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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 11 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 34

Today's Topics:

      [*] Alpha 5.3
      [*] autoboot111.hqx
      [*] Browsing digests for recent uploads
      [*] Coloring Book 1.0.1
      [*] Empire Master 2.6 demo
      [*] euclid11b17
      [*] FileMaker_Pro_Contacts+2.01.hqx
      [*] Firtst Things First demo v.3.08
      [*] Freddie 1.2.5
      [*] HeartQuest 0.7 (game)
      [*] IIcx/i/Q700 Power Supply Report
      [*] latest version of Invisible Hand
      [*] Poker Solitaire v0.9B Submission
      [*] rsi-network-news-10
      [*] Search Files 1.3
      [*] submission
      [*] sys_7_resedit_tmpl.sit.hqx
      [*] tidbits-caring-for-wrists-PM.hqx
      [*] tidbits-caring-for-wrists-PS.hqx
      [*] VideoToolbox.93.2.8.sea.hqx
      [*] wp-three-macros.hqx
      (Q) Crippled '040
      (R) Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!)
      Aldus Driver for LW Pro 630?
      App to view memory usage?
      ARA Script for OrchidFAX?
      B-tree nodes when using Norton optimizer
      Banyan-Vines
      Bogas/SuperStudioSession is alive!
      Borland's phone # and how to get Full Impact (MAC) 7.0 compatible
      Color printer
      color printing in mixed environment
      Deskpaint and DeskDraw Opinions Wanted (R
      diskette password protection
      DOS to Mac Plus (A)
      Drive noise
      Ethertalk for the IBM
      Everything is going black, black...
      Flags, anyone?
      FPUs on new Centris machines (C)
      Geometrical optics software [Q]
      Greg's Button vs. NewLook
      Heap-related crashes (C)
      hebrew telecommunications on a mac
      How's Stylewriter II?
      How to use ghostscript? (R)
      IBM 3270 + IBM PC ---> Mac
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #33 (2 msgs)
      Kid's Handwriting Font (A
      LAN supervisor info
      LCIII relative performance
      LineShare, Supra and Silent Answer (A)
      Lost Sound
      Mac Communications FAQ in Word Format (C)
      Network Mystery Problems
      NowUtils 4.0.1p menu problems..
      Partner prices and availability
      PPCToolbox
      Printing problems w/Word 5.0
      Replace LC040 with 040 on Centris 610, 650
      Scanners, sys 7.1 printers, LCIII (Q)
      SCSI Ethernet connection suggestions
      SerialPort MacKermit Error
      Single copies only on a LaserWriter - how?
      Summagraphics info?
      SuperClock alternative?
      System 7.1 and Worldscript extensions (Q)
      System 7 Pauses
      The IIvx has been discounted HOW much?!? *fume*
      Using fkeys
      Ventura for the Mac (q)

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 03:28:31 -0500
From: "David L. Elliott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Alpha 5.3

This is the latest (Feb. 9, 1993) version of Pete Keleher's heavy-duty
programmer's editor, Alpha.   v. 5.3 has David Black's "electric-alias",
improved LaTeX mode, and bug fixes.
Alpha is a very powerful, multi-purpose editor that allows any program-
or user-defined function to be bound to any keystroke, or placed into
user-defined menus. Only the "File", "Edit", and "Search" menus are
predefined and immutable. The rest are defined in the startup file
("AlphaBits.tcl") or files sourced from inside it. It uses  Ousterhout's
Tool Command Language (Tcl) as an extension language.
    Shareware fee of $25 and all questions go to [e-mail];
I'm just a happy customer posting it for him.
Self-extracting archive, Binhexed.

David Elliott

[Archived as /info-mac/app/alpha-53.hqx; 552K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 19:03:41 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: [*] autoboot111.hqx

AutoBoot version 1.1.1 (c) 1992-93 by Karl Pottie


A. What is AutoBoot ?

AutoBoot is a Control Panel/System extension which will reboot
(restart) you Macintosh after a System Error or a Freeze-Up has
occurred. This comes in handy when your Macintosh must be 'on-line' at
all times, even when it is left unattended for long periods of time.

For instance, people using Timbuktu (a package which allows you to
operate a Mac remotely by modem) or ARA complained that they had
to drive down to the location of the Mac to reboot it after a
system crash. Very nice if the Mac is located at the other
side of town !

Other uses can be found for file servers, systems that carry a BBS,
systems with a FAX modem, systems which have file sharing
turned on ...
AutoBoot allows maximal availability of these Macs, even in the
presence of System crashes or Freeze-Ups.

As one user wrote to me: "Permit me to thank you a thousand times for
having developed it [...] For the fact that we were running your product
last night, we were able to obtain 2 very important telefaxes that we
would not have otherwise received".

Version 1.1.1 is a bug-fix release. If Autoboot 1.1 didn't work
correctly on your system, check out this version.

I suggest you carefully read the "About AutoBoot" document before
installing AutoBoot on your system. If you're a version 1.0 user, please
read the "Version 1.1.1 changes" document to be notified of some important
changes.

AutoBoot requires at least system 6.0.4. It is 32 bit clean,
compatible with system 7 but it is not compatible with virtual memory
(yet). I'm working on it, though.

Shareware: The basic fee for the first copy of AutoBoot is $15. For
each additional macintosh you run this product on, you must pay
another $5.

You can distribute this software by giving it away to friend, upload
it to a BBS or online services like Compuserve or AOL, or send it to
any ftp site. Basically you can distribute it any way you like, as
long as you don't ask any money for it, other than a small charge
related to distribution costs (cost of a disk, postage or download
fee) and keep it together with the unmodified document in the
original compressed archive this product came in.

Karl Pottie
e-mail:

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/auto-boot-111.hqx; 129K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 11:58:59 -0800
From: Craig Nevill-Manning <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Browsing digests for recent uploads

I wrote this quick Unix program for browsing info-mac digests. I try to keep
up with the new uploads to sumex, but it's a tedious, repetitive process to
actually download the stuff I want. This C program scans a digest (or several)
in a file or files given on the command line for the [*] denoting an upload
notice, and prints out the description. Type y if you want to download it, and
it adds the path and name to a file called "download". Typing n just continues
to the next message, and q quits the program. I then rearrange the file in
emacs, inserting cd and get commands, and paste it into an ftp session.

Hope it's useful to someone! Remember, it was only a half-hour hack; feel free
to improve on it.

Compile with cc -o skim skim.c -lcurses -ltermcap
or take out the curses stuff if you don't have it.

[Archived as /info-mac/unix/info-mac-browser.txt; 2K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 21:49 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Coloring Book 1.0.1

Dear Moderator,

Please replace Coloring Book 1.0 which is currently in the game
directory with this version 1.0.1. The new version fixes a bug
which caused the program to hang on 9" B&W monitor Macs. The
program is not supposed to run on them anyway, but the fix is
to avoid problems for people inadvertantly loading the program
on such Macs.Now the program informs the user that a larger
Mac is required and then quits.No need for people with the
required 13" 8 bit color Macs to get the new version.

The general description of the program remains unchanged.


ABOUT Coloring Book 1.0.1.

Copyright 1993 James Allison.

SHAREWARE NOTICE:
This software is Shareware.  If you like it,
 please send 12.00 to the address below.

Jim Allison
12 Brookside Ave #5
Worcester, MA 01602-1628

THE PROGRAM

Coloring Book is a full screen electronic coloring book for children of all
ages.  The user clicks on a palette of colors to select a color and then
clicks
inside the shapes to be colored. A random selection from a variety y of
amusing sounds is played every time the color is changed. Interspersed
throughout the coloring book pages are simple animations such as a fish
that blows bubbles, a pop-up jack-in-the-box, a space ship that fires beams
of energy, and others.  There are 16 pages to be colored including
such things as a birthday cake, cars, flowers, space things, snow man, fish,
and many others; there is even a set of mosaic tiles which can be used to
create an original picture or design of a child's own imagining. Coloring
Book was designed to be FUN for young children to use. No menus are
used. Pages are turned by clicking on large forward and back arrow
buttons.  This is a great eye-hand coordination developer.  My just-
turned-three-year-old sits by himself for 45 mins at a time playing with the
program. It's been kid-tested with children up to 7 years of age. They all
seem to enjoy it!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Coloring Book will run on system 6.07 or better. It has been tested on
system 7.1. Coloring Book requires a 256 color monitor of 13" or larger.
Coloring Book needs 1600 K of RAM to run.  Problems will  be encountered
if insufficient RAM is available. Coloring Book is a large program over 900K
in size when uncompressed.  If there is enough interest I will modify the
program to run on 12"RGB monitors.

