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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 27 Apr 93       Volume 11 : Issue 89

Today's Topics:

      [*] (*) Furioso font sampler update
      [*] 99 Bottles
      [*] alarm-book.hqx
      [*] ARA script for ZyXEL U - 1496E+ modem
      [*] Business Directory 3.0.2. (Updated Version)
      [*] Dartmouth XCMDS 4.0.3 updater
      [*] Default Folder 2.33
      [*] EtherLAN SC 1.45 software BETA
      [*] insurance for Mac equipment (report)
      [*] Lists XFCN's package 1.0
      [*] Mac & IBM Compare-Version 1.7.7
      [*] macgrid-12.hqx
      [*] MACSIG 04/22/93
      [*] Mac Text Editors Report
      [*] Mactivity Session Descriptions
      [*] Open-wide 3.4 (resubmission)
      [*] Quadra 700 Clock Mod Report v1.1
      [*] Re: Frequently Asked Questions?
      [*] System 7 Emergency disks using ShortFinder
      [*] TeX and LaTeX responses
      [*] TidBITS#174/26-Apr-93
      [*] Upload of version 0.3 of Sun audio to Mac snd converter
      (R) Error Codes
      //c to Mac serial cable
      68040 does not neccessarily have an FPU
      After Dark (Star Trek)
      A robust and small screensaver (Q)
      A Stylewriter II shortage?
      Battery rechargers/reconditioners for Powerbooks
      BinHex 4.0
      C++ event simulation package(Q)
      C650 CD ROM Mount Problem Solved
      Call Tracking Software
      Changing labels on standard Finder menus
      database, calender, & list (Q)
      Deskpict (Q)
      Direct connection to HP 550c
      DisKeeper v1.9
      Ergonomic Keyboards
      Error Codes (A)
      Error codes [A]
      Experts, Imperts and FAQs
      F1 & Formula 1
      FastBack Plus and 32 bit enabler.
      FAX Modems for the Mac...
      Global Village Teleport/PowerPort vs. Supra
      Green Monitors
      How do you increase Finder memory? (Q)
      How to get free 16bit video on LCIII
      LaserWriter IIsc (Q)
      LC/Daystar vs LCIII
      Mac Hardware Guide is coming!
      MacIIci replacement fan (Q)
      Mac Multi-tasking vs. "TRUE" multi-tasing (R)
      mcvert-20
      MFZ: why & what alternatives
      more HP problems
      Multitasking: true or false? (A)
      My apologies
      notecards (R)
      notecards, me too
      Now Software's "Compress" - info????
      Oberon programming language
      PB145 click
      PC->Mac Graphics in Word
      Possible to colorize startup icons of INITs?
      PostScript previewing and the Mac...
      Printing problem (bin selection)
      Problem with menus in Excel 4.0
      Programming list
      ps -> eps conversion
      PS files revisited
      quadra-boot-switch.hqx [Q]
      Quadra 700 and ethernet card
      Super Boomerang equivalentI
      Super Boomerang equivalent Shareware?? (C)
      Supra 14.4PB modem -- recommendations? (Q)
      System 7.1 Sylewriter II.
      TelePort Bronze can receive FAXes too!
      TrueType INIT
      TrueType INIT (C)
      v.32bis friendly comm program (A)
      Why LC III defaults to b&w after monitor change (Q)
      Why we shouldn't abuse the internet (C)
      Word Processor Blues... (C)
      Word processor blues and Fullwrite (C)
      Wrist pad comment

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 09:57:14 -0700
From: Glenn Fleishman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] (*) Furioso font sampler update

Dear info-mac community, Two years ago I originally submitted
FuriosoTitling, the caps and numerals from a shareware font I
designed called Furioso (after Berthold Wolpe's Albertus). In the
intervening two years, I improved the complete font, by adding many
characters (mostly foreign language) and some alternate characters.
Also in the intevening two years, I have lived at three different
addresses. Wayzata released a font disk that had my old address on
it, which ceased being forwarded several months ago. If you a
registered owner of Furioso (US$12 for the complete font), please
contact me at: 5 Willow St. Apt. A, Camden, ME 04843 or
[e-mail]. I have also resubmitted a newer version of the
sampler version of Furioso, called Furisampleoso (printer font is
Furis) for those interested in seeing or registering the new complete
version. Enclosed is a TrueType suitcase, and the Type 1 bitmaps and
printer font, as well as a document about what you get on
registration. Please feel free to contact me via e-mail or snail mail
if you have questions.

Glenn Fleishman in the great state of Maine

[Archived as /info-mac/font/furioso-sample.hqx; 120K]

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 23:12:45 -0400
From: Byron C Mayes <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] 99 Bottles

This is the infamous 99 Bottles program which David Pogue, in his April '93
Desktop Critic column (Macworld, April 1993, p177), decribes as "positively
hilarious" and one of the stand-out programs in the book Totally Rad Mac
Programs, by Owen Linzmayer.  I couldn't believe that it was unavailable here
in THE mac archive, so here it is.

99 Bottles sings everyone's favorite back-of-the-bus travel song, "99 Bottles
of
Beer on the Wall," counting down from any number between 1 and 1 quadrillion
(I kid you not...1,000,000,000,000,000).  It quits upon reaching zero.  The
default is, naturally, 99.  The user can also change the pitch over a range of
two octaves.  Speed of the song varies with the pitch.

Requires System 6.0.7 or higher because, according to the author, it was
designed to show off the new sound manager (make multiple copies of 99
Bottles,
launch them, set them to different pitches/speeds and numbers, and drive
anyone within earshot totally insane!).

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/99-bottles.hqx; 238K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 15:23:18 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Dan Repich)
Subject: [*] alarm-book.hqx

To:    [e-mail]
From:  [e-mail]  (Daniel Repich)

Last week, I FTPed a raw "sit" file to mac/incoming and left no message.
I have since found out the proper way to do this (I think).
I would like to submit this demo software called AlarmBook on behalf of
Neptune Systems (my small but growing software company).  It was written by
myself and my team at Neptune and we would like to have this demo version
distributed to as many anonymous FTP sites as possible.

The file is not self extracting and contains a read-me with the software
description once unstuffed.  Can you help me get this distrbuted?

I appreciate any comments you may have on the software or the method by which
I am trying to get the demo version out.  If the process I am using to get
this software to macgifts is incorrect, please send me a mail and tell me
how I can get this accomplished correctly the next time.

Sincerly, Daniel Repich

President, Neptune Systems

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/alarm-book.hqx; 365K]

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 13:29:52 MET
From: Wolfgang Hammerschmidt <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ARA script for ZyXEL U - 1496E+ modem

RE: Zyxel ARA script for ZyXel U - 1496E+ modem

Hello everybody!

Surprise, surprise! We bought two ZyXEL U -1496E+ modems a week ago and found
out by accident that they support 19200bps! Thus, it was necessary to rewrite
the modem script for Apple Talk Remote Access to make it work with this new
generation of modems. Since this script might be of interest to many new users
of Zyxel modems for the Macintosh it would be a good idea to have it posted in
info-mac/comm! Thanks much.

This CCL script now supports the newest ROM version and 19200bps speed
(April1993) for which I didn+t get any written information although the modem
does support this feature. In general, the script supports 57600 baud from Mac
to Modem and back. The settings work with a pair of ZyXEL modems (at
19200bps!)
and with at least two other modems from different manufacturers on a Plus and
on  a Quadra 700 including callback, mixed pulse and touch tone dialing, etc.
Since some national telephone systems or switchboard telephone equipments
don+t
give the anticipated dialtone, I have included an escape sequence to override
this necessity just in case (changes the script from X6 to X3). If there are
any problems please let me know. However, I cannot guarantee that this hack
will work for every ZyXEL modem. If it works for you, drop me a line, please.
My E-mail address is <[e-mail]>

Greetings!

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/ara-zyxel-u-1496e.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 20:13:17 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Business Directory 3.0.2. (Updated Version)

Business Directory (Version 3.0.2)

By      Jeffrey N. Fritz <[e-mail]>
    485 Junior Avenue
    Morgantown, WV  26505

A short while ago I uploaded the Business Directory.  This is a File-
Maker Pro 2.0 address book.  It features a highly graphical interface, the
ability to automatically copy and paste names and addresses into other
applications.  It has entries for e-mail addresses and is designed to
make data entry really easy.  There's lots more!

This is the lasted version, Business Directory 3.0.2.  It improves the
interface and corrects some cosmetic problems from the first version.
The main difference is that 3.0.2 has neat color icons added to the
buttons.  They are quite nice and make it easy to locate the functions
you are looking for.

Business Directory 3.0.2 is shareware.  You may use it for 30 days without
charge.  After that you are requested to pay a $5.00 shareware fee.  I am
sending the password to everyone who registers their copy.  The password
allows you to customise the interface to suit your own taste and needs.

Hope you like it!

Jeffrey Fritz
Internet: [e-mail]
AppleLink:  WVUISDN
America On Line: ISDN Man

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-business-dir-302.hqx; 58K]

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Date: 25 Apr 1993 13:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Dartmouth XCMDS 4.0.3 updater

[Various xcmds... - Gordon]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/dartmouth-403-updater.hqx; 146K]

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:42:41 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jon Gotow)
Subject: [*] Default Folder 2.33

Following is a submission of Default Folder 2.33.  It should replace any
previous versions in the archives.  This release is a minor bug fix/feature
enhancement.  It adds an option to switch to an application's default
folder even when the application was opened by double clicking on a
document.  Sorting of folder names is also fixed, and when a disk is
ejected from a file dialog, the folder is set back to the default folder if
one exists rather than just going to the next mounted volume.

