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Info-Mac Digest             Mon, 24 May 93       Volume 11 : Issue 108

Today's Topics:

      [*] AutoBoot12.hqx
      "ZiffNet CopyWrongs" Revisited
      500 MB HD advice for Q800 server (Q)
      a good company for users of old macs
      Apple Component Video/QuickTime 1.6
      ARA / System 7 Tuner conflict?
      Arabic Word Processors (Summary of replies)
      Are you using FileMaker Pro WINDOWS w/ Mac?
      Backup Problems, Retrospect 2.0 and DAT drives
      BBEdit 2.2.2 versus BBEdit Lite (Q)
      Book Reviews/Nexus
      Canon BubbleJet Ink Cartridge equivalent to Stylewriter II (A)
      ChemDraw
      clipboard query
      Connecting PC to an Appleshare server
      duo 230 and modem problems
      E-address for Nisus (Paragon Concepts)
      Envelope software for HP4M?
      Font Convertion from IBM to Mac ?
      Funny Font Problem...
      Graphics Nubus cards v VRAM etc speed comparisons (Q)
      Graph paper generator
      Greek Polytonic
      Igor (Numerical Analysis) for the Mac (A)
      Info-Mac Digest V11 #107
      Internal -> External CD ROM
      LaserJet 4M PPD File?
      LaserWriter 8.0 info for Info-Mac
      LaserWriter Pro 600 vs. Laserwriter IIg (A)
      Looking to a "touch" program for the Mac (i.e., change a file's date)
      Mac Programming Problem with SFGetFile (A)
      Mac SCSI Ethernet access
      MACSERVE AT PUCC
      MacWorld Boston contact info needed
      Metamorphisis REQUIRES an FPU !?!?!?!
      Michigan Icon (R)
      Mirroring your site.
      Monitor power cable to CPU?
      MPW SIG anywhere (Q)
      PowerBook AC Power Adapter nonfunction
      Power switch on IIci
      QuickTime 1.6 - How to get it (Q)
      REAL story on comp.sys.mac.scitech (A)
      Sad Mac Codes Incomplete
      SE/30 pwr supply (Q)
      Single handed keyboard Needed!!!!
      Soft and Active Terminators???(Q)
      SoftwareFPU and ResEdit 2.1.1 conflicts?
      Software to calculate area (A)
      Software to calculate area? (A)
      Some Hacker Requests (A)
      Stylewriter and HP550c on network (Q)
      Times-Two (Q)
      Times Two (advertising concerns)
      TrueType and non-proportional fonts
      Turbo Pascal To Think Pascal
      TypeAlign problem workaround
      Upgrading SE to High Density Floppies (A)
      ZiffNet/MAC (2 msgs)
      ZiffNet/Mac Software (c)

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 20:59:13 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: [*] AutoBoot12.hqx

AutoBoot version 1.2 (c) 1992-93 by Karl Pottie


A. What is AutoBoot ?

AutoBoot is a Control Panel/System extension which will reboot
(restart) you Macintosh after a System Error or a Freeze-Up has
occurred. This comes in handy when your Macintosh must be 'on-line' at
all times, even when it is left unattended for long periods of time.

For instance, people using Timbuktu (a package which allows you to
operate a Mac remotely by modem) or ARA complained that they had
to drive down to the location of the Mac to reboot it after a
system crash. Very nice if the Mac is located at the other
side of town !

Other uses can be found for file servers, systems that carry a BBS,
systems with a FAX modem, systems which have file sharing
turned on ...
AutoBoot allows maximal availability of these Macs, even in the
presence of System crashes or Freeze-Ups.

As one user wrote to me: "Permit me to thank you a thousand times for
having developed it [...] For the fact that we were running your product
last night, we were able to obtain 2 very important telefaxes that we
would not have otherwise received".

Version 1.2 is now compatible with Virtual Memory except on some older
Macs (check documentation).

I suggest you carefully read the "About AutoBoot" document before
installing AutoBoot on your system. Please read the "Version 1.2 changes"
document to be notified of some important changes.

AutoBoot requires at least system 6.0.4. It is 32 bit clean,
compatible with system 7 but it is not compatible with virtual memory
(yet). I'm working on it, though.

Shareware: The basic fee for the first copy of AutoBoot is $20. For
each additional macintosh you run this product on, you must pay
another $10.

You can distribute this software by giving it away to friend, upload
it to a BBS or online services like Compuserve or AOL, or send it to
any ftp site. Basically you can distribute it any way you like, as
long as you don't ask any money for it, other than a small charge
related to distribution costs (cost of a disk, postage or download
fee) and keep it together with the unmodified document in the
original compressed archive this product came in.

Karl Pottie
e-mail:

[e-mail]



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Date: 24 May 93 14:45:23 EDT
From: Mark Heard <[e-mail]>
Subject: "ZiffNet CopyWrongs" Revisited

I wonder how Jon Pugh (and his employer) would feel about his note is it read
like this: (substitions in <CAPS>)

Personally, I think the <APPLE> "free but don't upload" restrictions are
wrong for a variety of reasons.  I don't care about enforcement or any of
that stuff.  I just think they are a bad idea.  The idea of restricting
<COMPUTERS> is foolish and detrimental to society.  I know that there are
a number of very useful utilities that <APPLE> had done that will not
benefit people because they don't have access.  For example, they have a
nice database of every Macintosh ever made with specs and capabilities.
They also have several Hypercard stacks that are expert systems designed
to aid you in purchasing decisions when buying Macs, drives and printers.
It doesn't make sense to only allow certain people to have this <COMPUTERS>
and I wish there were a way to make this known to the <APPLE> people.  The
problem is that they only carry their own software there, otherwise I would
encourage authors to make "<APPLE> prohibited" clauses on their software.

Face it, the <APPLE> guys are snobs.  They could get much more advertising
by allowing their nifty stuff, with their contact <COMPUTERS>, to circulate
freely.  This way, only people who've signed up will know what's available.
Elitism at it's worst.  I call it "computerized inbreeding".


But it's not the same... is it?

Mark

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 04:00:42 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan Schultz)
Subject: 500 MB HD advice for Q800 server (Q)

I am looking for advice for a 500 MB hard drive for a Q800.
It currently has a 230 MB hard drive, which does not seem adequate
(both size and speed). I wanted to purchase a Q800 without hard drive,
and then add a third party drive, but Apple didn't give me that option.

The Q800 is being used as a server for medical software.
There are many disk accesses, but basically no large data transfers at once.

I have read magazine articles, called vendors, and perused the net, but I
haven't found anything convincing. Of course, all vendors say their drives
are the best, have the best support, and the best software. I need a little
different perspective and bias :)

So far, I believe access time is the key indicator.
The best I've found so far is 8ms (from MicroNet).

I was told by one vendor that a SCSI-2 card would not make that much
difference on a Q800 because its SCSI rate is aleary fast.
Is this correct?

Several vendors are offering arrays (yes, I realize I would need 2 500 MB
drives). Are these worth the high prices? Is there a better alternative?

Thanks for the help!

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 13:09:40 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: a good company for users of old macs

Howdy,

I just thought I'd put in a good word for SUN Remarketing, Inc.  I needed
a cable to connect my old 512K to an old modem.  No one in the Orlando
area seemed able (or at least willing) to help.  Then I heard about SUN,
gave them a call on their 800 number, and had the cable in 3 days (w/o
express charges).  Their knowledge, courtesy, and service were impressive.
Oh yeah, they have a large catalog of old macs and peripherals.

Their phone number 1-800-821-3221 (24 hours).

Just a very satisfied customer,
Arlen Carey

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 18:06 BST
From: Richard Lim <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Component Video/QuickTime 1.6

To answer my own queries of a week ago about the new codec in QuickTime 1.6,
here's an excerpt from the new technical note:

"A YUV Compressor/Decompressor Component has been added to QuickTime 1.6. It
stores data in YUV 4:2:2 format. The compression algorithm is not lossless,
but the image quality is extremely high. The compression ratio is 2:1. It
does not support frame differencing. It is useful with certain video input
solutions. In addition, it is also useful as an intermediate storage format
if you are applying multiple effects or transitions to an image."

According to the same technical note, the new Sound Manager in QT 1.6 really
does take over from the old:

"QuickTime 1.6 is released with the new Sound Manager, Version 3.0. Since the
new Sound Manager completely replaces the existing Sound Manager, it will
work with all versions of QuickTime and all existing applications.  If the
Sound Manager 3.0 is installed, QuickTime 1.6 will take advantage of its
new features.

