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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 10 May 93       Volume 11 : Issue 99

Today's Topics:

      [*] 7th symphony
      [*] ad-faq-03.txt
      [*] BlackBox v1.5 submission
      [*] bolo-map-superconductor.hqx
      [*] DoubleScroll 2.0.3
      [*] FoxBase shareware update
      [*] Hangman Plus (Hangman in color)
      [*] Hi-BBS client 1.0.8
      [*] info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt
      [*] Mac Pgming Secrets sources
      [*] MuEdit - a styled editor with mltpl font/script support, Part 1/2
      [*] New and Updated Files at nic.switch.ch
      [*] quadra-700-clock-mod-142.txt
      [*] Sound Manager Package 1.8c
      [*] Submission
      [*] sun-ulaw-to-mac-11.hqx
      [*] tex-edit-181.hqx
      [*] Tibetan-fresco-startup.hqx
      [*] Weighted-xy-Fits v2.0
      '040 incompatibilities
      2MB SIMMs in a Mac IIci (Summary)
      Abbreviations Thank you
      Address for Nav software: Corrected Again
      Apple & Small Colleges: maybe not _too_ bad
      Appletalk on Unix, Xinet K-AShare and Appletalk Remote Access
      Berkley AD contest?
      CalenderSet Demo for 4D (Q)
      CD-ROM as audio CD players
      CE Software RAVE! (help & e-mail orders)
      desktop printers
      Desktop Publishing on the Mac.
      Escape
      Escape key (R)
      Ethernetlet Focus Installer
      Excel 4.0, Adjustable Keyboard & Arrow keys...
      File Sharing Question
      Find Original...
      grayscale with HP Deskjet?
      Help with security software
      HP DeskWriter software, Freedom of Press (Q)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #98
      Installer 3.4 problem on Quadra 700
      Internet abbreviations
      LC Disk Drive -- HELP!
      Mac Plus & 32 bit quickdraw
      MacsBug on Centris 610 (A)
      MacsBug on Centris 610 (Q)
      Nisus Demos
      Norton Util. Bad...MacTools good... Public Utilitites better
      Paper feed in my LW Pro 630 (Q)
      PowerBook List
      QuickTime 1.6
      Request: Alias Director 3.4.2 or later
      Security Software for Mac (Q)
      Shutdown Later Type Programs (Q)
      SIMM chips (C)
      simple drag and drop text viewer
      Trackballs (summary)
      welcome to info-mac
      Writing in Circles
      Y'all, etc

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Date: Sun, 9 May 93 23:35:15 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] 7th symphony

    This is the non-messed up message.

    This is the binary for 7th Symphony 1.1b which is an update to the
version you have here (1.0b). By Robin Emig itlm051 or ez020930 @ucdavis.edu

description:
Welcome to the world of system 7 sounds!!!

This is an application that plays system 7 sounds in earlier version of the
mac system software, ie system 6.0.

Basic information:
7th Symphony should work on most macs. It is an application that is launched
by the finder when a user double clicks on a System 7 sound. It then plays the
sound and quits.
This program was made because I have many friends who will never upgrade to
system 7 and I wanted them to have the ease playing sounds that System 7
allows us.

VERSION HISTORY:

1.0B ORIGINAL VERSION
1.1B FIXED BUGS RUNNING ON SE'S
                INCLUDED ABILITY TO STOP SOUNDS
                REDUCED MEMORY REQUIREMENTS
                BETTER DOCUMENTATION

If you like this program and would like to see more of its kind
please send me $5.
                            Robin Emig

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/7th-symphony-11b.hqx; 96K]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 93 21:21:38 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Info-Mac Moderator)
Subject: [*] ad-faq-03.txt

COMP.SYS.MAC FAQ: Screensaver/After Dark answers

CONTENTS

REVISIONS
INTRODUCTION
DO I NEED A SCREENSAVER? (0.0)
--What are the alternatives to After Dark? (0.1)
--How do I write After Dark modules? (0.2)
HOW CAN I UPDATE MY COPY OF AFTER DARK? (1.0)
--How can I update my copy of After Dark v1.X? (1.1)
--How can I update my copy of After Dark v2.X? (1.2)
--How can I update my copy of Star Trek: The Screensaver? (1.3)
--How can I update my copy of More After Dark? (1.4)
--How can I update my modules or obtain new modules? (1.5)
HELP! I'VE FORGOTTEN MY AFTER DARK PASSWORD, AND CAN'T USE MY MAC! (2.0)
WHERE SHOULD I PUT THE 'AFTER DARK FILES' FOLDER? (3.0)
MY AFTER DARK CONTROL PANEL AND MODULES HAVE LOST THEIR ICONS! (4.0)
AFTER DARK CRASHES MY MACHINE! (5.0)
--Modules that don't work under MultiModule and Randomizer (5.1)
--Modules with other known problems (5.2)
EXTENSION INCOMPATIBILITIES (6.0)
--Known incompatibilites
DISCLAIMER AND LEGAL-WEASELLING
--Copyright
--Disclaimer
WHERE TO SEND YOUR EMAIL

[Archived as /info-mac/util/ad/ad-faq-03.txt; 36K]

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Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 12:09:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: [e-mail] (Bill Moynihan)
Subject: [*] BlackBox v1.5 submission

In response to several requests for a NeXT like application dock
attached please find BlackBox version 1.5. This is an Andrew
Welch $15.00 shareware creation. I haven't used it since 6.0.5
was a new release so I make no claims as to it's useability I
simply have this copy for others to try.

Good Luck,

Bill Moynihan
Internet=[e-mail] or AppleLink=moynihan.b

    This is version of 1.5 of BlackBox.
    BlackBox provides several features in one INIT:
        a "task strip" (similar to NeXT's application dock)
        an analog/digital clock/calendar
        a starry screen saver
        proper binding of undo, copy, etc. keys on extended
            keyboards
        color screen capturing
        smart quotes
        and others...

[Archived as /info-mac/util/black-box-15.hqx; 75K]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 08:55:35 -0500
From: Charles <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] bolo-map-superconductor.hqx

[Would be nice if I had a short description here, Charles! :) -Gordon]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/bolo-map-superconductor.hqx; 5K]

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Date: 7 May 1993 18:01:00 -0800
From: "Peter Robinson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] DoubleScroll 2.0.3

               Subject:                               Time:5:58 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          DoubleScroll 2.0.3                     Date:5/7/93
Here is DoubleScroll version 2.0.3 to replace version 2.0.2 in the Archives.
It has been much more stable for me than its predecessor.  File is Stuffit
compressed and Binhexed.

Pete Robinson
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/cp/double-scroll-203.hqx; 71K]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 93 22:09:06 AWST
From: [e-mail] (Andrew Dent)
Subject: [*] FoxBase shareware update

FoxBase+/Mac XCMD to install event filters allowing
1) catch Return, Tab, Enter and/or Double-clicks (eg: in Browse)
2) specify up to 255 Hot rectangles to detect single-clicks, much
   faster than using invisible buttons
3) convert Return to Tab characters as they are typed, to use Return
   to step from field to field with SET STRICT ON.
C & Pascal (mixed) source available on request.
Requires Stuffit Expander (or Lite) to unpack.

Upgrade to v1.4 fixes some incompatibilies with Now Menus and
68000-based Macs.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/fox-keyboard-traps.hqx; 15K]

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Date: Sat, 8 May 93 11:03:24 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Lonadar the Wanderer)
Subject: [*] Hangman Plus (Hangman in color)

This file is an update of Jan Schipmolder's Hangman submission.
I found this somewhere on an old disk of mine.  It is almost
exactly the same as the other Hangman program (Hangman-10),
except it features color graphics.

