15-Jan-93 0:27:00-GMT,67814;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU by CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA01284; Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:26:57 PST Full-Name: Info-Mac Moderator Received: by SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA23441; Thu, 14 Jan 93 14:55:22 PST Message-Id: <9301142255.AA23441@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 14:55:11 PST From: The Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #10 To: info-mac-list@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU Info-Mac Digest Thu, 14 Jan 93 Volume 11 : Issue 10 Today's Topics: [*] Area.Codes.1.11 [*] Color LCD Projection Report [*] EKG course [*] I am not a crook [*] info-mac/art/qt/ufo.hqx [*] mcvert-189.shar [*] NET/Mac 2.3.15 [*] Plan Master 2.0 [*] Random Startup Sound (A) [*] Resorcerer 1.1 Demo [*] SIL-IPA.sit.hqx [*] Splat Key Font [*] Star Trek-TNG Episode Guide stack update (1.2) [*] textmerger [*] THINK C Gamma Table Library [*] tiny-saver.hqx 13" Apple monitor capacitor problem--is there a FAQ? 24 bit color on a Quadra 950 w/19" (q) 32 Bit addressing Problem AutoDoubler & Gatekeeper AutoDoubler woes (R) Biblio Programs with Word? Cheap PS Printer Classics and 7.1 Database Transition from DBase (A) Dictionarry for MS Word 5 (Q) Do StyleWriters have a short lifetime? (A) Encryption Programs, Shareware Extracting sound from QT Movies FAQ FAQ (A) How to get Print Monitor to wait for printer? HP->Mac Hookup IIsi Cache Cards (Q) Info-Mac and All-in-One Info-Mac Digest V11 #9 Library Software (A) MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90 mail-order Mac needs Wing Commander and Ultima!!! Malaysian mice Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolian Desert Racing Mice Malaysian moose serial numbers :-) Netter's Dinner NEW MAC TROJAN UPDATE Non-Profit Org Needs Used Mac Equip Norton for Mac vs? SUM NOW Menus - like utility OmniPage problem: unimplemented trap Pegasus Mail (Q) PowerBook 160's trackball desperately slow... PowerBook startup sound Powerbook startup sound (C) PowerPC Macs (Re: New Macintoshes) Quadra 950 Radius 8.24xp Card & 7.1 (Q) RAM Problem (Q) rdist Re. Norton 2.0 Problem? Regular expression guru, please remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a) Screensaver for two-screen systems (A) SCSI Device Driver Information SE-->SE/30 (C) SE/30 Unreliable HD FD Search/Replace: use Nisus Shh conclusions? StyleWriter II - II thumbs up! Sys 7.1 on 800K (C) System 7.1 on 800k Text with layout Turbo Gopher questions... ( The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by 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]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:47:17 EST From: udrubini@mcs.drexel.edu (Arthur Dent) Subject: [*] Area.Codes.1.11 Area Codes v1.11 A handy little application that allows you to determine what state an area code is in. Area code info is customizable via ResEdit. This version fixes a bug which could cause crashes on 68000 machines. [Archived as /info-mac/app/area-codes-111.hqx; 19K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 10:16:09 -0500 From: tas2@cornell.edu (Thomas Scott) Subject: [*] Color LCD Projection Report About 8 months ago, I requested info about users' experiences with LCD projection panels. I got a number of responses, and I was going to post to sumex, but didn't get a chance to. Yesterday I got a request from one of the Info-Mac readers to send him any info I did get. It cleared out the cobwebs, and I realized that there wasn't anything like this currently on sumex, so I'm posting it now. However, everything in the technology world changes almost on a daily basis. I'm sure there's been many changes, especially with the October rollout of new Macs, and the never-ending run of 3rd party vendors to introduce new peripherals to keep up with Apple's changing line. If you seen any changes in this field since last May that could enhance this report, please send them to me at tas2@cornell.edu, and I'll udpate this report to the archive. I hope the info helps people out there trying to make a decision in this field, and I think that new info will make this report even more benefical. Thanks! [Archived as /info-mac/report/color-lcd-projection.txt; 35K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 00:12:36 est From: tlaz@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Tony Lazcano) Subject: [*] EKG course Here is the 2nd try and sending you lesson one of a complete EKG training course. The course is designed to be used by anyone with a basic knowledge of cardiac physiology. Compressed with stuffit lite [Archived as /info-mac/app/ekg-course-1.hqx; 201K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 13:45:23 EST From: dks@MIT.EDU (dks) Subject: [*] I am not a crook Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 9, 1993. To mark the 80th birthday of Richard Milhous Nixon, here is an "sfil" of Him at His Ironic Best. Cheers, Dhanesh [Archived as /info-mac/sound/im-not-a-crook.hqx; 237K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:50 +1300 From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ" Subject: [*] info-mac/art/qt/ufo.hqx Here's another big-budget production from Lawrence's desktop film studio. This effect was created with a piece of blue cardboard and the chroma-key transparency setting in Adobe Premiere. Do you think Steven Spielberg will hire me...? Lawrence D'Oliveiro Computer Services Dept University of Waikato Hamilton New Zealand [Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/ufo.hqx; 491K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 16:54:50 PST From: jskudlarek@std.MENTORG.COM (Joseph Skudlarek) Subject: [*] mcvert-189.shar mcvert, written in C, runs under UNIX and converts among Macintosh file formats including BinHex4.0 and MacBinary. See mcvert.1 (the man page) for details. Please replace mcvert-188.shar with mcvert-189.shar, which follows. Major changes since 1.88 and current usage are detailed below. <> emit INPUT file names when verbose is enabled make it easier to build on AT&T 3B2's [Archived as /info-mac/unix/mcvert-189.shar; 89k] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 09:33:00 +0100 From: adam@IGG.TNO.NL Subject: [*] NET/Mac 2.3.15 Hello all, I am uploading NET/Mac 2.3.15, the TCP/IP application for ham-radio- operators. This version contains quite a number of enhancements, like MacIP support, SLFP protocol support, and new AppleTalk drivers. Most of these mods came from Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP. This version obsoletes info-mac/comm/radio-netmac-2311.hqx Regards, Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA [Archived as /info-mac/comm/radio-netmac-2315.hqx; 259K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 02:31:50 -0800 From: Michael Ross Subject: [*] Plan Master 2.0 In response to a request on Info Mac v11#4, I am submitting Business Plan Master 2.0. I have no connection with the program other than occasional browser. Here is part of the Read Me file. Michael Ross mross@antigone.