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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 14 Jan 93       Volume 11 : Issue 10

Today's Topics:

      [*] Area.Codes.1.11
      [*] Color LCD Projection Report
      [*] EKG course
      [*] I am not a crook
      [*] info-mac/art/qt/ufo.hqx
      [*] mcvert-189.shar
      [*] NET/Mac 2.3.15
      [*] Plan Master 2.0
      [*] Random Startup Sound (A)
      [*] Resorcerer 1.1 Demo
      [*] SIL-IPA.sit.hqx
      [*] Splat Key Font
      [*] Star Trek-TNG Episode Guide stack update (1.2)
      [*] textmerger
      [*] THINK C Gamma Table Library
      [*] tiny-saver.hqx
      13" Apple monitor capacitor problem--is there a FAQ?
      24 bit color on a Quadra 950 w/19" (q)
      32 Bit addressing Problem
      AutoDoubler & Gatekeeper
      AutoDoubler woes (R)
      Biblio Programs with Word?
      Cheap PS Printer
      Classics and 7.1
      Database Transition from DBase (A)
      Dictionarry for MS Word 5 (Q)
      Do StyleWriters have a short lifetime? (A)
      Encryption Programs, Shareware
      Extracting sound from QT Movies
      FAQ
      FAQ (A)
      How to get Print Monitor to wait for printer?
      HP->Mac Hookup
      IIsi Cache Cards (Q)
      Info-Mac and All-in-One
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #9
      Library Software (A)
      MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90 mail-order
      Mac needs Wing Commander and Ultima!!!
      Malaysian mice
      Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolian Desert Racing Mice
      Malaysian moose serial numbers :-)
      Netter's Dinner
      NEW MAC TROJAN UPDATE
      Non-Profit Org Needs Used Mac Equip
      Norton for Mac vs? SUM
      NOW Menus - like utility
      OmniPage problem: unimplemented trap
      Pegasus Mail (Q)
      PowerBook 160's trackball desperately slow...
      PowerBook startup sound
      Powerbook startup sound (C)
      PowerPC Macs   (Re: New Macintoshes)
      Quadra 950
      Radius 8.24xp Card & 7.1 (Q)
      RAM Problem (Q)
      rdist
      Re. Norton 2.0 Problem?
      Regular expression guru, please
      remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a)
      Screensaver for two-screen systems (A)
      SCSI Device Driver Information
      SE-->SE/30 (C)
      SE/30 Unreliable HD FD
      Search/Replace: use Nisus
      Shh conclusions?
      StyleWriter II - II thumbs up!
      Sys 7.1 on 800K (C)
      System 7.1 on 800k
      Text with layout
      Turbo Gopher questions... (

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:47:17 EST
From: [e-mail] (Arthur Dent)
Subject: [*] Area.Codes.1.11

Area Codes v1.11

  A handy little application that allows you to determine what
state an area code is in.  Area code info is customizable via
ResEdit.
  This version fixes a bug which could cause crashes on 68000 machines.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/area-codes-111.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 10:16:09 -0500
From: [e-mail]  (Thomas Scott)
Subject: [*] Color LCD Projection Report

About 8 months ago, I requested info about users' experiences with LCD
projection panels.  I got a number of responses, and I was going to post
to sumex, but didn't get a chance to.  Yesterday I got a request from one
of
the Info-Mac readers to send him any info I did get.  It cleared out the
cobwebs, and I realized that there wasn't anything like this currently on
sumex, so I'm posting it now.

However, everything in the technology world changes almost on a daily
basis.
I'm sure there's been many changes, especially with the October rollout of
new Macs, and the never-ending run of 3rd party vendors to introduce new
peripherals to keep up with Apple's changing line.

If you seen any changes in this field since last May that could enhance
this report, please send them to me at [e-mail], and I'll udpate
this report to the archive.

I hope the info helps people out there trying to make a decision in this
field, and I think that new info will make this report even more benefical.
 Thanks!

[Archived as /info-mac/report/color-lcd-projection.txt; 35K]

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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 00:12:36 est
From: [e-mail] (Tony Lazcano)
Subject: [*] EKG course

Here is the 2nd try and sending you lesson one of a complete EKG
training course.
The course is designed to be used by anyone with a basic knowledge
of cardiac physiology.
Compressed with stuffit lite

[Archived as /info-mac/app/ekg-course-1.hqx; 201K]

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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 13:45:23 EST
From: [e-mail] (dks)
Subject: [*] I am not a crook

Cambridge, Massachusetts.
January 9, 1993.

To mark the 80th birthday of Richard Milhous Nixon, here
is an "sfil" of Him at His Ironic Best.

Cheers,
Dhanesh

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/im-not-a-crook.hqx; 237K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:50 +1300
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] info-mac/art/qt/ufo.hqx

Here's another big-budget production from Lawrence's desktop film studio.
This effect was created with a piece of blue cardboard and the chroma-key
transparency setting in Adobe Premiere.

Do you think Steven Spielberg will hire me...?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Computer Services Dept
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand

[Archived as /info-mac/art/qt/ufo.hqx; 491K]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 16:54:50 PST
From: [e-mail] (Joseph Skudlarek)
Subject: [*] mcvert-189.shar

mcvert, written in C, runs under UNIX and converts among Macintosh
file formats including BinHex4.0 and MacBinary.  See mcvert.1
(the man page) for details.

Please replace mcvert-188.shar with mcvert-189.shar, which follows.
Major changes since 1.88 and current usage are detailed below.

<<Changes>>
   emit INPUT file names when verbose is enabled
   make it easier to build on AT&T 3B2's

[Archived as /info-mac/unix/mcvert-189.shar; 89k]

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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 09:33:00 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] NET/Mac 2.3.15

Hello all,

I am uploading NET/Mac 2.3.15, the TCP/IP application for ham-radio-
operators. This version contains quite a number of enhancements, like
MacIP support, SLFP protocol support, and new AppleTalk drivers.
Most of these mods came from Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP.

This version obsoletes info-mac/comm/radio-netmac-2311.hqx

Regards,
Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/radio-netmac-2315.hqx; 259K]

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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 02:31:50 -0800
From: Michael Ross <antigone![e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Plan Master 2.0

In response to a request on Info Mac v11#4, I am submitting Business
Plan Master 2.0. I have no connection with the program other than
occasional browser. Here is part of the Read Me file.

Michael Ross
[e-mail]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     Every business needs to have a plan in order to track its
progress.  There is no business too small, too large, too complex or
too simple to avoid having a business plan.  I found that many
business plan programs assume that you are going to raise money in
the public markets.  However, the vast majority of businesses are
started without large outside investments or fund raising campaigns.
This program is designed for use by any business, large or small,
whether you are raising money or not.

