Mac-Source 1994 July/Mac-Source_July_1994.iso/Information/info mac digest v12/infomacv12-024.txt

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 94 23:35:05 PST
From: The Info-Mac Moderators <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V12 #24
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Info-Mac Digest             Sun, 13 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 24

Today's Topics:

      [*] 4 Mac Hello Beep Sounds
      [*] BBEdit Lite 2.3.2
      [*] Convert*Projects 1.0b1
      [*] Convert*Projects 1.0b2
      [*] CustoFinder 7
      [*] dev/demo - Marksman3 gui editor
      [*] info-mac submission -> Macro Key 1.1
      [*] info-mac submission -> PowerPC disassembler
      [*] LanSatellite 1.0.4
      [*] Magic Dialler FKEY 0.2
      [*] Magic Dialler FKEY 0.2AV (part 1 of 2)
      [*] MIDISplit2
      [*] Mosaicon
      [*] old time radio sounds
      [*] Pathways Into Darkness Guide v1.1 - Update!
      [*] Rae 1.2 AD screensaver
      [*] system.extension - WindowStacker 1.0
      [*] THINK Scripts 1.2.sit.hqx
      [*] ThreadLib-10d1-c.hqx
      [*] tube-bar-grp2.sit.hqx
      [*] upload MarksmanCodeMetroCp-30.sea.hqx
      [*] upload MarksmanCodeTPascal-30.sea.hqx
      "Unrecoverable disk error on file" (Q)
      (?) A Converter for text -> HTML format
      (Q) Resolving names of Gopher hosts and their IP numbers
      128k Mac Memories
      3M floppy disks - Good or bad ?
      660AV File Sharing problem
      [W] Wanted: Typewriter font
      A cool shareware payment!
      Ami-Pro to MSWord
      Amortization schedule shareware?
      Apple Phone
      AppleScript Additions wanted
      AppleTalk over Ethernet (Long Distance) (R)
      ARA Setup
      A Startup Picture Being closed Early
      AutoDoubler 2.0x updater (R)
      Best Shareware Payment
      Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How? (A)
      Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How? (GIFConverter)
      Composing E-mail Replies. (2 msgs)
      COMPUTER & HEALTH
      CPU cycles and apps
      Custom-shaped Buttons
      Does Mac II HRVC support 21" display?
      Does Quicken import MYM data?
      Email for Working Software (Spellswell)(q)
      Fetch speed (2 msgs)
      fetch speed (A)
      Fetch speed information
      ftp help
      GIFs in animation (Q)
      Having a CD-ROM produced...?
      IM 3 CD-ROM & NEC Drivers Incompatibility
      Info-Mac CD-ROM Profits
      info on mac scsi ports and drivers
      interSLIP
      Laserwriter IInt and Quadra 840AV, can't print
      LW Pro 810 problems
      LZW decompression from Unix->Mac
      MacPaint art
      More problems with LineLink 144e modem
      Need Articles
      New Powerbooks?
      Novell Network Tools Query
      On-line dictionary
      Other Japanese TrueType Fonts(A)
      Problems with SITcomm
      Programming Editor for the Mac
      Puny Floppy Drive Capacity
      QT speed (R & Q)
      questionable APS behaviour
      QuickTime 2.0 and interactive TV
      RAM Doubler
      RAM Doubler pricing (C)
      RAM Troubler, er... Doubler
      Removable media question. HELP!
      ScanShare
      Screen shots
      SCSI ID problems
      self produced CD ROM (Q)
      Strange Filesharing problem
      StyleWriter II streaks
      Thread Manager
      UNSIBSCRIBE
      WANTED:  Match-up program :-)
      Weather gif site...
      Word 4.0E No Longer Available
      ZTerm Font Confusion

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 10:08:19 PST
From: David Roed <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] 4 Mac Hello Beep Sounds

[This file] contains 4 short Macintosh (System 7) Beep sounds,
compressed with Stuffit and BinHexed to text.
They are 4 Hello's from my friend Vicky, in various intonations,
and she would like them distributed freely with no limitations.
I enjoy having them as beeps.

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/vickys-hello-beeps.hqx; 123K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 23:08:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: [*] BBEdit Lite 2.3.2

The attached BinHex file contains a StuffIt Deluxe archive of the
latest maintenance version of BBEdit Lite, the popular freeware text
editor, and "little brother" to the best-of-class BBEdit 2.5.

This version of BBEdit Lite includes a few minor bug fixes and
improvements. Also included are files which give up-to-date
information on BBEdit 2.5, and detailed information on BBEdit Lite,
including a "quick start" guide to BBEdit Lite's capabilities.

Bare Bones Software                     Internet: [e-mail]
    Rich Siegel                             Patrick Woolsey
Principal Software Designer              Director of Quality Assurance

[Archived as /info-mac/text/bbedit-lite-232.hqx; 292K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:03:32 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: [*] Convert*Projects 1.0b1

The attached BinHex file contains a StuffIt Deluxe archive of
Convert*Projects, a freeware utility to read THINK C 6.0 or THINK
Pascal 4.0 project documents and emit equivalent Code Warrior
projects.

The following is excerpted from the "About Convert*Projects" document:

This version is a "public beta"; it is substantially feature-complete,
and does what it says it does. It is in need of real field-testing, so
if you have problems using it that aren't covered here, or if you
run into anomalous behavior, please contact us (preferably via e-mail).

Bare Bones Software                     Internet: [e-mail]

    Rich Siegel                             Patrick Woolsey
Principal Software Designer              Director of Quality Assurance

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/convert-projects-10b1.hqx; 41K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 20:32:58 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Bare Bones Software)
Subject: [*] Convert*Projects 1.0b2

The attached BinHex file contains a StuffIt Deluxe archive of
Convert*Projects, a freeware utility to read THINK C 6.0 or THINK
Pascal 4.0 project documents and emit equivalent Code Warrior
projects.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/convert-projects-10b2.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 13:53:46 [phone] (WET)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] CustoFinder 7

Hi,
Here is the new version of CustoFinder 7. This version 1.1.1 now works under
System 7 Pro. No other functionalities has been added since 1.1

Hubert Figuiere
>From IUT of Orsay, France

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/custo-finder7-111.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 03:02:52 +0800 (WST)
From: Arthur Dent <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] dev/demo - Marksman3 gui editor

Demo version of the Marksman 3.0 graphical user interface editor
and simulation tool. Document included has a short tutorial.

See also Marksman3Code demos of generated code for various Mac
compilers.

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/marksman-30-demo.hqx; 266K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 14:59:18 -0600
From: [e-mail] (M ARCOUET)
Subject: [*] info-mac submission -> Macro Key 1.1

Macro Key is a text tool to write (and repeat a certain number of times) a
word or a sentence with a single key stroke. The tool is very simple to
use. You record a sequence to the keyboard: a word, a sentence or a series
of any characters. Then you link the sequence to a special keystroke (or
key combination with shift, option, command,...). The next time you press
this special key, named caller key, the sequence will write by itself.
Moreover, you can choose to repeat the sequence many times. The sequence
and the caller key are known as a macro. You can restrict the macro to a
single application when the sequence has no meaning outside the
application.

Macro Key records and replays any sequence of character, but doesn't record
any mouse movement or button state. There is no limit to the number of
macros you can record.

Thank you

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/macro-key-11.hqx; 66K]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 10:53:36 EST
From: [e-mail] (M ARCOUET)
Subject: [*] info-mac submission -> PowerPC disassembler

To: [e-mail]
From: Alain Birtz, via marcouet login
Subject: info-mac submission -> PowerPC disassembler for Mac

file compressed by CompactPro ans binhexed.

Thank you.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/powerpc-disassembler.hqx; 91K]

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Date: 8 Feb 1994 14:27:08 -0800
From: "Trygve Isaacson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] LanSatellite 1.0.4

Here's version 1.0.4 of LanSatellite.

LanSatellite is an application for viewing, monitoring, and graphically
mapping your AppleTalk network and its devices. It requires System 7 or
later and is shareware US$20.

Changes in version 1.0.4 are:

- Changed "GatorBox" recognizer to Variable type so it doesn't conflict
  with "GatorBox CS". This was causing problems where GatorBox CS nodes
  that also had a GatorBox entity would result in multiple obsolete nodes
  appearing.
- Fixed bug on small screens where network window was opened incorrectly
  and was not scrollable.
- Network documents now remember the window position when re-opened.

Trygve Isaacson
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/net/lan-satellite-104.hqx; 549K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:34:39 WET
From: Paul Russell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Magic Dialler FKEY 0.2

Magic Dialler FKEY version 0.2

Description

This FKEY will dial telephone numbers by playing DTMF tones ('touch
tones') via the Mac speaker. It dials whatever text it finds on the
clipboard, so all you need to do is select a telephone number, copy it
to the clipboard and then type Shift-Command-5 to invoke the Magic
Dialler FKEY.

//Paul

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/magic-dialer-02-fkey.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:36:51 WET
From: Paul Russell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Magic Dialler FKEY 0.2AV (part 1 of 2)

Magic Dialler FKEY version 0.2AV

Description

This FKEY will dial telephone numbers by playing DTMF tones ('touch
tones') via the Mac speaker. It dials whatever text it finds on the
clipboard, so all you need to do is select a telephone number, copy it
to the clipboard and then type Shift-Command-5 to invoke the Magic
Dialler FKEY.

This is the 'AV' version for Quadra 660av/840av owners - it has 16 bit
24 kHz sounds rather than the usual 8 bit 22 kHz sounds used on lesser
Macs...

//Paul

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/magic-dialer-02av-fkey.hqx; 111K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 16:34 +1000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] MIDISplit2

This file is an update to MIDSplit 1.
The same comment header can be used, it has cleaned up the interface
and fixed some bugs. I've included the header below. THANKS

Bill Stewart

Split and/or layer a MIDI keyboard, wind controller, etc. into one
or more MIDI channel zones that can send pitchbend, controller and
patch change message or not - and can be transposed.  Designed to
run in the background whilst other applications are running.
Requires Apple's MIDIManager.

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

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 11:53:02 EST
From: macmod (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] Mosaicon

Please accept this submission to your archives.

Could you replace the last version of Mosacon (Mosacon 1.0.1)

Mosacon is a game in 256 colors on HyperCard 2.0, which includes the Xcmd
Colorizing HyperCard of BUNG DABBA.

