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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 16 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 59

Today's Topics:

      [*] ASCII images of formatted pages (C)
      [*] Cassette Index Card HC Stack
      [*] Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest Volume 2 #010-019
      [*] CompactPro to StuffIt--CPT2SIT 3.0.3 submission
      [*] cp/attention-101.hqx
      [*] DiskDup+ 2.1.4
      [*] euclid11b18
      [*] eucliddoc11b18
      [*] Hard Drive Stiction problems: a follow-up
      [*] IconWrap 1.2
      [*]IsRunning XFCN 1.0
      [*] ShutDowner.sit.hqx
      [*] Spaceward Ho! 3.0.1 Updater
      [*] StuffIt--UnStuff/PC.EXE submission
      [*] TidBITS#168/15-Mar-93
      [*] Vtopia -- a TrueType Vietnamese font
      (Q) Where to find WORM Drives?
      7.1 Fonts Folder outside of System Folder? (A)
      [[e-mail]: Re: a few more modem comments]
      AECreateAppleEvent + invalid thePort = crash
      All About Mugs (Q)
      Building a little network
      Can't empty trash with filesharing on (Q)
      Centris built-in Ethernet connection (R)
      compatibility cp
      Conciseness is next to godliness!
      DART and Diskcopy
      Desktop Textures
      Drag & Drop: Wrong name
      Drag & Drop Unbinhexer
      drag & drop unbinhexer (A)
      drag & drop unbinhexer?
      drag & drop unbinhexer? (A)
      Ethernet
      Ethernet advice wanted
      Getting rid of the level passwords in Lemmings
      Graphic application needed
      Harris Laboratories Info?
      HDSetup
      installing int drive in ext case (Q)
      Integrated Software (C)
      Intolerably slow HP DeskWriter printing in Texture (C)
      Japanese system and system enablers (A)
      LaserWriter Select 310 - Facts?
      LC -> LCIII vs. PowerCache
      LCIII upgrade and fax for Cricket Graph III
      Nisus Upgrade: can it do...?
      OS2 Appletalk (?)
      PB140 internal disk to external disk conversion
      PB180's active matrix or PB165c's passive matrix colour ? (Q)
      Performa vs. 'real' Mac
      PostScript -> EPSF
      PowerPoint, LaserWriter LS, and greyscale
      Problem with A/B box and hardware handshake
      Prograph FTP site/list
      Shutdown items 2.3* wanted
      sticky scroll arrows (Q)
      StyleWriter II driver on Stylewriter I
      tape backup options for a Quadra 950 server
      Textures and PostScript (C)
      Textures slow printing on DeskWriter (A)
      Think C & Pascal
      TrueType Fonts
      Who wrote "SE ROM Picture Program" ?
      Why does this happen? (custom icons revisited)
      World Scripts - WHEN?!?!?!?

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 18:36:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] ASCII images of formatted pages (C)

A thread dealing with producing a formatted TEXT file from
(arbitrary) Macintosh programs appeared in some recent issues of
Info-Mac Digest. The messages making up this thread had the titles:
"ASCII images of formatted pages",
"Document formatting query",
"Problems Producing RFCs",
"Problems producing RFDs (c)",
"Printing to ASCII files"
"RFC Text formatting", and
"WANT Word output to Internet ASCII".

The attached binhexed self-expanding archive contains:
1. "RFC Format dialog" which is a chronology of all the messages
   (that I've seen) from the thread (including both those posted to
   Info-Mac Digest and those sent directly to me), and my comments
   and suggestions based on that discussion. Basically, I recommend
   the creation of a new Print2Pict extension (which I call the
   "ASCII Page Image" extension) and I propose some specifications
   for its operation.
2. a copy of the text version of RFC 1111 as FTPed from NIC.DDN.MIL.
3. a copy of RFC 1111 as edited (by me) to make it a Microsoft Word
   document.

/David M. Rosenberg (Internet: [e-mail],
      MIT Phone: [phone], Home Phone: [phone])

[Archived as /info-mac/report/ascii-from-mac-progs.hqx; 48K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 16:05:32 CST
From: Andrew Terrance Trembley <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Cassette Index Card HC Stack

Improved Cassette Librarian 3.1
(A HyperCard 2.x Stack for creating index cards for cassette boxes)

About 3 years back, I got a HC stack for creating index cards for
cassettes.  I liked the layout, and some of the command structure.  However,
I hated the fact that it only allowed 2 cards.  I wrote a system based on
that one, and used it for a few months. Two complete rewrites later, here's
what we have.

ICL 3.1 is shareware.  If you like it, send me money (I'm a poor student, I
can use all I can get).

as always, I'm...
             Andy Trembley
             [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/improved-cassette-librarian-31.hqx; 32K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 10:45:08 -0800
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest Volume 2 #010-019

Issues #10 through #19 of Volume 2 of the Comp.Sys.Mac.Programmer Digest are
now available.

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-index.txt; 3K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-010.txt; 50K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-011.txt; 49K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-012.txt; 39K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-013.txt; 40K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-014.txt; 42K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-015.txt; 36K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-016.txt; 50K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-017.txt; 53K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-018.txt; 42K]
[Archived as /info-mac/digest/csmp/csmp-v2-019.txt; 36K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 15:50:11 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] CompactPro to StuffIt--CPT2SIT 3.0.3 submission

Hi,

I just got my registered copy of StuffIt Lite 3.0.5. Inside the disk there are
a few goodies besides StuffIt Lite and StuffIt Expander like StuffIt &
Frontier, CPT2SIT(3.0.3), UnStuff/PC. The last two pieces are not in the
Info-Mac archive as I checked on Mar. 15 '93. So here is the submission for
the first one, CPT2SIP(3.0.3) in binhexed, (StuffIt) self-extracted format.

The following is from "CPT2SIT Docs".

> CPT2SIT*
> Written by Leonard Rosenthol
> Copyright )1992, Aladdin Systems, Inc.
> Portions )1992, Raymond Lau
>
>
> Description:
>
> CPT2SIT is designed to help users convert their older Compact Pro archives
> into newer, smaller StuffIt 3.0 archives - thereby giving you faster modem
or
> network transfers, additional free disk space, and making the archive
> contents easier to manage.
>
> CPT2SIT requires System 6.0.4 or later, and System 7 users additionally can
> enjoy an easy Rdrag and dropS interface.  You can also have CPT2SIT build a
> list of files and folders to be converted as a RbatchS single operation.
>
> CPT2SIT is 32-bit clean, AU/X, U040 cache, and virtual memory compatible,
and
> Apple event aware.
>
> Special Features:
>
> * If you hold down the Shift key when dropping files on the icon, CPT2SIT
will
>       give you the opportunity to choose an alternate destination (i.e.
another
>       folder or disk) for the converted items.
>
> * Scripters can control CPT2SIT from other applications.  For example, with
>       HyperCard use the Ropen <document> using "CPT2SIT"S command.  With
>       Frontier, use a Rrequired.OpenDocument('2SIT', document)S.
>
>  Caveats:
>
> * CPT2SIT will not convert encrypted or password protected archives.
>
> * CPT2SIT will not convert any segmented archives.
>
> * In both of the above cases, if you do attempt to convert such an archive,
>       CPT2SIT will alert you and then continue on with any other achives you
>       may have selected for conversion.
>
> Legal words
>
> CPT2SIT* may be distributed for non-commercial purposes. Aladdin Systems,
Inc.
>       retains full rights to determine who may or may not distribute CPT2SIT
>       and in what form.
>
> It may also be freely distributed via wire or electronic communications
>       (BBS's and online information systems) for the sole purpose of use by
>       their customers.

