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Info-Mac Digest             Thu,  5 Aug 93       Volume 11 : Issue 156

Today's Topics:

      [*] Canon 2 v1.0.3
      [*] Keyboard PLUS
      [*] MacDisabilityResources.sea.hqx
      [*] operation-intercept-102.hqx
      [*] PowerLaunch 2.0s
      [*] Sound Mover 1.9
      [*] ZippyPictures.hqx
      (Q)
      *** Don't throw away System 7 desktop files *** (C)
      Apple HD SC Setup Patch for ver. 7.2
      A problem w/Ofoto 1.x
      A Writers Machine (R)
      Bad xperience w/MacCenter
      BLP II printing problem
      cases for Powerbook hard drives? (R)
      Centris 650 and Quicktime (Q)
      Claris Works problems with CAP
      Clip Art.  Where to get it?
      Damaged resource forks?
      disk recyclers
      Don't throw away System 7 desktop files (A?)
      Fraction Characters in Font(Q)
      hacking the LaserWriter 8.0 file
      Hiding the names of apps (A)
      How to write to the clipboard?
      HP Drivers
      HyperCard FAQ--doType? doKeystroke?  How the hell...??
      Integrity...online (R)
      LaserWriter 8 and Novell spooler
      Long filenames in archive (Partial A)
      Mac App to "unzip" a file (a)
      Mac II DataPath (Q)
      Macintosh Hard Disk 20
      net rookie reqests further help with decompression
      Nisus 3.47 Limited Flag Edition (A)
      Nisus etc. (A)
      PageMaker Installer Problem
      Pmail/Pegasus mail information needed (Q)
      Postscript Startup Page
      PowerPC corrections
      PowerPC vs. Pentium - long
      Privacy on the net
      PS errors
      Role of Desktop DB and Desktop DF
      Subject: cases for Powerbook hard drives? (A)
      TCP/IP via LOCAL-TALK
      The IIsi sound problem - who knows the cure?
      Thumbnail & Other ZMAC Stuff
      TurboGopher and Slip
      Where do I upload UNIX software?
      WindowsNT - (C)

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1993 23:36:32 +1200
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Home)
Subject: [*] Canon 2 v1.0.3

Enclosed is the latest revision of that neat program for playing sound in
the background on your Mac.  It replaces any previous versions in your
archive.

Be it System 6 or System 7, this TINY application will bring your Mac to
life, allowing you to play System 7 'snd ' files and 'AIFF' files in the
background - with minimal memory usage.

Add your favourite sound files to the playlist, put Canon 2 into "Repeat"
mode and send it to the background...  Who needs a radio?

Anyway - check out the STANDARD Macintosh interface - no guidelines are
broken (we think).  At about 20K it's worth a look isn't it?  Thanks!

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/canon-2-103.hqx; 22K]

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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1993 13:52:17 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Keyboard PLUS

Enclosed you'll the control panel file 'Keyboard PLUS v1.1'. It
replaces v1.0.2 and older.

Berrie Kremers


Description:
Are you stuck with an ISO or Powerbook Keyboard, and missing the
extra keys from the Extended Keyboard? Then Keyboard PLUS might
be the solution. It let's you install emulators for most of those
extra keys. These emulators can be used troughout all the programs
you work with. The keys you can emulate include: F1 to F15, Page Up,
Page Down, Home, End, Delete and Insert/Help. And in this new ver-
sion all  keys from the numeric keypad are added so that vt100 emu-
lation can be done from a Powerbook. Furthermore it is now possible
to have multiple emulators on one key using different sets of modi-
fiers.

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/keyboard-plus-11.hqx; 36K]

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 16:39 EDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MacDisabilityResources.sea.hqx

Macintosh Disability Resources (MDR)

The Macintosh Disability Resources database has undergone a major revision,
now
including 117 commercial products for the Macintosh that enable computer
access
by individuals with disabilities. The database is a HyperCard stack.

Each record contains a product description and developer contact information.
The database includes tools for individuals with physical motor impairments,
blindness, hearing and speech difficulties, and learning disabilities.
Macintosh
Disability Resources can be searched by keywords, product name, developer
name,
disability type, and description text.

Macintosh Disability Resources is managed by Apple Computer's Worldwide
Disability Solutions Group which can be contacted at the address below:

Apple Computer, Inc. Worldwide Disability Solutions Group 20525 Mariani Avenue
MS 2-SE Cupertino, CA  95014 Internet: [e-mail]

This Hypercard file requires Hypercard 2.0 or later. It was downloaded by
me from America On Line.
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

[Archived as /info-mac/info/mac-disability-resources-hc.hqx; 293K]

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 22:28:37 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Henry)
Subject: [*] operation-intercept-102.hqx

the Operation Intercept demo
demo version 1.0.2

This updated version of the Operation Intercept demo includes the following
changes:

- All known bugs have been fixed. This includes problems that some Quadra
  owners reported.
- Support for the Gravis GamePad has been added.
- Some changes have been made to the interface to make the Intercept
    screens easy to navigate from the keyboard, mouse or GamePad.


Defend your solar system from the wrath of the evil Spoox empire! In
Operation Intercept, you pilot a spaceship in your attempt to destroy wave
after wave of invading enemy ships. Collect the bonus items you get for
killing an entire wave and spend them at the upgrade/repair stations, where
you can buy options for your spaceship such as double-shot, triple-shot,
spawn-shot, shields, and more. Challenge an opponent in the head-to-head
two-player mode!

In the Operation Intercept demo, you will experience the head-spinning,
bone-shaking speed of Intercept as well as the basic features of the game,
while the more advanced features and levels are left up to your imagination.
Buy the real version and you won't have to imagine!

The Operation Intercept demo requires at least a Macintosh Plus running
system software version 6.0.7 or later. System 7 is recommended. It will work
in color or monochrome.

The real version of Operation Intercept is marketed by SoftStream
International, and is available at fine software resellers such as
MacWarehouse.

Copyright (c) 1992-1993, Damn Good Software. All rights reserved. Operation
Intercept and Damn Good Software are trademarks of DGS.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/operation-intercept-102-demo.hqx; 432K]

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 4:42:42 EDT
From: Roby Sherman <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] PowerLaunch 2.0s

PowerLaunch 2.0s is finally here!! PowerLaunch is a major upgrade from
version 1.6...

New features include :

2.0 - Human Interface overgone MAJOR OVERHAUL.

2.0 - Increased # of palettes available from 8 to 10.

2.0 - Palettes are now NAMEABLE.

2.0 - Fixed "About Box" bugs which caused unregistered copies to crash.

2.0 - Unregistered copies are now less annoying.

2.0 - Added Drag-N-Drop support.

2.0 - Removed "reset" tool and replaced it with individual monitor and
sound control tools.

2.0 - Seperated Group launching from the utility menu tool.

