive and take the
DB-19 cable out completely. You will then have a 20-pin connector exactly
like the one inside your II. Make a ribbon cable with the same connector on
each end, fold it thru the hole on the back of the external that you removed
the cable from, and plug it into the II motherboard. Simple.
#3. Changing SCSI disk icons
Facade is OK, but my friend Blair wrote what has got to be the ultimate in
pointless Mac utilities -- an INIT called 'BootIcon' which installs a VBL
task which changes the icon of your hard disk in real time depending on how
much free space remains on the disk. The original set of icons portrays an
unclothed female torso whose, um, measurements vary directly with space
available. One could edit those to something more socially acceptable ;-)
I'd post it to the archives, but the only way I can send files off this
account is via ftp. (If that helps, let me know, moderators :-)
Alex Curylo Simon Fraser University (604) 298-8913
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Date: 4 Aug 89 21:51:58 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.1e
Tom Eskridge <eskridge@austin.lockheed.com> writes:
>Where can I ftp version 2.1e ?
>(the 'e' being the operative character)
The current version is 2.2 and then there's version 2.3 which supports
MacTCP. What is it with this 2.1e version? Anything special?
--scott
Claimer: I speak for everybody.
--
Scott Truesdell
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 13:16:08 EDT
From: "Judith T. Frawley" <JFRAWLEY%SUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Organizational charts
I have a client who is interested in software for creating
organizational charts. I don't think that it needs to be
fancy. I know that I've seen/heard of such a package for
the Mac, but I cannot remember what it is. If anyone has
any suggestions, I appreciate it.
Judy Frawley
Consultant
Syracuse University
JFRAWLEY@SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 89 19:11 EDT
From: Peter Szolovits <psz@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Performance of MicroNet's Syquest 42MB cartridge disks
Our group recently got a Syquest 42MB cartridge disk, and for those
interested in this device, here's a summary of our early timing
impressions. Ours is a unit from MicroNet. (As I understand, all the
various vendors use the same drive mechanism, but package it with their
own chassis, power supply, drivers, utilities, etc.)
The test I ran was to move a large volume of files, simply by dragging
in the Finder, to simulate the use of the cartridge as a backup device.
On a Mac IIx, running from a 600MB (18ms access) disk, moving a 31.4MB
folder took the following:
To the cartridge: 439 sec -> 14.0 sec/MB (71.5KB/sec)
>From the cartridge: 333 sec -> 10.6 sec/MB (94.3KB/sec)
Copying from an HD partition (part of SUM) partition on the hard disk
increased the first time from 439 to 533 sec, -> 17.0 sec/MB (58.9KB/sec).
For comparison, simply copying the same folder from a partition to the
main disk (thus, a fast disk but much head movement) took 283 sec, ->
9.0 sec/MB (111KB/sec).
I suspected that using the finder was hardly the fastest means of moving
these bits. Indeed, a simple trial with DiskFit 1.5, moving 42.8MB to
the cartridge disk took only 316 sec, -> 7.4 sec/MB (135.4KB/sec), for
a 38% faster data rate.
In any case, it sure is a WONDERFUL replacement for the DC-2000 tapes
that take for ever with any software. Infinitely faster, for about
three times the cost (~$90/cartridge in quantity 10). If it's reliable
(too early for us to tell), this is a real win.
In the MicroNet packaging, our biggest problem so far is that MicroNet
has a built-in SCSI terminator in their box, with no instructions for
removing it; thus you have to make sure this is the last device in the
SCSI chain. Also, their implementation of the SCSI hardware apparently
grounds the SCSI bus when the unit is not powered on; therefore, if it's
attached at all, you mush power it on when you want to use the Mac, even
if there's no disk in it and you have no desire to use it. These are
inconvenient, but not debilitating. MicroNet also delivers the blank
cartridges formatted to optimize access from a Mac Plus. This yields
15-45% slower responses on a Mac IIx than I quoted above; the above
times are after reformatting for the IIx (an easy task) with the
MicroNet-supplied utility.
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with any organization mentioned here
and my opinions and experiences are purely my own.
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 00:04:55 EDT
From: siegel@harvard.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Subject: Radius Accelerator
The Radius Accelerator 16 for the Plus is a good board; I have one in
my Plus (4MB RAM, also a Radius FPD interface).
Point-by-point:
1) The accelerator board is connected to a jumper board, which in turn
clips on to the soldered-in 68000. If you purchase a Radius FPD interface
(which can be done later, as I did), the FPD interface is substituted in
place of the jumperboard.
Any claims about modifying the case are a fallacy; the case does NOT have
to be cut, sanded, or modified in any way.
2) I don't know what the power demands of the accelerator are. My Mac Plus
still has its original power supply (knock on wood), and the Radius board
doesn't seem to place inordinate strain on it; I've had no problems after
more than a year of 10-hour-a-day use.
Radius supplies a fan and air baffles to mount inside the Mac; I also use
a Kensinton System Saver Mac, which provides superior cooling (in my opinion),
as well as spike suppression and some additional outlets.
3) The accelerator board hangs over the SIMMs, so you'll have to remove
it before installing any additional memory, once it's in. Because the
clearances are close, you won't be able to use the Dove piggyback
upgrades or high-profile DIP memories; the only compatible form factor
is the low-profile surface-mount SIMM; most places carry these, so ask when
ordering.
4) You can install the board yourself (I did), but it is definitely not
for the faint of heart. Radius recommends installation by qualified
technician; if you're adept with needlenose pliers, voltmeter, know
your way around the innards of the Mac, and are VERY patient and VERY
careful, then do it yourself.
5) The FPU can be installed after purchase; it's right on top of the
board. You install a jumper to tell the accelerator it's there, but that's
a simple matter. (Yes, I did this too - installed a 68882 for about 25%
speed increase....)
Beware of bending pins when installing the new chip; those pin-grid arrays
are really tricky. Also watch for static, and be sure you're properly grounded.
6) Radius provides an INIT to patch the sound drivers for 68020 compatibilty;
it works pretty well, except for a little static, but that's caused by the
FPD (longer VBL cycle time, for those who care). If you're not using the FPD,
sound will be OK. They also provide a SANE patching INIT which hooks
SANE into the math coprocessor, if one is installed. The newest version is
1.4, and it seems to work well (unlike previous versions, AHEM). I don't
know of any problems with applications, but TMON's trap discipline gets
set off continually by the Radius board, something which is annoying but
hardly fatal.
7) The accelerator doesn't change SCSI behavior at all, either in
hardware or in software. The new version of the ROMs is compatible with
everything, INCLUDING, finally, DataFrame disk drives. (Older versions
had this ugly habit of toasting XP60 drives, something which was partially
SuperMac's fault.) I recommend the use of SilverLining on drives that
can use it, and set the transfer loops to "Fast Handshake", BEFORE you
install the accelerator.
I like the Radius board; it works well for me, and I've had no problems with
it; Radius is pleasant to deal with, and their tech support is quite competent.
I have no stake in either Radius or Kensington; I speak as a satisfied
customer.
R.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rich Siegel
Staff Software Developer
Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel
"When it comes to my health, I think of my body as a temple - or at least
a moderately well-managed Presbyterian youth center." - Emo Phillips
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 89 12:22:30 EDT
From: "David L. Bartlett" <R3DLB%AKRONVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: What do I do with /sound files?
Hello.
I FTP't some of the sound files on the sound subdirectory like
ROBOCOP and BATMAN. How do I make these work ?
I transferred them here and downloaded them. I debinhexed them and
"dearchived" them with stuffit. They don't seem to work with anything.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks...
David L. Bartlett (R3DLB@AKRONVM.BITNET)
(R3DLB@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU)
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Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1989 17:35:20 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Word Fun
Fellow Mac Users,
I just read something about MS-Word 4 that is humorous and I thoght I would
share with you.
This comes from MacWEEK of 25 July in the MacInTouch column by Rick LePage and
Ric Ford.
According to them, Word has an interesting bug to it. If you are to run the
Speller to check the word 'childcare', Word flags it as misspelled and its
suggestion as a replacement is the word 'kidnaping' (sic). B-) (Holy Fatal
Attraction, Batman!) B-}
The next one seems like something that the creators of Word did to aleviate the
tedium of programming and debugging. I won't say what happens, but try
holding down the Command key and clicking on the Word Icon in the About...
dialog box.
Something else that caught my eye in the column about Illustrator and 32-Bit
Color QD is this.
"Users of Apple's 32-bit QuickDraw have encountered some problems with Version
1.8.3 of Adobe Illustrator 88. It seems that Illustrator crashes everytim you
quit the application, but one user who reported the bug to the company said
that a fix for the problem is not expected until the end of the year."
Some of you may remember that I reported a problem with Illustrator showing
patterns instead of colors in the preview mode (on a IIx, Sys 6.0.2, 4meg ram,
Apple 13" RGB). Well, I had 32 bit QD on it at the time, and while it never
actually crashed, I think that is what was causing the problem. When I
re-installed the System sofware, I didn't include 32-bit QD and everything is
back to normal, what ever that was <grin>.
---Michael Farlow
"Once more into the breach..."
--Zania, the Human Cannonball
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∂08-Aug-89 1107 N.NOODLE@macbeth.stanford.edu Changing the hard drive icon
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Subject: Changing the hard drive icon
To: su-macintosh@macbeth.stanford.edu
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Where do I find the icn# resource for an internal hard drive? I've looked
in the Desktop, Finder and System with ResEdit but have had no luck.
I heard that the hard disk icon is not located somewhere obvious.
Where is it?
Canyon Chan
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Organization: Stanford Data Center
Subject: Re: Changing the hard drive icon
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In article <12516524851.87.N.NOODLE@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU> N.NOODLE@MACBETH.STANFORD.EDU (Canyon Chan) writes:
>
>
>Where do I find the icn# resource for an internal hard drive? I've looked
>in the Desktop, Finder and System with ResEdit but have had no luck.
>
>I heard that the hard disk icon is not located somewhere obvious.
>
>Where is it?
It is usually located in the driver, and not as a separate resource, as I
understand it. Certainly it is not accessable to ResEdit type manipulations.
Your best bet is to use the Facade init (available on sumex in the info-mac
directory, or elsewhere) which allows substitute icons which can be easily
customized to your preference.
--
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∂08-Aug-89 1353 L.LEONARD-16@macbeth.stanford.edu CHESS game for sale !
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Subject: CHESS game for sale !
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I'm selling Sargon III, a chess game that will work on a Mac 128K,512,Plus
and SE, with it's original packaging, documentation, coupons, etc. for
only .... $20 (or best offer).
Reply to this account or call me, Leonard Adler, at 723-1545.
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I have a Mac Plus, in excellent condition, with keyboard, mouse, System (6.0.2),
Hypercard, and various pieces of software, that I'd like to sell for ...
$1200 (or best offer)
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 8 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 139
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Adobe Illustrator vs. 32-bit Color QuickDraw
Appletalk example eanted
Business calculator
dLib-demo-3.hqx01
Don't need a programmer's switch
Fonts techie info
HYPERCARD EVENTS
InfoBackup 1.0(Beta)
LZW Algorithm Explained (long)
Mathematical programs
Moire-3.hqx01
Query 340MB MiniScribe
Radius Accelerator
Searching/indexing files
Simple matrix manipulators?
Wanted:Comments on Macintosh Programming Primer.
writing software for a FDHD drive
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1989 14:49:19 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
They said it couldn't be done... but, thanks to Glenn Trewitt, we now have
a way of keeping track of the use rates for all of the files in the archives.
Aside from being just plain interesting, this file helps us decide what to
delete when the archive gets too full. Check out /help/popular-files.txt.
Warning: the Times Read column saturates if the file is read more than once
in a fifteen minute interval. So truly popular files are even more popular
than they appear to be.
Also, sumex will be down Tuesday, August 22.
Bill
[Archived as /info-mac/help/popular-files.txt; 138K]
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 09:47:48 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Adobe Illustrator vs. 32-bit Color QuickDraw
"Users of Apple's 32-bit QuickDraw have encountered some problems with
Version 1.8.3 of Adobe Illustrator 88. It seems that Illustrator
crashes everytime you quit the application, but one user who reported
the bug to the company said that a fix for the problem is not expected
until the end of the year."
Hmmm. This sounds as if it might possibly be the same problem I encountered
when adapting my MandelZot fractal program for 32-bit Color QuickDraw.
The system would crash on exit 100% of the time, if it was running
under the single-Finder and if it had ever created a custom palette and
applied it to an on-screen window. The crash would not occur under
MultiFinder, or if I commented out the SetPalette() call that applied the
palette to the window.
The crash occurred after the application itself had been deleted from
memory, as the Finder was being re-launched. I infer that it may be
occurring when the new 32-bit Color QuickDraw's Palette Manager
attempts to repopulate the device's CLUT with the default set of
colors... but I wasn't able to prove this hypothesis.
I found a fix for the problem... and I do _not_ understand why the fix
works. The fix is simply this: I made sure that the code-segment
containing the THINK C "MacTraps" glue-code has its "locked" bit set in
the application file.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why this should matter! The Segment
Loader is supposed to lock down all CODE segments after loading them,
and unlocks them only upon receiving an _UnloadSeg call from the
application. The segment in question was never unlocked when it was in
memory, as far as I could tell when I poked around with TMON... it was
loaded when the application was launched, was locked by the Segment
Loader, and never moved nor was unlocked thereafter.
What the heck... I now leave this segment locked in the application
file, to ensure that this problem does not occur. I've forwarded the
application to the Palette Manager team at Apple to assist them in
reproducing the problem; I haven't heard any news from them.
If somebody out there has encountered this problemw with Adobe Illustrator
1.8.3, s/he might want to try making a copy of the application, and then
using ResEdit to set the "locked" bits on each of the application's
CODE segments in turn, one at a time. The problem might just go away!
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 09:11:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Norman William Franke, III" <nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Appletalk example eanted
I`d also like some example AppleTalk code, if possible. Though I`d prefer
Pascal, LSP if it matters.
Thanks,
Norman Franke
nf0i+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1989 19:58:08 EDT
From: "Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM@icsa.rice.edu>
Subject: Business calculator
On Thu, 27 Jul 89 11:15 EST Dan Henderson said:
>In response to the request for a business calculator on the Mac, I
>have seen a DA called 12-C that is a duplication of the HP 12C in DA form. It
>comes in two parts (at least when I saw it), an INIT and a DA. I haven't seen
>it in about a year, but it was great. If you run across it, or anyone happens
>to have it, I would love to get a copy again! ( or any other RPN business
>calculator).
Included you will find a stuffed and binhexed copy of the HP 12 Calc DA. I
haven't the faintest idea who was the Mac wizard who cooked it up, but it IS
a neat piece of code. Seems to work fine in most machines (couldn't test it
on SE/30's, cause I don't have any available), even though it's a program
dating from 1984-85 (ancient history, in the Mac scale). I guess it comes to
show how stable a program can be, if the developer follows the rules.
Enjoy,
Juan
[Archived as /info-mac/da/hp-12c-calculator.hqx; 14K]
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 14:24:59 EST
From: munnari!munmurra.cs.mu.OZ.AU!jkjl@uunet.uu.net (John Keong-Jin Lim)
Subject: dLib-demo-3.hqx01
This is a demo of d'Librarian 3.0, a shareware disk cataloguer
for the Mac. Online help is available, and a DA for quick
searching of missing files is included. This demo limits you
to recording 255 files.
John Lim
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/dlibrarian-30.hqx; 131K]
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 12:22:36 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Don't need a programmer's switch
To the dude that lost his programmer's switch:
A better solution than hunting down a switch would be to install the
Programmer's Key INIT (part of TMON but available widely...like in the
info-mac archives) which changes the power-on key on a SE/II to a
debugger/shut down/restart/etc. key. Great utility.
Alex Curylo Simon Fraser University (604) 298-8913
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 09:57:03 19
From: "Darren" <dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Subject: Fonts techie info
I am designing a postscript font to go with a bitmap font that I have.
I would like to keep the original bitmap font but couple it with the
postscript one. Can anyone tell me how to modify a font such that it
has a pointer to a postscript font? I know that the flag word in the
FOND for a bitmap-only is $6000 and for a bitmap with postscript is
$0800. Is there somewhere in the FOND (in the table maybe?) that the
name is kept or is it just derived from the name of the font?
One last thing to people in the know font-wise: Is there a set of
numbers reserved for private developers or do you have to be a font
company to be able to have font numbers that won't conflict with other
people?
--
Torin/Darren Stalder/Wolf
Blessed Internet: dstalder@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
Be! Bitnet: dstalder@gmuvax
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Hail uucp: multiverse!uunet!pyrdc!gmu90x!dstalder
Eris! Snail: 1350 Beverly Rd., Suite 115-223/McLean, VA 22101/USA
DISCLAIMER: I have enough problems getting credit what I do do for
work, much less this stuff.
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 89 21:17:30 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HYPERCARD EVENTS
I need help, again!
I have written a SuperCard 1.0 Project containing some 10 Meg of data.
What I need is a way to detect in the background that there are no events
for a period of time and the project runs itself again.
Having an on Idle handler in the project does not work. How can I know if the
user has move the mouse, or click the mouse, or press the keys etc? Is
there something equal to a mouseIdleTick function?
Please help me.
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 89 09:49:37 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: InfoBackup 1.0(Beta)
Dear fellow-MacIsts,
Enclosed is a beta version of InfoBackup 1.0, a quick & dirty utility to backup
and restore the 'GET INFO' comments in a desktop file. A recommended procedure
for maintenance of the desktop file is now:
a) run InfoBackup to backup the Get Info comments
b) run BundAid to fix the BUNDLE bits
c) rebuild the desktop file in the well-known 'Option-Cmd-Quit' or 'Option-Cmd-
mount disk' manners
d) run InfoBackup to restore the comments.
If no files are copied, moved, created or deleted in between any of the four st
eps, all Get Info comments should appear in the right places (It might also be
true under certain other circumstances, but this cannot be guaranteed).
Bug reports or comments are welcome at LUCTHSCH#BDILUC11.BITNET.
The program is charityware (concept invented by Steve Christensen of Superclock
fame): if you find it useful, donate any sensible amount to any relief fund
without political or religious biases (such as Unicef, Oxfam, or the Red Cross)
Happy Mack-ing,
Jan M.L.Martin
Quantum Chemistry
Department SBM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum
Universitaire Campus
B-3610 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Disclaimer: IBM just changed its name to I'd Buy a Mac
[Archived as /info-mac/util/infobackup.hqx; 20K]
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 11:00:55 edt
From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham)
Subject: LZW Algorithm Explained (long)
This is in response to Rocky Olive's mail, inquiring about LZW algorithm.
> Attention programmers:
>
> I was reading the /info-mac/art/gif/gif-format.txt document about
> gif files, and I was doing great until the part about LZW compression.
> I've heard of LZW compression before, but I've never seen anything
> that explained the algorithm (in detail). I'm contemplating the
> conversion of some image files to .gif format and I really would like
> to know if anyone has (or can write up :-) ) some description and
> examples of the LZW compression and maybe even how it relates to gif.
I implemented the LZW algorithm last year in assembly language (on an
IBM-PC, sorry!!) to capture and store screen snapshots. I am not that
familiar with the GIF format, but I'll try to explain the LZW algorithm as
clearly as I could.
First, let's forget about the W in LZW for a little while.
LZ stands for A. Lempel and J. Ziv, the two original authors. You can think
about this algorithm as more like an "adaptive character set". Let's take an
example, and assume that our "character set" has 12 bits per character,
instead of the familiar eight. The set, or table, can thus have 4096
characters. The first 256 are usually (surprise!) the same as the standard
ASCII code on your machine. Now, let's compress the following string:
this is the test
We start scanning this string and run accross "t". It already has an entry
in the table, so we output the code for "t" and continue scanning. Next we
have an "h" so we now have "th". "th" is not found in the table, so we make
an entry, code 257. Then "h" is used to start the next string. Since "h"
is in the table, we output the code for "h" and continue scanning. And so
forth. After a while, you will have entries in the table like "th" and
"is", so the next time you run accross these combinations, you output the
corresponding code. An entry in the table does not have to be two
characters only, and can easily exceed thirty characters per entry.
Once the table is full, a "clear code" is issued, the table gets reset, and
we start filling it all over again. When decompressing, the reverse process
is used until the decompressor runs accross the clear code, at which time it
also resets the table and continues.
This method has advantages and disadvantages. It is a single-pass algorithm
and produces very efficient compressions. But, when used in communications
for example, if a single bit gets flipped the wrong way while transmitting,
the entire message following it gets scrambled. Also, the file you are
compressing must be long enough to take advantage of the adaptive algorithm,
otherwise there is a (slight) chance it may actually grow in size!
The LZW algorithm is also very flexible (read: non-standard). Examples:
o The table size is usually 12 bits, but it does not have to. For
example, on the IBM-PC program I worked on, things were memory-
resident, and with that stupid 640K limit, memory is at a premium.
So we reduced the table size from 12 to 11 bits.
o The clear code is usually a null character (ASCII 0), but does not
have to be. Pick one at your convenience. In the GIF format for
example, the clear code is 2**<number_of_bits_per_pixel>.
o You do not have to assume that the first 256 characters are the
same as the ASCII code. In the GIF format, only the
<number_of_bits_per_pixel> is assumed, i.e., if you have 4 bits
per pixel (16 colors), you can start building the table at code 5.
Then the W (in LZW) came into the picture. It stands for Terry A. Welch.
Before him, output codes were fixed-size 12 bits. So Mr. Welch suggested
that by varying the output codes size, we can obtain significantly better
compression. For example, for codes 257 to 511, only 9 bits are output.
For codes 512 to 1023, only 10 bits are output, etc.
The complete description of the LZW algorithm is described by Terry Welch in
"A Technique for High Performance Data Compression", IEEE Computer, vol 17
no 6 (June 1984).
I hope this helped.
Hisham.
Hisham A. Abboud
Computer Center/Academic Services
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064
Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA | "God bless he who expects
Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU | nothing, for he shall
or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2 | never be disappointed!"
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 13:01:30 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Mathematical programs
Dear Netlanders:
A while ago, I requested info from you concerning Math analysis
and graphing programs available for the Mac. I have received a better than
expected response, and I now wish to summarize to you.
I am only going to give pointers to software. I have not done an
analysis of any of the software described. I cannot make an informed
decision about any of them, and any decision made will be based on my
own needs. If I have left out any software, it is because I didn't know
about it.
Theorist by Allan Bonadio Assoc. The same people that brought
you Expressionist will be bringing you a Mathematica-type program (as I
am told) this fall. It will be more "mac-like" and smaller. (415)282-5864.
Maple. Don't know anything about it yet. Contact:
Ms. Iris Pietsch
Symbolic Computation Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3G1
(519)885-1211 ext. 3055
maple@watdcs.BITNET
Mathematica, of course. No address. Wolfram Research Inc.
Try Shawn@wri.com, head of technical support.
Igor by Wavemetrics. Sounds neat, like a 2nd generation, souped
up and more powerful version of Cricket Graph. (I don't know if they
would agree with that, it probably can't be compared with CG). I've read
some promising reviews.
Wavemetrics
PO Box 2088
Lake Oswego, OR 97035
(503)635-8849
Applelink D1832
GraphiC(TM) 1.0 by Taliaferro Software.
This is not an application, but a library of graphing functions you
call from your own code. Designed for THINK C, no mention of whether
or not it is 4.0 compatible. "Similar to what you might find on a mainframe
computer".
Applelink D4320.
Scientific Endeavors Corporation (615)376-4146. Don't know
relation between Tailaferro and SEC.
If anybody knows of other software, please contact me. I appreciate
the great volume of mail and responses received from you.
$ continue with <standard disclaimer>
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| |
| Michael Webb |
| University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
| |
| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| |
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 14:58:34 EST
From: munnari!munmurra.cs.mu.OZ.AU!jkjl@uunet.uu.net (John Keong-Jin Lim)
Subject: Moire-3.hqx01
Moire 3 is a screensaver for the Mac. Needs system 3.2 or later.
This release is shareware ($10), and the following new features have
been added :
- Configurable sleep and wake rectangles.
- Improved colour animation controls and better colour
selection and output.
- Redesigned Control Panel interface.
- New shape - Dyson's Folly (thanks to Scott Storkel)
- Run on Shut Down option for those people who *never*
turn off their macintoshes (safe - parks your hd's first !)
- Improved background performance, especially under MultiFinder.
This release consists of 3 files, Moire cdev, Moire docs and the
cdev=>INIT converter to reduce Moire's size for those with low-end systems.
Thanks to all the people who put in suggestions. Sorry if i didnt have
time to put it in this version - wait for version 4 !
John Lim
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/moire-30.hqx; 88K]
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 02:53:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Andy A. Lee" <al1f+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Query 340MB MiniScribe
Hello All,
In September issue of MacUser, Hard Drive International has 340MB
MiniScribe hard drives priced at $1795 (internal) or $1895 (external).
According to their advertisement, these drives come complete with UniMac(tm)
formatting & partitioning software and all necessary cables/mounting tools.
And these are 16ms drives!
Before I jump on the phone, I would like to hear from those who has
purchased this package. More specifically, I would like to know if these
drives are quiet, and if it is possible to use other partitioning softwares
instead of UniMac(tm).
I need a RELIABLE, true SCSI partitioning software that is capable of
password protection, and (perhaps) options to resize partitions on-the-fly.
I'll summarize replies... thanks!
* Andy *
+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| Andy A. Lee | "We all choose to compromise |
| al1f+@andrew.cmu.edu | We kill our skills we robotize |
| CompuServe: 72250,240 | Acid waste draws kids and flies |
| Carnegie Mellon University | And diamonds turn to granite |
| Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Number One, money buys anything anytime..." |
| (412)268-4932 | - Kim Carnes/Donna Weiss |
+----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 09:48:08 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: Radius Accelerator
In v7#138 Rich Siegel noted that the most recent Radius SANE init
version is 1.4. I looked in info-mac/util/radius-software-25.hqx and
found that it has version 1.2 of this init. Could someone who has the
newest version please upload it? Thanks.
Michael
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 89 11:17:05 EDT
From: Peter Jones <MAINT%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Searching/indexing files
Can anyone suggest some utilities that would allow searching and/or indexing of
files created by MS Word? I've looked at $MACARCH CONTENTS, a list of PDMAC
programs from LISTSERV@RICE, but the short descriptions aren't much help.
Peter Jones MAINT@UQAM (514)-987-3542
"All's well that ends." :-)
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Date: 7 Aug 89 11:55:24 EDT (Mon)
From: lehi3b15!lafcol!buyskes@lxn.eds.com
Subject: Simple matrix manipulators?
I'm looking for a fairly simple (and inexpensive) Macintosh
program to help my students learn matrix manipulations. All I want them
to be able to do would be row operations, but with non-trivial matrices
(i.e., bigger than 3x3, not nice numbers). I know about APL and some
fancy packages, but is there something simple that doesn't take much
time to learn? I'm thinking of something like 1)enter a matrix,
2) select a row, 3) drag it onto another row, 4) enter the multiple
of the first row to be added to the second row, 5) and so on.
Any pointers?
Steve Buyske uucp : rutgers!lehi3b15!lafcol!buyskes
Mathematics Department Bitnet : BUYSKES@LAFAYETT
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 89 13:56:38 EDT
From: Bob_Voelker@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Wanted:Comments on Macintosh Programming Primer.
Is anyone familiar with "Macintosh Programming Primer--Inside the
Toolbox Using THINK's Lightspeed C," being offered at a discount by
Symantec to those upgrading to THINK C version 4.0?
* Does the book apply to version 3.0 or 4.0 of THINK C?
* Will the info in the book become obsolete when System 7.0 comes out?
* Any other comments?
Thanks,
Bob Voelker
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 15:44
From: <HANEWINK%DM0MPB51.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Herbert Hanewinkel, MPI Biochemie)
Subject: writing software for a FDHD drive
Hi,
I would like to read floppies on my new IIcx in MFM mode, but the floppies
are not in standard MS-DOS format. So I can't use the file exchange program.
Can someone tell me how to switch the floppy drive between GCR (MAC mode)
and MFM (IBM mode). A piece of C code as an example would be great.
Thanks
Herbert Hanewinkel hanewink@dm0mpb51.bitnet
Max-Planck-Institut of Biochemistry
D-8033 Martinsried, FRG
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Today's Topics:
"System disk" changing when opening Applications
3D graphing program
4th Dimension Technotes & Externals wanted
Adobe Type Manager, outline screen fonts, and non-PostScript printers
Archives
Does anyone have DrawOver?
Envelope 1.0
File: "INFO-MAC MAIL" being sent to you
GIF
HELP with a brocken clock on a new IIcx...
John Scully's Address
Level 5 expert systems package
Looking for Old English fonts
MacMan DA trouble
Mathematical programs II
NCSA TELNET for PC's
PICT->PostScript??
Visual Programming
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 20:49:09 EDT
From: Jim Henry in Chattanooga <JHENRY%UTCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: "System disk" changing when opening Applications
At times I start up my Mac from a floppy with a system that I want to use.
If I then open an application on my hard disk, the hard disk becomes my
"System disk." I want to stop this from happening.
The details are these: Mac SE, Apple HD with System 6.0.3
Floppy system (Arabic Interface System) 6.0.3
Most of the time I use the HD's system, but on occasions I want to use the
Arabic system with a word processor that is on the HD. When the Mac switches
to the HD's system, I lose all the Arabic language capabilities, which, of
course, is why I started up with the Arabic system.
Any suggestions as to how to stop this changing of Systewm disks?
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 13:39:27 PDT
From: chris@hobbes.lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: 3D graphing program
Various people have sent me inquiries about the
3D-graphing program I posted some time ago; unfortunately,
life intervened and they were banished to remote corners of the
hard-disk. I intend to post the source-code for the interested;
you haven't been forgotten!
Chris Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
843-2437
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 21:10 N
From: <ADEGROOT%HROEUR5.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 4th Dimension Technotes & Externals wanted
I'm working on a Oracle/4th Dimension project and have the following
request.
I read that there are Tecnical Notes and Externals available for 4th
Dimension. However, the local distributor of 4th Dimension here in
Holland is not willing to give this stuff to me.
So, I would like to hear from those who have these technotes and
externals how and where they got them from. May be someone can poste
the stuff to the archives (if that is legally possible).
I'm also interested in wether the Oracle/4th Dimension interface works
with version 2.0 of 4th Dimension.
Please contact me direct, I will post a summary to InfoMac.
Many thanks in advance.
>>---------------------------<<
>> Ari de Groot <<
>> ADEGROOT@HROEUR5.BITNET <<
>>---------------------------<<
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 23:51:14 PDT
From: gelphman@adobe.com (David Gelphman)
Subject: Adobe Type Manager, outline screen fonts, and non-PostScript printers
There has been a lot of discussion on the net about the HP DeskWriter
printer and outline fonts, so I thought people would be interested in
the Adobe Type Manager and its impact on such topics.
This week at MacWorld, Adobe Systems is showing the recently announced
Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for the Macintosh.
What it does: Simply stated, ATM works allows PostScript outline fonts
produced with our font technology to be rendered on the display and on
non-PostScript output devices. This all works transparently to virtually all
applications on the Macintosh.
For example, suppose I normally use the Stone downloadable PostScript
typefaces. The package comes with screen fonts for all the faces in
sizes 10,12,14,18,24. Also included are the outline fonts which I just
copy into my System Folder.
Without ATM installed, Apple QuickDraw will scale the bit images of
the bitmap screen fonts if I choose anything besides those sizes I've
installed. If you seen bit scaling of fonts, you know the quality
degrades dramatically. If you print on a PostScript printer, the
LaserWriter driver takes care of downloading the PostScript outline
to the printer and the printer uses it to render characters at all sizes
with high quality results.
With ATM installed, any point size chosen can be rendered on the screen
>From the PostScript outline in the system folder. If the screen font
is available it is used. If it isn't available, ATM reads the outline
and renders the characters on the fly. This applies to both drawing on
the screen and printing. The quality of characters, even down to 10 points
on the screen is excellent. When you print to non-PostScript printers
such as the ImageWriter, LaserWriter SC and DeskWriter printers, you get
high quality type, the latter two at up to 300 dpi.
ATM works with the entire Adobe software library of fonts. This is
more than 100 packages of type with more than 400 typefaces total.
Linotype, Agfa-Compugraphic, Varityper, Monotype, Autologic, and Morisawa
have licensed the Adobe BuildFont(tm) technology so we can expect
the number of faces to explode in the future. The first release
of ATM will NOT support so-called 'type 3' fonts...they require a
PostScript interpreter and ATM is not a PostScript interpreter. I don't
know what the plans are regarding this in the future.
At MacWorld Boston we are also showing a version of Adobe Illustrator 88
which uses ATM to generate not only uniformly scaled type but also
rotated and skewed type. No more transformed bitmaps, just nice smooth
type generated from outlines. In other programs where PICTs with text
can be scaled uniformly (most Word Processors, etc.), the type is
also built from outlines so you get smooth, squished text as appropriate.
I hope this isn't too much like an ad, I don't mean it to be. I just
want to be informative.
The ATM package is $99 retail and comes with 13 outline fonts
(Times-Roman, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, and the Bold, Italic,
and BoldItalic variations of the first three faces). These correspond
to the 13 faces in all PostScript printers. A separate package will
be available which includes the remaining 22 which are in most PostScript
printers sold today. I don't know if pricing has been determined. Again,
all the faces in the Adobe type library can be used with Adobe Type
Manager. Availability is October 1989.
I hope this information is useful.
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 19:34 EDT
From: <LGREEN%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Archives
Are there any Macintosh file archives on any of the networks that are available
to me as a Bitnet user?
I know of the Info-Mac archives and shadows at sumex, rice, and pucc, and
I know of all the virus archives, but I was wondering if there were game
archives, or art archives..
Can anyone help me?
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Lyman Green "Well, I kinda thought it was time to /
User Services Consultant change the neat little message I had in /
Wheaton College Norton,MA here, but when it came time, I couldn't /
Bitnet: LGREEN@WHEATNMA think of what to write here!"-Lyman /
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 00:13:43 EDT
From: royt%pravda@gatech.edu (Roy M Turner)
Subject: Does anyone have DrawOver?
I tried to find DrawOver (an application that takes PICT-->encapsulated
PostScript) in sumex's info-mac archives, but no luck. Does anyone have it or
know where I might find it?
Thanks.
Roy
Roy Turner
AI Group, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
Internet: royt@pravda.ics.gatech.edu or royt@gatech.edu
uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!royt
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 16:06:47 PDT
From: palkovic%almond.hepnet@lbl.gov (John Palkovic)
Subject: Envelope 1.0
The September 1989 Macworld mentions Envelope 1.0, a freeware Hypercard stack
which allows one to print addresses from the address stack onto envelopes.
The author is David Eilers. Would someone please upload this to the archives?
Thank you.
John Palkovic
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept. of Physics
and
Fermilab
bitnet: palkovic@fnalad
phonenet (312) 840-2374
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>From: Paul Heroy <HEROY@LSUVM>
Subject: PostScript file to LW+
To: info-mac@rice
Greetings Macxperts,
Having just subscribed to the list, I'm sure this has been asked before,
but I have a compelling desire to ask anyway. I have a PostScript file being
generated from IBM's Script/DS product I want to send to the LW+. Can anyone
out there tell me how to go about sending this file to the LW+ once I download
it to the Mac? I'm not really sure about the exact type of PostScript file
being generated, I may have an option on that.
Thanks in advance for replies.
Paul Heroy HEROY@LSUVM
Computer Analyst
LSU System Network Computer Center
[Moderator's Note: Use SendPS which is stored as util/sendps-121.hqx --Jon]
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 08:02:52 CDT
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GIF
Hello,
I'm having trouble looking at and converting GIF files on my SE
running multifinder and system 6.0.3. I keep crashing. Does anyone
have a reliable program for this? Is there something I should be doing
when trying to use the programs in info-mac/art/gif?
Also, is there a way to search the archived Info-Mac Digests?
Something like the LDBASE EXEC would be very nice.
Thank you,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=--> CB Lih <--=
Macintosh Support / Handicap Computer Support
BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905
US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas
155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
[Moderator's Note:
I just do "ls */*key*" under FTP.
Of course this assumes I know part of the filename...
--Jon]
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Date: Fri 11 Aug 89 12:49:44-PST
From: Elliot Bennett <ELLIOT@star.stanford.edu>
Subject: HELP with a brocken clock on a new IIcx...
Calling all MacHackers!
Have I got a Strange one for you! I seem to have done something to my
Mac IIcx that I've never heard or seen been before. Normally, when you
call up the General cdev and look at the clock it ticks along just fine.
Well, for some reason, mine's frozen. Consequently, Superclock! doesn't
work any more. And I can't get SoftPC 1.3 to run any more either (that's
even after reinstalling it from the master disks). I tried resetting the
parameter ram (Cmd-option-Shift-Control Panel) and it just beeps at me
and doesn't seem to do anything at all.
Now, I run 4,328 INITs (or so it seems), but I've de-installed ALL my
INITs (using INIT/cdev) and it still doesn't change anything. I've
booted off a virgin 6.0.3 disk and it too doesn't work. Has ANYBODY
out there ever heard of this? It looks as if somethings gone in and
stepped all over my ROMs, but you can't do that with READ ONLY memory
(or so the name implies).
I would be most grateful for ANY suggestions/hints/comments in this
regard.
Thank you (in advance),
Elliot Bennett
DLR
Cologne, West Germany
Please reply to elliot@star.stanford.edu (or 323Elliot@ecd1.span)
[Moderator's Note: Sounds like a blown SCC chip. I hope it's not. --Jon]
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 09:24 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: John Scully's Address
Hi all....
Since my last posting to INFO-MAC, I have gotten numerous "requests to
forward my letter...", and a response or two on where to send them to!
I thought that I would pass along the address from a person who wishes to
remain nameless....(thanks again to this fine person!)
Drop mail to:
Scully@Applelink.Apple.Com
There ya go folks.....Lets get that warranty up to a respectable level.
90 days? NO WAY! Just say NO!
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: GREENY
MacNet: GREENY
Disclaimer: #include<std_stuff.h>
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 13:37:55 PDT
From: chris@hobbes.lbl.gov (Christopher Moll)
Subject: Level 5 expert systems package
Has anyone heard of an expert systems package called Level 5
(or Level V)? Apparently it is a be-all, end-all gigantic
mainframe-based program ported to the Mac.
Reply to
Chris Moll
chris@hobbes.lbl.gov
843-2437
or to the net (which I read more often than my mail...)
thanx
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 11:10 EDT
From: Greg Porter <PORTERG@ruby.vcu.edu>
Subject: Looking for Old English fonts
I'm working on a DTP project (on a budget), and so I use PD fonts or
standard Mac fonts wherever possible. While there are zillions of Times and
Helvetica clones, I'm trying to find a "Old English" style font to do drop
caps with (ala illuminated manuscripts). The PD "London" font is the closest
I've seen, but doesn't have the detail I desire. Is the dearth of this style
due to the inherent difficulty of making one up, or are there other reasons.
Sources, archives, addresses and/or prices would be appreciated.
Thanx,
Greg Porter
P.S. - I've already checked info-mac, sumex-aim and about 20 other
ftp sites already, along with macserve and the local b-boards.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 09:28:28 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: MacMan DA trouble
Does anyone know if there is an upgrade to the macman da in
./da/macman-part?.hqx? The concept of having Inside Macintosh in a DA
is great, but the DA seems to have trouble with my 68020 mac. The
frequent crashes are not worth the trouble.
Michael
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 09:07:08 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Mathematical programs II
Message: (unfinished Send command), 110 lines
Subject: Mathematical programs II
To: info-mac@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
From: Michael Webb
Moderator:
Could you post the following excerpts from helpful netters who saw my last
posting and wanted to make it more complete?.
I obviously didn't have all the information I needed before (part of the
reason I posted what I had -- so I could get more). Here are quotes from
letters I received after my last posting:
Your summary of mathematical programs is pretty sparse: I'm sorry
I didn't see your earlier posting on the net. Here is some more
information:
Maple is a mathematical symbolic manipulator just like Mathematica.
It does plotting also, has it's own language ,and can generate
LaTeX and FORTRAN code. I just got it and haven't learned everything
about it, but from what I've learned so far, I like it alot. Two attractive
things about it over Mathematica is its price ($395) and that it runs
fine on a 1 MB machine (I have a Plus). I've also read alot of
review comparisons, and the results are that it does its computations
at least just as fast, and faster than Mathematica. The distributor
for the program is actually:
Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.
511 Forest Lodge Rd.
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
408-373-0728
Kaleidagraph v2.0 has its direct competition with Cricket Graph.
I have both, and Kaleidagraph is much more flexible. It does some
data analysis also. They have an advertisement in the back
pages of MacWeek (this weeks issue it's on page 132), you might
want to see their ad.
Synergy Software
2457 Perkiomen Ave.
Reading, PA 19606
(215) 779-0522
Milo is symbolic math manipulator in a different vein than
Maple. It's all WYSIWYG. There are text windows, and math windows
(and graph windows I think, or maybe it's part of the math window)
so one could conceivably write a nice scientific paper in this
program. The math manipulations are things like factoring,
simplification, integration, differentiation etc. It's not as
comprehensive as the Maple system (for example, Maple comes
with 8 disks of library routines that does everything that most
scientists can imagine doing with mathematics in their lifetime).
However Milo is so straightforward and useful and easy to use
(and inexpensive- MacConnection has is for $159) that it fills
a nice nook in all of the software out there today. I don't have
it now, but I examined a beta version a couple of years ago, and
I plan on getting this program this fall. The program you
mentioned: Theorist (by Allan Bonadino) is competing directly
with Milo.
Paracomp, Inc.
123 Townsend St., Ste. 310
San Francisco, CA 94107
415-543-3848
dScience is a plotting and a data reduction program. It was
just announced- it's currently in beta and version 1.0 will be
out in the next month or so. It does real scientific data
analysis which is what I do for a living so I was especially
interested in this program. The types of plots that it can do
are every type of 2D plot you can imagine and also contour plots.
The math analysis includes Fourier transforms and curve-fitting:
linear and nonlinear. It also has some statistical analysis
like t-tests, chi-square tests etc. I'm currently testing this
program and it has a lot of promise.
SPECTRA Blue, Inc.
7739 E. Broadway, Suite 248
Tucson, AZ 85710
(602) 296-3899
I hope all of this helps.
Amara Graps
NASA/Ames Research Center
M.S. 245-6
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Internet:
GRAPS%GAL@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV
Thanks for your List of Math-Software.
Don't forget the Matlab Program for Manipulating Matrices.
< P R O - M A T L A B >
(c) Copyright The MathWorks, Inc. 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987
All Rights Reserved
Version 3.26 1-Nov-87
This new version includes Graphics too. It's also possible to
write programs and functions in the Matlab-programming language.
I use it very often (on the Sun, but it's available for the Mac too).
- Dominik
/* Dominik Gruntz Institut fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen *
* Department fuer Informatik *
* gruntz@inf.ethz.ch ETH-Zentrum *
* Tel: +41 1 256 22 46 CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland */
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| |
| Michael Webb |
| University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
| |
| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| |
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 09:38:59 EDT
From: Adriene Nazaretian <ADRIENE%YALEADS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: NCSA TELNET for PC's
I know of NCSA TELNET for mac TCP/IP use, and have heard that there is a
version for the PC world also done by NCSA called NCSA PC/IP.
Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy? Preferrably a download
through bitnet.
I want to use TCP/IP for file transfer between mac's and ibms on ethernet.
Send mail to me direct, and I'll summarize to the net.
Thanks All :-}
Adriene Nazaretian
Bitnet: ADRIENE@YALEADS
Applelink: A0165
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Date: Friday, 11 August 1989 12:52:56 EDT
From: Gene.Hastings@boole.ece.cmu.edu
Subject: PICT->PostScript??
I looked in the archives and did not find Drawover. Is there some other name
this utility might be called?
There IS an application called Drawover that is supplied with Adobe
Illustrator '88, which converts PICT to EPSF, but that is hardly public.
Gene
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 89 13:54 MDT
From: Reitman%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Visual Programming
Does anybody have experience with Protocol and/or V.I.P. I am basically
a lazy pseudo-programmer and I am always looking for the easy way out.
Both of these packages claim to give me this way. I am wondering if
such "flow-chart" type programming environemnts can turn out first rate
code. Thanks in advance :-)
[Moderator's Note: Depends on your definition of first-rate ;↑) --Jon]
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 15 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 140
Today's Topics:
Apple's lousy warranty
Application builders
CAP atis segmentation fault
Changing SCSI Icons
Comments on Macintosh Programming Primer.
Ethernet Board Summary
Help with Video Driver
HP DeskWriter. Wow!
HP Plotter Driver
MIGHT AND MAGIC PATCH
Music from floppy disks with Hypercard
Palette Manager vs. 32-bit Color Quickdraw
Questions about Imagewriter II, Word 4.0
Request for help avoiding the mouse. . .
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 11:27:08 CST
From: decwrl!pro-party.cts.com!hplabs!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Apple's lousy warranty
I read with interest the August 7th issue of InfoWorld (a publication
that normally is heavily biased towards the Messy-Dos computer types)
which rated all the various Macintosh machines -- from the Plus up to the
IIcx. The scores were all "Excellent" or "Very Good" until they
got to "Technical Support" which was given a rating of "POOR" and then
the clincher was "Support Policies" which they gave a rating of
"UNACCEPTABLE." Sadly, these two areas caused the total ratings of
the machines to drop considerably. Many of my MS-DOS type colleagues
read this publication, and I really was hoping for a high rating just
so I wouldn't have to take any more flak from them, but with Apple's
current 90 day warranty is it any wonder that InfoWorld downgraded
these wonderful machines? C'mon Apple, it's way past time to warrant
your machines for at least 12 months!
Don
------------------------------
Date: Wednesday, 9 August 1989 11:22am CST
From: CYAI336%UTA3081.CC.UTEXAS.EDU@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu
Subject: Application builders
>Has anybody had any experience with application building programs? Two in
>particular I am currently looking at are Prototyper 2.0 (from SmethersBarnes)
>and AppMaker 1.0 (from BOWERS Development). They both claim to let you build
>menus, windows, dialogs, alert boxes, etc. They also both claim to let you do
>it nicely and interactively, and then generate the source code (C or Pascal).
>Any experiences with these two (or others)???
I purchased Prototyper 2.0 recently and am amazed at its versatility. Not only
does it allow you to quickly create a prototype of an application, the source
code that it outputs is fully commented and very understandable (assuming one
is already somewhat conversant in Mac programming). I generated a test
application less than an hour after opening the package that compiled correctly
the first time using LightSpeed Pascal 2.0. And it wasn't even a trivial
program. It contained several windows, controls, dialog boxes, menus, etc.
In short, it is an impressive product that I highly recommend.
Patrick Parker
CIS: 71260,3711
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 09:53:21 CDT
From: brian@natinst.com (Brian H. Powell)
Subject: CAP atis segmentation fault
We're running the CAP 5.0 software on a Sun 3/160 running SunOS 4.0.3.
We've had this problem for some time, under SunOS 4.0 and SunOS 4.0.1 and
maybe even SunOS 3.2 before that.
Every now and then (about every month or so), our "atis" program dumps
core with a "signal 11, Segmentation fault." I compiled "atis" (but not the
cap libraries) with the -g flag for debugging, and got a backtrace from the
core file:
#0 0x4c0c in do_ddp_chksum ()
#1 0x4a58 in ddp_protocol ()
#2 0x764e in kip_get ()
#3 0x69a4 in fdlistenread ()
#4 0x6f26 in abSelect ()
#5 0x6d68 in abSleep ()
#6 0x2bba in main (argc=1, argv=(char **) 0xeffffd4) (atis.c line 387)
It looks like the "cnt" passed to do_ddp_chksum is bogus:
_do_ddp_chksum(0x231d8,0xfffffff5,0x1560) + 1a
(cnt is the -11.) This happens at the second call to "ddp_chksum" in
"ddp_protocol". Could be a variety of problems, I suppose.
I've looked at the code, but nothing leaps to mind. I'm not exactly
familiar with this stuff. Anybody have any ideas what could be going wrong?
Brian H. Powell National Instruments Corp.
brian@natinst.com 12109 Technology Blvd.
uunet!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!brian Austin, Texas 78727-6204
AppleLink:NATINST (512) 250-9119
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 11:21:23 EDT
From: DBecque%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Changing SCSI Icons
The icons for the drive are located in the driver software!!!
The consenses is that the software should not be tampered with
but that it might be possible to change the icon in the installation
software and reformat your disk. That's a big might be because
you might also crash everything...
Another easier way is to download an init from Sumex called Facade.
Facade iterrupts the calls by the driver software and allows you to
associate any ICN# with any drive just by the name of the disk.
You sacrifice a little of the system heap to do this but it makes your
desktop all the more interesting to look at.
Dan Becque DBecque@UMass.bitnet
UMass at Amherst Daniel Becque@Mars.UCC.UMass.Edu
Department of Exercise Science
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 07:51:38 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: Comments on Macintosh Programming Primer.
I bought the book "Macintosh Programming Primer--Inside the Toolbox Using
THINK's Lightspeed C" when it first appeared. In my experience, it is
the best macintosh programming tutorial I've seen to date. However,
since it applies to version 3.0 of THINK C, I'm not sure how relevant
it will be to version 4.0.
Michael
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 16:14:27 EDT
From: rpk@goldhill.com
Subject: Ethernet Board Summary
Here are responses to my Ethernet board query of several months back.
**************************************************
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 21:25:50 -0400
From: John Watlington <wad@media-lab.media.mit.edu>
We have a lab with 6 Mac II/IIx machines, all equipped with Apple's
Ethertalk card. They have performed with no problems ( despite
another group reporting a problem with an early batch. ). We use
NCSA Telnet v2.0 for file transfer and remote terminals. For
software development, we use Kinetics TCPort ( for MPW 3.0 ).
Unfortunately, the TCPort drivers seem to interfere with Telnet's
usage of the Ethertalk card. We communicate with IBM PCs, Sun Workstations,
Vax of all sizes, and Next machines.
wad
**************************************************
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 11:35:38 PDT
From: nomdenet@venera.isi.edu
> So, in terms of performance, compatibility, and quality, is an
> Ethernet board an Ethernet board an Ethernet board ? The only one I
> could find in a Mac Connection ad is one from Dove Computer (Fastnet
> III, I beleive).
I've recently had occasion to research this topic, and I've found three
manufacturers of Ethernet boards:
Apple EtherTalk Interface Card $595
Dove Computer FastNet III 599
Kinetics EtherPort II 695
As yet we haven't bought anything, but an acquaintance whose judgement
I trust believes that, indeed, an Apple EtherTalk Interface Card is a Dove
FastNet III is a Kinetics EtherPort II, and recommended we purchase Apple's
card because of their good discounts for educational institutions. They all
come with drivers, and my impression is that all available software will work
with any set of drivers.
I'd recommend you get Kinetics' information packet, an impressive 5/8-inch
thick, and containing a first-rate Network Primer which concisely presents
networking issues. (800) 433-4608 or (415) 975-4445. My contact is Janet
Perry, who is a rarity among salescritters: Knowledgeable about her subject
and quite competent. Her title is "Educational Accounts Manager", so she
probably would refer you someone handling commercial accounts.
There's also the matter of software, as twisting and complex a maze as ever
I've found, and too much to go into here -- especially since you restricted
your query to hardware with no clues as to the project or application needing
Ethernet access. I'd be happy to correspond with you about Ethernet things,
or talk with you over the telephone.
A. R. White
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina Del Rey, California
90292-6695
(213) 822-1511, x162
(213) 823-6714 facsimile
ARPA: nomdenet @ ISI.edu
**************************************************
Date: 20 Jun 89 09:08:00
From: Steven.D.Ligett@mac.dartmouth.edu
Our chief wizard in such things says that the board from Asante is about twice
as fast (on the NuBus side!) as the Kinetics one, and doesn't have the bugs
that Kinetics has. (Driver bugs, I assume.) I asked him for Asante's number
and address a couple weeks ago for another request, and threw it away
yesterday. I'd be embarrassed to ask again, but would if you can't find them.
**************************************************
From: gateh%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 89 13:33:19 edt
Dear Robert,
I just received Apple's EtherTalk Interface Card, however it is not completely
installed as of yet. If I recall correctly, there are about 3 or 4 Ethernet
boards presently available, and for the price the Apple board seemed the best
bet. I'm going to be using it in conjunction with the NCSA Telnet 2.3b2
TCP/IP software package for high-speed file transfers with our minicomputer
network. I also hope to test some of the Mac-to-mainframe packages later.
If you are interested in any of this, I'd be more than happy to update you
as I proceed.
Hope this is of some help - Gregg
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
------------------------------
Date: Wednesday, 09 Aug 89 15:09:22 EDT
From: senn@laurel.psy.cmu.edu (Jeff Senn)
Subject: Help with Video Driver
Does anyone have some example code they could send me that deals with
Status/Control calls to the Mac II video driver (the standard Apple one).