Please pay attention to the legal status mentioned above and register your
copy.

Regards,

Liu

(To Leonard Rosenthol: When the self-extracted file CPT2SIT Install did its
work, the New Folder Button in dialog box would cause a type 3 crash. Mac's
Bug said: Illegal Instruction at 0025C2F8; No Procedure Name   0025C2F8
*DC.W   $EAFF; ????   |EAFF. Is this a known problem or the problem may come
>From other place?)

[Archived as /info-mac/util/stuff-it-cpt-2-sit.hqx; 112K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 17:36:44 MET
From: marco piovanelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] cp/attention-101.hqx

Attention 1.0.1 is a little control panel that lets you
customize the sound played when background applications need
your attention (technically speaking, when they post
notifications).
You also have options to disable notification sound altogether,
to disallow notification alert boxes and to always play a sound
when a notification is posted.

Attention 1.0.1 fixes some incompatibilities with AfterDark and
Carpetbag.  It should replace version 1.0.
Compressed with StuffIt Lite 3.0.  A read-me file is included.
This program is free but still not public domain.

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/attention-101.hqx; 9K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 10:09:41 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: [*] DiskDup+ 2.1.4

Someone submitted DiskDup+ 2.1.1 the other day. I just realized that I have
a newer version of this program. So here it is. I forget where I got it
from.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/disk-dup-plus-214.hqx; 29K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 09:57:50 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bernie Bernstein)
Subject: [*] euclid11b18

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

b18 fixes several bugs and contains some internal changes. Read the release
notes for more information.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/euclid-11b18.hqx; 247K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 10:03:34 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bernie Bernstein)
Subject: [*] eucliddoc11b18

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

This file contains the documentation for Euclid b18. It is in MS Word
format and documents all of the latest features.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/euclid-docs.hqx; 117K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 12:22:03 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: [*] Hard Drive Stiction problems: a follow-up

[e-mail] (Steven Arthur Sivier) writes in response to my
query last week:

>You mean its Sony drives that have the stiction problems? I thought it
>only affected Quantum drives. It happens I have an old 40 Meg Sony drive
>(Model SRD2040A-02) from out of a IIcx that refuses to spin anymore. Can
>I get this repaired (or replaced) for free or should I just toss it?

I sure do. I went through this same loop last summer with my own SE/30 with
a Sony drive. I had to do some research on behalf of my qualified Apple
dealer, natch, but got a free replacement. Now he sounds most
knowledgeable, as I discovered when I phoned him last week in relation to
the firm's machine, until I got to the word "Quantum", whereapon: problem
not known. I thought the Quantum problem was more widely known, but
strangely, nobody has (yet) confirmed it in response to my query last week.

You have until August 15 of this year to swap drives from the affected
batches!

Appended is the 8/91 Apple Service Notice, previously filed as
report/old-quantum-drive-fix.txt. It more properly should be
report/old-sony-drive-fix.txt.

Cheers,
Francis K.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/old-sony-drive-fix.txt; 10K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 17:22:42 PST
From: [e-mail] (John Thoo)
Subject: [*] IconWrap 1.2

On Sat, 13 Mar 93 20:15:13 CST <[e-mail]> said:
> I seem to remember seeing a reference to a utility that will wrap
> startup icons to multiple rows if there are too many to fit on one
> line.  Does such a beast exist?  If so, what is it and where can I
> find it?

This is the second request for such an extension in as many weeks.
Here's something that does what you ask: IconWrap 1.2.

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

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/icon-wrap-12.hqx; 5K]

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Date: 15 Mar 1993 11:33:02 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Mathieu Jacques)
Subject: [*]IsRunning XFCN 1.0

This is IsRunning 1.0, an XFCN that checks if an application is
currently running. It is compatible with System >= 7.0,
and HyperCard >= 2.0.
You only need to pass an application creator as parameter.

It is freeware for non commercial use.
Think Pascal 4.02 source included.

For comments, bug reports, e-mail to Pierre MATHIEU
internet : [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/card/x/is-running-10.hqx; 17K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 20:00:37 EST
From: William Uther <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] ShutDowner.sit.hqx

Hi,
  Ever hit Restart instead of ShutDown under the Special menu and had to wait
while all you INIT's loaded before you could try again?  This init will shut
your machine down during boot 'at the touch of a button'.  See the README
file for more details.

            \x/ill               :-}

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/util/shut-downer.hqx; 39K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 0:07:35 PST
From: Peter Commons <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Spaceward Ho! 3.0.1 Updater

Enclosed is an application that will update Spaceward Ho! 3.0 to Spaceward
Ho! 3.0.1. It is free to distrubute but copyrighted by Delta Tao. Spaceward
Ho! itself is not free to be distributed; for information on purchasing it,
please call Delta Tao Software, Inc. at [phone].

Spaceward Ho! 3.0.1 is a maintenance release of Spaceward Ho! 3.0. It fixes a
lot of bugs, but there are no new features.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/spaceward-ho-301-updater.hqx; 44K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 16:24:11 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] StuffIt--UnStuff/PC.EXE submission

Hi,

I just got my registered copy of StuffIt Lite 3.0.5. Inside the disk there are
a few goodies besides StuffIt Lite and StuffIt Expander like StuffIt &
Frontier, CPT2SIT(3.0.3), UnStuff/PC. The last two pieces are not in the
Info-Mac archive as I checked on Mar. 15 '93. So here is the submission for
the second one, UnStuff/PC in binhexed, (StuffIt) self-extracted format.

The following is from "ReadMe on Macintosh".

> "UNSITINS.EXE" is a DOS executable self-extracting archive that contains
> UNSTUFF.EXE. You will need to move "UNSITINS.EXE" to a DOS machine. Now you
> can send StuffIt archives to your friends who use DOS compatible machines!
> UNSTUFF.EXE enables users of DOS compatible machines to extract files and
> folders from StuffIt archives from 1.5.1 to 3.0.

Regards,

Liu

[Archived as /info-mac/misc/stuff-it-unsit-on-dos.hqx; 130K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 21:10:43 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] TidBITS#168/15-Mar-93

TidBITS#168/15-Mar-93

 TidBITS goes international this week, with news of a free Italian
   extension that activates the delete forward key on extended
   keyboards, the announcement of "Caring For Your Wrists," a file
   we distributed to the world at large for free to help prevent
   repetitive stress injuries, a report on the latest update to
   Nisus that makes it even more language-savvy, and a great
   article from Tig Tillinghast looking at problems with overseas
   software prices.

Topics:
    MailBITS/15-Mar-93
    Delete Forward Usage
    Caring For Your Wrists
    Notes from the Apple Catalog
    Nisus 3.4 Hits the World
    European Software Bargains: Who's Gouging Whom?
    Reviews/15-Mar-93

[Archived as /info-mac/digest/tb/tidbits-168.etx; 29K]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 11:53:58 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Vtopia -- a TrueType Vietnamese font

This package contains the TrueType font ``Vtopia'' and a keyboard
layout for Vietnamese text processing on a Macintosh. Vtopia adheres
to VSCII (Vietnamese Standard Code for Information Interchange), the
Vietnamese national standard for 8-bit character encoding.

[Archived as /info-mac/font/tt/vtopia.hqx; 62K]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 15:13:19 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Ralph Durtschi)
Subject: (Q) Where to find WORM Drives?

