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Info-Mac Digest             Mon,  8 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 31

Today's Topics:

      [*] ARA CCL for Focus Enhancements FAXmodem 14.4
      [*] BoloMapEditor 0.97
      [*] cp/automenus-ii-102.hqx
      [*] cp/menuchoice-15.hqx.hqx
      [*] the cat's meow
      [*] UpdateMaker 1.3.1
      [*] wp-macro-chars.hqx
      (R) Mac Classic II and external monitors...
      * announce Referee relation dbase mgr tools for Excel
      21MB Floptical Drives (Q)
      7.1 Enabler Patch no workee with Suitcase 2.1.2 !?
      AccessPC reformatting diskette
      American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder
      American Heritage Dictionaries (A)
      Apple's crippled machines ...
      Apple 13" RGB Monitor Problems (R)
      Apple Installer scripts
      April release, Summer upgrades, PowerPC ramblings...
      A series of scanner software problems - Help!
      ATM and System 7.0 or 7.1
      binhex v binary
      CA Cricket Update
      CD-ROM Weirdness
      Crippled '040
      Crippled 68LC040 machines
      fax pict ====> msword text?
      FDHD on Mac Plus (C)
      FKey Manager trouble (Q)
      Format HD disk as 800k
      In Control 2
      I Need Lab Help!!
      Info-Mac CD-ROM status update
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #29 MacX Color Map Problem
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #30 (2 msgs)
      Is LC040 a Failed 040? (R)
      Is LC040 a failed 040? - NO!
      LineShare, Supra,& Silent Answer(Q)
      Looking for a few good FAX Modems
      Mac Plus Accelerators (R)
      Macsbug Usefulness to Non-Programmers
      MacTV
      MacX color allocation problems?
      magic restarts
      MAIL ORDER PARTS
      Making A Movie From GIFs or PICTS
      Matrix inversion in Mathematica
      Matrix inversion in Mathematica (A)
      Modems & FPUS for LC/I (Q)
      NEC 4D Compatibility
      New Mac sound Hardware, why not!?!
      Now Menus (R)
      Now Menus and BeHierarchic
      Opening text files (R)
      PD Smalltalk?
      Phone number anagrams (A)
      please help !!!!!
      Price for used original Classic (A)
      QuickTime 1.5
      Rearranging the Apple Keyboard II
      Save-O-Matic
      scan lines/corrupt system
      Scrolling Speed with System 7
      Site license for At Ease?
      SoftPC Question
      stylewriter II
      Suitcase 2.1.2 (Q)
      SW 1 w / SW 2 drivers
      synth programming tools (A)
      Turning off folder arrows in system 7
      Type -39 errors (Q)
      UUdecoders & btoa for the mac.
      Vendor Email Addresses (C)
      Video and SCSI Speed in Centris vs. Q700
      Virtual memory with lots o' RAM
      Where can I find a PRAM Zapper?
      Why not just buy it rather than write a thesis (C)
      Why you need an FPU

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 23:36:26 PST
From: [e-mail] (Mike Khaw)
Subject: [*] ARA CCL for Focus Enhancements FAXmodem 14.4

Here's a CCL script for the Focus Enhancements FAXmodem 14.4 modem,
based on Apple's CCL scripts for the Apple Modem 2400 and the USR
Courier v.32bis modem:

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ara-focus-144.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 22:47:03 -0500
From: Tom Barrett <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] BoloMapEditor 0.97

Fixes numerous problems.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-map-editor-097.hqx; 32K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 03:15:41 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Steven Russell)
Subject: [*] cp/automenus-ii-102.hqx

AutoMenus II is a control panel that automates your menus.  Place
the cursor in the menubar, and the menus drop down automatically.

AutoMenus II was written by Michael Conrad, 377 E. Eaglewood Ave.,
Sunnyvale CA 94086.

Shareware; $10.00.

Version 1.0.2 Changes:
    AutoMenus II now correctly selects the special menus located
on the right side of the screen under System 7. It also correctly
recognizes menus put there by third party software writers such as
ColorSwitch* by Andrew Welch.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/automenus-ii-102.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 03:13:30 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Steven Russell)
Subject: [*] cp/menuchoice-15.hqx.hqx

MenuChoice is a control panel device which enables hierarchical
menus under the Apple menu.  With it, you can open applications,
control panel devices, and documents of all kinds quickly and easily
using your Apple menu.

MenuChoice has some additional features to make your Apple menu even
more powerful:
__Opening folders__
You can open folders as well as applications and documents.
__Mounting volumes__
If a volume is offline, a sub-menu will show beside it with a single
disabled item "Volume Off-Line".  Releasing the mouse above the name
of the volume will cause it to auto-mount.
__Recently used items__
When you select an item from a sub-menu, it is added to a list of
the 10 most recent items used.
__Deeper Menus__
MenuChoice has a feature called "Deeper Menus" which lets you access
menus as deep as you care to go in your directory.
__Folder Sorting__
Using the choices for folders "at top", "at bottom", or
"intermixed", you can choose to make folders appear at the top or
the bottom of each menu.
__Desktop__
The "Desktop" feature, which also can be enabled or disabled in the
control panel, displays a menu item called "Desktop" which can bring
up a submenu containing all the items on the desktop, including all
mounted volumes.
__Aliases__
MenuChoice makes it easy to create aliases to add to your Apple Menu
Items folder.

Version 1.5 - MenuChoice 1.4 slowed down the response of the menus.
    Version 1.5 remedies this problem.

Registering MenuChoice:
MenuChoice is shareware and costs $15.00.  MenuChoice was written by
Kerry Clendinning, PO Box 26061, Austin TX 78755.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/menu-choice-15.hqx; 58K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 08:25:10+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: [*] the cat's meow

My wife was somewhat indignant that someone should upload the sound of his
dog, and she absolutely refuses to let me install Quack as the alert sound on
her new Macintosh.  So, for her benefit, I made a recording of our cat, Nell.
She has now been edited down to a very compact alert sound, so I figured I
would make her available for public distribution.

------

Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore; Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Kent Ridge, SINGAPORE 0511
Internet:  [e-mail]

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[Archived as /info-mac/sound/neil-the-cat.hqx; 22K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 12:16 +1300
From: Analog Digital Instruments <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] UpdateMaker 1.3.1

This is UpdateMaker 1.3.1, a maintenance release of UpdateMaker.

UpdateMaker is a utility program for making and applying update documents,
or for making custom update applications.

An update document or application describes the differences between any two
Macintosh files and the changes required to convert one file into the other.

It is often advantageous to distribute update documents rather than a
completely new version of a file, not only because the update document
tends to be much smaller, but also because it is useless unless the old
original file is available.

Stand-alone update applications are some 13K larger than the equivalent
document but have the advantage that the receiver does not need to have a copy
of UpdateMaker to use them.

UpdateMaker can create an update document for literally any two Macintosh
files, be they applications, documents, system extensions, or whatever.
For example, one can make an update document that will describe the
differences
between the Font/DA Mover application and Disk First Aid, and change one
into the other.

Documentation on how to use UpdateMaker is built into the Help menu of the
application.

UpdateMaker requires System 6 or later; it is fully System-7 compatible and
slightly System-7 friendly. It was written with MacApp The Wonder Development
System, which is the main reason for its size.

UpdateMaker is copyright 1993 Analog Digital Instruments Ltd and is made
available to you by the Shareware principle: try it out and if you find
it useful enough to keep and use it, we ask for a shareware payment
(address details are in the Help documentation). For non-commercial use, we
ask for a $10 shareware payment, for commercial use we ask for $50.  Large
companies or institutions should contact us about site licensing.

The author would be grateful for any bug reports or constructive suggestions
not requiring the entire application to be rewritten :-).

Changes from version 1.3 are:
 - it builds updates somewhat faster
 - it no longer underestimates the amount of free space on hard disks
 - it no longer dies on very large builds where many resources are involved
 - it correctly updates data forks when the final file is in another directory
 - the help can now be copied to the clipboard
 - the Save Description menu item works
 - it includes up-to-date information on UpdateMaker 2.0.


Michael Hamel
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/update-maker-131.hqx; 156K]

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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 15:29:06 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] wp-macro-chars.hqx

This is a Wordperfect for the Mac macro.  This macro converts a
variety of extended characters from PC WP 5.1 into something
usable in Mac WP 2.1. The only ones generally supported are the
greek characters and assorted math symbols.  It's really easy to
customize to your needs though.

P.S. The Mac manual never ever mentions the extended characters
even though they are an incrediblly important part of PC WP 5.1
and the codes you need to access them on the Mac are
undocumented.

The author is SChrist from America Online and may be contacted
through the internet at [e-mail].

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

[Archived as /info-mac/app/wp-extended-characters-macro.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 10:46:44 EST
From: [e-mail] ( Daniel           J.      Hofferth
230-4791 AGT/8896)
Subject: (R) Mac Classic II and external monitors...

(The following was repeatedly mailed to "[e-mail]" as the author
requested, but was returned each time with "unknown user".  Given the probable
generic interest of the subject, I'll respond publicly.  Sorry for taking up
the space when the author offered to submit a condensed report.)