"You can use QuickTime with the Sound Manager 3.0 in the following ways:
7  Mix multiple sound tracks into one sound resource
7  Play sound more efficiently
The new Sound Manager lessens the load on the CPU for sound. As a rule of
thumb, you will be able to get one extra frame per second for video playback.
7  Support alternate sound output devices
This allows you to hook up hardware to your Macintosh for CD quality 16-bit
44 kHz stereo sound output.
7  Allow better control over multiple sound channels
With Sound Manager 3.0, sound overdriving is now possible. By setting the
movie volume above 1.0, the sound will actually be overdriven.
7  Support true balance control
7  Handle sound mixing better, which improves the quality of multiple sound
track playback
7  Use the new Sound Control Panel"

Which makes me wonder: what is overdriving?  And is there really a new
Sound Control Panel around?

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 23:47:49 -0230
From: "Michael Coyne, Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: ARA / System 7 Tuner conflict?

I just bought a copy of AppleTalk Remote Access and installed it on my
IIci and PowerBook 100. The ARA application refused to launch so I disabled
all extensions and tried it again. It then launched OK. After much trial and
error it appeared that the System 7 Tuner extension was the culprit. I would
appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar experience and what might
be done to eliminate this conflict.

Thank you.

****************************************
Michael Coyne
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Corner Brook, Newfoundland, CANADA
E-mail: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 8:11:36 GMT
From: P Browning <[e-mail]>
Subject: Arabic Word Processors (Summary of replies)

Here's a summary of the replies I got. Thanks for your help.
Paul Browning
Dept of Geology
University of Bristol, UK
 -------------------------------------------------
From: Saeed Al-Dhaheri <[e-mail]>
 If you are looking for an Arabic word processing a program called Wintext
>From Winsoft at France is very popular in most arab countries. If you are
using sys 7.1 and have the Arabic world script module in your system then
you will be able to use any english world processor such as MS world 5 or
MacWrite to write in Arabic beside English. The current version of Wintext
that works with sys 7.0 is version 2.7 but, you wan't be able to use it
with sys 7.1      Hope this helps.

The address for Winsoft is:
       Winsoft 34,boulevard de l'Esplanade
           38000 GRENOBLE - FRANCE
           Tel. [phone]

From: [e-mail]
I don't know if this can help but a very fine company in Settle Wash.
called Linguestic Software makes a very fine Arabic Operating system
and they have just went 7.1 with it.

Their package includes 4 postscipt fonts (includeing Arabic and Farsi)
a macro that allows right to left writing and the choice of Arabic or
English Operating.  I have just married into an Arabic Family and my
Father-in-Law teaches Arabic, even without understanding the Mac envi-
roment he was able to sit down and operate the Arabic system.  He and
I both recommend this system.

If you are really intrested contact them at [phone] (seattle, Pacific
Sta
   ndard time).  Their address is LINGUST'S SOFTWARE, INC/PO Box 580/(whoops
excuse my error here)EDMONDS, WA 98020-0580.

From: [e-mail] (Amnon Cohen )
Any WP will handle arabic if you have an arabic script system ]
and fonts. Some will have trouble positioning the cursor correctly.
Some WP are written so that when yo change to Arabic - only arabic
fonts can be sellected - which saves a lot of Hassle.

These include Arabic Nissus, and Allscript.

From: "John I. Quebedeaux, Jr" <[e-mail]>
Paul, if you run Apple's Arabic System software (there is 7.0.1) I
believe available from ftp.apple.com or their technical subscription.
You can word process Arabic on any word processor (you can switch
between English and Arabic.)

From: [e-mail] (Miron Deyssenroth)
just use word 5 with 7.1 (and perhaps lower - i don4t know) and with the
arabic
extension, available from ftp.apple.com

>From: AppleMan <[e-mail]>
Nisus handles text in Arabic (or any language, for that matter).  You will
need to have a copy of the Arabic Script, available with Nisus or from
Apple Computer as part of the Arabic System Software, currently version
7.0.1 Available.

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 13:06:49 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Kim Cary)
Subject: Are you using FileMaker Pro WINDOWS w/ Mac?

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who is using the new version of
filemaker for windows to share info with folks who have filemaker databases
on macs. I'd like to know:

How's it working?
How do you rate the windows version, as compared to other windows
databases, for ease of use?
What network are you using to share files?

Thanks! I'll post a summary back to the digest.

Kim Cary                      Systems Support Coord/Adjunct Faculty
Grad. School of Ed. & Psych.    Bitnet: KCARY@PEPVAX ______________
Pepperdine University         Internet: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 15:07:32 EDT
From: "Jeffrey N. Fritz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Backup Problems, Retrospect 2.0 and DAT drives

We are having trouble with the GigaTrend DAT drive that is backing
up our departmental Macs. The combination of the GigaTrend 1235 DAT drive
and Retrospect 2.0 (our network backup software) is causing the Backup
Mac to fail. After a backup has been run, any action in Retrospect
causes the Retrospect Application to quit and the Mac's internal hard drive
to be unmountable unless the DAT drive is disconnected from the SCSI
chain.  The backups are being made at night across a 10-Base-T Ethernet.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?   I don't believe the same
problem occured with Retrospect 1.3.  I have sent several messages to
Dantz.  At first they were responsive.  Now they've fallen strangely
quiet.  That doesn't make me feel any better.  :~(

If Retrospect 2.0 and the DAT drive are moved to a second Mac IIci, the
problem still occurs, so it's likely not a Mac hardware problem.  There
are no non-Apple extensions running (except for Dantz' own RetroSCSI).

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Jeffrey Fritz
West Virginia University
Telecommunications
Internet: [e-mail]
AppleLink:  WVUISDN
AOL: ISDN Man

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Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 20:56 EDT
From: Philip Sharman <[e-mail]>
Subject: BBEdit 2.2.2 versus BBEdit Lite (Q)

What features have been removed from BBEdit 2.2.2 in the new incarnation
of BBEdit Lite?  I've been comparing the two and wondering what the
difference is.  The real question is: am I better off just sticking
with the _old_ BBEdit?
    Thanks,  Philip Sharman, ([e-mail]).

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 8:06:55 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Book Reviews/Nexus

     Hello!  I'm looking for an on-line source, preferably through the
Internet, for locating all the book reviews an author has received in the
current literature (i.e. the 40 or 50 largest newspapers and also key
magazines).  If I could also get the text of these reviews on-line or through
the net, that would be even better.

     I have heard of a service called Nexus, but don't know much about it.  Is
this a possibility for finding book reviews?  What other options do I have?
Please send e-mail to [e-mail].

                     Cheers,

                     Steve Heckler
                     Stanford University

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Date: 22 May 1993 06:07:34 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Guy Kuo)
Subject: Canon BubbleJet Ink Cartridge equivalent to Stylewriter II (A)

One the issue of StyleWriter I and II ink cartridge equivalency, I recall
reading that the cartridge meant for use with the StyleWriter II has a
modified
ink delivery system which allows its nozzles to receive ink more rapidly from
the ink supply. This apparently was to compensate for the StyleWriter II's
more rapid printing. The impression was use of StyleWriter I cartridges in
StyleWriter II printers would work only as long as the page did not contain
too much black region. This difference need not be visible from outside the
cartridge. We need somebody to dissect the two cartridge types and very
carefully examine their ink flow systems up to the nozzles.

Guy Kuo <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 15:41:42 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Karl Pottie)
Subject: ChemDraw

Is there any demo available of the program "Chemdraw"? If so, is it on-line
somewhere ?

 ----------
Karl Pottie
Macintosh Consultant for the University Hospitals of Leuven, Belgium

[e-mail]

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Date: 22 May 1993 11:06:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: clipboard query

I like to save my info-mac digest for later reading but cannot get the whole
thing into my clipboard for copying to macwrite pro. Is there any way I can
enlarge
the memory in my clipboard?  I use a quadra 700 running system 7.1 and have
8meg RAM.  I'm new at this and would appreciate a little help.  Thanks.  Ed
Holzer

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Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 12:39:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Stahl)
Subject: Connecting PC to an Appleshare server

[e-mail] writes:

>I'm fairly sure that this cannot be done, but here goes: is there any way for
>a
>PC to be added to an EtherTalk network which has an Appleshare server and to
>then be able to access the server? I helping someone who has 18 Macs and
their
>accountant/consultant is a nana and is trying to get them to put in a PC for
>some accounts package (despite the fact that there are excellent Mac ones)
but
>it would need access to the group's fileserver. This person really does not
>want to throw away their Quadra 700 with Appleshare and put in a PC running
>Novell, just for one machine running the accounts.