For ease of access, I have included Jan's wordlists, and since I
have lost the README file that came with them, I will include
the text from the previous Hangman file:

---original text---
HangMan-10.0, authored by Ken Winograd, shareware, randomly selects a
word from one of its internal lists, and then lets you guess it,
letter by letter. Each time you guess a wrong letter, you are one step
closer to being annihilated.

HangMan-10.0 has an option that lets you provide it with your own list
of words, HangWords. My contribution simply is a bunch of documents,
free, no restrictions on distribution, that can serve as HangWords.
All words were chosen, most of them randomly, from a 20,000+ word
large dictionary of American English words. HangWord documents are
ordered by word length, up to 16 letters per word.  Any feedback?

Jan B. Schipmolder ; [e-mail]
---original text---

The file is compressed with Compactor Pro.  (BTW, I recently registered my
copy and strongly suggest everyone else does too.  It's well worth it.)
Works fine on my IIsi with 7.1 and a variety of INITs and Cdevs.

Lonadar the Wanderer
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hangman-plus.hqx; 70K]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 19:42:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail] (Ron Wilhelm)
Subject: [*] Hi-BBS client 1.0.8

Attached is the client program for the Hi-BBS graphic BBS system. It's
version 1.0.8. I have no idea of requirements, or what it looks like as I
justed grabbed it off the FidoNet FileBone while I was at work. From
what I hear, it's a nice package.

ron

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/hi-bbs-client-108.hqx; 560K]

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Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 19:49:19 -0700
From: Eric Rosen <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt

Last-modified: Fri May 07 1993
This is the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for comp.sys.mac.comm
=======================================================================

This list of frequently asked questions and answers is intended to help
reduce the number of "often asked questions" that make the rounds here
in comp.sys.mac.comm. Since comp.sys.mac.comm is intended as a forum to
discuss telecommunication (and related issues) that are specific to the
Macintosh, most questions about modems, telecommunications in general,
and other non-Macintosh specific communication questions are not listed
here. The proper newsgroup for such questions is usually comp.dcom.modems.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/comp-sys-mac-comm-faq.txt; 119K]

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Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 17:27:31 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Igor Livshits)
Subject: [*] Mac Pgming Secrets sources

Attached are the sources to examples from Scott Knaster's and Keith
Rollin's book _Macintosh Programming Secrets_, 2nd edition.

Keith mentioned that he did not know how to send stuff to sumex-aim; so, I
assumed he wanted it here ;-)

Anyway, here's what he had to say:

A few days ago, people were asking about the possibility of making the
source code to Macintosh Programming Secrets (2nd Edition) available via
ftp. Among the reasons against this, I cited that I really didn't have
access to an ftp site.

Oddly ( :-) ), this prompted at least three ftp site administrators to send
me mail saying "You can use mine!" So I've sent the source to them.
Already, it's shown up on two of them. Here are the locations:

    ftp.apple.com (/dts/mac/sc/mps-disk-v1-0-1.hqx)
    mac.archive.umich.edu (I don't see it there, yet)
    ftp.gmd.de (/mac/books/mps-examples-1.0.1.hqx)

I don't know how to submit things to sumex-aim, or I'd send it there, too.

In case you're curious as to exactly what the source code is I'm talking
about, I've appended a summary of the book I posted last June.

Scott Knaster and I wish you all the best with this sample code.

 ---------

The second edition is almost entirely new.

As you may recall, the first edition was split into two parts. The first
part was a historical background and philosophy section. The second part
was a technical section (but, alas, lacking in source code samples). The
two sections were divided by a cartoon showing how the event manager
worked.

In the new edition, the book is still split up into two parts. The first
section is mostly the same, updated to take out anachronisms (like
references to the possibilities of multi-tasking and 32-bit cleanliness)
and add current information (like System 7.0 stuff).

The cartoon has been replaced by famous Apple About boxes. The first is the
unexpurgated MultiFinder 1.0 about box (the official release version had
all the good parts bleeped; we've put them back in for the book). The
second is the text from the circus parade from one of the preliminary 7.0
release CD's.

The second section is where all the new information are.

Chapter 3 shows the application skeleton used for all the samples in the
book. Rather than duplicate the same code that handles initialization,
windows, and menus in each chapter, we show it just once. All the
subsequent chapters tweak the skeleton a little and then get on with the
interesting stuff.

Chapter 4 is on dialogs. It shows how to handle modal, modeless, and
movable-modal dialogs. The sample for the modal dialog is based on an idea
in the first book, where command-key equivalents are assigned to all the
dialogs items. The modeless dialog shows a sample "Find" dialog that uses
the 7.0 popupmenu control. The movable-modal dialog shows how to do a
progress indicator like the Finder's.

Chapter 5 talks about QuickDraw. It starts off a lot like the QuickDraw
chapter of the first edition, but then delves a little more into current
color issues. The second half of the chapter implements an idea put forth
in the first edition, where offscreen buffers are used to save the contents
of background windows when a dialog is displayed, and then used to restore
the contents of those windows when the dialog is dismissed.

Chapter 6 deals more with QuickDraw and shows how to do mouse tracking. The
sample program reads in a MacPaint picture. The user can then use the mouse
to etch out a rectangular selection that does the "marching ants"
animation. The selection can then be clicked on and dragged around.
Offscreen buffers are used for this, too.

Chapter 7 gets into window management. We show how to implement Tile
Windows and Stack Windows menu items, and show how to do a Window menu that
keeps track of all the open windows. The algorithms for tiling and stacking
work across multiple monitors.

Chapter 8 delves into the File Manager. A simple program is shown that
allows the user to select a file (using Standard File), and target
directory (again, using Standard File) and then copies the file to the
destination in small chunks. The reader is encouraged to integrate the copy
routine with the progress indicator shown in Chapter 4.

Chapter 9 develops different kinds of standalone code. The first sample is
a simple INIT that beeps at startup. Then a more realistic INIT is given
that causes a command-key sequence to zoom the frontmost window (I actually
use this INIT in my everyday work). Next, we show how to implement an LDEF
that draws icons and grays out disabled items. Finally, we give the source
code to a windoid WDEF (the kind of window usually associated with floating
windows). Note that we don't actually show how to do floating windows
(bummer).

Chapter 10 is a collection of little routines that aren't large enough to
qualify for chapters of their own. We show how THINK programmers can do
spinning cursors based on MPW's 'acur' resources. We even show how such
animation can be done an interrupt time (even though I personally don't
approve of the practice). We show how applications can check for
Command-Period without calling WaitNextEvent, and how to implement a
password-entry dialog box with the little bullet characters. We also show
how to hide the menubar.

In summary, chapters 1 and 2 are a lot like the first edition. Chapters 4,
5, and 7 are partially based on information and ideas in the first edition.
The remaining chapters (3, 6, 8, 9, and 10) are totally new. If you get the
second edition, keep the first edition handy, because there's a lot of
material we threw away (like a lot of stuff dealing with printing and the
Finder desktop database).

All of the chapters include complete source code (in THINK C) to all of the
interesting stuff we talk about. Two people have complained about our not
including and resource dumps, but all of the resources we use are
straightforward enough that we didn't want to fill up pages and pages with
blocks of data (Like icons. I used to hate that about the old MacTutor -- I
hope the new MacTutor is better). Besides, we used ResEdit exclusively, and
there were no .r files.

[Archived as /info-mac/source/mac-prog-secrets-101.hqx; 309K]

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Date: Sun, 09 May 93 22:00:58 -0400
From: Kamal Abdali <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] MuEdit - a styled editor with mltpl font/script support, Part 1/2

(NOTE: MuEdit was submitted two days ago under the name Quill.  It has
been pointed out to me that there already exists an older application
called Quill.  Pls replace Abdali's Quill by MuEdit.)