In response to Geert Jan Bex, im11-028:

> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 17:21:38 +0100
> Subject: (Q) Mac Classic II and external monitors...
>
> Hello,
>
> On behalf of a friend of mine, I would like to submit the following question
> to the net:
>
>  Is it possible to connect an external monitor (especially a VGA or SVGA) to
>  a Mac Classic II?
>
> I know of some possibilities, but I'm also interested about opinions on
> different products. Please mail directly to me at:
>  [e-mail]
>
> and if I get enough respons, I will submit a report to the list.
> Many thanks in advance,
>
>                                Geert Jan Bex
>                                dept. theor. phys.
>                                LUC, Diepenbeek
>                                Belgium

About one month ago I purchased a Sigma Designs "Power Portrait" display for
my Mac Classic II.  It is a 15" (full page) monochrome display that connects
to virtually any Mac through the SCSI port.  It uses a Monitor control panel
extension to intercept, and pass on for display, QuickDraw commands intended
for the external device.  Through Monitor control panel settings, it can be
told to display in 72, 80, or 88 dots/inch, and it can also be set up as a
"virtual window" onto a much larger display area (up to 1024x1024 pixels).
Current retail price is about $750 US, though my local dealer sold it to me
for $670.

All in all, I've been quite pleased with it.  Compared to the postage stamp
display of the Classic II, the extra room is like a breath of fresh air.  The
speed is slightly slower than normal, but the difference is completely
ignorable for my type of work... typing, spreadsheets, static-graphics, etc.
Display quality is very good.  It has been a great pleasure so far.

On the other hand, I can imagine work styles that won't mix well with this.
QuickTime work, for example, would be ridiculous.  But who would dream of
doing any serious dynamics on a Classic II; that's not it's intended market.
(I have run MS Flight Simulator 4.0 on it - worked suprisingly well actually)

The only thing to watch out for is code that bypasses QuickDraw to access the
screen - they simply won't work.  For myself this has not been a problem, but
it does come with a (short) warning list of applications that cause trouble.
Many of these have a "Preferences..." setting to tell the application to
stick to vanilla QuickDraw, at the expense of some display speed I suppose.
I haven't got the list on me, so you'll have to contact Sigma Designs for more
detail.

I have also found some PD/Shareware programs that don't behave well, either
because they aren't proper QuickDraw users or they don't understand the
existence of a second display (not Sigma's fault), but they generally remain
fat-dumb-and-happy on the internal screen.  (I keep my internal monitor as the
'primary' monitor, and my Sigma as the 'extra', to cut down on problems with
launching poorly behaved PD stuff.)

Bottom line:  It hits its market pretty squarely - well worth the price to
me.

There are other SCSI displays (all-in-one units like mine) and SCSI display
adapters (that require you to supply a standard monitor of your own).  Radius
comes to mind.  The Radius product is a color monitor adapter... though I
don't know if it will accept standard VGA or SVGA monitors.  Wasn't there a
recent (late '92) MacWorld or MacUser that reviewed this and others?  I can't
address other specific products, but I can tell you that the SCSI concept is
a sound one if its inherent limitations don't conflict with your work style.

Hope this helps.

Dan Hofferth
[e-mail]

(Standard disclaimer... I am NOT associated with Sigma Designs in any way.
I am just a satisfied customer).

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Date: 9 Feb 93 13:27:37 GMT
From: [e-mail] (T Brodhursthill)
Subject: * announce Referee relation dbase mgr tools for Excel

Announcing the pre release of Referee:

Referee 1.0 beta51
Relational Database Management Tools for Microsoft Excel.
Shareware

Overview
Referee is a set of modules for Microsoft Excel that make the setting up
and maintaining of databases much easier, and extent its abilities to include
relational databases and much more.
The Referee toolbar presents a simple interface to the user, by which all of
its functions are only a mouse click away. A powerful macro engine operates
behind these tools to enable the construction of database systems that are
as basic or as complex as required. Template documents minimize
development time.
Referee operates on two levels: administrator and operator. Modules are
loaded seamlessly and only when needed to make best use of available memory.
Macintosh and Windows versions of Microsoft Excel 4.0 are supported,
enabling cross platform portability of database systems.
Extensive documentation, tutorials (in Excel format) and Balloon Help
(even on Windows computers!) provide help at every stage of development.
An in depth tutorial leads the user through various levels in the creation of
a student admin system, but the principles are common to any relational
database system.

If you are interested in obtaining an evaluation copy, send email to the
author.
Use the following email address, not this one.

) 1992-1993 Thomas Brodhurst-Hill
All rights reserved. Shareware.
email   [e-mail]

The program's engine has been finalised for some time, but the documentation,
some minor bug fixes and such are only now being completed.

Rather than make you wait for the final release, I can send you the product as
it is for your evaluation. The documentation should be finished (at various
stages) during the next few weeks. You should be able to determine from the
completed sections whether this product may be of benefit to you. Registration
ensures updates.

If you wish, I will send you updates on a half weekly basis. If you would
rather wait for the complete package, let me know.

In any case, I need some mailing information from you:

name, preferred email address, postal address, computer type (Mac/DOS/both,
LC, Classic etc, colour, screen size...), any limitation size (K) of each file
that your mailer can receive

The Mac configuration will be sent in binhex/stuffit format. Let me know if
you cannot use this. If you don't have access to a Mac, I will attempt to mail
a tar/uuencode format, but this may take a while. The Referee files can be
moved from Mac to DOS and vice-versa without any translation other than file
names and types..

Use of Referee in its present form may seem sketchy and its capabilities
under-estimated, so please contact me with any questions.

Tom
[e-mail]

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Date: 08 Feb 1993 15:34:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 21MB Floptical Drives (Q)

Does anyone have recommendations/cautions about 21MB Floptical drives.
I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences.  They seem like a
useful medium for backups and for transporting software.

Please include any recommended or NOT recommended brands along
with any hints on sources and best pricing.

Gary Lee Nelson, Professor
Electronic and Computer Music
TIMARA Program
Conservatory of Music
Oberlin, OH 44074
[phone]
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 13:26:24 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 7.1 Enabler Patch no workee with Suitcase 2.1.2 !?

The recently posted 7.1 Enabler patch prevents Suitcase 2.1.2's DA from
opening: it just beeps when you select it from the Apple menu.  This
is on a Performa 600 which does require an enabler (same as the IIvx
enabler, I think).

I can't believe that Connectix could have missed such an obvious problem.
Perhaps the conflict is triggered by some other INIT ... although I'm not
running much else besides ATM 2.0.3.  Anybody else having trouble?

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 09:53:47 PST
From: John Wical <[e-mail]>
Subject: AccessPC reformatting diskette

   When I reformatted a PC HD diskette as Mac HD (using AccessPC), the
diskette icon remained a PC icon, not the standard Mac diskette icon.
This is clearly intuitively wrong.  Has anyone else experienced this?

John

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 12:28:23 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder

>Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 11:07:08 -0500
>From: "Bruce P. Halpern" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: American Heritage Dictionaries (A)
>
>The American Heritage Dictionary College/Professional Edition is fairly nice
>and works well.  However, you need a lot of space.  It occupies 11MB of
>disk space after installation, and requires 16 MB of disk space to permit
>installation.  Since it must be placed in the
>System folder, you must either have a large boot disk or keep most other
>applications on another disk.  It is distributed on 12 HD Floppys.
>It costs about  $50.  There is a smaller, less detailed (fewer words, few
>abbreviations or biographical or geographical entries, NOT 32-bit clean)
>version called The American Heritage Dictionary.  I found its definitions
>to not always be satisfactory, and to not have as many words as I needed
>(the bigger College/Professional Edition has ~303,000 words), but it was
>nonetheless useful.

I just want to correct the one statement made by a number of people
responding to the original inquiry. The dictionary files of the
Professional Edition of AHED do NOT have to be placed in the System Folder
- they can be ANYWHERE - just move them to another location after
installation.

I want to take this opportunity to flame makers of those programs that
insist on putting files in the System Folder. My System Folder has
ballooned to bigger than 60Mb. There's little reason to put files (other
than the preference file) that are NOT to be shared with other programs
into the System Folder. Users should decide where to put these files. I put
a number of programs that I use less frequently on removable cartridges.
However, since they insist putting some files in the System Folder, they
still take up space on my start-up disk. Worse, if I switch my start-up
disk, these programs cann't find those needed files. I hope people
complain, as I do, to the makers of those programs, especially those that
are supposed to run under System 7 (with its Alias Manager). Shame on those
programmers.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 20:11:19 GMT
From: Hal Perkins <[e-mail]>
Subject: American Heritage Dictionaries (A)

[e-mail] writes:
>The American Heritage Dictionary College/Professional Edition is fairly nice
>and works well.  However, you need a lot of space.  It occupies 11MB of
>disk space after installation, and requires 16 MB of disk space to permit
>installation.  Since it must be placed in the
>System folder, you must either have a large boot disk or keep most other
>applications on another disk.  It is distributed on 12 HD Floppys.
>It costs about  $50.

To correct a common misunderstanding: The College/Prof. edition does
_not_ require that the dictionary files be placed in the system folder
(unlike the original version which did).  The new version allows the
files to be anywhere.  If they're not in the system folder you have to
open them with a standard file dialog the first time you use the
dictionary.