     I didn't write this program in an ivory tower some place, but
out of my own business experience.  For seven years, I imported
cuckoo
clocks from the Black Forest of Germany, so this is definetly a
"cuckoo" program!  I have been involved in many other business
ventures.  I'd be lying if I said I made money with all of them.
But I can truthfully say that all were successful, mainly because I
followed a plan and stuck to it.

     BUSINESS PLAN MASTER supplies you with complete template files.
I give you professional formats (footnootes, tables of contents,some
simple graphics), some excellent sample text and several spreadsheet
files for you to use.  Alone these could save you many hundreds of
hours of work.  Because of the wide diversity of businesses and
business ideas, I have tried to make these files as universal as
possible.  Over time, you will likely incorporate your own language
into the text and make modifications to the worksheets.

[...]
Business Plan Master is NOT a public domain program.  It is
Copyright (c) 1992 by David A. Works.  All rights reserved.

[...]
    IF YOU LIKE BUSINESS PLAN MASTER, PASS IT ALONG TO FRIENDS AND
BUSINESS ASSOCIATES, BBS'S OR USER'S GROUPS.

Good luck and I wish you the best in your business endeavors.

CompuServe          70400,153
Delphi              DAVIDWORKS
GEnie               D.WORKS3
America OnLine      DAVIDW2959

[Archived as /info-mac/app/business-plan-master-20.hqx; 244K]

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Date: 6 Jan 1993 09:30:39 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Random Startup Sound (A)

     Random Startup Sound (A)
[e-mail] asks:

>       There is one idea that I have that I would like to see someone post
>       here at Info-Mac.  I am not a programmer, therefore I do not have the
>       talent to compose such a device.  I would like to see someone create a
>       startup application for system 7 that randomly plays a sound file from
>       a selected folder.  I have many sounds that I would love to alternate
>       and do not want to play them all at once.  I know that there is a cdev
>       to randomize your system beep, but that is not what I am looking for.
>       Also, I would like to see an application so there is no init code, or
>       memory hogging, or possible conflict with anything.  One could also
>       implement this idea by placing the application in a folder with the
>       said sound files and put an alias in the startup folder to randomly
>       play one file.  Any takers?  Also, any help on finding existing
>       similiar software would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Well, it's not an application, but it will do what you're asking.  It's Jon
Pugh's excellent Randomizer extension/init that can randomize startup sounds,
startup screens, and Res-editable to randomize desktop patterns (I did it a
while back).  I've taken it off one of the other archives and resubmitted to
sumex (I noticed it wasn't on sumex anywhere).  The moderators should probably
put it in the /ex directory.

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

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/randomizer-12.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 22:11:49 -0600
From: [e-mail] (L.C. Brinson)
Subject: [*] Resorcerer 1.1 Demo

Due to popular demand, I have enclosed a demo for Mathemaesthetics, Inc.
resource and dialog editor Resorcerer 1.1  which I obtained last year when
I bought CMaster from Jersey Scientific (a FANTASTIC add to programming in
Think C, IMHO). It is fully functional, UNTIL you try to save your work!
The Demo is from nearly a year ago, so I am sure that the program has been
substantially improved since then.  Also, I have placed Mathemaesthetics,
Inc.'s blurb as TEXT outside of the binhexed .sea, so for those who are
interested, but maybe not 770KB or so worth of being interested, can check
out the company's propaganda.

Warren Kibbe    GEnie: W.Kibbe  AOL: WAKibbe    internet: [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/resorcerer.hqx; 774K]

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Date: 05 Jan 1993 15:12:27 -0600 (CST)
From: ANTWORTH 214/709-2418 <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] SIL-IPA.sit.hqx

SIL-IPA.sit.hqx is a set of scalable IPA fonts containing the full
International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 Kiel revisions. Three
typefaces are included:

  SIL Doulos (similar to Times)
  SIL Sophia (similar to Helvetica)
  SIL Manuscript (monowidth)

Each font contains all the standard IPA discrete characters and non-spacing
diacritics as well as some suprasegmental and puncuation marks. Each font
comes in both PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats. The fonts are also
available for Microsoft Windows.

These fonts were designed by the Printing Arts Department of the Summer
Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas.

Evan Antworth
Academic Computing Department
Summer Institute of Linguistics
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX  75236
U.S.A.

Internet e-mail: [e-mail] or [e-mail]
phone:  [phone]
fax:    [phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/font/sil-ipa.hqx; 311K]

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 19:42:03 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Splat Key Font

On 5 January, Ulf Dittmer asked how to print the command (splat) key.
I'm certain that many will tell him that it is a control-something combo
in Chicago font. I've never had any luck with that. However, I did find
a Chicago Symbols font on the Washington Apple Pi bulletin board that has
only four things: splat, closed diamond, check mark, and closed apple. I
can't recall if I found it as a TT font or converted it via Metamorphosis
>From a type 1 or 3 original. Nonetheless, here is the TT version. If any
of y'all have had the same bad luck I've had with the certain-but-not-
always-right advice to do a control-whatever in Chicago, ChicaSym works.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/splat-symbol.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 16:22:52 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Star Trek-TNG Episode Guide stack update (1.2)

I am including a binhexed file containing the upgraded version of my Star
Trek-TNG Episode Guide stack. You already have version 1.1 of the stack on
your system, called "card/star-trek-tng-episodes-11.hqx". This new file is
version 1.2 of the same stack and it totally replaces the old version.
Please name it "card/star-trek-tng-episodes-12.hqx" for the convenience of
the users.

Thank you.

David Landis
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/star-trek-tng-episodes-12.hqx; 560K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:31:38 EST
From: Paul Savage <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] textmerger

There has been some talk lately about utilities for merging text files into
one
file. One of the simplest is Text Merger, a drag and drop application that
concatenates all files (2-225) dropped onto it (in alphabetical order) into
one
combined file, and then deletes all the individual originals. I notice that
this utility is no longer at Sumex but it should be. I'm not the author, Kaz
Matsuki is.

Binhexed but not stuffed since it's only 6K.

Paul.

[e-mail]
CSIRO, Division of Chemicals & Polymers

[Archived as /info-mac/util/text-merger.hqx; 7K]

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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 18:02:46 -0500
From: Matt Slot <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] THINK C Gamma Table Library

Enclosed is a THINK C Library with source for ramping your monitors Gamma
Table.
This library is intended as a general tool for manipulating the Gamma Tables
    of Graphics Devices, to ramp them up or down in order to achieve smooth
    screen fades. The source is included for programmers who want to convert
    the library to A4-based, but is not commented for public consumption.
The library defines 2 globals to save state data, but the entire Table
    manipulation is performed with unlocked handles to be easy on your heap.
    The typical memory chunk is about 600 bytes for a 13" Monitor in 8-bit
    depth, or about 1700 bytes for one in 24-bit color. Usage will vary.
Of course, the Classic Mac cannot use Gamma Fades, nor can any other
monochrome
    monitor--only color/grayscale monitors attached to a Mac II or later.
    The code is uses Gestalt, so be sure you are running System 6.0.4 or
    later.
    Please use the listed functions to see if you can use this code before
    loading it. As usual, this stuff is not warranteed, guaranteed, or
    anything--
    use it at your own risk. It is not Apple-recommended for anything, but it
    worked for me, so there!

