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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 19 Mar 93       Volume 11 : Issue 62

Today's Topics:

      68040 vs 486 speeds
      [Q] AutoDoubler 2.0 Upgrade?
      About XFerIt and bragging
      Apple Tape Backups
      Bragging (Number of extensions)
      bragging?
      Centris 610 w/ 21" Mono Monitor?
      Change username
      ClarisWorks 2.0
      connecting home to work
      Control Panels & Extensions
      DAT Drive Problems
      DAT SCSI Drives (Q)
      DECNET -> AppleTalk v58 known bug (C)
      DropStuff
      DTP Careers and Skills
      DuoDock and color screen > 16" (A)
      Europrices, inc. software
      Extensions, Extensions, Extensions
      Forward delete on the standard Apple keybord? (Q)
      Freeware/shareware fonts (R)
      Hard disk error
      How to play ".au" sounds
      Japanese Word Processor???  (R)
      K&R C book
      MacLang
      Macpwrbook-l
      MacRecorder problems on IIfx
      Mac running VGA moniter?
      Macs in the White House
      MacTCP no Local/Ether Talk Icon, Can't fix it (2 msgs)
      Mac Text Processor Needed (C)
      MacWeek address
      MacWhiteHouse (C)
      MacWrite Pro arrived (yawn--grrrr!)
      Microsoft plans to remove interactive Mail support on ALink
      Modems on different systems (Q)
      Mystery file
      Nisus & Quickeys listserv changes
      Nisus & Quickeys listserv changes (oops)
      Nisus Upgrade: CAn it do...? (C)
      Numerical Data from Graphs (Q)
      NuTek and Mac Clone.
      NuTek Has Macintosh Clone Ready: Opinions?
      Partitioning a File (R)
      Printer font layout problem--- PLEASE HELP SOON!
      ResEdit "^O" references?
      Severe problem with Kermit 0.88(188)
      SIMMS, NEW YORK (A)
      Sony 1604S + Centris in 2 Page mode
      SuperATM fonts
      Superdrive problem (A)
      Telecomm program with vt100, small font, meta key
      TidBITS #165 - Privacy Issues
      TidBITS#168 - European Software Prices
      Translators for Apple File Exchange (A)
      Uncompressing SIT files from rigel.acs.oakland.edu
      using Apple CDROM drives under DOS!
      World Scripts - WHEN?!?!?!?

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 09:39:56 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: 68040 vs 486 speeds

This is probably like preaching to the choir, but here are some test results
of a large fortran code on various machines, including 486 and 68040. This
code does ab-initio x-ray absorption calculations and is loaded with
transcendentals and uses complex*16 very heavily, so this is a very "float"
intensive benchmark. It has the strength that it is a large complicated code,
so unlike things like whetstone, it is not susceptible to simple-minded
"optimization". I think that, within the bounds set out above, this is a
pretty good test of cpu speed. Of course, it also tests compilers! The
results are:

12 min          Epson 386 25 MH   Watcom f77/386 compiler with optimization
6 min 2 sec     SUN  SPARC 1    f2c + cc
6 min           ?     486 50 MHz Lahey f77 dos exender, 2.7 Meg
5:20            ? 486 25 MHz        Microway NDP mf77 dos extender
4:56            SGI 4D320           7 users on the machine
4 min           ?     486 25 MHz  Watcom f77 dos extender
3:03            Quadra 700, Absoft f77 3.2,  standard optimizations, no cache
55 secs         Convex 240
29.795s         Cray YMP-8  (cpu time) and 30.171s wallclock time, using 12.3%
        of the 8-cpu machine
17 sec          DEC alpha

An earler, simpler, version of the same code gave the results:
times listed are real times (i.e., wristwatch times)

12:40  20 MHz Dell 386 (with 387),
10:30  25 MHz Epson 386 (with 387) MS Fortran 4.0
10:00  microVAX II
 6:00  VAXstation 3200
 3:30  Gateway 25 MHz 486 (Microsoft Fortran 5.0)
 3:20  Sparcstation I (fc, O2)
 3:07  Sparcstation I (f2c, default opt)
 1:49  NeXT (f2c + gnu c)
 1:30  Macintosh IIx + 25 MHz 88000 accelerator board
 1:20  Quadra 700, Absoft f77 3.1.2
 0:30  Convex 240
 0:30  IBM RISC/6000 model 320 (bottom of the line: the $11K one).
 0:08  CRAY YMP  (unicos cf77, single precision)

Don't beat me up about the seeming inconsistencies in some of these times,
cause I didn't run them! This is from a large collection of users of this code
who have reported back cpu times. My conclusion is that the 040 Macs with the
absoft compiler are the equal of 486 machines that have twice the clock
speed!
(almost)

The persistent  belief that the 486 is much faster than the 040 is wrong.
Certainly for floats, the 040 is a runaway winner, despite what you hear on
much of the net. I do not have data for integer codes, so I don't know. It is
also interesting that the 040 Mac's are solidly into "workstation" terrain
for scientific calculations. Finally, the performance of the DEC alpha is
absolutely stunning. This might even make a winner out of Windows NT, but note
that the 17 second performance (faster than a Cray YMP!!!) was done with the
excellent VMS fortran compiler.

Anyone have similar data for other codes?

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 14:45:01 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Martin Rickli)
Subject: [Q] AutoDoubler 2.0 Upgrade?

Hi,

I have AutoDoubler 1.0.7i and am wondering, if there exist an updater to
v2.0. I noticed this new version, as I saw a patch-program vom 2.0 to
2.0.1.

Any comments welcome

Thanks
Martin

Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:05:45 -0800
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: About XFerIt and bragging

I spoke with Steve Falkenburg after reading about the XFERIT questions and
here's his stand on the issue.

He is not supporting XFerIt anymore.  It requires too much maintenance and
his job and life aren't providing him with enough extra time.  As a result,
he is not cashing any checks he receives for it and does not plan on
cashing them.  He also doesn't read his Internet mail, but you realized
that already.

He says that he is trying to figure out what to do with XFerIt.  He would
either like to make it commercial or give it to someone else to support,
much like he did with NewsWatcher.  I asked him what people could do to
contact him about this option and he waffled completely, saying that he
hasn't decided which way to go with it.

So, write the check off for zero (or put a stop payment on it if you are
paranoid) and just use XFerIt without remorse.

Now for something completely different.  Both those pansies who were busy
comparing their numbers of extensions, and the fellow who advocated a
clean system too; they are all wimps.  I have 50 control panels and 59
extensions.  I haven't bothered figuring out which ones really contain
INITs, but I easily outclass them both.  Only 45 or 50?  Pah!  As for the
sentiment that a clean system runs better, I dispute that.  My system
does more, and that is the definition of better that I adhere to.

