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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 12 Feb 93       Volume 11 : Issue 35

Today's Topics:

      [*] BoloStar v1.0
      [*] FindIt 1.1.0
      [*] karma-manager1.1.cpt.hqx
      [*] mac.ftp.list
      [*] Please post in Info-Mac/Games
      (A) How to use MacGhostScript
      (A) IMAGE CONVERSION
      (Q) No FPU option for Centris 610?
      (S) Apple Installer scripts
      72 pin SIMMs
      access pc reformatted disk, icon changes (A)
      Apple RBG 13" Monitor Problems
      AppleTalk remote access
      Apple UK flame
      Application/System heaps, stacks, and crashes (R)
      Auto-ReBooting software (Q)
      BBS's
      Centris 610 & 68040 FPU - Forget it!
      Changing from an Apple IIGS to a Mac
      Colo(u)r Printer
      Default font in 1-2-3...[Q]
      DeskWriter Problem (Summary)
      dropple menu and system 7.1
      Eudora
      File sharing between Mac and PC: How?
      formatting DD as HD
      FPUs on new Centris machines (C)
      Heap related printing errors
      Heaps o' thanks!
      IIcx/ci/Q700 Power Supply Correction
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #33 American Heritage Dictionary College Ed.(A)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #34
      Info-MAc Digest vol 11 #34
      LC -> LCIII: to upgrade or not upgrade?
      LCII => LCIII
      LCIII upgrade
      Mac 2cx to Quadra 700?
      Mactcp/Q700 and builtin ether
      NCSA/BYU TelNet2.5 users - info needed
      NewLook v1.3
      Questions about the Feb 10 Apple release
      SerialPort MacKermit Error (A)
      Single copies only on a Las
      Single copies only on a LaserWriter - how? (A)
      Smartcom II problem
      SpaceSaver 1.0.4
      Summary: SLIP Connection
      SuperClock alternative (RE)
      Superclock replacement
      System Heap and Deskwriter Driver
      System Heap and DW drivers (p.s.)
      upgrading hard drive(s)
      VersaTilities--do you like it?

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 15:38:42 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] BoloStar v1.0

BoloStar is a full-featured, full-color map editor for use with Bolo, the
tank battle game from Stuart Cheshire.

Requirements:
=============
  System 7.0 or higher (sorry, people, but you'll have to upgrade someday!)
  Prefers a 1Mb application partition.

Important Notes:
================
  BoloStar can run in black and white.
  BoloStar will work on 9" screen Macintoshes.
  BoloStar is 32-bit clean.
  Has been tested on:
  - Mac SE/30, Mac II, IIx, IIci, IIsi, IIfx, and a Quadra 700.
    (At that rate, it should work on ANY machine...)

BoloStar is distributed on a SHAREWARE basis. K&D Software, Inc. is asking
only $10.00. See the documentation and registration form for details.

If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or find any bugs, please
send them to:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Dan Rudman
K&D Software, Inc.

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-star.hqx; 283K]

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Date: 11 Feb 93 10:40:00 EDT
From: "JS::CLEMENTSG" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] FindIt 1.1.0

              E L E C T R O N I C   M A I L
           (DDN Host Address:  JS3-VAX.HANSCOM.AF.MIL)

          Date:      11-Feb-1993 10:40am
          From:      Geoffrey Clements
          Username:  CLEMENTSG
          Dept:      HTI ESC/JSER
          Tel No:    x8466

Hi,

    I'd again like to replace FindIt in the archive. Both versions
1.0.1 and version 1.0.2 have a bug that WILL cause a non color Mac to
crash.

    The new version, version 1.1.0, fixes this bug as well as some
others. And now has options to search folders recursively, display or not
display full path names, as well as a case insensitive search.

    FindIt still searches the text files in a folder full of files for
a text string you specify. FindIt only works with System 7. (Needs apple
events.)

geoff
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/find-it-11.hqx; 42K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 15:45:18 EST
From: Thomas Pusateri <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] karma-manager1.1.cpt.hqx

Karma Manager v 1.1 anagramming program

New version -- almost twice as fast as previous versions
Please replace the old version with this file - karma-manager1.1.cpt.hqx

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]

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[Archived as /info-mac/app/karma-manager-11.hqx; 185K]

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Date: 11 Feb 93 09:51:01 EST
From: bruce grubb <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] mac.ftp.list

This is the latest version this report and should replace the previous version
of ftp-list.txt.  Please archive this as mac-ftp-list.txt.

This is a update to Mike Gleason's ftp list {He gave me permision to continue
it.}.  It lists a good number of mac anonymous ftp sites with note on each and
a little blurb on how to use anonymous ftp.

 -------------------blurb ends, report commences---------------------------

[Archived as /info-mac/report/mac-ftp-list.txt; 26K]

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 12:47:05 PST
From: [e-mail] (Sean Ansorge)
Subject: [*] Please post in Info-Mac/Games

This is an arcade-style asteroids-like game I've just completed. I'd like
to make it available to the public.

Thanks,

Sean.

File Begins

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hemi-roids.hqx; 464K]

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Date: 11 Feb 1993 18:24:43 -0800
From: [e-mail] (John Kim)
Subject: (A) How to use MacGhostScript

I downloaded the compiled version (runtime version) of GhostScript for Mac;
but after the long download time, I couldn't figure out how to use it.

With the attached messages' help now I know how to.

HOW TO:

1. Once you invoke MacGS, you get two windows: command window and graphics
window. Make the graphics window active. The menu bar changes.

2. From the menu choose Load Laserprep (or do Command-L).

3. Use Open command (Command-O) to open a ps file. Depending on how
complicated the ps file is, this may take more than seconds. For a simple 2k
ps file, this just takes a snap on my IIsi 5/80 with cache and FPU (if the
FPU matters at all).