In particular I'm interested in manipulating the gamma table.
My code seems to be affecting the driver in anti-deterministic ways--thus
I fear I'm doing something wrong...
C code would be best--anything else is fine.
Please e-mail to me since I don't read the digest religiously.
=============================================================================
Jeff Senn Arpa: Senn@Psy.cmu.edu
Research/Systems Programmer
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon (412) CMU-SKY1
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 09:16:03 CST
From: decwrl!pro-party.cts.com!hplabs!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: HP DeskWriter. Wow!
After much advice, thought and consideration (and consternation...),
I just purchased a DeskWriter printer, and am extremely pleased. It
gives my work the professional look that is so important at a price
that is still affordable. With the "Smooth Bitmaps" option on, it is
nearly as good as any laser printer, and at a much more affordable
price. The printer is fast, quiet, elegant, and the output is
gorgeous.
Printing on a paper such as Eaton's "Natural Finish, Laid,
Heavyweight" typing paper gives a professional look that anyone would
be proud of. This paper is "buff" colored and has a rough texture
with Eaton's seal imprinted -- very classy. Also experimented with a
stiff paper (ala business card thickness) and did some printing of
same. They came out superb. Used a paper cutter to square the cards
off, and looks as if they were done at the local printshop. The
advice in the manual about being sure to put the various papers in "right
side up" is important to realize the really best ASCII/graphic output
of this printer. Of course, you can use just about any other
standard paper as well. For example, copy machine paper works nicely.
Oh, one last thought. I purchased the printer on Friday at 5:45 PM
and it was up and running by 6:15. Easy installation and well
written documentation sure makes it nice. Can't remember the last
time things went this smoothly when adding hardware!
Price paid was a high (???) $896 including cable. It was bought
locally here in San Antonio, TX. (To rationalize... at least I had
the machine within several hours and have local support.) :-) Used
Amex so that the normal one year warranty (C'mon Apple get with it,
no one else in electronics has just 90 days) was doubled to 24
months.
Don
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 89 22:35:31 CST
From: Timothy Bergeron <C09615TB%WUVMD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HP Plotter Driver
Does anyone know if a printer driver for HP plotters exists and how I can
get a copy of it?
Timothy Bergeron
Educational Computing Services
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 01:30 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MIGHT AND MAGIC PATCH
A few weeks ago I posted a request for the patch necessary to remove the
key disk request within the Might and Magic program. I received several
requests for what I discovered, as well as several promises of the patch which
never materialized. I therefore turned to GEnie and got the answer. However,
since I always try to keep my promises, I am willing to forward this tidbit
of info to the Mac list here on the nets, as I lost the addresses of the
folks that wanted the patch.
Please only use this if you actually purchased the program (as I did!) and are
annoyed as hell with the stupid copy protection.
How to do it:
1) Get your favorite disk editor out (FEDIT, Symantic Tools)
2) Start it up
3) Search for the following string:
In version 1.0 of the program search for:
4EBA FC86 7E02
In version 1.04 of the program search for:
4EBA FB5A 4EBA FD82 7E02
4) Effect the following changes to the "found" strings above:
In version 1.0, the search string should become:
4E71 4E71 7E02
In version 1.04, the search string should become:
4E71 4E71 4E71 4E71 7E02
5) Write the sector back out.
6) Quit the favorite editor
7) Start up M&M. Volia! No key disk request! Yeah!
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: GREENY
MacNet: GREENY
Disclaimer: I'm not a pirate, don't advocate piracy, and don't want to hear
flames about this. It is to be used by purchasers of the program
only. I am -- for the record -- AGAINST ALL COPY PROTECTION.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 11:15:45 EDT
From: Peter Jones <MAINT%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Music from floppy disks with Hypercard
I have a friend who is trying to use Hypercard to display diagrams of figure
dances while music is played to accompany each figure. Ideally, the music
should play without pausing between the 2-bar frames. When a dance is played
for the first time, there are frequent pauses to read the floppy disk, and the
sound of the music is often garbled.
The manual suggests, to avoid the garbling, to wait for the music buffer to
empty itself before reading the next block on disk. Wouldn't that cause a break
in the music?
Is there a way to load a whole dance (about 128K) and play it through without
stopping for disk reads? The machine is a MAC II with 1 meg. There is no
hard disk.
Thanks for any help. Sorry if this question is too simple for this list.
Peter Jones MAINT@UQAM (514)-987-3542
"All's well that ends." :-)
[Moderator's Note:
This might have trouble because of your lack of memory, but you need to read
all the cards in before beginning the music. Do this before playing to
buffer all the cards in Hypercard's cache.
lock screen
repeat for number of cards
go to next card
end repeat
unlock screen
--Jon]
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 14:05:10 PDT
From: eastman@csa4.lbl.gov (Jack Eastman)
Subject: Palette Manager vs. 32-bit Color Quickdraw
Dave Platt notes:
>> "Users of Apple's 32-bit QuickDraw have encountered some problems with
>> Version 1.8.3 of Adobe Illustrator 88. It seems that Illustrator
>> crashes everytime you quit the application, but one user who reported
>> the bug to the company said that a fix for the problem is not expected
>> until the end of the year."
>Hmmm. This sounds as if it might possibly be the same problem I encountered
>when adapting my MandelZot fractal program for 32-bit Color QuickDraw.
>The system would crash on exit 100% of the time, if it was running
>under the single-Finder and if it had ever created a custom palette and
>applied it to an on-screen window. The crash would not occur under
>MultiFinder, or if I commented out the SetPalette() call that applied the
>palette to the window.
I've also encountered trouble using the Palette Manager under 32-bit Color
Quickdraw. I have a cdev that remembers the Control Panel's palette and sets
up my own at cdev initialization time, and restores the palette at cdev
termination time (bearing in mind that the Control Panel's window may not go
away at this time.) I observed two symptoms:
1) If my cdev had ever been shown, when the Control Panel was closed the
menubar would flash with some strange color pattern. It looked as though
some random chunk of memory were being interpreted as a pixPat. Closing
the Control Panel causes DrawMenuBar to be called twice; the menubar was
drawn in the goofy color scheme on the first call, and properly on the
second.
2) The system would crash either immediately or some time after closing my
cdev. Stepping through my termination code I found that after the line
SetPalette(CPDialog, savedPalette, false)
the System heap became corrupted. (Note that savedPalette, obtained at
cdev initialization time with a GetPalette call, was typically nil.)
Yow. I noted that the General and Monitors cdevs provided with the 32-bit
Quickdraw package also manipulated the Control Panel's palette, so I stepped
through them to see what they were doing differently; and the only change I
could discern was that in both cases they were calling SetPalette with the
updates flag set to true (indicating that the Control Panel should receive an
update event whenever the color environment changed.) So I changed the false
to true in my SetPalette calls, and the bomb (2) went away!
Unfortunately the ugly menubar flash persisted. (If you want to see this for
yourself, try opening and closing the Control Panel with 32-bit Quickdraw
installed, but using the standard 6.0.3 or 6.0.2 release of the General cdev
instead of the version provided with 32BQD.) A note to Apple DTS yielded a
vague reply, admitting that there was a problem and indicating that there were
"rumors" that the 32BQD General and Monitors cdevs didn't flash the menubar
because their palettes used only courteous and explicit colors. I haven't
followed this up, so I don't know if that's true.
So...one rule seems to be: Don't call SetPalette(aWindow, nil, false).
Jack Eastman
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
eastman@lbl.gov
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 00:29:29 CDT
From: "R. C. Davis" <RCD2403@venus.tamu.edu>
Subject: Questions about Imagewriter II, Word 4.0
Again, more Microsoft Word 4.0 blues...
I have a Imagewriter II and I have version 2.7 of the Imagewriter drivers. I
thought it would be a great idea to print on envelopes. So I set out to make
a form file for envelopes. Well, good idea, but not quite that easy...
First, I noticed that after setting the left and right margins at 1/4" and the
top margin at 1/4", the top line of addressee paragraph was missing! Putting
a blank paragraph (1 vertical space) above the paragraph solved the problem.
But then the Imagewriter proved to be quite difficult with envelopes. Worst of
all, the first 1/2" of the addressee lines always come up smudged. Grrr...
Question #1: Does anyone have a boiler plate for envelopes similar to the
mailing label forms Microsoft includes with Word v.4.0?
Question #2: Any helpful tips on envelope printing (should I use landscape
mode or some other cute tricks?)
Thanks for your help.
Ricardo Davis
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 16:15:12 CDT
From: "Jeff Balvanz" <GR.JLB@isumvs.iastate.edu>
Subject: Request for help avoiding the mouse. . .
Thanks to all who helped me out with my earlier request for text
searching utilities for the Mac! Responses included:
1. PC Tools for the Mac (desk accessory)
2. Gofer (also a desk accessory)
3. Grep-wc (public domain DA, in the archives)
The Provost's office decided (I think) to go with the first option.
Next question. I have a user with a 512K enhanced, which
unfortunately has the original keyboard. Because he has no fine
motor control, the mouse is pretty much useless for him. We have
been trying to use Easy Access, but the keyboard has no arrow keys!
Is it possible to use Easy Access with an original keyboard, or is
there another utility (preferably cheap/PD) that will do the same
sort of thing, i.e., give you keyboard control of the mouse pointer?
Thanks in advance for your help -- it's great having access to
someone who really knows where the Mac is at.
Jeff Balvanz BITNET: GR.JLB@ISUMVS
Senior Technical Consultant INTERNET: GR.JLB@WYLBUR.IASTATE.EDU
Microcomputer Services PHONE: (515) 294-8683
Iowa State University Computation Center USMail: 191 DURHAM CENTER, ISU,
AMES, IA 50011
"6502's FOREVER!" Compuserve: >internet:gr.jlb@wylbur.iastate.edu
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 15 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 142
Today's Topics:
Adobe font samples needed in 300dpi
Amiga/Mac switchablity
Application Builders Summary
Business calculator
File: "INFO-MAC MAIL" being sent to you
linear algebra software
Mac/MS-DOS file transfers
MacJove, VersaTerm, and MultiFinder problem.
Mac SE/30 Colour Cards & Stepping-Out II.
Questions (separate) about MultiFinder and TeX DVI printing
Script Systems (RE: Info-Mac 136)
Seeking Mathematica package.
The HP-12C Financial Desk Accessory
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 00:46:00 bst
From: Stephen Page <sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Adobe font samples needed in 300dpi
I am considering buying a couple of Adobe fonts, but before I lash out and
spend the astronomical price demanded, I would like to see what they look
like on a 300-dpi laser printer. Adobe's "Form and Function" catalogue
is impressive, but I find it very hard to imagine how some of the strokes
on the more elegant fonts will look when they are not typeset!
Does anyone own the following fonts, and if so would they be able to
send me a little sample?
- Weiss
- Caslon Open Face
- Stempel Garamond
- Goudy Old Style
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Date: Mon, 14-Aug-1989 17:53:59.21 CST
From: <rcd2403%tamchem.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu> (R. C. Davis)
Subject: Amiga/Mac switchablity
Dear MacHardware Hacks,
A friend of mine asked me a question, to which left me perplexed. If you
switch the EPROMS in the Atari Amiga to those used in the Macintosh, will it
be compatible with a Macintosh? Any good solid information on such a hack?
Thanks!
Ricardo Davis
..............................................................................
Dept. of Chemistry THEnet: CHEMVX::RCD2403
Texas A & M University BITnet: RCD2403@TAMCHEM
College Station, TX 77843-3255 USA Internet: RCD2403@CHEMVX.TAMU.EDU
Tel. (409) 845-0612 FAX: (409) 845-4719
..............................................................................
[Moderator's Note: Well, if the hardware were the same it would. ;↑) --Jon]
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 14:50:57 edt
From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham)
Subject: Application Builders Summary
I received about 10 responses to my question regarding application builders in
general, and Prototyper and AppMaker in particular. I'll give my conclusion
first, so that you may skip the rest of this mail if you are not -that-
interested.
I have placed my order for Prototyper 2.0 today. The idea is to use Prototyper
in the development of small projects, and I am planning on going for Apple's
MPW/MacApp when their C++ comes out. Using MacApp and MPW is preferred for
larger projects.
One problem with application builders is that once they have generated the code
for you and you've added your own code to it, changing anything -again- with
the application builder means reinserting your own code all over again. This
is a problem that does not occur with MPW.
Here's a summary of the responses. Most of the replies were for Prototyper.
Prototyper 2.0
Pro: Very short learning curve, nice interface, allows you to easily build
the menubar with Command-keys, hierarchical menues, icons, checks,
etc. It also allows you to create windows, dialogue boxes, and
alerts. The windows created can have zoom boxes, close boxes, scroll
bars, etc. It also has a mode so you can run your prototype to test
out the feel. Various things can be linked (into action) with the
menues and the windows. Code generated is well commented. Excellent
customer support. Good manual.
Con: Does not create MultiFinder code, no support for full text edit. Code
generated is not optimal, no code is generated for windows scroll bars,
Here are the only two comments I received about AppMaker:
> From what I saw of Appmaker, the user interface is much harsher for the
> creation of the prototype. The code Appmaker generates is stated to be
> optimal, but also without comments, so you have to know what you are
> doing in order to add your own changes.
> I have been thinking of getting AppMaker as well because they advertise
> that they have palettes (which prototyper does not). I would kill for
> palettes. If you find out more please let me know.
There is also a review of Prototyper 2.0 in the current issue of MacWorld.
Hisham.
Note: Standard disclaimers apply. I have no affiliation with any of the
vendors mentioned above, and my opinions are strictly mine.
Hisham A. Abboud
Computer Center/Academic Services
The Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C. 20064
Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA | "What soberness
Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU | conceals, drunkeness
or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2 | reveals"
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Date: 15 Aug 89 11:39:29 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Business calculator
"Juan M. Courcoul" <PP838474%TECMTYVM@icsa.rice.edu> writes:
>>... I
>>have seen a DA called 12-C that is a duplication of the HP 12C in DA form. It
>>comes in two parts (at least when I saw it), an INIT and a DA. I haven't seen
>>it in about a year, but it was great.
>... I
>haven't the faintest idea who was the Mac wizard who cooked it up,
Richard Reich. Richard is currently working for Working Software
in Santa Cruz, I think.
> ...but it IS
>a neat piece of code. Seems to work fine in most machines (couldn't test it
>on SE/30's,
It does run on an SE/30.
> ...cause I don't have any available), even though it's a program
>dating from 1984-85 (ancient history, in the Mac scale). I guess it comes to
>show how stable a program can be, if the developer follows the rules.
Richard originally sold the DA to "Dreams of the Phoenix" which
used to market many inexpensive utilities. THey have since gone out
of business, owning thousands of dollars in the process.
Richard recovered rights to the DA by perseverence and threats. He has
since resolf those rights to another marketer who likewise seems to
have dropped the ball.
His attitude expressed to me personally, in January, 1989, when I
tried to pay him cash for my father's copy, was if you can get it
and it is useful to you, just use it.
Richard is a good programmer and adhered to Apple's guideline fairly
stringently when writing 12c. It's increadible to me that this piece of
code, which deviates from several "standard" human interface
guidelines, has proven so robust across so many operating system
changes. Did you know that it is fully programmable? You can save and
load programs to and from disk. There are options to display the
register contents. The 12c remembers all its settings (even for years,
I can attest!). It really is a non-trivial piece of code.
Anyway, FYI...
--scott
--
Scott Truesdell
[Moderator's Note: It is still pulled. Sorry. --Jon]
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 89 16:45:18 CDT
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Subject: File: "INFO-MAC MAIL" being sent to you
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>From: Laurence Bates <LAURENCE@MSU>
Subject: Pinout for Mac color monitor
To: info-mac@rice
Does anyone know whether a Mac color monitor (Apple variety) can be used with
an IBM VGA board?. If so, what is the pinout of the Mac monitor plug.
Thanx.
Acknowledge-To: <LAURENCE@MSU>
[Moderator's Note: Doesn't this qualify as sacrilige? --Jon]
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 14:35 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: linear algebra software
In response to the request for matrix manipulation software:
There is a product called, I believe, MacLin, developed at the University of
Illinois which can be used to lead students through matrix manipulations using
rational numbers, that is, if you need to multiply one row by three-eights
and add it to another, that is what the student must enter (instead of .375)
I know the program is available through publicly-distributabe sources like
EduCorp, and I suspect it is available through Kinko's (or the successor to
Kinko's as the Academic Courseware Excahnge). I believe the author asks for
a $25.00 shareware fee, but that may be waived for academic users (I was
told this and have not verified it.) One of our faculty members was looking
for such a program and said that this was exactly what he was looking for...
Jim Clark
UT Martin
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 18:15 PDT
From: Ron Webster <IC6JRHW@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: Mac/MS-DOS file transfers
There has been a little discussion on this BB about Mac/MS-DOS file
transfers using various procedures: Cabling PCs to Macs or using special
floppy drives. I'm surprised that more hasn't been said over the network,
but I have received some personal communiques to my own Info-Mac contribu-
tions. I recently received a telephone call in this regard from Art Chodos,
a retired Cal Tech scientist who is keeping abreast of PC and Mac develop-
ments. Mr. Chodos followed his call up with a letter (on floppy disk). I
found his comments helpful and informative. Currently, Mr. Chodos has
access to the Info-Mac Digest through an indirect link that precludes his
making direct contributions. Thus, with his permission, I am forwarding his
comments for Info-Mac distribution. References to the previous Info-Mac
notes on Mac/MS-DOS file transfers that I know of are as follows:
Info-Mac Digest v. 7 #118, 11 July 1989 (Inquiry by Michael Paisley)
Info-Mac Digest v. 7 #120, 13 July 1989 (response by me)
Info-Mac Digest v. 7 #122, 17 July 1989 (response by C. K. Farn)
Info-Mac Digest v. 7 #125, 20 July 1989 (response by me)
Before reprinting Mr. Chodos's letter, a few brief comments of my own.
As mentioned above, there are several ways to accomplish transfer of MS-DOS
files to a Macintosh or Macintosh files to an MS-DOS system. Each has its
advantages. I opted for the floppy disk drive route because I needed the
drive anyway--I wanted a 1.4 MB floppy for the SE in my office. Mac SE-30s
already possess the DOS-to-Mac transfer capability, and SEs, with the Super-
Drive upgrade Apple is offering, will also have DOS-to-Mac capability with
no need for third-party products. I purchased the SE well in advance of
Apple's announcement of the SuperDrive upgrade, so I selected a third-party
external 1.4 MB floppy drive. The two I considered were PLI's Turbo Floppy
1.4 and Kennect Technology's Drive 2.4 with Rapport--I purchased the PLI
solely because of budget limitations (dictated by a research grant).
I do not argue for the superiority of my approach (i.e., the special
floppy drive) over others, or, for that matter, of any approach over any
other: I merely selected the approach that seemed to best suit my needs.
Mr. Chodos has an approach that is elegant and, in accommodating contexts,
cost effective.
Also, as a result of my first Info-Mac note, undue attention was paid
to the appending of a linefeed to each line of a Mac file converted from
MS-DOS format with Apple File Exchange. As I stated in my second Info-Mac
note, the appended linefeeds were due to my own inexperience and lack of
time to explore AFE even superficially. AFE provides various options for
affecting the format of the target file, including stripping the linefeed
character from MS-DOS text files being converted to Mac files. Mr. Chodos
mentions a solution to the appended linefeed problem, so I thought I should
again point out that the problem is spurious (therefore, no solution is
required) to ward off any apprehensions that might otherwise have arisen.
Herewith, Mr. Chodos's letter, unedited:
7 August 1989
Dear Ron:
I only get to read the INFO-IBM notes about once a month so I didn't
see your notes until this weekend. I have a situation similar to the one
you mention in that I use both a MAC+ and an AT clone and am concerned with
transfering files between the two systems. I consult and produce a
newsletter for a professional society and receive PD software, as well as
documents produced by many different word processors, on both MAC and PC
disks. Let me describe the two ways I have tried to resolve the problems.
The first system I tried was to hook the two computers together using
a null modem. I can run Kermit on both the AT and the MAC and have had no
problems with transfer. I usually ask that articles be submitted to me on
IBM 360K or MAC 800K disks. There are a number of programs available which
can translate various word processor formats (I have Software Bridge) but I
find that most of the time the only changes I have to make is to drop
control characters and either drop or add a LF, CR or CRLF combination. I
have a short BASIC program I wrote which allows me to do what I want.
There is, however, a better way to do the transfers, particularly when
the MAC and PC systems are in separate rooms. For years I have owned a
Central Point copy card which I use to defeat copy protection schemes and
keep my hard disk from having hidden files corrupting it. A year or so ago
Central Point came out with its Option Board and software which is a copy
card with the capability of reading and formatting/writing MAC 800K disks
(It reads but doesn't write 1.44M). Their update offer was too good to
refuse so I got the card. Since that time I have never used the Kermit
transfer. I merely put the MAC disk in my 3 1/2" drive B and use the
Option Board software to MCOPY A:*.* B:. The reverse is obtained by
MCOPY B:*.* A:.
My 3 1/2" 1.44M Toshiba disk drive cost me about $90 at a discount
store. The Central Point Option Board is advertized by a mail order
company in the August PC Magazine (vol. 8 no. 14) for $109. Any
respectable AT clone should come with a floppy controller capable of
running it. My controller is a Western Digital RLL controller which
controls 2 hard disks and 2 floppies. Installation was trivial and no
special software is required. I am using IBM DOS version 3.3.
The reason I recommend adding to the PC end is that any software or
hardware prices for the MAC are usually double what the equivalent would
cost for an IBM.
Sincerely,
Arthur A. Chodos
Consultant
(818) 357-0183
I reiterate that, as I understand it, Mr. Chodos can receive inquiries
through the Info-Mac Digest, but he cannot respond directly except by phone
or letter. Follow-up inquiries of him should, therefore, either be made
directly to him or, if made through Info-Mac, should include a telephone
number or U. S. mail address.
Ron Webster
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Date: 13 Aug 89 17:13:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: MacJove, VersaTerm, and MultiFinder problem.
I am reporting a bug in one of these programs (I am not sure which one,
but I suspect MacJove.) - MultiFinder, VersaTerm, and MacJove. System
configuration is 2.5 Meg Mac SE, MultiFinder 6.0, System 6.0, Finder 6.1
(i think it is from system 6.0.1). Inits: BackDrop and StartUpSnd INIT.
CDEVs Vaccine 1.01, Dragger 1.4, Moire 2.22, and SuperClock 3.4.
The symptom - running VersaTerm 3.0 under MultiFinder, transferring files.
Switch back to Finder, try to launch MacJove by double-clicking. Screen
freezes soon thereafter, and after about 5 or so seconds the Mac reboots
itself (no dialog box!) I suspect MacJove since I have launched other
programs (e.g. MicroEmacs) in similar circumstance with no problems.
Anybody know the problem and/or the fix?
Jeff Templon
Indiana U. Cyclotron Facility
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 19:16 N
From: <HEWAT%FRILL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac SE/30 Colour Cards & Stepping-Out II.
Distribution-File:
jnet%"info-mac%sumex@stanford"
Mac SE/30 Colour Cards & Stepping-Out II.
I have an SE/030-4/40, and find it a big improvement over the SE.
I use Stepping-Out II to define a double page display. It is so good, I can't
really understand the need for a big display. S-O II should be part of the
normal Mac system. It works with everything - Illustrator-88, Word, Pagemaker,
Versaterm Pro giving huge Tektronix graphics, etc. And on the SE/30, its fast.
However, I would like a colour display on my SE/30. I just want to use the
standard Mac-II colour monitor (with S-O II). The colour display cards for
the SE/30 all seem very expensive. Surely some-one does the equivalent of the
Apple Mac-II colour card ?
Of course, Apple should have done the colour card themselves, or better yet,
include it on the SE/30 mother board. I would like to save my SE/30 slot.
Why not a colour SE/30 ? The rest is so good, its hard to believe that we
still have the Mac+ display - not even grey levels.
Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, France. Bitnet HEWAT@FRILL
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Date: 13 Aug 89 16:07:00 EST
From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Questions (separate) about MultiFinder and TeX DVI printing
Hello Netland,
As a new hard disk owner, I have broken new ground (!) in using my Mac.
This groundbreaking has also generated some questions that I would like to
pose to your collected wisdom. Here goes:
1) Using Multifinder, some applications take up too much of the desktop
to be able to see the disk icons when switching back to the Finder.
Usually I can use the size box or move the window to get at the icons.
I have a problem with VersaTerm however; when I am transferring files,
the window controls (dragging and resizing) are inoperative, so you
can't open any new folders until the transfer is complete unless you
want to abort the transfer. I have been trying to remember to resize
the window before starting the transfer, but it would be nice to be
able to access the files in case I forget! Is there any other way to
do this?
2) I have a copy of the recently released OzTeX program. It does not
print to the imagewriter. It DOES create a DVI file which should be
printable on the imagewriter. Has anyone written a DVI file printer
for the Mac Imagewriter?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff Templon
Indiana U. Cyclotron Facility
[Moderator's Note: MPW SADE's beta MultiFinder addresses this issue by giving
you a "Set Aside" menu item that cause all of an applications windows to
vanish. Very helpful. Maybe in the next release. ;↑)
--Jon]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 11:17:04 CDT
From: RAGAN%CDCCentr.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Script Systems (RE: Info-Mac 136)
Regarding the request in Info-Mac 136 from K.Desikachary
Net Address: Krishna Desikachary <Desikacharyk&wnre.aecl.cdn>
for more information on Apple Script Managers.
This whole area seems to be undergoing a lot of change with
System 7.0. The introductory material in the Preliminary
Developer Notes for System 7.0 says
"The Macintosh provides script systems for Roman, Japanese,
Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Greek, Thai, Devanagari, Pakistani,
and Korean."
Elsewhere, in a table of constants defining the script numbers
assigned we find:
smRoman 0 Normal Mac/Ascii
smJapanese 1
smChinese 2
smKorean 3
smArabic 4
smHebrew 5
smGreek 6
smRussian 7
smRSymbol 8 Right to left Symbol
smDevanagari 9
smGurmukhi 10
smGujarati 11
smOriya 12
smBengali 13
smTamil 14
smTelugu 15
smKannada 16
smMalayalam 17
smSinhalese 18
smBurmese 19
smKhmer 20
smThai 21
smLaotian 22
smGeorgian 23
smArmenian 24
smMaldivian 25
smTibetan 26
smMongolian 27
smGeez 28 Ethiopian or Amharic
smSlavic 29
smVietnamese 30
smSindhi 31
smUninterp 32 Uninterpreted Symbols (e.g.Macpaint palette chars)
A total of 64 simultaneous script systems can be handled so there is room
for more. It looks like you should try to get more information on System
7.0 since Apple may already have standardized what you need.
Richard Ragan
Ragan@cdccentr.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 07:37:25 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: Seeking Mathematica package.
I'm looking for two public domain Mathematica packages. The first is
a package to handle Fourier transforms. The second is a package to
facilitate the construction and analysis of finite difference
operators. I realize that the best place to look is on the Portal
system, but I don't have access to that yet. Can any of you offer
assistance?
Michael
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 23:23:38 -0400
From: spector@acf3.nyu.edu (David HM Spector)
Subject: The HP-12C Financial Desk Accessory
Regarding the HP-12 Financial Desk Accessory that was recently posted
to Info-Mac and placed in the archives:
The author of the HP-12C Financial Desk Accessory is a friend of mine by the
name of Richard Reich. He wrote the DA quite some time ago. (circa 1985)
The version that was recently posted to the Info-Mac was originally
uploaded to CompuServe with the restriction that it not be posted to
any other information service.
Richard has requested that the copy currently stored in the Info-Mac
archives be removed and that it not be posted (or reposted) to other
on-line or BBS services, *nor* redistributed any further.
The reasons for this are: 1) The original upload was to be restriced
to CompuServe only, and in fact it has been removed from there too. 2)
The program is currently owned by someone else, and 3) The version of
the program that was posted on CompuServe (and here) works on current
hardware only by luck and it could do serious damage to your System
File.
For those interested in obtaining a current copy of the program,
the HP-12C Financial Desk Accessory is currently owned and marketed by:
Positive Works, Inc.
142 Cone Road
Ormand Beach, Fla. 32074
(904) 673-6229
_DHMS
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Subject: Laser Printer Query (SC, NX, and PostScript)
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Hi,
I am thinking about buying a laser printer. The only applications I
will be using it for are word processing (Word 3.0.1), Drawing
(MacDraw 1.9.5), and spreadsheets (Excel 1.5). I am thinking about
purchasing Apple LaserWriter II SC (with the option of later upgrading
to a NX). Any comments on this? Some questions I have include:
1) How will a non-Postscript printer fit into the proposed 7.0
operating system?
2) How is Quick-draw vs. PostScript for the above applications? Will
the SC look professional?
3) Can the SC be upgraded memory-wise? Can additional memory be added
when it is upgraded to a NX?
3.5) Do you have a SC? If so, I would like to here your experences
with it.
4) I will be selling an ImageWriter II (only used for a couple of
months). Any idea of a good price to sell it for?
If there is interest, I will sumerize and post to the net.
Thanks in advance!
Gary Kremen
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 17 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 143
Today's Topics:
Anonymous FTP and SIT files
Appleshare security files
AutoOpening AppleShare Volume
BitMap (Screen) Font Names -> Downloadable Font Names
Boomerang problem
BootIcon
color SE/30 card
Fortran
Hypertext Tools for Mac
Inside Mac DA/MacMan
Is there a shortage of the 8-Bit Color Video Board?
Organizational Charts
resizing windows to see disk icons
Reviews of Milo(tm) and Endnote(tm)
THINK C 4.0 and classes
Usenet/INFO-MAC Gateway
VERS Resource query
X-Windows for Mac OS
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
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/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 02:00:34 CDT
From: "Bob B. Funchess" <S090726@umrvma.umr.edu>
Subject: Anonymous FTP and SIT files
I have been having a problem with files that I ftp'ed from another site.
The files are stored in StuffIt! format. The problem is that I do not have
direct internet access and so must use FTP on the IBM mainframes here, then
Kermit the files over to the Mac. This roundabout approach works fine for
files that have been BinHex'ed, but not for these SIT! files. Does anyone
know the proper procedure for downloading binary files (I tried telling FTP
the files were binary, but that only got them as far as the IBM system)?
If so, could you please explain it to a mere mortal?
TIA,
< Bob : S090726@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU : Funchess >
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 14:10:19 +0300
From: alon sharafi <VSALON%WEIZMANN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Appleshare security files
please help us in the following matter :
We need to backup 600 megabyte server disk on our mackintosh.
Our tape drive uses 60 Mbyte tapes, so a full backup takes 10 tapes.
We would prefer to perform daily incremental backups, and not full backups.
However we do not know how to backup the appleshare security file(s)
because we cannot locate it (them) on the disk.
For this reason we are forced into full disk backups (mirror image)
because only this way we can make sure that these security files are
included.
Please, if you know, write us how to solve our problem.
Many thanks,
Alon Sharafi
vsalon@weizmann
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 09:58 EDT
From: <JRCLARK%UTKVX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: AutoOpening AppleShare Volume
Is it possible (more importantly--is there an easy way) to force
an AppleShare volume to be automatically opened on startup. We're
interested in doing this for our student network.
Jim Clark
UT Martin
(By opening, I mean that the window for the server icon be opened so that
any applications at the root level are visible and (very) easily found)
[Moderator's Note: Quickkeys 1.2 & QuickTimer can probably do this. --Jon]
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 10:22:40 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: BitMap (Screen) Font Names -> Downloadable Font Names
>[is the PostScript font name] derived from the name of the font?
Yes. For example...
Screen Font Name Downloadable (PostScript) Name
---------------- ------------------------------
ModernPrintBold ModerPriBol
Cuneifont Cunei
ClassicaHeavy ClassHea
BillTheCat BillTheCat
HobbesTheTiger HobbeTheTig
Myincrediblefont Myinc
MyincredibleFont MyincFon
MyIncredibleFont MyIncFon
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 13:59:07 PDT
From: hayp04@csa4.lbl.gov
Subject: Boomerang problem
Lynman Green asked the problem "Disinfectant claims Boomerang has a
bad resource". I think that the resource fork of Boomerang is corrupted
by some reason. Try to open Boomerang in Control Panel. Boomerang will
not show up. Try a new copy, and run Disinfectant to check Boomerang.
If the problem still shows up, please let me know.
Hiro Yamamoto / (415)486-6407
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 20:51:18 PDT
From: USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: BootIcon
BootIcon, of course, is the INIT I mentioned last week that replaces the icon
of the startup disk with an unclothed female whose chest measurements vary
directly and in real time with the amount of free space on said disk. The
set of icons is easily editable with ResEdit for those whom have supervisors/
wives without a sense of humour.
The authors wish me to attach the caveat that although distribution is
unrestricted, BootIcon is *not* released into the public domain and thus
nobody is allowed to distribute it for profit. Specifically not by the
people who take out full page ads in MacWorld selling disks of public domain
software. There's a doc file stuffed in with it that says as much.
[Archived as /info-mac/init/booticon.hqx; 8K]
[Truly one of the more tasteless items in the archive... please address all
flames to the submitter. ;)]
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 11:26 EST
From: <DANNY%BCVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Lassaiz les bon temps rouler!)
Subject: color SE/30 card
In response to Alan Hewat's request for info on colo(u)r cards for the SE/30, I
direct you to today's issue of MacWeek:
a company called Micron has introduced a $595 card for the SE/30 with a
resolution of 640x480, for Apple's 13" color monitor. They also have a
1,024x768 card for larger screens for $995.
Good luck,
Dan Henderson,
Boston College
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Date: Wed, 09 Aug 89 22:10:45 EDT
From: Jean Brunet <R31631%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Fortran
Would anyone know of 'GMH - FORTRAN Toolbox Utilities'? Is it a good addition
to MacFortran? How can I reach by mail GMH Engineering. Thanks for any comment
related to this subject.
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Date: Wednesday, 9 Aug 1989 08:43:32 EST
From: m17526@mwvm.mitre.org (Cassandra Smith)
Subject: Hypertext Tools for Mac
Does anyone know of any hypertext systems for the Mac (probably networked)?
I know of Hypercard, Design, and Guide. I would appreciate names, addresses,
and telephone numbers of such vendors or sources of detailed information.
Thanks.
Cassandra Smith
*
* Cassandra
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 22:31 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Inside Mac DA/MacMan
In response to the person who was having trouble with MacMan:
I started out with the Inside Mac DA and loved it. Well, that is until I
started really heavily using it (I don't have Inside Mac itself) at which
point I realized that it didn't really tell me enough about the functions.
I looked around in the archives and sure enough found MacMan, but I was
unhappy with the interface of the DA (and the problems it had: apparently it
causes LightSpeed Pascal to crash.) So I compromised. Since the two DA's
are so similar, I simply use the Inside Mac DA with MacMan's manual document.
Simply download Inside Mac DA & MacMan, toss the Inside Mac manual and the
MacMan DA (or save them somewhere, like I do) and combine the packages.
Although they are not completely compatible, I find the loss of a couple of
entries (like 'LightSpeed Facilities', etc.) is quite worth the expanded
entries I get with the MacMan manual.
Bharat Mediratta
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 10:34:33 EDT
From: barnett@unclejack.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Subject: Is there a shortage of the 8-Bit Color Video Board?
In <Info-Mac Digest V7 #136> ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@star.stanford.edu writes:
>What gives?... A month and a half ago I ordered a MacIIcx direct from
>Apple's regional sales office here in Houston.
[still no 8 bit video card]
Yes. There is a new Video card that replaces the current product.
The new card is surface mount technology, and rumor says it will
better support (i.e. be faster when used with ) some future Apple product.
Perhaps this means Font Outlines/System 7.0, or a graphics accelerator?
I don't know.
I, too, am waiting for My IIcx. :-(
--
Bruce G. Barnett <barnett@crdgw1.ge.com> <barnett@crdgw1.UUCP>
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 10:17:26 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Organizational Charts
>I have a client who is interested in software for creating
>organizational charts. I don't think that it needs to be
>fancy. I know that I've seen/heard of such a package for
>the Mac, but I cannot remember what it is. If anyone has
>any suggestions, I appreciate it.
A program that is very good for drawing org charts is called
"DesignerDraw" and it is available in the Sumex archives.
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 07:18:44 PDT
From: TOLLIVER%ATF.MFENET@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: resizing windows to see disk icons
> 1) Using Multifinder, some applications take up too much of the desktop
> to be able to see the disk icons when switching back to the Finder.
> Usually I can use the size box or move the window to get at the icons.
> I have a problem with VersaTerm however; when I am transferring files,
> the window controls (dragging and resizing) are inoperative, so you
> can't open any new folders until the transfer is complete unless you
> want to abort the transfer. I have been trying to remember to resize
> the window before starting the transfer, but it would be nice to be
> able to access the files in case I forget! Is there any other way to
> do this?
Under Versaterm (PRO version anyway, don't know about just Versaterm), there
is a "MultiFinder AutoZoom" feature in the Extras... menu item. When checked,
switching to another MultiFinder partition or beginning a file transfer
automatically "zooms" the VT100 emulation window to its "other" size.
Typically, this "other" size will be small. Adjust it by clicking on the
zoom box and then adjust using the grow box. This is a really neat feature
of Versaterm-PRO that other applications should follow. It makes almost all
of your desktop available again when switched out of Versaterm. One problem,
the graphics window doesn't shrink. Just the VT100 window (maybe the DG200
window too, but who uses that?). You should check the "Hide Graphics" menu
item under the Emulation menu to keep the graphics window from showing all the
time.
Under System 7.0, all this may be unnecessary. There is supposed to be
a window Layer Manager that all applications will get for free (i.e., no
reprogramming necessary) that will support Hide and Hide Others items under
the Apple menu--now knowns as Set Aside and Set Aside Others in MultiFinder
6.1b7 (available with SADE). I don't know if there will be an "auto" hide
feature that will automatically hide an application's layer when switched
out--but it sure would be nice (are you listening Apple?).
Johnny Tolliver (tolliver%atf.mfenet@nmfecc.llnl.gov)
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 10:54:46 EDT
From: sal@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Cyberpunk in Training)
Subject: Reviews of Milo(tm) and Endnote(tm)
A while ago I posted for user feedback on milo and endote software.
Here are the two responses received.
Marcos Salganicoff
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Dept. of CIS
Endnote(tm):
I have found Endnote to be an excellent program - it's very flexible and does
just about everything I want for writing articles and my thesis. The people
at Niles have been very pleasent to deal with. The only problem I have had
with the program is that it can't deal with a reference inside a footnote in
Word (it just ignores them). They know about the problem and say it will
be fixed.
David Rudolph rudolph@m.cs.uiuc.edu
University of Illinois
Milo(tm):
The new version of Milo works much better than the old buggy version. Milo
is great for doing algebraic manipulations, but is not very good at doing
Mathematica-class problems. Milo is also good at graphing really obnoxious
formulas, something lame Caltech professors often like to make students do.
The best description is that of a math processor, one that knows the rules
for manipulating mathematics the way a word processor manipulates words, but
doesn't know any more math then the word processor knows english, coupled with
a smart replace feature designed for math (This can be used to do integrals,
since Milo only knows a few internally, and provides most of the rest as macros)
Another use of milo is as an equation generator, for making equations to put
in documents. This is not as effective, however, as Milo uses these really
ugly parentheses.
Pierce Wetter
Caltech
Disclaimer: I am mentioned in the Milo manual, so I have some non-monetary
relationship to the program.
-- End
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 09:17:22 EDT
From: Andrew Gilmartin <ANDREW%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: THINK C 4.0 and classes
Since getting THINK C 4.0 at MacWorld I have been learning the class
structure by implementing the new text edit toolbox routines as the class
CEditStyleText : CPanorama. (I chose CPanorama rather than CEditText
because conflicts arise otherwise. The protocol is however the union of
CStaticText and CEditText.)
One of the goals of object-oriented programming is sharing of code among
similar functionality. Extending this principle to the sharing of code
among programmers I will be submitting much of my work to the network.
Consequently I am very interested in finding out what other classes are
being worked on. If you are implementing a class and are willing to submit
it to the network (either as public domain or under similar terms to the
Free Software Foundation's licence) please send me email and I will
summarize. I hope that this small effort will help prevent undo
duplication.
To start the ball rolling...
Author: Andrew Gilmartin
Address: Computing & Information Services
Brown University
Box 1885
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
andrew@brownvm.brown.edu (internet)
andrew@brownvm (bitnet)
Class: CEditStyleText
Superclass: CPanorama
Description: Based upon the new TextEdit routines of Inside Macintosh V
CeditStyleText will allow the user to enter similarly
formatted paragraphs of styled text. Styled text is text with
varying font, size, face, and color information on a
character by character bases.
Struct:
struct CEditStyleText : CPanorama
,
/* Instance variables */
TEHandle macTE;
/* Methods */
void IEditStyleText( CView *anEnclosure, CBureaucrat
*aSupervisor,
short aWidth, short aHeight,
short aHEncl, short aVEncl,
SizingOption aHSizing, SizingOption aVSizing,
short aLineWidth );
void Dispose( void );
void DoCommand( long theCommand );
void UpdateMenus( void );
void DoClick( Point hitPt, short modifierKeys, long when );
void DoKeyDown( char theChar, Byte keyCode, EventRecord *macEvent );
void DoAutoKey( char theChar, Byte keyCode, EventRecord *macEvent );
void Activate( void );
void Deactivate( void );
void AboutToPrint( short * firstPage, short * lastPage );
void PrintPage( short pageNum, short pageWidth, short pageHeight );
void DonePrinting( void );
void Draw( Rect *area );
void Scroll( short hDelta, short vDelta, Boolean redraw );
void ScrollToSelection( void );
void SetFontNumber( short aFontNumber );
void SetFontName( Str255 aFontName );
void SetFontStyle( short aStyle );
void SetFontSize( short aSize );
void SetTextMode( short aMode );
void SetAlignment( short anAlignment );
void SetLineSpacing( long aSpacingCmd );
void AdjustBounds( void );
void ResizeFrame( Rect *delta );
void Dawdle( long *maxSleep );
void AdjustCursor( Point where, RgnHandle mouseRgn );
-; /* CEditStyleText */
Estimated completion date: September '89.
-- Andrew Gilmartin
Computing & Information Services
Brown University
Box 1885
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
andrew@brownvm.brown.edu (internet)
andrew@brownvm (bitnet)
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 07:23:56 CDT
From: shulman@sdrvx1.sinet.slb.com (Jeffrey Shulman)
Subject: Usenet/INFO-MAC Gateway
Hi, remember me? I use to do the Usenet/Delphi Mac Digests and then stopped
due to lack of time. I also noted that I found a replacement but it has never
materialized. I have since learned that the replacement lost total net
access and never bothered to contact me!!! So, if anyone else wants to do it
be my guest. I have some Mac software that will take messages from both Usenet
and Delphi and make them into a "digest". FYI, I have no more dealings with
Delphi thus can not say if you could get free access or not (though I suppose
it could be arranged) for doing the digests.
I should warn you that it took me *at least* one hour per day to collect
the digest messages (keeping a high signal to noise ratio) and then 4-5 hours
on the weekend to "digest" them and post them to the various places. Unless
you are willing to commit that amount of free time I suggest you don't
volunteer.
If you want to volunteer post a note on INFO-MAC saying who you are and that
you are doing it. If more than one person volunteers perhaps you can split
the work. DO NOT contact me since I am out of the loop. Once a person/group
is selected I will however give you/them my digesting software.
Jeff
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 10:50:11 EDT
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: VERS Resource query
Where can find a description of the format of the VERS resource, and/or a
template for RESEDIT in that format?
Please reply directly; I don't get this digest.
Williams@CBL.UMD.EDU
-Bill Williams
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Date: 15 Aug 89 10:45:00 EDT
From: "GNV::CRL" <crl%gnv.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu>
Subject: X-Windows for Mac OS
Does anyone out there know of a package (libraries, etc.) that would
allow us to develop X-windows software under the Mac OS (prefereably
under Think C or MPW 2.0.2)? Sources and prices would be greatly
appreciated. I will summarize responses (if plentiful) to the net.
Thanks much,
Craig Lee
Dept. of Statistics
University of Florida
Internet: crl@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
BITNET: crl@ifasgnv
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Subject: SQUEAL FOR ME! (Broken Mac II hints needed.)
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We have a pretty recent Mac II with a Radius display and a
40 Mb Jasmine disk drive.
Problem: it seems to have pretty bad hardware flakiness. We can't
get it repaired though until we either know what it is, or at
least it becomes steady-state broken and not just intermittent.
Symptoms: in the middle of *anything* (editing, Finder, compiling)
a squeal comes ripping out of the speaker. It's so raucous that at
first I thought it was the drive head plowing into the media surface,
but I'm quite certain it's coming from the speaker. Seems to happen
more often the warmer it is in the office.
Has anyone seen this problem before? What needs to be replaced? Could
it be purely a software problem? (The interrupt switch won't dump us
into MacsBug. The screen gets shifted up and to the right, or
variations of that.)
Any hints at all?
Thanks,
Daniel M. Rosenberg
Stanford Center for the Study of Language and Information
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 17 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 144
Today's Topics:
Anonymous FTP and SIT files
BootIcon
CoCoA - Commutative Algebra Mac System
Ethernet Boards -- SE
FireHydraulics.sit.hqx
Flex 2.1 for MPW, tool and documentation.
Help needed for partition of a hard disk.
HyperCard stack for references
Inexpensive SE Color Card
Integrating HyperCard and interactive video systems.
Inter*Poll running on an SE/30 or Mac IICX
John Sculley's Address
LockDisk: "hardware lock" your system volume
Multifinder and desktop room
Public Domain Midi Player for Casio
QA about QuickBasic on the Mac...
Replacement for your trash can.
Searching Archives - a solution.
SIMM pricing information
Spirals 1.0
Talking Moose CDEV
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 9:22:46 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Anonymous FTP and SIT files
>I have been having a problem with files that I ftp'ed from another site.
>The files are stored in StuffIt! format. The problem is that I do not have
>direct internet access and so must use FTP on the IBM mainframes here, then
>Kermit the files over to the Mac. This roundabout approach works fine for
>files that have been BinHex'ed, but not for these SIT! files. Does anyone
>know the proper procedure for downloading binary files (I tried telling FTP
>the files were binary, but that only got them as far as the IBM system)?
>If so, could you please explain it to a mere mortal?
>TIA,
>
> < Bob : S090726@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU : Funchess >
>
Bob,
When you use Kermit, make sure that it is in binary mode, as well. In
UN*X, that is 'kermit -is filename'. How to do it on the IBM, I don't know.
You've told FTP that the files are binaries, but you have to tell Kermit,
as well. That _could_ solve your problem.
tom c
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UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
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Date: 17 Aug 89 15:21:57 GMT
From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Subject: BootIcon
In article <8908170802.AA10647@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>,
USERQKMP@cc.sfu.ca writes:
> The set of icons is easily editable with ResEdit for those whom have
> supervisors/wives without a sense of humour.
I think this calls for an Equal Opportunity init... Shall we call it, say,
BeefIcon...?
--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
--
amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 14:18:31 ITA
From: COCOA%IGECUNIV.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: CoCoA - Commutative Algebra Mac System
I HAVE READ THE LIST OF MATHEMATICAL MAC SOFTWARE, AND I HAVE
A SMALL ADDITION TO MAKE.
WE HAVE VERY RECENTLY DEVELOPED A SMALL SPECIAL-PURPOSE SYSTEM
FOR COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA; IT IS CALLED
COCOA
AND HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR OFFERING GREAT EASE OF USE AND FLEXIBILITY
TO THE MATHEMATICIAN WITH LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE OF
COMPUTERS.
SO IT IS 'MACINTOSH STYLE' WITH WINDOWS, MENUS, DIALOGS ETC; IT
HANDLES POLYNOMIALS, IDEALS, MATRICES, MODULES AND PERFORMS
STANDARD OPERATIONS BETWEEN THEM AS WELL AS MORE COMPLES (LIKE
IDEAL INTERSECTION, GROBNER BASES, VARIABLES ELIMINATION,
SYZYGYES, HILBERT FUNCTION, POINCARE SERIES ETC.). IT IS FREE,
AND I HAVE TRIED TO POST IT TO INFO-MAC WITH NO SUCCESS
IN BINHEXED FORM. THOSE WHO WANT IT CAN SIMPLY SEND A BLANK
DISKETTE TO THE ADDRESS BELOW; IF ANYBODY HAVING IT IS ABLE DO
PUT IT INTO SOME PUBLIC-DOMAIN ARCHIVE, THE BETTER.
IF THOSE WHO USE IT LET US KNOW WHETHER THEY LIKE IT, WE WILL
BE HAPPY (THIS IS OUR ONLY FEE).
THE SYSTYEM RUNS ONY ANY MAC (ALSO 512K), IT IS MULTIFINDER
FRIENDLY AND COMES ON A 800K DISK WITH A WORD 3 USER'S MANUAL.
ALESSANDRO GIOVINI & GIANFRANCO NIESI
DEPT. OF MATHEMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF GENOVA,
V. L. B. ALBERTI 4, 16132, GENOVA, ITALY
COCOA@IGECUNIV.BITNET
ASTES@IGECUNIV.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 17:00:10 PLT
From: Joshua Yeidel <YEIDEL%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ethernet Boards -- SE
We are pursuing putting our Mac SE's on an Ethernet (primarily to use
telnet and ftp to the Internet). In the absence of any information
about speeds, compatibility, etc. for different boards, we simply
sent out a request for bids as follows:
Ethernet adaptor for Macintosh SE:
Required--
a. must use processor direct slot
b. must operate with apple ethertalk and ncsa telnet 2.1
c. must accept thin ethernet cable (on-board transceiver)
We got back responses from kinetics, 3Com, and Dove. Dove was far and away
the least expensive. The boards have just arrived today, so we'll see how
they do.
I would recommend to anyone that they check prices carefully with vendors
before buying.
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
Joshua Yeidel YEIDEL@WSUVM1.BITNET
ACADEMIC COMPUTING SERVICES YEIDEL@WSUVM1.WSU.EDU
Washington State University (509) 335-0441
Pullman, WA 99164-1232
DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking solely for myself here, not Washington State U.
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 20:41:05 PDT
From: wsjones@ucdavis.edu (Dr. Jones)
Subject: FireHydraulics.sit.hqx
Greetings,
This is a short, stuffed, binhexed archive of two hypercard
stax that teach fire service hydraulics. Please post as you see fit.
Thank you,
Dave Henderson
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/fire-hydraulics.hqx; 95K]
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 01:41:38 -0400
From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Subject: Flex 2.1 for MPW, tool and documentation.
This is flex 2.1, a beta release, ported to run under Macintosh
Programmer's Workshop. This package contains the tool and all the
documentation files that came with the sources. The Changes file,
included, says what's new, and also "flex will replace lex in
subsequent BSD releases." Hmm.
A file named MACINTOSH says what I did to make flex work on the
Macintosh. The tool is compiled with Aztec C 3.6c. Some work might
be necessary to make it compile under the MPW C compiler, if that's
what you want to do.
Note that flex is now covered by a modified version of the BSD
copyright, included, which you should read if you intend to distribute
it further.
Earle R. Horton
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/mpw-flex-21.hqx; 120K
/info-mac/source/c/mpw-flex-21.hqx; 220K]
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Date: 16 Aug 89 16:30:48 GMT
From: pang%phri@uunet.uu.net (Long Pang)
Subject: Help needed for partition of a hard disk.
Hello friends,
I have a Seagate 80 Mb, 28 ms hard disk. I want to make two partitions
on this HD, each of which can start up the computer with their own
System (they are different) seperately. In other words, before I turn
off computer, I can choose to start up computer with either partition
No. 1 or partition No. 2 next time.
If any body knows any software can do this on Seagate HD, please let me
know. Thank you for your help.
Long Pang.
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Date: Mon 7 Aug 89 08:52:08-PST
From: Craig Rasmussen <CER@star.stanford.edu>
Subject: HyperCard stack for references
I have created a HyperCard stack which may be useful for those doing
scholarly research. I have long been frustrated in trying to keep track
of the papers I have read, whats in them, and where I put them. This
stack allows you to keep track of three things: bibliographic information,
notes (an abstract maybe), and keywords of the subject matter. The stack
will output an ascii file for a reference section in any format (I think,
but maybe don't guarantee). For instance, it can automatically be
coerced to include TeX commands so that little or no post processing is
required.
The binhex files actually contain 4 stacks. Open the stack entitled
"Reference Frame" first, as this contains introductory information.
For additional information, there is a help mode which provides a
description of each button in the stacks.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/reference-frame.hqx; 190K]
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 16:56:42 edt
From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham)
Subject: Inexpensive SE Color Card
I noticed several complaints on the net lately about expensive SE color
cards (in the four digits range). Well, I just received the August 15
issue of MacWeek, and it mentions a $595 card, 480x640 "up to 256 colors."