Yes, there is a way.  Try using Timbuktu for Windows ver 1.0.  I have several
PCs in my lab that control and collect data from HPLCs and
spectraphotometers.
I installed Timbuktu for Windows and a compatable ethernet card (I'm using
an etherlink III card from 3com) on one of the PCs.  The software allows
access to our appleshare server along with a windows "chooser" app that
allows printing to appletalk/ethertalk laserwriters on the network.  If
you purchase a copy of Timbuktu for Mac, you can control the PC from the
Mac or exchange files directly w/o using the fileserver...the reverse is
also possible.  It's not trivial to install the software on the PC; just
make sure you purchase a compatible ethernet card.  Phone support from
Farallon was helpful the one time I used it.

mark   [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 8:24:49 EDT
From: [e-mail] (David Cappello)
Subject: duo 230 and modem problems

Hello info-mac readers:

I just got a DUO 230 with the duodock.  It has the new Express modem
installed and the dock has a connection for a standard RJ-11 connection.
(as does the duo)

However, when I try to use the modem with the duo in its dock it does not
hear any dial tone.  I can't send any faxes because it does not hear any
dial tones.  Also when I recieve a fax it picks up (answers the call)
but never connects and fails.
All is well as long as the duo is no in its doc - I can send/receive
both fax and data calls.

In any case for those of you that have not seen a duo and the docking
system - its real nice!  If only I could make the modem work when
the duo is in it dock....

Am I doing something wrong or is this a dealer fix-up problem?

thanx in advance....

[  David Cappello                   Internet:  [e-mail]  ]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 22:03:21 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: E-address for Nisus (Paragon Concepts)

Can anyone please send me an e-address for Paragon Concepts?

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 15:15:52 -0600 (CST)
From: David Beach <[e-mail]>
Subject: Envelope software for HP4M?

>Does anyone know of some envelope printing software that works well with
>the HP4M printer?  For instance, Easy Envelopes Plus works well with a
>centerfed printer, but that won't help with the HP4M.

I haven't tried EasyEnvelopes Plus with the
HP4M but I have tried it with our HP IIIP (with PS, Appletalk, etc) which
is an edge, rather than centre, fed printer.  EE+ worked just fine.  (I'm
currently using Intouch but NOT because of printer problems!)  Did you go
into the Preferences dialogue box and 'uncheck' the box that says 'Using a
Center Fed Printer'?  Than *might* be the problem.

David Beach
Northern Medical Services
University of Saskatchewan
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 15:15:46 +0100
From: "J. Rossi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font Convertion from IBM to Mac ?

I know that there are utilities to convert true type Mac fonts to their
IBM equivalent (Fontographer, or True Type Converter).

Before I buy one, I 'd like to know if the reverse is possible, namely
>From IBM true type to Mac true type.

In case no such beast exists, would someone know of any IBM application
that would do the trick ?

Thanks

Francois Rossi   [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 16:29:29 +0100
From: Elliot Bennett <[e-mail]>
Subject: Funny Font Problem...

Well I just don't get it.  It seems that ever since my Express Modem was
installed in my Duo 230, one of my fonts (Geneva, I believe) has an extremely
ugly display in the smaller font size.  I can't pin this down exactly because
I don't know which font it is (or which size), but in my QuickMail display, in
Startup Manager (3.0), in fact just about anywhere a smaller type font is
used,
 the display is just plain ugly.  And this happens with a shift-boot as well,
so I doubt it's an init.

In my Fonts folder I did notice that Geneva has the TrueType font and point
definitions for 10 through 24.  The 9 point is only italic.  Also, when I
lauch TeachText, I get garbage in the menu (where normally it would say "
TeachText" when launching) and all my Teachtext documents open in Chicago.

Anyone have any idea what's going on?

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

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 04:53:17 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Graphics Nubus cards v VRAM etc speed comparisons (Q)

Dear net,

Has anyone got speed comparisons (or just a ranking order?) for the
following, preferably in 24 bit mode where applicable as well as 8 bit
mode, and preferably using a IIci or a IIsi and one of the older Quadras as
the
bases for comparison:
-  Apple 8.24 card
-  screen RAM of IIci and IIsi models
-  VRAM
-  accelerated 24 bit cards

Adv
Thanks
ance

[e-mail]1
[e-mail]
<C=es;A=mensatex;P=y-net;O=sp1;S=Kenyon;G=Bob>

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:08:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: LAN Supervisor <[e-mail]>
Subject: Graph paper generator

Hi,

I recall seeing a program that will generate sheets of graph paper.
Anyone know what the name is or where I can get it. I do know that
it was shareware.

Josephine Colmenares / Fordham University
[e-mail] / [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 22:47:45 GMT
From: Michael Everson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Greek Polytonic

Greek 7.1 comes with two keyboards: Elleniko and Elleniko Polytoniko.
The latter gives dead keys which presumably access precomposed
polytonic characters. Anyone have the Macintosh code page which
has them?

Michael Everson
School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]  Home: [phone]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 9:21:51 EDT
From: Tom Coradeschi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Igor (Numerical Analysis) for the Mac (A)

Sean M. Joyce <[e-mail]> wrote:
>A warm thank you to all who responded to my query about Igor, a numerical
>analysis program for the Macintosh.  Special thanks go to both Sylvia
>Elliot, who first pointed me in the right direction, Wladimir Diaz
>Villanueva, and Paul Rybski.
[...]
>Standard disclaimer applies.  I have no commercial interest in Igor, and am
>posting the above addresses for informational purposes only.  I promised a
>"brief" summary to the list to several who wrote telling me they were also
>interested in finding the product.

Can't believe that I missed this one:-{

There's also a mailing list for discussion of Igor. Send email to
[e-mail] to subscribe.

             Tom Coradeschi, Igor List Maintainer
             <[e-mail]>

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 12:58:56 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wayne K. Walrath)
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V11 #107

    I call SFGetFile like this:

    SFGetFile(      where,NIL,MyFileFilter,1,typeList,(ProcPtr)NIL,&reply);

    Then I call the FileFilter function like this:

    pascal Boolean MyFileFilter(paramBlock)
    ParmBlkPtr paramBlock;

    {

    Boolean         theResult;
    OSType          getIt;

    theResult = FALSE;

    getIt = (**(**paramBlock).ioFlFndrInfo.fdType;

    return(theResult);


    }

    But I keep getting a "pointer required" error at the
    getIt = (**(**paramBlock).ioFlFndrInfo.fdType;  statement. How do I
    de-reference this pointer? What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions would
    be appreciated.

Shouldn't you be passing the address of the FileFilter in your call?
Something like this:
    SFGetFile(      where,NIL,&MyFileFilter,1,typeList,(ProcPtr)NIL,&reply);

That is perhaps your problem. Also, as I look at NIM Files, it
says that the FileFilter expects the data struct "CInfoPBPtr". Check
your header files to see what's going on.

Hope this helps, feel free to write back if you need.

    wayne

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Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 21:07:13 -0400
From: Gary Goldberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internal -> External CD ROM

(Asked how to remove the CD drive from a IIvx and put it in an external
case, and about putting another device in its place.)

It's not a problem to take the internal CD drive and install it in an
external case. Internal and external devices are the same, they differ
only in how they are housed. The important connections on any drive
are these:

1. SCSI cable (same connection type for all SCSI drives)
2. SCSI ID (the drive ID can either be set with jumpers or with a
     switch wire, be connected to an external switch for easy changing.)
3. Power connection (same connection type for all SCSI drives)
4. Phyically how the drive is attached to its housing - where the screw
   holes are (not usually a problem.)

In your IIvx you'll find the CD drive slid into its bay on rails. When you
open the case, you'll want to make notes on how everything is attached, so
you won't become confused later. The power connector is keyed so it only goes
in one way. The SCSI cable may or may not be keyed - it there is a nub on
one side of the cable then it will only go in one way. If there isn't, then
you'll have to take note of which side of the ribbon cable has the colored
(usually red striped) wire, that indicates Pin 1 which is usally closest to
the power connector.

The SCSI ID is almost certainly jumpered, so you can just leave it alone. If
you need to change its setting, or you want to attach it to an external
ID select switch on the case you install it from, contact me later. Otherwise,
it shouldn't be a worry for you.

You can buy an external case that will fit it from many sources. Try APS. An
external case contains a place to physically secure the drive, a power
supply, a SCSI connector (usually two), an internal SCSI cable that attaches
where you'd expect (make sure it's in the right orientation), a power
conector that will fit your drive (both SCSI and power connectors are standard
connectors), a SCSI ID select switch with connecting cable that you can
ignore,
and a power switch/power on light. Since you'll be installing a CD drive,
you'll need a case that has an open front, to access the drive.