MuEdit is a styled text editor for the Mac with support for multiple
fonts/scripts and bidirectional texts.  It has been tested for mixed
Arabic/Roman editing.  It has also been tried minimally on
Hebrew/Roman texts.

To run MuEdit, you need System 7.0.1 together with the script resources
of the desired scripts.  If no script resources are installed, then
the bidrectional editing feature is disabled.  At present, MuEdit is
limiteds to small (< 32K char) files.

Concatenating Parts 1 & 2, unbinhexing, and unstuffing will yield a
single application file MuEdit.  There is no separate documentation, but
a Help window describes the features.

MuEdit is freeware.  Please enjoy!

Kamal Abdali
P.O. Box 65207, Washington, DC 20035

[Archived as /info-mac/app/muedit.hqx; 42K]

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Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 12:36:09 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Matthias Neeracher)
Subject: [*] New and Updated Files at nic.switch.ch

The ftp archive at nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] contains in the directory
software/mac/src a collection of source packages for the Apple Macintosh.
This posting lists files that have changed in April 1993. All pathnames
are relative to ~ftp/software/mac/src.

[Archived as /info-mac/report/nic-source-package-update.txt; 2K]

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Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 02:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Guy Kuo <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] quadra-700-clock-mod-142.txt

quadra-700-clock-mod-142.txt

Text file for tech folder which describes technique for changing Quadra
700 clock speed. This version includes modified cooling fan installation,
custom speed oscillators, thermal data, caveats regarding socket pins, and
performance data. Various other minor details have been updated

As of this posting, the author has direct reports of nine Q700's modified i=
n
this way. Some have been running this way for months without additional
cooling. One machine required cooling for 33 MHz operation.

[Archived as /info-mac/tech/quadra-700-clock-mod-142.txt; 18K]

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Date: Sat, 08 May 1993 17:20:58 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Sound Manager Package 1.8c

This is the latest version of Riccardo Ettore's excellent
Sound Manager Package.  It contains:

Sound Mover 1.8c:  Sort of a Font/DA mover for sounds, with
some useful sound editing functions (now includes backmasking!)

SndControl 2.22:  A control panel that allows you to assign
sounds to a wide variety of system tasks.  Allows you to choose
sounds randomly from a sound suitcase.  It does not load the
sounds into RAM upon startup, saving valuable memory. Requires
System 6.0.4 or newer.

IBeep2:  Allows you to assign sounds to a few system tasks, but
this one works under System 4.1 - 6.0.3

StartupSndInit:  Gives you a startup sound.

All this for only $25 shareware. ($20 w/o disks and manuals)

Darin Takemoto
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/sound-manager-package-18c.hqx; 273K]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 13:27:51 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Stefan Arentz)
Subject: [*] Submission

File Sharing Hack 1.0d1

This hack allows you to use another 'Users & Groups Data File' for System
Seven's Personal File Sharing.

You can choose a U&G File on a local volume or a remote volume. The hack
will mount that volume with the specified user name and password.

INIT Loading Order: This hack must be loaded before the 'File Sharing
Extension'.

WARNING: This hack is not tested. There is a serious bug in it, and the
password is saved unencrypted in a STR# resource. If I get enough responses
I will finish this hack as soon as possible...

Please send me suggestions, bug reports, ideas, etc.....

-- Stefan Arentz

[Archived as /info-mac/ex/file-sharing-hack-10d1.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:42:06 +1000
From: His Divine Grace <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] sun-ulaw-to-mac-11.hqx

This is an update on a recent submission.  Ulaw 1.1 now
converts in both directions ie Mac snd <-> Sun Ulaw.
It should run on machine without color Quickdraw and also
under System 6.0.7 but preferrably System 7.  See included
ReadMe file.

It belongs in the sound utilities archive area.

It was mac-to-sun-ulaw.hqx on sumex but now
mac<->sun-ulaw11.hqx is a better name; the actual application
is called "Ulaw 1.1"

On umich make it mac<->sun-ulaw11.cpt.hqx.

Freeware but I'd like comments, suggestions and abuse.

Rod Kennedy
Engineering Program
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia

[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/sound/program/sun-ulaw-to-mac-11.hqx; 40K]

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Date: Fri, 7 May 93 17:08:43 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: [*] tex-edit-181.hqx

Tex-Edit is a multi-window, styled text editor from Tom Bender
that includes a built-in text reader if you have MacInTalk
1.5.1 installed. Tex-Edit is fast, easy-to-use and requires
very little memory. It is particularly adept at formatting text
which is transmitted to and from a BBS.  Tex-Edit 1.8.1 and its
source code are freely released to the public domain.  (4/8/93)

This should probably replace versions 1.5 and 1.6 that appear to
be in the sumex archive (though I suppose they could be something
different.

cheers ... -Adam

[Archived as /info-mac/app/tex-edit-181.hqx; 82K]

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Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 18:37:16 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Martin Josso)
Subject: [*] Tibetan-fresco-startup.hqx

This is a picture of a fresco that I took in a monastery (Sera or Drepung) in
Lhassa, Tibet.  It represents Penden Lhamo (Shri Devi is the Indian
equivalent). A protector deity in Tibetan Buddhism, she is the only female
among the powerful group of the eight Dharma protectors. She is shown riding
her wild mule, which is covered with the flayed skin of Penden Lhamo's own
son!
The hands are clearly visible. She holds a long-handled club and a bowl made
>From a skull filled with blood.  Right of the mule's left front shoulder, one
can see the pair of dice that she uses to determine the good or bad karmic
fate
of beings.  It is shrunk to 649x480 point, saved as a PICT resource, 24 bit to
save space (920K).  Hope you enjoy it.

        Martin Josso

[Archived as /info-mac/art/penden-lhamo-fresco.hqx; 1249K]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 15:18:37 +1000 (EST)
From: Gerard Hammond <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Weighted-xy-Fits v2.0

Dear moderators,

Here is version 2.0 of Linear Regression.

This is a small application that calculates the slope, intercept,
a couple of simple stats and THE ERRORS for some xy straight line data.
While every graphing programme handles simple regression, only dedicated
stats packages give you the errors for the slope and intercept.
This is a spreadsheet like programme that allows data from other
graphing programmes to be pasted in and the error analysis calculated.
The data can be checked via the quick plot menu.
The programme is system 7 friendly.

I'd be greatful for any feedback.
best regards


Gerard Hammond                     internet:    [e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/app/linear-regression-20.hqx; 73K]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 12:13:07 CDT
From: "Joseph Clements"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: '040 incompatibilities

I recently discovered the incompatibility between the
'040 cache and DeltaPro 2.02.  Is there any remedy to
my situation so I can have the 040 cache switch enabled
for speed?


Thanks.
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 07:46:11 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Igor Mikolic-Torreira)
Subject: 2MB SIMMs in a Mac IIci (Summary)

About a week ago I asked if there would be any problems with putting
2MB SIMMs in a Mac IIci.  The answers I got so far break down as
follows:

Have actually tried it and it works:

[e-mail]
"John (J.F.) Mills" <[e-mail]>
[e-mail]


Have actually tried it and it didn't work:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]


Cautioned against it (but didn't try it as far as I can tell):

[e-mail]


Also of note, at least two of the people for whom it works are using a
12MB (4x1MB, 4x2MB) configuration, so the "SIMM sizes must be
multiples of 4" rule mentioned by someone is inaccurate.

My conclusion:  I'm going to give it a try.  Will let you all know.

