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Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  9 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 32

Today's Topics:

      [!] Apple's New Products
      [*] After Dark 2.0x updater
      [*] AfterDark Globe module Martian pict
      [*] Checksummer 1.0.0
      [*] Homer-and-Sally.hqx
      [*] Inexpensive MIDI resources for the Mac (2nd edition)
      [*] info-mac/card/x/sound-utilities.hqx
      [*] Installing Omega SANE Patch into System 7.1
      [*] NewLook 1.3
      [*] New Posting
      [*] now-utilities-401p-updater.hqx
      [*] QuickMail Voice Mail Attach
      [*] Re: reAdobe 1.1
      [*] ROMmie.cpt.hqx
      [*] Save Princeton 1.8
      [*] Send Script 1.0.1
      [*] source/pascal/macbinary2+100.hqx
      [*] Stapler 1.1
      [*] tech/macbinary2+specs.txt
      [*] Tex-Edit 1.6
      [*] TheKingInYellow.sit.hqx StartupScreen
      [*] TidBITS#162/08-Feb-93
      [*] Tiny Saver 1.3
      [*] util/macbinary2+100.hqx
      [*] wp-macro-ez-deskwriter-env.hqx
      [*] wp-tips.hqx
      "LC" == ?
      (New Macs  ||  System 7.1)  &&  8*24GC  =  ????
      21MB Floptical Drives (A)
      21 MB Flopticals - some info
      7.0 & 7.1 Printer Driver conflicts
      7.1 Enabler Patch no workee with Suitcase 2.1.2 !?
      7.1 Enabler Patch no workee with Suitcase 2.1.2 !? (Comment)
      Alpha 5.3
      American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder
      Apple 13" Monitor trouble (Q)
      Apple IIe drive to the LCII IIe card
      Defense of Mathematica's interface
      DeskPaint & DeskDraw - Opinions Wanted
      Deskwriter Printing
      DOS to Mac Plus (Q)
      dropple menu and system 7.1
      Elementary stats pkg needed
      Failed (or not) 040
      Format HD disk as 800k (C)
      Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!)
      Fragmented VM file?
      Gestalt & Color QuickDraw
      I got my icons back !!!!
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #31 (3 msgs)
      Information on Apple Events
      It's Feb 10 in Tokyo: New macs are here!
      MacTCP 1.1.1...
      Making A Movie From GIFs or PICTS (C)
      Medical Dictionary for MSWord5.0 or 5.1
      Memory fragmentation
      PHOTOSHOP & LOTS O RAM
      Power Cords Holding a Charge??????????
      QuickTime 1.5 (A)
      Stripping accented characters from email: summary
      StyleWriter II vs. DeskWriter
      sys7.1 sharing setup problem
      TeachText 7.1.2---where?
      TextBox and styled text (Q)
      Virtual Memory with Lots-O-RAM
      VM & Photoshop
      White Knight & Zmodem (Q)
      Word 4 and StyleWriter II
      Word 5.1a patch available
      ZyXEL Prices WAS:(Looking for a few good FAX Modems)

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 16:36:42 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [!] Apple's New Products

The new products have been announced in Tokyo. I picked this up from Nexis
newswire:
    Macintosh Color Classic
    Macintosh Color Classic 4MB/80HD, Keyboard     $1,389  Immediate
    Macintosh  LC III
    Macintosh  LC III,  4MB/80HD, Keyboard           $1,349  Immediate
    Macintosh  LC III,  4MB/160HD, Keyboard          $1,499  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris Line
    Macintosh Centris 610 68LC040, 4MB/80HD        $1,859  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 610 68LC040, 4MB/80HD,
      Ethernet                                     $1,969  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 610 68LC040, 8MB/230HD,
      Ethernet                                     $2,519  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 610 68LC040, 8MB/230HD,
      CD, Ethernet,1MB VRAM                        $2,899  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 650 68LC040, 4MB/80HD        $2,699  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 650 8MB/80HD, Ethernet       $3,189  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 650 8MB/230HD, Ethernet      $3,559  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 650 8MB/230HD, CD, Ethernet,
      1MB VRAM                                     $3,939  Immediate
    Macintosh Centris 650 8MB/500HD, Ethernet,
      1MB VRAM                                     $4,379  Immediate
    Macintosh Quadra 800
    Macintosh Quadra 800, 8MB/230HD, Ethernet      $4,679  Immediate

There will also be an upgrade for LC and LCII owners with an SRP of $599.
The prices of the Mac IIvx 4/80 and 5/80 have been reduced 36% and 29%,
respectively. The new SRP for a Mac IIvx is $1899.


[I put copies of the Apple press releases in the archive for those who want
 specific info. -Bill]

[Archived as /info-mac/report/apple-pr-9302.txt; 32K]

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Date: 08 Feb 1993 11:24:51 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Michael A. McGuire)
Subject: [*] After Dark 2.0x updater

Enclosed is the new After Dark 2.0x updater.  I downloaded it from
AppleLink Monday.  Used it on my Mac running 7.1 and it worked fine.
I have a password set and it gave me no problems.


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

[Archived as /info-mac/util/ad/ad-20x-updater.hqx; 181K]

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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 19:05:39 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] AfterDark Globe module Martian pict

Here is a pict of Mars which, when pasted into Jack Eastman's
Globe module, spins around and looks very much like Mars.

Anyone interested in a very good story about life on Mars in
the not very distant future, should read Kim Stanley Robinson's
book "Red Mars".

I am not connected with KSR or his publishers, I'm just a
satisfied reader.

Michael Everson
==========

[Archived as /info-mac/util/ad/mars-pict.hqx; 68K]

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 20:38:28 +1100
From: [e-mail] (Geoffrey Keating)
Subject: [*] Checksummer 1.0.0

This application probably falls under the heading of "developer utilities".

This file contains version 1.0.0 of Checksummer, along with its
README file.

Checksummer is a utility designed to automate the process of inserting
virusPdetection code into programs; and to allow users of applications
that do not already have such code to include it, in a reasonably
userPfriendly manner.

- Geoff Keating

[Archived as /info-mac/util/checksummer-10.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 23:11:27 est
From: "Maxwell Smart (Soell, Oliver)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Homer-and-Sally.hqx

Enclosed is a rather amusing sound (at least to me) which I'd like to share
with the rest of Mac-land.. This is a slightly risque sound made up of
various sounds floating around on the Internet. It's based on those of Homer
Simpson and Sally (from When Harry Met ..), and with one from Star Trek
thrown in for good measure (if you can tell which one, I'll be surprised).

This has the sound in both the System 7.x sound format and SoundEdit format.

Oliver Soell
Dickinson College
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/homer-and-sally.hqx; 156K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 03:06 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Inexpensive MIDI resources for the Mac (2nd edition)

For the Info-Mac archives:
Here's a FAQ file titled  Inexpensive MIDI resources for the Mac.
Compiled by [e-mail] (J R Evans), it lists what the
title sez (and where to get them).

