Info-Mac Digest Wed, 27 Oct 93 Volume 11 : Issue 213 Today's Topics: [*] ARA scripts for Hayes modems [*] Circuit Analysis Software [*] Convert for Newton [*] DiskLock PB 1.0.1 Patcher [*] GIFConverter 2.3.3 [*] iains-textures-vol-1.cpt.hqx [*] iains-textures-vol-2.cpt.hqx [*] Invisible Clock (female) [*] Invisible Clock (male) [*] Knife.hqx (startup screen)-OOPS [*] mac-memory-guide.hqx [*] Re: [*] HPopupMenu 3.2.2 [*] startupscreens-deskpictures.faq [*] Summary of responses to FEA query [*] The-Mac-Report-11/93 1984 avail Apple 13" Monitor Woes (Q) Apple: New Quadra Press Releases Wanted (Q) CHEAP CDROM Caddies Color Classic simms (Q) CopyDoubler icon blanking creator code FIL2? Credit Card Validation via Mac (Q) Filesync for A. Bloom Ghost Game Graphics galore - where are they all? Help HyperBasic iisi problems Image files (C) Info-Mac Digest V11 #208 info-pc list subscription (part II) Jackson LineLink 14.4 and zmodem settings (Q) Mac Model Database (FMPro) on ZiffNet/Mac Newton Utility posted Nisus copy protection (C) Offline news reading OptiMem advertisement, pg. 52, MacWeek Vol7, #42 (Q) P. Ingenierie Intertalk, what is it ? [A] Print Shop Deluxe on Deskwriter PSPICE Quadra Cache Switch Secret! Scrabble on a Mac (A) Scrabble on a Mac (Q) Service Companies (National) SmartKeys 2.1 StyleWriter II ink IS water-based... (summary) Tek 4105 emulator ? Timbuktu demo 4.0.2 unethical computer purchases unmountable hard drive(R) video port of recent macs on BARCO What is MacTCP? The Info-Mac newsgroup is moderated by Bill Lipa and Gordon Watts. The Info-Mac archives are available (by using FTP, account anonymous, any password) in the info-mac directory on sumex-aim.stanford.edu [36.44.0.6]. Help files and indices are in /info-mac/help. Please send articles and binaries to info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. Send administrative mail to info-mac-request@sumex-aim.stanford.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:32:47 +0100 From: lucatell@ictp.trieste.it (Adriano Lucatello) Subject: [*] ARA scripts for Hayes modems The archive contains some ARA scripts to be used with some fast Hayes modems, such as Optima, Ultra, and Accura 144. Downloaded from Hayes BBS. Hope they turn up useful for some people over the net. Adriano Lucatello [Archived as /info-mac/comm/ara-hayes-scripts.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 13:22:45 EDT From: Tom Coradeschi Subject: [*] Circuit Analysis Software Wally Patterson wrote: >I'm looking for a MAC-based circuit simulator call PSPICE. >Please, tell me where I can find it. SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE MACINTOSH [These opinions are posted by Professor A. E. Siegman, E. L. Ginzton Laboratory MC-4085, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305. Email responses directed to siegman@sierra.stanford.edu on Internet or RW.AAP@STANFORD on Bitnet will be welcomed.] [Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/circuit-analysis-software.txt; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 10:16:11 NZD From: clinton@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Clinton Logan) Subject: [*] Convert for Newton Convert! for the Newton Messagepad v 1.0 Just as Newton is a replacement for your diary, Convert! is a replace= ment for=20 the conversion tables usually found at the front. The interactive nature= of=20 Newton=D5s built-in metric converter initially struck me as being very useful. I was how= ever=20 frustrated by its limited scope and use of US measures, hence Convert! was born.=20 Convert! is FREE to give away, that means that you may make use of th= e software=20 and distribute it to any other user along with this documentation. If yo= u find=20 Convert! useful send me a postcard. [Archived as /info-mac/nwt/app/convert.hqx; 54K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 15:22:43 PST From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software) Subject: [*] DiskLock PB 1.0.1 Patcher This program updates DiskLock PB 1.0 to DiskLock PB 1.0.1. Make sure you update a copy of DiskLock PB, not the original disk. After updating DiskLock PB, launch DiskLock PB by double clicking on it, remove DiskLock PB from your Powerbook, and then install DiskLock PB again. DiskLock PB 1.0.1 fixes a bug on the Powerbook Duo. No other files on the original disk have changed. [Archived as /info-mac/disk/disk-lock-10-to-101.hqx; 109K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 18:30 CDT From: kam@mcs.com (Kevin Mitchell) Subject: [*] GIFConverter 2.3.3 GIFConverter 2.3.3 [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/gif-converter-233.hqx; 463K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 09:00:55 +1000 From: Iain Anderson Subject: [*] iains-textures-vol-1.cpt.hqx Iain's Desktop Textures Volume I "Derivatives" by Iain Anderson A collection of derived, free, but still unusual 16-bit desktop textures for use with the excellent Desktop Textures Installer 2.1, part of the Desktop Textures III suite of programs. If you have any queries/suggestions etc. please mail me on: ianderso@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au [Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/iains-textures-vol-1.hqx; 188K] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 09:02:14 +1000 From: Iain Anderson Subject: [*] iains-textures-vol-2.cpt.hqx Iain's Desktop Textures Volume II "Home-Made" by Iain Anderson A collection of original, free, and unusual 16-bit desktop textures for use with the excellent Desktop Textures Installer 2.1, part of the Desktop Textures III suite of programs. If you have any queries/suggestions etc. please mail me on: ianderso@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au [Archived as /info-mac/gui/grf/iains-textures-vol-2.hqx; 729K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 21:49:44 -0700 From: tidbits@halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: [*] Invisible Clock (female) Invisible Clock is a small, more or less faceless application that speaks the time every 15 minutes, half hour, or hour. It does NOT require MacinTalk Pro or anything like that, but instead has its own sounds (which generally sound much better). This version uses a female voice, but there's another version that uses a male voice. I've become addicted to this little clock app because I don't care exactly what time it is, but I often want to know approximately where in the day I am. Highly recommended. cheers ... -Adam [Archived as /info-mac/gui/invisible-clock-female.hqx; 222K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 21:45:02 -0700 From: tidbits@halcyon.