11-Feb-93 2:17:52-GMT,47321;000000000001 Return-Path: Received: from SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU by CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA04633; Wed, 10 Feb 93 18:17:46 PST Full-Name: Info-Mac Moderator Received: by SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU (4.1/inc-1.0) id AA15316; Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:27:53 PST Message-Id: <9302110127.AA15316@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:27:47 PST From: The Moderators Reply-To: Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #33 To: info-mac-list@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU Info-Mac Digest Wed, 10 Feb 93 Volume 11 : Issue 33 Today's Topics: (Q) How to use ghostscript? (R) Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!) 3d Buttons (Greg's Buttons vs. NewLook) American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder Anchored files on a Hard Drive Banyan-Vines best mail solution (Q) CD-ROM Mailing list Centris 610 - no software power off? computers and law Converting PICTs to QT Movies Crippled '040 (C) DeskPaint & DeskDraw - Opinions Wanted DS9 Sounds: door and commercial break (Q) Excel Tax Forms (Q) FileMaker and lowerCase x file sharing and guest access FOCUS Enhancements (Q) Font Folder, 7.1, system heap? FPUs on new Centris machines Heap-related crashes help IMAGE CONVERSION Info-Mac Digest V11 #31 Kid's Handwriting Font (Q) LC III LC upgrade options Mac/DOS Color Printer (Q) MathType problem Menu slowdown Modifying HDSC Setup to Format Any Hard Disk MYSTERY - PPCToolbox Socket NewLook 1.3 (R) Noice of APS drives & quality of APS and MacLand (is good) Printing problems w/Word 5.0 Printing to a parallel printer (Q) program to undelete SoftPC Style Checkers Stylewriter Cartridges...what now? SYQUESTS CARDRIDGES sys 7.1 sharing setup problem (Suggestion) Sys 7.1 tune-up: No good news for PB100 owners :-{ TeachText 7.1.2---where? VT-330 Emulation White Knight & Zmodem (R) 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: 9 Feb 1993 23:11:08 -0800 From: joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu (John Kim) Subject: (Q) How to use ghostscript? I downloaded the runtime (the compiled) version of GhostScript. Bu tI have no clue as to how I can use it. I maybe missing some point or help info; but I can't figure out myself. Could a kind soul, tell me how? Thank you. (Please email me.) John -- Joung-woo John Kim joungwoo@mensa.usc.edu Computer Science Dept. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:44:24 -0500 From: Robert Scott Lillard Subject: (R) Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!) Hello net heads: Let me first say that I am coating my butt (sorry about the 4 letter word) with asbestos in preparation for the flames that i usually receive when I add my two cents on this topic. While as recently pointed out it may not be such a great idea to attempt to format HD as DD because of the oxide differences - coercivity arguements aside (I am sure some-one will post some flame about 'how many oersteds this or that mag. oxide on this or that brand HD has') DD discs can be formatted as HD fairly reliably. I have been doing so on my PS-2 (sorry for the dirty word) for at the very least 5 years (DOS on the PS-2 formats all discs hole present or not as 1.4) and on my LC (with the aid of a store bought 'Disc Hole Punch') for 2 years with out any notable problems. While it hasn't save me a "Bazillion" dollars, it has saved enough for a couple of cases of Sam Adams. IMHO - rsl PS flames may be sent directly to: Scott Lillard rslill@virginia.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:01 GMT From: gdl1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.D. Landweber) Subject: 3d Buttons (Greg's Buttons vs. NewLook) A recent post on the info-mac-digest says (I paraphrase): New Look may not have as many feature as Greg's Buttons but it's much more stable. Somehow I do not believe in the validity of such a statement about a program (New Look) that has released three separate versions (original + 2 bug fixes) within one month. Also, in the documentation, the author of New Look lists about a half dozen beta testers. Greg's Buttons 2.4, which was released earlier this week, is the most stable version yet, and it was beta tested by over 100 registered users for a period of four weeks. Yes, Greg's Buttons does conflict with a number of applications. In most of these cases, it is NOT the fault of Greg's Buttons, but rather the fault of an application that does not follow the guidelines set down in Inside Macintosh. If you encounter any of these problems, just turn off the options one-by-one until you find the offending feature, and then all should be well. I should also note that since I released Greg's Button 2.0 in September, I have only had ONE bug report about the buttons themselves. So, if you are only interested in 3d color buttons, Greg's Buttons is one of the most stable control panels around. Finally, anybody interested in enhancing the user interface on a color Mac should download ALL the relevant programs (New Look, Greg's Buttons, DoubleScroll, etc.) and try them out. Don't judge a program by the hype; judge it based on what it does and how well it works on YOUR system. Thank you for enduring my flame. -- Greg "Buttons" Landweber gdl1000@cus.