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Every business needs to have a plan in order to track its progress. There is no business too small, too large, too complex or too simple to avoid having a business plan. I found that many business plan programs assume that you are going to raise money in the public markets. However, the vast majority of businesses are started without large outside investments or fund raising campaigns. This program is designed for use by any business, large or small, whether you are raising money or not. I didn't write this program in an ivory tower some place, but out of my own business experience. For seven years, I imported cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest of Germany, so this is definetly a "cuckoo" program! I have been involved in many other business ventures. I'd be lying if I said I made money with all of them. But I can truthfully say that all were successful, mainly because I followed a plan and stuck to it. BUSINESS PLAN MASTER supplies you with complete template files. I give you professional formats (footnootes, tables of contents,some simple graphics), some excellent sample text and several spreadsheet files for you to use. Alone these could save you many hundreds of hours of work. Because of the wide diversity of businesses and business ideas, I have tried to make these files as universal as possible. Over time, you will likely incorporate your own language into the text and make modifications to the worksheets. [...] Business Plan Master is NOT a public domain program. It is Copyright (c) 1992 by David A. Works. All rights reserved. [...] IF YOU LIKE BUSINESS PLAN MASTER, PASS IT ALONG TO FRIENDS AND BUSINESS ASSOCIATES, BBS'S OR USER'S GROUPS. Good luck and I wish you the best in your business endeavors. CompuServe 70400,153 Delphi DAVIDWORKS GEnie D.WORKS3 America OnLine DAVIDW2959 [Archived as /info-mac/app/business-plan-master-20.hqx; 244K] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Jan 1993 09:30:39 -0500 From: "Tom Scott" Subject: [*] Random Startup Sound (A) Random Startup Sound (A) gt3017c@prism.gatech.edu asks: > There is one idea that I have that I would like to see someone post > here at Info-Mac. I am not a programmer, therefore I do not have the > talent to compose such a device. I would like to see someone create a > startup application for system 7 that randomly plays a sound file from > a selected folder. I have many sounds that I would love to alternate > and do not want to play them all at once. I know that there is a cdev > to randomize your system beep, but that is not what I am looking for. > Also, I would like to see an application so there is no init code, or > memory hogging, or possible conflict with anything. One could also > implement this idea by placing the application in a folder with the > said sound files and put an alias in the startup folder to randomly > play one file. Any takers? Also, any help on finding existing > similiar software would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Well, it's not an application, but it will do what you're asking. It's Jon Pugh's excellent Randomizer extension/init that can randomize startup sounds, startup screens, and Res-editable to randomize desktop patterns (I did it a while back). I've taken it off one of the other archives and resubmitted to sumex (I noticed it wasn't on sumex anywhere). The moderators should probably put it in the /ex directory. Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853 [Archived as /info-mac/ex/randomizer-12.hqx; 15K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 22:11:49 -0600 From: cbrinson@nwu.edu (L.C. Brinson) Subject: [*] Resorcerer 1.1 Demo Due to popular demand, I have enclosed a demo for Mathemaesthetics, Inc. resource and dialog editor Resorcerer 1.1 which I obtained last year when I bought CMaster from Jersey Scientific (a FANTASTIC add to programming in Think C, IMHO). It is fully functional, UNTIL you try to save your work! The Demo is from nearly a year ago, so I am sure that the program has been substantially improved since then. Also, I have placed Mathemaesthetics, Inc.'s blurb as TEXT outside of the binhexed .sea, so for those who are interested, but maybe not 770KB or so worth of being interested, can check out the company's propaganda. Warren Kibbe GEnie: W.Kibbe AOL: WAKibbe internet: cbrinson@nwu.edu [Archived as /info-mac/demo/resorcerer.hqx; 774K] ------------------------------ Date: 05 Jan 1993 15:12:27 -0600 (CST) From: ANTWORTH 214/709-2418 Subject: [*] SIL-IPA.sit.hqx SIL-IPA.sit.hqx is a set of scalable IPA fonts containing the full International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 Kiel revisions. Three typefaces are included: SIL Doulos (similar to Times) SIL Sophia (similar to Helvetica) SIL Manuscript (monowidth) Each font contains all the standard IPA discrete characters and non-spacing diacritics as well as some suprasegmental and puncuation marks. Each font comes in both PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats. The fonts are also available for Microsoft Windows. These fonts were designed by the Printing Arts Department of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas. Evan Antworth Academic Computing Department Summer Institute of Linguistics 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road Dallas, TX 75236 U.S.A. Internet e-mail: evan@sil.org or antworth@am.dallas.sil.org phone: 214/709-2418 fax: 214/709-2433 [Archived as /info-mac/font/sil-ipa.hqx; 311K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 19:42:03 EST From: "Allan M. Bloom" Subject: [*] Splat Key Font On 5 January, Ulf Dittmer asked how to print the command (splat) key. I'm certain that many will tell him that it is a control-something combo in Chicago font. I've never had any luck with that. However, I did find a Chicago Symbols font on the Washington Apple Pi bulletin board that has only four things: splat, closed diamond, check mark, and closed apple. I can't recall if I found it as a TT font or converted it via Metamorphosis >From a type 1 or 3 original. Nonetheless, here is the TT version. If any of y'all have had the same bad luck I've had with the certain-but-not- always-right advice to do a control-whatever in Chicago, ChicaSym works. Al Bloom, Virginia Tech [Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/splat-symbol.hqx; 5K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:22:52 EST From: landis@ltpsun.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: [*] Star Trek-TNG Episode Guide stack update (1.2) I am including a binhexed file containing the upgraded version of my Star Trek-TNG Episode Guide stack. You already have version 1.1 of the stack on your system, called "card/star-trek-tng-episodes-11.hqx". This new file is version 1.2 of the same stack and it totally replaces the old version. Please name it "card/star-trek-tng-episodes-12.hqx" for the convenience of the users. Thank you. David Landis landis@ltpsun.gsfc.nasa.gov [Archived as /info-mac/card/star-trek-tng-episodes-12.hqx; 560K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:31:38 EST From: Paul Savage Subject: [*] textmerger There has been some talk lately about utilities for merging text files into one file. One of the simplest is Text Merger, a drag and drop application that concatenates all files (2-225) dropped onto it (in alphabetical order) into one combined file, and then deletes all the individual originals. I notice that this utility is no longer at Sumex but it should be. I'm not the author, Kaz Matsuki is. Binhexed but not stuffed since it's only 6K. Paul. paul@carbon.chem.csiro.au CSIRO, Division of Chemicals & Polymers [Archived as /info-mac/util/text-merger.hqx; 7K] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 18:02:46 -0500 From: Matt Slot Subject: [*] THINK C Gamma Table Library Enclosed is a THINK C Library with source for ramping your monitors Gamma Table. This library is intended as a general tool for manipulating the Gamma Tables of Graphics Devices, to ramp them up or down in order to achieve smooth screen fades. The source is included for programmers who want to convert the library to A4-based, but is not commented for public consumption. The library defines 2 globals to save state data, but the entire Table manipulation is performed with unlocked handles to be easy on your heap. The typical memory chunk is about 600 bytes for a 13" Monitor in 8-bit depth, or about 1700 bytes for one in 24-bit color. Usage will vary. Of course, the Classic Mac cannot use Gamma Fades, nor can any other monochrome monitor--only color/grayscale monitors attached to a Mac II or later. The code is uses Gestalt, so be sure you are running System 6.0.4 or later. Please use the listed functions to see if you can use this code before loading it. As usual, this stuff is not warranteed, guaranteed, or anything-- use it at your own risk. It is not Apple-recommended for anything, but it worked for me, so there! * ************************************************************************* * Written: Matt Slot, fprefect@engin.umich.edu 12/17/92 Posted: Matt Slot, fprefect@engin.umich.edu 1/ 9/93 * ************************************************************************* * Oh yeah, this stuff is free to anyone interested in it. Matt Slot (of the icons), fprefect@engin.umich.edu [Archived as /info-mac/source/c/think-c-gamma-table.hqx; 108K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:13:16 -0500 From: Christopher Owen Subject: [*] tiny-saver.hqx Tiny Saver is a tiny screen saver. It is an application but takes up only 6k of disk space and 20k of RAM. It doesn't do much but dim the screen (it can move the time around the screen if you really want) but that is the point. It is shareware. [Archived as /info-mac/util/tiny-saver.hqx; 9K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 13:40:59 PST From: i6bk@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Brian Korver) Subject: 13" Apple monitor capacitor problem--is there a FAQ? Could someone please point me toward a FAQ regarding that Apple 13" monitor problem that shuts down the computer (or whatever). Thanks in advance. -Brian Korver i6bk@odin.cc.pdx.