Hi folks,

I would greatly appreciate it if *anyone* would send me some information
on companies selling WORM (Write Once Read Many) CD ROM Drives.

So far I have had very little success finding info on them.

Thanks.

Bye for now,
Ralph Durtschi, Idaho State University

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 22:49:31 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Casgrain Philippe)
Subject: 7.1 Fonts Folder outside of System Folder? (A)

[e-mail] writes:
>I recall reading, somewhere, that there is a way to have the Fonts folder
>outside the System Folder in System 7.1.  Just moving it out doesn't seem
>to work nor could I get an alias to work.  What's the trick?

Why don't you make an alias to the Fonts folder and move the alias to the
preferred location on your hard drive?

Virtually,
Philippe                [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 20:23:21+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: [[e-mail]: Re: a few more modem comments]

After having read Adam Engst's initial and follow-up reports on modems, I
decided to pass my own experiences on to him.  He suggested that I forward
these remarks to Info-Mac Digest.  So here they are:
>
> I have a PowerPort/Gold in my PowerBook 170.  I have been pretty happy with
> it
> for both modem and FAX use.  However, there are two things I have observed
> which have led me to wonder if anyone has had similar experiences.  Using
> Kermit 0.98(63), I can set up a 14400 connection to my Unix host at the
> office.
> The connection is pretty good, particularly in V.42 bis mode, which is why I
> am
> so happy.  However, when I try to do file transfer, the data exchange rate,
> at
> least as indicated by the "speedometer" in the menu bar, never manages to
get
> above 20%.  What I am trying to figure out is whether this is simply an
> overhead of the Kermit protocol, a problem with Singapore telephone lines,
> a problem with the "speedometer" (unlikely, since large files DO take quite
> a bit of time), or a problem with the modem.  As I say, I shall be
interested
> to see if anyone else has had similar experiences.
>
> The other observation is that, if I leave Kermit to print a file after I
have
> transferred it, the modem connection drops out during the printing.  I am
> printing on an Epson LQ-100 using PowerPrint, which is serving me well in
> all other respects.  Being inside Kermit while the printing is taking place
> has no effect;  at some point in the course of the print I find myself
> without
> a connection.  Again, I am not sure if the problem lies in Kermit, the
modem,
> or the inability of the PowerBook 170 to chew gum and walk down stairs at
the
> same time!

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 21:05:04 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Dan Pleasant)
Subject: AECreateAppleEvent + invalid thePort = crash

Here's a bit of information which might save somebody a heap of trouble...

In System 7.1 (at least), the Random() call requires a valid current
GrafPort.  For some reason, the first thing done in the _Random
trap is to get (and use) the value of thePort, i.e., (a5).  If
thePort is not valid (like, maybe, it's a null pointer) then the
_Random trap can crash.

Now, here's the kicker:  AECreateAppleEvent() calls Random() if you
don't specify any event IDs of your own.  So, if you need to send any
AppleEvents when thePort is not valid, be sure to specify all of the
event IDs yourself.

Hopefully, this will prevent somebody else from spending that hour
of debugging time that I just spent...

Dan Pleasant

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 0:43:49 CET
From: Vittorio Dell'Aiuto <[e-mail]>
Subject: All About Mugs (Q)

Hi netters,
I'm involved in the creation of a Mac User Group here in Italy, so I
would like to know anything about this item.

How to become an "official" MUG?
Is there a register of MUGs at Apple?
What is a MUG expected to do?

And so on, even the basic questions.

Please reply directly to me, I will summarize the answers if
they are enough and of general interest.

Thanks in advance!

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

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 08:28:53 PST
From: SnoMan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Building a little network

Howdy Everyone,

Need some input.  I want to create an Appletalk network between my 2
PeeCees, my Mac Plus, and my Appletalk/serial HP DeskWriter.

Once upon a time I heard about a board you could put in your PC that would
make it a node on an Appletalk n.  How does this work?  I want to do thisis
REALLY, REALLY, REALLY CHEA.  I don't want to buy NetWare or Vines or
anything like that.  The idea is to do something to the PeeCees (stick a
board in it, load some software) so that they become just like a Mac (just
as far as networking).  By this I mean, plug in the cables, turn on file
sharing, and you've got yourself a peer-to-peer network with a shared
print. :-)

So, what do ya say?  I know there's a bunch of you out there who have
slapped DOS boxes and Macs together before.  Can you help me?

Thanks.

Todd Winter  -  Professional Geek Wannabe
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 19:44:22 -0500
From: [e-mail] (jeff schindall)
Subject: Can't empty trash with filesharing on (Q)

Why is it that every once in a while I am unable to empty the trash on my
IIfx when my disk is shared?  After I reboot, I am able to empty the trash.

This occurs under sys7, 7.0.dot and 7.1?

It is more of an annoyance than a real problem, but a solution would be
much appreciated.





                -jeff






                -jeff

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 21:50:36 EST
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris built-in Ethernet connection (R)

In info-mac digest v11 #058 Alun J. Carr
<[e-mail]> writes:

> I recently took delivery of a shiny new Centris 650 8/500 (which I'm not
> typing this on for reasons which will become apparent), and it has an RJ45
> connector on the back, which I understand is a built-in Ethernet connection
> \`a la Quadra. The College Microstore from whom I purchased the above beast
> tell me that I shouldn't buy the Apple RJ45->thin co-ax adapter for this,
> but that I should buy an Asant\'e NuBus card instead. They tell me that this
> is because (i) Apple don't know anything about Ethernet connections (which I
> find a mite hard to believe) and (ii) NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 doesn't have a
> driver for these inbuilt connections (though I would have thought that
> there'd be a few Quadras at the NCSA, of all places!).
>
> Does anybody have any good/bad experiences of using these inbuilt
> connections? Would a NuBus card be any better (a colleague and myself have
> had bad experiences with Asant\'e products in the past---like his SE with an
> Asant\'e card in it refuses to talk to his serial DeskWriter C when
> networking is turned on)? Do I have to buy a copy of MacTCP 1.1.1 to use the
> inbuilt connection with NCSA/BYU Telnet? Should I have kept the Microstore
> happy and bought a 486 (urgh, yech, retch...)?

(i) clearly your College Microstore either doesn't know much about ethernet OR
they are simply lying through their teeth to sell you hardware you already
have...

(ii) If the idiots new anything at all about Mac ethernet (or just plain the
way
macs work at all) they might know that mac programs in general don't supply
their own drivers.  The drivers are generally system level and are accessed
through specific interfaces provided by the OS.  In the case of ethernet, most
programs go through the Comm ToolBox (CTB).  The CTB provides a standard way
for
all programs to make use of both driver tools (such as the ethernet drivers
provided by the OS (in the case of built-in ethernet) or by third parties (in
the case of third party ethernet cards) as well as different protocol, server
and client tools.  This is very UNlike the dos world where every program has
to
provide it's own driver support for each piece of hardware it might
encounter.

Now, to be fair, it might be the in case (i) that they really mean that you
should buy your RJ45=AAUI=FriendlyNet to thinnet transciever from Asante'
instead of Apple since Asante's tranciever is usually cheaper (via Mail order,
it is about $60 or so.).

In case (ii) I believe there is a version of Telnet that does not use MacTCP
but
instead provides it's own TCP/IP protocol support.  They may be all confused
over that issue.  In general, for max compatibility, you want to have all your
TCP/IP tools going through MacTCP.