Cheers - Shekhar Govind               [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/report/inexpensive-midi-resources.txt; 11K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 09:49 +1300
From: "Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University, Hamilton, NZ"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] info-mac/card/x/sound-utilities.hqx

Here is a collection of XCMDs and XFCNs I wrote to do multi-channel sound
>From HyperCard, with synchronization. It's all a little bit experimental
(ie not 100% reliable--though I'm not convinced that the Sound Manager is
entirely blameless), and System 7 and a 68020 or better CPU are definite
requirements for most of it to work. I've included a demo example so you
can see how it works.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/sound-utilities.hqx; 91K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 09:17:45 EST
From: [e-mail] (Bill Leue)
Subject: [*] Installing Omega SANE Patch into System 7.1

[Note: This is a second posting.  The first one was bounced because
some mailer had mangled the header.]

Here's an article which describes in great detail how to install Apple's
Omega Sane resources into the new System 7.1.  This article was written
by Dick Andrian, Editor of the Northeastern Users of Macintosh (NEUMac)
User's Group newsletter, and it greatly expands the clarifies the
theme expounded in a recent MacinTouch article in MacWeek. The article
is in MS Word 5.0 format, and includes several screen snapshots of
the various ResEdit steps involved.
For those unfamiliar with the background, Omega Sane is a patch to
the Standard Apple Numerics Environment (SANE) which implements
floating-point arithmetic. The Omega patch speeded up most
F.P. calcs substantially, and fixed a few bugs as well. The Omega
patch was included in System 7.0, but unaccountably omitted in
System 7.1. To make things even more confusing, the Quadra 950
has the Omega SANE patch in its ROM's, but most other Macs don't.

(note to Info-Mac editors: the article follows in a BinHex'd
Compactor Pro self-extracting Archive in the next two mail
messages.)
    - Bill Leue

[Archived as /info-mac/util/omega-sane-71-installation.hqx; 75K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 13:11:49 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: [*] NewLook 1.3

This is the lastest version of NewLook - a control panel that gives a 3D
look to buttons, check boxes, etc. It doesn't have as many features as
Greg's Button, but it's much more stable.

Downloaded from AOL and should replace the old version in the archive.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/new-look-13.hqx; 27K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 13:16:59 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Slinker)
Subject: [*] New Posting

Would you please post these new Random Dot Autostereogram Images in
the art folder with the others. These are all new, and they could
be titled as a volume 2 in conjunction with the other rda image file.

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/art/random-dot-autostereograms-vol2.hqx; 213K]

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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 15:06:28 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] now-utilities-401p-updater.hqx

There are only TWO files that need to be updated to 4.0.1p - Now Toolbox and
Super Boomerang. These updated files will work with the existing 4.0.1
components of Now Utilities.

This compressed file contains the Now Utilities 4.0.1/4.0.1p Updater and the
4.0.1p updater files. The updater files included are: Now Toolbox 4.0.1p and
Super Boomerang 4.0.1p. Be sure to place the Updater application and files in
the same folder. Launch the Updater and follow the instructions.

These 4.0.1p files address the following areas:

Now Toolbox:
-  Accurately tracks recent folders that reside on AppleShare volumes. You are
now able to permanently add folders that reside on AppleShare volumes to
recent
folders menus.
-  Properly creates and opens more than one Workset. Now Toolbox no longer
opens
only the first Workset no matter how you try to open more recent Worksets.

Super Boomerang:
-  Compatibility issues addressed for newer-model Macintosh computers. The
hierarchical menus (Super Boomerang menu under the Apple Menu and DirectOpen
menu) now appear properly on the Performa series, the IIvx, PowerBook Duos,
the
PowerBook 180, etc.
-  The Auto-Resume feature works on faster machines.
-  Occasional disappearance of hierarchical menus.
-  No longer crashes when using Wipe Info from Norton Utilities.

                -----  SPECIAL UPDATE NOTES  -----

UPDATING FLOPPY DISKS
We recommend that you update a set of backup floppy disks rather than your
original master disks.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/now-utilities-401p-updater.hqx; 205K]

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Date: 7 Feb 1993 21:01:40 -0800
From: "drew" <objy![e-mail]>
Subject: [*] QuickMail Voice Mail Attach

QuickMail Voice Mail Attachment Converter
Thanks to Lawrence D'Oliveiro for this little program (hypercard stack) that
converts sys7 sound files to/from quickmail voicemail attachments.  very
nice!
(posted via drew wade, [e-mail], but author is Lawrence D'Oliveiro)

[Archived as /info-mac/app/quick-mail-voice-mail.hqx; 19K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 14:02:48 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Kelvin Edmison)
Subject: [*] Re: reAdobe 1.1

I just downloaded the DMM LaserWriter driver stuff. (Don Markuson, if you're
reading this, thanks!  Excellent tool!)  Anyway, contained in the DMM lw
archive was reAdobe 1.1.  I checked the distribution notice that came
with it, and it says that the executable is freely distributable with the
copyright notice.  So here it is.

Kelvin Edmison, [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/re-adobe-11.hqx; 21K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 17:18:46 +0100
From: Roland Mansson <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ROMmie.cpt.hqx

ROMmie is a small quick and dirty application that examines the ROM in your
Mac.
When you run it, it creates three files:
* txt: a text file that lists all resources (type, id, name, size)
* rsrc: a ResEdit file with copies of all ROM resources
* dump: a dump of the entire ROM

Written by [e-mail].
Public Domain by SiC! Development HB, Lund, Sweden.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/rommie.hqx; 26K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 22:11:19 -0500
From: Jacob Solomon Weinstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Save Princeton 1.8

Here's a binhexed, stuffed archive containing version 1.8 of
Save Princeton, a shareware text-adventure game.

Save Princeton puts the player in the role of a visitor to Princeton
University. You have to oust a mysterious force of invaders who have
taken over the campus. Along the way, you'll meet the archetypal jock, a
naked drunk man, the president of the university, and countless other
colorful characters. While folks who know Princeton U will undoubtably
get special enjoyment from the game, anybody can solve and enjoy Save
Princeton.

The game has 52 locations, and a vocabulary of
about 980 words, which makes it about as complex as a middle-period
Infocom game. I've put a year and a half of work into it, and I'm pretty
proud of the thing.

Save Princeton is shareware, with a fee of $10.

Changes in v1.8 include a number of bug fixes of varying degrees of
seriousness. As well, the length of time a player can go without finding
food has been extended, since I received a number of complaints about
how annoying it was to die of starvation before you even have a chance
to explore.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/save-princeton-18.hqx; 490K]

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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 93 15:04:04 EST
From: [e-mail] (Ed Watkeys)
Subject: [*] Send Script 1.0.1

Send Script 1.0.1 -- Extension for BBEdit 2.2 or Later

Send Script allows one to create and send scripts from BBEdit to any
Apple event-aware application which supports the do-script event.

Changes from version 1.0: bug fixes.

In order to keep the package as small as possible, the source code is
not included. However, if you would like it, simply send a message to
[e-mail], and the THINK C 5.0 source code will
be automatically sent to you.

Send Script is freeware. However, if you'd like to send me money, I
won't complain.

