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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 22:21:02 PDT
From: The Moderators <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #166


Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 22 Aug 93       Volume 11 : Issue 166

Today's Topics:

      [*] Newton: Poker
      [*] ren-n-stimy-idiot.hqx
      (a)centris 650 won't shutdown
      (A) Desktop Manager
      *Color Calibrating*
      :CONFLICT: PeeWee 1.0.1 vs OtherMenu, et al.
      [A] NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?
      [Q] EtherNet card for LCIII. Who's got one?
      [Q] SE/30 Screen Problem Too!  The DTs.
      A4 Paper Format (A)
      An INIT to create an application menu in Sys 6.0.8 (Q)
      Apple's Speech-To-Text Files (Where Are They?)
      AppleScript Won't Load
      A problem with a PB140
      Are Philips 15" monitors any good (?)
      B&W StartupScreen
      best text editor for files > 32K -- summary
      Black Screen Mac Plus (Con't)
      Black Screen Problem with Mac Plus
      Boomerang of long signatures & space consumption in the archives.
      Centris 610 fpu addition
      Centris 650 Won't Shutdown (R)
      Cleaning hard disk on a Lab Mac
      Control characters with Telnet 2.5
      Could Somebody Post MacintoshPro & SpeechManager To Sumex!!!!
      daily message clients for the Mac
      Dark Star Request
      Dead hard drives...
      DEC Pathworks problem on Centris & Quadra 7.1
      Delaware Apple dealers
      desktop corrupted, Norton saves
      Desktop Manager
      DeskWriter 3.9/DAs
      E-Mail by Modem?
      EasyView 2.33 Question
      Eudora or PopMail (Q)
      FAQ for System 7.1
      File Application Type needed (A)
      Helix Technologies
      Help with New Disk First Aid and Norton DD
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #165 (2 msgs)
      Is CorelDraw for Mac available?
      Jiggle..My Screen Is Jiggling
      Mac IIx and 32-bit Enabler double-boots
      Mac Prefect Downloadable?
      Mac v. Windoze
      McSink/McWherter/Vantage/Preferred info request
      new speech manager
      NewsReaders
      no start on IIcx
      Peanuts-Icons...DUH!
      PPD's
      Problems sampling sounds with QuickTime
      Problem with ZTerm and fonts
      Processor Speed cdev needed...
      Rebooting Centris (A)
      Rebuilding the desktop
      Registering Creator (A)
      Registering Creators
      Rescue 1.5.1
      S.A.M (Slow Anti-virus for Mac?)
      Scripting while Browsing in HyperCard (C)
      SE/30 logic board problem (Q)_
      SoftPC Demo (Q)
      Sound Manager
      Speech Manager (2 msgs)
      Speech Manager--How to Use.
      Syquest troubles...
      Techtool and its compatibility problems (A?)
      Tech Tool PRAM
      Times Two" and MacTools "Partition (R)
      Translation Software
      Trying to find... (R)
      Workgroup 95 Server Problems

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 10:06:37 -0400
From: "Robert Bruce" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Newton: Poker

Newton Poker.
Here is the first PD Newton game. The interface is simple yet effective and
clean, unlike some of the other programs we have seen so far.

Ftp or Gopher to bnnrc-srv.med.jhu.edu (128.220.81.221) for more Newton
Archives


                 Thanks
                 Robert Bruce

[Archived as /info-mac/nwt/poker.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 08:23:27 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Mr. Nitro Plastique)
Subject: [*] ren-n-stimy-idiot.hqx

[Rn n stimpy -- "Ren you idiot!" -- I really wish more people would
include text headers in their mail files! -- Gordon]

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/ren-n-stimy-idiot.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 93 15:40:44 CEST
From: Marco Perici <[e-mail]>
Subject: (a)centris 650 won't shutdown

>I have a Centris 650 that reboots itself after I select SHUTDOWN

Look the power on-off switcher on the rear of Centris, there are two
position that you can select by a screw-driver, one of that automatically
restart the Macintosh (is a feature useful for Appleshare use).

Bye

[e-mail]

P.S. Sorry for my bad english


\________ by Marco with dePressionist 1.0c4 (development version)

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 19:16:51 -0500
From: [e-mail] (I R A Aggie)
Subject: (A) Desktop Manager

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: (Q) Desktop Manager

[stuff about a C610's behaviour with Desktop Manager]

>Was Desktop Manager actually doing something, or was it stuck?

Probably stuck, since it's built into sys 7. You don't need it
unless you want to boot with sys 6 and avoid having two sets of
desktop files.

James

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 14:28:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (MY KARMA RAN OVER MY DOGMA)
Subject: *Color Calibrating*

Hello Info Mackers:
    I am seeking info on color calibration equipment for a job I'm working
on that will be output to a fiery Cannon ColorLaser Copier.  The color must be
as accurate as possible :^).  I'm working from PhotoCD scanned images and have
a 24bit card.  I need info on Ofoto 2.0, EfiColor, Kodak ColorSense or any
other product that will help me calibrate my monitor to the output, and to
ultimately have correct color. I am working against a deadline, so please
email me and I will summarize findings for the group.  I especially need to
hear from those who are actually doing this if at all possible, but any sympa-
thy will be accepted as well.
Thanx!!!!!
-Luis

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 22:41:34 -0400
From: "Adam P. Conn" <[e-mail]>
Subject: :CONFLICT: PeeWee 1.0.1 vs OtherMenu, et al.

Like the title seyz, PeeWee conflicts with OtherMenu and Conan the Librarian,
and probably others.

--Adam Conn

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 06:31:25 PDT
From: "Michael L. Dickens" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [A] NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?

> Date: 19 Aug 1993 15:18:19 GMT
> From: [e-mail] (Dan Swartzendruber)
> Subject: NCSA Telnet 2.5 and control characters?
>
> I just recently got my Mac to connect to work using MacPPP, MacTCP and
> NCSA Telnet 2.5.  It works fine except that I notice that when I've logged
> in, I don't seem to be able to generate a number of control characters
> (control-s, control-q and control-c for starters).  Needless to say, this
> makes using GNU Emacs less than convenient :)

In any Telnet Set file, include the following to set the stop, go, and
interrupt keys for specific sets:

keystop= -1
keygo= -1
keyip= -1

In your Telnet Configuration file (telnet.cfg), include the following line
to set the stop, go, and interrupt keys globally:

localkeys=off           # value for Interrupt, Suspend, and Resume
                                                    #
                                                    Defaults
                                                    to
                                                    "{3,19,17}"

By setting "localkeys" to off, or all the "keyxxxx" set items to -1, the
"Setup Keys..." items will be empty, and anything you type in control
characters will be passed through.

Hope this helps!

    MLD

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 11:07:33 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: [Q] EtherNet card for LCIII. Who's got one?