Enjoy

James F. Allison.

January 1993.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/coloring-book-101.hqx; 736K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 15:33 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Empire Master 2.6 demo

Here is the latest demo version of Empire Master (2.6).

For those of you who are not familiar with Empire Master it
is a sophisticated strategy wargame.  You start out with a city
and explore outward, finding more cities and islands, until
you find and deal with the opposing side (or vice versa.)

This version is a demo, but it allows you to play any number of
games.  You cannot save and restore games in progress, play
over appletalk, or vary the map parameters with this version.
You must also deal with an annoying dialog when you quit.

The game provides a full featured interface with many ways to
direct your units automatically.  This frees you from having
to worry about trivial details so that you can concentrate on
the overall strategy of the game.

You are also able to vary many of the map parameters to create
a limitless number of scenarios.  Finally, there is a separate
rule editor that allows you to create entirely new units.

* Maps from 25X25 to 255X255.
* Fast, skillful computer opponent.
* Computer does not cheat, play balance achieved by giving the
computer free cities, free armies or free turns at the beginning.
* Auto-Explore, Auto-Patrol functions.
* Automatic refuelling for air units at all times.
* Follows Mac Interface guidelines.
* Up to six color or b/w monitors supported in any configuration.
* Two people can play over Appletalk (requires system 7)
* Low price:

To order send a check to:
    Christopher Eliot/P.O. Box 371/Leeds, Ma. 01053
Registration fee includes full printed documentation and a
disk with the latest version. The price is $25, ($20 for students),
+$5 for the rule editor, +$5 for overseas air mail, +5% sales tax
for Mass. residents.

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/empire-master-26.hqx; 599K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 08:38:11 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bernie Bernstein)
Subject: [*] euclid11b17

Euclid is a collaborative hypertext system which supports argumentation. It
is an academic project which is useful for developing academic papers and
other reasoned arguments. It is general enough to use as an editor for any
type of network since all types are user-definable.

b17 adds color. Any type may now have a color and pattern associated with
them and now relations may consist of simply a line between two nodes
instead of the intermediate relation box. Release notes describe some other
new features and bug fixes.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/euclid-11b17.hqx; 246K]

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Date: 10 Feb 93 11:20:14 U
From: "Andrew Lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FileMaker_Pro_Contacts+2.01.hqx

Contacts+
(c)1992,1993 Andrew Lee, All rights reserved.

Read Me

CONTACTS+ is a `pseudo-shareware' Filemaker Pro (version 1.x) database. It's
main purpose is to allow proper address details to appear (even when some
components of the address are omitted such as the organization, country
etc...)

in Microsoft Word print-merge documents. Other than that, you should find
that CONTACTS+ is just about as powerful and usable as any other
`commercial' Contacts database/manager.

When exporting print-merge data, the FullAddress field would replace all the
individual fields that make up the receipient's address. You should also
export

the title, firstname and lastname fields, to be used in the greeting line, ie
Dear
[title] [firstname] [lastname]... Other fields do not have to be exported.

Plea: If you feel that CONTACTS+ has some useful
value and use it; and want to encourage me to improve my existing `products'
and develop other `affordable & useful' databases; and want to receive future
updates via email (personally sent by me); please Register yourself by sending
me a bank money order/draft payable to: Andrew Lee, or any currency; for
Any amount that you think is appropriate. All registered users will receive
(via
internet mail) the user's password that allows you to create or modify
layouts.

Please enclose a fax or internet email address so that I may be able to get in
touch with you instantly in the future.

Please do not distribute Contacts+ without all the original materials,
especially
this file. Contacts+ is not for commercial re-sale without my knowledge and
permission. Please inform me if you decide to place Contacts+ onto commercial
shareware CD-roms, disks etc...  If you do adopt ideas from Contacts+ in your
own database, don't forget to include me in the list of persons to inform and
thank :-). All suggestions for improvements are welcomed.


Regards,

Andrew Lee

[Archived as /info-mac/app/filemaker-pro-contacts-201.hqx; 58K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 10:04:35 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Firtst Things First demo v.3.08

This is version 3.08 of the First Things First DEMO. It is a great
todo list manager with alarms. It can be turned into a working copy
by calling in for a code.

Enjoy

Steve

[Archived as /info-mac/demo/first-things-first-308.hqx; 267K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 15:42:41 -0500
From: Nick Sklavounakis <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Freddie 1.2.5

Freddie 1.2.5

Freddie lets users download their mail in a "packet" from BBS's
that offer a QWK door. Using Freddie, users can read and respond
to their mail offline at their leisure, and then send those
replies back to the BBS in another packet. Freddie offers a
variety of convenient features, such as full indexing of every
conference, sorting by four fields (including subject, which
simulates threading), searching for a string, and more. Best of
all, Freddie is a true Mac application.

Freddie 1.2.5 is an interim release that works with ZipIt under
System 7 to provide automatic decompression of QWK packets.
Freddie also allows full background operation, standardized tag-
and tearlines, auto-routing of messages on PCRelay, support for
MkQWK, default taglines, and more. Also, this version completely
System 7-savvy, even in 32-bit mode.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/freddie-125.hqx; 455K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 15:46:14 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
Subject: [*] HeartQuest 0.7 (game)

With only a few days left to Valentine's day -93, here is HeartQuest 0.7,
a game I made for my wife last Valentine's. It's a fairly non-violent
arcade game (should be ok for small kids - no shooting, no killing)
which may remind you of Crystal Quest a little bit. The game is in color
when available - 1, 4 or 8 bits per pixel preferred. Freeware.

Ingemar Ragnemalm

PS: The graphics can be better, I know. Any artists who'd like to try?
(If there is, there may even be a version 1.0 one day.)

[Archived as /info-mac/game/heart-quest-07.hqx; 96K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 12:08:45 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] IIcx/i/Q700 Power Supply Report

If your IIcx/ci/Quadra 700 lies dormant when you press the startup
key, chances are you have a problem with the power supply. Try
disconnecting the power cord, waiting a couple of minutes, reconnecting
waiting 20 seconds then powering up. If this works, your problem is
trickle down voltage degradation, and the enclosed binhexed and
stuffed report by Owen Hartnett explains how to fix it.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/power-supply-cxciquadra-fix.hqx; 9K]

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Date: 09 Feb 1993 22:50:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] latest version of Invisible Hand

Attention : Macintosh game players, especially Tetris addicts :

    Interested in a way to increase your high scores, or to mess
with your friend's minds?  Have you ever lost Tetris waiting for one
of those long, skinny pieces? If so, then the Invisible Hand is for
you.
    The Invisible Hand is a Control Panel which provides you with
an easy and subtle way to influence games, when and if you want.
Specifically, it allows you to control what random number is returned
by the Macintosh System trap _Random.  You can configure the
Invisible Hand to return a different random number for all thirty-two
combinations of the modifier keys (command, option, shift, caps-lock,
and control).  In Tetris, for example, the Invisible Hand can be
configured so that when you hold down the shift key you receive four
by one long pieces ( xxxx ), when the caps-lock is down, you receive
two by two square pieces, and when no modifier keys are down the game
plays normally.  So you can play along as usual, except on certain
occasions when you just 'really need that piece', and be assured that
you will get it.
    Invisible Hand is fully functional on Macintosh computers
running System 6.0.4 or better.  It has been tested on B&W and color
Macs from System 4.1, Finder 5.5 (!!) up to System 7.0.1.  If you are
using earlier software, you still can use most of Invisible Hand's
functionality : see documentation.

Version Notes :
v. 1.00 : Initial Public Release
v. 1.05 : Added a quick reference table look-up between Tetris pieces
        and _Random numbers.  The Invisible Hand Control Panel
        now successfully saves and restores user preferences
        between power downs (Bug Fix).

Invisible Hand (C) 1993 Carl Mauer

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/invisible-hand.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 93 09:50:24 CST
From: [e-mail] (Michael Wolf)
Subject: [*] Poker Solitaire v0.9B Submission

Included is a binhex archive of a solitaire game called
Poker Solitaire.  There is online help which is well
detailed.

Thanks

MJW

[Archived as /info-mac/game/poker-solitaire.hqx; 79K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 10:21:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig O'Donnell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] rsi-network-news-10

This is RSI Network News #10, the latest issue of the RSI Network Newsletter.
For a complete achive including this issue, obtain the file:

  rsi-network-news.hqx

  --- COD

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/rsi-network-news-10.hqx; 23K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 22:05:02 -0500
From: [e-mail] (janet e abbate)
Subject: [*] Search Files 1.3

Search Files 1.3 is a shareware utility that can find all the files
whose contents contain a certain text string. You can search an entire
disk, or just a particular folder. Search Files displays the context
of each occurence, and will open found files will the relevant
applications.