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 05:47:12 +0200 From: bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il (David L. Hirschberg) Subject: 24 bit color on a Quadra 950 w/19" (q) Dear Netters, Can a Quadra 950 support 24 bit color on a 19 inch monitor without a 3rd party video card? Thanks, David bnhirsch@weizmann.weizmann.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:23:15 CDT From: Subject: 32 Bit addressing Problem From: Keith Pollok (aezrays@uicvmc.bitnet) I'm passing along a problem that a friend of mine is having in the hopes that someone on the net can provide a cure or at least an answer. My friend has a IIci with 16meg memory running system 7.0.1 (tuned) in 32 bit mode. He has Canvas 3.0.5, and when he tries to open a document he created with an earlier version of Canvas in 24 bit mode, it fails. However, it works fine creating and opening documents made since his 32 bit conversion. If he switches to 24 bit mode he can then edit these documents. Anny comments? Keith Pollok ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 08:41 EST From: Bob Beason Subject: AutoDoubler & Gatekeeper I had similar messages from several extensions/applications, but the problem (whatever the cause) is easily taken care of by going to the GateKeeper Controls, selecting the Log and double clicking on the offending message, then click on "grant privileges". This may not prevent gatekeeper from detecting whatever is going on, but it saves a lot of dialog boxes on startup. Bob Beason beason@geneseo.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 17:52:03 -0800 From: Jerry Wilcox Subject: AutoDoubler woes (R) Philip Sharman writes that he is experiencing conflicts between AutoDoubler and GateKeeper 1.2.6. This is a known problem, which has been posted here in the not-to-distant past, as well as to other newsgroups. Chris Johnson, GK's author is well aware of it, and is working on the 1.2.7 update to GK, which is now in beta test and should be released in the near future. I'm not surprised that Philip has had no response from Fifth Generation/Salient, as their normal response is "we're using what the system provides and it isn't our fault that virus programs get tripped." Well, I suppose that any virus author could say the same thing, so that statement gets us nowhere. The bottom line is that Salient/Fifth Generation apparently refuses to test their programs using virus detection software, so every new release is a surprise to Chris and other authors. Announcements: I am a beta tester for GateKeeper. I own AutoDoubler, although I have removed it from my system and replaced it with Stuffit SpaceSaver, a product which, *in my opinion*, is superior and doesn't cause anywhere near the problems that I had when I had AutoDoubler installed. Jerry Wilcox - iscjcw@uccvma.ucop.edu OR jcwilcox@holonet.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 18:36:16 GMT From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) Subject: Biblio Programs with Word? Can anyone suggest a decent Bibliography Database program that has hooks for Microsoft Word? Something easy to use is good, something public domain or shareware is good as well... Thanks, stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 17:48-0700 From: marcos@taos.intel.com Subject: Cheap PS Printer Does anyone have any suggestions on where to get a cheap new or used Postscript printer? I'm just interested in rock bottom prices and not features/performance. Under $1000 is a must. thanks in advance, Marcos Paz (505) 893-1623 marcos@taos.intel.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:05:19 GMT From: knuth!raider!theporch!bbs@uunet.UU.NET (Waffle BBS login) Subject: Classics and 7.1 Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >Irving Wiswall writes: >> >>Did I miss something? Does 7.1 run on classics? I installed it on one and >>it starts to boot but won't finish. I started with a freshly re formatted >>hard drive, so there's no possibility of an extension or control panel >>incompatability. Reinstalled 7.01 and it worked fine, so I kind of rule >>out hardware problems. Doesn't 7.1 run on Classics? Surely it doesn't >>need an enabler? >> I ran 7.1 on my Classic for a while with no problem, no incompatibility, nothing. I went back to 7.0.1 because 7.1 was taking too much room for one of my applications to run. -David Anderson Nashville TN ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:04:01 PST From: Kee Nethery Subject: Database Transition from DBase (A) >Having a large database with about 15,000 records on DBase, and needing to >port it to a Mac, what kind of database products are available that can >accommodate this range of records. Two come to mind, HyperCard will easily handle that many but be dog slow. FileMaker will handle that make and be faster. >Are there any aids or tricks to porting the data over to this new database >product? Save all your data out in whatever format you can (preferably text tab or text comma) from dBase. If text comma import into a spreadsheet and then save out as text tab. Import over to a Mac. If the data is not "clean" use spreadsheets and word processors to clean it. Open with a spreadsheet (Excel) or with a word processor. Massage the data til you get text tab delimited data then import into your new Mac database. I use the word processor search & replace to convert columized text that is separated with spaces (not tabs or commas) into tab delimited entries with no extra spaces. When I think I am done I import into the spreadsheet and hand check to see that all the records aligned properly. Typically only a few manual adjustments are required. Then save and import into the database. Kee Nethery@parc.xerox.com ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 07:35:31 +0100 (MET) From: HANS KROEGER Subject: Dictionarry for MS Word 5 (Q) Hi Netters, does anybody know of an English-German & German-English Dictionary for the Mac ? It would be nice if such a dictionary could be called up in MSW 5 similar to the Thesaurus....? Thank you for your help! Hans Kroeger kroeger@fn.dornier.de kroeger@foca.dnet.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:37:59 GMT From: kuipers@fwi.uva.nl (Tobias Kuipers) Subject: Do StyleWriters have a short lifetime? (A) My SW did something like 3000 copies aswell. However, I do seem to have a problem. When printing very dark pages, white horizontal lines appear in the printout. This is quite annoying, especially when printing out documents that contain pictures. Does anyone know if this is due to the supposed "short lifetime" of a SW? Or could it have something to do with refilling the ink cartridge? (Here in the Netherlands, cartridges go out only for the most immoral price: 10 cartridges will buy you a new StyleWriter!) In short: Do I have to buy a new (better) printer, or just a cartridge? -- Tobias Kuipers - kuipers@fwi.uva.nl - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 16:36:39 PST From: Paul Brians Subject: Encryption Programs, Shareware What's the best encryption program in the archives? A colleague is looking for one. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 08:46:11 -0600 From: Neil Eric Mickelson Subject: Extracting sound from QT Movies Hello again! Does anyone out there know of a way to extract the soundtrack from QT movie files? I'd prefer a shareware program or some such, but if anyone knows how to do it in a commercial program I'd appreciate a post about that, too. You can e-mail me, and I'll summarize for the digest. THANKS!!! Neil E. Mickelson n-mickelson@uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 07:47:25 -0600 From: vellek@telesphere.wustl.edu (Mark Vellek, M.D.) Subject: FAQ >>JP Weaver -> weaver@sherlock.chinalake.navy.mil >>Posts: >>This is a funny question comming from a military >>instalation but, what does the acronymn FAQ stand >>for? The irony is even funnier for those who know the meaning: "Frequently Asked Question" - which I guess makes the question a cyclic redundancy. Ahh, another TLA (Three Letter Acronym...) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 14:38:22 PST From: JP Weaver Subject: FAQ (A) Thank you all for giving a beginner a clue. FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Question. JP ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 10:31 EST From: Mitch Cohen Subject: How to get Print Monitor to wait for printer? I'm setting up a Mac (LCII, 7.0.1) to receive files via modem. This is done with a White Knight script I've written. After a file is received, a page is sent to the default printer (as notification of the file received). The machine will be running 24-hrs. Problem is the printer may be shut off occasionally, which causes Print Monitor to freak and interrupt the script. I've thought about using Okey-Dokey, which was added to the archive recently. Supposedly this will select "OK" from the offending dialog (There is a problem with the print monitor). This machine will be used for other reasons as well as the modem (by non-technical people), thus causing confusion with their dialog boxes. So what I'm looking for is a means of getting Print Monitor just to wait for the printer to become available. Or a shareware utility that will do this. For those really interested, the printer is a LaserMax which uses a controller board inside a Mac IIci. The local machine sends data to the IIci, using the normal LaserWriter driver. Its the IIci that is often powered off. Thankya, Mitch Cohen, MCohen@vax.clarku.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:07:19 -0500 From: "Tom Scott" Subject: HP->Mac Hookup HP->Mac Hookup jjd1@cornell.edu (John DeVivo) asks: >I need information on what is available software and hardware wise for >connecting and using an old HP LaseJet 2686A with serial interface to a >Macintosh. Please answer directly to me. I'll complie the answers and post >the replies. Thanks ahead of time. Hi Jay!! You might be able to find some help in a report at sumex: It's called info-mac/report/mac-laser-jet-up-rev-11.txt. Hope this helps! :-) Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:18:32 -0500 From: Omar C. Jadwat Subject: IIsi Cache Cards (Q) Hello world. Seems I have some money with which to upgrade my si. More memory is the first order of business, but I'm also thinking of adding a cache card -- they seem the most affordable of the other possible enhancements. Does anyone have experience with the various products on the market? Is there a marked improvement in performance? Any possible compatibility problems? Are they all created equal, or should I go for some specific brand name? Thanks Omar (Jadwat@yale.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 21:30:01 -0500 From: "Tad Davis" Subject: Info-Mac and All-in-One I offer this for those of you who, like me, are using Info-Mac and All-in-One. I don't know how much of the following depends on specific keyboard layouts, but you can try it out and see how it works. Info-Mac messages are cumbersome in All-in-One because there is no way to search for specific text while reading a message. What you CAN do is "file the text" of the message -- the FT command -- in a personal folder, and then EDIT the text. Once in the editor, you can search for strings of text: for example, find the next occurrence of "7.1". (I've been using that a lot lately.) The online help in our system gives little advice for function key equivalents on a Mac using Microphone II in VT100 emulation mode. By trial and error, I found that {clear} {slash} on the numeric keypad invokes the Search function (normally I think this would correspond to F1-F3). After you type the text you want to find, {slash} invokes the search itself. To find the next occurrence, press {slash} again. This has made it possible to work through the large Info-Mac messages looking only at items of particular interest. I used to have to keep pressing {Enter} to scroll through each screenful. I'd be interested in knowing how other people's keyboards work in this situation. Tad Davis davist@a1.relay.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 14:41:38 -0800 (PST) From: MacCrusader Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #9 >>All 68030-040 Macs support 32-bit addressing. 68030 Macs prior to the Mac IIci were not "32-bit clean", so you need Mode 32 in order to use 32-bit addressing. Roger P.S.--According to Contour Designs' "Mouse Topper" documentation, Malaysian mice have a "Model or Family #" of G5431 and say "Made in Malaysia" on the bottom. (The model number is actually shared by other mice made in the USA and Taiwan) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 12:47:52 CST From: judith@utig.ig.utexas.edu Subject: Library Software (A) A good source of ads and reviews for Library software is in the Apple Library Users Group Newsletter. It's free from Apple Library Users Group Apple Computer, Inc. 10381 Bandley Drive Cupertino, CA 95014 Voice 408/974-2552 Fax 408/725-8502 or you might try emailing ertel.m@applelink.apple.com to subscribe. I haven't tried any advertized products yet, but some companies offer free or low cost demos. This group might be a good resource for anyone doing library automation. Judith Haller Micro Apps Spec Institute for Geophysics UTexas Austin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 22:19:57 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90 mail-order subject: MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90 mail-order > Just wondering where Snooper ranks compared to Norton Utilities 2.0 > and/or MacTools 2.0. Is it better, just as good, ......??? Snooper does not compete against those two, it competes against MacEKG. Funny it came up because... I got some "junk mail" today from TigerDirect, a mail order software reseller. They were selling MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90. First, I thought that there may be some people interested in these products who have not managed to get on the right mailing list. TigerDirect's # is 1-800-666-2562. Second, I was curious if anyone used these packages. MacEKG runs diagnostic checks and helps find init conflicts. Help! also is a troubleshooting package that finds init conflicts, damaged files, duplicate copies of files. The propaganda quotes Bob LeVitus as saying "It's a compatibility checker on steroids!" I would like to know if these packages can spot anything an experienced troubleshooter won't find relatively easily? If not, I may still consider getting them as a tool to teach the concepts of troubleshooting. Any comments from users? 