We are "simply" trying to find an EtherNet card that will "simply"
work with our LCIII.  That's a card BTW, not a SCSI port thingy.

Called MacWarehouse (can I say that here?) in March or April, they
recommended the Techworks card for the LCII.  "That work with the
LCIII?"  "That's what they say" was the reply.  Actually, nope.
Techworks reported that the ferrite bead (ring?) could short out
something on the main board.  Anyway, the software had to be
changed for the LCIII.  "Call back in about two weeks."  By end
of June, with many fortnights past, the card was returned to
MWH for credit.  Nice folks at the MWH.  They'll keep getting
some of my business.

Is there an EtherNet card compatible with the LCIII?
Who makes it?  How much?
We want:
  EtherNet card (not a SCSI doodad)
  BNC connector
  AUI connector (desired but optional)
  RJ45 connector (desired but optional)
  working software

Thanks,PeteJemian,[e-mail],short enough signature?

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 10:04:12 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: [Q] SE/30 Screen Problem Too!  The DTs.

Seems as if there is a rash of SE/30 blindness going around.
In im11-163, [e-mail] (Thomas Qwing) writes
that his SE/30 has gone blind (reverse-wise).

In my case, it gets the DTs (using the jargon somebody else used
in a recent posting, last week maybe).  By the DTs, I mean that
sometimes the image goes into full-scale horizontal shake with
non-linear boundary conditions.  Huh?  It's weird, man.
DTs last about a bit longer than they did a year ago and they
are more violent (only visually).  Average seizure is about 15
seconds and happens at random intervals (cannot force it, even
by reading Republican campaign literature).

Seriously (as possible),
Question is this:  Could it be a component slowly going flaky?
Components such as flyback capacitors and power supplies have
gotten their share of blame over the past (almost) decade.  What
if one of these things goes bad?  Will my machine smoke (literally)?
I've seen it happen!  Smells atrocious.  Is it likely to cause a
fire?  Core part of the question is: Can I leave the Mac SE/30
operating unattended if the screen is acting like this or is it
a sympton that something vary bad could happen soon?  Maybe its
just little arachnids.  Toast off their tootsies when I boot up!  Ouch.

Suggestions, flames, brickbats, darts, outrageous slings and arrows,
and any other form of correspondence may "simply" (watch that word, the
info-mac moderators want to censor it) be directed in my general direction:

Pete Jemian
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:23:02 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Herb Kroemer)
Subject: A4 Paper Format (A)

In #164, Norm Friedman wondered about the A4 paper format. The superficial
answer is that it is a metric format 297.3 x 210.2 mm. But why those odd
numbers if it is metric? Well, there is a method in the madness:

Rule 1) The width-to-length ratio has been explicitly chosen in such a way
that it remains the same if the paper is cut down into two pieces along the
middle This is the key idea, and a very useful one. Mathematically, this
means that the ratio must be 1:[Square Root of 2] = 1:1.414. There is no
such simple relationship between US paper sizes (which causes all sorts of
problems).

Rule 2) Each size in the A-series is obtained from the numerically lower
size by  cutting the larger size into two.

Rule 3) The starting member of the series, A0, has an area of 1 square
meter. By cutting this into half, you obtain A1 = 1/2 sq.m., etc.  A4 has
1/16 sq.m. Try multiplying 16 x 0.2973 x 0.2102.

Regards,
Herb K

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 05:53:14 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Igor Mikolic-Torreira)
Subject: An INIT to create an application menu in Sys 6.0.8 (Q)

I'm setting up a MacPlus for my sister to use at school.
Due to memory constriants, it will run System 6.0.8 with
Finder (not Multi-Finder).  Of course I want to customize
things a bit to make it easier to use.  But alas, I've
been using Sys7 for so long that I don't remember which
inits do what I want.

More specifically, when I ran Sys6, I had an init that
created a sub-menu in the apple menu.  This sub-menu
could be easily configured to list whatever applications
I desired.  Selecting a particular menu item started that
application (I don't remember if it quit your current
application for you or you had to quit it first).

Does anybody remember the name of this init?  Does anyone
know of another way to create a menu of avaible apps
under System 6.0.8?

Please reply to me directly.  I will post a summary.

Thanks,

Igor Mikolic-Torreira
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 10:12:37 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple's Speech-To-Text Files (Where Are They?)

Several people have sent e-mail to me asking where I found Apple's
new text-to-speech files.

They are located on AppleLink in the following path:
Developer Support
  Developer Services
    System Software
      System Software Extensions
    Text To Speech

The files I downloaded were:
Gala Tea 1.0 .sit, Read Me First.sit, Speech Manager.sit, Goodies.sit

Be forwarned that Gala Tea is a very large file (4.5 MB).  At 9600 baud
it is a 2+ hour download.  If you like playing with speech-to-text, I
think it be worth the time (and expense).  It also requires a lot of
memory to run (depending on whether or not you use compression).

You might also look around at ftp.apple.com.  I haven't checked myself, but
it is possible that the files are there also.

Regards,

Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 19:00:52 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: AppleScript Won't Load

>From: [e-mail] (Ken B Kirksey)
>Subject: AppleScript Won't Load

>I picked up a copy of _The Tao of AppleScript_ while I was at >Macworld,
>and I'm just now getting around to installing AppleScript here >on my
>Mac IIx at work.  For some unknown reason, AppleScript is >refusing to load.
>I've removed all extensions and control panels (except apple >system
extensions
>and cps) and left only Apple Event Manager and AppleScript, >and AE
Manager...

You don't mention what system you are using is it "7" or "7.1",
you may already know this and tried it, but you need to have Quicktime in
your extensions folder for 7 or 7.01 for AppleScript to run. It seems
AppleScript needs a "component manager" that is built into System 7.1 but not
7 or 7.01 and Quicktime has integrated.

sanj
ANAM Enterprises

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 10:19:54 GMT
From: "Ray Kallman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A problem with a PB140

All,
    A friend of mine running a PB140 has been experiencing problems
with her trash can settings and views settings.  In both System 7.0 and
7.1, whenever the check box in the trash can get info window (to disable
the trash can alert) is unchecked, this setting is forgotten when the
system is rebooted.  Settings in the views control panel also are
forgotten and reset to default values upon rebooting.  Upgrading from
System 7.0 to System 7.1 did not fix the problem so we are at a loss.
We've tried all the usual checks, turning off extensions, and looking for
conflicts, etc., with no luck.

Has anyone experienced this or know of a solution?
                Thanks, Ray

| Ray Kallman       [e-mail] |

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:01:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tim Kambitsch, Butler University Libraries" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Are Philips 15" monitors any good (?)

I was helping a friend buy a Mac and the best deal he could find was
an LC III from CompUSA, but the Apple monitor that he wanted (14" Trinitron)
was out of stock and they substituted a Philips 15" monitor.  This one has
built in speakers, volume controls on the front panel.