Ed Watkeys ([e-mail] or [e-mail])

[Archived as /info-mac/app/bbedit-send-script-101.hqx; 9K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 15:36:53 +0800
From: Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] source/pascal/macbinary2+100.hqx

This is the THINK Pascal 4.0.2 source code for MacBinary II+, a
System 7 drag&drop converter for MacBinary files.  The source
code may be used for any non-commercial (ie, shareware or
freeware) purpose as long as I get a mention in the about box
and documentation of any derivative program.  The code is very
sparsely commented.  All pascal units ending with .unit are
taken from my personal library of reusable modules, and should
be fairly easy to incorporate into any other program.  The
source code uses Michael Hecht's Task Manager code, and could
be used as an example of how to use that code, as well as
supporting the core Apple Events.

Hope its useful to someone,
   Peter. <[e-mail]>

MacBinary II+ v1.0.0 Copyright 1992-93 Peter N Lewis

[Archived as /info-mac/source/pascal/macbinary-ii-plus.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 16:50:06 CDT
From: Chris X7367 <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Stapler 1.1

STAPLER 1.1

CHANGES TO STAPLER SINCE VERSION 1.0

1. Added a Preferences... command to the Edit menu.
2. Enhanced the Get Info... window.
3. Added a custom GetFile dialog for the Add... command
which allows the user to interactively add multiple files
and folders to the current Stapler document.
4. Added Frontier menu-sharing support.
5. Minor bug fixes.

WHAT IS STAPLER?

Do you often find yourself opening the same set of
documents, applications, and folders over and over again?
If so, then Stapler is the application you've been looking
for.

Stapler is a Macintosh application which creates documents
similar to System 7's aliases, except that each Stapler
document can contain references to multiple files, folders,
and applications. Thus, opening a Stapler document opens
all the files "stapled together" in that document. The
files can be located in separate folders, on separate
disks, and even on separate floppy disks and AppleShare
servers!

Because Stapler makes heavy use of System 7 features such
as aliases, AppleEvents, and balloon help, it requires
System 7.0 or greater to run. If you are not running the
correct System Software version, Stapler will inform you
and quit.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/stapler-11.hqx; 165K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 15:37:11 +0800
From: Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] tech/macbinary2+specs.txt

This is a priliminary specification of an extension to the MacBinary II
Standard to allow MacBinary to incorporate a directory tree in a similar
way to a unix tar file.  This is done by a fairly simple extension to
the standard (which is documented seperately, and which you should be
familiar with before reading this document).  This extension is implemented
by MacBinary II+ posted at the same time.

[Archived as /info-mac/tech/mac-binary-ii-plus-prelim.txt; 5K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 93 17:29:21 EST
From: [e-mail] (Jim Walker)
Subject: [*] Tex-Edit 1.6

This is Tom Bender's public domain styled text editor.  Author's
description:

"This version adds balloon help for all menus and dialogs.  Memory
management has been improved and I have corrected a few more minor bugs.

Tex-Edit is especially adept at formatting text for transfer to or from a
BBS. It is fast, efficient and requires little memory.  Tex-Edit is 32 bit
clean, System 7 compatible, 68040 cache compatible, color compatible,
virtual memory compatible, big screen compatible and stationery-aware. It
recognizes extended keyboard keys.  Keep a copy in your Apple menu and an
alias on the desktop for drag-and-drop operations. It is also compatible
with Macintalk and can read a text file aloud, line by line."

[Archived as /info-mac/app/tex-edit-16.hqx; 52K]

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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 93 17:09:55 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] TheKingInYellow.sit.hqx StartupScreen

This is a 640x480, 256-color Macintosh StartupScreen, compressed with
Stuffit Lite 3.04 and binhexed with same.

To use, just download it, de-binhex it, unStuff it (Stuffit Expander
is recommended) and drop the StartupScreen file into your System Folder.
A 'Read Me' file is included with more information.

This screen is my interpretation of the Yellow Sign, a sigil of
madness and evil, from author Robert W. Chambers' book "The King in
Yellow."

The Sign (and the mythical play "The King in Yellow," the subject of
Chambers' book) were later used by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, and
Chambers' creation was an inspiration for Lovecraft's similarly-mythical
occult tome, the Necronomicon.

This startupscreen depicts the Yellow Sign in all its dim, swirling
glory, with "The King In Yellow" spelled out across the screen in
creepy lettering.

Room has been left for two rows of extention/control panel icons to
parade along below the image.

Enjoy!
John Tynes
Pagan Publishing

[Archived as /info-mac/art/king-in-yellow-startup.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 22:05:16 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#162/08-Feb-93

TidBITS#162/08-Feb-93

 We have the last of the news from Macworld Expo this week, with
   information on PageMaker 5.0. We also have an article about new
   products for Wallpaper from Thought I Could, useful System 7.1
   enabler information, upgrade information for Canadians who want
   System 7.1, news of new low-end LaserWriters, yet another ATM
   hack, and finally, a long-awaited table of benchmarks from BYTE
   Labs and Tom Thompson.

Topics:
    MailBITS/08-Feb-93
    New Enablers
    Connectix Does It Again
    Canadian System 7.1 Upgrade
    ATM Hack, Part 2
    New LaserWriters
    Benchmarks, Finally
    PageMaker 5.0
    New Wallpaper
    Reviews/08-Feb-93

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-162.etx; 29K]

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 23:41:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Christopher Owen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Tiny Saver 1.3

Tiny Saver is a very small screen saver.  It is an application
but only uses 6k of disk space and about 30k of RAM (it will
run fine in 20k if you don't look at the about box ;-] ).

This version is better about detecting key presses and supports
PowerBooks and more than one screen.

Chris

[Archived as /info-mac/util/tiny-saver-13.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 15:36:39 +0800
From: Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] util/macbinary2+100.hqx

MacBinary II+ is a System 7 drag&drop converter for MacBinary files.  It
has no User Interface, simply drop a MacBinary file on it and it will be
decoded, drop any other file or folder on it and it will be encoded.
MacBinary II+ should be fully compatible with all current MacBinary
encoders/decoders, and extends the format to include folder hierarchies
(although no other decoder will be able to decode folder hierarchy
MacBinary files created by MacBinary II+).

MacBinary II+ has not been extensively tested, but should work on any
System 7 Mac.  If it doesn't, let me know.

MacBinary II+ is free for any use.

Hope its useful to someone,
   Peter. <[e-mail]>

MacBinary II+ v1.0.0 Copyright 1992-93 Peter N Lewis

[Archived as /info-mac/util/mac-binary-ii-plus.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 15:18:13 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] wp-macro-ez-deskwriter-env.hqx

This Stuffit 1.5.1 archive includes both a macro (embedded in an
explanatory test file) and a stationery template.  Together, the
macro and template allow sending a formatted address to an HP
DeskWriter printer, by selecting, hitting a hot-key, and sticking
an envelope in the printer.  No other dialog boxes or intermediate
steps!

Document contains instructions for configuring macro and template,
adding return address, etc.


The author is Michael J. Walter.