The address of the manufacturer is:
Micron Technology
2805 E. Columbia Road
Boise, Idaho 83706
(208) 386-3800
According to the same MacWeek article, Micron will also be coming out with
a 19-inch SE color card for $995. The same products are available for the
Mac II at the same price.
Hisham.
Hisham A. Abboud
Computer Center/Academic Services
The Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C. 20064
Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA |
Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU |
or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2 |
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 15:27:31 +0200
From: Fine refine <fine@franz.er.sintef.no>
Subject: Integrating HyperCard and interactive video systems.
As a preinvestigation on the matter I would like to ask if anybody knows
something about integrating HyperCard (SuperCard or whatever) with interactive
video systems? The scenario would be something like having the interaction
panel to the videodisk in HyperCard, and displaying (overlaying) the video
disk picture on the same monitor as HyperCard uses. Any information will be
appreciated.
Arne Venstad
ELAB-RUNIT, Trondheim - Norway.
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 15:19:47 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Inter*Poll running on an SE/30 or Mac IICX
>I saw your second question in Info-Mac about Inter*Poll problems with 68030
>machines. I was wondering if you would pass along the advice you received
>following both of your questions to Info-Mac Digest. We are getting
>questions here at MIT from users running into the same problems and our Apple
>rep. hasn't been much help. Thanks in advance!
>
>Caia Grisar
>MIT Consulting Services
>
OK. This is what I received from Randy Carr, who wrote (helped write?)
Inter*Poll. Hope it helps...
tom c
=====Let's get that 12 month warranty going, Apple!!!=====
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 10:47:41 PDT
>From: Randy Carr <carr@apple.com>
Message-Id: <8907171747.AA28144@apple.com>
To: tcora@PICA.ARMY.MIL
Subject: Re: Inter*Poll (again!)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
In-Reply-To: <8907051438.aa29202@AC4.PICA.ARMY.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Cc:
In article <8907051438.aa29202@AC4.PICA.ARMY.MIL> you write:
>OK, so I got good help w/ my question about SE/30's not showing up properly
>on Inter*Poll. Now another question. I'm running Inter*Poll _from_ an SE/30.
>When I launch the app, I get a dialog box telling me:
>
>"No workstation name
>registered... Be sure
>to install Responder INIT
>in System Folder."
>
>I click OK, and life goes on. The problem is that I have Responder
>installed in the system folder. And when I do a device lookup, I most
>certainly do exist (and show up as an SE/30)! Any suggestions?
>
>tom c
tom, the reason that it does this is the same problem that it had w/ Responder
not naming the SE/30 correctly on the net. I had Inter*Poll find itself by
looking up itself on the net. If it doesn't find a name that has the same node
number as the workstation AND has the workstation type (i.e. Macintosh II) then
it puts up that stupid alert saying that Responder not installed. For now,
just ignore that message as it is entirely precautionary in nature. In the days
before system 6.0, I was really trying to get people to install Responder, so
I attempted to find every way to make sure that every node on the net had
Responder in it. This is the reason for the Unnamed search and that stupid
alert message.
If you were using Responder 1.0.1 & Inter*Poll 1.0.1 then you probably wouldn't
have seen this. On the otherhand, Mac SE/30's wouldn't have shown as SE/30's
anyway.
There is a newer version of Responder (1.1) that is faster, doesn't put up that
alert "Registering ..." at startup time, but won't fix that alert problem in
Inter*Poll. We'll do that later...
The real problem is that everytime that a 'new' machine comes out, Inter*Poll
needed to be revised to support the new machine's name (unknown until right
before release).
Good Luck!
Randy Carr Network Systems Development
Domain: carr@apple.com Apple Computer, Inc.
UUCP: {nsc,dual,sun,voder}!apple!carr 20525 Mariani Ave. M/S 27-O
AppleLink: CARR2 Cupertino, CA 95014
Opinions & Responses are my own and do NOT represent my employer...
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 14:12 EST
From: <ACS_RGB%JMUVAX1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: John Sculley's Address
Recently, Greeny announced that we should send complaints about the Mac
warranty to Scully@Applelink.apple.com. Is it significant that John Sculley
spells his name with an 'e'? Is his Applelink address different from his
last name? Is this a different person? If it is the same person, is his
Applelink address different from his last name as a clever ruse, or does he
really not know how to spell his name? Or is Greeny's information inaccurate?
Or is Applelink smart enough to send it to the right person even if we get the
address wrong? Is anyone else confused?
Bob Brookshire
Harrisonburg, Virginia
disclaimer: I ask a lot of questions for someone from Virginia.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 09:59:48 PDT
From: Brian Bechtel <blob@apple.com>
Subject: LockDisk: "hardware lock" your system volume
LockDisk is a cdev that changes your system disk (the one from which
you boot your Macintosh) to read-only status and back to read-write.
Your disk maintains this status even if rebooted. This can be handy in
many ways:
* CD-ROM discs are read-only. You can test such things as
Hypercard stacks to make sure that they run on
read-only media.
* You can't get a virus infection on a read-only disk.
* Kids can't (logically) destroy your hard disk. No promises on
physical efforts...
* Trade shows.
LockDisk cheats and goes behind the Finder's back. Use it with a
certain sense of caution. Poorly written programs get very upset if
they are run on a read-only disk. They can crash.
This ISN'T Apple-sponsored software; I wrote it on my own time. Don't
blame them for my bugs.
--Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com "My software, not Apple's"
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/lockdisk.hqx; 32K]
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 15:14:10 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Multifinder and desktop room
If anyone who has access cares, there's been an ongoing discussion in the
Internet news group comp.sys.mac. The keywords to search for are Multifinder
and System 7.0. There were all sorts of suggestions, including:
1) Use OnCue for application switching, launching, etc.
2) Use DiskTop for disk work
3) Use Tablecloth (which apparently brings the disk icons up with the
Finder; I haven't tried this one)
I'm not real sure what the problem with VersaTerm is, since I don't use it,
so I don't know if any of these will help.
I use OnCue, and I love it. I haven't been willing to shell out for DiskTop,
and I haven't even seen Tablecloth. The opinions are my own, and I'm not
affiliated with any of these people....
--Mike
P.S. Doesn't anyone think it's kind of sad that we have to put all these
@$#%@$#%@ disclaimers in everything?
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Date: 17 Aug 89 12:42:41 GMT
From: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Bob DeBula)
Subject: Public Domain Midi Player for Casio
I recently acquired a Casio MT-240 with Midi interface and an Altech
Interface for my Mac-II. I have been able to test input via one of the
PD programs that came with the interface, but not output. I would like
a PD player which outputs to the Midi device in some (fairly) common
format (i.e. I can find some existing PD songs to play on the Casio).
Is there such a beast? If there isn't could someone point me at a decent
commercial product? Thanks for your help.
-=-
==========================================================================
Bob DeBula | Internet: bobd@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu
The Ohio State University | Disclaimer: These are my views, not the U's
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 14:39:59 CDT
From: BWA6067@venus.tamu.edu
Subject: QA about QuickBasic on the Mac...
Description: I need a bit of MacHelp...
>From: BWA6067 Date: 9-AUG-1989 14:33:41
I need some MacExpertise...and quickly!
I have a program I'm writing in QuickBasic in which I need to solve a 288x288
system of equations. I'm running on a Mac SE with a Prodigy board (total RAM
is about 4Mb).
When I run the program, I get an "Out of memory" error. I only have one
inordinately large array, a single-precision array (4 bytes x 288 x 288 or
332 Kbytes).
By futzing with the RAM Cache on the Control Panel and the memory allocation for
the QuickBasic application (under Get Info), I eliminated the error when run-
ning in the QuickBasic environment. But it runs way too slowly there, and so
I need to compile it. Unfortunately, the error reappears when I run the com-
piled version. I MUST find a way to do this...do any of you TAMU MacGurus
know of a way to do this?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Tnerb the MacIgnoramus
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 09:45:38 edt
From: Rocky_Olive@dgc.mceo.dg.com
Subject: Replacement for your trash can.
CEO file contents:
Tired of your same old trash can? I was too! I tried an ibm pc icon
but I got tired of that, also. So I decided to create my own. It's the
NEW IMPROVED TrashBox! This is a ResEdit document with 2 ICN# resources that
you copy and paste into your Finder. The empty trash can is a cardboard
box (much like the one I keep near my Mac at home), and the full trash can
icon shows some files lying in the box. This is free, so if you're kind of
tired of YOUR trash can, help yourself!
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/trash-can-replacement-2.hqx; 3K]
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 11:32 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Searching Archives - a solution.
>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 08:02:52 CDT
>From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: GIF
>
>Hello,
>...
> Also, is there a way to search the archived Info-Mac Digests?
>Something like the LDBASE EXEC would be very nice.
> Thank you,
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>=--> CB Lih <--=
>Macintosh Support / Handicap Computer Support
>BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905
>US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas
> 155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
>
>[Moderator's Note:
>I just do "ls */*key*" under FTP.
>Of course this assumes I know part of the filename...
> --Jon]
OR
You could use the MacArchives Stack which is in the Archives. It is
automatically updated to include additions to the Archives as they are
announced in the Digest by the InfoMac Digest Stack, also in the Archives.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 15:31:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William M. Bumgarner" <wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: SIMM pricing information
These were taken from the back of MacWeek... Chip Merchant advertised at $129,
but has since dropped their price to $119.
The Chip Merchant
1 meg SIMMs, 100NS, low profile, 5 year guarantee: $99 (Video upgrade
for $69)
800-426-6375 or 619-268-4774
"Prices subject to drop without notice"
South Coast Electronics
1 meg SIMMS, 80ns low profile, lifetime Warranty, same day shipping: $109 (maybe)
800-289-8801 or 213 489 7824
FAX: 213-489-0266
Digi-Graphics
1 meg SIMMS, 100ns DIP, 1 yr gurantee: $119.
801-544-2009
Take your pick-- the second one sounds like the best deal to me. South
coast electronics is by far the most friendly company with a good deal--
it is worth the extra few $ to deal with them (ask about discounts).
b.bum
wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 10:54:01 -0800
From: duggie@jessica.stanford.edu
Subject: Spirals 1.0
Spirals 1.0 implements the cellular automatons described in the
Computer Recreations column of the August 1989 issue of Scientific
American. Spirals requires color quickdraw and 256 colors.
You can create up to 15 windows, each with its own matrix and colors.
The size of the matrix, the number of colors, and the colors
themselves can all be changed. Spirals will run in the background
under multifinder.
Best of all, Spirals is freeware. Enjoy.
Doug Felt
[Archived as /info-mac/app/spirals.hqx; 54K]
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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 89 12:00:09 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <tcora@pica.army.mil>
Subject: Talking Moose CDEV
The Talking Moose is now a CDEV. Downloaded from the Info-Center BBS,
(914) 565-6696. Shareware $20. Requires Macintalk (not included).
tom c
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UUCP: ...!{uunet,rutgers}!pica.army.mil!tcora
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/talking-moose.hqx; 88K]
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To: su-macintosh@sierra.stanford.edu
Subject: Something Screwing Up My Desktop File?
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.619462390.siegman@>
I use QUED/M and have a lot of documents saved from it. Lately I've
suddenly been finding that I can no longer open these documents, like
I've been doing for months, by double-clicking on them. When I
double-click on one of these documents I get a "Can't Open --
Application Busy or Missing" alert -- never had that problem before.
Opening QUED/M, then opening the documents from within it, works fine.
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Documents still show the correct QUED/M icon. Nothing new added
recently. Rebuilding the desktop on both my hard disks solves the
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on here?
[Setup is SE with internal Apple HD as startup disk, plus DataFrame
XP30 as second disk, System 6.0.2, no other unusual changes (except I
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it).]
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Subject: Macintalk
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How (and where) can I get Macintalk?
- Mike Peters
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Subject: SE fan from hell
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I have an SE with two internal drives and no hard disk.
Unfortunately, I bought mine when SE's had the VERY noisy
fan problem, and it's driving me bonkers. I want to get
the fan replaced with one that's more quiet without spending
much money. All waranty/service contracts are long expired.
Any ideas on where, how much, who can do it quickly?
Thanks in advance...
KT
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 18 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 145
Today's Topics:
Anonymous FTP and SIT files
Appleshare
Appleshare security files
Auto-Hiding Windows under MultiFinder
Composition Forums
Dove/PC 5.25 drive incompatiblity?
HardPack Query
HELP| Fastback 1.3
Hot Monitor
HyperText Tools for Mac
Info-Mac Digest V7 #144
John Sculley's Address
John ScullEy's Address...
John Sculley's email address
MacMakeIndex
Medical Dictionary for MS Word
Multifinder and the menubar
NetHack 2.3
Public Domain Midi Player for Casio
Reverse Video
Server Speeds?
Word 4 questions
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 12:37:49 +0200
From: Ingemar Ragnemalm <ingemar@isy.liu.se>
Subject: Anonymous FTP and SIT files
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>I have been having a problem with files that I ftp'ed from another site.
>The files are stored in StuffIt! format. The problem is that I do not have
>direct internet access and so must use FTP on the IBM mainframes here, then
>Kermit the files over to the Mac. This roundabout approach works fine for
>files that have been BinHex'ed, but not for these SIT! files. Does anyone
>know the proper procedure for downloading binary files (I tried telling FTP
>the files were binary, but that only got them as far as the IBM system)?
>If so, could you please explain it to a mere mortal?
>TIA,
> < Bob : S090726@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU : Funchess >
I've had the same problem, and here is my solution:
As you said, binhex'ed files are all right. Just take them over as text.
Some archives store the files in binary format, either as SIT!-files or
other formats. Download them in binary mode to your mainframe (we use
Suns). Then, download them to the Mac using a MacBinary compatible
program. I use kermit in binary mode on the Sun and MacKermit0.97 (which
happens to be a nice terminal emulator as well) in MacBinary mode on the Mac.
I hope this helps. It *should* help, really.
Ingemar Ragnemalm
--
Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
..
University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 13:49:59 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Appleshare
I just installed Appleshare. Did I do something wrong or is Appleshare intent
on calling InitWindows at INIT time? It's kind of disturbing to have my
StartupScreen vanish at startup. Any fixes or ideas?
Jon
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Date: 17 Aug 89 16:20:03 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Appleshare security files
alon sharafi <VSALON%WEIZMANN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> writes:
>We need to backup 600 megabyte server disk on our mackintosh.
>Our tape drive uses 60 Mbyte tapes, so a full backup takes 10 tapes.
>We would prefer to perform daily incremental backups, and not full backups.
>However we do not know how to backup the appleshare security file(s)
>because we cannot locate it (them) on the disk.
>For this reason we are forced into full disk backups (mirror image)
>because only this way we can make sure that these security files are
>included.
Talk to the Zulch brothers at Dantz Software Developement (sorry, no
number) about Retrospect, their new tape archiving product. I seem to
remember that it will do everything you want.
--scott
--
Scott Truesdell
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 12:13:48 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Auto-Hiding Windows under MultiFinder
This feature is provided with the "Application Selector" that is part of
the commercial program "MasterJuggler" from Alsoft. Once you have this
product, it's hard to live without it. It's well worth the price.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 10:53:14 PLT
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Composition Forums
Does anyone know of a forum in which teachers of English composition
and related fields can discuss the use of computer labs (specifically
Macintosh labs) for education? Anything available through BitNet,
Tymnet, or CompuServe would be great.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 11:52 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Dove/PC 5.25 drive incompatiblity?
Does anyone out there know whether a Dove MacSnap 2S (piggyback simm) upgrade
is NOT compatible with the Apple PC 5.25 drive/SE bus card? I'm having a hard
time believing that that is why Apple File Exchange crashes while opening
(ID10) when an MS-DOS diskette is in the drive. It doesn't crash if the PC
drive is empty, but it can't read good MS-DOS diskettes [is that a
contradiction in terms? :)] I've replaced the Software, and the system (6.0.2)
and removed ALL INITs. The SE Bus card has been replaced, and we've switched
drives. The machine also has a Kodak DataShow adapter installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks for you help.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 15:34:55 EDT
From: Matthew Quagliana <QUAG%BROWNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HardPack Query
Has anyone ever seen or used a hard drive for the Mac called
"The Hard Pack?" It is intended to be very portable: it weighs about
two pounds and draws its power from the Mac, thus eliminating the
power supply and fan.
Some people (phone techs at mail order houses) have told me that it
plugs into the floppy port, others have said that it plugs into the SCSI
port. If the former is true, then it is incompatible with MacIIs, which
are the power machines of choice where I am. If the latter (SCSI port) is
true, then how does it draw power? (Isn't the SCSI a pure data bus?)
The HardPack is made by Aristotle, a Canadian company. My intial call
only got me as far as a "tech-less" secretary, who took my name and number.
At this point unbiased testimony would be very useful. MacWorld included
the HardPack in their recent hard drive survey, but they did nothing more
than reprint the manufacturer's specs.
Are there any happy/unhappy HardPack users in our ranks?
Matthew Quagliana
BITNET: quag@brownvm
INTERNET: quag@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 13:23:41 GMT
From: "J.M.L.Martin" <LUCTHSCH%BDILUC11.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HELP| Fastback 1.3
Dear fellow-MacIsts,
I own a Rodime 60 Plus SCSI hard disk, which came with a licensed copy of
FastBack (a wonderful backup program by Fifth Generation Systems,Inc). It
worked fine on my Plus: however, when I recently switched to an SE/30, it
won't work anymore. I narrowed the problem down to the new FDHD drives: per-
haps Fastback is operating the drive at a very low level to achieve its ama-
zing speed. Now my question is:
a) has anyone observed the same problem?
b) is there a more recent version than 1.3 that DOES work with the FDHD?
c) if so, can registered users upgrade to it?
You may answer either to Info-Mac or to me directly LUCTHSCH#BDILUC11.BITNET
Jan M.L.Martin, Quantum Chemistry, Department SBM
Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Universitaire Campus,
B-3610 Diepenbeek, Belgium
P.S.: concerning the Apple 90 days warranty: Apple Belgium DOES give a full
year. On the other hand, Apple equipment is considerably more expensive
over here than in the US, and at least the dealers I've met don't know
their ↑CENSORED! from a hole in the ground, hardware or software.
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 10:55:08 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: Hot Monitor
Greetings all,
I have a Macintosh IIcx at home with the Apple High Res color monitor. The
monitor seems to get EXTREMELY hot on top (like you wouldn't want to lay
your hand on it hot). Is this normal? My Macintosh II at work does not
have this problem, though our lab air conditioning is usually set to
"arctic". My house is air-conditioned and the equipment is not in any
direct (or indirect for that matter) sunlight. The equipment is on quite
a lot (probably a good 6 hours a day, and much of that is uninterrupted use).
I don't have anything stacked up there (it might ignite!) and the airflow is
generally unrestricted (there is a bookshelf that is part of the desk about
8 inches or so above the monitor).
Any thoughts? Should I just pick up a small fan and mount it up there or
something similar? Thanks for any suggestions.
* BRUCE A. CARTER OFFICE: (208) 385-1250 *
** COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 **
*** BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1910 UNIVERSITY DRIVE, BOISE, ID 83725 ***
** BITNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU INTERNET: DUSCARTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU **
* APPLELINK: U0919 CIS: 76666,511 PLATO: CARTER/IDAHO/PCA *
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 13:20:19 MDT
From: "Bruce A. Carter" <DUSCARTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Subject: HyperText Tools for Mac
In addition to those mentioned, other HyperText tools include SuperCard
(sort of) from Silicon Beach and IRIS Intermedia from Brown University which
is available through APDA.
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** COURSEWARE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR MESSAGE: (208) 385-1433 **
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 07:59:06 CDT
From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #144
>
>>Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 08:02:52 CDT
>>From: CB Lih <CL06076%UAFSYSB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>>Subject: GIF
>>
>>Hello,
>>...
>> Also, is there a way to search the archived Info-Mac Digests?
>>Something like the LDBASE EXEC would be very nice.
>> Thank you,
>>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>>=--> CB Lih <--=
>>
>>[Moderator's Note:
>>I just do "ls */*key*" under FTP.
>>Of course this assumes I know part of the filename...
>> --Jon]
>
>OR
>You could use the MacArchives Stack which is in the Archives. It is
>automatically updated to include additions to the Archives as they are
>announced in the Digest by the InfoMac Digest Stack, also in the Archives.
>Peter Jorgensen
Although I appreciate, and will use, that information, what I was
really trying to ask was if there was a way to search the *digests* for
a particular subject. Like 'network' or 'printers'. I use LDBASE with
the L-HCAP list digests and get a nice list of which digests mention
the topic I'm interested in.
I've still had no answer to the other part of my question, i.e. how can
I look at GIF files on my SE using system 6.0.3, with or without Multifinder?
Thanks,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
=--> CB Lih <--=
Macintosh Support / Handicap Computer Support
BITNET: CL06076@UAFSYSB AppleLink: U0669 Phone: 501-575-2905
US Mail: ADSB 220, University of Arkansas
155 Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Acknowledge-To: <CL06076@UAFSYSB>
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 16:31:13 PDT
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuq@apple.com>
Subject: John Sculley's Address
>Recently, Greeny announced that we should send complaints about the Mac
>warranty to Scully@Applelink.apple.com.
It was a typo. According to the directory, his applelink is "sculley"
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 23:25 CDT
From: GREENY <MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: John ScullEy's Address...
> send to scully@...
I am indeed sorry for any errors in my typing. I was quite tired that night
and as I regularly type quite fast (> 90 wpm) I do tend to drop out a character
or transpose some on occasion. The fact that I left out the "e" in Mr.
Sculley's name was purely unintentional.
Sorry for any inconvenience...
Bye for now but not for long
Greeny
BITNET: MISS026@ECNCDC
Internet: MISS026%ECNCDC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
GEnie: Greeny
MacNet: Greeny
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Date: 17 Aug 89 18:11:00 EST
From: "Jeffrey Templon" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: John Sculley's email address
The previously posted address for John Sculley does not appear to be
correct. Is it possible that the address should have username
"sculley" instead of "scully"? I am almost sure that is how the name
is spelled.
Jeff
===============================bounce from applelink=================
>From: COMMENTS@applelink.apple.com
To: templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu
Subject: Address-Error
Your message was not delivered--message sent to name not known to system
Message addressed to: [DCGQAL]scully
Subject of message: Macintosh 90 Day Warranty
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 10:22:20 PDT
From: TOLLIVER%ATF.MFENET@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: MacMakeIndex
With the recent availability of the FreeWare OzTeX package, I thought
I would dust this off and post it. This is Version 1.1b1 of MacMakeIndex,
the TeX indexing program for the Mac. If you use TeX, then maybe you
already know about MakeIndex for other machines. This version runs on
the Mac. Actually, this is the "portable" version 2.5 of MakeIndex wrapped
in the most rudimentary Macintosh shell. The enclosed Stuffit file
contains the application and a very tiny bit of documentation.
This is free but not in the public domain. See the accompanying
ReadMe.MacMakeIndex file for the copyright and distribution notice.
Enjoy...
Johnny Tolliver (Tolliver%atf.mfenet@nmfecc.llnl.gov)
[Archived as /info-mac/app/tex-macmakeindex.hqx; 87K]
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 14:48:32 EDT
From: Jeff_Kaloustian@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Medical Dictionary for MS Word
I'm looking for a Medical dictionary for use with Microsoft Word. It
doesn't have to work specifically with Word's spelling feature, but that
would be nice. If anyone knows of anything like this please respond
directly to me. Thanks in advance.
/////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
/ Jeff Kaloustian \
/ The University of Michigan \
/ Department of Anesthesiology \
\ /
\ Internet: Kaloustian@um.cc.umich.edu /
\ Bitnet: USERW0RT@UMICHUM /
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 19:34 EDT
From: Doug Hardie <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Multifinder and the menubar
I am trying to get a program working using Absoft Fortran. However, I
am unable to figure out how to make the miniture icon in the menubar
switch programs. I can switch just fine using the apple menu. However,
anytime I click the mouse on the icon, all I get from MenuSelect is
zeros for the menu and item numbers. As best as I can tell, I am using
the same sequence of toolbox calls as other programs that do switch
properly. Is there something sepcial that must be setup with the
menubar to enable this switching?
-- Doug
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 14:20:38 MDT
From: L.Sitze@Kevin
Subject: NetHack 2.3
Several people have been waiting for me (or someone) to send these
archives to Sumex. So here they are. The graphics in this game are a
little slow, but playing on a Mac II is somewhat better.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/nethack-23-part1.hqx; 182K
/info-mac/game/nethack-23-part2.hqx; 177K]
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Date: 17 Aug 89 23:32:55 GMT
From: chuq@apple.com (Chuq Von Rospach)
Subject: Public Domain Midi Player for Casio
>I recently acquired a Casio MT-240 with Midi interface and an Altech
>Interface for my Mac-II.
>I would like
>a PD player which outputs to the Midi device in some (fairly) common
>format
I don't know public domain, but Deluxe Music Construction Set works find
with my Casio and there are a lot of songs (especially on CompuServe) for
the program. The latest release is 2.5, which I don't have yet.
Chuq Von Rospach =|= Editor,OtherRealms =|= Member SFWA/ASFA
chuq@apple.com =|= CI$: 73317,635 =|= AppleLink: CHUQ
[This is myself speaking. No company can control my thoughts.]
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 14:25:43 CDT
From: shulman@sdrvx1.sinet.slb.com (Jeffrey Shulman)
Subject: Reverse Video
I'm looking for a version of the Reverse Video INIT that works on a IIcx.
The one I found doesn't. If you have one that you *know* works (i.e. have
actually used it on a IIcx) please send it to me. In case it matters the
IIcx has Apple's Portrait Display. Thanks.
Jeff
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 14:42 EST
From: <ELBERT%MIDD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Server Speeds?
We are installing another Apple Share/LocalTalk network here
at Middlebury and I am curious about SCSI disk access times.
The GCC UltraDrive 100s hard drives are reported to have average
seek times of 19 ms (GCC glossy pamphlet). Does anyone know
a comparable number for the Apple OEM-ed internal 80 Mbyte
drives in the SE/30?? Would we get substantially better
performance from the third-party drives??
A related question concerns evaluation of access time data...
For a localtalk server with 1-12 users how can I calculate
effective access rates for those users...in other words
how can I quantitatively (or semi-quant.) investigate the
impact of speeding up one part of the link between data and
the user??
Please send any replies directly to me (BITNET) and I'll
summarize anything of general interest to the net.
Thanks-
David Elbert
Department of Geology
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388 3711 x5652
Elbert@Midd.BITNET
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Date: Thu Aug 17 07:46:38 1989
From: microsoft!dickb@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Word 4 questions
********
1. How can I use Tab stops within the cells? I know that pressing Tab will
move the insertion point one cell to the right. I also know that when ever
I place a Decimal Tab in the cell Word automatically tabs to that position
so that my numbers will line up on the decimal. But there are times when
I use text within tables and want to side-by-side lists with bullets or
numbers. One work-around is to place a space or two where the tab should
be and then use the Search and Replace utility. It works, but it gets
very tedious.
2. Next, once a Table has been created, say with 10 rows, how can I insert a
carrige return between rows 6 and 7? Another way of saying this is how
can I break a table into 2 distinct parts? There have been times when Word
places a page break in the middle of my table and I want to break it so
?
that I can place a bit of text (ie. Cont'd) above the second part.
**********
To use Tab stops within cells of a Word table, press Option-Tab.
(See Page 376 of the Reference manual.)
To insert a normal paragraph mark (carriage return) between rows
6 and 7:
Position the insertion point in row 7.
Press Command-Option-Spacebar.
A paragraph mark is inserted before row 7.
(Be sure you have Full Menus on for both procedures.)
(See Page 372 of the Reference manual.)
Dick Brown
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I have a pristine, copy of Mathematica 1.1
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available.
List Price $495. I'll accept the best offer over $250.
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Has access to sumex info-mac been changed (again)? I used to be able
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From: trewitt@cascade.Stanford.EDU (Glenn Trewitt)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Busted 800K internal floppy -- Mac II
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Reply-To: trewitt@amadeus.Stanford.EDU (Glenn Trewitt)
To: su-macintosh@shelby.stanford.edu
Woe is me! The 800K internal floppy drive on my Mac II just died. The cause
of death is quite obvious -- the upper head came loose and was ripped the rest
of the way off by the next floppy I inserted. I am a Stanford student, so I
can get educational consortium prices for either repairs or replacements. The
two options that I have right now are:
1) Pay $159 and get an Official Apple-Sanctioned replacement. For
an additional $25 (for installation) I would get an Official Apple
90-day warrantee.
2) Pay $415 and get a ROM upgrade and FDHD (1.44 Mbyte) drive, and a
90-day warrantee.
3) Do both of the above and have two not-completely-compatable drives.
This seems like a questionable idea, since some of my disks would
then be readable only on one drive. Also not much need, since I
have a hard disk.
Now for the questions:
0) I presume that Apple is the only source for the FDHD upgrade.
(I can't imagine otherwise.)
1) Is it worth it to upgrade to the FDHD? I understand the benefits of
the increased capacity, but am concerned about compatability.
Specifically, high-density drives write much narrower tracks. On
IBM 5-1/4" drives, this can cause marginal reading performance by
older normal-density drives because they expect wider tracks and
aren't quite sensitive enough to read the narrower high-density
tracks reliably.
1.5) If I get the FDHD, does Apple provide any *software* to read/write
IBM-format diskettes? This could be a big plus. Or do I have to
buy translators from DataViz?
2) Are there third-party 800K drives that will mount inside a Mac II?
If so, who sells them?
3) Can Apple external 800K drives be un-shelled and mounted internally?
I might be able to get one of these sort-of cheaply.
4) Is there anyone that actually repairs these things? The head has
plug-in connections, so it would just be a matter of replacement
and re-aliginment (right?). (SF Bay-area only, please.)
5) Have I left out any options?
I've borrowed a drive from a friend (may you be blessed forever, John!),
so I am not in a severe rush -- I can take my time.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
- Glenn Trewitt
--
Glenn Trewitt, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University
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From: siegman@sierra.stanford.edu (Anthony E. Siegman)
To: su-macintosh@sierra.stanford.edu
Subject: Desktop Foulup Results from Doc with BNDL Bit Set
Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.619737398.siegman@>
I recently reported a problem in which doubling-clicking on various
documents created by the text-editing program QUED/M produced an Alert
box saying "Application is damaged or missing", although the QUED/M
application worked just fine if I started it up separately and then
opened the same documents. Rebuilding the Desktop file seemd to
provide a temporary cure, but it then came back in a day or so.
The documents in question, if looked at with Get Info or DiskTools II,
always had the correct Creator (QED1) and Type (TEXT) for QUED/M
documents. If looked at "By Name" from the Finder, however, in the
"Kind" column, instead of saying "QUED/M Document" as it should have,
it said said "Laser Book Contents", which happened to be the name of
another QUED/M document in the same folder as the troublesome
documents.
The problem seems to have been that the Bundle bit on this particular
document had somehow gotten checked. Unchecking that box (using
DiskTools II) seems to have completely eliminated the problem. Now if
I could just discover how that Bundle bit happened to get set...
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 21 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 146
Today's Topics:
081189 Word4.0 bugs.sit.hqx
BBS programs
Boomerang 2.0B7 anomaly
GlueViewer 1.05.sit.hqx
Griffeath's Cyclic Automata (similar to color life)
Hanging a serial printer off a IIx w/MacIRMA
Help needed for partition of a hard disk.
ICON Grabber XCMD
Macintosh analog and logic board modification questions
MACINTOSH EMULATION
NCSA Telnet 2.1e (and others)
Response to:
Script Manager Stack
Telecommunications software running in the bakground
Temperament 2
THINK C 4.0, first impressions
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 00:55:48 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: 081189 Word4.0 bugs.sit.hqx
A list of bugs for Microsoft Word version 4.0 as compiled by
David Sachs. Two copies are contained in the stuffed and binhexed
file attached. One requires Microsoft Word 4.0 the other requires
a version of the Glue or SuperGlue Viewer Application and/or DA.
[Archived as /info-mac/report/msword-40-bugs.hqx; 64K]
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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 16:30 EDT
From: <SZAWASKY%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: BBS programs
Hello,
I was hoping I could find some decent BBS programs. I have Hyper BBS, a
nd I am interested in getting a more powerful, and faster program so that I can
have my own decent BBS.
Thank you in advance,
B. Spencer Zawasky
Spencer the Not
Bitnet%"SZawasky@WheatnMA"
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 09:50:05 EDT
From: Peter Furmonavicius <PETER%YALEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Boomerang 2.0B7 anomaly
Hello. I recently installed Boomerang 2.0B7. However when I use a program
such as UnStuffit where a file name is supplied (as happens when one is
de-hexing a file), only the first three characters of the file appear in the
dialog box window. When I de-install Boomerang and run the whole thing again,
the entire file name shows up. I'm running System 6.0.3 on a Macintosh IIcx.
Any ideas?
Peter
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 00:43:02 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: GlueViewer 1.05.sit.hqx
A version of the Glue Viewer program version 1.05. Distributed by
Solutions International. It will read and print Glue Format Files.
Glue Format Files contain Disk Images of Files printed to disk in
Imagewriter format.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/glue-viewer-105.hqx; 52K]
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 04:46:33 PDT
From: oster%SOE.Berkeley.EDU@jade.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Subject: Griffeath's Cyclic Automata (similar to color life)
### Introduction. ###
Here is a nifty implementation of the cyclic cellular
automaton described in the August 1989 Scientic American.
The purpose of this program is to make pretty color pictures.
### About Griffeath's Cyclic Space ###
Like Conway's familiar game of Life, Griffeath is a two
dimensional space in which objects are born, eat, grow,
and are eaten.
Unlike Life, Griffeath's space uses lots of pretty colors,
so this program requires color quickdraw. It should even be
interesting on an SE/30, but to get the full benefit of the
program you should have a monitor with at least 16 colors.
Griffeath spaces go through at least three distinct states:
o debris: a random pepper & salt appearance
o droplets: small lozenge shaped areas of solid colors that
grow and consume each other.
o The droplets may grow until they consume the whole window,
or spirals may appear. The stage of baby spirals is called
the "defect" stage. Since spirals are born at random, sometimes
they never happen.
o demons: color spirals take over the whole window.
Colors grow by looking at their left, right, up, & down
neighbors. If the color number there is one less than
theirs, they eat their neighbor:
time t: time t+1
+-+ +-+
|6| |7|
+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+
|5|7|3| => |5|7|3|
+-+=+-+ +-+=+-+
|6| |7|
+-+ +-+
### About Griffeath ###
This program is Copyright (c) 1989 by David Phillip Oster.
You may make as many copies as you want, and you may give
copies away, but you may not remove my copyright message,
nor modify the help text. You do not need to pay me anything.
o You can edit the color palette by clicking on the colors at
the right of the window.
o If you completely mess up the colors, choose "restore
factory colors" from the Edit menu, and my original colors
will be used for the next window you make.
o Wrap Edges connects the top edge to the bottom edge, and
the left edge to the right edge. You can turn it on and off
at any time.
o You can set the number of states from the state menu.
Changing the number of states causes the window to
re-initialize.
o Changing the size of a window causes the window to
re-initialize.
I appreciate all communication.If you wish to send me kudos,
complaints, comments, or coinage, you can reach me at:
David Phillip Oster
Mosaic Codes
Suite 2036
2140 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
on M.C.I, I am "DOSTER".
on Macnet, I am "oster"
on internet, I have a temporary account as:
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu
on uucp, I have a permanent account as:
{sun,ucbvax}!well!oster
### For More Information ###
David Griffeath is at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
His book is:
"Cyclic Cellular Automata in Two Dimensions."
Robert Fisch, Janko Gravner and David Griffeath
Ted. E. Harris Festschrift. Birkhauser, in press.
The best source at the moment is:
Computer Recreations
Scientific American, August 1989
p. 102-105
"A Cellular Universe of Debris, Droplets, Defects and Demons"
by A. K. Dewdney
--- David Phillip Oster 7 line signature follows
Keith Sproul, head of microcomputer support at Union Carbide, NJ, complained
about the poorly digitized fellatio on an IBM porno program. "Mac is better
on everything, and this is no execption." -- "Computer Porn at the Office"
by Reese Erlich, _This_World_, S.F. Chronicle, p.8, Aug 13, 1989
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu
Uucp: {uwvax,decvax}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/app/griffeath-cyclic-automata.hqx; 34K]
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Date: 18 Aug 89 10:29 EST
From: WMLBTAM%UCCCVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Hanging a serial printer off a IIx w/MacIRMA
Date: 18 August 1989, 10:19:04 EST
>From: WMLBTAM at UCCCVM1
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subj: Hanging a serial printer off a IIx w/MacIRMA
We're installing Mac IIs, IIxes, and IIcxes into the hospital where they will
be used (among other things) to communicate like dumb 3270-type terminals to
an IBM plug-compatible mainframe. We're using MacIRMA for this (MacMainFrame
>From Avatar was also tested and works just fine; we've just got lots of pc
IRMA stuff around already) and it works fine; the light pen emulation is good,
folks appreciate the Macs having the full color options which most folks don't
have now with their monochrome tubes, etc.
Now they're throwing a new wrinkle into the mix. The Telex terminals they're
buying for the rest of the hospital all have a serial and parallel port on
them (like lobotomized pc's, I guess) and they've bought little "point-of-
sale" printers to hang off the Telexes to use for printing stuff off the screen
onto patient forms (instead of using the credit-card-sized embossed card that
patients have to carry now).
These printers can be set for parallel or serial (dual interfaces on the back),
but how do I get a screen-dump from MacIRMA out [of the modem or printer port]
of the Mac to this device? I tried using the same cable I talk RS232 with
usually, set the chooser for the Imagewriter driver in draft mode, and set it
for the port where the DIN-to-DB-25 cable was set up, but no dice. Is this
the right tack? Do I need a null modem (I didn't think of that till just
now...)? Do I need some kind of serial printer driver to go along with the
ones I already have (for the LaserWriter and ImageWriter)?
Thanks for any thoughts--it'll be a real political issue if we can't interface
these, and a real coup if we can!
******************************************************************************
Theodore A. Morris, Univ. of Cincinnati|513-558-6046 AppleLink: U1091
Med Ctr Information & Communications |Bitnet: WMLBTAM @ UCCCVM1 NTS: WB8VNV
231 Bethesda Avenue, Mail Location #574|======================================
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0574 |"Call me up and I'll talk data to ya'"
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 15:56:01 +0200
From: dolf@fwi.uva.nl
Subject: Help needed for partition of a hard disk.
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
> Hello friends,
>I have a Seagate 80 Mb, 28 ms hard disk. I want to make two partitions
>on this HD, each of which can start up the computer with their own
>System (they are different) seperately. In other words, before I turn
>off computer, I can choose to start up computer with either partition
>No. 1 or partition No. 2 next time.
>If any body knows any software can do this on Seagate HD, please let me
>know. Thank you for your help.
I know of some software that can do this. In fact me and a friend wrote it.
It is a complete SCSI package including drivers formatter/manager/installer
and a cdev and da. It can do what you want and more.
But now for the bad news: We are currently working on putting this software
into sellable form (writing docs etc). This means the product won't be
available before the end of the year. Sorry about that.
--dolf
--
Dolf Starreveld Phone: +31 20 592 5056/+31 20 592 5022, TELEX: 10262 HEF NL
EMAIL: dolf@fwi.uva.nl (dolf%fwi.uva.nl@hp4nl.nluug.nl)
SNAIL: Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 89 20:48 EDT
From: <BMEDIRAT%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ICON Grabber XCMD
This is a hypercard stack containing an XCMD I wrote that
will allow you to capture any 32x32 bit of graphics in the hypercard
window and save it as an ICON resource in any stack you choose. It
comes with a script that goes in your home stack, and is easily
installable (just click the right button.)
I have included the source codes for the XCMD, along with
some extras that I use whenever I write an XCMD/XFCN. They can be
easily cut & pasted out of Hypercard. I do this in the hopes that
it will inspire more people to post their source codes. This program
is entirely free.
Please e-mail any comments/flames to me at:
BMEDIRATTA@COLGATEU (BITNET)
Enjoy,
Bharat Mediratta
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/icon-grabber.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 14:20 CDT
From: <MWW%TNTECH.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Michael W. Wheeler)
Subject: Macintosh analog and logic board modification questions
I have a couple of questions about the Macintosh analog board and
also a couple of questions about the logic board for any familiar
with the Macintosh's insides.
I have a 512K Mac upgraded from 128K via a board swap that I did myself.
It's power supply runs very hot and I'm wanting to add a fan to it. I have
a low voltage fan that will should do the trick but I don't know where to
jumper it to the analog board for power. Does anyone know?
Another question is what part is it on the original Macs power supply
that was known to most likely be the problem. I'd like to get the part(s)
and replace them myself. I'm confident that I can replace it myself but
if I blow it I'll just by a new analog board since it really needs one
anyway.
I've had this Mac since 1984 and the original battery and power supply
are still in the machine. I'd say that's pretty rare. The power supply
has ran extrememly hot for about the last 4 years. I've had the disk
drives worked on a couple of times and the dealer has found the power
supply out of adjustment both times. The low voltages were out of
range by quite a bit.
And while I'm at it what would I need to do to upgrade my Mac to 1 or 2 meg
myself? Can I just replace the 256Kbit chips with 1 Megabit chips?
Would I also need to remove or install any jumpers on the logic board.
I know the logic board is a 4 layer board and takes skill as well as
the proper equipment to modify, however, I do have a friend here who
has the equipment and is more experienced than I am at doing things
like that.
If I buy some 128K ROMs to replace my 64K ROMs will the mac still function
properly with the internal single-sided disk drive or must I replace it
at the same time? (Any body have a pair of 128K ROMs or an internal 800K
drive they'd be willing to sell? :-)
If you can answer any or all of these questions I would greatly
appreciate it.
Michael W. Wheeler (Bitnet: mww@tntech)
Systems Programmer
Tennessee Technological University
Box 5071
Cookeville, TN 38505
(615) 372-3977
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Date: 18 AUG 89 13:00:54 CST
From: Z4648252 <Z4648252%SFAUSTIN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MACINTOSH EMULATION
Stephen Page writes:
>A friend of mine asked me a question, to which left me perplexed. If you
>switch the EPROMS in the Atari Amiga to those used in the Macintosh, will it
>be compatible with a Macintosh? Any good solid information on such a hack?
>Thanks!
NOPE. The Amiga is made by Commodore, not Atari. Both Commodore and
to a far greater extent, the Atari can emulate the Mac with varying degrees
of success. The Atari ST, using an emulation cartridge populated with
128k Mac ROMs, is for all practical purposes during emulation mode, a
Mac. Indeed, the Atari ST is 'rated' as a Mac Plus but at a ten percent
increase in speed. SuperClock gains several minutes per hour, for example.
The ATari ST is also available in a laptop, albeit a bit wide (15 "),
hence, a portable Mac. Plugging the Mac emuation cartridge into the ST's
cartridge port is painless and will give the user an extension of his
current computer. Compatibility is great. HyperCard works, Excel, FullWrite,
etc., all work. Some copy protected games don't work, but then the ST has
better games than a Mac due the nature of the machine.
The Amiga has a similar cartridge called A-Max and gives similar
emulation. However, unlike the ST, the Amiga's Mac emulator will NOT
support a hard drive and dragging devices to the trashcan to deactivate
them does not work. One has to do this via the pull down eject command.
On the ST, the user can eject devices, disks, etc., as you would on a
real Mac.
There are three Mac emulators available for the ST: Spectre GCR,
Aladin, and a version from Kumax (??). A-Max is only available for the
Amiga.
Spectre GCR reads Mac disks directly like a real Mac whereas the
other emulators cannot. The A-Max for the Amiga can read the Mac disks
but does so very slowly and is actually happier 'transverting' the Mac
disks to its own format.
So, for Atari STs and Commodore Amigas to emulate the Mac, the user
has to purchase a Mac emulator (ranging from $150-$300) and Mac 128K roms.
The Atari ST offers the advantage of having a portable unit and being
able to read Mac disks directly at the same speed of a real Mac. The ST
also emulates the Mac at a slightly faster speed than a Mac Plus.
Uh, for what it is worth, Atari and Commodore also offer ONLY a 90
day warranty. GRIN
Larry Rymal in East Texas <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 09:23:48 -0500
From: Kurt Hirchert <hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.1e (and others)
Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu> writes:
>Tom Eskridge <eskridge@austin.lockheed.com> writes:
>>Where can I ftp version 2.1e ?
>>(the 'e' being the operative character)
>The current version is 2.2 and then there's version 2.3 which supports
>MacTCP. What is it with this 2.1e version? Anything special?
In versions 2.1 and earlier, there were two different versions of the NCSA
TCP/IP kernel - one for Appletalk, the other for Ethernet. Thus, version
2.1e was version 2.1 combined with the Ethernet driver. In version 2.2, the
kernels were combined under the control of a switch read from the config.tel
file, so the same binary could be used for either purpose. In version 2.3,
there are once again two versions - one using the combined NCSA TCP/IP kernels,
the other using MacTCP. The advantage of the former is that it does not
require buying MacTCP. The advantage of the latter is that other programs
using MacTCP can be run simultaneously (e.g. the Hypercard nntp news reader).
Either version of 2.3 can be obtained from ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu (also known as
zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu or 128.174.20.50). I know of no current source for
either of the 2.1 versions. I would strongly urge all users of NCSA Telnet
to upgrade to 2.3 (which is now the current version).
Kurt W. Hirchert hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:51 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Mon, 7 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 138
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1989 16:49:12 EDT
>From: FAC0395%UOFT01.BITNET@jade.berkeley.edu (J. Feustle)
>Subject: Large text files and HyperCard
>Does anyone know of a utility that will read text from a file until
>it fills the card's text field (spaces included), then creates
>another card, and so on until all text is imported? Here's hoping
>for a better way.
I suspect such a solution will not work since, as I remember it, fields
in Hypercard are limited to 32k of text. Therefore, unless your text
files are over 32k, all the text will be imported into a single card.
Perhaps using a "stripper" to remove your delimiting characters (tabs
and returns) would solve your problem.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: Where there's a will...
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 15:16 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Script Manager Stack
Here is a stack with some useful utilities I've developed. They are all for
helping manage scripts, automatic versioning and documenting changes, looking
at text files, a simple hypercard based text editor with print and file
renaming, etc. Enjoy,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/script-manager.hqx; 135K]
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 15:14 +0200
From: KJR@kkeka1.ericsson.se
Subject: Telecommunications software running in the bakground
I need to send and recieve files in the background using MultiFinder,
thus, want to know if there is any commincation software (PD/SW)
that does this?
Thanks Sigge Ruschkowski Sweden
kjr@kkeka1.ericsson.se
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 08:52:56 EDT
From: Jean Brunet <R31631%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Temperament 2
Recently I wrote to John Rotenstein, author of Temperament. This
is what I was telling him: "I enjoy very much your INIT
Temperament when using the English version of MS Word, but as I
write mostly in French I would appreciate having a version which
will get rid of the similar temp files coming up in the French
version of the software, the type and the creator names are the
same'.
Not only did John modify it to be compatible with all foreign
languages but further he turned out the INIT into a CDV capable
of eliminating at startup all combersome files. John is not on
this network and I am sure he would like to make it available to
everyone interested. Temparement 2 replaces Temparement 1. It is
freeware, all rights belong to John Rotenstein. If you like the
CDEV drop him a postcard, he will appreciate it.
John Rotenstein
P.O. Box 165
Double bay
NSW 2028
AUSTRALIA
Jean BruneT, UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A MONTREAL, MONTREAL, QC.
R31631@UQAM
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/temperament-2.hqx; 73K]
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 12:22:47 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: THINK C 4.0, first impressions
Well, I got my 4.0 upgrade last night... 10 days after I mailed my
upgrade offer. MUCH better order-fulfilling turnaround than last
year's 3.0 upgrade!
I installed it (no problems at all), opened up my MandelZot project,
converted the project to 4.0 format, and then started to rebuild the
application under 4.0. I had to make a few changes to my #include
files to make MandelZot compatible with the new ANSI library
structure... a few file-names were different, etc. Only two or three
statements in my source-code required changing... again, due to the
ANSI-ness of some of the functions I'm calling.
Alas, the resulting application is about 10% larger than before. Under
3.0, I was able to simply include the "strings" and "sprintf"
libraries; these gave me all of the functions I needed. Under 4.0, I
found it necessary to include the whole ANSI library. The "sprintf"
function has been rewritten, and it now appears to be dependent on much
more of the <stdio> function structure. As a result, the THINK C
linker brings in about 12k of code that wasn't needed in the previous
version. Oh well...
I've started looking over the documentation for the Think Class Library.
>From what I can see, this looks like a _very_ nice package... it appears
to implement most of the flow-of-control-and-management code that a
generic Mac application would require. I probably won't rewrite
MandelZot to use TCL... but I'll certainly write my next application
using it!
The in-line assembler supports 68881 instructions just fine. I was able
to modify my in-line 68881 code (previously implemented with DC.L
directives, and instruction codes in hex!) with very little effort.
The code compiles just fine, and runs correctly.
I'd like to commend Symantec for the terms of the product warranty, as
described on the sealed envelope holding the disks. All too often,
these warranties state, in effect, "We guarantee that there's software
on this disk, and that you'll be able to read the disk. We don't
guarantee that this software will do diddly-squat. If it doesn't work,
tough." Symantec, on the other hand, guarantees that the software will
perform "substantially as documented". If it doesn't, and if you
inform them of the problem within 90 days of purchase, they'll either
fix the problem and provide you with the fixed version, or refund the
price of purchase. Way to go, folks... it's refreshing to see a vendor
stand behind its product!
Overall impressions, based on about 3 hours examination and use... this
upgrade appears well worth the price!
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 21 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 147
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Apple Color Monitor heat problem
Appleshare
Archive question
AutoBlack and SE/30's
CoCoA wanted
COMPOSITION FORUMS
Does anyone have the Apple MacII Video Card Utility
Expert System Shells for the Mac
Financial Program Needed!
Help on Daylight Saving Time Needed
Looking for Old English Fonts
Masking in FreeHand
Nothing CDEV
Questions about Multifinder and TeX DVI printing (v7 #142)
Response to: (3 msgs)
SEARCHING/INDEXING FILES
SuperPaint 2.0/LaserWriter 6.0 problem
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1989 16:49:29 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Sumex will be off-line Tuesday, August 22. Get your FTP kicks somewhere else.
Bill
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 12:07:00 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Apple Color Monitor heat problem
My Apple RGB monitor also becomes quite warm while in operation. This
doesn't seem to have affected its operation, but I supposed that long-
term usage at high temperatures could shorten the life of some components.
You could put a fan on top... but you should make sure that the fan is one
that does not generate a strong magnetic field. Many AC-powered motors
(fans, clocks, etc.) emit a strong enough field to deflect the electron beam
in the monitor's CRT... causing the image on the screen to bend, wobble,
oscillate, or lose convergence (develop rainbow-colored edges). A DC-powered
fan, with an outboard power supply mounted several feet away, might produce
the best results.
You might want to try a trick I've seen used with Mac Plus (and earlier)
systems that don't incorporate fans. Simply build yourself a "chimney"
out of cardboard... make it as wide as the vent-area on top of the
monitor, and perhaps two or three times that high. As warm air from the
monitor rises into the chimney and flows upwards, it will generate a
substantial draft, pulling other warm air out of the monitor, and thus
pulling cool air into the monitor through the vent-slits in the bottom.
People who used this sort of cooling-tower with their Mac Plus systems
have (I've heard) found that it cools the interior of the machine
significantly. You may have trouble building an effective chimney in
your current setup, though, since you say that there's a shelf only
8" above the top of the monitor...
Since the monitor's cool-air vents are on the bottom, you should make
sure that airflow into the vents is not being restricted. There must
be a free flow of air along the bottom of the sides and back of the
monitor (air can't flow in easily from the front, as the monitor's
"legs" block airflow in the area). If you have boxes, diskette
holders, modems, or anything else sitting right beside the monitor,
you might want to move them aside a few inches to make sure that
air can flow past them and into the monitor. You might also want to raise
the monitor up a couple of inches to encourage airflow along the bottom.
--
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Date: 19 Aug 89 02:11:05 GMT
From: Scott Truesdell <truesdel@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Appleshare
PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov writes:
>I just installed Appleshare. Did I do something wrong or is Appleshare intent
>on calling InitWindows at INIT time? It's kind of disturbing to have my
>StartupScreen vanish at startup. Any fixes or ideas?
I'm assuming you are referring to the installation of AppleShare client
software on your workstation as opposed to the server software...
AppleShare INIT clears the screen. If this is overly distressing to you,
you can purchase INITPicker from most of the mailorder houses for under
$30 and have AppleShare and Responder load last. All Macs should have
INITPicker. Apple should buy the technology from Microseeds and make
it part of the OS.
I saw INITPicker II at MacWorld Expo and it adds to the functionality
with multiple named sets of INITs selectable at boot by holding down
a user defined key and "Bomb Protect", where it senses an impending
bomb on boot and fails to load the 2nd INIT that would cause such. Not a
perfect solution to INIT conflicts, but better than nothing.