Before opening the stack, allot the maximum of Ram you can to HyperCard.
Install the fonts CouRier, Helvetica, Symbol & Times in your system.

The game is very easy : you have to draw a mosaic with 6 colors (at least) on a
checkerboard by moving a cursor. This places a different color each time you
move it according to the direction it gets.

You can create (Drawing mode) or recreate (Playing mode) a mosaic, save it,
display it where when and as you want, play a blind game, with a limited number
of moves, a limited time, bonus/malus, inversion of moves I

You can also entirely customize the game and choose your cursor, background
color, checkerboard, pieces, keys for moving cursor, differents sounds to play
with I

Have a good time !

Dogliani Patrick
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/mosaicon-101-hc.hqx; 1641K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 12:27:53 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Tom Van Vleck)
Subject: [*] old time radio sounds

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/old-time-radio.hqx; 811K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:14:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Colin C. Law <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Pathways Into Darkness Guide v1.1 - Update!

It has been pointed out to me that my first offering of the Pathways Guide
required fonts most people won't have.  This version uses just Helvetica, and
though it is not as pleasing to the eye, most people have Helvetica on their
macs.  Sorry about the original.  Please replace it with this one.

Thanks,
Colin

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/com/pathways-guide-11.hqx; 336K]

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 16:08:15 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Rae 1.2 AD screensaver

    Enclosed is a stuffit archive containing the AfterDark
    screensaver module named 'rae'. It is based on the program of
    the same name for the original blit terminals years ago.

    It requires that you have AfterDark 2.0u or better (normal
    requirement)... but nothing else! It should run on most any
    Mac. It is small, customizable and darn it, people like it! (a
    little module affirmation there).

    Postcard-ware: if you like it, send a postcard to the address
    in the about box!

    Boing!
            - joe

            [e-mail]

Miss those blits ... wonder when 'gebaca' will get Mac-ized :)

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/rae-12-ad.hqx; 53K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 01:47:59 -0500
From: Tom Moertel <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] system.extension - WindowStacker 1.0

WindowStacker is a free system extension that, incredibly enough,
stacks windows in the Finder.  Why on Earth would you want to do
this?  Well, if you have more than a few folders on your hard
drive or--even worse--have more than a few hard drives, you know
how easily your desktop can become a hideous, cluttered mess.
Folder windows are especially nasty, what with them sprawling
all over the desktop, mocking your every attempt at efficient
use of your files.

Well, suffer no more at the hands of evil scattered windows!
Tame them, harness them, use them to do your bidding.  With
WindowStacker as your window-stacking pal, you can do it!

WindowStacker is FREE and requires System 7 to operate.

Enjoy!

Tom Moertel                                 [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/window-stacker-10.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 18:23:18 +0100
From: Reinder Verlinde <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] THINK Scripts 1.2.sit.hqx

THINK Scripts 1.2

Five AppleScript droplets for use in combination with Symantec C++ 6.0.1.

THINK Bring Up to Date
    Does a 'Bring up to date' of projects dropped onto it.
    Double-click to configure use of 'Use Disk' and/or 'Quick Scan'

THINK Bring Up to Date & Shut
    Does a 'Bring up to date' of projects dropped onto it. Shuts down
    your Macintosh afterwards.
    Double-click to configure use of 'Use Disk' and/or 'Quick Scan'

THINK Compact Projects
    Does a 'Compact Project' of projects dropped onto it.

THINK Remove Objects
    Does a 'Remove Objects' of projects dropped onto it.

THINK Set Options
    Allows one to set compilation options to multiple projects.
    Drop a single project on it and select 'Change Default' to configure it.
    Drop a single project on it and select 'Change Project' to change
    a project's options to those of the project
    If more than one project is dropped the options of those projects are
    changed. Version 1.2 does no longer change the prefix strings of
    projects dropped on it. This makes it possible to use this droplet
    on the projects delivered with THINK C.

These scripts are freeware and may be included on CD-ROM collections.

Reinder Verlinde ([e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/think-scripts-12.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 02:21:07 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Ari I Halberstadt)
Subject: [*] ThreadLib-10d1-c.hqx

ThreadLib implements nonpreemptive multiple thread execution within
a single application. It does not require any extensions, should work
with all Macintosh models (from the Plus on up), and works with
systems 6.0 (tested on 6.0.5) under Finder or MultiFinder, and
system 7.0. ThreadLib compiles into a small library of about 4.5K,
so it won't add much overhead to your application. A small test
application and THINK C project demonstrates how threads are used.
Best of all, the source code, entirely in C, is free.

Every thread has its own stack and exception handling environment;
all other global application data is shared by the threads. Context
switches are very efficient since they involve only a few operations
to save the current thread's state, followed by a longjmp to the new
thread and restoration of the new thread's exception environment. There
are also no restrictions on the objects that can be allocated on a
thread's stack.

The rest of this file [ThreadLib.c] is heavily commented, so you should
be able to follow how threads are implemented. Each external function has
a description of its parameters and what it does.

Also included is an exception handling library. Exceptions are handled
using the standard C routines setjmp and longjmp, and so this library
should be easy to port to a native PowerPC implementation. Comments
in ExceptionLib.c explain how to use the exceptions.

ThreadLib was written using THINK C 5.0.4. Some minor changes may be
needed to port it to MPW C. All suggestions and enhancements are
welcome.

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/src/thread-lib-10d1-c.hqx; 47K]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 13:08:23 PST
From: (A Prastowo) <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] tube-bar-grp2.sit.hqx

This is the second installment of the Tube Bar...

After hearing the B'ambulance sample, I was surprised to find that no has
posted the infamous Red tape. This is a group of excerpts from the Red
tape. If you don't already know, the Red tape is a tape of prank calls
to the Tube Bar and its owner Red. A complete sample of the tape would
be too big to post, so here is a selection of the best bits. There are 8
samples in all and they are numbered for continuity.

** Warning: Offensive language used. If this bothers you, don't listen! **

The samples are 22khz with 6:1 compression to save space.

  5) ...I'm gonna break your...
  6) ...Stu Peit?...
  7) ...Hal Jalikakik...
  8) ...bar's on fire...

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/tube-bar-grp2.hqx; 738K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 01:18:53 +0800 (WST)
From: Arthur Dent <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] upload MarksmanCodeMetroCp-30.sea.hqx

Sample source code generated from the Marksman 3.0 code generator for
a sample prototype. See also the MarksmanEditorDemo-30 archive.
This code is for use with Metrowerks DR1 C++ compiler.
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/marksman-30-metro-cpp-sample.hqx; 157K]

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 01:19:31 +0800 (WST)
From: Arthur Dent <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] upload MarksmanCodeTPascal-30.sea.hqx

Sample source code generated from the Marksman 3.0 code generator
for a sample prototype. See also the MarksmanEditorDemo-30 archive.
This code is for use with Think Pascal compiler.
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/marksman-30-think-pascal-sample.hqx; 149K]

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Date: 11 Feb 1994 11:01:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: "F.J. Lalor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Unrecoverable disk error on file" (Q)

On scrolling through a Word 5.0 document I found that a table
had becom badly mangled and at that point got the following
rather apocalyptic error message (the items in round brackets
are descriptions of symbols which I cannot reproduce in e-mail):

Unrecoverable disk error on file:
a(box)/RRed(box)/YYellow(box)White(apple)j(apple)o
(apple)v(apple){(apple)(Ccedilla)(box)None(box)Single(box)
Word(box)Double(box)DottedD

Unless I quit myself Word usually quits spontaneously at this
point. Norton Utilities finds nothing amiss. Can anyone tell me
what might have caused this problem and whether there is any
way of fixing the file?

Thanks in advance -
Fergus Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 09:55:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Todd Curtiss <[e-mail]>
Subject: (?) A Converter for text -> HTML format

I'm trying to find a program that will convert, for example, from MS Word
to HTML friendly format.  It should convert different sizes to the various
headline formats of HTML.  Does this program exist?

Thanks.

todd

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[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:53:08 GMT
From: "G.C.Q.Birch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Resolving names of Gopher hosts and their IP numbers

In
> Info-Mac Digest             Wed,  9 Feb 94       Volume 12 : Issue 22
Kee Nethery writes ...

> Your mac is trying to do a domain name query to find the IP address for
> some host name. It is trying to ask your local domain name server for the
> address of a host (for example kagi.com). If the owner of the host (for
> example Kagi.Com) has configured everything correctly you would get back
> the address of the host (for example 157.22.101.101). Gopher would then
> attempt to contact the gopher host at the TCP/IP address. The problem you
> are running into is that the host name can not be resolved into an address.
> Since Gopher cannot convert the host name into a TCP/IP address, it is
> telling you that it is "unable to resolve host".
>
> There is nothing wrong with your computer. The person responsible for the
> host you are trying to connect into has not properly registered their
> machine name. If you know the IP address for the host in question, you can
> attempt to connect to the host by substituting the IP address for the host
> name. For example, my e-mail address is [e-mail]. You could resolve the
> host name yourself and send mail to me at Kee@157.22.101.101 and either way
> it goes to the same place.

I'd like to know whether it is possible to snoop on how Gopher is connecting
to a particular host; in other words, is it possible to discover the
IP number or domain name of the Gopher host to which it is trying to connect
(or has been unsuccessful in trying).

--
Greg Birch
Computing Services, Southampton University, U.K.

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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 22:32:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: shane <[e-mail]>
Subject: 128k Mac Memories

  I remember my very first Mac -- it was a 128k, but I didn't
get on the bandwagon until the summer of 1986... I got the
Mac, an external floppy drive and an Imagewriter I for a cool
grand.  Of course, I soon "quadrupled" the RAM to 512k, and
then bought an 800k floppy drive for just $129!  Then, thanx
to the brilliant folks at BMUG (the Berkeley Mac Users Group)
I learned how to read HFS floppies (by tricking the system
with System 3.2/Finder 5.2 and installing "HD20" -- though
there was no hard disk there!).  That Mac lasted until late
1990, when I sold it to a lawyer in New York for a few hundred
dollars.  Sans printer -- my old Imagewriter I is still next
to my desk, churning out the occasional letter or report
(when I don't print it on my LaserWriter PRO 630 at work from
the IIci/20MB RAM/420MB HD/50MHz machine I have in my office).
Ah, sort of makes you long for the good old days... :-)

vr/ shane
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:31:37 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp <[e-mail]>
Subject: 3M floppy disks - Good or bad ?