[Archived as /info-mac/misc/wp-macro-ez-deskwriter-env.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1993 15:03:24 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] wp-tips.hqx

This is a 12-page WordPerfect document that contains a collection
of tips and tricks for using WordPerfect 2.1. It is in question
and answer format.


This file needs WordPerfect 2.1
The author is WordPerfect Corporation.


(This BinHex file created by DownLine 1.1)

[Archived as /info-mac/tips/word-perfect-tips.hqx; 55K]

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 01:16:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: "LC" == ?

Richard Lim said:
>PS: What does the "LC" stand for in 68LC040?  "Low cost"?  Is that why the
>Mac LC is called that, or does that LC stand for "low-cost, color"?


Depends on your point of view. I believe they stand for "Losing and
Cretinous"...

Brian

p.s. But then again mayyyybe I will buy a Centris 650.
Maybe.
(But only with an FPU.)
As soon as someone can lay their hands on one of these buggers can you
send me your thoughts? I'm really anxious to see actual news about these
new boxen.

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Date: 9 Feb 93 14:07:12 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dale Adams)
Subject: (New Macs  ||  System 7.1)  &&  8*24GC  =  ????

In article <[e-mail]> Norbert
Mueller <[e-mail]> writes:
> Does anybody know answers to the following compatibility questions?
>
> (1) Will any of the new Macs with NuBus slots will work with the
> 8.24GC card in accelerated mode ???

Since the only new Macs with NuBus slots are '040 machines, and since the
GC card software won't run on an '040 system, the answer is 'no'.

> (3) Does Apple plan to fix the incompatibility of Quadras and the 8.24GC
> card in accelerated mode ???

To the best of my knowledge, no.  However, I'm not aware of all of Apple's
product plans.  Note, however, that in general onboard Quadra (and
Centris) video is as fast or faster than a GC card.  Also,  the onboard
video hardware of the Quadra and Centris machines supports more display
configurations and pixel depths than the GC card does.

- Dale Adams
  Apple Computer, Inc.

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 12:20:28 MET
From: [e-mail] (Povl H. Pedersen)
Subject: 21MB Floptical Drives (A)

The new 21MB floptical drives are drives that can read/write Macintosh
HD floppies, and new 21MB floppies. These 21MB floppies is prices at about
$29/piece mail order, so they are much more expensive than floppies. Prices
will come down somtime though.  Currently the drives does NOT read 800k Mac
floppies, as they are written in a non-standard way.

The drives works by having a factory engraved opticak track on an almost
conventional floppy, which allows it to track much better to the information.
All information the user writes is stored magneticly, and is thus sensitive
to outside magnetic fileds, and that probably more than conventional
floppies.
Speed is about twice that of a normal floppy drive.

You might consider a SyQuest drive instead. They also start at about the same
price range ($400), have twice the capacity, and is about $65/disk. But

they are much faster. They have the same performance as a half-slow harddisk.
But still a magnetic media.

There is also the solution I choose. The new 128MB MO (Magneto Optical)
drives.
Stores 121+ MB on 3.5" optical floppies. They can only change magnetical
behavior when heated up. So data here will stay. SOme manufacturers warranty
data for 25 or 30 years. A floppy will degrade over time. I had a 1.5 year old
floppy backup, and it had bad sectors on half the floppies. This will not
happen with MO disks. A disk costs $45-$55. Speed is 500-700k/sec (same as
SyQuest), write speed is 1/3 of this. price $1100-$1600 mail orfder.

the new 256MB MOST mechanism is non-standard. And I will not recommen those
yet.

Povl H. Pedersen  -  [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 9:43:26 +1100 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Philip FX Ryan)
Subject: 21 MB Flopticals - some info

I have just yesterday installed an Insite brand internal 21 MB 'floptical'
disk drive in my '486.

This is an 8-bit SCSI device (I believe 8 bit is the 'normal' SCSI used by
Macs since the Mac Plus), and required - naturally - a SCSI controller card
to enable its use in the PC. The SCSI controller card enables the PC to
treat the device as a big floppy device rather than a hard disk.

The cost, including the card, was about $Australian550, or about 5 times
the cost of a normal 3.5 inch PC floppy disk drive. It is exactly the same
physical size as a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive and can read, write and
format 720 kb and 1440 kb disks as well as the 21 MB 'floptical' disks.

The cost of the disks is about the same, per MB, as normal high density
disks ($A45 for 21 MB cf $A37 for 15 High Density disks)

Relevance to Mac readers? I would have thought that for less money than we
paid it would be possible to get such a drive as a replacement for an
internal floppy drive in a Mac (since no SCSI controller card woudl be
needed) - although one would sacrifice the ability to read and write
conventional Mac 800 and 400 kb disks. For pre-FDHD Macs this would be even
more useful since it would presumably still be able to read write and
format PC-style disks - i.e. doing some of the work that the Applied
Engineering 'Plus' drive does.

The only 'con' that I can see with this device is that it is only about
twice as fast as a normal floppy, so that putting 20 MB onto a disk at one
time can take quite a while (but it sure is more convenient than using 15
High Density disks :-) ).

Has anyone seen any ads for Macintosh versions of the device? Do any of the
Mac versions also understand Mac format (i.e. 400 and 800 kb) disks?

Hope that this info helps, and that there might be some more help
forthcoming...


Phil Ryan       Melbourne       Australia       [e-mail]
    *** these opinions are entirely my own ***

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 00:14:37 EST
From: "David G. Turnquist" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 7.0 & 7.1 Printer Driver conflicts

  Copied from the March 93 MacWorld Bug Report p. 95:

"System 7.0X and System 7.1  Laser printer drivers for the two systems
are incompatible, so printers fail when switching between documents
sent by 7.0 and 7.1 users unless the printer is first reinitialized."

   We've been having some odd printer delays and errors lately. When I saw
this notice I thought it might be a ccontributing factor. The noticee
is rather sketchy. Does anyone have any further information or suggested
solutions?
   Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Dave Turnquist
Operations & Systems
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 12:12-EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 7.1 Enabler Patch no workee with Suitcase 2.1.2 !?

I wrote:
> The recently posted 7.1 Enabler patch prevents Suitcase 2.1.2's DA from
> opening: it just beeps when you select it from the Apple menu.

Thanks to David Fry who passed on the answer: this is a just-discovered
compatibility bug.  The recommended workaround is to hold down Option
while opening Suitcase.  (This seems to work on my system.)

I confirmed this info with Connectix tech support.  They say there will
be a Suitcase update or a new enabler patch Real Soon Now.  So much for
Apple's "extensive testing" of the patch :-).

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 17:10 CST
From: Dominik Hoffmann <[e-mail]>
Subject: 7.1 Enabler Patch no workee with Suitcase 2.1.2 !? (Comment)

In infomacv11-031 Tom Lane reported problems using Suitcase 2.1.2 on a
Performa
600 with Connectix' Enabler Patch.

The same thing happened on my PowerBook Duo 210. I was able to solve the
problem
by getting rid of the Enabler Patch and using a Suitcase 2.1.2 version
directly
off a disk that Fifth Generation Systems had sent me. Appearanlty, there is a
difference between that one and an earlier version updated to version 2.1.2
with
the updater I found at the archives at sumex.