4. Once the ps interpretation is finished (and you'll have text and/or
graphics in your graphics window as the result), the mouse cursor changes
>From a hair cross to a thick white cross. At this time, you can't open
anymore ps files.

5. Choose Resume from the menu (or do Command-R) to clear the graphics window
and be able to open another file.

6. It seemed that if your ps file produces a multi-page output, you have to
do RESUME after each page is drawn to get to the next page.


   Somehow the step 3 (opening a ps file) had to be done several times for
   some files to be displayed.


I thank the repliers to my msg.

Good luck folks!

John

P.S. The method of the first msg attached didn't work for me, but it may for
others.
P.P.S. MacGS also worked well with VM turned on with Sys 7.0.1.
P.P.P.S. Not that I don't appreciate having MacGS but I think there is some
room for improvement: 1. In documentation at least for Mac, and 2. In its
interface.

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


Date: 11 Feb 1993 07:13:17 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jerry Black)
Subject: using Ghostscript
To: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Status: OR

I've used 2.5.2b0 successfully.

Once Ghostscript is running, you can render an PS file by typing:

(<volume>:<folder>:<filename>) run

e.g.

(HD80:GS:testPS) run

Details of how to render PS files generated by 'print to disk' I've
forgotten, but it involves preloading the laserprep. I believe the source
code upload had a few examples (well hidden) on how to initialize with
laserprep.

Hope this helps
======================================================================
 Jerry Black                     | Internet: [e-mail]
 Resource Mapping                |                          Canada, eh
 Biological Sciences Br.         | Phone: [phone]
 Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans     |
 Box 550, Halifax, N.S.          |
 Canada   B3J 2S7                |


Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 10:05 CST
From: Daniel Schwalbe <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to use ghostscript? (R)
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
X-Envelope-To: [e-mail]
X-Vms-To: IN%"[e-mail]"
X-Vms-Cc: IN%"[e-mail]"
Status: OR

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.


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

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 21:27:07 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Churl Oh)
Subject: (A) 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)?

A quick trick is to save the image as "EPS" format in Photoshop.
While saving, make sure the encoding type is ascii.
The saved file type is "EPS ", so you should change the file type to "TEXT"
(by ResEdit etc.) before you can examine the content of the file using a text
editor (don't bother if you have Alpha(cs.rice.edu), it can view & edit any
file type).
The hex numbers following "beginimage" is the digital numbers of your image.
Hope this helps.

Churl Oh
[e-mail]

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Date: 12 Feb 93 03:22:07 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dale Adams)
Subject: (Q) No FPU option for Centris 610?

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David
Gutierrez) writes:
> Is it true that the heat sink required by a 68040 makes it impossible to
> use a NuBus card in a Centris 610? Might there be another heat sink design
> that would get around this problem, if it exists?

There's no heat sink on the processor in the C610.  A 20 MHz 68040 (with
or without FPU) runs cool enough that it doesn't need one.  A NuBus card
will fit, although you need an adapter card (much like the IIsi) and only
7" long cards will fit.  (There's a number of vendors which already make
7" cards, and more will be coming out.)

> Also, can you confirm or deny that selecting Shut Down on a Centris 610
> does not shut off the power?

Confirmed.  The C610 is much like the LCs in this respect.  [Hey, it's
supposed to be cheap, right?  ;-) ]

> I'm sorry to single out an individual for these questions, Dale, but I
> have the impression that, unlike most of us, you may have actually
> seen one of these computers somewhere. :-)

No problem.  I've seen more than a one - a lot more.  [Of course, being
one of the hardware designers does help.  :-) ]

- Dale Adams
  Apple Computer, Inc.

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 08:50:19 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (S) Apple Installer scripts

Thanks to [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke) and [e-mail], who kindly
answered my question about writing scripts for the Apple Installer.

The reference is the 'Installer Scripting Guide' in the Developer's CD. The
complete package can also be found on ftp.apple.com, directory
/dts/mac/tools. The manual is really hard to read, but it's the only source
for the whole information.

There are also a few utilities that can make life easier when dealing with
scripts:

- ScriptGen (on AOL) that is supposed to write scripts for you.

- InstallerSpy (on info-mac/util) that let's you browse existing scripts

SmallerInstaller, by Bill Goodman, can be another useful option. It takes
CompactPro archives as its scripts: the layout of the archive determines
where the files will go. Of course, it can't work with individual
resources, etc. SmallerInstaller can be found on GEnie. (I have no access
to GEnie; perhaps someone could upload it to sumex-aim.)

Carles Bellver          [e-mail]
Universitat Jaume I
E-12071 Castello
SPAIN

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 14:24:42 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 72 pin SIMMs

Hi,

A friend of mine is considering buying a LC III.  She wonders whether the
"industry standard" 72 pin SIMMs the new Macs use are really as prevalent as
Apple claims.  Could she buy a PC magazine or Computer Shopper and find them
as easily as we find 60 pin SIMMs for the Mac.  Are the prices comparable?
And
is installation basically the same?  Reply to me directly or via Info-Mac;  if
I get enough direct response I'll post a summary.  TIA...

Darin Takemoto
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 10:41:41 PST
From: [e-mail] (Kim Cary)
Subject: access pc reformatted disk, icon changes (A)

>Date: Mon, 08 Feb 93 09:53:47 PST
>From: John Wical <[e-mail]>
>Subject: AccessPC reformatting diskette
>
>   When I reformatted a PC HD diskette as Mac HD (using AccessPC), the
>diskette icon remained a PC icon, not the standard Mac diskette icon.
>This is clearly intuitively wrong.  Has anyone else experienced this?
>
>John

Yes. "Trash" the disk and re-insert it and the correct icon shows up. I'm
not sure of the technical reason, but my guess is that disk icons are
loaded at insertion, and that the system considers it "rude" to change them
in mid-session.