To get the latest version of MacTCP (v1.1.1, which you will need, since you
must
run Sys7.1) you must either purchase it directly from APDA as part of the
MacTCP
Developer's kit ($99), or get it bundled with some commercial software or get
it
through your school if they have paid for a site liscence (and you are
eligible
to take advantage of this liscence).  If you are not eligible to get it under
a
cheap liscence, the cheapest way I know of to get MacTCP is to order
VersaTilities from Synergy Software (a truly great software company, btw)
which
is about $59 or so from MacWarehouse & other places.   Aside from MacTCP, it
also includes Telnet, FTP client/server and other nifty network tools that any
CTB - aware program should be able to use.  To go a little further and get a
nice terminal emulator on top of this stuff, go ahead and get VersaTerm.  It
is
lots nicer (IMHO) than NCSA Telnet and comes with all the goodies of
VersaTilities.  It is usually about $79.

> Does anybody have any good/bad experiences of using these inbuilt
> connections? Would a NuBus card be any better (a colleague and myself have
> had bad experiences with Asant\'e products in the past---like his SE with an
> Asant\'e card in it refuses to talk to his serial DeskWriter C when
> networking is turned on)? Do I have to buy a copy of MacTCP 1.1.1 to use the
> inbuilt connection with NCSA/BYU Telnet? Should I have kept the Microstore
> happy and bought a 486 (urgh, yech, retch...)?

I use the built-in ethernet of my Quadra all the time.  So do zillions of
others.  A NuBus card MIGHT do better if it a) has a bigger buffer than the
built-in enet (and I'm am sorry but I don't know how big that is) and b) takes
full advantage of the NuBus advanced transfer modes.  Otherwise, the fact that
the built-in enet is directly hooked up the i/o controller in the Centris 650
makes me doubt any NuBus card is going to outperform it.

The problem your friend is having is probably not a problem with the Asante'
card.  This complaint usually is a result of the fact that (without the
addition
of AppleTalk Inter-Network Router software [or whatever it is currently
called])
the Mac system cannot have access to both localtalk and ethertalk at the same
time.  If you just use the ethernet connection for tcp/ip and not ethertalk,
you
should be able to switch the appletalk network in the Network Control Panel to
local talk and access both the localtalk printer as well as ethernet tcp/ip
services at the same time.  If your tcp/ip services are through a gateway via
ethertalk, though, he probably will not be able to do so.

If you wish to use telnet or any tcp/ip services, you will indeed recquire
MacTCP v1.1.1.  See above for how to get.

No you should not have kept the Microstore happy.  Make your purchases to keep
your self happy.  :)  This just might be aided by not shopping at the
aforementioned Microstore.  You might also want to point out to others the
erroneous/incomplete purchasing info they have provided.

Good luck!


Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 15:28:52 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: compatibility cp

Impulse Technology's "Animals" wasn't specially updated for System 7.1
but runs fine on a Q700 under 7.1 I got it from MacZone for $48.

Its advantage is that it can run apps with write-thro' caching even if
they can't handle the 040's copyback caching. So you still get good
speed out of say Word 4 (if you only use it to open the occasional
doc - there's an almost-free 040 upgrade of Word4 to Word4-and-a-little-bit,
not to be confused with Word5).

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 08:16:11 -0500
From: "Steve Marsh"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Conciseness is next to godliness!

I just want to BRIEFLY but EMPHATICALLY request that people uploading
files to info-mac accompany them with a CONCISE blurb that gives just
enough information (name, version, system/hardware requirements, etc.)
to let someone know if they want to download it. Save all the detailed
info for a ReadMe file! In particular, the BeyondMidi demo in v11-058
was excessive, but similar examples abound in recent issues.
Come on, those of us who aren't interested don't want to download your
verbiage, and those who are will read it with the program package!
'nuff said, quench the pyrotechnics.

- Steve Marsh  "[e-mail]"   ;-)

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 10:36:06 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DART and Diskcopy

I prefer Apple's DART (Disk Archival and Rtrieval Tool) to DiskCopy 4.2, since
DART reads Diskcopy files and will do compression of images, which DiskCopy
won't. It's also more usr-friendly.

However, I ran into four disk images that my DART 1.5 claimed were bad (error
-39). Diskcopy, however, worked fine on them.

I believe the problem I had is a bug in DART, that is fixed in a later release
than 1.5 (1.5.1?). However, I can't find a copy to ftp anywhere.

Can some kind soul please email me this updated copy of DART binhexed?

Thankyou

Lloyd Wood
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 01:03:27 EST
From: CXEO000 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Desktop Textures

    I, too, am having trouble debinhexing and unstuffing the new
Desktop Textures file, recently uploaded to sumex. This is unfortunate
as I have used past incarnations of the package with great satis-
faction, and make a point of giving copies to everyone I can find.
Could this new package possibly be re-uploaded correctly so we may
benifit from it?

    Many thanks,

    Mark Aiken
    [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 15:41:56 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Drag & Drop: Wrong name

Ooops! In my message about Stuffit dragging and dropping, I said "Stuffit
Converter" where I meant "Stuffit Expander". Sorry

GF

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 15:34:49 CST
From: Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Drag & Drop Unbinhexer

DropStuff in Stuffit Deluxe will binhex automatically. Stuffit Converter
(freeware or shareware, I forget which) with unbinhex and unstuff all at
once. I bought Stuffit Deluxe after poor research indicated that this
is what I wanted to do rapid unbinhexing and unstuffing. Converter isn't
included in this package. No problem, tho': DeLuxe is terrific value and
I got it cheap as a registered user of Stuffit Classic.

DropStuff, as its name indicates, and Converter, as its name doesn't,
both do drag and drop.

Graeme Forbes

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

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 10:11:19 EST
From: Dr. G. Paul Savage <[e-mail]>
Subject: drag & drop unbinhexer (A)

Thanks to all who replied by email. Apparently stuffit-expander-3.01 will
unbinhex files dopped on it (for some strange reason mine doesn't, even after
a
desktop rebuild. It works fine on stuffed and compacted files but not on
binhexed files). Also the utility called DeHQX will unbinhex files when
dropped
on it and it has the option of quiting after doing its job.

Paul.

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 09:31:20 EST
From: Paul Henderson <[e-mail]>
Subject: drag & drop unbinhexer?

On Tue, 16 Mar 93 09:52:48 EST Dr G. Paul Savage said:
>but I'm looking for a quick drag & drop utility to avoid having to fire up an
>application every time I need to do a quick binhex decode.
>
Try Stuffit Expander, available in the info-mac archives as:

      -r   125598 Jan 14 18:17 ./util/stuffit-expander-301.hqx

It is freeware, and has many functions beyond drag-and-drop binhex decoding.
Paul

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 07:22 EST
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: drag & drop unbinhexer? (A)

Paul Savage asks for a drag & drop unbinhexer in 11-58.  Just use
StuffitExpander 3.0.1, Paul: at Sumex, it's:
info-mac/util/stuffit-expander-301.hqx.
Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 10:05:57 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Wade Williams)
Subject: Ethernet

The College Microstore from whom I purchased the above beast
>tell me that I shouldn't buy the Apple RJ45->thin co-ax adapter for this,
>but that I should buy an Asant\'e NuBus card instead. They tell me that this
>is because (i) Apple don't know anything about Ethernet connections (which I
>find a mite hard to believe)

Tell them THEY don't know anything about Ethernet connections.  Apple knows
plenty.  Buy the Apple transceiver for the appropriate media (ThinNet,
10BaseT, etc).  Asante makes FriendlyNet transceivers that used to be
cheaper, but since Apple reduced prices on theirs, the difference is less
than $10.  You do NOT need an Ethernet NuBus card.