For those that don't know, Default Folder is a control panel that lets you
"link" a default folder to any  application or desk accessory.  When you
launch a desk accessory or a linked application, Default Folder sets things
up so the file dialog boxes initially open in your default folder.

Default Folder can also provide pop-up menus in the file dialog box to
allow you to switch between folders and between volumes.  The folder menu
allows access to:
  1)  The current application or desk accessory's default folder.
  2)  Any one of the last 10 folders you used.
  3)  One of a reserved set of folders "locked" in the menu.
The volume menu allows instant switching to any available volume.  It also
provides "smart volume switching."  Default Folder remembers the last
folder you accessed on each volume, and switches to that folder rather than
to the top of the folder hierarchy when you change disks.  This works with
both the volume menu and the "Drive" button.

Default Folder is System 7 aware, has balloon help, and all that good
stuff, but will run on just about any version of the System.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/default-folder-233.hqx; 124K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 17:53:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Peter Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] EtherLAN SC 1.45 software BETA

This attachment contains the latest version of the driver set for the
EtherLAN SC/SC-T, FOCUS's SCSI interface for Macintosh to ethernet
connectivity.  This software is currently being released as BETA software.

PLEASE READ:

The only difference between 1.45 and previous versions is the inclusion of
compatibility for the Macintosh LC III and PowerBook 165c.  No other
changes have been made.  People using previous versions who will not be
using either the LC III or the PB 165c are ADVISED NOT TO UPGRADE to this
version.

This software is compressed in a self-extracting archive, and is in .image
format, a bitmap format germaine to DiskCopy 4.2, a public domain utility
available from Apple Computer, Inc.

Bug reports and questions MUST BE FORWARDED to [e-mail].

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/etherlan-sc-drivers-145.hqx; 344K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 21:20:03 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: [*] insurance for Mac equipment (report)

Several digests ago, I posted the following query:
>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?


The response has been fabulous.  Not only were there replies posted
directly to the digest, but I also received responses directly from

  Jerry <[e-mail]>
  K. A. Graff <[e-mail]>
  Harald Herchen <[e-mail]>
  Ed Kaszubowski <dlogics![e-mail]>
  Charles Martini <[e-mail]>
  Tim Richard <[e-mail]>

Thanks for your help, folks.  I really appreciate your help and advice
in this matter.  Insurance can be a confusing business, especially for
one unschooled in such matters.

I am submitting a compilation of all the responses I received directly,
along with those I cut from the last few digests.  I hope that this
information will serve someone else as well as it's served me.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/insurance-for-mac.txt; 21K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 10:07 EST
From: Doug Ward <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Lists XFCN's package 1.0

Lists XFCN package

This package of XFCN's was written to provide a simple and
versatile programming interface for manipulating complex lists of
text strings in HyperCard. List lines can contain multiple items,
and both lines and items can be delimited by any single character
(not just returns and commas). I have included functions for
building, sorting, editing, searching, and combining lists. The
package is shareware.

Doug Ward

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/lists.hqx; 43K]

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Date: 20 Apr 93 01:22:23 EDT
From: bruce grubb <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mac & IBM Compare-Version 1.7.7

Archive name: mac-ibm-compare177.txt
category: text

This is Version 1.7.7 of this report and should replace
mac-ibm-compare173.txt.  It contains some important changes, additions and
clarifications.  Due to the rapid changes in computers I am interested in
contributions from Digest and other readers to flesh out, correct or point
out confusing parts of the report.  Send comments and information to
CompuServe: 72130,3557; AOL: BruceG6069; or Internet: [e-mail].
This report compares the Mac and IBM machines CPUs, hardware {monitor support
and expansion}, operating systems {includes number crunching}, networking &
printing; it covers not only present hardware/software statistics and features

but also future possibilities.
Despite its condensed and generalized format it still provides some thought-
provoking reading on the relative merits, problems, and deficiencies of Macs
and IBM PCs.  It also contains some FAQ answers about both machines.
Note:  for proper reading off line this document should be in 9 point Monaco.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/mac-ibm-compare-177.txt; 45K]

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 93 19:21:17 -0400
From: "Erik Schwiebert" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] macgrid-12.hqx

Enclosed please find MacGrid v1.2.  v1.2 is both a bug-fix and a true upgrade
>From MacGrid v1.1.

MacGrid v1.2 is a game of logic and luck based on the traditional
MineSweeper.
The new changes include better window support and speed, fixes to minor errros
in some menu items, fixes for misplaces dialog boxes, and several cosmetic
changes.

MacGrid is "postcard-ware" -- there are no monetary fees involved for its
use!

Please see the enclosed README file for more information

Thanx, Erik
---

[Archived as /info-mac/game/macgrid-12.hqx; 64K]

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Date: 22 Apr 93 14:22:35 EDT
From: Larry Beck <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MACSIG 04/22/93

This MACSIG file from Central Point Software is a self-extracting archive that
contains a ReadMe file with further instructions. It also contains the new
INIT M virus signature as well as other virus signatures back to July 1992.

[Archived as /info-mac/virus/mac-sig.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 93 21:22:41 BST
From: Yoram Ney <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Mac Text Editors Report

This is a better-late-then-never submission of the summary of replies to
my query about text editors for the Mac. I believe its natural place is
the /report directory.

Yoram

[Archived as /info-mac/report/text-editors.txt; 21K]

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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 14:42:06 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Thomas Scott)
Subject: [*] Mactivity Session Descriptions

I've tried sending this before without success.  Here goes again...

I've enclosed the full descriptions of all the Mactivity regular sessions,
as well as special sessions, and the full-day seminars.  This should be put
in the info-mac/reports directory.


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

[Archived as /info-mac/report/mactivity-regular-sessions.hqx; 35K]

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 93 16:12:52 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jim Walker)
Subject: [*] Open-wide 3.4 (resubmission)

Open-wide is a control panel extension (INIT/cdev) that widens directory
dialogs (Open... and Save... dialogs), the better to see long file names. It
can also stretch these dialogs vertically, so you can see more file names.
Online documentation included.  Postcard-ware.

Since 3.3: A Try-it button in the parameters dialog, and greater
compatibility with Flash-It and Dialog View.

System 6.0.4 or later is required; compatible with System 7.

This is a StuffIt 3.0 archive.

 -- Jim Walker

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/open-wide-34.hqx; 33K]

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 00:52:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: Guy Kuo <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Quadra 700 Clock Mod Report v1.1

Please replace my previous report detailing the Quadra 700 clock upgrade
to this version which includes James McPhail's Speedometer and thermal
data.

Quadra 700 Clock Mod Report v1.1

Here is how I modified my Quadra 700 for higher speed. Previously I
had been using a Variable Speed Overdrive for accelerating my CPU
but this modification is testing out as more stable at higher speeds.

Your mileage may vary. The top speed you achieve cannot be predicted
before hand. My personal Q700 has tested fine up to 33.3 mhz thus far.
I didn't have higher speed clock oscillators on hand to test higher
speeds.

[Archived as /info-mac/tech/quadra-700-clock-mod-11.txt; 13K]

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 15:12:58 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Re: Frequently Asked Questions?

[e-mail] writes:

>This seems to be a circular reference.
>Do people frequently ask where to find answers to frequently asked
questions?
>I have been looking for a "FAQ" file somewhere in the sumex-aim ftp.
>Any suggestions?

I suggest looking into the *.answers groups, especially news.answers.

I've done a little "FAQ of FAQs" about this, so I will append it here.

Sven :)

[Archived as /info-mac/report/faq-of-faqs.txt; 5K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 16:17:24 -0800
From: [e-mail] (David Ryeburn)
Subject: [*] System 7 Emergency disks using ShortFinder

Recently Brian Gaeke posted an application called ShortFinder 1.0
(posted as util/short-finder-10.hqx). It can be used to launch or
terminate processes. This includes the possibility of quitting the
Finder if there is a (normal) Finder and it is running, or starting
it if it is not running. ShortFinder uses about one-seventh the disk
space of a regular System 7 Finder, and runs in far less RAM. This
report shows how ShortFinder can be used as a Finder substitute on a
high-density floppy disk to make a System 7 emergency disk.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/short-finder-as-finder.txt; 7K]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 12:37:03 EDT
From: Scott Kaplan <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] TeX and LaTeX responses

Not long ago I requested any and all information that people could give me
about TeX and LaTeX possibilities on the Mac.  I got a lot of responses, and
a bunch of requests to pass those responses on to the archives, as I guess
this is a FAQ.  I've compiled here the more thorough answers...not that the
short answers weren't also very useful!  Also, I have done some minor editing
to people's responses (just deletion of some lines) so that this is easier to
read, and so that I wasn't passing out infomation like telephone numbers which
these responders may not have wanted available to everyone.  Better safe than
sorry.

Many great thanks to those who responded.  I am now playing with OzTeX and am
very happy with it's performance so far.  I regret that I could not respond to
everyone who wrote with help, so a blanket thanks to all.  I hope this is
useful
to others.