Kim Cary, Systems Support Coordinator
Grad. School of Ed. & Psych., Pepperdine University
Internet: [e-mail] Bitnet: KCARY@PEPVAX

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 03:56:44 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple RBG 13" Monitor Problems

re: Apple RBG 13" monitor problems
re: Mike Sisson and E Loute messages....
Yes, the problem is the high voltage capacitor.
Apparently Apple has a "silent recall" out on this...I
got mine fixed for no charge for the part by the
local dealer.
I understand that you can get more info/reimbursement
>From Apple Computer, PO Box 17214, Denver, Colorado 80217
tel: [phone]
attn: High voltage capacitor reimbursement
At least that's the info I got off of another USENET board.
Good luck!

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 17:59:19 JST
From: [e-mail] (Paul Fons)
Subject: AppleTalk remote access

 Can anyone fill me in on what is necessary (on both sides)
to make a sucessful appletalk remote connection -- e.g. I mean
what besides two modems and two macs is necessary.  I have
used the client software myself to connect to a server, but I
have no idea about what the configuration of the server is.
Thanks for any help -- product numbers , souces to buy it etc.
would be gratefully received.

                    Paul Fons
                    [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 23:02 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple UK flame

UK readers might like to know that an Apple dealer told me today it will
be several WEEKS before Apple UK expects to have any of the new Macs in
quantity.  Apparently when asked about the supposed immediate availability
of the Centrises et al at a recent dealers' meeting, Apple UK's sales people
just laughed and said, "You must be joking".  All I can say is it's pretty
much in keeping with Apple UK's performance in the past...

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 22:15:44 EST
From: "M. David Greenspon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Application/System heaps, stacks, and crashes (R)

Well, I was sure that a lot of people would answer this, but no one did, so
I'll take a stab at it.

>> 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 System Heap actually has nothing to do with this.  Every application has
a heap of its own, which is the memory set aside for the application itself
(or whatever parts of the app the system has loaded in), and various types of
data it works with.  Every application also has a stack, which is a small area
at the very top (end) of the app's memory partition.  The stack contains
things like return addresses, and local variables (I think).

The Application Heap starts at the bottom (beginning) of the memory partition
and grows upward (many applications set it to the maximum to begin with).  The
stack starts at the top and grows downward.  So when you see a message that
says "Stack Collision With Heap" it just means you're out of memory!

If the maximum space for the _stack_ is too small, there's nothing you can do
(except write to the author of the program and complain :-) ).  But most
likely, all you need to do is increase the app's partition (with cmd-I in the
finder) and that will give it more space for its _heap_.

>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.

Utilities like this will definitely stop some types of crashes under Systems
earlier than 7.0.  They're very useful--just not for the problem above.

>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

Exactly.  Just extend this to the "Stack Collision With Heap" problem and
you're set.

--David

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 19:57:01 PST
From: jeff schindall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Auto-ReBooting software (Q)

I'm looking for a CP that will reboot a mac
at a particular time of day.

Does anyone know if such a critter exists?

  -jeff

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 14:38:47 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: BBS's

Can anyone tell me where I might be able to get a list of numbers for any
BBS's or does anyone know of any?  I'm particulary interested in numbers for
the 914 or 212 area code which is in Westchester, N.Y. and NYC.  I contacted
many local computer stores and unbelievably so, no one could assist me.

                   Thanks in advance,

                   Aaron Raphael  pl911510@pacevm

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 19:06:46 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Wagner Truppel)
Subject: Centris 610 & 68040 FPU - Forget it!

Hi everyone,

here at Cornell today we had our Apple rep delivering a show about the new
release. Actually, he (physically) showed only the PB 165c, the LC III and
the Color Classic, but talked about all the new CPUs, as well as the new
printers (Select 300 and 310) and the color scanner. Here's what I remember
>From it, and please note that because I am in the process of buying a
Centris, I didn't pay *a lot* of attention to the rest. (Also, I was pretty
tired).

The Color Classic looks remarkably nice. It's basically an LC II in the
clothing of a Classic and even has an LC-type of NuBus expansion slot.
Supports 256 colors right out of the box, and with an upgrade in video RAM,
can support 32768 colors. It's a little taller than the Classic so its
screen resolution is larger by 12 %. (Vertically only, horizontally, it's
still 512 pixels wide).The feature that impressed me most was how you get
access to the logic board. Having had the opportunity to open an SE many
times to install memory and a floppy drive, I must say that Apple has done
a great job here: you just open a door at the bottom part of the machine
(on the back), then slide the logic board out. That simple.

The LC III. Unfortunately, I can't remember very much of what he said about
the LC III that is not already widely known. Sorry folks, I must have slept
thru this part. :(

The Centris 610 and 650. Here's where my expectations were high on getting
more accurate info regarding the FPU issue. According to the rep, the 610
has the incomplete 68040 surface-mounted on the logic board, so getting it
out and pushing in the full 68040 is out of question (unless you want to do
it yourself... and possibly fry your Mac). That does it then: *** no FPU
for the 610, period ***. However, he said, keep making pressure. Perhaps
Apple will reconsider and come up with an alternative. Again, if you want
the FPU in the 68040, you *have* to get the 650. That's the official word
>From Apple, spoken by its rep at Cornell U.

On a lighter side and still about the Centris, he mentioned that Apple has
72-pin 8 MB SIMMs, so you *don't* have to accept memory increments of 32 MB
each only. But, now, I just thought of a question: the Centris 610 (650)
can have up to 68 MB (132 MB), and comes standard with 4 MB soldered to the
logic board. Now, there's a configuration with 8 MB. What kind of SIMM is
used for the non-logic-board 4 MB here? I should had thought of this before
and asked him. Too bad. Anyway, if people were thinking of using their
regular (non 72-pin) 1 MB SIMMs, forget it. Not in the Centris. Not in the
Select printers either; they also use the new SIMMs. (Well, to be honest,
he wasn't sure about the 310. Oddly, he said it might accept the regular
SIMMs).

