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Info-Mac Digest             Thu, 27 May 93       Volume 11 : Issue 110

Today's Topics:

      [*] Newton Info docs
      [*] Protein Structure Stacks
      14.4kbs modems
      2MB SIMMs in a Mac IIci (Follow-up)
      Accelerator on an SE (Radius 16
      Analog data capture/display
      Apple Events...(A)
      Archie client for Mac?
      A Trivia Question
      AutoDoubler Internal Compressor vs. More Disk Space
      Canon BubbleJet Ink Cartridge equivalent to Stylewriter II (A)
      Centris 610 configuration (Q)
      Connecting a Practical Peripherals Pocket Modem [Q]
      Converting graphics to PC formats
      Converting Mac vector graphics to PCs
      Dantz's Retrospect and DAT problems
      Decision: Upgrade MPW or Buy THINK C++??
      DeskWriter C
      disk expansion and Rockapella
      e-disk flames
      e disk
      eDisk (A)
      Ethernet Questions
      File fragmentation
      FileMaker Pro ver. 2.0v4 ??
      Genealogy program for the mac.
      Getting in touch with Steve Dorner (Eudora Author) (q)
      HC XFCN Programming Question
      How to shorten date format in Finder: solutions
      Info-mac CD
      info.hed.apple.com (Q)
      LC->LCIII upgrade - details ? [Q]
      LocalTalk and Ethernet (2 msgs)
      LW PRO 630 INTERNAL HD
      Mac Hard Disk
      Macintosh PowerPC
      Mac IP 4.0 not 'initializing driver'
      Manual ARA Connections
      Network extension Conflict, HELP!
      Opcode MIDI System (A)
      PB170 Backlight Problems
      PhotoGrade at 600 dpi
      PhotoShop monochrome resolution doubler: where is it
      PICT's in TeachText?
      PostScript interpreters
      printer
      purported bug in THINK C 4/5
      QuarkXPress easter egg
      Renaming the hard disk [A]
      Request for INIT Annoyances
      SE upgrade--anyone familiar with...?
      SoftPC Problem and System Errors DA Update?
      Sound Manager 3.0
      Spanish <-> English Translator
      Stacker, an impression... (C)
      Stylewriter Canon ink cartridge
      Switches for mice (A)
      Sys 7.1 & conflicts
      tar from tape
      The most FAQ about Easy View
      Think-C Discussion Group (A)
      Who is Hans de Wolf??
      Ziff/Mac Peace Proposal
      ZiffNet/MAC

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Date: Fri, 21 May 93 11:54:09 MET DST
From: "Rene G.A. Ros" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Newton Info docs

Hi,

Attached it a compact pro archive containing some info about the
Newton I found on CompuServe. There are several press releases
and one scanned Apple leaflet from some gathering (Don't know
which one and who was the audience).

I think some people may be interested.

Rene Ros
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/newton-info.hqx; 36K]

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Date: Thu, 20 May 93 11:54:35 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Protein Structure Stacks

Mac Archives:

Attached is a .sea containing a set of three versions of a HyperCard stack
describing the four levels of protein structure.

mac/misc/chemistry archive?

C. E. Burchill
Chemistry Department
University of Manitoba

[Archived as /info-mac/card/protein-structure.hqx; 489K]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 08:14:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Ian C McCall <[e-mail]>
Subject: 14.4kbs modems

In about a week, I'm graduating from University and hence am losing the
free net access I've had over the last three years. To get back onto the
net, I've decided to get myself a modem.

This turns out to be harder than it sounds. Some of the prices appear to
be pure fiction - especially in the UK. What I'm after is a 14.4kbs data
modem with v32 and v42bis, preferably with send/recieve fax
capabilities.

I've been looking around, and so far the cheapest I've seen is one from
Focus Enhancements at 220 pounds. Does anyone have any experience with
this modem? I'd be particularly interested to hear from any UK users.

In addition, if anyone's using a modem with similar specs to the ones
outlined above, could you let me know the brand, approximate price and
how satisfied you are with it please?

Finally - do modems need external power supplies? You see, I'd be quite
happy to buy direct from the US (I did this before with memory and a
hard drive), but the power system is different to the UK's.

Thanks in advance for any information. If I don't reply and say thankyou
personally, it's probably because I've already lost net access (I lose
this on Monday - yes, I did leave this too late!).


Cheers,
    Ian

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 15:34:31 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Igor Mikolic-Torreira)
Subject: 2MB SIMMs in a Mac IIci (Follow-up)

Just to follow up, I bought 4 2MB SIMMs, dropped them in bank B of
my IIci and everything works fine.  I have 4 x 1MB in bank A, 4x2MB in
bank B for a total of 12MB.  Larger simms in bank B for the IIci because
of the internal video.  Everthing works great!

Thanks to all for the inputs.