7th Heaven has a calendar, screen saver, something called FileMapper which assigns applications to "orphaned" files that won't open when you double click on them because the application is not on your HD. I'm most interested in the first two, but I'd appreciate comments on 7th Heaven as well. Thanks, Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 13:26:52 -0600 From: yun@Mayo.EDU Subject: Mac needs Wing Commander and Ultima!!! I'd like to appeal to all those Mac users who are also avid gaming fans: I don't think I have to convince many people about the lack of high quality games for the Macintosh. True, the puzzle/educational games are very well done, but there is only a handful of good RPGs and action adventure games out there. If you don't believe this, go to a local software store and compare the games being offered for the PC and those for the Mac, or simply compare the shareware offerings between the two. Hopefully this situation may change in the near future. Origin Systems, developer of the Ultima and Wing Commander series, has been acquired by Electronic Arts and is now apparently in a position to port over games to the Mac. The thing is that they are hesistant to make Mac games because they feel there is a lack of a Mac gaming community, or at least the market is too small to invest the considerable time and money to do a port. For instance, on America Online, the Origin marketing rep, Wayne Baker, stated "...unfortunate fact, though, is that a recent survey showed that a whopping 85% of those who buy entertainment software own PCs." It was later pointed out that this isn't really a significant figure because all the good games ARE for the PC. Unfortunately, being a business, they rely on these marketing figures for their decisions and has asked for data, with references, to sway their view of the Mac gaming market. I'm definitely not in a position to find this type of data, and I'm sure many others aren't. However, Wayne has an open ear. He appreciates the Mac community being vocal about their wanting Origin products, and passes every one of the requests/pleas to those who make the product developing decisions. So if you're like me, and are tired of playing Dungeon of Doom and Spectre while your friends are playing Ultima VII and Wing Commander I & II, how about telling Origin how you feel about them doing a port of their games? Send e-mail through the 'net to OSI@aol.com or 76004,2612@compuserve.com (the customer services rep's name on CIS is "Marie"), or send email to me (yun@mayo.edu), and I'll forward them to Origin. I think if Origin does start developing their high quality games for the Mac, and becomes successful, more companies will follow their lead. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:38:52 -0900 From: pharris@ucscm.UCSC.EDU Subject: Malaysian mice There seems to be a question as to HOW these Malaysian mice are serialized. Well, let me tell you that I think it is CRUEL and HEARTLESS to serialize a mouse without its consent. How would you like to be serialized against your will, rendering you unable to conceive a family for the rest of your life? You wouldn't, would you? And let's not get started on the Catholic Church and its stand on such contraceptive measures. I am sure that they would be against this involuntary serialization, also. So, whoever is doing this to these poor mice, STOP IT right now. Mice are people too, you know. (My favorite bumper sticker of the week; "Dairy is Slavery.") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 12:27 CET From: "Charles C. Schneider" Subject: Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolian Desert Racing Mice We have four Mongolian Desert Racing Mice (I swear that's what they're called). I've checked and, while there are no serial numbers, there is conclusive evidence that they are all males. Thanks to Info-Mac, I can confidently name at least one of them "Michel". Ciao4now Charles C. Schneider International Atomic Energy Agency Vienna, Austria sdz5@iaea1 (bitnet) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 22:59:45 CST From: Gschaffe@redstone-emh1.army.mil Subject: Malaysian moose serial numbers :-) I have a hi-tech suggestion for determining if you have any Malaysian meece. You will need, in addition to your Mac and disattached Mickey: Scanner OCR program Word processor Procedure: (1) Obtain suspect rodent and place, ball-down, on flatbed scanner. If you have a hand- or tower-type scanner, ratty should be ball-up. Be careful, the little guy may object if he is wrong species. (2) Scan underside of the varmint. See caution above. (3) Use the OCR program and move the text to your word processor. (4) In your word processor, find the string "Made in". This string might be in UPPERCASE letters. (5) The string immediately following the above will tell you the country of mousifacture. (6) This will save you the considerable trouble of OCRing the serial numbers into a spreadsheet for comparison. Procedure was tried on a variety of local chordates (cord-ates?), and no Malaysian vermin were located (strings found included only "USA" and "Taiwan"). Next, more field tests! Good luck. ;-) Who said "Military Intelligence" was an oxymoron? (trivia quiz) Hesitatingly, Glenn Schaffer Disclaimer: "The secretary will disavow any knowledge ..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 10:49:18 -0800 From: Jon Pugh Subject: Netter's Dinner The Netter's Dinner at MacWorld was a huge success. The large dinner stuffed us all and this time the spice-wimps were overthrown and noses ran all night. The Hunan loves us because we pay cash and dinner hardly blink when there were 30 NO SHOWS! You know who you are. You are all an embarassment. ;) On a different note, the only thing I picked up at the show was Pixar's Typestry, a truely fun program. I will be posting some of the pictures I create as I get time. I would be curious in talking tips and tricks with anyone using this program for fun and profit. For those out of the know, Typestry is a $200 (show special) package that does 3D rendering and animation limited to text. I've checked out some of the 3D packages, and they all seem way too complex for the playing around that I want to do. Typestry addresses this by limiting the scope of the program and doing what it does very well. Basically you can create as many text blocks as you want, resize them and move them around. You can add a back wall and/or a floor. You can bevel the letters 4 different ways and control their extrusion depth. You can make the letters be cutout or made of smaller pieces in a mess of options. Then you can apply textures and shading to the pieces and render them. Some of my first renderings take about an hour. You can also control the lights in a wide variety of ways, which can really increase your rendering times. Finally, you can set up key frames and create animations. It's really easy and damn cool! There is apparently a program called Glimpse which allows you to create new texture maps (called Looks) for another $100. Has anyone used this? I suspect that it is a must-have. Is this true? TTFN Jon ------------------------------ Date: 13 Jan 1993 19:02:07 -0600 (MDT) From: Metro State College of Denver Subject: NEW MAC TROJAN UPDATE I have received information from Central Point Software on a NEW trojan called CPRO. A piece of malicious software has recently appeared called CPRO. CPRO is actually a trojan horse application. Once the application is opened, the Trojan Horse erases hard and floppy disks." Contact Central Point software for the update or get the info on the following services Centrail Point BBS (503) 690-6650 Compuserve GO CPSMAC Applelink locate the central point software sampler 3rd party demo/updates area. america On Line locate the CPS industry connection (keyword: CENTRAL) Ed Jacobs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:20:44 EST From: leber@panther.warm.inmet.com (Thomas Leber) Subject: Non-Profit Org Needs Used Mac Equip Fellow Mac People: Is there anyone out there in Cyberspace willing to help out a non-profit group looking for donations of used Mac equipment? The all-volunteer fire/rescue company which I run with has a desperate need for a computer to handle record keeping, training, and hazardous materials response information, and I'd like to see them get a Mac. A large display is just about essential for their needs, so I'm trying to find someone to donate a working modular Mac system. This could be an easy write-off for someone looking to dispose of some older equipment, and would help us out immensely. Anyone? Anyone? Reply via E-mail to Many Thanks- Tom Leber, Wyndmoor Hose Company No. 1 Springfield Township, Montgomery County PA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:28:38 GMT From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole) Subject: Norton for Mac vs? SUM In digest <9301130050.AA23724@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >I have Symantic Utilities for the Mac (SUM) and recently picked >up a cheap copy of the Norton Utilities for the Mac (NUM?), now also >>From Symantic. >Can anyone tell me if the NUM directory backup obviates the need for >the SUM directory backup? Does NUM replace SUM entirely? >Mark Olson mlo@bio-rad.com Yes. NUM 2.0 is a replacement for all previous NUM and SUM versions. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:15:26 -0500 From: Arel Yizhak Weisberg Subject: NOW Menus - like utility Is there a share/freeware utility that accomplishes what the NOW Menus utility does i.e. lets you select items inside folders under the Apple Menu? Thank you, Arel Weisberg weisberg@phoenix.princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 01:46:22 EST From: Mingzuo Shen Subject: OmniPage problem: unimplemented trap Hi all, We have a scanner (MicroTek I think) and OmniPage optical character recognization program, on a Mac IIx run MacOs 7.1. I used this combination before to recognize characters to good effect. But just now I encountered this problem: when I tried to select the "scan" or "quickscan" menu item OmniPage said something like "unimplemented trap" and offered only a restart button. I could use the MicroTeK Apple-Menu program to scan pictures therefore it seems that the scanner was working. This machine is on our adm secretary's desk and lately there has been a lot of additions of software and junk. Since I do not know about these newer programs and have no time to test them one by one (and indeed I am not supposed to tinker with other people's machines), I thought somebody, either >From the vendor of OmniPage or somebody who had similar problems, might be kind enough to give me a hint. I am interested in "simple" solutions, not necessarily elegant or "social" (I cound use the machine at night and can return it to the original state afterwards), or general. Email is prefered. Thanks in advance, Mingzuo Shen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:31:49 MEZ From: David Steiner Subject: Pegasus Mail (Q) In answer to my multi-platform email question last month, Henk Verhaar in the Netherlands suggested Pegasus mail which he said was available from splicer.cba.hawaii.edu (128.171.17.7). I have tried a number of times to reach this server but there is no answer. Henk said he couldn't get through either anymore. Anyone out there know anything about this server or if the package is available anywhere else? Thanks in advance. David R. Steiner Research Assoc. - Remote Sensing & GIS ISPA - Uni. Osnabrueck, Vechta Germany ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 15:42:20 -0500 From: Claude Bellavance Subject: PowerBook 160's trackball desperately slow... PowerBook 160's trackball desperately slow... Can anybody tell me how to speed up my PowerBook 160's trackball (using system 7.1). I have installed Mouse2, adjusted the mouse control panel at the highest speed and even tried to reinstall the whole system and still, the trackball keeps on beeing incredibly slow. I presume this can be done with ResEdit but I just don't know how... I also use a PowerBook 145 (same system) and the trackball on it works perfectly well. Thanks a lot Claude Bellavance Centre d'Etudes Quebecoises Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres email: bellav@uqtr.uquebec.ca ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 02:51:38 +0100 (CET) From: ALEXEI TSVETKOV Subject: PowerBook startup sound I have to take issue with Andrew Vernon who suggests that the only way to lower the startup sound with the older PBs is to use a phone plug. I have a 140/7.01. The volume settings in the Sound cdev affect both the system and the startup sound. Alexei Tsvetkov Munich (I'd rather be in Philadelphia) ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:03:37 -0500 From: "Tom Scott" Subject: Powerbook startup sound (C) Powerbook startup sound (C) tsvetkova@news.rferl.org (Alexei Tsvetkov) comments on this question: >>This question has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in the >>info-mac archives. Can the powerbook startup sound be changed or disabled? By saying this: >Use the Sound control panel I have a comment to make on this. If you turn your Sound Control Panel down to 1, that's the volume that the startup sound will have on next reboot. However, if you set the volume to 0, then the startup sound defaults to maximum. :-( It's not a bug, it's a feature!!!!!!!! ;-) Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 16:56:32 GMT From: lyman@cc.gatech.edu (Lyman S. Taylor) Subject: PowerPC Macs (Re: New Macintoshes) In article <1j180hINNjh1@transfer.stratus.com> mcote@celine.sw.stratus.com (Mike Cote) writes: > >Does anyone have any idea whether the Quadra 800 will be "PowerPC-Ready". I >saw mention in one of the MacWeek articles that some of the new Macs will be >able to accept a PowerPC chip when they become available. > I wouldn't beat on it. I don't get my hands on a MacWeek as much as I used to but I think I vaguely remember a "rumour" that the new "server" class Macintoshes "might" be upgrable to PowerPC. Although I'm willing to bet by upgrade they mean daughterboard replacement. ( uProcessor AND ROMS ) These beasts will ( reportedly ) boast some SERIOUS I/O capability and therefore will be price beyond your average desktop. :-) [ I wouldn't be surprised if these server boxes are geared to A/UX or PowerOpen whenever it gets here ] >Any ideas as to what it really means to be PowerPC ready? Does the processor >get replaced? Maybe a coprocessor socket? > The PowerPC macs will be "useless" without a complete new set of ROMs. In order to get fast emulation of a 68XXX Mac some significant parts of the MacOS will have to be in NATIVE PowerPC code. Like the stuff WAY WAY down inside the ROM of a Quadra. Somehow I get the feeling that this will NOT be dynamically "patchable" at startup time ( I'm no MacOS guru so I could be wrong ... although a MacOS that patched up makes me nervous. ) I also wouldn't bet on apple putting MacROMs on a PDS card either so don't hold your breath on a PDS "upgrade" either. Also I think the 601s are 50MHz chips so it would be like sticking a Honda Grand Prix racing engine inside a VW Bug to just drop a 601 inside any of the current Macs. Unless you're SERIOUSLY CPU bound don't count on much of a performance increase. RISC chips only work fast if you can keep its pipeline filled. Especially in a nonpreemptive OS. Save your pennies for NEXT January. ( that's what I'm doing :-) ) It's probably more of a software delay than hardware. Lyman lyman@cc.gatech.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 22:25:17 +0200 From: mtrms01@techunix.technion.ac.il Subject: Quadra 950 We are planning to purchase a Quadra 950 to use with a transmission electron microscope. I seem to remember a number of things that are problematic with the Quadra 950....