The new College/Professional edition does take a lot of disk space,
but it looks like it includes the entire text of the paper 2nd
edition.  Now if they'd only come out with a computerized version of
the new 3rd edition.  :-)

Hal Perkins                     [e-mail]
Cornell CS

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 14:47:50 -0500
From: Michael Grabenstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple's crippled machines ...

    If motorola builds chipd like most other people do, it does not
cost any less to make the chip at all. What is probably happening is
some chips from the batch are going to the testing area to have all
the parts of the 040 tested and verified. The other part of the batch
gets to go to a station that in a split second severs the internal leads
to the fpu and then sent to a seperate tesing facility that tests every
thing but the fpu. Also any chips from the first batch that only fail
in the fpu test can now become LC040 chips.
    What motorola is actually saving is time and some on the reject
side. but this means in the time it takes to verify 10 040 chips,
100 LC040 chips can be manufactured.
    Wise man once said "If gold were as abundant as soda cans,
their value would be equal."

Later,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 10:01:29 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple 13" RGB Monitor Problems (R)

> From: "Mike Sisson  " <SISSON_MD@brutus>

> Recently one of our 13" Apple RGB Monitors became reluctant to start up when
> the computer was turned on. The problem happens sporadically and eventually
> it will come on after playing with the monitor on/off switch and/or waiting
> a while. I have looked in the Dead Mac Scrolls (btw, an excellent book) but
> none of the situations described fit my problem. Soooo-------
> If this sounds familiar to anyone please let me know what you did to fix it
> and where you got parts (I am assuming some capacitor problem).
> BTW, this is an old (circa 1987) monitor so no returning to Apple for free
> fixes.

The problem is a defective high voltage capacitor (this problem is
covered in ``The Dead Mac Scrolls''). The part is not cheap ($65), you
can get it from Soft Solutions 907 RiverRoad, Suite #98, Eugene, OR 97404
Tel [phone]; Fax [phone]. Part ref : Sony OEM high voltage
capacitor (HV Block) for AppleColor High-Res (Apple part #910-0058).
Replacement is not difficult (one connection to be soldered) but should
be done only by experienced people for obvious reasons (HT cables have to
be kept away from printed board). BTW, in Belgium at the Apple dealer
shop, repair is about $220 including a 19,5% VAT taxe.


Etienne Loute
Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (C.O.R.E.)
Catholic University of Louvain
34 voie du Roman Pays
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
BELGIUM
Tel [phone] / Fax [phone]
e-mail [e-mail], Applelink FUSL.EL

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 17:32:52 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple Installer scripts

I need to know how to write scripts for the Apple Installer program. Could
anybody tell me where to get the involved information? I think I've read
such a request in the digest some time ago, but I can remember no answers.

Please send me your comments to the following address:
[e-mail]. I'll summarize the answers, if any.

Thanks in advance.

Carles Bellver
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 CASTELLO
SPAIN

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Date: 7 Feb 1993 23:45:53 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Minyen)
Subject: April release, Summer upgrades, PowerPC ramblings...

OK...

With the February release virtually here (I think our local campus
store has a few of the machines under wraps for viewing only by those
campus entities willing to commit to an order and sign a nondisclosure
agreement), I'm surprised the other info printed in MacWeek has received
so little attention.

In an unusually thick issue (the one with the unflattering artist's
rendering of the Color Classic (CC)) mention is made of the successor to
the CC.  At 25 MHz, this 32 bit bussed machine was foretold to
have a slot allowing for the motherboard to be upgraded (or replaced)
with higher speed '030s, '040s, or the PowerPC 601.  This machine was to
also include some sort of new sound hardware and a larger screen with
greater resolution.  Supposed to ship in April.  Anyone out there have a
"friend" who could provide any further... uh... insights?  Like, fer
instance, will it be as ugly as I suspect the first Color Classic will
be?  (why don't they just scale the original Classic's profile to
accommodate the larger screen?  'cause.  that's too easy.)

The article also seemed to imply that the summer products would mostly
be upgrades.  Or would at least play a large part of the summer's news.

Thinking it unlikely that Apple would release only a single machine in
the April release (April?  Why April?), anybody hear of other releases
for this month?

Will other machines (released in Feb. or Apr.) have the motherboard
upgrade option?  Like, please, the Q800?

Is the 13" still a product, or has it been entirely replaced by the 14"?

Why won't A/UX 3.0 run on the Q800?

For you hardware afficiandos, the PowerPC (as I understand it to be ;)
is a 64 bit architecture with the first release (601) having a 32 bit
bus.  Think on this:  at current hardware speeds, how long would it take
to initialize a 64 bit address space?

Not really a hardware question but the same people would probably read
it anyway an' I don't wanna crosspost:  when does the new version of
QuickDraw come out?  I heard a rumor that these routines might exhibit
some influnce from the folks at SGI.  Truth?

Sorry for rambling.  Hope I've given you something new to think about.

Reid D. Minyen
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 21:35 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: A series of scanner software problems - Help!

I would be grateful for assistance with the following extremely frustrating
problems using Ofoto and OmniPage Pro with the Apple OneScanner on a Quadra
700, system 7 with tune-up, VM on.
(1) A rather simple graph was scanned with Ofoto creating a 490K file. An
attempt to cut/paste this graph into a Word 5.0 document repeatedly causes
the message "Not enough memory to export this clipboard" to be displayed.
The memory assigned to Ofoto is 7M, that to Word is 5M and "About this
Macintosh shows 2M free.
(2) An attempt to scan the same graph with the Graphic Editor in OmniPage
Pro never got off  the ground but produced the message "Unable to access
the OmniPro Preferences file to determine the type of scanner". The Prefs.
file is in the Prefs. sub-folder within the System folder as it ought to
be  and the error message does not provide a "locate it" option but just
aborts the scan.
(3) Scanning text with OmniPage Pro (7Mb.) proceeds without problems.
However if I try to accumulate a series of text scans in a single file by
using the "Save Automatically" and "One File" settings I do get automatic
saving - BUT - each scan produces a separate text file. This multuples
subsequent editing/export time.
All suggestions gratefully received.
With best regards,
Fergus J. Lalor, Dept. of Chem., University College, Cork, Ireland.
Bitnet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 11:52:07 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Frost)
Subject: ATM and System 7.0 or 7.1

I just received a copy of the new Super ATM. I tried running it on my
IIsi, sys 7.0 (tuned), with Carpetbag running. No go--it seems to
crash as it tries to load Adobe Type Reunion or Carpetbag. I fear
that to get it to run right, I'll have to go to sys 7.1, but if I re-
call, ATM still wants fonts spewed about the system or extensions
folder. I've been using LaserPath and Carpetbag to keep both types
of my fonts in their own folders, and I'd like to continue a similar
practice. What to do? I recall that there's an easy patch one can
make on ATM to have it look in the Fonts folder; am I right, and if
so (sorry if this is a recurring FAQ), what's the trick?

Thanks much in advance.

Bob Frost, History
SUNY-Albany

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 13:18 CDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: binhex v binary

[I don't want to have to maintain two separate images of the archives, one
 in binary and one binhex. Every change and fix then has to be made in two
 places instead of one. Maybe there is a mirror site that holds the files
 in binary form? -Bill]

 --------

 rascal.cc.utexas.edu, when it was kept up to date, had files in binary
 form. Rascal also had a 'NEW' directory, where new files were kept.  Could
 something like this be done at sumex-aim? In addition to being kept in
 their usual directories in binhex format, new files could also be kept in
 a 'NEW' directory in binary format until they were a week or month old. I
 know that this would add work for the archivers, but could the process be
 automated with a program that would search the archives each night for new
 files and de-binhex them and put them in the 'NEW' directory? (I'm not a
 programmer, so I don't know how feasible such a program would be to write.
 Its just a thought).

 Even if files couldn't be kept in binary, how about a 'NEW' directory with
 files in the usual binhex format. This would save time by not making people
 look through multiple directories trying to get new files.

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

Date: 8 Feb 1993 17:31:56 U
From: "Walter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CA Cricket Update

Dear Netters,

Someone on this list (I believe) mentioned that there is an upgrade available
for Cricket Graph III from version 1.0 to 1.01.  Computer Associates denies
that they have such an upgrade.  Am I dreaming?

Walter Taylor
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 19:38:44 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CD-ROM Weirdness

> The problem : when file sharing is on, one cannot unmount a disk,
> even when it is not shared. I have this problem since sys. 7 came
> out, and up to now I don't have a solution.

This problem is not just with removable media. I have an external HD I use for
archives. I donUt have it on at startup so I mount it with SCSI Probe when I
need to use it. When IUm done I like to dismount it and turn it off. When IUm
connected to another Mac I get the same error message about it being shared
even though IUm not sharing any folders on that volume. This has been true
with
Sys 7.0,7.0.1 (tuned),and 7.1. I think with Appletalk off you can dismount the
volume.