I have noticed that for some time, 3M haven't exactly had a good name on
the Net for reliable disks.

I recently mentioned this to my sister who is a 3M employee, and she took
it up with 3M's Data Storage Products Division, who have asked for more
information.
So if you have had either very good or very bad experiences with 3M disks,
mail me and I will pass this on.

THIS ISN'T AN OFFICIAL CHANNEL FOR COMPLAINTS !! - so don't send me that
box of 10 DDs you couldn't format. Hopefully, if enough people respond, and
3M disks DO seem less reliable than other brands, it will be brought to the
attention of someone who is at least interested.

Graham

Graham Allsopp, Dept of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK.
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 9:10:43 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 660AV File Sharing problem

Greetings and Salutations:

I am working on a Quadra 660AV and seem to be having a problem.  When I connect
from the Quadra to another disk, everything is fine.  When I connect to the
hard drive thru file sharing from a Mac II ci (System 7.1) or a Mac Plus
(System 6.0.8), everything is fine until I double click to open the hard
drive.
Most of the time (95%) the Quadra locks up, and Macsbug gives me :

System Error #29 at 007058A8

The active program is Finder.

I tried hooking up thru Local talk and directly into our Ethernet system with
the same results.  I turned off all the inits I could and turned off the 040
cache, same results.

System info :

Macintosh Model: Quadra 660AV (ID = 60)
Physical Ram Size: 8 Mb (8192 Kb)
Logical Ram Size:  8 Mb (8176 Kb)
ROM Version: $77D
ROM SubVersion: $10F3-9.11
NuBus Slot Information: No card found in NuBus slot: $E
SCSI Information: SCSI ID: 0 Hard Drive 234 Mb (245426688 bytes) QUANTUM LP240S
GM240S01X Revision: 6.3
SCSI ID: 3 CD-ROM Drive SONY CD-ROM CDU-8003A Revision: 1.9a
System: Version: 7.1
System Enablers installed: System Enabler 088 (7.1)
Finder: Version: 7.1
AppleTalk: Version: 58.1.1, is on (Phase 2)
QuickDraw Graphics: 32 bit QuickDraw (System Patch), Version: 1.3
Debugger: MacsBug, Version: 6.2.2
Memory Addressing: 32 bit capable, using 32 bit addressing
Virtual Memory: is off
Disk Cache: is on, 256 Kb
File Sharing: is on
Communications Toolbox: Version: 7.1, Communications Resource Manager is
present Connection Tools: File Transfer Tools: Terminal Tools:
System Heap: Size:  3 Mb (2972860 bytes) (95 % full)

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:59:45 WET
From: Paul Russell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [W] Wanted: Typewriter font

I need a "typewriter" font. Something that actually looks like it came
off a tatty beaten-up old typewriter, rather than, say, Courier.
Obviously it needs to be freeware or shareware, TrueType or PostScript.

BTW, I tried to use Archie to find "typewriter" but got flooded with
sites which have a TeX font called Typewriter or AmericanTypewriter.
Are these just Courier clones ? If not, is there any way of converting
these TeX fonts to the Mac, I wonder ?...

//Paul

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 05:27:59 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: A cool shareware payment!

[e-mail] (Jon Pugh) writes:

>I just got my best shareware payment in the mail.
>It was $5 for my AppleTalkOn init, but it came with a hardback copy of
>Rising Sun signed to me by Michael Crichton!
>He's a proud Macintosh shareware user, obviously,
>and he knows damn good software when he sees it.  ;)
>Cool, huh?

Absolutely K00L!!1!

A few questions, though:
1) What's "AppleTalkOn"?
2) What's "Rising Sun"?
3) Who is "Michael Crichton"?
4) What's a FAQ?

Sven :)

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 09:35:55 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Ami-Pro to MSWord

Does anyone out there know of a GOOD translator to convert
an AmiPro document created on an IBM to MSWord for the Mac??

I have tried MacLink 7.0 and it does not work very well.  If
there are any suggestions please reply to the address listed
below and I will post a synopsis of the results.

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 16:52:49 -0600 (CST)
From: "Mark Dohm, UW-P Information Technology" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Amortization schedule shareware?

Greetings folks,
I have a friend who wants to look at some shareware amortization software.
Any good ideas?  Please E-Mail me direct.

TIA, Mark.  8^)
!! Mark Dohm, U/Wisconsin-Platteville Info Tech
!! [e-mail]  AOL: MarkMAD

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 19:20:44 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Michael LeBlanc)
Subject: Apple Phone

I have another Mac AV related question:

Of those of you who are regularly using the Apple Phone application, how
many are experiencing problems with it hanging up on a caller?  It started
happening about a month after I started using it, and now it happens about
50% of the time.  Is there an update to the program that I'm not aware of
(I'm using version 1.0).




Michael LeBlanc, [e-mail]
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
5163 Duke Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 3J6

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 06:00:49 +0200 (EET)
From: Guy Zaslavsky <[e-mail]>
Subject: AppleScript Additions wanted

Hi, I started using applescript regularly, and although being easy to
control, it does not have nearly as much extensions as HyperCard does. I
have the XCMD Adapter, but it requires the AETE editing program (which I
don't have), and OSAX programming skills.
A XCMD/XFCN to OSAX utility would be excellent. Many great systems for
the mac, which reside on xcmds (such as HyperHit,WindowScript,etc.),
would be available globaly! Also, if Fred Rinaldi would be kind enough to
convert his excellent externals archive to native scripting additions,
applescript could get a serious power boost.

                    Guy Zaslavsky

p.s. If anyone has a scripting addition that allows to change a file's
type/creator, I would greatly appreciate him sending me it, or telling me
where I can get it.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:26:50 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: AppleTalk over Ethernet (Long Distance) (R)

>Is it possible to log into a remote Mac (e.g. another country) over the
>ethernet and use Appletalk ie. I would like to be able to mount a remote
>disk as you can using ARA but over the network rather than a telephone
>line. I don't know if it is possible but it would be neat if it could be
>done. I imagine that if it is possible using a telephone line it should be
>possible over the ethernet.
>
>Regards, Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.
>

Tony,

What you described is possible. You obviously talking about a direct
connection between the two remote sites, like via T1 line. If this is the
case the connection is accomplished by the black boxes between the two
sites. You would not have to do anything different other than choosing the
correct zone and server.

I hope this helps!

-- Vinko

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:23:43 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA Setup

     ARA Setup
I'm trying to set up a dial-in system for my offices.  I've seen a lot
of talk about the $99 LineLink 14.4 modems from MacWarehouse (mostly
good, but some negative).  I'd like to connect one of these LineLinks
to a Classic that we have floating around the office and put Apple
Remote Access Personal Server on the Classic and then buy a 10-pack of
the ARA Client software (to start out) for some of our traveling
administrative staff.  This should work, in theory, but I'd like to
hear feedback from other managers out there that may have done
something like this recently.  No dial-out is needed, and we'll be
starting out with about 6-8 users occasionally dialing in to test out
the system, but might want to expand this eventually to a modem pool
using the LanRover or NetModem.  Any suggestions for an initial setup
(LineLink-Classic-ARA Server software) or for expandability would be
greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Tom

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

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

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 17:04:25 EST
From: Jeff Kline <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Startup Picture Being closed Early

Hello Netters.

I could not find this referenced anywhere else, and I could not
find a FAQ.  I have a set of Startup screens and one of the random
Stattup screen pickers.  Problem is that the picture shows then disappears
when the first EX loads.  THis just started happening after I seemed
to have a recent mixup between The AV Startup control Panel and some other
application (O think it was JPEG Viewer).  Any Ideas?
System:  660AV 8 megs, 80 meg HD, System 7.1 (Latest Enabler), AV monitor
Standard Apple CPs and EXs) plus
Extensions Manager, DiskExpress( II, Escapade, Express Modem,
Mouse, Power Tools* Assistant 1.0, SCSIProbe3.1.1
HP PrintMonitor, Apple Modem Tool 1.1.1.CCL, GeoPort* Telecom,
GeoPort* Extension, GeoPort* Telecom Adapter, Serial Extension,
AppleShare, DW 3.1 (Serial), Fax Sender, JEM Extension, AppleScript*, Apple( Ev
ent Manager,
Fax Extension, HP Background3

I appreciate the suggestions and Help

Jeff (please respond to me directly if possible)
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:11:18 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Vinko Tsui [phone])
Subject: AutoDoubler 2.0x updater (R)

>What is the latest version of AutoDoubler, 2.0.3?  Can I find it on the net?
>
Li-Hsiang,

Yes, the latest version of AutoDoubler is v2.0.3. I believe you can find it
on Info-Mac and its mirrors, on America Online and AppleLink.

-- Vinko

Vinko Enterprises, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 12:50:54 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Robert L Mathews)
Subject: Best Shareware Payment

Jon Pugh wrote:

>> I just got my best shareware payment in the mail.  It was $5 for my
>> AppleTalkOn init, but it came with a hardback copy of Rising Sun signed to
>> me by Michael Crichton!  He's a proud Macintosh shareware user, obviously,
>> and he knows damn good software when he sees it.  ;)

I suspect you might get a rash of these reports... my best shareware
payment was when Michael Crichton sent me a signed copy of "Sphere"
along with $10 for Speed Beep. (This was in Sept. 1991.) Mine was
only paperback, but he hadn't become quite so famous (and presumably
immensely rich) by that time.

"Sphere" is an *excellent* book, by the way  :-)
--
 ----------------------------------------------------------
Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies  -  [e-mail]
 ----------------------------------------------------------

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 03:47:03 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How? (A)

Kee Nethery <[e-mail]> writes:

>Just about any paint program will open TIFF and PICT and save TIFF and PICT.
>Get your favorite paint program and open the files and save them as PICT.
>I use Color It! from MicroFrontier [[e-mail]] it cost less than
US$9.

Mind you, a lot of vendors use their own version of TIFF.
And the offer for ColorIt was only until Dec 31st 1993.

Other Graphic Programs are "GraphicConverter 1.7.7" and "GIFConverter 2.3.7" -
both have been posted to comp.binaries.mac recently.
Or get them from the UMICH archive (see info below).

