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Info-Mac Digest             Wed, 10 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 33

Today's Topics:

      (Q) How to use ghostscript?
      (R) Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!)
      3d Buttons (Greg's Buttons vs. NewLook)
      American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder
      Anchored files on a Hard Drive
      Banyan-Vines
      best mail solution (Q)
      CD-ROM Mailing list
      Centris 610 - no software power off?
      computers and law
      Converting PICTs to QT Movies
      Crippled '040 (C)
      DeskPaint & DeskDraw - Opinions Wanted
      DS9 Sounds: door and commercial break (Q)
      Excel Tax Forms (Q)
      FileMaker and lowerCase x
      file sharing and guest access
      FOCUS Enhancements (Q)
      Font Folder, 7.1, system heap?
      FPUs on new Centris machines
      Heap-related crashes
      help
      IMAGE CONVERSION
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #31
      Kid's Handwriting Font (Q)
      LC III
      LC upgrade options
      Mac/DOS Color Printer (Q)
      MathType problem
      Menu slowdown
      Modifying HDSC Setup to Format Any Hard Disk
      MYSTERY - PPCToolbox Socket
      NewLook 1.3 (R)
      Noice of APS drives & quality of APS and MacLand (is good)
      Printing problems w/Word 5.0
      Printing to a parallel printer (Q)
      program to undelete
      SoftPC
      Style Checkers
      Stylewriter Cartridges...what now?
      SYQUESTS CARDRIDGES
      sys 7.1 sharing setup problem (Suggestion)
      Sys 7.1 tune-up: No good news for PB100 owners :-{
      TeachText 7.1.2---where?
      VT-330 Emulation
      White Knight & Zmodem (R)

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Date: 9 Feb 1993 23:11:08 -0800
From: [e-mail] (John Kim)
Subject: (Q) How to use ghostscript?

I downloaded the runtime (the compiled) version of GhostScript. Bu tI have no
clue as to how I can use it. I maybe missing some point or help info; but I
can't figure out myself.

Could a kind soul, tell me how?

Thank you. (Please email me.)

John
--
Joung-woo John Kim                              [e-mail]
Computer Science Dept.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:44:24 -0500
From: Robert Scott Lillard <[e-mail]>
Subject: (R) Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!)

Hello net heads:
Let me first say that I am coating my butt (sorry about the 4
letter word) with asbestos in preparation for the flames that i
usually receive when I add my two cents on this topic.  While as
recently pointed out it may not be such a great idea to attempt
to format HD as DD because of the oxide differences - coercivity
arguements aside (I am sure some-one will post some flame about
'how many oersteds this or that mag. oxide on this or that brand
HD has') DD discs can be formatted as HD fairly reliably.  I have
been doing so on my PS-2 (sorry for the dirty word) for at the
very least 5 years (DOS on the PS-2 formats all discs hole
present or not as 1.4) and on my LC (with the aid of a store
bought 'Disc Hole Punch') for 2 years with out any notable
problems.  While it hasn't save me a "Bazillion" dollars, it has
saved enough for a couple of cases of Sam Adams.
IMHO - rsl
PS flames may be sent directly to:
Scott Lillard
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:01 GMT
From: [e-mail] (G.D. Landweber)
Subject: 3d Buttons (Greg's Buttons vs. NewLook)

A recent post on the info-mac-digest says (I paraphrase):
   New Look may not have as many feature as Greg's Buttons
   but it's much more stable.
Somehow I do not believe in the validity of such a statement
about a program (New Look) that has released three separate
versions (original + 2 bug fixes) within one month.  Also,
in the documentation, the author of New Look lists about a
half dozen beta testers.  Greg's Buttons 2.4, which was
released earlier this week, is the most stable version yet,
and it was beta tested by over 100 registered users for a
period of four weeks.

Yes, Greg's Buttons does conflict with a number of applications.
In most of these cases, it is NOT the fault of Greg's Buttons,
but rather the fault of an application that does not follow the
guidelines set down in Inside Macintosh.  If you encounter any
of these problems, just turn off the options one-by-one until
you find the offending feature, and then all should be well.

I should also note that since I released Greg's Button 2.0 in
September, I have only had ONE bug report about the buttons
themselves.  So, if you are only interested in 3d color buttons,
Greg's Buttons is one of the most stable control panels around.

Finally, anybody interested in enhancing the user interface on
a color Mac should download ALL the relevant programs (New Look,
Greg's Buttons, DoubleScroll, etc.) and try them out.  Don't
judge a program by the hype; judge it based on what it does and
how well it works on YOUR system.

Thank you for enduring my flame.