Paul Lieberman      [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 07 Feb 93 19:29:35 EST
From: Arif Shaikh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Crippled '040

With all this bickering about apple using crippled '040 in thier new line of
MA
c's, I would like to add my two cents.
First of all, I completely disagree with Alan Hewat about apple using the
cripp
led '040s as a marketing ploy.  As Mr. Donald pointed out, in a earlier issue
o
f info-mac, the LC040s are '040s with failed FPUs.  Being an electrical
enginee
r who has done circuit designs for intergrated chips, I can tell you that
faile
d chips is big overhead in the production process.  Therefore, if it is
possibl
e to recover any of the chips we will.  And that is also why Intel with the
486
SX and Motorola with the LC040 are trying to sell their chips as a lower
versio
n.  This is great for Apple and PC builders because they can get fast chip for
a lot less.  And it does add up in the long run.......
  Oh.... One final thing.  The reason the Quadras cost $3-5k is not just
  becaus
e of the processor, but it also includes an accelerated 24-bit video,
Ethernet,
faster NUbuses, etc....   Things that the low cost Macs don't have as
standard.
Also everybody is going to have to remember that Apple is a R&D company like
IB
M, HP, and many others, which automatically implies a higher overhead that has
to be paid.  Unlike, cheap clone makers, who do nothing for the advancement of
computers overall.
                ......Arif

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93  13:47 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Crippled 68LC040 machines

Can I be the first to say I'm thoroughly confused about these new Macs
with the non-FPU 68040 chips.  Will the new Centris machines actually have
an FPU socket or not?  Most people in the Digest seem to be saying no, but
Tidbits says the Centris 650 will, and I've seen a price list somewhere
with inexpensive FPU upgrades for the Centris in it, which doesn't tie in
with the claim that you can only get an FPU by throwing out the 68LC040
completely and replacing it with a full 68040 which ought to be much more
expensive.  So just what is the deal on FPUs with the Centrises (weird name)
or will I have to wait a few more days till they're released to find out?

PS: What does the "LC" stand for in 68LC040?  "Low cost"?  Is that why the
Mac LC is called that, or does that LC stand for "low-cost, color"?

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 09:57:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "K. V. Rao" <[e-mail]>
Subject: fax pict ====> msword text?

Recently I read in MacUser that one can use fax as a low end scanner.
Since I've both a regular fax and a modem (Data+fax), I want to try to
scan through my murata fax and receive on mac. Well, I received the fax
on my max, but I cannot edit or print on my old image writer. The Fax Stf
software that came with my modem allow only pict/tiff mode saving. Does
anyone out there have some tips for me? may be a shareware to do what I
want to do?

2. Do you know of any software that let you dial into your appletalk
network from home? If yes, where can I get a demo of that?
Thanks.
K. V. Rao

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

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 10:22:27 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: FDHD on Mac Plus (C)

>>As far as I know, Apple is still supplying the FDHD solution to SE users,
>>but if they have discontinued it, You can still get Applied Engineering's
>>solution.  It is an external 1.44 Mb drive that will even work on a Mac
>>Plus.
>>
>When I inquired about this problem, my local experts told me that although
>an external 1.44 Mb drive would work on my Mac Plus, it could only be used
>to read 800K and 400K disks because the Plus does not have the ROMs to
>support 1.44 MB disks.  Better check this out before investing in a FDHD
>Floppy.

I called Applied Engineering and spoke to them about this several months
ago.  My understanding is that everything necessary is included in the
external drive itself, and it *will* allow full use of HD floppies on a
Plus.  I can't confirm this myself, because at about $350 (if memory
serves) I just couldn't afford it at the time.  I imagine that the price
is high precisely because the device must somehow get around the ROM
limitation problem.

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

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

Date: 08 Feb 1993 06:49:57 +0100 (MET)
From: HANS KROEGER <[e-mail]>
Subject: FKey Manager trouble (Q)

Help needed....hopefully not a too stupid questions for you experts:

I downloaded <FKey Manager 3.0>, <ResetWindow FKEY> and <MoveWindowFKEY>
>From sumex. When I try to load one of the FKEYs into my system the FKEY
Manager doesn't recognize the FKEYs. The folders in which the FKEYs are
located seem to be empty. I am running system 7.1 on a PB 180.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

Thank you !

Hans Kroeger
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 09:51:43 PST
From: John Wical <[e-mail]>
Subject: Format HD disk as 800k

   Is it possible to format a High Density diskette as 800k with a
SuperDrive?   I can't seem to do it.

   I'm using a Mac II, with SuperDrive, system 7.0, AccessPC.

John

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93  13:04 GMT
From: Big Nose <[e-mail]>
Subject: In Control 2

Has anyone seen/used the above utility program. I could do with finding a
better way of organising my schedule than the scraps of paper I currently
use, but I'm not keen to shell out without more info than the mail order
catalogues provide. Anyone care to oblige with their tuppence worth?

Andy Law
(LAWA @ IAPE.AFRC.AC.UK                       Big Nose in Edinburgh)

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

Date: 08 Feb 1993 10:52:54 -0700 (MST)
From: MACINTOSH NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR <[e-mail]>
Subject: I Need Lab Help!!

Here is the situation: we run At ease in the labs, but does anyone know how
I can allow students to delete items from their disks only? AND, how can I
allow formatting of a disk?  I know if they stick in a un-formatted disk, it
comes
up with the dialogue to format the disk, but if I run Access PC and a student
sticks in a DOS formatted disk, there is no way to "re-format" it.  I tried
Fast Formatter, but can not get it to work with 1.44 mb disks.

DavidD

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

Date: 06 Feb 93 12:03:45 EST
From: Cliff Miller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac CD-ROM status update

Dear Info-Mac Enthusiasts,

The last time that I sent a message about the cutoff for the second issue of
the Info-Mac CD-ROM, I said that I'd be posting a report about how things have
been going.  I'll try to just chronicle some of the major events and add a bit
of commentary.

July 1992
    I send a message to the moderator (Bill Lipa) of Info-Mac proposing
that we put the archive on CD-ROM.  He sends back a message saying that it
sounds like a good idea provided that we are really trying provide a service
and not just out to take advantage of everyone's hard work.

August 1992
    We download all of the files, debinhex them and decompress them.  Then
we go through the files looking for copyright restrictions and try to contact
the authors when permission is needed.

September 1992
    We contact several of the major CD manufactures and decide to press
the discs through Sony-DADC in Terre Haute Indiana.  We also get the artwork
and printing done for the booklets and backliners.
    We finish up going through the files.  We put all of the files on an
MO disk and run some virus checkers on them.  We ship the MO disc to Sony
mid-Sept.  The first disks come back at the end of Sept.

October 1992
    We attend a CD-ROM show in Boston.  I happened to be going to a
software show in Japan about that time, and I show the CD in Japan.
    We set up a merchants account so that we can take Visa and Master Card
orders.   (Wow, this sure was tough, but we got lucky.)  We also set up an 800
line.
    We start taking phone orders in mid-Oct.  The first few days we get
flooded by calls and email -- maybe 20 or so per day for the first week.  We
ship a couple hundred the first few weeks.  (About 2/3 of these are free discs
to authors.)

November 1992
    We have an ad come out in Macworld.  They forget to put our 800 number
and we get no response at all.  (They give us a free ad the next month.)
Orders slow down quite a lot.  We do get some bursts of orders when people
mention the CD in places like Tibdits (thanks!), and other places on the net.
We send out press releases to a bunch of magazines.
    We start getting inquiries about wholesale orders.  Switzerland MUG
orders 60 and makes a healthy donation to sumex-aim via the order  We also
donate to sumex-aim.

December 1992
    We have ads in MacUser and Macworld.  Not much response from those,
however.  (With MacUser we get a ton of those little reader's response cards,
but so far not a whole lot has come of that.  I guess some people just like
put their circles on those little cards....)
    We start gearing up for issue 2.  We download most of the files.
    We make a donation to sumex-aim.

January 1992
    We attend Macworld in SF.  We luck out and are able to share a booth
without having to pay for it.  We sell about 30 Info-Macs, and some other CDs
that we've started to just carry on the side.
    Many of the press releases that we sent out start to appear in
magazines.  This helps a fair bit.
    We continue work on issue 2 of the Info-Mac.


So, up to now we've sold several hundred and given away several hundred of the
CDs to authors.  Things are tight but going OK, and hopefully we'll reach
breakeven before too long.

Anyhow, this has been quite an enlightening experience.  It's been a lot more
work than I'd ever imagined, but it's also been a lot of fun.  I've been able
to meet people over the net that I never would have otherwise.  Some people
have even sent us donations (we recently got a $5 bill to buy donuts!).

One last note -- I'm afraid that I've been so swamped lately that it looks
like the second issue of the Info-Mac is going to be delayed.  I was hoping
for early Feb, but it now looks like March.  (I'm headed off to Japan for a
few weeks -- I'll be at Macworld Tokyo, so I'll be out of email contact for a
while.)

I'll post another message again when things get closer to the release date.

Thanks again for all your support!

Cliff

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

Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 12:13:29 PST
From: "Bruce Goldstein, [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #29 MacX Color Map Problem

In response to infomacv11-029.txt

/From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
/Subject: MacX color allocation problems?
/
/I use MacX (Apple's X server) on a IIcx with 8-bit color, and have recently
/seen two different client programs have color problems when run with
/MacX. In both cases, the programs ran without problems on a different
/X server (an RS 6000). I'm posting this to see if others have seen such
/problems, and with what clients.
/
/The first failure I saw was with the AXIOM system for symbolic mathematics.
/I have a trial copy installed on an RS 6000; when I try to do a simple plot
/in a MacX color window, it fails with the following messages:/
/
/    > Warning: cannot allocate all the necessary colors - switching to

The following is from the MacX 1.2 release notes:

"MacX 1.2 makes all 256 entries of each screen's default colormap
available for use by X client applications. This treatment of screen
colormaps represents a change in the default function of MacX 1.1.7."