Did I mention that my System Folder is 35 Megs?  And that's without any
Postscript fonts!  My home system is bigger.  ;)

Jon

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:40:16 EST
From: "Dieder B." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Tape Backups

With the imminent introduction of the Apple Workgroup Servers (some
really really NEAT stuff there....) Apple has as an option for the
Quadra 800/950 derivatives (Wkgroup 80/95) a built in DEC 4mm tape
drive. Any body know whether or not this will be marketed seperately
or not? or what the size of the tape is? Just curious...

Dieder B.

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 08:41:22 PST
From: "Peter Jorgensen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bragging (Number of extensions)

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While 'schomer' would probably not believe it, my Quadra 700 runs quite
reliably with 55 extensions/control panels. Of course, its got alot more
extensions that don't actually load code at startup, like various Chooser
drivers. And some of those 55 don't stay resident, they do something at
startup, like set my system's clock (tardis) and allow me to control which
ones do load (Extension manager). And I didn't really bother to think about
each control panel, to see whether it is an INIT, many are, some aren't. The
point is, the Mac system software is WONDERFULLY extensible, more so than any
other I know of. If you're like me, connected to the Internet (MacTCP), using
PathWorks (DECNet Mac), an Infoserver (LASTPort), a local CD-ROM (several
INITs), want to mount DOS disks (PC Exchange) - in short, get the most out of
your amazing computer, then you end up with lots of "INITs." BTW, the closest
any of my INITs comes to a "toy" is my screen saver (Darkside).

Yes, schomer, I sometimes have INIT conflicts (especially with COMMERCIAL
PRODUCTS e.g. AccessPC (Insignia) is not compatible with LASTPort (Digital
Equipment Corp), but the functionality that they add to my Mac makes having
them worth the bother of sorting out the problems.

Peter Jorgensen - Colgate University Research & Instructional Computing Spec.
        - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 14:47:28 GMT
From: [e-mail] (David Lange)
Subject: bragging?

[e-mail] writes:

>To Dan Garcia ([e-mail]) who wrote:

>Can anyone beat my record of 45 Extensions and Control Panels?

just checked:  24 Ext and 24 Control Panels.  = 48
But you know, I'm sure that I used even more before I got
this new Mac.  When I set up this machine a month a go, I stripped
out all the stuff I "couldn't live without."  Now I'm left with
the bare bones System with only 48 E and CPs. :)

>I write:

>Why would anyone want to beat that? It sounds to me like you have
>a computer that is going to blow from keeping all those damn extensions
>and control panels in your sys.folder.

>Sorry, but to me, that is hardly something to brag about. I feel that
>running a neat, clean computer is always the safest.

Oh come on now.  Don't be such a spoil sport.  Owning a Mac should not
be about "being safe."

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Date: 19 Mar 1993 09:36:04 -0600
From: "Glockzin Donald" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris 610 w/ 21" Mono Monitor?

Can the Centris 610's built-in video support the Apple 2 page 21" Monochrome
Monitor?

THANKS -- DG
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 05:11:59 -0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Change username

I want to make a program in ThinkPascal that can change the Filesharing
username in System 7.
Is this possible?

Please mail me -> [e-mail]

PS. I know that I can change it manually in the Filesharing file!

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 10:31 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: ClarisWorks 2.0

I heard today that ClarisWorks 2.0 is due out very shortly.  The upgrade
price for existing British users is 38 pounds, which seems a bit steep to
me, so if anyone out there has a list of features in the upgrade please
submit them to the Digest!

In the UK you can also sidegrade from ClarisWorks 1.0 to MacWrite Pro, but
the sidegrade price is even steeper, 120 pounds, which can't be that much
less than the actual retail price of MWP

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:45:10 +0200
From: [e-mail]
Subject: connecting home to work

At work I have a mac connected to appletalk.  Our appletalk network is
connected to our server (a *oh-no* PC running Novel).  We are also
connected (through Fastpath?) to the various mainframes on campus.  Eudora
seems to be one answer to my communication needs at work.

Can I connect to the appletalk network from home (through the server?)?
Can I connect to my Mac at work?
Can I use Eudora from home?
How much would this cost?

I am a less than novice when it comes to communication protocols, but can
understand things like: buy a modem with x, y, z features and hook it up to
a, b, c.

Thanks for all your advice in advance.
Michael Silverstein, Materials Engineering, Technion

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 13:15:00 +0000
From: "Bob (R.B.) Summers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Control Panels & Extensions

<< Can anyone beat my record of 45 Extensions and
<< Control Panels?

<< Dan Garcia <[e-mail]

Well, Dan, I just counted mine and I have 29 items in my control panels
folder and 31 in my extensions folder (43+ if you count individual extensions
belonging to a group, eg, Stuffit translators) for a grand total of over 60
(or 70).

Which reminds me, maybe it's time to clean house: check what's there and find
out what I'm actually using.

Bob

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 15:46:15 CET
From: Klaus Koehler <[e-mail]>
Subject: DAT Drive Problems

Jeff,

this sounds very familiar to me. I had the same experiences after
connecting my DAT drive to a Quadra 700. I hab no problems on a Mac II,
so I was sure it isn' t the DAT drive.

Two things had to be done to fix the problem:

1) I had to buy another SCSI cable, one from Apple, the Quadra 700 did
   not work with any third-party cable.

2) I had to reformat the hard disk and to install the system software.
   There was no way to get Retrospect working with the factory-installed
   system (Maybe it was a minimal system...).

BTW: My System is a Quadra 700 20/210, 1GB ext. HD, CD150, HP 2GB DAT.
     System 7.1 german. Retrospect version is v1.3Bi.

Hope that helps,
    Klaus

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 22:37:20 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DAT SCSI Drives (Q)

We have just upgraded a SCSI DAT drive that was running on a Novell
file server.  Rather than shelve the old unit, we'd like to use it
to back up a Quadra 700 with a 410 MB hard drive.

Is it possible to connect the SCSI DAT drive that ran on the Novell
PC server on a Mac?  Will Retrospect recognize it?

Comments, recommendations and just plain guesses are welcome!

Jeffrey Fritz, [e-mail]
West Virginia University

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 9:22 BST
From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
Subject: DECNET -> AppleTalk v58 known bug (C)

I'd just like to confirm that there is certainly a known conflict between
DECNET, AppleTalk 58 and the built-in Ethernet on Quadra 700s.  I can't
comment on other Macs with built-in Ethernet like the Centris 650 and
Quadra 950.