-- Greg "Buttons" Landweber
   [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 23:25:52 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Patrick D Warn)
Subject: American Heritage Dictionaries & System Folder

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

In the new College/Professional edition you can put the files anywhere...
--
             Wondering what it all means,
                 Pat

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 11:36:20 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Paul Antaki)
Subject: Anchored files on a Hard Drive

Does anyone know what an anchored file is? All I know is that it is a file
that
must remain at the same physical location on a hard drive. But why and how
does
a file become anchored?

Paul

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:47:09 -0500
From: "Tom Wilson" <[e-mail]> (Tom Wilson)
Subject: Banyan-Vines

My engineering department has "standardized" on IBM clones as their machine
of choice and they are now using Banyan-Vines (spelling?) for
telecommunications.  I am, however, a fanatical Macintosh lover who will
probably never go back to those "DOS-asters".  I have been told that there
will be an attempt to bring Banyan-Vines to my office (oh, goody!)

My problem is, I don't know beans about Banyan-Vines and I have been unable
to locate any literature about it.  The guy in our engineering department
who is implimenting this system said "Hmmm - never thought about usin' one
of them sissy machines! Yuk, yuk!"

Does anybody know if Banyan-Vines is compatible with anything else and do
you need any special software?  Is there a MAC user out there who is
currently using it?

"Please don't let me walk away to the sound of my own footsteps!"
                        [Unknown]





Tom Wilson                       Voice: [phone]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory      FAX: [phone]
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 23:21:04 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: best mail solution (Q)

I am about to get connected to a dialup Internet service that uses SLIP.
What do I need to do to be able to receive my mail? They use SMTP
(sendmail), but they don't really support POP, so I am wondering if
Eudora would work for my purposes. I also need to be able to run (not
necessarily concurrently) ftp, telnet, finger, talk, etc.

Brian Gaeke

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:36:39 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: CD-ROM Mailing list

Announcement:  A new mailing list has been set up to deal with topics
related to publication (on all platforms) of CD-ROM materials. To subscribe
send the message "SUBSCRIBE CDPub" to [e-mail].
I did not set up this list, but wanted to increase the macintosh
participation on it by posting this note here.

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Date: 10 Feb 1993 07:04:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Daniel Lau)
Subject: Centris 610 - no software power off?

Hi all,

Just saw the new Centris 610 at the AppleCenter in Perth (its Feb 10 already
in
this part of the world) and played around with it a little.  Didn't have much
time to examine the machine in detail, the one thing I did surprised me
considerably... when Shutdown is selected from Finder, the screen turns black
and the old dialog box with 'You may now switch off your Macintosh safely'
with a 'Restart' button on the right appears.  A small thing perhaps, but it
struck me as being positively archaic in such a businesslike machine.

dan

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 16:59:55 +0100
From: [e-mail] (domont)
Subject: computers and law

I am looking for informations about the use of computers in relation with
law and about computer's law.
Is there a discussion list dedicated to these subjects on the net? Are
there people who use Macintoshes in relation with law (expert systems...)
reading the digest?
FR. Domont
Centre de Droit de la consommation
Universite Catholique de Louvain
[e-mail]

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Date: Tuesday, 9 Feb 1993 23:07:15 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Converting PICTs to QT Movies

I asked recently about a program to convert PICTs to QT movies.
Brian Gaeke offered the following suggestion:

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

It worked like a charm!  Thanks, Brian.  (By the way, Brian is correct,
ConvertToMovie is on the Developer QT CD).

Jeffrey Fritz, [e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 13:44:47 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Hughes)
Subject: Crippled '040 (C)

Arif Shaikh writes:

>With all this bickering about apple using crippled '040 in thier new
>line of MAc's, I would like to add my two cents. First of all, I
>completely disagree with Alan Hewat about apple using the cripp led
>'040s as a marketing ploy. As Mr. Donald pointed out, in a earlier
>issue of info-mac, the LC040s are '040s with failed FPUs. Being an
>electrical engineer who has done circuit designs for intergrated chips,
>I can tell you that failed chips is big overhead in the production
>process. Therefore, if it is possibl e to recover any of the chips we
>will. And that is also why Intel with the 486 SX and Motorola with the
>LC040 are trying to sell their chips as a lower version.  This is great
>for Apple and PC builders because they can get fast chip for a lot less.
>And it does add up in the long run.......

    This would be fine, except for one small thing: Motorola is not
using failed '040s as LC040s. The LC040 is a totally redesigned chip
that was buit from the ground up withouth the FPU hardware. It's not
disabled, it's not failed, it just isn't there. This is the main reason
why the chip costs so much less, and why it has a smaller overall die
size than the full '040. Of course the good thing is that Motorolo
mounted these chips on the same pin set that the full '040 uses which
allows you to just pop out an LC040 and pop in a full '040 and have all
of the FPU stuff with no hassles. This is what the "upgrade" to full
'040 for the Centris 610 and the 4/80 Centris 650 is.