--
Scott Truesdell
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 13:06:08 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Archive question
Dear Moderator:
Someone told me there is a file in the archives that explains how to make
one's application MultiFinder compatible. I looked through the arcs, but
I didn't see an obvious candidate. Could you give me a pointer as to
where I might look? A filename would be great. Thanks!
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| |
| Michael Webb |
| University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
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| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu |
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Date: 21 Aug 89 07:15:23 +0000 (Mon)
From: munnari!utscsd.oz.au!gregw@uunet.uu.net (-a8000033-g.webb-cen-250-)
Subject: AutoBlack and SE/30's
Does anyone have a copy of AutoBlack that works with an SE/30?
This is still my favourite screen saver. The version I have is 1.5.
Greg Webb
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 10:02:00 EDT
From: bkirsch@nadc.arpa (B. Kirsch)
Subject: CoCoA wanted
I am very interested in receiving a copy of CoCoA - Commutative Algebra
Mac System that was mentioned in Info-Mac Digest Volume 7 : Issue 144. If
anyone can email a binhexed copy, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Barry Kirsch
Naval Air Development Center
Code 5051
Warminster PA 18974-5000
bkirsch@nadc.arpa
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 10:03:07 EDT
From: ZAK%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: COMPOSITION FORUMS
In response to Paul Brians <HRC$04%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>:
> Does anyone know of a forum in which teachers of English composition
> and related fields can discuss the use of computer labs (specifically
> Macintosh labs) for education? Anything available through BitNet,
> Tymnet, or CompuServe would be great.
Send mail or an interactive message to LISTSERV@CANADA01 to subscribe
to ENGLISH. They're rather quiet in the summertime, but with classes
starting in the next week or so, they should be back to normal
activity soon.
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Date: Mon 21 Aug 89 08:30:08-PST
From: ROHAN%ASTRO.SPAN@star.stanford.edu
Subject: Does anyone have the Apple MacII Video Card Utility
A recent MacWeek article noted a free software utility from Apple that
lets you make flicker-free video tapes with a Mac II video card. It
is called "the Apple Macintosh II Video Card Utility" and was first
distributed at the Apple Developer's Conference in May.
If anyone has this utility, please upload it to the archive.
Thanks, in advance,
Rick Rohan
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Date: Sun 20 Aug 89 22:04:02-EST
From: Mark Maybury <MAYBURY@tops20.radc.af.mil>
Subject: Expert System Shells for the Mac
Has anyone used/evaluated any expert system shells/development
environments on the Macintosh? One of my collegues is investigating
the development of an expert system to automate project management and
the associated government forms.
He has targeted the IBM PC as a delivery platform, but I would like to
offer him an ES shell that can run on both the Mac and an IBM PC. Any
suggestions?
If there is sufficient interest, I will summarize and post any suggestions.
Mark
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 14:42:44 CST
From: decwrl!pro-party.cts.com!hplabs!d.m.p.@labrea.stanford.edu (Don Peaslee)
Subject: Financial Program Needed!
Does anyone know of a program that will compute the yield on an
investment that is _compounding_? In other words, compute the yield on
a simple interest investment which compounds every day, every 30 days,
etc. Sure would be handy for choosing among the various CDs when
getting ready to tie one's money up for a period.
Thanks.
Don
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 14:46:15 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Help on Daylight Saving Time Needed
Dear Mac-Netters,
I'm in the process of writing an INIT/cdev for automatic clock correction.
The principle is quite simple: It remembers how much you had to correct the
clock during a given period and then corrects the clock whenever necessary
during restart.
A prototype of this tool is already under testing, but I would very much like
to extend it in such a way that it also switches between daylight saving time
and regular time. Yes, I know that there is already such a tool (Daylight cdev
by Gregory Smith), but this one doesn't work for me, because the rules for
switching are not flexible enough.
What I need in order to provide a convenient customization in the
Control Panel is knowledge about the different rules used in different
countries. For example, in Austria and Germany (and in many other European
countries as well) we switch to daylight saving time on the first Sunday in
spring and back to regular time on the first Sunday in fall.
Please send the rules used in your country directly to me in order to avoid
an overflow of this list. Thank you in advance.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN> (BITNET)
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 13:34:26 PDT
From: rob@nrc.com (Rob Pawsner)
Subject: Looking for Old English Fonts
If you're looking for QUALITY manuscript fonts, you'll have to expand
your budget. Public-domain calligraphic fonts are worth their prices,
but not much more.
Adobe: Linoscript, Linotext, and Fette Fraktur. Catalog: 800-83-FONTS.
$145-185. Street prices are much lower; check magazine fold-outs.
Alphabets, Inc.: Prospera and many others. People you should know, at
312-328-2733.
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rob@nrc.com (UUCP); rob%nrc.com@trwind.ind.trw.com (Internet)
2380 North Rose Avenue, Oxnard CA 93030; (805) 485-2700
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 08:49 EST
From: PETER CHEN <CHEN@pisces.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Masking in FreeHand
Hi,
Does anybody know how to do masking in Aldus FreeHand 2.0?
For instance, I "placed" a MacPaint file into FreeHand, and I only
wanted to have a part of it to show through a circle.
Peter Chen
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 10:59:59 PLT
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Nothing CDEV
I downloaded a CDEV from MacServe called "nothing" which claims to
do nothing--practical joke, right?
It's a menace! On my Mac, activating it made the right-hand half
of the control panel menu disappear--permanently! I could not
use any of my CDEVs. There was no note or documentation explaining
how to get rid of it. I had to reinstall the system to eliminate
the problem. Worse, GateKeeper detected nothing wrong when it was
doing its nasties. It's not a virus, but is just as bad. I
recommend it be yanked from the library.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 16:38:32 PDT
From: David_Dalton@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Questions about Multifinder and TeX DVI printing (v7 #142)
1. There is an FKEY archived as /info-mac/fkey/blast-windows.hqx that
lets you blast through a locked window to see the icons on the desktop.
2. In the Beebe DVI driver collection there are two programs
(DVIMAC and DVIM72) for printing DVI files on the ImageWriter.
They are written in C and since I don't have a C compiler for the
Mac I have not built the program. The source code is archived
on the machine science.utah.edu (128.110.192.2) in the directory
APS:<TEX.DVI>
You could also E-Mail Nelson Beebe (Beebe@Science.Utah.Edu)
for more information on porting DVIMAC to the Macintosh.
If successful, could you post a note here and send the
OzTeX compatible application to info-mac or to one of the OzTeX archives.
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:49 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Sat, 5 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 137
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 12:30:42 PDT
>From: chan@icsl.ucla.edu (Kevin Chan)
>Subject: Radius Accelerator
You asked a number of questions regarding the Radius Accelerator which have
already been answered. However, I thought I'd give you my impressions/
complaints regarding both the 16MHz accelerator and the Full-page display.
I have owned and used them extensively for over one year with my SE.
Recently, I was offered a free Memory Management Unit (MMU) chip by a friend
who traded some hardware for three of them; if you are unfamiliar with this
item, it allows up to 8 megs of disk space to be allocated as virtual memory
through the use of an INIT. Unfortunately, the Radius accelerator will not
accept or recognize an MMU. A phone call to Radius revealed that they have
no future plans to support it.
There is substantial "buzz" when using sounds, particularly with the
SoundMaster Cdev, but it can be cleared up by turning off the accelerator.
I have been informed that this problem is inherent to accelerators in
general, and is not the fault of the Radius.
The Radius accelerator, unlike others, has no slots for extra RAM chips;
additionally, due to its mounting location, only low-profile SIMMs may be
used on the motherboard.
The full-page display mounts directly to a socket on the accelerator in
an upright position, which makes it impossible to fit even the smallest of
5 1/4" hard drives inside the SE case (in place of the top floppy). I
have a 140meg internal drive sitting next to my Mac right now, 'cause it
won't quite jam in there. I've spoken with Radius a number of times on
this problem, looking for a 2" straight-through cable that would allow
me to insert the drive and mount the display card horizontally above it.
Radius will provide no pinouts, parts, cabling, or advise, so I'm looking
into having a local cable manufacturer custom-make it for me; I'm not
handy enough with a soldering iron to do it myself.
Both items are configured from "control panels" that appear if you hold
down the mouse button when restarting the machine. However, since the
accelerator starts up first, you always get its control panel, even if
you just want the display's. Also, after clicking on "ok" from the
accelerator's control panel, you must immediately depress and hold the
mouse button again to get the display's. Sometimes it works, sometimes
you'll get the accelerator panel again, and sometimes the machine just
boots and skips the display's panel.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: We've upped our standards, now up yours.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:52 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Tue, 8 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 139
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: Tue, 08 Aug 89 21:17:30 SST
>From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
>Subject: HYPERCARD EVENTS
>What I need is a way to detect in the background that there are no events
>for a period of time and the project runs itself again.
>Having an on Idle handler in the project does not work. How can I know if the
>user has move the mouse, or click the mouse, or press the keys etc? Is
>there something equal to a mouseIdleTick function?
I was recently presented with a similar problem by a co-worker here at
Boeing. He was working on Hypercard stacks for an executive secretary
who had a tendency to walk away from her desk and leave the machine running,
with stacks still open and whatnot. He wanted a script that would provide
functions similar to a screensaver: after 2 minutes, start beeping or whatever.
He and I agonized over the lack of an onNotIdle system event, since we
wanted the time counter to be reset on an mouse or keyboard activity. Adding
a script to every button to reset the counter was not an acceptable solution.
Eventually I wrote a stack script which first looks for a time "boundry"
every few minutes and then begins counting idles. When a maximum is reached,
it "bombs." If there is any activity before the max is reached, the counter
is reset and doesn't start again until another time boundry is passed during
which there is no activity. However, such a system cannot pinpoint the
amount of idle time with great accuracy; therefore, it will "bomb" after
2-5 minutes of inactivity.
I have intended for months to send a copy of the script to Steve Dragza at
Analytx for the public-domain Developer's Stack which may have circulated in
your area, but never got around to it. I'll try to clean it up a bit,
add a few notes for the budding Hypertalk programmer, and send it on to the
Info-Mac moderators as soon as I can. Also, I'll look into shortening the
amount of max idle time to 2 or even 1 minute.
Included in the script are the different max idle counts required for the
routine. I've tested it on Pluses, SEs, accelerated SEs, and IIs. No
maximums are included for other machines nor Supercard; you'll have to
figure that out yourself. However, I'd like a piece of mail when you do.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: Mad Rabbit Productions - astral projection is our middle name.
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 17:53 PDT
From: "is having a tea party..." <MADRABT@toby.acs.washington.edu>
Subject: Response to:
>Info-Mac Digest Tue, 15 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 142
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Date: 13 Aug 89 16:07:00 EST
>From: "JEFF TEMPLON" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
>Subject: Questions (separate) about MultiFinder and TeX DVI printing
>1) Using Multifinder, some applications take up too much of the desktop
>to be able to see the disk icons when switching back to the Finder.
>Usually I can use the size box or move the window to get at the icons.
>I have a problem with VersaTerm however; when I am transferring files,
>the window controls (dragging and resizing) are inoperative, so you
>can't open any new folders until the transfer is complete unless you
>want to abort the transfer.
I use Red Ryder rather than VersaTerm, but have found similar problems.
My solution was to turn off Multifinder and use a DA-based disk utility
while transferring files. Disktop and Disktools II both work well in
this capacity. Sure, I don't get to see the icons, but all the disk
functions are there. I would suspect that such a solution would also
work under Multifinder.
Christopher Rimple Free Dialog BBS
Mad Rabbit Productions (206) 365-4605
P.O. Box 30883 Meg after meg of movie lines,
Seattle, WA 98103 soundtracks, and other digitized sounds
(206) STEALTH
Bitnet: MADRABT@UWAV1
Internet: IN%"MADRABT@UWAV1.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU"
Compuserve: 71750,2256
Disclaimer: It's good the Vatican didn't frown on surrogate
motherhood 2000 years ago.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 08:25:18 EDT
From: ZAK%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SEARCHING/INDEXING FILES
In answer to Peter Jones <MAINT%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>:
> Can anyone suggest some utilities that would allow searching and/or indexing
> of files created by MS Word? I've looked at $MACARCH CONTENTS, a list of PDMAC
> programs from LISTSERV@RICE, but the short descriptions aren't much help.
If you want to be able to search through files for keywords while
working in Word, Locate! (a DA packaged with the latest version
of CopyII Mac) works very nicely.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 13:28 MDT
From: DSPhillips%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: SuperPaint 2.0/LaserWriter 6.0 problem
Documents with draw-layer text do not print to our LaserWriter IINT from
SuperPaint 2.0 using System 6.0.3 on a MacPlus with
LaserWriter/LaserPrep 6.0 installed. These documents print with the 5.2
printer drivers. Also, they print with the 6.0 drivers from SuperPaint
2.0 or when opened and printed from SuperPaint 1.1 or from MacDraw II.
Can we expect an update from Silicon Beach to correct this problem? Has
anyone else noticed this? Thanks.
Doug S. Phillips Telephone: (403) 221-8904
SuperComputing Services BITNET: DSPhillips@UNCACDC
The University of Calgary
390, 1620 - 29 St. N. W.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2N 4L7
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 23 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 148
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
[C44JMS%AVIARY.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com : Mac/Atari compatibility query
Boomerang 2.0B7 anomaly
Composition Forums on BITNET
Daylight Savings Time
Decompressing Unix Z format on a Mac
Dt Calculator DA 3.0
help!
ImagenPostScript
improved MACARCH macro for CMS
Info-Mac Digest V7 #147
Information wanted on Fax Modems
Jove 4.12 for Macintosh
MultiXfer v0.2a1
Nothing CDEV (2 msgs)
Previously Posted MacJove Problem w/VersaTerm and MF - SUPERCLOCK
re: Appleshare
Suitcase II 1.2.5 updater
SuperBar INIT 1.01
SUPERCARD 1.0 REPORT
SuperCard 1.0 report cont
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1989 13:22:27 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Sumex is back up. However, due to a glitch in the recovery process, mail
to Info-Mac received between 12:30 and 9:30 in the morning of Tuesday,
August 22, was lost.
Bill
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 16:57 PDT
From: "JOAN SANIUK, M/C E602, x7014" <C44JMS%AVIARY%HAC2GM@engvax.scg.hac.com>
Subject: [C44JMS%AVIARY.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com : Mac/Atari compatibility query
A charity for which I volunteer has a 1300 name mailing list and
label merge template set up as M/S Works documents, produced with my Plus.
Being too poor to afford its own Mac, the charity did a little begging and
now has... an Atari. It looks like a very nice computer (i.e., it talks
to me in pictures...:) ). It will be a very useful one, as well, if it can
be used to maintain the mailing list *WITHOUT OUR RE KEYING THE MAILING LIST*.
(My predecessor owned a Kaypro II...:{ )
At the risk of proposing heresy to the net, does anyone out there
know of peripherals that will allow the Atari to run programs
developed for the Mac?
___________________________________________________________________
Joan M. Saniuk Disclaimer: opinions, when I
c44jms@aviary.gmgate.hac.com have any, are my own.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 17:53:57 PDT
From: hayp04@csa2.lbl.gov
Subject: Boomerang 2.0B7 anomaly
Peter Furmonavicius asks about the anomaly of Boomerang, saying that
"in the SaveAs dialog, only first 3 characters appears in the dialog".
I bet Peter is using Rebound with Boomerang. Boomerang has the
Rebound feature built in, and the solution is "just take out the
Rebound from the system folder".
Hiro Yamamoto
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 11:09 PDT
From: "Michael E. Cohen" <IBZ2MEC@oac.ucla.edu>
Subject: Composition Forums on BITNET
For Paul Brians and others interested (cf. info-mac v7, no 145):
BITNET has an ongoing discussion concerning computers and English composition.
It is known as "Megabyte University" and you can reach the discussion
organizer at YKMBU@TTACS.BITNET. His name is Fred Kemp.
Michael E. Cohen
UCLA Humanities Computing Facility
(IBZ2MEC@UCLAMVS.BITNET)
Disclaimer: If you read it here, you read it here...
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Date: 22 Aug 89 13:34 EDT
From: Greg Smith <SMITH%BUCKNELL.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Daylight Savings Time
Guenther Blaschek writes:
>A prototype of this tool is already under testing, but I would very much like
>to extend it in such a way that it also switches between daylight saving time
>and regular time. Yes, I know that there is already such a tool (Daylight cdev
>by Gregory Smith), but this one doesn't work for me, because the rules for
>switching are not flexible enough.
I am currently working on version 1.1 of Daylight CDev, which has a more
flexible configuration dialog box, including popup menus. Handling of European
rules (1st Sunday in Autumn or Spring) would be simple to add. If anyone has
any other requests or suggestions for the next version, please send them to me
at one of the addresses below.
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Greg Smith | BITNET: smith@bucknell.bitnet |
| Systems Analyst | smith@bknlvms.bitnet |
| Bucknell Computer Services | Internet: smith@bucknell.edu |
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1989 11:44 CDT
From: Kevin Coffel <KCOFFEL%UMINN1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Decompressing Unix Z format on a Mac
Recently, I have been FTPing a number of mac files from various archives
around the internet. However, I have run into a problem trying to
decompress the Unix Z format. I only have access to a VM/CMS IBM
Mainframe (choke) and macintoshes. I have been able to sucessfully
Binhex and UnStuffit all other files. Does anyone have a PD utility to
decompress this Z format on the Mac? Can Stuffit/UnStuffit do it if
the file is set to a specific type and or creator?
Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Coffel
Internet: Kcoffel at vm1.spcs.umn.edu
Bitnet: Kcoffel at uminn1
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 18:23:54 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: Dt Calculator DA 3.0
Dt Calculator DA 3.0 - A Scientific RPN calculator
Changes since 2.x
* Dt Calculator has been converted to freeware (from being
shareware)
* Added statistic functions
* Handles the stack properly after use of RCL. Last version
didn't lift the stack when a number was entered after use
of RCL.
* Mac keyboard support has been changed and extended
Documenation included.
/Lars Sundstroem
[Archived as /info-mac/da/dt-calculator-30.hqx; 37K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 18:03:34 EDT
From: Damian%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: help!
I need help with some copy-protection issues and problems. At the lab
I work at we are now using Suitcase II to give online access to a large
array of fonts. The problems:
1. While we like the idea of letting students have access to all these fonts
we do not want them to be able to change the settings of Suitcase II. We
would like to make Suitcase II not appear in the DA list of the Apple
Menu. Is this possible?
2. We would also like to be able to have the Suitcase DA invisible on the
desktop. The problem with this is that if we make it invisible, then the
Mac system doesn't recognize it or load it into memory on startup. Is there
a solution I have overlooked? We are considering just changing the Icon
of Suitcase to something less likely to be recognized.
Any help would be appreciated!
Damian Roskill
damian@umass.bitnet
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 16:56:08 -0500
From: Don Gillies <gillies@cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: ImagenPostScript
I posed a question in these newsgroups on March 23, asking how to
get postscript files prepared on a Mac, to print properly on an
Imagen 2308S running 4.0 software with Ultrascript. This posting
provides the solutions that were suggested by Imagen software support,
and several net readers.
[Archived as /info-mac/tips/imagen-postscript.txt; 5K]
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 01:50:50 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: improved MACARCH macro for CMS
Here is something for VM/CMS users who frequently request files from the
$MacArch archives in LISTSERV at RICE. The MACARCH XEDIT is a macro file
which makes it a zap to do this. It is written for the current format of
$MacArch archive.
The MACARCH macro works on full-screen as well as line-oriented terminals.
On a full-screen it is assigned to a PF key (PF10 in the enclosed files).
While editing the RECENT or ALL catalog, press this PF key after placing
the cursor in the line with the file you want to get. The macro will send
the GET command to LISTSERV at RICE for that file. On a line-oriented
terminal, locate a line with the desired file name and enter the MACARCH
command (no operands) to achieve the same effect as described above.
Note that this version will also accept the MACARCH command when entered from
the arrow (command) line--the file in the current line will be requested.
This submission includes two files: MACARCH XEDIT and PROFILE XEDIT. The
latter one is included to illustrate how PROFILE XEDIT could be like (for
those unfamiliar with this beast) and to show how to assign PF10 to be
the MACARCH macro for the $MacArch catalogs only. It assumes that the
catalogs are filed as MACARCH ALL and MACARCH RECENT, respectively.
(Note that the dollar sign prefix is not expected anymore.)
If you have already installed the PROFILE XEDIT downloaded with the old
version of the MACARCH macro or the MACSERVE macro, please note that
the PROFILE XEDIT in this submission is identical to one in the other
submissions, hence you don't need to replace it.
In order to use the MACARCH and PROFILE macros, you need to cut them out from
this file into their own independent files named MACARCH XEDIT and PROFILE
XEDIT, respectively. Both files should be in V format--use the COPYFILE
command with RECFM V and TRUNC options to set it if the LIST * XEDIT A (ALL
command shows otherwise.
The MACARCH macro works only with the $MACARCH CONTENTS and $MACARCH
RECENT catalogs as obtained from the archive. These two are different
>From ./help/files-all and .help/files-recent.
Please, notify me (GA0095@SIUCVMB.Bitnet) if you encounter any problems.
[Archived as /info-mac/misc/vms-macarch-xedit.txt; 13K
/info-mac/misc/vms-macserve-xedit.txt; 13K]
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 22:52:30 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #147
Paul Brians <HRC$04%WSUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> writes:
>I downloaded a CDEV from MacServe called "nothing" which claims to
>do nothing--practical joke, right?
>It's a menace! On my Mac, activating it made the right-hand half
>of the control panel menu disappear--permanently! I could not
>use any of my CDEVs. There was no note or documentation explaining
>how to get rid of it. I had to reinstall the system to eliminate
>the problem. Worse, GateKeeper detected nothing wrong when it was
>doing its nasties. It's not a virus, but is just as bad. I
>recommend it be yanked from the library.
Um. In general, .hqx files have a brief comment at the beginning of the file,
before the encoded program info. This is, of course, trashed when you de-
binhex, but it's usually worth reading. In the case of nothing.hqx, it reads
as follows:
>Introducing Nothing cdev...
>There's nothing to say but nothing itself.
>
>Nothing is automatically reversed when another cdev is selected.
>If you close the Control Panel with Nothing active, you'll have to choose
>Nothing afterwards, then another cdev. Got that?
It worked fine on my Mac Plus, but I don't know about your architecture.
--Mike
Disclaimer: I think that disclaimers are an incredibly sad statement about our
society. Nonetheless, nothing that I say can or should be construed as having
been said by anyone. Ever.
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 22:57:39 EDT
From: wald@cmsun.nrl.navy.mil (Bruce Wald)
Subject: Information wanted on Fax Modems
1. I am interested in obtaining a fax modem for my Mac+. Desired modes
of operation include
a. Unattended receive for later printout on Laserwriter.
b. Fax transmission of documents; mostly MSWord with pict images,
occasional Excel spreadsheets.
Suggestions solicited, mail appropriate, I will summarize.
2. I am curious how the devices work and at what speed. Does
printing 80 square inch bitmaps on a Laserwriter take forever? Does
the modem have an engine that converts MSWord and pict stuff to
bitmaps? Any problems with 300 dpi to 200 lpi?
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Date: 18 Aug 89 19:45:00 EST
From: "Jeffrey Templon" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Jove 4.12 for Macintosh
Find following MacJove 4.12, stuffed and BinHex'd in three parts.
The author has informed me that the version in the archives, 4.9, is to
be "avoided".
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
[Archived as /info-mac/app/macjove-412.hqx; 169K]
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 11:00:50 EDT
From: Martin Dubuc <dubuc@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: MultiXfer v0.2a1
There has been some problems reported with MultiXfer v0.1 especially
for users running MultiXfer on a Macintosh Plus. So I decided to send
back the lattest (fixed) version of MultiXfer (v0.2a1). This version
has a couple of new features. Notice that it is not compatible with
v0.1 (peoples having two different versions can't communicate together).
MultiXfer is a telecommunication application in which I implemented
a protocol based on X.25 allowing someone to make simultaneous
upload/download/chat (this is the kind of protocol used in MCS).
One of the major feature of MultiXfer beside its protocol is its
ability to turn your Macintosh into a host computer letting other
peoples using MultiXfer call your Mac, receive, send, catalog files
and navigate through the directories of your disk without any
human intervention.
There is also a dumb terminal implemented into the application and
it does support (truly) MultiFinder.
This is a preliminary version. I would be glad to hear feedbacks
>From users (good and bad) as I intend to develop more features
in it.
Additions since v0.1:
* Distant receive, catalog, change directory
* Protocol extension (including CRC error checking)
* Some fixes in the terminal emulation
* Has been tested successfully under Macintosh Plus, SE and II
Martin Dubuc
dubuc@iro.umontreal.ca
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/multixfer-02a1.hqx; 50K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 10:17:06 MST
From: bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com
Subject: Nothing CDEV
I had no problems with it. It just turned the left part of the
control panel into something that is similar to the "view by name"
option rather then the "view by icon" option. A very useful function
if one has many CDEVs loaded. To remove it, just double click on
nothing again, it gives you the option to remove itself.
** Brian Klaas, Design Engineer *** DISCLAIMER: All opinions **
** Intel Corporation *** stated here are strictly my own. **
** InterNET -> bklaas%sedona.intel.com@relay.cs.NET UUCP: **
** {hplabs,decwrl,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel,amdcad}!intelca!mipos3!sedona!bklaas **
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 15:42:16 -0400
From: Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com>
Subject: Nothing CDEV
[Nothing cdev described as a menace]
If you activate Nothing a second time, the right half of the cdev
window comes back. It's a cute little hack, nothing more or less.
Andy
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Date: 18 Aug 89 20:33:00 EST
From: "Jeffrey Templon" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Previously Posted MacJove Problem w/VersaTerm and MF - SUPERCLOCK
The previously posted problem with respect to launching MacJove under
MultiFinder with VersaTerm running has been narrowed to an interaction
problem with the Superclock CDEV. The latest versions are the ones being
used, Jove 4.12 and Superclock 3.5. I am notifying the author of MacJove.
Can someone with compuserve access notify Mr. Christiansen?
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 19:34 CDT
From: Scott Hutinger <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: re: Appleshare
>I just installed Appleshare. Did I do something wrong or is Appleshare intent
>on calling InitWindows at INIT time? It's kind of disturbing to have my
>StartupScreen vanish at startup. Any fixes or ideas?
I guess they just did not read Tech note #247! Pete Helme wrote the Tech
note, and I think everyone that uses a mac should read this tech note. Pete
does a good job of yaking about all the people which do such dirty, rotten,
nasty type things. Good tech note, read it!
scott hutinger
p.s. Hopefully someone from apple will post this in the near future...
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 89 08:39:42 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: Suitcase II 1.2.5 updater
Enclosed is an updater application which will upgrade your current
version of Suitcase II to version 1.2.5.
Michael
prange@erl.mit.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/suitcase-ii-125-updater.hqx; 50K]
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 18:42:31 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: SuperBar INIT 1.01
SuperBar 1.01
SuperBar in an INIT which eliminates the annoying flickering
every time the menubar is drawn or updated. This last version
fixes a bug which appeares when the screen depth is changed by
no redrawing the menubar properly. SuperBar should be installed
before all other INITs dealing with the menubar in order to
obtain the best result.
SuperBar is freeware
/Lars Sundstroem
[Archived as /info-mac/init/superbar-101.hqx; 6K]
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 09:42:10 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SUPERCARD 1.0 REPORT
I suppose I have the distinction of creating one of the first huge projects
in SuperCard 1.0. My task was to put the staff profile, research projects, and
other misc data of my institute for public browsing. Of course I needed color,
animation, sound, interactivity. I started in Hypercard, wrote a showtiff xcmd
and decided against it. Then MacWorld Asia came along and I bought SuperCard
out of compulsion for US$120.
SuperCard supports:
1. HyperCard, including XCMDs, XFCNs,
2. multiple windows
3. color (up to 256)
4. draw, paint, field, button, card, background, window, project objects.
5. built-in animation routine - move object to points on graphic path
6. runs PICS, STEP
7. imports TIFF, PICT2 files.
8. has a runtime editor written in supercard
9. has a separate SuperEdit for faster editing
10. simply incredible.
Bugs discovered:
1. VW HyperCard driver 1.2 doesn't work too well. Playing a VW animation
somehow destroys the ability to play snd files after that. My solution
was to create a silence snd found 6 seconds long. Play Silence-6 before
calling PlayVW. Silence-6 will play for about 2-3 seconds, then PlayVW
interrupts, and once the animation ends, the rest of the Silence-6 will
be played. Somehow this maintains two separate buffers which wasn't
needed in hypercard.
2. Try as I might, I can't seem to create a standalone which allows all
XCMDs to work. The Alert-Dialog XCMD worked fine if the runtime editor
was installed. If I remove that, it doesn't work.
3. Now talking about the runtime editor. Standalones can't be created with
the runtime editor installed. I have all means. Each time I start up the
standalone, a dialog popups asking for the darn runtime editor which can't
be found.
Dangerous Features
1. The draw mode works like macdraw. You can group or ungroup paint and/or draw
objects and assign a script to it. The danger is that when the object is
ungrouped, you will lose the script. This is logical, but still it struck me
a great surprise and terrible one too, having to retype the script.
2. The invisible objects are invisible, and I have to be concious about them.
...to be continued...power failure
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 11:12:26 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: SuperCard 1.0 report cont
2. The invisible objects are not copied when you do a select all. The
mechanisms must be there to prevent these accidents.
3. With color and windows and objects, the system slows to a crawl.
Going to another card actually slows the thing down so much the user
of your project is usually left wondering what's happened. The common
response would be to click a few times, thus unkowningly activating
other objects.
4. Sometimes using go back can cause an error message which closes the
current project, dumping you into the runtime editor.
Conclusion:
A fine package. But need speed improvements. I will probably be using
SuperCard to prototype applications and user interface ideas.
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End of Info-Mac Digest
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∂24-Aug-89 1459 A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU Screen-saver programs?
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Date: Thu 24 Aug 89 14:59:37-PDT
From: Eric M. Berg <A.Eric@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Screen-saver programs?
To: su-macintosh@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <12520761956.34.A.ERIC@GSB-How.Stanford.EDU>
I'm looking for a reliable program which dims, blacks, or otherwise
"saves" the Macintosh screen when it's idle. I need something which
will work reliably on MacII and IIcx systems, not just SEs & Pluses.
Public domain (free) software preferred, but if there's nothing good,
I'm looking for recommendations for commerical software.
Suggestions, anyone? Thanks.
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 24 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 149
Today's Topics:
Amortization
BackIt 3.04
Boomerang
Color Printers
DrawOver ... converts PICT to Adobe Illustrator files
HyperCard IdleTime
Info-Mac Digest V7 #147
Info-Mac Digest V7 #148
InvisiWin FKEY
Linefeedify
linking macs over several hundred feet.
Manager 4.0.3
OzTeX
Phone number
PowerStation2.5.2 Updater
Test Scoring Scanner for Macs
Wavemetrics Applelink address
Word 4.0 RTF and TeX
WordRef 1.1
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 16:12:36 EDT
From: Jean Brunet <R31631%UQAM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Amortization
Someone on the network requested a software for amortization
purpose (annual, semi-annual... daily). Hope this fits the need!
Shareware, author unknown.
Jean Brunet, R31631@UQAM
[Archived as /info-mac/app/amortization.hqx; 13K]
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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 01:34:57 -0200
From: sund@tde.lth.se (Lars Sundstr|m)
Subject: BackIt 3.04
BackIt 3.04 - A PreSelective Backup Utility
Changes since 3.03...
* Converted to freeware (from being shareware)
* Fixed problem with memory allocation under MultiFinder.
Allocates memory either from its own heap or MultiFinder heap
depending on which one that offers the biggest block.
* Fixed some cosmetic bugs.
Documentation included
/Lars Sundstroem
[Archived as /info-mac/util/backit-304.hqx; 45K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 13:29:58 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: Boomerang
I really like Boomerang 2.0B7, but it consistently crashes in both MacDraw II
and MacWrite II at MYDIALOGHOOK+42. After that crash I can get back to the
shell, but Boomerang no longer works.
I know I can reconfigure it to not work in these applications, but I would
rather have it work. I find it very hard to live without.
How is the author doing on a new version? I have found many other instances
that I can only marginally blame on Boomerang, but it is too handy to toss.
I am very willing to help with the debugging as I really like Boomerang. The
Rebound stuff is even better than either Rebound or SFScrollInit. I hope some
progress gets shared with the net soon.
Jon
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 14:34:06 EDT
From: Anup Patel <patel@mitre.mitre.org>
Subject: Color Printers
--------
We are looking into purchasing a color laser printer. We've heard about the
QMS color printer, and the Tektronics Phaser printer. The printer will most
likely be networked on Novell. Can anyone recommend a color printer that
can be networked, and handle Postscript.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 15:07:45 PDT
From: gelphman@adobe.com (David Gelphman)
Subject: DrawOver ... converts PICT to Adobe Illustrator files
>I tried to find DrawOver (an application that takes PICT-->encapsulated
>PostScript) in sumex's info-mac archives, but no luck. Does anyone have it or
>>know where I might find it?
DrawOver is a commercial program which is included as part of
the Adobe Illustrator 88 package. It is not available separately. It
allows you to convert PICT files saved by MacDraw into Adobe Illustrator
format. If there are any bitmaps which have been pasted into the PICT,
they are discarded. I don't know how well DrawOver works with PICT files
saved from other programs besides MacDraw.
Adobe Illustrator files are pure PostScript files which contain
the structural information of the drawing (grouping of objects, etc).
These files are EPS files WITHOUT the screen preview. The files DrawOver
produces can be opened and editted directly in Adobe Illustrator 88 and
can be saved WITH the screen preview.
I'm sure the Adobe Customer Support people can tell you more about
DrawOver if you need more information. The customer support number is
415-961-0911.
Hope this helps,
David Gelphman
Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 09:24:50 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: HyperCard IdleTime
Hi. Recently I posted a request for a way to get the idle time, ie the time
before the next keyboard or mouse (including mouse move) or disk insertion or .
. event occur. Brodie Lockard from I.ISIMO@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU replied with
a pascal code fragment which I have modified into C code.
This is an XFCN which requires the HyperXcmd.h which can be found somewhere in
this archive.
#include <QuickDraw.h>
#include "HyperXcmd.h"
pascal void
main(paramPtr)
XCmdBlockPtr paramPtr;
{
int haveEvent;
Str31 result;
int timeOut;
Str255 str;
ZeroToPas(paramPtr,*(paramPtr->params[0]),&str);
timeOut = StrToNum(paramPtr,&str);
haveEvent = HaveEvent(timeOut);
NumToStr (paramPtr, (long)haveEvent, result);
paramPtr->returnValue = PasToZero(paramPtr, result);
}
HaveEvent(timeOut)
int timeOut;
{
int gotEvent;
Point startPt, curPt;
long startTick, curTick, delay;
EventRecord myEvent;
GetMouse(&startPt);
startTick = TickCount();
for (;;)
{
GetMouse(&curPt);
gotEvent = OSEventAvail(everyEvent, &myEvent);
curTick = TickCount();
delay = curTick - startTick;
if (startPt.h != curPt.h || startPt.v != curPt.v || gotEvent)
{
return (1);
}
if (delay > timeOut) break;
}
return (0);
}
I call this XFCN during an on idle handler in the project script (SuperCard
term). But before I call it, I store the ticks first and after the function
returns, the interval was computed. The function expects a timeout factor and
simply checks the event queue until timeout or a event occurs, whichever is
earlier. It returns 0 for timeout, and 1 if an event has occurred.
I found this code to be extremely useful and is used to determine if the idle
time exceeds a certain limit, after which the whole project restarts itself.
I wrote it with a timeout parameter because I want to process some data even
during idle time using a timeout factor of 0 which works fine. This code
doesn't take the event out of the queue which means the correct handler will be
called.
Christopher Rimple from MADRABT@UWAV1 uses a somewhat brute force technique
which I have already tried before he told me about it. Its all done in
HyperTalk and will definitely slow the system down.
Thanks to these two persons who have responded.
Please refer to my next mail for a preliminary report on SuperCard 1.0
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 10:59:17 -0200
From: Christian Beilken <unido!gmdzi!cici@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #147
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators):
>
> Documents with draw-layer text do not print to our LaserWriter IINT from
> SuperPaint 2.0 using System 6.0.3 on a MacPlus with
> LaserWriter/LaserPrep 6.0 installed. These documents print with the 5.2
> printer drivers. Also, they print with the 6.0 drivers from SuperPaint
> 2.0 or when opened and printed from SuperPaint 1.1 or from MacDraw II.
> Can we expect an update from Silicon Beach to correct this problem? Has
> anyone else noticed this? Thanks.
>
> Doug S. Phillips Telephone: (403) 221-8904
> SuperComputing Services BITNET: DSPhillips@UNCACDC
> The University of Calgary
> 390, 1620 - 29 St. N. W.
> Calgary, Alberta, Canada
> T2N 4L7
>
Yes, there is a version 2.0a of Superpaint, which works. You can get
it from Silicon Beach. I got it also some weeks ago.
Bye
Cici Beilken email: cici@gmdzi.uucp
GMD (Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung)
P.O.Box 1240 fax: (+49 2241) 14-2618
D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, West-Germany phone: (+49 2241) 14-2642
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 17:41:34 -0400
From: mjkobb@athena.mit.edu
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #148
In #148 bklaas@cmdfs2.intel.com writes:
>I had no problems with it. It just turned the left part of the
>control panel into something that is similar to the "view by name"
>option rather then the "view by icon" option. A very useful function
>if one has many CDEVs loaded. To remove it, just double click on
>nothing again, it gives you the option to remove itself.
I believe that you're thinking of CDEV-Shrinker. Nothing was the CDEV that
eliminated all of the control panel except the left-hand side... CDEV-Shrinker
removes the icons from the left-hand side so you can see more entries at once.
--Mike
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 18:50:23 MDT
From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: InvisiWin FKEY
InvisiWin: an FKEY inspired from Neal E. Trautman's FKEY. It makes
the content region of windows empty, so that you can see through them
(this effect is reversible of course!). This FKEY makes ALL of the
windows in an application at invisible at once. To use this option,
hold down the Control key when you do the cmd-shift sequence. This is
great in MultiFinder because you can hide all of the windows in *one*
application to speed updating. Also works well with ResEdit. It's
also helpful to make a Quickeys macro: control-space to make it easier
to use. Who needs Sys 7.0 and its layer hiding abilities? LSC 3.0
source code is included.
[Archived as /info-mac/fkey/invisiwin.hqx; 8K]
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 14:22 EDT
From: "Roger Marks, NIST, Boulder, CO. 303-497-3037" <MARKS@enh.nist.gov>
Subject: Linefeedify
I'm in need of a program to turn carriage returns into CR/linefeeds. I found
"Linefeedify" in the archives, but was unable to UnBinhex either the Macserve
or Info-Mac versions without a fatal CRC error. I'm therefore reasonably
certain that the file is corrupt. I was unable to reach the author. Does
someone else have a working version of this or a similar program?
Thanks,
Roger
MARKS@NBSENH.BITNET
MARKS@ENH.NIST.GOV
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 11:13:08 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: linking macs over several hundred feet.
We want to buy two Macs. that we want to link over several hundred feet.
Ideally, one would be a IIcx, the other an SE. If it is possible, one
would run the kernal of Mathematica, the other would connect to it and
run the kernel (Mathematica does this doesn't it?) remotely. The IIcx would
also have a laserwriter NT hooked up to it, and it would be nice to be able
to print on it from the SE (which would have an imagewriter or deskwriter
or something hooked to it). We don't know much about networking, and
want to know if this is possible, and how to do it. The hitch is the macs
will be in separate offices, hundreds (up to a thousand) of feet apart.
A good reliable system (I don't want my pro-IBM thesis advisor to
hassle me if it doesn't work!) would be great. It doesn't have to do
much more than I said. Please, if you reply, start from the beginning. I
know a little about using and programming macs, but nothing about networks.
(Got a chance to learn, though).
--------------------------------------------------
| |
| Michael Webb |
| University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
| |
| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu |
| |
--------------------------------------------------
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 89 21:28:53 EDT
From: Rick Zaccone <zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu>
Subject: Manager 4.0.3
Version 4.0 of SuperMac's Manager didn't work properly with some Mac
Plus's and the original DataFrame 20's. Version 4.0.3 corrects that
problem. This program is useful only to people who have DataFrame
hard disks.
Rick Zaccone
zaccone@bknlvms.bitnet
zaccone@sol.bucknell.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/util/dataframe/manager-403.hqx; 128K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 09:38:04 EDT
From: rlm%dawn.hampshire.edu@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: OzTeX
Could someone send me information on or pointers to the
OzTeX package -- I gather it's a PD TeX for Macs?
Thanks.
Richard Muller
rmuller%hampvms.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
rlm@dawn.hampshire.edu
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 21:44 EDT
From: Doug Hardie <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: Phone number
Does anyone have the phone number for Electronic Arts? All my
documentation is in storage and I would like to contact them. Thanks
-- Doug
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 11:36:02 EDT
From: Michael Kazlow <KAZLOWF%PACEVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: PowerStation2.5.2 Updater
Updates Steve Brecher's Powerstation 2.5 to 2.5.2
[Archived as /info-mac/util/powerstation-252-updater.hqx; 66K]
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 08:35 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Test Scoring Scanner for Macs
Does anyone know of a scanner available for reading "bubble" sheets commonly
used for administering tests? We have an NCS Scanner attached to a P.C. here,
but it was about $9000 and the bottom of the line at that time. (I'm waiting
for NCS to get back to me to see if they have a cheaper model now). We're
looking for something that might be a little more portable, since the NCS
model is larger than a full size PC.
Since graphics scanners are now in the $1000-$2000 range, I'd think a
bubble sheet scanner could be in the same range.
thanks,
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
mucm000@ecncdc.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: 24 Aug 89 15:34 -0700
From: mmcintos@sirius.uvic.ca
Subject: Wavemetrics Applelink address
I recently tried to reach Wavemetrics, the makers of Igor, using
the following address:
D1832@applelink.apple.com
which I gleaned from a summary of mathematical graphing and analysis
packages posted to Info-Mac. I received a reply from
COMMENTS@applelink.apple.com saying that the name was unknown to the
system.
My question is...does anyone know if Wavemetrics is on Applelink
(or any other network accessible from the Internet)? If yes, then
what is the correct address?
Thanks,
Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos@sirius.uvic.ca>
_____________________________________________________________________________
University of Victoria, ECE Dept. | "...the mystery of life isn't a problem to
Box 1700, Victoria, BC, CANADA | solve but a reality to experience."
V8W 2Y2 (604) 721-7211 | from Dune
UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!sirius!mmcintos
------------------------------
Date: 24 Aug 1989 14:45:34 GMT
From: crr%minster.york.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Subject: Word 4.0 RTF and TeX
The RTF file format generated by Word 4.0 seems
to be very similar to computer generated TeX.
I have yet to see the RTF format definition but
it seems as though it would be relatively easy
to translate (partially) from one to the other.
Has anyone out there done this?
I'm intending to try and would be interested
to hear of anyone else's successes/failures and
problems.
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 13:43:31 EDT
From: man@cs.brown.edu
Subject: WordRef 1.1
Here is the 1.1 version of WordRef. The new features include:
o Some bug fixes
o Better handling of double-quotes in the references
o More complete handling of diacriticals (accents) and special
characters in the BibTeX format
o Option to sort references alphabetically when using numeric tags for
citations
o Better handling of out-of-memory conditions
o Accomodations for "home-brewed" BibTeX fields
In case you missed the original announcement for WordRef, here is the
description:
WordRef an application and HyperCard stack I developed for producing cross-
references and bibliographies using Word 3/4. It is yet another facility
which uses the Print Merge facility of Word, but I have tried to do it in
a way which is more general than any of the systems which preceded me, so
that it should be able to handle virtually any cross-referencing and
bibliography needs. It is a ShareWare package and may be distributed
not-for-profit as long as the application, stack, and document are all
kept together.
Some of the features are:
o No limit on the number of counters (variables) used for cross-
references
o Variables can be combined in general arithmetic expressions
o Increment operators are included for convenience
o Variables can have strings interspersed with numbers
o Can scan Word files directly (if Fast Save is off)
o There can be any number of Word files or bibliography files in a
single manuscript
o The bibliography files are kept in the ever popular BibTeX format
o A HyperCard stack is provided for maintaining the bibliography
files
o You can keep comments/keywords with the bibliographic references
o Several different citations styles are provided to go at the point
of reference
o A user-definable style sheet is used for formatting the
bibliography entries.
Enjoy!
--Mark
[Archived as /info-mac/app/wordref-11.hqx; 184K]
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Today's Topics:
[C44JMS%AVIARY.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com : Mac/Atari compatibility query
Bug in THINK C 4.0 "ANSI" library
CalendarMaker
Communications program query
Demo version of Stepping Out II
HOW CAN I ACCESS THE SERIAL PORT FROM HYPERCARD ?
in need of applelink addresses
Keeping a harddisk on 24 hours a day?
Mac Moria available
Modems
Password Protecting the Macintosh
Presentation Graphics
Radius Accelerator on Mac plus
Response: Z Format Decompression
Turning PostScript test page off
ugly vertical fonts revisited
Unzip.hqx
WaveMetrics address
XCMDs Compatability and SuperCard
ZipPop.Hqx
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 16:21:29 +0200
From: Ingemar Ragnemalm <ingemar@isy.liu.se>
Subject: [C44JMS%AVIARY.gm@hac2arpa.hac.com : Mac/Atari compatibility query
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>At the risk of proposing heresy to the net, does anyone out there
>know of peripherals that will allow the Atari to run programs
>developed for the Mac?
>Joan M. Saniuk Disclaimer: opinions, when I
>c44jms@aviary.gmgate.hac.com have any, are my own.
Yes, there are at least three or four different ones. You'd better check out
the atari newsgroup. There were some postings about this recently.
I know about MagicSac, Aladdin and Spectre. (The names might be more or
less misspelled.) MagicSac is the oldest, I think, and I don't know if
it works properly. Maybe. Someone said that the Spectre could read Mac
disks using the original Atari drive. That sounds really good. It
would be an awful pain to transfer programs over the serial ports.
I hope this helps,
Ingemar
--
Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
..
University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 10:17:21 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Bug in THINK C 4.0 "ANSI" library
I ran across a bug in the THINK C 4.0 libraries last night. It affects
the "scanf" function (and its avatars "sscanf" and "fscanf") in the
ANSI library-set.
The bug lies in the floating-point numeric scanner. Floating-point
numbers that lie in the range (0.0, 0.1) may not be decoded properly.
If "scanf" scans the string "0.00235", for example, it will return the
value 0.235; in effect, the leading zeros to the right of the decimal
point are discarded.
Rich Siegal tells me that Symantec is aware of the bug, but has not
yet released an official fix. He's seen the one I used, though, and
suggested that I post it.
The fix is quite simple: move two lines in the "scanf.c" source file,
and then bring up to date the ANSI project and all of its cousins
(ANSI-small, etc.).
Here is the code as originally released in the THINK C 4.0 library set:
/* (floating) process each digit */
case -2:
if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') {
F.valid = TRUE;
if (c != '0' || D.sig[0]) {
if (D.sig[0] < sizeof D.sig - 1)
D.sig[++D.sig[0]] = c;
if (F.dot)
--D.exp;
}
}
else if (c == '.' && !F.dot)
F.dot = TRUE;
else if ((c == 'e' || c == 'E') && F.valid) {
base = 10;
F.valid = FALSE;
state = 0;
}
else
goto pushback;
break;
Here's the version after the fix is installed:
/* (floating) process each digit */
case -2:
if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') {
F.valid = TRUE;
if (c != '0' || D.sig[0]) {
if (D.sig[0] < sizeof D.sig - 1)
D.sig[++D.sig[0]] = c;
}
if (F.dot) /* moved by DCP */
--D.exp; /* moved by DCP */
}
else if (c == '.' && !F.dot)
F.dot = TRUE;
else if ((c == 'e' || c == 'E') && F.valid) {
base = 10;
F.valid = FALSE;
state = 0;
}
else
goto pushback;
break;
This fix appears to resolve the problem; as far as I can tell it has no
ill effects. Use at your own risk; your mileage may vary; void
where prohibited, taxed, or regulated.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 18:12:01 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.mfecc.llnl.gov
Subject: CalendarMaker
I'm looking at a demo of CalendarMaker from Don Brown and I was wondering if
the Import File option can read some sort of text file. We have a scheduling
program running on our Crays and it would be nice if we could just download a
file and have CalendarMaker read it and print out the finished calendar.
Does anybody know enough about CalendarMaker? Also, is this thing available
in stores or only mail order?
Jon
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 08:14:44 PDT
From: Robert_Slade@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Communications program query
I am in need of a terminal emulator which has "scripting" capabilities to
automate complicated signons. I am currently testing Mac240 and MacKermit.
Neither are suitable to my needs. I also need VT240 emulation.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 13:06:24 PDT
From: HMICHEL%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Demo version of Stepping Out II
Here is the demo version of Stepping Out II. Bruce Burkhalter from
berkeley system design, inc. was kind enough to send it to me after a
I had called asking the usual mindless questions. The demo is fully
functional with the added feature of displaying an "About box" every
2 minutes for about 20 seconds. You get to see how it works but you'll
get pretty tired of the box.
As you Stepping Out users already know, it's slick! On my 1 meg Mac SE
a 20" virtual monitor uses 192K. Slide the mouse to the right--zip--you've
panned to the right margin. Ditto for up, down and left. On my miniscule
9" monitor I did notice that I did have to do a little thinking to keep
>From getting lost--which I'm sure would get worse with even bigger virtual
screens.
Speaking of bigger, just dinking around I found out the maximum size screen
it would let you define is 8399 by 4751 pixels which is approximately
10' by 8'. On my SE that would use 4940K. I, uh, wasn't able to try it out.
The binhexed stuffit file contains the init/cdev and a 2 page MacWrite
document.
Michael W. Fleming, Instructional Computing Consultant, Computer Services
California State University, 9001 Stockdale Hwy, Bakersfield, Ca. 93311-1099
Voice: (805) 664-2309 (24hrs) Fax: (805) 664-3194 (24hrs)
Home: 2408 Barnett St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93308, Phone: (805) 399-6542
Bitnet: HMICHEL@CALSTATE Internet: HMICHEL%CALSTATE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Disclaimer: I directly represent only myself; indirectly, God and all creation.
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/stepping-out-ii.hqx; 89K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 AUG 89 11:42 N
From: RONCHETTI%ITNVAX.CINECA.IT@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: HOW CAN I ACCESS THE SERIAL PORT FROM HYPERCARD ?
Does anyone know of a (possibly public domain) hyperstack allowing to access
the serial port? I'm interested in writing a Hypercard stack allowing to use
informations buried into a VAX sitting in the back of my Mac, but I
don't know how to read-from/write-to the serial port from Hypercard.
Please send answers to me (RONCHETT@ITNCISCA), I'll summarize for the net.
Thanks to everyone who can help me solve my problem.
Marco Ronchetti, Universita' di Trento, Italy
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 10:52 EDT
From: Maurice Volaski <V050FN5R@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: in need of applelink addresses
Someone recently asked about the Applelink address for Wavemetrics. Is there
anyone with a listing of who is on applelink. If there is such a list, it
should be posted to the archives.
In particular I am looking for the applelink addresses for Computer
Associates (Cricket Draw) and Aldus (Freehand).
Maurice Volaski
v050fn5r@ubvms
Department of Physiology
University at Buffalo
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 08:42:20 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Keeping a harddisk on 24 hours a day?
What is the best current advice on whether to keep your harddisk running
all the time versus shutting it down for the night??
When I got my first harddisk a few years ago (an Apple SC20), the manual
advised keeping it on unless it was not going to be used for several days
since the spin-up/spin-down would wear it out faster than simply spinning
along. I followed this advice and never had any disk problems.
I now have a 140 MB CMS disk where the manual does not address this question
at all.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 21:25:54 -0700
From: wilson@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (James E. Wilson)
Subject: Mac Moria available
Here is a binhexed stuffit file containing the first release version of Mac
Moria, version 1.0. This Macintosh port was created by Curtis McCauley, and
is based on my UNIX Moria sources. Moria is a dungeon exploration game,
similar to, but very different from, the UNIX games rogue and hack.
Jim Wilson
wilson@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/game/macmoria-part1.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/game/macmoria-part2.hqx; 150K
/info-mac/game/macmoria-part3.hqx; 80K]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 12:21:12 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Modems
I am getting a modem soon, and want to know about some good pd, shareware
and maybe commercial communications packages. Most of what I do is connect
(emulate vt100 usually) to remote hosts (e.g. host ub here at Univ.
of Mich) for mail, etc. (I am currently doing that with terminals).
I also like to do file transfers (using Kermit) from these hosts.