Thanks to all that responded.  If anyone sends me additional info I'll
post a follow-on summary.

Igor Mikolic-Torreira       [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 11:05 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Abbreviations Thank you

Dear Netters,
IMHO, I haven't had so many replies before:
     "info-mac-request 10-MAY-1993  RE: Abbreviations used on the NET
     IN%"[e-mail] 10-MAY-1993  acronyms
     IN%"[e-mail]"    10-MAY-1993  Why?
     IN%"garmenjm@arvx01. 10-MAY-1993  Internet Acronyms
     IN%"steven.taylor@mr 10-MAY-1993  Net Aggreiviations....

    IN%"[e-mail] 10-MAY-1993  RE: Abbreviations used on the NET
    IN%"ANTOLAK%RADPH6.D 10-MAY-1993  Internet abbreviations
    IN%"jspielbe@wheaton 10-MAY-1993  acronyms
    IN%"Bob_Starkey@DG_S 10-MAY-1993  TLAs, FLAs, etc.
    IN%"[e-mail] 10-MAY-1993  RE: Abbreviations used on the NET
    IN%"CCW%APLVM.BITNET 10-MAY-1993  Internet Acronyms
    IN%"[e-mail] 10-MAY-1993  More acronyms than you can shake a
stick
    IN%"[e-mail] 10-MAY-1993  Abbreviations
  Thank you.
Anyone thinking about complaining of non-response should simply ask what are
the abbrevations/acronyms/aggreviations and so forth.  If anyone needs a
summary, note that even info-mac requests will answer.
Sincerely,

ABRODY @ CLARKU

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 11:49 EST
From: WALLACE FELDMAN <[e-mail]>
Subject: Address for Nav software: Corrected Again

Date sent:  10-MAY-1993 11:44:40

I posted an address for Mac-based marine navigation software last week,
And it was wrong, for which my apologies.

Here is the right info:

[e-mail]        (That's Cee Eye Five Two)

[e-mail]            Ditto.

The author's name is Steve Tripp.



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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 08:39:18 -500 (EDT)
From: Russell Aminzade <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple & Small Colleges: maybe not _too_ bad

After my flame a few weeks ago, I feel I should keep the info-mac
community appraised of my experiences.

In short, my local Apple rep was very slow in responding to me, and
left me more frustrated then ever.  An apple rep for another region
(I didn't jot his name down, and I'm sorry -- he deserves credit) was
VERY helpful, and restored my faith in at least some of the people
at Apple.  Eventually my local rep got back to me.  He appeared to be
motivated more by the fallout from info-mac than my calls to him.  Yay
internet!

Well, we're on the way to signing up for what Apple calls CPPIII,
or maybe we can be CPPII or at worst CPPIV.  In short, we'll be
able to order Macintoshes at a discount again.  Probably not at a
better price than we payed from the dealer.

The moral of the story:

1)  The Internet, and Info-Mac in particular is a precious resource
    and can keep Apple and other vendors more responsive to us.  It
    might be painful to them to deal with kvetching and flaming, but it
    makes them more responsive to their all-important customers.

2)  Apple still has some wonderful people and some losers.

3)  Apple makes mistakes (like not sending notification anywhere about
    the change in educational sales policies.  For example to info-mac,
    to Tidbits, to MacWeek, Info-Week, etc. etc., or the the Chronicle
    of Higher Education), but still seems to be committed to higher ed-
    ucation.

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 15:41:03 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble)
Subject: Appletalk on Unix, Xinet K-AShare and Appletalk Remote Access

I thought I would report on the results of my earlier queries about
mounting Unix volumes on the Mac over the network.  I ended up
buying K-AShare from Xinet, and am very pleased with it.

K-AShare uses K-Talk, which is Appletalk for Unix.  The Unix
machine (in my case a Silicon Graphics Indigo) then appears under
the Mac Chooser, and I can mount the Unix disk volumes on the
Mac desktop, and drag-copy to and from them.  I had previously
tried to use the shareware CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package
for Unix, but had no luck with it on our phase-2 appletalk network).
NFS/Share for Macintosh is another (untried) possibility.

The original idea was to use a fast HP magneto-optic disk on the
Indigo to backup the various Macs using DiskFit-pro.  This works
well - Speedometer rates the Unix MO-disk over ethernet at half
as fast as a Syquest - but each disk takes 600 Meg and costs just
$150.

KA-Share has a few other interesting applications.

It allows you to see the structure of the Unix disk as if it were
a Mac disk.  This is very useful for Unix neophytes, who tend to
get lost with all the CD's and ls's (change directories, list contents).

It allows you to click on Unix text files to edit them with Mac
editors, or to drag and drop them onto Mac editors.  The Mac file types
and creators are kept in a seperate Unix file, and can be changed by
dragging the Unix files onto eg MacChange 2.0.  You can also predefine
file types and creators according to a range of criteria eg fortran
source files *.f can be defined with MPW's creator, so that these
Unix files will be opened by MPW when you double-click them.

Similarly, graphics files such as TIFF can be opened with either Unix
or Mac applications.

Finally, Appletalk Remote Access can be used to connect to the lab's
Appletalk-Ethernet from home - I like the call-back option - and the
Unix volumes mounted for editing as above.  You can make an alias
of the ARA remote mounted volume, so that it can be remounted
simply by double-clicking this alias - the telephone dialing,
user confirmation and call back are then all automatic - brilliant !

You can simultaneously open terminal sessions on the Unix machine
using Versaterm-pro with the ADSP communications tool (again using
AppleTalk).  This makes an interesting alternative to Mac-X,
especially when working over relatively slow serial/telephone lines.

Another product, K-ASpool, allows sharing between Mac and Unix
printers.

K-AShare costs from $595 for two simultaneous users
(minus 25% educational discount) from:
Mr Dick Wren, Director of Marketing and Sales,
Xinet, 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 312,
Berkeley, CA  94710  [phone])
[e-mail]

Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE ([e-mail]) Fax (France=33).76.48.39.06

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

Date: 10 May 1993 14:46:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Aaron Barnett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Berkley AD contest?

I am aware of the VAMP AD contest and had heard that Berkley was
holding one as well. Is this true.  Could someone guide me to
some info on this?

aaron

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 17:07:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Li-Hsiang Tu)
Subject: CalenderSet Demo for 4D (Q)

There is an excellent (from reviews/ads) product from ForeSight which gives
you calendars in 4D.  It's called CalenderSet.  Someone told me that it is
on Compuserv.  Does anyone know if there is a copy in some ftp site?

Thanks.

Tim

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 01:00:19 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: CD-ROM as audio CD players

>Date: Fri, 7 May 93 06:13:46 PDT
>From: [e-mail] (David Herren)
>Subject: CD-ROM as audio CD players

>I may not be a true audiophile--I've only got a $3000 stereo which is quite
>modest by audiophile standards, but I don't agree with the above
>assessment. The signal to noise ratios of CD-ROM drives may be marginally
>lower, but I seriously doubt that more than a handful of raving audiophiles
>could hear any differences in a truly blind test. Most home audio CD units
>would, I suspect, fall in to the $200-$300 range (some my argue that those
>figures are too high), and I suspect that is what the original poster was
>refering to by "normal" cd player. In that price range, the quality of the
>sound is indistinguishable IMHO. Once one gets in to the $500-$1500 range
>for CD audio players, particularly the very nice tube based units, then
>certainly one who listened VERY critically could hear differences.

I'm surprised that you can hear the difference between audio CD player on a
high-end audio CD player and on one that costs $200-300, but not the
difference between an audio CD player and a CD-ROM reader. CD-ROM players
generally have significantly lower audio specs (mostly due to the noise
introduced by the computer interface).