For those who own a II vx and want a Centris, good news. There will be an
upgrade path.

As for the Quadra 800, there's not very much I remember either (it's been a
long day...), except that because it has interleaved RAM, whatever that
really means, it will be faster than a Quadra 950 in some memory intensive
tasks. Basically, he said, interleaved memory means you'll get a
performance boost if the chips on a bank are of the same density (don't ask
me what 'density' here means...). By the way, the 650 also has that
feature, but not the 610. Another feature the Quadra 800 has is easy access
to the logic board, just like the Color Classic: you don't need to get
everything out of the way first...

The printers, LaserWriter Select 300 and 310. What I remember here is that
the 300 offers FinePrint as a standard feature, PhotoGrade being optional
and *no* postscript. The 310 offers Postscript level 1 built-in, but no
PhotoGrade or FinePrint. There's an upgrade option for the 300 that makes
it Postscript, turning it really into a 310 (his words), but he didn't make
it clear whether that upgrade removes or preserves the PhotoGrade and
FinePrint features. If it preserves them, then it's not a bad idea to buy
the 300 and the upgrade instead of the 310. Just to give you an idea, the
educational prices here at Cornell are:

310    --->    $ 937
300    --->    $ 739   ---\
upgrade -->    $ 303   ---/  $ 1042

He also talked about the PB 165c, the color PB. Although it deals with
color, it's performance is just like the 160, I guess due to some
additional VRAM. Interestingly enough, he didn't sya much about it that is
not common to the 160 or the other PBs. I guess it is really not that
different than the 160, except for the price and color.

One thing that he spent some time 'selling' was the idea of ColorSync, a
system software enhancement that will automatically (that is, without need
for the user's intervention) match colors all the way thru, from scanning
to monitor to printing. He said that Apple made this in such a way that
developers can make use of two ways of accomplishing color matching: a
fast, look-up table based system, and an algorythm-based one, which,
although more accurate, is slower. He also said that current aplications
that support color matching won't need any changes to work with ColorSync.

Well, I guess this is all I can remember from today's presentation by our
Apple rep here at Cornell. I hope this information is useful to someone.

Wagner Truppel
[e-mail]

Disclaimer: don't base your purchase decisions on the information provided
above. My memory is known to fail sometimes. However, if you *do* base your
decisions on what I wrote above, I'm not responsible for the outcome.

Disclaimer #2: I don't work for Apple or Cornell University. (Although I
have worked for Cornell in the past.) The oppinions above are mine and mine
only, except where noted.


Wagner Truppel
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 09:17 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Changing from an Apple IIGS to a Mac

Greetings,
    A friend has an Apple IIGS.  He wants to know which parts of it
(monitor, keyboard, etc) he can use when he upgrades to a Mac.  I suppose
he'll be changing to a Mac LC or whatever is the low-cost mac with a separate
monitor.  Anyone out there done this or know which parts are still useful?

Thanks,

Ed

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 08:44:09 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Colo(u)r Printer

Wade writes in response to a query:

>>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.

PostScript on a DeskWriter? Surely not. Perhaps you're thinking of the HP
PaintJet XL300PS, which is a 4-colour inkjet PostScript printer...

Cheers
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada

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

Date: 12 Feb 1993 15:45:32 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Default font in 1-2-3...[Q]

Good morning,

Is it possible to set a default font for all worksheets?

It is possible in Excel and I have found the /WORKSHEET GLOBAL DEFAULT FONT
equivalent, but this applies only to the worksheet you are using.

Thanks in Advance
Robert E. Malick
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 10:03:56 -0800
From: Scott Allen Gruby <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskWriter Problem (Summary)

A few days ago I asked about the poor print quality of a DeskWriter and
received many helpful responses that will hopefully solve the problem.

The suggestions were:
-Print on rough side of paper
-Make sure you are using DeskWriter Driver 3.1
-Make sure fractional widths are on
-Make sure replace with HP Fonts option is off for TrueType
-Rub a q-tip with alcohol over the bottom of the ink cartridge
-Replace the ink cartridge


Thanks for all the suggestions.


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

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

Date: 12 Feb 1993 08:23:06 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: dropple menu and system 7.1

     dropple menu and system 7.1 (A)
[e-mail] (Tony Andrea) asks:

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

Well, kinda-sorta.  There is a program at sumex that you can drag files
onto it, and it will place AN ALIAS OF your file in the Apple menu.
Look at sumex:  /util/apple-menu-add.hqx

Hope it helps!!       :-)

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

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 17:57:20 JST
From: [e-mail] (Paul Fons)
Subject: Eudora

  I have Eudora set up on my mac and I put up a pop3 server on our
local unix host.  I have come to very much like Eudora, however,
recently when I was working with another program,the mac crashed and
the temporary mailbox on the unix side was left in a locked condition
(flock).  I would like to either delete the lock file (I can become
root) or write a small program to disable the (flock) lock.  If
anyone out there with knowledge as to how to fix this, can drop me a
line I would be grateful.

                        Paul Fons
                        [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 12:55:01 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Dantowitz)
Subject: File sharing between Mac and PC: How?

This probably a FAQ, but here goes:

Using Farallon's software I can mount Apple File Sharing disks on
my PC, but how about the reverse?

Also, the Mac can run TCP/IP and Ethertalk at the same time.  Can
the PC also do this--has anyone done it?

----

Right now ftp using TCP/IP seems to solve the problem of
connectivity--"file sharing"--but has anyone found any
better solutions?

Thanks.