I don't know anything about it, but CompUSA will take it back when they get
the Apple hi-res monitor is back in stock.  Any opinions as to what he should
do?

This specific model is:
Philips 1557AS Fast Refresh 15" EVGA color display.

Tim Kambitsch                        INTERNET: [e-mail]
Butler University Libaries             BITNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 16:08:26 CDT
From: Akira <[e-mail]>
Subject: B&W StartupScreen

I have tried many attenmpts to get my startupscreen to be color with no luck.
I have zapped the pram and that did not help.  I have changed the bit depth
on the PICT Resource, the size, the creator, and all that to no avail.  The
last screen was a greyscale image.  I have a 900 with 7.1.  Are there any
suggestions?

Akira

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 07:16:27 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: best text editor for files > 32K -- summary

I just thought I'd tell everyone that the most votes came out in favor of
Alpha 5.31. However, for files not bigger than 32k, it appears that
Tex-edit 1.8.3 is the program of choice. I would appreciate it if someone
could locate the patcher program which gives BBEdit Lite automatic
text-wrapping capabilities.
    Yours truly,
    Marc Bizer

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 10:39:20 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Black Screen Mac Plus (Con't)

The responses are in from the jury regarding the problem I posted to
the net a few days ago.  I asked for help with a Mac Plus whose screen
had gone black, but could be kicked back on by moving the cable between
the logic and analog boards.

Just about everyone pointed to the same problem--a bad solder joint on
the J4 connector (analog board).  Looks like it's time to get out the
old Weller!

Thanks to the following good folks for taking time to respond:

Mike Hogan <[e-mail]>
Jim Beall <[e-mail]>
Scott Barvian <[e-mail]>
Richard Smith <[e-mail]>
Al Duester <[e-mail]>
Povl H. Pedersen <[e-mail]>
Dennis McCormick <[e-mail]>
Dennis D. Davison <[e-mail]>

Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 23:10:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Anthony G Jeffries)
Subject: Black Screen Problem with Mac Plus

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

>The symptom is that the screen goes completely black on the Plus.  A
>well placed crack on the analog board side of the Plus causes
>a momentary lighting of the CRT.

When my Plus had this problem, the difficulty was with a cold solder joint
somewhere on the power supply (at least that's what the repair place told
me).

*Ramble Mode On*

OTOH, this could also be total hogwash.  I still haven't figured out how a
cold solder joint in the power supply could take just the screen out of
commission, and nothing else.  Maybe it had something to do with the
deflection coils on the CRT.  I'm not brave enough to open my Mac (except to
put more memory in, which I intend to do sometime), and I do not have
schematics (or anything else that's helpful) handy.

*Ramble Mode Off*

My Plus got so bad that the screen went out completely -- no amount of tapping
could bring the screen back to life.

--
Anthony Glen Jeffries
Journalism and Mass Communication student
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 10:57:48 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Pete Jemian)
Subject: Boomerang of long signatures & space consumption in the archives.

Today's topics:
Short flames about long signatures.  Inconsistency?
Incomplete messages returned.  Can fix?
Space consumption in the archives.
Comments on "simply."
/info-mac/per directory

Short flames about long signatures.  Inconsistency?
Messages are returned recently per the info-mac policy on long signatures.
Understood.  Just trying to comply in uniform manner with recent postings
in the archives.  Saw forms similar to the one I used.  Mine came
back.  Isn't this inconsistent?  What if I put that stuff in lines just
before (or after) my address, separated by vertical white space.  That gets
accepted.  Sounds like censorship to me.  What is the "value" of space in
the archives?  I thought that it was for Mac-related comments and questions
>From persons such as myself.  Comments on overuse of "simply" are relevant;
see below.

[:)  I'm human.  I try to be as consitant as I can, but scanning 80 or so
messages a day I'm bound to screw up every now then.  In no way is any of this
meant to be censorship.  In the recent past the only messages I've asked to
be withdrawn are some replys to that sim-bush message (I suspect I should
never have let that through in the first place) and on star-trek time bases.
Long dashed lines above a sig count as part of the sig.  I'm doing my best
and I'm not singling out anyone in particular.  One day we'll get some scrpits
that will kill sigs and integrate them into our manual digesting process and
everyone will be happy!  It's on the list of things to do!!! Verily! -Gordon]

Incomplete messages returned.  Can fix?
When messages are boomeranged (per the policy) some are fragments.  Can the
whole message get returned please?

[Yes -- I try to.  I'm working on a mac over a phone line and I suspect the
cut-paste doesn't always work.  I'm working on a script that will use the
message in toto (sp?).  That way, I should never have to cut paste.  Sorry
about the problem.]

Space consumption in the archives.
Couple of weeks ago, wrote you concerning long messages in the archives.
Cited one example (a press release from Apple about new hardware).  That
was only one example (danger of citing examples; people think that one
was the focus).  Can messages longer than xxx lines be posted as a document
out of the Info-Mac digest?  Some of these are pretty esoteric.  Some
are outright advertisements for commercial products and some are quite
useful.

Comments on "simply."
"Simply" is overused in the computer literature.  Especially in manuals
and other how-to documentation.  I'm trying to make a point in the
info-mac fashion.  Nobody's going to read a posting on "simply."  A couple
quick lines make the point.  "Simply install System 7 and reboot."
"Simple open the patient's chest cavity and replace the heart."  Why not
let it slide?  It's not a permanent part of the signature.

/info-mac/per directory
Used to be some organization here.  Could create separate directories
for the new periodicals such as Inside Mac Games (and the others, too).
[I agree.  Some of the new digests are sticking around, and do need their
own directories.  I'll add that to the list :) -Gordon]

Thanks,
Pete Jemian,         [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 09:35:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Centris 610 fpu addition

I recently purchased a new Centris 610, and although I didn't realize it at
the
time I decided to purchase, some of the applications that I use have improved
performance with the use of a fpu.  I read some time back a discussion in the
digest regarding the addition of full 68040 cpu in the 610, and I even vaguely
remember someone mentioning a dealer who sold the chips. I would like to
hear from anyone who performed the upgrade. Some specific questions that
I have are:

Where did you get the cpu from, and how much did you pay?
Did you do a clock modification in addition to the cpu upgrade?
Does the system take full advantage of the fpu?

Any other comments will be appreciated.

Please respond directly to me and I will summarize for the net.

Jim Curran
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 12:46:24 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Robert Cohen)
Subject: Centris 650 Won't Shutdown (R)

Steve,
The locking power-on switch located at the rear/right corner of the C650
case has been turned and locked down.  This is a feature that is supposedly
to power you back up after a loss/restoral of commercial power.

Simply quit all your applications and then turn the power switch 90 degrees
 counterclockwise (a paper clip works).  The box will power off.  Use the
power on key on the keyboard to restart and it should now power off on
shutdown.