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 20:51:35 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: CE Software RAVE! (help & e-mail orders)

I figured that what with so many flames on the net recently it might be
worthwhile to mention some good news for once (btw, what is the opposite of "
flame"?).  Folks, it has been my recent experience that if you want to name a
company to hold up as an example of brilliant customer support to all the
rest,
 then CE Software is it.

Firstly, was I able to order the upgrade to QuickMail (2.6) via e-mail- a VERY
nice thing for me since it saved me about $10 in overseas phone calls (yes, I
could have faxed an order, but that's much more trouble than just e-mailing).
Not only that, but they shipped it air mail (U.S. post) which saved me another
$40 or so (a lot of companies nowadays refuse to use anything but overnight
and that costs MUCH more when you're talking international).  My only
criticism is that I didn't get any confirmation of my order.  However, I don't
recall asking for one and I can see where responding to several thousand (??)
requests could take some time which would slow down getting the orders out (
still one could imagine using a standard reply form).  Nonetheless, I'm just
so happy that this was even possible that I consider the lack of a reply a
minor point...

But what really sold me on CE Software was that I also have received, on MANY
occassions (certainly much more than they would probably like :-), a GREAT
deal of useful and informative advice via e-mail when faced with problems
regarding their software.  The replies have always been fast, curtious, and
helpful and they have often gone out of their way to help me even when it
concerned software which they don't directly support (but only interacted with
their software; namely, Dispatcher SMTP for QM).

I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to get that kind of support when you're
confused and frustrated (and the problems aren't necessarily even their
fault).


Anyway, I'm a satisfied customer with respect to their customer support.
Other companies would be hard pressed to beat it and if anyone is ever in
doubt about the "right way" to deal with your customers I suggest they look to
CE Software for a good example.

Just my $0.02...
Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: 10 May 93 10:39:00 CST
From: "JOHN S. CONRADER" <[e-mail]>
Subject: desktop printers

I also had problems with DTprinter 1.1.  It seems that the copy I had had
somehow gotten corrupted.  I ran it on a IIsi w/7.0.1 and a HP printer.
I then tried to use it on a IIfx w/7.1 and a laserwritter.  I got an
unimplimented trap error whenever I tried to configure it.  I found an
original copy(from sumex) of the DTprinter program and unstuffed it on the
IIfx and have had no problems.  I would think that it had something to do
with the type of printer that was used with it.

Hope this helps.

-John :)
[e-mail]

"Sometimes 'That's just the way it is' is the best explaination"

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 18:22:25 GLT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Desktop Publishing on the Mac.

========================================================================
   Now here's a guy keenly interested in desktop publishing and pre-press,
with a whole lot of questions...!  I have three questions on a)relevant lists
b) scanners c) fax/modems  (please turn to the appropriate section!).

a)  Do you know of any lists focused on desktop publishing, pre-press and
computer graphics?  Mac oriented is preferable, but PC will also do.

b)  I plan on purchasing a scanner costing not more that $3,000 to do use in
professional publications.  I hear Arcus from Agfa is spearheading the gang,
but, aside from reading this in MacUser, I need feedback from REAL USERS, who
have something to say on the quality and detail of scanners, based on their
personal experience.  Color consistency, sharpness and detail are, of course,
my primary concern; I will be scanning mainly reflective art and usually won't
need to enlarge them, so (I think) large resolution (above 600 or 800 dpi)
shouldn't be much of a concern.

c)  Next in line is a fax/modem.  Is there any way for it to keep receiving
faxes while my Mac will be off (like some peripheral or something)?  Or the
sender will simply take no response and have to retry later?  What about
brands?

   Thanks in advance.

                                   Niko.

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 19:41 EST
From: KEN SCHWARTZREICH <[e-mail]>
Subject: Escape

To use escape, if you don't have it, you can either hit control-] or ResEdit
to remap the key to another key or something like that.  If you want specs on
that, lemme know...
-Ken Schwartzreich
 Assistant Network Manager
 Lafayette College
 Easton, PA

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 01:30:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Scott Kaplan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Escape key (R)

In info-mac #98, Alberto Cambrosio asks for a way to get the escape character
sent to use a medical facility.  Well, presuming that your keyboard has no
escape key (although I wonder why it doesn't...?), my copy of Norton KeyFinder
shows that the escape character corresponds to Control-Open bracket.  So try
using Ctrl-[ and see if that does it for you.  However, if you've sent it as
octal 33, I'm not sure why that didn't work.  Go figure.

Scott Kaplan
Amherst College
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 13:18:24 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethernetlet Focus Installer

Remember the warlet that I started re the Focus ethernet cards on our
home netlet? I suggested that Focus re-examine its install script. Chris
Pepper just sent the following suspicion:

>        This is probably because of borrowing from Apple's scripts.  The
>Network Installer Disk is from Apple, w/ updates @ ftp.apple.com, for their
>products.  My guess is that Focus borrowed their script (a reasonble idea),
>but didn't examine it closely enough to find the 'atom' that says to copy a
>certain file from the NID.  If you have a little time, you can scan their
>script with ResEdit.  There are resources (type 'infs') containing full
>pathnames for installer files.  If you find "Network Installer Disk:..." in
>one, you'll be able to find out what they're trying to install that lives
>on the NID.  The following are the relevant resources, along with supposed
>descriptions:
>
>infs = file
>infa = System Folder file description.
>inpk = package (perhaps of packages)
>

You're right, Chris. Four pathnames in the INFS resources. Every one
starts with "Network Software Installer:" And, of course, the Focus
installer disk is named "EtherLAN 4.0 Installer:"

Stamp that suspicion CONFIRMED.

Thanks for the info.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Sun,  9 May 1993 23:16:23 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Excel 4.0, Adjustable Keyboard & Arrow keys...

I've asked this before, but since no one replied I thought I would try
again...


I'm using MS Excel 4.0  on a Duo 230 12/120 w/Dock, System 7.1 and Apple's new
Adjustable keyboard.  Since using the install program which came with the
keyboard I am no longer able to use the arrow keys to move between selected
cells.  Instead, the arrow keys act as if I've clicked on the arrow buttons of
the window's scroll bars.  This is, needless to say, VERY frustrating.

This ONLY happens in EXCEL and even if I Shift-boot (i.e., no inits loaded).
Anyone have ANY idea what's going on?  I reinstalled Excel from the original
floppies to no avail.  Perhaps it would be sufficient to know which resources
the adjustable keyboard's installer installs in the System file and to remove
them (if this is the problem it would be time to flame Microsoft yet again- I'
m jumping to conclusions here [however I should note that WingZ does NOT have
this arrow problem], but why CAN'T Microsoft play by the rules??)?

ANY help and/or guidance would be MOST appreciated...

Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 11:58:56 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: File Sharing Question

I've got a problem, and I'm sure that there's a solution out there.

I have a folder on my Mac publicly available as a read-only volume via
FileSharing. I use it to allow folks in my building (about 35 of them) to
get the latest Disinfectant, etc.

The problem that I have is that people tend not to remove the volume from
their desktops when they're done (not all that bad, really) or accidentally
have the volume auto-mounted at startup (really quite a drag, from my point
of view). Since the users end up logging in as guest, I have no idea who this
is! Sure, I can disconnect them. but the next time they start/restart their
mac, back they come. I can wander around the building and look at avery mac
(yecchh), but there's gotta be a better solution.

So, what I guess I need is some way of finding out just who is that "Guest"
user who's showing up in my File Sharing Monitor CP. Does such a beastie
exist? Is anyone interested in creating same? Let me know. I'll summarize
any responses I get!

        tom coradeschi    <+>    [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun,  9 May 1993 20:24:00 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Find Original...