David
--
David Dantowitz
[e-mail]

Singing Barbershop when I'm not doing parallel simulation

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 1:32:08 EST
From: Christos Giogas <[e-mail]>
Subject: formatting DD as HD

The recent posting that DD disks as HD may not be completely true.
The posting said that the there where IBM PS/2's in the lab where
problems with the DD disks appeared. If the disks were formatted
on the PS/2's, then I believe some of the fault is in the PS/2's.
I believe they format disks differently from the IBM compatables.
The PS/2's drive can read other disks formatted on compatables but
the compatables can't read the PS/2 formatted disks. Similarly a
Mac which can read DOS disks is not able to read the PS/2 formatted
disks. This has happened to disk disk here my school's computer lab.
The PS/2's had no problem reading their own formatted disks but
no other computer could read them.

Everything stated above is due to my own personal "limited"
experience with the DOS enviornment.

Christos Giogas
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 08:19:52 PST
From: Tim Castle <[e-mail]>
Subject: FPUs on new Centris machines (C)

I said:
>>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.

Hades said:
>    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 ;->.

I reply:
    It also came from an Apple System Engineer, who was giving us the poop on
the new machines.

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

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 21:51:47 EST
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Heap related printing errors

I tried posting this to Erich Boldt directly, but it bounced. I believe
it may be of general interest, though.-Pete Tamas

Thanks for the message!! It raises possibilities I was unaware of.
If your problem is really caused by running out of heap, running
heap fixer to add heap should solve the problem. Please keep me
posted. I am very interested in keeping abreast of these sorts of problems.

On Thu, 11 Feb 93 10:56:06 PST you said:
>Pete,
>
>I posted the following to Info-Mac Digest.
>
>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]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 16:28:45 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Heaps o' thanks!

               xxxxx
            xxxx   xxxxx
            xxxxx   xxxxx  xxxxx
    \       xxxxx   xxxxxx  xxxxx   xxxxxx       /
      ===========================================

That is a large platter of hot Valentine's Day chocolate chip
cookies, e-mail style (my best kind!) just to thank all you
super netfolk who've been so helpful with the myriad computer
crises that have developed in my life of late, particularly
but by no means limited to everybody who answered my pleas for
enlightenment on DOS-Mac transfers and on system memory errors
and allocations. (I tried to reply to everybody individually,
if I missed someone please accept my apologies. There were a
*lot* of respondents.)

I often wonder how many books I'd have to read or classes
I'd have to take to gather up as much information as is
freely available for the asking here on the net. You guys
(no gender-specificity is intended;)) are great!

When things calm down here next week, I'll try to post brief
summaries of the answers I got to both of the above queries,
for anyone else who might be interested. In the meantime,
happy Heart-Day, and enjoy the weekend everybody!

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

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 22:11:49 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Owen M. Hartnett)
Subject: IIcx/ci/Q700 Power Supply Correction

In a recent Info-mac, an article written by me about a year ago was added
to the archives.  While the information appeared correct when written, the fix
mentioned seems to only work for about six months.  Since that time, I have
learned of a more correct fix, which is much simpler:

Remove the top cover of the power supply, then remove the two cardboard
insulators.  (Make sure that there is no AC power to the supply before
and during this procedure!)  With a soldering iron and desoldering pump,
remove the old solder and resolder *all* the now exposed solder joints
on the lower left quadrant of the board (as oriented to the front of
the Macintosh from which it came).  Do any joint you feel is close to
this quadrant and you'll get the correct ones.  Use good quality solder
(not Radio Shacks!) and the problem won't haunt you again.

BTW, even if you had done the old fix, you shouldn't be out more than
$10 in parts, which beats the $350 you would've shelled out for the
old supply.

Thanks to all the people who helped out on this.


-Owen Hartnett
-Macintosh Entomologist

--
Owen Hartnett                           [e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 20:45:04 -0500
From: "Bruce P. Halpern" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #33 American Heritage Dictionary College Ed.(A)

The American College Dictionary Professional/College edition installer does
not automatically place the expanded files into the System folder. Instead,
after compacted files from each of the 13 800K floppies are dragged into
a newly created folder on one's hard disk, and expansion is initiated by
clicking on file #1, you get four files in the folder in place of the
compacted thirteen.  The printed instructions which come with AHED instruct
the
user to place all four files into the System folder.  This DOES work ok.
However, as several previous writers have indicated, it's not necessary. Only
two of the files, the AHED DA (196K) and the AHED Fonts (6K), need to go into
the System folder. The other two files, Dictionary (9156K) and Thesarus
(298K),
can go anywhere.  Whether or not all four files are placed into the System
folder, the initial attempt to use AHED will open windows asking the location
of the Dictionary and the Thesaurus to be specified.  This only happens once
unless the Dictionary or Thesarus are moved.
As previously noted, the College/Professional edition has >300,000 words,
including lots of abbreviations and geographical or biographical entries,
gives
detailed (sometimes more than I want to know) information on the linguistic
origin of words, and is 32-bit clean.

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 06:52:58 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #34

<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.

<------------------------------

Look at the First Things First demo at sumex. It is realyy a reminder
program, but shows its face as a clock that floats over the other windows
on the screen. A lot of clock faces are available. I have been using it
for a few months now, (on a PowerBokk 100) and have not had any problems.
I have not used the reminder function very much, but i got high marks in
the latest MacUser (bebruary) issue. I am considering buying it for the
clock only... It is quite inexpensive (as reminder/calenadar programs go)
at mail order (about $45, I believe)

BTW, the new version (3.0) was recently uploade to sumex

Just a happy demo tester....

    - kjell

[e-mail] (Kjell Krona)
Dept. of Architecture/Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, S-100 44 Sweden

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 07:07:40 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Info-MAc Digest vol 11 #34

>> 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.