I got MacX1.2 with Pathworks for Macintosh update that also included
MacTCP Tool 1.2 and MacTCP 1.1.1.  I went and looked through my MacX
1.1.x manual and did not see anything in there about how to change
the treatment of the color map to allow an X client to change all
256 colors.  So, if the client does not check how many colors are available,
getting version 1.2 should help.

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 20:30 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #30

Apple's new ColorSync - Color Matching Method


Does any one have any idea if it is possible to get the System extension for
this without having to buy one of apples scanners or the new color printers.

If so, what is the cost.

Ananth

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 09:20:38 CST
From: [e-mail] (Daniel V. Blystone)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #30

First off I did not write the first letter and second my ONLY leter was
intended to show the funny side of this thing.

When you plug a cord in it will conduct current; I agree.
When you un-plug a cord it will not hold a charge of any significance; I
agree here also.

I was trying to demonstrate with my SINGLE letter that it was funny to
think that the cord will hold a charge and this charge would dwindle
overnight to the point that you would not be able to start your mac.

AGAIN, I DID NOT WRITE THE FIRST LETTER. PLEASE DO NOT IMPLY THAT I WROTE
IT.  IF YOU DON'T BELEIVE IT READ THE ORIGINAL AND FIND OUT WHO SENT IT!

Daniel

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 12:45:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Hughes)
Subject: Is LC040 a Failed 040? (R)

In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:

>The issue of the LC040 and the regular 040 is getting a lot of talk. I would
>like to point something else out which may or may not be a factor.

>In producing these chips, the failures and yield rates have a large
>factor on the selling price of the chip. Being able to sell a failed
>chip as a lower version of itself can be very beneficial. If the FPU
>section of the reqular 040 has a high failure rate and its function can
>be removed when it fails and the chip can still be sold, then the
>failure only hurts the manufacturer by the price delta.

>If [I say if] this is the case, then don't blame the manufacturer for
>trying to sell something that he would have to otherwise throw out.

    But it is common knowledge that this is not the case. The LC040 is
not some failed '040 with the FPU "piece" removed. It is a totally
redesigned '040 that was assembled without the FPU hardware from the
start. If it was some failed '040 then how do you explain the much
smaller die size of the chip?

[True, but the smaller die size can make the chip easier to manufacture,
 by for example increasing the yield. Thus the cost will be lower. -Bill]

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 08:00:15 PST
From: Tim Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Is LC040 a failed 040? - NO!

Glockzin Donald <[e-mail]> writes in
InfoMac
Digest 11-30:

>The issue of the LC040 and the regular 040 is getting a lot of talk. I would
>like to point something else out which may or may not be a factor.
>
>In producing these chips, the failures and yield rates have a large factor on
>the selling price of the chip. Being able to sell a failed chip as a lower
>version of itself can be very beneficial. If the FPU section of the reqular
>040 has a high failure rate and its function can be removed when it fails and
>the chip can still be sold, then the failure only hurts the manufacturer by
>the price delta.
>
>If [I say if] this is the case, then don't blame the manufacturer for trying
>to sell something that he would have to otherwise throw out.

This is not the case. According to a system engineer at Apple, the 68040LC is
not a 68040RC (the standard version is called an "RC", at least by Apple) that
didn't pass QC on the FPU. It was manufactured without the FPU by Motorola, at
Apple's suggestion (Read: Apple put pressure on them to do it).


Tim Castle       [e-mail]
End-User Computing, GTE Gov't Systems, Mountain View, CA

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 22:13:47 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LineShare, Supra,& Silent Answer(Q)

In article <[e-mail]> David Van Nuys,
[e-mail] writes:
>In the last week or so, there were some LineShare scripts for the Supra
>posted
>on info-mac at sumex.   Somewhere, I heard that LineShare would allow one
>to
>use the "silent answer" feature of the Supra, for the purpose of
>distinguishing
>between incoming faxes and voice calls.  Currently, I am using a separate
>fax switch to determine whether incoming calls go to the Supra or my
>telephone
>answering machine.  If someone can tell me how to use LineShare to
>eliminate
>my fax switch, I'd sure appreciate it.  I'm using a Mac IIci with FaxSTF
>and
>the SupraFAXmodem v.32bis.  Thanks.
>
>David Van Nuys
>[e-mail]

I posted the above to a modem discussion but have received no help.  Any
readers here able to help out?  I've gotten mail from a number of people
who share the same question.

David Van Nuys

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 19:58:00 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Looking for a few good FAX Modems

Net Fiends:

I am searching for a v.32bis or better FAX modem in the  <400 ($ US) price
range.  A friend recommended the PSI CommStation since it does 14,400 both
data *and* FAX.  I just hate it when people advertise FAX modems as 9600 baud
when they really mean 9600 baud FAX and maybe 2400 data.  Anyway, has anyone
heard of the PSI CommStation?  What are your recommendations?

Thanks for any help you can give,
Glenn Fink
[e-mail]

P.S.  Is there any modem or comm program that will let me emulate a TDD?  It
would be nice to use the Mac to talk to my deaf friends via the text
telephone.
(Plus, with copy and paste I could type really fast!! :+> )

P.P.S.  Yes, I have read the modem summaries in the report directory of
info-mac.  I was very impressed with the Zyxel (sp?) V.32bis modem.  How
does that compare with the CommStation?

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

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 10:02:48 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Plus Accelerators (R)

Kevin Purcell writes:

>A friend of mine has been using the MicroMac MultiSpeed accelerator
>>From Mac Upgrade Specialists on his Plus. This is a 25Mhz 68030
>acclerator for $300 (no FPU). Its a lot cheaper than the going rate.

<stuff deleted>

>Any suggestions in general in putting an accelerator in a Plus? I'm
>planning to do the "video and PSU" mods -- replace the dubious
>capacitors and maybe the LOPT too. How does the Plus power supply stand
>the extra load? My Plus already runs hotter than I'd like it too so I
>need to add a fan (suggestions? low cost is paramount!). What luck have
>people had adding internal small fans (not scared of the soldering
>iron) or the piezo-type "fans" (as described in Larry Pina's book)?

We haven't used the accelerator you mention, Kevin, but we did boost
our Plus with the Brainstorm Accelerator several months ago. This is
*not* an 030 upgrade, BTW, but we've been very pleased with it's two-
or-more times acceleration. It hasn't caused any overheating problems
yet. We use the Fanny Mac with our Plus (this was a cute little snap-
on accessory sold by Apple at one time). I don't think they're still
made and don't know if they can be obtained elsewhere, but it would
be worth checking into. Kensington also makes a snap-in fan product
that I use on my Plus at home. It's not real quiet but it does a good
job of cooling.

The only real problem we've had with the accelerator, once we got the
installation sorted out, is that it's exceptionally sensitive to voltage
fluctuations. At infrequent intervals it crashes for no apparent reason,
and when we put a meter on one of the Plus's output jacks, we find that
the computer's voltage has dropped. Tweaking it back up takes care of the
problem. Our technician thinks that the Plus's power supply is flaky
and probably on it's way to that great scrapheap in the sky, so this
appears to be a case of the computer interfering with the accelerator
rather than the other way around.

If you decide to go with the brand you mentioned, I'd be curious as to
how it works out.  That sounds pretty cheap to me, for an 030 upgrade.
Good luck,
      Pat

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

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 19:40:10 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Macsbug Usefulness to Non-Programmers

> 1.  Is MacsBug of much use to one who isn't a programmer?

I used to use Macsbug to recover from crashes as several users suggested, but
with System 7 I find I donUt need it. With System 7 CMD-OPT-ESC will force the
current application to quit much the same as 'es' will from Macsbug. Also
CMD-CTRL-Startup key (on Mac II's) will force a reboot like 'rb' command.

Paul Lieberman      [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 20:36 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacTV

Some of you may receive Mind Extension University (ME/U) by cable or
satellite,
 but may not be aware of the program MacTV, as I was not aware of it until a
friend of mine mentioned it. (ME/U doesn't appear in the TV Guide here). But
now I go to the cable company to pick up ME/U's monthly program guide.

Here's their schedule for February for the one-hour program MacTV:

     MON, WED, FRI   5:00 pm ET
     TUE, THR       10:30 pm ET

What I have seen of MacTV is that it covers about four Mac program
demonstrations during the hour by company representatives, plus some Mac user
tips.

The program guide also states that the program may be taped and is "restricted
to educational use only."  It may be shown "within one year of taping."

Does anyone know if the ME/U bulletin board is accessible via the Internet?
And, how can one get a password to the bulletin board?

Jay Poutinen
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 16:25:36 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Stan Kerr)
Subject: MacX color allocation problems?

[e-mail] writes:

>I use MacX (Apple's X server) on a IIcx with 8-bit color, and have recently
>seen two different client programs have color problems when run with
>MacX. In both cases, the programs ran without problems on a different
>X server (an RS 6000). I'm posting this to see if others have seen such
>problems, and with what clients.