Ok folks, I know that running 2 to the 37 INITs is NOT a good idea, but has
anyone ever seen the anomoly that when you WANT to do a Find in Finder you
can'
t because no matter what you do (EXCEPT to close EVERY open window or context
switch out and then back into the Finder) "Find..." reads "Find Orgininal"???
This occurs even though NOTHING is selected (i.e., I would have assumed that
this occurs when you select an alias so that you can find its original, but in
fact it doesn't).

I've seen this a couple times now and don't know where it comes from.  The
frustrating thing is that I can't repeat it (either it happens or it
doesn't).
 DESPITE the fact that it sounds like I'm overworked (which I am), this really
does happen.  Anyone ever seen anything like this before (or am I simply off
the deep end)?

Thanks in advance,
Elliot Bennett
DLR, Cologne, Germany
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 20:16:23 ITA
From: maurizio lana <[e-mail]>
Subject: grayscale with HP Deskjet?

I print with an HP DeskJet (not DeskWriter!) printer, connected to my Mac with
PowerPrint cable and driver.
The printer has resolution enough to print grayscale graphics with some sort
of
 dithering; but this actually doesn't happen.
I remember someone some time ago wrote a message containing the patches to
make
 a Stylewriter printing colors by dithering. Any news about some similar
 patch(
es) for the DeskJet?
Many thanks.
Maurizio

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

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 13:53:37 EDT
From: Ziad Akir <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help with security software

Hi to all of you:

We have a very serious problem here in our university lab in which we are
running 14 Macs SE and 4 imagewriters hocked through appletalk.  Recently,
we got EmpowerII 4.0.8 security software to lock the hard drives (externals)
so as students will only save their files in a specified folder and they
can not modify the system in any way.

The problem is: we started to have a system error, labled as: Address Error
every time we started the Mac.  When we contacted the company, they said
set the system heap to 512, so we used a utility called : Bootman to set
that for all the mac and it works for some time then from time to time, the
same thing comes again.  If I boot while I am pressing the Option key, it
works fine.  Now, the computer are Macs SE with 50 MB LACIE ZFP External
hard disk.  The system software is 6.0.7 and the Macs has 4 MB of RAM.

Any feedback on this matter will be very much appreciated.

Thanks.
-Ziad

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 19:07:18 +0200
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: HP DeskWriter software, Freedom of Press (Q)

Dear netters,

I've been using an HP DeskWriter C for about 3/4 of a year now.  I am
not quite satisfied with its software and I'd like to gather
experience and information about this from the net.  I have version
2.0 of the driver and utilities, which I have received in January.  I
have specific problems listed below and I'd like to know if other
people have experienced them.  I'd also like to know if they could be
solved by using Freedom of Press (see also below).  Please e-mail me
directly and I'll summarize.

My biggest complain is that the driver is apparently buggy: I use
Persuasion 2.1 to produce transparencies, and some of them involving
not-so-complicated vector graphics (made in MacDraw Pro because they
contain Bezier curves, then imported into Persuasion) don't come out
well: some objects come out bizarrely (e.g., one (straight) <-> arrow
printed as >->), some come at wrong places and some don't come at all
(especially the Bezier curves).  I suspect it is indeed a bug in the
driver because the same happens on screen when using the (driver)
Preview mode.  Persuasion displays these graphics perfectly well on
screen and prints them OK on a PostScript printer.  MacDraw Pro prints
them OK on both a PostScript printer and the HP DeskWriter C (I think,
at least they are previewed OK).  So it looks like a bizarre
incompatibility between the HP driver, Persuasion and Bezier curves
(at least those of MacDraw -- I didn't test any other drawing program
because the bug appears only on complicated drawings which I have no
time to reproduce), and of course the HP Readme does not mention
anything about this...

Of course, as many others, I have experienced that the driver is a
memory hog and sometimes leaves the memory in a bad state.

Worse, printing seems not to work at all in 32-bit addressing mode
under system 7.0.1, whether in background or in foreground!!!  It
crashes the application (at least DayMaker; the Finder seems OK) and
leaves the memory in such a bad state that you have better reboot
immediately...  No problem in 24-bit addressing mode.

Anyone with the same problems?

Finally, I'd like to know if any of you has experience with Freedom of
Press [Light].  I recently saw an impressive ad stating that FOP would
improve the printing quality on the HP DeskWriter, in addition to
understanding PostScript, but what I'm looking for is really a way to
turn around the Bezier curves and 32-bit problems mentioned above (I
suppose that FoP will do nothing for memory hogging, and will even
make things worse!).

Any experience here, too?

Again, reply to me directly and I'll summarize.  Many thanks in
advance.

Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
    Phone [phone], fax [phone]
#include <std_disclaimer.h>

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

Date: 10 May 1993 08:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Michael A. McGuire" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #98

In Article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (The Moderators) wrote:
>Date: Sun, 09 May 93 23:29:08 EDT
>From: Alberto Cambrosio <[e-mail]>
>Subject: ESCAPE key
>
>Hi!
>I sent a somewhat similar message several months ago. I got
>some answers but nobody was able to solve my problem. So,
>here I am trying again.
>I will use an example: I want to use TELNET to consult
>CATSCAN, the National Library of Medicine online catalog
>system. The CATSCAN software supports VT100 terminal
>emulation. When you log in, you are asked to press the ESCAPE
>key twice: if you fail to do that, the session is interrupted. Now, I
>am using a Mac IIci with an Apple Extended Keyboard II (the
>ISO Canadian version), and I am using Kermit 0.99(183),
>simulating VT100. The problem is that I am unable to locate the
>ESCAPE key on my keyboard. I tried various combinations
>(inlcuding control-1, typing '33, etc.) but nothing works. This
>means that I cannot use CATSCAN. Has anybody any suggestion?
>Alberto C.

Alberto

  I am ALMOST sure that your problem is MacKermit. I would recommend using a
TRUE VT100 emulator like VersaTerm from Synergy Software.  Most problems
occur because of poor terminal emulation. If you give me the internet host
name I would be glad to test it for you. Good luck.


Michael A. McGuire, :-)
[e-mail]
UTCC - User Services

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 15:38 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Installer 3.4 problem on Quadra 700

I wonder if anyone else has a problem running the current Apple Installer
(v3.4).  On our Quadra 700 running 7.0.1 tuned and a few INITs, launching
this version of the Installer from the Finder invariably results in a
Segment Loader Error (type 15) bomb.  Although we can get back to the
Finder with Macsbug, File Sharing is usually killed stone dead; it can't be
reactivated without a restart.

This problem occurs even with extensions off, and is independent of the
Installer Script.  It doesn't occur if we boot off a floppy with the
Installer as the startup application.  The problem has survived one
reinstallation of system software.  Any ideas, anyone?

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

Date: 10 May 1993 08:47:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "John A." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internet abbreviations

In Info-Mac #11-98, ABRODY @ CLARKU writes:

>Dear Netters,
>I have yet to receive replies #$%#$^ on abbreviations on the net!...
[stuff deleted]

I looked in my friendly copy of "info-mac/help/all-files.txt" and found the
following in the report directory.

-r     1676 Jul  7 1992 ./report/internet-acronyms.txt

Sounds like that may be what you are looking for. When you are looking for
information like you asked about, try /help and /report first, if you can.

BTW, IMHO, U DHTGS. ;-)

John A.

DHTGS = "Don't Have To Get Snarky"

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

Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 23:21:56 -0400
From: James E Crawford <[e-mail]>
Subject: LC Disk Drive -- HELP!