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 23:25:52 GMT From: warn@newton.emba.uvm.edu (Patrick D Warn) Subject: American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder In digest <9302100026.AA25399@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: >Right, it's the lazy programmers syndrome. Any app that throws stuff in >the system folder needlessly you can probably be suspicous that it was >written by pee-cee programmers. In the new College/Professional edition you can put the files anywhere... -- Wondering what it all means, Pat ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 11:36:20 PDT From: antaki@outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Paul Antaki) Subject: Anchored files on a Hard Drive Does anyone know what an anchored file is? All I know is that it is a file that must remain at the same physical location on a hard drive. But why and how does a file become anchored? Paul ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:47:09 -0500 From: "Tom Wilson" (Tom Wilson) Subject: Banyan-Vines My engineering department has "standardized" on IBM clones as their machine of choice and they are now using Banyan-Vines (spelling?) for telecommunications. I am, however, a fanatical Macintosh lover who will probably never go back to those "DOS-asters". I have been told that there will be an attempt to bring Banyan-Vines to my office (oh, goody!) My problem is, I don't know beans about Banyan-Vines and I have been unable to locate any literature about it. The guy in our engineering department who is implimenting this system said "Hmmm - never thought about usin' one of them sissy machines! Yuk, yuk!" Does anybody know if Banyan-Vines is compatible with anything else and do you need any special software? Is there a MAC user out there who is currently using it? "Please don't let me walk away to the sound of my own footsteps!" [Unknown] Tom Wilson Voice: (615) 574-3927 Oak Ridge National Laboratory FAX: (615) 576-7926 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 23:21:04 -0500 From: brg@dgate.org (Brian Gaeke) Subject: best mail solution (Q) I am about to get connected to a dialup Internet service that uses SLIP. What do I need to do to be able to receive my mail? They use SMTP (sendmail), but they don't really support POP, so I am wondering if Eudora would work for my purposes. I also need to be able to run (not necessarily concurrently) ftp, telnet, finger, talk, etc. Brian Gaeke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:36:39 +0100 From: zabin@MPIMG-Berlin-Dahlem.MPG.DE Subject: CD-ROM Mailing list Announcement: A new mailing list has been set up to deal with topics related to publication (on all platforms) of CD-ROM materials. To subscribe send the message "SUBSCRIBE CDPub" to Mail-Server@knex.via.mind.ORG. I did not set up this list, but wanted to increase the macintosh participation on it by posting this note here. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 1993 07:04:29 GMT From: danlau@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Daniel Lau) Subject: Centris 610 - no software power off? Hi all, Just saw the new Centris 610 at the AppleCenter in Perth (its Feb 10 already in this part of the world) and played around with it a little. Didn't have much time to examine the machine in detail, the one thing I did surprised me considerably... when Shutdown is selected from Finder, the screen turns black and the old dialog box with 'You may now switch off your Macintosh safely' with a 'Restart' button on the right appears. A small thing perhaps, but it struck me as being positively archaic in such a businesslike machine. dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 16:59:55 +0100 From: Domont@deso.ucl.ac.be (domont) Subject: computers and law I am looking for informations about the use of computers in relation with law and about computer's law. Is there a discussion list dedicated to these subjects on the net? Are there people who use Macintoshes in relation with law (expert systems...) reading the digest? FR. Domont Centre de Droit de la consommation Universite Catholique de Louvain Domont@deso.ucl.ac.be ------------------------------ Date: Tuesday, 9 Feb 1993 23:07:15 EST From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" Subject: Converting PICTs to QT Movies I asked recently about a program to convert PICTs to QT movies. Brian Gaeke offered the following suggestion: > You can try ConvertToMovie (on the QT dev. cd I believe.) It worked like a charm! Thanks, Brian. (By the way, Brian is correct, ConvertToMovie is on the Developer QT CD). Jeffrey Fritz, jfritz@wvnvm.wvnet.edu West Virginia University ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 13:44:47 -0500 From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Brian Hughes) Subject: Crippled '040 (C) Arif Shaikh writes: >With all this bickering about apple using crippled '040 in thier new >line of MAc's, I would like to add my two cents. First of all, I >completely disagree with Alan Hewat about apple using the cripp led >'040s as a marketing ploy. As Mr. Donald pointed out, in a earlier >issue of info-mac, the LC040s are '040s with failed FPUs. Being an >electrical engineer who has done circuit designs for intergrated chips, >I can tell you that failed chips is big overhead in the production >process. Therefore, if it is possibl e to recover any of the chips we >will. And that is also why Intel with the 486 SX and Motorola with the >LC040 are trying to sell their chips as a lower version. This is great >for Apple and PC builders because they can get fast chip for a lot less. >And it does add up in the long run....... This would be fine, except for one small thing: Motorola is not using failed '040s as LC040s. The LC040 is a totally redesigned chip that was buit from the ground up withouth the FPU hardware. It's not disabled, it's not failed, it just isn't there. This is the main reason why the chip costs