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Info-Mac Digest             Thu,  1 Apr 93       Volume 11 : Issue 71

Today's Topics:

      Administrivia
      [*] report: internet acronyms update
      *** Radius Rocket 25Mhz- OPINIONS? ***
      *@!#%#%@@#$!@ LF Characters!!!!
      AT&T and USR Sportster modems?
      Atari-Bozo slide shows...:-)
      boomerang
      Can localization ...
      CPU questions
      DMA SCSI...
      How to install 7.0.1 on Mac II with 800 k drive (Q)
      HP DeskWriter C printing problem (Q)
      Hypercard help needed (Q)
      In Use 2.0 & Duo Built-in screen conflict...
      PC screen saver
      PowerCache for a Mac IIcx
      Sales tax
      Suitcase vs. System 7.1
      Weird font kerning (PostScript printing?) problem

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 23:42:37 PST
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Administrivia

Due to an unfortunate bug in our mail reading program and a very full hard
disk (all those April Fools messages, you know), most of the postings for
today's digest were deleted. No, this is not another joke. If you don't see
your non-binary posting in today's digest, please resend. I think most of the
binaries were saved, but if yours doesn't appear in a week or so, we'd better
have it again too.

Bill

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 09:40:28 EST
From: Paul Savage <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] report: internet acronyms update

A corrected version and a few new ones. This report sholud replace the
previous internet-acronyms in info-mac/report

For those newcomers to the internet who are confused by terms such as
IMHO, BTW and RTFM, the following is a list of acronyms that I chanced
upon, and added to, that may help out. If you read the digest long enough
you will probably come across all of these. Perhaps this list should be
added to and then archived for future newcomers to the net. Please note
some of the acronyms are for sayings in less than polite language but I
didn't make them up, I'm just explaining them.

BRB         Be right back (often used on MUDS and talk sessions)
BTSOOM      Beats the s*** out of me
BTW         By the way
FUBAR       F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FWIW        For what it's worth
FYI         For Your Information
GR&D        Grinning running & ducking
IAE         In any event
IANAL       I Am Not A Lawyer, also IANA... such as CPA
IMCO        In my considered opinion
IMHO        In my humble opinion
IMO         In my opinion
IOW         In other words
MUD         Multi user domain (or dungeon)
NFW         No f***ing way
NRN         No Reply Necessary
OTOH        On the other hand
PITA        Pain in the ass
ROFL        Rolling on floor laughing.
RSN         Real Soon Now [which may be a long time coming]
RTFM        Read the f***ing manual (or message)
SITD        Still in the dark
SNAFU       Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SOL         Sh** out of luck
TANSTAAFL   There Ain't No Such As A Free Lunch
TFE         Too f***ing easy
TIA         Thanks In Advance (also AtDhVaAnNkCsE)
TIC         Tongue in cheek
TLA         Three Letter Acronym (such as this)

Paul.

[e-mail] ......................... Australian Science
CSIRO, Division of Chemicals & Polymers .................. Australia's Future

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Date: 01 Apr 1993 22:52:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "[e-mail]"@HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU
Subject: *** Radius Rocket 25Mhz- OPINIONS? ***

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Subject: *** Radius Rocket 25Mhz- OPINIONS? ***
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
From: [e-mail] (David Chou)
Date: 2 Apr 93 03:50:40 GMT
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Hello.  I am contemplating purchasing a Radius Rocket, an 040 NuBus board
running at 25 Mhz.  The seller wants $800 for it.  Is this a good price,
and more importantly, will I run into any compatibility problems?  How is
the performance compared to a Centris 650?  Thanks.

                                -Dave
--

This Is Not A Love Song...
-PIL
        I'm here, you're there, but you can reach me:
        [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 21:26:23 CST
From: Andrew Terrance Trembley <[e-mail]>
Subject: *@!#%#%@@#$!@ LF Characters!!!!