Scott Kaplan
Amherst College
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/report/tex-info.txt; 28K]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 20:41:17 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#174/26-Apr-93

TidBITS#174/26-Apr-93

 Lots of little bits this week, including comments, corrections,
   and tips about System 7. Mark Anbinder covers the malicious
   INIT-M virus along with an excellent offer for a
   MS Mail/Internet gateway that expires at the end of the week.
   On the lighter side we have Ian Feldman's intriguing list of
   fiction set in computer or programming environments. Finally,
   a look into the future at the PowerBook 145B, the next cheap
   PowerBook, and what it means for Apple.

Topics:
    MailBITS/26-Apr-93
    Malicious Virus On The Loose
    PostalUnion Unites MS Mail, Internet Mail
    Fiction in Computer Science
    PowerBook 145B & Apple Strategy
    Reviews/26-Apr-93

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-174.etx; 30K]

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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 10:29:45 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Upload of version 0.3 of Sun audio to Mac snd converter

Received: by launchpad.paa.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA06861; Sun, 25 Apr 93
13:29:38 EDT
Apparently-To: [e-mail]:edu:xerox

This utility converts sounds from the Sun ulaw encoded audio format to Mac snd
resources in sfil type files.  Version 0.3 fixes a few bugs in the previous
version uploaded here.  (Since I don't have ftp access, I'm not sure where it
resides.  Probably util or sound/program.)  Please replace the old file with
this one.

Old program used to hang the system if sound file was input that was too
large.
This version exits with an Alert window suggesting that you increase
application memory in the Get Info box.  Conversion is still in one direction
only with this version.  Mac UI remains crude so it is still freeware.
Compacted.

Vic Heintz
vic:[e-mail]
Pittsford, NY

(Archive as sound/program/au-snd03cpt.hqx or util/au-snd-converter03cpt.hqx)
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[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/au-snd03.hqx; 28K]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 09:35:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wayne K. Walrath)
Subject: (R) Error Codes

>   Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 16:56:28 -0400 (EDT)
>   From: "Benjamin \"Waldo\" Smith" <[e-mail]>
>   Subject: (Q) Error Codes
>
>   Hi!
>   I was wondering where I can obtain a list for Macintosh error
>   codes? I have received numerous codes of type -192 and I would really like

Did you bother to look around in the archives?

How much more time would you have spent if instead of sending a
message to Info-Mac, you first ftp'd to Sumex, cd'd to the most
obvious directories where that information might reside (eg, /util,
/tech, or perhaps /app, for starters) and then typed in "ls -l *sys*"
or "ls -l *err*", and see what comes up.

So, this time, I did it for you, and here is what I found:

/info-mac/util/system-errors-701.hqx
/info-mac/util/sys-errors-da.hqx

Next time, spend a little time looking... (and people wonder why their
questions go unanswered).

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 13:39:26 -0400
From: "Alan D. Danziger" <[e-mail]>
Subject: //c to Mac serial cable

In comp.sys.mac.digest someone wrote:

>    A friend of mine wants to transfer a big wodge of files from his
>old Apple //c to his Mac, and is looking for specs on a null modem
>cable to connect these two beasts. His Mac has a normal DIN-8 serial
>connector (The little round ones). He says his //c has a connector
>that looks simaler (In fact, he can plug a Mac printer cable into it)
>but he's unsure of the pinout.

The //c to ImageWriter II cable will work; hook them up, tell the Mac
& the //c to use the same baud rate (I believe they both default to
9600 baud), and go for it!

Also -- If you have a 3.5" drive for the Apple //c (I did... *Grin*)
it's much easier.  Just use Apple File Exchange to read the Prodos
disk directly into the Mac...

Best of luck,
    -=Alan

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 11:22:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Kaplan <[e-mail]>
Subject: 68040 does not neccessarily have an FPU

The 68040 used in the Centris 610 is not a full-fledged 68040 chip.  It is
a 68LC040 (I believe that's how the labelling goes) which does not have an
FPU in it at all.  Motorola started making this chip for Apple, who requested
it in order to turn out lower-cost machines.

This chip apparently (from what I've read from others here) cannot be easily
replaced with a full 68040 with the FPU in it.  So the lack of an FPU option
for the Centris 610 is a bit more important than you may have thought.

That said, I reserve the right to be incorrect and am happy to learn from
those who know better.

Scott Kaplan
Amherst College
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 21:11 EDT
From: John Snell <[e-mail]>
Subject: After Dark (Star Trek)

Date sent:  27-APR-1993 21:10:17
>Hey,
>
>When I D/Led the Star Trek Screen Saver from sumex-aim.stanford...and
>installed the file into the After Dark Files Folder. Star Trek
>doesn't appear as a choice of screen savers. What do I do to get it to
>work?? Does anyone know??
>
>
>
>Peace, Andy Tennant
[e-mail]     [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 09:51:57 +0200
From: "Olaf F. Normann" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A robust and small screensaver (Q)

Does anyone now if there exist a small and robust screensaver for
mac?  Preferably a program (extention) in the public domain.

Just need one which does its job WITHOUT all the
fancy stuff (which AfterDark has).

It should work on all type of macs, from Mac plus to centris.
-olaf

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

Date: 25 Apr 1993 12:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: A Stylewriter II shortage?

Hi, Netters:

Does anyone out there know if apple has short supply on stylewriter II? The
reason I ask is I ordered one through my college's bookstore on Jan 13,
shortly
after its release on Jan 6, but hasn't got the printer yet. At begining, I
thought apple may again have a short supply on its products. However, I saw
that even the stores like OfficeMax and Montgomary Ward have stylewriter II in
stock. What kind game does apple play here? I hope someone in the net is able
to give me a clue. Thanks in advantage!

Hong Wang
Medical College of Ohio

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 14:55:05 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Eric H Seale)
Subject: Battery rechargers/reconditioners for Powerbooks

[e-mail] writes:

>There really is a "charge memory" problem with Nickel-Cadmium
>batteries! The trouble is that to get that effect you need to get your
>battery into a geosynchronous orbit, in microgravity, and subject it to
>extremes of heat and cold while charging for precise times over a
>period of months.

But I do this with my PowerBook all the time!  ;-)

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 19:44:43 -0700
From: jason b yom <[e-mail]>
Subject: BinHex 4.0

To Moderator,

I have been going through /info-mac for last two week.  I see a lot of
freewares and
shrewares that I would like to use.  However, there is a problem:  I don't
have a copy of
BinHex 4.0, which is required in order to use any file in your site.

I have been asking around where I can get a copy.  Someone told me to down
load
binhex4.bin, since it is in Macbinary format.  Unfortunately, I don't have a
modem in my
home computer, so I can't use zmodem to covert.  Is there any solution to my
problem?

Please help me.


                                    Jason
                                    B. Yom
                                    [e-mail]

p.s.  I do have access to networked macs that I can use for ftp.

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 10:10:29 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: C++ event simulation package(Q)

Dear friends,

I am now looking for the event-driven simulation
library for C++ language. I prefer share-ware soft,
but any application programs are welcome.

If somebody could give me any information, I would
appreciate it very much. I have Unix machine as well
as Mac, so any versions are acceptable.

My e-mail address is [e-mail].

Best regards,

 --------------------
Toshiya

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 11:02 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: C650 CD ROM Mount Problem Solved

Greetings,
    Thanks to
ICDC::IN%"[e-mail]"  "Allan M. Bloom"
ICDC::IN%"[e-mail]"
ICDC::IN%"[e-mail]"
ICDC::IN%"[e-mail]"

for solving the problem of the CD not mounting on my Centris 650 (not being
smug, Al :).  The answer was "Get the most current version of the CD ROM
software, dummy!"  The version that works is 4.0.2.

Thanks again to the net.

- Ed

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 16:37:10 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Paul Antaki)
Subject: Call Tracking Software

Can anyone recommend any software that can be used to track tech support
calls and bugs? Ideally this software would have a Mac client and full
network support.

I've looked and looked and can't find anything currently on the market that
meets my needs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


-----

Paul Antaki
Prodigy Technologies Corporation         Phone: [phone]
1100-1190 Hornby Street                    Fax: [phone]
Vancouver, B.C.                         e-mail: [e-mail]
V6Z 2K5



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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 13:58:59 PDT
From: (Pete Kruley) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Changing labels on standard Finder menus

Whew!  Thanks to everyone who responded to my 1st request; as a
result, I've now got both a hardware & software fix.

Hardware fix:
"The easiest thing to do, is to place the IIsi's power button in server
mode. This has the effect of always restarting the Machine on a shutdown,
or when power is restored after a blackout.  To do this, get to the power
button, and place a flat screwdriver into the notch, push in, and rotate
the button 90' degrees."

Software fix:  a shareware program called "System 7 Pack!"  --   it's
already set up to modify Finder menu labels.
Peter Kruley
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1202 W. Johnson St.
Madison, WI  53706  USA
608-263-4948
Internet: [e-mail]
Bitnet:   [e-mail]

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

Date: 26 Apr 1993 02:30:08 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Dennis Brothers)
Subject: database, calender, & list (Q)

Li-Hsiang Tu writes:

>I need some help.  I am looking for a program that is a sort of combination
>of a contact manager and a PIM.  Specifically, I want to be able to keep
>track of my activities (letters, phone call, meetings, homeworks, etc) of a
>day and links these activities to their respective person or class.  So I
>can see what I do in a day in calender view, see what I do with a
>person/company in a database view (by double clicking the name in the
>calender, for example), or see what person/company that I have sent any
>letter to in a list view (by double clicking on "letter" in the calender).
>So I guess I want to somehow make the name of a person/company, the
>activities, and date/time into "tags" and view them in different ways.  Is
>there such a program?  I was waiting for ThoughtPattern 2.0 which seems to
>promise what I want, but the company is defunct.