Changes since version 1.0 include an increase in speed, a few bug
fixes, notification when searches finish, the option to see only the
first occurence in each file, and drag-and-drop for the disk or folder
in which you wish to search.

[Archived as /info-mac/util/search-files-13.hqx; 28K]

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 12:04:24 EST
From: Thomas Pusateri <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] submission

Karma Manager v 1.0 anagramming program

Once upon a time there was a program called ARS MAGNA by Michael Morton
which created anagrams.  Alas, it didn't run on my system, so undaunted,
I decided to write my own.  It has a reasonable (if sparse) Mac interface,
and it runs in the background under System 7.

Karma Manager is a program which takes a word or phrase and rearranges
the letters into other words or phrases.  For example, if you take the
phrase "Anagram Maker" you can rearrange the letters to get "Karma Manager."

Karma Manager comes with a dictionary of words which it will use to create
anagrams, or you can supply your own dictionary or dictionaries.  It will
also read the ARS MAGNA dictionaries so you can still use those if you have
them (and paid for them :-).

The output is dumped by default to a resizable window and it can optionally
capture the output in a text file.

Karma Manager is Shareware and costs $7.

Chuck Grissom
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/karma-manager.hqx; 197K]

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 93 17:55:21 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] sys_7_resedit_tmpl.sit.hqx

System 7 ResEditors (ResEdit 2.1.1 Editor Resources for System 7)
Version 1.1 by Alan Coopersmith, January 1993

This is a collection of  TMPL, ICON, and RMAP resources for
ResEdit(tm) 2.1.x.  They will help to make some (but not
complete) sense of the following System 7 resource types:

aedt, dflg, eppc, gmcd, mppc, mitq, pslt,
hmnu, hdlg, hrct, hovr, hfdr, flst, cbnd,
fbnd, tbnd, caps, faps, taps

[On sumex/info-mac these replace: tech/sys_7_resedit_tmpl.hqx]

[Archived as /info-mac/tech/sys-7-resedit-tmpl-11.hqx; 8K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 14:47:42 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] tidbits-caring-for-wrists-PM.hqx

This is a PageMaker 4.2 file that is intended to be printed on
two pages (or back to front) of paper and posted by your
computer. On it are common sense suggestions to help reduce
your risk of getting or pain from carpal tunnel syndrome or
other repetitive stress injuries. It's hard to remember all
these little things and do them regularly; this page serves as
an excellent reminder. Please distribute the file and printouts
widely. You may save someone a lifetime of pain.

This file was created in (and requires to print) Macintosh
PageMaker 4.2, and may require the following fonts (I
downloaded them into the file, but I can only test on my QMS-PS
410 printer, so if it prints badly on your printer, install the
fonts into your System file): Helvetica, Palatino, and Zapf
Dingbats, all of which come with your original System disks.
The file should print on any PostScript laser printer. It looks
best at resolutions of 600 dpi and above but looks fine at 300
dpi.

[This file is the same as the tidbits-caring-for-wrists-PS.hqx; it's
simply smaller and easier for people with PageMaker to print.]

Adam & Tonya Engst, TidBITS Editors

[Archived as /info-mac/report/caring-for-wrists-pagemaker.hqx; 196K]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 14:44:11 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] tidbits-caring-for-wrists-PS.hqx

This is a PostScript file that is intended to be printed on two
pages (or back to front) of paper and posted by your computer.
On it are common sense suggestions to help reduce your risk of
getting or pain from carpal tunnel syndrome or other repetitive
stress injuries. It's hard to remember all these little things
and do them regularly; this page serves as an excellent
reminder. Please distribute the file and printouts widely. You
may save someone a lifetime of pain.

This file is in PostScript format as printed by Macintosh
PageMaker 4.2, and may require the following fonts (I
downloaded them into the file, but I can only test on my QMS-PS
410 printer, so if it prints badly on your printer, install the
fonts into your System file): Helvetica, Palatino, and Zapf
Dingbats, all of which come with your original System disks. To
download this PostScript file to your PostScript printer, you
need the LaserWriter Font Utility, which also comes on your
original System disks. Just run the LaserWriter Font Utility (I
think your printer has to be on at this point), choose Download
PostScript File... from the Utilities menu, and select the
"TidBITS/Caring for Wrists/PS" file. The file should print on
any PostScript laser printer. It looks best at resolutions of
600 dpi and above but looks fine at 300 dpi.

Our apologies for the massive size of this file when expanded.
We couldn't figure out any way to make it significantly smaller
and still get it to print. At least the file compresses well.

Adam & Tonya Engst, TidBITS Editors

[Archived as /info-mac/report/caring-for-wrists-postscript.hqx; 337K]

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Date: 8 Feb 1993 22:54:50 U
From: "Denis Pelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] VideoToolbox.93.2.8.sea.hqx

Subject:VideoToolbox.93.2.8.sea.hqx                   10:57 PM       2/8/93
Could you please replace /info-mac/source/c/VideoToolbox by the enclosed
file?

Regards,

Denis Pelli

VideoToolbox.93.2.8.sea
Version: February 8, 1993

The VideoToolbox is a collection of nearly two hundred C subroutines and
several demo and utility programs written to do visual psychophysics with
Macintosh computers. It's free and may not be sold without permission. It
should be useful to anyone who wants to present accurately specified visual
stimuli or use the Mac for psychometric experiments. The text file "Video
synch" discusses all the ways of synchronizing programs to video displays and
the many pitfalls to avoid. The TimeVideo application checks out the timing of
all video devices in anticipation of their use in critical real-time
applications, e.g. movies or lookup-table animation. The demos
FlickeringGrating and Sandstorm, among others, show how to generate visual
stimuli such as spatiotemporal sinusoids with gaussian envelopes in space and
time, and dynamic white noise. Low-level routines control video timing and
lookup tables, display real-time movies, filter images, and implement the
luminance-control algorithms suggested by Pelli and Zhang. (D.G. Pelli and L.
Zhang, 1991, Accurate control of contrast on microcomputer displays. Vision
Research, 31, 1337-1350. Reprints are available.) High-level routines help
analyze psychophysical experiments (e.g. graphing or maximum-likelihood
fitting
of psychometric data). This collection has been continually updated since
1991.
Many colleagues have indicated that they are using the software in their
labs.
Most of the routines are Mac-specific, but some very useful routines, e.g. the
luminance-control, statistics, and maximum-likelihood fitting algorithms,
could
easily be ported to other computers.

Denis Pelli
Professor of Neuroscience
Institute for Sensory Research
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-5290
[e-mail]

MAIN CHANGES DURING 2/93:
oAdded tiny new demo, Grating.c, that shows how to load the clut and display a
grating.
oAdded SetPixelsQuickly.c to quickly set or get a row of pixels. It's more
than
ten times faster than using SetOnePixel.c, which is now obsolete. Try the
demos
Grating and FlickeringGrating.
oAdded an image-multiplication mode to CopyBitsQuickly.
oConvolveX.c now rounds to nearest integer, and supports 32-bit video
addressing.
oFixed endless loop in PatchMacIIciVideoDriver in GDVideo.c that hung up any
program that called GDGetEntries, including the demos TestGDVideo and
TestSetEntriesQuickly.
oEnhanced PatchMacIIciVideoDriver in GDVideo.c to deal with ROM- as well as
RAM-based video drivers.

[Archived as /info-mac/source/c/video-toolox.hqx; 1014K]

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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1993 22:24:46 EST
From: "Paul D. Bain" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] wp-three-macros.hqx

This is a compressed and binhexed folder containing three WordPerfect for the
Macintosh macros that are not available in the WordPerfect Macro file that
comes with WordPerfect.
 The three macros are described below.

Page X of Y Macro
Creates a Header B or Footer B with the phrase "Page X of Y" (X=current page,
Y=total number of pages).  If changes are made to the document, make sure the
"Target X of Y" code is on the last page before regenerating.
(Use the Librarian Feature to copy the attached macro into the  Private
Library.)

Case Convert Macro
This macro offers the following choices for case conversion: 1) All Upper
Case,
2) Lower Case except first letter of sentence, 3) All Lower Case, 4) Beginning
each word Upper Case.
(Use the Librarian Feature to copy the attached macro into the WP Private
Library.)

Revised Endnotes->Text Macro
This macro will convert all endnotes to text and append them to
the end of the document in the format of the currently defined
endnote style.  The endnote numbers in the document will be
changed to superscripted text.  The macro does not convert the
resulting text back into endnotes.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/wordperfect-extra-macros.hqx; 19K]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 17:40:52 EST
From: indigo <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Crippled '040

In Infomac Vol. 11, Issue 33, [e-mail] (Brian Hughes)
writes

> 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.