Igor
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 21:07:48 EDT
From: "Christopher B. Hopkins (Wesley)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Accelerator on an SE (Radius 16

Hey, folks.  Gotta question.  We bought an SE from our employer (cheap)
and I want to set it up so I can share files under System 7 with the
other Mac here at home.  There is an accelerator in it, a "Radius 16
Accelerator," that is NOT system 7.0 compatable, though.  How hard is
it to take it out and run Sys 7.0?  Also, it has 4mb of RAM on it; is
this done through the accelerator? A 2mb SE on Sys 7.0 isn't what I'm
really looking for and I don't want to throw $$ into it.  Any thoughts?

Christopher [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 16:22:25 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Don Thompson)
Subject: Analog data capture/display

Could some kind souls please send me names/addresses/phone numbers/
fax numbers/email addresses of possible sources for analog data
capture hardware/software for the Macintosh.  I have recently decided
that I need to measure several +/-5 volts signals at a relatively slow
rate (1Hz) and store them as digital data.  Real-time display of the
data would be useful.

Any hardware configuration (SCSI, NuBus, serial) will be considered.

I have heard of something called LabView and a Vernier Software
company, but I don't have contact info on either one.  Are there
others?

Thanks, Don

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 15:09:39 -0500
From: Kathy A Graff <[e-mail]>
Subject: Apple Events...(A)

Michael Johnson,

I tired to email direct, but the mailer choked on your address.

HyperCard 2.1 developers version has an Apple Events stack included.
It may be a good place to start, but I suspect that you may want to
look at some of Apple's technical references eventually.

Good luck,
K. A. Graff
[e-mail]
Geosciences Department
University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 06:36:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Francis J. Van Wetering" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Archie client for Mac?

Is there an archie client written for the macintosh?  A query of
UN-Lincoln's /pub/archie/client directory does not show a Macintosh
version.

F. J.  Van Wetering, Ph.D.  INTERNET:  [e-mail]

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Date: 27 May 1993 14:48:34 -0800
From: "Anker, Andrew" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Trivia Question

Someone asked me a relatively straightforward question and I have yet to be
able
to find the answer.  This seemed like an easy one for someone out there in net
land:  What is the clock speed of the SE/30?

Thanks in advance.

Andrew Anker
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 14:42 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: AutoDoubler Internal Compressor vs. More Disk Space

    I have discovered yet another reason to prefer More Disk Space
over Autodoubler.  I received a file that when run gave me a
dialog box that read "This file has been compressed using Autodoubler
Internal Compressor, and can only be used by licensed users of
Autodoubler" (or something close to that)

    On the other hand, Alysis *encourages* distributing compressed
files, either as transportable app, or by giving people the
Disk Expander Init, which allows you to use compressed files
and KEEP them compressed.


Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 16:29:20 -0700 (MST)
From: [e-mail] (Tom Wentzel)
Subject: Canon BubbleJet Ink Cartridge equivalent to Stylewriter II (A)

Dear Info-Maccers,

About two weeks ago, I posted the query:

>I know that the ink cartridge for the Apple Stylewriter I is equivalent
>to the Canon BubbleJet BC-01 ink cartridge.  Could anyone tell me what
>the model number is of the Canon BubbleJet ink cartridge which is
>equivalent to the ink cartridge used by the StyleWriter II?

A week ago, I summarized the two responses I'd received to this.  Both
respondents said that in their experience, the SW II cartridge is inter-
changeable with the SW I cartridge.

Since that posting, I have received three replies saying that this is not
true. In addition, in last Monday's digest (Issue 108), Guy Kuo described
the differences in the ink delivery systems of the two cartridges.  A
summary of these replies follows.

From: Kang Ho Lee <[e-mail]>

Just want to tell you that Canon makes 2 ink cartridges that look the same.
First is the one you mentioned, namely BC01 that is meant for BJ10E. The
second has the number BC02 and is meant for their new BJ200 (btw, if you
look at the BJ200 and the Stylewriter II closely, you will notice they are
effectively the same printer). I own a BJ200 and in its manual, Canon
specifically mention that it cannot guarantee the printing quality if BC01 is
used. So, I would think there must be some difference between BC01 and BC02,
after all they cost the same to buy. So, as for the Stylewriter II, I think
it most probably take the BC02.

<Addition support for the difference is provided by...>

From: Greg Middleton <[e-mail]>

I just noticed your note on info-mac.  The cartridges are NOT the same,
although they will work.  I work for a Computer City Supercenter store.  We
recently had this discussion with one of the Canon reps.  She told us that the
stylewriter II cartridge does have different circuitry.  In order to get the
printing resolution improvements and speed improvements on the II the cart-
ridge has to spray ink at a faster rate.  What will happen when you put the
cartridge in a Stylewriter I is that it will eveltually clog.  I don't have
a good time estimate for when this will happen, but it will happen.  ...
The SW I cartridge will work in the SW II but you should see a slight
degradation in print quality.