Reference: p. 33 of Getting Started with your Macintosh Centris 650


Rob


Steve Greenfield <[e-mail]> writes:
>>I have a Centris 650 that reboots itself after I select SHUTDOWN.  It
>>comes down but I have to pull the plug or it restarts immediately.  Does
>>anyone have any ideas as to the cause?

Robert Cohen          [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 16:18:24 +0100 (BST)
From: Mike Brudenell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cleaning hard disk on a Lab Mac

I'm trying to locate some utility that will let me delete all the files
(bar Desktop files, etc.) from the hard drives of the Macs in our
forthcoming classroom.

We will be using the Sonic System "The Diskless Mac" (TDM) ROMs to boot
them across the Ethernet from a server.  This creates a RAM disk, copies
the startup disk image across from the server to the RAM disk, then starts
up from it.

Wonderful.

Except I'd like to ensure that after restarting the Mac its local hard
disk has been emptied (including the Wastebasket being emptied).  Has
anyone get any ideas as to what I can use?

Ideally FreeWare please, though pointers to ShareWare or (better)
commercial tools would welcome in case no FreeWare solution can be found.

                        Mike B-)

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 08:25 EST
From: Bob Beason <[e-mail]>
Subject: Control characters with Telnet 2.5

Check your config file for telnet.  It probably had the command keys option
set.  You can also change it throught the Edit/Preferences menu.  This will
allow you to generate the usual control characters.
Bob Beason
[e-mail]

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Date: 20 Aug 93 11:51:04 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Paul Stewart)
Subject: Could Somebody Post MacintoshPro & SpeechManager To Sumex!!!!

Hi...

ftp.apple.com still seems to be acting up, could somebody who
has succesfully downloaded Speech Manager & Macintalk Pro
please put them on Sumex, so that everybody else can grab a copy!!!

-Paul Stewart - [e-mail]
 -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:36 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Jan Richard)
Subject: daily message clients for the Mac

In the past, our users have logged into the VAX and been able to read about
any important computer-related news in the banner.  Since moving to
client/server e-mail (Eudora), we have no efficient method of getting this
kind of news out to people.  We don't want to send daily e-mail to every
user because of the obvious waste of disk space and system resources.
Putting something in News or on Gopher isn't adequate, since many people,
especially people we'd most like to get the news out to, don't use these.
Ideally, we'd like to have an init in people's system folders that called
up the daily message when they started up their computers.  It could be a
client for the UNIX MOTD (the VAX is going soon), or it could bring up a
message stored on an Appleshare server.  We don't want people to have to
log onto a server to get the message, though. More ideally, we'd like
something that has an equivalent on the PC, but that is a secondary
consideration.  We are running both Appletalk and TCP/IP protocols.  Please
respond to me and I will summarize if appropriate.  Thanks.

      Jan Richard     Haverford College   [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 05:35:37 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Patrick T. Pruyne)
Subject: Dark Star Request

Anyone with an Applelink account:

    Apple recently released an energy conservation software dongle
named Dark Star that will drop the power to a monitor attached to an idle
Centris or LC Mac running off of the internal video circuits. Despite early
publicity this item has not yet appeared at ftp.apple.com. Could anyone
with access to this file please check its upload restrictions and, if it is
legal to do so, please upload it here. Thanks.

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 12:33:52 EDT
From: "Michael Lehnertz (Drummer)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dead hard drives...

   The hard drive on my SE/30 has been dead quite a few times now. I was
ready to give up all hope and by another internal hard drive when I noticed a
book in the office. It saved me about $200 in the long run. The book is titled
"The Dead Mac Scrolls." I looked for the problem and there was the diagnosis.
It turns out my drive heads were stuck to the disk and all I had to do was
open the Mac up, take out the drive and spin the disk manually. Works great
now! Hey, $20 for a book sure beats spending $200 for a Apple Dealer to say
"You need a new hard drive and all your data is lost."


                        - Drummer -

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:44 EST
From: Bob Hayden <[e-mail]>
Subject: DEC Pathworks problem on Centris & Quadra 7.1

Hi,
 We have been running DEC's PATHWORKS FOR MACINTOSH v1.1 software with few
major problems. However, when we started getting Centris machines (with 7.1
OS)
we noticed that the mail package would hang the machines. This problem was
fixed by a patch from DEC, bringing the version to 1.1B. However, the patch
did not allow us to connect using the DECNET TOOL - it required the
APPLETALK-DECNET GATEWAY tool instead.

 For reasons I do not want to get into, we need to use the DECNET tool. I ran
this by DEC at MacWorld in Boston and they told me that Apple has a revised
network installer that will fix the problem. I guess the ethertalk stuff on
ROM
does not let Pathworks change the ethernet address, which it must do to
operate
correctly. The revised installer gets around this in some way.

 I am having a hard time finding this revised network installer. I have tried
asking my local Apple dealer and DEC's technical consulting people. Does
anyone
know where I can find it? Has anyone had similar experiences?

-Bob Hayden

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

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 11:55:17 EDT
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Delaware Apple dealers

Anyone out there from Delaware??

I'm looking to buy a PB165 and figured that it may be worth a drive
>From Wash., DC to someplace in Delaware to take advantage of the
lack of sales tax (as opposed to almost 10% here in DC).

Anyone have any names of stores out there (even CompUSA types)???

Christopher
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 15:00:49 +1200
From: "matt n." <[e-mail]>
Subject: desktop corrupted, Norton saves

Had an interesting problem and solution that I thought you folks
might want to hear about.

Symptom: in one of the folders on my HD, (1) all folders and files
with names starting with S or later vanished, and (2) if you tried
to put something in that folder who same started with S or later,
either by copying or by using New Folder, it would disappear. Sort
of the opposite of Folders from Hell; this more like Folders (and
Apps) that Went to Hell. I was contemplating having to reformat the
HD... :-(

Norton Utilities fixed things. Desktop info and corresponding
bitmaps had gotten corrupted; Norton repaired them, making the disk
usable again. Unfortunately I have no exact fix on what caused the
problem in the first place; could be due to a crash while copying, a
power outage, or just one of those random errors. (Almost certainly
not a mechanical problem with the HD, I ran some diagnostics to
see.)

My advice is: if you have a power loss or crash where anything that
was happening leads you to think the Finder might have been
affected, run Norton Utilities right away just to be on the safe
side. The fact that I didn't think of this for a couple of days may
have caused me to lose some stuff (though I should be able to find
out and get it back from my backup floppies). Indeed, I can't even
be sure exactly when the problem started -- all I know is when I
*noticed*.
 --------
matt neuburg, phd = [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 08:11:46 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Desktop Manager

Boy, color my face red and beat me with a wet noodle!  I had asked about
Desktop Manager on Sys 7.1, only to be told that it works on Sys 6 only.
Thanks to those who replied.  The reason I was trying to run it is because
I was under the impression that it maintains a Sys 6 Desktop while Sys 7
is running, so when you need to boot with a Sys 6 disk, it doesn't have
to go and rebuild one.  And this points up a second mental error: Sys 6
doesn't run on the Centris (so I've been told -- I haven't tried it and
am not willing to risk it).  I should know better, having been a systems
manager for a good many years.  Maybe it's my Mac Plus/Mac II familiarity
coupled with too many late nights with my new toy.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

~Steve

Because I said so, that's why!!