You'll want to detach the sliding rails from the drive and save them - you'll
need them for whatever device you install in the IIvx afterward. They aren't
needed for putting the CD drive in the external case.

I see a problem when it comes to the output audio signal that would normally
attach to the IIvx motherboard or be attached to the RCA output plugs on an
original external drive. You will probably have to fashion a special cable
(or contact Apple for advice) so that you can hook the audio to a stereo. Of
course, you'll have access to the headphone jack in front, but that's not
always a best approach.

Once you remove the drive and install it in an external case, just connect
the drive to the IIvx with a standard SCSI cable and it should work fine. From
the OS viewpoint, it won't act any differently.

Of course, now you have a gaping hole where the drive was, and if you put the
original bezel back, there will be a hole where the CD slot was. You can
buy another (blank) bezel from Apple, or live with it.

About installing a 3 1/2" drive in the now-empty bay - it will attach and work
well functionally with the cables in place, but physically, it will be
difficult
to secure. You can get 3 1/2" to 5 1/4" adapters from the PC world (I've
used them for installing floppy drives in a normal bay on a PC), and attach
the
sliding rails to that.

I'm sending this to Info-Mac also, in case anyone else can use the info.
Good luck. - Gary

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Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 22:12:07 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jason Ehrlich)
Subject: LaserJet 4M PPD File?

Has anyone ever seen a PPD file for the LJ 4M? There isn't one on the HP
driver disks, and I'm wondering if having a custom PPD file would
make any important difference for using the Apple LaserWriter 8.0 drivers
(which are on AppleLink, I think.).

thanks,
jason

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 00:54:29 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: LaserWriter 8.0 info for Info-Mac

* 1993 Apple Computer, Inc.

LaserWriter 8.0 PostScript Driver Shipped
by Amr Eissa

The LaserWriter 8.0 driver for PostScript* Level 2 printers has arrived.  Its
release in late April of 1993 made it the first implementation of PostScript
Level 2 printing for Macintosh computers.  Now developers will be able to
fully utilize the power of PostScript Level 2, Adobe* Systems' unification and
extension of the PostScript language. Apple Computer, Inc., and Adobe Systems,
Inc., jointly developed the new driver.  Its primary purpose is to improve the
performance and functionality of all PostScript printers and particularly to
support the new features of PostScript Level 2.

Supports PostScript Level 2 Features
PostScript Level 2 features include forms and form caching, patterns and
pattern caching, device-independent color, data compression and decompression
filters, improved halftoning algorithms for color separations, improved memory
management, better resource management, and improved support for
printer-specific features.  In addition, PostScript Level 2 reports errors in
real time, making it possible for programs to report printing errors more
accurately.

The LaserWriter 8.0 driver takes advantage of Adobe's latest implementation of
PostScript.  It provides alternative (and, in come cases, more efficient) ways
to describe the appearance of a page.  The new driver also supports new
PostScript techniques for font switching, text composition, transmission of
compressed images, and caching of text and graphics.

Caching allows repeated uses of the same text or pattern, and the LaserWriter
8.0 driver makes use of this Level 2 development.  Faster processing occurs
because the printer doesn't have to recreate the elements each time they are
needed.  Pattern cell replication, in particular, provide an efficient and
time-saving means for painting an area.  PostScript Level 2 also permits
faster printing by transmitting compressed files to the printer.

New Driver Improves Resolution
The new driver also makes higher resolution possible by using another
PostScript Level 2 feature, improved halftoning algorithms.  This advance
dramatically improves the accuracy of the angles and frequencies in PostScript
imagesetter halftone screens, making higher-quality images possible.

The LaserWriter 8.0 driver also supports PhotoGrade.  Apple introduced this
new application-specific technology in the LaserWriter IIf and IIg.
PhotoGrade is automatically
active in the LaserWriter Pro 630 and becomes active on the LaserWriter Select
300 and the  LaserWriter Pro 600 when you add extra printer memory.

PhotoGrade improves the quality of printed images by making dramatic
improvements in resolution.  It significantly reduces visible halftone dots
that exist on 300-dpi and 600-dpi printers and offers more than 11 times the
number of gray shades at any screen resolution.  The LaserWriter 8.0 driver's
support for PhotoGrade, in addition to its use of the PostScript Level 2
halftoning technology, provides greatly increased image resolution.

Besides increased speed and accuracy, the LaserWriter 8.0 driver can achieve
more efficient operation by using the resource management function of
PostScript Level 2.  This feature can speed up searches for the location,
storage, and management of fonts, forms, patterns, font-encoding vectors, and
color rendering dictionaries.

Complete PostScript Support
PostScript Level 2 builds on Adobe's core technology, but does not make
existing PostScript products obsolete.  Similarly, the LaserWriter 8.0 driver
maximizes performance and functionality for all PostScript-compatible
LaserWriter printers, including existing LaserWriter printers that support
PostScript Level 1.

The designers of the new driver gave high priority to expanding the
capabilities of printers utilizing PostScript Level 1.  As a result, the new
LaserWriter driver provides additional functionality to PostScript Level 1
printers, including improved background printing performance and control of
printer-specific features.

The designers also wanted to add support for device-specific features to the
new driver.  They added PPD (PostScript Printer Description) files for both
levels of PostScript in order to support the capabilities of individual
printers.  Users will find that printing is easier and more efficient because
they can control manual operations, such as the ability to print a cover page
before or after a document, from the desktop without touching the printer.
Similar features supported by the LaserWriter 8.0 driver include desktop
control of multiple paper trays and optional envelope trays.

Compatibility
The LaserWriter 8.0 driver is backward compatible.  It not only supersedes the
LaserWriter 7.0 driver, but it directly replaces all previous versions of
LaserWriter
driver.  It combines all the features of the LaserWriter 7.0 printer driver
and adds support for features that are specific to individual printers.  The
LaserWriter 8.0 driver is a complete superset of LaserWriter 7.x
functionality,
including application compatibility, TrueType as well as Adobe Type 1 and Type
3 font support, and PostScript Level 1 compatibility.

PostScript Level 2 printers will still be able use the LaserWriter 7.0 driver,
although upgrading the driver to version 8.0 improves printing performance and
functionality and extends the user's control.

Finally, the LaserWriter 8.0 driver is compatible with most commonly used
system software by supporting System 7.x and 6.0.7.

Background Performance Improved
The LaserWriter 8.0 driver improves background performance by as much as 10
percent (on average) and 30 percent (for business graphics).  The new driver's
foreground performance, for the most part, comparable to that of its
predecessor, the LaserWriter 7.1.2 driver.  Very large files generating
PostScript code (for example, Adobe Illustrator, Quark XPress, Aldus
PageMaker) can slow down the LaserWriter 8.0 driver's foreground mode.  Apple
will address this problem in the next release of the driver, which is
scheduled for the end of this year.

Support for Color Matching
The LaserWriter 8.0 driver now features support for PostScript Level 2
Device-Independent
Color.  Level 2 specifies colors based on the XYZ color model, an
international standard created by the Commission International de l'Eclairage
(CIE) in 1931.  Both RGB and CMYK, the color models used for describing screen
and printer colors, define color in terms of they XYZ model, which can be used
to translate color accurately between the two sources.  Because PostScript
Level 2 supports XYZ, the color calibration process is built into the
LaserWriter
8.0 driver, making possible more accurate color mapping from the monitor to
the printer.

However, color matching still yields imperfect results because of the
difficulty of translating colored light to colored ink.  Devices also vary in
the range of colors they are capable of producing.  In an effort to improve
color fidelity, Apple has developed ColorSync, a system-level color-matching
technology founded on the XYZ model.  The LaserWriter 8.0 driver does not
support ColorSync, but Apple and Adobe developers are giving ColorSync high
priority in the driver's next version.

Future Support for Quickdraw GX
ColorSync color-matching capability will be part of Apple's new Quickdraw GX
technology, which is an imaging-oriented system software platform.  The
LaserWriter 8.0 driver supports only the current QuickDraw technology and does
not yet support Quickdraw GX, which is to be released later this year.

However, Apple is planning to collaborate with Adobe Systems on a driver
engine for this new print architecture.  The engine's two components,
conversion from QuickDraw to PostScript code and PPD files, are now under
development.  PPD "printer extensions" files describe the unique
characteristics of particular printers as well as customized functionality
through the Quickdraw GX printing architecture.

LaserWriter 8.0 Driver Available Now
Apple Computer, Inc. and Adobe Systems, Inc. will each market their own
version of the new LaserWriter printer driver.  The Apple and Adobe products
have different filenames and icons, but otherwise the two LaserWriter drivers
are identical in features and functionality.