<A reason for these printing problems which crop up when people try to inter-
change the cartirdges came in Monday's Info-Mac Digest...>

From: [e-mail] (Guy Kuo)

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.

End quotes.

Greg Middleton also suggested that this clogging problem was what was
being seen by Jose M. Payo, who I quoted in my last posting, who reported
poor printing results when SW II cartridges were used in SW I printers
in a computer center.

As a footnote, I'll add that I just ordered a permanent ink refill kit
>From MEI Micro, where they claim the kit works for BC-01, BC-02, SW I,
and SW II cartridges.  It seems the difference in the cartridges is not
the ink, but the nozzle construction.  I'll soon see if the refills work.

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 11:48:21 +0200
From: Martin Jourdan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Centris 610 configuration (Q)

Dear netters,

I'm interested in replacing my secretary's IIsi by a Centris 610, but
I need some precise configuration information that my Apple dealer
cannot give me (he's not a very good dealer but we are stuck with him
for the moment!).

Please e-mail your answers rather than post them, I'll summarize them
to the net.

1. Ethernet: the report "macfacts-ii.txt" states that the 610, like
the 650, has ``(O)ptional [Ethernet] at time of purchase''.
1.1. Is this option in the form of a NuBus/PDS card which would use
the only expansion slot, or is it an add-on to the motherboard?
1.2. In the latter case, would I have to buy an additional (external)
adapter such as Apple or Asante' FriendlyNet to connect it to our AUI
(thick) network?

2. Memory:
2.1 You can order 8-Mb 610 configs.  Do they come with 4 Mb on the
motherboard plus one 4-Mb 72-pin SIMM (using up one of the two memory
slots) or with 8 Mb on the motherboard?
2.2. Are these 72-pin SIMMs the same as those used on Sun SPARCstation
IPX?  If so, does the Centris circuitry make use of the parity bit
(the Sun does, of course)?  If so, what's the behaviour of the system
in case a parity error occurs?

3. CPU/FPU: the 610 comes with a 68LC040 with no FPU, which can be
easily replaced by a full-fledged 68040 with FPU (the processor is
socketed).
3.1. Will this replacement void the warranty?
3.2. Is the absence of FPU transparent (except for speed, of course)
to *all* programs which could make use of it?  I know that certain
applications (e.g. eXodus) come in two versions, one for FPU-less Macs
and one for Macs with FPU.  Which one should I use on a 68LC040-based
610?

Many thanks in advance.

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

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 00:25:34 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Dr. Jon Stewart)
Subject: Connecting a Practical Peripherals Pocket Modem [Q]

I am hoping that somewhere in the Mac world, someone else has tried to connect
a Practical Peripherals pocket modem to a Macintosh (successfully).  The
specifics:  The pocket modem works when attached to a PC notebook so I
believe that the modem itself is OK.  I tried to connect it to a Mac Plus
using the same cable that I've successfully used to connect a Hayes
Smartmodem 1200 to the same system.  After launching VersaTerm Pro, I set the
baud rate to 2400 and tried typing "AT" to make sure that the computer and
modem were communicating.  No response on-screen.  I also tried "+++" and
"ATA" followed by "ATH" to force it to handshake.  Still no response on the
screen.  If you have experienced a problem like this, please reply to me
by E-mail and I will summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance,
Jon Stewart - Department of Chemistry - Penn State University
[e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 10:09:11 +1000 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Philip FX Ryan)
Subject: Converting graphics to PC formats

I posted yesterday asking about this and have now virtually solved my
problem.

I tried all of the Mac and PC conversion programs that I could find
(including graphiconverter1.6, gifconverter2.32 and various PC programs),
and find that all that they do is to convert the Mac PICT-type graphic into
a bitmap - the same as MacPaint, really. When you open the PCX or TIFF or
GIF file on the PC, you get a crummy 72 dpi picture.

It turns out that CorelDRAW! for the PC has an 'import' command, in which it
can import, among other things, Macintosh PICT images. Once you have them
as draw-type images in Windows, then I presume that you can use any other
Windows drawing program to manipulate them.

It was thus simply a matter of saving my files in the 'PICT' format,
copying them to an MS-Dos disk and then 'importing' them into
CorelDRAW!. (sic. - the exclamation mark is part of the name of the
program).

I would still like to find a generic Macintosh 'PICT' to any PC or Windows
'Draw'-style format.

Thanks for your patience

Phil Ryan
Melbourne

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 17:24:18 +1000 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Philip FX Ryan)
Subject: Converting Mac vector graphics to PCs

Hi

I would very much like to be able to convert Mac vector graphics files (i.e.
stuff like MacDraw, MacDraw Pro, MacDraft, Claris CAD etc) to an equivalent
MS-Dos or Windows program (i.e. like CorelDRAW, MacDraft for Windows,
Freelance? for DOS or Windows).

I was pretty sure that putting the graphics into an MS-Word 5 document and
then converting to MS-Word for Windows did NOT work, (since I have tried it
before), but I would love to be wrong on this.

