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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 13 Apr 93       Volume 11 : Issue 79

Today's Topics:

      [*] Bolo Tracker 1.0
      [*] Disinfectant 3.1
      [*] TidBITS#172/12-Apr-93
      3-button mouse for Mac LC III (A, maybe)
      600dpi tabloid printers
      68030 cache switch?
      [A]  AppleTalk Internet Router Installation
      A comment about INFO-MAC
      A comment about Info-Mac and ICONs - Summary
      A comment about INFO_MAC
      A comment about INFO_MAC (C)
      A continuing problem with I
      A continuing problem with ICONs (A, maybe)
      Another System Heap Summary
      Attention PowerLaunch Users!
      Backsplash/Grimmy
      Big Problems (with file translation)
      Bill's Dingbats
      braille font
      Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe? (C)
      Cannot access file server (A)
      Casio BOSS and Schedule Organisers on the Mac.
      Changing resource info.
      Color background problem on Mac IIci (Q)
      Control Panel - quick access System 6 (A)
      Crazy Captain James T. Kirk Hypercard Movie from SNL
      DD Hardware Compression
      Dead modem and worse???
      Desktop Pub for High School Annual - Comments?
      Desktop Rebuilding on Serve
      diskdoubler-aux-377.hqx (R)
      diskdoubler 377 updater transfer problem
      Equation Editor Problem with MSWord
      Fax Modem Software
      Filemaker copy protection overdone
      font coversion (Q)
      Fourth Dimension Books, Recommendations Wanted
      FutureBasic Zedcor vs. Microsoft
      Heap Problems (R)
      Help!!! PowerBook file corruption and SCSI problems (R)
      HELP needed on MO resurrection
      If I were only a hacker I know what I would do (A)
      If I were only a hacker I know what I would do...
      IIci ---> Quadra 700 upgrade
      IIci and LCIII continued
      IIci vs LCIII
      ImageWriter I to Mac IIci
      In defense of the Adjustable Kbd [C]
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #78 (3 msgs)
      Inside Macintosh vols I-V
      insurance for Macs/peripherals/software (Q)
      LASER USER 2.5 (Q)
      LaserWriter Select 300 vs. 310
      LCIII free video expansion to 32k colors
      LC III or Centris 610 for math-related (esp SPSS)
      Liken - is it any good? (Q)
      Mac Insurance (R)
      Mac software through PC?
      MacWrite Pro Opinions
      Mail order to foreign lands - a personal experience
      Maps please-some geography with politics
      microcom modem
      Norton Encrypt
      Paper Paster 1.0
      Performa software differences
      Presentation Technologies - Address
      Printer driver needed
      Proposal: Mac hardware guide
      Resource Detective Needed
      Rodime Hard Disk (R)
      SCSI conflict
      SCSI Problem - Thanks for the help so far!
      Set Port for serial printer driver in HyperCard (Q)
      shareware wish list
      Silver Lining/HD Icon Problems
      Source for 25 Mhz FPU and LC III RAM
      Subject Lines
      submission re keyboard_mapping
      System 7.1 and TrueType Fonts on PowerBook 170
      System Heap (C)
      TN3270 and Can I get back files (A)
      Upgrading LCI, LCII, LCIII to faster machines
      using Sun 4 19'' colour monitor on MacII [A]

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 07:27:57 -0400
From: Matt Slot <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Bolo Tracker 1.0

For all you Bolo Addicts who can't wait to join the next game, and who
   are frustrated with D.E.W., here is BoloTracker. The idea and interface
   are simple, mainly 'cause I didn't have the time: you get a window with
   a list of all the current players sorted by zone.

For all you who haven't played Bolo, I insist you try it... Stuart Cheshire
   has done an excellent job writing a great network shoot-em-up and strategy
   game.

Bolo Tracker requires System 7.0, but more importantly... its free.

Send comments and problems to me at...
Matt Slot, CAEN Mac-Systems                   [e-mail]

BTW, if you have UseNet access, I encourage you to check out the newsgroup
    "alt.netgames.bolo" for the latest strategies and bolo news.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-tracker.hqx; 82K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 14:43:01 -0600
From: [e-mail] (John Norstad)
Subject: [*] Disinfectant 3.1

Disinfectant 3.1 is a new release of our free Macintosh anti-viral
utility.

Version 3.1 detects the new INIT 17 virus.

The INIT 17 virus was discovered in New Brunswick, Canada, in
April, 1993.

The virus infects both the System file and application files. It does
not infect document files.

The virus displays the message "From the depths of Cyberspace" the
first time an infected Macintosh is restarted after 6:06:06 A.M. on
October 31, 1993. After this message has been displayed once, it is
not displayed again.

The virus contains many errors which can cause crashes and other
problems. In particular, it causes crashes on Macintoshes with the
68000 processor like the Mac Plus, SE, and Classic.

For technical reasons, the virus does not infect some applications,
and on some systems, it does not spread at all. It does, however,
spread under both System 6 and System 7.

Disinfectant 3.1 is available now via anonymous FTP from site
ftp.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.113.52]. It will also be available soon from
most of the other popular sources of free and shareware software.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/virus/disinfectant-31.hqx; 238K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 21:50:08 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#172/12-Apr-93

TidBITS#172/12-Apr-93

 We present a PowerBook-heavy issue this week, with a look back at
   the real story behind the PowerBook 100 and a hopefully-
   instructive investigation of a weird Duo troubleshooting
   problem. We also have an announcement of a new virus, a bit on
   Macintosh Easy Open (which eases opening foreign file types) in
   MacLinkPlus, and finally, a review of CMaster, Jersey
   Scientific's extension to Symantec's THINK C.

Topics:
    MailBITS/12-Apr-93
    New INIT 17 Virus Busted
    PowerBook Panegyric
    Double the Trouble?
    CMaster Review
    Reviews/12-Apr-93

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-172.etx; 29K]

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:35:06 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Michael L. Dickens)
Subject: 3-button mouse for Mac LC III (A, maybe)

> From: Tony Silva <[e-mail]>
> Subject: 3-button mouse for Mac LC III (Q)
>
> Does anyone know of a 3-button mouse with the necessary s/w for a Mac
> LC III? I'd like to have one for running MacX or eXodus. I bought a
> Mouse Systems A3 mouse whose CDEV works ok on a Quadra but not on my
> LC III.  Please respond directly and I will summarize. TIA.

Have you tried the Logitech MouseMan for Macintosh?  It's worked great on a
IIfx, IIsi, and IIci.  I called Logitech once about a possible software
upgrade for their driver/CP, and they said that it worked on any Mac and
thus did not need upgrading.  Can't say that I totally believe them, but I
haven't many complaints about the device.

    MLD

ps. Which do you like better, MacX or eXodus?  I use MacX and am not happy
with it's performance.  But, lacking fund to spend on a whim, I can't just
try out every X emulator.

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 11:19:54 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 600dpi tabloid printers

We are looking into purchasing a hi-res tabloid size black and white printer.
So far, our options are:

1) GCC SelectPress 600
2) Xant
e Accel-a-Writer 8100
3) NewGen TurboPS 660 B
4) QMS 860 Hammerhead

If any of you have used any of these printers or know someone who has, please
write me back with opinions and suggestions.

Thanks in advance, and of course, if there's enough response, I'll summarize
to
the archive.

Richard Malott
UALR Student Activities
Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 09:45:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (William L Menninger)
Subject: 68030 cache switch?

Does anybody know of a control panel gadget or a simple utility that
will allow a Mac user to turn on and off the instruction and/or data
caches on a 68030 based Mac?  I know this gadget ("cpu cache") is
standard on 68040 Macs, but how about the 68030?  If you know where I
can get something like this on the net, please send me the pertinent
info.

E-mail all answers to me at [e-mail].

-Will Menninger
MIT grad student

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 18:30:29 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Martin Rickli)
Subject: [A]  AppleTalk Internet Router Installation

Hello everybody,

Thank you very much for all the answers I received.
I asked for help to install an AppleTalk Internet Router on an AppleShare
File Server running System 7.

The short answer: Start installation from the Network Installer disk!

Vicarious for your replies, here the mail from
 "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#[e-mail]>


>From: "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#[e-mail]>
>Subject: System 7: Installing Internet Router 2.0
>To: [e-mail]
>
>Here ya go... - Eric
>
>
>System 7: Installing Internet Router 2.0
>
>TOPIC -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>How do I install Internet Router 2.0 on a System 7 Macintosh?  The 6.0.7
>Network Installer disk does not recognize the System file.
>
>DISCUSSION ------------------------------------------------------
>
>The AppleTalk Internet Router and System 7 are compatible, with 3
>exceptions: virtual memory, 32-bit addressing and the Quadra Caches.
>Here is the installation procedure as found on page 100-101 of the
>"System 7 Group Upgrade Guide":
>
>Installing the router software on a System 7 Macintosh:
>
>1) Install System 7 along with EtherTalk or TokenTalk.
>
>2) Insert the AppleTalk Internet Router 2.0 disk.
>
>3) Open the System file on the router disk.  The System window lists desk
>   accessories and fonts.
>
>4) Drag the Router desk accessory to the System Folder icon on your System
>   7 hard disk.  A dialog asks "Put this desk accessory into the Apple
>   Menu Items folder?"
>
>5) Click OK.
>
>6) Close the System window.
>
>7) From the AppleTalk Internet Router 2.0 disk's System Folder, drag the
>   following files to your System Folder:
>
>   * LocalTalk (Modem)
>   * LocalTalk (Built-in)
>   * Router
>
>   A dialog asks, "Put these items into the places they belong?"
>
>8) Click OK.
>
>9) Restart your Macintosh computer.
>
>* Note: Be sure the Router DA is copied first, not the Router setup
document.
>
>Upgrading a router Macintosh to System 7:
>
>1) With the AppleTalk Internet Router 2.0 already installed bot not running,
>install System 7.
>
>2) Restart the Macintosh.
>
>3) Open the System Folder and drag the following files to the Extensions
>folder:
>
>   * LocalTalk (Modem)
>   * LocalTalk (Built-in)
>
>   All other files are moved to their correct locations by the Installer.


Regards, Martin

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 13:57:07 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: A comment about INFO-MAC

>questions have ranged from Hypercard to system questions.  Is this a
>trend?  Has anyone else had this problem? Or is it just the way i
>write questions.
>
>
>Jeff Kline

   I have done very well at receiving help from Info-Mac... thank you very
much!  I usually give thanks to individuals rather than the list, but just
this once I would like to give a universal THANK YOU to all who have helped
me over the years.
   For example, the last problem I had was installing AUX 3.0 on a Quadra
700 from a CD-300 on a Mac IIvx.  Apple left us with the status that an
engineer was working on it and that new drivers were required.  Gary
Goldberg let me know for sure that he had used an external CD300 to install
AUX.  This gave me the idea of disconnecting the internal hard disk in the
Mac IIvx and connecting it to the Quadra with a SCSI cable. (this technique
I recalled from earlier Info-Macs)  The internal CD300 ROM drive in the
IIvx now looked like an external CD rom drive to the Quadra and the install
worked!  :-)  :-)
   I've used enough band width but wanted to post this in the event that it
may help others get past those nasty installer scripts that look for a
local drives only and ignore networked devices.