As for reinstalling AppleTalk 57 to cope with this problem, I would have
thought that one could do it with the 7.1 Install disks since 7.1 precedes
AppleTalk 58.  It's possible that the Installer script will refuse to install
v57 over v58, in which case, try using the Installer supplied with
DEC Pathworks 1.1.  I managed to do it the other day without a hitch

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 09:06:26 PST
From: John Wical <[e-mail]>
Subject: DropStuff

   Where can I find DropStuff?

John

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Date: 19 Mar 1993 07:23:47 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DTP Careers and Skills

I am beginning research on Desktop and Electronic Publishing
and Imaging careers and skills. I am trying to locate job
descriptions, lists of job titles, lists of skills, and other
related information.

Any submissions, replies, or suggestions would be appreciated.

I would also like to hear about what you do as a desktop publisher,
how you came to be a desktop publisher, how becoming a desktop
publisher has changed your career, how you prepared to become a
desktop publisher, etc.

Thank you.

Mike Kleper
Professor, RIT

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 17:47:42 +0100
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: DuoDock and color screen > 16" (A)

This is a summary of the answers I got to my request about having a
video card and a big color screen on a DuoDock.  I got four answers.

None of these answers was really negative, so in principle it should
work.  There is a glitch however, reported by Elliot Bennett:

``The problem is that the Monitors control panel never remembers the
settings when you go back and forth from the built-in display to your
desktop displays.  This means that you have to reset the the color
depth (and menu bar placement if you have more than one monitor
connected to your dock as I do) EACH time you switch from one to the
other.  It's a ROYAL pain (and a known bug).  BUT, as I said, you can
use this system if you're willing to put up with setting the monitors
CP each time you switch (and rebooting if you're doing any more than
changing the color depth).''

If I have any more answers, I'll summarize them too.

                    Martin Jourdan

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 08:57:30 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Europrices, inc. software

Forwarded from TidBITS so others can have the benefit of seeing these
interesting comments even if we can't afford the space to publish all of
the ones we receive. Please continue the discussion here; I will be
listening in. Thanks for thinking about what we write!

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# Forward of letter <9303161026.AA00191@ etiserv.eti.bio.uva.nl > from "Ferren
MacIntyre" <[e-mail]>:
#
# Date: 16 Mar 93 11:46:16 U
# From: "Ferren MacIntyre" <[e-mail]>
# Subject: Europrices, inc. software
#
# Something which Americans may not be conscious of is that higher Europrices
# (for software and everything else) reflect higher social expectations (at
least
# in northern Europe), which must be paid for one way or another
(TANSTAAFL!).  A
# Scandinavian distributor of US computer hardware was finally put out of
# business by an embezzling employee -- but employment-protection laws
prevented
# him from firing her in the meantime.  The average Norwegian work week (after
# correcting for vacations, sick leave, sunny days, maternity leave, etc. --
but
# not including coffeebreaks, planning meetings, groups discussions, and
arguing
# with burocrats) is a mere 24 hours.  Expatriate Americans of my acquaintance
# consistently put in 50 to 100% longer work weeks than their co-workers, just
# out of habit.
#
# On the other hand, there are almost no street people in Scandinavia.  The 2
# dozen "bums" in Bergen *choose* to spend their social welfare payments on
# $15/bottle (cheap) wine:  the government still gathers them up every winter
and
# stores them in warm places.  *No one* in Holland lacks medical care.  All of
# this TLC costs money, and a lot of it comes from value-added taxes.
Europeans
# put up with these taxes primarily because they view American disregard of
# social niceties as lying somewhere in the triangle whose vertices are
# uncivilized, inhuman, and unjust.
#
# --Ferren
#
# Ferren MacIntyre    =    [e-mail]
# Fax: [phone]     Voice: ...525-7239
# Expert-center for Taxonomic Identification
# PB 4766,  NL-1009 AT Amsterdam,  Holland
#

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Date: 19 Mar 1993 07:16:24 U
From: "BIESECKER" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Extensions, Extensions, Extensions

In Info-Mac Digest V11/#60 Dan asks:

>p.s. Can anyone beat my record of 45 Extensions and Control Panels?

67. Running on a IIx, with System 7.1, 8 MB RAM, and *absolutely* no
problems.
(Don't tell my boss, he'd get pi**ed!)

Yes, it's at work.  (But I do a LOT of Network Manager stuff...)

Aloha from Hawaii!  TED

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 23:18:34 CST
From: [e-mail] (chian wang)
Subject: Forward delete on the standard Apple keybord? (Q)

Hello from Taiwan,

Is there any program that can archieve forward delete on the standard Apple
keyborad?

Thanks.

Chian Wang
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:38:28 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Freeware/shareware fonts (R)

Norm Weiner asks:

>In the March/April 1993 issue of Aldus Magazine, there is a sidebar about
>shareware/freeware fonts, all available on CompuServe. I'm not tied into
>CompuServe, so I checked the Sumex archives for the fonts I liked - to no
>avail. Could someone get them off CompuServe and post them here or directly
to
>me? I'm especially interested in Comics CarToon by Pat Snyder, Eraser Dust,
>Pixie Font, Rabbit Ears, Showboat, and Tribeca, all by David Rakowski. (Or
>maybe someone can tell me how to get in touch with David Rakowski.) Thanks
for
>your help in advance.

Have you tried wuarchive.wustl.edu? Look in:
mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/mac/system.extensions/font

I know ComicsCartoon is there, or at least used to be a few months back,
'cause I downloaded it and took a look at it. Didn't keep it, though, so
I can't send it on to you. I don't know about the other fonts you
mentioned, but there are a lot more at this site than at sumex, so give
it a shot.

Hope this helps,
        Pat

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

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 22:27:43 +0100
From: Vecoven Frederic <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard disk error

Hello everyone,

I use a Mac SE/30 with a 80Mb internal hard disk and a 520MB external.
Since a dew days, I *must* boot from the internal disk, because if I boot
>From the external, I go to MacsBug with the following message "Invalid index
passed to ResolveDirectory". I have tried Norton Disk Doctor and MacTools,
but they found nothing. In MacsBug, issuing the "es" (escape to system)
command
puts the finder on, but the same happens on the next reboot...
I also tried to rebuild the desktop... no change.

Has anybody an idea of what to do ?
Thanks a lot.

Frederic Vecoven  ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 19:53:59 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to play ".au" sounds

Howdy all.  Does anyone know what shareware program to get (and where) that
would allow me to play SUN ".au" sounds.  If you can suggest one, try to
suggest one that doesn't require ".tar"-ing.
Much obliged,
 Matt Herbison
 Penn State University

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 16:26:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: Japanese Word Processor???  (R)

[e-mail] (Nicholas Daniel Boyle) Subject:

> >I am looking for a Japanese Word Processor for the Mac.
> >Does anybody know where I can find one or where I can get more
> >info???