Dominik

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 03:51:22 CST
From: [e-mail] (Pete)
Subject: Alpha 5.3

Alpha 5.3 is now available via anonymous ftp from cs.rice.edu.

If you have access to networks such as CompuServe, I would love to have
the new version uploaded there. I've been told that the current version
is very old...

Version 5.3 of the Alpha text editor contains the following new features:

    - New 'electricAlias' template package.
    - Greatly expanded LaTeX mode.
    - Iconifiable windows.
    - Better XTCL support, Think C examples.
    - Support for 411 and compiling w/ MPW.
    - Support for stationary files.
    - The usual one or two bug fixes.

pete

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 04:55:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Harry Myhre)
Subject: American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder

Right, it's the lazy programmers syndrome. Any app that throws stuff in
the system folder needlessly you can probably be suspicous that it was
written by pee-cee programmers.

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 10:37:49 MEZ
From: Patrick Maun <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple 13" Monitor trouble (Q)

Hello,
   this sounds like the same problem I am having. Does the monitor just
not want to turn on? I have to keep playing around with the on/off switch
to get it do turn on for even a bit, then it dies after a couple of minutes.
Another questions: I noticed that the monitor says 100-220v and 50-60hz
on it. Does this mean I can take it to the U.S. or Canada and just plug
that sucker in? Also, how much does a 13" weigh? I need to send it to the
U.S. and want to find out how much poorer it is going to make me.

Patrick Maun
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 11:05:15 EST
From: [e-mail] (Bruce Humphrey)
Subject: Apple IIe drive to the LCII IIe card

Sorry if this is an old discussion, but I've just joined the group (today)
and have a problem that none of my Apple dealers can handle:

Can an old Apple IIe drive II (black faced, ribbon cable) be interfaced
with the LC IIe card?  My dealer gave (sold) me a connection converter
cable to change the cable end from the old pin pinouts to the 15 pin male D
connector, and the system accesses the drive, but I get an unable to read
error off the drive.  It works on the IIe I've had it attached to without
the converter connection.

Any suggestions would be VERY welcome.

Bruce Humphrey ([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 01:34:53 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: Defense of Mathematica's interface

Mr. Lim says...
>Mathematica's interface is not grotesque, though it makes no pretence of
>being WYSIWYG.  It is after all basically an interpreted programming
>language and uses command lines.  Someone I know in Scotland has written
>a Hypercard front end for some Mathematica functions.  Mathematica's
>graphics are great though, all Postscript!

I agree, Mathematica's interface is not at all grotesque! It's a great
programming language and interactive environment, and you can get it to
generate really great graphics, especially in PostScript! (aside---has
anyone tried to leech Mathematica Postscript graphics code and render it
in MacGhostscript 2.x? I haven't...yet)

One other last thing, Mathematica's not interpreted anymore, or at least
you have the option of choosing between interpreted and compiled. I know
that some functions automatically Compile[] their function arguments,
because when they generate errors :} you get lots of references to
CompiledFunction[]. Look up Compile[] in the Book for more details.

Brian
A user of Mathematica since 1.0... but still learning math. Sigh

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 10:51:07 EST
From: [e-mail] (Karl Wurst)
Subject: DeskPaint & DeskDraw - Opinions Wanted

     I just received a mailing from Zedcor offering their programs DeskPaint &
DeskDraw for $29.95.  According to their mailing the retail for these programs
is $199.  I am in the market for a drawing/painting progam and was wondering
if these programs were suitable.  I don't need lots of features at the moment,
mostly I need a drawing program for making diagrams for research papers.

     So, I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has used these programs.

Karl R. Wurst - [e-mail] - Univ of CT, Computer Science & Eng.

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

Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 18:21:07 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <[e-mail]>
Subject: Deskwriter Printing

My sister is having a little trouble with her HP Deskwriter printer. The
text does not appear to be printing clearly. She is using 20 and 24 lb
paper of reasonable quality and hasn't used the printer that much.

Has anyone had similar experiences or know a solution to this problem? I
have used a Deskwriter before and got exceptional quality on low grade
paper.

Thanks.

Please respond via email and I will post a summary.

Thanks.


Scott Allen Gruby                          [e-mail]
Macintosh Student System Administrator
Academic Computing, Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 11:13:24 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DOS to Mac Plus (Q)

I have an opportunity to buy a PC notebook for a good price. I'd like
to use it to take notes and stuff when away from home, then just
transfer the text files to my Plus when I get home, and do all the
formatting and printing from there. I thought I could do this with
Apple File Exchange, but when I took the PC home last night and
tried it didn't work. Upon reading up the system documentation this
morning, it appears (though Apple never really comes out and says)
that AFE will only work with an FDHD. Can anybody confirm this? And
if it's the case, is there any other quick and cheap way to do this
textfile transfer, or should I just pass up the PC and wait 'till I
can afford a Powerbook (which'll probably be 2010 ;)).

The system I use at home is a Plus, 4megs RAM, system 6.0.8, 20meg
external serial drive and two 800K floppies. The PC is a Dell 386SX
with one internal 3.5" HD floppy.

As always, thanks very much for any information you can provide.
                              Pat

Pat Ullmann  [e-mail] or PULLMANN@TRINITY (BITNET)

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:00:22 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Tony Andrea)
Subject: dropple menu and system 7.1

I have recently upgraded to system 7.1 and to my surprise (although i
probably shoudn't have been surprised) dropple menu no longer works!
Is there a new release that works with system 7.1?  Or is there any
other product on the market that allows drag and drop onto the apple
menu?

TIA,
tony.

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 04:37:53 GMT
From: [e-mail] (John Daley)
Subject: Elementary stats pkg needed

Does anyone know of a good, simple statistics package that
can read a modest data file and output statistics such as
the above?

If so, please reply directly to [e-mail].

Many thanks in advance!

--

 John A. Daley, LCDR, USN            Computer Science Instructor, NPS Monterey
 Internet: [e-mail]                        America OnLine: JDaley

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

Date: 09 Feb 1993 08:27:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "FRED M. HOPPE [phone] EXT. 4581" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Failed (or not) 040

Its irrelevant whether or not an LC040 is a failed 040.  And how would one
really get at the truth anyway?   What is important is that in some perfectly
exceptional machines (such as the older PB 140) and, more especially the duo,
there is no place to put an FPU (except in the dock for the duo).  That to me
is the give-away that the decision to handicap some machines IS a marketing
decision.  But this is no reason to flame Apple.  Apple is in the business to
make money.  If the product you want isn't there, then don't buy it.  That's
the decision I came to twice within the past year when I was researching
which portable to buy.  One year ago, I was interested in the PB 140.  Though
the 170 screen was great, all I needed was a machine for the office or on
trips,
with an FPU, to supplement my original 020 Mac II which I keep at home.
I checked out the Outbound but hesitated getting one mail order.  In the end
I did not buy a portable.  When the new duos came out I thought they were
the outstanding way to go.  I priced out the duo with the dock (with FPU)
with 16 inch colour monitor at the campus micro-computer center at roughly
$600 more than a comparable PB 180.  The duo approach would have given me two
machines essentially for the price of one.  But the catch---you can't put an
FPU into the portable unit.  This is an obvious marketing strategy.  Why would
anyone buy a PB 180 when for an incremental increase in cost (by the way,
these
are Canadian prices, which are always much higher than US prices) one can
get two equally powerful machines, one a portable, the other with a 16 inch
colour monitor.  Again, I didn't buy.
I'm not mad at Apple.  If the product you want isn't there don't buy it.
I'll be looking a PC notebooks in the future.  I love the Mac interface but
OS/2
is very Mac-like.  I'm not giving up my Mac, but I'll have the extra machine
that I often wish I had.
Just my two-cents worth.
Fred.