so much less, and why it has a smaller overall die size than the full '040. Of course the good thing is that Motorolo mounted these chips on the same pin set that the full '040 uses which allows you to just pop out an LC040 and pop in a full '040 and have all of the FPU stuff with no hassles. This is what the "upgrade" to full '040 for the Centris 610 and the 4/80 Centris 650 is. -Hades ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 93 06:42:23 GMT From: dmeyers@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers) Subject: DeskPaint & DeskDraw - Opinions Wanted In digest <9302100026.AA25399@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes: > I just received a mailing from Zedcor offering their programs DeskPaint & >DeskDraw for $29.95. According to their mailing the retail for these programs I received this same offer. And I'm considering it. What I'd like to ask of whomever might be able to help us out, is whether the current version of Deskpaint still has that excellent Browse facility that an ancient copy I worked with once had. It allowed you to open a paint file, and see all the files within that folder as a sort of "slide show". This was enormously useful for searching through clip art. If the newest version retains this ability, and, perhaps, comes as a real application instead of as a desk accessory, I think I will send them some money... Thank you in advance for any comments. --David -- -- -- -- David S. Meyers (dmeyers@math.gatech.edu) -- -- -- When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will &*kh*&n*&b&mk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 22:12:09 EST From: "Paul D. Bain" Subject: DS9 Sounds: door and commercial break (Q) Could someone please upload a quality version (22 kHZ), in system 7 format, of two sounds from Deep Space Nine. I have received requests for two sounds in this format: (1) the door and (2) the music right before a commercial break. Thanks in advance. These sounds will subsequently be uploaded to America Online, where a number of people will then download them. Sincerely, Paul D. Bain Gainesville, Florida ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 22:41:16 EST From: leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Prof. L.G. Leduc) Subject: Excel Tax Forms (Q) Hello netters, Does anyone know if Icicle Computer Company still exists? It is (was) a Canadian company specializing in preparing Excel 3.0 Tax Forms. I ordered their templates last year and I was pleased with the ease of use. However, this year, I can't reach them by telephone. It seems to be disconnected. The info on last year's diskette is: Icicle Computer Box 20093, Rideau East P.O. Ottawa, Ontario K1N 9N5 (613) 747-7561 Any help would be appreciated. Leo G. Leduc leo@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 8:42:22 EST From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" Subject: FileMaker and lowerCase x Dear net land.. this is a fowarded message from someone I work with. I thought it was unusual enough to send out to the net world. I think it is an init conflict, but I can't test the idea. If anyone out there has seen this before, let me know. Received: from pica.army.mil by hel4.HEL4.BRL.MIL id aa24863; 29 Jan 93 13:01 EST Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:55:08 EST From: Joe Bascone To: tkelley@hel4.brl.mil Subject: [To: jbascone: [To: tkelly: Broken Macintosh Toys]] Message-ID: <9301291355.aa13834@COR3.PICA.ARMY.MIL> ----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:53:55 EST From: Joe Bascone To: jbascone@PICA.ARMY.MIL Subject: [To: tkelly: Broken Macintosh Toys] Message-ID: <9301291353.aa13347@COR3.PICA.ARMY.MIL> ----- Forwarded message # 1: Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 9:41:44 EST From: Joe Bascone To: tkelly@held.brl.mil Subject: Broken Macintosh Toys Troy In an attempt to move out of the "stone age" of DOS and into the Renaissance of MacintUsh computing, I began playing with the mighty Mac. My superiors here at HRED Field Element have even gone so far as to attempt the creation of data bases using such wonders as File Maker Pro version 1.0V2. We've even gone so far as to take the old pile of newspapers, sales coupons, circulars and other superfluous material that we didn't want blowing around the office out from under the machine. Yet, we have found that our progress out of the Dark Ages of Dos is being hampered by one small problem. One day my superior (Mr. Robert Spine) was diligently working at creating a Data Base for our office when to his dismay, he found that the letter "x" would not type on the screen. It seems that in the File Maker Pro application (Version 1.0v2) the small letter x does not type on the screen. Try as you might, it will not show. Instead you can type a capital X, but this tends to spoil the asthetics of the document. Such words as eXcuse, eXtend, eXigence, eXenterate and eXhaust as eXempli gratia tend to ruin the look and flow of a written statement. So the question remains; why is this so. Until an answer is found I suppose we must limp on with our broken macintUsh toy, forward out of the medieval realm of DOS into the "New Age" of Mac. Either this or just unplug it and put it back on top of those old newspapers I've been meaning to tie up. Joe. ----- End of forwarded messages ----- End of forwarded messages ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 15:36:34 +0100 From: karl@uz.kuleuven.ac.be (Karl Pottie) Subject: file sharing and guest access If somebody is logged on as a guest to my public folder, I can't determine who that person is. Is there any shareware program which allows me to trace