>  How about using system 7.1's world script Japanese and MS
> WORD 5.xx or Teachtext or any other text editor... i've been
> using them for 4 months now!!

I don't know about your experience, but MS Word 4 or 5 (and most
commercial WP packages) will not work properly with KanjiTalk
6.0.7, KT 7.1, or the Kanji WorldScript module under US System
7.1.  This is both from my experience, and from official MS info.

The reason is that most commercial WP programs don't use Apple's
Script Manager routines, so they don't expect to see multi-byte
characters.  The result is that when you mouse on a character in a
Kanji-text line, the insertion point will appear well to the left.
Also, Word 5 does not know how long a Kanji line is, so the line-
folding is inappropriate.  And Word will even let you start typing
with the insertion point in the middle of a multi-byte character,
which usually leads to unpleasent results.

TeachText, and any other application that uses the Mac's built-in
TextEdit package, will handle Kanji text perfectly.  Of course, you
are then limited to 32K byte texts, by the TextEdit bug.

If you want a text-editing package that works properly with texts
over 32,000 bytes in length, you'll have to get the new Nisus 3.4,
WordPerfect 2.1.3 or later, or one of the freeware Japanese text
editors.



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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 06:44:25 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Eric H Seale)
Subject: K&R C book

[e-mail] writes:

>[e-mail] (Eric H Seale) writes:
>>Personally, I'd skip K&R (this just documents "classic C" --
>>you should probably be more modern and learn "ANSI C" unless
>>you are of a historic bent).
>Actually, the second edition covers ANSI C...

I stand (well, sit) corrected -- I guess I'm just too used to thinking
of pre-ANSI C as "K&R C".  Thanks for the update...

Eric Seale
#include <disclaimer.std>

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 11:43 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacLang

If anyone has any information on MacLang (some kind of language teaching
program), my better half would appreciate knowing where to get it.
Thanx much.
Thomas

[e-mail]
MOKWA@pittvms

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Date: 19 Mar 93 13:37 +0100
From: "Dr. Giulio Trillo' MD." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macpwrbook-l

Hi,
I've read on info-mac that "somewhere" there is a distribution
list named "macpwrbook-l" that probably is dedicated to the user
of fabulous toy that is the PeeBee.
Can anyone tell me which is the listserver that handl
e that
list? I've tried my local one, but it doesn't work...
Thanks everyone!

Giulio

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 22:41:26 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacRecorder problems on IIfx

Greetings!

  I recently acquired a Mac IIfx with 20Mb of RAM.  I swapped in
this CPU in place of my old IIx, with my hard drives, video cards,
etc.  left in place.  So, it's all the same stuff, except the IIfx
itself.

  Now, I find that I can't use my MacRecorder.  The MacRecorder
extension comes up at startup with a big 'X' through it, so that I
can't use SoundEdit Pro (needs the driver).

  Can anybody tell me what's going on here?  I've got some stuff I
really want to digitize, but I can't do it until I can get the
driver to work.

  I'm using MacRecorder Driver 1.02 and SoundEdit Pro 1.0.  I'm
running System 7.0.1 with TuneUp 1.1.1.  I'm running a whole stack
of extensions, but I get the same result with all of them off except
the MacRecorder driver and AutoDoubler.

  I've tried with 32-bit mode both on and off, but it makes no
difference.

Help!
--Mike

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 21:19:43 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac running VGA moniter?

Howdy.  What software is necessary to run a VGA moniter with a PowerBook
160?  Or is it not possible?  Thanks for any help.
 Matt Herbison
 Penn State University

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

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 22:33:48 EST
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Macs in the White House

> Did the White House redo their computer system, upgrading to Apple?
> Who has info on this??? Is it true that Clinton could have a Mac on his
desk?

I don't pretend to have any inside information, but with all the talk
about John Scully's appearances with the first family, I've been trying
to keep an eye out.  ABC recently ran a special with Clinton speaking to
children in the White House.  The beginning of the program started out
in the Oval Office.  As the camera panned around President Clinton's
desk and crendenza, I didn't see any computers (Mac other otherwise).

However, Clinton has an office on the upper floors that he uses for
more private work.  There could be something up there.

Just my 2 cents.

Jeff Fritz
West Virginia University

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

Date: 19 Mar 93 07:13:54 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Les Ferch)
Subject: MacTCP no Local/Ether Talk Icon, Can't fix it

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

>rather than seeing a choice of Local/EtherTalk and Ethernet, I see only
>a choice of Ethernet.  I had this problem once before, and tried rebuilding

Known bug. The fix is to get MacTCP 1.1.1.

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 12:21:28 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MacTCP no Local/Ether Talk Icon, Can't fix it

Bruce, try to use Network Software Installer 1.3 to re-install AppleTalk.
It looks like some version of NSI have an undocumented error. I experienced
similar problem, and re-installation of AT fixed it.Hope it help.
Jurek Wrzos ([e-mail])
Center for Information Technology
The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
P.O. Box 850,  Hershey, PA 17033
[phone]



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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 15:46:40 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Text Processor Needed (C)

>-- FAQ on --
>
>What is a good, solid text processor for the Mac? I mean something of OUR
>times not something like Vantage 1.6.1 that was last updated just before the
>dynosaurs vanished.
>
>-- FAQ off --     (<------  This is a shear coincidence).
>
>Background: I've just sent back a money-back-guarantied Vantage 1.6.1.,
>mainly (but not only) because of a virtually customer-insulting macro
>language, and crashes.
>
>Anyone using Qued 2.5? - How is it?? How does it compare to Vantage
>featurewise.
>
>Also a friend told me to 'cut the crap' and get MPW, because it's
>a better deal than Think C, and the best Mac text processor to date.
>any comments?? (Qued wasn't 2.5 then though)

Listen to your friend. The MPW editor and its associated tools are really
powerful for all kinds of text manipulations. It's easy to start a major
forest fire by getting into a discussion of Think C vs. MPW for programming,
but if you also need to do a bunch of file processing, utility-building and
general 'shell'-type work, MPW is clearly the way to go. (I happen to like
it for programming, too!)

Mark Lankton ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 08:23:24 PST
From: "Peter Jorgensen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWeek address

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Subject: MacWeek address
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        - Mac/DOS/VMS consultant, PMDF Postmaster, HyperTalker

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 16:32:53 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: MacWhiteHouse (C)

[e-mail] (Matthew T. Schomer) writes:

> Did the White House redo their computer system, upgrading to
> Apple? Who has info on this??? Is it true that Clinton could
> have a Mac on his desk?

The White House needs new computers very badly (especially after a
federal judge had all the hard drives on their PC's siezed to be
sent to the National Archives).  They would really like Macs, and a
number of WH staffers already have PowerBooks.