A utility that works from either the Mac, Windows or MS-Dos end would be
fine. Ideally I do not want EPSF, since that is rarely understood by PC
drawing programs, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers...

I have located one MS-Dos program that is supposed to do this, disp140.zip
at the SIMTEL-20 archives -> the program runs and 'converts' the files, but
the converted files are pure white - no information. I will be trying to
contact the author, but meanwhile maybe there are other things to do this?

Thanks in advance - I'll summarize what I find out from the Net and
elsewhere in about a week or so.

Phil Ryan
Melbourne

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 13:42:09 EDT
From: "James A. Connolly" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dantz's Retrospect and DAT problems

I had many problems with the DAT backup and the Retrospect crashing
the system.  The solution (from Dantz) was to remove the optional
RETRO SCSI extension.

Since it's removal, our network has not crashed (at least from Retro
Spect) and the backups have been flawless.  I don't notice any signif-
icant extra time (of course, never having had a complete backup without
system crashes on one or all of the machines doesn't allow a fair
comparison).

BTW:  all our software and hardware is "pretty standard." Silver Lining,
being the only exception from Apple's standard (it was removed, but
didn't help with the SCSI problems).

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

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 03:45:16 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Rick Fleischman)
Subject: Decision: Upgrade MPW or Buy THINK C++??

In article <daniel-260593080736@132.226.104.89>, [e-mail]
(David L. Daniel) wrote:
 I'm in the same quandry.  Though I've read that there will be some
> minimal support for MPW, I'd like to know more specifically what
> minimal support implies.  Specifically, will MPW support the PowerOpen
> architecture?  It seems odd that MPW would introduce new features
> like an incremental linker, just to turn around and announce that MPW is
> a dead end in the future.  Is this the way it is?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -David Daniel
> [e-mail]

Here is a summary of what we said about MPW at the Worldwide Developer's
Conference:
--We are now shipping a new version of MPW, version 3.3, which features an
incremental linker, rewritten core documentation, and support for Apple
Events and Finder alias resolution.
--We are supporting third-party tools vendors with the release of
ToolServer 1.1 (which allows the execution of MPW tools and scripts via
Apple Events) and SourceServer 1.0 (which allows access to Projector
project management databases via Apple Events).  Both of these tools are
supported by the new Symantec C++ 6.0 for Macintosh.  SourceServer is
included with Symantec C++ 6.0 for Macintosh; ToolServer is supported but
available separately through APDA.
--At this time we are not planning any major new feature enhancements to
MPW.  However, we ARE committed to maintaining MPW until there is a
complete replacement.  While Symantec C++ 6.0 for Macintosh is a great
improvement and can meet the needs of more developers than could THINK C
5.0, there are still developers who depend on the scriptability and
flexibility of MPW.  What I mean by maintaining MPW is continuing to fix
bugs and maintaining MPW compatibility with new computers and system
software releases.  Additionally, the release from Symantec of Symantec C++
6.0 for MPW brings a faster true C++ compiler with support for templates to
MPW users.  So, MPW is NOT dead, it is simply being maintained at its
current state.
--Symantec and Apple have entered into a formal relationship to collaborate
on producing a native development environment hosted on the PowerPC
Macintosh.  We anticipate that this environment will inherit much from both
the current THINK/Symantec C++ environment, as well as key features of MPW
such as scriptability and customizability.  We will also be working
together with Symantec to bring out improvements to the current toolset.

As far as specific MPW support for PowerOpen, I don't know that any
specific changes are necessary.  MPW as it stands today works fine for A/UX
development.  However, if there is significant customer demand for specific
MPW features to support PowerOpen development, we could certainly consider
that in the context of "maintenance".  If you have specific ideas on how
you would like to see MPW better support PowerOpen, please feel free to
send me a reply via e-mail.

I hope this clears up any confusion that may have existed about the state
of MPW.

Rick Fleischman
Core Tools Product Manager
Developer Tools Product Marketing
Apple Computer, Inc.
e-mail: [e-mail]
AppleLink: [e-mail]

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Date: 25 May 1993 18:55:26 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dwight Lemke @ Wisconsin Oshkosh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskWriter C

I noticed the DeskWriter 3.9 drivers posted to the archives.  Does
anyone have the new DeskWriter C drivers to post?

Thanks!