Sven :)

===

UMICH           := mac.archive.umich.edu:mac
UMICH questions := [e-mail]

The info is from an old index file, sorry.
But if you look at the directories you will undoubtedly find the new versions.

/mac/graphics/graphicsutil/gifconverter2.34.cpt.hqx
 450    11/13/93    BinHex4.0,Compact1.34

   View GIFs, JPEGs, PICTs, and save them in a variety of formats.
   Cut and paste pieces into new documents, do limited manipulations,
   etc.  Does not include documentation.  Now handles JPEGs better
   (doesn't require QuickTime).

/mac/graphics/graphicsutil/graphicconverter1.76us.cpt.hqx
 417    12/24/93    BinHex4.0,Compact1.34

   Convert back and forth among popular ATARI, Amiga and IBM formats:
   PICT, Startup, MacPaint, TIFF, Photoshop 2.5 JPEG/JFIF (requies
   QuickTime), GIF, PCX, SCR, IMG/XIMG, BMP/RLE, TGA.  Can also
   import: RIFF, Photoshop 2.0, PICS, PIC, FLI, MSP, SHP, WPG,
   PBM/PGM/PPM, CGM, SUN, RLE, XBM, PM, IFF/LBM, PAC, Degas, TINY,
   NeoChrome, SPC, GEM-Metafile, Animated NeoChrome, Imagic,
   ImageLab/Print Technic, HP-GL/2.  Requires Color QuickDraw (68020)
   and System 7.

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

Date: 11 Feb 1994 14:34:27 +0000
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How? (GIFConverter)

Robert Scott Lillard <[e-mail]> writes:
>I am trying to convert images scanned in  to a PC (through an HP
>ScanJet IIC with HP DeskScan software) to my LC.  The PC software
>allows the images to be saved as TIFF, PCX, EPS GIFF as well as

"F.J. Lalor" <[e-mail]> writes
>Changing TIFF files into PICT files, How?

TIFF is a common format on PC's, Unix machines such as SGI Indigo etc.
Get GIFConverter 2.3.7 from sumex-aim by sending the following to
[e-mail] with no subject or signature.

$MACARCH get grf/util/gif-converter-237.hqx

It converts from many formats, including TIFF to many others, including
PICT and vice versa.

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

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:48:49 EST (1548Z)
From: MG John Fryer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Composing E-mail Replies.

  Is  there  a  program  in  the  sumex   archives,   or   elsewhere,   that
  automatically puts the "greater than" signs (>) in front of text  you  are
  repeating in an e-mail reply? I notice that it's the convention  to  begin
  a reply by repeating the originator's text, differentiating it by the  ">"
  signs. I generally use Jolliwrite to compose responses, and I see  no  way
  to do that. Further, when you reformat with Jolliwrite  (for  example,  to
  justify the text within 80 characters), it would  reformat  the  >  signs,
  and they would be all over the place.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:48:49 EST (1548Z)
From: MG John Fryer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Composing E-mail Replies.

  Is  there  a  program  in  the  sumex   archives,   or   elsewhere,   that
  automatically puts the "greater than" signs (>) in front of text  you  are
  repeating in an e-mail reply? I notice that it's the convention  to  begin
  a reply by repeating the originator's text, differentiating it by the  ">"
  signs. I generally use Jolliwrite to compose responses, and I see  no  way
  to do that. Further, when you reformat with Jolliwrite  (for  example,  to
  justify the text within 80 characters), it would  reformat  the  >  signs,
  and they would be all over the place.

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

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 22:20:11 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: COMPUTER & HEALTH

The Computer User Family (CUF) is concerned about the health problem
associated with computers.  Video Display Terminals, emit UV and ELF
radiation and may cause cancer, immune system irregularities, miscarriages
and eye fatigue.
Computer noise from fans, disk and CD drives is also becoming a source of
anxiety, stress and general discomfort .  We usually don't realize how loud
our computers are: 50dB and more.
These problems should be dealt with and add-ons should be provided for
present computers to avoid putting us at risks.  Some safe screens and quiet
power supplies are coming out but they are marginal and prices are
prohibitive.
Meanwhile the general guidelines for the users are:
1. Position yourself approximately 22 inches to 28 inches (arm's length) from
the screen and four feet from the sides and rear of other terminals.
2. Eliminate sources of glare and lower light levels in the room.  Don't sit
facing a bright window. If necessary, use screen hoods, glare shields over
the screen or wear anti-UV/anti-glare glasses.
3. Put a noise absorbing mat under your computer.  Pull your computer away
from the wall or any hard surface that reflects noise and vibration back to
you.
4. Rest occasionally during periods of intense concentration.  Closing your
eyes helps.
5. Turn off the VDT when not in use.

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

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 08:45:29 -0600
From: (Pete Chane) <[e-mail]>
Subject: CPU cycles and apps

Here's an interesting one:

I run Monitor (watches all running processes) on my 660.  I have 8 apps
running in addition to the Finder and Express Modem.  When the Monitor
program is in the foreground, it lists ClarisWorks 2.0 as taking up 70-80%
of CPU even when it has no windows open and is hidden in the background.
Now, I love ClarisWorks 2.0 and I use it for everything, but what's the
deal?

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 06:07:02 +0200 (EET)
From: Guy Zaslavsky <[e-mail]>
Subject: Custom-shaped Buttons

    Hi,
I remember downloading, a long time ago, a package that could create
custom shaped buttons in HyperCard. I didn't need it at the time so I
trashed it, and now I can't remember what was it's name and where I got
it from. My guess is that it does some quickdraw trickery to define a new
button. I need it pretty ergently and would greatly apreciate it if
someone sent me info on where I can get it. If you have it at hand, and
it's not to much trouble, please send me a copy.

                    Thanks in advance,
                    Guy Zaslavsky

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 08:55:31 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Bryan Walls)
Subject: Does Mac II HRVC support 21" display?

Will a "Mac II High Resolution Video Card", the standard video in my IIx,
drive an Apple 21" display? Is this the Toby card I hear about, or is it
something one generation later? I'm interested in experimenting with a big
Sony Trinatron monitor such as works on Suns, and seeing if I can get it to
sync in. The cable is not trouble, but it doesn't help to set the sync pins
appropriately if the card can't handle the right sort of output.

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

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 13:08:07 EST
From: Virginia Space Grant Consortium <[e-mail]>
Subject: Does Quicken import MYM data?

I recently received Quicken 4 with a new Performa.  I've been
using Managing Your Money for home finance needs.  Can I import
my old MYM data (monthly mutual fund purchases over 6 years,
etc) into Quicken?

I didn't see anything in the book that said I could.  I know
MYM will import Quicken data, but can I go the other way?

Thanks

Patrick Golden

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 06:16:34 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: Email for Working Software (Spellswell)(q)

Dear List,

Does anyone have the correct Email for Working Software, the makers of
Spellswell?

THe address I have is: [e-mail].  Compuserve bounces
saying that there is no one by that address there.

Thank you, David
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 14:48:20 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Fetch speed

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I've got a question, and maybe someone's got an answer for me.  I have a
> powerbook DUO 230 with the apple express modem in it.  It is supposedly
> capable of 14400 bps with V.42 bis for a total possible throughput of 57600
> bps.  My question is this: when i run Fetch and am downloading a file, why
> can I only get, at best, 1300 bps?  Is there some setting that can be
> changed or am I stuck with it that way?

You might be able to tweak it up to about 1600 cps, and of course
it depends on the network traffic and the host you're getting the
file from, but 1300 isn't extraordinarily low, no.

The hoo-hah about 57,600 bps is just that. I doubt anyone has ever
seen that kind of speed, except maybe in carefully controlled directly
connected modems on very fast computers transmitting highly compressible
data.

cheers ... -Adam

--
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- [e-mail] -- [e-mail]
Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 05:44:33 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: fetch speed

Corey Szopinski <[e-mail]> writes:

>I have a powerbook DUO 230 with the apple express modem in it.
>It is supposedly capable of 14400 bps with V.42 bis for a total possible
>throughput of 57600 bps. When i run Fetch and am downloading a file, why
>can I only get, at best, 1300 bps?

Maybe the data does not travel through the connection fast enough for
your modem to be used at full speed.

Sven :)  [Never used a modem - yet.]

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

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 22:33:30 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: fetch speed (A)

[e-mail] (Corey Szopinski) writes:

> I have a powerbook DUO 230 with the apple express modem in it.  It is
> supposedly capable of 14400 bps with V.42 bis for a total possible
> throughput of 57600 bps.  My question is this: when i run Fetch and
> am downloading a file, why can I only get, at best, 1300 bps?  Is there
> some setting that can be changed or am I stuck with it that way?

You've been reading too many marketing brochures.  A 14400 modem only
guarantees you a throughput of 14400.  Even with plain text files and
v.42bis compression, you never get over 3200 cps.  57600 is just a serial
port speed, not your modem speed.

As to why you only get 1300 cps:  Are you transferring compressed files
(if so, no additional compression is possible)?  Is the modem on the other
end set to run at 57600?  Most workstations and routers cannot run serial
ports at over 38400 (sometimes much less).

For comparison purposes, can you tell us what speed you get if you
download a file using (say) Zterm over a normal serial connection?

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

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1904 12:37:09 +0000
From: [e-mail] (The Apothecary of Apostasy)
Subject: Fetch speed information

Thanks to everyone that answered my question about fetch speed-- I learned
alot of valueable stuff.  For those interested as well, here's what I found
out.

> I have a powerbook DUO 230 with the apple express modem in it.  It is
> supposedly capable of 14400 bps with V.42 bis for a total possible
> throughput of 57600 bps.  My question is this: when i run Fetch and
> am downloading a file, why can I only get, at best, 1300 bps?  Is there
> some setting that can be changed or am I stuck with it that way?

You've been reading too many marketing brochures.  A 14400 modem only
guarantees you a throughput of 14400.  Even with plain text files and
v.42bis compression, you never get over 3200 cps.  57600 is just a serial
port speed, not your modem speed.


Hi, there!