-Hades

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Date: 10 Feb 93 06:42:23 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dave Meyers)
Subject: DeskPaint & DeskDraw - Opinions Wanted

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

>     I just received a mailing from Zedcor offering their programs DeskPaint
&
>DeskDraw for $29.95.  According to their mailing the retail for these
programs

I received this same offer.  And I'm considering it.

What I'd like to ask of whomever might be able to help us out,
is whether the current version of Deskpaint still has that
excellent Browse facility that an ancient copy I worked with
once had.  It allowed you to open a paint file, and see all the
files within that folder as a sort of "slide show".  This was
enormously useful for searching through clip art.

If the newest version retains this ability, and, perhaps,
comes as a real application instead of as a desk accessory,
I think I will send them some money...

Thank you in advance for any comments.
--David
--
-- -- -- David S. Meyers ([e-mail]) -- -- --
When encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will &*kh*&n*&b&mk

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 22:12:09 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DS9 Sounds: door and commercial break (Q)

Could someone please upload a quality version (22 kHZ), in system 7 format,
of two sounds from Deep Space Nine.  I have received requests for two sounds
in this format:  (1) the door and (2) the music right before a commercial
break.

Thanks in advance.  These sounds will subsequently be uploaded to America
Online, where a number of people will then download them.

Sincerely,
Paul D. Bain
Gainesville, Florida

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 22:41:16 EST
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: Excel Tax Forms (Q)

Hello netters,

Does anyone know if Icicle Computer Company still exists? It is (was) a
Canadian company specializing in preparing Excel 3.0 Tax Forms. I ordered
their templates last year and I was pleased with the ease of use. However,
this year, I can't reach them by telephone. It seems to be disconnected.

The info on last year's diskette is:

Icicle Computer
Box 20093, Rideau East P.O.
Ottawa, Ontario  K1N 9N5
[phone]

Any help would be appreciated.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 8:42:22 EST
From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FileMaker and lowerCase x

Dear net land.. this is a fowarded message from someone I work with.
I thought it was unusual enough to send out to the net world.
I think it is an init conflict, but I can't test the idea. If anyone
out there has seen this before, let me know.

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      29 Jan 93 13:01 EST
Date:     Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:55:08 EST
From:     Joe Bascone <[e-mail]>
To:       [e-mail]
Subject:  [To: jbascone:  [To: tkelly: Broken Macintosh Toys]]
Message-ID:  <[e-mail]>


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Date:     Fri, 29 Jan 93 13:53:55 EST
From:     Joe Bascone   <[e-mail]>
To:       [e-mail]
Subject:  [To: tkelly:  Broken Macintosh Toys]
Message-ID:  <[e-mail]>



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Date:     Fri, 29 Jan 93 9:41:44 EST
From:     Joe Bascone   <[e-mail]>
To:       [e-mail]
Subject:  Broken Macintosh Toys

Troy
    In an attempt to move out of the "stone age" of DOS and into the
Renaissance of MacintUsh computing, I began playing with the mighty Mac.
My superiors here at HRED Field Element have even gone so far as to attempt
the creation of data bases using such wonders as File Maker Pro version
1.0V2.
We've even gone so far as to take the old pile of newspapers, sales coupons,
circulars and other superfluous material that we didn't want blowing around
the office out from under the machine.  Yet, we have found that our progress
out of the Dark Ages of Dos is being hampered by one small problem.

    One day my superior (Mr. Robert Spine) was diligently working at
creating a Data Base for our office when to his dismay, he found that the
letter "x" would not type on the screen.  It seems that in the File Maker Pro
application (Version 1.0v2) the small letter x does not type on the screen.
Try as you might, it will not show.  Instead you can type a capital X, but
this tends to spoil the asthetics of the document.  Such words as eXcuse,
eXtend, eXigence, eXenterate and eXhaust as eXempli gratia tend to ruin the
look and flow of a written statement.  So the question remains; why is this
so.  Until an answer is found I suppose we must limp on with our broken
macintUsh toy, forward out of the medieval realm of DOS into the "New Age"
of Mac.  Either this or just unplug it and put it back on top of those old
newspapers I've been meaning to tie up.

Joe.


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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 15:36:34 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: file sharing and guest access

If somebody is logged on as a guest to my public folder, I can't determine
who that person is. Is there any shareware program which allows me to trace
the guest (i.e. which mac is logged into my mac)?