Enjoy!

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/power-launch-20.hqx; 257K]

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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 93 0:24:41 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Sound Mover 1.9

Here is an extract from Riccardo Ettore's shareware "Sound Manager
Package", version 1.9, not to be confused with Apple's new Sound
Manager 3.0.  The principal file is Sound Mover 1.9, which translates
and manipulates a variety of sound file formats.  It has an interface
similar to Apple's Font/DA Mover.

This updated version provides a few new features:
  - asynchronous play of sounds
  - creation of System-7 sound files
  - bug fixes to version 1.8c

Through several hours of playing arou..., er, testing, I encountered no
crashes under System-701-T or System-607 on a MacIIcx (couldn't say
that for SMP v1.8c).

For new users, this is not the complete package you will receive when
you send your shareware fee to Riccardo, but it is fully functional and
includes full documentation.  The shareware fee is $20 - $25 (depending
on what you want back); see the docs.

Support Shareware!  Nobody's getting filthy rich from shareware sales,
and your conscience will let YOU sleep better!  (hint, hint).  No, I
don't get a cut of the "profits."

For registered users, this package includes all SMP files updated since
version 1.76, including SndControl 2.2.2 plus some older small files.

Riccardo Ettore can be E-mailed at [e-mail]

Glenn Schaffer
[e-mail]

Moderator:  this file should replace the info-mac file /snd/util/sound-
manager-package-18c.hqx.  To avoid confusion with Apple's Sound
Manager, I suggest that it be named ...  sound-mover-pkg-19.hqx

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/sound-mover-19.hqx; 286K]

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 17:20:35 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Glen Rosendale)
Subject: [*] ZippyPictures.hqx

Zippy Pictures

The 45 pictures in this collection are hand drawn in Adobe Illustrator
>From (mostly) pre-WWII advertising spot illustrations.  These quirky
drawings were used to brighten up ads, business cards and other
printed stuff. Used in these postscript format files they allow clean
output in your documents without having to use ragged or large scanned
pictures.

Zippy Pictures is copyright 1993 by Alan Voorhees. All Rights
Reserved. It is distributed as shareware. If you like, use, or keep
any of Zippy Pictures for more than thirty days, please make a
tax-deductible donation in the amount of $15 (or more; donations of
$20 or more will receive Zippy Pictures on disk by return mail) to the
following non-profit organization:

This disk sponsors the GAPA Community HIV Project (GCHP), which
provides education and support for Asian and Pacific Islanders in
preventing HIV infection. GCHP also offers several services for any
Asian Pacific Islander living with HIV and their loved ones. Services
are confidential and free of charge. (For more information call them
at 415 575-3939.)

Make your check payable to "GCHP" and mail it to:
    Zippy Pictures
    10809 McIntyre Street
    Oakland, CA 94605

Please include your name and address to receive information on other
volumes in this series.

You may give out copies of Zippy Pictures to your friends, providing
you include all the files you got in this package, including all 45
pictures and including this Read Me file. User groups and nonprofit
organizations have the author's permission to distribute these
pictures on their nominal charge disks, with the aforementioned
restrictions (this includes the info-mac quarterly CD-ROM
distribution). Commercial distribution or distribution by for-profit
companies is strictly prohibited.

[Archived as /info-mac/grf/zippy-pictures.hqx; 1037K]

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 08:48:39 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Harris)
Subject: (Q)

I am the author of RoboWar, a shareware game for the Macintosh.  Some time
ago,
I signed a contract with Shareware Authors, Inc., granting the company
exclusive rights to distribute RoboWar on CD.  I then got sucked into my
classes
for a year.  When I next looked up, I realized that the ship date for the
Shareware authors CD had long past, but that I had not received any royalty
checks or even quarterly statements of sales.  Bob Nordling, the president,
has not returned my phone calls or my letters regarding breach of contract by
Shareware Authors, so I have cancelled the contract on account of the
company's
violations of the terms.

In any event, I am curious if anyone else on the net has heard anything about
Shareware Authors?  Are there any other programmers who have been ripped off
like this?  Does Shareware Authors really have a CD on the market?  Has anyone
filed a lawsuit against the company?

At this point, I am not very upset about the whole affair, but I would like to
collect information about Shareware Authors to see if this was a grand
misunderstanding or if I should be warning other programmers against dealing
with the company.

Thanks in advance for any info...

David Harris

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Date: Wed,  4 Aug 93 08:56:40 CDT
From: "Bill Frazier" <[e-mail]>
Subject: *** Don't throw away System 7 desktop files *** (C)

Others have written:
>Unfortunately, one thing these files have in common across both
>System 6 and 7 is that Finder often fails to maintain them properly
>or, worse, volunteers to rebuild them and then fails to do a clean
>rebuild. To solve this problem, Salient has released "Desktop Reset",
>a patch-free System Extension, available via 'ftp' on sumex-aim, as
>freeware.  Full details are available in its documentation.

I got the Desktop Reset file from Sumex in response to one of the
postings.  (It is located in info-mac/disk under the new scheme.)
It comes with no documentation.  Installing a system extension, the
operation of which is secret, is not really a good idea.

Bill Frazier
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1993 20:10:33 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple HD SC Setup Patch for ver. 7.2

>From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
>Subject: Apple HD Setup 7.2 hack for non-Apple Drives [Q]

>Does anybody out there have the expertise and the time to figure out the
>necessary changes to format other vendors' harddrives with Apple HD SC
>Setup 7.2?

In response to this post,
To make version 7.2 of the Apple HD SC Setup recognize third party HD's:

1) Open "CODE" ID=6.
2) In version 7.2, offset 0x0060,
3) Change the two words there
       from 0x222F 000C
       to   0x4E71 7203
4) Save your changes.

    Do NOT make this change if the two words are not 0x222F 000C.

for previous versions (as a reminder)
1) Open "CODE" ID=1.
2) In version 7.1  ,  at offset 0x49AE,
          7.0.1,  at offset 0x413A,
          7.0.0,  at offset 0x411E,
3) Change the two words there
      from 0x222E 0010
      to   0x4E71 7203

    Do NOT make this change if the two words are not 0x222E 0010.
4) Save your changes.

Use these patches with the usual disclaimers, e.g. you're responsible
for all the consequences, etal.

Rick
* The views expressed in this posting are those of the individual author. *
* Created from a user account on Capitol Macintosh ONLine [phone]  *

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 19:38:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (MY KARMA RAN OVER MY DOGMA)
Subject: A problem w/Ofoto 1.x

Our scanner that was supported by ofoto busted.  We got a UMAX UC840 and
lo and behold, Ofoto 1.x doesn't support the UC840.  It supports the
UC630, tho.  Problem:  The color upgrade does support the 840, but I have
no need for color.  Is there a way I can modify the chooser document to
accept 840 scanner?  Can I get away with not laying out more $$?
What I mean (its been a long...strange...trip) is that: can I trick the
UC630 into driving the UC840?
Well, why not?

thanx a Mb!