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 21:15:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DeskWriter 3.9/DAs

My apologies if I missed this one. After installing the DW 3.9 drivers, I
found I could no longer print from any desk accessories. I'm running
System 7.1 on a Classic II. Dropping back to 3.1 fixed the problem, but
some of the options aren't as nice with the earlier driver. Is there
another way around this?

Tad Davis
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 16:10 PDT
From: OPERATIONS ASSISTANT <[e-mail]>
Subject: E-Mail by Modem?

Hi all!  I am looking for some help on finding software that will allow remote
Macintoshes to send e-mail via modem.  Basically, what I want is something
that can send and receive files automatically and then notify the user that
they have received e-mail.  None of the remote sites have internet access and
some have LAN's (but not all).  Additionally, this may extend to e-mail
distribution between MAC's and IBM's.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Please respond to me directly.  If
others have interest also, I will post the results.

Thanks in advance...

Scott
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 07:31:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: EasyView 2.33 Question

I have a Question abou EasyView 2.33.  I remember someone telling me that
using EasyView was a great way to view the abstacts from info-mac and
indexes from mac.archive.umich.edu and csmp archives, etc.  However, these
abstracts and indexes are not updated frequently enough, also you have to
go into every directory to get all (if you want all) the abstracts you
want!!  This is painstaking and tiresome.

My question, is there a way to get ALL the abstracts at once (say find all
of them in one directory at info-mac or umich)?  And can they be updated
more frequently, say once a week?

Thanks.

--
Carl B. Constantine                 [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 10:05:27 CDT
From: Chip Sample <[e-mail]>
Subject: Eudora or PopMail (Q)

We have a microvax serving mail via Pathworks with a DEC Mail for Macintosh1.1
front end.  This is not System 7.1 compatible.  Our network is also expanding
greatly and will include some 40 PCs soon.  I am trying to convince our
administrator to try Eudora or PopMail since they are apparently free.

What do we need on the vax, and how do we set it up to use Eudora?  (I hear
its
a POP3 server...where do we get this and how do we set it up?)

Will this new system work along side our present one, or must it replace the
present one?

All insights greatly appreciated.  It may be best to respond directly.

Chip

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 09:41:46 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Wendy Farkas)
Subject: FAQ for System 7.1

After many hundreds of contented and productive hours on 2 models of IIsi,
I'm now using a PowerBook Duo 230. Am experiencing problems with
applications unexpectedly shutting down, and being unable to shut down from
the Special menu (the effect is somewhat like that of trying to extinguish
those trick birthday candles - it just keeps coming back!).

I suspect some system extension incompatibility and am trying to track it
down. Couldn't find a compatibility checker such as that which was
available when system 7 was released, nor reports of system 7.1 problems.
Would appreciate any leads or info on this from the netters.

Thanks in advance,

Wendy Farkas
Va Tech

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

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:26:06 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: File Application Type needed (A)

[e-mail] (Lou Casagrande) writes:

>> I recently downloaded the "Speech Manager Docs" from
>> ftp.apple.com, but I don't have and can't figure out what
>> application they should be opened with.

The Speech Manager Docs are in "Apple DocViewer" format. Last time
I looked, you could find this on ftp.apple.com, as

/dts/utils/apple-docviewer.hqx.

Regards,
Mitch
-BMUG Boston 617-721-5840, East Coast BBS of The World's Largest Mac User
Group

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 05:30:39 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Patrick T. Pruyne)
Subject: Helix Technologies

Fellow-netters:

    Helix Technologies, the company that  publishes Helix Express; the
icon-driven relational database (formerly Double Helix of Odesta Corp.) can
be reached at:
Helix Technologies
744 Pinecrest Drive
Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070
800.36.HELIX -voice
708.465.0252 -fax

    For registered owners of earlier versions they are currently
offering an upgrade special that is very attractive.

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 07:59:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sheldon Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help with New Disk First Aid and Norton DD

Dear readers of Info-Mac,

I ran Apple's new MacCheck on my Powerbook 145 and it caught a few disk
errors on the hard disk.  I went ahead and used Apples new Disk First Aid
Program (v7.2) to fix the problem.  Before I ran the programs, I did not
have any noticeable problems with the disk drive.  It is the original
Conner 40 meg drive initialized with the latest Apple Driver (v7.1).

Now ran Disk First Aid,  I ran Norton Utilities' Disk Doctor.  Norton DD
says that there is a new error.  It reads, "A part of the disks extents
tree (node #1) was found to contain some invalid information (invalid
extent descriptor)  Error#  501:1526)."  Norton DD cannot fix the
problem.

Is this a problem I should worry about???

Thanks in advance for any insight.

Sheldon
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 13:53:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #165

Hey netters,
    I was wondering if anyone knows of a (low cost) way
    to share files from one mac to another with Sys 7.1
    file sharing accross a modem connection.

    If I share my mac out to a user, can that user
    Dial in and do file transfers accross a modem connection?

        Thanx
        Dan

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 15:46:12 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #165

>
> Hello!
> I have an old mac IIci, without the cache card, which is as far as I
> understand, standard on the newer ones.
>
> Which gain would I get in installing such a card? is there any noticeable
> differens?

If you already have a video card, it may not be that noticable.  For me,
adding a video card gave the biggest improvement.

[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 17:06:50 CST
From: [e-mail] (Chun-Ching Yang)
Subject: Is CorelDraw for Mac available?

Hi:
     I am wondering if the CorelDraw for Mac is available now. I am using
CorelDraw 4.0 for Windows for a few days but I indeed need a version for
Mac. From the ad, the Corel company said that they will ship the Mac
version in tFeb but I can not see it from any mail order.
     Does anyone know any infomation about CorelDraw for Mac? I will
appreciate very much if I can be informed.

     Thanbks

Yang

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

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 18:37:22 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jiggle..My Screen Is Jiggling

    I've been gone for a week, having boxed up my mac before I left
and then I just moved into my new place for the year.  The image on my
14" Color Display is now jiggling ever so slightly.  The picture is fine,
just the whole damn picture is waving back and forth.  I can ignore it
sometimes, but I want to know what might have caused it since it was working
fine before I left.  Could something about the power lines in this building
cause this to happen?
    Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you,
Eric
---
Eric Lorenzo
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 08:35:53 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac IIx and 32-bit Enabler double-boots

Hello Net:
My Mac IIx seems to be suffering from extreme culture shock. I've brutally
dragged into the nineties by installing System 7.1 on it. Naturally, I
wanted it to feel accepted as a full 32-bit member of Mac society instead
of its former two-bit self, so I graciously provided it with the Apple
32-bit enabler so no uppity applications would ever know that it actually
has (gasp) *dirty ROMs*.