This raises a few questions in my mind:

1. Is that really ALL the upgrade is?! And if so, what is the difference
in price between the Apple upgrade and just buying a '040 chip? (If that
can be done.)

2. If you could just buy the '040 chip (w/FPU), what would you need to
do the swap yourself? (Assuming you wouldn't mind voiding the warranty.)

3. What is the difference bewtween the die size and the size of the pin
set?


Debra Wallace
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 01:12:41 EST
From: [e-mail] (Alan S. Dobkin)
Subject: (R) Format HD disks as 800K (NOT!)

First of all, I enjoyed your opening sentence -- coating your butt in asbestos
-- that was cool.  However (and I'll skip the oxide mumbo-jumbo here), you
are very wrong about DD disks being reliably-formatted as HD.  In your PS-2
example, if you try to use that disk on any other IBM (non-PS2) or any Mac
that
will read MS-DOS diskettes, you will find that it will not be recognized.  I
work in a large computer lab at Emory University, where we have PS2s, other
IBMs, and plenty of Macintosh computers capable of reading MS-DOS disks.  This
problem has come up many times, and usually the user spends hours trying to
figure out whe he/she has a disk that works on a PS2 but no other IBM.  Don't
get me wrong, sometimes it will work, depending on the particular computer,
but
as a practice, I strongly discourage it.  Format HD as HD and DD as DD.

Alan

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 21:51:45 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Aldus Driver for LW Pro 630?

In my wife's never ending quest for a better printer, she got me to buy her
the LaserWriter Pro 630 the moment it went on sale to employees.  It's a
good thing we know a lot of people interested in used printers.  ;)

The big question is, can someone mail me the Aldus PPD (or whatever they are
called these days) for the LW Pro 630?  It would undoubtedly be faster than
trying to weasel it out of Aldus, although that's what we'll do if no one
else has bothered.

My initial impressions are very favorable.  It's a touch slower than the IIg
but then it's printing at twice the resolution.  The pictures are crisper
and the text smoother.  Mind you, it's still damn fast compared to the NTX,
but a lot of that can be attributed to the Ethernet. You don't need either
the Photograde or FinePrint options, unless you feel like printing at 300
dpi for some reason.  I don't see the need right now.  You can basically
choose between 600 dpi or 300 dpi with the Photograde and FinePrint stuff.
The nicest change is that you can assign a paper size to the manual feed
tray which can hold up to 100 sheets of paper.  This way we can print legal
size through manual feed and letter size through the tray without hassles.

ADVthanksANCE

Jon

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 10:03 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: App to view memory usage?

Is there a utility available for the Macintosh that is similar in function to
the DOS "mem /c" command (that shows you how much memory is being used by all
processes/devices currently loaded)?  This would list ALL applications/DAs,
control panels, and extensions (and anything else) currently occupying memory
and how much of it is being used.

I've heard that there's such a device included in some commercial utilities
package, but all I want is this one function (at this time).

I've tried Swatch and ProcessWatch from the archives, but each of these only
lists open applications that I find under the application menu.  They don't
tell anything about extensions/control panels (unless someone can show me that
I'm using either one incorrectly).

Also, I've seen other utilities (names escape me right now), but I recall that
they either didn't function with virtual memory or 32-bit addressing or both.
As VM and 32-bit ON are my normal operating conditions, anything that won't
work with them is useless to me.

If I get any workable ideas, I will post them to the net.

Thanks in advance,
Byron C. Mayes
University of Delaware

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 13:34:58 -0600
From: Dick Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA Script for OrchidFAX?

Date    2/11/93
Subject ARA Script for OrchidFAX?
>From    Dick Jackson
To      Info-Mac

Subject:  ARA Script for OrchidFAX?        Time: 13:31    Date: 2/11/93


Hi folks (especially those gifted ARA script hackers!),

I don't believe anyone's written a script specifically for the OrchidFAX, but
perhaps someone could tell me what existing script I might try to get it to
work (I haven't tried any yet).  The OrchidFAX can do 9600 bps (CCITT v.29),
but I'll probably need the 2400 bps (CCITT v.22bis).

Does this make any sense?  Help!

Thanks in advance, (please reply directly to [e-mail])

Dick Jackson                     [e-mail]
Institute for Biodiagnostics     National Research Council Canada

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 16:12:36 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: B-tree nodes when using Norton optimizer

to: Ajay Surana <[e-mail]>

>           Now to business. I periodically run Norton Utilities on my
> MAC IIcx's internal HD, to optimize the speed (SpeedDisk). For the last
> couple of times I have been getting a strange message:
>
>             "The extents directory on this disk contains an invalid
> node - node #2. Its records are out of order. Your files are safe.
> Optimization cancelled."
>
Sorry for the delay in answering. I put this aside and never got
around to it.

The extents directory keeps track of the fragmented files. These
are organized with a programming scheme called b-trees. The
b-trees organize the information of where things are into nodes.
If the nodes are confused, unfragmenting may cause damage to
your files.

A solution would be to backup the files (make 2-3 sets of backups
in case the media you back up to is damaged--its happened to me!)
Then, delete the files on your HD. I'm not sure if reformatting would
be helpful. Then, copy the files from the back up to the HD. Your
files will not longer be fragmented because this process will copy
one at a time.

One reason you may wish to reformat your disk is to partition it.
Every file is kept in a series of allocation blocks. The number of
allocation blocks is no more than 65,535. So, if the hard drive is
less than 65,535 kilobytes (which is almost 64 megabytes) then
each allocation block will be 1 kilobyte. Many files are small and
will take only one allocation block. If you have a 63 megabyte hard
drive, each file will be 1 kilobyte or larger. If each file is 70 meg
up to about 126 megabytes, each file will be at least 2 kilobytes. I
have seen large hard drives where the smallest files were all 14
kilobytes! The data in these files MAY have been only a few bytes,
but they are allocated 14K each on the hard drive.

If you reformat your hard drive and make a partition of about 60 meg,
all your smallest files on that volume (partition) will take up 1 K.
The System folder and Quark XPress among others have many small
files, so you can put those folders on your smaller partition. You can
determine which folders are candidates for this by viewing various
application folders by size, looking at the bottom of the list and
seeing how large the smallest files are.

I doubt that this will work with "soft partitions" like Norton's,
you probably need to partition with a hard drive formatting program
like the one that came with your Hard Drive or commercial ones
like Silverlining.

Any corrections? Please do so to the list. I'll be happy to
answer questions or receive any flames privately.-Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 18:52 CET
From: "Charles C. Schneider"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: Banyan-Vines

> 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!"

There isn't really that much to Banyan-Vines, really. It has a DOS interface
and a Windows interface (at least for some things). According to our system
administrator, Macs can join in as of version 5.00 (I believe I've remembered
that correctly). We have version 5.00, but we only have DOS boxes.

I'm preparing my notes so that I can teach our staff how to get along with a
Banyan-Vines LAN (local area network). If you'd like, I can e-mail you our
manual.

> 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?

I'll check up on the special software, but I'm sure you'll need something. For
our DOS boxes, we need cards, software, cables, patience, etc.

Ciao4now

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

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 12:30:33 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bogas/SuperStudioSession is alive!

A couple of weeks ago, someone asked about Super Studio Session and I
said that I thought the company that produced it, Bogas, is dead. But
then the husband of the lady who took it over, Marie D'Amico, emailed
me saying that Bogas is alive and well! Not only that, they sent me a
new version without even asking for an upgrade fee!

Needless to say, I'm very happy with them and can't wait to get home
tonite and try it out.

Anyway, since I can't remember the name and email of the original
person who asked me this, (and besides, maybe other people would like
to get the program, too) here's the contact:

    Marie A. D'Amico
    Bogas Productions
    751 Laurel Street Suite 213
    San Carlos, CA 94070
    [phone]
   Fax: [phone]

Note: other than being a happy customer, I have no connection with the
      company.

Ian Chai <[e-mail]>
     <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 18:02 EST
From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Borland's phone # and how to get Full Impact (MAC) 7.0 compatible

Dear Netters:
Some people have asked for the phone # of Borland to get an upgrade to their
version of Full Impact (MAC).  The main number for Borland listed on my
receipt is 1-408-438-8400.  This should lead you to a switchboard which can
give you the correct phone # to ask for Full Impact 2.0.3s (ask if the number
you have dialed is Customer Service (Support).  Once you have
dialed this # be prepared to give a full (no pun intended) description of the
item# and description as it appears on my receipt.  Item# is 72FG FIP51 20.
Description is:"3IN FullImpact 2.0s".  Otherwise they send another copy of
Full Impact 2.0.2s which isn't System 7 compatible, or System 6 compatible.
Remember this is only for Registered users of earlier versions of Full Impact
(MAC).  Your registration # on your old package may also come of use.  Good
Luck, and remember only version 2.0.3s works, and to request for an additional
mailing until you get the right version.