-Dwight

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Date: 25 May 93 20:01:10 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: disk expansion and Rockapella

Info-mac users---  I was convinced by an ad in macuser to purchase
a copy of edisk by alysis to expand my old LC 40 meg hard disk.
So far, everything is working as advertised! I've loaded evrything
and then some back on the disk and no problems. I'm not doing
anything fancy; all my unbinhexing etc is done at work because
of ethernet transfer speed to my centris instead of modem at home.
NOTICE. When you install edisk, you destroy everything on your drive
and must reload it. A bummer but you buy the program because your
disk is too small. right?
any questions, email me. Now for the serious stuff. I really want
to get a disk or tape by and acapella group called Rockapella. They
do the carmen sandiego song as well as zombie jamboree. I've been
told that they aren't sold in the u.s. but are in asia. I also
know that macwarehouse was giving away tapes if you bought the
carmen sandiego game. So, can anyone help me? Thanks, standing
by for help and hints, John Hess email [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 07:59:47 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek)
Subject: e-disk flames

Just so you all know, I use AutoDoubler extensively and love it. The
SyQuests that I was transferring the data to had files that were NOT
compressed using AD or other utilities, since I was doing it from my C610
(which has a 230 meg drive and is only about 60% filled). The main reason
for trying e-disk was to see if I could back up the C610 HD with less 44meg
SyQuest cartridges.

Keep AutoDoubler, in my opinion - it works faster, more transparently, and
I've never been a dissatisfied customer.

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Date: 27 May 93 11:12:26 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: e disk

Fellow Mac netters,
 After seeing the flame of edisk I felt compelled to give a highly
favorable review. I bought e disk and used it to double the 40mb hard
disk in my home LC. It works great! my used to be full disk is now at
one-half capacity so I can load more and more stuff. I want to say that
installation requires reformating the disk and reinstalling everything,
so it can take awhile, but such is life. It is possible that edisk has
slowed up the computer when opening apps; it is also possible that the
time warp induced by using a centris  at work and an LC at home has
affected my perceptions; don't know, can't tell and want to upgrade
to a LCIII in the future. Feedback desired on this.
John Hess, UC Davis, email [e-mail]
ps Can anybody help me get a copy of a tape or disk by and acapella
group called Rockapella? Thanks,

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 17:25:02 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: eDisk (A)

>Date: Tue, 25 May 93 12:54:36 CDT
>From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek)
>Subject:
>
>If anyone wants any feedback on this program let me know - I hate it. I got
>it to "double" the capacity of my SyQuest 44 meg disks, but after I
>performed the formatting, I tried copying things directly from HD to
>SyQuest and it held LESS THAN BEFORE! Originally, I could get about 42 megs
>of stuff on my removable, and now I can only get about 38 megs. The <Get
>Info> box tells the correct folder and file size, but it takes "twice" as
>much room on the "doubled" cartridge. So much for cheap solutions - guess
>now I'll have to justify the price for one of the 105's.

Are these files already compressed? If they're already compressed (by
StuffIt or DiskDoubler, for example) you won't gain any disk space (in fact
you may lose by compressing twice). If these files are not previously
compressed, then it's probably due to the bug that I reported in my review
of the program (driver-level-compression.txt in /info-mac/info/sys). The
bug causes eDisk to report erroneously the amount of available disk space.
The solution is to run the optimizer and then copy another small file to
the disk (forcing it to recalculate).

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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Date: 26 May 1993 08:04:55 -0500
From: "Tom Scott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethernet Questions

     Ethernet Questions
I'm in the process of setting up a couple of Ethernet networks, and I have a
few questions about it.

Question #1:

One question I have is about one user having both LT and EN connections.

This one user is hooking up to an Ethernet network to be able to access his
Unix box in an office in another building to read his Unix e-mail.  This is
the
*ONLY* reason he's getting the E'net connection.  He's going to be using an
Asante SCSI-E'net connector.

Two offices are switching full-force to E'net, and this user is
"piggy-backing"
off their EN controller to activate his jack for EN (we're installing UTP
E'net).  The predominant use of network resources will still be
LocalTalk-based
(printing, QuickMail, file server access, etc.).  My question is: Is the
easier
way to handle this transition between LT and EN to just have him switch his
Network extension?  Or do you recommend one of those LocalPath (or similar)
products?
-----
Question #2:

On the flip side of this, one of the offices that's upgrading has one user
that's staying on LocalTalk exclusively, but needs to be able to print to
their
LW Plus that's going to be hooked up through an AsantePrint interface to the
Ethernet network.  What's the best way to handle this?
-----
Question #3:

One of the offices that is upgrading to E'net just bought 4 LC IIIs.  We also
ordered the Asante LC III E'net cards w/ coprocessor.  I've heard rumors that
there were incompatabilities with the Asante E'net cards and the LC IIIs.
Anybody have any experience with this?  Solutions?
-----
Question #4:

Related to the last question, the LC III cards were on a slight backorder
through Asante.  Rumor has it that the LC II cards work fine in the LC IIIs.
Can anyone substantiate that?  Does it matter if it's with coprocessor or
not?
-----
Question #5:

What's the advantage to having a math co-processor on the E'net card?  What
about cache?

Thanks in advance for all your help with these questions.  I've organized
these
questions in order of importance, so I need the most *IMMEDIATE* help with
questions 1 & 2.