I'm having a BIG problem with my LC floppy drive. It usually doesn't recognize
disks inserted into it _AT ALL_. If I lift the disk slightly using a paper
clip, it will sometimes register, but almost never at startup. I then have to
manually eject the disk using the magic paper clip hole on the right hand
side.
I seem to remember someone describing a way to fix this problem. If anyone
could tell me what to do, I'd be eternally greatful!

Jim Crawford
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 93 6:12:49 MDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac Plus & 32 bit quickdraw

Is it possible to run 32 bit color quickdraw an a Mac Plus with a 68000
chip? My students wrote a hypercard stack, but the stack will not run on
the Plus. A dialog box comes up saying machine does not have color quickdraw.
Thanks,
Bill Wallace
Manzano Day School
Albuquerque, NM
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 01:13:56 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: MacsBug on Centris 610 (A)

>Date: Sun, 9 May 93 19:28:29 -0700
>From: [e-mail] (Harold Herchen)
>Subject: MacsBug on Centris 610 (Q)
>
>Hi Folks!
>
>We just got a new Centris 610, and I am in the
>process of beta testing some software.  I can't get MacsBug to
>work on the Centris.  Even when I use System 7.1 straight off the
>floppies, with MacsBug version 6.2.2 and Programmer's Key 1.4.2,
>(the latest), no crashes are intercepted by MacsBug.  Furthermore, the
>Programmers's Key just causes the system, including the mouse, to hang
>when accessed through option-PowerOn or the interrupt key.  Otherwise,
>we've had no problems with the machine.  The copies of MacsBug and the
>Programmer'sKey work fine on my Mac IIci running System 7.0.1*.
>
>MacsBug is located in the system folder, and the Programmer'sKey is in
>the extensions folder, as they should be.
>
>Any hints would be much appreciated.

The regular version of MacsBug does NOT work with C610 (or any machine with
the 68LC040 chip - the one without the integrated FPU). You need the LC
version of MacsBug and it's available from ftp.apple.com (in
/dts/mac/tools/macsbug). Programmer's Key should work with your C610.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 23:29:11 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jay Scott)
Subject: MacsBug on Centris 610 (Q)

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

>We just got a new Centris 610, and I am in the
>process of beta testing some software.  I can't get MacsBug to
>work on the Centris.  Even when I use System 7.1 straight off the

According to information on Apple's ftp site, the 68LC040 machines
need a special version of MacsBug. Actually it's a little confusing,
but I think that's what it means. Check out ftp.apple.com,
directory /dts/mac/tools/macsbug.

Here's the file macsbug-68040lc-readme.txt from that directory:

"The enclosed version of Macsbug is provided, on an "as is" basis,
until an official release of Macsbug that works with the Apple
Macintosh Centris(TM) 610 and the Apple Macintosh Centris(TM) 650
becomes available. This special version of Macsbug is required for
those machines in order to work with their 68040LC CPUs."

I have not tried it out, but I'm going to pretty soon.

    Jay Scott
    [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 9 May 93 21:10:31 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: Nisus Demos

For the people looking for demos of Nisus...

cheers ... -Adam

At   syrinx.kgs.ukans.edu

/home/ftp/nisus/demo
nisusdemo3.06.cpt.hqx              730218
Nisus_Compact_Demo.hqx             668377

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 13:56:24 +0200
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Norton Util. Bad...MacTools good... Public Utilitites better

On Mon, 03 May 1993 20:14:30 -0700 (MST), Aric Friesen said:

    Recently I have seen several postings reconfirming my feelings that
    Norton Utilities doesn't work very well.  In the same breath (big
    lungs eh?)  I would like to reccommend MacTools.  I work as a computer
    consultant (amoung other things) and have had a high number of
    successes with MacTools.  So when Norton doesn't do the trick, before
    you reformat, tye MacTools.

I have tried both MacTools 2.0 and Public Utilities (from 5th Gen SW).
I'm happy with MacTools' features and capability for disk management,
but one thing that makes me strongly prefer PU is that MT is awfully
sloooooowww.

PU is as good as MT regarding disk management and is much faster.
However MT comes with a lot of features that PU does not have
(anti-virus, backup, etc.).

Just a satisfied customer of both.

Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.
    Phone [phone], fax [phone]
#include <std_disclaimer.h>

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Date: 10 May 1993 21:45:33GMT
From: "Alun J. Carr" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Paper feed in my LW Pro 630 (Q)

I have a nice shiny new LaserWriter Pro 630 hooked up to my Mac (gives great
results from TeX once you've built the 600 dpi fonts).

One problem though. When I'm printing letters, I often want to use
letterhead for the first page. The LW Pro 630 has a `multipurpose tray' to
put letterhead in, whilst putting plain paper in the 250-sheet cassette.
Unfortunately, OzTeX doesn't use the standard print dialog box, so I can't
access the options to tell the printer to use the first sheet from the
`multipurpose tray' and the rest from the 250-sheet cassette. I've turned
the paper handling to `Auto' using the LaserWriter Utility that ships with
the printer (to no avail) and I've tried using MyPageSetup v.1.3 (the most
recent that I can find) but it beeps twice after it tries to change the
paper feed options in the `Print...' dialog, and no changes are made.

Does anyone know how to persuade the printer to take its first sheet from
the multipurpose tray (if it contains paper) and the balance from the
cassette, and to retain this setting on a permanent basis?

I mean, HP have a `Save as default' check-box in their `Page Setup...'
dialog for their DeskWriters, so why can't Apple do something similar for
their dialogs with their LaserWriter drivers? (Sorry, HP, for maligning your
drivers in the past....)

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]

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Date: 10 May 1993 06:52:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PowerBook List

The PowerBook list is MACPB-L.  You just need to send a SUBSCRIBE
command to [e-mail]

-Dwight

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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 00:12:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Neil Eric Mickelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuickTime 1.6

Hello again...

Anybody know where I can get some specific (Apple-provided or otherwise)
documentation on QuickTime v1.6?  I know it doesn't hog memory when you're
not using it now (a programming technique I approve of for ALL extensions,
BTW :^), but what else does it do?

Thanks alot...

Neil E. Mickelson
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 14:20:35 +0200
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Request: Alias Director 3.4.2 or later

Dear netters,

I need Alias Director 3.4.2 or later, because it corrects a bug which
is annoying when you have a non-US keyboard.  I've waited for two
months for it to appear on info-mac@sumex-aim, but as of today only
version 3.3.2 is there.  Is there another FTP-accessible archive where
I can find AD 3.4.2?

Alternatively, I know that it can be found on CompuServe; since I live
in France I don't have access to it.  Would some of you out there be
so kind as to download AD 3.4.2 from CompuServe and upload it to
info-mac?

Many thanks in advance.

                    Martin Jourdan

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 20:55:37 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail]
Subject: Security Software for Mac (Q)

I have a Macintosh which has multiple users and I want a program which will
provide the following:

1) Allow password protection of System folder and application folders but
will still allow users to run applications within the protected folders by
means of an alias.

2) Offer simple password protection to user folders ie. on double clicking
a folder the user will be prompted for a password.

3) System 7.1 compatibility

4) Be safe from attempts to enter protected folders by means of a system
floppy disc.


One program which looked good was FolderBolt, however it turns out that
this does not work very well with System 7.1 (anyone know of an upgrade to
version 1.02c).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Regards, Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 20:59:51 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail]
Subject: Shutdown Later Type Programs (Q)

I am looking for a program which I can put into the startup folder and will
automatically shutdown a Mac at a fixed time each day. I have downloaded
Shutdown Items 2.41 however I am having a problem. In the auto shut down
option menu there is an option for "just warn before shutdown". When I
click this option and set an advance warning time the program does not seem
to remember this. When I open up the option box again the  "must confirm
before shutdown" button is highlighted. I have tried the program on a
Colour Classic and IIci (with system 7.1 and system 7.0.1 running
respectively). Does anyone know of any alternatives or a fix to the problem
I am having with Shutdown items.