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 93 07:01:49 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Writers Machine (R)

Tad Davis writes:

>A writer-friend of mine wants advice on a new system. His hardware and
>software requirements are minimal. After talking to him extensively, I
>know that a Classic II running WriteNow 3.0 would be nearly ideal. There's
>only one problem with that idea: he wants a bigger (preferably monochrome)
>monitor.

WriteNow 3.0 - yes, yes, yes!! The best!

Classic II - no. Screen's too small.

If he's on a limited budget I would advise a secondhand machine, such as a
IIcx
or something - it doesn't need to be fast for wordprocessing, even a Plus
would
keep up with even the fastest typist (although they might grumble about the
keyboard!), then get a S/H Radius Full- or Two-page display for it, WITH A
MONOCHROME SCREEN. A colour screen, even the very best, will cause eyestrain
when used for hours on end just writing - I know, I've done it!

He could get a machine with a 40Mb hard drive, plenty enough for thousands of
pages of text, and two or four Mb RAM, then he would have enough left from his
$2000 to buy a low-count s/h laser printer.

Buy from a reputable dealer of S/H hardware and the kit'll come tested, set up
and warrantied, no hassles, just cheaper!!
Cheers
Richard Smith

Hardware & Systems Executive
NorthEast Macintosh User Group
A non-profit group for the support of geriatric Macs!

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 12:51 EST
From: "NRN TIA :-)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bad xperience w/MacCenter

Dear Netters:
I too had a bad experience with MacCenter.  When I bought my SIMMs at
MacCenter 2 years ago, because they were the cheapest guy in town, I found
they charged $26 shipping and handling!  Still it was cheaper, but who ever
charges that much for shipping and handling an 8 oz. package?
BTW the SIMMs never malfunctioned, so maybe it isn't all that
bad.  End of comment.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 09:52:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Fred M. Hoppe" <[e-mail]>
Subject: BLP II printing problem

I am unable to print certain documents after upgrading recently to System 7.0
with tune-up 1.1.1.  The problem occurs when I attempt to print a
Textures document with some mathematical symbols---even a two page job
won't go.  However, non-mathematical text will tex and  print correctly, as
will MS Word and miniWriter documents, though more slowly than with my
former 6.0.5.  The dialog box which appears with Print Monitor at various
times informs me that 1) I should reduce the number of fonts in my system
folder, or 2) I am low on memory.  Attempting to reduce the number of
fonts, I opened the Laserwriter/Font utility and was informed that the
printer driver couldn't be opened and that I should make sure the
Laserwriter file is in the System Folder.  The Laserwriter file is where
it should be, the Extensions Folder and I'm really puzzled because
non-mathematical documents do print so the driver must be accessible.
I am printing on a BLB II (made by General Computer, a.k.a. GCC) from an
original Mac II with 5 meg ram.  Its got the pmmu chip so I've
experimented with virtual both on and off---makes no difference.  I also
borrowed a PB 170 (with 7.0.1 and tune-up 1.1.1)---same problem.  I've done
the obvious things such as reinitializing the printer, re-installing tune-up
1.1.1 to assure the correct driver is installed.  I think that the clues
to solving this problem lie in the facts that the difficulty only arises in
printing mathematical symbols, and in the  dialog box concerning the printer
driver.
Unless I can get some help from the net or from GCC the only other thing I
can think of is to  reinstall Textures.  But I would rather find out what
is going on.

Fred Hoppe

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Date: 4 Aug 1993 17:29:01 U
From: "Castle, Mike" <[e-mail]>
Subject: cases for Powerbook hard drives? (R)

>These days you can get internal hard disks (2.5") up to 213 MB for the Power-
>book. If I'd replace my internal 80 MB hard drive with a 213 MB Toshiba or
>160 MB Quantum, however, I'm stuck with a spare 80 MB drive. Does anybody
know
>an address of somebody who manufactures a little case for these small
>Powerbook
>drives? Alternatively, does anyone recommend getting an external LaCie
Pocket-
>drive or so and swapping the drive mechanisms? Please reply directly to me as
>I'm not subscribing to Info-Mac (due to small network bandwidth).

LaCie has told me that it is impossible to swap mechanisms, however, APS and
Microtech both sell external cases for 2.5" PowerBook drives for $79 US.  APS
may be reached at 1-816-483-6100.  Microtech is at 1-203-468-6223.  Good
luck!

                    << Mike Castle >>
                    [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 18:44:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russ Nelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris 650 and Quicktime (Q)

Okay, here's a wierd problem for you guys. I have a new C650. I installed
Quicktime 1.6. For a while, it worked normally. Now, when I try to do
anything QT related, it says 'Quicktime not installed' or something like
that. I tried to open a QT PICT in GifConverter, and I got the exclamation
point and message saying Quicktime PICT (if you've ever tried to open a QT
PICT without QT installed, you know what I mean). I've tried reinstalling
Quicktime, restarting with all inits except Quicktime turned off,
installing QT 1.5 (which came with my system), everything I can think of.
But, alas, no go. If anyone's heard of anything like this, please let me
know.

Thanks in advance

Russ

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:15:31 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jim Cordy)
Subject: Claris Works problems with CAP

Has anyone else run across the incompatibility of Claris Works 2.0
with CAP file servers?  The symptom is that when you 'Save' any CW
file edited directly from a CAP file server, the file is turned into
type 'trsh' and owner 'trsh'.  ResEdit won't even touch it, but
fortunately it can be recovered by correcting the type and owner
by hand using FileTyper.

Seems to me this is a serious bug.  But is it a bug in CW or CAP?
Anyone have any ideas?

Jim Cordy
---
Prof. James R. Cordy                            Software Technology Laboratory
[e-mail]                   Dept. Computing & Information Science
[phone] / FAX [phone]      Queen's Univ., Kingston, Canada

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 13:26:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail] (Kelvin Chu, UIUC Physics)
Subject: Clip Art.  Where to get it?

Hi there.  A friend and I are looking for any and all
clip art that we can find of airplanes, and other things
that fly.  Where is the best place to look for the stuff,
and are there PD ftp-able files out there?

Any responses are welcome.

Thanks in advance,

            -- k
                    ( [e-mail] )

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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1993 15:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Greg Hammel : Univ. of Sask. [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Damaged resource forks?