I got a couple of nice responses to this. It seems likely that, although
the MacX server supports 256 colors, it doesn't make all 256 available
to clients. My local X guru tells me that the X standard does not oblige
a server to make all colors available; clients are supposed to politely
ask how many they can use, but some simply demand 256 colors and fail
when they don't get their way. Someone else told me that MacX 1.2 may
fix this problem (but since I don't have it yet, I can't say).

Who has MacX 1.2 out there? We're having real trouble getting it from Apple;
I've had it on order for 3 months and now they refuse to give a ship date.
(Technically, I've ordered the MacX 1.2 Update Product, not the full 1.2;
maybe they're just digging in their heels on updating all those copies
of 1.1.7 out there.)
--

Stan Kerr
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana
Phone: [phone]  Email: [e-mail]

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

Date: 8 Feb 1993 09:33:07 U
From: "Walter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: magic restarts

To: info mac list

Those of you on the net may be amused by the behavior of my Mac II ci.  If I
shut it down, everything proceeds along normalyl, and the machine in fact does
power down.  The monitor goes off, the machine goes dark, just like it
should.
Then, after about 3-4 seconds, it magically powers on, as though I hit the
power on key on the keyboard.  The keyboard is not stuck, because this happens
even if I unplug the keyboard in the few seconds the machine stays off.
Anybody ever seen this behavior before?

Walter Taylor
Cambridge, MA
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 08:15:58 -0500
From: [e-mail]  (John DeVivo)
Subject: MAIL ORDER PARTS

Does anyone out there know of a good mail order parts source (modules and
components) for Macs and peripherals? Any that I should stay far away from?
Is there a compiled report somewhere? Any help would be great. You can
answer me directly if you wish. Thanks.

Jay ([e-mail])



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Date: Sunday, 7 Feb 1993 20:50:50 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Making A Movie From GIFs or PICTS

I am absolutely sure I saw this somewhere before, but my brain was in the
idle mode.  So let me ask this again.

I want to turn satellite weather images (currently GIF files) into a
QuickTime movie.  What's the best way to do this?  Is there an application
that will convert a sequence of GIFs or PICTs to a movie file?

Jeffrey Fritz, [e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: 8 Feb 93 14:01:18 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alain Waha)
Subject: Matrix inversion in Mathematica

[e-mail] writes:

>Re: problem inverting a 12 X 12 matrix.
>This isn't that kind of big.  Either your freind doesn't have enough RAM
>(most likely),  the program is munged (i.e. try reinstalling) it,
>or something else is fundamentally wrong.

Yes, you missed the important word: SYMBOLIC in the original message.
Inverting a 12x12 matrix numerically is piss easy, I could even do it by
hand in less than 15min.  Inverting a matrix symbolically is another kind
of fish, and the ability of Mathematica to find the symbolic answer
will depend very strongly on the nature of the solution. Polynomials
of degree 12 do not have standard symbolic solution. (nor do polynomials
of degree higher than 3 for that matter)

In conclusion, it is not surprising that the symbolic inversion is running
into
the ground.  For more info, contact Wolfram at [e-mail]

Hope this helps

Alain

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 20:40:16 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jeffrey B Kane)
Subject: Matrix inversion in Mathematica (A)

> it's not hard to believe that a symbolic 12 x
> 12 would take the age of the universe to invert :-) !

You  are correct about this, particularly if the matrix is complex.
The only advantage is that if this is a symbolic manipulation
then you should only have to do it a very limited number of times
then just use the result.

Also, as I stated to the original poster, it sounds like they may also
be running into RAM limitations, as they report the machine crashes
after 24 hours or so.  We all know how hungry MM is for RAM so it
could very easily be that they are specifying a problem that is too
big for their hardware (processor speed and RAM).  Of course that's
what keeps SUN, Apollo, and the other's in business :)

         Jeffrey

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 17:07 EST
From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modems & FPUS for LC/I (Q)

Dear Netters: Where would be the best place to purchase FPU's price and
quality wise.  I have an LC/I  and hopefully am looking for an inexpensive
 2400 Baud Hayes compatible modem as well with software.  Inexpensive to me
 would be less than $100.  Also have I heard correctly that the ZOOM brand
modem is NOT 100% Hayes Compatible?  And if this is the case, do any 100%
 Hayes Compatible Modems of 2400 BAUD or faster exist for less than $100, and
 where?  What have people experienced with the internal modem/FPU card on
their LC.  Are such systems safe power-wise for my 4 Watt LC.  Hope this isn't
 a FAQ.
Thank you.  Sincerely, ABRODY @ CLARKU

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

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1993 16:16:31 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: NEC 4D Compatibility

Can anyone please tell me whether the NEC Multisync 4D monitor is "plug &
play"
compatible with the built-in video of the IIci, IIsi, etc.  Actually,
I'm most interested in compatibility with the new Centris machines.

Thanks, in advance!

Scott A. Johnson

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 00:05:36 GMT
From: Spiegs <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Mac sound Hardware, why not!?!

As far as I know (and I have no inside information, just an average Joe
Smo), there is no new sound hardware in the Mac, at least not yet. THis
is highly disapponting... It seems to me that Apple has to many divisions
to me. Take for example, when they released System 7.1 with the new Fonts
folder, why just make a Sound folder? What gives? WHy not add some new
sound hardware? WHy not finally rewrite the SCSI Manager so Quadra users
can take advantage of SCSII?

Apple sould push their technology farther at a faster pace and not when
they get around to it....

And that's the way I see it, and I speak for myself.

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

Date: 4 Feb 93 19:32:00 +2000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Now Menus (R)

On Wed, 3 Feb 1993, Marc Bizer writes about a problem with Now Menus:

>... I placed aliases of my favorite
>applications within real folders inside the Apple Menu which I organized by
>adding spaces, weird characters, etc. I installed NowMenus with this same
>arrangement, but I've noticed that while NowMenus gives me a little right
>hand arrow when I move through my "Writing Tools" folder to Word 4 or Word
>5, showing me the most recently opened files with these programs, it will
>not launch the program with the file (nor the "Other..." selection).

I was unable to duplicate this problem using Word 5.1a, System 7.1,
and Now Menus 4.0.1.  Here's what I did to try to replicate it.  Note
that I did not create the new folders directly in the Apple Menu; I
let Now Menus do that:

1.  Created a new folder "Word Procs" outside of the System Folder
2.  Put an alias of Word 5.1a into the folder
3.  Launched Word 5.1a directly, and opened two documents.
4.  Quit Word
5.  Launched Now Menus
6.  Selected the "Add Folder" button and added "Word Procs" (via
    "Other...")
7.  Quit Now Menus
8.  Clicked the Apple Menu, went down to where "Word Procs" was
    displayed, found the right arrow to the right of "Word Procs".
9.  When I moved the cursor to "Word Procs", the "Word 5.1a" alias was
    displayed, along with another right arrow and the names of the two
    documents previously opened.
10. Released the mouse button, Word launced and opened the selected
    document.

Other info:  Make sure the "Attach Folder Contents" check-box is
selected in Now Menus.  I also use the "Auto pull menus" feature, but
I don't know if this is relevant.

Good luck,
  Leon     <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 21:56:57 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: Now Menus and BeHierarchic

Dear Paul,
    BeHierarchic seems incredibly stable by comparison with Now Menus
which of course offers many new features. I did reinstall my system
software (the system file and the Finder), but the problem still exists,
alas.
    Thanks for your help.
    Yours truly,
    Marc bizer

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

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 10:43:22 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Opening text files (R)

Suvrit Varshney asks:

>Is there any shareware program that opens most common
>word processing files and pict files easily, without
>converting etc? Just for reading purposes that is.

Try Quill. It's been a long time since I downloaded it and I don't
remember where it came from, but it should be at sumex (in maybe the
'da' directory?) I believe it's freeware (I don't remember sending
anyone any shareware fee--I'd better go check and be sure ;)) and
it opens every text file I've ever tried it on.

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

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 17:27:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Stuart Greenfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: PD Smalltalk?

   A friend of a friend is interested in obtaining a PD version of
Smalltalk if it is available. Would someone let me know if Smalltalk is
available and where one can ftp it from. TIA.

Stuart Greenfield
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 01:24:14 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Phone number anagrams (A)

> Is there any utility that will take a phone number and list all possible
word
> combinations, to see if you can find a neumonic for the phone number?
> Example:  Apples help hotline phone number is [phone], or (800)
> Procede.  I would love to be able to put in a phone number and get a catchy
> memory device. The prefered program should be able to do it on any number of
> digits of the phone number, to come up with a number like 212-374-DESK.

The hotline is also (800) PRO-BEEF.  For what it's worth.  ;)

Here's a Hypercard script I wrote last time I moved to do just this.
Copy and paste into a button.  It's recursive, so you might need to
increase Hypercard's memory partition.  It needs a card field to put
the results into.

Jon

The option-l character for line continuation is ~ here.  You'll have to
replace it throughout.  Sorry.