* ************************************************************************* *
    Written: Matt Slot, [e-mail]                12/17/92
    Posted: Matt Slot, [e-mail]                  1/ 9/93
* ************************************************************************* *

Oh yeah, this stuff is free to anyone interested in it.
Matt Slot (of the icons), [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/think-c-gamma-table.hqx; 108K]

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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:13:16 -0500
From: Christopher Owen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] tiny-saver.hqx

Tiny Saver is a tiny screen saver.  It is an application but takes
up only 6k of disk space and 20k of RAM.  It doesn't do much but
dim the screen (it can move the time around the screen if you
really want) but that is the point.  It is shareware.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/tiny-saver.hqx; 9K]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 13:40:59 PST
From: [e-mail] (Brian Korver)
Subject: 13" Apple monitor capacitor problem--is there a FAQ?

Could someone please point me toward a FAQ regarding that Apple 13" monitor
problem that shuts down the computer (or whatever).  Thanks in advance.

-Brian Korver
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 05:47:12 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: 24 bit color on a Quadra 950 w/19" (q)

 Dear Netters,

Can a Quadra 950 support 24 bit color on a 19 inch monitor without a 3rd
party video card?

Thanks, David
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:23:15 CDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: 32 Bit addressing Problem

 From: Keith Pollok ([e-mail])
 I'm passing along a problem that a friend of mine is having in the hopes
 that someone on the net can provide a cure or at least an answer.

 My friend has a IIci with 16meg memory running system 7.0.1 (tuned)
 in 32 bit mode. He has Canvas 3.0.5, and when he tries to open a document
 he created with an earlier version of Canvas in 24 bit mode, it fails.
 However, it works fine creating and opening documents made since
 his 32 bit conversion. If he switches to 24 bit mode he can then edit
 these documents. Anny comments?
 Keith Pollok

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 08:41 EST
From: Bob Beason <[e-mail]>
Subject: AutoDoubler & Gatekeeper

I had similar messages from several extensions/applications, but the problem
(whatever the cause) is easily taken care of by going to the GateKeeper
Controls, selecting the Log and double clicking on the offending message, then
click on "grant privileges".  This may not prevent gatekeeper from detecting
whatever is going on, but it saves a lot of dialog boxes on startup.

Bob Beason
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 17:52:03 -0800
From: Jerry Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Subject: AutoDoubler woes (R)

Philip Sharman writes that he is experiencing conflicts between AutoDoubler
and GateKeeper 1.2.6.

This is a known problem, which has been posted here in the not-to-distant
past, as well as to other newsgroups. Chris Johnson, GK's author is well
aware of it, and is working on the 1.2.7 update to GK, which is now in beta
test and should be released in the near future.

I'm not surprised that Philip has had no response from Fifth
Generation/Salient, as their normal response is "we're using what the
system provides and it isn't our fault that virus programs get tripped."
Well, I suppose that any virus author could say the same thing, so that
statement gets us nowhere. The bottom line is that Salient/Fifth Generation
apparently refuses to test their programs using virus detection software,
so every new release is a surprise to Chris and other authors.

Announcements: I am a beta tester for GateKeeper. I own AutoDoubler,
although I have removed it from my system and replaced it with Stuffit
SpaceSaver, a product which, *in my opinion*, is superior and doesn't cause
anywhere near the problems that I had when I had AutoDoubler installed.

Jerry Wilcox - [e-mail]  OR [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 18:36:16 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Biblio Programs with Word?

 Can anyone suggest a decent Bibliography Database program that has hooks
for Microsoft Word? Something easy to use is good, something public domain
or shareware is good as well...

Thanks,

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 17:48-0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Cheap PS Printer

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to get a cheap new or used
Postscript printer? I'm just interested in rock bottom prices and not
features/performance. Under $1000 is a must.

thanks in advance,

Marcos Paz
[phone]
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:05:19 GMT
From: knuth!raider!theporch![e-mail] (Waffle BBS login)
Subject: Classics and 7.1

[e-mail] writes:

>Irving Wiswall writes:
>>
>>Did I miss something?  Does 7.1 run on classics?  I installed it on one and
>>it starts to boot but won't finish.  I started with a freshly re formatted
>>hard drive, so there's no possibility of an extension or control panel
>>incompatability.  Reinstalled 7.01 and it worked fine, so I kind of rule
>>out hardware problems.  Doesn't 7.1 run on Classics?  Surely it doesn't
>>need an enabler?
>>
I ran 7.1 on my Classic for a while with no problem, no incompatibility,
nothing.  I went back to 7.0.1 because 7.1 was taking too much room for one
of my applications to run.

-David Anderson
Nashville TN

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:04:01 PST
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Database Transition from DBase (A)

>Having a large database with about 15,000 records on DBase, and needing to
>port it to a Mac, what kind of database products are available that can
>accommodate this range of records.

Two come to mind, HyperCard will easily handle that many but be dog slow.
FileMaker will handle that make and be faster.

>Are there any aids or tricks to porting the data over to this new database
>product?

Save all your data out in whatever format you can (preferably text tab or
text comma) from dBase. If text comma import into a spreadsheet and then
save out as text tab.
Import over to a Mac.

If the data is not "clean" use spreadsheets and word processors to clean
it.
Open with a spreadsheet (Excel) or with a word processor. Massage the data
til you get text tab delimited data then import into your new Mac database.
I use the word processor search & replace to convert columized text that is
separated with spaces (not tabs or commas) into tab delimited entries with
no extra spaces. When I think I am done I import into the spreadsheet and
hand check to see that all the records aligned properly. Typically only a
few manual adjustments are required. Then save and import into the
database.

Kee
[e-mail]

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Date: 14 Jan 1993 07:35:31 +0100 (MET)
From: HANS KROEGER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dictionarry for MS Word 5 (Q)

Hi Netters,

does anybody know of an English-German & German-English Dictionary for the Mac
? It would be nice if such a dictionary could be called up in MSW 5
similar to the Thesaurus....?

Thank you for your help!

                 Hans Kroeger
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:37:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Tobias Kuipers)
Subject: Do StyleWriters have a short lifetime? (A)

My SW did something like 3000 copies aswell. However, I do seem to
have a problem. When printing very dark pages, white horizontal lines
appear in the printout. This is quite annoying, especially when printing
out documents that contain pictures.

Does anyone know if this is due to the supposed "short lifetime" of a SW?
Or could it have something to do with refilling the ink cartridge? (Here in
the Netherlands, cartridges go out only for the most immoral price: 10
cartridges will buy you a new StyleWriter!)