Dear Info-Mac folks,

My brother and I have been experiencing some strange problems with our
respective macs and I was hoping someone might have an idea what the cause
and/
or solution is. First off, my brother has an LC running system 7.0, tuned-up
with 10 Meg RAM and 40 Meg harddrive. I have a IIsi running 7.0.1, tuned-up
with 5 Meg RAM and an 80 Meg harddrive. The problem my brother has been having
is that the resource fork on his finder keeps getting damaged. Disinfectant
(v. 3.2 I believe) does not detect any viruses but does discover the damaged
resource fork. Replacing the finder with a copy from a floppy seems to
temporarily fix the prolem but it does reappear. Before, this would would
manifest itself by causing the desktop icons to dissappear and his background
to become completely white, with only the menu bar visible. However, last
night,
while he was working in Word, the keyboard began to act strange. Whenever he
typed in a letter there was a beep but no character would appear on the
screen.
Typing the letter again would cause the same beep but then the letter would
appear on the screen. When he rebooted his computer the finder icon had been
replaced by a strange icon, it was a green box with eyes, legs and antennae.
Suspecting a virus I ran Disinfectant, but it found no viruses. It did find
another damaged resource fork in a file "FS Preferences" in the system
folder.
I believe the file was for File Saver (Norton Utilities) but I can't be sure.
Another reboot removed the strange icon but put a strange character at the
beginning of the name of his copy of Disinfectant (on the hard disk). After
replacing the damaged files, Disinfectant, running from a write protected
floppy, showed no damaged files and no viruses. The problem with my computer
seems less threatening. While checking my computer last night (in response to
his problems - I wanted to make sure my computer was virus-free) I found that
the resource fork of HyperCard had been damaged. After replacing it with my
original copy, Disinfectant showed no damaged files and no viruses.

So my question is (after all that) what can cause the resource fork on some
files (the finder in particular) to get damaged regularly without Disinfectant
finding any viruses?

Thanks any replies, either to Info-Mac or through e-mail would be greatly
appreciated.

Greg Hammel.

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 9:23:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: LAN Supervisor <[e-mail]>
Subject: disk recyclers

The Covenant Group
P. O. Box 2530
Del Mar, CA 92014
619/792-6975
619/792-1599 FAX

Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1993 03:18:56 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Alexei Tsvetkov)
Subject: Don't throw away System 7 desktop files (A?)

>In a recent Info-mac, Alexei ([e-mail]) writes:
>
>> [other stuff deleted]
>> It is pretty safe and sometimes even advisable to trash them
>> once you know what you are doing and why you are doing it. I will not go
>> into details since nobody has asked.
>
>OK, I'll ask.  Can you please go into detail about this?  I have
>been trying to find information on the exact role of the Desktop,
>Desktop DB, and Desktop DF files, and the only responses I've gotten
>are that they replace the Desktop file that was used in System 6.0.x.
>
>The reason I ask is that I'm setting up a Mac training lab using a
>program called RevRDist.  It basically restores the Mac's hard drive
>to its original state (whatever we set that up to be) from a master copy
>on a server.  That way, if a student trashes some files, it will replace
>them, if a student adds files, they will get deleted, and if a student
>modifies files, they will be replaced with the originals.  This is done
>upon startup.  The program works, but the icons and windows are not
>in the same position each time.  I think this has something to do with
>the hidden desktop files, or perhaps with other hidden files.  Do you
>know exactly where the information concerning icon and window placement
>is stored?
>
>I am in desperate need of detailed information about the role of these
>hidden files.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jim Schenk
>University Computer Services
>Florida International University

Have I inadvertently promised more than I could deliver? It seems so. All I
meant is that trashing those files is pretty safe, both manually and with
the help of several utilities, as long as you let the Finder rebuild them,
most commonly by pressing option-command during startup. The use of this
exercise is to let the system refresh its database linking documents and
applications. You know that something is wrong when you start getting
generic app/doc icons instead of the proprietory ones. Also, when you have
a huge traffic on you HD, this operation is useful to get rid of the old
data, thus reducing the size of the file.
That's about all I had to say on the subject. Unfortunately, I have no idea
what if anything RevDist does to desktop files and whether it is possible
to avoid it. I certainly don't now anything about custom-tayloring those
files and have no idea if it is possible altogether.

Alexei Tsvetkov ([e-mail])
Munich

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 08:02:17 BST
From: [e-mail] (Peter Kay) (Peter Kay)
Subject: Fraction Characters in Font(Q)

Can any of you experts tell me whether there is a Font which includes
the more common (e.g. 1/4, 1/2, 1/3) fractions as single characters?
Freeware please since the need is not great enough to spend money on it.

Peter Kay, University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 18:15:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: hacking the LaserWriter 8.0 file

Here're a couple of LaserWriter 8.0 tips from Ric Ford's `MacInTouch'
column on p.68 of the 07.26.93 MacWEEK:

  The ``nrct'' resource defines several rectangles.  If you exchange
  the coordinates for the first and second rectangles, the Setup
  button stays active all the time, and you can choose a PostScript
  Printer Definition without having the printer on line.

  The print dialog has a pop-up menu for ``n-up'' printing hidden
  out of view on the right.  (The resource type is ``DLOG'' and its
  number is 8191 in the LaserWriter 8.0 file.)  If you move this pop-up
  onto a visible part of the dialog, n-up printing will be available from
  the Print dialog, as well as the Page Setup dialog.  In Page Setup, the
  n-up choice ``sticks'' to the document.


These, of course, are ResEdit hacks.  I thought some of you might find at
least the second tip useful.  I know I did :-)

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>
``My _real_ computer is a Macintosh.''

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 22:40:59 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hiding the names of apps (A)

>>I would love it if somebody could hack up a piece of software
>>which would hide the names of all (or even better, only certain nominated)
>>apps in the finder.
>
>The easiest thing to do is to rename the application <space>, <space space>,
>etc.  The "name" is then invisible. Of course that gives
>you at most 31 choices for application names without duplication,
>but that should be enough.

In case you have more than 31 application that you need to rename -
use <del>, too.  Thus you use either a <space> or a <del> for every
character in the name.  This should give you 2^31 names.  :-)

Anyway, I strongly object having to rename every file by hand.
What good is a name if you make it unreadable?
Just think about all those nifty applications that use the name for
information, like - the Finder.
Or index programs.  Or ...

There should be a program that does the hiding of the file names for you.
What are we using computers for, eh?
Now, where's the programmer that does this hack for us?

Sven :)

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 16:43:28 +0200
From: R.A.Varela <[e-mail]> (Ramiro A. Varela)
Subject: How to write to the clipboard?

Dear all,

Here is my problem:

    I want to write some data to the clipboard file from within the
Absoft MPW Fortran. When Deltagraph 2.0.2 will be launched later, it will
use these data to make some (I hope) pretty graphs. The problem is that I
do not know how to write these data to the clipboard. I tried with normal
fortran file management functions, but all I get is nothing (oh yes, the
date of the clipboard file was modified...)

    Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please write to my e-mail
address ([e-mail]) and if  there is enough interest  I
will summarize for the net.