Sincerely,

ABRODY @ CLARKU

P.S. This may not work, as they couldn't find the version 2.0.3s on their
computers when I first asked them about it.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 09:25:57 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Color printer

>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."

Actually, we had one in our office for a while and you can hook them both
to it.  Just be sure that the PC Applications you want to use have a
Postscript driver.  For example, in WordPerfect, use the Apple LaserWriter
driver.

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

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 15:27:39 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: color printing in mixed environment

QMS has color machines, the 210 for $4995 and 230 at $7995 (prints 11x17)
which use thermal transfer technology. The QMS printers (color or not) come
with localtalk, parallel, and serial ports which can all be active, and all
figure out what kind of critter is trying to talk (PC or Mac). You can call
them at [phone], [phone], or [phone]. I have a PS815,
which is a standard postscript printer. It works very nicely, but I've
never hooked a PC to it. That's my only real connection to QMS.

Bryan Walls
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 19:52:17 PST
From: Michael <[e-mail]>
Subject: Deskpaint and DeskDraw Opinions Wanted (R

Deskpaint and DeskDraw by Zedcor is an OUTSTANDING bargain at only $29.95!
I've used Deskpaint 3.2 extensively on an Quadra 700 with System 7.1. It
does a fine job for most work and handles 24 bit color like a charm.
There are only a few minor problems that I have encountered, the biggest
occurs when selecting a large area which results in an out of memory
error.  (Maybe I should try turning the 040 cache off).  Anyway, it still
has the Browse function which I like too.  I looked for Zedcor at MacWorld
and didn't see them.  All software should be priced so well.  Go ahead and
take a chance.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 09:48:16 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: diskette password protection

I would like to now if and how I can password protect floppy disks.
Please reply DIRECTLY, thanks.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 13:28:17 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jay L. Cross)
Subject: DOS to Mac Plus (A)

>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.
>(Stuff deleted...)
>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, you can save yourself a bunch of money here.  First of all,
you can't use DOS formatted disks in a Plus.  Period.  You will need
to buy an external drive (one of two choices), and they don't come
cheap.

Instead, do what I do to xfer files from my Compaq 386 to a IIsi
(yes, its got a FDHD and can read/write DOS disks, but this is
still a better, faster choice, and fun to watch, too):
Buy or make a null modem cable, connect the serial ports of the
two machines, fire up your comm. software, and transfer the files
at light speed.  I made my cable, but finding the mini-din-8 plug
for the Mac end is not a trivial exercise.  The Compaq uses a 9
pin D-shell connector.  My cable is not of the "hardware-handshake"
variety, so I get Z-modem transfer rates of about 45 - 50%.  At
57,600 bps, I can xfer a megabyte in about 5.5 minutes.  I can live
with that.

If you need details, let me know.  I'm not sure cable pin-outs
would be useful to you, since the Compaq's serial port and your's
are probably not the same.

Good luck.  Hope this helps.

--
Jay Cross  [e-mail]   (CFN: by303)

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 22:56:59 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Drive noise

>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)

Since the Macworld review, Le Cie has drastically dropped its prices on
Quantum drives. For example, the Quantum 240 in ZFP case is selling for
$579, same as APS's price (lower than MacLand's price, BTW). The Le Cie
drive is noted for being very quiet. You also get Silverlining for free. On
the down side, the Le Cie drive uses dip switches to select SCSI ID and
their SCSI cable is non-standard (which forces you to connect the Le Cie
drive first in the SCSI chain, or after another Le Cie drive).

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 09:15:47 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Gordon Oppenheimer)
Subject: Ethertalk for the IBM

Hello,

I am looking for something that will allow the IBM to be connected
to the EtherTalk network.

Hopefully, something free.

Thanks,

Gordon
--
 UNIX Lab Manager, Academic Computing Services, Fairfield University

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 20:43:14 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Matthew Hall)
Subject: Everything is going black, black...

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Owen M.
Hartnett) writes:

>   Don'tcha hate it when this happens????
>
>   You're going along, compiling away, changing and compiling again.
>   Suddenly you notice, the icons for balloon help and the processes
>   have turned blackish.  You turn and look, your trash can has gone dark
>   too!  Soon, ALL your icons are shadows of their former selves.
>
>   Usually, soon after this you crash, increasing your somber mood.
>
>   Does anybody know what causes this?  What programming eye in the spud of
>   life has wreaked this havoc upon you?  I've looked but I haven't
>   found a trend in this.  Have you?  Enquiring minds want to know!
>
>   -Owen Hartnett
>   -Macintosh Entomologist

Well, I conjecture from my two separaate experiences, each requiring
two days in Macsbug.  But both were caused, I think, by essentially
the same problem.
    The macintosh keeps a list of all grafports it creates.  When
things happen, such as color depth changes or the like, it will scan
through these, and perform some operation on them (It's kind of neat,
looking with macsbug, I saw the computer checking each port, if it was
a window, if it was color, etc.  But I may be odd).  So what happens
if a port in this portlist is trashed?  Well, look out cowboy, you're
in for some trouble, including color schemes that picasso would balk
at.
    How do these things get destroyed - these are two ways I have
been bitten.
-One - I stored a grafport record as an object's instance variables.
Objects data are stored as relocatable handles.  When the graflist was
scanned, and my portrecord had been relocated.  My LC took a little
trip after that
- Windows are disposed of when a program exits, removing their ports
>From their port list.  If you create an offscreen grafport (sub.
cgrafport), and don't explicitly dispose of it (using closeport or
disposeport), the port record is trashed when you quit, however, there
still exists a portlist record that points to it (i.e. the garbage).
Also, even if you do this, but break while your program is running,
and reset the program before you dispose of the ports, you are again
going to encounter those loveley colors.

I'm sure that there are many other ways to make your mac take on this
film noir quality, however in my experience, it only occurs with
grafport problems.  If you are doing nothing with offscreen grafports,
at least make sure that you are always drawing into a valid grafport
(i.e., you bring up a modal dialog, draw the outline button, the user
dismisses it, and your current port points to the crabshell nebula)

Hope this helps,
-matt hall

Matt Hall.    [e-mail]
          (216)-775-6613 (That's a Cleveland Area code. Lucky Me)


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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 19:32:10 +0000
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Flags, anyone?

A complete waste of bandwidth I'm sure, but my boss is looking for a
collection of PICT and/or bitmap files containing flags of different countries
(he's even willing to PAY for them, no less!).

So, anyone know of a source for flags?

Much gratitude in advance,
Elliot Bennett
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 10:21:56 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Hughes)
Subject: FPUs on new Centris machines (C)

Tim Castle writes:

>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.

    And this is correct. In fact it was confirmed by an Apple engineer
over on comp.sys.mac.hardware just the other day.

>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.

    Yeah, the heat sink for the full '040 is huge. I noticed this when I
was putting memory into my Q700.

>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.

    Really? Now isn't that an interesting situation. Where do you get
your information? This is something that I'm sure more people would like
to know. Heck, this kind of news is probably worth a MacWEEK Mug ;->.

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

    Which makes perfect sense, since every configuration of the 650,
besides the 4/80, comes with the full '040.

-Hades

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 12:16:51 MDT
From: Alonso Castro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Geometrical optics software [Q]

Is anyone using geometrical optics programs (ray tracers)
for the Macintosh? I would like to obtain some info on what's available
(commercial/share/freeware). We need to simulate a light beam as it goes
through a few lenses of various focal lengths.

Thanks in advance

Alonso Castro,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 22:30:56 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Greg's Button vs. NewLook

Shortly after I submitted NewLook 1.3 to the archive, I got an
e-mail from the author of Greg's Button, complaining about one
of the statements that I made. Since Greg posted his letter to
the archive, I decided to post my reply to him as well.

I didn't intend to stir some controversy with my statement in
info-mac-digest. However, it's my experience that NewLook 1.1 (not v1.3) is
more stable on my system than Greg's Button (thru v2.3). I have to admit
that I have not tested Greg's Button 2.4. My test was done on two different
machines with different configurations. Greg's Button has caused a number
of crashes on both machines while NewLook 1.1 has been stable (so far). The
applications I use are the lastest versions of some of the most common
programs but I do use a large number of INITs on one of the machines. It's
always easy to blame the other guy (application, INIT) for the crashes and
all I can say is that NewLook doesn't seem to have the same problem (at
least on my system).