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 01:18:54 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: Format HD disk as 800k (C)

####DISCLAIMER####
I hereby disclaim all responsibility resulting from damages to your disk
drive as a direct or indirect result of the usage of this method.
So there.
##################

Put a piece of scotch tape over both sides of the little hole that
distinguishes HDs from 800k disks. That should do it.

Be careful, anyhow

Brian

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 09:18:38 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!)

On Mon, 08 Feb, John Wical asked

>  Is it possible to format a High Density diskette as 800k with a
>  SuperDrive?   I can't seem to do it.

Yes, John, it's possible. No, you don't want to do it. You can fool the
Mac by taping over the "other" hole in the floppy that identifies it as
an HD disk. You can also punch or melt an "other hole" in an 800K disk
to fool the Mac into thinking it is an HD floppy. DON'T DO IT! Sorry,
didn't mean to shout.

An 800K disk has a relatively thick oxide coating and requires a fairly
high magnetic field for formatting and writing. An HD disk has a thin
coating, and a weaker magnetic field is used.

A DD-strength formatting/writing field will blast the thin coating of
an HD floppy, with magnetism straying beyond intended bounds. On the
other hand, an HD-strength signal doesn't get enough magnetism on a DD
floppy's thick coating to "take" reliably. In either case you get an
unreliable floppy.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 13:29:01 -0500
From: "Tad Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fragmented VM file?

I had a strange experience on my Classic II (4 meg RAM, 8 meg virtual).
With one large program open, taking up most of the real RAM, I opened a
smaller program -- knowing that it would go into VM but never having had a
significant problem with that before. Suddenly everything I did in the
smaller program slowed to a crawl, with mega disk access. When I ran
MacTools Optimizer, I found that my VM file had been fragmented into about
six pieces. Running the full optimize was the only way I could recover
enough contiguous space to hold the whole file.

Apparently what happened was this: at some earlier point I installed a new
program. Since the instructions told me to make sure all anti-virus inits
are turned off, I restarted with the shift key -- disabling VM and freeing
up the space in the process. Once the new software was installed, I
restarted with all extensions back in place, re-enabling VM and grabbing
the disk space again -- except that there was not enough contiguous space
available, leading to the fragmentation, and thus (I think, I hope)
accounting for the performance problem. (I expect things in VM to slow down
a bit, but believe me, this was beyond the pale.)

Can this happen? Shouldn't there be some kind of warning that you need x
amount of CONTIGUOUS space for VM? (Running 7.1, by the way, if it
matters.)

Tad Davis
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 14:18:50 GMT+1
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Gestalt & Color QuickDraw

HEEELP!!!!

Why does my Mac SE return 1001 to the Gestal call with
gestaltQuickdrawFeatures as the selector? That last 1 (bit 0,
gestaltHasColor) means it's got Color QuickDraw, but it doesn't!
In fact, if I call GetNewCWindow on that Mac I get an
Unimplemented Trap bomb.

By the way, is this the right way to make an application
compatible with both versions of QuickDraw, color and b/w? That
is, to check for CQD and then either call GetNewWindow or
GetNewCWindow?

Thanks for any help,
Best,
- Alberto.

[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 12:42:29 EST
From: williams <[e-mail]>
Subject: I got my icons back !!!!

    Many thanks to all of you who replied to my posting about losing the
custom icons after updating BBEdit.

    The answer, as often, was quite simple but I didn't provide *all* the
essential information by inadvertance!  The file I was updating had been
compressed by DiskDoubler.  BBEdit's updating process works fine on a DD
archived version but to get the custom icons, you have to EXPAND the file
using
the DiskDoubler utility program and then, hey presto -- custom icons!

John Williams (INRA Station de Recherches Avicoles, C.R.Tours, Nouzilly,
France)
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:21:56 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #31

>Those of you on the net may be amused by the behavior of my Mac II ci.  If I
>shut it down, everything proceeds along normalyl, and the machine in fact
does
>power down.  The monitor goes off, the machine goes dark, just like it
>should.
>Then, after about 3-4 seconds, it magically powers on, as though I hit the
>power on key on the keyboard.  The keyboard is not stuck, because this
happens
>even if I unplug the keyboard in the few seconds the machine stays off.
>Anybody ever seen this behavior before?

Look on the back of your IIci.  Your power button (on the far left as you
face the rear of the machine) is locked down.  Put a coin in the little
slot and rotate it 90 degrees (either up or left, I don't remember).

Wade Williams
Academic Computing Services
Auburn University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:04:25 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #31

>   When I reformatted a PC HD diskette as Mac HD (using AccessPC), the
>diskette icon remained a PC icon, not the standard Mac diskette icon.
>This is clearly intuitively wrong.  Has anyone else experienced this?

John,

After formatting, drag the disk to the trash and put it back in.  If it
works like PC Exchange, that will do it.

Wade Williams
Academic Computing Services
Auburn University
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 23:31:39 +0100
From: @imp.ch:[e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #31

> > From: "Mike Sisson  " <SISSON_MD@brutus>
>
> > Recently one of our 13" Apple RGB Monitors became reluctant to start up
when
> > the computer was turned on. The problem happens sporadically and
eventually
> > it will come on after playing with the monitor on/off switch and/or
waiting
> > a while. I have looked in the Dead Mac Scrolls (btw, an excellent book)
but
> > none of the situations described fit my problem. Soooo-------
> > If this sounds familiar to anyone please let me know what you did to
fix it
> > and where you got parts (I am assuming some capacitor problem).
> > BTW, this is an old (circa 1987) monitor so no returning to Apple for
free
> > fixes.
>
> The problem is a defective high voltage capacitor (this problem is
> covered in ``The Dead Mac Scrolls''). The part is not cheap ($65), you
> can get it from Soft Solutions 907 RiverRoad, Suite #98, Eugene, OR
97404
> Tel [phone]; Fax [phone]. Part ref : Sony OEM high voltage
> capacitor (HV Block) for AppleColor High-Res (Apple part #910-0058).
> Replacement is not difficult (one connection to be soldered) but should
> be done only by experienced people for obvious reasons (HT cables have
to
> be kept away from printed board). BTW, in Belgium at the Apple dealer
> shop, repair is about $220 including a 19,5% VAT taxe.
>
>
> Etienne Loute
> Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (C.O.R.E.)
> Catholic University of Louvain
> 34 voie du Roman Pays
> B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
> BELGIUM
> Tel [phone] / Fax [phone]
> e-mail [e-mail], Applelink FUSL.EL
>

Some 13" monitors have had a defective capacitor built in by the factory.
Apple will replace them for free, _IF_ your monitor falls into the range
of specified serial numbers. I lost these numbers, but each Certified
Apple Dealer should be able to tell you. Worked with mine.