The Apple product, called the LaserWriter 8.0 driver, will ship in June of
this year with Apple's PostScript Level 2 printers, the Personal LaserWriter
NTR and the LaserWriter Pro 600/630,
but it is also available to OEMs and end users.

The LaserWriter 8.0 driver can be downloaded from AppleLink or purchased from
Apple for a nominal fee.  The 8.0 driver update containing the driver, PPDs,
and documentation is available
now.  Call [phone] ext. 7873 to order.

Adobe is calling its product PSPrinter 8.0, which will be licensed directly to
Adobe's PostScript OEMs for distribution with their products.  End users will
be able to order the driver directly
>From Adobe for $24.95

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

Date: Sat, 22 May 93 18:21:57 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: LaserWriter Pro 600 vs. Laserwriter IIg (A)

I have had the good fortune to own, in series, the LaserWriter IINTX, the
LaserWriter IIg and the LaserWriter Pro 630.  I purchased all of these
printers simply because they were the most powerful printers available and
in each instance I was able to purchase them from Apple for a substantial
discount, making them quite affordable.  Obviously your situation and
requirements may be different.

One of the main advantages of the IIg and the 630, in my opinion, is the
availability of an Ethernet connection and the ever increasing speed and
memory capabilities, but when comparing the 630 to the HP 4M these
differences don't really matter.  It should merely be mentioned that the IIf
and 600 both offer the same features as the IIg and the 630 but without
Ethernet.

With my LaserWriter Pro I am able to emulate the other two printers and I
have done that to compare the same printout from the different machines.
The results are interesting.  The NTX is obviously inferior in almost all
ways. Its pictures are grainier and the text is jaggier than either of the
other pictures.

Using 300 dpi with FinePrint and Photograde (as the IIg does) makes the
pictures and text look a lot better.  In fact, the pictures are arguably
better at 300 dpi with Photograde than at 600 dpi without it.  While the
edges are jaggier at 300dpi, the Photograde does an excellent job of
smoothing out continuous tone areas and revealing subtle details.  However,
FinePrint does not even come close to the excellence of 600 dpi text.

So, if you want the crispest text possible, spring for a 600 dpi printer. If
you are more concerned with picture quality, then I think the IIg can
provide for you.  The difference between the 300dpi and Photograde and 600
dpi is subtle though, and the 630 can use Photograde at 300 dpi if you want
it.

What I really want is to use Photograde at 600 dpi.  If anyone knows why it
can't be done, feel free to drop me a line.  If it's just memory, then the
630 can be upgraded to 32 Megs with 30 pin 4M SIMMs.

All in all, I like the LW Pro 630 though.  It's fast and sharp.

Jon

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 93 22:26:25 -0700
From: [e-mail] (David Dantowitz)
Subject: Looking to a "touch" program for the Mac (i.e., change a file's date)

Title says it all.

David

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 19:44:40 PDT
From: Kevin Purcell (Rho) <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac Programming Problem with SFGetFile (A)

Troy Kelley ([e-mail]) said:

[deleted stuff]
Then I call the FileFilter function like this:

pascal Boolean MyFileFilter(paramBlock)
ParmBlkPtr paramBlock;

{

    Boolean         theResult;
    OSType          getIt;

    theResult = FALSE;

    getIt = (**(**paramBlock).ioFlFndrInfo.fdType;

    return(theResult);


}

I say:

We'll ignore the unbalanced parentheses to start with :-) Try using
THINK's cmd/B to look fot this!

You are also confusing pointers and handles. Remember a handle is a
pointer to a pointer to a block of memeory in the heap.

To dereference a pointer, p, you use *p

To dereference a handle, h, you use **h (or (*h)[i] for an array of
objects in a block refered to by a handle).

To dereference a member, m, of a structure pointed to by a pointer, ps,
you use p->m (or (*ps).m if you don't mind being verbose)

To dereference a member, m, of a structure pointed to by a handle, hs,
you use (*h)->m (or (**ps).m if you don't mind being verbose)

The problem is you're not trying to dereference handles in the
assignment you're only trying to access a structure inside a structure
which is pointed to by the pointer in paramBlock (which is probably why
Apple called its type ParmBlkPtr rather than ParmBlkHandle or
ParmBlkHndl or ParmBlkH :-).

To do this you want to dereference the pointer then get the members of
the structure then get the member of the structure inside that, which
in your "Pascalish" style is:

getIt =  (*paramBlock).ioFlFndrInfo.fdType;

but in regular C style is better written:

getIt =  paramBlock->ioFlFndrInfo.fdType;

The following is an observation, NOT a flame.

This question raised the usual point of beginners trying to program the Mac.

The above problem is not a Mac problem but a C programming problem (if
you were having problems with handles it would be understood, but this
is just a conventional one level deep pointer). For all you aspiring
Mac programmers out there, whether you use Pascal or C (or C++), learn
the language you use inside out before attempting to program the Mac
using the Toolbox.

You can learn it by following through a good textbook (K&R in this
case) and doing all the examples. After that you will be a good C
programmer and you'll know your programming environment and its debugger.

It may seem like wasted time but in the long run it will save you time.
Explaining C, data structures and the intricacies of the Mac toolbox to
a neophyte just overloads them with information and gives the
impression of a huge learning curve when its just a big learning curve :-)

Final suggestion: don't write code using the old K&R declaration style
if you don't have to. Use the newer ANSI prototype style and turn
'Requires Prototypes' option on in THINK C. Yes,  you have to include
headers for everything but you'll catch a lot of dumb errors in the
compile rather than chasing errant pointers with a debugger.

Happy Mac programming to one and all.

Kevin Purcell
[e-mail]
Co-chair of Seattle Mac dBug Developer's SIG
"Just cmd/Z it"

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 17:07:44 +0000
From: Nick Rothwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac SCSI Ethernet access

>Does anyone have experience with the SCSI ethernet adaptors that are
>available for Mac's?

I got a FOCUS EtherLAN SC (formerly NuvoLink SC?) a few days ago for my
PowerBook 170. Plug'n'play: install the driver INIT, EtherTalk Phase 2,
Network CDEV and it just works (complete with lots of flashing lights).
AppleTalk to other Macs and Novell server, TCP/IP to the Internet,
whatever.

>We are considering some for our Powerbooks and I
>was wondering what the performance of these was like.

Ah, that I can't answer. I've not had much experience of built-in EtherNet
on Macs. I've been using a IIfx with EtherNet as well, and I haven't
noticed any obvious difference in network speed between that and the
EtherLAN.

As an aside, I'm impressed with FOCUS: direct sales into the UK from the
US, which means US prices (half the UK prices in many cases), decent
delivery time (it arrived in a couple of days from the US) and no dealing
with hopeless UK dealerships.

            Nick Rothwell   |   [e-mail]
     CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance   |   [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 24 May 93 11:18:29 EDT
From: "Allan M. Bloom" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MACSERVE AT PUCC

As others have noticed the I-M mirror at Princeton (MACSERVE at
PUCC) has been acting odd of late. It only responds correctly to a
DIR ALL request. Anything you try to GET doesn't exist.

The folk at Princeton are aware of the problem. I was just told they
hope to have it fixed "in a few days."

Al Bloom, Virginia Tech

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

Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 11:05:42 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Michael LeBlanc)
Subject: MacWorld Boston contact info needed

Would some kind soul mind posting the contact information for MacWorld
Boston?  I would like to register for this August but can't seem to find a
phone, fax # or address.

thanks.


Michael LeBlanc, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3J 3J6

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 93 20:44 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: Metamorphisis REQUIRES an FPU !?!?!?!

(this is posted to a few groups and mailed to the author)

Metamorphisis (the free morphing program) crashes on
my PB160 regardless of monitor settings or extensions.

It runs just fine on an SE/30, Quadra 950, and PB180.
I can only assume that this means it needs an FPU.

With SoftFPU, it seems to run, albeit slowly, but
crashes occasionally.  It crashes consistently without
SoftFPU when you go to set any of the options.

If it doesn't require an FPU, then something strange is
afoot with it.  Perhaps Mark Krueger ( [e-mail])
(the author) can recompile it to NOT require an FPU?

Regardless, it is an excellent program, especially for
the price.  It would just be nice to run it on my PB.

Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 93 20:10:13 EST
From: [e-mail] (Klaus P. Fechner)
Subject: Michigan Icon (R)

Since you don't know that the Michigan colors are MAIZE and BLUE you don't
really need that icon, do you?