(programmes that do not run? things that are necessary to add?). Has anyone collected a summary of these items? I would like to get the clearest picture that I can of what can and cannot be expected of the 950. As always, thanks for your help.... Dr. Michael Silverstein Tel: 972-4-294-582 Materials Engineering, Technion Fax: 972-4-321-978 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 10:32:20 EST From: ddimick@aol.com Subject: Radius 8.24xp Card & 7.1 (Q) A friend with a IIci, Radius 8.24xp accelerated video card, and Apple 16-inch monitor has recently upgraded to System 7.1 Since doing so he has lost all acceleration in the video card. Has anyone else suffered this malady? Radius Tech. Support people have been less than precise on whether their current softwares inits and CDEVs will work with 7.1. One support person said, "It is also possible that the QuickColor software may not be running whatsoever." Any corroboration or further observations on this situation most appreciated. Dennis Dimick, Arlington,VA ddimick@aol.com Planet BMUG: Dennis R. Dimick ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 22:39:14 -0500 From: gustilo@pobox.upenn.edu Subject: RAM Problem (Q) greetings, today, we tried to transfer 4 1MB SIMMs from a IIsi to a mac II and we got the tone indicating that there was a prblem with the memory when we restarted the mac II. details: system 7 80 ns 1MB SIMMS (2 DRAM chips/SIMM) Is there something special about these SIMMS that the mac II cannot handle? thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 8:55:08 CST From: steger@huckfinn.umsl.edu ( Karl Steger - System Admin) Subject: rdist I am looking for the rdist program that was announced here less than two months ago. My copy got destroyed and I need another. What is the name of the bin-hex file? -- Karl Steger Instructional Computing Microcomputer Support Specialist University of MO-St. Louis ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 13:07:58 -0800 From: wurtz@sgi510.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Jeff Wurtz) Subject: Re. Norton 2.0 Problem? I had similar Volume Bitmap and B-tree problems with my Mac IIcx 8/80, System 7.1, Norton (Disk Doctor) 2.0, and DiskFirstAid 7.1 I couldn't get DFA and NDD to both report no problems. My solution was to backup my hard disk with Disk Fit Pro and then run Norton Speed Disk. NSD found a few problems that (I think) neither DFA nor NDD had reported, and then NSD fixed the problems. I proceeded with the optimization without any problems, after which both DFA and NDD reported no problems! Jeff ================ Jeffrey D. Wurtz Local: zeus::wurtz B/157E O/89-10 C/5J2 (408)756-1377 Internet: wurtz@sgi421.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 07:18:59 GMT From: ben@geography.leeds.ac.uk (Ben Fowler) Subject: Regular expression guru, please Would anyone who really understands regular expressions and/or archie care to tell me why I get such a different response to >geog01% archie -r "edit-ii-" as compared with >archie -r "edit.*hqx" I think that the latter misses quite a few matches. Where am I going wrong? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:40:32 PST From: Kee Nethery Subject: remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a) >Is there a way to cycle a Quadra 950 remotely through an ARA session or >over the network. > Yes. There is a LocalTalk device called the PowerSwitch LT that is a power outlet and ADB port controllable through AppleTalk commands. Granted it does not sit on ethernet but you are bound to be able to get a LocalTalk drop into your office. The power outlet on it can switch up to 15 amps. If you are trying to reboot your Quadra and it has hung, you could power it through the PowerSwitch and then cycle power on the outlet to get it back to a know good state. Then use the ADB on command to power on your Quadra. It has a list price of $199 and they were selling it at MacWorld for $99. Maybe you can still get the intro price. Contact them at: Radiant@applelink.apple.com It has other smarts such as the ability to listen for packets coing periodically from a server and if the packets cease during a setable time period, the Powerswitch would automatically power cycle the server. It can also power off unused LaserWriters after a period of inactivity. When a user prints, it will power the Laser back on. While the Laser is off it replies for any Chooser lookups so that all LaserWriters appear in the Chooser even if they are all off. But, for sure it will allow you to power up a Mac via ARA or over the network. Disclaimer: Although I am no longer working at Radiant, I contributed to the development of this baby. Proud parent, Kee Nethery@parc.xerox.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 10:33:22 +0100 From: karl@uz.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie) Subject: Screensaver for two-screen systems (A) >I would also like a screensaver which would blank just the *internal* screen >when all of the action is occurring on the main screen. Does anyone know of >a screensaver with this capabilty? At this point, the best I can do is to >keep the brightness control on the internal screen pretty low. Thanks in >advance for any help. I could write this, if I knew how to blank a screen properly. The source code for public blanket (setting GrayRgn to nil) is of no use. Putting a (black) window on top of everything prevents background processing. Is there anybody out there who's ever written a screensaver and who's willing to share his secret: how do I prevent the finder or programs from drawing onto a blanked screen ? I've asked this a couple of times before, but nobody ever answered so far. Karl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 08:02:35 EST From: DCHARNITSKY@LUKE.dnet.ge.com Subject: SCSI Device Driver Information Hey Folks, I need to write a host driver for a SCSI device ( not specifically on a MAC ). Does anyone have any general info on SCSI, SCSI drivers and / or writing SCSI drivers? Any type of help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond directly to dcharnitsky@luke.dnet.ge.com Thanxs Dan Charnitsky ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:55:56 -0800 From: kcary@pepvax.pepperdine.edu (Kim Cary) Subject: SE-->SE/30 (C) >From having done one myself here, I can add to Brad's comments: For your 700-800 university price, you get a new board, internal frame and a new front for your case, as well as software and manual. If you're going >From a 2 drive SE, you'll have to ditch one of the drives (I'm offering $50 to someone who has a guaranteed working 800 I can put in my brother-in-law's computer). I don't think this kit is still on the price list. However, a campus store manager that has the old part number MAY still be able to come up with a kit. They'll need to have your old frame, front, board & ROMs back, if they get your the upgrade. Several companies in the back of MacWeek still advertise the upgrade at $799. Many SEs were shipped with 120ns memory, so check for -12 or -120 or something like that on the chips, before tossing your old SIMMS. Chips that say -15 or -150 are definitely NG. Kim Cary, GSEP Systems Support, Pepperdine University kcary@pepvax.pepperdine.edu, KCARY@PEPVAX "California Lottery's Keno - 'Better than a ferret in your pants' - but not by much. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 14:40:45 -0500 From: ws15@cornell.edu (your name here) Subject: SE/30 Unreliable HD FD Some time ago there was a discussion of the problems with some of the Hard Drives on the SE/30 sticking. Apple extended the war. and replaced the drives. Ever since receiving my SE/30 (an early one), I have had intermittant problems with the HD Floppy Drive. It has not been hearty. It has difficulty reading disks formated on a variety of other machines. Mostly DD disks formated to DD on DD only machines. Is this a common problem? Has apple replaced the controller chips for these drives? I remember reading about similar problems, but that was when I hardly ever used floppies. Now that I have lent the machine to a friend who is writing their PhD. thesis, this is an important isssue. What can I expect from the repair shop? If apple has not made any 'recalls', what does a repair consist of? Can the shop repair or do they replace the drive and or the controller chips? How much does this cost? Please respond to me directly. If there is a common problem then I will report back and provide any useful information that I can pass along.. Thanks, William Shirley Cornell University ws15@cornell.