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Info-Mac Digest             Sun,  7 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 52

Today's Topics:

      [*] MuddTicker1.1.0.sit
      21MB flopticals: anachronism?
      3Com EtherLink/SE using Sys 7.0x
      [Q] Two monitors causing the flickers
      Abaton Interfax
      Ashare 3 clients' jumbled folder contents
      daily quotas
      Disk Bug Checker, Mea Culpa
      Diskdoubler* Patcher To 3.7.7
      Does VM prefer a partition of its own? (A)
      double scroll arrows (R)
      Earth-moon movie (A)
      flow chart planning
      Folder icons -> mini-app icons ?
      Full page display connector docs (Q)
      getting started with QuickTime (Q)
      high speed modem, Term, Kermit, WhiteKnight, and ZTerm
      How do I expand a ".pit" file?
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #51
      Info. about time program
      Internal Modems For Pb100
      Internet rookie requests decompression help (A)
      Intro to Macintosh Class
      John Dvorak (2 msgs)
      Keybounce on PowerBook Duo
      LCIII price and availability in England (Q)
      Line in Apple Color Monitor (S)
      MAC-L Back To Normal
      Mac Generated Storms
      Mac IIvx => Centris
      MacsBug quirk
      MacsBug won't restart Mac
      Mail Order Woes
      Meetering Software
      Mr. Dvorak (C)
      Multimedia and full screen video applications
      Please help with Quicktime movie
      Please help with QuickTime movie (A)
      PowerBook 140 vs 145
      Problems with Apple 14" Monitors
      Removing a ghost init
      Reset DTDB (Q)
      Star Trek GIF request
      Sys 7.1 for Q700?
      Virtual Memory
      Why my custom icons disappear?
      Word 5.0a -> 5.1a (A)
      WordPerfect Works Upgrade?
      Writing an XCMD in Think C; Does an XCMD to send serially to printer
      exist?
      XTND Translators not working w/ ClarisWorks 1.0.3
      Zoom VFX V.32bis and SupraFaxModem V.32bis - which is better?

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1993 03:04:51 -0600
From: "TheBard" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MuddTicker1.1.0.sit

Mudd Ticker is a cool little Utility/Clock that will keep tack of the ticks
until round reset in a Diku type mud. It also keeps track of elapsed time and
some other goodies. It is in color, and has some cool sounds...

changes since 1.0.8 -

o Bug Fixes.


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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 23:09:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Anne Harwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: 21MB flopticals: anachronism?

I've been looking at the low cost mass-storage options, and it appears
that the 21MB floptical has about gone the way of the dinosaur. Is this a
correct perception? What would you recommend? Go ahead and buy one and
hope for the best? If so, which, the PLI or MASS?

The 128MB MO drives are still a little too high for me.

-abh

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 01:06:50 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 3Com EtherLink/SE using Sys 7.0x

I'm using a 3Com EtherLink/SE Adapter (card) and a 3Com
transceiver (3C563) on an SE. I have no problem when working
under System 6.0.8 but have failed when trying to use Fetch,
Telnet, Eudora, etc.,while using System 7.0 or 7.01. Yes, I
have downloaded and installed the System 7 drivers from
3Com.

The uncanny thing is I am able, when using System 7.0x,
to see and connect to the various campus servers but when I
open Telnet or Eudora I'm told there's a problem finding the
"Domain Name Server", that "none of the known name servers
are responding." Preference files, host files, tel.config
files,and MCP setups are the same for both System 6 & 7. I'm
able to open Telnet under System 7.0x whixh indicates that the
MCP driver is loaded. Why then, under Sytem 7, do I get the
error message and under System everything is hunky-dory??
Any suggestions, hints, comments are welcomed. I have been
fiddling with this for the past two weeks and have exhausted
all my possibilities ;-(

r o b e r t
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

===========================
Robert E. Front
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
===========================

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 16:13 EST
From: "Mitchell S. Cohen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Q] Two monitors causing the flickers

I have two monitors on my IIci, a NEC Multisync 3D (13") and a Radius Color
Pivot.  The 13" is on top of the IIci, the pivot to the left.  And surprise,
surprise, when they're both in use the pivot flickers like mad.  That's
expected.  When I use both monitors I've been moving the 13" way off to the
right, which solves the problem of the flickers, but then I have two monitors
two feet apart which is quite confusing.

So...does anyone have any suggestions on shielding to go between the
monitors?

...Mitch Cohen, [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 93 12:14:28 EST
From: CXEO000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Abaton Interfax

(I am posting a copy of this message to the Info-Mac, because I feel
it is in the community's interest to hear this. Anyone with additional
findings or comments, please contact me)

  Hi Mark,
> The attached message tells you some of the story. I have tried the two 800
> numbers and they are no longer in service. Thus, based upon your experience
> with the BBS etc., it would seem that Everex has shut down its Canadian
> branch.
>
    I wouldn't jump to that conclusion so hastily. Disturbed by this
ongoing rumor that Avatex has shut down, I tried ALL of the tech support
and customer service numbers listed in my manual. They are *ALL*
functional and alive, with the exception of the US main tech support
line, which has been changed to [phone]. (The new number works
fine).

    I imagine that Everex has shut down or changed its 800 lines in face
of the recession, because I also tried the two 800 lines you mentioned
and they are, in fact, down, as you said. However, all other aspects of
the company seem alive and well and I would venture to say that it is
premature at best to be spreading news of the company's downfall! :)

> As the attached states, I am not as happy with V1.3 as I was with the
various
> incarnations of V1.2, so I will certainly download the Beta version you
> mention in your posting. I stopped checking the bulletin board almost nine
> months ago, when all I saw posted was the most recent version of V1.2, and
> this almost a year after V1.3 was released. I use InterFax with ATM 2.0.3
> and Adobe Outline Fonts. As I said, under System 6, the faxes sent (and
> received by most types of stand alone machines) were of very high quality,
> and substantially more legible than the usual Group III to Group III
> transmission. When System 7 came out, V1.2? didn't like it.  Finally, when
> V1.3 came out, it did not seem to like System 7 as much as its predecessor
> liked System 6. I would be interested in hearing of your experience with
> V1.3 and System 7.
>

    When I purchased my Interfax, it came with v1.3, since I told the
vendor that I was already using System 7. I have used the unit, along
with its drivers, on a Macintosh Plus and SE/30 so far, with radically
different configurations, with no problems. I'm very happy with the
output from this fax, and I use it constantly for business
communications. Possibly my only gripe is that the Interfax application
is a tad unstable when the modem is doing something complicated and
one tries to access modem-specific information in the config menus, but
apart from that I've had no cause for complaint. The INIT/CDEV is
efficient and unobtrusive, and is exceptionally well written. As a
programmer, I can appreciate the difficulty of monitoring the opening
and closing of the serial port to correctly surrender it to other apps.