;-)

Klaus

(Sorry, don't have one myself :-(
 -----------------------------
>Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 09:16:02 -0400
>From: [e-mail] (William Homer Waits)
>Subject: Michigan Icon
>
>Is there someone with an icon for the University of Michigan (The gold or
>yellow
>"M") that someone could mail me?  I have come across a need for one.  I know
>I could use ResEdit to create one myself, but I am the world's WORST artist.
>You ought to see the icon That I made to represent my own school! ( A simple
>GT for Georgia Tech).  Thanks for the help.
>
>--Bill

Klaus P. Fechner
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 20:14:07 +0300 (EET-DST)
From: [e-mail] (Robert (Al) Hartshorn)
Subject: Mirroring your site.

This notice is to inform you that I am mirroring the following information
>From you Anonymous FTP server by my Anonymous FTP server; ftp.technion.ac.il
(132.68.1.10) with the password of [e-mail].

Remote Node: sumex-aim.stanford.edu
  Remote Dir            Time    Local Dir

/info-mac               Dly*2   /pub/unsupported/mac/info-mac

*Wkly = Sunday (local)

If there are any problems, please notify [e-mail].

Permission is also granted to advertise and/or list this information.

Al Hartshorn             ftp-admin for ftp.technion.ac.il

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 23:03:41 +0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Chiang-Shen Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: Monitor power cable to CPU?

My Sony monitor does not come with a power cable to connect to my Centris
650.  It has a three prong plug that goes into a regular outlet,
consequently when I power up from the keyboard I have to turn the monitor
on separately.  Is it possible to purchase a separate power, adapter cable
to connect the monitor to the computer?  If I do so, will this somehow
increase
the amount of work that the internal Centris power supply will have to do?
My primary concern is about generating increased heat in the computer and
decreasing the life span of the power supply.

It sure would be nice to be able to switch on both the computer and monitor
with one button.  Please respond to me directly at [e-mail]
and I will summarize for the net.  Thanks.

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

Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:56:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MPW SIG anywhere (Q)

Does anyone know of a group like infomac, but with a focus on MPW? I
believe that such a thing exists for the Think products, but not for
MPW.

BTW, I can reliably report that the impending demise of MPW that has
recently been discussed here is *not* something to hold your breath over.
Whatever the replacement is for MPW, I think it is a long ways away.
Actually, it sounds like we will get the best of the Think enviroments
and the MPW power in the new product. If old Think project files and old
MPW Make files will still work, and they develop a common object code
format, then this could be a winner for everyone. I would really welcome
this convergence ****if*** they make it easy to convert.

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 93 15:33:56 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Bernabe Linares B.)
Subject: PowerBook AC Power Adapter nonfunction

Hi there,
I own a Powerbook 100, and just found out that my AC Power Adapter is not
working. It is not the cable. The failure is inside that rigid,
impenetrable, hermetical, and airtight box. The obvious choice is, I know,
getting a new one. But before I do that, I would like to open it and try
to fix it (I am an electrical engineer, and have some hardware knowledge).
And before trying to break the case, I wonder if somebody out there came
up with a more elegant opening method.

Dr. Bernabe Linares-Barranco
National Microelectronics Center (CNM)
Ed. CICA, Av. Reina Mercedes s/n
41012 Sevilla, SPAIN
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 24 May 93 14:18:49 EDT
From: Alberto Cambrosio <[e-mail]>
Subject: Power switch on IIci

Hi!
An hardware question: In my office, I have a Mac IIci and if I
donUt use it for more than a day (e.g., during week-ends) I am
unable of turning it on using the Power On key on the keyboard.
What I have to do, is to start it up by using the power switch on
the computerUs back panel; it should be noted that, when using
this work-around, the computer does not start up immediately,
but takes a variable amount of time (from 10-15 seconds to a
couple of minutes or even more). Subsequently, I can use again
the Power On key on the keyboard... until I leave again the
computer unused for more than a day. While I have not done a
statistically significative test, it is my impression that the longer
the computer is turned off, the longer it takes to turn it on using
the power switch on the computerUs back panel. Any idea what is
happening? This has been going on for several months.
A. Cambrosio

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

Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 05:02:55 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: QuickTime 1.6 - How to get it (Q)

Dear net,

I do not have access to ftp, so I have to use fileservers to get files.

RICEVM1 told me "File "EX/QUICKTIME-16.HQX" should arrive as ..., about
952KB. Warning this file may not fit through some mail gateways.

It never arrived.

IRLEARN told me a more expected size, but it never arrived either.

Any other ways of getting it?


Thanks,

[e-mail]1
[e-mail]
<C=es;A=mensatex;P=y-net;O=sp1;S=Kenyon;G=Bob>

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

Date: Sat, 22 May 93 10:34:46 PDT
From: "Anthony E. Siegman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: REAL story on comp.sys.mac.scitech (A)

A recent poster wrote:

>MacSciTech (the organization) is, as far as I have ever been able
>to tell, an honest attempt to organize the discussion of how a scientist
>can use Macintosh computers to do useful work. They publish a newsletter,
>hold conferences (and publish the proceedings), and generally try to
>support the idea that you don't HAVE to use a DOS machine to do science.
>  .....
>It is reasonable to discuss whether the group is needed, but it is
>just silly to pretend that there is something underhanded going on here.

and I just want to add absolute _total_ support for this.  Totally
legitimate organization, totally legitimate (and qualified) organizer.

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

Date: Sun, 23 May 93 20:06:06 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sad Mac Codes Incomplete

Hello from Alabama.
We've run into a problem with a Mac Classic belonging to
Huntsville City Schools (last school day Monday 24th).  It
was working fine one minute, just reloaded files after
erasing disk (initializing), and on restart it's a dead
Mac.  Won't boot from internal, won't boot from external,
won't boot from floppy (stuck in drive, mousedown won't
even eject).  On cold start or restart button, cursor is
active momentarily, then we get the Sad Mac with codes

    0000000F
    00000003

Unplugging everything except power didn't help.  I checked
the info-mac/misc files sad-mac-codes.txt and sad-mac-
codes.hqx, but they only cover up thru SE/II and Portable,
respectively.

First, does anybody have a clue why a normal Finder restart
(System 6.0.7) could result in this ugly situation?

Second, could somebody with access to a more recent
sad-mac-codes file please post it to info-mac?

TIA
Glenn Schaffer
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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

Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 11:27:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: SE/30 pwr supply (Q)

My SE/30's monitor has been acting curiously, lately; specifically, the screen
image will, from time-to-time, shrink a little and then restore to its proper
size.  From what I've read, this indicates a power supply that is in its last
days.  My question is, should I wait until the power supply dies before
changing
it (something I'd prefer to do since I can't afford to replace it right now),
or
should I replace the power supply now, before I lose some data, or worse.

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

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 14:30:21 EST
From: [e-mail] (Anders Lund)
Subject: Single handed keyboard Needed!!!!

A friend has asked me to find out about the availability of one handed
keyboards. She has lost her left hand. Any information as to a vendor,
or person who has such a keyboard would be appreciated. If there is a
more appropriate newsgroup, please inform me.

Please send all responses to [e-mail].  I also
try to read this newsgroup.

Anders

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Date: Sun, 23 May 93 11:13:26 -0700
From: [e-mail] (DnA...)
Subject: Soft and Active Terminators???(Q)

Does anyone know what they are or point me to some references?

Here's some background info...

We've been using the PLI Syquest removable drives with the IIfx's for at
least two years now and had never experienced any problems with them.  Until
recently, after we upgraded to the Quadra 800's, the PLI drives caused our
computers to hang and/or crash.  This happened to all of our 800's with the
external PLI drives merely plug in and power up(note:  there is no removable
media in the drive.)

Hence, we called PLI's tech support.  According to PLI, the problem would be
solved in we used "Active Terminators".  These are gray terminators with LEDs
on them.  He could not explain what "Active" means other than saying "it's not
passive".  Tech support also said that they had no problem with them, but they
have only tested their 800's with the new PLI drives, which supposedly are
different from the older PLI drives.

I'd love to hear from someone who knows what they're talking about.

Please write to me directly, and I will post a summary if I get enough
response.

Thanks!

daman
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 23 May 93 20:48 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: SoftwareFPU and ResEdit 2.1.1 conflicts?

Is there a known conflict between SoftwareFPU and ResEdit?

Whenever I am running SFPU on a PB160, and try to open
any files in ResEdit, I get "Error -192: That resource
could not be found"

This happens when I only have loaded standard system
extensions and SFPU, or with lots of extensions.

Otherwise, it seems to work just fine.  I haven't
had a chance to test it on any other fpu-less
machine.

Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 23 May 93 15:15:02 MDT
From: Alonso Castro <[e-mail]>
Subject: Software to calculate area (A)

>We would need to trace photographs via a graphics tablet and then
>have the software calculate the area inside the shape.
>Has anyone heard of a mac programme that is similiar to what I have
>described?