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 17:45:21 CST From: Graeme Forbes Subject: Search/Replace: use Nisus ---------------------------Original message---------------------------- Graham Allsopp asks about Search/Replace fuctions on the Mac. Graham, you'll be deluged by mail from Nisus users. Like this. Note that Nisus Compact doesn't have the macro facilities, so you really need the full package. In the States you can get it at academic discount for $100. An alternative, also from Nisus Software, is the text-editor Qued/M, which has all Nisus's text manipulation features but none of the document-processing and page-layout stuff - footnotes, multiple columns etc. Grep comes in two varieties in Nisus: PowerSearch and PowerSearch+. PowerSearch is the Mac user-friendly version of Unix GREP, PS+ is basically the Unix utility implemented in a Mac program. Once you've set up your Search/Replace templates you can enter them as commands in a macro. Nisus allows complete freedom of choice for adding and changing keyboard equivalents for menu-selectable items. Thus you can assign your macro a command key. Next time you have to massage a PostScript file, hit the command key equivalent for the macro, count to five, and it's done. Best, Graeme Nisus in the US from the UK: 010-1-619-481-1477 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 18:36:56 GMT From: stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) Subject: Shh conclusions? From the responses I received it seems as if Shhh works great on the bigger powerbooks, but doesn't work at all on the PB100, which is too bad. Thanks to everyone who responded. Stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 93 01:42:23 EST From: utleyc@ucbeh.san.uc.edu Subject: StyleWriter II - II thumbs up! I just replaced my StyleWriter with the StyleWriter II. I am very pleased with my purchase for a number of reasons. - SW II eliminates those nasty sounds the original used to make. Much quieter! - Paper tray takes 100 sheets - Grayscale printing! Still at 300 dpi... - Print Monitor works (for real!). My original never, I mean NEVER worked with the Print Monitor. I contacted many people who tried to explain the thing, to no avail. The SW II background printing option worked right out of the box. - Software allows you to clear the cartridge before printing, from the Print Dialog. - New Help option in the Print Dialog. - Faster! Faster! Faster! I can't say how much but there are three modes now. Best, Normal and Draft. A good way to preserve your ink supply. - Good price! Great product... Apple continues to produce top notch equipment and lower prices. BTW: I am not an Apple employee, I only wish I were ;) ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 09:05:20 -0500 (EST) From: mcguire@utkvx.utk.edu (Michael A. McGuire) Subject: Sys 7.1 on 800K (C) >Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 11:03:54 cdt >From: "Duckenfield,Paul" >Subject: System 7.1 on 800k disks > > Just thought that everyone would like to know that Apple is still >having troubles getting copies of 800k System 7.1 disks to their customers. I >ordered on October 20, 1992. As of today, there are still "problems" with the >production of those disks. Fortunately, I am not displeased with System 7.0, >but it would be nice to be able to move up within four months of a particular >system release. On the day I got 7.1 I ordered a copy of it on 800K disks by calling Apple at the number in my manual. (Yes, I'll confess. I do read documentation.) Only cost was the shipping charge of $3.50. Got them inside of 3 weeks. This all happened several months ago. Michael A. McGuire, :-) MCGUIRE@UTKVX.UTK.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 21:19:01 -0500 From: "Tad Davis" Subject: System 7.1 on 800k > Just thought that everyone would like to know that Apple is still having > troubles getting copies of 800k System 7.1 disks to their customers. I > ordered on October 20, 1992. As of today, there are still "problems" with > the production of those disks. I ordered the 800k version on 12/2/92 and I got it yesterday (1/12/93). By the way, it installed without incident on my SE, and so far nothing has broken. Since I have file sharing turned on, I didn't see much in the way of a memory gain, but having the separate Fonts folder feels much cleaner. I ordered the HD version on 1/6/93 and got it five days later. It installed without incident on my Classic II. Now both machines are running the same System. Apart from the fact that the 800k version has more disks and the Install disk doesn't boot, there was no visible difference in the installation process. (The 800k version DOES have a boot disk with System 6.0.7 and DiskTools 7.1.) Tad Davis davist@a1.relay.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 13:47:17 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Text with layout In Regards to your letter <199301130151.AA02067@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I found a unique use for the "text with layout" feature that saved many > hours of labor. While importing ASCII data files generated by a SUN work- > station, I found all the vector rows to end with an unprintable "square". > Using Teach-text or Word text only, the unprintables contaminated my data. > However, opening the files using "text with layout", Word interprets the > unprintables as carriage returns and delivers a perfectly translated, two > column vector for each file. Thanks MS!! What's wrong with doing a quick search and replace on that character? I've never heard any good about the Text with Layout convertor before this, as well as things about it not being 32-bit clean and using a useless proportional font rather than a mono-spaced font as you would expect for data brought in from a mainframe. Not to mention the fact that it adds another step to opening any text file until you throw it out. :-) A quick tip for Nisus users. You can create a file called Nisus Text Stationery and leave it in the same folder with Nisus. >From then on, whenever you open a plain TEXT file, Nisus will automatically use the Nisus Text Stationery file as a template for the one you're opening. So, my Nisus Text Stationery file is set to Monaco 9 pt text and a very large margin size so I can be sure of seeing everything without weird word wraps. It makes opening text files much more pleasant with Nisus. cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor ------------------------------ Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:06:45 -0500 From: "Tom Scott" Subject: Turbo Gopher questions... ( Turbo Gopher questions... (A) waxman@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil asks: >I am trying to be a good 'Netter and use TurboGopher. Upon launch, >TurboGopher reports "Unable to resolve host name" and does nothing of value >from that point on. I am using VersaTerm's Telnet tool to connect to my >host so I beleive this implies that MacTCP is configured correctly (I am >sure it is a least installed). Any help? Please reply direct. A few suggestions: - Make sure you're using MacTCP 1.1 if you're using System 7.0.x; MacTCP 1.1.1 for System 7.1. I ran into a problem on my PB 170 with the error you describe. I found out I had MacTCP 1.0 --- it worked OK with my terminal emulation program (Comet -- Cornell-developed), but gave me this error when using Fetch or Gopher (Turbo or HyperCard). - Try replacing and reconfiguring MacTCP. A corrupted file could possibly cause this type of a problem. - Check with your central MIS group to see if your nameservers are working properly (or whoever is in charge of maintaining your name- servers). If the nameserver tables are messed up, you'll lose most of your internet connectivity. - Check your routers that connect you to the nameservers. For the same reason as the previous scenario, if you can't get to your nameserver, you've lost your connectivity. I had a problem like this on Tuesday. It gave me a slightly different message, but it still had to do with inability to resolve names. I contacted CIT (Cornell Information Technologies - our central MIS group), and they tracked it down to a failing router. Hope this points you in the right direction! :-) Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853 ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************