However, redoing the WH computer system would cost several million
dollars, and Clinton is announcing budget cuts for the WH, so it's
a little hard to swing at the moment.  Scully has reportedly offered
to give them a few million dollars' worth of Macs (good PR, eh?), but
for political and legal reasons the WH could not accept the offer.

Who knows, maybe they just found the money.



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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 17:36:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: MacWrite Pro arrived (yawn--grrrr!)

Folks,

    As many of you know, I have moaned over this service for a
couple of years that I have not found a suitable replacement
for the now abandoned-FullWrite Professional.  After seeing that
MacWrite Pro could be had for $69.00 during a special offer, I
decided to purchase it, hoping that with all the ballyhoo that it has
received for the past two years, that it might be the
replacement that I'm after.  As expected, I am incorrect.
First, let me explain some brief key points that I really
need in a word processor that are included in FullWrite's
commands and options:


FullWrite Professional's features that I use and need:

1) Floating sidebars that offer TOTAL word processing and
   graphing features.  The same commands that exist for the
   word processor exist within the sidebar.

2) Documented voice annotation windowed notes.  With an
   automatically supplied time and date in the window bar,
   a post-it note can be created in FullWrite, with voice
   annotations.  Also, the note can, upon the user's discretion,
   automatically open and/or sound-off when that note's
   document is loaded opened.

3) A very friendly outliner that supports working within
   sidebars and columns.  It also allows for level swaps.

4) A primitive, though workable graphics option.  It supports
   curved lines, circles, etc., AND the ability to attach
   arrow-heads to curved lines for technical illustrations.


MacWrite Pro:

    In response to the above features that I need in my line of
work, here is what MacWrite Pro offers:

1) Floating frames.  These are very primitive and do not offer
   the TOTAL word processor command set as FullWrite does.  One
   cannot place columns inside the frame, for example.  This
   can be done, EASILY, with FullWrite.

2) Voice annotation windowed notes.  Has a neat quality option
   feature in that you can select the sample rate of your
   voice, thus saving space.  These are NOT documented
   automatically with the current time and date as is done
   with FullWrite.  Also, there is NO option for individual
   voice annotated notes to open automatically when the document
   is loaded.

3) No outliner.  Amazing!  Absolutely incredible for such a
   program that is called "Pro".

4) The graphic ability is more primitive than I imagined when
   compared to FullWrite's graphics editor.  It is a simple
   border creator and imported picture cropper.  You cannot
   draw anything.  Again, I find this incredible for a program
   that has the word "Pro" in its name.

5) There is no "5)" for FullWrite Professional.  Anyway, I find
   it interesting that BBEDIT and MacWrite Professional use
   an identical document importer (Inserter).  The same and
   identical file types are listed.  Perhaps BBEDIT is picking
   up the Claris translators or something.  I dunno.


    For $69.00, this is a good word processor.  Column manipulation
is easy and uneven columns are supported.  The floating frames
can run across columns--very nice. But, this is NOT a $100.00
program in its present incarnation.  Actually, I have no idea
of the list price, but I wouldn't pay over $100.00.
    So, I'm still searching.  With the AddIT option, maybe
someone can write the features I need.  In the meantime, I pray
that FullWrite can hang tough as System 7nn continues evolving.
    Note that I received MacWrite Pro just two hours ago and
perhaps, and hopefully, I'm wrong in my pre-conclusions.  Also,
note that I placed the order only a couple of days ago.  The
shipping department certainly is quick.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>


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

Date: 19 Mar 1993 08:47:10 U
From: "Anne" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Microsoft plans to remove interactive Mail support on ALink

This item was posted to AppleLink March 18. The MS Mail bulletin board has
always been the most useful service MS has offered on ALink because it was the
only place users could post questions directly to MS and receive answers. Now
it looks like they want us to begin sending private mail to MSMAILSDK. I feel
that taking away a shared forum where everyone can read the problems and
questions that others have encountered will be a step back for MS and its
customers.

-abh

 ------------------------------------------
The Microsoft AppleLink Bulletin Board is being changed to become a "News" or
Read-only bulletin board.  We are doing this for two reasons:

1)  This bulletin board is not, and has never been monitored regularly by
Microsoft Product Support Services, with the exception of the Microsoft Mail
folder.  Despite postings directing users on how to contact Microsoft for
support, many customers unknowingly posted requests for support and were
disappointed when they did not receive answers.  In order to provide high
quality support and avoid disappointments, we are restructuring access to the
BBS to avoid any appearance that we can provide support in this forum.
MICROSOFT MAIL WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT VIA A SPECIAL ACCOUNT.  FOR
SUPPORT QUESTIONS PLEASE LINK MSMAILSDK.

2)  Microsoft marketing is now updating this bulletin board with new
information for your use.  For some time, this has been inadvertently
neglected.  Microsoft marketing support for AppleLink has been reorganized,
and
information will be updated throughout March 1993.  We hope this information
will be useful, and address your needs for product information.

If you have a posting on this board, it has been or will be deleted.  Most
customers could not be contacted with answers since no AppleLink ID was
typically noted.  If you need technical support, please see the message
"Contacting Microsoft", and contact the appropriate support group.

We hope this will result in a bulletin board that will be more useful to you,
and help you better find resources Microsoft offers for customer service.

If you have any suggestions on future improvements to the Microsoft BBS, or
other information you'd like to see posted, please link MS.PatCr, (Pat
Crenshaw
at Microsoft) whose account will be on line shortly.

Thank you.


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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:15:00 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Modems on different systems (Q)

Hi everyone out there!
This is my first letter to sumex-aim so I'm sorry if this is a FAQ! :)
I want to buy a modem, but I don't seem to be able to get a straight answer
to my question: Is it possible to connect any modem (with an rs232) to any
machine. I have a Macintosh, an Commodore Amiga and a PC - sorry about the
last one ;) - assuming I got the right software to each computer?
Hope someone out there in the wide world will help me!!
              Greetings from
              Morten Sidelmann (Internet: [e-mail])

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 06:32:41 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Jaime Garmendia - DuPont Argentina)
Subject: Mystery file

A colleague recently posted the attached question on an internal bulletin
board:

>>    I have suddenly noticed a file (blank icon) in my System folder called
>>    Indexor.  It can be opened from Microsoft Word, and contains the
>>    message:
>>    Welcome to Indexor!

>>    Indexor file created by Seahaven Towers
>>    on Thu, Dec 17, 1992 at 9:57:09 AM.

Anybody know what is this file about? Who or what is "Seahaven Towers"?