In short: Do I have to buy a new (better) printer, or just a cartridge?
--
Tobias Kuipers - [e-mail] - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 16:36:39 PST
From: Paul Brians <[e-mail]>
Subject: Encryption Programs, Shareware

What's the best encryption program in the archives?  A colleague is
looking for one.

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 08:46:11 -0600
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Extracting sound from QT Movies

Hello again!

Does anyone out there know of a way to extract the soundtrack from QT movie
files?  I'd prefer a shareware program or some such, but if anyone knows how
to do it in a commercial program I'd appreciate a post about that, too.  You
can e-mail me, and I'll summarize for the digest.

THANKS!!!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 07:47:25 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek, M.D.)
Subject: FAQ

>>JP Weaver -> [e-mail]
>>Posts:
>>This is a funny question comming from a military
>>instalation but, what does the acronymn FAQ stand
>>for?

The irony is even funnier for those who know the meaning:
"Frequently Asked Question" - which I guess makes the question
a cyclic redundancy.

Ahh, another TLA (Three Letter Acronym...)

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 14:38:22 PST
From: JP Weaver <[e-mail]>
Subject: FAQ (A)

Thank you all for giving a beginner a clue.
FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Question.
JP

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 10:31 EST
From: Mitch Cohen <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to get Print Monitor to wait for printer?

I'm setting up a Mac (LCII, 7.0.1) to receive files via modem.  This is done
with a White Knight script I've written.  After a file is received, a page is
sent to the default printer (as notification of the file received).  The
machine will be running 24-hrs.  Problem is the printer may be shut off
occasionally, which causes Print Monitor to freak and interrupt the script.

I've thought about using Okey-Dokey, which was added to the archive recently.
Supposedly this will select "OK" from the offending dialog (There is a problem
with the print monitor).  This machine will be used for other reasons as well
as the modem (by non-technical people), thus causing confusion with their
dialog boxes.

So what I'm looking for is a means of getting Print Monitor just to wait for
the printer to become available.  Or a shareware utility that will do this.
For those really interested, the printer is a LaserMax which uses a controller
board inside a Mac IIci.  The local machine sends data to the IIci, using the
normal LaserWriter driver.  Its the IIci that is often powered off.

Thankya,
Mitch Cohen, [e-mail]

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

Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:07:19 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP->Mac Hookup

     HP->Mac Hookup
[e-mail]  (John DeVivo) asks:

>I need information on what is available software and hardware wise for
>connecting and using an old HP LaseJet 2686A with serial interface to a
>Macintosh. Please answer directly to me. I'll complie the answers and post
>the replies. Thanks ahead of time.

Hi Jay!!

You might be able to find some help in a report at sumex:  It's called
info-mac/report/mac-laser-jet-up-rev-11.txt.

Hope this helps!   :-)

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

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

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:18:32 -0500
From: Omar C. Jadwat <[e-mail]>
Subject: IIsi Cache Cards (Q)

Hello world.

Seems I have some money with which to upgrade my si. More memory is the
first order of business, but I'm also thinking of adding a cache card --
they seem the most affordable of the other possible enhancements. Does
anyone have experience with the various products on the market? Is there a
marked improvement in performance? Any possible compatibility problems? Are
they all created equal, or should I go for some specific brand name?

Thanks
Omar ([e-mail])

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

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 21:30:01 -0500
From: "Tad Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac and All-in-One

I offer this for those of you who, like me, are using Info-Mac and
All-in-One. I don't know how much of the following depends on specific
keyboard layouts, but you can try it out and see how it works.

Info-Mac messages are cumbersome in All-in-One because there is no way to
search for specific text while reading a message. What you CAN do is "file
the text" of the message -- the FT command -- in a personal folder, and
then EDIT the text. Once in the editor, you can search for strings of text:
for example, find the next occurrence of "7.1". (I've been using that a lot
lately.)

The online help in our system gives little advice for function key
equivalents on a Mac using Microphone II in VT100 emulation mode. By trial
and error, I found that {clear} {slash} on the numeric keypad invokes the
Search function (normally I think this would correspond to F1-F3). After
you type the text you want to find, {slash} invokes the search itself. To
find the next occurrence, press {slash} again.

This has made it possible to work through the large Info-Mac messages
looking only at items of particular interest. I used to have to keep
pressing {Enter} to scroll through each screenful. I'd be interested in
knowing how other people's keyboards work in this situation.

Tad Davis
[e-mail]

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

Date: 14 Jan 1993 14:41:38 -0800 (PST)
From: MacCrusader <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #9

      >>All 68030-040 Macs support 32-bit addressing.

      68030 Macs prior to the Mac IIci were not "32-bit clean", so you need
      Mode 32 in order to use 32-bit addressing.

      Roger

      P.S.--According to Contour Designs' "Mouse Topper" documentation,
      Malaysian mice have a "Model or Family #" of G5431 and say "Made in
      Malaysia" on the bottom.  (The model number is actually shared by
      other mice made in the USA and Taiwan)

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 12:47:52 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Library Software (A)

A good source of ads and reviews for Library software is in the Apple
Library Users Group Newsletter. It's free from

Apple Library Users Group
Apple Computer, Inc.
10381 Bandley Drive
Cupertino, CA 95014

Voice 408/974-2552 Fax [phone]

or you might try emailing [e-mail] to subscribe.

I haven't tried any advertized products yet, but some companies offer free
or low cost demos. This group might be a good resource for anyone doing
library automation.

Judith Haller
Micro Apps Spec
Institute for Geophysics
UTexas Austin

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

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 22:19:57 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90 mail-order

subject: MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90 mail-order


> Just wondering where Snooper ranks compared to Norton Utilities 2.0
> and/or MacTools 2.0.  Is it better, just as good, ......???

Snooper does not compete against those two, it competes against
MacEKG. Funny it came up because...

I got some "junk mail" today from TigerDirect, a mail order software
reseller. They were selling MacEKG, Help! and 7th Heaven for $99.90.
First, I thought that there may be some people interested in these
products who have not managed to get on the right mailing list.
TigerDirect's # is 1-800-666-2562.

Second, I was curious if anyone used these packages.

MacEKG runs diagnostic checks and helps find init conflicts. Help! also
is a troubleshooting package that finds init conflicts, damaged
files, duplicate copies of files. The propaganda quotes Bob LeVitus
as saying "It's a compatibility checker on steroids!" I would like to
know if these packages can spot anything an experienced troubleshooter
won't find relatively easily? If not, I may still consider getting them as
a tool to teach the concepts of troubleshooting. Any comments from
users?

7th Heaven has a calendar, screen saver, something called FileMapper
which assigns applications to "orphaned" files that won't open
when you double click on them because the application is not on your
HD. I'm most interested in the first two, but I'd appreciate comments on
7th Heaven as well.

Thanks, Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 13:26:52 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac needs Wing Commander and Ultima!!!