DayMaker 2.0 has much of the functionality of the late, lamented
ThoughtPattern.
In particular, it implements the "tag" concept.

        - Dennis

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 14:06:18 edt
From: "Maxwell Smart (Soell, Oliver)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Deskpict (Q)

Does anyone know if Deskpict takes the bit depth of your picture (and the
appropriate amount of memory) from the picture, or the screen depth? I'm
thinking of upgrading to a 24-bit system, and I don't have 3 megs or so spare
system memory to spare to an eight bit picture (if Deskpict simply takes the
monitor's depth to be the picture's as well). Anyway, any of you programmingly
inclined (or at least more so than me) like to do a rewrite of Deskpict and
include options such as choice of bit depth of the picture (and also get rid
of
that stupid disappearing icons bug).

Oliver Soell
Dickinson College
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 22:53:19 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Direct connection to HP 550c

I've been thinking about a HP 550C. With all the talk about connecting a
laser printer to a mac with a cable (rather than appletalk) I was wondering
if such a scheme was viable for the 550C and if there were appreciable
gains in printing time. Thanks. Pete Tamas

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 13:02:26 -0400
From: "Jay Geagan"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: DisKeeper v1.9

DisKeeper 1.9 is now FREEWARE.  This program scans disks for identical files,
empty folders, text strings, etc.  Kitchen sink full of options.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 10:54:00 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Tim Neese)
Subject: Ergonomic Keyboards

Recently, there was much discussion of the relative virtues and vices of
the new Apple ergonomic keyboard.  Does anyone have any recommendations,
comments, or sources of other ergonomic keyboards?  I vaguely remember at
least one other manufacturer being mentioned in MacWeek some time ago, but
haven't seen much about others.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Tim

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 10:33:38 EDT
From: "Michael Gallamore"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Error Codes (A)

>Hi!
>I was wondering where I can obtain a list for Macintosh error
>codes? I have received numerous codes of type -192 and I would really like
>to know what it means.  It has been happening a lot of late this
>afternoon.  Any help anyone could provide would be wonderful.  You can
>either respond here or to [e-mail]
>                                               Thanks.
>
>Benjamin Smith                  [e-mail]
>Columbia Univeristy School of Engineering and Applied Science

Benjamin,
   I use System Errors Table 3.1.  It is available at sumex in the util
directory with the name sys-errors-da.hqx.  According to it -192 means
resource
not found.  Hope this helps.




Michael Gallamore,  [phone]   NSWCDD
[e-mail]  or
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon,  26 Apr 93 20:37 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Error codes [A]

>  I was wondering where I can obtain a list for Macintosh error codes?
>Benjamin Smith                  [e-mail]
>Columbia Univeristy School of Engineering and Applied Science


Use util/system-errors-701.hqx

Ilan Szekely, Faculty of Dentistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Israel, Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 14:24:24 BST
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: Experts, Imperts and FAQs

Following up on some now not so recent comments -

Not all of us have ftp or other access to download FAQs, which can make it
difficult to read them before posting here...

Not all of us subscribe directly to the Listserv, so we wouldn't see it
if the FAQ were sent out on subscription...

One of the nicest things about this list is that you can post here and learn
things with only basic email access to the big wide net world. So let's be
gentle with the askers of much replied-to questions, it may be the nearest
thing they have to net access.

Just the FAQs ma'am.

Malcolm      [e-mail] - don't reply to the header address.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 15:17:08 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Steve Kalkwarf)
Subject: F1 & Formula 1

formula-one.hqx
f1.hqx
are both files in your Demo directory. They are identical when extracted,
and neither of the demos still function. From the docs:
- The application will expire after December '92

I would like a newer version to look at (I believe 1.0.3 is the current
version), but I realize it would be posted if you had it. Thought you could
recover the disk space, at least!

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 22:47:36 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bo Holst-Christensen)
Subject: FastBack Plus and 32 bit enabler.

I have found an incompatibility between FastBack Plus from Fifth Generation
and the 32 bit system enabler from Apple.

My configuration is a SE/30 running System 7.1 and FastBack Plus 3.0.1(i).
The problem is, that if I want to choose a device to make a backup to, my
machine bombs (with Illegal instruction or Bus error), when I try to scroll
to the device I want to use.

This will happen on a fresh system with the enabler as the only extension,
control panel, etc. If the enabler is removed, I can run FastBack with a
big number of extensions etc., without this problem.
I need to use the enabler, because I want to use the 20 Mb I have in the
machine, and I also want to be able to occasionally boot from my 128 Mb
optical.
I have not had any other problems at all with the enabler. I know that when
the enabler came, there was quite a lot of throughput, about the enabler
giving problems, when replacing Mode 32. What other problems have you had
with the enabler?

I had a few problems in convincing the Fifth Generations technical support,
that this was indeed a problem. They actually suggested that I bought
another machine, as "the SE/30 is a very old and very slow machine, as it
is only a 16 MHz machine", and "you are not supposed to put an enabler on a
SE/30 - if you do nobody knows what happens". "You should remove the
enabler, and the problem will go away".
As far as I know, the SE/30 is still the fastest compact machine Apple has
made, and the 32 bit enabler is made especially to work on the SE/30, IIx,
IIcx and II.
After some time, I convinced them to maybe look into the problem.

This may be a good time to start looking for another backup program, so I
would like to know, if anybody out there has any knowledge about other
backup programs, that will enable me to make, and edit macros, and let my
machine start the program at different times, to execute different macros.

Thanks

   Bo Holst-Christensen
   [e-mail]      [e-mail]      FAX: [phone]

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

Date: 26 Apr 1993 09:30:45 -0500 (EST)
From: "Doc Kinne: User Services Associate" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FAX Modems for the Mac...

Folks:

    In the Info-Mac Digest #88 Mike Green wondered about the availible
FAX modems for Macs and some of their abilities.

    I have a new PowerBook 160 for which I just got a PowerPort/Gold
14.4Kbps modem.  Global Village also makes external versions of its
modems, but with this being a PowerBook mine, of course, is internal.
The damn thing is 6 square cm and the largest component on it is the
telephone line jack!  If I had told my college profs 10 years ago that
I'd be working with something like this they would have a) laughed their
heads off and b) failed me out of class!  8-)  Needless to say, the
modem has worked fine and I have been impressed.  I am tapping this
email out to the list from home at 9.6Kbps on the modem even now.

    Mike also asked about the FAXing capabilities of Mac modems.
While I have only had the chance to send and receive test faxs with
the PowerPort so far I am tempted to call the fax feature of the modem
its best.  All the PowerPorts, I believe, fax at 9.6Kbps.  The software is
set up so that faxing is as easy as printing.  In fact, to fax ANYTHING
you simply hold down the option key while finding your software's
print command.  You'll find in doing so that its been temporarily changed
to FAX!  There are two modes of transmission: Standard and Best.  Best
mode sends faxs at 200x200dpi, near the limit of a fax's ability to
output.  I've not seen many fax printouts but of those I have seen (and
I've lately made it a priority to compare) PowerPort faxs are among the
best.  I've certainly seen some a LOT poorer!

    Global Village didn't leave things out of receive either.  As a
fax comes in its saved as a bitmap image on disk.  You can store it that
way if you like.  With the fax software (availible from the Apple menu)
you can print it as well.  With a test fax I received I liked the copy
my PowerBook printed out better than the original!  If you have a PowerBook
it need not remain on to receive a fax either.  You can put it to sleep
and program it to wake upon hearing the phone ring.  Its very easy to
do.  I was alone when I sent my first fax to be received by the PowerBook
and went full guns by implementing this feature as well (I was on a
roll...).  Everything worked perfectly the first time (probably the
first time I can say that in YEARS!  8-)  ).  OCR software also comes with
the PowerPort fax modems.  I have not tried this feature as yet so I can
say little about it.

    I've tried to give some data and impressions of Global Village's
PowerPort modems.  I don't have and don't know too much about the other
offerings in this field but would not hesitate to recommend this fax
modem to anyone, especially if they have a PowerBook.  I hope this has
helped both you, Mike, and the rest of the list.
                    Doc Kinne
                    [e-mail]
                    Morrisville Academic Computing

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 14:32:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joseph Alan Cerro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Global Village Teleport/PowerPort vs. Supra

It has struck me that in all of the frequent postings about choosing high
speed fax modems, the price difference between the Global Village and
Supra 14.4 modems has not come up. These two seem to be consistently the
most favorably reviewed modems in most Mac magazines, they appear to have
roughly the same features, yet Global Village modems are ~$100 (street) more
than their Supra counterparts (although neither are anywhere near the price of
Hayes modems).

Is there a real reason for this? I am trying to decide between the two for
a powerbook and a IIci.

Any comments welcome via email. I will summarize if sufficient response.