Karl


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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 09:59:35 -0800
From: Irv Wiswall <[e-mail]>
Subject: FOCUS Enhancements (Q)

I've used LocalTalk connectors and a couple of ethernet cards from FOCUS,
and while our experience is limited to
small numbers of these devices over only a couple of months,
so far we've been pretty happy.  Their prices are great. For example their
LocalTalk connectors are 10 for $99.99.  Educational discount price is even
less.

OK, so the question is, does anyone have any experience with
FOCUS's LocalTalk star controller?  It has 16 ports, is called the
TurboStar and only costs $449.99.  Educational
discount is $399.99.  If anyone does have experience with it, I'd be
interested in how it compares with Farallon's Star Controller.

Irv Wiswall                    | [e-mail]
Director of College Computing  | 503 472 4121
Linfield College               | McMinnville OR 97128

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 08:54:01 -0500
From: "Tad Davis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font Folder, 7.1, system heap?

While investigating another problem, I noticed something that puzzled me.
If I create a document with a sample of all the fonts in my system, the
system grabs up gobs of RAM. When the document is closed and I quit the
application, the swollen heap remains.

Circumstances: I'm running 7.1 on a Classic II and an SE (same behavior on
both, with two different word processors). I have 28 TrueType fonts in the
Fonts folder, and no other fonts (other than the handful in the System file
itself) or font utilities. I'm also running Disinfectant, DeskWriter
background printing, and Moire (latest versions in all cases). I have VM
turned on for the C2, but I doubt that's the problem, because the same
thing appears with VM turned off. And it appears with extensions disabled
as well, so I doubt it's any of those. All things considered, my system is
pretty much pared-down and clean.

The TrueType fonts are mostly Apple's own, though I have seven Bitstream TT
fonts as well.

Shouldn't the system free up RAM for fonts that aren't being used? Is it
the responsibility of the application to do something when it quits? Is it
possible I've found a subtle incompatibility between these two applications
and the 7.1 Fonts folder? Does Suitcase handle this situation better? Is it
possible that the system file on two different machines, installed on two
different dates from two different sets of original disks, could have been
corrupted in the same way by one of those extensions? Or is this a known
"feature" of System 7.1?

Tad Davis
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 07:40:35 PST
From: Tim Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: FPUs on new Centris machines

There has been a lot said over the past couple of weeks about the new Centris
machines, announced earlier in Tokyo, primarily about the '040LC's and their
lack of FPUs. I sent a posting which passed along the fact (as given by an
Apple system engineer) that the '040LC chips are not standard '040RC chips
with
'failed FPUs, but chips redesigned and manufactured without the FPUs by
Motorola.

The question remains, can we add FPUs to the Centris machines? Is there a
socket on the logic boards?

The answer is, no. In order to get the FPU, you've got to trade in your '040LC
for an '040RC -- yes, Apple will have a deal on the upgrade. Their pinout is
the same, and the only difference is that the RC has the massive heat sink on
it, where the LC has a much smaller heat sink. But you can pop out the LC and
pop in an RC.

The problem comes on the Centris 610 that because of the design of the
interior
of the machine, the heat sink for the '040RC runs into the space where you can
add in a single 7-inch NuBus card! So until someone comes out with a heat sink
for the '040RC that is shaped differently, you're not going to be able to put
an RC into a Centris 610 if you've got a NuBus card in it.

There is, however, room inside the Centris 650 for the RC to fit.

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

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:40:51 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Heap-related crashes

> My system at home is a Plus, 4megs RAM, Apple 20meg serial HD, running
> system 6.0.8. I'm using ATM and a handful of other inits, all of which
> have been in use for some time and caused no problems.(ATM is, however,
> a recent upgrade to 3.0.). There are a *lot* of fonts loaded, both PS
> and TT.  I'm printing to an HP Deskwriter, using HP's driver version 3.1.
>
> I created a very fancy (many fonts and manipulations) Canvas 2.1 document
> that looked fine on screen, and sent it to the printer. The computer hung up
> for a long time, then crashed with the scary system error message:
>
>      Stack Collision With Heap
>
The Heap is the RAM put aside for the System files called System Heap
and the Stack is the Application Stack, which is RAM put aside for the
Application. The heap is set in the boot blocks and the original utilities
that fixed this problem took the approach of changing the boot blocks.
More recent utilities that fix this add some RAM to the heap at start up
time. HeapTool is a cdev that does this. You can change how much heap
is allocated through the control panel.

If you can't get HeapTool from Sumex, send me a note and I'll upload
a copy.

>
> Well, a stack collision with heap error is one in which the system stack (an
> area of memory where variables are temporarily stored and then passed to
other
> functions/procedures) grows too large and starts overwriting the heap
(another
> area of memory that I'm not sure what it's used for, but Inside Mac has a
lot
> to say about it :) - I think it is slack space from which the system can
reque
> memory blocks to expand, but I'm just not sure).  Why you hard drive
wouldn't
> boot will depend on what your system decided to do when memory got screwed.
> It's tough to say.  If the hard drive got written to, it probably was
corrupte

I have not seen this, but I have no evidence that it can't happen.