E-mail replies are welcome,

Jaime Garmendia
DuPont

[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:07:14 EST
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nisus & Quickeys listserv changes

Users of Nisus and Quickkeys may be interested to know that their are internet
lists that focus on those two products.

Current subscribers who have been missing mail from these two lists should be
aware that recently the two lists have been set up on a proper listserver.
For
most people this has not been a problem at all, but for some it is recommended
that you unsubscribe and then resubscribe.  Even if you have not been having
any
problems, you might want to do so to get your name properly registered with
the
listserver.

The listserver to send commands to is: [e-mail]

The subject is ignored so don't worry about what you put in the subject line.

To unsubscribe put the following command in the message body:

UNSUBSCRIBE nisus       (or UNSUBSCRIBE Quickeys)

To subscribe put the following command in:

SUBSCRIBE nisus Tom R. Smith    (put YOUR name for "Tom R. Smith", silly!)


That is it!  Upper case is NOT necessary, btw.

You can send more than one command at a time to the listserv so you can unsub
and sub to both lists in one message.  Just make sure your syntax is correct.

Other commands that you might wish to send are:

SET <listname> MAIL ACK      ->sends you a copy of your own posts
WHICH                        ->tells you which lists you are subscribed to
REVIEW <listname>            ->sends you a list of all subscribers
HELP                         ->sends you a list of these and other commands


We look forward to your presence on these lists.

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

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:13:21 EST
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nisus & Quickeys listserv changes (oops)

Crud.

I forgot to mention, of course, that the addresses to send POSTINGS to are
still the same:

 [e-mail]         for the nisus list and
 [e-mail]      for the quickeys list

Sorry about that.

And again, the listserv handling both lists is now:

[e-mail]

Send the message HELP to the latter address for subscriber info or see my
previous post.

Sorry about that.

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

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 15:32:35 EST
From: "Mel Martinez"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Nisus Upgrade: CAn it do...? (C)

In info mac v11 #60 Graeme Forbes <[e-mail]> writes:

> Sorry Francis, Nisus 3.4 is not Nisus XS. Nisus XS has now been renamed
> Nisus Writer, and won't be shipped until later this year at best. If you
> want Pub&Sub and AE's, you'll have to wait. And wait. And wait....
>
> The rationale for 3.4 is primarily to implement WorldScript, so if you
> don't write in 2 or more languages, it may not excite you much. It does
> have some new general features: text drag and drop, fuzzy find (from
> Nisus Compact), tracking, direct open of EPS files, and a few other
> things. The limited flag version is $20 so I'll probably upgrade. Those
> of you who want to mix English, Japanese and Farsi in the same doc
> will need the complete edition.
>
> When Words and Beyond ships, I'll be taking a look at it. The XS saga
> has grown very tiresome.
>
> Graeme Forbes


It should be noted that MS Word does not support Pub&Sub & Apple Events yet
either.

Actually, although I have been very satisfied with Nisus 3.06, the upgrade is
very nice.  I recieved 3.45 yesterday and my initial impressions are very
possitive.  It is noticeably smaller than 3.06 so loading is faster and has
many
very nice little touches that just make it, well, "nice".  It is more polished
than before.  Drag & drop is ok, although I doubt I will use it much.  The
Balloon Help is surprisingly quite useful.  That makes it the first major app
I
have that that is true for.  The option to keep the entire program loaded in
RAM
(also from Nisus Compact) makes it even faster than before.  Most of the
changes
are little things.  For $20 it is definitely worth it.

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

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 17:41:23 -0500
From: Brian K. Kobleur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Numerical Data from Graphs (Q)

Greetings O Wise Nettlings!

I can't seem to remember the name of software that will provide numerical
data based on a scanned in graph.  I seem to remember seeing that this was a
commercial item, but can anyone give me a pointer?

Thanks much!

Brian

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

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 21:56 PST
From: "Tony Wong ......" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NuTek and Mac Clone.

I would like to put my two cents worth about NuTek's Mac clone.

If NuTek can come up with the machine two years ago, when the Macintosh
was still twice as expensive as today, when System 7 was still in the R&D
lab, it may find itself a niche in the Mac market. Today, I can go out
and buy a Centris 610 below $1800, equipped with 68LC040 and tons of built
in features, why should I spend, say $1500, for a machine from a company
with only 30 employees? Not to mention the problem of compatibility.

Even NuTek can successfully achieve a 90%+ compatibility and survive the
potential lawsuit from Apple, no one can guarantee Apple's next version of
system software or system extensions can run on their platform. Apple may
even design features that definitely crash the machine by taking the whole
thing apart.

I believe cloning a PC is very much different from cloning the Mac, in a
sense that PC has a published standard. No single vendor ( even the BIG
BLUE ) can single handedly modify it, and all software developers will
develop software compatible to the standard. While Mac is one of its kind,
and Apple can publish new standard anytime when they see fit. Besides, Mac
is a much, much more complicated and sophisticated machine with so many
built in functions in ROM and hardware.

In hindsight I would like to see some competition which should bring us better
machine faster and cheaper. But cloning a Mac is something far too risky
with too little return today. The chief of NuTek no doubt is a technical
genius, but it just not the right time and he might have taken a wrong
target. May be we should request a second source of Macs by asking Apple
to licensing the Mac hardware/software to other companies.


                                                        Tony

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 05:55:46 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Harry Myhre)
Subject: NuTek Has Macintosh Clone Ready: Opinions?

I read the article, too. My question is why would I want a personal computer
with two personalities? I already like the Macintosh personality. I don't
want another personality lurking in there giving me problems. And I don't
want to pay for that other personality.

I say one interface per computer is enough. Make it the best interface that
man can invent and that's what I'll buy.

Nutek - nice experiment, but no thanks.

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 18:29:34 MET
From: Christian F. Buser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Partitioning a File (R)

> ... I've heard somewhere about being able to
> "partition" large files for this purpose. Any help would be
> appreciated.

DiskDoubler (From Salient/Fifth Generation) offers this capability.

Best regards, Christian.

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

Date: 19 Mar 1993 22:49:42 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Micah Anderson)
Subject: Printer font layout problem--- PLEASE HELP SOON!



    Please if anyone has any notion to my problem let me know AS SOON

    Apparantly we have gotten this Postscript printer at work, it is

Thanks!

Micah

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 19:59:40 -0500
From: Jeffrey Rounsville <[e-mail]>
Subject: ResEdit "^O" references?

Howdy.  Does anyone out there know if it is possible to find out what the
"^O" is refering to in a DITL resource.  If so, how?  Plenty of thanks for
any help.
 Matt Herbison
 Penn State University

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

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 19:44:29 PST
From: [e-mail] (Doug Hardie)
Subject: Severe problem with Kermit 0.88(188)

The recently loaded version of kermit 0.99(188) has a severe problem with
large packet sizes.  Previous versions had similar problems but died with
a large number of retries and then quit trying to transfer the file.
However, this version will transfer a file to the Mac and indicate that
the file was successfully transferred, even though the last portion of the
file is missing.  Apparently the solution to the retry problem was to
toss the last short packet.  Unfortunately, with this version there is no
indication that a problems exists.