> Cheers.
> ======================================================================== 33
> Date:         Fri, 5 Mar 1993 12:45:41 EST
> From:         "Charles A. Patrick" <PATCHAS@NRCVM01>
> Subject:      Abaton InterFax
> To:           Paul Antaki <[e-mail]>
>
> I have been a user of the Abaton Fax Modem for some three years. Under
System
>  using V1.2? of the InterFax software it produced spectacular faxes. Under
> System 7, usinf V1.3 of the software, it produces faxes that are as bad or
> worse than those produced on or stand alone Fax machine (whose output is
> really nothing to write home about!). The various V1.2? versions used to be
> available for downloading on the Abaton Bulletin board, which I did on at
> least two occasions. V1.3 was never(?) posted on the Bulletin board. The
> upgrade from 1.2? tp 1.3 required payment (even though it came out more than
> six months after the release of System 7!), which I dutifully made.
>
    Your bad performance under Sys7 is unfortunate. I my experience,
the use of ATM or TrueType fonts greatly improves the appearance of the
faxes, since the driver can access a 3x size version of whatever size
font you're using.
    As for the version 1.3 not being posted, I believe there was a
notice posted at some point on the board explaining this: as you
mentioned, there is an upgrade fee from v1.2 to 1.3. Many users received
the unit with 1.2 (At their request, if they were running 6.x). In
order to avoid people download 1.3 and escaping the upgrade fee, Abaton
didn't post it on the BBS. There is, however, a package explaining the
upgrade process.
    I don't understand if they've given this up with 1.31, or whether
there is some catch in the software that means it can't be installed
unless one previously had v1.3...
    What you wish to question, I believe, is Abaton's upgrade policy.
Their postings on the BBS simply follow those policies.

> My telephone dealings were mostly with a Carol Woodson, whom I reached at
> 1.800.663.5161. I also had some dealings with their technical support at
> 1.800.663.5825. The Bulletin board numbers were 1.510.226.9694 and
1.510.438.
> 4650.
>
    As you say, these numbers no longer function. However, Technical
support is now reachable at [phone] from inside the US, and
[phone] from outside the US. As well, Customer service is
reachable at [phone]. These numbers are, BTW, listed in the
appendix of your manuals. (With the exception of the Tech support for
the US, which was recently changed but which plays a recorded message
informing you of the change)

> If Abaton has disappeared, we should try and find out whether we can use our
> modems with some other (generic?) fax software. I have been planning to post
> something along these lines on info-mac, more because my unhappiness with
the
> performance of V1.3, than anything else. But the seeming demise of Abaton/
> Everex puts a different complexion on things.
>
    Looking for a generic fax package because of the "demise" of
Abaton seems a little premature at this point, since they give every
indication of being alive and well!
    However, I use the Interfax package regularly and would be happy to
help you try to achieve better output if you could provide some
additional details on your problems.

> I am aware of a couple of other users of Abaton InterFax Modems, who would
> undoubtedly be interested in such a pursuit.
>
> I would appreciate hearing from you on your investigations to date.

    Good luck with your fax!

    Cheers,

    Mark Aiken
    [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 12:23:28 EST
From: Martin Levins <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ashare 3 clients' jumbled folder contents

Can anyone explain why clients' files do not arrange themselves properly in
their Appleshare folders?

(Appleshare 3.0 & v3 of client software)

It is a hassle for them to constantly choose Clean up by name only to find
that
the next time they open the window, everything's back to a jumbled mess.

Sorry if this an FAQ, but I can't find the info anywhere.

Martin ([e-mail])

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 13:07:16 EST
From: eurocor![e-mail] (Mike Geipel)
Subject: daily quotas

Hi!

We don't have FTP access, so I'm using e-mail to get software
>From "[e-mail]". When I tried the following:
    $MACARCH GET APP/00APP-ABSTRACTS.ABS
    $MACARCH GET UTIL/00UTIL-ABSTRACTS.ABS
I got this message:
    Sorry, the file you are attempting to order exceeds
    your daily quota (256Kb).

Does this mean I can never fetch large files via E-mail?     :-(

Is there a more cooperative mailserver I can use?
Alternatively, are these large files available via UUCP?
If so, what directory should I use on which host?

advTHANKSance (THANKS in advance),
__
Mike Geipel     (N4IXJ) | Eurotherm Controls Inc.
uunet!eurocor.uucp!mike | 11485 Sunset Hills Road
Phone:   [phone] | Reston, VA   22090-5286

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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 20:35:13 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Disk Bug Checker, Mea Culpa

Having just read Marsh Gardiner's explanation about what is wrong with
disk-bug-checker.sea, I conclude that he's right, it is a corrupt archive.
The reason that I didn't see the problem is that I stripped off the .sea
code using DeSEA, so I had to use Stuffit Expander to expand the archive.
Once it is expanded properly, it works fine.

Darin Takemoto
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 18:21:17 CET
From: Vittorio Dell'Aiuto <[e-mail]>
Subject: Diskdoubler* Patcher To 3.7.7

The DiskDoubler* patcher to 3.7.7 appears to have a small but
significant problem: after de-binhexing the archive, the .sea file IS
there, but it's invisible.

You have to use ResEdit or similar utilities (DiskTop, DeskZap and so
on) to open the "infos" of the invisible file and set the "Invisible"
flag off.

I hope this helps.

Vittorio Dell'Aiuto   ***   [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 20:01:18 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Mikael Bergkvist tel [phone] arb
018/300119 hem)
Subject: Does VM prefer a partition of its own? (A)

In infomac v11 #50  Fergus Sullivan <[e-mail]> writes:

>At long last I am about to upgrade to a machine with Virtual Memory.  Given
>that VM needs contigious disk space, is it a good idea to reformat the hard
>disk with a partition of the 10 Megs or so that I intend to allocate to VM?

I strongly recommend you to take a close look at Virtual 3.0 from Connectix
rather than using Apples VM. With Virtual you are not restricted to using
contigious disk space although it gives somewhat better performance and you
have the option of only allocating a swap file as large as the extra amount
of memory you need, good if you don't have a very large hard drive. Apples
own VM forces you to hawe a swap file as large as the total amount of
application memory you set up. You can have different settings for 24 and
32 bit memory mode. Virtual is also snappier than Apples VM. In the manual
you are warned not to use a different partition of your hard disk for
virtual memory since this can actually maximize head travel. Having an
extra hard drive attached to your Mac can be advantageous if you run the
applications from one drive and have the swap file on the other.
Highly recommended.