J. Cerro

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 11:04:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Joe Kramer)
Subject: Green Monitors

Hello;
   I recently purchased a centris 610,  and using a magnavox(Philips I
guess) 14" monitor with it.  I have had a persistent green tinge,  and I
cannot get rid of it.  I hooked it up to my IIci and the monitor appears to
work normal.  Furthermore,  I found what I thought was a handy init called
BASIC COLOR MONITOR that supposedly fixes this problem,  but at least in my
case it does not.  Does anyone know what I can do to get this problem
resolved or am I stuck with this problem forever.
Forever is a long time you know.
Joe Kramer
P.S.  please reply to me directly

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 16:43:52 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: How do you increase Finder memory? (Q)

I've been having a problem in ResEdit. When I open the window for a large
PICT,
I get a message saying something like "available memory is getting dangerously
low. It would be a good idea to close some windows".

This happens when ResEdit still has 500k of free ram, and there is still 4 MB
of available memory. As far as I can tell, the system has simply run out of
the memory that it has allocated to itself. Does this make sense?

I only have 4 MB of real ram, so the extra memory that makes the above
possible
comes from virtual memory - does the finder refuse to use virtual memory for
itself?

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 12:47:45 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: How to get free 16bit video on LCIII

Recently I posted a note saying that you can switch a basic (i.e. unexpanded)
LCIII to 640x400 mode, in which you can get 32k colors, and watch super cool
Quicktime videos with minimal dithering, as well as have fully customized
pallatte backdrops look as good as they do in gif converter (and other
graphics
apps). Here's how:

In the Monitor control panel, click options. You will get a dialogue box that
has two possibilities, one of which is 640x400 ("HiRes") mode. Choose this
option, then restart your computer.

If your machine acts like mine, then when you restart, you will be in black &
white, and your screen will be moved down 40 pixels, and cropped by 80 pixels
which come from the bottom (the MacOS will move your trashcan for you).

You now have the ability for thousands of colors, it just isn't set yet (I
have
no idea why it defaults to black & white). You can now go to the monitor
control panel, and there will be a new option for color: "thousands". Click it
and have fun.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 08:53:33 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jim Owens)
Subject: LaserWriter IIsc (Q)

One of our group got a MacII from a departing collegue.  It came with a
LaserWriter IIsc.  Everything worked fine when it was installed in its new
location.  After the owner installed an Asante ethernet board, the printer
still worked from the MacII.  Then I had the MacII connected to our
Ethernet LAN and installed network software (Network and MacTCP (1.1.1)
control panels and AppleTalk v 58.x [came with the Asante board]).  After
that the LaserWriterII SC could not be made to print even with AppleTalk
turned off.  Unfortunately, the manuals and original disks are long gone.

I did not look at the Chooser before installing the network software, but
when the problem appeared I looked for a printer driver in the Chooser.
Only a Personal LW SC driver was visible.  I finally found a LWII SC driver
in some old System software disks (v6.0.5) and installed it, leaving the
Personal LW SC driver.  Still no printing.  There does not seem to be a
driver in System 7.0 or 7.0.1 or the TuneUp.  Installing AppleTalk 57.x did
not help.  The owner can use the networked printers, but would like to have
the LW IIsc as a backup.

The MacII is running System 7.0.1, tuned.  The Norton Utilities Disk Doctor
report shows:

System Folder Details:
The active System files on this disk are:
RX1400:System Folder:System   (version 7.0.1)
RX1400:System Folder:Finder   (version 7.0)

The active Control Panels on this disk are:
  StartUp Manager                       Memory   (version 7.0.1)
 RadiusWare   (version 2.0.2)           Monitors   (version 7.0)
After Dark   (version 2.0v)             Net Control   (version Version 2.0.2)
AutoDoublerT  (version 1.0.5)          Network   (version 2.3.3)
Color   (version 7.0)                   Portable   (version 7.0.1)
Easy Access   (version 7.0)             Sharing Setup   (version 7.0)
File Sharing Monitor (version 7.0)      Sound   (version 7.0)
General Controls   (version 7.0)        Startup Disk   (version 7.0)
Keyboard   (version 7.0)                Users & Groups   (version 7.0)
Labels   (version 7.0)                  VersaTerm FTP Server   (version 1.1)
LAT   (version 1.0)                     VersaTerm Time Client   (version 1.1)
MacTCP   (version 1.1.1)                Views   (version 7.0)
Map   (version 7.0)                      Extensions Manager   (version 1.1)

The active System Extensions on this disk are:
 Aask.INIT                                 File Sharing Extension (version
7.0.2)
 SigmaT Compression INIT (version 1.0)    QuickTimeT
Caps Lock  (version 7.0.1)                 Radius MATH   (version 1.5)
DiskDoublerT INIT (version 3.7.1)         TSSnetT (version Version 2.0.2)
DOS Mounter                                 EM Extension   (version 1.0)

(TuneUp 1.1.1 is present so I don't know why DiskDoctor did not list it.)

Do you have any ideas about how to get the printer to print?  Is there
someone at Apple I might try?  Lastly, where are the gurus for ethernet
questions?  I've got a nifty puzzle for them.

Jim Owens
_______________________________________________________________________________
I don't speak for myself, much less NIH.

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

Date: 27 Apr 1993 08:06:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Barry Markovitz, M.D. 454-6215" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC/Daystar vs LCIII

I have read with interest the comments about upgrading the LC or LCII to the
LCIII.  I have a Daystar 33 mHz 68030 accelerator in my LC.  Is there any
advantage to the Apple upgrade for me?  It seems the question boils down to
whether the 32 bit data bus is going to noticeably improve things for me,
since
the clock speeds are similar.  I have 6 megs of RAM and don't forsee the need
to
go above 10;  upgrading to the LCIII for me would mean throwing away my two 2
meg SIMMS and having to buy new 72 pin ones.  I got the LC with the VRAM
upgrade
and am able to do 8 bit color on my 13" monitor already.  (I have a IIvx at
work, so the Daystar card, unless I upgrade that TOO!, won't do me much there
:-) ).

BTW, anyone know the deal with Daystar and upgrade prices;  one is supposed to
be able to upgrade the card for the price difference, but the prices have come
down.  I'd have to check, but I think one could get the 40 or even 50 mHz card
today for what I paid for the 33 mHz one a year ago.  So what's my "price
difference?"

Thanks in advance.  (TIA; yet another abbreviation?? :-) )
Barry Markovitz <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 04:42:19 EDT
From: Adam Schenker (GE) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac Hardware Guide is coming!

Just to let you know what I am doing with this monster:

Well, I will be putting out the (official?) Macintosh Hardware Guide
(by popular request :) soon now. I've got 2 exams on Thursday, and then
it will have my full (well, most :) attention. On Thursday I will
send the 'format sheets' to sumex-aim (these are what I want you to
fill out and send to me). Hold off on sending me info until you get
them.

How long will it take for me to make the guide up? Well, that depends
largely on the response I get. I'll try to do it as fast as I can, but
I am going for maximum accuracy. Make sure to fill the forms out
completely and accurately. Use the 'Description:' field for the
product to say whatever you like about the product (opinions, neat
tricks, things to look out for when buying, common repair and
installation instructions, etc.) I'm hoping this will take no longer
than a few weeks. After I make up a fairly solid file, I will send
a 'pre-release' version for everyone to scrutinize for flaws, errors, etc.
When we get the bugs worked out, I will put up version 1.0.0.

After I have the text file going pretty good, I *MIGHT* make up
a Hypercard stack of the file. (This was suggested by Adam Engst, editor
of TidBits). Such a file would include photos (of both the exterior and
logic boards), drawings (of schematics and pin assignments) and
sounds (of both 'good' and 'bad' startup sounds for various Macs).
Something like this is probably a bit beyond me, and I would need help
to do it. Let's see how this plain text file works out first, ok? :)

So, that is where I'm at right now. So, those of you who offered to
send me info, get your materials ready.

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

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 01:40:44 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Christian B. Hall)
Subject: MacIIci replacement fan (Q)

about a year or two ago, i came across a brief article regarding the
replacement of the IIci's noisy fan with a fan available at Radio Shack or
somewhere similar. i either read it here or in Tidbits, but i can't seem to
locate it. now that my warranty is long expired, i would like to go ahead
and replace the fan as it is being picked up by my microphone.

i am no longer a regular reader of the dige due to lack f free time, so if
someone could mail me the answer directly ([e-mail]), that
would be great --- although posting it as well would benefit other readers.

thank you in advance for any help you can give. i am looking forward to the
peace and quiet already. christian.
Christian B. Hall
Phone: [phone]       Internet address: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 09:10:49 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Multi-tasking vs. "TRUE" multi-tasing (R)

Recently, Graeme Forbes asked about the distinction between
the Macs's "co-operative" multi-taksing (MT) and "preemptive" MT, as under
Unix and VMS, etc. There is a simple way that I look at this distinction.
Think of Mac MT as "token ring" MT, where there is a "baton" that is passed
>From one app to another. Preemptive MT has a "boss" who portions out time to
the tasks. Preemptive MT therefore can schedule time between apps without any
"consent" from the apps, while token-ring MT requires that each app has to be
intelligently written so that all apps get some time to run.

Preemptive MT also (sometimes, I think) lets you change cpu allocations
amongst apps while they are running. It also generally does a finer time slice
so that the apps seem to runner more smoothly (ever notice how jerky the mouse
action is during "background" printing?). Absence of "true" MT and a closely
associated feature, hardware memory protection, are easily the two most
glaring failures in the Mac OS. The Mac OS cannot be considered a mature
OS until these two things are fixed, IMHO.