Well, the beast no longer boots cleanly. It will boot briefly (for a couple
of seconds), then blank the screen and boot all over again. The problem is
that the second boot always includes a lengthy cleanup like that you get
after a crash. I've isolated the cause to the 32-bit enabler.

If this is a FAQ, I apologize and thank you for your time. If not, can
someone please explain (in order of decreasing preference) (a) what I'm
doing wrong, (b) what the latest version of the enabler is, (c) what to buy
or (d) why this must be the way it is.

Thanks again.
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:41:57 CST
From: [e-mail] (Nick Spencer)
Subject: Mac Prefect Downloadable?

"Eric H. Durbrow" <[e-mail]> writes:

> I am unable to get Mac Prefect to work....
> Is this a corrupted file? Why are there two files?

The sumex archives have the following files:
-r   818976 Aug  7 17:44 ./app/mac-prefect-demo.hqx
-r     1694 Jul 31 16:04 ./app/mac-prefect.hqx
-r   820702 Aug 11 21:22 ./cfg/mac-prefect-demo.hqx

The first won't unpack properly and is corrupt.  The second appears to be
empty, or unuseable.  The third is the correct one to download - it works
fine.

Nick

[Thanks for the note.  I've removed the first two, and only the third remains
now -- Gordon]

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

Date: 21 Aug 1993 11:18:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac v. Windoze

Just one more bit of nonsense in the Mac vs. Windows debate.  Today's
Consumer Reports compared Mac 7.1 vs. Windows 3.1 vs. DOS 5.0.  The
results are unsurprising in that the Mac rated highest in all three
categories: Overall Ease of Use, Word Processing and File Management.

-Dwight

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 00:15:45 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Al Duester)
Subject: McSink/McWherter/Vantage/Preferred info request

Can anyone provide me with a current email or phone  (I haven't tried
wasting $0.29 on snailmail) for either:

Preferred Software / Vantage / commercial version
or
Dave McWherter / McSink/ shareware version

All (800) _and other_ phone numbers listed in the "About..." boxes are
disconnected, and I need to upgrade to a version of Vantage that works on
my Powerbook under System 7....

Thanx.

Al Duester,  [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 07:18:14 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: new speech manager

Can anyone post the new voices for the speech manager so that we aren't
limited to Macintalk quality of the voice included with the speech manager
extension?
    --Marc Bizer

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 10:11:28 CDT
From: Chip Sample <[e-mail]>
Subject: NewsReaders

We do not have a news server, but I've heard of them, and apparently read some
news items using TurboGopher.

I've also downloaded NewsReader programs from the archives out of curiosity,
but they seem useless unless we set up our own news server.

Do there exist *public* news servers that one can point a newsreader at
without
having an account with the server (and without angering the administrator of
the server)?  If so could you point me to a list of IP addresses?


Chip

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:21:22 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: no start on IIcx

I've seen the problem on my IIx. Does it happen most often when the machine
has been off for a while? Like over the weekend? And it will start after
you've messed around with it for a few minutes -- like after unplugging it
and plugging back in, or a minute after having pressed the reset button?
Those are my symptoms. I'm almost positive it's the battery on the
motherboard going out. Just replace the battery if you need to. My
understanding is the some batteries are in a socket, some are soldered in.
If the latter, it's best to replace the battery with a socket. You might
want to let an expert at it.


Bryan Walls                             My words are not NASA policy.
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 93 08:37:10 -0400
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Peanuts-Icons...DUH!

A few people have pointed out to me that while I asked for postcards, I didn't
include my snail mail address (guess this means version 1.2 to add that to the
ReadMe file).

Anyway, it's:

     Keith E Gatling
     128 Peck Ave
     Syracuse, NY   13206-3221

keg

* [e-mail]   I've got plenty of opinions.  Just ask my wife! *

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

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 22:03:04 CDT
From: Mack <[e-mail]>
Subject: PPD's

Is there a PPD for the HP 4M?  If so, where?

Mack

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 20:00:57 +0200
From: Erik Schuit <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problems sampling sounds with QuickTime

Hi there,

I was happy to read about the ability of QuickTime > 1.6 to "import"
sound directly off an audio-CD into a QuickTime movie (Just open the
CD with the MoviePlayer or Premiere and click convert).

Unfortunately, at whatever rate/8-16 bits/mono-stereo I sample (even
22Khz/8 bits/mono) it sounds bad. Lots of noise, audio cracks, and
stereo samples are moving left and right. If I hook up a normal CD
player and start sampling it sounds much better.

Computer used is a Centris 8/230/CD with QuickTime 1.6.1 and no weird
extensions. Soundmanager 3.0 does not improve things... Observation:
Premiere 2.0 fails to handle sounds that are not 22Khz/8bits/mono if
Soundmanager 3.0 is installed.

Is this the best QuickTime can do or am I doing something wrong? I
would like to hear from people with the same "problems" OR no
problems at all.

Regards,

Erik ([e-mail])

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 17:10:45 -0600 (PDT)
From: Irving Wiswall   <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problem with ZTerm and fonts

Folks, I'm having a problem with ZTerm and fonts.  Using system 7.1 on an
SE, the default font appears to be 24 point times.  This dispite the fact
that ZTerm reports it to be 9 point.  If I switch to ANSI mode, the font
is correct.  If I install 7.01, the problem clears up.  Anyone have any
ideas how to fix this and still keep 7.1?

-Irv Wiswall
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:30:50 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Processor Speed cdev needed...

This seems like a truly trivial question but does anyone know of a cdev/app
which will tell me the speed of my processor?  I've tried TattleTale,
Speedometer, and Gestalt! and none of them tell me how fast my processor is
running.  Why would I want to know, you ask?  I just wasn't sure how fast a
Quadra 800 is.  I thought it was 40MHz but (according to the literature) it's
actually only 33MHz.  The point is that there there was no way to find out "
>From the horse's mouth" (as it were).  So, anyone know of a way to check this
with some share/free-ware?

Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 08:20:39 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Rebooting Centris (A)

Steve ([e-mail]) asks about a zombie Centris that won't stay
dead after shutdown...

Not sure about the Centris, but my IIvi has a latching power switch. If you
push it in and turn it 1/4 turn it will stay on; turn it 1/4 turn the other
way and it will stay off (or something like that). I suspect if you read
your "Getting Started" manual it will explain how this works.