*****     C++ is The object of my afflictions     *****
Randy Bradley; Systems Geek; [phone]; email:
[e-mail]
US Meat Animal Research Center
Clay Center, Ne.  68938

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 2:55:12 EST
From: "Jeff Kline"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: A comment about Info-Mac and ICONs - Summary

I have to admit I was thorougly shocked.  I must have gotten 30 +
posts concerning both of my questions.  Many were just about asking
questions to the net and not getting responses, others talked about
both questions.

About posting questions:
The general consensus was that "it happens". Sometimes it is the
nature of the question (FAQ, or too complex, or too non-specific).
Sometimes it is just the particular digest that the question is in.
Someone made some good suggestions about phrasing the questions very
specifically rather than as a statement with an implied question.
Also being very specific about system config and involved Inits and
EXs and CPs.

Other suggestions were to use the specific forums in Usenet.
Specifically comp.sys.mac.system etc.  I would like to do this but
my knowledge of Usenet is poor so I am currently changing that
situation.

I appreciate the responses.

About the Icon Problems:

Well no solution yet.  Some suggested reformating everything.
Others have suggested do some systematic deleting of Desktop files
and zapping Pram and reinstalling system files, etc. none have
worked so far.

I am going to try Disk FirstAid first, then i am going to probably
reformat everything (after backing up) and re install.  I amy also
reformat drive with only one partion.

I amy also submit the question to MacWeek or MacUser.

Thanks for all of you who e-mailed and took the time to come up with
suggestions.  If i solve the problem I will upload my exact steps in
detail.

Jeff

[e-mail]

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 10:38:49 -0600 (CST)
From: "John A." <[e-mail]>
Subject: A comment about INFO_MAC

In reply to those of you who wonder why there are few responses to your
questions, I have a few observations.

1) Many times, the answers are very obvious, and are contained in the
various FAQs and reports in the "info-mac/help" & "info-mac/report"
directories.

2) Sometimes the answers to the questions are in the manuals that came with
the software or hardware product.

3) Sometimes the question is very obscure and maybe the answer is not
known.

I think that people should make sure that they avail themselves of the
resources available (such as the help and report files) before they start
asking what may be simple questions. A simple first step would be to
download "info-mac/help/all-files.txt", which is a directory listing of all
of the files at SUMEX. You can then browse the report list, find files in a
given category, and so on. I usually update my copy every month or so, and
it has been invaluable.

John A.

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 09:47:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Jorgensen <[e-mail]>
Subject: A comment about INFO_MAC (C)

Jeff Kline wonders why he's getting few(er) responses to his postings.

It could be that they are FAQs and people don't bother answering FAQs. It
could also be that no one knows the answer.

I've reviewed your past few questions and have observed that in some cases
there is no question mark. I.e. you make a comment and apparently are looking
for verification. I've found very specific questions generally attract the
most answers. Yes/No questions are best. It depends, I'd guess, on the
relative ease with which a question can be answered in a limited amount of
time.

I know that I, for one, have less time to answer questions as Colgate
continues down the more-with-less road.

Hope this helps.

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
        - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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Date: 13 Apr 1993 07:47:45 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A continuing problem with I

     A continuing problem with ICONs (A)
"Jeff Kline"  <[e-mail]> asks:

>I posted a question about having problems with Icons disappearing.
>Well my problems have not changed, but I have tried some new
>solutions with no avail. I will restate:

(...lots of stuff deleted...)

>My goal currently is to get the machine to restart with the ICONs
>without any INITS or CPs.  After that i can figure out the potential
>Conflicts.

You might want to try:  info-mac/util/save-a-bndl-13.hqx.

Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:48:19 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Michael L. Dickens)
Subject: A continuing problem with ICONs (A, maybe)

> From: "Jeff Kline"  <[e-mail]>
> Subject: A continuing problem with ICONs (Q)
>
> I posted a question about having problems with Icons disappearing.
> Well my problems have not changed, but I have tried some new
> solutions with no avail. I will restate:
>
> [system, rebuild desktop, used MacTools, reinstalled system]
>
> Thanks for the Info    Please E-mail me direct
>
> Jeff Kline    [e-mail]

Sounds similar to the disappearing icon problem that occurs under System 7.
 When I had this problem, I jumped in head first & instead of beating
around the bush, I just reformatted my hard drive & reinstalled everything.

This has worked every time for me.  But, of course there are probably less
extreme methods of getting the same result.

Have you tried "Disk First Aid 7.1", available free from Apple?  It's
supposed to diagnose and correct the disappearing icon problem, unlike any
previous version.

How about "Norton Utilities"?  I don't know how it compares with MacTools,
but it does a wonderful job diagnosing all potential problems.

Have you ran "Disinfectant 3.0"?  Just in case...

Just remember, when all else fails, reformat.  It takes 20 minutes, and
will probably solve all your problems. (NOTE:  backup BEFORE refomatting!)

Hope this helps.

    MLD

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 21:09 GMT
From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Another System Heap Summary

Some people have asked me to repost my findings to date on why the system heap
(that's the amount of RAM eaten up by the System Software) grows so much.
Here
goes:
1.      First, check whether you've really got a problem.  Start your Mac, use
the About this macintosh item ot check RAM usage by the system.  Now restart
with extensions off (by holding down the Shift key at startup).  Normal
startup
use without any extensions is in the area of 1100-1300K.  The use of a large
number of extensions and certain types of control panels can increase this by
500-1000K or more.  This explains the disparity between RAM usage with and
without extensions off.

2.      Assuming you have a problem, i.e that more than about 2Mb of a 4Mb
system is in use, try removing some of your extensions and control panels.
Control Panels which merely change settings on the Mac (e.g. Colour,
Brightness, Sound etc.) do not present any problems.  Leave them be.  Question
whether you need the likes of After Dark or more frivoulous items like Greg's
Buttons, Tweety, etc.  (I know these are fun, I miss them too.)  Removing one
item at a time, restart your Mac until you find which items are heaviest users
of RAM.  Older, less well-written extensions and control panels are frequent
offenders.  This applies as much to retail software as shareware.  Files which
are frequently updated may well have very good programmer support.  If these
are giving you trouble you should ensure you have the latest version of the
software.  Any programmer worth his/her salt will have already purged
system heap problem.

3.  Bear in mind that use of several different fonts, or of large sound files
may necessitate the system grabbing a large chunk of RAM to handle that item.
That doesn't necessarily apply at startup as the system only requests the RAM
when it goes to use that font or sound.  This means that you may well be able
to leave a large number of fonts in your system at startup, just be aware that
they may well take a big bite of RAM as soon as you use them in a document.
This doesn't really apply to the standard Mac fonts, NY, Palatino etc., as the
system is already geared up to handle them.

4.  What's wrong with INITs anyway?
When an extension or extension-like contol panel is first loaded into memory
it
asks for a small amount of RAM (often as little as 50k).  The catch is that
when it later tries to do its business (follow the pointer with its eyes in
the
case of Eyeballs, for example) it may well find that the System, or some other
extension, has gone and used that space.  This means that it has to go and
look
for space to operate elsewhere, hence the growing system heap.  Furthermore,
some extensions, and indeed some applications, fail to inform the Mac that
they
have finished with a particular part of the system heap.  This means that as
the Mac's system is under the mistaken belief that that particular part of RAM
is still in use by the app or extension it sends other routines off in search
of "unused" RAM elsewhere.  This is basically bad programming.  As I mentioned
earlier, this is far more likely to afflict software that has not had any
support after it was originally written.  This is why the likes of Greg's
Buttons, which seems to be updated almost monthly is unlikely to be a prime
offender (assuming you have its latest version).  This is also a very strong
argument in favour of sending in shareware fees.  There's nothing like ready
cash to encourage people to iron out naggling little problems.

Finally, caveat lector.  I don't wish to give the impression that I actually
know very much about what I'm talking about.  I'm not a programmer, I'm simply
repeating what other people have been kind enough to tell me.  My main reason
for posting this is that as the originator of the original question on System
Heaps, I feel morally obliged to furnish a summary of the responses I've
received.  The last time I did this, I furnished the net with two pages of
utterly inaccurate nonsense abut how aliases work.  If this isn't shorter then
I certainly hope it's more accurate.  I'm still getting mail ticking me off
for
being in the wrong last time.  If I'm wrong now, don't bother mailing me, just
post a summary of accurate info.

Hope this answers a few questions.

Fergus Sullivan.
Sunny, summery Dublin.

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 20:49:28 EDT
From: Roby Sherman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Attention PowerLaunch Users!

A few items of interest to users of PowerLaunch :

1> For those of you planning on registering PowerLaunch, PLEASE mail
your shareware payments to :

    Roby Sherman, P.O. box 110177, Aurora, CO. 80042

Be ESPECIALLY SURE to include your e-mail address and daytime and
evening telephone numbers.

2> I am planning a major upgrade to PowerLaunch that will bring its'
version up to 2.0. Some of the (tenitive) new features include :

* Major Human Interface Overhauls

    - Icon Palettes with Names
    - New Windows with small *OR* large icons
    - The Attached Documents can be displayed in either
        alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order
    - Reversable Document Menus
    - A new way of accessing the tool buttons that minimizes
        window sizes and maximizes productivity.

    - Many other new features

* Video / Sound Tracking - PowerLaunch will monitor applications that it
launches and set the video and sound settings as you switch between
applications. EG: You launch Excel and set the video to B&W. When you
swtich back to the finder, PowerLaunch or ANY other Launched program,
PowerLaunch will change the video settings back to match the other open
apps.

* Drag & Drop Adding - Apps and Documents can be added to PowerLaunch by
simply drag and dropping over it's Program Icon.

* Less Memory Usage (Not sure how much as of yet)

* ??? - You decide... Let me know via e-mail...



            Thanks for all of your support...

                --Roby

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:37:28 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Backsplash/Grimmy

In Info-Mac Digest V. 11 #78, Allan M. Bloom <[e-mail]>
wrote:
>. . . You let the doberman finish.

Hey Allan:

Okay, I'll bite--I like a good dirty joke as well as the next guy.
Better, maybe.  I'm even prepared to use your joke in a suitable
context.  So help me on this one:  who's 'Grimmy'?