BTW, I must put in a parenthetical note about how compilers support the Mac
MT system. BOTH Language System Fortran and Absoft Fortran compilers allow you
to have the required "token passing" subroutine calls inserted *automatically*
in your code at compile time!!! This is just wonderful, since you end up with
code that runs in the background without having done a thing to your source
code. I am really puzzled why the C and Pascal vendors don't add this
lovely feature! (If it can be done in fortran, it should be possible
elsewhere,
right?) This feature seems to be very robust and is as close as it currently
gets to having preemptive MT on the Mac.

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 18:59:36 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Craig M. Conway)
Subject: mcvert-20

Hi.  I'm relatively new at downloading and am having problems with
mcvert.  I put it in its own directory but I can't seem to get
sh mcvert-20.shar
to work.  I've tried downloading as ascii and as binary and neither
seems to work.  I'd appreciate any advice you have.

Thanks for your time.
Craig Conway

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Date: Mon,  26 Apr 93 19:47 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MFZ: why & what alternatives

Hi netters

MFZ. MicroSoft Free Zone. This seems a bit harsh to me. (IMHO)
Can someone make a list of MS software with the following information:

1. What is so bad about it.
2. Name of an alternative product.

Oh, and if the ban is not a result of software (dis)quality, just leave
item 1 out of the list...

Ilan Szekely
Computer Lab, Faculty of Dentistry The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 05:32:43 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: more HP problems

Dear Readers,
    Sorry to overwhelm you all with my sordid software problems, but
perhaps one of you will recognize what is wrong:

    I'm encountering very annoying, if less serious problems. When I'm
running off of battery power, my machine sometimes doesn't go to sleep
automatically (I have PB Tools loaded) or manually-- this means that even
if I pull down the Finder menu and choose "sleep," nothing happens. I have
to restart in order to get it to work. Now when this happened the other
day, I took a look at the "Memory view" offered by NowMenus, and it showed
that HP Background was no longer there. A mere coincidence? In the past,
sometimes after I went to print and the file was spooled to disk, nothing
would happen, and I discovered through "Memory view" that HP Background was
absent then, too. (makes sense, since HP Background scans the HP folder for
files to send to the printer) Here too, restarting fixes the situation: HP
Background reloads and printing begins immediately. It seems to me that HP
Background is for some reason quitting unexpectedly, but that I'm not being
informed because it's "Multifinder NOT aware" (according to NowMenus). The
question is, why is it quitting?
    I thought that the problem might be the new experimental HP driver
that I've been using or corrupted HP software, so I trashed the software
and reinstalled it with the 3.1 driver. The first time I printed,
everything was fine, but on the second time, my machine hung before it even
spooled! I typed command-. to terminate, and my system crashed, blaming it
on an "unimplemented trap" in Word 5.1a.
    Another thing is strange: when I run Norton Utilities or Now
Profile, HP Background NEVER shows up on the INIT report. I believe it did
at some point in the past.
    Do you have any ideas or suggestions? I'm appending a INIT/CDEV list.
    Thanks for your help.
    Yours truly,
    Marc Bizer

P.S. Is anyone else having as many problems with HP Deskwriter software as
I am? I think that we should all call and complain!


>
>System: Version 7.1, Tuner Integrated into System Software.
>
>Macintosh: PowerBook 170.
>
>Physical RAM size: 8192K.
>
>Extension                                  Version
>==================================================
>($1)Disinfectant INIT                          3.2
>  Now Toolbox                               4.0.1p
> EM Extension                                  1.6
>Desktop ResetT                                 1.2
> Extensions Manager                            1.8
>ApplWindows                               v2.0.2b3
>CopyDoublerT                                 1.0.1
>MacSLIP                                       1.01
>MacTCP                                       1.1.1
>Memory                                       7.1.1
>MICN                                           1.9
>NowMenus                                     4.0.1
>PBToolsT                                     1.0.1
>PowerBook                                      7.1
>Scroll2 v2.1                      Scroll2 v 2.1.12
>SuperClock!                                  4.0.3
>~ATMT                                          3.0
>oMacEKGT                                    2.0.6w

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 11:25:24 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Multitasking: true or false? (A)

I believe that with the Rocket accel. board and the right software (see this
months MacUser) you can have true multiprocessing in that you can have a
single
task broken in two and have each processor work on part of it (actually that's
parrellel processing) but it will do seperate tasks as well (thats
multitasking)
   .

        Aric Friesen

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Date: 26 Apr 1993 08:52:41 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: My apologies

     My apologies
It sure was good that I was wearing my asbestos boxers the other day; I *SURE*
got flamed on my recommendation of using FTP to transfer 1500 MB of data.
*Whew*

I apologize for that recommendation.  I didn't take the time to calculate the
times involved in transferring that amount of data (it was late when I was
tapping out that answer...I needed SLEEP!! ;-).  I also shouldn't haved
ASSUMED
that there was a direct internet connection.  Someone mentioned that
universities have free internet connections (they're not exactly free; we pay
a
monthly network charge for our connection into our campus internet backbone,
which in turn is hooked into the world-wide Internet), so I am kind of spoiled
that way.

It just goes to show you that information presented on Info-Mac and other
forums can occassionally be -- *ahem* -- misguided.  It's usually in the best
intentions of the contributor to help his fellow man (or woman), so it's
always
good to wait to get a few opinions on the matter before you act.  You never
know, maybe I was just testing you to see how many of you were actually
awake.
I glad to see you all passed with flying colors!!  ;-)

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

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Date: 27 Apr 1993 11:25:42 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: notecards (R)

Robert Ponto asks:

> I use plain old index cards for my notetaking! (Pretty pathetic,
>eh?) Then, I organize the citations on my living room floor.
>Is there a software equivalent of this process? What about
>software such "Endnote Plus" or "Inspiration"?

It is absolutely true, as you say, that Word's outliner is no good for this.
Another outliner, such as Inspiration or even the simple and inexpensive
Acta, might suffice if all you want to do is keep references and notes. I am a
great believer in outliners, personally; a review of Inspiration, with
reference
to Acta and More, may appear soon in TidBITs (I haven't asked Adam when, so
take this as tentative for now), and this may help you with your decision. I
also
strongly recommend that you look at a HyperCard stack called
Snowball-ref-notes.

The problem arises if you want to do more than just file things, as it were.
Any
outliner is excellent for this: you can reduce your view to the top level
(just the
last names of the authors, perhaps) and then open up the item that you want
to reveal the full citation, the text of your notes, or whatever. But if you
want to
reference your material in ways more interesting and subtle than file cards
will allow, you need to go further. Take a look at a shareware database
program
called PSI (not 32-bit clean, watch out); here you can enter your citations
and
notes, but also assign categories to each card for fast lookup by subject or
whatever. A commercial option might be Storyspace; a new version is about to
ship (and I hope to write a notice in TidBITs when it does), but a review of
it
that Adam and I did in TidBITs a year or two ago describes its capabilities
very fully.

Snowball-ref-notes, PSI, and back issues of TidBITs are all available for ftp
on
sumex (I believe).
 --------
matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 21:00:33 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: notecards, me too

>I use plain old index cards for my notetaking! (Pretty pathetic, eh?)
>Then, I organize the citations on my living room floor before I begin
>to write.

The problem I see with any software that "does" this is screen real estate.
I want to be able to look at a kitchen table full of information and I
really don't think I'll ever find software that works as well given my
small video screen. What I could use is something that automates what I
already do.

I take each paragraph in my document and I number it. I then print my
document, no paragraphs spanning multiple pages, and then cut them into
separate paragraphs (your note cards). I take these slivers of text and
start sorting and arranging and ultimately organize them into a flow that
suits my task. THEN, I use the paragraph numbers on the paper to organize
the paragraphs in my document. Lastly, I remove the marker numbers.

Would be nice if some utility took a text file, numbered the paragraphs and
printed them (no spanning pages). Then if it showed a list of numbers, I
could click and drag the numbers around to suit my needs and then have it
export the text file in the new order.

Sure would make me happy to see such a tool available. HINT HINT HINT

Kee Nethery
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 10:51 EDT
From: Dr.Peter T. Boag <[e-mail]>
Subject: Now Software's "Compress" - info????

I was about to order Alaaddin's stuffit deluxe with Spacesaver
when I saw the ad for this product. I have been impressed with
Now's past software offerings and was wondering if anyone has
anything to report on their entry into the data compression
utility field.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 10:21:23 EDT
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Oberon programming language

As a follow-up to a thread from a few weeks ago concerning free compilers for
the mac, I thought I would post the following tidbit concerning Oberon, the
'successor to Modula 2 and Pascal'.

For those interested in a broad overview of Oberon, the latest brain-child
language devised by Nicholaus Wirth (designer of Pascal), there is a nice
article in this month's (May, 1993) BYTE Magazine that describes the Oberon
system.

For those who would like to try out Oberon, MacOberon, the mac version, can be
downloaded via ftp from:

  FTP Hostname:  neptune.inf.ethz.ch
  Internet Address:  129.132.101.33
  FTP Directory:  Oberon/MacII

I am posting this for the benefit of those who would like to program on the
mac
but don't want to spend $$ on a compiler.

The same ftp site also has a free Modula II compiler called MacMeth
available.
The latter is a little less esoteric than Oberon and more like Pascal for
those
who are timid and scared of the state-of-the art.  :-)

Both of these compilers are full-blown development environments and are not
'quick hacks'.  They come with documentation, editors, debuggers, etc.  They
fully support the Mac environment.  There are books that you can get from your
library or bookstore on both Oberon and Modula II as well.  Modula II is
taught
in some universities' computer science courses so university bookstores
usually
cary books on it.