-- Doug

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 13:39 EST
From: E=MC^2 <[e-mail]>
Subject: SIMMS, NEW YORK (A)

Mr. Mazzuca,
Go to J & R MUSIC AND COMPUTER WORLD off of the Williamsburg Bridge in
Manhatten.  They have tons of stuff for Mac, PC, and video, including SIMMS.
If you are staying overnight, order from MacConnection 1-800-334-4444.
Sincerely, ABRODY @ CLARKU

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 00:27:13 +0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Chiang-Shen Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sony 1604S + Centris in 2 Page mode

I am purchasing a Centris 650 and the Sony 1604S monitor.  Can someone
please tell me which cable I will need to get both the standard resolution
(72 dpi or 800 by 600) available with the non-multi sync Apple 16 inch as
well as the higher resolution, 1024 x 768 mode?  Do I need to switch cables
with the different sense pins everytime I want to switch resolution or is
there a more elegant way to do this?  Please e-mail me directly at
[e-mail] and I will sumarize if there is sufficient
interest.

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 08:57:13 -0600
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: SuperATM fonts

Hello again!

I answered my own question after calling Adobe about something else.  The
SuperATM upgrade ships with TypeOnCall, the Adobe font CD-ROM.  The Symbol,
Times, Courier, and Helvetica fonts are unlocked on the CD-ROM, so I DON'T
have to buy the package.  This should be reliable, coming straight from
Adobe.
I'll post if it isn't--I should get my upgrade today or tomorrow.

Thanks for the help!

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 10:48:47 -0500
From: [e-mail] (David B. Reiser)
Subject: Superdrive problem (A)

regarding a mac IIci not recognizing a floppy:

The floppy drive has three switches at the bottom front. One to detect disk
presence, one to determine HD format disks, and one to determine if the write
lock "
window" is open. These switches are all subject to contact oxidation over
time.
My drives started to tell me every disk was locked, despite having the write
enable tab covering the hole in the disk.

The book "Dead Mac Scrolls" mentions the problem (specifically only with the
disk detect switch, but I'm sure it's applicable to the other two...) and
recommends WD-40 as a solution. You do have to take the floppy out of the
machine (and I found taking it out of the holder useful too) so that you can
avoid getting solvent in bad places (like on the read/write heads). I found
taking the drive out of its holder difficult initially, as the screws refused
to loosen. I solved that problem by _tightening_ the screws ever-so-slightly
and then backing them out. I recommend not spraying WD-40 in the drive. I
sprayed a squirt out into the room and then using the drip clinging to the
little red spray tube to touch various crevices on all three switches.

After applying the wd-40 and pressing each switch button several times, I
blotted the outside of each switch (any liquid on the outside is doing no
good)
 and reassembled the drive. The improvement was distinct and immediate, but
I still had about 10% of my disks show as locked. By the next day, the
problem was gone. I had let my problem get worse over the course of almost a
year (the old style floppy write protect tabs applied to a 3.5 disk helped
apply more pressure to the switch, delaying my need to repair...), so you
may see more immediate complete results.

Tweak and Stabilant-22, which are reasonably well known contact cleaners
might be better than WD-40 for this job, but wd-40 worked for me.

One other possible glitch-- I think the screws on the floppy drive holder are
Pozidriv (looks like Phillips, but isn't). You may or may not be able to use
a Phillips driver on the screws (mine didn't work, but then I also have a
bunch of pozidriv bits.)

Dave
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 16:21:37 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Telecomm program with vt100, small font, meta key

Hi...

I use my PB100 a lot for vt100 emulation. I have been a happy user of
PD and Shareware vt100 programs for some time. I am wondering if
anyone knows of a PD/Shareware terminal program that will:

(1) Provide vt100 emulation; and

(2) Let me use a small (7 pt.) font so that I can get lots of columns
and rows on my cute little screen; and

(3) Let me use the Command (or Option) key as a true "meta" key for
emacs.

I have come across a couple that win on two counts, but none that do
on all three.

Please email suggestions directly, I will post when I learn something.

Thanks!

Alex Lewin
Computer Weenie
Kendall Square Research

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

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 09:19:58 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS #165 - Privacy Issues

Forwarded from TidBITS so others can have the benefit of seeing these
interesting comments even if we can't afford the space to publish
all of the ones we receive. Please continue the discussion here; I
will be listening in. Thanks for thinking about what we write!

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# Date:     Wed, 24 Feb 93 13:20:17 EST
# From: Stephen Wall <[e-mail]>
# Subject:  E-Mail Privacy and Encryption.
#
# Regarding your suggestion in TidBITs #165 that you might write
# a simple encryption stack to secure your credit card numbers
# for E-Mail:  Don't bother, there are more elegant solutions
# already, with better soon to come.  If you're already familiar
# with the concept of public-key encryption, skip over most of
# whatfollows and forgive me for re-educating you about it,  but
# if you don't know about it, you should (IMHO).
#
# Public-key encryption is the perfect solution to the problem of
# sending your credit card number over an unsecure medium.
# Public-key encryption exploits algorithms that use two
# complimentary keys.  Documents that are encrypted with Key-1
# can only be decrypted with Key-2, and vice-versa. The advantage
# of this scheme is that a company desiring your credit card
# number can publish a "public" key to everyone and anyone, and
# by encrypting your credit card with that key, you can be sure
# that no one but the keeper of it's complimentary "secret" key
# can decrypt it.
#
# Efforts are already underway to facilitate exchange of private
# data like credit card numbers, most prominently in the Digital
# Signature Standard (DSS).  You may recall the controversy a
# year or so ago in various  trade magazines about NSA and the
# encryption algorithms in DSS. DSS will use public key
# encryption.  The controversy was between NSA, who wants the
# selected algorithms for DSS to be decryptable by dedicated
# crypto-spooks with access to a Cray, and the commercial
# encryption vendors, who have algorithms that make Crays sweat
# and the spooks lose sleep.
#
# Currently, there is a freely available public key encryption
# program available called PGP (for Pretty Good Privacy) by
# Philip Zimmermann. There's even a Mac port called MacPGP (by Z.
# Feiderowicz), which I'm pretty sure is in the Sumex archives.
# It's not the prettiest Mac implementation ever, but it works
# well and with a little encouragement from the right places
# (hint, hint) might be turned into something quite useful.  It's
# a very complete application, which will even take a multi-fork
# Mac file and encrypt it into a compressed E-Mailable format
# similar to binhex, but fully encrypted.  It just needs some GUI
# polishing.  There are Unix and DOS versions of PGP as well, so
# it's likely to flourish if encouraged.  Note that I have
# absolutely no connection to the PGP authors, I've just fiddled
# with it some and like what I see.
#
# Steve Wall
#
#
# Date:     Mon, 8 Mar 93 15:30:22 EST
# From: Stephen Wall <[e-mail]>
# Subject:  MacPGP & Privacy: A Small Problem
#
# I overlooked a problem regarding MacPGP when I originally
# checked it out that you'll need to be aware of if you're
# thinking of advocating it in any way.  The problem is that PGP
# (MacPGP and otherwise) employs RSA encryption to a small
# degree, and there's a company here in the USA that is claiming
# patent rights to RSA encryption.  I forget the name of the
# company, but it's rumored (in netnews) that they've gone so far
# as to  threaten legal action against some ftp sites in the USA
# that distribute it. They'd very likely try the same against any
# company publicly soliciting credit card sales using PGP as a
# secure transport.
#
# The most curious thing about this is that this company only
# applied for US patent rights, so it's free & legal elsewhere in
# the world.  Export law prohibits RSA from being distributed by
# US companies, so that may be a contributing factor.
#
# Steve Wall
#
# Date:     Wed, 17 Mar 93 13:44:22 EST
# From: Stephen Wall <[e-mail]>
# Subject:  Re:  MacPGP & Privacy: A Small Problem
#
# One final note on the subject.  I've seen at least one NetNews
# report that PGP 2.2 is out, including a new MacPGP with a
# prettier interface.  I haven't acquired it myself, so I don't
# know much about it.
#
# Steve Wall