Clint

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:51:05 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jay L. Cross)
Subject: Big Problems (with file translation)

In IM-78 (I think, maybe 77), James McMurry writes:

>There is hope.  There are a couple of MS-DOS clones in
>the computer services lab.  The guys who FTP MS-DOS
>software use them to local-connect to the VAX with some
>telecom program and use Kermit to put the files onto
>the clones' hard drives.  Then they copy the files off
>to 3.5" and are happy.  I've tried to do that, knowing
>that I could use Apple File Exchange to read the files in.
>But so far I've not been able to get it to work, probably
>because of all the parameters and translations involved.
>
>So, what I'd like to know is: with the above situation,
>can you give me a step-by-step process for FTPing something
>and having it wind up usable on my Mac other than using
>Kermit at 1200 baud?
>
>James McMurry
>[e-mail]

I assume that (like me) you can't FTP directly to the Mac, so:

It sounds to me like you're most of the way home.  If you can
get a file (as text, like a bin-hex or uuencoded file) to a DOS
machine's HD, you can:

Use AFE, and translate as text to your Mac's HD.  I've done
this often in the past, and it works fine.  Your problem may
have been in selecting the text translation.  The proper
translator is included with AFE.  Under the MS-DOS to Mac menu,
select Text Translation...  In the following dialog, the most
important setting is "Replace CR/LF with just CR".  Make sure
this is checked.  Click OK, and then you may want to save this
setting so you don't have to fool with it again (just choose
"Save settings as..." under the File menu).  Next time, choose
"Restore setttings from..."  Now select your files from the DOS
disk, and away you go.

I don't use AFE much anymore.  I made a null modem cable to
connect the serial ports of my Compaq and Mac, and use comm
software to move files between them at 57K bps.  The comm
software takes care of the CR/LF and other odd character
conversion.

Once the file is in your Mac, use your favorite de-bin-hexer or
uudecoder (I use Stuffit Expander for binhex and [rarely]
UULite for UU]) and you're golden.

Good luck.  If you need clarification on any of this, let me
know...

--
Jay Cross, Cross Resources [phone] [e-mail]
HyperCard Development, Mac User Training, Desktop Publishing

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 23:44:35 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bill's Dingbats

Can anyone direct me to a source for a font called Bill's Dingbats?
I don't know whether it's shareware or freeware or commercial.
I'm interested in other dingbat outline fonts as well.

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

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 12:02:50 EST
From: Paul Savage <[e-mail]>
Subject: braille font

>From: Scott Hordesky <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Braille (sp) font
>
>For a project that I am quite behind on at this point, I need a type one font
>that prints the Braille (how do you spell that anyway?) equivalent of the
>alphabet. A quick scan of the archives as well as umich reveals nothing (I
>admit, I am in a hurry to leave for Easter). If you have such a beast or info
>on where to find one, please let me know either on the digest or by e-mail.

You spelt it correctly and you could one of try the following:

archie.au
/micros/mac/umich/system.extensions/font/bitmap/braille.sit.hqx

wuarchive.wustl.edu
/mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/system.extensions/font/bitmap/braille.sit.hqx

rigel.acs.oakland.edu
/pub/macintosh/fonts/braille.sit

wuarchive.wustl.edu
/mirrors2/info-mac/Old/font/braille.hqx.Z

Paul.

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 18:42:30 EDT
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Can localisation prevent US software being used in Europe? (C)

> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 16:03:40 -0500
> From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
>
> > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 15:39 GMT
> > From: Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]>
> > I have lately been told that the way Fifth Generation (Salient?) prevent
> > their
> > US software being used in Europe is related to the software checking ROMs
> > to
> > see if they are American ROMs or European, thus ensuring that Europeans
> > are
> > obliged to buy software here at inflated prices, rather than ordering from
> > Europe.
>
> I don't think there are any differences in the ROMs at all.
>
> However, if you're refering to AutoDoubler, at least an
> earlier version checked the country code in the System File's
> internationalization resources.  When I installed Japanese
> software on my Mac, suddenly AutoDoubler would not load.
> As you can imagine, I was rather pissed.
>

I am no expert on the subject, but since rules on export of
encryption/decryption/compression technology can sometimes get murky, it may
be that AutoDoubler was checking the nationality of the resources to
accomodate some legal issue.  Not that I consider this method to be very
effective, but this sort of thing (import/export laws) often results in weird
product (not just computer software) behavior.

Disclaimer:  Just tossin' the thought out there...

Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 10:41:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: LAN Supervisor <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cannot access file server (A)

Hi,

I just wanted to take the time to thank those of you who responded to my
inquiry. A customized installation indeed helped. I can now access my
file server.

Thanks to all!

Josephine Colmenares
Fordham University
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 17:25:39 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail]
Subject: Casio BOSS and Schedule Organisers on the Mac.

I have a Casio BOSS SF9500 and would like to be able to exchange data to
and from my Macintosh computer. I have not yet purchased any software, and
would like to know whetheranyone knows of any suitable schedule organising
software. I have CasioLink 1.3 (with all the cables), but this is a very
simple program and will not allow me to print out daily, weekly, and
monthly schedules. Do you have any suggestions. Many of the packages I have
looked at will work with the Sharp Wizard, but not the Casio BOSS. I have
also looked at CasioTalk as a way of exchanging software, but this does not
seem to work very well. Has anyone got any suggestions? One of the Mac
packages that I would like to use is Now Up-to Date, but I can't seem to
exchange data with the Casio

Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 08:18:28 -0100
From: [e-mail] (Anders Wahlin)
Subject: Changing resource info.

Hello!

Can anyone help me with this?

If you open AppleShare with Resedit. Then open 'STR ' and then
ID nr.  -4093. You can see the string "OK".

Now,

* I want to open the same thing again but this time with "THINK


    Pascal". I know this is possible but I don't know how.

* I want to change the string "OK" to "Okey" (also with "THINK Pascal")


How?

Please, send your help to:
[e-mail]


Many thanks!

Anders Wahlin

------------------------------

Date: 12 Apr 1993 16:38:50 -0600 (CST)
From: Dan Lunderville <[e-mail]>
Subject: Color background problem on Mac IIci (Q)

I am having a problem with the background color on Apple's 13" RGB
monitor connected to a Mac IIci, and I hope someone can give me a clue.

The system is a Mac IIci with 8MB RAM, running System 7.0.1, tuned up
with Tuner 1.1.1.  The monitor is Apple's 13" RGB monitor, driven by the
built-in video port on the IIci.  The problem is this:  when you open the
General Controls control panel to attempt to change the background color,
it is all black and white.  The normal color bar that shows under the
background pattern square is missing.  You can change the background
patterns, but there is no color.  The Monitors control panel is set
correctly to Color and 256 colors, and the color pallete is set at the
full color end, with hue, etc. at their highest values.

The apple in the menu bar is in color, some of the icons are in color, and
color seems to be working normally in all other areas, except for the
background.  I have switching to black and white and then back again, I have
totally replaced then entire control panels folder, I have reloaded the System
a couple times, and nothing makes any difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.

Dan Lunderville                 [e-mail]




------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 16:15 EST
From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Control Panel - quick access System 6 (A)

Jeff Needleman,
Check your Apple Menu!  It has a quick access to the Control Panels in System
6, unless of course the system became corrupt.  Your System Reference manual
shows this as well.
Sincerely,
ABRODY @ CLARKU

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 22:17:42 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Dan Garcia)
Subject: Crazy Captain James T. Kirk Hypercard Movie from SNL

I could have sworn I saw this on info-mac years ago - it was a Hypercard
stack of a 'movie' taken from when Shatner was on Saturday Night Live
and the sketch involved the real William Shatner addressing a Trekie
convention and he tells those in attendance to "get a life".

Possibly the funniest thing I've seen on the mac in years, better than
Quayle Season, IMHO.

If anyone can either tell me where I can find it, or mail it to me, or
post it to sumex-aim, I think everyone will appreciate it! It's great!!

Dan Garcia
[e-mail]    UC Berkeley Computer Science Grad Student

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 10:42:00 PST
From: [e-mail] (Salient Software)
Subject: DD Hardware Compression

In article <[e-mail]>
([e-mail]), you write:
|
|Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 16:55:25 PDT
|From: [e-mail] (Suvrit Varshney)
|Subject: DD Hardware Compression
|
|Hello since Salient does not support the hardware
|compression by another company, I cannot get
|a file to uncompress (DD file compressed using
|the hardware board). Does anyone have an older
|utility (not extension) that will expand Diskdoubler
|files compressed using the hardware board?
|If so, can it be mailed to me (if it is pd ofcourse)?
|Thanks
|
...

The last version of DiskDoubler that was able to expand the format used
by the Sigma board was DiskDoubler 3.7.1.  The files that were compressed
with the Sigma board are not in DiskDoubler format. DiskDoubler only acted
as the front end for the board.

We can not distribute any software that expands the Sigma files
until the licensing issue with Stacker is resolved.  If you have files
compressed by the Sigma board you will need to contact the person
that sent you the files and ask them for the DDExpand utility version
3.7.1 or ask them to send you files in DiskDoubler format.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 22:38:06 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Kevin Pfeiffer)
Subject: Dead modem and worse???

    I replaced the internal modem in my PowerBook 145 courtesy of Global
Village after plugging it into an office phone system. It works (using it
now) but I still have problem that when telephone wire is plugged into
modem, the computer/modem won't go "off-hook"--I can only do this manually
by unplugging the the wire as req'd.

    Did I possibly fry something worse than the original internal modem?
Is it time for mail-order service? Thanks for advice.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 13:42:47 -0500
From: Tom Wilson <[e-mail]> (Tom Wilson)
Subject: Desktop Pub for High School Annual - Comments?

My wife is a teacher who had to go through the agony of publishing a high
school annual.  A certain Texas-based Publisher sells a package to schools
that includes a computer (PC Compatible or Mac) with their very own
in-house-developed desktop publishing software (without a doubt the worst
excuse for software I've ever seen --- no exaggeration either!)  And, after
spending many thousands of dollars, the quality of the final publication
was about what you'd expect from a "home-brew" system.

I tend to believe that a developing an annual with a good Desktop
Publishing software package on a suitably equipped Mac, then using a
professional printing/binding company would save money while helping
students to develop a useable computer skill.

Please address comments to me and I'll post a summary.

Thanks in advance.


Tom Wilson <[e-mail]>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN
Voice:  615-574-3927

------------------------------

Date: 13 Apr 1993 11:50:56 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Desktop Rebuilding on Serve

     Desktop Rebuilding on Servers
I can't believe I'm asking this, but "How do you rebuild the desktop on
AppleShare file servers remotely (from a workstation)?".

I remember that if you have a server auto-mount, and you were rebuilding the
desktop on your own machine, that it would pop up a dialog asking if you'd
like
to rebuild the desktop on the servers.  But I haven't done it for awhile, and
when I tried doing it today, IT DIDN'T WORK!!!  Maybe it was System 6 (whoa,
many many moons ago) when I did it last, so I'm a little hazy on it.  Any way
of doing it remotely from a System 7.x machine?  TIA

SFTFAQ (Sorry For The ...)

Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 22:41:25 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: diskdoubler-aux-377.hqx (R)


On Fri, 9 Apr 93 Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]> said:
> In 11-77, John B. Thoo complains that the Sumex file
> /util/dd-auxiliary-files-377.hqx
> turns into a DD archive, so he can't use it to get the DDExpand utility he
> needs to turn a DD archive into a readable file.
>
> True enough, John. But the NEXT file in the Sumex directory is:
> /util/dd-expand-377.hqx
> and it is precisely what you want.

Jeff--

You're right!  I grabbed the file all-files.txt and, sure enough, listed
below [./util/dd-auxiliary-files-377.hqx] is [./util/dd-expand-377.hqx].
However, it wasn't on my old (1992) copy of all-files.txt.  I guess that'll
learn me to keep the darn index up to date, eh?

Thanks for the pointer, Jeff.

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 16:35 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: diskdoubler 377 updater transfer problem

I had basically the same experience as William M. Curtis describes (V11,
No. 75) on downloading the DiskDoubler upgrade from a local mirror of
Sumex-aim and automatically unbinhexing/expanding it with Stuffit
Expander 3.0.1. When I caught on to the fact that the file was invisible
I corrected this with ResEdit and - unlike W.M.C - then the file
gave me no further problems. Meant to report it at the time but forgot.
Fergus J. Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
BITNET: [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:26:12 EDT
From: "Lisa L.W. Besko" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Equation Editor Problem with MSWord

We are trying to convert files create on a PC running Windows 3.1 and MSWord
for
Windows 2.0 to MSWord for the Macintosh 5.1.  We are saving the file in MSWord
for Windows 2.0 format and using Apple File Exchange 7.0 to put it on a Mac
runing system 7.0.1 tuneup 1.1.1.  We are then using Word for the Mac to
convert
the file.  The text part of the file looks fine but our files tend to have
equations in them.  The equations come over somewhat garble, to fix them we
click on the equation, then MSWord starts searching for the object editor and
eventually comes back with the message "This object editor is not currently
available"

Has anyone else seen this?  any suggesion or possible fixes?

We have called Microsoft, they are stumped and have not been able to reproduce
the problem there.  We sent them copies of the files last week.  I was just
wondering if anyone else had seen this and possibly found a fix.

Thanks for any assistance you might provide.

Lisa Besko
MSU/NSCL

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 12:36:10 GMT
From: Jonathon Fletcher <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fax Modem Software

Hello,

I am looking for some fax software (preferably share/free-ware, but
commercial offerings are also of interest) for a Mac. I'm using a
Miracom courier V32bis Fax modem, but I'm a bit short on the software
side (the modem came with fax software for a PeeCee.)

Any ideas would be gratefully recieved. Please mail to me, I'll summarise
if there are enough.

Many thanks in advance

-Jon

--
Jonathon Fletcher <[e-mail]>

------------------------------

Date: Fri, 09 Apr 93 11:30:33 EET
From: Erkko Autio <[e-mail]>
Subject: Filemaker copy protection overdone

I bought the latest version of Filemaker, version 2.0 Kv2. I soon found
that this was a mistake, thanks to the exaggerated copy protection of
Claris.

I installed the program on my hard disk. I soon changed my 80MB hard disk
to a larger, 170 MB one. The contents of the old hard disk were copied
to the new one. The result: Filemaker refuses to boot, claiming that
it has not been properly installed!

I called the distributor. They proposed that I reinstall the program.
This is not possible, thanks to the limited number of installations from
original disks, installed by Claris.

The distributor then proposed that I remove the Filemaker from my HD
using the Filemaker installation program. The installation program
refuses to do this, hinting that the copy I am using may be illegal.

I have learned something. From now on, before buying software, I check
the copy protection of it. Thank you, Claris, for this expensive lesson!

------------------------------

Date: 12 Apr 1993 8:41:55 CST
From: "Dr. Francis J.  Van Wetering"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: font coversion (Q)

This is probably a FAQ, but here goes:
do you happen to know of any software that will convert a MAC font
to an IBM (hopefully a True Type for windows) font?

Commercial or shareware.... either.
Respond to list or directly to me.

F. J.  Van Wetering               [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 09:15 EST
From: Jim Allison <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fourth Dimension Books, Recommendations Wanted

NetPeople,

I am looking for some how-to books on 4D. Topics should include general
relational DB theory, how to get started, and more advanced topics
such as building a DAL based front end to a mainframe RDB.
Has anyone found some good reference materials?

Thanks, Jim Allison

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 01:10:06 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Bill Phillips)
Subject: FutureBasic Zedcor vs. Microsoft

     Well, I spent the $90 for FutureBasic. It looks great...
but is it worth the effort required to rewrite my courseware
now in SuperCard...for better speed, etc?
     Does anyone have any scoop on VisualBasic for the Mac?
The interface doesn't look (to me) all that great in either
implementation.
     Does Microsoft have a completely new cross-platform
development environment in the works?
           Bill Phillips
           'Last of the Free Market Economists

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 15:12:11 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Erich Boldt)
Subject: Heap Problems (R)

>Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 09:18:51 -0500
>From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
>Subject: Heap problems
>
>>Firstly, many thanks to the very many people who gave me valuable advice on
>>why
>>a System Heap grows after startup.  My main concern now is to discover how
to
>>make it shrink.  The System Heap still sometimes grows to 2,100K.  I can
then
>>use Swatch to free up unnecessary space.  Balloon help then tells me that my
>>System Heap then uses only about 1250k of the 2100k allocated to it.  I know
>>that in System 6.0.x this allocation would never reduce itself, but
understood
>>that with 7.0 it did.  I'm running 7.1 and no matter how long I leave the
mac
>>alone, the System Heap _never_ reduces.
>
>Could you please summarize the answers you received about why the heap
>grows after startup?
>        I've experienced the same problems as you. Sometimes, usually after
>printing on my Deskwriter (which takes up about 1 meg of heap) or when
>using MacSLIP + MacTCP, I pull down "About this Macintosh" and get a
>display which shows a 3 meg system with less than half of the bar being
>black! I figure that this is due to a combination of bad application
>programming practice and less-than-perfect system software.
>        --Marc Bizer
>
>------------------------------


Marc,


I submitted a similar question to Info-Mac quite a while back and have been
remi
ss in posting the results of my query. I got several messages, but no
solutions
to my problem. I finally removed the HP Fonts folder from my System Folder and
t
urning off Use HP Fonts in the Page Setup dialog.


As an unexpected benefit, character spacing improved, making my printed
documents match my screen display.

Hope this works for you. Good Luck!

Erich Boldt

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 20:56:56+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: Help!!! PowerBook file corruption and SCSI problems (R)

Marc Bizer sounds pretty desperate.  In such circumstances I tend to believe
that ANY advice, no matter how apparently silly, may be of potential value;
so let me stick my neck out with an observation of weird SCSI behavior on my
PowerBook 170.  My first SCSI experience involved connecting my Toshiba CD-ROM
drive to said PowerBook.  This drive had two SCSI ports;  and, as I recall,
they claimed a terminator was advisable but not necessary.  Naturally, I
decided to play safe.  I connected the SCSI cable to the bottom port and
put the terminator in the top one.  After loading all the requisite software,
I restarted the PowerBook and discovered that it was oblivious to the CD-ROM
drive.  After many agonizing checks and double-checks, none of which improved
the situation, I was about to write off the CD-ROM as a faulty piece of
equipment.  As a last-ditch effort, I tried installing it on my Classic
(whose only job is SUPPOSED to be to talk to the MIDI interface on my
Clavinova).  The good news was that everything worked, so I knew the CD-ROM
was healthy.  I was about to give up on the PowerBook when one last idea
occurred to me:  I swapped ports, connecting the TOP port to the PowerBook
and putting the terminator in the BOTTOM.  VOILA!  All of a sudden, the
PowerBook believed it was connected to the CD-ROM!  I have no idea why
this should be the case, but the fact that the Classic had no trouble
leads me to believe this is an artifact of the PowerBook architecture.
So, Marc, if you can try the same trick with the SCSI connection to your
external hard drive, you may want to see what happens.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 19:56:04 +0100
From: Reinder Verlinde <[e-mail]>
Subject: HELP needed on MO resurrection

I tried to boot from a Procom removable optical drive and it wouldn't.
Worse yet it destroyed the data on the drive. I am trying to fix this
and (obviously) need all the help I can get.

Situation:
  Disk runs smoothly as second disk on a IIsi, virtual memory on the
  internal disk, 32 bit memory manager enabled.

  Connecting it to a working IIx, 8MB, not 32bit clean, the
  disk won't boot. Suspecting the drive to be too slow I moved the
  Finder to the desktop on the internal disk (making the internal
  disk of the IIx a 'non-startup disk') and restarted. That didn't
  make things better; I had no bootable device left on the IIx (the
  floppy drive is broke; that was the first error I made). Trying the
  other side of the disk didn't help (I don't know whether it contains
  a system, but I figured it wouldn't do any harm). I tried all this
  several times with and without a terminator on the SCSI chain. The
  boot process seemed to start every time for just a tiny bit, was
  retried once and then failed (leading to the blinking question mark)

  Returning to the IIsi the message 'do you want to initialize this
  disk?' pops up on both sides of the magneto-optical. I clik 'Eject'
  and begin to wonder what might be wrong. I dig up the Procom control
  panel and reinstall the drivers (my second fault), again trying
  both sides of the magneto-optical (error 3).

Two (three?) hours later I still don't know what went wrong, but I
think the main damage was done in step 3. Norton doesn't know much
about the drive, but can recover some files with lots of errors and
without recovering file names. With 2 * 300 MB on the disk it is not
feasible to use Norton.

  diving into the disk uncovers the following:
   - partition map seems undamaged (3 partitions, a partition map of $11
     sectors, a driver of $11 sectors and a main partition of $8CDC8
     sectors or about 295,000,000 bytes at 512 bytes/sector
   - boot sector is where it ought to be and contains valid information
   - volume information block is almost completely blank (the 'BD' is
     present, further there are only $EE bytes).
   - something which could be a volume bit map starts direct after it.

I now _hope_ that the only thing lost was the Volume information block.
My questions to the net are the following:

   - Does anybody know a way to retrieve or guess what should be in the
     information block, specifically: where do the extents tree and the
     catalog tree start on a Procom Magneto-optical?

   - Does anybody have an explanation as to what happened to the disk?
     This would help me prevent this in the future.

   - Does anybody have any other tip?