(ii) NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 doesn't have a
>driver for these inbuilt connections (though I would have thought that
>there'd be a few Quadras at the NCSA, of all places!).

It doesn't need one.  It uses the standard Ethernet drivers included with
your Macintosh, or MacTCP if that is installed.

Would a NuBus card be any better (a colleague and myself have
>had bad experiences with Asant\'e products in the past---like his SE with an
>Asant\'e card in it refuses to talk to his serial DeskWriter C when
>networking is turned on)?

That's not Asante's fault.  You cannot have both LocalTalk and Ethernet
active at the same time.  Your friend needs to buy something like Sonic
System's LaserBridge to enable him to be able to use both simultaneously.


Do I have to buy a copy of MacTCP 1.1.1 to use the
>inbuilt connection with NCSA/BYU Telnet?

You don't have to buy MacTCP to use NCSA Telnet.  If you do not have
MacTCP, 2.5 will use it's own TCP/IP instead.  However, the benefits of
MacTCP are many.  It is now available for educational purchase for $39.

>Should I have kept the Microstore
>>happy and bought a 486 (urgh, yech, retch...)?

Trust me, you did the right thing.  When you were trying to get your
network drivers loaded high but couldn't because you couldn't find a
suitable address to locate the EMM386 page frame, you'd wish you'd bought a
Mac.  And the Microstore would be telling you the 486 was better because
you "had more control."

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

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

Date: 16 Mar 1993 16:32:50 -0500 (EST)
From: "David C. Garrett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethernet advice wanted

The lab where I work is buying a number of Centris 650's, a Quadra
800, and two LaserWriter Pro 630's, all of which are bundles that
"come with Ethernet."  I *think* that all we have to do is buy
transceivers, cable, and a hub to get a 10BASE-T network going.  Is
this correct, or am I missing something?  And if we want to put our LC
on the network, we just have to buy the Apple Ethernet LC Card and
another transceiver.  Right?

Also, what about EtherTalk?  I know what it is (Apple's Ethernet
software) and I am pretty sure that I need to be running it on each
CPU on the network.  I also know that it comes bundled with the Apple
Ethernet LC Card.  But do we need to get separate licenses for each
CPU?  I don't see the software package listed in the SRP lists I
have...

If there are any Ethernet gurus out there who would like to offer
advice to a neophyte network administrator, or if anyone could point
me to a source of info (I looked in the archives but didn't find
anything, maybe because I didn't know where to look), I'd be very
grateful.

Please respond directly to me - I'm about two weeks behind in reading
the digest :(  - and I'll summarize to the list if anyone expresses
interest.

Thanks in advance,

Dave    [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 09:14:18 EST
From: Ephraim Vishniac <[e-mail]>
Subject: Getting rid of the level passwords in Lemmings

I got tired of the passwords for individual levels in Lemmings, so
here's a patch I just wrote to get rid of them. In CODE 3, at offset
0xD68, replace exactly 88 bytes (11 lines in ResEdit's general editor)
with the following 88 bytes (11 lines) of garble:

48E7 1F18 47ED CFB6
4245 101B 0C00 0030
6D14 0C00 0039 6E0E
4880 0440 0030 CAFC
000A DA40 60E4 0C45
0078 6E1A 4A45 6F16
5345 3B45 DBC8 2005
48C0 81FC 001E 3B40
DBF8 7001 600A 426D
DBC8 426D DBF8 7000
4CDF 18F8 4E75 4E75

You'll probably want to update the corresponding dialog to make the
prompt more appropriate. I changed item 4 of DITL 2001 to read "Enter
level number (1 = Fun 1, 31 = Tricky 1, 61 = Taxing 1, 91 = Mayhem 1):"
so that I won't forget this is a patched copy.

This patch has no effect on the copy-protection dialog. You'll have to
patch that separately.

Ephraim Vishniac
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 11:41:18 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Marc Dionne)
Subject: Graphic application needed

We want to produce a CD-ROM that will containt about 15,000 images 4.5" X
8".  Each image (black on white) is text of greek or latin.  To be able to
read an print these images easily it is preferable to scan these image in
300 dpi.  However we are not sure that we while be able to put all images
in one CD-ROM.  If i scan in 150 dpi, it supose to be ok but i prefere to
scan in 300 dpi an convert it if i need to.

Does somebody know if it exist an utility you can convert an image that as
be scanned in 300 dpi to an image of 150 dpi?  This utility can turn on
MS-Dos or Macintosh.  It's important that this utility can do this
processing in batch mode.  i. e. convert all document in folder x  an save
a copy in folder y.

Thank's in advance for you help.
Marc Dionne                                 Email: [e-mail]
Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres            Tel: [phone], ext 2419
C.P. 500, Trois-Rivieres, Qc, Canada / G9A 5H7   Fax: [phone]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 10:38:19 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Harris Laboratories Info?

A year or so ago my boss bought an accelerator for his Classic from a
company called Harris Laboratories, in Minnesota. He's been very happy
with it. Last week he tried to call the company to inquire about a
similar accelerator for our recently-purchased SE, and found the
phone disconnected.

Does anyone know anything about the fate of this company? (Has anyone
even heard of them?;)) Sounds to me like they just went belly-up, but
we thought perhaps someone else had bought them (and their products).

Failing that, does anyone have any good cheap suggestions to offer
for accelerating an SE? Apparently the accelerator in my boss's
Classic is a plug-in module and is not actually a processor upgrade
(in other words, the machine is still a 68000, it just runs faster).
He wanted a similar product for the SE. Any ideas?
                          TIA,
                          Pat

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

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 14:27:20 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Steve Kalkwarf)
Subject: HDSetup

>For formatting your
>hard drive you were supposed to use the formatting program that
>comes with the system software. Since it wouldn't immediately re-
>cognize the drive you would have to patch the program's "%A5Init"
>code resource. Somewhere in the middle, the resource contains a list
>of hard drive signatures. Etc...

I swore I'd never do it again, but...

Here is a DIRTY hack that allows HDSetup 7.0.x to format any drive at all.
I'm sure someone can fix the offsets for 7.1, but I won't. All the usual
disclaimers apply. If your drive never works again, it wasn't my fault.

This quick hack works for most drives manufactured by: CDC, Conner,
Miniscribe, Quantum, Rodime, Seagate, and Sony. This hack worked on all the
drives we tested it with. Use at your own risk.

1) Open a COPY of "Apple HD SC Setup" with ResEdit.
2) Open "CODE" ID=1.
3) In version 7.0.1, go to offset +$413A.
        In version 7.0.0, go to offset +$411E.
4) Change the two words there
            from $222E $0010
            to $4E71 $7203
        Do NOT make this change if the two words are not $222E $0010.
5) Save your changes.
6) Run HD Setup. All drives covered should be available to work on.
7) After initializing, manually partition to get the maximum storage.

This hack has been tested on HD Setup 7.0 and 7.0.1 on several drives made
by Quantum and Seagate. It is NOT guaranteed to work on prior or future
versions of HD Setup or with brands not mentioned above.

As with all such quick hacks, use at your own risk.

Good luck!