[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 22:15:40 EST
From: [e-mail] (Klaus P. Fechner)
Subject: double scroll arrows (R)

In response to a query about a system 6 compatible DoubleScroll equivalent,
[e-mail] (John Thoo) wrote:

>Get [./ex/alt-cdef-13.hqx] by Alex Colwell.  I've been using it since
>System 6.0.5, so I know it works there; plus it's S7-compatible and
>32-bit/VM OK; plus it's FREE!!!  Try it---you'll like it :-D
>                        ^^^^
>A plug:  I've would like to see AltCDEF upgraded to support `live scrolling'
>(y'know, moving the scroll thumb scrolls the screen in real time).  So if
>you get AltCDEF and do like it, please e-mail Alex asking for this feature.
>Even if you don't get AltCDEF, e-mail Alex and ask for this feature :-O

I've been also using AltCDEF since the days of system 6, and it still works
fine today (thanks, Alex Colwell!).

The recent addition of Apple's (supposedly unsupported) control panel
Scrolling added the real time thumb scrolling along with (currently unused)
features of "throttling" the scroll speed and a scroll "accelerator curve"
and works for me without a problem. So, just get them both and enjoy your
even longer parade of startup icons ;-)

Klaus Fechner

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 23:01:18 PST
From: [e-mail] (Stewart Walker)
Subject: Earth-moon movie (A)

The distribution is a PICS file. It can be opened and converted by Movie
Player to a QT movie.

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 14:11 MST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: flow chart planning

Would you happen to know of flowchart software for business planning, or would
you have any bulletin boards to recomend for finding such an item.

Thanks

Dayle

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 23:52:58 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (John Owens)
Subject: Folder icons -> mini-app icons ?

Is there any sort of utility which would replace a blank folder icon with
a folder icon with the small icon of the application it contains?

    /--\                 /--\
 ------------        -------------
|           |        |   ICON    |
|           |  -->   |   ICON    |
|           |        |           |
 ------------        -------------

The best way I've found so far is to copy the small icon view in ResEdit
and paste it on top of a generic folder icon in the System. Then I fill
in the little blue dots and copy and paste into the Get Info box.

But something that did it automatically, allowing a user to choose the
application('s icon) to use, would be cool.

John
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 23:34:01 EST
From: [e-mail] (Klaus P. Fechner)
Subject: Full page display connector docs (Q)

Hi!

I'm looking for a full page display (FPD) to plug into my SE with 25 MHz
68030 Mobius accelerator. The obvious choice would be the Mobius monitor,
but I would like to keep it when I upgrade to a newer machine (hopefully
sometime later this year). Mobius tells me that their monitor won't be
compatible with the Apple built-in video of the newer Macs. On the other
hand they tell me that they offer a $20 adapter so one can plug in an Apple
FPD into their accelerator. Somehow this low price suggests to me that the
two interfaces are not THAT different (aside from the number of pins in the
connectors, 9 vs 15).

So here is my question:

Could someone who has documentation on the Apple and/or Mobius FPD
connector/cable send me this info or point me to the sources, please?

Thanks very much for your help, Please reply directly, I'll summarize for
info-mac if appropriate.

Klaus Fechner

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 21:13 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: getting started with QuickTime (Q)

greetings:

if there is a FAQ concerning this, could someone point me in that direction?

if not, what do i need to get started?

i an original MacII (6.0.2) (and also 6.0.7).

sincerely,
mrsma@uno

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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 93 02:18:58 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: high speed modem, Term, Kermit, WhiteKnight, and ZTerm

[Sorry for this long subject. This is a long letter too.]


Hi,

Finally, I could not resist the temptation of high speed modem and ordered
one Practical PeripheralsU PM14400FXSA from MacConnection. The first one got
some problem and after some discussion with the techinical support staff of
Compu$erveUs PPI forum I sent it back to MacConnection for an exchange. The
secone one seems fine. Both people from MacConnection adn PPI are very
helpful to solve this problem.

Now the problem come to software. I use my 2400 Powermodem from MacWarehouse
for more than one and a half years without a glitch. For this kind of modem,
you donUt have much to worry. Any piece of telecom software which claims to
handle the Hayes compatible should do the job. My choice is Term 4.6.4 for
IBM/370 connection. Term is a nice piece and in my opinion people should
choose it over MacKermit if their IBM/370 support not only CMS-Kermit but
also RAMC/WMAC. RMAC/WMAC has a much better throughput than Kermit. Can you
imagine that a 2400 modem without MNP or V.42bis can sometimes reach more
than 500 cps for files , say, smaller than 20KB? Term can handle MacBinary
download too. Through the normal phoneline, it won't give up or hang as
easily as MacKermit. The only situation MacKermit can beat Term is that you
get a connection through a line which ring your bell every ten seconds; that
means you have to hit master reset key at the same period before you can do
anything. Then the classical 92 bytes (short) packet Kermit show her charming
with 100 cps throughput.

How about ZTerm? I tried it occationally since I am not active in local BBS
or CI$ or other commercial on-line service. As a result, z-modem, QuickB,
etc., never impress me even everybody says it.

[To David P. Alverson: David, the fee will on their way within the next few
weeks. I have to admit that I didn't understand and appreciate how marvellous
your ZTerm is untill I spent a lot of time on telecom. Thanks for your
accomplishment]

O.K. My PM14400FXSA (As Adam Engst said in Tidbits #163, what a long name?)
sits in front of me and stares me with his RReadyS message. RWhat can I do
for you, pal?S RHum. Not many thing I can do with this guy before I can get
someone handle his hardware handshaking tail.S Term didn't do this. MacKermit
only gives less than 75 per cent of the promising throughput even at two
oUclock of Saturday morning when a lot of smart people are jumping up and
down on the waxed floor and very few stupid kids has nowhere to go but still
sitting in front of their Mac, or whatever is appropriate according to your
imagination.