Thanks beforehand and happy easter,

Reinder


PS:

It's three days later and my initial posting bounced, so here is some
extra info:

   - The data on the disk wasn't too critical for our mission (i.e.
     backed up data and programs and assorted sounds, Gifs and the like)

   - After manually reentering the Volume Info Block (using another disk
     as an example) Norton starts to recognize the disk and offers to
     replace the 'damaged volume info block' by its backup. I have two
     questions regarding this:
    - why was the more severe initial damage not recognized as such?
    - where does this backup voulme info block come from? I can't find
      it anywhere on the drive, so if it's there it can not be in the
      Apple_HFS partition.
     Anyway I went ahead with this option (on both sides of the disk, since
     it led to more or less complete recovery later on). Norton could not do
     much more than that, however.
     A friend of mine has SUM; so I tried that out, too. It can't resurrect
     the disk without Nortons help in recovering the 'backup Volume Info
     Block',
     but it _does_ find all files thereafter and is able to recover them.
     However, the user interface of SUM leaves much to be desired. My main
     complaints:
    - the cascade of dialogs to select the recovery type
    - the fact that when a recovery using 'directory search' is stopped
      half-way through the list of files found so far is simply thrown
      away, so even if you only want to recover the first file found
      (its name being shown in the progress window) _or_ just want to
      check whether recovery will work (before, as in my case, starting
      to figure out where to store 100MB of recovered data) you will have
      to wait till the entire disk is scanned.
    - the fact that there is no easy way to select say 100 files to be
      recovered (i.e. shift-click/drag, command-drag don't work, you have
      to click exactly once on every file to be recovered.

Conclusion:

One needs both Norton and SUM to tackle all problems (or one should wait for
the next release of SNUM; the companies are merged or bought each other.
I still am interested to hear opinions as to the _HOW_ and _WHY_ this whole
thing started, however.

Reinder Verlinde

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 01:21:35 PDT
From: Les Ferch <[e-mail]>
Subject: If I were only a hacker I know what I would do (A)

>In 11-77, Allan Hunter wants a program that will give him immediate access
>to the items in the Control Panel under System 6. He's even willing to buy
>commercial software, which leads to my two suggestions:

>1) QuicKeys comes with an extensions called "Panels" that lets you go right
>to any of your control panels, even in System 6. You can define a keystroke
>for each control panel, or just include the appropriate QuicKeys in a
>pop-up QK menu if you prefer.

>2) BeHierarchic (earlier versions shareware; current version
>commercial--it's part of the Kiwi Utilities package) sets up an
>hierarchical menu allowing you to choose any control panel from your Apple
>menu by a single click. I don't know if this utility works in System 6,
>though.

And if neither of those fit the bill, I remember one called HierDA (or
something like that) that worked under System 6 and provided a
hierarchical Control Panel from the Apple menu.

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 00:04:35 GMT
From: "Surya K. Jayaweera" <[e-mail]>
Subject: If I were only a hacker I know what I would do...

[e-mail] writes:

>In response to my wailings about a solution to the slow response-time
>after selecting Control Panel under System 6 (with worries that my
>penchant for nice add-ons will only make it longer and slower over
>time), the only good suggestion I got was to use Gatekeeper Application
>which can open single CPs and automatically opens those last opened.
>Unfortunately, Gtkpr App takes too long to suit me, too...longer than
>going the usual route.  I'm impatient:  I want access to them suckers
>like RIGHT NOW!

>If I knew how, I'd write an INIT or a replacement DA that would FIX the
>Control Panel problem, yeah I would...no more System 6 waiting for the
>whole damn thing to land on your screen, no more System 7 waiting for
>the CPs and then double-clicking (better than Sys 6 but still awkward
>and inelegant).  I'd make it so that when you select Control Panel
>under the Apple menu, a pop-to-the-side submenu would appear listing
>the Control Panels in a scrollable list, with "Open All" at the top
>and the option of selecting just the one you want running down below
>in an order you set with user prefs.  Until you select one, the memory
>isn't reaching for anything more complicated than the list and the prefs
>file.

>Yo, for this I would pay shareware fees with exquisite enthusiasm.  Hell,
>I'd pay commercial software bucks for it, for that matter.  (Hey, is
>this, perhaps, the kind of thinking that leads folks down the primrose
>path to hackerdom?  But I don't know HOW to program!!...)

>- Allan Hunter
Tried using MenuChoice (or even NowMenus)???  MenuChoice doesn't have all
those fancy features, but it's shareware, cheap ($15), and I love it!

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 10:31:26 +0200 (WET-DST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IIci ---> Quadra 700 upgrade

Hallo folks,
        'hope you have spent a good Eastern (btw in Italy
the wetaher was pretty bad,damn!)!

I own a IIci and I am considering the upgrade to a Quadra 700.I
know that it won't be possible to go any further,but I would
like to take this last chance to update my system before it is
too late.
I don't really need to upgrade my system;for my personal use a
IIci would be pretty enough,so I would like to upgrade as late
as possible, so as to take advantage of any last minute price
cuts.
The question is:does anybody have any idea about when the last
minute is? My local dealer tells me to hurry up.Is he correct?
How long will the upgrade last now that the IIci has been
discontinued?

Thanks in advance to all of you.

            Stefano Pelli  [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 12:12:09 +0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IIci and LCIII continued

My attempt at a comparison of these two machines is driving me nuts.
Comparing a document on the IIci (system 7.0.1) and the LCIII (system 7.1),
same document, same program, same set-up and all, and one has a different
amount of text on the page than the other, sometimes amounting to 3 to 6
lines (the right to left justification is unchanged, i.e. the words are in
the proper place).  This means that the text on the bottom of the page on
one computer is on the top of the page on the other.  Very Confusing!!!!

I would appreciate anyone letting me know why this is.....thanks, mike

Michael Silverstein, Materials Engineering, Technion......

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 16:45:06 EST
From: Robert DeMaria
<[e-mail]>
Subject: IIci vs LCIII

>Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 19:08:22 +0300
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: IIci vs LCIII

>I am trying to compare a MacIIci (8MB, no cache card, FPU) and an LCIII
>(the same) to decide which is better for work (heavier tasks) and which for
>home.  The external differences are that the LCIII has a microphone (not
>all that important) and the IIci and monitor can be booted from the power
>switch (I can survive without it).  Are there more significant differences
>that I should be aware of (I will be using a StyleWriter at home and a
>laser at work.  The only other device/card will be a modem or fax/modem for
>use at home)?

Have you read April's edition of MACWORLD?  They have an interesting chart on
page 112 and 113 on comparing MACs.  It seems to me that for twice the price
of
an LCIII you can get a IIci with the only advantage being the NuBus slots.  I
hope you aren't planning on expanding your RAM to more than 8 MEG because
according to the chart you won't be able to on the IIci.  The LC III can
accomodate up to 36 MEG.  I bet the LC III would run as fast as the IIci in
math
tests with the FPU.  If you really want expandability why not up for a IIvx?
At
least Apple is not planning on discontinuing it this spring.

Hope this helps

Bob DeMaria

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 8:37:56 EDT
From: Robert Szarek <[e-mail]>
Subject: ImageWriter I to Mac IIci

I just had an old Apple ImageWriter I land in my hands. This printer has
the old Apple DB-9 interface cable but my Mac IIci has a printer port with
DIN-8 ports. I was wondering if someone with an antique Mac knows the pin
configuration of an ImageWriter I printer. The printer did not come with
a manual. Also can I use the ImageWriter II printer driver (Rdev) with
this printer ?

--
Robert Szarek
Land Software Engineering/ DND Canada
e-mail: [e-mail]
    [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 8:53:44 +0100 (BST)
From: Charlie Stross <[e-mail]>
Subject: In defense of the Adjustable Kbd [C]

>Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 04:29:45 -0500
>From: [e-mail] (Kiran Wagle)
>Subject: In defense of the Adjustable Kbd

>I've just had the good fortune to try an Adjustable Keyboard and I'm busily
>looking for one of my own.  This is SUCH an improvement on the standard
>keyboards to easily be worth twice the price.  I'll let you decide for
>yourself about the feel of the keys--I haven't liked the feel of any keys
>since the original IBM PC keyboard's.

>To address a few of the specific objections raised on this list:
    :
    :

Yes, yes, yes, BUT.

Here in the UK I've just seen my first adjustable keyboard. I've
also seen the price tag.

Three hundred pounds (or $450).

No thanks ...

If it cost not more than 50% more than a normal keyboard I'd get
one. But this is ridiculous. (The dreaded imported product price
flame strikes again :)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charlie Stross aka [e-mail] .....




------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 18:54:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Russell Cotton <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #78

in reply to the one-armed-bandit game.
there is a game called MacBandit that is just what you are looking for.
i don't know where you can get it, but it has to be out there somewhere.

Lance Cotton

------------------------------

Date: 12 Apr 1993 09:00:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael A. McGuire" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #78

In Article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (The Moderators) wrote:
>Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1993 07:02:33 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Stuart Greenfield <[e-mail]>
>Subject: APS DAT and Network FAXmode
>
>  Our organization is looking into obtaining a DAT backup tape unit and
>network fax modem. MacWorld gave an editor's choice award to the APS
>TurboDAT and I'm considering ordering this unit. We'll be using this on an
>Appleshare network comprised of about 30 Mac IIci (8/80). We are also
>planning on installing a network fax modem. Both Cypress Research and PSI
>offer network fax modems. I would appreciate any comments on the DAT drive
>or network fax modem to acquire. Please direct to me and I'll summarize.
>TIA and HAGD.
>
>stuart greenfield ([e-mail])

I have an APS DAT drive (not the model you are going to order) and have been
very satisfied both with the dirve and APS.


Michael A. McGuire, :-)
[e-mail]
UTCC - User Services

------------------------------

Date: 12 Apr 1993 09:14:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael A. McGuire" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #78

In Article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (The Moderators) wrote:
>Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1993 11:19 EST
>From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Shutdown Extension (A)
>
>Dear Netters,
>Michael McGuire asks why an extension to shut down the MAC automatically
after
>a period of time would be wrong. In reply I say:  The Shut Down
>feature in System 7, allows you to quit from every open Application/Desk
>Accessory, and save any changes you have made before turning off the MAC.
>This safety device would be compromised by an auto-shutdown INIT if one would
>exist in the programming field.  The next best thing is screen savers which
>turn on after the MAC has shut down.  These do not compromise the safety of
>leaving the MAC unattended to shut down.   After Dark (Commercial Software)
>and Moire (Shareware) are two that I know of.  I don't know if the new
version
>of Pyro does the same thing.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>ABRODY @ CLARKU.

Thanks for the reply.  The problem is that "people" do not "Shut Down" the
Macs when they are done. They just leave them running.  Tying up resources.
What I want an extension do to is to use "Shut Down". Guess I will have to
write it myself since it appears it is not out there.


Michael A. McGuire, :-)
[e-mail]
UTCC - User Services

------------------------------

Date: 12 Apr 1993 09:33:59 EST
From: DrewP <[e-mail]>
Subject: Inside Macintosh vols I-V

   YO! Programmers, listen up!