Regards, Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.

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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 00:48:23 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: SIMM chips (C)

Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 11:59:18 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Hughes)
Subject: SIMM chips (C)
>>>     8   x  8 Mbit   =  8 MByte  (Is there a 8 Mbit chip??)
>>I don't believe so.
>    Actually, there is, it just isn't used by anyone, and is therefore
very expensive to use. These are the chips used in the 30-pin version of
the 8MB SIMM, I think.
>...
>>>     8   x 32 Mbit   = 32 MByte  (Is there a 32 Mbit chip)
>>Not in production as I understand it.
>    I haven't heard of this either.

There's no such thing as 8 Mbit or 32 Mbit chip. Each new generation of
memory chips quadruples the capacity of the previous generation. Prototypes
of 64 Mbit chips were announced by Toshiba and IBM about a year ago and a
number of companies are already working on 256 Mbit chips.

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 9:54:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: simple drag and drop text viewer

I would like to locate an application that will allow me to:
  (1)  drag and drop a text file (type=TEXT) on it
  (2)  open that file in a monospaced font (courier)
  (3)  maybe, but not necessarily edit it.
TeachText doesn't let me specify the default font, and full
featured WP programs take too long to launch and use too much
RAM.  I am looking for something to open readme files and
other misc. text files downloaded from the Net.

Any ideas?

Ken Sayward
Systems Analyst
Vitro Corp.
[e-mail]
[phone]

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 13:25:51 NDT
From: Dave G. Liverman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Trackballs (summary)

Last week I asked
> My question is whether
>you people out there have any recommendations for a simple (one button
>is fine) but more importantly durable trackball

in part of research for a public access interactive display. I've
received a few replies, several of which recommended the Kensington
made trackball, but with the warning that the ball is easily removable,
and thus not suited for a public display. I recieved two warnings
concerning the Stingray trackball- not at all durable.
The only positive recommendation was from Mark Hazen who wrote

>We have looked at a lot of trackballs for the MAC over the years.
>To date the most popular is the Mouse-Trak by ITAC Systems, Inc. Garland,
>Texas 75042.  This trackball has a non-removable ball and three buttons with
>built in wrist rest.  And it also comes in an industrial strength version
>that may be good for your application.

thanks to
[e-mail]
Daniel Ari Mendelson
Jolyon A. Silversmith
Mark Hazen

Hope this is of interest
Dave Liverman, Newfoundland Geological Survey, St. John's, Newfoundland.

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 09:18:37 EDT
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: welcome to info-mac

Work's been tying me down; as catchup I've just read 8 digests at once.
It strikes me that spring fever this year is not so much bringing out
the crazies as the new guys. Who either have marvelous criticisms of
the tone of the digests - levity is not allowed, we must keep it clean,
etc., or the mac, which is obviously a new beast to them, although they
are very ready to demonstrate their superior knowledge of OTHER kinds
of computers to this list composed of people who obviously must be
dummies, or they wouldn't be using macs.

We've all been new at a mac. We've also all been new at internet lists.
Me, I'm old at both and not young to boot. May I welcome the newcomers
but also suggest that there is such a thing as courtesy. I think you
will find that people on this list will very willingly help you when
you have real problems - and you will; but that a bit of discretion
in posting rebukes, show-off remarks, etc. will serve you well in the
long run. If you have internet access you almost certainly can manage
to do searches on the archives and find answers to any number of questions
you pose here. Not that questions shouldn't be posed here, but just try
to answer for yourself first. RTFM should be the resort tried before
posting to info-mac, btw. - Clare !-)

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 02:20:08 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: Writing in Circles

Gradual Irritation # 24, reaching a critical point:  what do I gotta do
to make text bend around in curves and circles and print out that way on
my non-PostScript StyleWriter?

OK, more info:  my "home" graphics environment is SuperPaint (3.0), and
the idea is to generate nice curvy text paths and import them into SP3
or else import an SP3 (or even PICT as generated by SP3) file into a
graphics program that will bend text around a chosen path.

Illustrator does it.  Canvas does it.  Freehand does it.  None of them
are on speaking terms with SuperPaint, and they are fundamentally Post-
Script drawing programs with horrible handles, user-hostility, and
complete unmitigated contempt for my StyleWriter.  Yeah, I can make a
curved pathway, join the text to the path, and then copy and paste into
SuperPaint:  if and only if I paste it into the "paint" layer, which
means 72 dpi bitmapped representation, jaggies and all.  Yeah, I can
do all of the above at some ridiculous point size and then paste into
SP3's paint layer, copy back to draw, and Scale Select way down.  It's
a hassle and STILL looks sloppy because the 72 dpi screen does vicious
things to text when it isn't sitting up pretty at normal verticality or
90 degree variations thereof.  Hmm, I've mislead you, come to think of
it--I actually CAN paste into the draw layer of SP3, but it won't PRINT
if I do.

Am I asking for something unreasonable, that a program oughta be able to
grab ahold of a TrueType font and bend it around and print it out on a
non-PostScript StyleWriter?  And that it oughta have a meaningful dialog
with SuperPaint, which is still user-friendly enough to pass the Allan
test of elegant programming?  (Manual?  Oh yeah, I guess it came with
one, I never bothered to read it, everything's obvious).

Someone is bound to notice that SP3 can export files as EPS.  Don't bother
telling me about EPS unless you know how to tell Canvas to dispense with
the irritating electronic shrink-wrap that yells out "this here pic was
made by SuperPaint in case you wuz wondering"; and besides, that still
won't get the stuff printed.  Aw hell, there has to be something better
than editing the jaggies in SuperBits!

- Allan Hunter
 <ahunter@sbccvm>
 <[e-mail]>

PS> Yeah, I answer some as well as ask a bunch of 'em, but the ones I
    answer are prob'ly FAQish enuff to warrant individual postings, so
    you don't get to see 'em.  Be nice.  You was once half-ignerrant, too.

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Date: Mon, 10 May 93 17:25:48 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Y'all, etc

I was recently taken to task for defining "y'all" as second person plural
Southern. Seems the chap's wife's sister lives in Nawlins (New Orleans to
you yankees -- itself defined as anyone who is not a US Southerner) and
claims that "y'all" is both singular and plural. I submit that is why we
lost the war (Oops. Not the war. The late unpleasantness). No nation can
survive that cannot agree on standard language usage.

Do I need to throw a <sly grin> in here? Probably. There will always be
a few folk who can't deal with my admitedly warped sense of humor.

Nope, this has nothing to do with the "serious Mac usage" whose lack was
recently decried re the Limbaugh 0.0 posting. First off, lighten up. The
posting was a light-hearted riposte to the Clinton thing. If we lose our
sense of humor, we lose everything. I've said it before. Lord, preserve
me from sincere people with no sense of humor. That's a not bad working
definition of "Nazi." Second off, I object to the concept. Back in the
dark ages when I went to school, my senior Chem Eng weekly lab reports
were downrated for lapses in spelling or grammar. The theory was that
senior management wouldn't pay attention to illiterates. And you NEED
the support of senior management to get anything done. I've been out of
school for longer than most of y'all have been alive, and I confirm the
wisdom of that approach.

I dunno about y'all, but I think that both humorous and appropriately
corrective non-Mac posts are perfectly appropriate in this forum.

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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