When using Univ. computers here, I have used VersaTerm, which I like, but
I'm not sure I need to spend the $$; maybe there is a good shareware or
freeware program out there. I have two programs that I have never run yet
(no modem!) called QVT, and ZTerm. How do these rate?
On a related note, what are the relative merits of doing file transfer with
Kermit vs. Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem?
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Michael Webb University of Michigan Physics Dept. |
| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
| Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
------------------------------
Date: 24 Aug 89 19:16:00 EST
From: "EJN" <ejn@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: Password Protecting the Macintosh
When powering up a Macintosh, is there any way to password protect the
system so that a password will need to be provided before the system
can be used?
Earl Nall
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
Oak Ridge, TN
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 10:58 EST
From: Thomas R. Blake <TBLAKE%BINGVAXA.BITNET@bingvmc.cc.binghamton.edu>
Subject: Presentation Graphics
Folks,
I have been given the following assignment:
Find us a slide maker to work with both Mac's and PC's (PS/2's). Also find
us software to run on both machines.
One slidemaker that could be used with both machines would be the most
desirable. But I am told that one for each would be acceptable.
MacWorld July 1989 had a review of File Recorders, and the reviewer places
Agfa Matrix's SlideWriter as the premier recorder for the Mac. I have played
with Aldus Persuasion a bit, and we are quite pleased with PageMaker. So I had
kinda figured on going with Persuasion.
Now, the subject of the IBM. I've heard of Harvard Graphics, and 35mm
Express. But I don't have a nice library of PC World's to search for reviews.
Some of you folks out there must be doing presentation graphics, and
producing 35mm slides. Please, drop me a line.
I need something to put in a lab where non-skilled/semi-skilled faculty and
staff will be able to use it.
1. What Slide Machines are you using (How, and what do you think):
A: Macintosh
B: IBM-PC (PS/2)
C: (Both)
2. What Presentation programs are you using (How, and how do you like them):
A: Macintosh
B: IBM-PC (PS/2)
Reply to me, and I'll gladly digest it for the list.
TBLAKE@BINGVAXA.BITNET (Prefered) Thomas R. Blake
TBLAKE@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu Lead Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing Services
SUNY Binghamton
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 22:12 EDT
From: DSchwartz@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Subject: Radius Accelerator on Mac plus
I have to disagree with several of the recent statements about the
Radius Accelerator for the Mac Plus. Although I have been using the
unit for the last two years, I am totally frustrated by my inability to
get Radius to constructively respond to requests for improvements or
fixes. They seem to want to forget all about this product, and their
support is dwindling to being almost nonexistent. I still can't believe
that it's been over two years since I started these endless rounds of
telephone tag and MacWorld Expo huntdowns of Radius technical and
management personnel!
The Accelerator's biggest problem is it's interaction with the Dataframe
XP20 SCSI hard disk ( and several other SCSI disks as well, I believe ).
The installation of the unit on the Mac Plus causes the XP20's SCSI I/O
rates to slow down by a factor of 3 to 4 times! ( The increases in CPU
speed mask the slowdown for most users, who unfortunately never realize
the potential increased performance levels possible in their machines!
). The problems are due to timing and synchronization in the
implementation of SCSI I/O in the Apple Mac Plus ROMs. Radius is well
aware of the problem, but the changes in their software and/or ROM code
over the years have only degraded the speeds ( despite their marketing
claims to the contrary ). I wasn't even going to keep the last ROM
Upgrade ("V2.0+"), but my AppleCD SC Drive wouldn't work at all without
it.
The second, but less vexing problem for me, is that almost all sounds
come out slightly scratchy, whether or not the Radius FPD is installed.
Software upgrades have slightly improved the situation, but the static
is still annoyingly present.
The final problem is that on the Mac Plus, the Accelerator can't be
turned off! There is no CDEV as in the SE version, so in order to fully
demonstrate the above problems, the Mac must be disassembled and the
piggyback boards removed. ( Not a simple task ). Thus, the user has no
choice but to live with these problems or forget using this accelerator
completely!
Fortunately, the unit's low price tends to make up for its shortcomings,
but a potential purchaser should be aware of these possible problem
areas.
Dana J. Schwartz
Laurel, MD
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1989 10:01 CDT
From: Kevin Coffel <KCOFFEL%UMINN1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Response: Z Format Decompression
For those of you interested, the application to decompress a Unix Z
format on a Mac is called MacCompress 3.2 by Lloyd Chambers. It is
available at various internet sites including Sumex and umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
Thanks for all-
Kevin Coffel
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 10:57:32 edt
From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham)
Subject: Turning PostScript test page off
Does anyone know what's the PostScript command that prevents the LaserWriter
>From printing a test page everytime it's turned on? I looked into "My Page
Setup v1.2", but it doesn't do it.
Thanks for any answers.
Hisham.
Hisham A. Abboud
Computer Center/Academic Services
The Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C. 20064
Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA |
Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU |
or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2 |
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 10:05 EST
From: <FEASTER%IUBACS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ugly vertical fonts revisited
Several weeks ago I posted an inquiry asking why we could not get vertical
fonts to print at full resolution on our Cricketgraph output. After much
wailing and gnashing of teeth, we found the answer in an old issue of
MACazine. It is an inherent limitation of our Laserwriter IISC! Since it
isn't a Postscript printer, rotated text gets printed at a wimpy 72 dpi
resolution. We're upgrading to an NT now. Thanks to all who sent helpful
suggestions.
Mickey Feaster FEASTER@IUBACS
Speech Research Lab feaster@gold.bacs.indiana.edu
Indiana University, Bloomington
[Whoever wrote that didn't know what they were talking about. I have written
programs which print rotated text to an SC at 300dpi. It is simply a
software problem. However, if your software doesn't go the extra mile for
an SC, perhaps you are better off upgrading (either software or hardware).
-Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 16:46:10 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Unzip.hqx
UNZIP is a Macintosh Programmer's Workshop tool that I hacked
together from various sources to extract files from a ZIP
archive (as produced by the MS-DOS archiver PKZIP). It is free.
Don Gilbert dogStar Software
gilbertd@iubacs.bitnet gilbertd@gold.bacs.indiana.edu
po box 302 bloomington, in 47405
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/mpw-unzip.hqx; 43K]
------------------------------
Date: 25 Aug 89 09:15:00 EST
From: "ZZT" <zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
Subject: WaveMetrics address
I have been able to send mail to Wave Metrics via a BITNET
gateway using the form:
TO: XB.DAS@STANFORD.BITNET
SUBJECT: WaveMetrics@applelink
Note that the Internet address is hidden in the BITNET "subject".
You may also be able to reach them using the direct address,
WaveMetrics@applelink.apple.com
which I have to send as:
wins%"<WaveMetrics@applelink.apple.com>"
or perhaps by an indirect address:
wins%"<WaveMetrics%applelink@apple.com>"
I hope that this helps.
Jon Tischler
BITNET zzt@ornlstc
ARPANET zzt@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov or zzt@ornl.gov
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 09:26:36 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: XCMDs Compatability and SuperCard
I just received SuperCard this week, and have only started playing with
it a bit. One of the first things I did was convert a HyperCard stack
that I've been working on into a SuperCard project. This stack is
designed to do a bunch of useful things for molecular biologists, like
manipulate DNA sequences (long text strings), and I had written a number
of XCMDs and XFCNs in Think Pascal and TML Pascal to provide a variety
of these special manipulations. However, when I converted my stack to a
SuperCard project, I have found that some XCMDs work OK, and others
crash SuperCard unexpectedly. Needless to say, all of these XCMDs/XFCNs
worked flawlessly in the HyperCard stack. Are there special rules that
one needs to be aware of when writing externals for SuperCard ? The
XCMD that crashes the program opens a handle to a global variable
containing a long text string (typically 100-8000 characters), does some
text munging on it, and returns handles to two global variables - and
somewhere along the way crashes. An XCMD that I tried which work
similarly opens a handle to a global variable, does some other type of
text munging, and returns a handle to a global variable.
Two questions:
1. Can people write in and summarize their experiences in using
externals with SuperCard, and also share any special information they
may have come across?
2. Is there a way to contact the people at Silicon Beach from
Bitnet/Internet?
--Paul Romaniuk
University of Victoria
PROMAN@UVVM
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 16:45:37 -0500
From: Don Gilbert <gilbertd@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Subject: ZipPop.Hqx
ZipPop is a Macintosh application that I hacked together from
various sources to extract files from a ZIP archive (as produced
by the MS-DOS archiver PKZIP). It is free.
Don Gilbert dogStar Software
gilbertd@iubacs.bitnet gilbertd@gold.bacs.indiana.edu
po box 302 bloomington, in 47405
[Archived as /info-mac/util/zippop.hqx; 55K]
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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 27 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 151
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
Absoft Fortran with LSC (query)
Daisy Chaining Drives?
HOW CAN I ACCESS THE SERIAL PORT FROM HYPERCARD ?
Info on the use and applications of Wolfram's "Mathematica"
Keeping a harddisk on 24 hours a day?
LOGO
MACINTOSH EMULATION
Modifying SFGet Dialog
More on Mac+ Accelerator boards...
Notes from inside a Klein bottle
Password Protecting the Macintosh
Souped-Up GS
TURNING OFF LASERWRITER TEST PAGE
Wavemetrics Applelink address
where are the mouse coordinates in memory?
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1989 16:27:39 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
Inside each of the info-mac directories, you should find a file called
00directoryName-abstracts.txt. This file contains a list of the text headers
of the .hqx files in that directory. It may be useful when you are looking
for any file which relates to a particular subject. These files will be
updated every few weeks, so look for the abstracts of recent files in
/help/recent-abstracts.txt. Thanks to Glenn Trewitt for his help in putting
this together, and to the other people who mailed in their suggestions.
Bill
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Date: 25 Aug 89 16:58:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov>
Subject: Absoft Fortran with LSC (query)
I have just started to use Prototyper to generate code for LSC. This is a
marvelous way to do a user interface, but for my scientific applications
and historical reasons, I have Fortran code that I cannot abandon. So, does
anyone know how to link Absoft Fortran subroutines to a LSC main program?
In principle, Prototyper can generate code for MPW C 3.0 and I can use the
Lang. Systems Fortran to handle the Fortran subroutines and then link it all
together. Has anyone done this? Or, does anybody have any experience at all
with linking modules from 2 different languages under MPW 3.0??
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 20:04:30 EDT
From: Bull Durham <WCD@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: Daisy Chaining Drives?
I operate a plain vanilla Plus with a Cutting Edge External 800K Drive.
Lately two floppies haven't been enough for the work I'm doing, but I'm
not quite ready to buy a Hard Drive. My neighbor has an Apple 3.25" drive not
being used, and offered to loan it to me for a while. No documentation
available, so that's why I'm turning to the net for help.
The Apple drive has a gozouta port in the back, in addition to the
usual cable that plugs into the Mac. This looks like the back of my old
Atari disk drive, that let you daisy-chain all the peripherals. So I tried
hooking the Apple 3.25" to the Mac, and my Cutting Edge to the Apple floppy.
The Mac didn't acknowledge the CE's existence.
So, can you hook up two external floppies to the Plus?
Thanks,
Bull
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 13:19 EDT
From: Doug Hardie <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Subject: HOW CAN I ACCESS THE SERIAL PORT FROM HYPERCARD ?
The Developer's Stack (Available from the archive) has some XCMDs and
XFCNs that give you access to the serial port:
SendSerial - sends characters out the serial port
CommInit - sets the port parameters
CommWrite - sends characters out the serial port
CommRead - receives characters from the serial port
Those are the ones that I could easily find. There may be more.
-- Doug
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 23:05 C
From: Joao Candido Portinari <PUCRJPP%BRFAPESP.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info on the use and applications of Wolfram's "Mathematica"
I would appreciate any pointers on the use and applications of Wolfram's
MATHEMATICA: any literature, besides the author's Addison Wesley book?
I've heard that the network PORTAL has a section devoted to Mathematica. Is
Portal accessible through Bitnet?
Any hints from more experienced users of Mathematica would be gratefully
acknowledged.
Joao
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 03:51:55 +0200
From: Olle Furberg <ollef@sics.se>
Subject: Keeping a harddisk on 24 hours a day?
In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:
>What is the best current advice on whether to keep your harddisk running
>all the time versus shutting it down for the night??
As I have understood, there is no "current" opinion in this question: there
is and will always (?) be two schools of thought: shut it down or leave it on.
The problem is that there doesn't exist any HD constructed according to
_current_ HD technology which has been in used 4 or 5 years. We have to
wait and see... (e.g. no one can explain the bit-putrefaction!)
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 13:58:22 PDT
From: bri@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Reilly)
Subject: LOGO
Does anyone have a recommendation for LOGO on the Mac? I was
told that Apple recently bought ObjectLOGO, which had been recommended.
I have also seen mentioned somewhere that the turtle graphics commands
for LOGO had been implemented in HyperTalk. Where can I find these?
Thanks,
Brian Reilly Division of Language and Literacy
bri@ucbgarne.bitnet UC Berkeley School of Education
bri@garnet.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA 94720
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 14:40:56 EDT
From: wilts@cavax.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Subject: MACINTOSH EMULATION
[good comparison of Mac emulators for Atari, Amiga]
> Uh, for what it is worth, Atari and Commodore also offer ONLY a 90
>day warranty. GRIN
There go the facts...Commodore now includes a full 1 year warranty on all
Amiga computers in Canada. You may start groaning instead of grinning....
I do not know what Atari currently offers since I have never dealt with
them. I have owned an Amiga since 1985. Commodore has been including the
1 year standard warranty since last year.
>Larry Rymal in East Texas <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
.../Ed (EWilts%Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA@UncaNet.Bitnet)
Ed Wilts
Sr. Systems Analyst, Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada (403) 234-1007
------------------------------
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 89 13:10:16 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Modifying SFGet Dialog
How can the standard file get dialog be modified to NOT show hidden files
or hidden directories?
------------------------------
Date: 25 Aug 89 16:54:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov>
Subject: More on Mac+ Accelerator boards...
Since there has recently been a lot of talk about accelerator boards, let me
put in my 2 cents. I have a Novy systems 16mhz 020/881 accelerator board
(two actually, one at home and one at work). The board is consistently
faster than the Radius board, support is excellent, hardware is solid and
stable, as is the software. Unlike Radius, sound is handled correctly.
Custome beep sounds come out perfectly, although I can't say about music
software, as I don't run any.
Further, the product is upgradable to more memory and faster clock rates.
There is a forthcoming board swap on this product to the new Novy 030/882
board. If you still have a Mac+, this is the ONLY upgrade path available
>From anyone that will let your venerable old machine run System 7.
I am absolutely satisfied with the Novy products. They don't have the
advertising budget that Radius does, but I believe it is the best accelerator
board available for the Mac+ or the Mac SE.
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 89 16:45:40 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Notes from inside a Klein bottle
Last month's "scoop" was about the Internet gateway to Compu$erve
(compuserve.com), this month, guess who told Spenser F. Katt about
mcimail.com (PC Week 21 August p. 124 :-)
Details follow this month's column.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
VAPORWARE
Murphy Sewall
From the September 1989 APPLE PULP
H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter
$15/year
P.O. Box 18027
East Hartford, CT 06118
Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 569-8739
Permission granted to copy with the above citation
Better IIgs?
Last month, Apple announced an improved IIgs that is almost
exactly as described in last May's column. There are no
hints of any other new IIgs models, such as the long rumored
IIgs+, in the near future. Perhaps those longing for a
faster Apple II will switch to the 10 megahertz IIgs clone
shown by Video Technologies at the Apple II Developers'
Conference in Kansas in July. Video Technologies claims
they will have a design and ROM chips that do not infringe
on Apple's copyrights and patents by the time their clone in
introduced next year. The Laser-gs has 2 expansion slots,
supports AppleTalk, and will retail in the $800 range.
- Thanks to Grant Delaney (who was there) for the details
68030 Amiga.
Commodore's Amiga computers have been quietly finding their
way into the corporate world as inexpensive graphics
workstations. The Amiga will continue to maintain pace with
Apple's Macintosh with the introduction of a model built
around Motorola's 68030 processor this Fall.
- PC Week 31 July
Codename RT-3.
IBM will attempt to become a major player in the technical
workstation market on October 17 when a new line of five
Micro Channel RT (RISC Technology) computers is announced.
The new entry level workstation will have the footprint of a
PS/2 Model 30 and offer performance starting in the 18 to 20
MIPS range. The Number crunching power of the $11,000 to
$12,000 model calculates out at 7 megaflops. The higher end
models will be based on IBM's proprietary ROMP-II RISC chip,
but the entry level system may use Intel's i860. Although
the systems will use the AIX 3.0 operating system, a
decision has not been reached on the user interface. In the
past, IBM has said it would provide Motif and Next Step with
AIX. - InfoWorld 24 July and 7 August
Macintosh Workstation.
Volume shipment of DayStar Digital's 50 MHz 68030 (see last
May's column) Macintosh II accelerator is scheduled for
October. The 50/30 Accelerator is available for the
original Mac II as well as the IIx series. Benchmark test
using a prototype of the 50/30 board showed overall
performance better than twice that of a stock IIx, and in
math intensive applications, the board is more than three
times as quick as a standard IIx. The 50/30 Accelerator
will retail for $5,995. - MacWeek 25 July
i486 Delay.
Last month's column must have jinxed Intel. No sooner did
it appear than vendors were told to expect "later delivery."
David Kirkey, vice president of sales and marketing at ALR,
said Intel had originally promised initial shipments of the
chip in September but is now saying October or November. A
spokeswoman for Intel maintained that the chip is "totally
on schedule" for fourth quarter volume shipments.
- InfoWorld 14 August
New Compaq's.
Compaq's first Extended Industry Standard Architecture
(EISA) computer will be an i486 model to be announced in
October. The Compaq 486 also will have a hard disk with
cache memory which yields an average access speed of roughly
10 milliseconds. By year's end, Compaq plans to announce a
dual i486 model that can be expanded into a departmental
computer with 32 Mbytes of RAM and 10 gigabytes of erasable
optical storage. The fully configured version of Compaq's
twin processor machine is expected to cost between $40,000
and $50,000 but deliver performance equivalent to a $200,000
DEC VAX or IBM AS/400. - PC Week 24 July
Who Needs OS/2 (Continued)?
IBM and Microsoft have agreed to merge DOS with a version of
Windows 3.0 and deliver the combined product sometime next
year. Microsoft is expected to deliver one more version of
MS-DOS between now and the introduction of the combined DOS
with Windows. If Windows permits applications to run in as
much as 16 Mbytes of memory (see July's column), users may
be able to take forever migrating to OS/2 with PM.
- InfoWorld 7 August
Mass Storage Drives.
Storage Dimensions has announced an optical-magneto drive
for the PS/2 and Macintosh computers with 1-gigabyte disks.
The drive has an average seek time of but 35 milliseconds.
Several manufacturers have announced 650 Mbyte read/write
optical drives with 95 millisecond average access times for
shipment in September: Procom Technology $4,950, Microtech
International $4,795, and Supermac Technologies $4,999.
- InfoWorld 14 August and Random Access 19 August
Apple's "MCA."
Apple has announced plans to set standards for connecting
media devices such as videodisc, videotape, and CD audio
players to the Mac. Currently, developers have to write
custom drivers for each device. In December, Apple will
ship sample device drivers, specifications, and user
interface guidelines for the Media Control Architecture
(MCA) standard. - PC Week 14 August and MacWeek 15 August
32-bit OS/2.
Microsoft plans to release the first version of OS/2 able to
run 32-bit applications early next year. OS/2 version 2.0
will require an 80386 or i486 CPU, but only selected potions
of the initial release will take advantage of the faster
32-bit data path. Conversion to a full 32-bit
implementation will be done in stages permitting release of
portions of the operating system months sooner than
otherwise. - PC Week 31 July
Outline Fonts for PM.
In an effort to keep up with the Macintosh, Agfa
Compugraphic's Intellifont "outline" font technology will be
added to OS/2's Presentation Manager. When OS/2 2.0 is
released next year, PM's present two fonts will be replaced
by 12 outline typefaces embedded in the system. Microsoft
plans to increase the number to 50 fonts within three months
of the initial release. - PC Week 7 August
Color LaserWriter.
Motorola is putting the finishing touches on a new digital
signal processor called the 96002 intended for a forthcoming
Apple color laser printer. - PC Week 14 August
Mac Word Perfect 1.0.3.
Word Perfect has announced an upgrade for their Macintosh
product which makes it compatible with MS-DOS Word Perfect
5.0 files and supports their graphics and text formats. The
new release will ship in the next couple of months.
Upgrades for owners of the current version will be available
for $10. - InfoWorld 14 August
SPSS-X on a Desktop.
The Presentation Manager version of SPSS is scheduled to
ship later this month with the SPSS-Mac expected in October
or November (see last February's column). 4 Mbytes of RAM
and a math coprocessor are recommended.
- PC Week 31 July and InfoWorld 7 and 14 August
Too Heavy, Too Slow, and Too Expensive.
Rumors about the demise of the LapMac (last month's column)
are greatly exaggerated (to paraphrase Mark Twain). It's
scheduled for introduction on September 20 along with the 25
MHz Macintosh IIci (described in July's column). The 17
pound SE compatible laptop will retail for $6,500 with 2
Mbytes of RAM and a 40 Mbyte hard disk.
- MacWeek 25 July and 1 and 8 August
Claris to Issue PC Software?
Rumor has it that Claris, Apple's software spinoff, has been
developing a program for the IBM PC. No information is yet
available about the program's purpose (PCWorks?).
- PC Week 14 August
Microsoft Office.
In late September, Microsoft will offer a $949 CD-ROM disk
for the Macintosh which will include Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Mail, online tutorials, documentation, and a
HyperCard interface. The disk will also contain some third
party clipart and template libraries, Silicon Beach
Software's SuperPaint 1.1, 350 Adobe screen fonts, and
numerous other tools and utilities. In addition to the CD
player, Microsoft Office will require a hard disk, System
6.02 or higher, HyperCard 1.2.2 and at least 2 Mbytes of RAM
(4 Mbytes recommended). - MacWeek 8 August
Word Bug Fix.
Microsoft is planning to issue a maintenance release by
early Fall of the latest version of Word (5.0 shipped last
April). The update will resolve some idiosyncrasies between
5.0 and previous versions as well as a number of reported
problems with the new version. - PC Week 14 August
HyperCard Update.
HyperCard 1.2.2 is not compatible with the LapMac of the 25
MHz Mac IIci. Both will ship with version 1.2.3 which will
merely add support for the new Mac models and will not
include any major enhancements. - MacWeek 8 August
2 Mbyte Data Card.
Canon has unveiled new optical credit card data storage
technology that will permit up to 2 Mbytes of information
including pictures, X-rays, and fingerprints to be stored
along with alphanumeric data. Unlike today's magnetic card
strips, which are affected by magnets, and integrated
circuit cards, which can be erased by static electricity,
the Write Once, Read Many times (WORM) optical cards are not
susceptible to environmental electro-magnetism. Canon plans
to ship models of the Optical Card System by next January
with volume production slated by 1991. The Reader/Writer
drive will sell for between $1,500 and $2,000 and the cards
themselves will be about $5.00 each. - PC Week 24 July
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>From: "David K. Ely" <dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US>
Subject: Re: Looking for admin contact for mcimail.com
The Internet<->MCI Mail Gateway is an experimental mail system being
developed by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (NRI),
a non-profit research organization. NRI is currently researching
interconnecting various mail services.
Currently, there is no charge for sending mail from the Internet to MCI Mail.
In order to send mail to users on MCI Mail, use one of the following addresses:
accountname@mcimail.com
-or-
mci_id@mcimail.com
-or-
full_user_name@mcimail.com
For instance, I have a mailbox on MCI Mail. You could send mail to me
via either dely@mcimail.com or 379-3286@mcimail.com or David_Ely@mcimail.com.
Users on MCI Mail can also send messages to the Internet. At the "Command:"
prompt, type "create <carriage return>. Then the user performs the following:
(NOTE the "TO:", "EMS:" and "MBX:" strings are prompts provided by MCI Mail.
Command: create <return>
TO: David K. Ely (EMS)
EMS: INTERNET
MBX: dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US
This address is translated to:
"David K. Ely" <dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US> by the Gateway.
Mail sent from MCI Mail to the Internet is charged by MCI Mail.
One final note: Feel free to use the gateway as often as you'd like, but
be forewarned: The gateway is still not considered fully
operational; sometimes mail will be delayed (usually less
than 24 hours.)
If you have any more questions, or if I can be of further assistance, please
feel free to email me.
David K. Ely
Manager, EMS Systems
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (NRI)
Phone: US: (703) 620-8990
Internet Mail: dely@NRI.Reston.VA.US
MCI Mail: dely
Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
(203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM]
The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity!
-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 89 10:29:52 PDT
From: cpdaux!steve@apple.com (Steve Lemke)
Subject: Password Protecting the Macintosh
Earl Nall of Martin Marietta Energy Systems <ejn@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov> asks:
>When powering up a Macintosh, is there any way to password protect the
>system so that a password will need to be provided before the system
>can be used?
I beta tested a product called DiskLock, and it seemed like a pretty neat
product - on bootup it would ask you for a password for each drive that was
protected, before it would be "unlocked". If you don't know the password,
then the system will ignore that drive. It will only boot from an unlocked
drive. This is done by doing something to the SCSI driver, I believe, so
botting a floppy will still not give you access to the locked drive. You
can obtain more information (and a special introductory price) from Fifth
Generation Systems at (800) 873-4384. Also, you'll find an ad for it in
the latest MacWeek magazine.
----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!"
----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE
----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570
----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 89 16:47:22 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Souped-Up GS
>As a person with some good sources myself, and a rumor collector like
>you, may I suggest that you do a little double checking about the
>status of the Mac IIci....... Yes, it was to be announced at the 9/20
>thing at Universal theater, but from what I am getting, it has now been
>placed on a back burner, Apple possibly yeilding to the Wall Street
>pressure NOT to do it this year, where the experts fear it will KILL the
>market for the IIcx before Apple gets back it's R&D money etc..
Anything's possible, I suppose. After all, IBM delayed announcing the
portable Model 70 for a few weeks after pictures and reviews of it had
appeared in the trade press. However, I don't think delaying the IIci
for financial or market reasons at this juncture would make much sense.
First, the machine (including its performance characteristics and price)
is no secret. Those who are going to wait for the IIci in preference to
the IIcx will wait anyway. The IIci has some features besides greater
speed that the IIcx doesn't, but the machines are similar enough that
I doubt it's really possible to divide R&D investments among the two,
besides Wall Streeters generally are more sophisticated about 'sunk costs.'
Holding up the IIci will simply delay realizing a return on the investment
developing the 25 MHz Mac.
Another reason I expect to see the IIci this Fall is Apple plans to introduce
a whole new line of Mac II's after January First (the principal difference will
be a 20 MHz NuBus). Delaying the IIci will simply push back the whole
schedule. From here, that doesn't appear condusive to maximizing the
cash flow (which is what recovering R&D is all about).
There may be technical reasons for delaying the IIci (FCC certification,
production line glitches, etc.) but if Wall Street is given as an excuse,
I'll suspect a "smoke screen."
>Will you be at the user group breakfeast at Applefest???
No, but you may see our Club's giant economy size cherub (and Apple
Ambassador -- or whatever title they've given him) George Carbonell there.
Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]
Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET
Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET]
U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP]
(203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM]
The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity!
-+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could
(subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 16:15:20 EDT
From: ZAK%NIHCU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: TURNING OFF LASERWRITER TEST PAGE
ABBOUD@CUA writes:
> Does anyone know what's the PostScript command that prevents the LaserWriter
> From printing a test page everytime it's turned on? I looked into "My Page
> Setup v1.2", but it doesn't do it.
You can write a little PostScript to do it, but pulling out the
paper tray a little before you power up should do it. Then
push the tray back in after the LaserWriter is warmed up, and
you're ready to print.
------------------------------
Date: 26 Aug 89 20:36 -0700
From: mmcintos@sirius.uvic.ca
Subject: Wavemetrics Applelink address
The correct Applelink address for Wavemetrics, the makers of Igor,
is WAVEMETRICS (imagine that! oops, that's another company :-). I
sent them a message in the evening and received a reply back the next
day...good response time. Thanks to Gary M. Palter and Michael D.
Prange, who replied so quickly to my query about the address.
Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos@sirius.uvic.ca>
_____________________________________________________________________________
University of Victoria, ECE Dept. | "...the mystery of life isn't a problem to
Box 1700, Victoria, BC, CANADA | solve but a reality to experience."
V8W 2Y2 (604) 721-7211 | from Dune
UUCP: ...!{uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!uvicctr!sirius!mmcintos
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Date: Fri 25 Aug 89 17:37:34-MDT
From: "Eric C. Kofoid" <BI.KOFOID@science.utah.edu>
Subject: where are the mouse coordinates in memory?
Where in memory are the mouse coordinates stored? Is there a
global variable or constant which points to this location? "getMouse"
and the "where" field of the event record don't help, as I actually
want to *modify* the mouse position, rather than read it. Thus, I must
know their primary location as referenced globally by the operating
system. If they are accessible by a standard system call then the code
will run on any Mac. Unfortunately, IM is of little help, at least
under obvious topics such as "mouse", "cursor", etc.
Please, >>>no flames!<<< I know this is a violation of the
user interface, a concept which I revere and respect. My reasons for
wanting to do this are highly specific, and will not affect the user's
perception of the metaphor underlying a good Mac program.
Eric.
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my posting. Most people recommended
"moire", a shareware program which can be found in the INFO-MAC archives
on Sumex as ~ftp/info-mac/cdev/moire-30.hqx.
Other programs mentioned were "flex" (another non-commercial program) and
"Pyro" (a commercial product).
One of my co-workers mentioned that moire seemed to cause problems with
Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp. We're going to give it another try to
see if the problem can be reproduced.
Thanks again.
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 28 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 152
Today's Topics:
AutoBack demo
ChineseInputMethod1.0
Cmdr. Dialog INIT
Communications program query (part 2)
Flag pages for Laserwriters
ImageWriter, Spooler, PlaySound
improved MACSERVE and MACARCH macros for CMS
Inboard modems on the II
looking for a TEX file maker
Mac Lite experiences/portable modems
Modifying SFGetFile
Mouse coordinates global
SPSSx on Mac?
where are the mouse coordinates in memory?
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 08:35:37 PDT
From: pschnack@orion.cf.uci.edu
Subject: AutoBack demo
What is AutoBack?
AutoBack is a fully automatic disk backup utility for the Macintosh. Unlike
conventional or timed backup utilities AutoBack works automatically as you
work with the files on your machine. AutoBack is based on shadow or mirror
technology. AutoBack maintains an up-to-the-minute shadow of your disks
with no required user intervention or machine down time.
Autoback works locally or across the network to an AppleShare, CAP, TOPS,
AlisaShare, Pacer, uShare or other file server applications. AutoBack works
across the Macintosh family from the 512Ke and up. You specify the backup
location and the types of files that will be backed up. For example you can
specify to only back up Microsoft Word and MacDraw II documents or all
documents. AutoBack also provides functions for initial backup, clean up of
old unwanted backup files, and restore.
Features
Automatically maintains a complete backup "shadow" of user folders and files.
Operates fully automatic with no user intervention or machine down time required.
Backs up to any specified folder or disk, local or remote.
Works with any Macintosh-compatible disk and network file system, including AppleShare, TOPS, Pacer, 3com, Novell, and AlisaShare.
Compatible with Finder and MultiFinder.
Provides user-friendly restore operation for quickly restoring original files or folders from backups.
Users may restore all or any selected part of their backups.
Backups folders are maintained in a structure identical to the user's original file system. Thus the backup desktop is identical to the original desktop.
Can maintain a backup copy of the last version of each file as well as the current version.
Limitations of the Demo Version
The only limitation imposed is you may only backup one application's
files.
About the publisher
AutoBack will be available just as soon as the documentation is back from the
printer :-). A release date in the first week of September is expected. A
AppleShare server version of AutoBack will be available soon after. The full
version of AutoBack will be $99 and is available from:
SoftTrends
2243 Pacific Ave Ste. B101
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
(714)650-2158
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/autoback.hqx; 210K]
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 89 14:18:06 PDT
From: lee@umunhum.stanford.edu (Fung Fung Lee)
Subject: ChineseInputMethod1.0
CIM Version 1.0
Chinese Input Method for Macintosh Chinese OS (GuoBiao Version)
This package includes two programs, a sample data file and a document:
1. MakePhraseInput - generate an "Input Method" from a data file
2. ExtractData - generate a data file from the resource in an "Input Method"
3. Cantonese - a data file for Cantonese (pinyin) phrase input method
4. "Yuet Yam Fong On" or Cantonese Phonetic Systems - a document describing
the phonetic system (CPS3) used in the data file and other related systems.
An "Input method" is a Macinstosh file to be put inside the System Folder
to support a particular (keyboard-based) Chinese input method such as PinYin,
Stroke, GB-code, etc.
The program itself is quite general. It reads in a table of entries
each associating an ASCII string with one or more Chinese characters,
and generates an "Input Method" which works more or less like PinYin
(which bundles with the Chinese OS), actually more, because it is
"phrase" based rather than character based.
With this program, it is ALSO possible for users to build English->Chinese,
French->Chinese, Japanese (kana) ->Chinese input methods, etc.
Of course, you need the appropriate data files.
The above items 1&2 were written by Ed Lai (lai@apple.com)
Items 3&4 were written by Fung F. Lee (lee@umunhum.stanford.edu)
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Fung F. Lee
[Archived as /info-mac/util/chinese-input-method.hqx; 58K]
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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 89 18:49:42 MDT
From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Cmdr. Dialog INIT
Cmdr. Dialog is an INIT from Mark 3 Software and Andrew Welch that
when placed in your System Folder gives every single dialog the
capability to use the Command key shortcuts for Cut, Copy, & Paste.
90% of the programs out there don't allow their text to be Cut,
Copied, or Pasted, which is very annoying! This program fixes that,
and it also makes your Undo, Cut, Copy, & Paste functions keys on the
Extended keyboard actually Undo, Cut, Copy, & Paste everywhere
(not just in dialogs). It is a niftly little INIT (3K) with
entertaining docs. Try it out!
[Archived as /info-mac/init/cmdr-dialog.hqx; 41K]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 08:21:22 PDT
From: Robert_Slade@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Communications program query (part 2)
Thank you for those who responded to my original request for information
on communications programs. Further specifications are:
VT240 emulation for both VT200 key capabilities and 240 graphics
"Scripting" capabilities for automatic "login" and other procedures (I
am not afraid to learn another "programming" language)
"background" tasking such as upload and download
KERMIT protocol file transfer
From the first responses I have ascertained that a) Red Ryder is *very*
popular and b) Red Ryder does not supply VT240 emulation.
Thanks again.
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 09:27 EDT
From: WOODIN%EREVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Flag pages for Laserwriters
I remember seeing an article on either Info-Mac or MacNet about a program
(INIT?) that puts a flag page out ahead of a users job sent to a
LaserWriter. Does such a program exist? Our networked printers could use some
help! Please respond here or to bitnet WOODIN@EREVAX.
Richard L. Woodin
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 00:10:21 PDT
From: @cunyvm.cuny.edu:RADFORD@FRGAG51.BITNET
Subject: ImageWriter, Spooler, PlaySound
Three little questions for the market:
1) Anyone know how to change the default paper type in the ImageWriter
dialog from US Letter to A4? I imagine is some bits in some resource,
but Inside Mac isn't much help here.
2) Any suggestions for a spooling program for the ImageWriter? I
tried SuperSpool from the Info-Mac archives, but it doesn't seem to work.
(System 6.0.3 on an SE).
3) Under Multifinder, PlaySound displays a file dialog without any text
(file names, button names, etc.). Bug or feature?
Thanks,
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Simon J. E. Radford radford@frgag51.bitnet
Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique Telephone: (+33) 76.82.49.32
300, Rue de la Piscine IRAM switchboard 76.82.49.00
Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble Telefax: (+33) 76.51.59.38
38406 St. Martin d'Heres France Telex: 980 753 IRAM F
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 11:04:19 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: improved MACSERVE and MACARCH macros for CMS
The improved versions of MACSERVE and MACARCH xedit macros have recently
been posted to Sumex. However, only the description of the new MACARCH
macro made it to INFO-MAC. This note is just to clarify the above and
to let interested users know that they are archived as:
misc/vm-macserve-xedit.txt
misc/vm-macarch-xedit.txt
I can send either file directly to anybody who has problems extracting
them from MacArch or MacServe.
Robert
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 89 21:24:51 PDT
From: mse@deimos.caltech.edu (Martin Ewing)
Subject: Inboard modems on the II
Can anyone enlighten me on the various modem cards now becoming available for
the Mac-II, IIx, etc.? Apart from being expensive, what are they like?
My particular concern is with the software drivers supplied. Do they
produce effectively a 3rd serial i/o port that can be addressed by garden-
variety terminal emulators, or are you forced to use their (possibly
quirky) emulators? As far as I know most such programs only offer you the
choice of the standard two serial ports. Perhaps the modem card intercepts
calls to the standard modem port. Would that mean that you can't use the
standard port and the internal card simultaneously?
Thanks for any replies.
Martin Ewing, Radio Astronomy 105-24, Caltech, Pasadena, Calif. USA 91125
+1-818-356-4970, mse@caltech.edu, mse@deimos.caltech.edu, deimos::mse
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 17:03:52 EDT
From: Raynaud <ULMO031%FRORS12.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: looking for a TEX file maker
I am looking for a program that would take a Macintosh file (MacWrite
with use of underscripts,subscripts and Symbol font) and make a TEX
compatible file, so I can print it elsewhere.
In fact, I would like to get both the ease-of-use of the Macintosh for
mathematical wordprocessing and the quality of print of TEX.
<ULMO031@FRORS12.BITNET>
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 17:59:55 EDT
From: Michael B. Johnson <wave@gertie.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Mac Lite experiences/portable modems
I might be acquiring a Cambridge Z88, the so-called "Mac-Lite" sometime
in the near future. I have two questions:
1. Does anybody else have one of these, and if so, what do you think?
General experiences, where to buy peripherals cheap, service advice,
etc. I'm also interested in file transfer between my UNIX machines
through a modem, but Mac access is important too.
2. Has anyone had any experience with purchasing/using a 1200 or 2400 baud
external modem with this system? For that matter, advice about
specific brand or vendor, even if you haven't used them with a
Cambridge Z88, would be greatly appreciated. I'm only interested
in "real" portable ones, i.e, the ones that run off a single
nine-volt battery and costs < $150, preferably < $100.
Thanks.
- Michael B. Johnson
wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu
wave@think.com
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 10:35:36 edt
From: abboud%cuavax.dnet@netcon.cua.edu (Hisham)
Subject: Modifying SFGetFile
> From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
> Subject: Modifying SFGet Dialog
>
> How can the standard file get dialog be modified to NOT show hidden files
> or hidden directories?
Look at the file "info-mac/apple/code/sc-018-stdfile.hqx". It's an Apple
source code example on how to modify StdFile, with versions in C and Pascal.
Hisham.
Hisham A. Abboud
Computer Center/Academic Services
The Catholic University of America
Washington, D.C. 20064
Bitnet: ABBOUD@CUA |
Internet: ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU |
or ABBOUD%CUAVAX.DNET@192.31.193.2 |
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 09:09 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Mouse coordinates global
Subject: RE: where are the mouse coordinates in memory?
> Where in memory are the mouse coordinates stored? Is there a
>global variable or constant which points to this location? "getMouse"
>and the "where" field of the event record don't help, as I actually
>want to *modify* the mouse position, rather than read it. Thus, I must
>know their primary location as referenced globally by the operating
>system. If they are accessible by a standard system call then the code
>will run on any Mac. Unfortunately, IM is of little help, at least
>under obvious topics such as "mouse", "cursor", etc.
The global coordinates for the mouse are at $0800, according to MacsBug. But
manipulating the values stored there (using macsbug) does not seem to move the
mouse. There is a nice HyperCard XCMD that DOES allow you to reset the mouse
locations as well as decouple the mouse from the mouse. This is very useful in
a public kiosk type setting where you want to move the mouse pointer to center
screen during periods of long inactivity so that the next user to step up to
the system doesn't have to hunt for the mouse (pointer).
The XCMDs were written by Nigel Perry (np@uk.ac.ic.doc) who is a regular
contributor to this net.
Hope this helps
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 09:08 EDT
From: Al MacBest <BEST@ruby.vcu.edu>
Subject: SPSSx on Mac?
If anyone has seen or used the release of SPSSx for the Macintosh, I'd
be very interested in your reaction. I understand that they demo'd a version
at MacWorld, but I didn't go and so didn't see it. My sense is that it feels
like SYSTAT (i.e. that it's a simple port from the mainframe version). Is that
right?
Also, David Morganstein and I are writing a review of all the best Mac-Stat
software and may need to include it in our review. While I'm on the subject,
if anyone has any problems (Bugs?) with StatView II, JMP, Data Desk Professional,
Fastat, Estatix, I'd love to hear about it. We'd like our review to be balanced
yet hard-hitting, if appropriate. So, let me know of your reactions to these
programs.
Thanks in advance Bitnet: Best@VCUVAX
Al Best
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 89 08:36 CDT
From: Scott Hutinger <MSER001%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: where are the mouse coordinates in memory?
/info-mac/apple/code/sc-017-tbltdrvr.hqx
A small extract from the codes notes:
>Note: This code demonstrates how to move the cursor
> position. This information is meant for input
> device drivers only; this technique should not
> be used by applications to move the cursor.
> Moving the cursor is bad user interface, and
> nobody likes a bad user interface, so Just Say No.
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Subject: Help with Boomerang cdev?
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Has anyone used the Boomerang cdev successfully? I tried to use it
but it doesn't do anything. A clue is that upon startup, the icon appears
and then is immediately crossed out by a big "X".
I have tried it alone and in combination with other inits without success.
(I'm using system 6.0)
Thanks for help
Rick
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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 30 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 154
Today's Topics:
030 Direct Slot vs. Nubus Questions.
[shahryar@sutro.sfsu.edu (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Buying a Mac - any suggestions?
Color Globe
Communications packages.
Compact your stacks!!!
Electric Field Computation Packages?
HP Deskjet, Imagewriter LQ, Grappler LQ
Info-Mac Digest V7
LCD projection system/nView ViewFrame II+2
MAC II, IIX ACCELERATORS.
Modula-2 on the Mac
Monitors
Object-Oriented Programming
Princeton Graphics Display with MacIIcx?
Software for Course Scheduling Query
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 14:29:46 EDT
From: "Stephen M. Wall" (PM-CAWS) <smwall@pica.army.mil>
Subject: 030 Direct Slot vs. Nubus Questions.
I am considering the purchase of a MAC in the near future, and have pretty
well narrowed my options to either an SE/30 or IIcx. In order to make a final
decision I need information on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the
SE/30's 030 Direct Slot vs the IIcx's Nubuses. What I have been able to
gather by reading magazines and talking to salesmen is as follows:
030 slot Nubus
Pros - 32 bit capable - 32 bit capable
- Probably all I need - 2 slots open (after video card is
installed)
- Large and growing application card
market means high probability of
continued Apple and third party
developer support for bus architecture
Cons - Only one slot.
- Uncertain market for card
developers may limit
choices in future.
There remain a few questions that I haven't been able to get answered by local
sources:
What is the throughput capability of the 030 slot? I gather it will support a
pretty complex video card. I've heard very sketchy descriptions of a Nubus
expansion chassis that will plug into the 030 slot, but need more details.
Does this expansion chassis incorporate 6 fully operational 10Mhz Nubus slots,
or are they slower? Could the SE/30 support this expansion chassis at 20Mhz
through the 030 slot?
Speaking of 20Mhz Nubus slots, vaporware salesmen say that Apple will soon
upgrade the MAC II* Nubus to 20 Mhz. If and when this happens, will upgrading
an existing MAC II* be:
a. Easy (new System version)
b. Messy (new ROM)
c. Godawful (new mother board or new everything)
What will a 20 Mhz Nubus do that a 10 Mhz Nubus can't?
Responses directed to me personally will be summarized for the net.
Steve Wall
Internet smwall@pica.army.mil
US Mail Office Of The Product Manager
Howitzer Improvement Program, ATTN: AMCPM-HIP-SY
Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's, and are
subject to change whenever I feel like it.
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 09:37:29 PDT
From: shahryar@sutro.sfsu.edu (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Subject: [shahryar@sutro.sfsu.edu (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
I am the AppleShare Network Manager here at Academic Computing
at San Francisco State University. Tonight something strange
happened to our Mac IIcx:
I received a call at home indicating that the Mac IIcx was not
booting up. I was informed that after loading our INIT files, it poped
up with a BOMB screen with ERROR=1. I found out {after some
struggle}, that the problem was in the Virus & VirusDetect INIT files.
When they existed in the System folder, this error was produced.
When they were taken out, the error went away and the computer
booted correctly.
I have since removed the files {Virus & VirusDetect INIT
temporarily} and placed the file GateKeeper to keep {I hope} any
more {future} viruses from getting in.
My question is why did I continue to have this BOMB even after
I replaced the system files on the Mac IIcx? I am using 6.03 and the
IIcx had not had any problems before tonight. Also could one of you
send me {directly via E-MAIL} a list of SYSTEM Bombs and their
meanings.
Thank you,
Shahryar Ghazneini Hashemi
<shahryar@sutro.sfsu.edu>
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 20:50:28 EDT
From: Leora <21765LD%MSU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Buying a Mac - any suggestions?
Any suggestions for a Mac User about to buy her very first Mac?
So far the plan is to buy an SE with two HD floppies from the University (at a
educational discount). Since money is quite tight, would it be worth my while
to forgo the SE, live without a printer and buy a plus? (A savings of 1200).
I am interested in hearing from Plus owners on the joy and pain of
plus ownership. (Also from those who have expanded and modified the plus).
Storage: Ehman's 45 meg external sounded good, and the right price. Any
testimonials for low cost/meg drives? A friend suggested forgoing the
hard drive and buying 4 meg of SIMMS instead. Essentially he feels that with
a RAM disk and the 1.4 meg drives, a hard drive is an unnecessary expense.
(I do a lot of Hypercard development, Mainframe downloading, and your
normal word processing etc.). Having used hard drives at work, I forget
the frustration of not having one. Is there anyone who has tried this
configuration?
Keyboard: The U. sells the Mac extended keyboard for $142. Know of any good
imitators for < $?.
Modems: Once again, any testimonials for a inexpensive modem (approx. $150)
-this will get heavy usage.
Words from the wise, stories from the experienced, etc... all will be
gratefully accepted.
Thanks in advance,
Leora Druckman
21765ld@ibm.cl.msu.edu
Acknowledge-To: <21765LD@MSU>
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 16:46:02 CDT
From: pwp@shamash.cdc.com (Pete Poorman - HOUFAC)
Subject: Color Globe
Following is a binhexed Stuffit archive of "Color Globe", authored by
Paul Mercer.
This progam draws a spinning color globe in a small window. Interesting
to run in the background under Multifinder. Includes menu options to control
speed, display of drawing rate and to align the window.
Try experimenting with overlapping other windows. Makes very obvious how
the shape of the clip region and the alignment of the PortRect affect the
performance of CopyBits!
Original source unknown (I found it on a BBS in Houston).
--
Peter W. Poorman
pwp@shamash.cdc.com
[Archived as /info-mac/app/color-globe.hqx; 47K]
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 10:26:10 EDT
From: Michael_Webb@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Communications packages.
Here are a few letters relating to my posting about communications packages.
Maybe I'll get more responses. Sounds like a lot of people use Zterm.
________________________________________________________________
Message: 3432395, 9 lines
Imported: 7:38pm EDT, Sat Aug 26/89
Subject: Communications program
To: Michael Webb
From: newman@Portia.stanford.edu
hi again! About comm--
I use Red Ryder 10.3. I like it, but have limited experience with other
packages -- have been using it since it was ShareWare. What I like most about
RedRyder is its EXCELLENT VT100 EMULATION -- I have used some other packages
which are just a bit off, which makes remote VI very annoying.
I will send you an old ShareWare version if you want, I think it is 9.?
By the way, I have never gotten XMODEM to work, although it is faster than KERMIT
(which is what I use). I do a lot of file transfer, KERMIT is slow but reliable.
Jon Newman
________________________________________________________________
Message: 3433323, 27 lines
Posted: 3:58pm EDT, Sun Aug 27/89, imported: 4:11pm EDT, Sun Aug 27/89
Subject: Info-Mac postings
To: Michael Webb
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu
Secondly, you asked about communications programs. I've been just using
Kermit, but recently I decided I needed a little more functionality
without having to spend a lot of money. So, I downloaded Red Ryder from
the Info-Mac archives (I forget just where it is, but using FTP to mess
around in the directories will find it for you in about fifteen
seconds). I don't think it can do VT240, but it works brilliantly in
VT100 mode, it has a very nice, fairly idiot-proof scripting facility,
and (here's the punch line) IT COSTS ONLY $40.00!
So, I'm sold. I sent in my $40.00 just a couple of days ago, and I have
yet to hear from the FreeSoft people, but I notice that MacConnection is
still selling the product (for $50.00), so there must still be some
support (I understand the guy who wrote it went on to write Microphone,
which is supposed to be extremely good comm. software.).
Hope this has been some help, and please do keep me posted on your
network developments.
-Bill Williams
St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Message: 3435028, 20 lines
Posted: 9:10am EDT, Mon Aug 28/89, imported: 9:40am EDT, Mon Aug 28/89
Subject: Mac comm stuff
To: Michael Webb
From: eek@pecok.mitre.org
While I was at UM, we used Red Ryder (avail. from the pc2: directory on ub)
and were very happy with it. If you're interested in some Mac help, the person
who actually owned the Mac I was working with is still there, and I'm sure
she would be happy to help you out. She's had a lot of experience with the
Mac and is familiar with using it in the context of UM's computing systems.
Her name is Marie Williams (undergrad.-electrical engineering). Her e-mail
address is Marie_Williams@ub (or spockette@ub). I don't know her exact address
or phone number right now, but I know she'll be living at Baits this fall
semester (probably Cross house) so you could call and get her phone number.
Have fun, and don't let the IBMers get you down!
As a final note from someone homesick for A2, have a Zingerman's and a fragel
for me--I can't believe I have to wait a whole year and do real work until
I can get back up there! :-}
Ericka Kammerer
eek@pecok.mitre.org
MITRE, Corp.
McLean, VA
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Message: 3435560, 22 lines
Posted: 9:42am EDT, Mon Aug 28/89, imported: 10:49am EDT, Mon Aug 28/89
Subject: RE: Modems
To: Michael Webb
From: hallett@shoreland.med.ge.com
I use Zterm v. 0.8. Despite the pre-release version number, it is
EXCELLENT. It handles all the current transfer protocols with the
added feature that it automatically detects Zmodem. This means that
if you start sending a file from your host using Zmodem, Zterm detects
it and automatically begins a receive. It also switches between text
and MacBinary(II) automatically.
I've found that Kermit is less likely to screw up than the
{X,Y,Y/G,Z}modem protocols, but Zmodem is very reliable, adjusts
packet sizes to get maxmimal throughput and has the ability to restart
a transfer where it was left off if the transfer is interrupted.
Since I've started using Zterm, over very noisy phone lines at 2400 baud,
I've had only 2 CRC errors, no files were corrupted upon receipt and
I've been getting about 93-97% throughput.
Hope this helps.
Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering
GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414
Milwaukee, WI 53201
(414) 548-5173 : EMAIL - hallett@positron.gemed.ge.com
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Message: 3437083, 89 lines
Imported: 2:57pm EDT, Mon Aug 28/89
Subject: your Info-Mac queries
To: Michael Webb
From: mmcintos@sirius.UVic.ca
>I am getting a modem soon, and want to know about some good pd, shareware
>and maybe commercial communications packages. Most of what I do is connect
>(emulate vt100 usually) to remote hosts (e.g. host ub here at Univ.
>of Mich) for mail, etc. (I am currently doing that with terminals).
>I also like to do file transfers (using Kermit) from these hosts.
>When using Univ. computers here, I have used VersaTerm, which I like, but
>I'm not sure I need to spend the $$; maybe there is a good shareware or
>freeware program out there. I have two programs that I have never run yet
>(no modem!) called QVT, and ZTerm. How do these rate?
>
>On a related note, what are the relative merits of doing file transfer with
>Kermit vs. Xmodem, Ymodem and Zmodem?
I use Zterm almost everyday. It seems to have a very good
vt100 emulator and the Zmodem transfers are very fast (my SE
can use almost all the 9600 baud bandwidth). If you are using
a UNIX machine, I would recommend looking at 'uw' also.
Standing for Unix Windows, it allow you to have up to 7
windows open to your UNIX machine from your Mac at the same
time. It does this by having a server running on the UNIX
machine which talk to the uw application on your Mac (each
window can be running any UNIX program you wish). All this
happens through a normal serial line! uw does not do file
transfer, however. Zterm is shareware, uw is free.