I just picked up a 4 megabyte .Z file, which expanded to a 9mb .tar file,
which I finally got unTar-ed.  However, I have a problem.  Now I have a
whole bunch of text files (several hundred) which are LF delimited instead
of CR delimited (problems with the .tar archive didn't allow me to
automatically unTar it, and so the LFs didn't get converted).

Is there a drag&drop util out there which I can drop a folder of files which
will read all TEXT format files and replace the LFs with CRs?  Is there
something which will just allow me to select files from a standard S/F
dialog box and convert them?

please e-mail me direct, even with the auto-undigesting newsreader, it's
still hell finding what I want in this digest.  (Guess that's what comes of
a popular distribution list.)

as always, I'm...
            Andy Trembley
            [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 10:28 PST
From: KD6SWQ <[e-mail]>
Subject: AT&T and USR Sportster modems?

Hi everyone,

There are a couple of new v.everything modems out now, that I haven't seen any
real test reviews for (sorry, bad grammar).

US Robotics has a Sportster line of external modems, and they have recently
cut their pricing to below $250 for their 14.4K Mac&Fax modem. Is this still
using their proprietary chipset, or is it a "stripped-down" version of what
They put in their Courier line?

AT&T has their DataPort modems, using their own chipset and "Optical Line
Interface" that is supposed to have better line noise-handling capabilities.
They're selling these direct for $299 for a Mac setup. Is this the same
chipset
that Practical Peripheral used in their (now discontinued) 14400FXSA?

Does anyone out there have any experience with either of these two?

I should say that I now have a Supra v.32bis modem, but I've been having tons
of trouble connecting to my school's system (they're running Fastcom FDX 9696)
so much in fact that I've gotten sick of dialing 10-20 times just to get a
connection. I've read the reports of modems that cover Zyxel, Supra, etc...
but
no mention of these two modems.

Please reply to me directly, and I'll summarize if I get enough good info.

Thanks!

Phil Jung        [e-mail]
Graduate Research Assiatant
Institute for Information Storage Technology
Santa Clara University

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 05:57:50 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jaime Garmendia - DuPont Argentina)
Subject: Atari-Bozo slide shows...:-)

Larry Rymal writes:

>>Some mentioned some Amiga and Atari shareware viewers that flip 8 and
>>16bit images on the screen instantly on the screen either in a timed
>>fashion, as determined by the operator, or advances with each mouse press.

If my memory still serves me well, both Ataris and Amigas have specialized
built-in hardware that allows them to do that. In the Atari, this was
provided about 4-5 years ago, and I believe it was called the "Blitter"
chip.

>>        At any rate, most messages centered around the slow display rate
>>of the Mac, especially the Mac LC.  However, recall that Amigas and Atari
>>STs can be had for under $450.00.

Well, a Bozo  is what I felt like after shelling out $800 to get an Atari ST
about 5 years ago, thinking that I'd got a real bargain, only to give up
in frustration trying to find software without bugs, or even simple things
as hard drives and memory upgrades. I'm sure things have improved since
then, but that convinced me you get what you pay for. (I know, bad grammar).
The point here is that you always have to compromise, and so do the hardware
designers. Oh, well...

Jaime Garmendia
[e-mail]

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Date: 01 Apr 1993 16:34:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Barnett <[e-mail]>
Subject: boomerang

why does super boomerang work on some apps and not others?
i'm a programmer and boomerang doesn't seem to work on my apps.
well it works in SFGet/Put but it doesn't slap hierarchical menus on
my open menu.

aaron.

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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 93 11:21:18 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can localization ...

Quark XPress doesn't look for the system version, but for the
keyboard and(/or) date/time routines selected at startup. This
means you have to run the keyboard resources of the same
version as is hard-wired into the QXP version you bought, which
is a real pain if you use as many international key layouts as
I do! Of course this violates Apple's guidelines about inter-
national support, not to mention WorldScript.