> Generally, this error comes at safer (?) times, and you just get shelled out
t
> the finder.  Don't get me wrong.  This is an infrequent error,

Actually, most Macs running System 6.0.x with extra fonts, inits
and cdevs (which is most Macs I run into) have a heap problem. If
you are running System 6.0.x, you can go to the Apple menu and open
the first menu item "About the Finder". You will see a bar showing
how much RAM is being used. The bar has a black area and a gray area.
The gray area should be 25% of the total area. If this is the case, you
need HeapTool.

> but any error
> that occurs during a write can spell big trouble (as we all know).  If you
> want a more stable OS, try A/UX with its wonderful true multitasking.
> If you're running system 6, you can try upping the memory alloted to the
finde
> (and system).  Under system 7, this is supposed to be done automatically
> (and transparently), but doesn't always happen in time <g>.
>
Correct, Multifinder and System 7 adjust HEAP dynamically. I have this
hypothesis that adding a little RAM to the heap with HeapTool would
not hurt and may even help even if you are using System 7. Anyone care
to comment?

> In short, you shouldn't have to reinstall everything after one of this kind
of
> error.  I guess it was just your number coming up this time....

Correct.

> Stack collision with heap means in layman's terms that you didn't have
enough
> memory to do everything (which sounds like a lot) you were trying to do. Try
> unloading as many of the fonts as possible -- if you're running System 6 and
> have MultiFinder on, turn it off.

Nope. BTW- I think most people have problems with memory under
System 7 or Multifinder is because they do not allocate enough RAM
to the application. For example, if you have a 4 meg RAM machine using
system 6.0.x an no Multifinder, the whole 4 megs is available to the
application, while with multifinder or Sys 7, the RAM allocated to the
application is set by selecting the application's icon and then File-
Get Info. If this setting is 1700 K, that's all the application gets, even
if you have 4 meg available. If the app needs more RAM, you get an
error message which people think can only be solved by turning off
multifinder or not using System 7.

> Restart and rebuild the desktop (this worked
> for someone I helped last week who had the same problem).

Probably coincidental, but there is no reason not to try it.

> If you're running
> System 7, you can only unload the fonts and rebuild the desktop

While loading fonts is technically a cause of the problem, the real
problem is that your System is not adjusting adequately to the
fonts you have installed.

Comments, questions, corrections, flames? Please send them.-Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:07:23 GMT
From: "Martin Achilli, Milan, Italy"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: help

My name is Martin Achilli, user ACHILLM on bitnet node IMIHSRA,
I am trying to download some programs by connecting to MACSERVE at IRLEARN.
The problem is, my machine is an IBM mainframe, the sequence I must use to get
files to my macintosh are:
to connect to our mainframe using a 3270 emulation program (by IBM) on an IBM
p
c;
to copy the files from the mainframe to the local hard-disk by using receive;
copy the files to a diskette from the IBM pc;
put the diskette into the Mac and use Apple file exchange to copy the files
ont
o the Mac hard disk;
use compact pro (which I have) to un-binhex the files.

These steps don't work (I have tried on two files, one big and one small)
what options must I give the receive command on the Ibm Pc (ASCII, CRLF) ?
what translator must I use with Apple File Exchange ?

I have tried the 4 combinations of flags for the receive command and I have
tri
ed using the text translator and the standard translator on Afe...


what am I doing wrong ??

thank you in advance

Martin

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:55:13 -0500
From: Metin Inci <[e-mail]>
Subject: IMAGE CONVERSION

I have image file in TIF and PICT formats in mac ( Radar data).
I transferred this image from an image processing software
called ERDAS in IBM to mac and opened Photoshop in mac.
I would like to convert this image values to digital values so
that I can see each image pixel in numbers or intensity values.
In other way, I would like to see  my image file in
digital values form or text file so that I can
input this file to another program that accepts text
file that has digital numbers. Can anybody explain or
HELP me about conversion of image (TIF or PICT
in mac) to a format that we can see each pixel (in
image file) in the form of digital numbers (not binary
I can convert to binary form- using photoshop but I do
 not need binary)?
E-MAIL: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 20:55:04 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #31

>   Is it possible to format a High Density diskette as 800k with a
>SuperDrive?   I can't seem to do it.
>
>   I'm using a Mac II, with SuperDrive, system 7.0, AccessPC.

HD disks should NEVER be formatted as anything but HD.  That's why you
don't get a choice.