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

Date: 16 Mar 1993 18:10:06 U
From: "Castle, Mike" <[e-mail]>
Subject: installing int drive in ext case (Q)

I have a Mac LC with a 40 MB Quantum LPS internal drive in it.  I'd like to
upgrade my drive to a larger size, leaving me with an internal 40 MB drive.  I
also have an old Rodime external 45 MB drive with a good power supply and a
dead drive mechanism.  Is there any reason that I should not try to install
this Quantum internal drive into the Rodime external case to give myself a
nice
external 40 MB drive?  I'd like to connect the newly-created external drive to
a Mac Plus or maybe to the LC if the Rodime power supply would not overwhelm
the LC.

Please send replies to [e-mail].  Thanks for your help!

                  << Mike Castle >>
                  University of Michigan

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

Date: 16 Mar 1993 14:51:54GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Integrated Software (C)

> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 09:17:28 EST
> From: Clinton Collins <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Integrated Software (C)
>
> Question> I also am recommending Microsoft Works as their first
> Question> software purchase, because it has a word processor and a
> Question> spreadsheet built-in. Does anyone suggest other software as
> Question> more appropriate for novice users?
>
> I vote for ClarisWorks.  Keep the mac a MFZ.
>
> MFZ= Microsoft Free Zone.

I wholeheartedly agree. ClarisWorks is absolutely excellent (I recommended
it to my sister, an archaeologist, who uses it on her Classic with no
complaints whatsoever). I can only think of two annoying bugs in the whole
program.

MFZ. Yes. I just wish I could find an alternative to Excel (but I don't
think there's another spreadsheet that has functions for matrix arithmetic).
I gave up on Word, bit the bullet, and switched to LaTeX. My documents have
never looked so good.

Alun

Snail: Dr Alun J. Carr                 Phone:    [phone]
       Mechanical Engineering Dept.              [phone] x1989
       University College Dublin       Fax:      [phone]
       Belfield                                  [phone]
       Dublin 4                        Internet: [e-mail]
       Ireland                                   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 22:20:25 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Harold Herchen)
Subject: Intolerably slow HP DeskWriter printing in Texture (C)

An answer in Infomacv11-058.txt about slow printing in Textures makes
statements
that are not valid except for old versions of Textures.  This answer in part
states that:

>I suspect this is a problem with Textures. I have helped TeX users here try
>to struggle with Textures, but have never used it extensively myself, never
>having been a big TeX jock. Any way, the biggest problem I've seen with
>Textures is that it uses bit-mapped fonts exclusively, ignoring the
>PostScript that helped put the Mac at the forefront of desktop publishing.
>Look at the massive collection of fonts you've installed in Textures, and
>you'll see lots of giant point sizes that are 4x multiples of normally used
>sizes. This is for translating the 72 dpi of Mac screen fonts to the 300
>dpi used by laser printers and, I think, the Desk Writer. My experience
>with printing Textures files was that it was slow on LaserWriters, so I can
>imagine how slow it is with the Desk Writer. Your 5-6 min/page seems about
>right.

I use Textures V1.5 from Blue Sky Research, and I only use Postscript (no
bitmap) fonts with it.  That requires ATM of course, but ATM is real cheap.
My
thesis consists of well over one hundred pages with many illustrations,
including Claris Cad drawings, Igor graphs, Mathematica 3-D bitmaps, to name a
few.  I can print a full paper tray worth of thesis directly from Textures
onto
the DeskWriter with nary a hiccup and at nearly full print speed.  I have a
Mac
IIci with 20MByte RAM, of which the DeskWriter driver hogs 7 MByte while
printing my thesis.

One incompatibility I do have is when I try to use my Global Village modem
while
printing in the background.

Incidentally, Textures V1.5 has a "Flash mode" where any changes made to the
input file are immediately reflected in the on-screen output.  This feature is
terrific for making complicated equations, debugging macros, etc.  With it,
anybody can become a TeX jock.

Harald Herchen             [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 16:42:09 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Japanese system and system enablers (A)

[e-mail] (Paul Fons) writes:

>  I was curious if anyone knew anything more about the Japanese
> system enabler for the English system 7.1. Purportedly this
> allows the English system to have Japanese input/output capabilities
> much like the real KanjiTalk 7 but using the English system
> as a base. I already purchased a copy of the real Japanese
> KanjiTalk system, but have heard it has problems printing with
> the NTX-J and was hoping that since the English system has
> bugs fixed much more readily that it would be more effective
> to use this. Any comments?

The Kanji World Script module (which permits Kanji text to be entered
and displayed under US System 7.1) has not yet been released.  I have
been using a beta version for a few months now, with few problems.

I'm not sure why the NTX-J would have trouble printing the Kanji TrueType
fonts that come with the Ws module.  I have had no trouble printing Kanji
fonts on non-Kanji printers (using both TrueType and Adobe's ATM-J fonts).

Could you be more specific about what the problems were supposed to be?



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

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 21:34:28 -0600 (CST)
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Zimmerman)
Subject: LaserWriter Select 310 - Facts?

Okay, I'll admit confusion.  These new LaserWriter Select 310
printers - what do they really have going for them?  Obviously
Ziff-Davis people have no idea, because whereas a release from
MacWEEK Online News says they come with Gray Share, PhotoGrade,
Fine Print, Post Script Level 1 and 39 True Type fonts, the
current MacUser says they have no Gray Share, Fine Print, Photo
Grade, and only 13 True Type fonts.

I've only found 2 mentions of the new Select 300 and 310 in
my Info-Mac logs for the last month and a half, and even the
authors of those postings admitted uncertainty.  Given that I
can find the Personal LaserWriter LSfor about $849, I'm hoping
that the $1,079 mfg price of the 310 will be similarly cut
once it hits the discount stores.  Until then, I've got an
interest-free loan burning a hole in my pocket while I figure
out which low cost laser printer to buy.

Anybody have any hard facts yet?

Charlie Zimmerman
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 MAR 93 10:17:56 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LC -> LCIII vs. PowerCache

In I-M digest no. 58, Kimiaki Nakano asks for pros and cons of upgrading
an LC (or LCII) to LCIII versus installing a 40 MHz PowerCache plus
floating point chip.

   I have an LCII that I upgraded with a 40MHz PowerCache plus FPU. I also
   have
at work a IIci. Since all reports of the LCIII say that its speed is
virtually identical to a IIci, then making a comparison of the IIci and the
PowerCache seems to be more or less what you want.
   I ran the Speedometer benchmark programs. The disk speed and the video
speed of the LCII plus PowerCache were not improved by the PowerCache,
and were a little slower than the IIci. However, the processing speed of
the LCII plus PowerCache is faster than the IIci. It depends what test you
look at, but it ranged from 20% or so to almost 80% faster.
   So what's it like in the real world? Both machines are subjectively
much faster than a plain LC or LCII. The LCII plus PowerCache seems
noticably quicker for some things, and about the same as the IIci for
others. So the conclusion is to go for the cheaper one, PROVIDED you are
happy with a 10Mbyte memory limit. If you think you will need more memory
in the future, than the LCIII upgrade allows it but the PowerCache does not.

Eric Eisenhandler, Dept. of Physics, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
Univ. of London     [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 18:48:34 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: LCIII upgrade and fax for Cricket Graph III

Dear Netters,

We have an LC that we want to upgrade to an LCIII.  Apple Israel does not
have the kits yet.  Is there a source where we can order the upgrade
direct?  I would appreciate a fax or E-mail.  Is it something our Apple
authorized guy can do or is there a board swap?

We also would like to purchase CA-Cricket Graph III.  Does anyone have the
fax or E-mail for Computer Associates?  What is the going price?

Thank you in advance for your help.

David L. Hirschberg
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 09:59:49 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Francis Knight, SIEM UK Felixstowe)
Subject: Nisus Upgrade: can it do...?

   o Publish and Subscribe?
   o AppleEvents?