Thanks in advance,

Ramiro
Geohydrodynamics and Environmental Research. University of Liege. BELGIUM

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 15:47:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ephraim Fithian <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP Drivers

Six weeks ago, I sent a fax to Hewlett-Packard requesting the latest drive
3.07b for an HP PaintWriter that I own. No response to date.

Three weeks ago, I called Hewlett-Packard tech support (my dime) to
request the 3.07b driver for my Quadra 700. The woman who answered said
that HP did not have Quadra listed as one of Apple's computers and
wondered if it was from another company. She only knew of the IIci, IIfx,
and a variety of other 3-year-old Macs. She did offer to send me the 3.07b
driver. No response to date.

Is this an ongoing problem with HP software? Can't they follow Apple's
guidelines in writing the driver software in the first place? I have had
trouble and delays in getting software upgrades from HP since I bought the
printer.

One reader send me the 3.07b software from New Zealand, but it arrived
corrupted. Anyone else care to try?

Ephraim Fithian
Kutztown University of PA
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 93 02:20:02 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: HyperCard FAQ--doType? doKeystroke?  How the hell...??

I never thought I'd actually be SCRIPTING, but, well, folks, I need this
interface, you see, and although I've never done it before, I did have
the old Hypercard [1.2 if you must know] and the infantilizing/opaque
manual that it came with, so...

Have hit a snag.  Stupid infantilizing-yet-opaque manual tells me how
to make the damn Mac sing "Mary had a little lamb" but doesn't explain
how to make it TYPE something somewhere.  I wanna be able to hit a
button and have it understand that by my doing that, I want it to type
a predetermined keystroke in this or that place.  Serenades and barn
doors and flashing screens not even necessary.  Just DO THESE KEY-
STROKES!  Preferably on a separate card (or stack) that would grad-
ually accumulate a string of digits as the series of cards that have
the buttons are cycled over and over again and the appropriate buttons
pushed as telephone interviewees give their answers.  Hell, I can't
even get it to type something like "testing" in a field on the same
card!  Something about Send command making it impatient to be at the
end of a line.  And no such command as doText, doType, Type, Write,
doWrite, etc, as far as I can discover.  Am I ridiculous to think
this is a pretty basic thing to expect?

I know this is probably a very kindergarten level FAQ, but I know
as much about HyperCard as your Grampa knows about eastern slamdance
bongo drumming...

Allan Hunter

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

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 93 08:37:46 EDT
From: Larry Wink <[e-mail]>
Subject: Integrity...online (R)

"dlawrence" <[e-mail]> writes:

>I've checked my incoming log from the 28th and there's no such message
there.

Gee, maybe what everyone says about AOL e-mail problems is true.  That will
teach me to use AOL for e-mail.  Sorry about that.

> Just like the messages you sent to the folks at AOL regarding your uploads,
> who then forwarded them to me.

Now this comes as a surprise to me.  I thought it was only Plodigy(sic) system
operators that past around user's private e-mail.  Thanks for the insight.

Based on the AOL's rigidity and the above, I can't think of any reason to
continue to send AOL my money.

--Larry Wink <[e-mail]> or (soon to be) [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 09:58:58 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LaserWriter 8 and Novell spooler

I would like to use the LaserWriter 8.0 and HP version 8.0 drivers with our
Novell print queues. The font query does not seem to work and all I ever
ever get is bitmapped fonts or downloaded TrueType. I know that Aldus
introduced PageMaker 4.2a to allow the prep file to successfully query the
font information in Novell, but does anybody know how to do this with the
above printer drivers?


Paul Leman
Senior Computing Officer
Academic Computing Services
University of Sheffield
UK

Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 13:12:49 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Darrah Chavey)
Subject: Long filenames in archive (Partial A)

Gary Lee Nelson ([e-mail]) asks:
>Subject: Long filenames in archive
>
>Some recently posted files have been archived with names that
>are too long to access with my VersaTerm FTP client.  I don't know
>if this is something that I must live with or fix on my end or
>whether it is something that should be fixed by the archive
>administrator.  Is anyone having the same problem?
>
>The most recent file I tried was big-dummys-guide-to-internet.hqx.  My FTP
>client apparently only picked up the beginning of the name (I can't tell
>how many characters).  When it tried to access the file it reported that
>the file was not found.

Some software can handle filenames of that length, and others can't.
I doubt it will do much good to try to ask that all files keep shorter names.
However, one way you can often get such files is to send an ftp mget command.
For example, a session might go as follows:
    ftp>  mget big*
    mget big-dummys-guide-to-internet.hqx? y
This should allow you to download the file.

--Darrah Chavey                  Department of Math & Computer Science
  [e-mail]              Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 13:22:09 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Darrah Chavey)
Subject: Mac App to "unzip" a file (a)

[e-mail] (Eric H Seale) asks:
>Subject: Mac App to "unzip" a file
>
>I downloaded a couple of text articles that are, unfortunately in
>"zipped" format.  Is anyone aware of a utility that can unzip them?

There are at least 4 programs that do that:
     UnZip 2.0.1, ZipIt, UnzipMac, ZipPop
(ZipIt also zips files).  I recommend either of the first two of these.
Oddly enough, I can't find any of these at sumex, at least not in
Compress-Translate. All 4 of them are at umich, or its mirrors
(I usually use wuarchive.wustl.edu: mirrors/archive.umich.edu/mac)
in the directory /util/compression.

--Darrah Chavey                  Department of Math & Computer Science
  [e-mail]              Beloit College, Beloit, Wisc.

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

Date: 3 Aug 1993 23:24:44 -0500
From: "Cerro, Joseph A" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac II DataPath (Q)

Does anybody out there know how wide the original Mac II data bus is (i.e. 16
bit v 32)? I am referring to the mother board data path, not to the 68020
itself.

Please reply directly to me. Thanks in advance.

J. Cerro
[e-mail]/[e-mail]

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

Date: 4 Aug 93 13:33:00 CST
From: "Mike Sisson  " <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macintosh Hard Disk 20

Greetings-

Recently I have inherited two of the above mentioned beasties attached to a
MacPlus. Unfortunately there is no documentation of any kind. My question is:
How do you format one of these things? HD Setup only works on SCSI devices
which this obviously is not. I thought about using the Erase Disk command
but since both drives are working I was too chicken to do it and possibly
hose one of them up. Would anyone care to verify that Erase Disk is correct
(or incorrect)? If there is a utility to format one of these ancient
beasts would someone upload it to me please. I really don't need it now but
with things like this I hate to wait until I really need them to get them.
Please reply directly to me as I am relatively sure this has a narrow interest
bandwidth.

TIA
Mike Sisson
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 19:22:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott Wyant <[e-mail]>
Subject: net rookie reqests further help with decompression

Hello all:

I fear that I am about to FAQ, but I've read the Whole Internet, the
Companion, and even looked through Big Dummy and still...