   I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but did you know that a
HyperCard stack is available from ftp.apple.com that *IS* Inside
Macintosh volumes I-V?
   This stack takes about 9 megs on your hard disk, but it is, as far
as I know, complete.

   Check it out. (I think it's in dts/mac/docs/stack/spinside or something..
Apple has organized their books, now how about organizing those online
directories??? Yes, this stack is organized logically... sort of.)

       Drew

   Any other interesting little tid-bits? mail me... [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:09:41 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Anderson)
Subject: insurance for Macs/peripherals/software (Q)

[e-mail] writes:

>Does anyone own any insurance for Mac equipment?  I've been thinking
>lately that perhaps I should invest in some, perhaps as part of some
>type of renter's insurance; but then something from a company called
>`Safeware' (Columbus, OH) showed up in my snailmailbox yesterday.

>What's your opinion?  Is insurance for Mac equipment and programs worth
>getting?  And, if so, what's the best `type' (whatever that means) of
>insurance to get?  And from where?  And how much is considered reasonable,
>and at what cost?

>Lots of questions, but I don't know where else to turn for good,
>honest advice on this.  Thanks for your help.

I have insurance on all my computer equipment, but it's wrapped up with my
business insurance policy.  It's not terribly expensive.  Outside of the
business policy, I'm not sure how I'd go about it.

David Anderson
nashville tn

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 09:38:36 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LASER USER 2.5 (Q)

Hello Netters!

I'd like to contact the maker of LASER USER 2.5. I tried the E-Mail
address:
'[e-mail]' but the Host doesn't exist according to
the mailer.

Please, help me. I am looking for a program that will password protect
access to laser printers on the network. I think that with a small
alteration Laser User should be able to do the job. Students are not
allowed to use certain Laserprinters (like the colour ones) and I would
like to protect the printers against misuse. Now students have to use my
machine in order to print, because the one in the lab is disconnected from
the net.

Thanks in advance,

Andre' van der Ham.
E-mail: [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 09:39:53 EDT
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter Select 300 vs. 310

I just recently installed a LaserWriter 310 to a client's system. It works
beautifully. It is etremely easy to install and use.

HOWEVER, IT DOES NOT support FinePrint/PhotoGrade, not network-able (uses a
serial connection or parallel port [Windows-IBM]), does not switch ports
automatically, does not keep both ports active simultaneously, and probably
doesn't do a few other things...

IT DOES have true PostScript Level 1, which means it takes most of the burden
off the computer during printing. Background printing from and LC III 8/160
was smooth and relatively fast.

The Select 300 DOES support FinePrint and PhotoGrade as options, can be
networked via GrayShare software, and I think it keeps both ports active.
HOWEVER, it is not a PostScript printer, and I would expect that networking
via GrayShare wold have an impact on the host computer's performance.
Backgroundprinting should also put more burden on the processor than a
PostScript printer.
Therefore, the Select 300 might get better as your computer gets faster. It
willstill not be PostScript. Upgrading it to PostScript (a 310) can be done,
but
you lose FinePrint/PhotoGrade if you've purchased these options. However, a
300
with FinePrint/PhotoGrade should be a great quality printer for a relatively
low price. Performance may suffer, but output should look nice.

If performance is an issue, buy a screaming fast computer or get a Select 310
and let its RISC chip do the work. Its output is still nice.

Finally, a brief example of the difference in performance between a
QuickDraw and a PostScript printer. I purchased a used LaserWriter IISC,
which is a QuickDraw printer (the computer does all the work). It was
eventually upgraded to a LaserWriter IIf w/8 MB of RAM (FinePrint &
PhotoGrade turned on). I have a series of Excel spreadsheets I print,
ten (10) pages total. The IISC (QuickDraw) took 3 hours (no misprint!)
to print. The IIf (PostScript w/68030 computer inside) takes less than
a 30 minutes for the same output. Output times from Microsoft Word
showed less difference. Excel really taxes a printer's drawing ability.

ONE LAST THING: If you get a Select 300 or 310, BUY ADDITIONAL RAM!!!
The Select 310's 1.5 MB of RAM may not print some TrueType fonts
because of RAM limits. The Select 310 only has 17 fonts built into it,
so most fonts will need to be downloaded to the printer's RAM. I would
recommend a 4 MB RAM upgrade (to 5.5) vs. a 1 MB upgrade (to 2.5) if you
use more fonts or complex graphics. I'm not yet sure how a RAM upgrade
affects the 300, but I doubt it could hurt!

Please include the following at the top of any response:
To Rick @ pdbain:

--Rick

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 11:50:12 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: LCIII free video expansion to 32k colors

Just so you all know, an LCIII does not require ANY video expansion to be able
to display 32 thousand colors. This fact is described in the manual for the
LCIII.

I don't really understand why apple doesn't mention it on any of the
advertising
material, but here is how it works:

One of the available video modes on the LCIII is 640x400. The normal (assumed)
resolution is 80 pixels taller than that - 640x480. If you switch to the
smaller screen area, it turns out that 512k of VRAM is enough to display the
full 32 thousand colors. No kidding.

The bottom line is that if you temporarily want to give up 17% of your screen
area, then you can have 32k colors (and presumably quick time, although I
haven't tried that) without paying $80+ for the extra 256k of VRAM.

Could all of you please tell anyone you know would care about this fact? It is
real & true - no hoax. I don't understand apple's motivation for hiding it.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 10:19:39 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC III or Centris 610 for math-related (esp SPSS)

I am the one who's brother is going to get SPSS on the Mac based on
his experiences on the Mac and having used mainframe version of SPSS.
This has been OK-d by Info-Mac and Mac-L opinion.

Now, we must purchase a suitable Mac. He can afford the LC III and
the Centris 610 (if I give him some money, which I offered to do
without being asked).

Anyway, the 610 has no FPU (math coprocessor) but the LCIII has an
FPU (optional). Will the 68040 without FPU outperform a 68030 with
FPU? I think it might, in part due to the various caches that the
68040 has built into it. After all, statistics has higly repetitious
mathematical operations done on large amounts of data.

Anyone care to confirm or disagree? I'd feel much better if I got
some comments on this. THANKS! -Pete Tamas

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 12:40:31 BST
From: John McKinley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Liken - is it any good? (Q)

We're considering installing Liken on a central Unix box here. It's a network
machine, rather than being on someone's desk, Sun based. I'd be grateful for
comments from people who've tried the thing out already. Thanks.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 11:14:00 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Insurance (R)

John Thoo asks:

>Does anyone own any insurance for Mac equipment?  I've been thinking
>lately that perhaps I should invest in some, perhaps as part of some
>type of renter's insurance; but then something from a company called
>`Safeware' (Columbus, OH) showed up in my snailmailbox yesterday.
>
>What's your opinion?  Is insurance for Mac equipment and programs worth
>getting?  And, if so, what's the best `type' (whatever that means) of
>insurance to get?  And from where?  And how much is considered reasonable,
>and at what cost?

What did this 'Safeware' outfit offer? Just as a personal opinion, I think
some sort of insurance on computers in the home is a must, but I also
think it's a field ripe for enormous rip-offs. My renter's insurance
covers my equipment if it's stolen or flooded or whatever, and I have
an Applecare policy to cover electrical/mechanical ills. This last is not
cheap, but for me it's the only way to go, because I can budget for it and
know that no matter what mega-$$$$ component of my system fails, I can
get it fixed. For someone with a larger bank account, it might make more
sense to gamble that by not paying premiums you could save enough money to
cover any problems that might come up. Then again, maybe not...
                                   Pat

Pat Ullmann  [e-mail] or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

------------------------------

Date: 13 Apr 93 09:57:30 MET
From: "Jozsef Horvath"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac software through PC?

This is from a novice Hungarian netter--wondering whether I can get
Macintosh (system 6) software downloaded on a PC 386, which is what I
use when reading Info-Mac messages.

Please let me know how one goes about doing it.  Is this at all
possible?  Can I actually put in a Mac disk in a PC unit and extract
a file on it that I'll be able to run on my Mac Plus?

Sorry if this is all too basic, but I am rather new to file exchange
b/n PCs and Macs.


Horvath, Jozsef
Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 11:40:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacWrite Pro Opinions

Info-Mac Readers--

So, Claris finally shipped MacWrite Pro.  Is it everything it
was advertised to be?  Opinions are solicited.

As the official Lab Computer Nerd at my office ("Nerds working
harder for YOU!"), I am often asked my opinion of the latest
and greatest software.  My opinion is generally ignored, but
it is nice to be asked (e.g. my opinion of MS Word 5.x ;-) ).


I dutifully--even eagerly--paid my $69 (U.S.) upgrade fee, and
installed MacWrite Pro (1.0v1, March 1993) over my personal and
venerable MacWrite II.  After about one week of light use I can
say that MW Pro is *pretty* good.  Venerable MW II had the
following pluses:

   [] Fast.
   [] Small--I could carry it around on a single 800k floppy.
   [] *Great* Macintosh interface (no flames, please).
   [] MW II never--repeat, NEVER--crashed (can MS Word users
      make that statement?)

So far, I can report that items [] 2, 3, and 4 have held; MW Pro
uses up 636K of hard disk for the main program file (but lots
of dictionaries, translators, etc.), and calls for 1 meg of memory.
I still have to get used to "styles," but it hasn't crashed yet.
My two complaints are, (1) saving is SLOW--two to four minutes to
save a 100k text file on my 68000 Classic machine; (2) Claris still
hasn't put those ever-useful "New folder" buttons in the Save As
dialogs (I thought that was a System 7 feature?)  Has anyone else
formed an opinion, yet?

Clint

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 6:21:38 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mail order to foreign lands - a personal experience

There seems to be a bit of a discussion of ordering from mail-order
companies and having them refuse to deliver due to export regulations.
My experiences are interesting.
I purchased my hardware while living in Hong Kong. Software there is
through the ceiling to say the least. I stupidly paid the equivalent
of US$110.00 for AfterDark & More AfterDark bundle while the American
mail order companies were selling it for US$39.00. After that
realisation, I faxed a mail-order company and ordered Norton Utilities
for Macintosh 2.0. When I received it in Hong Kong, there was a label
on it stating "NOT FOR EXPORT - FOR USE IN THE USA AND CANADA ONLY."
Next to it was another label "IMPORTANT NOTICE - US State Department
license required to exprt this product outside the US and Canada.)
Hmmm...berry intaresting -- guess they have such a license.
Meanwhile a friend of mine, living in Canada, order SAM 3.0 from the
same company. He was told that they could not ship that product into
Canada. So he had it shipped to a P.O. Box in the states, drove down
to pick it up and returned. Canada Customs let him bring it across,
after paying the required duties and taxes. When he unwrapped the
package, there was a label on the box "NOT FOR EXPORT - FOR USE IN THE
USA AND CANADA ONLY."
My point? Both products are by the same company (Symantec), and
ordered from the same mail order company. They shipped to Hong Kong,
but not to Canada. Duh, go figure!
A sidebar: I understand that in Australia, goernment regulations make
it illegal to order or bring in software purachased in another
country, even if the company will ship.
G'Day
Stephen Grady
Part-time Kinesiology Undergrad (for the last 4 years and next 10)
Simon Fraser University
British Columbia (Canada's answer to California)
Keep on Tri-ing!!!!!!!!!    8-) (to little sleep)

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 19:20:53 EDT
From: Andrew Ross <[e-mail]>
Subject: Maps please-some geography with politics

Hello,
Do you know of any sources for world or country maps, that indicate
political and provincial boundaries with some geographical
features - ie rivers, etc.?  At the moment, I'm looking for
maps of China and neighbouring countries to include in some
papers I'm writing,  but all maps will be useful in the future.