"bps" in 14400 bps stands for bits per second.  In Fetch, the
throughout rate is given by bytes per second.  1 byte = 8 bits.
Therefore 1300 bytes per second = 1300 * 8 bps = 10400 bps (Hope
I did the multiplication right :-))

Your v.32bis modem is capable of transferring data at 14400 bps
given that there is no overhead in the transfer protocol and both
computers are sending and receiving at full speed.  This happens
on very rare occasions.  Since you are using Fetch, I am assuming
you are connecting to the Internet using SLIP, which has a fair
amount of overhead (that's why SLIP can let you do all kinds of
nifty stuff such as multitasking, etc).  When you download files,
you also have to take the network traffic and the CPU load of the
server at that time into account.  These factors make the file
transfer non-ideal situations so you will not get the maximum
performance.

About v.42bis compression:  v.42bis does NOT always help you.  If
you are transferring compressed data (e.g. .sit, .cpt, .gif,
QuickTime files), v.42bis will actually DECREASE the performance.
v.42bis cannot further compress the compressed data and it adds
overhead to the file transfer.  However, v.42bis significantly
increases text transfers so it will make your terminal run a lot
faster when you telnet.  It's a judgment call whether to turn on
v.42bis in a particular session.

For the maximum performance:  turn on the hardware handshaking
feature of your modem (and make sure you have a hardware
handshaking modem cable, or sometimes they are called high speed
modem cable).  Set the data rate in your SLIP software to maximum
(57600 bps).  This is the rate of data transfer between your
modem and Mac while the modem-to-modem transfer rate is still
14400.  You want the computer-to-modem speed higher than
modem-to-modem because v.42bis can increase the modem-to-modem
speed to higher than 14400.  In this setting, there will be no
delay in transferring data between the modem and computer while
the modems can do all the tricks to increase the performance.

Hope this helps a bit.  Good luck!


First of all 14400 bps (= bits per second) is not directly comparable
with the 1300 bps (= bytes per second).  There is also some overhead, so
you have to divide modem speeds by 10 to get bytes per second.

On that measure, 1300 bytes vs 14,400 bits is quite reasonable.  Now,
the higher throughput (57.6K) is based on an optimal datastream for
compression.   You probably don't have that when downloading files.
Assume that you get 1/2 of this.  That puts you at ~2800.

Also the ftp protocol itself has its own overhead, as well as whatever
method you are using to get your TCP/IP connection.  Depending on how
far away you are fetching from, you can have other delays in the
intermediate links of the network.  When I go off-site, I can only get
about 10,000 bytes/sec. with fetch connected directly to 10Megabit
ethernet using MacTCP.  You can easily lose another 50% of your raw
bandwidth to various protocol overheads.  That brings your results in
line with expectations.  Actually, your throughput sounds quite good.


Thanks again to everyone who wrote to me.
Corey Szopinski
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:54:17 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Michael Sullivan)
Subject: ftp help

Help! I'm sure the solution's simple, but the problem is as follows: I
succesfully remote ftp'd a xxx.sit.hqx file from ftp.apple.com (via
princeton ftp server) and the file was received in "pieces" (8 mail
pieces). I placed the pieces together in proper order (with Eudora) and
saved them together as a file. "Stuff-it Expander" threw up and refused to
expand the file. "DEHQX" indicated it was looking for the beginning; the
file itself starts with the obligatory "This file must be....". Is there a
mode that ftp from apple must be in to properly transfer? Thanks in advance
>From you netters!

Mike Sullivan - 609-338-4098 @ Martin-Marietta Comms Systems - Camden NJ

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 00:10 EST
From: Don't Panic! <[e-mail]>
Subject: GIFs in animation (Q)

Dear Netters,
It appears that GIFConverter and PICT-Show are missing elements that I need to
make a good animated sequence of .GIF satellite images.  GIFConverter 2.3.7
has the show option, yet you are forced to split up each image by 1 second or
MORE.  PICT-Show 2.0 will allow sequential .GIF viewing, however, it is so
buggy that sometimes even with all extensions off, 32bit addressing off, it
still will crash with a BusError.  Then othertimes it works beautifully.  I am
running a Mac LC with 10 MB of RAM.  What shareware or freeware is the least
buggy to create an animated sequence of .GIF images without putting up a blank
screen between images, but allowing one image to flow to the next?  Please let
me know if you can recommend any shareware or freeware other than the above to
do these animations on the original LC. Also if you know what ftp site or
gopher site to find it at that would be useful too.   I have reset my desktop,
PRAM etc... with no definitive fix for the PICT-Show software.  BTW it is not
the wait for the file to load that I mind, it is the blank screen that
GIFConverter gives between images.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 02:14:12 AST
From: Trevor Sawler <[e-mail]>
Subject: Having a CD-ROM produced...?

Greetings:

Does anyone out there have any experience in having a CD-ROM produced
for them (i.e. you send a service bureau a few Syquest cartridges, and
they send you a few CD-ROMS -- presumably along with a bill)?

Could anyone recommend a company, and give me a ball park price
figure along with that recommendation?

Thanks in advance. Please reply directly to [e-mail] (Trevor
Sawler).

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

Date: 12 Feb 94 05:00:46 EST
From: Cliff Miller <[e-mail]>
Subject: IM 3 CD-ROM & NEC Drivers Incompatibility

Hi,

Well, unfortunately there is a problem with NEC CD-ROM drivers and the
Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM.  People are still pointing fingers at everybody, but there
does for the most part appear to be genuine interest by most people involved
in getting the problem fixed.  Below are listed the players that I've been
dealing with.  I've talked with an average of 4 or 5 people at each company
several times, so you might be able to imagine how frustrating the whole
process is.

 Optical Solutions:   sold us the one-off machine and the Dataware software
 NCS:   provides technical support for Optical Solutions' products
 Dateware:   contracted out the one-off software
 LB:  author of the one-off software
 NEC:  makes the drives bundled with Trantor driver software
 Trantor:   writes the driver software for NEC's CDROM drives
 Nimbus:   pressed the actual discs for us

The problem appears to be that the NEC driver software expects the disc to
have partition information, but the Dataware software doesn't write that
information to the one-off.

According to Dataware and the person who wrote the one-off software, having
the partition information on a volume that is not partitioned into multiple
parts is optional, and even though the newer HFS specs allow for it it is not
necessary.  In order to be backward compatible, Apple software permits doing
it either way and that's why the Apple driver and other drivers work fine with
the Info-Mac 3 disc.  The interpretation of the HFS specs can also make the
difference in whether you believe the duplicate master directory (or whatever
that's called) should be on such a disc as well.  Dataware doesn't write this
info.  Anyway, this is Dataware's story.

I don't think I buy this as meaning NEC is at fault, but it is true that NEC's
drivers/drives have tended to have more problems than others in the past.
During the past couple of days from all the noise I've created, it's  possible
that Trantor will update the NEC driver to handle this and hopefully Dataware
will write the partition information into its next release of one-off software
due out in a couple of weeks.  If I can get Trantor to make their driver
compatible, then we'll have a workable work-around, and hopefully soon.

For now, the best work-around for people with the Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM disc and
NEC drives is to use a 3rd party driver (the one by Charismac works with NEC
drives and the Info-Mac 3 CD-ROM, and I have been told that FWB's works as
well, but I haven't verified it myself).  I understand that this isn't a great
solution, and I'll try to get something better as soon as I can.

You might ask why we didn't figure out this problem before pressing the discs,
and actually we did get a scent of it.  When the one-off we made didn't work
on our NEC drive, I called NCS.  They told me to send them a disc so that they
could test it out.  They tried it out, tested it with their diagnostic
software, and assured me that the disc worked fine with their other drives,
and that the NEC drives just can't read one-off media.  The CD-ROMs once
pressed should work without any problem on NEC's drives as well as others,
they said.  I have to take responsibility for being so naive -- boy, what a
way to have to learn....

I'm going to be at Macworld Tokyo till Feb 20, so I will report on the status
of this problem and the best work-arounds once I return.

Regards,

Cliff

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

Date: 12 Feb 94 05:00:50 EST
From: Cliff Miller <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac CD-ROM Profits

In a recent posting someone was questioning why the Info-Mac CD-ROM costs
$49.95 since it is supposed to cost less than $10 per disc to make a CD-ROM.
It is certainly true that the physical process of pressing a CD-ROM is well
under $10, but there's a lot more to making a CD-ROM than just pressing it.  I
don't want to get into the financial details of our basement company, but here
are a few semi-random remarks I thought I'd throw out:

- we spend several hundred hours getting the files ready for making the
CD-ROM, and support University of Utah CS students with part-time work in the
process
- we send out complimentary copies to authors
- we donate some of the proceeds back to sumex-aim
- the hardware and software we use is not free
- running a business involves a LOT of unforeseen expenses
- I still have a second mortgage on my house as well as my mother's house,
which were taken out in  order to get this whole project going a year and a
half ago

I bet I've opened a can of worms here that I'm going to pay for shortly.  We'd
like to think that we're providing a service, but if a lot of people feel
strongly that we're taking advantage of the authors and the sumex-aim site,
then we'll seriously consider not doing it in the future.

BTW, I'm going to Macworld Expo Tokyo tomorrow and won't be back till 2/20, so
I won't be able to answer any email till after that.

Regards,

Cliff

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 06:16:38 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: info on mac scsi ports and drivers

Dear List,

I am using a CCD camera to capture video images to my mac.  The last camera
I bought is unusual in that it digitizes the image the user can control the
averaging) and then converts it back to analog and sends it out to a
monitor or my mac over a BNC cable.  I then grab the image with a
digitizing board on my mac.

The camera is far better then others I have tried.  WHat I would like to do
is be able to take the digitized image directly from the camera without
going throught the extra D/A and A/D steps.  The company here is very
interested in making the modification, but they are only familar with
Peecee computers and do not know where to start.

I thought the most cost effective solution would be to install a SCSI
interface on the camera box.  Where do I find info on SCSI's (pin numbers,
transfer rates, driver programming, etc)?  There must be good reference
books out there.

Thank you, David
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 20:47:17 +0000
From: [e-mail] (The Apothecary of Apostasy)
Subject: interSLIP

Alright, so I feel a little dumb about asking this question, but....
I just downloaded InterSLIP and read through the documentation and set it
up, but I don't know what it's for.  Can anybody spell out what it does?