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: [*] Invisible Clock (male) Invisible Clock is a small, more or less faceless application that speaks the time every 15 minutes, half hour, or hour. It does NOT require MacinTalk Pro or anything like that, but instead has its own sounds (which generally sound much better). This version uses a male voice, but there's another version that uses a female voice. I've become addicted to this little clock app because I don't care exactly what time it is, but I often want to know approximately where in the day I am. Highly recommended. cheers ... -Adam [Archived as /info-mac/gui/invisible-clock-male.hqx; 205K] ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 1993 10:28:37 U From: "Anne" Subject: [*] Knife.hqx (startup screen)-OOPS Here's Unapuma brandishing her big knife menacingly at any who dare to sit through the startup sequence on your Mac. Thanks to GPS of Australia for returning it to me ;-) -abh [Archived as /info-mac/grf/knife.hqx; 234K] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 17:46:09 -0700 From: Jim Kateley Subject: [*] mac-memory-guide.hqx Hello there, Here is the latest version of the Mac Memory Guide from Connectix. [Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/mac-memory-guide.hqx; 100K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 00:14:51 -0800 From: jonpugh@netcom.com (Jon Pugh) Subject: [*] Re: [*] HPopupMenu 3.2.2 HierPopup 3.2.2 This is the latest version of the world's best popup menu XFCN. It has boatloads of features, including the ability to set the font and size, use color icons and to use arbitrarily deep MENU resources. See the stack for documentation and examples. This update fixes a long standing bug in the use of excessive numbers of SICNs in the menus. It took years for anyone to push it far enough to find this one. ;) JonPugh@netcom.com (408) 428-9767 [Archived as /info-mac/card/hpopup-menu-322.hqx; 60K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 16:08:31 +1000 From: G. Paul Savage Subject: [*] startupscreens-deskpictures.faq This is an update to the startupscreens and desktop pictures FAQ. [Archived as /info-mac/grf/util/startup-deskpict-faq.txt; 8K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 21:19 GMT From: ajcarr%ccvax.ucd.ie@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU (Dr Alun J. Carr) Subject: [*] Summary of responses to FEA query Well, I finally got around to hacking a mail file that was corrupted by Pegasus Mail some time ago (twice!). It contained all the responses to replies I got to the following query which I put out around April time: > Does anybody out there know if there are any finite element analysis > packages available for the Mac (preferably 3D)? Please let me have the > manufacturers name and if possible (in order of preference) e-mail address, > fax number (not toll-free, as we can't use them from Europe), snail-mail > address and/or phone number. The attached file contains a summary of the responses. Alun A. J. Carr, Mech. Eng. Dept., UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Internet: ajcarr@ccvax.ucd.ie [Archived as /info-mac/info/sft/fea-query-summary.txt; 13K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 12:57:24 EST From: Lorne J. Kingsley Subject: [*] The-Mac-Report-11/93 HowdY; This is the latest edition of The Mac Report, a newsletter for Macintosh users. Please place it in the periodicals directory. Thanks! Lorne Kingsley Editor, The Mac Report [Archived as /info-mac/per/the-mac-report-93-11.hqx; 1368K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 09:42:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Mark Dohm, UW-P Information Technology" Subject: 1984 avail Greetings fellow netoids: It's still here and I am still trying my best to keep the site stable. I know 1984 is available in other places, but I don't know where. All I know is that I have a small site, slow connections and some real goodies. If you plan on connecting, wait till the evening (Central Time) hours. I will be leaving for a college media convention in Dallas, so if the site is down, it's because I'm not there to bring it back to life - try back in a few days. I want to publicly thank all the people who have logged in and helped me with troubleshooting and advice and various things - this is all a learning kinda thing happenin' here. The same address is also a gopher. The gopher does not have the quicktime files in it however - well not yet anyway. The site: csc.ucs.uwplatt.edu 137.104.128.241 (anonymous login) Thank you. Mark 8^) !! MarkMAD (Mark Dohm) ucsmad@uwplatt.edu AOL: MarkMAD !! U/Wisconsin-Platteville ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 93 12:07:00 CST From: "Mike Sisson " Subject: Apple 13" Monitor Woes (Q) Fellow Netters - I am on a quest for knowledge and insight concerning a problem I am having with the above mentioned beastie. The monitor works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. When it is being tempramental I can turn it on but it will immediately turn itself back off. To make a long story short, I have narrowed it down to a temperature problem. When it is working, I can take a hair dryer on low heat and and low speed and pass it over the top of the unit and bingo, shut off occurs. I then set it under a ceiling fan for a while and it seems to work well. The knowledge I desire consists of: 1.) Hearing from anyone who has experienced this and how they fixed it. 2.) Finding a schematic of the Apple 13" High Resolution RGB Monitor so I can roll my own fix. (Yes, I know not to discharge the unit by using my body as a resistor!) 