================

X-posted to Mac-L, Macnet-L, Info-Mac, Net-Admin (Cornell only), and
Net-Questions (Cornell only)


Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY  14853

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 93 17:41 BST
From: RICHARD LIM <[e-mail]>
Subject: File fragmentation

When you copy a file, does the Finder stick it in the first available space
it finds on the hard disk, or the first available space larger than the
size of the file?

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 18:56:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FileMaker Pro ver. 2.0v4 ??

A friend of mine tells me that an updater to FileMaker Pro ver. 2.0v4
recently appeared on the BBS of a local users group. Did I miss it's
being posted here? If not, could some kind soul who has it upload it
to Sumex, please? TIA.

Will Porter / University of Houston

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 93 19:43:54 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Wonko the Sane)
Subject: Genealogy program for the mac.

Ok, I have a problem.  My parents have finally lept into the 90's by buying a
mac.  They had a copy of "Family Roots" for the apple ][ series, and purchased
an upgrade for the mac.  I was looking at it.  It IS ABYSSMAL!  The interface
is the most un-mac-like I have ever seen.  So, anyway,  I found a decent mac
genealogy program on the nets a while ago, but I have since misplaced it and
have no clue as to what is was called.  If anyone can point me to it, I would
appreciate it.

Eric Oehler
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 12:14:17 +0200
From: [e-mail] (David L. Hirschberg)
Subject: Getting in touch with Steve Dorner (Eudora Author) (q)

Dear Net,

Has anyone tried to contact Steve Dorner lately?  When I send a letter to
his support address I get a huge automated response from the Qualcomm
server and then nothing back.  My follow up messages give me the same feed
back.

Thank you, David
[e-mail]

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 93 14:03:19 EST
From: "Mr. Troy Kelley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: HC XFCN Programming Question

Thanks to all the people who responded to my last external command
question. Since it appears that a few programmers read the digest
I have one last (hopefully) question involving XCMDS.

I am having trouble returning a string in the XCMD paramPtr. I have
found some sample code from the Dartmouth XCMDs stack, and I have
copied it exactly and still my string is garbage. Hopefully someone
out there can help me.

Here is the code:

pascal void SFGetCreator(paramPtr)
XCmdPtr         paramPtr;
{

    Ptr                                                     type;
    Point                                           where;
    SFTypeList                                      typeList;
    SFReply                                         reply;
    char                                            *input;
    short                                           len,index;
    long                                            length;
    Str63
    returnString,newString;
    Handle                                          resultHandle;


--- some code deleted ---

InitCursor();
    SFGetFile(      where,
                NIL,
                MySYSFilter,
                1,
                typeList,
                (ProcPtr)NIL,
                &reply);
    }

    len = reply.fName[0];
    for(index = 0; index <=len; index++);
    {
        returnString[index] = (reply).fName[index];
    }

    length = 1+strlen((char*)returnString);
    resultHandle = NewHandle(length);
    HLock(resultHandle);
        BlockMove(returnString,*resultHandle,length);
    HUnlock(resultHandle);
    paramPtr->returnValue = resultHandle;
    HUnlock(paramPtr->params[0]);


Basically I am trying to get the file path from the SFGetFile function
which is the string in reply.fName. Then I build up my returnString
allocate a new handle and stick the handle into the paramPtr->returnValue
but I get junk as the string.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks
Troy Kelley

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 07:07:29 EDT
From: "Seamus Cooney, English" <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to shorten date format in Finder: solutions

    I had two helpful answers to my question about shorting the
    date format from the verbose default form. Here they are,
    edited slightly for brevity:
    ==========================================================
    (1) From:   GW::"[e-mail]" 20-MAY-1993 04:56:14.26

If I correctly remember System 7 pack should do it
([Archived as /info-mac/util/system-7-pack-341.hqx; 119K])

    (2) From:   GW::"[e-mail]" "Ken Smith JPL
    157-316 x47027" 20-MAY-1993 12:32:49.41

I managed to shorten the date form to "MM/DD/YY HH:MM AM" by the following
steps:
  1.  Make a copy of the file "Finder Preferences" in the Preferences folder
      in the System Folder.
  2.  Using ResEdit, open the copy of Finder Preferences, and edit the
      fval resource.  This seems to be the repository for items affected by
      the Views control panel, among other things.  It also contains a field
      named "Date Abbreviation".  By experimentation, I found that setting
      this
      value to 0 gives the shortened date format.
  3.  Save the edited version of Finder Preferences, and replace the original
      version in the Preferences Folder.  Reboot.

    ==============================================================
    Thanks to Maura and Ken.
                    -- Seamus Cooney

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 17:39:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russ Nelson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-mac CD

Has the list of files on the Info-mac CD II been posted and I missed it,
or what?

Russ

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 10:09:51 +0100
From: "J. Rossi" <[e-mail]>
Subject: info.hed.apple.com (Q)

I tried to connect to the gopher server info.hed.apple.com to fetch
some info on academic software, but I cannot log on with 'anonymous'
or 'guest'.

Could someone tell me what I do wrong ?