QuickLink II Fax, which comes with PM14400FXSA (Again!), didnUt do much
better than MacKermit. So I digged into my copy of compPsysPmacPcommPfaq
compiled by Eric Rosen at <[e-mail]>, one of the best report I ever
come by. Well, there is only Term (V4.6.6) support my first choice,
RMAC/WMAC, while no hardware handshaking yet. The only shareware which
supports Kermit is QVT by QPC Software. The newest version I could find from
sumex and umich is V3.5 dated back in April U89. It suuports VT52, VT100,
VT220 terminal emulation but no background file transfer. The performance is
a disappointing figure, less than 340cps for a 9600bps connection, about one
third of an ideal result. Then I found that Termy 2.0 can use Communication
Tool Box and and there is already one Kermit Tool available in sumex. Great!
I grab every tools in sumex and the basic connection set from ftp.apple.com.
Termy and Kermit Tool GH give similar performane as MacKermit.
Uuencode/decode like feature is not important to me. The destination of file
transfer seems has no choice but the same folder as Termy. Furthermore, Termy
seems has no access of serial port before making any connection (Terminal
Ready LED is not lit), but it will crash if I use other telecomm software
while leave Termy opened but no connection in the background. After I
finished the telecomm session, quit the program, switched back to Termy,
Termy crashed immediately and the file itself was damaged.

It seemed to me at this point that there is probably no good answer from
shareware/freeware to serve my purpose. The only alternate is to check
commercial software for answer. VersaTerm (Pro)? PacerTerm? MicroPhone (Pro)?
SmartCom? MacIntercom? WhiteKnight? Too many choice. Too little experience.
Price range? It would be better under or close to $100. Fancy user interface,
like 3-D icons? A few black and white bottom is good enough. Script? I have a
littlt programming experience and the script is definately not as hard as
Physics. If there is a powerful script to automatize some basic routine, it
is a big plus. Terminal emulation? VT100 should be enough in most of the
situation. Fax? I seldom use it. Direct connection? FTP? Telnet? LAT? SLIP?
ADSP? No, I just need a old fashion telecommunication package going through
the phone wire. And then? Who knows?

After one week of consideration, I decide to pick WhiteKnight and do some
comparison with the best telecomm shareware, ZTerm 0.9.

           |             |          |
           | WhiteKnight |  ZTerm   |  QuickB DA
 ---------------------------------------------------------
X-modem            |             |  100cps  |
X-modem CRC        |   95cps     |          |
X-modem 1k         |  195cps     |          |
 ---------------------------------------------------------
Y-modem            |  200cps     |  195cps  |
 ---------------------------------------------------------
Kermit classical   |   55cps     |          |
Kermit long-packet |  175cps     |          |
 ---------------------------------------------------------
Quick B            |  110cps     |  225cps  |  185cps

This is not a very objective, thorough comparison though. I repeatedly
download a fixed size file several times, using different protocol, sometime
more than two times for a protocol. All this is done after midnight of local
time for avoiding high traffic and system overload. It can only serve a
indication but not a benchmark.

The major speed difference in the table came from the CompuServe's own QuickB
protocol. The QuickB is developed to be about twice as fast as X-modem
according to the text file accompanying with Raymond Lau's QuickB DA (Yes, he
is StuffIt's author.) Such effect was shown clearly by ZTerm, but not so
obvious by WhiteKnight. One interesting point about the way WhiteKnight
supports QuickB is that WhiteKnight itself doesnUt offer the engine for
QuickB. Instead WhiteKnight do it through a small module called RRCMDS.
According to Scott WatsonUs WhiteKnight manual, RRCMDUs are to WhiteKnight
what XCMDUs are to Hypercard.S As a result, it is said that WhiteKnight do
support QuickB on the back of WhiteKnightUs package, while Eric RosenUs
compPsysPmacPcommPfaq said that WhiteKnight does not suuport QuickB.
Considering the way QuickB trnasfer option implemented by ZTerm and
WhiteKnight, they are both very strange or not very obvious and intuitive. I
found ZTermUs QB option accidentally on those file transfer submenu. On the
other hand, it took me more than half hour to go through every entry about
CompuServe in manualUs index to find out the way WhiteKnight support QB.
Besides, QB receiving procedure on ZTerm will be activated automatically
without user's part of work after the QB prorocol had been choosed on CI$,
unlike  the procedure for most of other protocol. However, WhiteKnight
doesnUt do this for the user. Users themselves should go to activate a
procedure called QuickB.PROC through RInitiate Procedure IS under Service
menu. That is the reason why Scott Watson himself suggested user to put a
Macro Key and link it to QuickB.PROC module. Personally, I prefer David P.
AlversonUs approach to Scott WatsonUs. (A side note: I also prefer DavidUs
transfer progress window. I donUt know which font he chosed but it looks not
so crowded, compared with ScottUs choice of of Chicago font.) Maybe this is
the reason The Macintosh Bible said RWhiteKnight pays no attention to the
balance between power and friendliness (compared to MicroPhone).S

Finally, I decide to keep WhiteKnight in my harddisk and pay ZTermUs shareware
fee eventhough I probably wonUt use it after this. After all, ZTerm still sit
in my harddisk longer than the trial period, it is a good piece of software
to deserve my overdue payment, and someday hopefully it could start to
support Kermit as the way it do to QuickB.

Excuse me for two more questions. First, does any user of FirstClass Client
2.0.7 experience any crash happened after too many busy signal forcing you to
give up the hope of successful connection and quit the program and , say,
come back the program after another half hour? Sometimes, FCC will complain
problems of connection with modem, cables etc. after encountering busy signal
in the first trial. Sometimes the problem would disappear without any action
except you ignore the complaint and try it again.

The second problem came from Stuffit Lite 3.0.4. I got six archives in the
StuffIt 1.5.1 format. So, when you open them StuffIt will ask you whether you
want to convert them to StuffIt Lite format. After finishing each conversion,
before the thermostat bar disappeared, it crashed. It crashed in such regular
manner that I can turn off most of my extension except AppleUs own extension
like TuneUp, printerDriver, etc. and see it still crashed. What supprised me
was those converted file were all in good shape and I could open them
successfuly afterwards. MacUsBug said that there were some errors while
reading from supervisor data. Any idea?

Thank you if you spent so much time to read and offer the opportunity to let
me share my experience with you.

Liu

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 14:27 GMT
From: "NAME \"Fergus J. Lalor\""
<[e-mail]>
Subject: How do I expand a ".pit" file?

I have just downloaded the file /font/dayton.hqx from Sumex.
Stuffit expander does not "see" the file so I retrieved
Stuffit Lite and sucessfully unbinhexed it to a file
named Dayton.pit. The the only other menu within lite
which "sees" Dayton.pit is 'Unpack'. This produced 18
files with intelligible filenames such as "Dayton
Chars 1". However these files do not behave as fonts
and neither TeachText nor Word 5 will open the "ReadMe"
file. Help please!
F. J. Lalor, Chemistry Dept., University College, Cork, Ireland.
BITNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 21:07:17 PST
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #51

>About Mr. Dvorak:  he was not in this month's MacUser.  Does anyboy know
>if he quit, they canned him, or if he just took a break?