   I've been anticipating those features for 18 months, I guess. Please
someone, tell me that Nisus 3.4 ends the waiting! Is it what became of
Nisus XS?

Cheers,
Francis K.

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 11:52:28 EST
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: OS2 Appletalk (?)

Folks, one of my grad stoonts found the following tidbit on something
called the "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <[e-mail]>
and asked if I knew anything about it. Nope. Have any of y'all?

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

 ---------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Does anyone knows where I can get a AppleTalk beta release for OS2?
>Forget  Apple. They don't have one. I know that IBM is working on one.
>Can someone tell  me where I can get it?
>
>Jean Aubin
>Internet: [e-mail]

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

Date: 16 Mar 1993 15:08:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: AL BEST <[e-mail]>
Subject: PB140 internal disk to external disk conversion

I've got a powerbook 140 with a 40MB internal drive.
I find the drive too small and want to upgrade.

There are plenty of folks who will sell me a bigger disk.
What I want is someone who will ALSO sell me an empty
box to plug my old 40MB drive into.  That is, the old
drive works fine and I'd like to turn it into an
external disk drive.

... suggestions?
Al Best
Department of Biostatistics
Medical College of Virginia

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

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 15:45:36 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PB180's active matrix or PB165c's passive matrix colour ? (Q)

                    16/March
Dear Sir/Madam

I am planning to buy PowerBook with FPU. So my choice will be PB180 or
PB165c.
However I haven't seen PB165c's display and don't know how it is.

My main purpose to use PB is for using WP, Spread sheet and science
caliculation by MatLab and Mathematica.

Please tell me your opinion which is the better display PB180's active matrics
or PB165c's passive matrix colour. In addition if you have any infomation
about PB185c(?), the PB180 with active matrix colour display, please let me
know.

Thanks in advance

Yours sincerely,

kimiaki nakano
Imperial College, UK

PS Please reply to my E-mail address.  [e-mail]

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Date: 16 Mar 1993 13:35:42 -0600 (CST)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Performa vs. 'real' Mac

A friend sent me a copy of Murphy Sewall's March '93 "Vaporware" column,
which included a notice that Apple is about to issue an updater for  system
7.1. (Apparently this news comes from MacWeek, 8 February.) He goes on to
say,

    The updater is recommended for most Macintosh models but not for the
    Performa series.

WHY NOT? I don't care about the update for 7.1, which I'm not using, but I
do care about the implication here that there is a more significant
difference between Performas and their traditional Mac counterparts than I
was aware of. I have been under the impression that the Performa 200 we
bought for my wife is EXACTLY & ABSOLUTELY identical to a Classic II,
except that it says "Performa" on the case and comes with the silly "At
Ease" software installed. I did notice, in the "About this Macintosh...."
dialog, that her system is numbered 7.0.1p, while mine (on my LC II) is
just 7.0.1 (no "p"). I assumed (without any good reason to do so, I admit)
that the "p" meant that At Ease had been installed on that machine.

Before I start giving my wife bad advice (or installing inappropriate
software on her machine), I'd be grateful if somebody could answer these
questions:

    1) IS there a significant difference--presumably in the ROMS?
    2) Does it mean I should do anything differently for her than I
       would for myself & my LC II?

Thanks in advance.

Will Porter / University of Houston

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 09:08:35 -0100
From: [e-mail] (andrew jones)
Subject: PostScript -> EPSF

Dear mac folk,

Would somebody explain to me what is the difference between raw
PostScript, and Encapsulated PS. I want to include figures into
a TeX document, and this requires EPSF files, this is fine if i
produce the figures myself, but i have some in raw PS, and i need
to know how to encapsulate them, perhaps there is already something
to do this, but i could not find it easily.

many thanks
andrew ([e-mail])

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Date: 15 Mar 1993 23:51:03 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Daniel B. Pliske)
Subject: PowerPoint, LaserWriter LS, and greyscale

I recently discovered an apparent limitation of PowerPoint 3.0 in
combination with my Personal LaserWriter LS. After putting together
some greyscale slides I found that the printed output was rendered in
black and white only. Microsoft technical support indicated that
"PowerPoint relies on the printer driver to handle greyscale printing."
The same slides, imported into MacDraw Pro, print in greyscale. Does
anyone know of a way to print in greyscale directly from PowerPoint
on a Personal LaserWriter LS (or other QuickDraw printer)? A
friend recommended a shareware program called WonderPrint, but I have
been unable to locate it in any of the archives. I'd appreciate
any suggestions people may have regarding extending the greyscale
capabilities of the LaserWriter LS, or workarounds involving PowerPoint.

Best regards,

Dan Pliske
[e-mail]
--
Daniel B. Pliske
The Analytic Sciences Corporation       [e-mail]
12100 Sunset Hills Road                 [phone]
Reston, VA  22090                       [phone] FAX

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 12:36:51 -0700
From: Bruce Carter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Problem with A/B box and hardware handshake

Greetings all,

I have a Supra v.32bis modem hooked up to my modem port with the hardware
handshake cable.  I recently acquired at a bargain an old MacRecorder.  I'd
like to hook both of these up with an A/B type switch so that I won't have to
be plugging and unplugging the connectors all the time.  I tried just hooking
it all up with a regular DIN-8 serial cable to the A/B box, then the modem
hardware handshake cable off one port and the MacRecorder off the other port,
but the modem ceased to work.  Is this likely the switch, or do I need a more
specialized cable between the box and the modem port (I don't see how that
could be since that cable essentially just extends the 8 pins out to the
box).
Is the box maybe not switching all the pins or something?  The MacRecorder
does
work in this setup, and I have hooked up a LaserDisc and a NEC PC-VCR with
this
switch with no problem.

Any information would be appreciated.  Thanks!
                     <->
Bruce Carter, CBI Product Development                [e-mail]
Simplot/Micron Instructional Technology Center       amccarte@idbsu (Bitnet)
Boise State University, Boise, ID  83725             [phone]@phone

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Date: 16 Mar 1993 08:16:34 -0500
From: "Jonathan Maybaum" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Prograph FTP site/list

               Subject:                               Time:8:12 AM
  OFFICE MEMO          Prograph FTP site/list                 Date:3/16/93
Try:
acorn.grove.iup.edu (anonymous FTP)
[e-mail] (list ?)
I believe that the contact person for this list is Mark Nutter:
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 20:56:09 -0600
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Shutdown items 2.3* wanted

The latest version of shutdown item 2.41 implements
"minutes from now" differently from 2.3*.  I prefer 2.3*'s.  Does anyone
have a copy of it?  or tell me where I can find it.  Thanks.

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Date: 16 Mar 1993 08:30:46 +0100 (MET)
From: HANS KROEGER <[e-mail]>
Subject: sticky scroll arrows (Q)

The following strange thing happens when I am reading a Word 5.0 file on my
PB180 :

When clicking the scroll arrow the first click will move the text by one line
only. It will also create a click sound inside the PowerBook as if a relay
changes its state. Continuous scrolling will not start until I click a second
time. Seemingly this happens only if I did not click on the scroll bar for
about a minute (?) or so. I am under the impression that this happens more
frequently when reaading a large file compared to a small one.
This problems occurs with both push buttons of the "mouse" so it should not
be a hardware problem.
It is also not the disk speeding up from resting....
Any suggestions ?

Thank you in advance.