I agree that people who are interested in these programs should try out all
of them and judge for themselves. I'll test Greg's Button 2.4 when I get a
chance. Whether or not I use your program, I can certainly appreciate the
effort that goes into its design.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]


DISCLAIMER: I'm NOT the author of NewLook and I don't even know the author.
I like the program and downloaded it from AOL.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 10:51:56 PST
From: [e-mail] (Erich Boldt)
Subject: Heap-related crashes (C)

This is in reply to the posting by Pete Tamas in V11 #33.

I assume that your Info-Mac Digest posting (V11 #33) is in response to someone
else's message from somewhere.

I'm having what appears to be a similar/related problem with my DeskWriter. My
system is an SE with 2.5 MB RAM running 6.0.8, MultiFinder and True Type. The
type of document that I am printing is almost all text with very few fonts.

The DeskWriter driver appears to create an image of the page in the System
Heap before sending it to the printer. It grabs quite a chunk of RAM (but not
all of it) in the process (nearly 1 MB) and then doesn't seem to release it
all when done printing. My largest contiguous chunk of free memory is usually
less than half of what I had before printing. I suspect some sloppy
programming in the driver is responsible but without delving into the heap
with some kind of heap analyzer program I can't be sure.

Any comments on this? Pete? Anyone? If I get enough responses I'll submit a
report to Info-Mac.

Erich Boldt -- [e-mail]

P.S. I'm going on vacation for about a week and a half so I won't reply until
I get back.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 16:30:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Seth Ness <[e-mail]>
Subject: hebrew telecommunications on a mac

hi,
i'm pasting here part of a standard reply i recieved on accesing the
israeli ALEPH catalog system. i'm interested in using it both from school
where i am directly connected to the internet and use NCSA telnet and from
home where i dial in to my account and use Zterm. i have worldcriptI and
the hebrew script and i have various hebrew fonts, some of which are
apple's official fonts and some of which are old fonts which i think have
the hebrew characters in hi ASCII. I ask the combined wisdom of the net to
figure out how i can do this, hopefully without having to buy an expensive
comm program to do vt320 ot 420 emulation(assuming that would work on a
mac). of course if there are any free vt320 etc emulators that would be
great. anyway heres the relevant info......


4) How will I get Hebrew display?

This is the trickiest question, and depends on exactly what hardware you are
using and how you are accessing the system. When you log into ALEPH you
will be
asked to select a terminal type from a lengthy list. Your selection of
terminal
determines how Hebrew will be handled. There are several types of
possibilities:

a) Israeli terminal with Hebrew chip (Hebrew at ASCII #224-250) [VT220 etc.]
Menu selection #11, unless you want softfont for Arabic.

b) Israeli PC with Hebrew chip (Hebrew at ASCII# 128-154) together with
special
version of KERMIT software. Menu selection #11.

This version of KERMIT, based on MS-DOS Kermit Version 3.11, emulates a VT220
terminal. It is available through FTP at the Hebrew University  archive site
VMS.HUJI.AC.IL. The KERMIT directory has two subdirectories, [KERMIT.ZIPPED]
and [KERMIT.UNZIPPED].

If you want to retrieve the compressed version of the files, GET the file
HEB_KERM.ZIP from the [KERMIT.ZIPPED] subdirectory. After decompression, you
should have the following files:

      KERMIT.EXE       MSKERMIT.INI       VT300       ISO
MSKERMIT.PCH
   READ.ME

The same files can be retrieved separately from the [KERMIT.UNZIPPED]
subdirectory.

Remember to specify BINARY mode for transferring HEB_KERM.ZIP or
KERMIT.EXE.

NOTE: There is a minor "bug" in the program. After logging on to Aleph, a
string of meaningless characters is displayed on the command line:

     ;1;2;4;8;9;15c

with the cursor remaining at the end of the line.

The person who maintains the software is aware of the problem, and plans to
deal with it. In any event, this initial line of characters is easily
removed:
You can press the ENTER key, which will result in an error message from Aleph,
after which the program continues normally. You can also backspace to delete
the characters, and start from the beginning of the line.

c) Non-Israeli VT-320, VT420 or Visual-603. These terminals have "softfont"
capability which allow downloading fonts. When you log in as one of these
terminal types there will be a delay while the fonts are downloaded and then
you should see Hebrew on your screen. Menu selection: VT-320=17, VT-420=18,
visual-603=19

d) Non-Israeli PC. Most VT emulation programs do not have softfont
capability.
If you have a VGA screen there is an emulator called REFLECTION-4 which can
handle the Hebrew via softfont.

Otherwise - be warned - there are MANY different standards (or non-standards)
for coding Hebrew on PCs (at least 3 commonly used ones in Israel - many
non-Israeli word-processors just invent their own). The fact that you have
software which can display Hebrew letters on your screen doesn't mean you can
bring in Hebrew from a different standard - unless you know how to filter one
to the other. Also - don't forget - Hebrew is not just characters, but also
direction and your approach probably doesn't match the way ALEPH handles
it.

e) X-terminals. The ALEPH people tell me that they use DEC-Windows on an
X-terminal to emulate a softfont VT-420 and then load the Hebrew as terminal
type #18 as above. I don't know how much of this is dec-windows and how
much is
the X-terminal itself. If you can get it to work, please let me know.

f) Macintosh. I haven't heard of anyone doing this yet. If you succeed,
let me
know.

NOTE: If you are accessing ALEPH via an IBM mainframe, there are additional
problems caused by the character set going from ASCII to EBCDIC and back.

Good luck! If you have further questions, please feel free to REPLY.

Elhanan




back to me, well thanks for any help i get.

Seth L. Ness                         Ness Gadol Hayah Sham
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 02:56:54 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Hillel Y. Sims)
Subject: How's Stylewriter II?

Hey all, just ordered my IIsi system yesterday (yes, IIsi!), and with it I
ordered a Stylewriter II. So I'm wondering, how is it compared to the old
one.
I know that the original was slow as anything, and people said it wasn't very
reliable, so I'm looking for comments on speed and perceived reliability of
the new model, so I'll know whether or not I should keep the order for this
one
up. Please e-mail, I'll summarize if people want. Thanks.

--
Hillel Sims            Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 10:05 CST
From: Daniel Schwalbe <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to use ghostscript? (R)

With Mac Ghostscript 2.5.2 you click in the drawing window to bring it to
the front.  There is a menu item "open" which will bring up the standard
dialog box for opening a file.  You will have to use "open" twice as
the first time does not take for some reason.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 18:53 CET
From: "Charles C. Schneider"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: IBM 3270 + IBM PC ---> Mac

 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,

Hi Martin,

> 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
> pc;
> 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 ?

Actually, your problem may start before you copy to your PC.

1) FTP: firstly we 3270 folks ALWAYS have to ftp stuff in BINARY (type I).

Since the default is ASCII, it's a pain in the butt to keep remembering,
but it's crucial. If you forget, you'll always get garbage.

2) RECEIVE: in using the receive command, you only use ASCII CRLF (no commas)
if you are receiving text files from your e-mail.

Example:
     receive a:\im032.txt 'sddcs.log.im032.txt' ascii crlf

This is necessary because your 3270 mainframe doesn't use ASCII, but rather
EBCDIC.

However, any files that you have FTP'd as BINARY are not affected and can
be received as follows:

     receive a:\widgets.hqx 'sddcs.widgets.hqx'

3)DOS to MAC: using Apple File Exchange will work, but getting something like
DOSMounter or PCExchange is more convenient (especially if you're going to
download tons o' stuff).

4)DE-BINHEXing: I didn't realize that compact-pro de-binhexes (I use StuffIt
Deluxe), but you've got the right idea here. Downline is pretty good, too.

Just be grateful you don't have the Windows 3270 emulation! Yecch!!

Ciao4now

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

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 10:41:03 MET
From: Wolfgang Hammerschmidt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #33

Comment on:


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]

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


Hi out there!

Our company has a Banyan-Vines Networking system running which is supposed to
be more versatile than any competitor ?! (Idunno) Practically speaking, the
current software runs on UNIX, emulates MS-DOS, and routes TCP/IP on a 10BaseT
network quiet nicely! Actually, my Quadra and several other Macs are hooked up
through this system to the outsite world using MacTCP. Obviously, the MS-DOS
machines use Banyan-Vines server functions, the Macs have an independent,
not-dedicated Mac server in the mixed network. Rumor has it that there is a
software version around which supports MS-DOS, UNIX, TCP/IP, and AppleShare,
simultaneously! Our networking people told me that they are waiting for the
announced upgrade of this multiplatform application. Just hold your breath.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 08:16:48 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #33

>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?