the guest (i.e. which mac is logged into my mac)? Karl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 09:59:35 -0800 From: Irv Wiswall Subject: FOCUS Enhancements (Q) I've used LocalTalk connectors and a couple of ethernet cards from FOCUS, and while our experience is limited to small numbers of these devices over only a couple of months, so far we've been pretty happy. Their prices are great. For example their LocalTalk connectors are 10 for $99.99. Educational discount price is even less. OK, so the question is, does anyone have any experience with FOCUS's LocalTalk star controller? It has 16 ports, is called the TurboStar and only costs $449.99. Educational discount is $399.99. If anyone does have experience with it, I'd be interested in how it compares with Farallon's Star Controller. Irv Wiswall | irvw@linfield.edu Director of College Computing | 503 472 4121 Linfield College | McMinnville OR 97128 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 08:54:01 -0500 From: "Tad Davis" Subject: Font Folder, 7.1, system heap? While investigating another problem, I noticed something that puzzled me. If I create a document with a sample of all the fonts in my system, the system grabs up gobs of RAM. When the document is closed and I quit the application, the swollen heap remains. Circumstances: I'm running 7.1 on a Classic II and an SE (same behavior on both, with two different word processors). I have 28 TrueType fonts in the Fonts folder, and no other fonts (other than the handful in the System file itself) or font utilities. I'm also running Disinfectant, DeskWriter background printing, and Moire (latest versions in all cases). I have VM turned on for the C2, but I doubt that's the problem, because the same thing appears with VM turned off. And it appears with extensions disabled as well, so I doubt it's any of those. All things considered, my system is pretty much pared-down and clean. The TrueType fonts are mostly Apple's own, though I have seven Bitstream TT fonts as well. Shouldn't the system free up RAM for fonts that aren't being used? Is it the responsibility of the application to do something when it quits? Is it possible I've found a subtle incompatibility between these two applications and the 7.1 Fonts folder? Does Suitcase handle this situation better? Is it possible that the system file on two different machines, installed on two different dates from two different sets of original disks, could have been corrupted in the same way by one of those extensions? Or is this a known "feature" of System 7.1? Tad Davis davist@a1.relay.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 07:40:35 PST From: Tim Castle Subject: FPUs on new Centris machines There has been a lot said over the past couple of weeks about the new Centris machines, announced earlier in Tokyo, primarily about the '040LC's and their lack of FPUs. I sent a posting which passed along the fact (as given by an Apple system engineer) that the '040LC chips are not standard '040RC chips with 'failed FPUs, but chips redesigned and manufactured without the FPUs by Motorola. The question remains, can we add FPUs to the Centris machines? Is there a socket on the logic boards? The answer is, no. In order to get the FPU, you've got to trade in your '040LC for an '040RC -- yes, Apple will have a deal on the upgrade. Their pinout is the same, and the only difference is that the RC has the massive heat sink on it, where the LC has a much smaller heat sink. But you can pop out the LC and pop in an RC. The problem comes on the Centris 610 that because of the design of the interior of the machine, the heat sink for the '040RC runs into the space where you can add in a single 7-inch NuBus card! So until someone comes out with a heat sink for the '040RC that is shaped differently, you're not going to be able to put an RC into a Centris 610 if you've got a NuBus card in it. There is, however, room inside the Centris 650 for the RC to fit. Tim Castle castlet@eltsac.mtv.gsc.gte.com End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:40:51 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Heap-related crashes > My system at home is a Plus, 4megs RAM, Apple 20meg serial HD, running > system 6.0.8. I'm using ATM and a handful of other inits, all of which > have been in use for some time and caused no problems.(ATM is, however, > a recent upgrade to 3.0.). There are a *lot* of fonts loaded, both PS > and TT. I'm printing to an HP Deskwriter, using HP's driver version 3.1. > > I created a very fancy (many fonts and manipulations) Canvas 2.1 document > that looked fine on screen, and sent it to the printer. The computer hung up > for a long time, then crashed with the scary system error message: > > Stack Collision With Heap > The Heap is the RAM put aside for the System files called System Heap and the Stack is the Application Stack, which is RAM put aside for the Application. The heap is set in the boot blocks and the original utilities that fixed this problem took the approach of changing the boot blocks. More recent utilities that fix this add some RAM to the heap at start up time. HeapTool is a cdev that does this. You can change how much heap is allocated through the control panel. If you can't get HeapTool from Sumex, send me a note and I'll upload a copy. > > Well, a stack collision with heap error is one in which the system stack (an > area of memory where variables are temporarily stored and then passed to other > functions/procedures) grows too large and starts overwriting the heap (another > area of memory that I'm not sure what it's used for, but Inside Mac has a lot > to say about it :) - I