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

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 05:52:30 -0500
From: "Keith E Gatling" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Kid's Handwriting Font (Q)

Having just brought home a brand new tiny human last week, I was wondering
if anyone out there knew of a font (preferably PS) that looked like kids'
handwriting.

Thanks!

keg

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

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 21:32:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Benjamin White <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC III

I saw speed comparisons in the issue for some of Apple's new machines, but
I didn't see one of the LCIII.  Does anyone know how the LCIII performs
relative to Apple's other products.  I'm trying to decide if the upgrade
>From my LC is worth the $600.

Thanks,

Ben White

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:16:28 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LC upgrade options

  Well, with the LC -> LC III upgrade announced, does anyone have any
comments on what would be the advantages and disadvantages of getting
Apple's upgrade versus a third party accelerator?  The LC III upgrade
raises the memory limit to 32 Mb compared to the former 10 Mb, but that
doesn't seem to be a big problem for me.  I'm looking more for a speed
upgrade, in particular speeding up a Personal Laserwriter LS (the
non-postscript printer which doesn't have a CPU of it's own, so requires
the LC to do all its processing).

Shih Tung
Chem E
Best l'il Tech
School on the Charles

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:38:45 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac/DOS Color Printer (Q)

Folks, my boss has sent me on what may well be a fruitless quest. He'd
like a color printer in the $1K price range that can be used by Mac's
and PC's at the same time. He came back from a demo drooling over the
HP DeskWriter 550C, not understanding that its cross platform support
is of the form "You can buy one for a Mac, or you can buy one for a PC,
but not both at the same time."

His request is further complicated by the fact that our DOS pukes (no
offense) aren't networked yet, and progress in that direction is not
real apparent. I envision some sort of printer that has a parallel port
to hook to his DOS box and a localtalk port -- and enough intelligence
to not get them confused.

Is there any such beast?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 9:29 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: MathType problem

I'd like to hear from people who use Design Science's MathType 3.0 in
conjunction with Microsoft Word 5.0.

We get this weird problem on our machines: insert an equation in Word, and
type "l-subscript-zero" in the MathType window which appears (the l is the
lower-case curly L which is found in the MTExtra font; the zero is
Palatino 7 say).  When you close the window which should cause the object
to be slotted into the Word document, MathType crashes with a division by
zero error (Type 4).  Indeed, it seems that any MTExtra character followed
by a subscript (but not a superscript) causes this error.

There are plodding workarounds like manually typing in the combination of
characters that you want, but I'd like to know if it's just our setup that
needs fixing or if others can reproduce this crash.  And if you have, do you
also have a cure?  My guess is that it's related to the TrueType version of
MTExtra, but I don't have time to pursue this further right now...

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 18:39:52 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Marc Bizer)
Subject: Menu slowdown

Dear lovers of INITs and CDEVs,
    While I was running my PB 170 off battery power today (at 16 MHz)
the delay between clicking on a menu and its actually being displayed was
quite noticeable (I'd say about 1/3 of a second or so); booting with
extensions off made it go away. The delay is also noticeable when running
at 25 MHz. Now Utilities seems to contribute to this to a great extent. I
also use MICN, TypeIt4Me... Have you noticed this too? I guess that having
the command-key equivalents is worth it.
    Yours truly,
    Marc Bizer

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 17:06:23 -0800
From: "Ron Wong, SCO DevRel, x7128" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Modifying HDSC Setup to Format Any Hard Disk

Formatting "Any" Hard Disk with Apple's HDSC Setup
===================================================


Symptom:  Apple HDSC Setup says it can't find the disk that
you want to format but other SCSI utilities (SCSI Probe,
Disk First Aid, etc.) are able to find the disk

Diagnosis:  HDSC Setup contains a list of hard disk names
that it officially supports

Solution:  prevent the name checking by using ResEdit to
modify HDSC Setup

Steps:  (use a copy of HDSC Setup!!!)

1.  Start ResEdit and open the copy of HDSC Setup
2.  Open the Code Resource named "%A5Init"
3.  Search in the ASCII section for the string "8 SEAGATE"
4.  In the HEX-Section, change the code for the "8" in the
     ASCII string you found to "00"
5.  Save the changed version of HDSC Setup


Thanks to:
Dominik Ulmer ([e-mail])
Ephraim Vishniac ([e-mail])

who provided the original information in a previous posting.


Ron Wong                  The Santa Cruz Operation          408-427-7128
Net & Comm Segment Mgr
E-mail:   ...uunet!sco!ronaldw      [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 11:38:37 MST
From: [e-mail] (Bob Bolt)
Subject: MYSTERY - PPCToolbox Socket

Subject:   MYSTERY - PPCToolbox Socket
I was prowling around our network with InterPoll recently and came across
something I have never heard of. Some of our System 7 Macs are registering a
socket called PPCToolbox. Most of our Macs don't show this thing but those
that do have nothing in common - different zones, model and user ability.