It is so sad when technical types that have the background to understand
why the MacOS is so much more sophisticated are so ignorant.

But back to the issue.  I believe that Banyan-Vines does now support Mac
clients.  I think I read an article in MacWEEK about it, but I don't
remember when.  Get the technician to give you their phone number.

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 17:30:09 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Kid's Handwriting Font (A

There is a font on carpediem.ccs.itd.umich.edu in the directory mac/
system.extensions/font in one a the subdirectories.  Sorry I can't
remember which one.  Anyway it is called Kiddiecorner, or something
to that extent.  Good Luck Tycho Nightingale

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 17:53:43 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (LAN Supervisor)
Subject: LAN supervisor info

Hello,

I've just received the position of LAN Supervisor at my university.
I know a bit about LANs, but I'm definately no wizard. Can anyone
recommend good books/magazines/software/tips that would benefit me
in my new position? Our setup is as follows:

    NOS: Netware 3.11

    Micros: Macintosh (Classic, IIsi, SE, SE/30)
    System 6.0.8 and 7.0.1 are in use.

    PCs, Zenith ATs, and PS/2s also reside on the network.
    Thin-wire ethernet cabling.
    DOS 3.0

    Printers: Apple LaserWriters: LaserWriter, IINTX, IIf, IIg

I'd also like information on troubleshooting printers & their problems.

Many thanks,

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

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 11:39:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Benjamin White <[e-mail]>
Subject: LCIII relative performance

Hello all.  I have received many replies to my questions about relative
performance of the LC III.  Most quoted in some form or another the info
>From MacWorld.  I thought this is of general interest so I'm posting to
the net.

>Smaller numbers are better.
>                         -------------- TASKS times in seconds -------------
>                         Processor       Drive-Access    Display         Math
> LCIII                   211             58              241             328
> IIci                    219             61              258             104
> IIsi                    268             68              320             432
> LCII                    432             115             489             740
> Color Classic (w/FPU)   409             116             473             167
> Color Classic (no FPU)  432             122             481             742

Looks like Apple has finaly recovered from the Apple III disaster in
labeling a product a "III" The LC III looks to be a success, a good
balance of speed, monitor options and price.  The FPU socket looks to
break a long trend of machine capabilities tailored more by the accounts
to fill a marketing postition than a real reflection of availibility and
cost of current technology.

Well there are the numbers and my $.02 worth :-).

Thanks for all your replies.

Ben White
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 12:19:28 +0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LineShare, Supra and Silent Answer (A)

>In article <[e-mail]> David Van Nuys,
>[e-mail] writes:
>In the last week or so, there were some LineShare scripts for the Supra
>posted on info-mac at sumex. Somewhere, I heard that LineShare would allow
>one to use the "silent answer" feature of the Supra, for the purpose of
>distinguishing between incoming faxes and voice calls. Currently, I am
>using a separate fax switch to determine whether incoming calls go to
>the Supra or my telephone answering machine.
 LineShare  monitors  a  modem line using a script. If your modem has a
 "Silent  Answer"  or  other  features,  you  can use them all - with a
 proper  script. We hope to publish the scripts supporting SilentAnswer
 soon  - as soon as we upgrade our Supra modem :-).

 But:  you  may  want  to wait until STF supports this feature in their
 software  -  so  you  don't  need  to  buy LineShare :-). LineShare is
 necessary  only if you want to share the line between several servers,
 i.e.if you finally decide to drag your answering machine to the Trash,
 and install the voice software on your Mac(the new Supra has the voice
 mode).  In  this  case,  using  your Mac with Fax, Voice, ARA/Mail and
 terminal emulator software - you do need LineShare.

 We hope to release LineShare in March - watch MacWeek.


 Vladimir A. Butenko                            STALKER Software GmbH
 Tel: [phone]  Fax: [phone]            Moscow State University

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

Date: 11 Feb 93 01:10:22 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Lost Sound

*** Resending note of 02/10/93 02:12
Date: 10 Feb 93 02:13:36 CST
From:  <C05803RB@WUVMD>
To:    [e-mail]

Robert Browning ([e-mail])
Computer Services (Operations) 935-5300
Campus Box 1152,St Louis,Mo. 63130

I'm new this this bulletin board, so perhaps this problem has been
addressed before.  I have recently installed system 7.1 and have
found that on several instances all sound went away, most often when
playing games.  I have found that one way to bring the sound back is to
open the system folder and click up and down the sounds until they come
back.  I believe that restart will also work.  I am operating on a IIsi
with a 13 inch monitor(Apple brand).  It is aggervating, however I don't
know how to zero in on the cause.  Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

RWB

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

Date: 10 Feb 1993 20:50:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Rick Gore <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac Communications FAQ in Word Format (C)

To all who are as impressed as I am with the Mac Communications FAQ that was
recently posted -- I have taken the liberty of "cleaning it up" in Microsoft
Word so that paragraphs are real paragraphs, tables are real tables, etc.
This
way it can be directly printed out and used easily from a Mac.  Upon the
advice
of the author, I am not going to post this, since updates are coming out
pretty
frequently and I probably won't do this again for a while.  Much of the basic
information will, I suspect, remain relevent for quite some time.  If you are
interested, drop me a line, and I will E-mail you the resulting (Word 5/5.1)
hqx document.

Rick Gore
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 12:46:28 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Network Mystery Problems

A few digests ago, Peter C. Crayne wrote:

> One thing you might want to check is the appletalk-imagewriters. If any
> of them show a rapidly blinking red error light, they will cause
> exactly the symptoms that you describe.

This has happened to us a few times. I traced it to a tendancy of
the ImageWriter to shake loose it's AppleTalk interface card (due
to the mechanical action of the print head travel). When the
card shakes loose, the combination of some connector pins
making contact and others not causes the printer to somehow
blow a hole in the network signal. I finally ended up using a
small piece of closed-cell foam padding to help keep it wedged
into the socket.

Scott.
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 19:33:28 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: NowUtils 4.0.1p menu problems..

>Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
>Path: usenet
>X-Xxdate: Thu, 11 Feb 93 18:27:09 GMT
>Organization: Dpt. Anthropology, U of Geneva, Switzerland
>X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17

Hello world,

I have just updated my copy of Now ToolBox/SuperBoomerang to version 4.0.1p,
and have discovered to my surprise that the cloves preceeding the keyboard
shortcuts in the menus aren't drawn correctly anymore. All thoses of the
Finder aren't mucked up, but in certain applications, as BBEdit for example,
only those of certain menus are changed - the others remain normal.

The problem disappears when NowMenu isn't loaded at startup. This didn't occur
with the previous version of Now ToolBox. Any ideas ?

I'm running a Q700, 7.0.1, 20/230, and a lot of extensions.

--
David C. Roessli  -  Dpt Anthropology & Ecology  -  U of Geneva  -
SWITZERLAND
Email [e-mail]  |  Phone [phone]  |  Fax [phone]

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

Date: 11 Feb 1993 20:34:34 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Andy Cohen)
Subject: Partner prices and availability

I've been a Mac developer for years.....since way back when we got 50% off
and TONs of support.....

Well, these days developers....or should I say "partners" get squat!

The discounts are trivial....typically no better than $150 and now partners
get the lowest priority on shipping....

For example.....after a call this morning the following are in stock and
shipping to partners:

IIvx 2/230
Classic II
ColorClassic
LCIIs and LCIIIs
All displays
All keyboards

EVERYTHING ELSE HAS A SHIPPING DELAY....  Somethings, like the powerbooks,
are as high as 14-16 week turn around!

CRIPES MAN!  I can't even buy a PB battery without a 3.5 month wait!!!!

So what else do we get for our money?
Redundant Developer CDs and buggy betaware.......

I wonder if Apple still has an Evangalism dept. I'd bet we see a slow down
in new innovative SW for the Mac...

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 05:20:16 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: PPCToolbox

Howdy.  The PPCToolbox stands for "Program-to-Program Communications
Toolbox."  (From "Inside Macintosh, Volume VI")  It providesyou with the
ability to 1)exchange data with other open applications on the same
computer or accross a network of Macintosh computers; 2)browse through
a listing of applications that are available to exchange data; 3)verify
user identities for communications across a network.  If you want to find
out more than you could ever possibly need to know about the PPCToolbox,
read chapter 7 in "Inside Macintosh, Volume VI."  It is a good thing
you didn't get rid of it.