I guess you didn't read his replacement's name backwards?  :-)

Kee
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 93 04:05:30 EST
From: saeed aldhaheri <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info. about time program

Hi there;
Does any body know where I can find the shareware program "Time". I had read
about this program in the Mac shareware book and it is suppose to display
an analog clock and support sounds beep. The book refered to version 1.1
" Time 1.1" but didn't mention where to find it. I tried to search for it in
Archie but didn't find it. Any help is appreciated.

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 10:30:26 CET
From: Marco Pascucci <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internal Modems For Pb100

I'm concerned in getting an internal high-speed modem for my PowerBook 100.
I'm oriented towards the new Supra 144PB, because it has a competitive price
(Mac's Place sells it for 298$), but I have not decided yet, because I don't
have any information on it, except those supplied by its advertising.

Is there anyone on the net that can give me some good advice and report his
own experience? Obviously, I'm interested also in modems built by other
manifacturers.

Greetings from Rome and thank you!

Marco Pascucci <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1993 01:57:42 -0500
From: Bob Kerns <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internet rookie requests decompression help (A)

    Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 15:15:57 -0800 (PST)
    From: Scott Wyant <[e-mail]>
        Then I download from there to my machine, using Xmodem and
    binary transfer (since it's .hqx).

There's your problem.  Since it's .HQX you should use ASCII transfer.
HQX is a way to *encode* binary files as *TEXT* file, so they
can be more easily and reliably transfered.

                    Then I try to use Binhex and
    Unstuffit, neither of which even sees the internet-tour folder on my
    desktop.  What am I doing wrong?  While I'm at it, I read a recent
    note advising against using binhex.  What should one use instead?

Use Unstuffit, or better yet, use Stuffit Expander.  Just drop the
.hqx file on Stuffit Expander, and it will do the rest.

Actually, you can use anything that handles Binhex files, except
for Binhex itself!

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

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 20:19:10 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jeff Mealiffe, Tech Consultant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Intro to Macintosh Class

Hi everyone...  Has anyone out there in netland been involved in the
teaching of an introduction to Macintosh class?  I am going to be teaching
one with a two other people starting very soon.  It will consist of 7 two
hour classes.  If anyone has an outline, handouts, or any other course
materials that they would be interested in letting me use, would you
please contact me ASAP?  Thanks in advance.

Jeff Mealiffe, Net Admin/Tech Consultant
Lewis Jr. High School/San Diego City Schools
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 09:27:20 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Gary Greene)
Subject: John Dvorak

In Info-Mac Brian Saunders ([e-mail]) writes:

>About Mr. Dvorak:  he was not in this month's MacUser.  Does anyboy know
>if he quit, they canned him, or if he just took a break?

The April Issue?  So far I've seen only March and he is definitely there.

Gary Greene                                      [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 12:15 CST
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: John Dvorak

Adam Engst writes:

>In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
>>  and John Dvorjak (sp?) aggrees- we all know he is
>> always right, or at least insightful.
>Insightful? This is the man who in last month's MacUser spent the
>entire time complaining about how none of his games from 1985 worked
>under System 7. Gee John, we all knew that a year and a half ago.

Sometimes satire and sarcasm are wonderful tools for making a point,
and Dvorak is, afterall, the ANTI-editor.

I think  his point was more towards saying that the people who
get upset when their games from 1985 no longer work on their Centris 040
machine under System 7.1, with color, and all that.

What do these people expect?

Dvorak writes for many computer rags - in PC Week, or DEC Prof, or any others,
you will often catch the reverse of what you see in MacUser - he will be
griping about the PC realm and pointing out the success of the Mac.  Or
the alpha.

So maybe Adam needs to lighten up, der hey?

Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 09:19:23 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Christopher Lishka)
Subject: Keybounce on PowerBook Duo

I use a Duo 230 (a departmental purchase through MACC at Univ. of
Wisc., as we are UW physicists here at CERN).  I've been using it for
about 1.5 months now and have had *NO* problems with key-bounce
producing two (or more) of the same character.  I have been writing
documentation on the Mac, so I have used it quite a bit.

The only minor annoyances about the Duo keyboard (besides Apple's
funny location for the control key and bad layout for the arrow keys)
are: (1) the keyboard has a very noticeable sag in the lower left-hand
corner when a modifier key (CTRL, option, command, shift) is pressed;
(2) the keyboard is a bit small; (3) the space bar is harder to press
than one would expect.  I have been able to easily get used to all of
these annoyances, so it is not a problem for me.

The real win in the keyboard design is actually having the trackball
right below.  Being a devoted keyboard user (I do not like to mouse
around), it is really nice to be able to use the trackball with my
thumbs and never take my fingers off the home row.

All in all, the PowerBook series has a better keyboard (I have used a
PB170 quite a bit as well), but the Duo's keyboard works well enough.

                        .oO Chris Oo.
--
                               Christopher Lishka
 Never drive a car when you're dead...                     PPE Division, CERN
                -- Tom Waits
                [e-mail]
                                 vxaluw::lishka

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Date: 7 Mar 93 18:54:27 U
From: "coeren" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LCIII price and availability in England (Q)

Hello there, we in Israel still have to wait for the LCIII to show up here.
However, I will be in London next week and would like to try and bring one
home
with me. Is it available there and for what price?
Thanks........................................................Doron Eren

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 0:05:12 EST
From: [e-mail] (Prof. L.G. Leduc)
Subject: Line in Apple Color Monitor (S)

Hello netters,

This is a summary of the replies that I received concerning the faint but
noticeable line on Trinitron color monitors.

The salient points of the replies are as follows:

1) The line is not a defect but is part of the construction of the Trinitron
color monitor.

2) The 16" monitor has two such lines (bottom and top).

3) The intensity of the line may vary from monitor to monitor but it is
usually faint.  One can adjust the brightness and/or contrast of the monitor
to reduce the intensity of the line somewhat.

4) The line is the shadow of a thin wire inside the tube which holds the
mask in place or the anode or the vertical wires inside the tube.  The
majority voted for holding the mask.

Most people agree (including me) that the line is a trade off for the
brightness and sharpness of this monitor.

Thanks to all who replied to my message.

Cheers.

Leo G. Leduc
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 12:38:52 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Robert E. Winston)
Subject: MAC-L Back To Normal

The listserv list Mac-l is back to normal and the folks who had
to drop the group over the last week are encouraged to
re-subscribe.