The purpose of it, of course, is so that a machine being used as a server
will reboot itself automtically after a power failure.

Cheers
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 11:38:45 PST
From: [e-mail] (Salient Software)
Subject: Rebuilding the desktop

In article <[e-mail]>
([e-mail]), you write:
    Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 10:39:38 -0800
    From: [e-mail] (Jon Pugh)
    Subject: (A) Rebuilding the desktop

    All this talk of rebuilding the desktop leads me to mention my technique,
    which has worked well for me, unlike Reset DTDBs or any of that other
    stuff.

    I simply make the Desktop DB and Desktop DF files visible, drag them to
    the
    trash and reboot.  DO NOT EMPTY THE TRASH UNTIL AFTER YOU REBOOT (not that
    you can anyhow since the files are busy).

    This is very easy since you don't have to hold down any keys and since the
    files are gone (well, they aren't in the right place so they appear to be
    gone) you get a complete clean build.

    This way no one is doing anything skanky (like quitting the Finder or
    stuff
    like that) and the Desktop files get closed properly (since they are still
    there).
...

DesktopReset doesn't do anything shakey.  It uses standard documented system
calls to do its job and it occupies _no_ memory after it's done.  When the
Finder comes up and fails to find its data bases it creates new ones.

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 08:14:33 -0700
From: Robert Lenoil <[e-mail]>
Subject: Registering Creator (A)

The c/f stack should create a text file in the AppleLink Out Basket folder
within your system folder. Just paste the contents of that file into a
message and send it to [e-mail].

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 21:34:27 CDT
From: Andrew Vernon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Registering Creators

Natsu Sakimura asked:

>I downloaded C/F stack from ftp.apple.com and now I want to use it
>to register the creator. However, I haven't got the connection to
>applelink, so I want to send it via internet. In this case, should
>I send it as MacBinary II file or should I uuencode or something?

Encode it in BinHex format using the program you usually run to decode
.hqx files and e-mail it to the appropriate person @applelink.apple.com.

This is also a good reminder about AppleLink's internet gateway for those
of us who don't want to pay $12.00 + online time just to be able to mail
to AppleLink.

=-=-=-=-=-=
    Andrew Vernon

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

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 93 10:22:32 PDT
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Rescue 1.5.1


On 18 Aug 93 K. B. Lawton <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Contrary to the documentation, the new upload of the Star Trek
> game, Rescue 1.5 does not seem to work on BW macs.  I got the
> same unimplemented trap error on my PB100 and accelerated SE.
> The older version (1.0) worked fine on both machines.  I would
> notify the author, but he doesn't include an electronic address.
>
> If you have a non-color mac, wait for a newer version of Rescue.
> It is well worth the download, when it works.

The version I grabbed from <sumex-aim> is 1.5.1, and it seems to work OK on
my PB170.  But I'm still getting an annoying screechy-scratchy sound if I'm
using the new Sound Manager 3.0 ext/Sound cp combo; no such problem with the
older Sound cp.  Anyone else experience this?

--John.
<[e-mail]>  ``My _real_ word processor is FullWrite.''

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 08:40:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Stuart Ericson)
Subject: S.A.M (Slow Anti-virus for Mac?)

I decided last spring to take advantage of one of those bundles and got
Stuffit Deelux (:-) and S.A.M. for a steal.  I thought the price was
good, and I would get PROFESSIONAL (ooo!) anti-virus support.

After a while, I started noticing that my system seemed slower.  I didn't
think much about it until one day I turned off SAM to install a new program
and forgot to turn it on.  WOW!  suddenly my Mac was MUCH faster at startup
and MacWrite Pro started up 'in a jiffy.'

I did some timing - SAM seems to at least DOUBLE the startup time for my
mac (it adds a big delay between the first display of empty desktop and
the actual loading of finder) and similarly slows down startup of
applications.
Does this sucker scan EVERYTHING???   I tried playing with the options,
but it still eats time.  Is there anything I can do to speed this up?

I have a Mac IIcx running system 7.0.1 with tuneup, and many inits
(handoff, Now_XXX, quickeys, etc...)

It is so slow that I may just go back to gatekeeper.  If only gatekeeper
automatically scanned floppies.....

Stuart "or was that Symantec Acts-like Molasses" Ericson

[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 22:52:44 CST
From: Chris Culy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Scripting while Browsing in HyperCard (C)

Hi all,

Sorry if this is common knowledge, but I just figured it out :).

It is possible to modify scripts in a stack in HyperCard 2.x even when the
userlevel is set to 1 (Browsing), which supposedly doesn't allow scripting.
All you have to do is the following from the message box: "get" a script,
change its value in "it" and then "set" the script of the appropriate object
to the new script in "it". Password protection and "Can't peek" don't help
(though "Can't modify" does).

It seems to me that setting the userlevel can give a false sense of security.

For what it's worth...

Chris
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 13:34:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: SE/30 logic board problem (Q)_

Quite some time ago I posted a query asking what to do now that my SE/30
is seeing a phantom external 800K floppy drive.  Many folks responded
telling me that I had a logic board problem, and that replacement was the
only real solution; however, Mark Nutter provided me with a System hack
that effectively suppresses the symptoms most of the time.  My question
now is, Would it help if I plugged a terminator into my external floppy
port?  Does such a terminator even exist?

As you can tell, I'm trying like heck to put off replacing the logic board
($350+) for as long as possible.

Thanks for your help.

--John.
<[e-mail]>  ``My _real_ word processor is FullWrite.''

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 02:41:44 -0400
From: "r.   valentine" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SoftPC Demo (Q)

Awhile ago, there was a demo version of SoftPC available
at a couple of ftp sites. I can't seem to find it with
Archie anywhere. Could anyone give me the scoop on
this? Thanks.

Rand Valentine
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 23:50 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sound Manager

What does the new Sound Manager System Extension do?  It seemd to conflict
with
a game I have called Out of this World.  When I have the Sound Manager
extension enabled, the program freezes when I try to choose "New Game"
or "Continue Old Game", or almost anything in any pull down menu.  Any
explanation?  Anyone else have the same problem?  Is the new Sound
Manager extension necessary?  If it doesn't do anything I don't want to
use it!

Thanks!

-Greg
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 19:01:01 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Speech Manager

Could someone please tell me the exact path where Speech Manager is located
at ftp.apple.com and what the file is called. I have limited access to the
internet and need to know the exact location to be able to download. Doing
archie has not helped in this case. Also please let me know if there are any
additional files i need to get to be able to use Speech Manager.

sanj
ANAM Enterprises

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 18:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Seth L. Ness" <[e-mail]>
Subject: speech manager

hi,
i just downloaded all the speech stuff, but what do i do with it?
where do all the voices go? do i need both the speech manager extension
and the plaintext-speech to text extension?and what about the interfaces
folder? also, how do iread the docs?



Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 11:39:18 EDT (1539Z)
From: MG John Fryer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Speech Manager--How to Use.

  Can someone help me with the use of Apple's Speech Manager? I downloaded
  it and the documentation from ftp. apple. com, but am having trouble
  figuring out how to use it. First, I can't read the documentation with
  any word processor or text reader I have. What is its format? Second, is
  System 7.1 required, or can I use it with System 7? Thanks.

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 93 22:50:26 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Syquest troubles...

I have a SighQuest cartridge drive, 44mb, and a few months back it crashed
and jammed a cartridge in it's drive.  APS replaced the drive for me and
returned the cartridge to me, with aparrently only minimal data loss
(a few bad sectors).  Now, I've noticed that if that cartridge is idle
for a while in the drive, it spontaneously spins down, then spins back
up and remounts itself.  It will always do this with that particlular cart,
but will oly do that to the other ones on the first mount after that cart
has been in (did that make sense?).  Is the cartridge irretrivably damaged?
Can I back it up and reformat and fix everything?  Is it the drive?  Is
it the local power (i've noticed it happens most often at night when power
output is low) is it because It's not on a perfectly flat surface?  heat?
Ventilation?  ARGH!

Thanx, as usual.

Eric oehler
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 16:08 EST
From: INTERNET-THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY <[e-mail]>
Subject: Techtool and its compatibility problems (A?)

Dear Netters,
(A?) refers to a possible answer
The following is an overview of what may
cause incompatibilities on some Macs with TechTool, and how to solve that
problem on some Macs.  TechTool is available at the archives and is explicitly
designed for resetting the desktop and zapping the PRAM.
TechTool will yield a strange "Enter Enter" dialog box just before it decides
to restart my Mac LC for resetting the Desktop.  It does this ONLY when
Desktop-Reset (the extension from Symmantic which was downloaded from the
archives) was still active in my Extensions Folder.  I had a clean restart
when I deactivated this extension.  As both TechTool and Desktop-Reset talk
to the same hardware when trying to reset the desktop I presume the two can
overburden the hardware together, hence the incompatibility problem some
people may be seeing on their Macintoshes.  Check your Extensions Folder in
your System Folder that Desktop-Reset is moved out of there, and TechTool may
work better than before.  TechTool is now available at version 1.01.
Hope this helps.

Disclaimer:  The above results may only be valid for Mac LCs with System
7.0.0, other Macintoshes with different systems may be outright incompatible,
or not show any incompatibility problems.
As always, never STOP the resetting of the Desktop even when time is needed to
work on the computer. If you do, your icons may become generic, and
application types too will also be generic.  If this happens, you may have to
reinstall your whole system.

  I am not the author of either of these programs;
this message is a reply to all the people who have seen their icons go generic
with TechTool.

Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:23:08 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Tech Tool PRAM

Guido Paccagnella writes:

GP> Now it would be nice that - either Micro Mat patches the utility to
GP> bypass the zapping of that info residing in ROM, and/or somebody
GP> please make a little routine to restore the date and hours if you
GP> wrote them down. Now my machine has minutes of use and was built
GP> yesterday...

Although I haven't  tried this myself (no need to--yet), but I am
surprised.  MicroMat's MacEKG reads these values when it runs, so they
should be very aware that these values exist.  They should warn users
that using the PRAM ZAP will clean the clock on the hours and use and
date of manufacture at the very least.

I don't mean to flame the folks at MicroMat.  They did develop this and
make it available to us at no charge.  My complaint is that even freeware
should be tested before it is released to the user community.  We expect
that of our shareware authors, why should a commercial developer be any
different?

Jeffrey Fritz
[e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 07:00:40 -0500
From: Colglazier <[e-mail]>
Subject: Times Two" and MacTools "Partition (R)


> Date: 29 Jul 1993 19:21:53 -0700
> From: David Aston <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Experience with "Times Two" and MacTools "Partition"?? (Q)
>
> I'm using MacTools Deluxe 1.2 "Partition" on a MacIIsi, 40Mb SCSI
> disk, 5Mb memory, System 6.0.7 and considering buying "Times Two"
> (cheap from Tiger Software) which
>
> does file compression at the disk driver level. Does anyone know of
> any problems encountered in using these two products together?? I
> _am_ aware of the dangers of software partitioning (I am also using
> "Mirror" and keep
>
> backups)! No problems so far, but thought I needed to consult the Mac
> community before
>
> wading deeper into these shark-infested waters 8-) AdvThanksance!
>
> -- Dave Aston..........Internet: [e-mail]; BitNet:
> dyaeb@slacvm
>
> SLAC, Stanford U, and DOE are not responsible for _anything_ I say.
>
> ------------------------------

DON'T, I repeat DON't do it.  Times Two has numerous problems and the
last I heard it didn't support partitions.  Either buy an external hard
drive or choose a "file-level" compression software like NowCompress
>From Now Software.

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 16:49:12 PDT
From: Jeff Richards <[e-mail]>
Subject: Translation Software

Does anyone know of any shareware programs that can do translation from
English
to French from an input text file?

--
[e-mail].

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 11:21:00 PST
From: [e-mail] (Salient Software)
Subject: Trying to find... (R)

In article <[e-mail]>
([e-mail]), you write:
    Date: 19 Aug 1993 08:27:46 +0000 (U)
    From: "Dees, Ted E." <[e-mail]>
    Subject: Trying to find... (R)

    Joe Heck asked:
    >I'm trying to find out what company bought out Odesta software - the
    writers
    >of "Double Helix" for the macintosh.

    The company is now Helix Technologies.  The program is now called Helix
    Express.
    NorthCon Technologies, Inc I believe is the parent.  I don't have the
    phone
    number with me but can find it if needed.

708-205-1669 voice
708-291-7091 fax
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 15:14:16 EDT
From: Layne Johnson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Workgroup 95 Server Problems

I would like to know if anyone has experienced any of the difficulties that we
are having with our new Workgroup 95.  The most recent problems include
problems
with Meeting Maker (clients can not log on consistently).  We have also seen
that the server "freezes" during the evenings (as evidenced by incomplete
backups of other networked Macintoshes via Retrospect Remote.  We have After
Dark installed on the machine, as well as MS Word, FileMaker Pro, and Current
Contents on Diskette.
What we are really looking for is other owners of Workgroup 95's that might
have
more experience (which is not much) with AUX, as we think that AUX might be
adding to our problems.  We have received a couple of patches from Apple.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Layne Johnson
Manager, Literature Services
Medical Research Division
American Cyanamid Co.
Pearl River, NY  10965

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 93 23:46:55 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Lars Bertelsen)

I am posting this question a bit secondhandedly. A friend asked me if there
exists a PC-program to covert files from MacBinary to AppleSingle format.
Does this tell anyone anything?
TIA

Lars Bertelsen
internet: [e-mail]

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