think it is slack space from which the system can reque > memory blocks to expand, but I'm just not sure). Why you hard drive wouldn't > boot will depend on what your system decided to do when memory got screwed. > It's tough to say. If the hard drive got written to, it probably was corrupte I have not seen this, but I have no evidence that it can't happen. > Generally, this error comes at safer (?) times, and you just get shelled out t > the finder. Don't get me wrong. This is an infrequent error, Actually, most Macs running System 6.0.x with extra fonts, inits and cdevs (which is most Macs I run into) have a heap problem. If you are running System 6.0.x, you can go to the Apple menu and open the first menu item "About the Finder". You will see a bar showing how much RAM is being used. The bar has a black area and a gray area. The gray area should be 25% of the total area. If this is the case, you need HeapTool. > but any error > that occurs during a write can spell big trouble (as we all know). If you > want a more stable OS, try A/UX with its wonderful true multitasking. > If you're running system 6, you can try upping the memory alloted to the finde > (and system). Under system 7, this is supposed to be done automatically > (and transparently), but doesn't always happen in time . > Correct, Multifinder and System 7 adjust HEAP dynamically. I have this hypothesis that adding a little RAM to the heap with HeapTool would not hurt and may even help even if you are using System 7. Anyone care to comment? > In short, you shouldn't have to reinstall everything after one of this kind of > error. I guess it was just your number coming up this time.... Correct. > Stack collision with heap means in layman's terms that you didn't have enough > memory to do everything (which sounds like a lot) you were trying to do. Try > unloading as many of the fonts as possible -- if you're running System 6 and > have MultiFinder on, turn it off. Nope. BTW- I think most people have problems with memory under System 7 or Multifinder is because they do not allocate enough RAM to the application. For example, if you have a 4 meg RAM machine using system 6.0.x an no Multifinder, the whole 4 megs is available to the application, while with multifinder or Sys 7, the RAM allocated to the application is set by selecting the application's icon and then File- Get Info. If this setting is 1700 K, that's all the application gets, even if you have 4 meg available. If the app needs more RAM, you get an error message which people think can only be solved by turning off multifinder or not using System 7. > Restart and rebuild the desktop (this worked > for someone I helped last week who had the same problem). Probably coincidental, but there is no reason not to try it. > If you're running > System 7, you can only unload the fonts and rebuild the desktop While loading fonts is technically a cause of the problem, the real problem is that your System is not adjusting adequately to the fonts you have installed. Comments, questions, corrections, flames? Please send them.-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:07:23 GMT From: "Martin Achilli, Milan, Italy" Subject: help My name is Martin Achilli, user ACHILLM on bitnet node IMIHSRA, I am trying to download some programs by connecting to MACSERVE at IRLEARN. The problem is, my machine is an IBM mainframe, the sequence I must use to get files to my macintosh are: to connect to our mainframe using a 3270 emulation program (by IBM) on an IBM p c; to copy the files from the mainframe to the local hard-disk by using receive; copy the files to a diskette from the IBM pc; put the diskette into the Mac and use Apple file exchange to copy the files ont o the Mac hard disk; use compact pro (which I have) to un-binhex the files. These steps don't work (I have tried on two files, one big and one small) what options must I give the receive command on the Ibm Pc (ASCII, CRLF) ? what translator must I use with Apple File Exchange ? I have tried the 4 combinations of flags for the receive command and I have tri ed using the text translator and the standard translator on Afe... what am I doing wrong ?? thank you in advance Martin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:55:13 -0500 From: Metin Inci Subject: IMAGE CONVERSION I have image file in TIF and PICT formats in mac ( Radar data). I transferred this image from an image processing software called ERDAS in IBM to mac and opened Photoshop in mac. I would like to convert this image values to digital values so that I can see each image pixel in numbers or intensity values. In other way, I would like to see my image file in digital values form or text file so that I can input this file to another program that accepts text file that has digital numbers. Can anybody explain or HELP me about conversion of image (TIF or PICT in mac) to a format that we can see each pixel (in image file) in the form of digital numbers (not binary I can convert to binary form- using photoshop but I do not need binary)? E-MAIL: METINCI@CAEN.ENGIN.UMICH.