I'd like to appeal to all those Mac users who are also avid gaming fans:

I don't think I have to convince many people about the lack of high quality
games for the Macintosh.  True, the puzzle/educational games are very well
done, but there is only a handful of good RPGs and action adventure games out
there.  If you don't believe this, go to a local software store and compare
the
games being offered for the PC and those for the Mac, or simply compare the
shareware offerings between the two.

Hopefully this situation may change in the near future.  Origin Systems,
developer of the Ultima and Wing Commander series, has been acquired by
Electronic Arts and is now apparently in a position to port over games to the
Mac.  The thing is that they are hesistant to make Mac games because they feel
there is a lack of a Mac gaming community, or at least the market is too small
to invest the considerable time and money to do a port.  For instance, on
America Online, the Origin marketing rep, Wayne Baker, stated "...unfortunate
fact, though, is that a recent survey showed that a whopping 85% of those who
buy entertainment software own PCs."  It was later pointed out that this isn't
really a significant figure because all the good games ARE for the PC.
Unfortunately, being a business, they rely on these marketing figures for
their
decisions and has asked for data, with references, to sway their view of the
Mac gaming market.  I'm definitely not in a position to find this type of
data,
and I'm sure many others aren't.

However, Wayne has an open ear.  He appreciates the Mac community being vocal
about their wanting Origin products, and passes every one of the
requests/pleas
to those who make the product developing decisions.  So if you're like me, and
are tired of playing Dungeon of Doom and Spectre while your friends are
playing
Ultima VII and Wing Commander I & II, how about telling Origin how you feel
about them doing a port of their games?  Send e-mail through the 'net to
[e-mail] or 76004,[e-mail] (the customer services rep's name on
CIS is "Marie"), or send email to me ([e-mail]), and I'll forward them to
Origin.  I think if Origin does start developing their high quality games for
the Mac, and becomes successful, more companies will follow their lead.

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:38:52 -0900
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Malaysian mice

There seems to be a question as to HOW these Malaysian mice are serialized.
Well, let me tell you that I think it is CRUEL and HEARTLESS to serialize a
mouse without its consent. How would you like to be serialized against your
will, rendering you unable to conceive a family for the rest of your life?
You wouldn't, would you? And let's not get started on the Catholic Church
and its stand on such contraceptive measures. I am sure that they would be
against this involuntary serialization, also. So, whoever is doing this to
these poor mice, STOP IT right now. Mice are people too, you know.

(My favorite bumper sticker of the week; "Dairy is Slavery.")

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 12:27 CET
From: "Charles C. Schneider"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Malaysian Mice vs. Mongolian Desert Racing Mice

We have four Mongolian Desert Racing Mice (I swear that's what they're
called). I've checked and, while there are no serial numbers, there
is conclusive evidence that they are all males. Thanks to Info-Mac,
I can confidently name at least one of them "Michel".

Ciao4now

Charles C. Schneider
International Atomic Energy Agency
Vienna, Austria
sdz5@iaea1 (bitnet)

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

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 22:59:45 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Malaysian moose serial numbers :-)

I have a hi-tech suggestion for determining if you have any Malaysian
meece.  You will need, in addition to your Mac and disattached Mickey:
  Scanner
  OCR program
  Word processor

Procedure:
  (1)  Obtain suspect rodent and place, ball-down, on flatbed scanner.
If you have a hand- or tower-type scanner, ratty should be ball-up.
Be careful, the little guy may object if he is wrong species.
  (2)  Scan underside of the varmint.  See caution above.
  (3)  Use the OCR program and move the text to your word processor.
  (4)  In your word processor, find the string "Made in".  This string
might be in UPPERCASE letters.
  (5)  The string immediately following the above will tell you the
country of mousifacture.
  (6)  This will save you the considerable trouble of OCRing the serial
numbers into a spreadsheet for comparison.

Procedure was tried on a variety of local chordates (cord-ates?), and
no Malaysian vermin were located (strings found included only "USA" and
"Taiwan").  Next, more field tests!  Good luck.  ;-)

Who said "Military Intelligence" was an oxymoron? (trivia quiz)

Hesitatingly,
  Glenn Schaffer
Disclaimer:  "The secretary will disavow any knowledge ..."

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 10:49:18 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Netter's Dinner

The Netter's Dinner at MacWorld was a huge success.  The large dinner stuffed
us all and this time the spice-wimps were overthrown and noses ran all night.
The Hunan loves us because we pay cash and dinner hardly blink when there
were 30 NO SHOWS!  You know who you are.  You are all an embarassment.  ;)

On a different note, the only thing I picked up at the show was Pixar's
Typestry, a truely fun program.  I will be posting some of the pictures I
create as I get time.  I would be curious in talking tips and tricks with
anyone using this program for fun and profit.

For those out of the know, Typestry is a $200 (show special) package that
does 3D rendering and animation limited to text.  I've checked out some of
the 3D packages, and they all seem way too complex for the playing around
that I want to do.  Typestry addresses this by limiting the scope of the
program and doing what it does very well.  Basically you can create as many
text blocks as you want, resize them and move them around.  You can add a
back wall and/or a floor.  You can bevel the letters 4 different ways and
control their extrusion depth.  You can make the letters be cutout or made
of smaller pieces in a mess of options.  Then you can apply textures and
shading to the pieces and render them.  Some of my first renderings take
about an hour.  You can also control the lights in a wide variety of ways,
which can really increase your rendering times.  Finally, you can set up
key frames and create animations.  It's really easy and damn cool!

There is apparently a program called Glimpse which allows you to create new
texture maps (called Looks) for another $100.  Has anyone used this?  I
suspect
that it is a must-have.  Is this true?

TTFN

Jon

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

Date: 13 Jan 1993 19:02:07 -0600 (MDT)
From: Metro State College of Denver <[e-mail]>
Subject: NEW MAC TROJAN UPDATE

I have received information from Central Point Software on a NEW trojan
called CPRO.

A piece of malicious software has recently appeared called CPRO.  CPRO is
actually a trojan horse application.  Once the application is opened, the
Trojan Horse erases hard and floppy disks."

Contact Central Point software for the update or get the info on
the following services

Centrail Point BBS  [phone]
Compuserve          GO CPSMAC
Applelink           locate the central point software sampler 3rd party
            demo/updates area.
america On Line     locate the CPS industry connection (keyword: CENTRAL)

Ed Jacobs

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:20:44 EST
From: [e-mail] (Thomas Leber)
Subject: Non-Profit Org Needs Used Mac Equip

Fellow Mac People:

Is there anyone out there in Cyberspace willing to help out a non-profit
group looking for donations of used Mac equipment?

The all-volunteer fire/rescue company which I run with has a desperate need
for a computer to handle record keeping, training, and hazardous materials
response information, and I'd like to see them get a Mac. A large display is
just about essential for their needs, so I'm trying to find someone to
donate a working modular Mac system.

This could be an easy write-off for someone looking to dispose of
some older equipment, and would help us out immensely.