When I got Big Dummy and tried to use Binhex 4, it said it wasn't a BinHex
file.  So I did what I've always done -- opened the file in MS Word,
waited for it to open, stripped off the text at the beginning, the saved
and used BinHex.  All was fine.

But there must be a better way, and I don't know what it is.  Can someone
help?  If in fact I have FAQed, be gentle...

Thanks.

Scott Wyant
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:43 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Nisus 3.47 Limited Flag Edition (A)

Michael Kazlow <[e-mail]> writes:
> 2) While its really neat that Nisus files are of type TEXT (sort
> of), there does not seem to be any easy way to a) save with
> linebreaks and b) save with linebreaks every xx number of
> characters. This is essential for for uploading text. Nissus
> macros are the way to provide it. But before I try to write it
> myself. Has anyone implemented something like this before?

a) I use the Break Lines command (Edit menu) and save as Text.

b) One way of doing that (without writing a macro) would be to
   use a mono-spaced font and just set the margins to the required
   xx number of characters, then use (a) above.

Cheers- Shekhar Govind                [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1993 14:10:49 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nisus etc. (A)

> 1) Why does Gatekeeper keep complaining that the System
> Heap wants to change its resourses!!!! I have checked my
> system for virii and that's not the problem.

It's because in order to reduce size on disk some Nisus resources
are compressed, and Nisus is uncompressing them. Gatekeeper doesn't
understand about this. But you can prevent the message from
appearing in the usual way :-(

> 2) While its really neat that Nisus files are of type
> TEXT (sort of), there does not seem to be any easy way to
> a) save with linebreaks and b) save with linebreaks every
> xx number of characters. This is essential for for
> uploading text. Nissus macros are the way to provide it.

To use macros for this might be using a bazooka to kill a gnat; just
using powersearch Find to replace all instances of :^ (linestart)
with \r (return) will do it. If you switch to a monospaced font and
adjust your margins before doing this you can bring the number of
characters before wrap below any limit you like.
 --------
matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1993 21:24:37 -0230
From: "Michael Coyne, Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: PageMaker Installer Problem

I have a complementary copy of the student edition of PageMaker which I am
trying to install. For some reason, midway through the installation, the
installer asks for the disk which it is reading from. I have disabled
all extensions so there is no conflict. Norton's Disk Doctor says
everything else is O.K. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Michael Coyne
[e-mail]

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

Date: 04 Aug 1993 15:20:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Ernie Potenziani <potenziani@[144.252.1.85]>
Subject: Pmail/Pegasus mail information needed (Q)

    In the July 26 issue of InfoWorld, there was an article about a
reportably great freeware Email package called Pmail (Pegasus Mail) that is a
native MHS mailer (Novell networks).  It is supposedly available for both the
PC and the Mac, but an Archie search only seemed to turn up DOS files.  Does
anyone know where I can try out a copy of this program for the Mac. The
article
states that the author of the program is at [e-mail] (a New Zealand
address) but I can't seem to reach this site via ftp or Email no matter what I
try.  Thanks to all in advance for any info.

Ernie Potenziani
Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 07:35:16 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Postscript Startup Page

It's me again.  Boy do I feel stupid.  Yesterday I posted an inquiry about
stopping
the starup page on a PostScript printer.  Being a person who uses a Mac
religously,
I rarely need to use the manuals, but I should have looked before I jumped.
I haven't recieved any replys yet, but if I were to look on page 7.5, I would
have
found that you can use the LaserWriter utility to do what I wanted.  I was
just
unfamiliar with the utility and its purpose.

--Bill

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

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 11:09:27 CST
From: "Wade Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerPC corrections

Ok, I've got some corrections/additions to the corrections/additions that
people posted.  I'm quoting comments from various authors, so don't think
that because there's a quote before yours that you didn't say that I'm
implying that you said it.

>    I too will make a few corrections to Wade's post, as well as some
>additions.

>    Last I heard, they were targeting something like 50-60% of the Mac
>ToolBox to be re-written and compiled into native PowerPC code by the
>release, which is still rumored to be in Jan. 1994 on the 10th
>anniversary of the Mac's introduction. There is also speculation that
>the intro retail price will be the same intro retail of the Mac128. This
>will be for a PowerPC 601-based Mac in a C610 case.

True, but I think the toolbox figure may be a bit off.  Apple analyzed
several common Macintosh applications and found that most applications
spend something like 80% of their time in 15% of toolbox routines.  It's
those routines that will be native.  The rest will be emulated and
converted to native at a later date.  (Those may not be the exact numbers,
but I think they're close).

>    Well, no one is really sure when it will be fully ready, but NewOS
>went into beta sometime in the last month or so.

That I hadn't heard.
>    This was changed a couple of months ago, by Apple. The PowerPC will
>now be emulating the 68LC040 chip, and run at about the speed of a C610
>or base C650. It will not emulate the FPU.

That is not what I heard a few weeks ago from a member of the PowerPC
team.  My understanding is that it supports only 68020 instructions (not
030 or 040), but it runs at '040 speeds.

>    Actually, this PDS card is slated to be released for '040-based
>Macs. This is why it's an '040 PDS card. ;->

That's why I said, "if it is released for PowerPC." :)

>According to Byte, the PowerPC will be running a flavour of UNIX based on
>the PowerOpen specification.  System 7, OS/2, Windows and anything else
>will run on top of this (simultaneously).  Apple has re-written all the
>ToolBox calls to run natively on the PowerPC, which is why it can emulate the
>Mac at Quadra 700 speeds.  System 7 does not have memory protection
>or pre-emptive multitasking yet.  However, you can run multiple System 7
>sessions in separate X windows, which are protected from each other and
>multitask pre-emptively.  To answer the original question, yes the PowerPC
>does have its own OS (as distinct from user interface) with it's own
>API.  For more info, check out the August issue of Byte; the PowerPC is
>the cover story.

It is my understanding that Byte is wrong.  I suspect that they got their
information from the PowerOpen literature, which makes it look like what
you have described.

It appears that when PowerOpen is released, you will have a choice of three
interfaces - Macintosh, Motif or Character-based.  Those are the three
described, it's possible that more can be added.

However, I don't believe that the Macintosh OS that's going to be shipped
with the first PowerPC (the one that emulates the 68020) is going to sit
on top of the PowerOpen API.  If someone knows differently from a member
of the PowerPC team, I'd certainly love to be corrected.

>Keep in mind that the comparisons being made between PowerPC and the
>Pentium microprocessor, are between the expected specs of the '94
>PowerPC chip and the current specs of the '93 Pentium.