I would definitely recommend you use Zmodem for data transfer.
It is certainly faster than Kermit and probably faster than
XorYModem (but I can't say for sure).
Mark J. McIntosh <mmcintos@sirius.uvic.ca>
_____________________________________________________________________________
University of Victoria, ECE Dept. | "...the mystery of life isn't a problem to
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Message: 3437244, 18 lines
Posted: 3:09pm EDT, Mon Aug 28/89, imported: 3:21pm EDT, Mon Aug 28/89
Subject: Scripts and VT240
To: Michael Webb
From: CC_BRYSO%SWTEXAS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Micheal,
Zmodem is by far the fastest and cleanest file transfer protocol I have
seen (it even allows you to recover from broken transfers). Kermit and Xmodem
are sluggish in comparison. Zterm is an excellent shareware program that
supports Xmodem, Ymodem, and Zmodem. But your mainframe computer must also
have a program that supports these protocols as well. We have a Vax computer
here and are using VMS. I have SZ and RZ programs that support Zmodem
transfers running on our VAX. The sources are in C. Unfortunately they are
Unix ports and have user interface problems (unless you like alphabet soup).
But even with some its minor annoyances, I use Zmodem exclusively.
Bill Bryson
User Services
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| 1038 Randall Laboratory |
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 15:09:19 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Compact your stacks!!!
A brief suggestion to those donating stackware to the archives - please
be sure to "compact" your stacks before stuffing and binhexing. I just
downloaded a >150K archive file of four stacks, only to discover that the
stacks had not been compacted before submission. Compacting the stacks
reduced the file size by 66%!!!
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Date: Wed, 30 AUG 89 09:47:48 BST
From: CNAS17%vaxa.strathclyde.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Subject: Electric Field Computation Packages?
%
I need to do some electric field computations in three-dimensions. Does
anyone know of any Mac software which can do the job?
Please mail me direct.
Thanx .......Rod. Shelton
(Dept. of Elec. Eng., Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK.)
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Date: Wed Aug 30 12:40 MSZ 1989
From: unido!gmbh!madg!raith@uunet.uu.net
Subject: HP Deskjet, Imagewriter LQ, Grappler LQ
I use Orange Micro's Grappler LQ printer interface to connect a Mac SE
(System 6.0.3, Finder 5.5) to an HP DeskJet printer. This interface
requires the use of an Apple Imagewriter LQ driver. This driver came
with the Grappler in version 1.0, whereas the current version is 2.0
as delivered by Apple.
Question 1:
What does version 2.0 that version 1.0 could not (in my case 1.0 works
quite fine)?
Question 2:
Version 2.0 works equally well if version 1.0 is booted and version
2.0 is subsequently selected by chooser, but produces garbage when
version 2.0 is booted. Maybe 1.0 is active although 2.0 is choosen and
2.0 doesn't work with Grappler LQ?
Question 3:
Are there other printer drivers besides Grappler LQ to use with the
Mac and HP DeskJet?
I would appreciate information from anyone who encountered similar
problems or knows answers to above problems.
Thanks in advance.
Rudolf Raith
MAD Intelligent Systems GmbH
Database Reasoning Group
8000 Munich
Federal Republic of Germany
Kronstadterstrasse 9
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 15:42:38 EDT
From: PHILLIPS%PORTLAND.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Wm.A.Phillips)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7
153
I moved my Kodak DataShow video card from my old SE to my new SE30.
Required a call to Kodak for new attachment point on SE30, but no
problem, works fine. Kodak seems to offer best resolution, refresh,
contrast, etc. I saw a new panel of theirs at MacWorld - gives a
larger screen, same quality. Good luck. P.S. wait a couple of
months and the LCD panel you buy to make your IIci portable will
capable of being placed on your overhead projector. P.P.S. The
Kodak/
Elmo overhead projector also appears superior to the competition.
Bill Phillips. Economics Department. University of Somewhere Maine
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 10:43:29 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: LCD projection system/nView ViewFrame II+2
Greg Hamm asks about LCD panels for the Mac. I had to research this topic
last Jan., and here is what I discovered:
The most recent review I have seen was in the Jan '89 MacUser. It has a
good explanation of the technology.
At that time the preferred units seemed to be the Kodak DataShow and the
Sharp QA-50. vNiew was just releasing their new ViewFrame II+2. We
purchased the vNiew product, and are now in the process of purchasing a
second unit. We are very pleased with its performance and integrity.
In general, look for the following in an LCD display:
> - image quality : DTN technology (Double Twist Nematic) provides
true black and white display. Don't buy the older supertwist. DTN
also seems much more resilient to contrast problems generated by
projector heat.
> - refresh rate : if you want to do interactive work, you need at
least 10 frames/sec, and more is better.
> - resolution : unless you are doing something special, the standard
640x480 is sufficient
> - grey levels : at least four, eight is better, especially if working
with a color machine.
> - ease of connection/disconnection (can I move it to another Mac?)
> - use with other systems (such as PCs)
Some need cards/adaptors for each machine, others will only work
with either Macs or PC's. The ViewFrame comes Mac II/PS 2/PC
compatible (no cards, all cables included); often Mac SE's need a
video adaptor ($100-$150 ea, needs to be installed by someone
comfortable with high CRT voltages).
> - "extra" features, such as frame memory, remote control, etc.
You get what you pay for. If you need a highly portable system,
frame memory is nice, but expensive (+>$1000). In my experience,
the remote is a luxury, since in most cases you set up the unit
at the beginning of the presentation and more or less leave it,
except perhaps to adjust constrast. One item/feature I would
*strongly* recommend is some some form cooling system - this
greatly increases the screen's ability to hold its contrast ratio
over time. Also check for carrying cases - some are included, some
are extra, some are hard and some are soft.
> - price : the three popular models I mentioned at the top are all
in the same price rang: $1300 - $1700.
The ViewFrame is a DTN screen, comes in somewhere around 14 frames/sec, has
standard resolution, 8 levels of grey, built-in fan, and comes with a very
nice _hard shell_ case, no extra charge. The slightly older model tested
by MacUser was the only model to not lose any contrast over a 4 hour test
period (my experience has been that there is some loss of contrast, but very
little).
nView Corporation
11835 Canon Boulevard, Suite C-101
Newport News, VA 23606
(804) 873-1354 FAX: 804/873/2153
One last item - the performance of all these units will increase
*significantly* when used with a low-wattage overhead projector. Normal
projectors are usually in the 600 watt range, and the heat they generate
will seriously degrade the contrast of even the better machines in as
little as 20-30 minutes. A 200-300 watt projector will allow most of the
panels to operate effectively for much longer periods of time.
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 08:41:56 SST
From: TNG TH <ISSTTH%NUSVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: MAC II, IIX ACCELERATORS.
Here I go again...
Has anyone on this list used any acclerators for the Mac II or IIx?
So far, I have heard of 4, but only fleeting references and no extensive
reviews...
1. Dove Computer 030 - $995
2. Daystar 33 30/030 - $5995
Daystar 50 30/030 - ???
3. SiClone - $4995
4. Mac IIcix - Huh, where did that come from ???
Please, can anyone share any information?
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 11:30:21 +0100
From: G. J. Baker <gge%CXA.DARESBURY.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Modula-2 on the Mac
Hi Folks,
Does anybody know of a commercial/PD Modula-2 system that will run
on a Mac SE. The PD one in the info-mac archives does not work on my system
(6.0.3). Any help gratefully received as my software distributer is having
problems.
Regards
G.J.Baker
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 22:17 EDT
From: <LGREEN%WHEATNMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Monitors
I have recently had a request by a faculty member here at the college who
wanted to know whether there was any way to use a non Macintosh monitor, for
instance a Sony monitor with the Macintosh. So I guess basically I need to know
whether I can get video output of the Macintosh and put it through to a color
Sony monitor. Any ideas? They want to use the monitor for students so they
can see the screen while work is done on it. Thanks in advance..
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Lyman Green Oh Mr. Jones, your legs are so swollen!
User Services Consultant Lemon Curry? /
Wheaton College Norton,MA They stamp them when they're young! /
Bitnet: LGREEN@WHEATNMA Hello Brian! /
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 22:29:15 PDT
From: lsr@apple.com (Larry Rosenstein)
Subject: Object-Oriented Programming
In article <8908022311.AA12187@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Info-Mac-Request@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (The Moderators) writes:
>
> makes sense. Soooooo.... why, although MacApp fits this model and has
been
> around for years, haven't we seen libraries of public domain and
commercial
> objects springing up all over the place? There are a bunch of
commercial and
> shareware apps that have been written using MacApp, but still there is
not
> so much as a single source code object in the Info-Mac archives.
There are some object libraries available from the MacApp Developers
Association. For example, I contributed a class to create custom menus
and implement stationery pads in MacApp. (These were for MacApp 1.x, and
I haven't had time to update them to 2.0.) Developer Technical Support
distributes some sample code disks, which include some object-oriented
examples.
The MacApp 2.0 beta manuals include a cookbook section that contains a
description of how to do some "uncommon" things in MacApp, and the
Developers Association is going to make that code available on a disk, I
think.
One problem is that the people using MacApp the most are the ones
producing products; not necessarily expensive commercial products, but
they are not writing programs just for the fun of hacking. This may be
because the cost of getting MPW and MacApp means that only people working
on products use MacApp.
I know from experience that if you are busy putting together a product, it
is hard to find the time to make various classes available. (I have
several things myself.) Creating a reusable module is much harder than
creating an application or a simple subroutine library. You have to
anticipate how people might want to customize the objects, what methods
they might need to override, and document everything.
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist
Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr
AppleLink: Rosenstein1
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 16:29 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Princeton Graphics Display with MacIIcx?
Greetings,
Anyone have any experience connecting a Princeton Graphics multisync analog
monitor to a MacIIcx?
Anyone know of a way to use a Seagate harddrive which is currently in an AT
clone in a MacIIcx?
Thanks in advance.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 15:58:33 EDT
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: Software for Course Scheduling Query
I am looking for Mac (or any other) software to do class scheduling.
Nothing sophisticated is wanted, just a program to take X classes, Y
time-slots, and Z rooms, add some constraints (Professor X won't teach
before 11:00 AM on Thursdays), and come up with a fit. We have a fancy
program for the VAX that does student scheduling, but that's much more
complex than I need (it's also very costly). Any ideas?
-Bill Williams
-St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Subject: wanted: used SE HD 20
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Must be in good condtion. Extra RAM is a plus. Price range about $1600, depending on RAM. Reply to this account.
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From: John M. Agosta <johnmark@neon.stanford.edu>
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To: morgan@jessica.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Cheap SIMMs around here?
Newsgroups: su.macintosh
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Cc: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
Bob -
Your questions about SIMMS:
No Apple machine I know is spec-ed for anything faster than 120ns SIMMS -
I am not sure why people are advertizing faster ones.
There are ads claiming $100 a SIMM. The difference between buying mail
order and buying at computerWare is that the store will install them
for you and will buy back your 256k SIMMs, if any.
The high profile SIMMS work in the SE with two stipulations:
1) They take up space that may otherwise be used by some expansion boards
2) Some lower quality SIMMS do not bring the board connectors all the
way to the edge of the board, and make poorer contact with the SE
sIMM sockets.
-johnmark
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Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
To: info-mac-list@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Info-Mac Digest Thu, 31 Aug 89 Volume 7 : Issue 155
Today's Topics:
American Sign Language font
bibtex for the mac
ClockAdjust INIT/cdev
Experts in 4th Dimension?
HD spinup
Info-Mac Digest V7 #153
LaserWriter hazards?
Level5
Lost Hard Disk Space
M0naco FONT
Mac II Video Utility
Mac Moria Bugs
Modula-2 on the Mac
Princeton Graphics Display with the MacIIcx
Securing Macs to Tables
Source code to Image 1.16
The Mac Portable
Ventura for Macintosh
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 16:04:42 PDT
From: jaime@tcville.hac.com (Jaime Villacorte)
Subject: American Sign Language font
I recently made a request for an American Sign Language
font a few days ago in comp.sys.mac. I got the following from
Dennis (elroy!ames!claris!drc) Cohen of Claris Corp. [thanks!], and
I didn't see it in your archive. I thought it might be of interest
to others as well.
It's an 18 pt. font called "amslan"
jaime@tcville.hac.com Jaime Villacorte
jaime%tcville@hac2arpa.hac.com
{seismo|allegra|...}!hacgate!tcville!jaime "Bo...you don't know *diddly*."
(213) 616-8954 - Bo on Jackson
[Archived as /info-mac/font/amslan.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 10:12:34 EDT
From: Michael D. Prange <prange@erl.mit.edu>
Subject: bibtex for the mac
Does anyone have a version of bibtex that works on a mac?
Michael
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 12:53:24 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ClockAdjust INIT/cdev
Dear Mac Users,
This is ClockAdjust, an INIT/cdev for correcting the Mac's hardware clock.
It does two kinds of corrections:
- It keeps track of manual clock adjustments and automatically corrects the
clock whenever necessary. I have observed deviations of up to one second
within 15 hours! With ClockAdjust in your System folder, there should be
no more need to correct the clock manually every now and then.
- It automatically switches to daylight saving time and back to regular time
at specified dates. The rules for switching can be configured in a rather
flexible way that should cover all countries.
ClockAdjust is FREE. MacWrite documentation is included.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/clock-adjust.hqx; 26K]
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 14:59:57 PDT
From: gunther.pa@xerox.com
Subject: Experts in 4th Dimension?
Looking for experts/consultants experienced in bringing up 4th Dimension by
Acius (ver 1.0 & 2.0). Application is clinical trials/studies.
Please contact,
Neil Gunther
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Office: (415) 494-4401
FAX: (415) 494-4471
Internet: gunther.pa@xerox.com
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 19:45:06 PDT
From: saint%CitIago.Bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu (Patrick Santangelo)
Subject: HD spinup
The person who recently reported that it takes several attempts to
start up his Quantum HD is not alone. I purchased a 46Meg Seagate
drive from a mail order company listed in MacUser. The drive worked
fine for about 5 weeks and than spinup problems began to arise. The
problem is that I must turn the power switch on and off several times
before the HD begins to spin.....
I brought the computer (an SE) to our repair service on campus and the
power supply and board check-out just fine.... Is it that some drives
need a higher power to start spinning and the power supply is not
capable of delivering it? I know of at least to people that would
appreciate any help.
---saint (saint@iago.caltech.edu)
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 21:12:07 -0400
From: Kim Sebert<sebert@andy.bgsu.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #153
>
> I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has purchased, used, or seen
> one of the many models of Mac-compatible LCD panels which can project
> Mac screen images using an overhead projector. We bought one early model
> a couple of years ago; we would like to get an improved model now. (One
> brand we're considering is PC VIEWER (tm), made by In Focus Systems, which
> comes in various degrees of luxury -- any specific experience here would
> be especially appreciated.)
We at here at Bowling Green State University have been using and recommending
the Kodak model of display on a an Elmo 350 overhead projector. The image
looks very good and the gray scale is execelent. The one inconvienent part
with this unit the fact that a board has to be installed in the Mac to use it
and that doesn't allow you to switch machines unless you have other boards
installed in other machines. The other reason I like the Kodak model is that
where the first on the market with the IBM version and that been very stable
in the usage on our campus.
Kim Sebert
Instructional Media Services
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green Ohio
sebert@andy.bgsuvax.edu
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 23:54:04 PDT
From: John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: LaserWriter hazards?
You don't hear computers and air pollution being mentioned
in the same sentence too often, but... What the devil kind
of chemical is in those LaserWriter toner cartridges?
I seem to remember reading a few years ago that the chemical
used in copiers is mutagenic (in rodents no doubt).
Anyone have any qualms about sitting next to a powered-on
LaserWriter all day in a less-than-exuberantly ventilated
room? (This is more curiousity than paranoia.)
John *cough* Sotos
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 16:30:27 EDT
From: Dan Dlugose <dlugose@uncecs.edu>
Subject: Level5
I recently received a flyer in the mail for free seminars on Level5 from
Information Builders Inc, NY, NY. They claim Level5 is "the best selling
expert-systems software for mainframes, minis, and micros" and provides
"total object-oriented programming environment"
"Computer-Aided Knowledge Engineering"
"SAA-compliant graphical user interface"
"multiple inferencing strategies"
"advanced decision management"
"You can develop on any DOS or OS/2 PC, Macintosh, VAX/VMS, VM or MVS mainframe
(and soon UNIX workstations) and deploy on any other."
File types supported include Mac Excel, Foxbase, dBase/Mac, HyperCrad, and TDF
Seminars are listed for 70 or 80 cities, mostly Sept - Nov.
Personally I have no idea whether their claims hold any water. Call (212)736-
4433, or write them at 1250 Broadway, NY 10001. If not too many people send
email to me, I'll reply about dates in particular cities.
DAn Dlugose
UNC Educational Computing Service
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 01:03 CDT
From: <NBEHR%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Lost Hard Disk Space
Moderator: please edit this at your discretion to save space.
In reply to Mr. Harrison: Quantum Service Center, 1804 McCarthy Blvd.,
Milpitas, CA 95035; phone (408) 432 1100.
I have had boot problems too. Please forgive the lengthy description,
but the details may be relevant. The drive is a Quantum PRO 40; case,
power supply & software from an outfit called Optimal Technology.
For the first 4 months or so, the disk worked flawlessly. DiskTimer II
measurements are 0 (sometimes 1)/101/102. The first symptom I noticed
was that the drive started taking much longer to boot from time to time.
While before it always came to speed faster than it took the Mac + to test
the RAM (1 MB), and the time in which the question mark changed to a
smiling Mac icon was less than a second, it now sometimes took 10 secs
or more. At first I didn't pay attention to it, but a few weeks ago, while
backing up, I got a dialog: "imminent drive failure" (scary, eh?). I had
to look at some more error messages and finally reboot. The drive took
forever to get recognized as an SCSI device, but I finally managed to
put it back on line and do the backup.
Current symptoms are as follows: when I turn on the drive and the Mac
at the same time, the drive sometimes boots right away, sometimes in
10-20 seconds, and occasionally it doesn't at all. In the latter case,
the drive's motor emits a bizarre sound: it runs normally most of the
time, but it periodically changes pitch as if slowing down somewhat.
It looks like it happens whenever the SCSI bus is queried by the Mac
(I know nothing about it, but it happens at regular intervals, and also
twice in quick succession just after, say, the programmer's switch is
pressed).
When I turn the drive on about 15 seconds before the Mac, this occurs
very rarely - 99 times out of a 100 it boots normally. Moreover, I didn't
notice this with an identical Mac + in my office. This suggests that there
may be something wrong with my computer, and not the drive (or possibly
a combination).
At the same time, I'm having some problems with the analog board in my
Mac; the screen is "wavering" from time to time, sometimes shuddering
violently, esp. when it's hot in the room and the Mac is still cool. This
started long before I got the drive, and did not get noticeably worse
since then. A guy from Optimal Techn. suggested cracked solder joints.
Being prepared to replace the board anyway, I resoldered all points that
looked suspicious, which helped a bit but did not cure the problem.
((( *** DO NOT DO THIS BEFORE ALL CAPACITORS ARE DISCHARGED !!! ***)))
A few questions:
- Pete Harrison - were your observations similar? Could you please describe
them in more detail?
- Hardware gurus - is it possible that the Mac's power supply is doing
something funny to the SCSI circuitry? Are Quantum drives known to be
especially susceptible to things of that sort (voltage levels, etc.)?
- Has anyone else seen something like this with this or any other drive?
The drive is under warranty, but I don't know whether I should have the
drive, the Mac, or both, checked out. Please help!
Eric Behr (NBEHR@ECNCDC.BITNET)
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 11:05:59 PDT
From: digiorgi%jplmad@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: M0naco FONT
This file is a BinHex 4.0 encrypted StuffIt! archive with
M0naco FONT (a Font/DA Mover file), an amusing anecdote about
the making of M0naco FONT and this installation information.
Un-crypt and un-StuffIt! this file with the appropriate tools
after stripping off this header.
M0naco FONT 9 & 12 are simple bitmapped fonts designed to make reading
source code with MPW and THINK C easier. Addition line
spacing, distinguishable zero and upper-case 'O', and distinguishable
upper-case 'I' and lower-case 'L' are featured. Installed into
the application fork of your choice, it should automatically
override the System's Monaco font if the application is behaving
itself.
I only use this font with MPW Shell and THINK C, so if you
want to use them with other applications, do so with care.
Experiment on copies of your System and applications only!
To install M0naco into MPW Shell or THINK C:
- double click on the Font/DA Mover font file
- option-click on the other Open button once that is done
- select the appropriate application file and open it
- select M0naco 9 and 12 and hit the Copy button
- click on Quit.
You're done!
Godfrey DiGiorgi
AppleLink: D3006
DELPHI: Ramarren
InterNet: digiorgi%madvax@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov
29 AUG 89
Disclaimers: Well, it works for now for me. I make no claims.
It be free.
"No matter where you go, there you are."
[Archived as /info-mac/font/programmers-monaco.hqx; 13K]
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 08:43 EST
From: <MTL%EMRCAN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac II Video Utility
[I don't know exactly what this does, but it might be interesting. -Bill]
[Archived as /info-mac/util/mac-ii-video-card.hqx; 28K]
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 19:27:21 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac Moria Bugs
Howdy!!
Finally!! Moria for Mac!! <wild applause> Congradulations to Jim Wilson and
crew for porting it over!!
Now for the not so good news. I think that I have encountered a bug in the
program. Playing a level 5 warrior, I seem to be encountering a lot of
things that all of a sudden transport me to another part of the level, kinda
like a random transporter trap. But the funny thing is is that this doesn't
always happen at the same place. And twice, I have been able to cause it by
standing still (as i search for hidden doors). Any Ideas?? Has anyone else
seen this?????
This bug makes playing very frustrating. I could send you a copy of the
player (and game if needed) sit/hqx'ed to those who would want it in hopes that
this might help solve the problem.
Any insight would be helpful!!!
--Michael Farlow
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 07:39:41 PDT
From: claris!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Dennis Cohen)
Subject: Modula-2 on the Mac
Metropolis Computing has a very good standalone Modula-2 compiler for the
Mac, although it will not let you create DAs, INITs, XCMDs, etc -- just
applications. It has a reliable source-level debugger and generates
better code than most Mac compilers, although the Linker doesn't eliminate
anything and you end up with large executables on disk. Both of the above
limitations are supposed to go away this fall. It works fine on both the
SE and Plus as well as the II/IIx/IIcx. Metropolis is located in Montreal,
PQ; however, they do business out of Mooers, NY. I reviewed their compiler
in the July MacWorld.
If you have the memory/disk space to run MPW, I would recommend that you
investigate SemperSoft Modula-2 as it is a full-featured, solid product as
well and the one I have been using the most, although that might change due
to a product announcement that will be made in the next six weeks or so.
It won't take me away from SemperSoft, just might relegate it to second place.
There are other M-2 compilers available, but they are either incredibly
buggy (eg TDI) or virtually unsupported (eg MacMeth).
___
Dennis Cohen
drc@claris.com
___
Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 08:56:17 EDT
From: Marcelino Bernardo <MBERNAR%ERENJ.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Princeton Graphics Display with the MacIIcx
Peter Jorgensen asks about the PGS analog multisync monitor. He might
be referring to the Max-15 monitor (BW,14-inch diagonal). I bought one
just recently for use on my Atari ST based on an article from Mac World.
I must warn you about a feature which I was not aware of before I got the
monitor. It uses a long persistense phosphor for the display. I've found
this to be a nuisance when displaying animation or on fast changing games.
The linearity is not very good, either. But, the display screen is large and
crisp.
Marcelino Bernardo
mbernar@erenj.bitnet
bernardo@erevax.bitnet
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 09:19 CDT
From: Fred Seaton - WIU 309/298-1681 <MUCM000%ECNCDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Securing Macs to Tables
Does anyone know where I can order the metal pieces that slide into the
lock slot on the back of the Macs so I can cable them to a table? I
know Kensington sells a kit (for $50!) but all we want are the metal pieces,
since we have our own cable. We're looking for bulk ordering if possible.
Thanks
Fred Seaton
Academic Computing
Western Illinois University
mucm000@ecncdc.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 13:09:40 -0400
From: wayne@alw.nih.gov (wayne rasband)
Subject: Source code to Image 1.16
This is the Lightspeed Pascal source code for Image 1.16, a Mac II
program for capturing, analyzing, editing, annotating, pseudocoloring,
animating, and printing images.
[Archived as /info-mac/image-116-part1.hqx; 149K
/info-mac/image-116-part2.hqx; 112K]
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 17:18:46 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: The Mac Portable
Just went to a sneak preview of the Mac Portable today. Here are a few
comments for those of you (like me) who haven't heard much about it.
The machine:
- 68000 CMOS (low-power) 16 Mhz cpu : it's the SE chip, but speeded up.
They couldn't use the 020 or the 030 because there is no supply
from Motorola of these chips in the CMOS version. Working in
conjunction with the rest of the machine, it appeared to be
slightly faster than an SE. Can be configured to rest at
1 Mhz after x amount of idle time to conserve power. Also,
the entire machine can be configured to go into "sleep" mode,
which shuts everything down but the RAM - a state which uses
almost no power.
- 1 Meg RAM (static) : theoretically upgradeable to 9 Meg, but will have
to wait for chip technology to catch up. 1 Meg upgrade kits
available, but expensive. The static RAM is also low-power.
System comes with RAM disk cDEV utility, which improves speed
and energy conservation.
- 40 Meg HD : specially engineered drive, fits in second (top) floppy slot.
Low power, very rugged (the techie was rather violently shaking
the machine while the disk was spun up). Can be configured
to spin down after x amount of idle time to conserve power
(also engineered to handle lots of spins ups and downs).
- 1.44 Meg floppy "Superdrive" : you've seen it, the one in the new machines.
- lead/acid battery : charge lasts from 7 - 20 hrs., probably averaging
10 hrs for a conscientious user. Recharge in 2-3 hrs. AC adaptor
is smart - can handle 50 or 60 hz, up to 270 volts. Remaining
power can be measured, and displayed via a DA. Can handle "somewhere
between 200 and 2000 recharges." Unlike ni-cad batteries,
these prefer to be charged as often as possible.
- I/O : from right to left on back of machine, digital video port, external
drive port, SCSI port, RJ11 modem jack, DTB (mouse) port, two
standard serial ports, stereo sound, AC adaptor jack. Digital
video port can be hooked, via (Apple) adaptor to a video monitor.
- LCD matrix screen : I went in a skeptic, and I was impressed. Black and
white, viewable from almost any angle; not backlit (requires some,
although very little, room light). Refresh rate is 61 hz, i.e. no
noticeable flicker. Size: about 1/2" taller than SE screen, about
1" wider. Resolution: 640x400 pixels. Very, very nice.
- keyboard/trackball : comes with keyboard similar to standard keyboard,
except numeric keypad is replaced by a trackball (may be configured
for righties and lefties). Mouse optional. Numeric keypad
available (replaces trackball), but then you must have a mouse.
- expansion slots : 4 (I believe?) very small slots (2"x3") for modem card
memory, additional ROM, etc.
The little devil comes with a nice carrying case, and weighs (with hard
drive) about 15 lbs (without case). The case is soft and light, and can
carry a mouse, recharger, extra battery, floppies, and manuals. The two
configurations will be two floppies or one floppy and the 40 Meg HD.
Comes with System 6.0.4 (includes new utilities for the battery). I didn't
get physical size measurements, but it looks alot like those portable
Brother typewriters.
Price? "Somewhere between $5500 and $6500 retail". So you figure the dual
floppy setup is the low end and the HD setup is the high end. The problem?
System 7.0 and its 2 Meg requirement. I asked, "Won't that raise the price
another $800-$1000?" There was a rather reluctant affirmation. Oh yeah,
90 day warranty (suprise, suprise). The rep went to lengths to stress
that this is the first machine in a new class of Macs. Somewhat limited
availability this fall (ship date of 9/30? - I can't remember |~).
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 10:21:53 ITA
From: Alfonso Fuggetta <ALFONSO%IMICEFR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ventura for Macintosh
I have recently purchased a Mac SE/30: im my office, however,
we have many MSDOS computers and we use Ventura Publisher.
I have recently read about a Mac version of Ventura that would be
fully compatible with the MSDOS product (version 2.0 + Professional
Extension).
Does anybody have any information about that? (availability, price,
product characteristics, ...).
Thank you in advance.
Please, answer to
Alfonso Fuggetta
e-mail ALFONSO@IMICEFR.BITNET
Acknowledge-To: <ALFONSO@IMICEFR>
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 1 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 156
Today's Topics:
(None)
ASLEdit+ V1.0a7
Cmdr. Dialog Problems?
Description of Mac II video utility
Hypercard Trainset poster?
Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
KaleidaGraph 2.0
Laser printer Hazards
LCD projection system
Mac Digest stack
Mac Moria Bugs
Mac Portable battery/AC connection
Modula 2 on the Mac
MS Word Postscript Headers?
NCSA Image
Problems with 2400bps modem
Problem with auto log-on in AppleShare
Red Ryder command language
ShowDialog1.4 XCMD stack
Speeding up an SE/030
TransSkel25.sit.hqx
Venda-Card Systems for Mac Output Devices
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 89 03:45:54 GMT
From: wasatch!cs.utah.edu!caeco!i-core!clint@cs.utexas.edu (clint)
Subject: (None)
I'm trying to print Mac-generated PostScript files on a Mannesman-
Tally 910 PostScript printer which is hooked up to an IBM Novell network
(there are no Macs on the network). I can get the files converted over,
but the printer program rejects the Mac files. I _have_ been able to
get Amiga-generated PostScript files to print without any problems.
I have tried printing both with and without the LaserPrep file included,
and with output from more than one program.
Someone on the net mentioned that Apple uses a "special flavor" or
PostScript. Can I take out or add something to the file to get it to
print?
clint@i-core
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 23:14 CDT
From: Youhei Morita (Univ. of Tsukuba) <MORITA%FNAL.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: ASLEdit+ V1.0a7
Here's yet another version of ASLEdit+, a tiny text editor written by
Mr.Hiroo Yamada (SysOp of MACPRO forum in NIFTY-serve) which is capable of
handling Japanese characters. This version fixes several nasty bugs such
as system crashes in the DA version. Version included here is 1.0/a7.
Note: This is still an alpha version. English ReadMe included. Freeware.
**************************************************************************
Youhei Morita High Energy Physics Lab, Univ. of Tsukuba
-|-
/|\ _____ Be yourself Bitnet: MORITA@JPNKEKVX
-|- -|- |__|__| No matter what they say HEPnet: UTKBP::MORITA
/|\ /|\ |__|__| -STING Nifty: MGG01275
**************************************************************************
[Archived as /info-mac/app/asledit-plus-10a7.hqx; 118K]
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 17:26 CST
From: <HRAMAGLI%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Cmdr. Dialog Problems?
I tried out Cmdr. Dialog and have encountered a problem. It exists
when you are running MultiFinder. Apparently, Cmdr. Dialog somehow
inhibits screen refresh of the desktop. If you open a window over top
of something on the desktop, and then close the window the icon on the
desktop is no longer there. Also, you can get the control panel to
some real funky stuff too.
Has anyone else encountered similar problems?
Howard
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 13:20:52 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Description of Mac II video utility
Here is the description of the Mac II Video card utility which Bill posted
the other day. It is taken from the top of the Read Me file provided with
this cdev. More info on building the cable is provided in the Read Me
document.
_____________________________________
Apple Macintosh II Video Card utility
Copyright 1986-1989 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved
This unsupported utility is a "Monitors CDEV Extension" which may be of
assistance in obtaining interlaced, RS170-compatible video output signals
>From a Macintosh II-class machine equipped with the Macintosh II Video Card.
It may support 1,2,4, and 8 bits-per-pixel interlaced video. In also may
provide an optional "no flicker mode" for the 1 bit-per-pixel mode. This
mode eliminates the flickering caused by thin horizontal lines (like the
racing stripes at the tops of windows) that occurs when Macintosh video is
transferred to video tape.
Audience:
This video utility allows developers and video-knowledgeable users to obtain
medium quality video output at extremely low cost. This is not intended for
the unsophisticated user. If you don't know how to make a video cable, this
software is not for you!
Pluses:
+ Supports 1 to 8 bits per pixel RS170 video output
+ This type of video can be video-taped
+ Flicker filter improves image quality in 1 bit per pixel mode.
Minuses:
- Requires a special cable.
- Flicker filter slows the computer down 20% to 40%.
- Flicker filter uses about 48K of RAM
- Not 100% broadcast-quality RS170 signal.
Hardware Required:
% A Macintosh II-class Macintosh computer.
% An Apple-brand 640 x 480 x 4 or 8 bit Macintosh II Video Card.
% A special cable (you make) to connect the video card to your
video equipment.
Software Required:
% System 6.0.3 (or higher).
% The Monitors 4.0 Control Panel device (available with 32-Bit
QuickDraw).
% The General file accompanying 32-Bit QuickDraw
% 32-Bit QuickDraw
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1989 23:31:23 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hypercard Trainset poster?
Could the person who posted the Hypercard Trainset please contact us? I have
misplaced your address. The problem seems to be that your mailer is doing
word hyphenation.
Bill
------------------------------
Date: 1 Sep 89 15:34:10 GMT
From: intercon!amanda@uunet.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #155, John Sotos <sotos@sumex-aim.stanford.edu> writes:
> I seem to remember reading a few years ago that the chemical
> used in copiers is mutagenic (in rodents no doubt).
> Anyone have any qualms about sitting next to a powered-on
> LaserWriter all day in a less-than-exuberantly ventilated
> room? (This is more curiousity than paranoia.)
Many photocopiers and larger laser printers use a drum coated with
Selenium, which is extremely nasty, and must be replaced by an official
service droid (mainly to insure that it's disposed of properly).
As far as I know, though, the Canon engines are quite safe, although toner
can be very annoying if it gets spilled :-).
--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
amanda@intercon.uu.net | ...!uunet!intercon!amanda
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 15:24:15 MDT
From: EPETERS%CSUGREEN@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: KaleidaGraph 2.0
This is a demo version of Synergy Software's KaleidaGraph 2.0
commercial scientific graphics application. Users of CricketGraph
will love this program, as it has all of Cricket's features and
graph types plus many more, including: 14 types of data plots
(including box plots, histograms), curve-fitting to user-defined
functions, MacDraw-like plot annotation tools, a programmable
calculator and function window (where you can make complex data
transformations in one step, rather than a step at a time) and
macros. Saving has been disabled in this demo, and printing will
add a demo banner across the page. Comes with some documentation
(including a 'Read Me' file outlining the new features of version
2.0) and some sample data files. A working copy can be obtained
through Synergy Software, 2457 Perkiomen Ave., Reading, PA 19606
(215) 779-0522, or through your favorite mail order house.
Stuffed with StuffIt and binhexed. Enjoy!
Eric L. Peters
Department of Radiology and Radiation Biology
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
EPETERS@CSUGREEN
********************************************************************
Disclaimer: As usual, I am not associated with this company in any
way (most will attest that there is little sign that I EVER work
at ALL!). Although I DO come from Pennsylvania...
OK, Synergy, I posted it. Where's my two dollars?
********************************************************************
[Archived as /info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part1.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part2.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part3.hqx; 162K
/info-mac/demo/kaleidagraph-part4.hqx; 78K]
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Date: Fri 01 09 89 10:34 EDT
From: U009%CCIW.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Laser printer Hazards
I took a quick browse through a CD database called WHMIS (Workplace
Hazardous Material Information System) here at the shop and found
indexing 'laser' only told me about the hazards of Helium/Neon/CO2
mixtures (HA HA HA). Anyway, 'toner' gave a much more pertinant
collection of 59 records from Kodak, Cannon and Xerox Corporations
about the materials in their photocopier chemicals. Let me briefly
list the chemicals found (as reported by the manufacturer) in the
products retrieved (obviously incomplete):
Acrylic Resin (20-25%)
ALUMINUM MONOSTEARATE
Amorphous Silica (<1%)
AN ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON SIMILAR TO KEROSENE
Bisphenol A Propylene Oxide Fumarate Polymer (85-90%)
Blue Pigment; Phthalocyanine Derivative (<10%)
BUTYLATED HYDROXYTOLUENE
Carbon Black (10-15%)
chromium chelate (72869-85-3)
Copper oxide
DIVINYLBENZENE CROSSLINKED RESIN
Dye or Pigment
Ferrite
FRAGRANCE MATERIAL (SCHOENMANN INC. #91925)
Iron oxide (1309-37-1)
ISOPAR G (ISOPARAFFINIC PETROLEUM SOLVENT)
Isoparaffinic hydrocarbons
Magenta Pigment; Quinoacridine Derivative (<10%)
MIXTURE MAINLY COMPOSED OF ISOPARAFFINIC HYDROCARBON SOLVENT
MIXTURE MAINLY COMPOSED OF RESIN COATED FERRITE POWDER
PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS
Pigment
Polyester resin
Polyolefin (<5%)
POLYPROPYLENE WAX
POLYVINYL BUTYRAL RESIN
PRUSSIAN BLUE PIGMENT
Quaternary Ammonium Salt (<2%)
ROSIN MODIFIED FORMALDEHYDE RESIN
Rosin-modified resin and vinylpolymers
Salicylic acid
Styrene acrylate copolymer
STYRENE AND N-BUTYLMETHACRYLATE COPOLYMER
Styrene methacrylate copolymer
Styrene/Butadiene Copolymer (45-50%)
Titanium dioxide
VINYL TOLUENE-ACRYLATE TERPOLYMER RESIN
Vinyltoluene-Butadiene Resin (85-90%)
WAXES AND SURFACTANTS
Yellow Pigment; Acetylacetamide Derivative (<10%)
Zinc Stearate (<1%)
Obviously, not all compounds appear in all toners.
The following phrases occurred in some of the vendor's data sheets
and I thought you might get a kick out of some of them. None of the
products looked at appeared to be genuinely toxic, although long-term
exposure data is relatively unknown.
<QUOTE:>
INHALATION: LC50: >2.6 G/M3 (RATS) SLIGHTLY TOXIC *
INGESTION: ORAL LD50: >15.3 G/KG (RATS) PRACTICALLY NON-TOXIC
MUTAGENICITY TEST(S): AMES NONE DETECTABLE **; MICRONUCLEUS NEGATIVE
Concerning carcinogenicity, each ingredient is not listed on NTP Third Annual
Report on carcinogens, IARC Monograph or OSHA listing.
EFFECTS OF OVEREXPOSURE:
Inhalation Gasping. Do not breathe the dust.
Medical Conditions Generally Aggravated by Exposure: None when used as
described by product literature.
This material has been tested and evaluated by Xerox Corporation. When used as
intended, it does not represent a health or safety hazard.
Mutagenicity: No mutagenicity detected in Ames, WP2, Pol A+/A-, and
Micronucleus Assays.
Carcinogens: None present XEL1: 5 mg/m3 (Total Dust)
Aquatic LC50: >500 mg/l (Fathead Minnows) non-toxic
(~~~Fatheads beware of this one~~~)
POTENTIALLY IRRITATING **, NON-SENSITIZING.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: **THIS IS DUE TO THE SOLVENT
TOXICITY DATA: Negative mutagenicity (Test species: S. typhimurium)
We recommend 300 ppm maximum for 8-hour working day, 5
days week.
and my favorite:-
Inhalation of high concentration can produce central
nervous system depression which can, in turn, lead to
a loss of coordination, impaired judgement and, if
exposure is prolonged, result in stupor and
unconsciousness.
(NOW we know what's causing it...
Lets get those photocopiers and laser
printers out of our government's offices!)
If you want the complete citations, I can send netdata files to
BITNET users and Email to others (59 5-6K blocks).
Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, (U009@CCIW.BITNET),
National Water Research Institute,
Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
(My opinions only... Sir?... SIR?)
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 00:42:52 CDT
From: GA0095%SIUCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Robert J. Brenstein)
Subject: LCD projection system
We have Kodak DataShow and nView's MacViewFrame for about a year now.
At the time we got them there were some 6 LCD devices available and
these two were rated the best. Now there are more of them, but I
haven't seen any new ones in action, hence can't say anything about
them. Both of the ones I have work fine, although Kodak's unit is
somewhat better -- it is more true b&w, it's a bit brighter, and
seems to have better refresh rate. Both require very bright overhead
projector and are sensitive to overheating (LCD goes bananas but
we haven't had any permanent damage yet). Both are easy to use once
the video capture card is installed in the Mac (additional cards can
be bought for other Macs). The card installation is not difficult
either. The refresh rate appears to be a problem of the current
generation of LCD devices -- faster movements on the screen are
becoming jerky when projected. As far as I remember all LCD devices
sell for $1400-1700. nView has now another model which is more
advanced and works (I believe) with Mac II. Kodak's unit does not
work with Mac IIs (somebody correct me if they got a card for Mac II
by now). Overall, I do recommend Kodak Datashow.
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 15:05 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Mac Digest stack
Here is a reposting of my Mac-Digest Stack, in UnStuffed, binhexed form. It
undigestifies the Info-Mac digest, and updates the archive stack. I think the
last time I sent it it got lost in the ether.
Thanks.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/mac-digest.hqx; 98K]
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 12:19:22 EDT
From: Joe_Mullaney@ub.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Mac Moria Bugs
RE:
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 19:27:21 CDT
>From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stan
Subject: Mac Moria Bugs
A Question: Is it possible that you are wearing a ring of Teleportation?
This is very much like carrying around a teleportation trap.
Hope this helps
-Joe
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 12:55:31 EDT
From: gateh%conncoll.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Mac Portable battery/AC connection
> I read your summary of the Mac Portable in the info-mac digest with
> great interest. I just wondered whether the thing can be run with an
> A/C adaptor *without* having the battery in place? I'm guessing that a
> significant part of the 15 lb is in the battery, and for those of us who
> need to take a Mac on a trip, but don't need to use it on battery power,
> it would be nice if we could leave the battery behind.
>
> Paul Romaniuk,
> Biochemistry,
> University of Victoria
> PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet
Unfortunately, the battery must be place in order for the machine to run.
That is to say, you cannot run directly from the AC adaptor. You can,
however, switch batteries while the machine is on, thanks to a 9V battery
which keeps the machine up while you change the rechargeable battery.
I did not get physical specs on the battery itself, and did not handle it
either (bonehead), so I cannot give you a very good guess as to its weight.
It is about 2.5" x 3" x 4.5", and did not appear to be inordinately heavy,
but I would guess that you are correct in assuming that it accounts for a
significant portion of the machine's weight.
It would be my guess that, due to the constraints of working with a lead-acid
battery as a power source, it is unlikely that we will see any third-party
products which would allow the machine to function without the battery.
However that is a relatively *wild* (and uninformed) guess. Comments
anyone? - Gregg
*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
Gregg TeHennepe | Academic Computing and User Services
Minicomputer Specialist | Box 5482
BITNET: gateh@conncoll | Connecticut College
Phone: (203) 447-7681 | New London, CT 06320
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 09:04:45 EDT
From: kim@cs.williams.edu
Subject: Modula 2 on the Mac
We have been very pleased with MetCom Modula-2 by Metropolis Computing. It
has an integrated environment (editor, compiler, linker, source-level debugger).
While not quite as friendly an environment as MacPascal or LightSpeed Pascal
our students have had no problem learning and using the system (in great
contrast to the MPW environment!). It has very good access to toolbox
routines, and they provide some modules to make it easier to do such things
as pop up windows (of various flavors) and provide character sets. We have been
running the software on Macs with hard disks (you need the space for all of the
libraries provided), but will be running it off of an (ethertalked)
network server this fall. The documentation is very complete (although
you still need Inside Macintosh to really get into the toolbox) - my students
can dig out just about anything they need from the manual. The best news
however is the support. Metropolis has been incredibly responsive to our
questions and requests. It is easy to get them on the phone and questions
are answered very rapidly. One new piece of news is that they are coming
out with a "student pack" - compiler and abbreviated documentation. I haven't
seen it to know how complete it is, but the price is right ~$40 (the full
package is substantially more).
We had tried MacModula-2 earlier. It was incredibly slow and apparently
isn't being supported anymore. We definitely would NOT recommend it.
Kim Bruce, Department of Computer Science,
Williams College
kim@cs.williams.edu
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 20:30:45 PDT
From: POTHIERS%TUVA.SAINET.MFENET@ccc.nmfecc.gov
Subject: MS Word Postscript Headers?
I think I remember reading that MS Word sends a postscript header to the
laser writer before sending a document to be printed (for setup purposes).
Is there any way of inhibiting the sending of the header?
I want to print a non-Word postscript document but I think its getting
interference.
advTHANKSance,
Steve Pothire
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 10:56 MDT
From: DSPhillips%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: NCSA Image
There was a recent Info_Mac posting by Wayne Rashband mentioning that he
had uploaded the source code to Image 1.16. I believe he is referring
to software that originates at the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We
recently received their "Anonymous FTP Source Reel" which contains
source code for a program called ImageTool 1.2. ImageTool has
apparently been revamped in C and renamed Image. Although the
documentation for Image indicates that the source is in the public
domain, it was not included on the tape we received. Does NCSA plan to
release the C source code? Could someone post it to a BITNET-accessible
archive, such as the one at Rice? Thank you.
Doug S. Phillips BITNET: DSPhillips@UNCAMULT
SuperComputing Services or DSPhillips@UNCACDC
The University of Calgary
390 - 1620, 29 St. N. W. Phone: (403)-221-8907
Calgary, AB, Canada
T2N 4L7
[To clear up any confusion, the archive at Rice is a shadow of the Sumex
archive: it contains our files, and only our files. There is an automatic
program which runs every night to maintain the linkage. In order to get a
file onto the archive there, you have to send it to the regular address
here at sumex-aim.stanford.edu. The same goes for MACSERVE@PUCC and the
European IRLEARN, two other Bitnet-accessible shadows. -Bill]
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 15:06:44 EDT
From: eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.ca (Eric Brunelle)
Subject: Problems with 2400bps modem
I'm trying to connect a Packard Bell 2400bps modem to my 512E Mac.
I can't even get echo from the modem when I type a command to it
>From the Mac, although the RD LED lights at every one of my keystrokes.
What's wrong with my connection?
The Mac is an original 128K (I was an early believer!) upgraded to 512
and then to 512E. I bought the cable yesterday evening from the biggest
Mac store in Canada (Micros-Boutique in Montreal), and it was supposed
to work!
I guess it's a very simple problem, but it's still frustrating!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Brunelle | "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau de croire a la lumiere."
BNR-Montreal | -- E. Rostand
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1989 10:40:41 EDT
From: LYONS@scri1.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Lyons)
Subject: Problem with auto log-on in AppleShare
We have been having a problem at our site with the automatic log on feature
of AppleShare. The problem is that when a user tries to set automatic log
on from the volume selection dialog box in Chooser, an alert says, "The
AppleShare Prep file needed some minor repairs. Some startup information
may be lost." The file it then creates is garbage compared to a prep file
that works; the former just has a dozen or so (non-text) bytes and the
latter has some sort of structure which includes plain-text strings for the
user name and password, the zone(s), and volume name(s). Where did we get
a prep file that works, you ask? Well, we have have Mac IIs which all have
Apple's EtherTalk board and Mac Pluses on LocalTalk; a Kinetics FastPath
bridges the two. Turns out this problem was only occurring on the IIs; on
the Plusses, it works fine. (We are using System 6.0.3, EtherTalk 1.2, and
AppleShare 2.0.1 on all machines.) Hold on, it gets wierder. Further
investigation showed that if a Mac II was switched over to LocalTalk,
AppleShare then created a good prep file! We also found you could create a
good prep file on a Plus and then copy it into the System Folder of a II on
the Ethernet, and it would work correctly; however, if you tried to change
the startup information, the prep file would be garbaged again.
The problems apparantly started when we reconfigured the server volumes.
We noticed that after the change, users who had been using the automatic
log on feature with just the name being saved would get the dialog box
during boot-up asking for their password; they would enter it, but after
boot-up, no server volume would be mounted. In looking at these prep files
we discovered, interestingly, that the prep file kept information about
previous configurations of the server; we saw in them names of test servers
we had set up briefly, and volumes that had existed some time in the past
but were no longer present.
We have reported this problem to Apple Tech Support via our local Apple
S.E. If I find out what's going on, I'll post it. In the meantime, if
anyone can corroborate this problem or has any information or ideas about
this, please let me know or post it to the net.
Jim Lyons \ Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
904/644-4274 \ Florida State University
lyons@gw.scri.fsu.edu \ Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 02:07:14 -0900
From: "DANIEL K LASOTA" <FTDKL%ALASKA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Red Ryder command language
Hi Everyone!
Is there anyone out there who has done work with the command
language of Red Ryder 10.3?
I was interested in automating remote dial ins to a host mac.
Maybe we could post a few example com files in the archives.
Thanks
Dan
Disclaimer: Disclaimers not needed.
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 09:18:29 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: ShowDialog1.4 XCMD stack
What follows is a share ware stack with an XCMD for putting up
modeless dialogs in HyperCard. The author is Jay Hodgson.
Paul Romaniuk
PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/showdialog-14.hqx; 131K]
------------------------------
Date: 1 Sep 89 10:50:00 EDT
From: "Charles E. Bouldin" <bouldin@sed.ceee.nist.gov>
Subject: Speeding up an SE/030
I am considering the purchase of an SE/030 and upgrades of existing SE's to
the 030 motherboard. I believe that the SE/030 runs at 16 mhz with 120 nsec
ram, therefore needing 2 wait states on the memory. Since fast (70-80 nsec)
ram is now ~$110/meg, I am wondering if there is any way to swap the memory
on the SE/030 motherboard, install the faster ram and reduce the wait states?
If anyone has info on this I will repost replies to infomac.
Related question: The SE/030 does not come (I think) in a 2 floppy version.
If I upgrade a 2 floppy SE do I still have use of both floppies? I much
prefer 2 internal floppies and an external hard disc to a configuration with
an internal hard disc.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 18:57:20 PDT
From: xanadu!grand-central!bob@uunet.uu.net (Bob Schumaker -- "Software-in-a-bucket")
Subject: TransSkel25.sit.hqx
In the wake of the recent rash of messages looking for modifications
to TransSkel, here is a new version of TransSkel. This version (which
is not officially blessed by Paul DuBois) is now multifinder friendly,
supports the multifinder cursor region, support pull-right menus, and
comes complete with a test program that demonstrates the new features!
This version is set up for MPW C 3.0 and has not been tested with LsC
in a looong time.
Enjoy!
Bob Schumaker The AMIX Corporation
2345 Yale, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Addresses: bob@xanadu.com, {hoptoad,uunet,apple,sun}!xanadu!bob
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/transskel-modified.hqx; 125K]
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Date: Fri, 01 Sep 89 09:30:21 CDT
From: Michael Farlow--Texas A&M Graphics Lab <X098MF%TAMVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Venda-Card Systems for Mac Output Devices
Howdy!!
I am looking for information on how to hook up a Venda-card system to our Mac
output devices. For those of you who don't know what this is, I shall try to
elaborate:
A Venda-Card is a small card issued from a machine that has a magnetic strip
with an ammount of money encoded on it. This card can be placed into a reader
attached to any machine that normally might take coinage (say a copy machine)
and used in place of loose change. Once the card is out of money, then you can
re-insert it into the vending machine, add a $1 or $5 bill, and have that much
credit added to the card.
I have seen a few references in the past to accademic computing sites having
this attached to their laserweriters and would like for anyone who might know
about this to send information back to me.
Thank you,
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Michael Farlow X098MF@TAMVM1.TAMU.EDU (InterNet) %
% CSC Help Desk & Graphics Lab Consultant X098MF@TAMVM1 (BitNet) %
% Texas A&M University (409)845-1365 %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Disclaimer %
% %
% Any opinions expressed here are the sole responsibility of Michael %
% Farlow and do not in any way constitute the views, policy, or %
% other legal type things of Texas A&M University. %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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Info-Mac Digest Mon, 4 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 157
Today's Topics:
Almanac Stack 1.52
A Simple Question
autosave in Word 4
Deskjet Drivers
DeskTop Refresh Problem
hierDA INIT 0.9984
HP Deskwriter and System-7 incompatablity?
Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
Laser printer toner cartridge hazards
Megalomania
Modeless Dialogs in HyperCard
monitors
More on ShowDialogXCMD
MW II launcher
RayTracer
searching/indexing/browsing software for mac
SendPS 2.0
SetNode cdev
tappytype-12.hqx
Telephone operator system on a Mac network
UnScrolly 1.0
UUCP for the Macintosh
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
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/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
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Date: 14 May 89 23:00:29 GMT
From: kaz@nanovx.UUCP (Mike Kazmierczak)
Subject: Almanac Stack 1.52
This is a shareware hypercard stack used for astronomy calculations.
Chebyshev polynomials are used to calculate planetary positions. Solar
coordinates, as well as, rising and setting times are also calculated.