Anyone? Anyone?

Reply via E-mail to <[e-mail]>

Many Thanks-
Tom Leber, Wyndmoor Hose Company No. 1
Springfield Township, Montgomery County PA

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 17:28:38 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
Subject: Norton for Mac vs? SUM

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

>I have Symantic Utilities for the Mac (SUM) and recently picked
>up a cheap copy of the Norton Utilities for the Mac (NUM?), now also
>>From Symantic.

>Can anyone tell me if the NUM directory backup obviates the need for
>the SUM directory backup? Does NUM replace SUM entirely?

>Mark Olson    [e-mail]

Yes. NUM 2.0 is a replacement for all previous NUM and SUM versions.

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 16:15:26 -0500
From: Arel Yizhak Weisberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: NOW Menus - like utility

Is there a share/freeware utility that accomplishes what the NOW Menus
utility does i.e. lets you select items inside folders under the Apple
Menu?

Thank you,
Arel Weisberg
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 01:46:22 EST
From: Mingzuo Shen <[e-mail]>
Subject: OmniPage problem: unimplemented trap

Hi all,

    We have a scanner (MicroTek I think) and OmniPage
optical character recognization program, on a Mac IIx
run MacOs 7.1. I used this combination before to recognize
characters to good effect. But just now I encountered
this problem:

    when I tried to select the "scan" or "quickscan"
    menu item OmniPage said something like "unimplemented
    trap" and offered only a restart button.

    I could use the MicroTeK Apple-Menu program to
scan pictures therefore it seems that the scanner was
working.

    This machine is on our adm secretary's desk and
lately there has been a lot of additions of software
and junk. Since I do not know about these newer
programs and have no time to test them one by one
(and indeed I am not supposed to tinker with other
people's machines), I thought somebody, either
>From the vendor of OmniPage or somebody who had
similar problems, might be kind enough to give me
a hint. I am interested in "simple" solutions,
not necessarily elegant or "social" (I cound use
the machine at night and can return it to the
original state afterwards), or general. Email is
prefered.

    Thanks in advance,

Mingzuo Shen

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 15:31:49 MEZ
From: David Steiner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Pegasus Mail (Q)

In answer to my multi-platform email question last month, Henk Verhaar in
the Netherlands suggested Pegasus mail which he said was available from
splicer.cba.hawaii.edu (128.171.17.7).

I have tried a number of times to reach this server but there is no answer.
Henk said he couldn't get through either anymore.

Anyone out there know anything about this server or if the package is
available anywhere else?

Thanks in advance.

David R. Steiner
Research Assoc. - Remote Sensing & GIS
ISPA - Uni. Osnabrueck, Vechta Germany

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 15:42:20 -0500
From: Claude Bellavance <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook 160's trackball desperately slow...

PowerBook 160's trackball desperately slow...


Can anybody tell me how to speed up my PowerBook 160's
trackball (using system 7.1).  I have installed Mouse2,
adjusted the mouse control panel at the highest speed and even
tried to reinstall the whole system and still, the trackball
keeps on beeing incredibly slow.  I presume this can be done
with ResEdit but I just don't know how... I also use a
PowerBook 145 (same system) and the trackball on it works
perfectly well.

Thanks a lot

Claude Bellavance
Centre d'Etudes Quebecoises
Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres

email:  [e-mail]


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

Date: 14 Jan 1993 02:51:38 +0100 (CET)
From: ALEXEI TSVETKOV <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook startup sound

I have to take issue with Andrew Vernon who suggests that the only way
to lower the startup sound with the older PBs is to use a phone plug.
I have a 140/7.01. The volume settings in the Sound cdev affect both
the system and the startup sound.

Alexei Tsvetkov
Munich (I'd rather be in Philadelphia)

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

Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:03:37 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Powerbook startup sound (C)

     Powerbook startup sound (C)
[e-mail] (Alexei Tsvetkov) comments on this question:

>>This question has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in the
>>info-mac archives. Can the powerbook startup sound be changed or disabled?

By saying this:

>Use the Sound control panel

I have a comment to make on this.  If you turn your Sound Control Panel down
to
1, that's the volume that the startup sound will have on next reboot.
However,
if you set the volume to 0, then the startup sound defaults to maximum.  :-(

It's not a bug, it's a feature!!!!!!!!  ;-)

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

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 16:56:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lyman S. Taylor)
Subject: PowerPC Macs   (Re: New Macintoshes)

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail]
(Mike Cote) writes:
>
>Does anyone have any idea whether the Quadra 800 will be "PowerPC-Ready".  I
>saw mention in one of the MacWeek articles that some of the new Macs will be
>able to accept a PowerPC chip when they become available.
>
    I wouldn't beat on it.   I don't get my hands on a MacWeek as much as
I used to but I think I vaguely remember a "rumour" that the new "server"
class Macintoshes "might" be upgrable to PowerPC.  Although I'm willing to
bet by upgrade they mean daughterboard replacement. ( uProcessor AND ROMS )
These beasts will ( reportedly ) boast some SERIOUS I/O capability and
therefore will be price beyond your average desktop. :-)
[ I wouldn't be surprised if these server boxes are geared to A/UX or
  PowerOpen whenever it gets here ]

>Any ideas as to what it really means to be PowerPC ready?  Does the processor
>get replaced?  Maybe a coprocessor socket?
>

    The PowerPC macs will be "useless" without a complete new set of
ROMs.  In order to get fast emulation of a 68XXX Mac some significant parts
of the MacOS will have to be in NATIVE PowerPC code. Like the stuff WAY WAY
down inside the ROM of a Quadra. Somehow I get the feeling that this will
NOT be dynamically "patchable" at startup time ( I'm no MacOS guru so I could
be wrong ... although a MacOS that patched up makes me nervous.  )

    I also wouldn't bet on apple putting MacROMs on a PDS card either so
don't hold your breath on a PDS "upgrade" either.

    Also I think the 601s are 50MHz chips so it would be like sticking
a Honda Grand Prix racing engine inside a VW Bug to just drop a 601 inside
any of the current Macs.  Unless you're SERIOUSLY CPU bound don't count on
much of a performance increase.  RISC chips only work fast if you can keep
its pipeline filled. Especially in a nonpreemptive OS.

    Save your pennies for NEXT January. ( that's what I'm doing :-) )
It's probably more of a software delay than hardware.

Lyman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 22:25:17 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quadra 950

We are planning to purchase a Quadra 950 to use with a transmission
electron microscope.  I seem to remember a number of things that are
problematic with the Quadra 950....(programmes that do not run? things that
are necessary to add?).  Has anyone collected a summary of these items?  I
would like to get the clearest picture that I can of what can and cannot be
expected of the 950.