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 08:57:36 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: TidBITS#168 - European Software Prices

Forwarded from TidBITS so others can have the benefit of seeing these
interesting comments even if we can't afford the space to publish all of
the ones we receive. Please continue the discussion here; I will be
listening in. Thanks for thinking about what we write!

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

# Forward of letter <[e-mail]> from Rob
Trevor <[e-mail]>:
#
# From: Rob Trevor <[e-mail]>
# Subject: Re: TidBITS#168/15-Mar-93
# Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1993 22:41:14 +1000 (EST)
#
# Two quick thoughts on non-North-American software markets based on my
# experience of the Australian market.
#
# 1)  There are very few local distributors who provide ANY form of tech
# support.  (I remember talking to the head of the company who had the
# monopoly distribution rights for Dantz's DiskFit.  It was at an Aussie
# MacWorld and he had the product on his stand.  Problem was, I asked when
# the upgrade was arriving -- but neither he nor his employees at the stand
# knew what DiskFit was (an excellent utility for floppy based backup).)  A
# few big companies with local subsidiaries (eg Microsoft) do provide some
# support, but its very low level.  (Tonya does a much better job
# electronically!)
#
# 2) In these days of international mail links, Compuserve Pacific etc,
# there should no longer need be any pretence that distributors need charge
(via
# high markups) for support. Fifth Generation Systems have recently
# installed a special 800 numberfor tech support that works from Australia.
# (Australians dial 0014-800-128-493 for 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week support
# from FGS direct.)  I haven't needed to use it, and haven't been inclined to
# abuse their generosity, so I haven't tried it.  But there's no reason why
# other companies can't do the same thing.  At the minimium, they should be
# able to provide fax support in English.  (I'm sure that FGS will win from
# this move.  The mind bogles at the kind of responses our local dealers and
# distributors would give to some complex incompatibility some inocent
# AutoDoubler user could stumble into.)
#
# Cheers,
#
# Rob

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 16:05:17 EDT
From: David Virga <[e-mail]>
Subject: Translators for Apple File Exchange (A)

>Date: 15 Mar 1993 01:26:55 -0600 (CST)
>From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: translators for Apple File Exchange (Q)

>My copy of Apple File Exchange comes with one translator script, for
>DCA-RFT/MacWrite. Are there others? Using AFE I get the impression that
>it expects me to have more translators available, but I have no idea how
>to get them. I poked around everywhere in ftp.apple.com and could not
>find anything.

>Could somebody tell me how to get more of these--or if more exist?
>I plan to do some heavy-duty DOS-to-Mac-and-back file exchanging soon
>and would really like to be well equipped.

>TIA.

>Will Porter

Check out MacLink Plus/Translators, v7.0, by DataViz.  US$109 in the latest
MacWarehouse catalog.  It includes over 700 translators, according to that ad,
for word processing, spreadsheet, database and graphics conversions.  The ad
says it comes with Macintosh PC Exchange, which is new since the version that
I
have (v6.0 -- it included Dayna's DOS Mounter).

It's not flawles, but it works well enough for me and the other Mac users in
my
Agency that I recommend it as a standard utility in any Mac buy.

Dave
[e-mail]

**  My opinions!!  Don't try to say, "The Government said..."  **

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 11:47:20 -0600
From: [e-mail] (NUBI ACHEBO ext 4389)
Subject: Uncompressing SIT files from rigel.acs.oakland.edu

Please would somebody tell me how to desit some of the xxx.sit file at the
site above.  I have tried ExpandSit, Stuffit Lite, and Stuffit Expander
without success.  I need to make use of the files I downloaded.  I need a
response real fast.  Please email me directly.

Nubi Achebo
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 19:07:07 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: using Apple CDROM drives under DOS!

Some time ago I asked for help about connecting a non-Apple CDROM drive to my
M
ac (it is a NEC CDR75).
Now I can point that with Trantor interface cards and their ROM BIOS, you can
access Apple *old* CDROM drives directly from DOS!
Pleasenote: old means those without double speed, those not MPC-aware;
        drive, obviously, means that you must have a CDROM disk with data
        r
eadable from your DOS application!
I think that this can be very useful. If anyone wants more info, make me
know.
Maurizio

MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: [e-mail] | fax [phone]
CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 07:37:44 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: World Scripts - WHEN?!?!?!?

>>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.

>        Let me ask you a question. How many chinese living in China
>would be able to afford a mac??? For those outside the work is
>already half done because the japanese writing system and the
>chinese writing system are similar...

>(NOTE: that they both are 2bye fonts.... and that some chinese can
>read small amounts of japanese...)

As one can find anywhere else, IBM PC and clones are FAR more
popular in both mainland China and Taiwan. Macintosh do exist in
Taiwan, along with virus.

The first Chinese system I used was Chinese System 4.2. Now I
use ChineseTalk II with System 7.0.1. Worldscript offers multiple
script capability, which I don't need. Just wonder what else I am
missing.

ctchou

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