In brief, what happened is this:

A public access BBS operated by Cincinnati Bell at cbos.uc.edu
started bouncing net mail last Saturday.  Apparently, the mail
was returned in an incorrect manner causing Mac-L and numerous
other Listserv lists to see the returned mail as new messages.
These 'new messages', in turn, bounced and the process began
again.  An enormous amount of duplicate mail was generated this
way.

The administration at cbos.uc.edu refuses to acknowledge the
problem but has, I've learned second hand, sent mail to list
owners telling them that the problem has been fixed.

The primary resource of a group like Mac-l (and Info-Mac, of
course) is the collective wisdom of its diverse membership.  No
one knows it all, but between us, we know damn near everything.
When people are forced to quit the group, it's a loss to us all.

For the uninitiated, Mac-l is a Listserv discussion group
generating 30-50 notes a day on a wide variety of Mac related
subjects.

To subscribe, send a note to your favorite Listserv or use
[e-mail].  Anything in the subject line will
be ignored.
Send the message:

SUB MAC-L John Scully

Note: change "John Scully" to YOUR name, unless, of course . . .

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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 18:37:12 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail] (John F Bartlett (HDTV))
Subject: Mac Generated Storms

One of the my co-workers, who primarily works on the DEC equipment
here, came over yesterday to warn me about a problem that Macintoshes
have been generating on ethernet networks. He attended a DEC Users
Group meeting (the night before) where a whole bunch of people sort
of created a Mac-bashing session.

Apparently, Mac's that are AppleTalk networking over the ethernet
are known (at least by the above mentioned lynch mob) to generate
network storms (such as packet pings or whatever).

Now. My question is this: has anyone heard of this? I don't know any
more than what I mentioned, although I did ask my coworker to find
out more about the conditions for these storms. Also, I'm not a
networking expert, especially AppleTalk.

Cheers,
 _jfb_

P.s. My concern is that my Macintosh (the only one on the net), running
CAP on my Sun workstation, will start generating a storm and I'll be
lynched.

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

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 15:12:26 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: Mac IIvx => Centris

I'm just wondering: could anybody tell me if the future Mac IIvx upgrade
will be an upgrade to a Centris 610 or 650 type of machine ?

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

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 18:34:28 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: MacsBug quirk

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> >Here's a weird one for you. For some reason, MacsBug will no longer
> >restart my Mac. If I type either RS or RB in MacsBug, I hear the familiar
> >click and the 13" monitor on my SE/30 goes blank, but the 9" monitor
> >stays the same and the machine just sits there, not rebooting. The
> >only thing I can do at that point is hit the restart switch, which
> >works fine
> I can verify that!  I have a MAC IIx with sys 7.1 and the new 32 bit
enabler.
> Same problem.
> But if you go back to MODE32 - guess what - back to normal.  Maybe Al Bloom
is
> on to something!!

Interesting! That's easy to try - I'll post the results...

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 00:14:42 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Bill Stewart-Cole)
Subject: MacsBug won't restart Mac

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

>Here's a weird one for you. For some reason, MacsBug will no longer
>restart my Mac. If I type either RS or RB in MacsBug, I hear the familiar
>click and the 13" monitor on my SE/30 goes blank, but the 9" monitor
>stays the same and the machine just sits there, not rebooting. The
>only thing I can do at that point is hit the restart switch, which
>works fine.

>I installed System 7.1 recently, but I seem to remember this weirdness
>starting before I updated my System. I'll play around with the Debugger
>Prefs file a bit, but I'm currently stumped. Any ideas?



This is an interesting problem, because I have a similar trouble with
my Plus (yeah, I need a new Mac) and haven't the foggiest idea what
started it. MacsBug fails to fully reboot the old dog, and I have to either
power down or hit the reset button to get the Mac past a black screen state.
I THINK the change came for me either with the upgrade to 4Mb RAM or the move
to 7.0. Both happened about the same time, and I haven't bothered to trace it,
given the fact that it's such a minor hassle (I do not routinely use MacsBug
to
reboot...)

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 15:56:34 CST
From: Alan Carney <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mail Order Woes

I was wondering if anyone maintains a list of mail order companies and the
quality (ala the Better Business Bureau) of their services.  I am a little
gun shy to do business over the phone with faceless strangers and would
like to know a little more about the companies before I give them a credit
card number on trust alone.

                    Alan

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

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 19:02:40 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Meetering Software

We need software that runs on an Appleshare server that will limit the number
of copies of a given program that can be in use at any one time. This will
greatly simplify our licensing requirements. Does anyone know of such software
or have any experience with a particular program?
Thanks,
Paul Lieberman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1993 20:13:30 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mr. Dvorak (C)

Hi,

[e-mail] said:

>About Mr. Dvorak:  he was not in this month's MacUser.

Don't I wish ;-)  I assume you are talking about the 4/93 MacUser;
he's there, you just gotta look for him the right way

Nirad K. Otomekat :-)
[e-mail]

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

Date: 7 Mar 93 13:35:13 MDT
From: "Matthew McConnell "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Multimedia and full screen video applications

Multimedia applications involving full screen video. I'm interested
in finding out how the Macintosh can help us reduce costs
associated with making in house video production.  Currently we out
source most of this at a cost of $7-8,000 per video and during a
year this adds up to quite a bit of money in the $40-80,000 range. We
would also like to be able to make our own multimedia type of
presentations as well as computer aided training systems.  I'd also
like to make this as much as possible "plug'n play".  I would like
to be able to support both platforms the IBM PC based machine and
the Macintosh.

Things I am interested in playing around with. Our Corporate
Medical Director has told me about a system that allows a user to
make his own CD-ROM disks at a cost of about $5,000 for the device.
 Does anyone know what this product is or where I can get more
information about how it operates?  AND, if I were to use this
product could I export the CD-ROM information to both a PC and a
Mac?  Would it require additional software?

VideoVision.  This looks like a product that might be of interest
to me for the types of applications I am interested in.  Anyone
know exactly how this product works? Does it support full screen
video or just the little QuickTime boxes?  What about the built in
video, will it replace the video that is built into the Quadra 700?
 Or, will it allow two monitors to be hooked up at the same time?
Also, is 24bit color a lower or higher resolution than standard
NTSC broadcast video?  What about with S-video connections.  What
about audio?  Stereo?  What is the sampling rate?

VideoSpigot.  This would appear on the surface to do much the same
thing as a VideoVision board  though the price suggests otherwise.
Same questions as for the VideoVision.  What is the difference
between a VideoSpigot Pro Nubus and the Spigot + Sound Pro?  Does
this also digitize video?