Danka
Corey Szopinski
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 16:30:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Laserwriter IInt and Quadra 840AV, can't print

Hello all-
   We have a small appletalk network with an LC, a IIci, a Q840AV, a
LaserWriter IINT, and an HP Laserjet III with Postscript cartridge.  The
network works fine except for the fact that the Quadra 840AV can't print to the
Laserwriter IInt.  It is listed on the chooser, but when you go to print, we
get an error that the printer can't be found.  We are using the Laserwriter 8.0
driver.  We can print to it from the LC and the IIci, and the Quadra prints
fine to the HP LJIII.  The only thing I can think to try is to find the
Laserwriter 8.1 driver.  Does anyone know where to obtain this driver or have
another possible solution to our problem?

Thanks.

                    Greg Sachs

                    Systems Analyst
                    _The Vanguard_
[e-mail]                  Bentley College

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 15:37:08
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LW Pro 810 problems

Hello all Mac Netters!

We recently received a LaserWriter Pro 810 to use in the office.  It is hooked
up to a Dayna EtherPrint (the 810 was not delivered with the direct ethernet
connection - we are ordering it). The printer just does not want to come on
line.  When you power up, you get a printer ready message on the LCD menu, then
a blank.  The printer will not continue to come up until you disconnect it from
the EtherPrint box, then it completes it's initialization.  We know that the
EtherPrint works (we took it off of a working setup).  Can anyone send me some
tips on the subject, or point me to an ftp site where there are some notes?
Your help is greatly appreciated.

Oleg Chaikovsky
Merisel, Inc.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 18:09:12 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Larry Innes)
Subject: LZW decompression from Unix->Mac

Greetings!

Does one of you unix guru types have a magic app that will decompress data
that has been subjected to Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) encoding via the Unix
program "compress"? I am trying to use USGS DEM data on a Mac-based GIS
program called MAP II. Unfortunately, it has all been compressed, and I
don't have access to a unix box.

Any advice would be most helpful!

Larry Innes
[e-mail]
Faculty of Environmental Science
York University, Toronto, Canada

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

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 03:59:05 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacPaint art

I was playing with a color paint program, and talking with a friend, and opened
 a MacPaint file I had recently gotten (from either Sumex or UMich) called 'Loo
n' dated 1985. We got to talking about our inexpertise with the mouse in artist
ic endeavours, and the question came up: There is a lot of MacPaint art out the
re from the mid-80s that appears to be original work, not scanned in. Is this r
eally the case? Did people really do this by hand with a mouse? Some of this st
uff is of decent quality. If you are one of the people that drew one of these g
olden oldies, I'd love to hear from you.

Adriane Moser

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

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 15:56:50 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Dols <[e-mail]>
Subject: More problems with LineLink 144e modem

Last week I received a *second* LineLink 144e modem. I
couldn't get the first one to work so I returned it to
MacWarehouse. The new modem seems to have the same problems as
the old.When I switch it on the greed MR led (power) flashes 3
times and then is continuesly on, which is the normal
procedure as described in the manual. Also the CD led is on,
which is a default setting (&C0) for this modem. The modem
responds to AT-commands, but doesn't return response codes.
For example: when I type AT&C1 the IO led (data being send or
received) flashes and the CD led goes out. ATDT makes the OH
led light (when the modem is not connected to a telephone
line). So far, so good.It's when I connect a phone line to the
modem that the real problems start. The modem shuts down
completely when I send the commands ATDT or ATH1. I hear a
click (relay?) and all the leds go out, including MR. I then
have to switch the powerswitch several times to get the MR led
on again.Has anyone seen this problem? I've tried it with a
Macintosh IIfx, a SE and a PowerBook 100, with no succes, same
result in all cases. I don't think the modem is faulty. I'ts
my second one, and it behaves just like the first one. I'm
sure it's not the modem cable, because I tried this with
another modem and it worked fine. The telephone line is also
not the problem, because it works with 2 other modems (Global
Village and Dove). Because I'm in the Netherlands, I'm not
using the original power supply (120 V), but a similar 220V
power supply. Can it be my power supply? (Original: input 120V
15W, output 9V 1 Amp; the one I'm using instead is input 220V,
output 9V 300mA).Does anyone have the international telephone
and/or fax number of Technology Concepts? The number in the
manual is a 800-number, which I cannot call from the
Netherlands. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks to
[e-mail], [e-mail],
[e-mail] and
[e-mail], who replied to my original
question.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 22:08:27 EST
From: [e-mail] (Leslie B. Derby III)
Subject: Need Articles

I am an editor of a Macintosh-specific users' group newsletter and
need some sources for articles related to typography/graphic design
advertising for publication. Please point me in the right direction
Thx.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:04:02 EST
From: Alberto Cambrosio <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Powerbooks?

Hi!
I am planning to buy a Powerbook. I heard that Apple is scheduled
to market the new PowerPC desktop machines in March. Does anyone
know whether there will also be a new Powerbook with the
PowerPV chip, and, if so, when will they be put on the market?
Thanks for your help,
Alberto Cambrosio

*  McGill University          |  E-mail: [e-mail] *

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 05:31:31 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Patrick T. Pruyne)
Subject: Novell Network Tools Query

Fellow netters,

     I am interested in hearing from supervisors of Novell
networks serving a mixed Mac and PC environment with full
TCP/IP interface.

     Specifically, I'd like to know what software, both
shareware and commercial, you find to be useful in operating
the network. Please include how you use it; I am still down
on the learning curve.

     Given sufficient response I'll post a summary.

     Much obliged,
     Pat Pruyne
     [e-mail]

[e-mail] or [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 12:07:23 +0000
From: [e-mail] (The Apothecary of Apostasy)
Subject: On-line dictionary

To those interested, as was I, in an on-line dictionary-- here's what I
found out (a big thank-you to those that showed me the flowery paths of
information).

>Does anyone know of an on-line dictionary somewhere in the internet?  If
>so, I'd like to know how to get to it.

Try this url:

gopher://vixen.cso.uiuc.edu/11/Libraries/Webster



Dear Corey:
I have the adresse of  an On-line dictionary. The way I use it is with
TurboGopher. You must make a bookmark with the following parameters:

SERVER NAME:    uts.mcc.ac.uk
SERVER PORT:   70
SELECTOR:       7/gopherservices/enquire.english

Cheers!



You don't mean /usr/lib/dict/words, do you?
What do you have in mind?


The gopher sites out there are full of dictionaries and thesaureses
(thesauri?).  You can telnet to them with little trouble, other than
getting on at busy time.  Try

telnet bbs.oit.unc.edu
or
telnet seymour.md.gov

In either case, go down one of the subject trees to get to the virtual
reference desk.  Keep looking -- they're not hard to find.

If you have Gopher, you can access the Oxford English Dictionary on
CD-ROM.  Just do a Veronica search for the string "OED" (no quotes) and
one of the options should be "Search for a word in the OED" or something
like that.  Make that a bookmark, and hey presto, instant on-line
dictionary :-)  I dunno how to do it without Gopher, tho'.

Hope this helps...


Thanks again for the help.
Corey Szopinski
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 22:37 PST
From: [e-mail] (George Wade)
Subject: Other Japanese TrueType Fonts(A)

>>I am running a pseudo-Japanese Language Kit -- developer CD --
>>Ryumin Light and Chu Gothic. How do you get these things to work?

[e-mail]

You probably need the kanjiTalk TrueTyper Init; different from
the US TrueTyper.
For Japanese PS fonts there is an ATM-J(apanese)

For details, in case of dificulties, call  SystemSoft at
[phone] or by fax at [phone]. They sell KanjiTalk.

George Wade.

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 10:17:57 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jay L. Cross)
Subject: Problems with SITcomm

I've recently received Aladdin's SITcomm software, and have found some
strange and annoying problems.  Has anyone else had similar difficulties,
and if so, have you been able to work around them?  What follows are my
observations and opinions (in no particular order):

Sound problems:  I use Suitcase 2 to manage sounds, so "simple beep" is the
 only sound actually "installed" in my system.  Others are in a separate
folder and are "open" via Suitcase, and one of these is selected in the
Sound control panel.  SITcomm can play its own custom sounds for "special"
events, and this works fine.  However, for other events (when the "host"
system beeps at you, for example) only the simple beep is played.  If
SITcomm's custom sounds are turned off, then the simple beep is played for
all other events as well.  However, if I click in a non-active window (say,
 click in the terminal window while the Modem Status-dialing window is
active), then the sound selected in the Sound control panel is played (this
 is a Suitcase-installed sound).  An Aladdin programmer (LDR) responded,
"if the sounds are turned off we do NOTHING at those times.  I do know that
 when you connect, the AMT will beep (using the the standard beep) 3
times".  Well, OK.

Initializing and resetting the modem take a very long time (maybe as much
as a full minute).  I've selected "custom" modem in the Apple Modem tool,
and use the init string AT&F1&K3 S95=3 W2 M3.  That and the remaining
"stuff" sent (viewable in the Modem Monitor window, which I normally don't
use) seems to be "typed" in the monitor window with long delays between the
 lines.  This is annoying when you "give up" on getting a connection to one
 service and want to dial in elsewhere.  The only way out is to cancel
dialing, which goes through the entire slow reset procedure (this is
apparently not optional or adjustable - you have no control over the
commands sent to the modem during reset).

The notepad can't keep up with my none-too-fast typing.  It's OK for the
first several lines, but once there are more than a few lines in the
notepad window, it slows dramatically.  I can type 4 or 5 words ahead of
what's appearing on screen.  The notepad would otherwise be a neat
feature.

SITcomm will not dial unless it is the front-most application - it won't
dial in the background.  If the service(s) you use most have a lot of
traffic, you may have to redial many times before getting a connection, and
 you can't do anything else with your Mac while SITcomm is dialing.  I
consider this a serious limitation.

You can't type in the terminal window to send commands to the modem.  If
the necessary commands aren't part of your initialzation string, there is
no other way to send them.  Say you simply want to turn off the modem's
speaker in the middle of a string of redials.  Can't do it without changing
 the settings in the modem tool.

I have redialing in the Apple Modem tool set to "every 15 seconds".
Frequently, the Modem Status window states "Redialing...", but the modem
isn't responding (Supra's status display says OK, Modem Monitor window's
last line is "ATDT 368-3888").  This condition is only resolved by
cancelling, then clicking Connect or cmd-K.