Just forwardin' the info...

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

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 20:59:01 EDT
From: CXEO000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: PB145 click

    Hi, all!

    I posted a question a few digests ago about a PB145 which clicked
very often, for no apparant reason.

    A quick download fixed the problem: Shhh.hqx from sumex silenced
the critter, seemingly for good. My compliments to the author!

    Respondants indicated that the PowerBook turns on the speaker
to play sounds, and then shuts it off again after a certain interval
(Most people claimed 30secs, but the author of Shhh claims 10secs), thus
producing clicks even if there are no sounds playing (creating the
impression that the PB is clicking for no good reason). Of course,
this is yet another ploy to save battery life.

    Hope this helps some poor soul out there with the same problem.

    Cheers,

    Mark Aiken
    [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 14:14:39 BST
From: [e-mail] (Malcolm Bebb)
Subject: PC->Mac Graphics in Word

I've been looking at some Word for Windows files with embedded colour
screen dumps, pasted from the PC Clipboard.  The graphics look horrible
and print badly from Word 5.1a.  Pasting into a colour draw/paint prog
doesn't help.

The solution: (for me, anyway)

Copy & paste from Word into Superpaint 3 draw layer, select and edit as
Superbits - all the glory of the original is revealed.  Select all and copy
from
Superbits and voila - an editable bitmap.

Also worked on a line drawing of unknown parentage, but inserted into WfW2
via clipboard, so it might work for other formats.

You may need a couple of goes to set up a suitable colour palette, although
the default wasn't too bad.

(Files supplied on PC disks, mounted with Access PC, translated with Word
supplied translator).

Hope this helps somebody,

Malcolm      [e-mail] - don't reply to the header address.

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 16:54:18 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Possible to colorize startup icons of INITs?

I have some inits that have color ICN8's but display a black & white
ICN# during startup. What ResEditing can I do to change this? I know
it must have something to do with BNDL's.

                  ~  Jason Y. Kim  ~
                     ~=@=~

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 11:33:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Kaplan <[e-mail]>
Subject: PostScript previewing and the Mac...

That's strange that the PostScript files you create on your Mac cannot be
read my GhostScript on the Suns.  I have GhostScript installed on both my
Mac and the Suns that we use here (which also has a nifty copy of PageView),
and haven't had tose problems.  Almost all the PS files I create come from
various Mac applications, printed using your standard Apple LaserWriter
driver.  I can preview them with GhostScript on either machine, and I've
only experienced trouble with PageView once, as it didn't like the font
definition that was included with one of my files.

Maybe someone else knows some more, but there are some utilities on the
info-mac archives that help a lot toward curbing the LaserWriter drivers
to give you what you want.  (I can't remember the name, maybe someone can
help me here.)  But so you know, it isn't neccessarily the case the PS
files from a Mac are inherently different from other PS files, at least to
the point that other machine's previewing programs can't read them.

Scott Kaplan
Amherst College
[e-mail]

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Date: 27 Apr 1993 08:39:25 +1200
From: Greg West <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printing problem (bin selection)

Hello there

We have many different Macs printing to both HPLJ3D and HPLJ4 printers. When
users are printing from any application, and they print one document to the
upper bin and then immediatley print another document to the lower bin - both
documents will be printed on the lower bin.  If the user waits for say 30
seconds between prints then the problem disappears.  This problem is easily
reproduced.
The problem can even be reproduced by printing to the upper bin of one printer
and then printing to the lower bin of *another* printer - both documents will
be printed on the lower bin of both printers.  The order of the bin selection
is not significant, whatever bin selection was made for the second document -
both documents will print from that bin.

Users are printing with the correct HP printer driver.

The problem dosen't exist with Background Printing turned off, but turning
this
off and the associated time-wastage is not an option for us.

The problem exists with all versions of System 7 I have tried.  This includes
System 7.0.1* and System 7.1

Has anybody experienced this problem?

Greg West                 [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 11:41:20 -0400
From: [e-mail] (  Paul Mrozek.......)
Subject: Problem with menus in Excel 4.0

I have a Macintosh SE with 2.5 MB ram and had no problems running
Excel 4.0 under system 6.0.5.  When I upgraded to system 6.0.8, all
of the menus in Excel disappeared.  The program starts up fine, but
the Excel pull-down menus do not appear when i click on the menu
names (the Apple menu works OK).  I can enter things in the cells as
normal and use the equivalent command key operations, like command-o
to get an open dialog box.  Re-installing Excel from the master disks
did not help.  All of my other applications work fine under system
6.0.8.  Any suggestions as to what might be wrong would be appreciated.

Paul Mrozek
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 08:30:38 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Anders Wahlin)
Subject: Programming list

I want to join a mailing list for programmers. Where can I find a list like
that.

Please send me the adress to [e-mail]!

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 14:42:42 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: ps -> eps conversion

I would like to convert a ps file to an eps file, but I don't know what to
use.  I've seen ps2eps.shar, but that's only unix as far as I know and I
just don't have the time or bandwidth to upload several meg of .ps files
to my unix account.  IS there a mac equivalent?  Where can I find it?

Eric Oehler
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 22:54:46 edt
From: "Maxwell Smart (Soell, Oliver)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PS files revisited

A few days ago, I posted a question about Mac PostScript files not behaving
with GhostScript and GhostView on a Sun workstation. I found that not trying
to be tricky and including the dictionary (I had been using the "Trimmer" cp)
works, but I still have another question. To transfer my file to the Sun, I
must first upload it to our VAX, uuencode it, transfer it to the Sun through
DecNet (which only supports 7-bits per byte in it's current configuration,
hance the uuencoding), and then uudecode it.    Question: Is there a driver
or something which will output 7 bit PostScript files (graphics are sometimes
included as 8 bit)? I know that QuarkXPress with a certain XTension will do
it, but is there a more universal solution?

thanks again,

Oliver Soell
Dickinson College
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 22:03:22 +0900
From: [e-mail] (Jeong-Hyun Kim)
Subject: quadra-boot-switch.hqx [Q]

> This control panel can be used to switch between a Quadra's TWO
> bootup sounds.
>
> [Archived as /info-mac/cp/quadra-boot-switch.hqx; 20K]

  As expected, this cdev works like a charm on my PowerBook 170. I love the
new startup sound it makes! Much smoother and much cuter, IMHO. How on
earth can this be done? Does the Quadra/PowerBook ROM have two startup
sounds in it?
  And one more thing, clicking on the version number of the cdev, a picture
of Apple engineers(right?) shows up - my guess is that the picture is in
the ROM, too. C o o l , there's no way I can see more-than-2-colors on my
PB. :(

[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 12:34:18 EDT
From: "James A. Connolly" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Quadra 700 and ethernet card

I'm using a Quadra700 on ethertalk (with Superbridge TCP - a wonderful
product!!!) and awaiting my copy of TCP/IP (on backorder now for
close to two months).

My network administrator needs to know the "address" of the Quadra's
ethernet card.  I am apparently looking for a very long (perhaps 12
digit) hexadecimal number.

I have checked the manuals and papers that were supplied with my
computer.  I have looked on the back of the computer for a sticker
(on the serial number).

Where is the "address" that I am looking for?  Help!

                            ...James

[e-mail]      phone [phone]      fax [phone]

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Date: 27 Apr 93 09:03:26 EDT
From: Benjamin Grossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Super Boomerang equivalentI

Attn: info-mac sumex
               Subject:
Time:3:09 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          Super Boomerang equivalentI(R)
Date:4/26/93
>Having had a string of mysterious problems with Now Utilities 4.01,
I have
>decided to try shareware equivalents. I have found replacements for
everything
>but Super Boomerang (my nominee for absolute BEST Mac sytem
enhancement).
>
>I'm running a Mac IIci with system 7 (tuned). Anyone have
suggestions about
>anything that replaces SB, even sort of? I wish that it had never
been
bundled
>with the Now Utilities!

You should probably be running Now Utilities 4.0.1p, which is an
update to 4.0.1 (great naming convention, huh?). I thought the
updater was available here last time I looked.

I'm using IIci, System 7.1, etc without significant problems, altho I
do notice that the first time I get a Open File Dialog after a boot,
it takes SB about 30 seconds to build the Dialog (big delay); but
after that the delay is only a minor irriation (2 seconds).

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

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 01:06:10 PDT
From: Les Ferch <[e-mail]>
Subject: Super Boomerang equivalent Shareware?? (C)

Path: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca!ferch
Date: 26 Apr 93 07:49:36 GMT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Subject: Re: Super Boomerang equivalent Shareware??
References: <[e-mail]>

>>Having had a string of mysterious problems with Now Utilities 4.01, I
>>have decided to try shareware equivalents. I have found replacements for
>>everything but Super Boomerang (my nominee for absolute BEST Mac sytem
>>enhancement).

>Try DefaultFolder, a shareware utility whose unexpected feature is
>adding a folder menu to file dialog box.

DefaultFolder, although very impressive, is not really an alternative to
SuperBoomerang because it does not have the ability to remember your place
in a file dialog box.

The old freeware SFScrollInit program used to do this, but is certainly
not System 7 comptible--if it was, I'd still use it. Personally, that's
the only feature in SuperBoomerang or Directory Assistance that I wish I
had (and really wish was just built into the Finder). For now, it looks
like an obvious shareware niche is going unfilled.