Thankx for you help,
Andrew Ross  ([e-mail])
     Dept of Studies in International Development
     University of Ottawa, Canada

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 16:37:45 cdt
From: "Duckenfield,Paul" <[e-mail]>
Subject: microcom modem

Does anyone know if a CommToolBox tool for a Microcom modem exists and if so,
where I could get it? Thanks!

Paul Duckenfield        Grinnell College        [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:25:14 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Ken B Kirksey)
Subject: Norton Encrypt

Does anyone know if Nortron Encrypt "security wipes" the plaintext file
after it has been encrypted?  I looked through the docs, but couldn't find
any mention.  Thanks,


             Ken

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 22:03:06 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Paper Paster 1.0

I understand you have a file posted on the Sumex Stanford server, called
Paper Paster.

I'm the publisher of Wallpaper(tm) and I and my attornies feel that this
program violates Wallpaper's copyrights, so I'm asking that it be removed,
wherever it's posted, that all distribution of the program cease.
Distribution of Paper Paster could result in legal liability.

I'd appreciate it if you'd remove the file, ask the uploader to stop
distribution of it, and also post my note on the Internet, so people can be
alerted to the problems with the file.

1. Paper Paster was written and posted anonymously. I believe that the author
knew he was breaking the law and that that is why he didn't sign his work.
With an anonymous program, as with the author of a virus, there is no
recourse when there are problems. There are problems indeed with Paper
Paster.

2. Paper Paster strips copyright information from all Wallpaper files. We at
Thought I Could (r) put the copyright information in the Get Info dialog.

3. Paper Paster strips all the author and attribution information from
Wallpaper files. Each Wallpaper pattern has two fields for artists' names.
Wallpaper will automatically add your name as second artist if you're editing
a pattern, or as first artist if you're starting a pattern from scratch. The
artist attribution fields are independent of the copyright notice which could
sometimes be found in the artist attribution fields, but also is always in
our Wallpaper patterns' Get Info comments. Paper Paster destroys all this
information: both the artists' fields and the Get Info field.

You can see by TIC's  attention to such matters that we care very much to
respect artists' rights. We don't ship any pattern without permission.

3. Paper Paster screws up everything to do with your desktop patterns if you
own Wallpaper. I presume this is at least partly because it masquerades _as_
Wallpaper by taking Wallpaper's file type and creator as its own. So you
might need to be careful to keep it compressed, or in the trash, if you own
Wallpaper or else everything to do with desktop patterns and their icons,
too, will be totally unpredictible.

4. Wallpaper uses a proprietary file format. The patterns that ship with
Wallpaper and are created for it, are inherent to the value of the program.
Paper Paster converts Wallpaper patterns so that the new competing products
can read Wallpaper files. The benefit goes one way: toward the new copycat
programs, which use the ppat format, and commensurately, the value of
Wallpaper is diminished.

We're willing to come to agreements with other companies who might want to
license the Wallpaper format or Wallpaper files, but the author of Paper
Paster is attempting to undermine Wallpaper by circulating a program that
brings the exceptional Wallpaper patterns into competing programs without our
authorization.

He also places the source code for Paper Paster into the public domain, but
he doesn't own the code he used for Wallpaper's file format. He's
distributing Thought I Could's trade secrets, and does not have the right to
place them into the public domain.

For any one of these reasons, we'd like to ask you to suspend any
distribution of Paper Paster. We intend to pursue this matter legally. In our
opinion the distribution of Paper Paster could make any distributor of Paper
Paster legally liable.

If you'd post this message where your members can find it, I'd be grateful.

Thanks very much for your help in this.

Sincerely yours,

LInda Kaplan, President
Thought I Could

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 11:14:21 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Bill Hamilton)
Subject: Performa software differences

Last Thanksgiving I helped my father pick out a Performa 400, which he loves.
Trouble is, every so often he asks me about Performa-specific features I'm
not familiar with (e.g. the Document List).  The manuals that came with it
seem to be standard Macintosh manuals, and the online tutorial seems to be
the standard Macintosh tutorial,  Is there a book which outlines the
differences?
A related question is: The screen pattern selections in the general control
panel in the Performa are awful.  Can I replace the performa's general
control panel with the one used in the mac so he can have choices other
than splotchy blue mud, splotchy green mud and a few others?

Thanks

Bill Hamilton

------------------------------

Date: 13 Apr 1993 15:19:42 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Presentation Technologies - Address

My dept has a Montage FR1 film recorder that has recently
had some difficulty with some PICT files.  Files generated by
PowerPoint 3.0 and Photoshop 1.07 do not image correctly ( Files
generated by Photoshop 1.0 work correctly).  I suspect the ImageQ
program needs updating.  I have been unable to reach the company
using the phone numbers in the manuals.  Does anyone have a current
number for the company?

Thank you

Ken Brantley
Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX  79430

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 19:30:51 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Nikhil Kapani)
Subject: Printer driver needed

Does anyone know if a printer driver for the IBM Personal Printer II exists
for the Mac?

                          Nikhil Kapani

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 16:35:54 EDT
From: Adam Schenker (GE) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Proposal: Mac hardware guide

With Apple releasing more and more Mac products (not just CPUs, but printers,
scanners, modems, etc.), it is easy for one to get lost or get the specs
for 2 or more machines confused. So I am proposing that we (the Apple
Internet community that is), come up with one all-encompasing guide
to all Mac products since the Mac 128k. The information will include
the technical specifications of each machine such as processor and speed,
amount of RAM and RAM configurations, number and types of ports and
benchmarks. Other info to be included would be: date of introduction, date
of discontinuation, approximate price, Apple's part number (including
options), etc.

What do you guys think? I would be happy to edit and maintain such a file,
but it is up to you guys to get me lots of accurate information. :)
Send me e-mail to the address below telling me what you think.

P.S.

I realise there are some lists like this already, but this is going to be
more than a 'synopsis sheet', it will be a complete purchasing and
technical guide to Macintosh hardware. Each entry will also include
special advantages or quirks of each item (Like the IIvx running at the
speed of about the IIci :).

Adam Schenker                  Department of Computer Science & Engineering
[e-mail]     University of South Florida
                   College of Engineering

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 12:45:05 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Resource Detective Needed

Does anyone know of a utility that will scan the resource fork of an
application and list all text items that appear in dialog boxes, menu items
etc. etc.

I am looking to translate some software (with permission from the author)
into a French version and want to make sure that I will catch all text in
the resource fork.  Since my French is not that good, I want to be able to
farm out the individual parts and would like to have a utility that will
list the items for me.

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 12:31:59 MET DST
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Rodime Hard Disk (R)

> i was just given an OLD rodime external drive (the front of the box
> says 45 plus) and i'm trying to hook it up to my IIsi.
>
> my question is: does it need a driver, and if so, where do i get one?

Kevin,

You probably need software to re-format this disk - unless it's
formatted with a driver compatible with your system and has the
right interleave factor.

Rodime was well-known some time ago, and I know that a colleague
has bought a Rodime disk 2 or 3 years ago - however I don't know
if they still exist.

However, you could use a universal formatter such as Silverlining
(from LaCie, $ 149) or HardDisk Toolkit (from FWB, $ ???). I own
Silverlining, which is able to work with virtually any drive make
and size. Some friends of mine use HardDisk Toolkit, and they say
that it is also very good.

LaCie sells directly, you can reach them at 1-800-999-1354 or
[phone]; fax: [phone]. Latest version is 5.42 to
my knowledge.

HardDisk Toolkit is to my knowledge not sold directly, but you
may ask FWB where to obtain it. FWB is at [phone] phone,
[phone] fax. No toll-free number in their ads.

Best regards, Christian.

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 12:05:59 U
From: "Westemeier*, Ed" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SCSI conflict

WRT Gary Goldberg's SCSI conflict problem, I can offer two bits of advice from
my own experiences:

1.  I had a similar problem last year.  After SIX trips back to the local
Apple
dealer's repair bench, the problem turned out to be simply a bad SCSI cable.
Replaced it and all problems magically disappeared.  Try buying a new
SCSI-SCSI
cable or two, and replacing your existing cables until (hopefully) the problem
goes away.

2.  This is not exactly the official line, but I have found that some SCSI
devices have terminating resistors in them that don't look like resistors.
Try
removing all external terminators, since your problem may by TOO MUCH
termination.  Again, the voice of experience here.

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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:26:01 -0400
From: Gary Goldberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: SCSI Problem - Thanks for the help so far!

I just wanted to post an note saying thank you - I must have received a
hundred replies since Saturday. Many different ideas, all good. I've got
a friend coming over Thursday night with his IIcx, and we'll test the
device chain on his. I feel like I'm real close to a solution, although
I'm hoping it's not the  replace-the-motherboard answer.

About the reward. I'm serious about giving these, but with all the replies,
what I've been doing is saving them in order of mail reception, and the
first one who had the right answer gets it. I sort of feel like a game show
host, and I apologize in advance if this ends up annoying someone, but
I didn't for the life of me think that 75 people would respond. I guess it
helps to post a reward.

I intend to summarize all the responses in a document that discusses SCSI
problem resolution, and I'll post it to c.s.m.hardware, info-mac, and submit
it to sumex. Thanks for all the help, folks. - Gary

(P.S. - At least 75 people, feels like a hundred. ;-)

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 11:02:14 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Guy LOUIS)
Subject: Set Port for serial printer driver in HyperCard (Q)

Hello from Belgium,

Is there an XCMD to set the port of a printer driver in HyperCard?

The ChoosePrinter XCMD from Rinaldi chooses (and changes) the driver but it
doesn't allow to choose the port (modem or printer)...

You may reply by E-Mail. I will summerize for the net.

Guy LOUIS   ([e-mail])

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 19:09:15 CST
From: "Harry Hahn"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: shareware wish list

Thanks to everyone who responded to my recent shareware wish-list
request (IM #77). There was enough interest that I thought a summary
posting might be of interest:

1) Re: Quote(r)DA. It's out there. Somewhere. Archie, info-mac,
wuarchive (even info-mac old), and umich all tell me that it doesn't
exist in FTP/gopherspace but hopefully I'll be getting my mitts on a
copy from one of the kind souls who offered. As some people pointed
out, both Alpha and BBEdit allow you to do this internally, but I
wanted something external (see below).