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 00:46:27 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Jeong-Hyun Kim)
Subject: CPU questions

After investigating the Connectix Powerbook Utilities demo, I have
some questions regarding its power management feature. It seems to
have the ability to display the battery time remaining, but I could
not find how to configure that feature. For example, if I have two
batteries, can I have different statistics for each battery? Or is
there a way to zap the statistics of a specific battery?
Thanks in advance.

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 22:48 PST
From: "Tony Wong ......" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DMA SCSI...

Mel Martinez of The John Hopkins University wonders if the DMA SCSI will
work on other SCSI cards, I don't know for sure. It just reminds me on the
Mac IIfx, DMA SCSI was implemented in the hardware, but the Mac OS cannot
take advantage of it because the SCSI Manager was written without DMA in
mind.

As a matter of fact, the SCSI of IIfx is much slower than what you expect
>From a 40MHz CPU. But when you run AU/X 2.0 ( announced in the same product
launch ), the throughput out-perform Mac OS because it can use DMA!

The high end server just announced by Apple will come bundled with AU/X
and a special version of AppleShare. It may have to do with the lack of DMA
capability in Mac OS.

There's also rumors/vaporware that the SCSI Manager was re-written from
scratch. If it is true, can we expect a performance boost in older
machines? Or it is just for the new machines with faster SCSI controller
chip.

Tony Wong

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Date: 2 Apr 93 05:41:57 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Les Ferch)
Subject: How to install 7.0.1 on Mac II with 800 k drive (Q)

In digest <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] writes:

>what is the best way to install system 7.0.1 on a Mac II with a single
>800 k floppy drive ? To my knowledge, system 7.0.1 is not distributed
>on 800 k floppies. Any help is greatly appreciated.

The best way is to install from external hard drive, which will also allow
you to install System 7.1, which is what you should do if you're going to
go to the trouble anyhow.

The other answer is that you just install System 7.0 from the 800K disk
set. There is nothing in 7.0.1 that is needed on a Mac II. System 7.0
(with Tune-Up) is just fine.

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Date: 01 Apr 1993 21:38:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HP DeskWriter C printing problem (Q)

Dear Netters,

A faculty member here is experiencing problems with his almost year
old Deskwriter C. He estimates printing approximately 100 prints in
the past year and has gone through 4 ink cartridges. After making
a very few prints with each cartridge, he begins getting the error
message "Print Cartridge Not Properly Connected", and the document
prints with horizontal stripes where no  ink has been deposited on
the page.

Has anyone else experienced these problems, and/or can anyone
offer a solution?

Cheers,
Tom Mahon

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:41 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hypercard help needed (Q)

Hi!

You guys/gals are great!  Where else can one find such a wealth
of information?  <brown nosing off>

I need to know how to delete a line in a Hypercard field.  When
I say line, I mean the whole line, not just the text.  I can
blow the text away, but the blank line still remains.  I'm
looking for an easier way than:

repeat with x = curline to maxline
  put line x into line (x-1)
end repeat

That's probably not exactly correct; I don't have my handy-dandy
reference manual with me.  This method of moving every subsequent
line up seems to be rather poor, there has to be a better way.
Can you delete the <return> in a field line?

Any help would be appreciated,

Chuck

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Date: Thu,  1 Apr 1993 20:57:30 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: In Use 2.0 & Duo Built-in screen conflict...

Can someone please tell me why In Use 2.0 fails to show the icon in the upper
left-hand corner of my Duo's built-in screen when the hard disk is accessed
but works just fine on my 13" Apple monitor when the Duo is in it's dock?
Anyone else seen this?  Anyone have another program/cdev which will to the
same thing on passive LCD screen?

It appears as if the Apple menu covers the icon as it trys to display because
sometime I catch glimses of it, but mostly it's just not there...

System: Duo 230 12/120 w/and w/o Dock, NO INITs other than In Use 2.0 (I
turned all the others off just to see if it was a potential conflict) and
System 7.1.

Any and/or all ideas more than welcome...

Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 07:29:08 CST
From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek)
Subject: PC screen saver

Okay, I'm totally a Mac person now, but my brother in Seattle - who has a
Mac but puts up with PC's at work - needs a shareware/freeware screen saver
for the PC that will allow him to display PICT images. Can anybody direct
me to the proper source?

Also, he mentioned that somewhere on the 'Net there is an intense
discussion in Klingon (note: not ON Klingon, but in the "language" itself).
Anyone heard about this?
Gracias :-)

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Date: 01 Apr 93 20:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Joan Llosas Colongo,ES,IHD)
Subject: PowerCache for a Mac IIcx

Sometimes ago I posted a question asking about the PowerCache and the Mac
IIcx.
I haven't received any answer, but I have purchased the card, and here are the
results.

I didn't had any problem with the socket installation although I send the
motherboard from Spain to DayStar in USA.

The user manual about the installation is very clear, with a lot of good
photographies.

And the DayStar technicall support is very good, and they offer an upgrade
plan
of the accelarator card (you only pay the difference between the card you own
and the better card).

Joan Llosas
Girona
SPAIN

AppleLink: SPA0253
Internet: [e-mail]
Compuserve: 100116,3101


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Date: 2 Apr 93 07:32:55 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Julian Gomez)
Subject: Sales tax

> Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 24 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 65
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 04:01:23 -0500
> From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Sales tax.
>
> Maybe SOME of you do. I don't think I've seen higher than 7%
> anywhere in the country, myself.  Next door in New Hampshire,

California is 7.75%. In the San Francisco Bay Area it's 8.25%.


> the rate is 0%.  That happens to be where Mac Connection is.

Note the connection (pun intended).

    Dr. Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
    Apple Computer, Inc.  408/862-1289 or 996-1010
    [e-mail]  [e-mail]

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Date: Thursday, 1 April 1993 3:44 CDT
From: Joel Cunningham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Suitcase vs. System 7.1

Ok, class. I know we discussed this, but I fell asleep. What is the
story with System 7.1 and Suitcase (v2.1.2)? I just went to 7.1 and
Suitcase can't handle it. Is there an update/upgrade? Is there a
workaround? Is there life after death? Or before? HALP! HALP!

                  thanks!
                  Joel Cunningham

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 13:22 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Weird font kerning (PostScript printing?) problem

This was meant to be a crossposting with comp.sys.mac.system, but I think
I hit the wrong key yesterday because my Digest posting didn't make it!

We had been having a weird problem with printing from our Quadra to a
standard Apple Laserwriter II.  All the kerning in the output, whether
printed from Microsoft Word or other apps, was wrong - underlines shot out
beyond what they were meant to underline, justified text was patently jagged,
and even the columns in the font samples produced by the Laserwriter Utility
were badly aligned (the Helvetica font used for the font names had somehow
got slightly condensed!).  Our documents would print fine from any other Mac,
but would not print correctly to any PostScript printer from ours.  I could
not see why this was happening - our fonts were all the standard Apple ones
which are also in the printer's ROMs, and we had hardly any TrueType fonts
in our System.  Playing with the various Page Setup options made no
difference.

Perseverance confirmed that there was our Mac's PostScript output was
behaving strangely.  Printing a document straight to the printer produced
the kerning problem; printing to a PostScript file and then downloading to
the printer produced output which only had Times Bold and no other fonts,
though the original doc had several variants of Times!

Reinstalling the Laserwriter driver didn't help, so I eventually reinstalled
the System, and this cured the problem.  The problem see

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 15:54:51 -0500
From: Jeff Ersoff <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: jae
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Ersoff)
Subject: Re: Slide Shows
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 20:54:47 GMT

Check in the umichigan archive for
/mac/graphics/graphicsutil/cybergif1.3.cpt.hqx. Has a simple-to-use slide show
capability.


--
Jeff Ersoff
Math & Computer Sci., Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC 27108
USENET: jae@ecsvax  INTERNET: [e-mail]

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