---- cut here ----

on mouseUp
  global theNum
  ask "Phone Number (without hyphens)?" & return & ~
  "Results will be placed on the clipboard." with theNum
  if it = "" then exit mouseUp
  put it into theNum
  put "Names for" && theNum & return & numToWords("", theNum) into cd fld 1
end mouseUp

function numToWords s, x
  set cursor to busy
  if x = "" then return s & return
  put number of chars of x into n
  put char 2 to n of x into y
  put char 1 of x into t
  if t = "1" then
    return numToWords(s & "!", y)
  else if t = "2" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "A", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "B", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "C", y)
  else if t = "3" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "D", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "E", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "F", y)
  else if t = "4" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "G", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "H", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "I", y)
  else if t = "5" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "J", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "K", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "L", y)
  else if t = "6" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "M", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "N", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "O", y)
  else if t = "7" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "P", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "R", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "S", y)
  else if t = "8" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "T", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "U", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "V", y)
  else if t = "9" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "W", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "X", y) & ~
    numToWords(s & "Y", y)
  else if t = "0" then
    return ~
    numToWords(s & "0", y)
  end if
end numToWords

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 18:17:02 gmt
From: Mark Elliott <[e-mail]>
Subject: please help !!!!!

can anyone who has access to GEnie do me a big favour ?
file number 25683 is HMO 1.4 (Huckel molecular orbitals for chemists
out there) and this would be really useful to me ( and i'm sure many
other people)

i know nothing about GEnie , so if it costs money then don't bother,
but if anyone has access, time and inclination to get this file
and post it to sumex i will be eternally grateful

thanks in advance

Mark Elliott

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 16:09:48 PST
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Price for used original Classic (A)

>Would anyone with access to prices of used equipment know the going price for
>an original Classic upgraded to 4mb ram?

The sunday paper in San Francisco lists a Mac Classic 2 Mb x 40 Mb HD for
$599. Add $60 for the additional 2 Mb of RAM and you have a price.

Kee
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 11:30 EST
From: Dan Rolander <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickTime 1.5

I've downloaded the QuickTime 1.5 image from ftp.apple.com, but haven't
installed it yet, because the doc that came with it mentions sys s/w 7.1
and I'm using 7.0.1.

Is QT 1.5 compatible with 7.0.1? How about TeachText 7.1.2? Thanks.

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 17:06:52 CST
From: Dennis Brennan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Rearranging the Apple Keyboard II

I am using a Mac Classic with the Apple Keyboard II (separate numeric
keypad, no function keys, cursor control keys under the right shift key).
I recently downloaded a Dvorak keyboard layout system file from sumex-aim.

I would like to rearrange the keys on the keyboard without writing on
the keys or affixing a label.  Is there a trick to yanking the keys out of
the keyboard without breaking them?

Responses via e-mail ([e-mail]) would be appreciated.


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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 14:57:07 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ken B Kirksey)
Subject: Save-O-Matic

> It's could be Saveomatic which works by sending a command-S at a
> specified interval. I found it caused many conflicts with other inits
> and I don't use it any more. You can get Saveomatic from one of the
> following:

I used this init (or one like it) a couple of years ago, but I ran into
a little problem:  I had ResEdit hacked the Finder so that the Shudown
command was activated by command-S.  It took me close to a day to figure
out why my machine was shutting down all by itself. :-)

             Ken

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

Date: 08 Feb 93 03:48:38 EST
From: Paul Antaki <[e-mail]>
Subject: scan lines/corrupt system

I have two problems I hope someone can help me with. They're not VERY serious
but they are serious enough to get me worried:

(1) For this first time since I've owned my SE/30 (18 months) I've noticed a
scan line moving from the bottom to the top of the internatl monitor. It is
quite clearly visible and started happening after the computer had been on
several hours. Is it a hardware problem or simply a perceptual quirk on my
part?

(2) I tried restarting my machine and after the extensions had loaded I got a
dialog box saying that my system file may be corrupted and that the installer
disk might be able to repair it. The strange thing is that when I booted
without extensions (shift key down) I didn't not get the dialog box and
everyting worked fine. What's going on?

In both of these cases no hardware/software changes AT ALL had been made. (4
meg SE/30, System 7.1).

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please post to the digest or E-mail to
this address or [e-mail].

Thanks!

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 13:27:57 EST
From: [e-mail] (W. Pohle)
Subject: Scrolling Speed with System 7

In a PS to a discussion of "Why you need an FPU", RICHARD LIM asks why
scrolling in System 7 is so slow. I noticed this when I switched to System 7
and discovered that by selecting Black & White for your window
color (via the "Color" Control Panel) the scrolling speed is improved. I
did not compare this with System 6, but it did help speed things up.

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 11:29:11 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Site license for At Ease?

Could anyone tell me if Apple distributes At Ease to large labs at a reduced
rate?  This would be for an educational lab.  I'm doing some research into a
new security system for our lab, one that would be drastically simpler than
the one we have now.  While At Ease is sort of Mac-Interface sacrilige (oh my
god a Finder SHELL!  Arghlph...)  it seems to work better than anything we can
come up with on our own.  If anyone has any PD, FW, or SW suggestions for a
way of preventing the average user from messing with important stuff without
a really complex protection scheme (the staff has to be able to get by it e
somewhat easily) I'd be more than happy to accept suggestions! :)

Eric Oehler
[e-mail]       "that'll be all for now, other than to say
                "'Hi!' to Wonko if he's watching."

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 19:41:20 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SoftPC Question


  > I Have a question about the compatibility of SoftPC...
  > Can it correctly emulate a 286 or XT machine? I ask because my parents
  > received a complete 286 system, but my father wants to move onto a
  > MacIntosh Color system, but my mother refuses to give up her
  > WordPerfect... > Does anyone know if it will work correctly?
  > Or better yet, is there a Mac WordPerfect and if so, how similar is it to
  > the original?

SoftPC comes in several varieties. I use Universal SoftPC which emulates an AT
and runs WordPerfect fine on my IIsi, albeit slowly. The biggest limitation is
that it only does CGA graphics, which make the print preview pretty useless.
SoftAT which costs $100 more does EGA graphics which should look better. They
even have a SoftPC Windows now which does VGA.
I am pleased SoftPC. However I only use it for compatibility stuff, file
conversions etc. I wouldn't recommend it to someone who wanted to work in the
DOS environment full time.

WordPerfect Mac is a very good word processor. It has good graphics handling
and page-layout abilities and was the first Mac word processor to support
QuickTime. I does not, however, conform very closely to the DOS version. In my
opinion it is far superior!


Paul Lieberman      [e-mail]


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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 11:42:06 -0500
From: [e-mail] (sridhar)
Subject: stylewriter II

I understand the new SWII prints in 3 modes, best,normal and draft. How do the
print qualities compare with the old SW which prints only in two modes, best
and draft. Does the normal mode on SWII (it is supposidly twice as fast as
best mode) compare with the best mode on old SW?

Please EMail me

SS

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 2:19:05 EST
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: Suitcase 2.1.2 (Q)

Netters:

I have a question about Suitcase 2.1.2 as it relates to System 7.1 running
on a Mac IIci.

Seeing that System 7.1 uses a Fonts folder to store the system fonts, how
useful is Suitcase 2.1.2 with this system?  I ask this question in the light
that I want all my fonts to be active (opened) upon startup.

Please reply directly to me and I'll summarize to the net if I get enough
replies.

Thanks for your help.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

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

Date: 8 Feb 1993 15:19:55 -0700
From: "Apgar, Eric" <apgar#m#[e-mail]>
Subject: SW 1 w / SW 2 drivers

Hello,

As some of you have already found out by talking to the AAC or
other Apple reps, using the SW 2 drivers with a SW 1 is not
officially supported but works.

To get the grey scale features, 32-bit quickdraw MUST be in
the ROMs. This is why it will not work on the portable or
plus or some SE's. Please don't ask me why the drivers are
not available for owners of the SW 1.
I have nothing to do with those decisions.

[e-mail]   |   Eric Apgar  alias  Gar   |   I said it, NOT Apple.

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 02:40 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: synth programming tools (A)

Todd E. Frenzel <[e-mail]> writes:

> I have just recently obtained a Yamaha DX7 FM synth.  I want to midi
> it with a 145 and I need a shove in the right direction.  The PC
> world typically requires a card for midi interfacing.   Can the mac
> use the serial port?  ( Tell me yes. )

Yes. :)
A low-end Mac-MIDI interface (1-in, 3-out) will set you back
about $ 50 and hook your mac to your synth thru either of the
two (printer or modem) ports.  If your copious free time is
filled with ennui, you could even make one yourself - details
available via ftp, among other places, at louie.udel.edu
/pub/midi/software/mac/MAC-midi.
A caveat about using the PB145:
Except for the 100, all PBs (140, 145, 160, 170, 180) will have
trouble with synth -> mac system exclusive dumps....unless the
software you use is "pollproc" savvy (such as OMS - Opcode
MIDI System).  All other aspects of MIDI (sequencing, playback,
mac->synth sys. ex. dumps, etc.) should work fine on all PBs
with any other software ("pollproc" savvy or not).

>                                               Also, what are the latest
> sequencing and sound programming software out there, with prices if
> you can.  Shareware and public domain are always nice.