>You're mistaken that the Pentium chip is inherently inferior because it
>is CISC.  Several "radical" changes (from prior x86 chips) were included
>in the Pentium architecture which are just like those found in RISC
>chips.  It is NOT impossible to achieve RISC-like performance and still
>maintain the x86 compatibility.  (BTW, Intel makes a RISC architecture,
>and it's in every HP LaserJet 4/4M)

It may be possible to achieve RISC-like performance, but is it possible to
achieve RISC-like cost and die size?  That's where I think the Pentium may
be pushing the limits of CISC.  There are certainly those who think CISC
will be around for much longer and can continue to keep up with RISC
performance.  However, I think the computer industry as a whole has about
decided that that's not the case.

>However, the point I really wanted to make, is that the Pentium is so
>much slower, hotter, uses more power and is more expensive because the
>manufacturing process is different.  Currently, Pentium is on a 0.8
>micron process (I think - point is it's larger) and the PowerPC will be
>a 0.6 micron die.  The next Pentium, expected before the PowerPC, will
>also be on a 0.6 micron die.  The PowerPC will be a finer pitch process
>than the CURRENT Pentium, but not the Pentium that will be shipping when
>the PowerPC systems first ship.  The 0.6 micron Pentium will have a
>comparable die size to the PowerPC, will consume less power, and run
>faster and cooler.

I assume you mean the PowerPC-based computer.  The PowerPC chip as you
know, is already here.

>Motorola and Intel are strong competitors in the semiconductor arena,
>but Intel has the current, world-wide PC market on its architecture.
>Intel will stay competitive by improving its architecture and
>performance levels, and other companies will try to win people away with
>new architectures.  However, it seems like it's the applications that
>win the users over.  No matter how much better the Mac OS was for years,
>the majority of the PC market went with Intel architecture -- because of
>the existing applications.  Since Microsoft has approximated the Mac OS
>with Windows 3.1, there is less cause for people to leave Intel for any
>other architecture -- especially one that has no native applications
>yet.

Actually, I'd disagree with that.  People buy Intel not because of
applications, but because of two factors:

1)  It's what everyone else has and is therefore "safe."
2)  The bottom-line cost is lower, though not the cost over the life cycle
of the computer (that cost however, is always ignored).

Anyone who wants to use a Macintosh have found that there are plenty of
applications available.  People who don't want to use one have found all
sorts of misconceptions to believe in order to justify not using one.

>Who knows how well emulation will work or just how cheaply PowerPC
>systems will sell.  It is true that Macs have always been more expensive
>than comparable Intel PC's, and that may continue to be the case, too.

Emulation is reported to be "rock-solid" by those who've seen it.
Apparantly, the only thing which has broken it is TMON-Pro, a low-level
debugger which hooks into various parts of the OS and the 68000, and
therefore, it's quite understandable that it would break.

>Remember, there's nothing evil about Intel; it's a business, and this is
>called competition!  (Of course, I still like using a Mac over Windoze
>any day)

Smart man. :)

No there's nothing evil about Intel.  However many people, including
electrical engineers, have always felt that Motorola has had a better chip
because it did not have the baggage of past mistakes to support that Intel
did.  When you believe that's the case, it's frustrating to see see the
"inferior" Intel chips winning the war.  Much the same way it's frustrating
to see the vastly inferior DOS/Windows combination winning the war.  (I'm
using inferior as a relative term when refering to Intel chips.  They
certainly work and certainly are fast.)  I guess the most frustrating thing
is that people don't base their purchasing decisions based on which is the
better computer.  They base them on the reasons listed above.  If we bought
computers based upon technology, PC's certainly wouldn't dominate the
world.  It would probably be Macs, NeXT or Amiga.

Well, sorry for that last soapbox paragraph. :)

Wade Williams
Network Support Specialist, Auburn University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 12:55:22 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Terry Thiel)
Subject: PowerPC vs. Pentium - long

[e-mail] writes:
>Keep in mind that the comparisons being made between PowerPC and the
>Pentium microprocessor, are between the expected specs of the '94
>PowerPC chip and the current specs of the '93 Pentium.

These comparisons are being made with the PowerPC chip that is currently in

>new architectures.  However, it seems like it's the applications that
>win the users over.  No matter how much better the Mac OS was for years,
>the majority of the PC market went with Intel architecture -- because of
>the existing applications.  Since Microsoft has approximated the Mac OS
>with Windows 3.1, there is less cause for people to leave Intel for any

That's way off.  People bought clones becasue they were cheap.  In fact the
only thing that saved the Mac early on was it's niche as a graphics machine.
That and the Laserwriter.
-Terry

>Who knows how well emulation will work or just how cheaply PowerPC
>systems will sell.  It is true that Macs have always been more expensive

Apple has already said the PowerPC will be very price-competitive and
thousands
of people have also seen it's ability to emulate almost any Mac product.  BTW
Insignia has already announced a emulation of Windows that will run at 486
speeds on the Power PC.
-Terry

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 20:08:45 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Privacy on the net

In Info-Mac Digest V11 #155, David Lawrence writes:

>By the way, once you send a message to me, it's *my* decision, not yours,
>whether or not it remains private

He is incorrect.  There was a court case recently involving letters
(snailmail)
send by someone famous to someone else.  The someone else wanted to publish
the (scandalous) contents.

The courts ruled that the receiver owned the paper the letters were written
on, but the sender owned and controlled the copyright on the words
themselves.

I'm sure someone can fill in the details, but that's the general idea

jonathan brecher
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 14:59 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: PS errors

I've just tried and failed several times to print an Intellidraw
document using Laserwriter 8.0.  The document only contains two EPS
objects created by Mathematica, but every time I try to print I get
the helpful message

ERROR: undefined
OFFENDING COMMAND: li

STACK:

0.61196
0.35546

-mark-

This appears on the printed output which does emerge, and interestingly,
one of the objects (a globe) comes only half-rendered - you can see the
rear surface with a gaping hole where the front ought to be.  (Does that
mean PS can be 3-D as well?)

If anyone knows what the errors mean, I'd like to know!  It's not that
important, because the file will print correctly with Laserwriter 7.1.x.
But I think what would be really helpful is a "Big Dummy's Guide to
PostScript", a compilation of tricks that the PS-illiterate could use to
get round their printing problems, a bit like having a set of Macsbug
commands to get you out of trouble.  Any takers?

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

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 13:31:28 PDT
From: Brian R. Gaeke <[e-mail]>
Subject: Role of Desktop DB and Desktop DF

[e-mail] writes:
>The reason I ask is that I'm setting up a Mac training lab using a
>program called RevRDist.  It basically restores the Mac's hard drive
>to its original state (whatever we set that up to be) from a master copy
>on a server.  That way, if a student trashes some files, it will replace
>them, if a student adds files, they will get deleted, and if a student
>modifies files, they will be replaced with the originals.  This is done
>upon startup.  The program works, but the icons and windows are not
>in the same position each time.  I think this has something to do with
>the hidden desktop files, or perhaps with other hidden files.  Do you
>know exactly where the information concerning icon and window placement
>is stored?
>
>I am in desperate need of detailed information about the role of these
>hidden files.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If you *really* want detailed information, read Inside Macintosh
Volume VI, pages 9-48 to 9-58.