Thanks

Francois Rossi   [e-mail]

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 11:50:59 BST
From: [e-mail] (James Lawry student tel 2-70511)
Subject: LC->LCIII upgrade - details ? [Q]

There were a number of posts a few weeks ago about the
merits of the official Apple LC to LC III upgrade, all
very enthusiastic. I understand the hard disk of your
machine is put in a brand new LC III.

My LC has additional RAM, VRAM, and an FPU.

1) Can my 2 2Mb SIMMs (I have 6Mb total at the moment) be
used in the LC III, and would this give me 8Mb total?

2) I have the additional VRAM required to run 256 colours
on a 13" monitor. Is this needed for an LC III - what are
the possibilities of retaining it?

3) Can my FPU be transferred to the new machine? I don't
recall the make, but it is plugged in the PDS slot like
any other.

4) Do any UK netters have the educational price of the
LC->LCIII upgrade?

I asked my dealer all these questions, and to the first three
they answered "Ummm... " and the last one they said "We'll
get back to you." Not very inspiring.

Finally if anyone can tell me the relative merits of
this upgrade in comparison with fitting a DayStar accelerator,
(current UK retail 399 pounds up), I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance. Please mail me direct and I will summarise
to Info-Mac.

James Lawry,
[e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 22:49:03 -0600
From: [e-mail] (David Bourne)
Subject: LocalTalk and Ethernet

>I have a Quadra 950 on my desk, with the Apple FriendlyNet adapter to 10bT
>ethernet going out the ethernet port.  From there, I have TCP/IP installed
and
>running.  I also am still hooked up to the AppleTalk net still intact - I can
>see the
>local LaserPrinter's, the deskWriters, and the servers without ANY problems.
>I am hooked up to both, running NCSA TELNET, FETCH, amd MAC IP along with the
>AppleTalk. I can even use my machine as a psudeo router by establishing a
>host via ftp, and pulling something down to a server across my mac and out
>the atalk net.
>
>[e-mail]

Yes, I can do all that. However with LocalPath (until I crashed into the 8
localtalk node limit) I could also see remote LaserWriters and AppleShare
volumes.

My set-up:

   ----------------------------------------------...
   |          |             |              |
   |   Remote AppleShare   LaserWriter    Internet, etc
   |       File Service     Remote
   |
   |  |---------------|
   ---| Ethernet Card
      |                My Computer
   ---| LocalTalk Conn
   |  |---------------|
   |
   |
   |
   |
   |
   -------------------------------------------------------------
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
         Various other Users                          LaserWriter
                                Local

* With the System Software set to LocalTalk (via the Network control panel
device [NCPD]) and MacTCP I can see and use the Local LaserWriter,
AppleShare file on the Various Other Users, and can telnet, ftp, e-mail,
etc via the Ethernet link. I CANNOT see the Remote LaserWriter or the
Remote (across campus) AppleShare File Services.

* With the System Software set to Ethernet (via NCPD) I can see Remote
LaserWriter/AppleShare BUT not the local services.

* With LocalPath (and only a few of the users connected, < 8) I could see
it all via the Chooser.

* Presumably with software like Liason or Apple's Internet Router I could
turn my computer into a software based router - I don't want that traffic.

* A couple of people have suggested the Sonic Systems LaserBridge or
SuperBridge would work. Looking at back issues of Info-Mac I'm not SURE
that this would work.

* I appreciate the prompt reply from Alison at Farallon but her reply was
as unsatisfactory as the phone conversation I had with her(?).

...
>LocalPath appears to the LocalTalk net to be a router.  When there is a
router
>on the network all devices forward their NBP Lookup requests to the router.
>LocalPath is not designed to be a full time router and will only handle the
>first eight devices it sees.  Any additional devices will not get serviced.
If
>you want more than eight devices on LocalTalk, you need to have a full
router.
>This is what we recommended when you called in.  At that time we suggested
you
>return your copy before your 30 days was up and that you should get a program
>that was designed to do what you required.
...

I'm sorry but I do not remember being offered the opportunity of returning
the product. All I remember is the confirmation that I had bought the wrong
product and that I needed to spend another approx $300 to solve my problem.
At the time I called, LocalPath seemed to work except occasionally when all
the computers were turned on. I could live with LocalPath occasionally
failing to start-up. I CAN NOT HOWEVER LIVE WITH LOCALPATH HIDING THE
LASERWRITER FROM OTHER LOCAL USERS. THAT BEHAVOUR WAS NOT EXPLAINED AND DID
NOT BECOME APPARENT UNTIL WELL AFTER THE 30 DAYS.

I'm annoyed and I apologise for using all this bandwidth. It seems like a
simple problem - maybe there isn't a simple solution.

David Bourne, OU HSC College of Pharmacy
1110 N. Stonewall Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73117, [phone]
[e-mail]

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

Date: 26 May 1993 10:49:28 -0800
From: "Alison Wellsfry" <[e-mail]>
Subject: LocalTalk and Ethernet

David,

If you have further questions about Farallon products, please give us a call.
510-814-5000  We are here to help.