3.) Hearing about places that fix monitors specifically (a lot of repair shops don't touch monitors) with whom you have had good (or bad) experiences. Please specify the type of experience you had. Thank you very much, Mike Sisson sisson_md@brutus.vought.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 18:05:37 BST From: Fergus Sullivan (ITL Temp) Subject: Apple: New Quadra Press Releases Wanted (Q) I'd like to get hold of the Apple's press releases announcing the new Quadras and the LC 475. I know they _were_ on various bulletin boards, but by the time I arrived there they'd expired. I'd be grateful, therefore, if someone would either email the actual files themselves to me or tell me where I can FTP them. They don't appear to be in the /pr/ directory at ftp.apple.com. I assume that, being press releases, these files can be considered public domain. Thanks in advance. Fergus Sullivan t-fergus@microsoft.com +++Standard disclaimer goes here+++ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:33:06 -0500 From: baim@harpo.aaec.com Subject: CHEAP CDROM Caddies MEI/Micro Center is advertising standard CDROM caddies at $3.99 ea for 5 or more ($4.99 for 2-4). I haven't ordered any but they claim to be SONY-licensed made in the USA. MEI/Micro 800-634-3478 Paul Baim (not affiliated with MEI) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 12:56:20 -0400 From: mikeg@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov Subject: Color Classic simms (Q) How many pins do the Color Classic simms have? (36, 72?) I am trying to find out if a friend of mine can use my old 256k simms from my Mac IIcx (isn't much, but every little bit helps :-). Thanks, Mike mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 17:58:56 PST From: HarriRehnberg@salient.com (Salient Software) Subject: CopyDoubler icon blanking In article <9310211820.AA06300@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> (Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu), you write: In Info-Mac 11-207 (+/-2), Stan Kerr writes: >>>>> I've never been able to get the CopyDoubler icon to appear in my Control Panels folder as anything but the default dogeared document icon; any suggestions there? (This is not exactly pressing, but I thought I would throw it in. Yes, I've rebuilt the desktop.) <<<<< I had the same problem, too. Harry Rehnberger of Salient was very communicative but his words were not helpful. I posted to InfoMac sometime back about this problem and no Sherlock Holmes solved the problem. >>>>What *did* restore the standard icons for me was to "label" files with BNDLs that were getting ignored (thus the missing icon problem) and tell AutoDoubler not to compress any file with that "label".<<<< Remember that a "label" can be assigned with standard system 7 Finder routines. So, I lose some compression but I also lose a big hassle with busted BNDL information that is obviously caused by AutoDoubler. Like I said before, I am *still* not knocking AutoDoubler. Good product and better than **any** driver-level compression for my pattern of usage. This is just a defect in its compatibility with the Finder. End of soapbox. If anyone is having this problem and are running AutoDoubler and the tactic in paragraph two above, between the >>>> <<<<, works please let me know which applications it is happening with. We have not been able to duplicate this here. Harri Rehnberg Salient Software ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 20:51:18 -0400 (EDT) From: David Garrett Subject: creator code FIL2? The subject says it all. Which application creates documents that have the creator code FIL2 ? I did look at the list o' creator codes in the archives but it didn't contain that one. Please respond directly to ssa94isa02@ecn.mass.edu as I'm not subscribed to the discussion group. Thank you very much! -Dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 13:50:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Roz Ault, User Support Technology, ext. 377" Subject: Credit Card Validation via Mac (Q) Our company is looking for credit card validation packages for the Mac. Ideally we would like a package that we would batch process credit card validation if we fed it the correct information from our VAX. Anyone have any experience with a product like this, or have any suggestions about where we could look? Roz Ault (ault@faxon.com) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 20:13:06 -0600 From: (Pete Chane) Subject: Filesync for A. Bloom Alan, For the best in Mac file sync, check out the Apple File Assistant for Powerbooks. It uses the Drag Manager to graphically show you what files are being synched. And its not just for Powerbooks. PC. ------------------------------------------------------ Pete Chane PCHANEUW@macc.wisc.edu PCHANE@applelink.apple.com "Life comes down to a few moments, this could be one of them." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 12:14:58 -0500 From: adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Hauerwas) Subject: Ghost Game A quick question. Does anyone know of a game (payware, shareware, or freeware) that has ghosts as the main characters? The game should be appropriate for children ages 4-11, so it shouldn't be too violent, but any direction would be appreciated. Please reply directly to adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu, since I don't yet subscribe to this list. Thanks in advance! ---- Adam John Hauerwas | adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu Macintosh Specialist | "Quotes? We don't need Duff & Phelps Fin. Consulting | no stinking quotes..." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 19:27:11 +0000 From: Analysis@sheffield.ac.uk (Peter Smith, Analysis) Subject: Graphics galore - where are they all? OK - I've been using that wonderful Michaelangelo start-up screen (in the info-mac archive) for a couple of months, and just fancy a change. There's not too much in info-mac (fair enough: the archive is for serious stuff). But somewhere out there I KNOW there are graphics galore (from high art downwards), but where? What's available by FTP? All pointers gratefully recieved. Peter Smith Philosophy, Sheffield University, UK analysis@sheffield.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 22:00:29 EDT From: insightgd@aol.com Subject: Help Help Saw a reference to info-mac on the Fringeware email list. What is it? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 11:03:22 EDT From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" Subject: HyperBasic Does anyone out there know if the company that makes HyperBasic is still around? HyperBasic was a program to write external commands with in basic. It had a lot of nice features that made it much easier to use than C or Pascal. An external command I wrote using the product bombs on my new Quadra and I have the feeling that the compiler was not 32-bit clean. Do they have an update? Thanks Troy Kelley P.S - Why upgrade if all it creates is heart burn? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 09:41:23 -0500 (CDT) From: park0009@gold.tc.umn.edu Subject: iisi problems hi there i have some problems with my iisi the problems occured when i upgraded from 7.01 to 7.1 with the hardware update v 2.0 (i know there is a more current one but i haven't dug it up yet) well the problem is that know when i run any program on my computer, the program will crash with an error 1, 3, or 5 ... the errors seem random but i don't know... sys configuration.. iisi, 17/230, radius b/w pivot with radiusware 2.3, a bunch of init/cdevs/control panels and if anyone has a reccomendation on a shareware/freeware startup manager i'd appreciate your help and if anyone could tell me how to use macbugs and what other apps i need to figure out what goes wrong i'd appreciate it... oh yeah.. does anyone know what these error codes mean??? thanxs henry ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 16:05:11 MET From: Christian F. Buser Subject: Image files (C) eesystem@pollux.usc.edu asked: > I need to know how to go about obtaining system 6.0.7 >or 6.0.8. I have the files from ftp.apple.com, but they are ended by the >suffix .image. What do I need to be able to access these files drowe1@unf6.cis.unf.edu (Douglas Rowe) asked: > Posting for some friends. One has a 660 the other the 840 & neither > could get DIskcopy to create disks from images :-(. They work fine > other machines. DiskCopy v4.2 (from Apple, probably also available on Sumex) works fine in most (but not all) cases. The solution is: get DiskDup+ (v. 2.22) from Roger Bates. It's on sumex, shareware, $ 30 if I remember right. After paying the shareware fee, you're given a "registration code", and afterwards the app can mount apple's image files on your desktop. I think it is possible with unregistered version to read image files and produce disks from them - but I'm not sure, since I've paid the fee long ago. Hope this helps, Christian. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 13:41:09 -0700 From: moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com (Bill Moynihan) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #208 In article <9310201431.AA12569@SUMEX-AIM.Stanford.EDU> you write: > >Date: 19 Oct 93 15:02:25 PDT >From: MFETLER@CC1.CCCCO.EDU >Subject: $99 TCI LineLink 14.4 Modem > >From: mfetler@cc1.cccco.edu (Mark Fetler) > >OK, I'm not a modem guru, but I thought I could plug this >puppy in to my fx and start communicating. I've tried it >both with McKnowledge (self-configured) and with Zterm with >no success -- even with McKnowledge's script for dialing up >compuserve. I couldn't get any help from the vendor techs. >Do any of you modem mavens have suggestions for me? Or am I >SOL? > Since you mentioned "fx" the little light went on. It has a 2 speed modem port. A Control Panel called Serial Switch (I have version 1.1a1) allows you to switch between "Faster" and "Compatible". The little blurb in the window states: "Some applications that use the printer or modem ports do not operate properly unless the serial ports are set to "Compatible"." -- Bill Moynihan Internet=moynihan@venice.sedd.trw.com or AppleLink=moynihan.b ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 03:11:03 ITA From: maurizio lana Subject: info-pc list subscription (part II) Some people were interested into subscribing to info-pc list. I (hmmm...) lost their messages, so excuse me if I post this on the list. to subscribe to info-pc you must send the usual data to: info-ibmpc-request@brl.mil . Maurizio MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.CSI.IT | fax 39-11-899 0458 CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 11:24:47 CST From: "Wade Williams" Subject: Jackson >Okay, this is a tough one. I've been having trouble with my Mac IIsi >crashing with error #25 (stack ran into heap). I've tried removing >inits, but that hasn't helped. Every time, MacBugs shows the procedure >name as being "Jackson". > >Finally, one night, I decided to search my hard drive for the little >piece of code that showed up in MacBugs to find out what application is >causing it. > >The result of my search showed that the code was located in the resource >'ptch' 32 in my System file. I did some searching and found that the >patch was in System 7.0, 7.1, and 7 Pro. For awhile, I removed the >resource and everything appeared to work, but that made me nervous. > >Does anyone happen to know where that resource comes from and what it >does? Is it actually a patch to the system which could be removed? Why >does it cause problems on my machine and not on others? Does anyone >else have problem crashing with an error #25 at any given time? Thanks. William, I don't mean to be too criticial, but what on Earth would make you think that it's OK to remove a system software patch placed there by Apple? If it's there, it's there for a reason. Jackson is a QuickDraw-associated