Also included are predictions for eclipses of Jupiter's Galilean
satellites. $5 is the shareware fee.
Mike Kazmierczak -- kaz@nanovx.uucp
[Archived /info-mac/hypercard/astronomical-almanac.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 89 17:29:13 PDT
From: PUGH@ccc.nmfecc.gov
Subject: A Simple Question
Somewhere along the way, I managed to set my project name and resource file in
THINK Pascal 2.0 to some default. Going over the manual isn't helping. Does
anyone know what the magic combo is to set default attributes for new
projects? I hate being senile!
Jon
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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 89 00:07:58 EDT
From: "Dr. A.Bykat" <BYKAT%UTCVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: autosave in Word 4
Is there a way to make Word 4 automatically save every so many minutes?
I cannot find any mention of auto-save in the manual.
With thanks,
Alex Bykat
Acknowledge-To: <BYKAT@UTCVM>
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 89 14:45:08 PDT
From: Les_Ferch@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Deskjet Drivers
>Are there other printer drivers besides Grappler LQ to use with the
>Mac and HP DeskJet?
Yes...
- Grappler makes a better product than the LQ, called Grappler LS.
(the LQ is meant for hooking up parallel 24 pin printers, whereas the
LS is for hooking up deskjets and laserjets via their serial ports)
- Printer Interface III (for the Deskjet) and IV (for the laserjet)
are good basic drivers from Datapak software.
- MacPrint is an excellent driver, especially if you want to use
the deskjet's internal fonts or font cartridges (it has the unique
feature of creating screen fonts that match the spacing character-
istics of the internal or cartridge fonts). MacPrint is from
Insight Development.
- Jetlink Express from GDT Softworks provides the same capability
as the HP DeskWriter. That is, fully scaleable Times, Helvetica,
Courier, and Symbol fonts with the basic system and the full set of
fonts found in most laser printers available as an option. This
means you can print type from very tiny to very large (at least
127 points) in one point increments all at full 300 dpi resolution.
This is the most hassle free way to go, because your documents will
print the same on both the Deskjet and a Postscript printer and you
have a large selection of fonts to choose from that print well.
- MacJet is a driver from Laser Connection (a QMS comapny) that
is intended mainly for Laserjets but also works with the Deskjet.
The product supports Laserjet font cartridges.
Most of the above products benefit from, but do not require, more
than a 1MB machine, but I reccommend having at least 2MB memory.
Most also work with SuperLaserSpool from SuperMac Technology, which
is a must. I hope to one day finish testing all of these, but my
first impressions are that MacPrint and JetLink Express are the
leaders, with JetLink having the edge because of the scaleable fonts.
Please do not send mail asking for more info. I'll try to post a
complete report in the future. Check a recent issue of MacGuide
magazine for company addresses and phone numbers.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 89 13:10:03 EDT
From: Guenther Blaschek <K331671%AEARN.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: DeskTop Refresh Problem
I just read a message from Howard Ramagli who had encountered a problem
with Cmdr. Dialog: The Finder doesn't refresh the desktop any more, when
Cmdr. Dialog ist installed.
I'm not using Cmdr. Dialog, since it did not work on my Mac, so I discarded it
without examining it further.
However, I have come across exactly the same problem in an INIT I wrote myself.
This INIT is supposed to do something particular when the user clicks in the
top left corner of the screen. In order to catch those clicks, my INIT patches
GetNextEvent (i.e. redirects it to a procedure of my own). My own procedure now
first calls the original GetNextEvent and then checks whether the returned
event was a click at position (0,0). I have experienced the very same problem
as Howard: The INIT works fine, but the Finder does not redraw the icons on
the desktop (e.g. the trash and disk icons) when they are uncovered by a
window. However, this is only the case when two conditions are satisfied:
a) MultiFinder is running
b) The Finder is running in the foreground. The icons are properly refreshed
when a window of the frontmost application is closed or moved!
I have tried several things to make the thing work. I even tried to remove
everything from the INIT except the patching and redirecting stuff. All that
remained was something like the following:
function OldGNE(mask:INTEGER; evt:EventRecord): BOOLEAN;
inline $4EB9, $1234, $5678; (*JSR <address of original GetNextEvent>*)
function MyGNE(mask:INTEGER; evt:EventRecord):BOOLEAN;
begin
MyGNE:=OldGNE(mask,evt)
end;
The INIT code does nothing but install MyGNE with SetTrapAddress as the new
procedure responsible for handling GetNextEvent and replacing the address
"$12345678" with the real address of the original GetNextEvent (which was
returned by a previous call to GetTrapAddress). Of course the INIT code also
detaches the INIT resource and leaves it installed (and locked) in the System
heap.
I believe that my problem is the same as that of the author of Cmdr. Dialog.
If anybody who already has successfully patched GetNextEvent could tell what's
wrong with the above piece of code, he would a) help me fixing that nasty bug
in my INIT and b) probably also solve the problem with Cmdr. Dialog.
Any help is appreciated. Please send hints/pointers/handles directly to me;
I will summarize the responses for the net.
e Guenther Blaschek
gu EMail: <K331671@AEARN>
SNail: University of Linz / Austria
Institute of Computer Science / Software
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz
Tel.: +43 (732) 2468 / 447
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Date: 23 Jul 89 00:00:47 GMT
From: bytebug@dhw68k.cts.com (Roger L. Long)
Subject: hierDA INIT 0.9984
Here's the latest version of hierDA, a cdev/INIT which allows hierachical
menus to appear within the apple menu. It now loads in system heap space
so there are fewer problems with MultiFinder.
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/hier-da-09984.hqx; 31K]
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 89 18:13:09 EDT
From: horan@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Frederick Horan)
Subject: HP Deskwriter and System-7 incompatablity?
Several people in the department I work for are interested in the HP Deskwriter
(also the GCC Personal Laser Printer). The printer produces great text and
graphics at slow but acceptable speeds. Also, the printer is cheap ($730 with
discount) and the operating cost is roughly equivalent to that of a
laserprinter (less then a $.05/page).
I am concerned that this and other Quickdraw based printers may be (at least
initially) incompatable with the Outline fonts used with System-7.
The HP Deskwriter comes with screen and printer (AGFA Compugraphic) fonts.
These screen and printer fonts are similar to each other (WYSI almost WYG).
What happens when the underlying software used to produced the screen fonts is
changed to support outline fonts instead? Will the old (bitmapped) screen
fonts continue to be supported? Will we require drivers for bitmapped printers
that are different from what we now get from HP (or GCC or other companies)?
I may be worrying needlessly but I do not want to throw thousands of dollars
away on 'good' printers only to be stuck in the ugly amorphous muck of
incompatablity down the road. WSYI Fuzzy.
Thanks in advance
Fred (horan@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu)
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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 89 14:46:14 EDT
From: Leora Druckman <21765LD%MSU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #155
Subject: Hypercard 2.0
Does anyone know what we will be seeing in Hypercard 2.0?
Color? Communications? Debugging? etc., etc.
I keep hearing various rumors (some that contradict others).
Is there someone from Apple that might be able to sort things out?
with anticipation,
Leora Druckman
21765LD@IBM.CL.MSU.EDU
P.S. Does anyone know of other good Bitnet forums on Hypercard?
Acknowledge-To: <21765LD@MSU>
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 89 08:14:36 PDT
From: aron@garnet.berkeley.edu (Aron Roberts)
Subject: Laser printer toner cartridge hazards
Responding to a posting to this effect some time ago, we asked our
Environmental Health & Safety office to investigate the possibility
that laser printer toner cartridges, of the type used in Canon CX
and SX engines (e.g. all models of Apple LaserWriter and HP LaserJet)
might contain hazardous materials. Their analysis of the materials
list for these cartridges provided to them by Canon indicated that
none of the constituent materials, singly or in combination, should
constitute a hazard to humans.
Aron Roberts
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 15:33:25 CDT
From: Eric Huffman <eric@music.nwu.edu>
Subject: Megalomania
Megalomania 0.32
Real time processing of MIDI data
---------------------------------
The application allows the user to design "effects" that process MIDI data
in real-time. The user designs an effect by connecting together icons. An
icon represents a simple computation (delay, transposition, etc...) and the
connections represent the flow of MIDI data.
MIDI files can be read and processed along with serial input. The resultant
MIDI data stream can then be recorded and stored as a MIDI file and/or be
sent as serial output.
- Compatible with System 4.2 and up.
- Must be run on a Mac Plus or a later model.
- Needs at least 1 Meg.
- Does not behave with MultFinder.
This package includes the application, documentation, and example files.
Written by Eric Huffman (eric@music.nwu.edu)
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
- Eric Huffman
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/programs/megalomania.hqx; 146K]
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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 89 17:26:31 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Modeless Dialogs in HyperCard
What follows is version 2.0 of a stack containing XCMDs for
using modeless dialogs in HyperCard (I *knew* that I had this
somewhere). Knowledge of how modeless dialogs work, and how
to use resedit to create DLOG and DITL resources required.
Author is Antoine Latour.
Paul Romaniuk,
University of Victoria
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/modeless-dialogs.hqx; 42K]
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 13:47 CDT
From: <JJM3383%TAMSIGMA.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: monitors
Howdy,
I am currently adding a 24 bit color board to my system. In connection
with this I have two problems:
1. How do I handle graphics? I am familiar with the palette manager
routines. Do you just ignore palettes and use rgbforcolor to draw
in a pariticular color. Also, is there a 24 bit pd draw program
out there, and what format can I save a 24 bit picture in? (PICT or
GIF would be nice if possible).
2. I now have my old video card freed up. I would like to add another
monitor to help in debugging. What is my cheapest route. What
monochrome monitors are compatible with a mac card. I don't necess-
arily want my eight bit video capability.
thanks everyone. The programming info is for a raytrace program I am
working on in school this semester.
bye...
jeph
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 89 14:25:50 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: More on ShowDialogXCMD
Two corrections to the note accompanying the posting of the
ShowDialogXCMD stack, pointed out to me by David Graham.
A) This thing puts up *modal* dialogs, not modeless (SORRY about that!)
B) The author's name is Jay Hodgdon, not Jay Hodgson - my sincere
apologies to Jay. By the way, I think that Jay now works for Apple.
Hope I haven't inconvenienced anyone!
Paul Romaniuk,
University of Victoria
PROMAN@UVVM.bitnet
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Date: 27 Aug 89 10:01:00 GMT
From: sw@uklino.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin)
Subject: MW II launcher
Having taken up Claris' upgrade offer and installed MacWrite II and
MacDraw II on my HD, I then trashed the old versions of same. All was
well until I downloaded the latest and greatest from the net,
double-clicked on the documentation file and arrrgh! "Application is
busy or not found". Oh well, I got a bit fed up of this after a while,
so here's a simple launcher program. Just stick it into the same folder
as MacWrite II, and it'll let you double-click launch MacWrite [45].x
documents. Also included are instructions on how to hack it to launch
other applications with a MacDraw II launcher as an example.
Free and includes sources (such as they are), with thanks to the
authors of Apple Tech Note 126.
Here's hoping that "aliases" in System 7.0 will do the job in a more
general way (pretty please, Apple :-).
Sak Wathanasin
uucp: ...!ukc!uklino!sw
JANET: sw%uklino@uk.ac.ukc
BITNET: sw%uklino%ukc.ac.uk@ukacrl.bitnet
other: sw%uklino.uucp@ukc.ac.uk
phone: (+44) 242 222333 x206
snail: Linotype Ltd, R & D Dept, Bath Road, Cheltenham, Glos. GL53 7LR, UK
[Archived as /info-mac/util/macwrite-ii-launcher.hqx; 20K]
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Date: 3 Jun 89 04:40:40 GMT
From: jkjl@munnari.oz (John Lim)
Subject: RayTracer
This ray tracer was originally posted in comp.sources.misc or unix.
Ported to the Mac by John Lim and Jason Castan. Includes an LSC
project and source.
Compiled using LSC and needs colour QD to run. The current project
also uses the 68881. Enjoy.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/raytracer.hqx; 187K]
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Date: 4 Sep 89 12:33 EDT
From: science@NEMS.DT.NAVY.MIL (Mark Zimmermann)
Subject: searching/indexing/browsing software for mac
re the msg from ZAK in INFO-MAC v7n147, which I just got a chance to read,
I've got some programs that you're welcome to try for free-text indexing and
browsing through extremely large files ... they are in the INFO-MAC archives
someplace, as well as on CompuServe and elsewhere, under names 'TEXAS' and
'TEX' (hypercard interfaces) and 'qndxr.c' and 'brwsr.c' (generic UNIX
command-line interfaces) ... they build machine-readable index files very fast
(about 15 MB/hour on a Mac II) and, once you've indexed a file, let you
scroll around in an 'index window' showing all the words and their number
of occurrences; click on a word and a 'context window' shows you every
instance with half a line of context on each side, for rapid scanning; click
on a line of context and a 'text window' gives you copy/paste access to the
full text in the area you've selected ... simple proximity search also is
easy to do ... I find the system useful for browsing through big collections
of disorganized information (tech manuals, my archive of online correspondence,
literary works, etc.) ... completely free software (though I charge an
exorbitant distribution fee to keep people from bothering me and to encourage
public redistribution) .... there's also a background index-builder,
MultiFinder-tolerant program ('MultIndexer') if you want to work while
building big index files....
If anybody has taken my source code and improved upon it, please let me
know .... tnx .... ↑z
-------
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 10:46:04 EDT
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: SendPS 2.0
Slightly newer version of Adobe's SendPS utility. Useful for sending pure
PostScript files to PostScript printers such as the LaserWriter, etc.
Improved handling of printing of text files. Now at version 2.0, but I don't
really see major changes in program capabilities.
Michael J. Paisley PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
Materials Science & Engineering PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
229 Riddick Laboratories PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
Campus Box 7907 Office: (919) 737-7083
North Carolina State University Messages: (919) 737-2377
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 FAX: (919) 737-3419
[Archived as /info-mac/util/sendps-20.hqx; 53K]
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 08:19:35 EDT
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: SetNode cdev
This is a little CDEV (control panel device) that I picked off of CompuServe
that allows you to set the node number that the Mac uses as a first attempt
when booting on an AppleTalk network. If it matches an existing machine, it
will automatically be changed, but otherwise you can set your node number to
what you want.
Michael J. Paisley PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
Materials Science & Engineering PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
229 Riddick Laboratories PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
Campus Box 7907 Office: (919) 737-7083
North Carolina State University Messages: (919) 737-2377
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 FAX: (919) 737-3419
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/setnode.hqx; 17K]
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 01:13:50 -0400
From: Guest <foo@astsun.astro.virginia.edu>
Subject: tappytype-12.hqx
This is version 1.2 of TappyType, a not-especially-serious
Control Panel device. This version supercedes all previous
versions, and is ESPECIALLY improved over the first-released
version: 0.94. Also included in this BinHex file is a text
file containing documentation.
TappyType, when installed and active, makes your Mac play
typewriter noises in response to your keypresses.
Colin Klipsch
Univeristy of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/tappytype-12.hqx; 28K]
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 89 19:55:47 edt
From: research@NEMS.DT.NAVY.MIL (Leavitt)
Subject: Telephone operator system on a Mac network
Anybody know anything about any systems (products, in house efforts, class
projects, etc.) that let you run a telephone "information" service on a
network of Macintoshes? The concept is that the operators would be in front of
a reasonably large screen and be able to scroll alphabetically, through an
organization chart, or by physical location. Database would be in the
server. Please respond directly to me--if there is any interest, I'll respond
to the list.
Many thanks.
Mike Leavitt
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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 22:40:43 +0200
From: audoire@inria.inria.fr (Louis Audoire)
Subject: UnScrolly 1.0
Tired of scrolling through the control panel list ?
[Archived as /info-mac/cdev/unscrolly.hqx; 14K]
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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 89 19:23:37 GMT
From: decwrl!pro-oz.cts.com!hplabs!bevans@labrea.stanford.edu (Brian Evans)
Subject: UUCP for the Macintosh
Gidday Fellow Netters,
No doubt that this question has been asked before but I
am unable to get an answer and would appreciate any help forthcoming regarding
this topic. I would like to know if there is a UUCP program available for the
Macintosh. If there is either Public Domain OR Commercial any details on how
or where i could get such a program would be greatly appreciated.
Brian Evans Fax +61 3 387-0158
P.O Box 232 Compuserve: 72500,1355
Avondale Heights 3034 "That's not a knife, This is a Knife!"
Victoria, Australia. - Crocodile Dundee
Internet: bevans@pro-oz.cts.com Proline: bevans@pro-oz
Arpanet: crash!pnet01!pro-party!pro-oz!bevans@nosc.mil
uucp: crash!pnet01!pro-party!pro-oz!bevans
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 5 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 158
Today's Topics:
"I feel the need... The Need... FOR SPEED!"
Astrology Software
Auto-saver?
Canvas 2.0 Color Palette for use with PowerPoint 2.0
Crystal Cave
DeskWriter incompatibility with System 7.0
Hard Disk Partitioning Software
Icon creation order on Desktop
Mac Graphics Package Info Needed
MacHumaine
Mac Moria Bugs
Mac Tech Notes, 8/89 edition
MPW hacking part-time job
NCSA Image and NIMH Image
NIMH vs. NCSA Image
Note about DialogXCMD
SafeEject INIT
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Date: 31 Aug 89 01:01:44 GMT
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: "I feel the need... The Need... FOR SPEED!"
Yup, it's the sound from TOP GUN. Have fun...
"It's hard to be the Diva..."
--
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, hplsla, thebes, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/need-for-speed.hqx; 57K]
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 09:16:22 PDT
From: balamut@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Morris Balamut)
Subject: Astrology Software
Hi,
I am interested in software for generating astrological forcasts.
My preference is for PD or shareware, but I would welcome any referals
for commercial products.
Thanks.
Morris Balamut
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 14:42:23 -0400
From: grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil (William (Liam) Grant)
Subject: Auto-saver?
I am looking for some sort of method for automatically saving a document
every 10-20 minutes. I have heard that there are utilities which would
this, but I don't remember which.
BTW, First priority would be for a CDEV/INIT that would take care of this
for the presently active application and top document. Best program would
allow for saving any and all open documents under Multifinder.
Thanks. Write directly to me and I'll summarize.
=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
William (Leprechaun Liam) Grant Grant@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Code 5541 (202) 767-2392
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C. 20375
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Date: 1 Sep 89 05:00:33 GMT
From: dfh@granjon.UUCP (DF Hoerl)
Subject: Canvas 2.0 Color Palette for use with PowerPoint 2.0
This file contains a Canvas 2.0 color palette appropriate for use with
PowerPoint II's color schemes. Thus, color objects drawn in Canvas can
be placed into PowerPoint without the need to use PowerPoint's "Recolor"
function.
Canvas's color palette is 16 wide and 8 deep - the colors are arranged
thusly :
whi bla yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc yrc
whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi whi
GY8 GY7 GY6 GY5 GY4 GY3 GY2 GY1 RD8 RD7 RD6 RD5 RD4 RD3 RD2 RD1
OR8 OR7 OR6 OR5 OR4 OR3 OR2 OR1 YO8 YO7 YO6 YO5 YO4 YO3 YO2 YO1
YW8 YW7 YW6 YW5 YW4 YW3 YW2 YW1 YG8 YG7 YG6 YG5 YG4 YG3 YG2 YG1
GN8 GN7 GN6 GN5 GN4 GN3 GN2 GN1 BG8 BG7 BG6 BG5 BG4 BG3 BG2 BG1
BU8 BU7 BU6 BU5 BU4 BU3 BU2 BU1 VT8 VT7 VT6 VT5 VT4 VT3 VT2 VT1
RV8 RV7 RV6 RV5 RV4 RV3 RV2 RV1 RV8 whi whi whi whi whi whi bla
bla == Black
whi == White
YRC == You Choose - ie, paste in your current/favorite PowerPoint
Other colors == PowerPoint's (Genigraphic's?) numbering scheme
(see manual page 256).
BTW, I recently produced a fairly large and complex color transparency
presentation using PowerPoint and Canvas through Genigraphics, with
excellent results.
David Hoerl
AT&T Bell Laboratories
att!garage!dfh
[Archived as /info-mac/util/canvas-palette-for-powerpoint.hqx; 4K]
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Date: 13 Jul 89 01:00:59 GMT
From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Subject: Crystal Cave
This is part one of a text adventure. It is in the style of the original
Adventure, and uses a very similar input parser.
As explained in the INFO command and the about box, I am not the original
author. That inventive soul chose to stay anonymous. I have, however,
had this thing for a number of years now, and have not seen it elsewhere,
and in the absense of coypright notices on the original FORTRAN sources,
which I still have, and in view of the open (albeit clandestine)
distribution it originally had I take it to be in the public domain. I
assert no ownership whatsoever, although I do request credit where credit
is due.
I have ported this to several languages, most recently Lightspeed C, and
have previously posted sources to the unix-pc groups. They are available
>From me in several machine-readable forms, if you pay the freight plus a
bit.
The game itself is a sort of sequel to the original Adventure. The
command parser is similar, but has been adapted to be smarter in several
ways. It reads whole words, so only a few abbreviations (N, E, S, W, for
instance) are recognized. It recognizes periods and commas for stringing
commands and objects together on a line: if you have just started, and
are standing outside the barn, "in. get keys, lamp. out" is a reasonable
thing to do.
There are new ways to travel, though they will seem unreliable until you
get the hang of them. There is a sort of "outer" game, and a monster
whose job is to make it hard for you to find the inner or true game.
Once you find the inner game, there are at least one each of dragon,
kobold, djinni, bugbear, unicorn, orc, and so on. Of course, there are
the familiar dwarves and a pirate. These creatures may or may not act
quite the way you'd expect...
As a matter of fact, you can expect that NONE of the tricks that were so
much fun to find in Adventure will do what you expect here. It's kind of
a running gag. Even picking things up can be the wrong thing to do, as
you will very quickly find.
I think the tricks you find that do work are just as much fun. Enjoy.
--
Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman, {pyramid,csun}!srhqla!kosman!kevin )
voice: 805-984-8042 Vital Computer Systems, 5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035
Non-Disclaimer: my boss is me, and he stands behind everything I say.
[Archived as /info-mac/game/crystal-cave.hqx; 130K]
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 21:45:14 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: DeskWriter incompatibility with System 7.0
I don't believe that you need worry, for several reasons. For one, HP
is almost certainly (99.5% probable, in my guesstimation) going to
release an updated driver when System 7.0 comes out... or, in fact, may
be able to say that the existing driver works just fine with System 7.0
(I've heard a report that it's already been tested, and works OK... I
have no details, though).
The Apple-supported outline-font technology will almost certainly work
just fine with the HP driver... I understand that it's implemented via
changes in the Font Manager which make the presence of outline fonts
essentially invisible to applications and printer-drivers. Its presence
in the system should not interfere with the CompuGraphics-style
outline-font support contained within the HP driver.
It's true that printer drivers will need to be updated to make use of
System 7.0's extended Print Manager functions (spooling and background
printing, etc.). From what I've read in Apple's preliminary disclosure
re System 7.0, they very definitely intend to provide high-quality
support for QuickDraw-based printers... they've said that they'll be
making available a "generic" QuickDraw-imaging driver kernel, which can
be licensed and used as the basis for commercial printer-drivers.
According to some Apple engineers I spoke with a few weeks ago, Apple
will be "seeding" pre-release copies of System 7.0 to its Partners well
in advance of the general release of 7.0, so that third-party hardware
and software developers will have plenty of time to update their
products and have new 7.0-compatible versions ready when 7.0 hits the
street.
HP released the DeskWriter _after_ the System 7.0 disclosure by Apple.
I doubt that they would have done so (and, in effect, taken the step of
declaring that HP now takes the Mac quite seriously) without having
already made the decision to support the printer once System 7.0 becomes
available.
If I didn't already own a DeskJet and a decent third-party driver, I'd
buy a DeskWriter in a minute! I've said it before and I'll say it
again... HP's engineers are to be commended for doing a fine job with
this family of printers. I've rarely been so impressed with a
peripheral of any nature... the DeskJet family is a real gem!
--
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 89 12:29:14 EDT
From: "Ghassan N. Alkhoja" <ALKHOJA%GWUVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Partitioning Software
Hi all,
Is anyone familiar with any HD partitioning software that will allow me
to write-protect partitions? I am interested in something that would work
on an SE/30. I have Symantec HD Partition, but I don't think it will let
me write-protect partitions. Thanks in advance.
Ghassan N. Alkhoja
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Computer Information and Resource Center
The George Washington University
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 17:14 CDT
From: <CC_BRYSO%SWTEXAS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Icon creation order on Desktop
Is there a means to tell the Finder to place new icons vertically within a
window rather than horizonitally. The default is that a new icon is placed on
the upper right horizonitally. I rather the default be vertically so that I do
not have to re-size the window to see the new icon (I rather use the scroll bar
instead and leave the window size alone). I hope the following illustrates the
above better.
This is way it is done now:
icon1 icon2 icon3 newicon
icon4 icon5 .....
this is the way I would prefer:
icon1 icon2 icon3
icon4 icon5 .....
newicon
Ideally it would be nice if the Finder would "fill-in-the-blanks" in the
visible portion of the window (i.e. where the ..... is)
Bill Bryson
User Consultant
Southwest Texas State University
CC_BRYSON@SWTEXAS.BITNET
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Date: 5 Sep 89 10:41:04 EDT
From: Akshay.Gupta@me.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: Mac Graphics Package Info Needed
i am interested in using some macintosh graphics package that has
the following characteristics:
* it can allow the development of MacDraw-like Icon libraries
* it allows 2--way communication between it and some other
application, i.e., allows another application to instruct
it to draw something (as in macros), as well as has the ability
to tell another application what it has drawn (even if it means
interpreting the datafile it saves)
* has 3-D solid manipulation
i know that sounds like a tall order!! if you know of any Mac package that
allows one to do the above things, or even parts of it, please let me know...
akshay gupta
x3820,x3835,521-5765, akshay@me.ri.cmu.edu
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 16:53:36 CDT
From: bobs@saintjoe.edu (Bob Schenk)
Subject: MacHumaine
>If you're looking for QUALITY manuscript fonts, youλ'll have to expand
>your budget. Public-domain calligraphic fonts are worth their prices,
> but not much more. (from issue 147)
I am sending as a separate document MacHumaine, the best calligraphic laser font I have found in the public domain.
The author (Bill Horton) not only gives away his finished product, but includes
his Fontographer file so others can alter it to their tastes. I found it on the
latest issue of the Club Mac cd, which has the best collection of pd and shareware laser fonts I know of.
You can judge for yourself if it is worth more than the price.
The typeface selections I have found on the net work are disappointing. Are there any sites with some variety?
The next issue of Publish magazine (October) is supposed to have an article
telling what is now available in PostScript typefaces.
Another good source of info on what is happening in typefaces is Personal
Publishing magazine. They have a monthly column called "Type Drawer" which
illustrates six new typefaces. In their last issue thy showed an Adobe font
called "Cheq" which the column said was freeware. Has anyone seen it? I have not found it yet.
bobs@saintjoe.edu
Robert Schenk
Box 901
Rensselaer, IN 47978
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 15:03:54 -0700
From: wilson@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (James E. Wilson)
Subject: Mac Moria Bugs
>Now for the not so good news. I think that I have encountered a bug in the
>program. Playing a level 5 warrior, I seem to be encountering a lot of
>things that all of a sudden transport me to another part of the level, kinda
I seriously doubt that this is a bug. Most likely, you are wearing a cursed
item of Teleportation as someone else mentioned. The problem will go away
when you take off this item.
Incidentally, there better places to discuss problems with Mac Moria. If you
are on BITNET, you can subscribe to the MD47 Moria mailing list. Send
subscription requests to LISTSERV@CMUCCVMA, and email messages to
MD47@CMUCCVMA. If you are on Usenet, you can read the newsgroup
rec.games.moria. I read both of these, and will respond to bug reports sent
to either of these places.
Jim Wilson
wilson@ernie.Berkeley.EDU ...!ucbvax!ucbernie!wilson
Vila: I've got this shocking pain right behind the eyes.
Avon: Have you considered amputation? -- Blake's 7
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Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1989 21:01:21 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac Tech Notes, 8/89 edition
I have put the latest set of tech notes in the archives. Look at
/help/recent-files.txt to see the exact numbers. Apple doesn't seem to have
updated the tech note stack yet, so I guess we'll wait on that.
Bill
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Date: 5 Sep 89 10:30:49 EDT
From: Akshay.Gupta@me.ri.cmu.edu
Subject: MPW hacking part-time job
05-Sep-89 10:25 Akshay.Gupta@ME.RI.CMU.EDU MPW hacking part-time job
I am looking for someone, work-study or otherwise to help with some
programming on the Macintosh using MPW, the Macintosh Programmer's
Workshop. The purpose is to write a MacDraw-like application as part
of the development of an expert system.
The hours are flexible, and the pay scale depends on your expertise.
Please contact Akshay Gupta at x3820 or x3835 during the day, or at
521-5765 in the evenings. Send me e-mail at akshay@me.ri.cmu.edu
if you have trouble findind me.
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 11:33 MDT
From: DSPhillips%UNCAMULT.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: NCSA Image and NIMH Image
Thanks to Herb Barad and Gregg Cohen for pointing out that the NCSA
Image program to which I referred is not the same as the Image program
mentioned by Wayne Rashband. The latter program was developed for
medical image processing at the National Institute for Mental Health.
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 89 09:40 CDT
From: Gregg Cohen <CMDGROPG%UIAMVS.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: NIMH vs. NCSA Image
I think that you have confused the two different programs called "Image".
Wayne works at the National Institute for (Mental) Health and has written a
program that is useful on the Macintosh II systmeems for medical image analysis.
The imagetools or Image program that is available from the NCSA is useful
for manipulating images also, however, does not provide the same functionality.
I hope that this helps clear up some of the misunderstanding.
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 89 10:03:03 PDT
From: Paul Romaniuk <PROMAN%UVVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Note about DialogXCMD
Alright, already! I *know* I should have read Macintosh Revealed to be
absolutely sure I knew the difference between modal and modeless dialogs.
The Dialog XCMD stack I uploaded the other day does *everything* for dialogs
*except* handle modeless ones (i.e. the ones with a draggable window, that
allow the user to access other windows while activated, etc.). I suspect that
HyperCard won't easily handle modeless dialogs, since you can't leave DAs
active and go back to HyperCard's window. But maybe I'm *wrong* about this
(it sure wouldn't be the first time!)? Anybody have something to add on this.
Paul Romaniuk,
University of Victoria
Disclaimer -- I probably don't know what I'm talking about
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 10:49:41 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: SafeEject INIT
This is SafeEject, a little INIT by Jay Riley. It's intended to avoid a
situation that can lead to hardware damage in your Mac's floppy disk drives.
Owners of Mac Plus and later machines occasionally find that their
floppy-disk drives have become damaged somehow. From what I've read in
Info-Mac and comp.sys.mac, the commonest form of damage seems to be that
the upper head's support has become bent, or the head has been torn
loose from the support itself. The only Apple-sanctioned remedy for
this problem is to replace the di$k drive $ubunit.
According to John Sawyer and Chuck Meyer of CJS Systems, this problem is
most likely to occur if the floppy-disk heads are near the outer edge of
the diskette (track 0) when the disk is ejected; the heads can catch on
the diskette shutter. The problem is (I gather) rather less likely to
occur if the heads are near the center of the disk.
SafeEject automatically "parks" 400k and 800k disk drives near the
center of the disk just before the disk is ejected. This is similar, in
spirit, to "parking" a hard disk's head(s) in an otherwise-unused
"landing zone" before powering the disk off.
Details of SafeEject's implementation are available in the documentation
file. SafeEject is free for noncommercial distribution; the author
reserves all copyrights.
Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
[Archived as /info-mac/init/safe-eject.hqx; 6K]
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 7 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 159
Today's Topics:
Appleshare, Tops, and Unix...
Apple Tape Backup 40SC
Chinese Chess Stackware
Desktop Refresh Problem
Fix Desktop 2.0
IconWrap INIT 1.2
Info-Mac Digest V7 #158
KeyMenu INIT 1.0
Mac II Problem
Nova Link
PICT Anomaly?
Problems with Cmdr-Dialog
QuickPlot 1.1 ??
Reclaiming lost hard disk space
Sad Mac code 01FE01
Second source for Apple Laserwriter II fan?
Signal Editor
Trouble accessing WindowRecord.DataHandle in LSPascal
UUCP for the Macintosh
VirusAlarm Source - let your programs check themselves!
Westcom hard disk
Where have all the colors gone? (Illustrator files in PixelPaint 2.0)
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 07:37:10 EDT
From: dmg@lid.mitre.org (David Gursky)
Subject: Appleshare, Tops, and Unix...
I know I asked this several months ago on Info-Mac, but I seem to have misfiled
the responses.
We have two labs here that we would to have exchange files easily. One lab
is Macs, the other is Suns, and the Mac lab runs Appleshare. Ideally, we would
like to have the Sun lab directly recognize the Appleshare server (and if
possible somehow, have the Mac lab recognize some volume in the Sun lab).
Comments?
David Gursky
Member of the Technical Staff, W-143
Special Projects Department
The MITRE Corporation
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 19:19:10 PDT
From: Ian_Okabe@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: Apple Tape Backup 40SC
I have recently purchased a used Apple Tape Backup 40SC.
The Apple software that came with the unit is version 1.1 of
Apple Tape Backup circa 1987.
1) does anyone know if Apple has a later version of this software?
and where I can obtain it? The local dealers here know nothing
about it.
2) I would like to use Redux with the tape drive. The manual says
it can be done as long as the tape drive appears as an HFS volume
on the Mac desktop. Does anyone know of a commercial driver that
can mount my Apple tape drive as an HFS volume on the desktop?
Thanks. Ian_Okabe@mtsg.ubc.ca
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Date: 13 May 89 20:00:40 GMT
From: lee@Portia.stanford.edu (Fung Lee)
Subject: Chinese Chess Stackware
Following is the hypercard stack "Chinese Chess" which replays games of
chinese chess. The games are recorded in the conventional notation,
which is different from that of Western Chess. Note that this version
is not "really" a computer chess program.
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/chinese-chess.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 13:00:24 CDT
From: RAGAN%CDCCentr.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Desktop Refresh Problem
Rather than patching GetNextEvent you might try another approach.
There is an undocumented (as far as I know) hook called jGNEFilter.
This low memory long word contains an address that is transferred
to by GetNextEvent in the process of exiting back to its caller.
Normally this goes to code that runs FKEY's and a few other things.
Instead of patching the trap, patch in your address into this
location. The code at jGNEFilter is jumped to (not called) and
A1 points to the event record being returned. Of course, you
should save the previous contents and jump to that address when
you are done. If you siphon off an event (like your click at 0,0,
just change the event.what field to a null event.).
- Rich Ragan, ragan@cdccentr.com
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Date: 10 Jul 89 03:00:37 GMT
From: rang@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Subject: Fix Desktop 2.0
This is Fix Desktop 2.0, a program to eliminate unused bundles, icons,
and file comments from the desktop file. It can be useful as an
alternative to rebuilding the desktop, especially because it preserves
existing file comments. It is public-domain; LightSpeed C source is
included.
I don't guarantee it will work on all systems or under all
circumstances--test it after making a BACKUP copy of your desktop
first, just in case. It should work, though; it's been used on a
512KE, Plus, SE, and ][, and I haven't had any problems yet.
Fix Desktop requires the 128K ROMs to work. It can clean the
desktop on either HFS or MFS disks, though. This is a StuffIt archive
containing the program and a TeachText documentation file.
Anton Rang
215 S. Green
New Richmond, WI 54017
[Archived as /info-mac/util/fix-desktop-20.hqx; 47K]
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Date: 16 May 89 16:00:23 GMT
From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Subject: IconWrap INIT 1.2
IconWrap is an INIT that will automatically "wrap" the icons displayed
at startup to begin a new row when the edge of the screen has been
reached. Freeware.
New in this version (1.2):
-- color icons are now supported and "wrap" correctly.
-- patches have been rewritten to avoid residual problems
with some applications on 68020/68030 machines.
Ken McLeod
{zardoz felix}!dhw68k!thecloud
thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com
[Archived as /info-mac/init/iconwrap.hqx; 7K]
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 21:45:38 -0400
From: allbery@ncoast.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V7 #158
In "Info-Mac Digest V7 #158", bobs@saintjoe.edu wrote:
+---------------
| Another good source of info on what is happening in typefaces is Personal
| Publishing magazine. They have a monthly column called "Type Drawer" which
| illustrates six new typefaces. In their last issue thy showed an Adobe font
| called "Cheq" which the column said was freeware. Has anyone seen it? I have
| not found it yet.
+---------------
The Cheq font was posted to comp.sources.misc by an employee of Adobe, and is
available on FTP-able archive sites such as uunet.UU.NET.
++Brandon
(P.S. I can't tell you anything about it; I use an Epson LQ-clone, via a
Grappler LQ, to print from my Mac.)
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Date: 22 Jul 89 13:00:21 GMT
From: jasons@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM (Jason Scheck)
Subject: KeyMenu INIT 1.0
This is an INIT and cdev that allow the use of Microsoft-word-style
keyboard menus from within any application. Documentation is
included. It is free. Send any comments, etc., to:
Jason Scheck
61344 Blakely Rd #B3
Bend, OR 97702
jasons@tekred.CNA.TEK.COM
[Archived as /info-mac/init/keymenu.hqx; 40K]
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 10:33:31 PDT
From: shahryar@sutro.sfsu.edu (Shahryar G. Hashemi)
Subject: Mac II Problem
Hello,
I am currently having a problem with one of our Mac II's. As of the past
few weeks this Macintosh, which has 5 MB RAM & 40 MB HD, has been unable
to make a successful boot from the HD.
It seems that the computer is unable to find a SCSI drive to boot from. I
have been ZAPPING the PRam, but this procedure has to repeated up to 5
times for the computer to find the SCSI drive.
From my investigation, there is nothing wrong with the HD itself. If
anyone out there has an answer or has had a similar situation happen to
them, please send any information you can on this subject.
Sincerely,
Shahryar Ghazneini Hashemi
AppleShare Manager
Academic Computing--San Francisco State University
<shahryar@SUTRO.SFSU.EDU>
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 18:58 CDT
From: #CARLS9%ccm.UManitoba.CA@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Nova Link
Are there any other Nova Link SysOps out there?
They were supposed to release the professional version of Nova Link at the
beginning of August, but their board at <401> 351-1465 hasn't been
answering since the 1st week in August.
When I did get on in the beginning of August, they were running the
professional version with some bugs still left in it. When I called again
it wouldn't let me on with my password, and it said they weren't accepting
any new users and gave a number <617> 367-2427 which was supposedly going
to be their new support board, but I never get an answer from that
number either.
Any light anyone can shed on this would be appreciated.
Charles
Disclaimer: Disclaimers are just a passing fad.
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 09:46:01 EDT
From: COMB5%UMDC.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: PICT Anomaly?
Strange goings on with a picture I generate in my program, and I'm looking for
an explanation, if not a solution. Here's the setup :
I'm programming in Modula-2 (TML under MPW) and am using a third party
piece of software to do some of my graphics. At several points during the
program I output little graphs of experimental results and save the output
as a picture which gets updated fine and dandy as the program continues. I
would like the user to be able to poaste the graph into a word processor for
report generation. So what I do is just call PutScrap with the picture handle.
Turns out that the scrapbook doesn't show all of the picture,just the barss
of the graph - no labels tick marks etc. which is the same thing that MacPaint
shows. Canvas shows only the tick marks, labels, etc., no bars! And SmartScrap
shows everything!
I have determined that this "other" software calls ClipRegion right before
drawing the bars, but I can't find any notes (technical or otherwise) that
says this is a problem. Does anybody know if this is a no-no? The graph
package is kind enough to reset the clip region. Why can some programs read
and display the picture, whle others balk at the ClipRegion call?
Thanks for all explanations and advice.
Tom Schmidt (Bitnet : COMB5@UMDC)
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 05:17:10 PDT
From: AEIC0456%VAX1.CENTRE.QUEENS-BELFAST.AC.UK@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Problems with Cmdr-Dialog
A couple of problems with Cmdr-Dialog:
i) it screws up the text entry in Freehand (which is via dialog box);
ii) messes up password entry in HD Partition (Symantec Utilities); I
couldn't get at a password protected partition until I disabled
the 'commander'.
George Munroe, Queens University Belfast
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Date: 5 Sep 89 21:41 PST
From: DYAEB%SLACVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: QuickPlot 1.1 ??
Date: 5 September 1989, 21:17:07 PST
>From: David Aston (415) 926-2457 DYAEB at SLACVM
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: QuickPlot 1.1 ??
A colleague of mine bought QuickPlot (v 1.1) about 3 years ago.
It works fine with system 6.0.2 on his Mac+, but is broken on any non-68000
machine. It bombs with ID=12 on choosing OPEN from the file menu.
We've tried "Toggle cache", but it makes no difference.
The store where he bought it no longer stocks it and thinks the company
went out of business. "Get Info" shows c 1986 "Desktop Engineering" with
a Stanford address.
Does anyone know anything about a patch/upgrade to this program (or should
he write it off to planned obsolescence 8-) )??
Please E-mail me ( DYAEB@SLACVM.BITNET ) if you can reach me, or post to
info-mac.
I've followed info-mac for some time, and have found it very informative,
but this is my first attempt at a contribution.
=====================
Wot no signature? This is VM not Unix.
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Date: 6 Sep 89 08:43:00 PDT
From: "SCFE::OLMSTEAD" <olmstead%scfe.decnet@nwc.navy.mil>
Subject: Reclaiming lost hard disk space
Apple's Disk First Aid does a pretty good job of reclaiming hard
disk space which has somehow gotten allocated, but not really
used. AlSoft's Disk First Aid will also recover lost space, as
well as defragmenting and prioritizing files.
Karl Olmstead
Code 2731
Naval Weapons Center
China Lake, CA 93555
619-939-3068
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Date: 5 Sep 89 23:44 PST
From: DYAEB%SLACVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Sad Mac code 01FE01
Date: 5 September 1989, 23:23:38 PST
>From: David Aston (415) 926-2457 DYAEB at SLACVM
To: INFO-MAC at SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Sad Mac code 01FE01
I'm posting this for a colleague in Siberia. Yes, that's Siberia CCCP.
The machine is a 512k, known to be functioning OK. He obtained a set of
128k ROMs and is trying to upgrade, but has no double-sided internal
drive. On booting, he gets a Sad Mac, code 01FE01. I believe that's a
ROM test error. Does anyone on the net know what it means, or if what
he's trying to do is impossible? I know that Apple always did the ROM
& disk-drive upgrades together.
Support glasnost! Please send E-mail to me (DYAEB@SLACVM.BITNET) if you
have BITNET access (the answer is unlikely to be of interest to anyone else).
[I should probably add that the Mac was obtained on a visit to the USA, and
was exported quite legally]
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 09:40:19 EDT
From: Dick Dramstad <rad@mbunix.mitre.org>
Subject: Second source for Apple Laserwriter II fan?
We've had an order in with Apple since late April for a
LaserWriter II upper fan (Apple part #959-0022) that they can't
promise a delivery date for a while. (They can, but they don't keep
the promises :-). Does anybody know of a source for an appropriate
substitute? The guy who has a broken LaserWriter II would be completely
off the wall, except that we managed to have a spare LW+ in stock for
him.
Thanks for any help.
Dick Dramstad
rad@mitre.org
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Date: Tue, 5 Sep 89 08:21 EDT
From: steve knight <SDK4102%RITVAX.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Signal Editor
This is a program for editing/analysis of digitized sound files.
It can handle 'FSSD' files (8 bit), MacSpeechLab/MacAdios files (12
bit), and 'DATA' files (assumes 16 bit). With System 6.0 or later
it can play out the file with no additional hardware (it will run on
pre-6.0 versions, but there will be no D-A conversion).
Currently, analysis is in the form of waterfall spectrograms and
power spectrum displays with marking abilities (5 marks, the frequency
at that point is displayed above the spectrum). All windows are
printable.
The stuffit file needs to be decoded, and contains SignalEditor doc
(not necessary, but some comments in it might be useful), SignalEditor
(runs on all versions of Mac from Mac+ on up), and SignalEditor II (uses
68020/68881 and later chips, much faster).
Support and suggestions are welcome.
- Stephen Knight
[Archived as /info-mac/sound/programs/signal-editor.hqx; 124K]
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 08:50 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen - Micro Specialist)
Subject: Trouble accessing WindowRecord.DataHandle in LSPascal
Greetings,
We are having trouble getting Think's Lightspeed Pascal to recognize the
DataHandle field of WindowRecords. It seems to think that this is simply a
handle to a signed byte (i.e. a generic handle). Does anyone have a trick,
tip, or suggestion (besides programming in C! :) )? We know that this field is
only defined for Window Proc type 8 (zoomable windows).
Thanks in Advance,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 06:49:33 +0100 (BST)
From: Sak Wathanasin <nan!sw@uunet.uu.net>
Subject: UUCP for the Macintosh
A version of uupc (sic) was ported to the Mac by Stuart Lynne of U. of
British Columbia, and should be available from any Usenet archive
(posted to comp.sources.unix). This was written in Aztec C. I converted
it to Think C for my own use and it works (this posting is proof of
this), but it's not completely debugged (I've not even looked at the
"news" stuff) and has a rotten (Unix cmd-line) user interface.
If anyone is interested in finishing the job, I'd be glad
to post what I have now, but you may prefer to start from the original.
--
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Limited
uucp: ...!ukc!nan!sw
other: sw%nan.uucp@ukc.ac.uk
phone: (+44) 242 520861
telex: 9312130355 (SW G)
snail: Flat 4, Albany House, Lansdown Rd, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2HY, UK
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Date: 13 May 89 14:00:34 GMT
From: bradn@tekig4.LEN.TEK.COM (Bradford Needham)
Subject: VirusAlarm Source - let your programs check themselves!
VirusAlarm is an example of how programs can test their own CODE
resources for infection. It contains a table of the Resource ID's and
sizes of its CODE resources. When it is run, VirusAlarm compares its
actual CODE resources against this table, warning the user of any
differences.
To make your own programs test themselves for viruses, copy the
"testcode()" routine and its supporting resources and structures.
This StuffIt archive includes the LightSpeed C sources and the
resultant binary of VirusAlarm. VirusAlarm and its sources are public
domain.
Brad Needham
bradn@tekig4.TEK.COM (UseNet)
or
2239 SE 74th Ave. (USMail)
Hillsboro, OR 97123 USA
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/virus-alarm.hqx; 22K]
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 11:30:49 EDT
From: eric%bnrmtl@iro.umontreal.ca (Eric Brunelle)
Subject: Westcom hard disk
In the September issue of MacWorld is a comparison of 40MB hard disks.
The article clearly evidences the superiority of drives built upon
the Quantum PS40 disk. They are faster (21ms vs 32ms, average) and
cheaper than Seagate-based drives.
My problem is that the article concludes that the best choices are drives
>From Jasmine and LaCie, which are priced at $699. But in their
comparative charts, they list a Westcom drive, also built on the PS40,
which goes for $570 and by all means seems to have similar performance.
They say they "didn't receive it in time", and hence don't rate it or
even mention it in the text. But for a whole $129, I would sure like
to know more on that Westcom product.
Has anyone out there tried/benchmarked/heard of it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric Brunelle | "C'est la nuit qu'il est beau de croire a la lumiere."
BNR-Montreal | -- E. Rostand
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 09:11 C
From: Joao Candido Portinari <PUCRJPP%BRFAPESP.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Where have all the colors gone? (Illustrator files in PixelPaint 2.0)
This one is for the MacII gurus:
I created a color illustration using Illustrator 88. Then I saved it using
the Mac & EPSF options. When I opened it in PixelPaint 2.0 it had no colors!
How to keep its colors in PixelPaint?
I appreciate any help on this.
Joao
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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 7 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 160
Today's Topics:
Administrivia
2 systems on a hard disk - summary
Appleshare, Tops, and Unix...
Apple tape 40 SC
Bugs
Buying a Mac - any suggestions?
Help with Text region
Launch INIT 1.1
LocalTalk/PC Query
Mac II Problem
NoICON INIT
Problems with Oracle for Mac
problems with psfig
SendPS tool for MPW 3.0
Slide Printer Info Wanted
Supercard 1.0
Wanted: PostScript printer
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous,
any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu
[36.44.0.6]. Help files are in /info-mac/help. Indicies are in
/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1989 17:08:17 PDT
From: The Moderators <Info-Mac-Request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu>
Subject: Administrivia
The scripts which produce the abstract files have been modified somewhat. Now
the first few lines of text files are included in abstracts, as well as the
headers of .hqx files as before. Also, the scripts specifically look for the
info-mac digests in the archives and extract the Today's Topics list. That
should make it easier to look for things in back issues of the archives.
Send all tokens of appreciation to trewitt@miasma.stanford.edu.
Bill
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 16:13:37 BST
From: Stuart MacFarlane <stuartm%hci.heriot-watt.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: 2 systems on a hard disk - summary
A few weeks ago, I asked for help on ways to get more than one
system folder on a hard disk, promising to summarise responses. Well,
I forgot the summary; here it is now.
Thanks to all who responded, some by posting here, others by mail. A
variety of solutions were suggested. There are two pieces of software
that do the trick exactly as I hoped: Blesser and System Switcher.
They are both in the info-mac archive; at
/info-mac/util/blesser.hqx and /info-mac/util/system-switcher.hqx
Two kind folks sent me copies - both work. I'm happily using blesser.
Apparently there is something called `layout' which allows a system
on a floppy to be made the default (rather than the one on the hard
disk).
Various people suggested partitioning the disk in various ways, all
of which seemed to be more complicated than Blesser, so I haven't
tried them.
Stuart MacFarlane UUCP: ..!mcvax!ukc!hwcs!hci!stuartm
Scottish HCI Centre, Heriot-Watt Univ, JANET: stuartm@uk.ac.hw.hci
Mountbatten Building, ARPA: stuartm@hci.hw.ac.uk
31-35 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland +44 (031) 225 6465 ext 510
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 10:17:16 PDT
From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt)
Subject: Appleshare, Tops, and Unix...
We have two labs here that we would to have exchange files
easily. One lab is Macs, the other is Suns, and the Mac lab
runs Appleshare. Ideally, we would like to have the Sun lab
directly recognize the Appleshare server (and if possible
somehow, have the Mac lab recognize some volume in the Sun
lab).
I don't know of any product that would give Sun users the ability to access
an AppleShare file server.
Going the other way (accessing Sun volumes from a Mac) is relatively
easy; if you have a K-box or GatorBox connecting your Mac net to
your Sun net, you won't need any additional hardware. Simply get CAP...
the excellent Columbia University AppleTalk Package. It comes with
an AppleShare-compatible file-server called "Aufs", which can be used
to publish one or more Sun directories as AppleShare volumes. CAP is
free; it can be FTP'ed from one of Columbia University's systems
(cunixc.columbia.edu, perhaps??) and might also be in the Info-Mac
archives.
CAP includes source code for all of its libraries... so you might be
able to cobble up an AppleShare client package that would run on the
Sun, and let you transfer files from your existing AppleShare server
over to a Sun. As far as I know, nobody has tried this yet... but it
might well be possible.
Dave Platt FIDONET: Dave Platt on 1:204/444 VOICE: (415) 493-8805
UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com
INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net
USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 07:02:41 EDT
From: dahbura@hamal.gsfc.nasa.gov (Anton Dahbura)
Subject: Apple tape 40 SC
If I remember correctly the newest version of DiskFit contains a driver
for some tape units. I think the Apple unit was one of the drives supported
The driver can be placed in your system folder. You might want to contact
SuperMac to see if they can help.
Tony Dahbura
--No Disclaimer--
------------------------------
Date: 10 Jul 89 19:00:44 GMT
From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos)
Subject: Bugs
In the May issue of Scientific American we had this nice idea of an
"Evolution Simulator". This is a version of that program. It is nice
to watch and play with for a while.
Algorithm notes:
The field is a pond were bugs live. A bug has health from 0-1500.
Eating a bacterium gives 40 health points. Each step decreases the
health by one. If the health is 0, a bug dies. A bug splits if
health>1000 and age>400. The two bugs will have slightly different
genes, that influence the walking pattern of the bug.
Program notes:
Clicking on (or near) a bug gives its status: age, health and genes.
It is possible to change the bacteria growth and population. Source
(THINK C 3.0) is included. It contains lots of dirty assembly code
to frighten the reader and speed up the program.
Reference notes:
Scientific American, may 1989, column "Computer Recreations".
--
| | "Never image yourself not to be otherwise than what |
| Jurjen N.E. Bos | it might appear to others that what you were or |
| | might have been was not otherwise than what you had |
| jurjen@cwi.nl | been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." |
[Archived as /info-mac/app/bugs.hqx; 24K]
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 89 15:21:29 EDT
From: caliusep@apollo.ml.wpafb.af.mil
Subject: Buying a Mac - any suggestions?