When all menu titles are disabled, some of the menu items under them are
still available.  While initializing, dialing, or resetting the modem, you
can select "Address Book" under the "Session" menu.  If you click the
Connect button in the Address Book in this situation, SITcomm goes through
the whole "reset-the-modem-then-connect" routine, complete with the
nattering of the custom sounds, if turned on.  This may be proper behavior,
 but the menu items under disabled menus shouldn't be available to the
user.

You need additional software to create "macros".  The included Frontier
stuff will do it, but it is awkward to have to launch both SITcomm and
Frontier Runtime (included with SITcomm), and remember to quit Frontier RT
when you've quit your SITcomm session.  I don't yet have AppleScript, so I
can't discuss that option here.

The Apple VT102 tool does not seem to be ANSI, even though the pop-up in
the terminal tool window says "ANSI/VT102", so bbsUs that require this
(like Hermes) look terrible on screen (not really a SITcomm issue, I
suppose).  Is there an true ANSI VT tool available somewhere?  Or am I just
 missing something obvious?

My system:  Stock Mac IIsi, 5/80, system 7.0.1 tuned, portrait monitor
using 16 grays, not on any network.  Lots of control panels and extensions
(contact me for a list if you're interested).  SupraFAXModem V.32bis with
proper cable.  All of the above "problems" occur with no background
processes running.

I emailed the items listed in the first four paragraphs to Aladdin, and got
 a response several days later.  While I'm always grateful for any response
 from a company I've sent money to, there was no useful info in the
response (mostly "I'll-pass-that-along-to-the-programmer" and
"maybe-in-the-next-release" type comments).

I'd like to hear from anyone using SITcomm who can suggest solutions other
than "send it back and use MyFavCommApp".  Zterm is not without problems,
but it's looking better all the time...

You can respond to the digest or directly to me, as you prefer.  Thanks
very much.

--
     Jay Cross      CROSS Resources     [phone]
  [e-mail]   [e-mail]
    HyperCard development, Macintosh user training, DTP

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

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 06:28:05 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Programming Editor for the Mac

[e-mail] writes:

>Can anyone suggest a decent programming editor for the Mac?

Alpha & BBEdit  (see info below).
Both shareware ($25).

Alpha is like Emacs - highly configurable.
But BBEdit has some strengths, too.
You should a look at both!

>Our programmers are used to Brief for DOS, SPF/PC for DOS,
>so any suggestions similiar to those would be a help.

Ah - I remember that one!  Very good editor!  But the macro language
was, ugh, for real programmers only.

Sven :)

===

UMICH           := mac.archive.umich.edu:mac
UMICH questions := [e-mail]

/mac/util/text/alpha5.65.sit.hqx
 571     12/7/93    BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.07

   A programmable text editor based on the "Tool Command Language"
   (TCL) extension language, which special features for
   programmers and TeX/LaTeX users.  Includes support for Think C's
   external editor interface and spellchecking via Excalibur.

/mac/misc/demo/bbedit2.53demo.sit.hqx
 504    10/30/93    BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.07

   BBEdit has gone commercial.  Demo for the commercial version of
   this popular text editor.  "Save" and "Save As..." have been
   disabled and "BBEdit 2.5 Demo" will be stamped across all printed
   pages.  Otherwise fully functional.

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

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 12:31:41 +0100
From: "Fabrizio Oddone"  <simula3@130.192.239.182>
Subject: Puny Floppy Drive Capacity

In Infomac digest #21, [e-mail] (Blake Sobiloff) wrote:
>  Allan, I don't know how big megabytes are in your neck of
>  the woods, but 1.44 of *my* megabytes is not enough to
>  make a universal Sys7.1 floppy. :-) Throw in a couple of
>  (different) newer machines and you'll need a couple of
>  different System Enablers which quickly take up the
>  remaining free space on a floppy even after you've built
>  one by stripping out all the non-vital resources.
>  Additionally, a second drive isn't going to help you if
>  you can't fit all the system software on one floppy.
>  My time and energy is much better spent lugging around
>  an ancient 40 meg hard drive with a complete copy of
>  Sys7.1Pro, all the System Enablers ever written, and all
>  the networking extensions we use around here, too. I
>  even have room for a couple of different disk recovery
>  utils and several other handy viral and hard drive
>  utilities.

Shameless plug:
if you need to build emergency disks, try using FaberFinder instead of the
Apple
Finder. You will be able to launch applications - the task you are supposed to
accomplish when using emergency disks - and get 384K (Finder 7.1 size) - 3K
(FaberFinder size) = 381K savings, which is definitely better than nothing.
As an added benefit, you will boot much faster :-) .
Hopefully, FaberFinder is still archived at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.

--
Fabrizio Oddone

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 12:55:10 -0800 (PST)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: QT speed (R & Q)

A little while ago, I asked how one might adjust the  playing speed of a
QT movie.  Nakhshon Tsouk <[e-mail]>  sent me
the following, which I found very helpful:

> When you click on the right or left arrow frame advance on the
> simple-player app, and at the same time hold down the option key, you
> go to the start (or the end) of the film clip.
> If you hold down the control key, you get a small control bar with a slider
> (instead of the arrow keys) by which you can adjust the speed of the clip,
> either forward or reverse.

I thought I'd pass on Nakhshon's tip, together with a follow-up
question.  After I adjust the speed (using the slider) to my liking, how
do I save the movie at the new speed?  (Sorry if that's a daft question.)

Thanks.

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

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:36:24 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Mark W Modrall)
Subject: questionable APS behaviour

i just called APS this morning to order a SCSI boy adapter for
my PB180; this was in response to their ad in the feb issue of
macworld announcing in a bright red flag "NEW LOW PRICES" and
a price of $19 for the SCSI boy... the sales person tried to
charge me $29, and i said the printed price was $19... she went
off to her supervisor and came back to say that it was a misprint;
that the price was $29... i said "well, you advertised $19" and
she said "we are not going to honor that advertisement."

i find that marginal behaviour for a company; to advertise in
bold letters a "NEW LOW PRICE" and then claim it was a misprint...
even it if was a misprint and it should have been $29, then the
claim of lower prices was a crock...

-mark

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

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 15:41:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Achim Voermanek <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickTime 2.0 and interactive TV

Hello,

does anybody know some news about QuickTime 2.0 and it's link to
interactive television? There was a UPI-message in some gopher servers,
but I couldn't access it from off-campus.

Thank you in advance.


Achim

--
University of the Saarland
Department of Information Science
Achim Voermanek
D-66041 Saarbruecken

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 11:29:37 +0000
From: Graham Allsopp <[e-mail]>
Subject: RAM Doubler

In Info-Mac v12 #23, Larry Rymal wrote:
 >If you use RamDoubler, be sure to get the RamDoubler updater.
 >
[snipped]
 >
 >BUY this product, folks. This is a great addition to the system.

I'm trying to Larry!
I placed my order late January, and yes, it appears that an Internet
address is sufficient for the special offer: "Must be a registered user of
a major electronic on-line service to qualify", as Connectix wrote back to
me and said my copy of RAM Doubler would be dispatched 2 February - but I
haven't got anything yet   : (

For those of you who missed this (Don't read TidBITS ? - shame on you !),
you can get RAM Doubler for $49 (and some other great offers) until the end
of June 1994. Send mail to [e-mail] for more details.

Graham

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

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 22:16:57 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: RAM Doubler pricing (C)

Since there has been a short thread on RAM Doubler recently, I thought
I'd mention that the MacWarehouse catalog I received yesterday advertises
it for $49.95 as a ``SPECIAL PRICE while supplies last.''  800-255-6227

BTW, RAM Doubler works great on my 4MB PB170.  My System eats up 2MB, and
I can still open Maple V with a memory partition of 3200K, plus other progs
as if I had 8MB.  (I did notice, however, that I couldn't really give Maple
more than 3200K, i.e. setting anything higher than 3200K in its Get Info
box didn't seem to give it an effectively larger memory partition.)

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

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

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 07:36:39 PST
From: Tim D. Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: RAM Troubler, er... Doubler

Several people have posted questions about Connectix' RAM Doubler, and I
thought
I'd stir my opinions into the pot.

I first installed it on one of the machines I manage, a IIci with 8 MB. It
seemed to work fine, giving me an apparent 16 MB. The next morning, though, it
couldn't seem to find any network out there. That was a little odd, because
it's
got an Ethernet card, and every other machine around it seemed to have no
problem finding the network. I restarted the machine, and it was happy again. A
few hours later, it began ignoring the network once more!

I removed RAM Doubler, and it no longer had the problem. Since I was already
lavishing my tender ministrations upon this machine, I finally got around to
updating it to System 7.1 from 7.0.1 (tuned). I also ran the new Network
Software Installer, version 1.4.2.

On a lark, I decided to try RAM Doubler again. This time, at the end of the
extension-loading seqence, I got an error dialog that said "The System file is
damaged. This file can be fixed by running the Installer... blah blah blah." I
restarted, and told my extensions manager to turn off RAMM Doubler, and the
system came back famously. Turned RD back on, dead system. Back off, no
problem.

I don't think I'll be using RAM Troubler too much.

BTW: Yes, I DID try it out with version 1.0.1. Still no luck.

    -T.C.

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

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:34:09 PST
From: Richard de Gout <[e-mail]>
Subject: Removable media question. HELP!

I have a new Centris 650 8/230. 1.44MB diskettes no longer cut it for
backup purposes.

Which Syquest drive (44/88/105/270) would you recommend?
Which brand should I buy? Does it matter?
Who has cheap prices?

Thanks in advance.

Rich de Gout
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 13:38:16 MST
From: Jim Powlesland <[e-mail]>
Subject: ScanShare

The following appeared in MacWeek 01.31.94:

"Util lets user tap scanners on net

Larkspur, Calif. -- Stalker Software Inc. this month shipped a
new utility that allows users to share scanners over an AppleTalk
network.

ScanShare, priced at $89, works with any scanner that supports
the Apple Scanner interface, including scanners from
Hewlett-Packard Co. and UMAX Technologies Inc.

The software supports connections across multiple AppleTalk zones
at transfer rates of up to 10 Mbps. The company said this Chooser
extension works in the background and includes password
protection.

Stalker Software Inc. is at 15 Skylark, Suite 21, Larkspur Calif.
94939. Phone [phone]; fax [phone]."

I am in no way associated with Stalker Software.