However, if you just want to know whether to include them in your
RevRDist script, I would advise you not to, because any Desktop DB
and Desktop DF files you copy from the master machine are going
to be specific for that machine's hard drive. I also doubt that
copying the Desktop D[B|F] files is going to restore window positions;
I think that that sort of stuff is in the directory entries...

I may be wrong about this... somebody, please back me up or
strike me down.

--
Brian Gaeke, The Dimensional Gate Company   Internet E-Mail: [e-mail]
Finger my account for my PGP public key.

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 06:39:40 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Subject: cases for Powerbook hard drives? (A)


On Mon, 2 Aug 1993 Jan Martin <[e-mail]> wrote:
> These days you can get internal hard disks (2.5") up to 213 MB for the
Power-
> book. If I'd replace my internal 80 MB hard drive with a 213 MB Toshiba or
> 160 MB Quantum, however, I'm stuck with a spare 80 MB drive. Does anybody
know
> an address of somebody who manufactures a little case for these small
> Powerbook

Jan, APS offers such a case for $70(?).  Ring 800-443-4996; fax [phone].

--John.
J. B. THOO, Math Dept, Univ of California, Davis <[e-mail]>
``My _real_ computer is a Macintosh.''

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 16:24:33 +0100
From: Marcus Peter <[e-mail]>
Subject: TCP/IP via LOCAL-TALK

Hi folks!

My Powerbook DUO 230 is connected via Local-Talk
to a Macintosh IIsi on which the Apple-Talk
Internet Router 3.0 is running. So this IIsi is
our bridge from Local- to Ethertalk. On both
computers Mac TCP 1.1.1 is running. So what else
do we have to do, to send TCP/IP packets from the
DUO to the Internet? If we start e.g. NCSA-Telnet
we get an error message: 'no dynamic
addressing...' Any help is appreciated.

greetings

Marcus

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 14:52:02 +0100
From: [e-mail] (John Williams)
Subject: The IIsi sound problem - who knows the cure?

    Our IIsi has started to lose its sound capabilities.  It's OK on
startup but after an hour or so it's completely mute.

    I seem to remember there was quite a lot of discussion on this
subject a while back, but can't remember what the diagnosis and the cure
were.

    Can anyone help?  Thanks in anticipation.


John Williams

(INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, Centre de Recherches de Tours, 37380
Nouzilly, France)

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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 93 10:52:58 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Thumbnail & Other ZMAC Stuff

On 3 Aug, [e-mail] (Michael Tarr) asked:

>Could someone with access to AppleLink Ziffnet Selections or ZiffNet/Mac
>connect to the ZMC:POWERTOOLS area or MacUser Software and download
>Thumbnail (THUMBN.SIT) to SUMEX ...

Folks, let's say this again. The ZMAC specials are not for wholesale
distribution. This is from the README for Thumbnail:

     You may NOT upload this utility to any online service,
     network, or Bulletin Board. You  may NOT make copies for any
     commercial purpose. This utility is not public domain or
     shareware. Distribution is limited to Ziff Communications
     online services and  electronic publishing projects.

     You may distribute this software and this document, to any
     person for non-commercial purposes.  This document must
     accompany the software.

Passing ZMAC specials around to your friends is OK. But please don't
even ask folks to post it anywhere. It could only cause trouble.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 10:54:22 MST
From: [e-mail] (John Buono)
Subject: TurboGopher and Slip

Does anyone know how to get TurboGopher to operate over Slip.  I
have tried two different connection an get the same problem

1.  Bring up NCSA Telnet, open the slip connection and then go
into TG, TG keeps saying that it cannot connect, the connection
(looking at the modem lights) doesn't appear to even be getting
out.  Can this be done.  (other then this slip works fine from
NCSA Telnet)

2.  Used InterSlip from Intercon.  Opened a slip connection
went into TG, lights blinked, but still got the "can not
connect" message.  I have to use IP addresses instead
of names, since everytime I try a name I get "unable to
resolve host name".

Does anyone have a clue as to what is going on.  This is becoming
very annonying.  I sent a message to gopher at boombox but have
not received a repy after two weeks.  I have also removed at init etc.
Am using a //cx with daystar 50 68030.

I don't regulary read info-mac so please respond directly.

Thank you
John Buono

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 15:55:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ian Chai)
Subject: Where do I upload UNIX software?

I know what to do if I have written a nifty piece of Mac software: upload
it to INFO-MAC and it goes all over the world!

What do I do if I have a nifty piece of UNIX software?

Because I'm *very* behind on INFO-MAC, please reply by Email and I would be
happy to post a summary if people are interested.

Thanks,
    Ian Chai <[e-mail]>

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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 93 07:29:28 BST
From: Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: WindowsNT - (C)

>       -Is WindowsNT the new PC operating system and is it out yet?

Windows anything is an application, and, despite the efforts of the Gates
clan,
can never truthfully be described as an operating system :-) (unless my
information is totally incorrect and MicroSoft have completely re-written the
code so that WindowsNT replaces MS-DOS rather than interferes with the way DOS
tries to run the computer.)

If WindowsNT *is* out yet, it's probably worh waiting for two or three years
for
WindowsNT 3.xx to come out - y'know, the version that mostly works, with most
of
the bugs removed!

Cheers
Richard Smith

Hardware & Systems Executive
NorthEast Macintosh User Group
A non-profit group for the support of geriatric Macs!

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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 09:26:12 -0600
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From: [e-mail] (Eric Lorenzo)
Subject: Re: Please include min requirement warning on submissions!
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Allan Hunter <[e-mail]> writes:
>It sure would be nice if people posting their sharewares would be so
>kind as to indicate in the Info-Mac notices any minimum requirements to
>run their stuff.  I spent a while downloading and unBinhqx'ing several
>cdevs and applications last night, only to find that 3/4 of them would
>not run without System 7; 2 required a color monitor; 1 required better
>than a 68020 cpu; and 1 required a coprocessor.  Annoying!
>
>How about a standardized yes/no thingie to be included at the end of
>submission notices--
>
>SYS   (6.0.7)                 FPU   notreq            RAM  1.2 free
>CPU   68020                   mon   color             Oth  n/a

    I agree with Allan and think this would be a really good idea.  I
dont't think this would be a hassle for people submitting archives as they'd
already (should know) know the requirements for their submissions.
    One thing I'd like to see is if the program is in in color.  As
stuckup as it may sound, I really can't stand b&w these days anymore and would
rather not spend my time downloading things (especially games) that are in
b&w only.

Eric
--
Eric J. Lorenzo
[e-mail]

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