It is not installed by an INIT (I disabled them and it's still there) so I
assume it is in the System file. Disinfectant does not report a virus. Does
anyone know what this thingy is and/or how it got there?

Bob Bolt
Instructional Technology Centre
University of Alberta
[e-mail]

[This occurs when you have "Program Linking" turned on in the Sharing Setup
 control panel. -Bill]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:21:44 -0800
From: Jack Repenning <[e-mail]>
Subject: NewLook 1.3 (R)

In Info-Mac 11/32, Tony Huang writes:

> This is the lastest version of NewLook .... It doesn't have as many
> features as Greg's Button, but it's much more stable.

This seems to be the third version released on the net in a couple
weeks.  If "stable" means "unchanging," that hardly qualifies!   If it
means "it doesn't crash," GB is "stable" enough for me (I can't recall
it ever crashing anything).

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:27:20 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Noice of APS drives & quality of APS and MacLand (is good)

> From:         John Eickerman <[e-mail]>
> Subject:      APS External Drives
>
> I have been reading the latest MacWorld (3/93) and I noticed that the APS
> drives that they tested were rather noisy?  It wasn't just one drive, but
> all of them were in the 45 dB range, some more, some less.  I was looking
> at buying an APS external Quantum 170, and I work in a pretty quiet room.
> My IIsi is also pretty quiet too.  I am just wondering if any of you out
> there with APS drives, find them annoying?  I noticed that the MacLand
> drives are in the 33 dB range, much quieter, and they are a tad cheaper.
> Any thoughts on MacLand drives?
>
I have used and have been satisfied by both vendors. My APS Maxtor
120 does have a fan you can hear a few feet away, but it is not an
annoying sound. (To me).

You should be satisfied by MacLand's quality (don't know about the
noice of their HDs, though, just that I'm a happy customer).-Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 17:20:58 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (VAX Academic Support)
Subject: Printing problems w/Word 5.0

Help!

We are having problems with users who print certain Word files.

The system setup is as follows:
    Mac IIsi
    System 7.0.1
    Word 5.0 (installed and launched from the workstation)
    Laserwriter IIf (networked)
    FileGuard 2.7.4

For some reason, when the New York font is chosen, rather than generate
the expected output, we receive the following error (on the hardcopy):

    Postscript Exception:
    [ Error: invalidfont; Offending Command: show]

Any suggestions as to what may be wrong?

Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:07:20 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert Reeves)
Subject: Printing to a parallel printer (Q)

Greetings 'net!

As the proud (?) owner of an Epson FX printer, I now have the joy
of trying to make it work.  Naturally, I've down-loaded the proper driver from
the good folks at
the good folkes at sumex-aim, but now the problem is getting a
serial->parallel
converter.  MacWorld (Dec 92) had a quick mention of the prob/solution and
mentioned 2 products PowerPrint from GDT and Grappler from OrangeMicro.  Any
idea on what these things cost/perform and where I could get it?

With the new StyleWriters I don't think paying large sums of $$ would be
a very prudent idea, I mean this is only a 9pin printer....

Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated!

Robert Reeves
    [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 23:28:55 EST
From: Christos Giogas <[e-mail]>
Subject: program to undelete

This is my first attempt to post on the net so forgive me if this
is posted incorrectly.

I am looking for a shareware of freeware program which UNDELETEs
files. My friend (running system 7) accidently deleted some files
on his computer. I have have the early version of Norton Utilites
(and only running system 6) but it will not run on system 7.

If there is such a program, I would be very grateful for any info.
Please send e-mail directley to [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:35:45 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SoftPC

The company that makes SoftPC has recently updated the products.  The products
called Entry-Level SoftPC 2.5, Universal SoftPC 2.5, and SoftAT 2.5 are being
replaced by Universal SoftPC 3.0 which now has EGA support, SoftPC
Professional
3.0 which handles 80286 protected mode, VGA graphics, and 16MB extended memory
emulation, and SoftPC Windows which includes Windows 3.1.  Various upgrade
paths are available.

/Eric

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 14:52 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Style Checkers

I'm looking for recommendations/advice/criticisms on style checkers,
particularly Grammatik Mac version 5.  I'd like to know what those of you who
have used Grammatik Mac or something similar think about the usefulness of
this kind of program.  On Grammatik Mac, I'd like to find out:
(a) is it system 7 compatible
(b) how much space does it take up on the hard drive
(c) what is/are the source(s) for the rules (e. g. Chicago Manual of Style)
(d) does it work with WordPerfect 2.1 automatically, or do you have to cut and
paste or save as plain text?

Thanks for the help.