I have bought several drives over the years from APS, and my experience is
that they have generally gotten quiter, but that it depends very much on
what particular drive you choose to put into the box. I bought two 105
Quantums about three years ago, and at the time I thought quiet, but today
they feel quite noisy.... This is even though the fan in one of them has
stopped working (almost immediately after I bought it) with no apparent ill
effects (that drive, however, is used only now and then, but for several
hours each time).

About a year ago, we bought three 55 Mb Quantum drives (in the small-size
box) which we lend for home use together with a Mac Plus, and they are really
"wisper quiet" - even in a quiet home situation. So, I belive that the noise
may vary quite much, depending on model and drive manufacturer.

In other respects, I believe that APS is a good company to do business with.
We are ordering much of our equpment trough a friend of mine, who does small
importing for his business associates, and he usually orders his hardware
>From APS (for the last three years or so). Last year an internal drive broke
down after a short time of use, and we got a free replacement without any
problems (though we did have to pay the international shipping).

    - kjell

[e-mail] (Kjell Krona)
Dept. of Architecture/Dept. of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, S-100 44 Sweden

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 14:38:28 EST
From: [e-mail] (DanielMendelson)
Subject: LC -> LCIII: to upgrade or not upgrade?

Having just returned from the university computer store, I am quite
excited about the possibility of upgrading my LC to LCIII.  The
benchmarks posted in Info-Mac V11 #34 confirm my observations that
the LCIII appears much faster; particularly when opening windows,
switching application, and scrooling with 256 colors (which is
really what I care most about).  The local price is $530 which seems
reasonable in comparison to what the price of a 25Mhz 68030
accelerator would cost.  Also the accelerator would not give me a
32-bit bus, better video support, two additional Megs of soldered
ram, and the ability to expand to 36 Megs.  The dilemma is this:
I own one of the 100,000 original LC's that came with two internal
superdrives.  The LCII & LCIII only support one superdrive.  I
really love having two drives and don't know what I would do with
the spare drive if I went with the upgrade.  I have a PDS card with
a 16MHz 68882 FPU.  This FPU can be taken off the card, but I would
not want to install the 16MHz FPU in the LCIII FPU socket. I also
have 2 4Meg simms.  The LCIII has a funny 72-pin simm socket.  Does
anyone know if there is an adapter so I won't have to scrap my ram
as well.  If anyone has any suggestions regarding saving my extra
drive and ram and still upgrading to more memory and speed, I'ld
appreciate hearing.

Daniel Ari Mendelson
Department of Biophysics
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
[e-mail]
dam@[128.151.235.1]

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

Date: 11 Feb 1993 21:54:32 -0500 (EST)
From: CRAZYSOFT <[e-mail]>
Subject: LCII => LCIII

Hello again netters.

    O.k.  For the last week I've been asking about increasing the speed of
my LCII.  Thanks to all your replies, I was going to increase my RAM from 4 to
8.  Now I find out for certain that Apple WILL be offering an upgrade to the
LCIII for $599 ($500 street.)  My questions are, what would this upgrade do
for
my LCII?  Will it give it the speed increase that I want?  I know it's a tad
;)
bit more expensive than purchasing the SIMM's but wouldn't it give me the
speed
increase plus more expandibility?  I'd be getting more RAM expandibility
(up to 32mg), faster coprocessor, and 32-bit bus.  Am I right?  So it would be
like adding an accelerator card for about the same, if not lower than the
price
I would pay?
    If I bought the SIMM's now, isn't true that they wouldn't fit into the
board of the LCIII, if I do decide to upgrade, because of the new pin set-up?

Sorry for all the >simple< questions, but I'm a poor college student who can't
afford to go the wrong way with this.

Thanks again for all the help.

 ---------------
Gil Irias, Jr.
[e-mail]
 ---------------

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 19:32:11 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LCIII upgrade

Does it strike others that this may be a less than awesome deal? I have an
LC 10/40. Using Apples announced suggested retail prices:

Configurations                                U.S. SRP   Availability

Macintosh LC III, 4MB/80MB HD, Keyboard        $1,349     Immediate
Macintosh LC III, 4MB/160MB HD, Keyboard       $1,499     Immediate

Macintosh LC III Logic Board Upgrade Kit         $599     Immediate

For $599 I would have an LCIII 4/40, and a couple of 4Mb simms (assuming I
had sense enough not to send them in!). On the other hand, for $1349 I
could have an LCIII 4/80. Don't you think I could sell an LC 10/40 for more
than $750? Okay, assuming I could get $200 for the used simms it wouldn't
look so good, but I would think even an LC2/40 would be worth $750. Or have
prices dropped more than I think? Just how much is more memory going to
cost? Living in 4Mb will be rough after being used to 10Mb. I could live
for a while in 8Mb.

Not really a complaint, just wondering if the upgrade makes sense when the
retail price is so good. I think street prices will just make the argument
more true.

Bryan Walls
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 20:43:36 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac 2cx to Quadra 700?

Hello....


I was wondering, since Apple is discontinuing production of the Quadra 700,
does this mean that us old Mac 2cx owners will no longer be able to upgrade
our computers to the Quadra level?

Or does it mean that we will be able to at a much more reasonable price!?

Please, if anyone knows....e-mail me @


[e-mail]

or

[e-mail]


thanks.

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

Date: 12 Feb 93 12:23:33 U
From: Evans-CIC-IS <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mactcp/Q700 and builtin ether

  I am totally stupped.  I'm looking for some suggestions on what to do other
than rebuild the system file.
I have a quadra 700 with a localtalk connection through phonenets.  Chooser is
appletalk active, and the network control panel init only has the one icon in
the window, and thats localtalk (highlighted).  When I enter the Mactcp
control
panel INIT, the only icon I see in this window is ethertalk (no Appletalk
icon).  Whats the deal?
    I have trashed the Mactcp prep file and Mactcp DNR.  I restarted the
    Q700 ans
zapped the Pram (option-apple-P-R), rebuilt the destop, and even ran the new
Appletalk installer to bring the Appletalk version from 56 to 58.  Still no
luck.  I transfered the mactcp init from my mac to this one, with no luck.