What I would do if I were in your position:
_ Buy a Mac Plus. Forget the printer for now. Use the savings to
buy a 68020/68881 accelerator. There are a couple which use the Mac's RAM
instead of requiring their own on-board RAM. They cost maybe $500-600. Even
if the accelerator only runs at 8 MHz, you should still get performance half-
way between that of an SE and that of a Mac II. That seems cost-effective to
me. You might even try to buy a "bare" board and pick up a 68020 and a
68881 from your local Motorola distributor and save some money.
_ Use some more of those savings to buy RAM. It's down to $100/1 Meg
SIMM. I very strongly recommemd that you install 2 Megs or more. Depending on
your applications mix (do you use MultiFinder?) 4 Megs might be good.
I like to run compilers, file transfers and I/O intensive stuff from RAM disks,
but other applications don't benefit as much. Unfortunately things like MPW,
Mathematica, TeXtures, etc. don't usually fit on a RAM disk.
_ I have worked off RAM disks on machines in my office that had no
hard drives, and I ended up bringing in my personal hard disk from my home
Mac. I suspect that you might find it frustrating too. On the other hand,
hard disk technology is going through a lot of changes right now, so you
might get a better cost/meg in a few months... Shop around. There's a big
spread in prices for similar equipment. There is a store called HDI (Hard
Drives International?) which usually had the best deals. They do mail order
too. Consider buying a kit. They're really easy to assemble.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to further discuss
any of these issues. I'm in the process of selecting an upgrade for my old
Plus-type machine (which started life as a 1985 vintage 128K Mac). I'm leaning
to a 68030/68882 board so that I can make full use of System 7.0, virtual
memory and software that makes use of the math co-processor.
Good luck.
Emilio P. Calius
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 13:51:25 EDT
From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
Subject: Help with Text region
Is there a graceful way to rotate a text region (with a scroll bar) 90
degrees to the left? I want to put the (original) top on the left, and
the (original) left on the bottom with the scroll bar (originally right)
on the top.
This is being done with MPW C.
.............................................................................
jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu,jwm@aplvax.uucp,meritt%aplvm.BITNET,jwm@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
------------------------------
Date: 16 May 89 23:00:56 GMT
From: twu@caip.rutgers.edu (Theodore Wu)
Subject: Launch INIT 1.1
This is an INIT that records macintosh usage information to a specified
file. Information recorded include program name, date, time, length of
use, and user name. System startup time is also recorded and more
(read documentation).
This program has been used in more than 6 locations for more than three
months at Rutgers University Macintosh Labs running AppleShare and
Tops.
This is a shareware; send $5 shareware fee for each copy of program
used.
-Ted Wu
[Archived as /info-mac/init/launch.hqx; 15K]
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 14:22:34 EDT
From: williams@cbl.umd.edu (Bill Williams)
Subject: LocalTalk/PC Query
I recently ordered a LocalTalk/PC card from my local Apple dealer,
partially because I thought there'd be software with it. In fact, I
asked on this network about how to use it and several people assured me
it would come with software. Harumph: it didn't! The manual suggests
purchasing AppleShare (actually "suggests" isn't strong enough; it says
I "need" it) software, which I don't need. Grumble, grumble, grumble.
I assured my division head that networking the PC with the Mac's would
be an extremely inexpensive proposition, and he isn't likely to be happy
to spring for an extra hundred-odd bucks worth of software.
So..... Any suggestions? If Apple once shipped software with this card,
maybe I could persuade them to ship me the old-style software. Is there
anything in the public domain that would do it?
And, finally, if I have to byte the bullet and actually *BUY* something,
what do people like? TOPS? Do I have to buy it for every Mac in the
system, too?
Grumble, grumble, grumble..... I was looking forward to hooking the
thing up today ..... grumble, grumble, grumble....
-Bill Williams
St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 09:50 CST
From: <MPARK%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Mac II Problem
My Mac II is cranky getting started now too. Nearly
every morning, it will not boot right away. Instead it
displays the question-mark Mac icon for many minutes.
My ad hoc solution has been to push the restart button,
which usually works on the second or third try.
Until it does work, there is no sound from the
hard disk, so I have interpreted this as the disk
not starting up when it should, much like the
problems with external disk drives reported in
info-mac in the last three weeks.
So, we have an in-house service facility here, with
at least three Apple-certified technicians. I told
one who was in my office doing other work about the
boot problem. Her response was brief but illuminating.
"40 Meg hard drive?"
"Yes," I answered.
"They all do that after a while."
"Is it disk or logic board?"
"Disk."
"Is there an easy fix?"
"We would have to replace the disk."
"Oh."
"I just tell the people to leave their machines on."
As a further note, I have a PDP-11 with a 5 1/2" hard
disk that has been off a total of only about 20 hours
in the last six years. They seem to hold up well to
being left on.
------------------------------
Date: 4 Jun 89 00:52:08 GMT
From: d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson)
Subject: NoICON INIT
I, like most Macintosh "power-users", have a lot of INITs and cdevs in
my System folder. Most of these insist on displaying their cute little
icons when starting up, thus cluttering up my nice startup-picture.
Well, with many cdevs it is possible to turn off the startup-icon, but
with the INITs it is not so easy.
Fortunately, most of these icon-displaying critters use a common means
of putting their icons on the screen, namely Paul Mercer's ShowINIT INIT.
So, instead of resorting to ResEdit or other equally violent methods,
I wrote the NoICON INIT to get rid of these intruding icons. The code
is really extremely trivially simple (only 14 bytes), so I've enclosed it
too. Maybe there are someone more than myself who might find it useful.
+-------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------+
| Sven Axelsson | d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se | DISCLAIMER: |
| dep:t of Linguistics | (↑↑ best ↑↑) | |
| univ. of Gothenburg | dlv_sa@hum.gu.se | This is not |
| SWEDEN | usdsa@seguc21.bitnet | a disclaimer. |
+-------------------------+--------------------------------+------------------+
[Archived as /info-mac/init/noicon.hqx; 4K]
------------------------------
Date: 7 SEP 89 15:40-
From: DECNET%DERDBS5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Problems with Oracle for Mac
Date: 7-SEP-1989 15:38:29.51
>From: M. Nagler - IMMD VI, Uni Erlangen I627 AT DERDBS5
To: GATEWAY::"Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu"
Subj: Problems with Oracle for Mac
Macintosh MPW 2.0.2 and ORACLE DBS 1.1.0
PASCAL/OCI Interface Bug.
ORACLE provides the OCI Call Interface to be used from high-level languages.
Using MPW Pascal and MPW C we cannot link our object codes to the ORACLE
supplied libraries. Though linking ALL available ORACLE-object-files, the
MPW linker is not able to resolve our references to OCI-calls like 'OLON',
'OLOGOF' and prompts 'undefined entry'.
We are interested in exact linker options and necessary ORACLE libraries or
another way to access ORACLE from MacApp programs.
martin nagler
University Erlangen-Nuernberg
IMMD VI
Martensstr. 3
8520 Erlangen
West Germany
Electronic Mail: na@derdbs5.bitnet
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 11:44 EST
From: Steve Bradtke <BRADTKE@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: problems with psfig
I've installed the latest version of Trevor Darrell's psfig
package for including PostScript images in a LaTeX document. All of
the examples Trevor gives seem to work just fine, including the
figures he generated from Macintosh pictures. However, I am unable to
use any of my own Mac-generated PostScript images. The specific error
I get is that the operator ``waittimeout'' is undefined. But removing
all reference to ``waittimeout'' just results in a message informing
me that the operator ``and'' has been applied to the wrong type
argument!!
The two printers that I've tried this on are DEC's LPS40 and
LN03R ScriptPrinter.
I'm using dvi2ps-li as obtained via ftp from
linc.cis.upenn.edu.
I've tried Mac-generated PostScript from MacDraw II, MacDraft
1.2a, Cricket Draw 1.1, Canvas 1.01, and Canvas 2.0. I notice that
the examples Trevor gives of Mac-generated PostScript include the line
%%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 68 0
while all of mine include the line
%%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 65 0
It seems likely that we don't have the right system software on our
Macs. Perhaps we've got an old system or laserprep file. If so,
where do we get the current versions?
Please let me know if you've had any (positive) experience in
porting psfig to work on a DEC printer, or if you have any
suggestions on how to configure our Macs so that they'll work with
psfig.
Any information would be helpful!
Thanks,
Steve
Steven Bradtke
Computer and Information Science Department
Lederle Graduate Research Center
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Amherst, MA 01003
bradtke@cs.umass.edu
------------------------------
Date: 9 Jul 89 09:00:40 GMT
From: amanda@intercon.UUCP (Amanda Walker)
Subject: SendPS tool for MPW 3.0
SendPS is an MPW tool that sends a text file to the currently
selected LaserWriter (or other PostScript device) as PostScript,
without any other interpretation. Any output sent back from the
printer is sent to standard output. For example, sending a file
consisting of the line:
FontDirectory { pop = } forall
will display a list of all of the fonts currently loaded into the
printer's memory.
--
Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.UUCP>
InterCon Systems Corporation
"You don't have to take my word for it--I'll convince you!"
--Gurshuran Sidhu
[Archived as /info-mac/lang/mpw-sendps.hqx; 25K]
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Date: Thu, 7-Sep-1989 12:30:42.58 CDT
From: <brooks%tamvxocn.bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Geochemical Research Group)
Subject: Slide Printer Info Wanted
Greetings!
We are currently looking into purchasing a slide printer sometime
in the next six months. Can anyone give me some information on prices,
capabilities, minimum system requirements, etc. I would prefer to hear
>From people who have purchased a slide printer and are familiar with its
quirks or extra features, but if a dealer/manufacturer has anything to
suggest, that would be fine as well.
I would like to be able to batch shoot slides, and preview each
one before shooting (to set cropping, background colors, etc.). I also
want to know what programs or file types are required for printing - do
files need to be in PICT format, or can you print from most programs.
I had a problem using a slide printer recently since I had set up all the
slides in PageMaker 3.0, and had to transfer the files to MacDraw using
the clipboard so they could be saved as PICT.
Also, has anyone had problems with Cutting Edge hard drives (45MB)?
I am wanting an external hard disk and theirs seems to be a relatively good
deal, but I'd like to hear from others before I spend money on it.
Thanks alot!
Dave Martin
The Geochemical & Environmental Research Group (GERG)
Texas A&M University - Oceanography Department
10 South Graham Road
College Station, Texas 77840
(409) 690-0095
BITNET: BROOKS@TAMVXOCN
INET : BROOKS@NEPTUN.TAMU.EDU
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 10:08:27 EDT
From: Damian%UMass.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: Supercard 1.0
I saw that there was a couple of people out there using Supercard right now
and I was wondering if one of them could answer a couple questions!
I don't really care about color support, but I really need:
1. Better printing support. Hypercard by itself sucks at this and I am not
a good enough programmer to add my own printing routines. Does Supercard
support better printing?
2. Despite the fact that Hypercard is suppose to be a good database, its
sort and find capabilities are terrible. Does Supercard make any headroom
(oops! headway!) in these areas? I need to be able to sort according to
many fields and not just by the first letter in a field.
3. And lastly, does Supercard increase the maximum size of a field? In
Hypercard, these appears to be about 15 pages of text. I would ideally
like to be able to hold 50 pages.
Thanks in advance!
Damian Roskill
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 18:46 EDT
From: Josh Smith <JBS92@swat.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Wanted: PostScript printer
I'm looking for a 300 or more dpi personal PostScript printer (NOT PostScript
compatible--I want something that can use Adobe fonts etc.)--for less than two
thousand dollars. I've heard good things about the HP DeskJet, but it doesn't
speak PostScript; however, I've also heard that you can get a PostScript
upgrade board for it which will enable it to do so. Does anyone know the
definitive facts of the matter, and how much I could expect to pay for this
sort of thing? Or, if there are any other inexpensive 300 dpi PostScript
options available, I'd love to hear about them as well. Speed is not a major
factor (though faster is nicer, of course), nor is networkability.
Mail responses directly to me, if possible, and I'll post a summary of the
results.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
| Reality: Josh Smith | "I swear, by my life |
|Internet: JBS92@CAMPUS.SWARTHMORE.EDU | and my love of it, |
| BITNet: JBS92@SWARTHMR.BITNET | that I will never live |
| USMail: Josh Smith '92 | for the sake of another man, |
| Swarthmore College | nor ask another to live for mine." |
| Swarthmore, PA 19081 | -John Galt |
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 8 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 161
Today's Topics:
"Productivity Software"
Appleshare, Tops, and Unix...
Application has unexpectedly quit (query)
Backup programs for large harddisks
Bring Mac out of US
Corporate relations
File sharing between Macs and Suns:
looking for a quick time manager
Mac II Problem (Hard drive not booting)
Need information about compilers
Picture to (x,y) points
Pie Menus for HyperCard (Source)
PostScript programs & the LaserWriter
PrFlds XCMD 1.9
SE/30 hard drives
User-oriented 'TEXT' file type setter
VersaTerm-Pro & MIDI
WindDemo 1.0
WindowList INIT 1.3
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 10:47 CDT
From: <BPB9204%TAMSTAR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: "Productivity Software"
I'm looking for something to help myself remember things to do. I usually
write them down, but since I use my Mac so often, I'd just as well have my
to-do's on it.
I think Sidekick had something like this(SmartAlarms??). Does anyone
have any suggestions? I looked in the Info-Mac archives, but nothing caught
my eye.
Hopefully there is something in the PD, but fine if not. Thanks in
advance!
+-------------------+
| Brent Burton |
| BPB9204@TAMSTAR |
| Texas A&M Univ. |
| WHOOP! |
+-------------------+
| I just can't think|
| of a snappy end- |
| ing. |
+-------------------+
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 09:15:50 EDT
From: vita@disney.crd.ge.com (Mark F. Vita)
Subject: Appleshare, Tops, and Unix...
> We have two labs here that we would to have exchange files
> easily. One lab is Macs, the other is Suns, and the Mac lab
> runs Appleshare. Ideally, we would like to have the Sun lab
> directly recognize the Appleshare server (and if possible
> somehow, have the Mac lab recognize some volume in the Sun
> lab).
>
>I don't know of any product that would give Sun users the ability to access
>an AppleShare file server.
I believe that IPT, makers of uShare, have this (i.e. AppleShare client
software for a Sun). They are the only vendor I know of that offers such a
capability. Their address/number is:
Information Presentation Technologies, Inc.
23801 Calabasas Road, Suite 2008
Calabasas, CA 91302
(818) 347-7791
By the way, IPT's uShare performs much the same function as CAP; i.e.
provides a AFP-compliant server on a UNIX box. It isn't free, of course,
(I believe it retails for $1195); however, going with a commercial product
has some advantages in terms of support and so forth (I hear it can take a
fair amount of effort to get CAP up and running). IPT also offers e-mail,
terminal emulation, print spooling, and "virtual disk" software, which
allows a "diskless" Mac to use a UNIX file server as a boot drive. They
also have a product called the "Personal Server Network", which is
"distributed" AppleShare server software for a Mac (i.e., it lets any Mac
function as a non-dedicated server, like TOPS, but is fully AFP-compliant,
unlike TOPS). The nice thing about AFP-compliant products like IPT's is
that you only need to purchase software for the server machines; clients
use the standard AppleShare client software that comes on Apple's system
disks.
If you haven't already purchased a gateway, you might want to consider the
Cayman GatorBox. This is a AppleTalk to Ethernet bridge, like the Kinetics
box, but it also does AFP-to-NFS conversion entirely on the gateway. With
one of these installed, any NFS server on the Ethernet can appear as an
AppleShare server to any Mac with the standard AppleShare client software.
Since all the intelligence for this is contained in the GatorBox, no NFS
machine or Mac need to be modified with any special software.
Mark Vita vita@crd.ge.com
General Electric CRD ..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita
Schenectady, NY
------------------------------
Date: 89-09-08 09:57:35 MEZ
From: TU70150%DHHUNI4.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Application has unexpectedly quit (query)
Hi net,
Having upgraded my Mac's memory, I started using Multifinder. It's
great, but now some of my applications bring the message:
The application "XYZ" has unexpectedly quit (01)
just after launching them. Sometimes several tries help to get it
run finally, launching other programs before the desired one is an-
other solution. The Mac's handbook and IM remain silent about these
circumstances, hence here is my question to the net:
Does anyone know what this message really means, when it will appear
and how to avoid it ?
Thanks,
Klaus Schnathmeier
Hamburg/ W. Germany
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 89 19:06:23 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN%NEUVM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Backup programs for large harddisks
I recently got a 140 MB harddisk: Very nice, except now my backup
program (HFS Backup 2.02) refuses to do a selective backup (it gives
the error message "Backup list full" or something like that).
I do need selective backup as most of the disk is full of various
large hypertext and HyperCard documents which do not need to be backed
up.
Also, the backup program needs to handle the SuperDrive 1.4 MB diskettes.
I know, you will tell me to buy a tape streamer for backup, but I can't
afford that right now....
Please: Can anybody advice a good backup program for needs like these?
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 16:54:59 PDT
From: ghe@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Guangliang He)
Subject: Bring Mac out of US
I am thinking buying a Mac. But I am not sure if there is some kind of
Technical exporting restriction on the Mac. Becouse some day I may have to
go back home which is China and I want to bring the Mac with me.
Does anybody know what kind document should I have to bring a Mac from US
back to my home?
Any hint will be welcome. Answer with email, please. I will sumarize if
there is enough interest, but I doubt it :-).
--
=======================================================================
USMAIL: Guangliang He | INTERNET: ghe@PHYSICS.ORST.EDU
Department of Physics | BITNET: hegl@ORSTVM.BITNET
Weniger Hall 301 |
Oregon State University |
Corvallis, OR 97331-6507 | PHONE: (503) 737-4631
=======================================================================
------------------------------
Date: 08 Sep 89 08:46:40
From: Brian.R.Edwards@mac.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Corporate relations
I'm looking for a Mac-based software package that can be used to track
potential corporate sponsors (contacts, areas of interest, etc) and faculty
projects (name, type, dollars, hit rate, etc). This doesn't necessarily have
to be a dedicated application package, a HyperCard stack or application in
FoxBase or 4th Dimension would suffice. I'm trying to find out what's out
there (at a reasonable cost) before launching a (possibly redundant) in-house
effort.
Thanks for any and all input.
Brian R. Edwards
Dartmouth Medical School
Box 7600
Hanover, NH 03756
Tel: (603) 646-8855
Fax: (603) 646-6120
Internet: bre@dartmouth.edu
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 89 08:59:00 PLT
From: "Joshua Yeidel" <YEIDEL@wsuvm1.wsu.edu>
Subject: File sharing between Macs and Suns:
My understanding is that the GatorBox (LocalTalk/Ethernet bridge) when
outfitted with GatorShare software will do exactly what you want.
The GatorBox translates AppleShare protocol to Network File System
protocol, so that your Macs will think that the Suns are AppleShare
servers, and your Suns will think your Macs are NFS clients, *with
no additional software on Macs or Suns*.
We don't have a GatorBox yet, so I can't offer the voice of experience
just yet. I have been in contact with Wilson Farrar of
Cayman (the GatorMakers) at:
Cayman Systems, Inc.
26 Landsdowne Street
Cambridge, Mass 02139
(617) 494-1999
wilson@cayman.com
Applelink: D0523
Of course, I have no affiliation with Cayman -- I'm just reporting what
I understand to be the capabilities of the product.
- -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - --
Joshua Yeidel YEIDEL@WSUVM1.BITNET
ACADEMIC COMPUTING SERVICES YEIDEL@WSUVM1.WSU.EDU
Washington State University (509) 335-0441
Pullman, WA 99164-1232
DISCLAIMER: I'm speaking solely for myself here, not Washington State U.
-- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- -
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 89 23:15:35 EDT
From: Raynaud <ULMO031%FRORS12.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: looking for a quick time manager
For an assembly programm, I need a way to get interruptions every
about 1/1000 seconds or so (from 1/500 to 1/10000 accepted). I saw
that the Vertical Retrace Manager provides only for a frequency of
about 60 Hz, which is definitly to low for me.
So, is there a time manager somewhere that can give me such a high
frequency ? (I remember I saw posted here, a program that would manage
time with such a precision, but I cannot figure out which one it was)
If not manager can do this, is there another way ? maybe by setting
the serial drivers to a fast speed, and manage to get interruptions from there
on a regular basis ?
Any help will be appreciated, please send suggestions to
<ULMO031@FRORS12.BITNET> Alain Raynaud
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 09:41 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> (Peter Jorgensen)
Subject: Mac II Problem (Hard drive not booting)
<MPARK%UTMEM1.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu> writes:
>Subject: Mac II Problem
>
>My Mac II is cranky getting started now too. Nearly
>every morning, it will not boot right away. Instead it
>displays the question-mark Mac icon for many minutes.
>My ad hoc solution has been to push the restart button,
>.
>.
>.
>"I just tell the people to leave their machines on."
>
>As a further note, I have a PDP-11 with a 5 1/2" hard
>disk that has been off a total of only about 20 hours
>in the last six years. They seem to hold up well to
>being left on.
I agree! My HD 20 (non-SCSI) has run continuously at home on my old 512KE for
the past three years. I turn it off only when I go on vacation (for over a
week) and during SEVERE thunder storms (about 3 times per year.) I leave my
Mac IIcx w/internal 80 on and my Zenith 159 with internal 20 on throughout the
week at the office, 24 hours a day.
I pursued this question at some length with Techs on AppleLink, and
finally got the answer "It's best to leave 'em on."
There are solid technical reasons why it IS best to leave a hard disk running,
I'd be glad to summarize if people want.
A co-worker of mine doesn't see it that way, and he keeps turning them off...
of course he experiences alot of hard drive problems (on Zeniths),
and I have none.
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 7 Sep 89 21:53:00 EST
From: "Jeffrey Templon" <templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu>
Subject: Need information about compilers
Hello All,
I am trying to decide on which Mac compiler to buy. I have narrowed my
choices to two products: either Think C 4.0 or TML Pascal II/MPW.
(Audience: sheesh. this guy can't even decide what LANGUAGE.) The advantages
I have seen for Think C are the integrated environment, large installed base
(therefore lots of examples) and it is C, which I know well enough to get by.
The advantages I have for TML Pascal is that it comes with MPW 3.0 complete for
LESS than Think C (about $109), and one application I wish to play with (for
which I have the source) was written in Pascal. I know Pascal a little, and am
not opposed to learning.
Clearly the best solution would be TML C with MPW, but I don't think
this is a product. I had heard that one could add new compilers into MPW quite
easily - is this true? If so this would be a distinct advantage to TML. Also
how are the MPW upgrades handled? If I buy it thru TML, do I get MPW upgrades
free from them or do I have to pay pay pay to Apple?
Please email to me and if I get enough of the "gee, I'd like to know
too" responses I will summarize to the group.
Jeff Templon
Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 89 18:13:56 PDT
From: saint%CitIago.Bitnet@forsythe.stanford.edu (Patrick Santangelo)
Subject: Picture to (x,y) points
I have several absorbance spectra (abs. vs. wavelength) that were scanned and
saved as Macpaint formatted files.
Does anyone know of a program that will read the file and translate
the PICTURE to a set of x,y data points?
Pat Santangelo
Dept. of Chemistry 127-72
Caltech
Pasadena, CA. 91125
saint%iago@hamlet.caltech.edu
saint%iago@caltech.bitnet
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Date: 14 May 89 11:00:45 GMT
From: andrea@boulder.colorado.edu (Andrea Ignatowski)
Subject: Pie Menus for HyperCard (Source)
This file contains the source code to a HyperCard XCMD that implements
popup pie menus. A stack that utilizes these menus has been posted
seperately.
We are conducting a survey regarding the use of these menus and would
appreciate you trying them and sending us your comments (as well as any
improvements to the code). For a description of pie menus and their
usage please see the article appearing in the SIGCHI 1988 Conference
Proceedings:
"An Empirical Comparison of Pie Vs. Linear Menus"
by: Jack Callahan, Don Hopkins, Ben Shneiderman, and Mark Weiser
Thanks,
Andrea Ignatowski
andrea@boulder.colorado.edu
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/pie-menus-source.hqx; 69K]
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 19:53:50 PDT
From: SUNDAR_PRASAD@mtsg.ubc.ca
Subject: PostScript programs & the LaserWriter
My query comes in the aftermath of the requests/solution provided for turning
off the test page on the LaserWriter.
1. How does one send a Postscript file to the LaserWriter so that it interprets
that file as a program and not as a document ? Am I missing some detail like a
PostScript compiler ?
2. Our MacIIx is connected to a VAXstation 3200. The software on the VAX can
produce PostScript graphics files, but we are unable to print them on the
LaserWriter for lack of a direct connection. However I can FTP those PostScript
files as text files on to our Mac. My problem: How can I send this Mac file
to the LaserWriter so that it generates a graphic and not a listing of the
PostScript code itself.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Sundar_Prasad@mtsg.ubc.ca
(Ocean Engineering, U of B.C., CANADA)
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Date: 2 Jun 89 04:00:37 GMT
From: joseph@cs.utah.edu (Joseph F. Buchanan)
Subject: PrFlds XCMD 1.9
This is a new version of PrFlds. PrFlds is a general purpose print
XCMD for HyperCard that allows the printing of any field, or any other
text including the evaluation of any HyperTalk expression, in any
font/size/style or placement for any of the text objects specified (up
to 100 objects per card). It also allows for drawing of lines on the
page and multiple cards per page(including multiple columns). You can
select cards by some criterion specified in a HyperTalk function.
This version has a major bug fix from version 1.8 (involving memory
problems). It also does better error checking and recovery.
If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to call or
write me.
Enjoy!
Joseph F. Buchanan (A91)
Computer Center - MEB 3440
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 581-8814
bitnet: Joseph@CC.Utah.EDU
[Archived as /info-mac/hypercard/xcmd/prflds-19.hqx; 35K]
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 12:19:46 EDT
From: paisley@mte.ncsu.edu (Mike)
Subject: SE/30 hard drives
A friendly warning to potential customers of SE/30's.
We have a user who recently purchased an SE/30 with an internal HD40. He had
been using a Plus with an HD20 (pre-SCSI). He wanted to plug his HD20 into
the SE/30 drive port and copy all of his files over to his new machine. But
NNNNOOOOOOOOO.... The SE/30 refused to recognize it. Looking in the
documentation, it says that the drive port will recognize 800K floppies, but
NOT hard disks or 400K floppies.
***IRATE COMMENT ON***
Now he will have to backup his disk to floppies, and then restore his disk to
the new SE/30. Seems a bit ridiculous to change the specs on the floppy drive
port to obsolete your OWN drives, though I suppose it saved them $0.30. I
know SCSI drives are the order of the day, but perhaps a more than occasional
glance at backward compatibility is in order.
***IRATE COMMENT OFF***
Let the buyer beware.
Michael J. Paisley PAISLEY@MTE.NCSU.EDU
Materials Science & Engineering PAISLEY%MTE@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU
229 Riddick Laboratories PAISLEY@NCSUMTE.BITNET
Campus Box 7907 Office: (919) 737-7083
North Carolina State University Messages: (919) 737-2377
Raleigh, NC 27695-7907 FAX: (919) 737-3419
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 89 17:14:47 PDT
From: 1GTLEJS%CALSTATE.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu (Ed Skochinski)
Subject: User-oriented 'TEXT' file type setter
Our site needs a bullet-proof utility for setting the file type of files
to 'TEXT'. Does such a beast exist? C or pascal source code would be best;
I could deal with a pure binary, though.
Ed Skochinski
The California State University
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Date: 8 Sep 89 13:11:00 EDT
From: "Michael Yablonsky, Cook" <yablonsky@biovax.rutgers.edu>
Subject: VersaTerm-Pro & MIDI
Being new to this digest I've hard the rumors about VersaTerm Pro under
multifinder but I missed the "discussion". Could someone send me the
summary??
I've been asked (by a musician) what my new toy (SE/30) can do with
his new toy (Yamaha digital keyboard). Any suggestions for a couple
of MIDI neophytes???
Mike Yablonsky
Yablonsky@biovax.rut.edu
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Date: 14 Jun 89 20:00:25 GMT
From: bradn@tekig3.LEN.TEK.COM (Bradford Needham)
Subject: WindDemo 1.0
So you've been looking for a way to make your program's windows collapse
to the size of finder icons? Maybe you've been looking for an example
WDEF? Look no further.
WindDemo contains a window definition procedure (WDEF) that implements a
tiny window, with a tiny title-bar below the contents. If the window is
larger than a particular size, the WDEF acts like a standard, zoomable
window.
Here's one typical use:
Somebody is running your program. They're temporarily finished
with a window, but they don't want to close it just yet.
They use the grow box to shrink the window to almost nothing,
and the window collapses into an icon with a finder-like title
below it.
When they want to continue working with the window, they just
click its tiny zoom box to restore it to its normal size.
This posting contains the new WDEF, a demonstration program, and the
source (in LightSpeed C) for the works. It's all public-domain.
WindDemo runs only on systems that support zoom-windows.
Brad Needham
bradn@tekig3.TEK.COM (note my new email address)
2239 SE 74th Ave.
Hillsboro, OR 97123 USA
[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/wdef-winddemo.hqx; 54K]
------------------------------
Date: 17 May 89 04:01:57 GMT
From: mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Subject: WindowList INIT 1.3
WindowList is an INIT that pops down a list of open windows from the title
bar of a window. Selecting an item from this list will bring that window
to the front. Documentation is included.
Caveat: Don't use it with ResEdit. It seems that ResEdit has some internal
structures tied with the ordering of its windows and all hell breaks loose
if you choose a window by any means other than clicking on one.
-- Dean Yu
[Archived as /info-mac/init/windowlist-13.hqx; 8K]
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∂11-Sep-89 0209 @score.stanford.edu:richer@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Re: Cheap SIMMs around here?
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Subject: Re: Cheap SIMMs around here?
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Would it hurt to get SIMMs that are faster than 120ns? I have heard that
one of the new machines Apple is announcing this month (supposedly) will
use SIMMs that are faster than 120ns. I suppose if you thought you'd ever
move your memory to a faster machine in the future, you might as well get
the faster SIMMs, price being equal or close.
Mark
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Subject: Application Memory
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Are there any XFCN's written that will return what the Application Memory
Field (when you get info on an application) is set to?
I'm doing some work with SuperCard and such an XFCN would be very useful.
If one doesn't exist is that information easily obtainable at Run time?
Thanks
weyand@csli
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To: su-macintosh@score.stanford.edu
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Subject: No developer's meeting this Wednesday
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Gentle programmer:
This second wednesday of the month there will be no meeting of
Stanford's Macintosh Developer's group. Things are mighty quiet
here between quarters, and I have a few things tugging on my
time that I have to see to, albeit how much I luve holding the
meetings. Please set aside some time on the second wednesday of
October, when meetings should be back in full swing, and Apple
may have some new hardware for us to examine. -johnmark
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From: John M. Agosta <johnmark@neon.stanford.edu>
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To: WEYAND@csli.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Application Memory
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> Are there any XFCN's written that will return what the Application Memory
> Field (when you get info on an application) is set to?
These are the last two fields (suggested memory, and minimum memory)
in the application's SIZE resource. To find this out, you can read
the application's SIZE resource by opening it's resource file, then
doing a GetResource call. If the application is running, you may
want instead to see how much memory has been allocated for it - but
you have to be "in" the application to do this, unless you know
some tricks I don't know.
If you are not a programmer, this is to say that it looks
simple to do. -johnmark
∂12-Sep-89 1830 ARK Splitting Macintosh BBoard
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I'd like to do the following:
(1) Move the beginning part of the MAC.TXT[BB,DOC] to a separate file
so it takes less time to checksum. I'll move the part up to the end
of August 89 to MAC.V7[BB,DOC]. At the end of the year, the rest of
it will be moved. Any objections? Thanks.
(2) I propose that SU-MACINTOSH mailing list have its output go to
a different file (SUMAC.TXT[BB,DOC]).
Any comments or objections?
Arthur
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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 12 Sep 89 Volume 7 : Issue 162
Today's Topics:
"FLEX 3.0" messing with my KERMIT screen
Address correction: Request for Astrology software
Calling Hypercard=>Excel=>Hypercard
Communications programs (III)
Duplicate-file-finder utility needed
Ending the confusion between AppleLink PE and CE?
File sharing between Macs and Suns
Gatorbox/Fastpath
I need help Bad!!!
International keyboard differences
I would like to have a FILCOM program for the MAC.
Japanese Word Processor
Macsbug
mcsink problem
Picture to (x,y) points
Problems with psfig
SC40 Hard Drive Problems
VersaTerm-Pro & MIDI
Voice Stress Analysis
Your Info-Mac Moderators are Bill Lipa, Lance Nakata, and Jon Pugh.
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/info-mac/help/recent-files.txt and /info-mac/help/all-files.txt.
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 09:54:15 EDT
From: "Jim Henry in Chattanooga (615) 755-4398 or 886-6425"
Subject: "FLEX 3.0" messing with my KERMIT screen
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I talk with my IBM mainframe using KERMIT 0.9(40) and it works fine.
Sometimes, I walk away to take a rest for a while and FLEX 3.0 has saved
my screen but ruined my KERMIT screen format. For example, the characters
KERMIT displays are larger that ordinary, the menubar has become invisible
(although the menus still work), etc.
Even when I position the mouse in the "never save" corner, FLEX seems to do
this.
If you can tell me how to prevent this happening, I'd appreciate it.
Of course I can always turn off FLEX for these periods, but that seems
inelegant. I'd like an elegant solution.
Your co-networker, Jim Henry BITNET: jhenry at utcvm
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 09:23:07 PDT
From: balamut@hac2arpa.hac.com (Morris Balamut)
Subject: Address correction: Request for Astrology software
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #158 somehow the mailer came up with a new return
address for me. Unfortunately it is not correct and probably will
confuse anyone trying to reach me. I was listed as having the
following address: balamut@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
I have nothing to do with stanford. My correct address is:
balamut@hac2arpa.hac.com
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Morris Balamut
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 12:59:44 EDT
From: John Major <major@bbn.com>
Subject: Calling Hypercard=>Excel=>Hypercard
I know that I can transfer to other applications from within
Hypercard, but I need something a little more intelligent.
>From within Hypercard (or Supercard, if necessary), running
under MultiFinder, I need to escape to Excel to do some
sophisticated graphing, passing along a macro to run, or if
need be, the name of a document with an auto_open macro
attached. THEN, I need to get back to Hypercard from within
the Excel macro! Now, System 7 is just what I need here,
with AppleEvents 'n' all, but it is lurking down the road
aways, and or course I need this *now* -- sigh.
How about posting an event to Tempo? I recall some XCMD
along those lines. How about using the CALL statement inside
Excel? The doc is purposefully obscure about CALL, etc.,
because they don't want us to shoot a toe off, but I'm
willing to learn... Any other ideas?
I have never written anything in C or Pascal for the mac, so
I don't feel quite up to building something as sophiscated
as this from scratch.
Thanks in advance,
John Major
major@spcink.bbn.com.ARPA
(617)873-8165
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 08:20:24 PDT
From: Robert_Slade@cc.sfu.ca
Subject: Communications programs (III)
Further to my earlier request for information on communications (terminal
emulation) programs:
I have not, as yet, been able to find any programs that cover all the ca
capabilities requested ("background" operation, "scripting", Kermit protocol
and VT240 emulation). From information received so far, the two closest
(with background, scripting and Kermit but no VT240) are Versaterm 4.0 by
Synergy and Microphone II by Software Ventures. I would like to hear
>From anyone who has used these packages and can give me a review of
them (I haven't been able to obtain them for testing yet.)
I am also still interested in any other suggestions you may have.
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 11:35:28 PDT
From: steveh@abbott (Stephen C. Hill)
Subject: Duplicate-file-finder utility needed
I have inherited a Mac at work that has two external drives. During
my first couple of days, I noticed that there seem to be many similar
files on each of them.
On my messy-DOS system at home, I have a program called QDUPES that
reads an (or several) entire disk, putting the file names in order
without regard to their folder (sub-directory they call it) and prints
the file name, sub-directory, size and date/time on a prompt screen.
It also allows you to selectively delete the duped files.
Is there a utility similar to this for the Mac? I've tried Disktop,
Xtree(Mac) and Find File, but none of them seem to offer the same
utility and ease of use.
Steve
--
Stephen C. Hill, CDP
{ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!steveh or steveh@mips.com
MIPS Computer Systems, 930 Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, (408) 720-2916
Time is Nature's method of keeping us from bumping into ourselves.
#include <std_disclaimer.h>
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 89 20:58:08 EST
From: Murph Sewall <SEWALL%UCONNVM.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Ending the confusion between AppleLink PE and CE?
Interesting reading in the 11 September 1989 InfoWorld (page 38). The
following is a paraphrase of an article by Yvonne Lee
America Online?
Apple is withdrawing its name and perhaps some of its support from the
services Quantum Computer has been developing as "AppleLink Personal
Edition." When the Macintosh product, currently in beta test, is
released next month, the Apple 2 and Macintosh services will be merged.
Sources close to Quantum say the company also intends to merge the
Apple-related services with its Q-Link service for Commodore computers
and PC-Link for IBM compatibles. Macintosh beta testers already have
noticed that in recent releases the Apple forum "Apple Headquarters" is
just another listing under "Computering and Software." Nancy Beckman,
a Quantum spokeswoman said that the new integrated service will be
known as "America Online."
The relationship between Apple and Quantum is still in flux, but
spokeswoman Beckman confirmed that Apple is no longer a "full partner."
Paul Gernhardt, Quantum's manager of on-line computing services,
recently sent a memo to Apple forum leaders saying "As part of the new
agreement, we've taken a step away from Apple to gain some advantages
-- the most important is having more flexibility in marketing our
products."
/s Murph <Sewall%UConnVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu>
I bought the latest computer;
it came fully loaded.
It was guaranteed for 90 days,
but in 30 was outmoded!
- The Wall Street Journal passed along by Big Red Computer's SCARLETT
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 89 16:19 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: File sharing between Macs and Suns
>From infomac 7/161:
> My understanding is that the GatorBox (LocalTalk/Ethernet bridge) when
> outfitted with GatorShare software will do exactly what you want.
> The GatorBox translates AppleShare protocol to Network File System
> protocol, so that your Macs will think that the Suns are AppleShare
> servers, and your Suns will think your Macs are NFS clients, *with
> no additional software on Macs or Suns*.
>
> We don't have a GatorBox yet, so I can't offer the voice of experience
> just yet.
We do have a GatorBox -- in fact, we've had it for about a year now. Part 1
of the above is correct (Sun appears as AppleShare server to Macs), but
part 2 is not (the Sun only knows about the GatorBox -- it has no notion of
any Macs being out there).
The GatorBox has been performing on spec and for our needs it's OK. But I
sure started drooling over the other message on the subject:
>From vita@disney.crd.ge.com (Mark F. Vita)
> By the way, IPT's uShare performs much the same function as CAP; i.e.
> provides a AFP-compliant server on a UNIX box. It isn't free, of course,
> (I believe it retails for $1195); however, going with a commercial product
> has some advantages in terms of support and so forth (I hear it can take a
> fair amount of effort to get CAP up and running). IPT also offers e-mail,
> terminal emulation, print spooling, and "virtual disk" software, which
> allows a "diskless" Mac to use a UNIX file server as a boot drive. They
> also have a product called the "Personal Server Network", which is
> "distributed" AppleShare server software for a Mac (i.e., it lets any Mac
> function as a non-dedicated server, like TOPS, but is fully AFP-compliant,
> unlike TOPS).
Just imagine -- distributed AppleShare *and* diskless booting (absolute
firsts, if I'm not mistaken)! With Timbuktu and A-Share Client thrown in, I
can't even fit the entire System 5.0 (let alone 6.0.3, or 7.0...) on the
800K boot floppies in our computer lab. The price is kinda stiffish, but it
sure beats upgrading fifteen Macs to FDHD's (not to mention that the
storage gains would probably be eaten up within a couple of new system
releases).
Can anyone out there report on performance/reliability for uShare-booted
Macintosh networks?
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI 54901
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 23:51 CST
From: <SPCLAR%MACALSTR.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Gatorbox/Fastpath
Can anyone give me some recommendations as to what I should be
recommending between a fastpath and a Gatorbox? Almost all of what it'll
be used for is filesharing (keeping mac files on a 660Meg NeXT hard drive),
and I'm leaning towards the Cayman box, since it'll do the AFP-NFS gating
w/o extra software on the individual machines.
A related question is- what's CAP, and how do I get it, and how
do I get it running on a NeXT? Is there a commercial product that's similar,
or should I stick with CAP? How about mac-to-unix mail?
Thanks,
Pete Clark
SPCLAR@MACALSTR.bitnet
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Date: Sat Sep 09 19:59:12 1989
From: microsoft!t-jims@uunet.uu.net
Subject: I need help Bad!!!
Please post for me.
I have run into a problem with my home machines. It seems I have made a
terrible mistake. I have two Mac II's one with a seagate drive that is
formatted with UniMac and the other has a CMS Drive formated with the
CMS utility software provided. I wanted to change my hard disk icons so
I updated the driver on my CMS drive. Unfortunately I made a mistake and
updated the CMS drive with the Uni-Mac software. The Uni-Mac did no signature
checking or anything and went right ahead and installed it's driver. My
machine would boot ok but anytime I would try to move or delete files or mount
a volume I would get sytem error ID=1. Booting from a floppy would cause
ID=1 as soon as soon as the hard drive would try to mount. At this
point I figured no big deal I'll boot from the hard drive and reinstall
the correct CMS driver. Since the Driver software was on one of the
unaccessable volumes I went to find my master. I found it with a lable
wrapped around it marked "Excel Doc's". Apparently someone in my household
figured I'd never need that disk again. Well I figured I would wait till
monday call CMS and have them send me a new Utilities Disk, but I thought
I would try one last thing just for the heck of it. This is where I made
a major f*ck up. I decided to try rebuilding the desktop for the hard
disk. Well it gave an ID=1 error in the middle as I should have been able
to predict, and now it is impossible to mount because I get the "This disk
needs minor repairs <OK> <Cancel> " message but when I say OK it system
errors ID=1 again. Being that it is still impossible to boot from floppy and
have the drive mount without ID=1, I am stuck. When I recieve my new driver
software from CMS I will need some way to load the driver onto the hard
drive without ever mounting it or I need someway to tell it to mount even
though the Desktop is corrupt. This way I can load the new Driver and then
go back and repair the disk without ID=1. Anyone have any suggestions to
eliminate my catch 22?
Please Send replies to
uw-beaver!microsoft!t-jims
Thanks for any and all help you can Give,
Jim
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 13:10:02 CDT
From: C277839%UMCVMB.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu
Subject: International keyboard differences
My brother is doing some development of a terminal emulator for the
mac to IBM system 3X and he was wondering if there is a collection of
keyboard resources for the different countries. While he can get the
information he needs by purchasing the different systems from Apple,
that adds up to a fair pile of money just for the little bit of information
he needs, and they are a rather small outfit at the moment. I believe
that all he really needs is a keycaps map and to know if any of the scan codes
change.Perhaps some international users could send a screen dump of their
key caps DA? Oh, yes, he is primarially interested in Roman languages for now.
Thanks for any help.
Ian SightsPreston Sights
c277839 @ UMCVMBSynapse Communications
401 N. 9th St. 1516A Business Loop 70
Columbia MO 65201Columbia MO 65201
314 449-7579314 443-8000
===============================================================================
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 16:52:10 -0400
From: jensen@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Larry Jensen)
Subject: I would like to have a FILCOM program for the MAC.
I wrote this and sent it almost a year and a half ago but somehow
it did not get posted. And I did not try again, but I still need
this program and I did see some postings that were along this line
about a month ago or so. Having just located this file I'll try
again to post it in hope that now with ALL the Mac Gurus around now,
one will pick up the challenge.
I have long wished that someone would write a file comparison program
for the Macintosh like the one called FILCOM that runs under TOPS-10
on a DECSystem 10 (PDP-10). (Does this date me????) I do not have the
time, especially the time, or the required skill to write
such a program, BUT I hope that this message will inspire some one to do
it. It seems to me that the program should something like Fedit, BUT
I feel that such a program SHOULD be in the public domain.
As I remember, FILCOM had two modes, one for text and one for code or
binary. With the Macintosh file sturcture having resource AND data
components, several modes probably should be available;
1. RAW binary - this would compare EVERY bit of two files from
the VERY BEGINING to the ABSOLUTE END - with and without
sector tags might be options for this mode
2. Resource Fork - this would compare resource types and other
entries in the resource fork that you can see with Resedit
3. Data Fork - this would compare just the data forks of two
files, handy when you have several copies of the "same"
file and cannot remember what the latest revisions did
- this mode could have a "text only" option which would
allow comparision of say a MacWrite file and a Word file
that were susposed to be the same document - graphics
and drawings might also be options if some good way can
be designed to relate the different formats
There are probably other modes and options to consider that I have not
thought of, perhaps others can add to the list, or they will become
evident when the program is being written.
The most difficult problem will be how to handle differences, especially
those that have characters or instructions inserted in the middle of what
are otherwise identical files. The program has to either know or be told
(option?) to slide one file against the other until a match is found again.
The form in which the differences are shown needs to be carefully thought
out so as to give the most information in the least space and time WITHOUT
being confusing to the user. A choice of display forms might be necessary,
especially setting hexidecimal or octal for executable code and ASCII for
text. Printing of the differences would be desirable.
Well, I hope someone can pick up the ball from here and try to write this
utility. I guess my best contribution to such an effort would be as Alpha
tester ( or guinea pig, :-) ). OH YES, it should run on a Mac 512! (What's
that????) I still have AND use my original Mac (bought 4/4/84 - a 128k -
upgraded to a 512k when I had to have it fixed) - so I can test it for
512-old ROMs compatability. I have an SE here at work and can get to a IICX.
If anyone does start to write a FILCOM for the Mac please let me know.
If more than one person is intrested in this as a project (for college?) a
group effort might be faster and yeld better results. I could help to
coordinate such an effort. I'm not to good at doing email, so if anyone
tries to contact me please be patient while I try to respond.
Larry Jensen
Naval Research Lab
JENSEN@ITD.NRL.NAVY.MIL
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 13:18 CDT
From: <SOSMA%UNO.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Japanese Word Processor
I am looking for a Japanese language word processor for the Mac. Does
one exist? If there is more than one, any comments on which ones are
best? Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sean O Sperry
University of New Orleans
SOSLL@UNO.BITNET
P.S. I would be interested in info on Chinese word processors also.
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 89 11:35:54 -0700
From: jwk@scripps.edu ("Two Sheds" Kupec)
Subject: Macsbug
I've got an SE/030 and no debugger! Can anyone tell me where I can get a
version of Macsbug that works with an 030? (Until I get my TMON update).
TIA,
jwk (jwk@scripps.edu)
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 10:11 EDT
From: <UN107065%WVNVMS.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: mcsink problem
I downloaded McSink from the info-mac archives and it
seems to work fine except when I try and print a document
to the LaserWriter IINT. The document ALWAYS gets printed in
Courier 10 pts. even though it shows up on the screen
as the font I want (usually Times 12). I have tried other
fonts but the same problem always shows up when printed
to the NT. Printing on the ImageWriter II is without any
problems and I have had no problems printing from any
other application on my hard disk.
I think McSink is a great DA with all its features and
I would like to continue using it if this problem can
be solved.
I am using a Mac SE w/20HD, System 6.0.3, Laserwriter 5.1,
Laser Prep 5.1,
Please reply to:
Neil Hazari
un107065@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 89 16:40 CDT
From: "Sandro Corsi, Univ.of WI-Oshkosh" <CORSI@oshkosh.wisc.edu>
Subject: Picture to (x,y) points
> I have several absorbance spectra (abs. vs. wavelength) that were scanned and
> saved as Macpaint formatted files.
> Does anyone know of a program that will read the file and translate
> the PICTURE to a set of x,y data points?
There is a program called DataScan which, according to the ads, should do what
you need. Write or call:
BrainPower, Inc.
24009 Ventura Blvd., Ste.250
Calabasas, CA 91302
(800) 367-5600
(818) 884-6911
Sandro Corsi
Art Dept.
Univ. of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
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Date: Sat, 9 SEP 89 12:58:26 PDT
From: "Micro Mauler" <MICRO2.SCHWER@crvax.sri.com>
Subject: Problems with psfig
In Info-Mac Digest V7 #160 (8 Sep 89 00:10:01 GMT)
Steve Bradtke <BRADTKE@cs.umass.edu> writes about
problems with psfig:
Z I notice that the examples Trevor gives of Mac-generated
Z PostScript include the line
Z %%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 68 0
Z while all of mine include the line
Z %%IncludeProcSet: "(AppleDict md)" 65 0
Z It seems likely that we don't have the right system software on our
Z Macs. Perhaps we've got an old system or laserprep file.
Good guess Steve. The psfig macros include a specially
modified version of LaserPrep V5.2 (a.k.a. AppleDict 68). The
LaserWriter software installed on your system contains AppleDict
65 (which I think corresponds to LaserPrep V5.0). The best thing
to do is get LaserPrep V5.2, but you might just try editing your
PostScript files and changing the
%%IncludeProcSet AppleDict md 65
to include 68 instead (this is an untried suggestion) :-)
NOTE: The current version of LaserPrep is 6.0 (AppleDict 69 ?) so
don't upgrade too far!
Z If so, where do we get the current versions?
An Apple dealer will sell you the new software, a *good* Apple
dealer or user group will let you copy the stuff if you show them
your original system software disks. After you get the right
LaserPrep installed you shouldn't have any problems with psfig; a
*great* set of macros by Trevor Darrell. --Len Schwer
micro2.schwer@crvax.sri.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 10:57 EDT
From: Gordon Watts <GWATTS@ruthep.rutgers.edu>
Subject: SC40 Hard Drive Problems
Hi,
I too have been having problems with my hard drive. I got a brand new
SE/30 in May. I used it fairly frequently until June (turning it off
whenever it was not in use -- like at night). It slept until August, when
I started using it again.
Because of the programming I would do, the SE would often bomb. Some times
the HD was unbootable. I didn't think much of it. I have SUM, so I could
recover -- though the Gardian files were *always* unusable.
The crashes got worse with time. Eventually, SUM couldn't even find any
files to recover (I do have a backup, thank God). Further, I couldn't even
reinit the dern disk!
At this point I took my 5-month old machine into tech service. They said
"Oh, your hard drive may be covered by an extended warrenty"...! It seems
that Apple got a bunch of deffective HD40s (only the small 3 1/2 slot ones.
They stopped selling them about April-June, or so. If you got an Apple
with an HD40 around then, you may want it checked out.
Unfortunately, that was not the problem with my SE/30. They are now
replacing my Logic board -- to the tune of 350 bucks or so. I am not
pleased: I spent 3000 bucks on it 5 months ago.
Please send any comments to the address below or to this board.
Gordon Watts
Gordon Watts
University of Rochester (Physics Dept.) Rochester NY, 14627-0011
BITNET: WATTS@URHEP
ARPANET: gwatts@ruthep.rutgers.edu
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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 89 11:47:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ross Ward Comer <rc3h+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: VersaTerm-Pro & MIDI
I just set up a friend with a Plus and Yamaha DX-11 keyboard. We were suckered
into getting Finale before the real reviews were out, but it's pretty
incredible just the same.
Even on a Plus, playing the keyboard and having the notes appear in the proper
positions on a music staff is something that must be seen to be believed. The
Plus tends to drag behind in screen updates, but all the notes are there. Your
Se/30 should fly through them.
Finale is huge. It can do almost anything you would ever want, but it's not
easy finding out exactly how to do it. Hopefully the Version 2.0 upgrade will
remedy some of these problems. Also, the manuals are supposedly going to be
much better (they need it). We purchased Finale for $800 from Future Music
(I think) when the list was $1000. I just saw an ad in MacUser or MacWorld
that the new list price is now around $500 or so.
If your main interest is transcribing music played in real-time, Finale is
the best thing I've seen. Integrating everything into one program greatly
reduces the flipping back and forth between sequencing and transcribing.
Unfortunately, the difficulty of using Version 1 makes it really hard to
recommend. But like I've said, hopefully in version 2.0 ...
==============================================================================
The opinion expressed herein are possibly someone elses entirely.
Ross Comer Bitnet: rc3h@andrew.cmu.edu
PO Box 262
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa 15213 Phonenet: (412) 687-6149
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Date: Sat, 09 Sep 89 12:25:08 MST
From: Bruce Long <ICBAL%ASUACAD.BITNET@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Voice Stress Analysis
I have been hearing that Voice Stress Analyzers are now supposed to be
very accurate in determining if a person is lying or not. I was
wondering if there is any Mac software capable of analyzing MacRecorder
or SoundWave files in this manner. If so it would be fun to videotape
certain news programs (or talk shows), digitize certain statements, and
do a voice stress analysis to see if the person is telling the truth or
not.
Bruce Long
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University BITNET: ICBAL@ASUACAD
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