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 20:55:04 -0600 From: williw1@mail.auburn.edu (Wade Williams) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #31 > Is it possible to format a High Density diskette as 800k with a >SuperDrive? I can't seem to do it. > > I'm using a Mac II, with SuperDrive, system 7.0, AccessPC. HD disks should NEVER be formatted as anything but HD. That's why you don't get a choice. Wade Williams Academic Computing Services Auburn University williw1@mail.auburn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 05:52:30 -0500 From: "Keith E Gatling" Subject: Kid's Handwriting Font (Q) Having just brought home a brand new tiny human last week, I was wondering if anyone out there knew of a font (preferably PS) that looked like kids' handwriting. Thanks! keg * kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu I've got plenty of opinions. Just ask my wife! * ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 21:32:56 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin White Subject: LC III I saw speed comparisons in the issue for some of Apple's new machines, but I didn't see one of the LCIII. Does anyone know how the LCIII performs relative to Apple's other products. I'm trying to decide if the upgrade >From my LC is worth the $600. Thanks, Ben White bwhite@pennsy.med.jhu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:16:28 EST From: stngiam@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: LC upgrade options Well, with the LC -> LC III upgrade announced, does anyone have any comments on what would be the advantages and disadvantages of getting Apple's upgrade versus a third party accelerator? The LC III upgrade raises the memory limit to 32 Mb compared to the former 10 Mb, but that doesn't seem to be a big problem for me. I'm looking more for a speed upgrade, in particular speeding up a Personal Laserwriter LS (the non-postscript printer which doesn't have a CPU of it's own, so requires the LC to do all its processing). Shih Tung Chem E Best l'il Tech School on the Charles ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:38:45 EST From: "Allan M. Bloom" Subject: Mac/DOS Color Printer (Q) Folks, my boss has sent me on what may well be a fruitless quest. He'd like a color printer in the $1K price range that can be used by Mac's and PC's at the same time. He came back from a demo drooling over the HP DeskWriter 550C, not understanding that its cross platform support is of the form "You can buy one for a Mac, or you can buy one for a PC, but not both at the same time." His request is further complicated by the fact that our DOS pukes (no offense) aren't networked yet, and progress in that direction is not real apparent. I envision some sort of printer that has a parallel port to hook to his DOS box and a localtalk port -- and enough intelligence to not get them confused. Is there any such beast? Al Bloom, Virginia Tech ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 9:29 BST From: RICHARD LIM Subject: MathType problem I'd like to hear from people who use Design Science's MathType 3.0 in conjunction with Microsoft Word 5.0. We get this weird problem on our machines: insert an equation in Word, and type "l-subscript-zero" in the MathType window which appears (the l is the lower-case curly L which is found in the MTExtra font; the zero is Palatino 7 say). When you close the window which should cause the object to be slotted into the Word document, MathType crashes with a division by zero error (Type 4). Indeed, it seems that any MTExtra character followed by a subscript (but not a superscript) causes this error. There are plodding workarounds like manually typing in the combination of characters that you want, but I'd like to know if it's just our setup that needs fixing or if others can reproduce this crash. And if you have, do you also have a cure? My guess is that it's related to the TrueType version of MTExtra, but I don't have time to pursue this further right now... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 18:39:52 -0600 From: mlbizer@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Marc Bizer) Subject: Menu slowdown Dear lovers of INITs and CDEVs, While I was running my PB 170 off battery power today (at 16 MHz) the delay between clicking on a menu and its actually being displayed was quite noticeable (I'd say about 1/3 of a second or so); booting with extensions off made it go away. The delay is also noticeable when running at 25 MHz. Now Utilities seems to contribute to this to a great extent. I also use MICN, TypeIt4Me... Have you noticed this too? I guess that having the command-key equivalents is worth it. Yours truly, Marc Bizer ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 17:06:23 -0800 From: "Ron Wong, SCO DevRel, x7128" Subject: Modifying HDSC Setup to Format Any Hard Disk Formatting "Any" Hard Disk with Apple's HDSC Setup =================================================== Symptom: Apple HDSC Setup says it can't find the disk that you want to format but other SCSI utilities (SCSI Probe, Disk First Aid, etc.) are able to find the disk Diagnosis: HDSC Setup contains a list of hard disk names that it officially supports Solution: prevent the name checking by using ResEdit to modify HDSC Setup Steps: (use a copy of HDSC Setup!!!) 1. Start ResEdit and open the copy of HDSC Setup 2. Open the Code Resource named "%A5Init" 3. Search in the ASCII section for the string "8 SEAGATE" 4. In the HEX-Section, change the code for the "8" in the ASCII string you found to "00" 5. Save the changed version of HDSC Setup Thanks to: Dominik Ulmer (dominik@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de) Ephraim Vishniac (ephraim@think.com) who provided the original information in a previous posting. Ron Wong The Santa Cruz Operation 408-427-7128 Net & Comm Segment Mgr E-mail: ...uunet!sco!ronaldw ronaldw@sco.COM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:38:37 MST From: Bob_Bolt@itc.educ.ualberta.ca (Bob Bolt) Subject: MYSTERY - PPCToolbox Socket Subject: MYSTERY - PPCToolbox Socket I was prowling around our network with InterPoll recently and came across something I have never heard of. Some of our System 7 Macs are registering a socket