How can I make Mactcp regonized that this Q700 needs that Appletalk icon in
the
Mactcp init window in order to connect to the INFO-MAC archives....etc.

Thanx Troy
--
Troy Evans       MacNetMgr    [e-mail]
MICOM UNIX/PC/Macintosh Users Assistance Group Redstone Arsenal Al.

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

Date: 12 Feb 1993 09:07:10 -0700 (MST)
From: RITCHIE <[e-mail]>
Subject: NCSA/BYU TelNet2.5 users - info needed

Greetings from the high plains...

I'm looking for other users of TelNet2.5 over ethernet to VAX mainframes.
I have been using it for a month or so, and am hoping to hook up with other
users to discuss benefits/pitfalls, for example-resizing the terminal window
with bizarre results. Anyone out there who wants to share some tips or
experience, please reply directly, and I will summarize to info-mac.

Thanks-
Ritchie Boyd, University of Wyoming
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 22:37:22 -0800
From: Jack Repenning <[e-mail]>
Subject: NewLook v1.3

I just installed NewLook v1.3.  It's definitely cuter than Greg's
Buttons (Greg seems to be more into "polished" or "elegant" or some
adjective like that): for example, the control panel's icon has "Bob's
Eyes" staring out at you.  However, I ran into problems with it,
faster than I could note them down: it seems to break Jon Pugh's
"Randomizer" (which costs it more "cute points" than it gains with its
icon), and it got into some kind of messy argument with Gatekeeper,
Directory Assistance, and "System Heap" (I wouldn't have thought
"System Heap" was an active component that _could_ be involved in one
of these turf wars, but never mind that).

NewLook will certainly be a worthwhile little CP, once it gets past
the normal difficulties of passing from a select group of users to
wide use.  But it ain't there yet!

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

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 22:42:57 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Wagner Truppel)
Subject: Questions about the Feb 10 Apple release

Greetings everyone,

I would like to ask the collective wisdom of this net a few questions about
the new stuff released by Apple on Feb 10.

1. I have 4 1 MB SIMMs (70 ns). Can I use them in a Centris? What about in
the printers? More specifically, can I use them in the LW II NTR, Pro 600
line and the Select 300 line?

2. Talking about printers, what exactly are the differences between
Postcript level 1 and level 2? And, in plain language, how do the Select
and Pro printers compare to the II NTR (other than price, of course)?

3. According to a MacWeek issue, the Centris 610 CAN be ordered with the
full 68040 (that is, the 40 with the FPU). However, a brochure from Apple
doesn't explicitly say anything about that but suggests that is not
possible. Does any one know the REAL situation concerning this? I asked the
sales people here at Cornell and, no surprise, they know nothing about it.
More important to me is whether I can order a 610/8/230/Ether/CD/FPU. I'm
oscillating among that option and the 650/8/230/Ether/CD/FPU.

4. That brings me to another question: what is exactly a NuBus slot for?
The 610 has one and the 650 has three. If I order a 610 and add, say, the
VideoSpigot video capture board, there goes the only NuBus, right? Is that
loss a big deal?

5. What are people's impressions about the 14-inch and the 16-in Apple
monitors? Any strong ideas, either good or bad?

As you can tell, I'm shooting towards a 610 or 650 with 8 MB RAM, 230 MB
HD, built-in CD and Ethernet, a laser printer of the level of the II NTR or
better and either the 14 or the 16 inch monitor. Any strong oppinions on
such a configuration?

As always, thank you very much for your time and advice.

Wagner Truppel
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 10:50 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: SerialPort MacKermit Error (A)

In 11-34, Harland Peelle wonders why MacKermit gives the error message:
>        Trouble closing RAM serial driver:19963

Almost always that appears because of a conflict with QuickTime 1.0; either
update to QT1.5, get the latest MacKermit version (which has been reported
NOT to have the problem) or disable QT before running MacKermit.

Jeff Sass reported in Mac-L a few days ago:
>The latest version of Kermit that I have is 0.99(188) available via FTP to
>watsun.cc.columbia.edu.  The Mac Kermit version is at
>
>kermit/b/ckmker.hqx
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: 12 Feb 1993 13:55:37 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Single copies only on a Las

     Single copies only on a LaserWriter - how? (A)
John McKinley <[e-mail]> asks:

>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.

Try using Don Markuson's fantastic N-up LaserWriter hack, part of the
dmm-lw-utilities.  Using the N-up driver and by deleting the standard
LW driver, this will allow you to limit quantities of printing to 1 copy.
The number you enter to usually indicate the number of copies is now changed
to
N-up, which means how many pages of the printed text do you want on 1
SHEET of paper.  It's helpful if I have to dump a quick program listing which
I'm going to only look at quickly and mark up and not save (I set it to 4
pages
per sheet --- that still makes it readable, but you're using only 25% of the
paper you'd normally use).

This will discourage your ("ab")users from trying to print multiple copies.
If they type "10" expecting to get 10 copies of a 20-page report, they'll sure
be surprised when they get 2 pages with 10 itty-bitty "thumbnails" on each
page.  Guaranteed they won't do it again!  ;-)

Look at sumex:  info-mac/util/dmm-lw-56-stuff-131.hqx
        info-mac/util/dmm-lw-7-stuff-131.hqx

Cheers!

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

Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 10:50 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Single copies only on a LaserWriter - how? (A)

John McKinley asks in 11-34:
>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. Any
hints?