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

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 93 18:21:46 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Serdar Uckun)
Subject: Supra 14.4PB modem -- recommendations? (Q)

Does anyone have anything good (or bad) to say about the Supra 14.4
modem for PowerBooks?  I've been waiting for the god***n Apple Express
Modem since early November, and I had it with them.  I'll get my money
back and order a Supra modem (which I know I can get before my PowerBook
becomes obsolete).  I know, the PowerPort Gold is probably better but
I'm not willing to spend an additional $130.

                          [e-mail]
Serdar Uckun, Knowledge Systems Lab., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

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

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 23:21:56 -0600
From: access.usask.ca!qcc-hal!marc@decwrl (Marc St-Jean)
Subject: System 7.1 Sylewriter II.

In comp.sys.mac.digest you write:

>I have a problem with the Stylewriter II and System 7.1. I was running
>system 7.0.1 on a Mac Plus with tuneup the stylewriter II would work
>fine with or without background printing. I upgraded to System 7.1
>with the stylewriter II and when printmonitor comes up and the printer
>starts printing my mouse freezes. It moves side to side but not
>vertically. I can enable easy access to get by but it's still a pain.
>The mouse unfreezes as soon as the printer stops. Has anyone heard of
>this problem. By the way I've been using system 7.0.1 since it came
>out without any problems, my startup disk is an 80 meg Ehman and my
>Plus has 4 meg of memory.

I have a friend with the same problem. He also has 4 MB of RAM so it may
be related. He has the same problem with 7.0.1 and 7.1, the only version
that worked for him was 6.0.8.
Holding down the shift key to disable all extensions doesn't help one bit.

Apple says it's still supporting Plusses but I'm starting to wonder. How\can
something this obvious get by their QA?

Marc St-Jean
QCC Communications Corp.
Saskatoon, SK

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 09:58:57 PDT
From: [e-mail]  (Omy Ronquillo)
Subject: TelePort Bronze can receive FAXes too!

Brian V. Hughes writes:

    Good Modem, great software. Note: this is a send fax only modem.

I just double checked this modem and it can indeed receive FAXes at
4800 bps. It can send at 9600 bps. Likewise, it is a 2400 bps data modem.

Sorry for the misinformation RE: On-line America vs. America On-Line.

I guess the mistype of .5MB vs .5k makes a big difference. Sorry for the
typographical error.

Omy
[e-mail] [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 12:40:07 MDT
From: Jim Powlesland <[e-mail]>
Subject: TrueType INIT

Subject: TrueType init

>>Is this necessary for 6.0.8, or only for earlier versions?
>>Michael Everson >School of Architecture, UCD, Richview,
>>Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, Eire Phone: [phone] Fax: +353 1
>>283-7778 Home: [phone]

>TrueType Init is for System 6.07 and up. Earlier versions simply
>cannot use TrueType.
>Alexei Tsvetkov, Munich

Not true. According to the text supplied with the INIT, Apple
does not RECOMMEND using it with versions earlier than System
6.07.

However, I have had reports it works fine with earlier versions
including 6.0.5. For versions earlier than 6.07, use at your own
peril.

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

Date: 26 Apr 1993 12:48:31GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: TrueType INIT (C)

> >Is this necessary for 6.0.8, or only for earlier versions?
> >
> >Michael Everson
> >School of Architecture, UCD, Richview, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14, E/ire
Phone:
> >[phone] Fax: [phone] Home: [phone]
>
> TrueType Init is for System 6.07 and up. Earlier versions simply cannot
use
> TrueType.
>
> Alexei Tsvetkov

Not strictly true, Alexei. Apple *said* it was for 6.0.7 and up, but many
people (including myself) found that it worked fine with 6.0.5 (as far as I
know it *will not* work with releases earlier than 6.0.5).

I would have preferred Apple to keep TrueType as an extension in System 7.x,
then people with other font imaging systems (Agfa-Compugraphic fonts for
DeskWriters, or ATM) could save a bit of memory.

Alun

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

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 09:43:58 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: v.32bis friendly comm program (A)

>I just bought a ZyXEL U-1496E modem, and I'd like to use it at the full 14400
>baud it is capable of.  Unfortunately, all the comm programs I've tried allow
>9600 or 19200 baud, but not 14400.  I've tried several programs (Microphone
>3.0,
>Z-Term 0.9, and several comm tools with the Apple Modem tool, and the Serial
>tool) but to no avail.  Do any of you know where I can find a comm program or
>tool that allows 14400 baud communications?  I appreciate your help,

The modem is almost certainly capable of data compression as well, in which
case you should set the comm program rate much higher than 14400.  My
14400 bps modem (SupraV32bis) is capable of taking 57600 bps.  You will need
a similarly capable modem at the other end of course.  Start up your comm.
program and modem, type AT (return) to get its attention (it will say OK),
then type  AT&FW1\N3&K3&Q5&D2&C1 (return).  Then ATDT xxxx to tone
dial number xxxx. Look up the manual to see what these commands do.  Some
may be redundant depending on the modem's factory settings.  I use Versaterm
pro, which allows up to 57600 bps, but many other comm. progs. do too.

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 12:53:52 EDT
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: Why LC III defaults to b&w after monitor change (Q)

Does anyone know why it is that when you switch an LCIII between its two
built in video modes (640x480 & 640x400), and reboot, it defaults to be
in Black & White?

This is sort of annoying, because DeskPict then displays the backdrop in
b&w, which doesn't change when you change to 32k colors. I haven't found
any other ill effects of having booted in b&w yet, so at the moment it is
just an annoyance (you either have to stare at an ugly screen, or reboot
again).

Does anyone know how to change the default color selection? I am interested
in both solutions & explainations.

-Avram Dorfman ([e-mail])

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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 21:58:55 GMT
From: Jonathon Fletcher <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why we shouldn't abuse the internet (C)

Aric Friesen writes :

> There is no reason to *not* believe that as technology advances,
> and demands increase, Internet will grow as necessary.

It can't grow as necessary. It's running out of IP numbers. OK, so
they use subnetting now, but subnetting can only go so far. The internet
as we know it will cease when there are more networked machines than
(subnetted) IP address. It will be replaced (I hope !) by something else.
Maybe they'll shove another number on the address, like they do when
they run out of phone numbers (good old BT).

I fully agree, however,  with the rest of his comments (Well, I don't
know much about American politics, so I'll opt out of the Republicans
bit !). Especially about abuse and overuse - life on the end of a PPP
phone line connection is not quite the same as on the end of a kilostream
link. You become far more aware of the volumes that you transfer. That's
not a bad thing.

-Jon

--
Jonathon Fletcer <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 12:05:32 CDT
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word Processor Blues... (C)

Michael Silverstein wonders what program other word-processor companies
use to write their manuals, since he suggests that only FullWrite can
do autonumbering of figures etc.

Maybe some use FrameMaker, which has elaborate autonumbering abilities
built in.

However, Nisus Software uses its own Nisus. Nisus doesn't have autonumbering
built in, but you can implement it with macros, and there are at least
two autonumbering macro sets available as freeware for downloading. They're
not quite as clean as FrameMaker, but they are customizable, which is very
nice.

Graeme Forbes

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 09:52:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David B. Reiser)
Subject: Word processor blues and Fullwrite (C)

WordPerfect Mac will do all those things you asked for, but not as easily
as Fullwrite. WPMac cross references are essentially the same as citations.
It does take at least one extra step to set up a cross reference, but the
result is the same. What will drive you nuts, though, is that cross ref
updating is a semi-automatic task. Whenever you want to see the correct
cross reference after extensive editing, you have to re-"generate" the
cross references (i.e., hit the Generate button in a dialog and wait for
the process to complete). Not so bad, you say? Well, there is only one
generate command, and it does _everything_ each time: TOC, indexes, figure
lists, etc.

Cross references can be used to point to figures, tables, end or footnotes,
specific pages, and a couple other entities that escape me now. I only
use them occasionally, since they are harder to set up than I'd like.

WPMac will also painlessly keep figure and table numbers current
automatically.
The default style for captions includes the numbers, and they update
automatically upon inserting/deleting other figures/tables.

Dave
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 93 11:44:07 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Wrist pad comment

I'd like to add my two-cents' worth to the wrist pad discussion :-)
In my Mac set-ups (@work & @home), I have a stool with a mouse pad on
it set up _beside_ my chair. This means that I don't have to reach out
in front of myself to grab the mouse, but just let my arm kind of fall
limp to my side.  I rest the upper part of my forearm on the chair arm
and then put the heel of my hand on the mousepad/stool.  It requires
practically zero effort to use the mouse this way, as compared to
putting it next to the keyboard (and thus having to reach out in front
of myself).  Therefore, absolutely no wrist strain.  Therefore, no
wrist pad.  This really works great for me.

-Bo Parker
[e-mail]

``...the razor inside, sir...jerk the handle...''

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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 10:12:50 PDT
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 18:32 EST
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Lamborghini is a 640 x 480 color startupscreen depicting a Lamborghini
automobile. If you can't afford to buy one you can, at least, show one
on your color monitor!

Send encouragement (in any form) to the author at:

Daniel Leduc
1191 St-Anthony
Hanmer, ON
P3P 1B5
CANADA

Enjoy!

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

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