NEC CD-Rom Drives.  We just purchased a CDR-74 for the Mac and then
I hear the next day that there is a NEC MultiSpin 74-1 which
retails for $615.  I was under the impression that the CDR-74
incorporated MultiSpin.  Is this true? This new drive has SCSI-2 and
does Kodak Photo CDs and a 280ms access time. NEC CD-Rom Drives are
still the leader in the technology, right?

I'm sure I will have more questions about this as we start
experimenting with this new technology.  Any advice that you can
offer will be greatly appreciated.










--
Matt McConnell   <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 16:00:43 PST
From: [e-mail] (David Ray)
Subject: Please help with Quicktime movie

Re: Earth_Moon_Movie from ames-arc.nasa.gov, pub/SPACE/ANIMATION

I also had the same problem of not being able to view it using Simple
Player. The solution is to convert it to a Moov using a animation
format converter, such as Convert to Movie. It is a really beautiful
time-lapse movie of the Earth and Moon.
   Convert to Movie is Apple freeware, available on some of their developer's
CD ROMs. I am not sure whether it is OK to upload it to sumex - does anybody
know the legalities of uploading stuff from Apple developer's CD's ?

-Dave    [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 18:56:50 MDT
From: Alonso Castro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Please help with QuickTime movie (A)

>I downloaded the Earth_Moon_Movie.Hqx and unbinhexed it with StuffIt Expander
>but I cannot run it. I tried to open the movie file from WordPerfect and
>MacDrawPro (as I did so often with other QuickTime movies) but to no avail.
>I downloaded it again, still same problem. I downloaded the venus.hqx file
>(which is an AD .pics file) using the same tools from the same directory and
>it runs fine.
>Any guesses what is wrong ?
>Hans Kroeger

The movie is an Image PICS file. You need either Image 1.47 from
mac.archive.umich.edu (in /mac/graphics/graphicsutil/) or MoviePlayer
>From ftp.apple.com (in /dts/mac/quicktime/). The latter will convert the file
to quicktime format.

Alonso

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

Date: Sat, 06 Mar 93 20:42:29 EST
From: CXEO000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook 140 vs 145

    Hi, all -- allow me to solicit some simple information. All
hardware snobs please turn a blind eye ;)

    I am acting as an advisor (Being the most readily available Mac
person) to an individual looking to buy a low-end (read: cheap)
PowerBook. Their choice has been narrowed to a 140 or a 145. Our
dealer has some 140s left, but cannot offer an educational discount
on them, and of course the 145s are available with the discount. The
absence of the discount for the normally cheaper 140 puts both machines
within 150$ of each other, so price is not the problem in deciding.

    Here are this person's criteria for the "ideal" PowerBook:

    -- Speed is not that important. This person has been happily
using a Plus for several years now with no gripes, so both computers
are likely to please her.

    -- The primary difference between the two models we're looking
at is the drive capacity: the 140 has an 80MB unit, and the 145 only
has a 40MB.

    -- Here's the kicker: this computer will be used for field work
in foreign countries. Among other places, the unit will be used in
Indonesia, Borneo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan. Electrical current
flexibility is a *MUST*. A spec sheet I have in front of me for the
140 pegs the line requirements at 110V-220V and 50-60Hz. This sounds
*great* to our prospective buyer, who assumes that this means that
the PB can be plugged directly into a wall (With an appropriate plug-
point converter) anywhere where the current falls within those limits
(Pretty much everywhere!). Any gotchas she should know about?
    The other problem is, I haven't been able to find a complete spec
sheet for the 145. Is this "Universal" power supply still a feature in
the 145? If the 145 only accepts North American current, that would
be the deciding factor against it. Ideally, the PB should be able to
accept current from anywhere we could possibly take it, with no
further converter boxes. Is this realistic?

    -- Question: How sturdy are the power conversion circuits in the
PBs? The current quality this unit is going to be used with is --
no exaggeration -- terrible. In some places, the current is literally
produced by a diesel generator sitting outside the hotel. Spikes,
sags, bad cycle frequency, etc. are all highly likely occurrences. How
well is the PB likely to stand up to this? From what I've heard, the
Macs with the universal power supplies are remarkably tolerant. How
far can we push this?

    -- How noticeable is the speed difference between the 140/145? All
other things being equal, is it enough to give up 40MB of disk space
for? (If the difference isn't *that* noticeable, it becomes a question
of personal choice...)

    -- Does anyone out there have any experience using PBs under bad
current conditions and are they willing to share any wisdom with us?

    -- Can anyone recommend any extra batteries that have worked well
for them? It will probably be necessary to lug some extra battery
power along for long stints in the field.

    Forgive the naive questions -- I've been using the Mac since 1984,
but this is my first real exposure to PB life. All the wisdom I've
accumulated about desktop machines seems to be useless in this domain...

    Please respond to the E-Mail address below.

    Thanks in advance for all replies.

    Cheers,
    Mark Aiken
    [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 12:49 AST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Problems with Apple 14" Monitors

I've been talking to several colleagues who have new 14" Apple
monitors, and nobody seems to be impressed with them.  I also own
two 13" AppleColor monitors, and have no complaints about them.

The difficulty with my new 14" monitor is that the pixels are
not square.  If I make a 500-pixel by 500-pixel square on my screen
and measure it, the width is different from the height.  This,
AFTER we took the monitor in to an authorized Apple Service Center
for alignment "by the book" (they had received the maintenance
manuals just two weeks ago!).

Other colleagues have complained of inaccurate white levels and
pincushioning.  Nobody, by the way, mentions that horizontal wire--
we're all experienced users and know about that condition.

Are there any others who have noticed that their 14" monitors are
not up to snuff?

Can anyone suggest a remedy (other than screaming at an Apple
employee)?


Michael B. LeBlanc........ Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

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

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 01:59:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Removing a ghost init

When my Mac starts up I get an icon of an init in shade form (mask?).
(I think it's the icon of "DeskTools" - but I'm not sure.)
It comes up even before the icon of Disinfectant whose name string
begins with that character usually diplayed as an empty square.
I have searched the hard disk for that init - but I cannot find
anything that is anywhere in the system extension folder (or control
devices folder for that matter).

What do I have to do to eradicate this stupid icon from the startup ?
Any ideas ?

Sven :)  [If you followup - please send me a copy via email. Thanks!]