routine. If you're having problems, you have: 1) Corrupted System Software 2) A corrupted application, document, preferences or font. 3) A corrupted SCSI driver (unlikely) 4) Bad memory 5) A bug in your software I would highly recommend that all patches be left alone. Wade Williams Network Support Specialist Auburn University ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 0:14:25 MST From: raimund@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Raimund Lammersdorf) Subject: LineLink 14.4 and zmodem settings (Q) Greetings, modem pros Proud owner of a LineLink 14.4 modem but uninitiated into the arcana of modem initialization strings beyond ATL1 I wonder if any kind soul out there could help me get the most out of aforementioned modem. I use zterm 0.9 and regularly dial into another 14.4 modem with V.42/MNP5, brand unknown. What would be the best communications settings and initialization string to get highest throughput? Thanks in advance :-) Raimund Raimund@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 11:21:50 -0500 From: DAVE@GERGO.TAMU.EDU (Dave Martin) Subject: Mac Model Database (FMPro) on ZiffNet/Mac According to MacWEEK, version 3.5 of Mac Catalog--a FileMaker Pro database of Mac information past and present--is available in the ZiffNet areas on AppleLink and CompuServe. If it is still kosher by ZiffNet's license restrictions to give it to others, I would appreciate it if someone who is downloading it for themselves could email a copy to me. It is exactly what I have been looking for as a starting base for a Mac inventory database (i.e., for keeping serial numbers, configurations, etc. with a link to actual Mac model info. I have been trying for some time to get Ziff to open a ZiffNet/Mac area on America Online but (unless I have just missed them) they have not done so for whatever reasons. If they are on AOL--please let me know so my average annual ignorance level is decreased . Thanks in advance. -- Dave Martin - TAMU/GERG - DAVE@GERGA.TAMU.EDU - DBM@AOL.COM -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 17:43:45 PDT From: riedesel@inference.com (Joel Riedesel) Subject: Newton Utility posted I have just posted a Newton Utility to the Info-mac archives. It is archived as "sams-sensible-sleeper.hqx" in the info-mac/Newton/util directory. It is a shareware for managing your sleep settings on the Newton. It detects whether you are using the plug or the battery and sets the sleep time appropriately (to your settings). This way you no longer have to change the sleep setting every time you plug/unplug your Newton (if you're that type of person :-) ). Enjoy, Joel Riedesel riedesel@inference.com -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 16:04:09 MET From: Christian F. Buser Subject: Nisus copy protection (C) Kee Nethery wrote: >The solution I was given at a trade show last week was that in a future >version release they plan to require the dongle for languages other than >english. So, if you are on a PowerBook and you primarily use English, you >will not need to install the dongle every time you boot your machine. If >you wish to use another language, you will need to install the dongle. > >Seems like about the best solution they could come up with short of just >removing all protection. I don't want to hurt any english-speaking person, but do you REALLY think that those who write only in English should have more rights than others? Would this mean that as soon as someone writes a German umlaut or a French accented vowel, or anything in similar, he'd be required to use a dongle? I just hope they (and you) think again about this issue! Best regards, Christian. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 09:39:46 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Subject: Offline news reading In Regards to your letter <199310260652.AA12493@nwnexus.wa.com>: > I would like to automatically download UseNet news articles for a > particular news-group (eg Info-Mac) to a local Unix station (preferably > SGI) or Macintosh, and save them for off-line reading with an editor. > Ideally I would like something that checks say every hour for new > articles, and silently retrieves them. Perhaps I even need to set up a > local "leaf-node" news server ? (but how ?) > > At present I use Nuntius on my Mac to access a remote internet news > server, but the remote server is too slow for satisfactory on-line reading, > and in any case I would like to save all the articles. Any ideas ? If you truly want Mac offline reading and replying with the access automated every hour or so, the only real option is UUCP. The combination of uupc, ToadNews, and rnMac or TheNews is cheap, although not as powerful as the commercial ($295 list) UUCP/Connect (used to be uAccess). Those first four are all on ftp.tidbits.com in /pub/tidbits/tisk/uucp/ If you're using Nuntius via MacTCP now, the closest you can come is the commercial ($145 list) VersaTilities, which includes VersaTerm-Link, which in turn has a newsreader module that can save selected articles to disk and then read them from there. You would have to do some scripting work to get it to go up and download the articles automatically, but I suppose it's possible with QuicKeys. Both list prices are higher than you would pay for real. You can probably get more information on UUCP/Connect by emailing to info@intercon.com or FTPing to ftp.intercon.com and looking in /InterCon/sales/ and you can get more information on the VersaTilities by emailing maxwell@sales.synergy.com (or maybe upgrade@synergy.com). Needless to say, I discuss both options in my book, since I feel that UUCP, although old, is a very valid way to access the Internet for news and mail. :-) cheers ... -Adam Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 15:03:45 EDT From: bouldin@anvil.nrl.navy.mil Subject: OptiMem advertisement, pg. 52, MacWeek Vol7, #42 (Q) Check out page 52 in the latest MacWeek for a product that claims to make your mac use memory more efficiently. Sounds to me like this thing patches the behavior of the memory manager, which scares the hell out of me. Anyone have reactions, or any real hands-on experience with this thing??? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:04:16 PDT From: Kee Nethery Subject: P. Ingenierie Intertalk, what is it ? [A] >One of these was a Nubus card with some ic's on it, and the only description "P. Ingenierie Intertalk" on the card. On the panel to the outside, two serial plugs are located, together with a LED and a push button. Such and easy quiz. It is a localtalk to localtalk router that derives it's power from a nubus slot. The original French company, P. Ingenierie, split into two companies, one that is a distributor and retains the original name, and a second in the USA that manufactures and sells AppleTalk routers. It is: International Transware 1503 Grant Rd, Suite 155 Mountain View, CA 94040 USA voice 415-903-2300 fax 415-903-9544 transware@applelink.apple.com I am sending the configuration software via separate enclosure. You will need LocalTalk connectors to connect the router to your Mac (even though the router is in your Mac and using it's power). I'd go for the kiss except I'm married and well, I'm kinda partial to the kisses I already receive. I already have a handful of 256Ksimms and my wife bakes excellent no-fat organic chocolate cakes (very yummy). So, I know it's nerdy but I have to choose the monochrome Nubus monitor card. :-) Kee Nethery Kee@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 08:04:15 MDT From: "Dave Leiner" Subject: Print Shop Deluxe on Deskwriter Print Shop has always had a problem printing cards on an HP DeskWriter in that the top margin is about a half inch too large, causing the card to fold improperly. Turns out the new Deluxe edition still has the problem. Broderbund says they cannot solve the problem and HP is working on it. HP says it is a Broderbund problem. Any users solve this one, short of trimming the top of the card each time? One thing I find odd, though, is that the HP preview looks perfect, leading me to believe it is an HP problem. The tech rep said that this doesn't count because there are no preview rulers, but a half inch error would be easily detectable IMHO. --Dave ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 11:55:29 -0600 From: chavey@beloit.edu (Darrah Chavey) Subject: PSPICE Wallace C. Patterson asks: >I'm looking for a MAC-based circuit simulator call PSPICE. >Please, tell me where I can find it. Archie says: Host ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9) Location: /systems/mac/info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx-split Host plains.nodak.edu (134.129.111.64) Location: /pub/mac/pub/appl/misc/PSpice_v5.1.bin Host sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) Location: /info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx Host ftp.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) Location: /systems/mac/info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx Host lth.se (130.235.20.3) Location: /mac/info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx Host ftp.sunet.se (130.238.127.3) Location: /pub/mac/app/pspice-51.hqx Host sics.se (192.16.123.90) Location: /pub/info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx Host uhunix2.uhcc.hawaii.edu (128.171.44.7) Location: /mirrors/info-mac/app/pspice-51.hqx (To use archie, telnet to forum.ans.net, login as archie. Read the message. Type "set search sub" then, in this case, type "prog pspice".) --Darrah Chavey Department of Math & Computer Science chavey@beloit.edu Beloit College; 700 College St; Beloit, Wisc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 22:09:22 +0000 From: (Harry Hahn) Subject: Quadra Cache Switch Secret! Brian Amira writes: > Little know tip, Hold down Option when clicking ON and OFF buttons in > Cache switch CDEV and the changes take effect right then! Eg. No Restart! > Save yourself some money and time looking for other CDEVs to do this! Funny you should mention this because I just read a little anti-tip in the latest (Dec) Macworld's Bugs and Turkeys section: > The following steps corrupt high-density floppies on the Quadra 800 and > Centris 650: (1) In the Cache Switch control panel, hold down the option > key while clicking on the More Compatible button- this allows you to > change the setting without a restart; and (2) Put in a high-density > floppy and eject it. The disk is now unreadable. Apple is not currently > offering a fix. I don't have an '040 so I've never suffered such a problem but I thought I'd pass this along. -Harry hhahn@macc.wisc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 15:08:18 GMT From: Mark W.Dubin@fang.Colorado.EDU Subject: Scrabble on a Mac (A) sometime in the long ago I downloaded the game CRAB, that was developed in 1987. I think it is in the usual archive places. It is a fiendish implementation of Scrabble. It looks things up in the dictionary and makes great plays every move. I have yet to beat it, so I have not played it lately. Good Luck. -the ol' professor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 12:53:01 -0400 (EDT) From: LAN Supervisor Subject: Scrabble on a Mac (Q) See: game/crab.hqx in the archives. Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University colmenares@fordmrh1.bitnet / colmenares@rhoda.fordham.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 12:14:20 -0500 From: adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Hauerwas) Subject: Service Companies (National) Hey there! It's good to be back on the Info-Mac since I lost my last college account. Anyway, with my new job comes new responsibilities, and I have a question regarding national computer service organizations. I currently manage about 50-60 Macintoshes in three offices (Chicago, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles) and I would like to bring those machines under one service contract. My current service provider is Entex (formerly JWP, formerly Businessland), and I feel tied to them because they can provide service in all three locations. Does anyone have experience with other companies that can service those three regions? Also, I may have to provide support for Atlanta, Connecticut, New York, and Texas. Any pointers would be appreciated. Please reply directly to adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu, since I am not yet a subscriber to this list. ---- Adam John Hauerwas | adamh@merle.acns.nwu.edu Macintosh Specialist | "Quotes? We don't need Duff & Phelps Fin. Consulting | no stinking quotes..." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 20:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: jfhess@ucdavis.edu Subject: SmartKeys 2.1 Hello infomac readers; the October macworld gives a glowing recommendation for a free program called SmartKeys 2.1. This correct your typing mistakes program is written by Maurice Volaski in Philadelphia and from looking at an ad in yet another mac magazine it sounds like thunder 7. How far off base am I? Is Smartkeys on infomac? (I can't find it) Can someone reply to me about thunder 7? Thanks for any and all replies. john hess, jfhess@ucdavis.edu PS I'm interested in some cheap 2 meg simms for a friends IIsi. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 1993 21:53:29 -0400 (EDT) From: ROBERT_BROCKMAN Subject: StyleWriter II ink IS water-based... (summary) Recently I asked a couple of questions: 1. Is ink for the Apple StyleWriter II water-based, or is it water resistant, as is the HP DeskWriter ink? Thanks to: Allan Hunter Sidney Bienvenu Ben Squire David Ikenouye Jerry Wolf I know the answer is YES, the ink is water-soluble, so if your output gets wet, the ink will run. Most expressed puzzlement as to WHY Apple hasn't switched inks. 2. Why does Apple include more standard RAM on CDROM equipped Macs? Is it necessary to support the CDROM? Thanks to: Christopher Gervais Who said Apple assumes most CDROM users are also heavy QuickTime or other multi-media software users, and thus will need more RAM. Nothing else about the CDROM requires more RAM than any other storage device. Thanks very much, again, to all who helped. I'm in the process of ordering a LC475 (25mHz 040) system through Apple Higher Ed. The biggest problem now is that they say there's a 4-6 week delay on the 14" Apple monitor. I've heard rumors that Sony is in a snit about their deal with Apple, and is balking at selling too many more tubes to Apple... I'm looking for a monitor at a local dealer: I don't mind paying $50 more to get a monitor TODAY! Anyone else heard about this Sony/Apple feud? Robert Brockman, aka CDBSDUC@IUP.BITNET or CDBSDUC@GROVE.IUP.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 15:10:03 CST From: Rhett Glover Subject: Tek 4105 emulator ? I'm looking for a good Tektronics 4105 graphics terminal emulator for the Mac. I've tried Mac240 (WhitePine) and NCSA Telnet 2.5. Mac240 would only display, not interpret, the Tek escape sequences sent by the host. NCSA Would not display any of the graphics screens sent from the host. Maybe I have them config. wrong....? I am using a Mac IIci, 20mb ram, Sys 7.0.1, Asante ethernet board, MacTCP 1.1.1. Any ideas ? thanks, Rhett Glover USAF Air Warfare Center Eglin AFB Fl 32542 904 882-9341 gloverr@uv4.eglin.af.mil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 19:40:23 EDT From: Denis Gauthier <5703DGAU@VM1.ulaval.ca> Subject: Timbuktu demo 4.0.2 Hi netters I have a demo copy of Timbuktu 4.0.2 . With my 660AV and GEOPORT, the extension would not load (X on icon) Any ideas ? Denis Gauthier Services a la clientele Universite Laval Quebec, Canada 5703dgau@vm1.ulaval.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 14:19:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Craig Marsh Subject: unethical computer purchases I think one of the main questions is: How can the A.G. (any of them in fact) say employees can't not _ethically_ purchase computers at a discount. Having just heard the yearly ethics talk given to Naval reservists, I think I know where he is coming from. Basically it is this. Somewhere in the great lists of what is ethical and unethical for state employees to do, there is a big one (at least for federal employees) which says: It is not ethical to utilize your position to receive benefits which are not available to those who do not hold that position. In otherwords, if you are a road repair contract supervisor for the state, you are not allow to recieve Christmas presents from ABC Tar and Stone Company. (There is some dollar limit for federal employees, but no one would ever give me anything, so I haven't tried to remember exactly what it is, but I think it is around $25 a year.) So, the AG probably saw that the education 'discount' is only available to students and state employees who happen to work for the university, and all non-state employees and those who don't work for the university are excluded. To him, and he is usually the one who has be assigned to make these decisions, this is a violation of the state employees ethics code. Therefore, to him, it is unethical. I would also assume that, to him, it would be unethical for state employees to accept memberships to these warehouse stores (like SAMS) which give you a membership because you are an employee at the university. (But it isn't wrong to accept if you are a member of some club they extend membership to.) He might also say that joining the university employee credit union is unethical, again, because they restrict the membership to employees of the university. Another thing which may concern him the the potential for these discounts to affect state contract purchases. For example, Prof. Froug gets a great discount on the Zentari system with an ink jet printer. After awhile, he feels he wants a laser printer. So he suggests the Parapsychology Dept. purchase the Zentari system for the Freshman computer lab they are building. In fact, even if it wouldn't benefit them directly, we know that owners of the Zentari system will generally suggest Zentari's, just as Mac and IBM/Clones would