One of the Don Markuson laserwriter driver variants eliminates the "number
of copies" box on the screen. Get from sumex:

info-mac/util/dmm-lw-56-stuff-131.hqx
info-mac/util/dmm-lw-7-stuff-131.hqx
info-mac/util/dmm-lw-stuff-122-updater.hqx

Of course, this only makes printing multiple copies more difficult; there
is no way to prevent anyone from asking the printer to print a job over and
over by separate print instructions. Perhaps a way to supervise usage by
number of pages printed would be better?
-
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: 11 Feb 1993 22:29:22 -0600 (CST)
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Smartcom II problem

Has anyone had a problem using Smartcom II v. 3.3 with System 6.0.7 and
Autodoubler 2.0? Each time I try to load Smartcom under this setup, I ger
a system error--about half the time an "unimplemented trap error" and a
restart option. Any clues? Smartcom works fine on my Powerbook with the
same version of Autodoubler and System 7.1.

-Dwight

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 20:07:47 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SpaceSaver 1.0.4

SpaceSaver 1.0.4 was released today. The updater should be sent to info-mac
within about a week. If they don't I will when I get it. It's just a bug
fix to get rid of some bogus file access, so unless it's something you
really need immediately I'd just wait. If you do need it yesterday, give
them a call and they will send it to you.
Bryan Walls
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 23:22:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: Summary: SLIP Connection

Thanks to all who have responed to my query about how to set up SLIP
connections. Here is a condensed version of the information that I have
received:

* Use MacSLIP to create a SLIP connection, along with MacTCP 1.1.1.

* Eudora won't work with a SMTP server; it requires a POP server.

* LeeMail _will_ work as a SMTP server (sendmail).

* TCP/Connect II is a good commercial package that will do all this
  stuff.

I will probably be obtaining MacSLIP and LeeMail.
Thanks!!!

Brian Gaeke

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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 23:33:11 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SuperClock alternative (RE)

< Looking for a SuperClock alternative that will not be obscured
by long menus on small screen macs. >

I had a simular problem with my SE/30. My solution was to use ResEdit
to shorten the menu names on the offending applications.  It is
really quite easy with most applications (though Microsoft's
hack-resistant stuff is another story, yet another reason my mac is
a MFZ -- Microsoft Free Zone). Usually just cutting out a few characters
will suffice (i.e. Windows to Win, Worksheet to Sheet, etc).

You might also try MICN, available from sumex. It replaces a few
menu titles with icons, saving lots 'o' menubar. I haven't
used MICN, but I know others who swear by it.

Finally, you could try using one of the control panels that allows
you to change the font used to display menus. Names escape me
right now....

Dale Southard
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 12:44:00 MET
From: Rudy Gobits <[e-mail]>
Subject: Superclock replacement

Mark Schupack <[e-mail]>
writes:
> 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.

Instead of using another clock you may try using Cram Bar, a free
extension that converts the charachters in the menubar to a narrower
type, thus allowing more menus in it and leaves space for Superclock!
in most applications. The only exception I know of is MS Excel in
which crambar does not work.

Greetings,

Rudy
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 12:09:46 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: System Heap and Deskwriter Driver

Erich Boldt writes:

>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.

Pete Tamas' message was in reply to a query by me about what stack/heap
collisions were and why my Plus (4mgs RAM, system 6.0.8) was suddenly
suffering an epidemic of them. I've gotten a number of very helpful
replies to the subject, and am going to summarize them in a post to
Info-Mac as soon as possible (I'm so behind with my mail that it's not
even funny. It's been a crazy week here at work. Anyway).  But this is
the first to bring up the intriguing idea that the DeskWriter driver is
somehow responsible. I too am using a DeskWriter, purchased within the
last couple of months, so this theory if correct would neatly explain
something I haven't been able to figure out--i.e., why is this memory
management problem suddenly cropping up now, when I'm not doing anything
with my system all that different than what I was doing four or five
months ago.  Of course, I have added a *lot* of fonts since getting the
DW (there's just not that much point in maintaining a large font library
when one has an Imagewriter II ;)), so I'd just assumed that I'd passed
some sort of critical mass in what I could ask of my system. Still,
4 megs seems like a lot of RAM to start having problems with, when I'm
using only one app at a time (no Multifinder) and carefully setting the
app memory allocation up in the range of double that suggested. Several
folks suggested using HeapFixer to up my heap allocation, which I did
and which seemed to take care of the problem for a while, but since
then it's happened a couple more times, even with the increased heap
size. Maybe I have indeed just reached the limits of my system, but
I'd sure like to know if it's plausible that the explanation could be
the printer driver instead. Any opinions? Any suggestions on how to
find out?

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

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 12:39:44 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: System Heap and DW drivers (p.s.)

Another thought pertaining to my mail of a few minutes ago--if the
printer driver is indeed the culprit, then perhaps that would also
neatly explain why *every one* of my stack/heap collisions has
occured during spooling following a Print command.

I think I'll go home this weekend and do some experimenting with the
older versions of the DW drivers (2.0 and 2.2). I'll post the results
(or non-results) on Monday.

Hope everybody has a great weekend.

                     Pat

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

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Date: 12 Feb 1993 12:46:53 -0600 (CST)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: upgrading hard drive(s)

I have two Macs: an LC II with an internal 40Mb drive, and a Mac Plus,
with no internal hard drive at all. I want to increase the storage for
the LC II and at the same time get a hard disk for the Plus. What's the
best way to do this? Does the Plus have the ability to take an internal
drive? Could I move the 40Mb drive out of the LC II into the Plus, and
put an 80Mb drive inside the LC II? Any suggestions would be appreciated,
including brand names. It's crucial to do this as cheaply as possible.

Will Porter / University of Houston

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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 93 00:04:21 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Brian Gaeke)
Subject: VersaTilities--do you like it?

Has anyone here used the comm tool package VersaTilities?

If so, do you like it?

Brian

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