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

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 93 21:34:48 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: Reset DTDB (Q)

I have two questions re [./util/reset-dtdb-20.hqx]:

1.  How reliable is it?

2.  Presently, I use CommentKeeper 1.0 to save my Get Info comments
when I rebuild using Cmd-Opt at startup.  Will Reset DTDB wipe out
all my Get Info comments permanently?

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

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

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 93 11:25:21 EST
From: [e-mail] (2d Lt Avram Dorfman)
Subject: Star Trek GIF request

Star Trek TNG fans - Next week's episode is "Handful of Datas" - a
classic-to-be
if you haven't already seen it.

Anyway, I have a huge request of the world: Could someone out there with the
ability to turn TV or VCR shots into color GIFs please make a nice big GIF of
the closing seen (just before credits) of this trek episode, with the
enterprise "riding off into the sunset"?

It's an awesome view of NCC-1701-D just above a full view of a planet who's
sun is about 1/2 covered during "sunset"

Thanks,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 21:46:04 +0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Chiang-Shen Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sys 7.1 for Q700?

I know that there has been a lot of discussion about the merits of
patching System 7.1 to restore OmegaSANE, but this issue remains unclear
to me.  I am considering upgrading from System 7.01 tuned-up to System 7.1
for the Q700.  Does anyone know if I will benefit from such a patch.  I
understand that Apple has a bunch of new enablers for System 7.1.  Will I
need one of these?   I would also like to hear your speculations about the
benefits of System 7.1.  I know that there are some minor incompatibility
problems with certain software, but all-in-all do you think that it is
worth the trouble to upgrade now.

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

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 00:18:36 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jon Bell)
Subject: Virtual Memory

Fergus Sullivan wrote:

>> At long last I am about to upgrade to a machine with Virtual Memory.
Given that VM needs contigious disk space, is it a good idea to reformat
the hard disk with a partition of the 10 Megs or so that I intend to
allocate to VM? <<

It's not really necessary.  If you start with a clean disk, then install
the System and your applications, the remaining space on the disk will
be contiguous provided you don't delete anything in the meantime.  Then
you can configure VM to grab part of that space.  You don't have to
worry about losing it to fragmentation, because VM will always grab that
space first thing upon booting, and it will look like a single huge file
as far as the file system is concerned.

Nevertheless, I do think it's a nice idea to have a separate partition
for VM, if only so that you don't have to remember to figure in the
invisible VM file when adding up the space taken by your files.  I
allocated a 13 Meg partition to accommodate the 12 Meg  maximum VM space
I can have, and it works fine.

Jon Bell <[e-mail]>
Dept. of Physics & C.S. / Presbyterian College / Clinton SC, USA

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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 93 04:20:17 EST
From: saeed Aldhaheri <[e-mail]>
Subject: Why my custom icons disappear?

May be this is a FAQ and I don't read before. Sometimes when I install
software
with custom icons the icons get replaced by a regular ones. Is it because of
AutoDoupler? How I can get the custom icons back. Thanx

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 14:23 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Word 5.0a -> 5.1a (A)

In 11-51, Benjamin Lian asks about upgrading/updating Word 5.0 to 5.1a. The
upgrade from 5.0x to 5.1 is $14.95 from Microsoft--and well worth it. The
update from 5.1 to 5.1a is made by an updater application which is
available at sumex as:

info-mac/app/word-51a-updater.hqx
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 10:46:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Marc Heneman 4824)
Subject: WordPerfect Works Upgrade?

    In the MacWorld of April, there is an offer about upgrading
*Works to WordPerfect Works for $99.
    I have ClarisWorks and I am using it often.  Does anybody
know the advantage for me to upgrade to WordPerfect Works?

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 09:37:19 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Ian Chai)
Subject: Writing an XCMD in Think C; Does an XCMD to send serially to printer
exist?

Hi. I'm looking for an XCMD that acts like "sendserial" that sends  to
the  printer port instead of the modem port. That is, it sends data to
the printer serial port directly,  without  going  through  a  printer
driver. (I am seeking to control a printer manually.)

Secondly,  I  just  got  Think  C  5.0.4 and would like to write XCMDs
myself to supplement my stacks. Think C comes with include  files  and
libraries  for  XCMDs  but no information on how to use them. Is there
any docs online for this?

Email would be appreciated; I can summarize if desired.

Thanks,
    Ian Chai <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 11:12:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Kurt Klaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: XTND Translators not working w/ ClarisWorks 1.0.3

I have a MacII si running 7.0.1/Tuneup 1.1.1 and am using recent upgrade
of ClarisWorks 1.0.3.  Prior to obtaining the upgrade, I noticed that
none of the XTND translators were showing under the import options for Word
Processing.  To attempt to fix the problem, I  have:

1.  Reinstalled ClarisWorks (1.0.2)
2.  Upgraded OS from 7.0 to 7.0.1
3.  Deleted and recreated XTND Translators list (in Preferences Folder)
4.  Upgraded ClarisWorks to 1.0.3.

After having done all of the above, ClarisWorks still doesn't recognize
any of the XTND Translators.  I spoke with Claris and they suggested to
look for multiple system files(none), and to make sure everything in the
Claris folder in the system folder is in the proper place and is named
correctly (it is).

Other than this one problem, my system functions excellently.  I feel the
problem is in the XTND Translators list, but I cannot figure out how to
rebuild it to the point that it works.  On my system the translators list is
2k; on a system that works properly it is 9K.  I also use the excellent
product from Teknosys, Help! 1.0.5 and it has not pointed out any conflicts
that might be causing this.

Has anyone experienced and/or corrected this?  Please reply via E-mail.

Kurt Klaus

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 10:41:58 +0000
From: [e-mail]  (Wagner Truppel)
Subject: Zoom VFX V.32bis and SupraFaxModem V.32bis - which is better?

Hi everyone,

does anyone have any experience (good or bad) with the Zoom VFX V.32bis
14,400 bps External Fax Modem? How does it compare to the Supra? The Zoom
is about $ 80 cheaper than the Supra, but I've heard a lot of good things
about the latter.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Wagner Truppel
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 6 Mar 93 09:56:09 CST
From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek)

Okay, how come I can't use virtual memory on my new IIci with 7.1? Every
time I try to invoke it, my extensions load correctly, but just as they
finish I get a, "The System File is damaged in some way, you may fix this
using the Installer" or some-such message. Of course, when I restart using
the Installer, it wants to replace the whole system. I can get around this
by starting with no extensions loading, bring up the Memory control panel
and turn Virtual memory off, do a restart and everything is fine - I just
can't use Virtual memory.

Using 7.1, IIci, 8/80 configuration.

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