suggest macs or IBM/clones. I don't think this would be as much of a concern as the first though. At least that what I would guess has happened. Craig Marsh marsh@phoenix.cs.uga.edu ------------------------------ Date: 26 Oct 1993 16:32:26 -0600 From: Gibbs-CIC-IS Subject: unmountable hard drive(R) This following is in response to the posting from Matthew Ahrens in Info-Mac #205. Hi, A similar thing happened to me while installing some new software on a 7.1 vx. Installation seemed to go normal but after reboot, the hard disk would not mount. It would repeatedly keep trying to, quitting and restarting the Finder over and over. I could only stop it by turning off the machine. I tried many different possible remedies such as rebuilding desktop, resetting PRAM, etc. I could not reinstall the system. because it said that the installation disks, which were my original system disks, contained a system that was too old for my mac! While I was able to boot from a Norton disk, Norton coudn't fix this. I tried to boot from Disk Tools but couldn't until I disconnected the hard drive. Then when I tried to update the hard disk driver it told me that it couldn't mount the hard disk because it was already mounted.. I was finally able to fix it by using SCSIProbe. Try this: make a boot disk that has SCSIProbe (freeware, probably on sumex-aim) on it. It is a control panel so it will have to be in the right place on the boot disk. Then boot from that disk, access SCSIProbe and try to mount the hard disk. When finished, reboot the mac. This worked for me. When I rebooted, however, the hard disk mounted but windows were flashing back and forth in a seemingly endless loop. I entered the command+period command and pressed escape and waited about 5 minutes. One of these key sequences cleared it up. I haven't had this problem since. Hope this helps! P.S. I want to thank the author of SCSI Probe, Robert Polic for making his nice little piece of software available. It sure came in handy during my hour of need! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 00:17:59 -0800 From: loute@core.ucl.ac.be Subject: video port of recent macs on BARCO Hello I am trying to use the external video port of a Powerbook 180 on a BARCO (a video projection system, competing products are made by SONY, GE, etc...) with no success. The BARCO tries to synchronize as if it were trying to determine the kind of video, and then switch off as it had no signal. This BARCO equipment works perfectly with any Mac with the old card for RGB 13" monitor and the 8-24 card as well. Works also with a VGA 14" monitor. I regularly use the PB180 with its port either on an Apple monochrome 12" or RGB 13", Apple 14", VGA 14" (with an hand made adaptator). With some VGA I use the basic color monitor init otherwise I get an ugly greenish screen ! The cabling system of the BARCO interface allows to connect a monitor in parallel with the BARCO. The external monitor works OK, but the BARCO doesnt ! I wonder if the specs of the video interface depart from the specs of the old cards ? I know that three pins on the DB15 connector are used to specify the kind of monitor by simulating a three dip switch system. But if I am not wrong the original 12" and 13" monitors correspond to all switches off ! I have observed the same kind of problem with other recent machines such as the centris 650 ! So far I have'nt get any clue from BARCO people. I would appreciate any report on connecting a PW with the original Apple video interface on a video projection system Etienne Loute Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (C.O.R.E.) Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) 34 voie du Roman Pays B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve BELGIUM e-mail loute@core.ucl.ac.be el@fusl.ac.be Tel 32-10-474341 fax 32-10-474301 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 16:42:30 -0500 From: Bienvenu Sidney J Subject: What is MacTCP? What exactly is MacTCP? From what I've heard in discussions here it is some kind of communications program. This month's MacUser failed to mention you need it for Fetch and TurboGopher. Is it for individual Macs or for networks? If it is the former, is it commercial or shareware? Can I get it from ftp.apple.com or any other archive? Is there any other program out there that I can use to FTP directly to my Mac without MacTCP or any other external program/device? Thanks in advance. -- Jay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 7:40:57 PDT From: macmod (Info-Mac Moderator) (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu); Tue, 26 Oct 1993 01:06:27 -0700 Received: by tidbits.com (uA-1.6v2); Mon, 25 Oct 93 22:39:12 PDT From: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) To: info-mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, MAC-L@YALEVM.BITNET Subject: [*] TidBITS#199/25-Oct-93 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 22:39:12 PDT Organization: TidBITS Reply-To: ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst) Message-Id: X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v2 TidBITS#199/25-Oct-93 So what does John Sculley's new company do? How do you stop those nasty NDN bounces from FirstClass bulletin boards? Where can you snag the new Apple Modem Tool 1.5? Find the answers to these questions in this issue, along with a look at Apple's new pricing scheme, a report on the famed free Color It deal, a review of the Handeze gloves that have significantly helped our RSI problems, and announcements of updates to MacTools and QUED/M. Topics: MailBITS/25-Oct-93 Sayonara, SRP Apple Modem Tool 1.5 The Dreaded NDN Get Some Color Sculley's New Job Handeze Gloves Reviews/25-Oct-93 [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-199.etx; 28K] Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor -- ace@tidbits.com -- info@tidbits.com Author of The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh -- tisk@tidbits.com ------------------------------ End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************