Stefan

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 15:43 CST
From: Rob Brooks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Information on Apple Events

My name is Robert Brooks and my internet address is
[e-mail] and I would like to know where I could
get information about Apple Events.  I was wondering if someone could help
me.  If you know of a place where I can download information or order
books on Apple Events, I would be very grateful.  Thank you.

Rob Brooks

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

Date: 9 Feb 93 23:11:34 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: It's Feb 10 in Tokyo: New macs are here!

Yes, new macs were announced today...that is, February 10th! Those of use here
in North America of course think that it's Feb. 9  but in Tokyo it's the
10th.

I went to  my university computer store, and the Mac guy had all the new
prices
for macs effective Feb. 9.

Based on the briefing I was given by Apple a few weeks ago, and comparing
prices
for the new machines, the following differences are noteworthy:
(note: this is for *Canada* and may not apply for US or elsewhere)

Color Classic is about $180CDN = $145US cheaper SRP then was thought.
I'll give Canadian srp's for reference, to convert, multiply by about .80
($1 CDN = $.7918 US)

REMEMBER, ALL PRICES ARE IN CANADIAN DOLLARS

Color Classic   4/40: $1659
        4/80: $1749
        4/160: $1939

LCIII is about $100 CDN cheaper. Logic board upgrade (LCII -> LCIII) is $649.

LCIII 4/80: $1699
     4/160: $1889

Centris 610 4/80: $2560
       4/160: $2750
etc.

Centris 650 4/80 (no fpu): $3690 (this is the *only* 650 w/o fpu)
       4/230: $4440
       4/230 + ethernet: $4570
       8/230 + e + cd: $5170
       8/500 + e: $5660

Quadra 800 8/230: $6310
       8/230 + cd: $6660
      8/1000: $8220

Apple cd 300i: $589

PB165c 4/80: $4790
  165c 4/120: $5240

Most of the new macs are available in *bundles*, with the Apple Basic Color
Display, Macintosh Color Display or Macintosh 16" display. Good way to save
$100
or so.

SRP Changes

Classic II dropped by $100 CDN. Who'd want it now?

LCII dropped by about $300 CDN.

IIvi dropped by $110. Who'd want it? For $500 more, get a Centris 610, *three*
times as fast!

IIvx dropped about $1000.

Quadra 700 dropped about $1700 CDN for the 4/0 config. Could probably get a
good deal here....

Quadra 950 dropped $900.

No powerbook drops.

Q700, IIci, IIsi "available while supplies last".

*Good news and bad news*

good news: Q700 logic board upgrade dropped from $4068 CDN to $1870 CDN.

bad news: IIvx upgrade is $1860 CDN = $1475 US. Too expensive! IIvx owners,
start bugging Apple now!! Maybe they could give a bonus for pre-Feb 9/10
purchasers...

If you want to know the speed of new machines, here are Apple benchmarks,
based on Speedometer I presume...

IIvx/IIci: 7 (reference)

Centris 610: 12

Centris 650: 17

Quadra 800: 22

Have fun!

Sean

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

Date: Tue,  9 Feb 1993 22:09:43 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacTCP 1.1.1...

Please forgive the repetition (I'm pretty sure this was already discussed a
short while ago), but can someone please tell me if MacTCP 1.1.1 (the System
7.
1 compatible version) is available to developers (of which I am one) anywhere
(
by ftp, on developer's CD ROMs, etc...)?

While I'm at it, anyone know of any updates for Pathworks (namely DecNet for
Macintosh) later than version 1.1 which are compatible with System 7.1?

Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 01:22:41 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: Making A Movie From GIFs or PICTS (C)

You can try ConvertToMovie (on the QT dev. cd I believe.)

Or you can just paste them end to end in Premiere...

tedious, but it works.

Brian

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

Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 14:03:33 +1100
From: [e-mail] (Rohan L. Rasiah)
Subject: Medical Dictionary for MSWord5.0 or 5.1

I am interested in obtaining a medical dictionary for MS Word 5.0 or 5.1
(Macintosh).  I would prefer a dictionary from the UK as Australia uses
"English"  medical spelling, but would like to hear from anyone that may
know of a supplier of either an UK medical dictionary or US one.  Please
reply to me directly ([e-mail])

Thanks for your help

Rohan Rasiah, Physiology Department, University of Tasmania at Hobart.
([e-mail])

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 10:56:25 EST
From: [e-mail] (kim nguyen)
Subject: Memory fragmentation

Hi netters,

I don't have much physical RAM and lose easily that amount if I switch back
and forth among applications. To claim the original RAM, I have to make a
soft reboost.

Do you have any suggestion not to boost like that all the time ? Any software
?

There is way or no way ?

Thanks in advance.
kim nguyen
[e-mail]

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Date: 09 Feb 1993 13:33:51 -0700 (MST)
From: MACINTOSH NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR <[e-mail]>
Subject: PHOTOSHOP & LOTS O RAM

PHOTOSHOP & LOTS O RAM for Charles Schnider
I run a lot of ram as well, and make a RAM drive with Maxima.  Set VM in
photoshop prefs to the RAM drive, and PhotoShop will scream.

Dave-

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 21:42 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Power Cords Holding a Charge??????????

Did I miss something, or was there a reason behind this elementary lesson
in electronics?  Who said electricity didn't flow down a power cord?  Haven't
we all known for a very long time not to stick metal things into power
outlets?

I guess I was just plain "shocked" by such a posting.  I didn't find it
re"volt"ing, but I did want to ask just "watt" was going on.  I can't stand
the thought that I wasn't keeping "current" with my Info-Macs!!!

On a similar note: don't take your PowerBook into the bathtub with you.
You'll
redefine the term "Sleep Mode"!

Steve Jones
Assistant Professor of Design & Technology
Middle Tennessee State University

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 01:25:54 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: QuickTime 1.5 (A)

>Is QT 1.5 compatible with 7.0.1?

It is, and I am running it right now...

It is also compatible with 7.0, but I am not sure about anything before
that.

Brian

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 15:53 PST
From: Philip Harriman                      <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stripping accented characters from email: summary

Last week I posted a query about stripping accented
characters from text files to be sent as email. Here is a
summary of the responses I received.

* Use BBEdit's "827 ..." Extension *

Rich Siegel's freeware editor BBEdit (info-mac/app/bbedit-
221.hqx) has an extension cryptically named "827 ..."
(wireheads will recognize this to mean "convert from 8 bit to
7 bit characters") that will replace accented characters with
their un-accented counterparts. As has been discussed in
Info-Mac, characters with an umlaut are replaced by the un-
accented character and an e.

* Use miniWRITER's "remove accents" feature *

miniWRITER is a shareware DA editor which has a "remove
accents" feature. I have not tried this myself, although I
remember using miniWRITER in the pre-MultiFinder days.