As always, thanks for your help....
Dr. Michael Silverstein                                 Tel:  [phone]
Materials Engineering, Technion                      Fax:  [phone]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 10:32:20 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Radius 8.24xp Card & 7.1 (Q)

A friend with a IIci, Radius 8.24xp accelerated video card, and Apple 16-inch
monitor has recently upgraded to System 7.1

Since doing so he has lost all acceleration in the video card. Has anyone
else suffered this malady? Radius Tech. Support people have been less than
precise on whether their current softwares inits and CDEVs will work with
7.1.  One support person said, "It is also possible that the QuickColor
software may not be running whatsoever."

Any corroboration or further observations on this situation most appreciated.

Dennis Dimick, Arlington,VA
[e-mail]
Planet BMUG: Dennis R. Dimick

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

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 22:39:14 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RAM Problem (Q)

greetings,

today, we tried to transfer 4 1MB SIMMs from a IIsi to a mac II and we got
the tone indicating that there was a prblem with the memory when we
restarted the mac II.

details:

system 7
80 ns 1MB SIMMS (2 DRAM chips/SIMM)

Is there something special about these SIMMS that the mac II cannot handle?

thanks in advance.

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 8:55:08 CST
From: [e-mail] ( Karl Steger - System Admin)
Subject: rdist

I am looking for the rdist program that was announced here less than
two months ago.  My copy got destroyed and I need another.  What is the name
of the bin-hex file?

--
Karl Steger                             Instructional Computing
Microcomputer Support Specialist        University of MO-St. Louis

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 13:07:58 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Wurtz)
Subject: Re. Norton 2.0 Problem?

I had similar Volume Bitmap and B-tree problems with my Mac IIcx 8/80,
System 7.1, Norton (Disk Doctor) 2.0, and DiskFirstAid 7.1  I couldn't get
DFA and NDD to both report no problems.

My solution was to backup my hard disk with Disk Fit Pro and then run Norton
Speed Disk.  NSD found a few problems that (I think) neither DFA nor NDD had
reported, and then NSD fixed the problems.  I proceeded with the optimization
without any problems, after which both DFA and NDD reported no problems!

Jeff
================
Jeffrey D. Wurtz
   Local:  zeus::wurtz  B/157E  O/89-10  C/5J2  [phone]
Internet:  [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 07:18:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ben Fowler)
Subject: Regular expression guru, please

Would anyone who really understands regular expressions and/or archie care
to tell me why I get such a different response to

>geog01% archie -r "edit-ii-"

as compared with

>archie -r "edit.*hqx"

I think that the latter misses quite a few matches. Where am I going wrong?

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

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 20:40:32 PST
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: remote restart of a Quadra 950 (a)

>Is there a way to cycle a Quadra 950 remotely through an ARA session or
>over the network.
>

Yes. There is a LocalTalk device called the PowerSwitch LT that is a power
outlet and ADB port controllable through AppleTalk commands. Granted it
does not sit on ethernet but you are bound to be able to get a LocalTalk
drop into your office. The power outlet on it can switch up to 15 amps. If
you are trying to reboot your Quadra and it has hung, you could power it
through the PowerSwitch and then cycle power on the outlet to get it back
to a know good state. Then use the ADB on command to power on your Quadra.
It has a list price of $199 and they were selling it at MacWorld for $99.
Maybe you can still get the intro price. Contact them at:

[e-mail]

It has other smarts such as the ability to listen for packets coing
periodically from a server and if the packets cease during a setable time
period, the Powerswitch would automatically power cycle the server.

It can also power off unused LaserWriters after a period of inactivity.
When a user prints, it will power the Laser back on. While the Laser is off
it replies for any Chooser lookups so that all LaserWriters appear in the
Chooser even if they are all off.

But, for sure it will allow you to power up a Mac via ARA or over the
network.

Disclaimer: Although I am no longer working at Radiant, I contributed to
the development of this baby.

Proud parent,
Kee
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 10:33:22 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: Screensaver for two-screen systems (A)

>I would also like a screensaver which would blank just the *internal* screen
>when all of the action is occurring on the main screen.  Does anyone know of
>a screensaver with this capabilty?  At this point, the best I can do is to
>keep the brightness control on the internal screen pretty low.  Thanks in
>advance for any help.

I could write this, if I knew how to blank a screen properly. The source
code for public blanket (setting GrayRgn to nil) is of no use. Putting a
(black) window on top of everything prevents background processing. Is
there anybody out there who's ever written a screensaver and who's willing
to share his secret: how do I prevent the finder or programs from drawing
onto a blanked screen ? I've asked this a couple of times before, but
nobody ever answered so far.

Karl

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 08:02:35 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SCSI Device Driver Information

Hey Folks,

I need to write a host driver for a SCSI device ( not
specifically on a MAC ). Does anyone have any general
info on SCSI, SCSI drivers and / or writing SCSI drivers?
Any type of help would be greatly appreciated.

Please respond directly to [e-mail]

Thanxs
Dan Charnitsky

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

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 13:55:56 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Kim Cary)
Subject: SE-->SE/30 (C)

>From having done one myself here, I can add to Brad's comments:

For your 700-800 university price, you get a new board, internal frame and
a new front for your case, as well as software and manual. If you're going
>From a 2 drive SE, you'll have to ditch one of the drives (I'm offering $50
to someone who has a guaranteed working 800 I can put in my
brother-in-law's computer).

I don't think this kit is still on the price list. However, a campus store
manager that has the old part number MAY still be able to come up with a
kit.
They'll need to have your old frame, front, board & ROMs back, if they get
your the upgrade. Several companies in the back of MacWeek still advertise
the upgrade at $799.


Many SEs were shipped with 120ns memory, so check for -12 or -120 or
something like that on the chips, before tossing your old SIMMS. Chips that
say -15 or -150 are definitely NG.

Kim Cary, GSEP Systems Support, Pepperdine University
[e-mail], KCARY@PEPVAX
"California Lottery's Keno - 'Better than a ferret in
 your pants' - but not by much.

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 14:40:45 -0500
From: [e-mail]  (your name here)
Subject: SE/30 Unreliable HD FD

    Some time ago there was a discussion of the problems with some of
the
Hard Drives on the SE/30 sticking.  Apple extended the war. and replaced
the drives.

    Ever since receiving my SE/30 (an early one), I have had
intermittant
problems with the HD Floppy Drive.  It has not been hearty.  It has
difficulty
reading disks formated on a variety of other machines.  Mostly DD disks
formated
to DD on DD only machines.  Is this a common problem?  Has apple replaced
the
controller chips for these drives?

    I remember reading about similar problems, but that was when I
hardly
ever used floppies.  Now that I have lent the machine to a friend who is
writing their PhD. thesis, this is an important isssue.

    What can I expect from the repair shop?  If apple has not made any
'recalls', what does a repair consist of?  Can the shop repair or do they
replace the drive and or the controller chips?  How much does this cost?

Please respond to me directly.  If there is a common problem then I will
report back and provide any useful information that I can pass along..