called PPCToolbox. Most of our Macs don't show this thing but those that do have nothing in common - different zones, model and user ability. It is not installed by an INIT (I disabled them and it's still there) so I assume it is in the System file. Disinfectant does not report a virus. Does anyone know what this thingy is and/or how it got there? Bob Bolt Instructional Technology Centre University of Alberta Bob_Bolt@itc.educ.ualberta.ca [This occurs when you have "Program Linking" turned on in the Sharing Setup control panel. -Bill] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:21:44 -0800 From: Jack Repenning Subject: NewLook 1.3 (R) In Info-Mac 11/32, Tony Huang writes: > This is the lastest version of NewLook .... It doesn't have as many > features as Greg's Button, but it's much more stable. This seems to be the third version released on the net in a couple weeks. If "stable" means "unchanging," that hardly qualifies! If it means "it doesn't crash," GB is "stable" enough for me (I can't recall it ever crashing anything). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:27:20 EST From: Pete Tamas Subject: Noice of APS drives & quality of APS and MacLand (is good) > From: John Eickerman > Subject: APS External Drives > > I have been reading the latest MacWorld (3/93) and I noticed that the APS > drives that they tested were rather noisy? It wasn't just one drive, but > all of them were in the 45 dB range, some more, some less. I was looking > at buying an APS external Quantum 170, and I work in a pretty quiet room. > My IIsi is also pretty quiet too. I am just wondering if any of you out > there with APS drives, find them annoying? I noticed that the MacLand > drives are in the 33 dB range, much quieter, and they are a tad cheaper. > Any thoughts on MacLand drives? > I have used and have been satisfied by both vendors. My APS Maxtor 120 does have a fan you can hear a few feet away, but it is not an annoying sound. (To me). You should be satisfied by MacLand's quality (don't know about the noice of their HDs, though, just that I'm a happy customer).-Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 17:20:58 -0500 (EST) From: COLMENARES@rhoda.fordham.edu (VAX Academic Support) Subject: Printing problems w/Word 5.0 Help! We are having problems with users who print certain Word files. The system setup is as follows: Mac IIsi System 7.0.1 Word 5.0 (installed and launched from the workstation) Laserwriter IIf (networked) FileGuard 2.7.4 For some reason, when the New York font is chosen, rather than generate the expected output, we receive the following error (on the hardcopy): Postscript Exception: [ Error: invalidfont; Offending Command: show] Any suggestions as to what may be wrong? Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University colmenares@fordmrh1.bitnet / colmenares@rhoda.fordham.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:07:20 -0500 From: rreeves@acs.bu.edu (Robert Reeves) Subject: Printing to a parallel printer (Q) Greetings 'net! As the proud (?) owner of an Epson FX printer, I now have the joy of trying to make it work. Naturally, I've down-loaded the proper driver from the good folks at the good folkes at sumex-aim, but now the problem is getting a serial->parallel converter. MacWorld (Dec 92) had a quick mention of the prob/solution and mentioned 2 products PowerPrint from GDT and Grappler from OrangeMicro. Any idea on what these things cost/perform and where I could get it? With the new StyleWriters I don't think paying large sums of $$ would be a very prudent idea, I mean this is only a 9pin printer.... Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated! Robert Reeves rreeves@bu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 23:28:55 EST From: Christos Giogas Subject: program to undelete This is my first attempt to post on the net so forgive me if this is posted incorrectly. I am looking for a shareware of freeware program which UNDELETEs files. My friend (running system 7) accidently deleted some files on his computer. I have have the early version of Norton Utilites (and only running system 6) but it will not run on system 7. If there is such a program, I would be very grateful for any info. Please send e-mail directley to cg27@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:35:45 PST From: Eric_L._Pugh.ES_AE@xerox.com Subject: SoftPC The company that makes SoftPC has recently updated the products. The products called Entry-Level SoftPC 2.5, Universal SoftPC 2.5, and SoftAT 2.5 are being replaced by Universal SoftPC 3.0 which now has EGA support, SoftPC Professional 3.0 which handles 80286 protected mode, VGA graphics, and 16MB extended memory emulation, and SoftPC Windows which includes Windows 3.1. Various upgrade paths are available. /Eric ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:52 CST From: Subject: Style Checkers I'm looking for recommendations/advice/criticisms on style checkers, particularly Grammatik Mac version 5. I'd like to know what those of you who have used Grammatik Mac or something similar think about the usefulness of this kind of program. On Grammatik Mac, I'd like to find out: (a) is it system 7 compatible (b) how much space does it take up on the hard drive (c) what is/are the source(s) for the rules (e. g. Chicago Manual of Style) (d) does it work with WordPerfect 2.1 automatically, or do you have to cut and paste or save as plain text? Thanks for the help. Steve Waechter swaechter@utmem2 (bitnet) swaechter@utmem2.utmem.edu (internet) PS--any comments on Webster's Reference Dictionary for the Mac would also be appreciated. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 19:46:46 EST From: "Dieder B." Subject: Stylewriter Cartridges...what now? Okay...I have a bunch o' dead cartridges...some with bad nozzles (see tidbits for detail), others are just plain dead. What now? I'd rather not throw them away, but as I can't think of anything else to do...I don't have much option. So...any ideas? Surely somebody has a use for them? Can't even be easily recycled so far as I can tell. Suggestions? D. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:58:36 -0500 From: Metin Inci Subject: SYQUESTS CARDRIDGES Hello again, I have A REMOVABL 88Mb syquest drive for mac. I have also 88Mb IBM-formatted syquest cardrige. using AccesPC I could not load my syquest removable in mac. Normally I have no problem loading Syquest removable with mac formatted cardridge. I copied big imagefiles from IBM using same mac syquest drive with IBM formatted cardridge. When I brought this same removable to mac with same IBM< cardridge(88Mb), I can't see any removable. Is there any way to do that or any software to load IBM cardridge? Thank you for your help in advance. HOTLINE COULD NOT HELP. Please help.. APPRECIATED FOR ANY HELP. =========== e-mail:metinci@caen.engin.umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 18:17:11 PST From: Josh Berman Subject: sys 7.1 sharing setup problem (Suggestion) Gordon Byron said: >I have set up a IICX running 7.1. When I go to sharing setup and put >in my username (admin) and password that's ok As soon as I try to turn >file sharing on the machine freezes up. Anyone else had this >happen..is there something I should know? I had this happen yesterday to my IIsi running 7.0 (tuned). I eventually had to boot up on floppy, delete the finder, the system, and everything else related to file sharing. Then I re-installed the system _AND_ the tune-up... It turns out that Tune-Up 1.1.1 has a "new" (compared to my 1.5 yr. old system disks) File Sharing Extension on it, and I guess that the old File Sharing Extension does not work with tuned 7.0. Just my $0.02 Josh Josh Berman jberman@jarthur.claremont.edu (909) 621-8555 x4264 Platt Campus Center; HMC Claremont, CA 91711 ------------------------------ Date: 10 Feb 1993 02:55:52 GMT From: victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (V Menayang) Subject: Sys 7.1 tune-up: No good news for PB100 owners :-{ When I bought my PowerBook 100 there was a rumor that Apple is going to include in Sys 7.1 a fix for high-speed serial communication. Well, it didn't. Now I heard that Apple will include a fix for the serial port bug in the Sys 7.1 tuner, BUT that fix does not apply to powerbooks. Is there really a bug, or is it just that the PB100 cannot support a DTE speed above 19,200bps at its serial/printer port? -victor -- Victor Menayang victor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 00:50:30 PST From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: TeachText 7.1.2---where? My mistake--the QT 1.5 disk indeed contains the 7.0 version of TeachText. It has the 7.1.2 version of *Scrapbook*. Please accept my sincerest apologies for sending you on a wild goose chase! Lacking a QuickTime-aware TeachText, may I suggest the Wild Magic CDEV? ftp.apple.com:~ftp/dts/mac/quicktime/qt.1.0.stuff/wild-magic.hqx (yes, it does work with QT 1.5) -=EPS=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:26:14 EST From: David.S.Allan@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: VT-330 Emulation Hi, net-friends. Is a terminal program supporting VT-330 emulation (or higher) available for the Mac? Please respond directly to me. I'll summarize or respond directly to other inquiries if there is interest. David_S_Allan@um.cc.umich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:27:55 -0800 From: Jack Repenning Subject: White Knight & Zmodem (R) I've noticed the apparent slow-down of WK in background as well. I can't explain it, but I imagine the slow recovery is simply because the indicated efficiency is averaged over the whole transfer: the slow period continues to drag down the computed average performance even when it's over. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 21:29:06 -0600 From: williw1@mail.auburn.edu (Wade Williams) >Why does my Mac SE return 1001 to the Gestal call with >gestaltQuickdrawFeatures as the selector? That last 1 (bit 0, >gestaltHasColor) means it's got Color QuickDraw, but it doesn't! >In fact, if I call GetNewCWindow on that Mac I get an >Unimplemented Trap bomb. Ahhh...but yes it does. It has "Classic" Color QuickDraw which has been available on *all* Macs. It gives 3-bit (8) planar color. The color QuickDraw you're thinking of (that introduced with the Mac II) would return 0x100. >By the way, is this the right way to make an application >compatible with both versions of QuickDraw, color and b/w? That >is, to check for CQD and then either call GetNewWindow or >GetNewCWindow? Yes. However, remember that Gestalt was introduced in 6.0.4, so you'll want to check for that. However, THINK C 5.0 contains glue code to make Gestalt calls work in versions previous to 6.0.4. It just calls pre-Gestalt traps for you and does the "translation." Hope this helps. Wade Williams Academic Computing Services Auburn University williw1@mail.auburn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:48:09 EST From: Pete Tamas > You'll want the SystemScriptSwitcher control panel, which is a lot > easier to deal with than changing scripts via ResEdit. > How does one get a copy of this cdev? Thanks, Pete Tamas Gnome@VM.Temple.EDU, Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC) ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************