I believe NIH Image 1.49 does that. It is available at sumex:
/app/nih-image-149.hqx.

Alonso

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 12:56:02 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Steve Davidson)
Subject: Software to calculate area? (A)

In response [e-mail] (Robert Reeves) who asked about Mac software
"to trace photographs via a graphics tablet and then have the software
calculate the area inside the shape," may I suggest a program called
FlexiTrace
by Tree Star Inc. which takes PICT files (among others) containing traces or
scanned images and ouptut, for example, the numbers corresponding to the graph
or trace input (kind of an inverse-graphing program).  The manual says that
"FlexiTrace is able to measure the area of non-rectilinear shapes" by
selecting
the area or enclosed graphs and selecting Measure Selection from a menu (I
haven't used this feature so I cannot confirm).  I can confirm that it is 32-
bit clean and '040 compat.  They have an 800-number:  [phone]

Steve Davidson
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
(Usual disclaimers apply)

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 09:59:14 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Some Hacker Requests (A)

Just a thought on the following:
2) A utility that will let you duplicate a file on a remote Mac
(which of course is being shared) even if that file is "in use".

and that thought is:  If you've ever tried to work with the remote system's
System Folder, or Users and Groups file, or other critical files, you
quickly discover that those files can't be copied because they're "in use".
It actually seems to be a good protection against a remote user mucking
around with your system.  Granted, you probably shouldn't have your
System Folder shared, but for those less-brilliant Mac users, it does
provide *some* small measure of security.

Brandon Munday
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 08:16:59 BST
From: A.D'[e-mail]
Subject: Stylewriter and HP550c on network (Q)

I have purchased Superbridge to allow me to put my Laserprinter on the
network. However, neither my Stylewriter or HP 550c printer appear on the
network (nor on the list of localtalk items in the menu of the SuperBridge
CP). Anyone have any ideas how to get these printers on the network.
                Tony D'Emanuele, University of Manchester.

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 14:29:34 CDT
From: A. Scottedward Hodel <[e-mail]>
Subject: Times-Two (Q)

I recently received a flyer in the mail about the program "Times Two,"
designed to transparently compress data  so that your hard disk "appears"
to be larger than it is.

I'm thinking about ordering the program, but I'd like to get any feedback
I can from people who already have it.

I'll post any relevant replies back to info-mac.

Thanks,

A. S. Hodel, Dept. of Elect. Eng.               [e-mail]
200 Broun Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849     [phone] FAX: -1809

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Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 09:57:39 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Times Two (advertising concerns)

Alberto writes:

>Has anyone out there used TimesTwo, the disk compression utility by
>Golden Triangle.  Did it work for you?  Are there any gotchas?  I
>would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with this
>product.

Allow me to start by saying I *don't* have experience with the product.
But I've seen a number of magazine advertisements, and I have some concerns
about their integrity.

your disk to twice its size in minutes.  Your PowerBook's 40 MB becomes 80
MB instantly.  Your IIci's 80 MB swells to 160 MB."  A recent MacUser
review takes this claim verbatim.

Still more alarming, a recent ad by Golden Triangle (again in MacUser)
says: "Double your disk space WITHOUT COMPRESSING FILES" (my emphasis).
"It actually increases your disk space, rather than compressing your
files."

This is, of course, a lie.  The files *are* compressed, at the driver
level, as they are written to disk, and uncompressed as they are read.  But
they are making it sound as though they're doing some kind of miraculous
reformatting of your drive and actually giving you more physical room on
your disk.

And as we know, not everybody's files are going to be compressable by an
average of 50%.  If you've got lots of compressed images and sounds on your
disk, TimesTwo isn't going to be able to do a thing with them, and you're
going to find that your disk space hasn't been doubled at all.

This doesn't mean that the software doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
But I would be very surprised if it does what they *say* it does.

Bill

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 12:18:38 -0700
From: Alex McCormick <[e-mail]>
Subject: TrueType and non-proportional fonts

Last week I asked for advice about uneven spacing with True-type Monaco:

>I frequently download output from Unix-based stat packages, and the tables
are
>usually arranged with spaces, rather than tabs, used to set columns.  These
>look fine on screen with a non-proportional (aka mono-spaced) font, both
>before and after downloading.  But when I print on my StyleWriter I the
>alignment gets out of whack.  It looks like the spaces have a slightly
>different width than the other characters (using Monaco; haven't tried
others)
> [...]
>
>Anyone know of a trueType font (preferably sans-serif) that is consistently
>non-proportional?

Aside from a couple of well-meaning souls who told me various ways and
reasons to tabify a document, and although there wasn't much consensus on
why this happens, there was general consensus in favor of Courier over
Monaco, and that did the trick (albeit 'avec serif').  Someone told me to
get rid of any bitmaps, but that turned out not to be necessary: I use
Carpetbag to load Courier TrueType and bitmaps, and Courier works fine.
Someone else told me to try Monaco 10 instead of 9, and that worked too.

Thanks to: Adam Elman, Peter Macdonald, Charles Allen, Bob Schenk, Derrick
Pohl, Sean Wakayama, and Conrad Halling.

----
Alex McCormick
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 12:55:31 CEST
From: Carlo Viviani <[e-mail]>
Subject: Turbo Pascal To Think Pascal

Hallo everybody!
Does anybody on the net know the email address of Symantec?
I have a copy of Borland Turbo Pascal for the PC, and I'd like to know
whether it's upgradeable to any THINK product for the Mac.
Thanks everybody,
Carlo
<[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 15:50:53 CST
From: "Z.  Sun" <[e-mail]>
Subject: TypeAlign problem workaround

Here's how I work around the TypeAlign "garbage" printout/display:
Simply save the TypeAlign image into an EPS file, then open it up with MacDraw
Pro to do further composition. Both display and printing problems will be
solved...

Jack

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 12:51:13 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Upgrading SE to High Density Floppies (A)

Some time ago, I was interested in upgrading my SE to use FDHD floppies.
The consensus was that apple no longer provides the upgrade, and that the
only way to get it was the discontinued SE-->SE/30 upgrade. Therefore, the
only option was 3rd party external floppy drives. Well, maybe not.....

I haven't gotten the part yet, but page 40 of the Falcon catalog has the SE
FDHD upgrade, both with and without a credit for your old SE ROMs. Falcon is
the federal gov. supplier of Mac goodies. They are at [phone]. They
have accepted the order, so I guess this is still available.

I dunno if they will deal with private citizens who just wanna give them
a Visa number, but it might be worth a try if you're interested in the
upgrade.

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:14:53 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ZiffNet/MAC

Forwarded message:
Subject: ZiffNet/MAC
To: [e-mail]


Reply to Scott Maxwell

>>> The software is only licensed to
>> users of ZiffNet's forum; people who obtain it elsewhere are doing
>> so in violation of the license, and this is just as illegal as
>> getting Microsoft Word somewhere other than a commercial source.

>>In the hypothetical case of someone posting the software and my down-
>>loading it I would have done nothing illegal. Ziffnet's gripe would
>>be with their licensee who did the downloading.

> Guess that means that hypothetically if I upload MS-Word to Sumex
> and you download it, Microsofts gripe with me? ;-)  Basically, what
>you are saying (at least what it sounds like to me) is that if I
>haven't agreed to the license, I ain't gonna get in in trouble?
>It all comes down to legal speak, which I don't speak.

Sorry, but this is exactly the kind of sloppy thinking that provoked my
original posting. The explicit copyright claim of Microsoft is that
USE constitutes an infringement of copyright. Ziffnet  make no such
claim. They explicitly allow free use but try to control the means od
distribution.

>  So I'll
> scrap law (for the time being) and speak about ethics.  You
> want to violate the "spirit" of a license; that is your business.

The ONLY thing that I was asking was for everyone to remain civilised,
be polite to each other and not violate the "spirit" of DISCUSSION
lists. I thought that Engst went way over the top in a didactic
morally superior manner using spurious authority despite having
already been caught out in a conflict of interest.

> Me, on the other hand, I try to respect people's wishes and
> rights.  My OPINION is that ZiffNet paid for it; they should
> reap the benefits from it.

 I think that this is a very strong argument in favour of ZiffNet's
 position.

> One other thing, I guess that if I swip the stereo out of someone's
> car and you knowly buy it from me, you won't get arrested for
> receiving stolen property, eh?  I realize that they are different
> issues in the legal world, but then isn't everything in the legal
> world.  But, the principals are basically the same.

I would have committed a felony and in fact have broken the law. In
my opinion I would be ethically and morally at fault, at least in
any straightforward circumstance. That doesn't mean that there
wouldn't be circumstances in which the ethical and moral argument
might be different.