Thanks,

William Shirley
Cornell University
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 17:45:21 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Search/Replace: use Nisus

 ---------------------------Original message----------------------------
Graham Allsopp asks about Search/Replace fuctions on the Mac.

Graham, you'll be deluged by mail from Nisus users. Like this.

Note that Nisus Compact doesn't have the macro facilities, so you
really need the full package. In the States you can get it at
academic discount for $100.

An alternative, also from Nisus Software, is the text-editor Qued/M,
which has all Nisus's text manipulation features but none of the
document-processing and page-layout stuff - footnotes, multiple
columns etc.

Grep comes in two varieties in Nisus: PowerSearch and PowerSearch+.
PowerSearch is the Mac user-friendly version of Unix GREP, PS+
is basically the Unix utility implemented in a Mac program.

Once you've set up your Search/Replace templates you can enter them
as commands in a macro. Nisus allows complete freedom of choice
for adding and changing keyboard equivalents for menu-selectable
items. Thus you can assign your macro a command key. Next time
 you have to massage a PostScript file, hit the command key equivalent
for the macro, count to five, and it's done.

Best,
Graeme

Nisus in the US from the UK: 010-1-619-481-1477

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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 93 18:36:56 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: Shh conclusions?

 From the responses I received it seems as if Shhh works great on the
bigger powerbooks, but doesn't work at all on the PB100, which is too
bad.

 Thanks to everyone who responded.

[e-mail]

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Date: 14 Jan 93 01:42:23 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: StyleWriter II - II thumbs up!

I just replaced my StyleWriter with the StyleWriter II. I am very pleased with
my purchase for a number of reasons.

- SW II eliminates those nasty sounds the original used to make. Much
quieter!

- Paper tray takes 100 sheets

- Grayscale printing! Still at 300 dpi...

- Print Monitor works (for real!). My original never, I mean NEVER worked with
  the Print Monitor. I contacted many people who tried to explain the thing,
  to no avail. The SW II background printing option worked right out of the
  box.

- Software allows you to clear the cartridge before printing, from the Print
  Dialog.

- New Help option in the Print Dialog.

- Faster! Faster! Faster! I can't say how much but there are three modes now.
  Best, Normal and Draft. A good way to preserve your ink supply.

- Good price! Great product... Apple continues to produce top notch equipment
  and lower prices.

BTW: I am not an Apple employee, I only wish I were ;)

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Date: 14 Jan 1993 09:05:20 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Michael A. McGuire)
Subject: Sys 7.1 on 800K (C)

>Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 11:03:54 cdt
>From: "Duckenfield,Paul" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: System 7.1 on 800k disks
>
>        Just thought that everyone would like to know that Apple is still
>having troubles getting copies of 800k System 7.1 disks to their customers. I
>ordered on October 20, 1992. As of today, there are still "problems" with the
>production of those disks. Fortunately, I am not displeased with System 7.0,
>but it would be nice to be able to move up within four months of a particular
>system release.

On the day I got 7.1 I ordered a copy of it on 800K disks by calling
Apple at the number in my manual.  (Yes, I'll confess.  I do read
documentation.)  Only cost was the shipping charge of $3.50.  Got them
inside of 3 weeks.  This all happened several months ago.


Michael A. McGuire, :-)
[e-mail]


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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 21:19:01 -0500
From: "Tad Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1 on 800k

> Just thought that everyone would like to know that Apple is still having
> troubles getting copies of 800k System 7.1 disks to their customers. I
> ordered on October 20, 1992. As of today, there are still "problems" with
> the production of those disks.

I ordered the 800k version on 12/2/92 and I got it yesterday (1/12/93). By
the way, it installed without incident on my SE, and so far nothing has
broken. Since I have file sharing turned on, I didn't see much in the way
of a memory gain, but having the separate Fonts folder feels much cleaner.

I ordered the HD version on 1/6/93 and got it five days later. It installed
without incident on my Classic II. Now both machines are running the same
System. Apart from the fact that the 800k version has more disks and the
Install disk doesn't boot, there was no visible difference in the
installation process. (The 800k version DOES have a boot disk with System
6.0.7 and DiskTools 7.1.)

Tad Davis
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 13:47:17 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Text with layout

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> I found a unique use for the "text with layout" feature that saved many
> hours of labor. While importing ASCII data files generated by a SUN work-
> station, I found all the vector rows to end with an unprintable "square".
> Using Teach-text or Word text only, the unprintables contaminated my data.
> However, opening the files using "text with layout", Word interprets the
> unprintables as carriage returns and delivers a perfectly translated, two
> column vector for each file. Thanks MS!!

What's wrong with doing a quick search and replace on that character?
I've never heard any good about the Text with Layout convertor before
this, as well as things about it not being 32-bit clean and using
a useless proportional font rather than a mono-spaced font as you
would expect for data brought in from a mainframe. Not to mention
the fact that it adds another step to opening any text file until
you throw it out. :-)

A quick tip for Nisus users. You can create a file called Nisus
Text Stationery and leave it in the same folder with Nisus.
>From then on, whenever you open a plain TEXT file, Nisus will
automatically use the Nisus Text Stationery file as a template
for the one you're opening. So, my Nisus Text Stationery file
is set to Monaco 9 pt text and a very large margin size so I
can be sure of seeing everything without weird word wraps. It
makes opening text files much more pleasant with Nisus.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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Date: 14 Jan 1993 08:06:45 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Turbo Gopher questions... (

     Turbo Gopher questions... (A)
[e-mail] asks:

>I am trying to be a good 'Netter and use TurboGopher.  Upon launch,
>TurboGopher reports "Unable to resolve host name" and does nothing of value
>from that point on.  I am using VersaTerm's Telnet tool to connect to my
>host
so I beleive this implies that MacTCP is configured correctly (I am >sure it
is
a least installed).  Any help?  Please reply direct.

A few suggestions:

  - Make sure you're using MacTCP 1.1 if you're using System 7.0.x; MacTCP
    1.1.1 for System 7.1.  I ran into a problem on my PB 170 with the error
    you describe.  I found out I had MacTCP 1.0 --- it worked OK with my
    terminal emulation program (Comet -- Cornell-developed), but gave me
    this error when using Fetch or Gopher (Turbo or HyperCard).

  - Try replacing and reconfiguring MacTCP.  A corrupted file could
    possibly cause this type of a problem.

  - Check with your central MIS group to see if your nameservers are
    working properly (or whoever is in charge of maintaining your name-
    servers).  If the nameserver tables are messed up, you'll lose most
    of your internet connectivity.

  - Check your routers that connect you to the nameservers.  For the same
    reason as the previous scenario, if you can't get to your nameserver,
    you've lost your connectivity.

I had a problem like this on Tuesday.  It gave me a slightly different
message,
but it still had to do with inability to resolve names.  I
contacted CIT (Cornell Information Technologies - our central MIS group),
and they tracked it down to a failing router.  Hope this points you in
the right direction!   :-)

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

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