Steve Waechter
swaechter@utmem2 (bitnet)
[e-mail] (internet)

PS--any comments on Webster's Reference Dictionary for the Mac would also be
appreciated.  Thanks.

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 19:46:46 EST
From: "Dieder B." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter Cartridges...what now?

Okay...I have a bunch o' dead cartridges...some with bad nozzles
(see tidbits for detail), others are just plain dead. What now?
I'd rather not throw them away, but as I can't think of anything
else to do...I don't have much option. So...any ideas? Surely
somebody has a use for them? Can't even be easily recycled so far
as I can tell. Suggestions?

D.

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:58:36 -0500
From: Metin Inci <[e-mail]>
Subject: SYQUESTS CARDRIDGES

Hello again,
I have A REMOVABL 88Mb syquest drive for mac. I have also
88Mb IBM-formatted syquest cardrige. using AccesPC
I could not load my syquest removable in mac. Normally
I have no problem loading Syquest removable with mac
formatted cardridge. I copied big imagefiles from
IBM using same mac syquest drive with IBM formatted
cardridge. When I brought this same removable to mac with
same IBM< cardridge(88Mb), I can't see any removable.
Is there any way to do that or any software to load
IBM cardridge? Thank you for your help in advance.
HOTLINE COULD NOT HELP. Please help..
APPRECIATED FOR ANY HELP.
===========
e-mail:[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 18:17:11 PST
From: Josh Berman <[e-mail]>
Subject: sys 7.1 sharing setup problem (Suggestion)

Gordon Byron said:
>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?

I had this happen yesterday to my IIsi running 7.0 (tuned).  I eventually
had to boot up on floppy, delete the finder, the system, and everything
else related to file sharing.  Then I re-installed the system _AND_ the
tune-up... It turns out that Tune-Up 1.1.1 has a "new" (compared to my 1.5
yr. old system disks) File Sharing Extension on it, and I guess that the
old File Sharing Extension does not work with tuned 7.0.
Just my $0.02
    Josh

Josh Berman     [e-mail]   [phone] x4264
           Platt Campus Center; HMC        Claremont, CA  91711

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Date: 10 Feb 1993 02:55:52 GMT
From: [e-mail] (V Menayang)
Subject: Sys 7.1 tune-up: No good news for PB100 owners :-{

When I bought my PowerBook 100 there was a rumor that Apple
is going to include in Sys 7.1 a fix for high-speed
serial communication.  Well, it didn't.
Now I heard that Apple will include a fix for the serial
port bug in the Sys 7.1 tuner, BUT that fix does not apply
to powerbooks.
Is there really a bug, or is it just that the PB100 cannot
support a DTE speed above 19,200bps at its serial/printer
port?


-victor
--

Victor Menayang                     [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 00:50:30 PST
From: [e-mail] (Eric P. Scott)
Subject: TeachText 7.1.2---where?

My mistake--the QT 1.5 disk indeed contains the 7.0 version of
TeachText.  It has the 7.1.2 version of *Scrapbook*.  Please
accept my sincerest apologies for sending you on a wild goose
chase!

Lacking a QuickTime-aware TeachText, may I suggest the Wild Magic
CDEV?

ftp.apple.com:~ftp/dts/mac/quicktime/qt.1.0.stuff/wild-magic.hqx

(yes, it does work with QT 1.5)

                    -=EPS=-

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:26:14 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: VT-330 Emulation

Hi, net-friends.
Is a terminal program supporting VT-330 emulation (or higher) available
for the Mac?  Please respond directly to me.  I'll summarize or respond
directly to other inquiries if there is interest.

[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:27:55 -0800
From: Jack Repenning <[e-mail]>
Subject: White Knight & Zmodem (R)

I've noticed the apparent slow-down of WK in background as well.  I
can't explain it, but I imagine the slow recovery is simply because
the indicated efficiency is averaged over the whole transfer: the slow
period continues to drag down the computed average performance even
when it's over.

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 21:29:06 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)

>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.

Ahhh...but yes it does.  It has "Classic" Color QuickDraw which has been
available on *all* Macs.  It gives 3-bit (8) planar color.

The color QuickDraw you're thinking of (that introduced with the Mac II)
would return 0x100.

>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?

Yes.  However, remember that Gestalt was introduced in 6.0.4, so you'll
want to check for that.  However, THINK C 5.0 contains glue code to make
Gestalt calls work in versions previous to 6.0.4.  It just calls
pre-Gestalt traps for you and does the "translation."

Hope this helps.

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

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 13:48:09 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>

> You'll want the SystemScriptSwitcher control panel, which is a lot
> easier to deal with than changing scripts via ResEdit.
>
How does one get a copy of this cdev? Thanks, Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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