I entirely disagree that the principles are the same. That's what makes
copyright law as opposed to property law so difficult. For example,
in the UK its OK to sell a second hand car radio that you own. However
Publishers claim the right under Copyright to prevent you reselling
a book that you have bought from them. Its not clear if this claim
is legal, but in my opinion its certainly not ethical or moral.

> What is all comes down to is what the courts say (at least legally).

This to me is the most interesting point of the discussion. As I
understand it, the legal claim under copyright is that the claimant
suffered a loss. As ZiffNet explicitly allow distribution to a third
party what loss would they claim? The direct parallel is for a
publisher to say "please freely photocopy this document and give it to
your friends, but you may only send it individually by courier and not
put it in the post, (sorry I mean mail). In the UK the courts would
probably find the licensee in breach of the license, award 1 penny to
ZiffNet in damages and then order them to pay the defendents costs.

> It would be nice to see everybody excercising ethical behaviour
> (****AND I AM NOT SAYING THAT YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IS NOT****) in

Thank you, had Engst included a disclaimer like this I would probably
not have been moved to send my support for the other guy.

> the US and the World, but the big problem with ethics is it tends
> to be a personally defined thing.  If someone does upload something

Again I totally agree. However my problem here is that while I
suspect that I would agree with your ethics, I also suspect that
I would totally disagee with ZiffNet's ethics. I'm sure that they're
only worried about what they can get away with legally. I don't honestly
see them as white knights protecting the interests of small scale
shareware authors.


Dennis Summerbell

--
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 10:32:00 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: ZiffNet/Mac

Adam Engst writes:

>> >If you violate that
>> >person's wishes, then you're at best a jerk and at worst in
>> >violation of law.
>>
>> I feel that you should at least withdraw the word "jerk" and preferably
>> apologise a second time.
>
>That sentence was written in the generic and obviously was not
>aimed at any individual (or I would have used a name or
>referred to an individual who had violated some such
>agreement). I will not apologize, and I stand by my statement,
>although I will rephrase it to make it less ambiguous. It is not
>a flame aimed at any specific individual, whether or not you
>choose to interpret in that fashion.

I'm sorry Adam, it was obviously my fault to read so unclearly.

>If any person knowingly violates another person's explicitly
>stated wishes, then that first person is at best a jerk and at
>worst in violation of law, depending on individual
>circumstances.

I guess that makes the Germans who hid Jews from the SS into jerks as
well as violators of Third Reich Law.

Dennis Summerbell
--
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 23 May 1993 02:19:15 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Bo Holst-Christensen)
Subject: ZiffNet/Mac Software (c)

I have been following the thread about the ZiffNet/Mac software.

As far as I can see, there are two different subjects:

1. ZiffNet/Mac have the rights to the software. There can be no question
about that. If they have a contract with the author there is nothing
anybody can do about that. But as I make a living out of producing software
I'm obviously biased :-)

2. Some of us do not have access to ZiffNet/Mac, or have no interest in
getting access. As I live in Denmark, not U.S.A., it is to expensive for me
to use. Even if I did live in the US I would be very irritated, if I had to
subscribe to a different BBS or online service, each time I wanted to
purchase a piece of software.

The question should not be if subject 1 is good or bad, but if there should
be a way to solve the problem in subject 2.

In other words:

I know I can get the software for "only" the price of the time it takes me
to download it from ZiffNet/Mac. I also know that the idea behind the
restrictions is to get more subscribers.
But in the situation where it is simply not a practical solution for me to
become a subscriber to ZiffNet/Mac, can I purchase the software from them
without being on ZiffNet/Mac?
I could also just ask a friend of mine in the US, that happens to be a
subscriber to ZiffNet/Mac, to download it for me - which is allowed. But if
I needed the software, I would rather pay directly for it.

Has anyone tried putting this problem to ZiffNet/Mac?

As it is now, I have no intension of subscribing to ZiffNet/Mac, and I have
no interest what so ever in their software, because I cannot obtain the
software in a way that pleases both me and ZiffNet/Mac.

By the way - I had not heard about the ZiffNet/Mac "free but don't upload"
software before this thread started - as I'm sure many others hadn't
either. At least ZiffNet/Mac gets a lot of free advertising - so they may
get a few extra subscribers out of this ;-)

   Bo Holst-Christensen
   [e-mail]      [e-mail]      FAX: [phone]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 19:16:12 +1000
From: [e-mail]

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU!berkeley
From: [e-mail] (Berkeley Eymard Felix WILSON)
Subject: Re: Error -39 Wierdness
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail]
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 09:16:09 GMT
Lines: 41

[e-mail] writes:

>>David Virga <[e-mail]> writes:

>>I've been experiencing a problem that I haven't been able to pin down.
Every
>>so often, an application program will come up with an error code of -39 when
>I
>>try to launch it. [...]

>>I have no strong evidence as to a specific application causing the problem,
>>but if pressed, my hunch is one of my TCP/IP programs - TurboGopher 1.0.5 or
>>NCSA/Telnet 2.5.  The problem seems to occur after I've been perusing the
>>Internet with either or both of these. [...]

>>Has anybody else experienced this phenomenon?  Any clues as to the cause?
>Any
>>suggestions for easier recovery?

>Dave,
>I was experiencing the same thing with Telnet. Error -39's on occasion in
>applications after using Telnet.  I started downloading to a floppy, instead
>of
>the hard disk and that seemed to help.  I don't use Telnet for downloads
>anymore.  Just TurboGopher and Fetch.  No problems since giving up Telnet.
>This goes back a year or so ago, Telnet 2.3 something, IICX,  System 7.0,
>Tuneup 1.1.1, MacTCP 1.1.

>John Lauger
>[e-mail]

The error also has happened to me with regard to communication programs.
I found the cause to be errors in a program using the Mac rom drivers
that caused them to malfunction and any new program that wants to use
the particular drivers then died with an error -39. The solution for me was
to restart the mac and not use the faulty program. All the other programs
that generated the error then worked as normal.

Berkeley

[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 93 10:07:13 +0800
From: [e-mail] \%\f\:\^\%\%\R\(\t\?\' \%\f\:\^\%\%\R\(\t\?\'
(\t\?\' (\%\f\:\^\%|\%\R \(\t\?o\'^)

Hello Bill,
 My e-mail couldn't reach your host again and hope the following tip will
 solve
your problem.

 Use any draw programme, like MacDraw, choose the most similar font as
 Michigan
University's "M", and scale this "M" to 32*32 points.
After so, you may have a better looking "M".

 Come on, Bill, no one is a born artist, practice makes perfect, doesn't it?

Good luck to you and your "M"!

Best regards,
 Richard Chuo
==========================================
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 03:39:03 -0400
From: Adam Young <[e-mail]>



     I received a notice in the mail from Symantec about THINK C
6.0 but that notice failed to tell me about any new features
that THINK C 5.0 doesn't already offer. It basically said that
version 6.0 is faster. There are some bugs in THINK C 5.0 and
there are also some things about it that really annoy me very
much. I'm not going to PAY for a new version that hogs up more
RAM and still has the same bugs.
     The bug that I can't stand exists in versions 4 and 5. Often I
find that I need to reference the header files while writing
programs in C. To do so I OPEN the files while in THINK C.
Usually I need to find information about a given data type. The
problem occurs when I close the header file and then create a
new C source file. The new source file gets saved in the header
folder. This absolutely drives me up the wall. After a couple
months I find a thousand lost C source files in my Mac Headers
folder. The THINK C compiler fails to reset the current working
directory to the directory with my project.
     Would someone please tell me WHETHER OR NOT MY THINK C
5.0 SOURCE FILES WILL WORK WITH VERSION 6.0! ALL my old
programs for version 4.0 failed to compile on version 5.0.
Symantec beefed up their variable type checking and prototype
checking in version 5.0. For instance, some of my functions in
version 4.0 where not declared as returning anything (no 'void'
was written in the function prototype). THINK C 5.0 will not
compile unless all return values are specified.
     I also have one suggestion to anyone from Symantec who
might be reading this. I seldom use the RUN command since I
write very low level utility programs and I like to be able to
monitor my applications' heap zone with Macsbug, whithout
having any of the compilers resources interfering with the
program. I therefore create the application to debug my
programs. The linking process is very repetitious and it would
help if the REPLACE button where highlighted when linking a
new version of an application. It would be even better if the
compiler could be configured to automatically wipe out any old
versions of the users program prior to creating a new one.
                                                                                                           Adam
                                                                                                           Young
                  [e-mail]
                          UG94

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