At last count, there were over 20 commercial MIDI
sequencers/notation editors available for the mac; the price
ranges from $60 to $600.  What are your budget constraints?
I know of only one public domain sequencer (with highly
limited editing capabilities) - MiniTrax 1.54 ftp-able form
sumex, udel, umich, ucsd etc.  A demo of Lime (a MIDI
notation/sequencer) is available from novamail.cerl.uiuc.edu
/pub/lime/.  From time to time, the folks at Dr. T (publishers
of MIDI software) upload demo versions of their wares (Music
Mouse, Beyond etc.) to sumex.  Have also seen demos of Finale
(Coda Software) floating around.  To ftp a copy, try
one of the mirrors which keep old sumex files (best bet might
be wuarchive.wustl.edu /mirrors2/info-mac/...).  Or you can
always ask archie to find it for you.

>                                                  What I would
> really like are some midi tech specs or even better, serial XCMDs so
> I could throw together hypercard ideas on the fly.  Oh yeah, a
> archive a DX7 patches would be BTS ( better tha...well, you know.)

Reputedly, the best set of MIDI Tools available commercially is
OMS.  MIDIPascal/MIDIBasic are also available.
The situation for pd/sw MIDI tools is not bad either.  If you
feel comfortable hacking in HyperCard, check out HyperMIDI
(sw).  I saw an old version 2 years ago and it seemed decent
enough.  Other MIDI tools include Bulk Sysex Utility (free, tho'
not pd), CMU Midi Toolkit (free, pd?), MidiControl (sw), and
MidiScope (pd).  Don't know the latest versions for these, but
you should be able find them (and a host of other MIDI goodies)
archived at one of the following places (can't remember what's
where, but these are a few ftp sites with MIDI stuff -
programs, patches, tech. specs, sequences, etc.):
ucsd.edu
louie.udel.edu
media-lab.media.mit.edu
sony.com

Recently, I saw a FAQ-in-the-making posted on
rec.music.makers.synth which dealt with Mac-MIDI resources
available on the net.  If my news server hasn't killed it
already, I will redirect a copy of the preliminary version to
info-mac.

Cheers - Shekhar Govind
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: 06 Feb 1993 22:17:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mudd Rat <[e-mail]>
Subject: Turning off folder arrows in system 7

Got a question...anybody know how to turn off the arrows that appear next to
folders in sys 7.x?  I took a quick look through the sysem file with ResEdit,
trying to find the icon (?) that represents the arrow, but I couldn't find
it.
I don't need to disable the arrow, though that would be nice, if I can just
turn it white, that would be OK.  E-mail to me, please....

[e-mail]

Mike Unger

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 20:15 WET
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Type -39 errors (Q)

Dear All,

In the past week or so, my Mac has started coming up with the
error message "The application could not be launched because an
error of type: -39 occurred". Verifying the applications that
this has happened with using ResEdit, I am informed that the
application is irretrievably (sp?) damaged and that I should
replace it with a new copy. This has happened to more than one
application. Does anyone know what's going on here -- I've had
to replace three or four applications so far.

Thanks in advance.

Alun

A. J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: 9 Feb 93 13:46:31 GMT
From: [e-mail] (T Brodhursthill)
Subject: UUdecoders & btoa for the mac.

[e-mail] writes:

>Hola a todos:

>I am looking for a program that is able to UUencode & UUdecode Files.
>I am also interested in btoa and atob coding software.
>Any idea will be appreciated.
>Thanks.

>Rafael Collantes
>[e-mail]
 stuffit lite does this.
tom

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 12:44:41 -0600
From: [e-mail] (W.A.Kibbe&L.C.Brinson)
Subject: Vendor Email Addresses (C)

There have been a few questions in info-mac regarding getting company email
addresses.  I started the list "vendor-emails.hqx" found in the
"/info-mac/report" directory about a year ago to compile a list of
companies who support email addresses, and you will find a reasonably
comprehensive (but by no means complete!) list of companies that have
internet, CIS, AOL, GEnie, MCImail, AppleLink and FTP sites, and also some
FAX numbers for these companies.  The list is now tended by Matt Simpson
([e-mail]), but anyone who has additions or
corrections to the list please email me or Matt.  The list is still being
updated, but we need your help to keep it accurate and expanding!
W.A.Kibbe   internet: [e-mail]   GEnie: W.Kibbe  AOL: WAKibbe
        internet: [e-mail]
Voice: [phone]

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

Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 15:23:48 +0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Chiang-Shen Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: Video and SCSI Speed in Centris vs. Q700

Does anyone have any information about the video circuitry speed (2, 8,
and 16 bit graphics) and the SCSI bus speed (primarily HD transfer speed) on
the new Centris machines.  I understand that the Q800 will be faster than
the Q700 in both respects, but does anyone know about the speed of the Centris
computers compared to the Q700.  Benchmark data would, of coarse, be most
useful.  Please respond by e-mail directly and I will sumarize if there is
sufficient interest.

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

Date: Mon,  8 Feb 93 12:03 CET
From: "Charles C. Schneider"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Virtual memory with lots o' RAM

Recently I purchased a major RAM upgrade (64 MBytes) for
my Mac so I could work more efficiently with Photoshop. All
that RAM is a real time-saver, but it's eating up a lot of my
hard disk.

The problem is that I can't run Photoshop without using the
Quadra's virtual memory. The virtual memory option on the
memory CDEV forces me to have the same amount of virtual
memory as the available RAM. That means a disk storage loss
of around 67 MBytes (since I have a RAM disk and it's not
included as "available").

Is there any way around this? I believe both QuarkXpress and
Photoshop are forcing me to use virtual memory, so I'm stuck
with it. Certainly there must be a way to give myself, say, 5
MBytes of virtual memory while having so much RAM!?

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I've combed Info-Mac for months
without noticing anything concerning this. Any Resedit hacks
would be sincerely appreciated.

Ciao4now

Charles C. Schneider
International Atomic Energy Agency
Vienna, Austria
sdz5@iaea1 (bitnet)

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

Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 00:08 CST
From: Dominik Hoffmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: Where can I find a PRAM Zapper?

I am looking for a utility that can zap the Parameter RAM. I know that
something
like that exists. In lack of a name, all my searches were fruitless. Does
anyone
have suggestions?

Dominik Hoffmann

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 11:23 BST
From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why not just buy it rather than write a thesis (C)

IN comp.sys.mac.digest V11 #30, Paul Sheldon ([e-mail]) writes
about trying to get his PhD through (as I understood him) constructing
generalised class libraries for scientific programming that the common man
could afford.

>My problem was to solve the general 1st order system of differential
>equations (with the derivatives lined nicely on the left as functions of
>the undifferentiated).  Lo and behold, Wolfram Research, that giant
>corporation with their own electronic digest has it all and more in NDSolve.
>You just write the system of equations and initial conditions and ranges in
>its arguments.  Problem done.

Well, I'm not sure that I would describe Wolfram Research Inc as a "giant"
corporation, though they certain exist both sides of the Atlantic.  Anyway,
have you actually tried to use NDSolve?  It produces solutions in the form
of weird interpolated functions which you can't to my knowledge probe in
order to get solutions at specified points.  Very inconvenient.  Plus the
NDSolve routine can require HUGE amounts of memory and is pretty slow at
times.  I've had to stick with simple Runge-Kutta, which is the opposite of
NDSolve in most of the above areas.

>I hear the corporate incantation, "Paul, must you reinvent the wheel!? Why
>don't you go out and buy it, this Mathematica..."
>All I know is that if I take that attitude, I will be out of a whole lot
>of bucks and won't get my Ph.D., I'll just wind up not inventing anything
>and might be ought a whole lot more of bucks by always buying and never
>earning" [I think this should be "learning" though the word Paul typed is
not beyond the bounds of possibility]

Well, as far as I'm concerned the field is still open for you to produce a
neat differential equation solver.  It might help me finally get MY PhD
(despite months of work on Mathematica, I still can't get a certain
coefficient to look like the square root of 2 to fit our theory, rather
than 1.2 which is about 15% too low).  :-(

>The interface is grotesque and non-WYSIWYG like Theorist. Ugly code in,
>beautiful graphics out perhaps after a long time

Mathematica's interface is not grotesque, though it makes no pretence of
being WYSIWYG.  It is after all basically an interpreted programming
language and uses command lines.  Someone I know in Scotland has written
a Hypercard front end for some Mathematica functions.  Mathematica's
graphics are great though, all Postscript!

>I hope someone out there will give me confidence rather than a mere smart
remark. I don't want to simply buy things, I wanna get that Ph.D. and make
>money.  [Maybe "earning" was right after all]
>Need words of inspiration. Help me internet.

Since when was doing a PhD about financial inducements?  (Duh...)  I thought
the point of a PhD was to demonstrate your capacity to do research.  If you
can build your own programming libraries in an original way, surely that
indicates some amount of initiative on your part, even if the routines they
contain aren't necessarily entirely original.  Nobody ever said you had to
produce the ultimate problem-solver, otherwise those of us who want to write
public-domain text editors ought to be trying to outdo QuarkXpress.  I'd
stick with math rather than mammon for now, if I were you

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 21:57:02 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: Why you need an FPU

Dear Fpu admirers,
    It isn't at all clear that the system software makes any use of an
FPU. Although it would seem logical for outlines fonts to call on the FPU,
a system 7 programmer just informed me that TrueType makes no use
whatsoever of an FPU if one is present. What about ATM? I'd doubt it, too
(although ATM obviously takes advantage of the '020/'030). I don't know
about calculating folder sizes, however. Does anyone know something about
this for sure?
    Sincerely yours,
    Marc Bizer

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