Hans Kroeger
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 00:28:13 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Stefano Pelli)
Subject: StyleWriter II driver on Stylewriter I

A friend of mine has bought a SWII,so I am tempted to have a try
of the SWII driver on my good "old" SWI,which is working pretty good.
The hope of course is to be capable of exploiting the grayshading
capability of the new software.
I have read some comments on the matter in the past on the digest,but
I haven't come to any definite conclusion.
So I ask to any SWI owner who has already tried this:
does the trick work?
is it dangerous for the SW I (apart from the software head cleaning)?
If I have many replies I can summarize for the digest.
I thank you all in advance and greet everybody contributing to the life
of the digest and ftp site!
                   Stefano Pelli [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 18:18:23 EST
From: Rob Smyser <[e-mail]>
Subject: tape backup options for a Quadra 950 server

Hi, I haven't seen much discussion of this issue on info-mac, but perhaps
people have implemented some solutions they'd like to share.  I have a
Quadra 950 running Appleshare.  I need to get a tape or other-device
backup solution.  I now have a 2.5G scsi 8mm tape drive for a set of unix
file servers; I'd like to be able to at least buy one kind of tape media
that could be used in either system.

Does anyone have experiences with an 8mm tape solution for a Mac?
Thanks in advance.

 ----------
    Rob Smyser      Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories
            MIT School of Architecture and Planning
    [e-mail]  [phone]

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 01:54:37 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Textures and PostScript (C)

I must take issue with some recent statements concerning Textures by
Blue Sky Research.

In infomacv11-058 it was said that Textures does not use PostScipt, but
instead exclusively uses bitmapped fonts.  This is not true!!!!  Anyone
using a version of Textures released within the last 2 years has the
entire set of Computer Modern fonts (the font used by TeX) in PostScript.
I do not believe that is the problem the person with the printing
trouble is having.  I would suggest they call Blue Sky Research and talk
to the tech support people (they are, by the way, excellent).  They did
not mention what kind of Mac they were using, but I believe that the
Mac has to do all the rendering for the print job and if they are using
a dog (in a relative sense of course), then they may have to wait a long
time since you can create some pretty complex documents in TeX (all the
rendering when printing the HP they are using).

I have used both Textures and OzTeX and I much prefer the interface and
especially the speed of Textures.  Lightning Textures (the most recent
release) is 2 to 3 times faster than OzTeX!  I still highly recommend
OzTeX for those that can't afford Textures since TeX is such a fantastic
way to write.  I do believe that Blue Sky has special student pricing
available now, so interested students may want to check that out (I am not
sure of this though.  Call Blue Sky at [phone]).

Best regards,


Gary L. Gray                *  Engineering Mechanics & Astronautics
[e-mail]  *  University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 11:49:15 MET
From: Josep M. Font <[e-mail]>
Subject: Textures slow printing on DeskWriter (A)

>> I have a problem on HP Desk Writer printing.  When I use the HP Desk
>> Writer to print the typesetted files of Textures, the printing speed is
>> very very slow. The estimated average printing speed is about 5-6
>> min/page.  Undoubtedly, this printing speed makes my thesis printing
>> (about 150 pages) an awful job.  I find that the printer driver (DW 3.1)
>> spends much time on "spooling to disk" process. I don't know why this
>> process takes such a long time.  Is this problem caused by the slow CPU
>> speed of my LC II (with FPU emulator)?  Is it useful if I use a FPU to
>> accelerate the processing speed?  I hope someone can help me out.  Thanks
>> in advance.

Stephen C. Harmony replies:

>I suspect this is a problem with Textures. I have helped Tex users here try
>to struggle with Textures, but have never used it extensively myself, never
>having been a big Tex jock. Any way, the biggest problem I've seen with
>Textures is that it uses bit-mapped fonts exclusively, ignoring the
>PostScript that helped put the Mac at the forefront of desktop publishing.
>Look at the massive collection of fonts you've installed in Textures, and
>you'll see lots of giant point sizes that are 4x multiples of normally used
>sizes. This is for translating the 72 dpi of Mac screen fonts to the 300
>dpi used by laser printers and, I think, the Desk Writer. My experience
>with printing Textures files was that it was slow on LaserWriters, so I can
>imagine how slow it is with the Desk Writer. Your 5-6 min/page seems about
>right.

This may be true for older installations of Textures, but recent (more than
one year) distributions bundle it with Postscript fonts and you need to have
Adobe Type Manager (ATM) in order to see the fonts on screen; so if you want
to print with an HP DeskWriter, I suppose this will also help you; I have
never done it, so I cannot guarantee any ilmprovement in speed. Using these
PostScript fonts also saves a lot of disk space. Moreover, the current version
of Textures (1.5, I believe) is significantly faster than previous ones, and
has several miscellaneous improvements (but also some small bugs).

Note that I have no connection with Blue Sky Research, Textures publishers.
Just (sort of) a satisfied user.


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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 13:22:47 EST
From: "James A. Connolly" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Think C & Pascal

What are the latest versions of Think C and Think Pascal?

I know how to program in Pascal, but I bought Think C (thinking it
was time to learn another language after Basic, Assembly 6809, 68000,
80x86, and Pascal...  however, I have no references to good programming
in C.

Since I'm going to be learning C on a Mac, should I be reading
K&R or should I be finding a Mac-specific "how to learn C on the Mac"
book?

When it all comes down to it, should I just buy Think Pascal as well?

Is access to the printer (postscript or deskwriter) easy from these
languages?

                       ...James

[e-mail]      phone [phone]      fax [phone]

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 93 21:54:49 PST
From: Edan Kabatchnik <[e-mail]>
Subject: TrueType Fonts

Does anyone know a dealer that can provide the Printer Tune Up package?  I am
really looking for an extended set TrueType fonts (such as Palatino).  Any
information would be highly appreciated.

    - Edan

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 19:28:16 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Who wrote "SE ROM Picture Program" ?

Anthony F. Gaudiano ([e-mail]) wrote:

>This is a application which will display the pictures hidden
>in the ROM(s) of the SE.  This application does not require
>you reboot your SE after displaying the picts.
>This is for a SE only!!!
>It will not work on any other computer.
>Don't think that it will work on a SE-30, but, if you are daring enough to
>try, good luck.
>I don't remember where I originally got this, so, I don't know who to
>give credit to.

OK, who wrote it ?
Is it possible to have a program like this for the IIci ?
Is there a picture in the ROM for the IIvx, too ?

Sven :)

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 93 14:35:01 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Steve Kalkwarf)
Subject: Why does this happen? (custom icons revisited)

On a color Mac, try this:
Take a floppy and drag it to FileTyper or any other utility that allows
attribute fiddling.
Set the custom icon bit to true.
Dismount the disk.
Reinsert the disk.

Why does this happen?

I'd like to know the real reason, but wild speculation will be read as well.

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 17:12:28 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Marcus Harvey)
Subject: World Scripts - WHEN?!?!?!?

What are Apple playing at with this "System 7.1 World Ready" crap?

I would really love to have a switchable english/spanish system - so where
is it? I got International 7.1 from the  d e v e l o p  CD but it's not
there.
Just how long are Apple going to take to get these 'world scripts' out here?

Somone on comp.sys.mac.system was just saying that all his Chinese compatriots
are giving up on the Mac for Windows Chinese 3.1 or whatever it's called.

Anyone got _any_ news?

-marcus

Marcus Harvey, University of Westminster IRS
JANET: [e-mail]
INTERNET: marcus%westminster.ac.uk@nsf

                              ...Bubble Up!

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