2) Re: Quit All. Nothing firm out there on this (yet). As one person
pointed out, a Restart command does this quite nicely ;) but the 71
second rebooting process is kind of a drag. This does bring up the
point that all I want is everything that the Restart command does,
short of the restart itself, so I still cling to the belief that
this should be an easy patch. One reply mentioned something in the
works, so I'll keep my fingers crossed. Until then, I DO use
PwrSwitcher which at least relieves me from mousing (or trackballing
as it were).

3) Re: text editors. Despite the proselytizing of BBEdit and Alpha
fans, I'm still not satisfied with the hard return v. autowrapping
issue. A problem I have with hard returns is that I use Pegasus Mail
as a client for my Novell-based mailer and Pegasus Mail, in it's
infinite wisdom :( (well, that's a whole other posting) allows only
68 columns per line. Go ahead and count the columns in this post.
That's why it's 'narrower' than everyone else's. You can imagine
what a hard return would do when I read in text files for mailing.
And sure, I can probably set the text-editor to wrap at 68 columns
(then how about quotes?) but autowrapping is just so much more
elegant, more MACINTOSH. 68 columns is so... 85%. The patch that one
person pointed out (/ex/text-editor-patches-123.hqx) is a step in
the right direction but I'm still waiting for a complete solution.

Once again, thanks to the following: Andrea Scasso, Jerry Wilcox,
Bo Parker, Tim Wong, Mark Nagata, Fred Berg, Robert L. McMillin,
Joseph A Cerro, and Michael P. Hecht for their input. If you replied
and your name isn't mentioned, or if you replied to an address at
ucla.edu, please re-send your message. Pegasus Mail and I don't get
along and something somewhere got screwed up.

Sorry for the lengthiness of this. I promise to keep quiet now.

Peace,
Harry Hahn
[e-mail]     |
UW-Madison, Dept. of AH&BS  | (This space for rent)

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Date: 12 Apr 1993 14:44:05 -0800
From: Milo - UAF Academic Computing <[e-mail]>
Subject: Silver Lining/HD Icon Problems

    I've been having some problems with my Quantum 80 meg HD ever since
I formatted and partitioned it with Silverlining.  For some reason, Sys7
no longer allows me to do a get info on the drive, which is the only way I
can think of to change the icons (ugly, in my opinion) that come with the
SL software...  I've tried re-installing the software...  does anyone know
what sort of problem could this be?

------------------------------

Date: Tuesday, 13 Apr 1993 2:37 CDT
From: Joel Cunningham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Source for 25 Mhz FPU and LC III RAM

First, thanks to Allan M. Bloom, John Churchill, and Thomas Richard
Parker for their response to my question about Suitcase and System 7.1.
After thinking it over I've decided just to toss Suitcase (farewell
old friend...). The way 7.1 handles fonts is ok for my needs.

Todays challenge: Does anyone know of a good source for 25 Mhz FPUs
and RAM for the LC III. I know I could look in the back "XYZ
magazine", but I am hoping for some first-hand experiences.

                  thanks!
                  Joel Cunningham

                  "Push the button, Frank."

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 09:45:48 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Subject Lines

Just be aware that some users can only see the first 25 or so characters
of a given subject line...just pretend you're using an IBM (GASP!) when
you write the subject...I'm not saying FILENAME.EXT but at least make it
concise and to the point.  That would be a big boon to all of us...

--bmunday
[e-mail]
--Brandon Munday

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 18:10:59 -0400
From: "Cedric Bhihe" <[e-mail]>
Subject: submission re keyboard_mapping

[  Dear Moderators :
This is a query I am posting as I think I am not alone in asking
the same question. Please post as : /misc/key_re-mapping.txt
or in another directory as you fit. This supersedes the first post
I made to sumex recently. Thank you.  ]

I own an Apple Extended Keyboard II. In addition to being
"aircraft-carrier" size,the object puzzles me in two respects :

1) the num-lock and scroll-lock LEDs do not function (they never did
but until now I never thought ill of it). Is this a normal
"feature" or is something wrong ? Note that I tested the LEDs and
they are not burnt out. Also note that the Caps-lock LED works fine.

2) More interesting and MUCH more debilitating is the fact that
the keys :

    F5, F8, F9, F10, F11, F14 and F15

are mapped to the same thing as keys :

    F12, F6, Home, Left Arrow, Page Up, Down Arrow and F7

respectively.

********   Now that IS ridiculous! ********
Why would Apple map two keyboard keys to the same code ?
I simply don't understand. Is there a way to remap
those Function keys to something unique so they can actually be
USED for anything other than the functions they duplicate ?
Any suggestions will be most welcome.

I will summarize and post if enough interesting replies come
through.

Thanks a lot. --  Cedric Bhihe, [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 13:47:55 EDT
From: Craig A. Summerhill <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1 and TrueType Fonts on PowerBook 170

We have System 6.08 (older Mac SE) and 7.01 (Mac II or greater) site-license
packs for our organization.

I recently got several new Macintosh IIvx machines.  They came with System
7.1 installed.  So, I thought I would purchase the upgrade to move all the
newer Macs to System 7.1.  However, when I tried to put System 7.1 on my
Macintosh PowerBook 170, I ran into a little snag...

Under System 7.1, Adobe TrueType appears to be built-in to the Mac OS,
because it does not require the TrueType System Extension to be loaded (in
fact, if you put TruType in the Extensions folder, you get an error at
bootup saying TrueType is already loaded and it is being skipped).  All
applications run smoothly with 7.1 on our Mac IIci and Mac IIvx computers.

Repeatedly, however, the same applications and data on the PowerBook 170
can not find the TrueType fonts.  This makes displays look really bad, and
the print driver bitmaps everything at printing time (which takes ages on
some applications, and doesn't look very good).

Has anyone else experienced this problem?  Is it possible that System 7.1
can not be used on a PowerBook 170?  What am I missing?

Please reply directly to me, as I am not on the list.  Anyone interested
in this topic can get a summary from me at a later date, if so desired...
--
   Craig A. Summerhill, Systems Coordinator and Program Officer
   Coalition for Networked Information
   21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C.   20036
   Internet: [e-mail]   AT&Tnet [phone]

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 11:06:32 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: System Heap (C)

Marc Bizer asks:

>Could you please summarize the answers you received about why the heap
>grows after startup?
>        I've experienced the same problems as you. Sometimes, usually after
>printing on my Deskwriter (which takes up about 1 meg of heap) or when
>using MacSLIP + MacTCP, I pull down "About this Macintosh" and get a
>display which shows a 3 meg system with less than half of the bar being
>black! I figure that this is due to a combination of bad application
>programming practice and less-than-perfect system software.

Hi, Marc. I don't know if you were following the thread a few weeks ago
on this list, but I also asked netland for help with a similar problem,
and the answers I received indicated that the DeskWriter drivers, version
3.1, had a lot to do with my problems. If you're using this version of the
drivers, you might want to try using version 2.0 instead and see if some
of the weirdness abates. It did for me.

Good luck,
      Pat

P.S. I too would be interested in seeing a summary of current responses...

Pat Ullmann  [e-mail] or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 16:23:50 EDT
From: Peter DiCamillo <[e-mail]>
Subject: TN3270 and Can I get back files (A)

Clinton Collins described how is unable to use Paste in tn3270.  Old
versions of tn3270 did not support Paste.  However, the latest versions
do support it, so that this should no longer be a problem.  To get
the latest update to tn3270, 2.4a3, use anonymous FTP to
brownvm.brown.edu, and retrieve the file tn24a3.seahqx.  Another recent
addition is support for multiple sessions.

Peter

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 12:53:58 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Upgrading LCI, LCII, LCIII to faster machines

Can anyone let me know what the most effective way of upgrading
LCs so that they run faster is? [Astonishing syntax, isn't it?]
It seems to take the LCI and LCII forever to do anything. I'm
interested in processor/accelerator as well as memory solutions.

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

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 11:18:35 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: using Sun 4 19'' colour monitor on MacII [A]

Michael Fischer [e-mail] asks:
> Any pointers to a 8/16/24 bit colour NUBUS video card which can drive a
> Sun 4 19'' colour monitor?

get the file sumex-aim.stanford.edu: /info-mac/report/sun-color-hookup.hqx
wich is a MS Word document describing the (tedious)
hardware change (on some sun monitors) needed to
to connect them to (some build in) mac video

hope it helps

Jean-Francois Sygnet  <[e-mail]>


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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 93 15:11:12 -0700
From: [e-mail] (System Security Officer)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: gaduncan
From: [e-mail] (Geoff Duncan)
Subject: (Probably) FAQ: Binhex encoder/decoder for the PC?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: Request for PC-based binhex encoder/decoder
Keywords: binhex PC Windows MS-DOS
Sender: [e-mail] (System Security Officer)
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. [phone]
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 22:10:58 GMT

Hi there--

Sorry to pester everyone with this (probably) frequent question, but I've
been poking around a bit and have yet to find an answer, so--

Is there a utility for the PC which permits both encoding and decoding
of binhex 4.0 files? I have found several tools to DECODE, but nothing
which permits the creation of such files. An FTP location or other
course would be great.

Any help is appreciated--reply to me by mail unless you feel this is
something other netters might want to know. Thanks!

Geoff Duncan
[e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 17:06:10 BST
From: Yoram Ney <[e-mail]>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest,connect.audit
Path: yoram
From: [e-mail] (Yoram Ney)
Subject: 44mb Cartridges Speed on SyQuest 88c Drives
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author
    alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group.
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1993 16:06:04 GMT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (Yoram Ney)

In MacWeek of 1 MARCH 93, an ad by Optima (advertising their MO drive),
claimed the following about SyQuest recent 88c drives:

>"...Even SyQuest's new 88mb device, the one that
>writes to 44mb cartridges,is not the answer. It behaves more like a floppy
>disk than a hard drive. That's right, when writing to 44mb cartridge (...)
>it performs 87% slower than its predecessor...".

How true is this?? can anyone either working with a 88c (or ran 44mb
cartridges
on a 88c through SCSI Evaluator or similar) confirm/refute??

Yoram  <[e-mail]>

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Date: 13 Apr 1993 07:38:05 +0100 (MET)
From: [e-mail]

Dear Netters

I'm working with the XLISP implementation of LISP on a MAC, building a little
example for stream implementation using also LISP macros. When the input data
get too complex, the system responds with the message

>error: argument stack overflow

I already tried to increase the part of memory the LISP system has access to
by
assigning 5MB of memory instead of 2MB in the info-window. But it didn't
help.
Any Ideas?

Jens Eickhoff
([e-mail])

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