--

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 06:34:52 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Screen shots

PETER CHANE <[e-mail]> writes:

>How can I capture the contents of a non-modal (doesn't have a window title
>bar) dialog box? I need to make in into a PICT file for manipulation.
>Is there anything better than cmd-shift-3?

Artisto, Camera, FlashIt, Scope. (See info below.)

Somehow FlashIt has been mentioned so often that I think it's
*the* screen capture application.  I would definitely like to see a
report that lists all the feature of all these, though.
Any takers?

Sven :)

===

UMICH           := mac.archive.umich.edu:mac
UMICH questions := [e-mail]

/mac/system.extensions/da/artisto.sit.hqx
  23     2/10/90    BinHex4.0,StuffIt1.5.1

   Very much like ArtThief, but newer and with a better interface.
   Still pretty much the same functionality, though.
   Other screen snapshot capture tools: Camera, FlashIt, Scope

/mac/system.extensions/da/camera.hqx
   5     7/14/90    BinHex4.0

   A DA to take a snapshot of your screen after a user- specified
   amount of time.  Use to captureZmenus and such.
   Other screen snapshot tools: Artisto, FlashIt, Scope

/mac/system.extensions/da/scope.sit.hqx
  31     1/27/90    BinHex4.0,StuffIt1.5.1

   Brings up a resizable window which shows a blow-up of the
   immediate area surrounding the cursor, can also do timed snapshots
   and various levels of magnification. Installs 3 resources into the
   System, one of which is a WDEF (so don't worry, it's not the
   dreaded virus). Version 1.6.
   Other screen snapshot capture tools: Artisto, FlashIt, Camera

/mac/system.extensions/cdev/flashit3.02.sit.hqx
 107     4/24/93    BinHex4.0,StuffIt3.07

   Take screendumps of any Mac screen (including ones where the menus
   are down) by installing appropriate "hotkeys" to dump the screen to
   the clipboard, to a file, straight to the printer, and more.

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 15:58:54 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SCSI ID problems

I had previously posted a problem I seemed to be having with my Centris 650
hard drive a few days ago that I *think* I've been able to fix, but it brings
up a question about SCSI IDs.

The problem was this:  my hard drive would periodically stop working/freeze up
after a few minutes of activity.  I had reinstalled driver software,
reformatted the drive, ran 3 different disk repair programs, (in other words,
everything I could think of) to try and find the problem.  I was ready to
give up and take it into the local apple dealer.  I had an extra 512K of VRAM
that I had installed, so I took that out (to insure that no questions about
voided warranties would arise) and decided to see what would happen
if I unplugged the external SCSI devices (I have a 240 ext. HD and an Apple 300
CD drive).  Well, after trying that, the drive worked fine.  After trying (and
failing) to replicate the freeze up, I reinstalled the VRAM (just to make sure
that wasn't the problem) and tried again.  Still ran fine.  I decided it
must have something to do with the SCSI devices.  After checking my Apple users
guides and the LaCie Tsunami guide, I decided to change my SCSI setup from:

Mac (ID 7) ---- CD drive (ID 3) ---- 240 ext (ID 1, terminated)

to:

Mac (ID 7) ---- CD drive (ID 3) ---- 240 ext (ID 6, terminated)

It works fine now (so far).

My point is this: it appears that the SCSI IDs made some sort of difference,
but nothing I read in the manuals indicates that it should.  They say the
higher the ID, the higher the priority of the device, but why should this make
a difference?  It seems to me that the 240 HD needed to have a higher priority
than the CD drive for everything to work.

Sorry for rambling on about this, but I wasted several hours trying to figure
this out and could have wasted some money if I'd taken it into my local CompUSA
for repairs and nothing was wrong other than incorrect SCSI IDs.  I did check
the various FAQs and saw nothing on it.  If anyone has any insight on this, I
would sure appreciate it.  Maybe the answers can save someone else a bit of
time.

Butch Weber

From: WEBER MARLIN                  (MCDEV1::QC03525)

To:   VMS MAIL ADDRESSEE            (IN::"[e-mail]")
cc:   WEBER MARLIN                  (INDYVM1::QC03525)

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 11:03:27 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: self produced CD ROM (Q)

Dr. Cory Myers       writes:

>Subject: CD ROM Creation
>
>Does anyone have information about how to create CD ROMs?  Information
>either on equipment or services would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
>-----
>

This question interests me also.  I am particulary interested in getting
large text collections (e.g. The collected works of Marx, Durkheim, and
Weber) on CD ROM.  Any pointers to literature on this subject would be much
appreciated.

>@> Tibor Benke /[e-mail]                              (^)%(#)
>@> Graduate Student (MA program)
>@> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
>@> Simon Fraser University,
>@> Burnaby, B.C., Canada. V5A 1S6

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 19:19:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Hemang Patel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Strange Filesharing problem

Hello netters,
Recently I sent e-mail to the digest regarding a strange problem I was
having with file-sharing. When file-sharing was enabled on my IIci
(20/230), i could not empty the trash, the computer would simply hang. In
an attempted to find the cause, I found that my old CPS Delete Tracking
INIT (from a VERY old Mactools ca. 1985) was the cause. At first, I
thought that the INIT was not 32-bit compatible (since this problem arose
concurrent to my upgrade to 20MB RAM), but it has to be something else
because with 32-bit addressing on, but file-sharing off, I can empty the
trash. Anyone know what might be causing the problem? TIA.


[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 10:38:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Koch <[e-mail]>
Subject: StyleWriter II streaks

Almost since the day I received the StyleWriter II,
streaks have appeared in the first few lines of any
print job, even after (1) replacing the cartridge,
(2) printing the initial test pattern, and (3) clearing
the cartridge.

Frankly, I'm disgusted with the performance of this
machine.  It is much less reliable than the StyleWriter (I)
I used to use.  I would appreciate knowing whether the
problem I am having with the StyleWriter II is fairly
common and whether there is any lasting solution short of
replacing the printer altogether.  (Can someone recommend a
comparable inkjet printer?)

Please reply to me directly at [e-mail].

Thanks in advance for any helpful responses.

Hasta luego.

-Paul Koch

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 10:16:09 -0800
From: "Judi Kornfeld" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Thread Manager

In an article about Disk Charmer, 2.1.3., Fabrizio Oddone mentioned Apple's
Thread Manager, said to be available via ftp.apple.com.

Where is it? supplying the full path would be a great help.

Thanks!

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Date: 11 Feb 1994 09:32:09 EST
From: "RKershaw" <[e-mail]>
Subject: UNSIBSCRIBE

UNSUBSCRIBE

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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 14:14:13 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kee Nethery [phone])
Subject: WANTED:  Match-up program :-)

>Hi!  For a fundraiser (and no, this isn't my idea), the University
>of Illinois College of Law Public Interest Law Foundation would
>like to do some sort of computer dating service.

:-) So many non-helpful lawyer joke replies come to mind :-)

How about setting up a WAIS server and letting each person describe
themselves and what they are looking for. Then you could use a person's
statement about themselves as a WAIS search criteria. Store the writeups
without person info and instead have a reference number that is tied to a
separate database that connects the reference number to the person info.

FYI: WAIS is a freeform data search system. You put a bunch of text files
on a server and WAIS does an inverse index of them. Then when you search
with WAIS, it gives you back a ranked listing of files that seem similar to
what you are looking for. The files are ranked from 1000 to 0. The really
cool part is that you can say find me a file that is similar to this other
file.

Suggest you grab a copy of MacWAIS and play with it to get an idea how it
all works. You need to be directly connected to the internet to use
MacWAIS.

An alternative is AppleSearch by Apple. It does the same thing except in
the Apple User Interface style.

Kee Nethery

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 08:19:44 -0600 (CST)
From: "Larry Rymal:T.E.M.U.G.-EAST_TEXAS-" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Weather gif site...

On 11 Feb 1994 [e-mail] wrote:

> Larry, if you were one of the guys downloading large GIF's every hour
> or so, you shouldn't be surprised if the weather image sites stopped you ;-)
>
> These files have serious uses, apart from providing animated desktops,
> and few people automating such downloads tie up both the machines and the
net.

    Well, we did this for a serious reason.  We live near the coast
and during the summer are potentially slammed by hurricanes.  Science
teachers who give students meterological projects are increasingly
becoming involved with assemblying satellite images of hurricanes into
animated movies.  For those who live on the coast, this is a serious thing.
    Likewise, during this time of year, cold fronts and blizzards are
also tracked and assembled.  The reason for doing it is not for entertainment.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:48:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Bob Collins <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 4.0E No Longer Available

I finally got around to calling Microsoft to getting version 4.0E
of Word -- the one that works on 040 Macs. I only use Word to
read files that come in Word format, especially quick save format.
A rude dude named John told me to upgrade, fella, to Word 5.1 and
what did I expect with 6 year old software on new machines. Before
I told him that I expected what people could get earlier, namely
version 4.0E, he hung up on me.

So I called again, and this time I got the infinitely more
polite Suzanne Sylliaasen (SILL-yuh-sen). I asked her about the
license situation now that MS was no longer sending out version
4.0E. She checked and found out that any valid license holder of
Word 4 could copy version 4.0E wherever said holder could find
version 4.0E.

So I am asking my fellow netters if any of you could help keep
my computer free of silly Word toolbars, and provide me a copy
of version 4.0E. I'm perfectly willing to pay postage, etc. (Not
a lot, clearly, else I would upgrade to 5.1.). I can also FTP.
If you can help, please respond personally to [e-mail].
Thanks loads.

                   Bob Collins, [e-mail]
                   CS Dept, Coll of Wm & Mary

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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 00:57:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: ZTerm Font Confusion

Greetings, all!

I'm having a particularly queer problem with ZTerm lately.  When trying to
install ZTerm on a Quadra 800 (System 7.1, a few standard freeware
extensions that all work fine on my own IIvx) for my dad, I have been
utterly and completely unable to have the program show up using the
correct font.  Instead of using the built-in terminal fonts, ZTerm uses
Helvetica Bold Oblique.  Copying from my working (correctly) version of
ZTerm, from CD-ROM, or from a compacted floppy disk all resulted in the
same thing.

I am using ATM 3.5.1, Adobe Type Reunion, and about 7 megs of Adobe PostScript
Type 1 fonts.  Is there a font ID number conflict going on here?

Reinstalling the System software completely did not solve this problem.

HELP!  Thanks...

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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