Both editors have the advantage of being pre-configured for
removing accents; both have the disadvantage (in my opinion)
of requiring the user to open the editor, open the file,
process the file, save and quit.

* Use Add/Strip *

Jon Wind's shareware utility Add/Strip (info-mac/util/add-
strip-302.hqx) can be configured to replace character
strings. While this solution requires configuration, once it
is done, Add/Strip supports drag and drop for automatic
processing of files.

* Use Paradigm to create a stand-alone Paradoid *

Espen Aarseth's freeware(?) utility Paradigm (on
archive.umich.edu in /mac/util/editor/paradigma2.0.cpt.hqx)
is much like Add/Strip, although replacing character strings
is its only feature. Once you have created a "paradigm" (a
set of replacements), you can create a stand-alone "Paradoid"
which will automatically process your file. One slight
advantage Paradigm has for me is that it automatically quits
itself after processing the file, whereas Add/Strip remains
active.

* Use your favorite compression program and binhex-er *

One respondent suggested the technique of compressing and
binhexing word-processing files for transmission via email.
This technique is useful when you want to send formatted
documents to a corespondent who has the same program; this is
a slightly different problem than what I am attempting to
solve here.

It looks like I will go with either Add/Strip of Paradigm.
Thanks to all who responded to my question!

Phil Harriman

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 11:32:12 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: StyleWriter II vs. DeskWriter

I remember lots of comparisons between the stylewriter and deskwriter.  How
does the stylewriter II rate as compared to the Deskwriter for:  lifetime?
print quality? greyscale? print driver?  From what I remember printer
lifetime was the major difference between the two which sell at similar
prices....

I am presently planning on buying some printers so this comparison could be
a BIG help.

Thanks,   Michael Silverstein

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:56:41 GMT
From: Mr Gordon S Byron <[e-mail]>
Subject: sys7.1 sharing setup problem

I have set up a IICX running 7.1. When I go to sharing setup and put
in my username (admin) and password that's ok As soon as I try to turn
file sharing on the machine freezes up. Anyone else had this
happen..is there something I should know?
thanks
gordon

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 21:09:52 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: TeachText 7.1.2---where?


I read a couple of issues ago that TT7.1.2 was available on the
QT1.5 disc at <ftp.apple.com>.  Well, I downloaded QT1.5, but
found that it contained TT7.0.  Can anyone point me to version
7.1.2?

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

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 14:19:16 GMT+1
From: [e-mail]
Subject: TextBox and styled text (Q)

HEEEEELP!

I've got a problem: I want to draw some text in a Rect. I get this
text from a 'TEXT' resource, and I also have a 'styl' resource
describing the TEXT one's styles.
TextBox() doesn't allow me to draw styled text, since it takes a
pointer to the text and it has no parameters for a style record.
Is there any way to use the 'styl' resource without setting up a
TextEdit record & field, since the static text will be used in a
scrolling part of an About... window?

Thank you very much,
- Alberto Ricci.
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 08:19:33 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Virtual Memory with Lots-O-RAM

Hello again!

Someone posted recently about uising System 7 VM with 64MB of RAM installed -
the resulting file was eating up his hard disk.  I haven't used it myself, but
I understand that Connectix's Virtual 3.0 (or something like that) is able to
use VM without taking up such a huge file on your disk.  You may want to look
into that.

Hope this helps!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 23:59:34 EST
From: Martin Levins <[e-mail]>
Subject: VM & Photoshop

Charles C. Schneider writes:


> Recently I purchased a major RAM upgrade (64 MBytes) for
> my Mac so I could work more efficiently with Photoshop. All
> that RAM is a real time-saver, but it's eating up a lot of my
> hard disk.

> The problem is that I can't run Photoshop without using the
> Quadra's virtual memory.

I think you may be confusing Photoshop's virtual memory which allows for
*documents* larger than available memory to be handled, with System 7's
virtual
memory is intended to allow *applications* to be swapped in and out of
memory.

I use Photoshop on a Q700 with no virtual memory turned on, but Photoshop uses
part of my drive for images larger than the memory partition that I have given
it (currently 12MB)

I suggest you turn off VM in the memory control panel and see how things go.




--

Martin Levins, Director of Computing, The Armidale School, NSW, Australia

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 23:35:49 EST
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: White Knight & Zmodem (Q)

Hello netters:

I'm using Zmodem protocol to download .hqx and .bin files from a Unix
machine to a Mac IIci (5 MEG RAM) at 2400 baud using White Knight 11.14.
I've noticed a significant degradation in efficiency when downloading in the
background.  In fact, efficiency drops to near 70% and VERY slowly returns
to near 100% once White Knight is clicked to the foreground.  What's the
problem?  Does anyone have any ideas?

BTW, when will Scott Watson provide his customers with a major upgrade of
White Knight?

Thanks for your help.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 02:52:50 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Ian B. Robertson)
Subject: Word 4 and StyleWriter II

    Does anyone know if there is a way to get Word 4 to print to a
StyleWriter II?  I have friend running Word 4 on an SE under System
6.08, and after purchasing a StyleWriter II has been informed that she
must upgrade to Word 5 in order to print.  Indeed, she has not
suceeded in printing from Word 4 to her StyleWriter II (though she can
print from other applications), but I find it hard to believe that
there is simply no way to accomplish such a task.  For someone with 1M
of RAM and 20M of hard drive space to switch to Word 5 is no small
matter.
        - Ian Robertson
          [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 17:13:31 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Word 5.1a patch available

Netters,

If you have noticed the *feature* in Word 5.1 that sometimes gleefully
deletes your headers and footers when you open a document, then I know
you will be happy to find that there is a fix available.

I called Microsoft today and they promised me a 5.1a patch disk in
7 to 10 days.  I plan to call back to see if I can get permission
to post this patch (Bill, if it hasn't already been done?).

Will let you know later if I post it.

Glenn

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:35:13 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Kirk W Goodwin)
Subject: ZyXEL Prices WAS:(Looking for a few good FAX Modems)

Prices for the ZyXEL 1496E modem:

DISCLAIMER: I have NO affiliation with any of the following companies
nor ZyXEL although I do believe that their modem is one of the finer
available.  ALSO, not all prices are necessarily current, nor is this
the "definative" list of ZyXEL dealers.  PLEASE email me any additions
or corrections to [e-mail]


Company                         Phone Number    Contact           Price
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Magitek Computer                [phone]                  $ 325.00
Golden Everstar                 [phone]                  $ 335.00
Kandy Shack                     [phone]  Mike Bernstein  $ 339.00
Eagle Computing                 [phone]                  $ 345.00
CTS                             [phone]                  $ 348.25
Boston Computers & Peripherals  [phone]  Sheri Hamel     $ 349.00
The Questor Project             [phone]                  $ 350.00
Alpine Communications           [phone]  Steve           $ 399.00
                [phone]
Zero One Networking             [phone]  Sales Dept      $ 469.00
Black & White Software          [phone]  Craig Goss      $ ???.00
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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