Happy Networking :)
-Matt Herbison :)
-Penn State University
[e-mail]
-"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors,
  but borrow it from our children"

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 12:50:06 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Thumper)
Subject: Printing problems w/Word 5.0

Vax Academic Support writes:

>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]

I've seen similar problems in my Mac cluster with a couple networked
Laserwriter IIg printers.
Switching the font to a postscript font fixes the problem of course but I
haven't figured out why the printer fails to substitute the font by itself
(yes, page setup is properly done).

One thing that can have an effect is the status of 'Fractional Widths' in
Word 5. But that doesn't always work either.

Since we try to keep things moving quickly in our lab we prefer that our
users not use non-postscript fonts anyway so we've been avoiding the
issue.

-Geoff

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

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 22:40:50 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Replace LC040 with 040 on Centris 610, 650

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

My preliminary information is that chip-for-chip replacement is possible
for the Centris 650, but NOT for any Centris 610. I reserve the right to be
wrong on this matter, though.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 11:05:36 -0500
From: Michael Grabenstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: Scanners, sys 7.1 printers, LCIII (Q)

    Has anyone Recently reviewed low cost scanners? I am currently
interested in the under $800 market. And/or is there a used scanner
review somewhere?

    If the answer to the above is no, please send me your input
about the scanners and I will summarize the results. Thanks. One scanner
I know I can get is the old Apple scanner (4-bit), was it any good
(albeit slow)? There is also an old HP that is 4-bit that I have seen
being sold anyone know about that one? Comparisions?

    Users on our Appletalk network are having problems printing
>From system 7.1. Seems to work sometimes and not others. Sounds like
the old print driver incompatiblity :). Is it posible to put the sys
7.1 printer drivers on sys 7/7.0.1 ? Or is it possible to go the other
way (sys 7/7.0.1 drivers on sys 7.1) ?

    A dumb LC III question--Is the video port changed any? Can it
still accept the same type of monitors that the old LC could? and I
can't wait to see a speed comparision of a LC and LC III. :-)

Thanks,
    Mike    [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 03:33:18 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: SCSI Ethernet connection suggestions

Hi all.  I have a PB145 and need to get directly connected to the network
at my school (PennStat.  I was wondering if any of you have any
preferences or dislikes when it comes to brand and/or model of SCSI ethernet
device.  Please send to me or if you must, post.  Thanks in advance. :)
-Matt Herbison
[e-mail]
-"We do not inherit the world from our ancestors,
  but borrow it from our children"

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 19:11:41 EST
From: [e-mail] (Nick Blackwell)
Subject: SerialPort MacKermit Error

  I'm using MacKermit as my comm app and every
time I open it or close it I get this interesting little message.
A dialog box with a face in it tells me something like:

    Trouble closing RAM serial driver:19963

I think the number used to change every once in a while but lately its
been 19963. Any idea what it means or how to fix it?
--


      Harland Peelle
      [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 15:32:07 GMT
From: John McKinley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Single copies only on a LaserWriter - how?

I have a deep and distant memory of a modification which one could make to the
LaserWriter driver to prevent people printing off multiple copies. Some
Resediting on the Print... dialog box, as I recall. Now, I've tried to set the
Copies: entry to be StaticText, and to cover the box up with something else,
and lots of other things, but I can't achieve the desired effect. Any hints?

Temporarily we provide free laser printing for our students. This seems to
attract those preparing newsletters, looking for a cheap photocopier, and is
proving rather expensive.

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 15:52:12 +0600
From: [e-mail] (Frank Christel)
Subject: Summagraphics info?

Does anyone have a current phone number for Summagraphics, maker of the
MacTablet graphics tablet?  The number I have, 800-243-9388, appears to be
disconnected.

Please reply directly: [e-mail]

Thanks,
Frank Christel

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 10:00:08 EST
From: Mark Schupack <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperClock alternative?

I have the latest version of SuperClock and it works fine. BUT, with a
small screen monitor (SE/30) almost all of the newer programs have
so many items on their menu bars that the SuperClock display gets
knocked off. The SuperClock documentation says this might happen. The
Alarm Clcok DA can be moved around, but gets hidden behind any open window.
The size of the open window can be reduced to provide an open space, but
this becomes a serious restriction with a small screen.

Is there any clock program available that will continue to be
visible while floating above an open window at any place you put it?
I thought I saw such an animal several years ago, but have no way to
trace it now.  Thanks for the help.

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 17:05 EST
From: "FELIX KREISEL [phone]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7.1 and Worldscript extensions (Q)

Hi.  Charles Rubin's Guide to 7.1 talks of Worldscript extensions which add a
new keyboard menu, a flag between the Help and the Application menus at top
right (p. 35 of the Guide).
1) Where can I find these extensions?
2) If these Worldscripts aren't ready, how can I install an 8-bit Chicago font
in place of a 7-bit font used by the System and switch to its upper register
when I want to use a bilingual 8-bit font in my applications?
3) Is Microsoft Word 5.1 compatible with the 8-bit System font?
Thank you, Felix Kreisel

The opinions are my own.        Felix Kreisel [phone]

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Date: 11 Feb 1993 09:22:46 U
From: "James Tepper" <[e-mail]>
Subject: System 7 Pauses

               Subject:                               Time:9:01 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          System 7 Pauses                        Date:2/11/93
Thanks to all that responded to my 'Help Wanted' concerning inexplicable
system
pauses both within and between applications.  I got a number of suggestions,
most of which either did not apply to my situation or that I had already
tried.
 However, Jay Poutinen suggested that I turn off the option to calculate
 folder
sizes (which was indeed on), and that seems to have fixed the problem.  I
relayed the tip to another infomac'er who wrote to me with the same problem,
and it seems to have cured his machine as well.  It seems odd to me that a
background process could somehow take priority over a foreground job,
especially this one, since I don't see how the Finder needs to calculate
folder
sizes while another appliction is running in the foreground.  Nevertheless,
Jay's tip seems to have worked.  So c'mon Apple, what's the deal?

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Date: 11 Feb 93 16:57:12 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Ragnemalm)
Subject: The IIvx has been discounted HOW much?!? *fume*

[e-mail] (Ken Wieschhoff 253-1973) writes:

>Ditto.  The developer's price just dropped by about $600.  I'm self
>employed and haven't got the guts to tell my wife.

>I can upgrade for $900 to a Centris 650, tho ;(
>Thanks Apple!

Whatever Apple does in this respect will hurt someone. People keep saying
the Mac is too expensive. They were *right* and Apple is doing something
about it.

I was quite disappointed by the october release: Performas that weren't
all that cheap, and a crippled IIvx that wasn't that big improvement in
price/performance either. Now they drop a bit more, making both the IIvx
and the new Macs better deals.

If I was Apple, I'd lower the prices significantly, but not at once, but
in several smaller steps, just so the old customers don't feel *that*
much ripped off... but the new Macs have to have a price/performances
that give some good reviews.

Now look what's happening: Apple does just that. Sure our old LC's, IIsi's,
and even fairly new IIvx's loose a lot of value, but what do we expect?
That Apple should go on selling "half the performance for twice the price"
as someone said? They are trying to compete in a world where 486's are no
longer high-end. Too bad about long delays in delivery, though.

The only disappointment so far in the february release is the Color
Classic. The "narrow bus" design should be scrapped as soon as possible,
but I suppose they didn't want to put all the low-cost line in the
LC III design right away.

--
Ingemar Ragnemalm
Dept. of Electrical Engineering      ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar
          ..
University of Linkoping, Sweden      [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 15:17 CST
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Using fkeys

At one point in time I remember hearing about a utility that would allow the
user to assign applications to fkeys, so that you could move between programs
without having to click and drag in the menu bar.  Does anyone know what this
thing is called (I'm not even sure if it was a cdev or extension), and if so,
where it is available?  Thanks.

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

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 22:29:18 AST
From: X2F1000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ventura for the Mac (q)

Greetings:

Just a quick question for anyone out there (there must be _someone_
out there) who is using Ventura Publisher 3.2 instead of Pagemaker.

I have used Ventura under Gem, but this is my first experience with
it on the Mac.  It seems to be painfully slow when compared to its
counterpart in the DOS world. I am using it on a 5 meg IIci, 384k
RAM cache, no virtual memory, SuperMac's 21 inch Platinum display,
and a monochrome card (also by SuperMac).

Opening a text file takes a minimum of one minute. This is compared
to 8 seconds on a 25 mhz '386. Isn't that a bit unreasonable?  Is
there anything I can do to speed things up? Any and all suggestions
are welcome.  Thanks in advance.

Trevor Sawler
[e-mail]

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