Alison, TechSports
LocalPath/PowerPath Product Specialist

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 93 18:12:51 CST
From: AKIRA <[e-mail]>
Subject: LW PRO 630 INTERNAL HD

We have a 630 at the office/lab, and interested in the internal hd option.
I read the manual, like all good upstanding users should...(only after I
can't figure things out the EASY way), and saw no mention of an internal
bay.  I know that it is there...somewhere, can anyone give me the info on
it.  I need to know what size drive is required, I have around of 20 megs
of fonts that I would like to store on the hd, once and for all.


  Akira

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 17:03:09 -0300 (ADT)
From: Gary Doucette <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mac Hard Disk

I've just replaced an original Quantum 40 MB Disk with an
OEM Quantum 240MB Drive in a Mac II.  It seems to take longer
to boot and the "Diskette/?" Icon appears for a few seconds while
booting.  I used APS PowerTools 2.4.2 to Format/Partition the
drive.  All seemed to go well, but I think this slowness is
odd behavior.  I was contemplating a similar operation on a
Quadra 700 and now am somewhat worried about saving only minor $
and then being unhappy with the result.

Comments?

Please E-mail responses, and I will summarize to the list.

Thanks in advance,
Gary

| Gary Doucette                    [e-mail] |
| St. Francis Xavier University      Antigonish, NS, CANADA |

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 15:19:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Macintosh PowerPC

Well, I've finally seen one.

I was at COMDEX here in Atlanta yesterday and in the IBM advanced tech
exhibit is a Macintoh PowerPC 601. They have an Apple 14 inch monitor sitting
next to a 486/66 DX2, both running a fractal demo. The Mac, hidden in a locked
cabnet, redraws it about once every two seconds. The 486/66 redraws it about
once every 30 seconds. I imagine it was slanted, but the Mac was FAST.

They wouldn't let me run Speedometer.

The Mac was running System 7.something and the PC was running Windows 3.?

The guy there, an admitted IBMer, said he figured 6 times faster than a
040/33 in native mode.

The coolest part was that they were giving out these little clear plastic
stickers that had (I assume failed) 601 chips imbeded in them. I have it
stuck on the side of my Classic II. I can always dream :)

-JEB
jon edward badenell                              [e-mail]

"If you put an infinite number of monkeys in a room full of typewriters,
 eventually they would write Windows."

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 09:12:48 -0800 (PDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac IP 4.0 not 'initializing driver'

Hello netters:

Here's a strange one.  Recently (like within the past week) our all of
our Mac IP programs have been failing to launch because of 'Failure to
initialize driver. Error. File not found.'  After running Norton, it
discovered a problem with the Mac TCP DNR file (I think it was lost
bundle bits).  Replacing this file always fixes the problem.  This
problem has occured sporadically, maybe one or two a month, in the past.
However, this past week we've been innundated with this problem, nearly
an entire lab of 30+ macs.  Our users don't have access to the TCP
files, and a virus check showed clean disks, and the control panel
settings are fine.  So my question is this:  Could there be a file that
people are attempting to download that is corrupting the DNR file?

Config:  System 6.0.5, Mac TCP 1.1.1, Mac IP 4.0, multifinder, Mac II
Thanks in advance!

Nancy      [e-mail]

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

Date: 26 May 1993 14:59:59 GMT
From: [e-mail] (John F. Mansfield)
Subject: Manual ARA Connections

Has anyone found a way around the problem of not being able to do manual
connections with Appletalk Remote Access?  Say you have to go through a
switchboard to get an outside line, how do you use ARA to call your home
modem?

Thanks for any info
John Mansfield.

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 13:55:59 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Lisa L.W. Besko)
Subject: Network extension Conflict, HELP!

We have several Mac's that lock up right after they boot up when the Network
Extension is in the Extensions folder.  When we take the Network extension out
the machine boots up and runs just fine (just not file sharing).  Anyone have
any idea's as to what might be causing it.  The applications I suspect are
causing the problem are either Empower I 4.0.8 or 4D Runtime.  They are all
running System 7.0.1 tune-up 1.1.1.  If  anyone has any suggestions or has
seen
this before PPLLease let me know.  We really need to have file sharing turned
on
and since I'm never there when the problem starts occuring I never get
complete
details.

Thanks a Heap if anyone can help.

Lisa Besko

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 19:12 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Opcode MIDI System (A)

> Does anybody know anything about OMS, the Opcode MIDI System?  I saw
> it referenced in a recent TidBITS, but didn't see an address or phone
> number for the company.

Opcode MIDI System (or Open MIDI System) has been developed by Doug
Wyatt and can be obtained from:
Opcode Systems, Inc.
3950 Fabian Way, Suite 100
Palo Alto, CA - 94303
[phone]

Sorry, don't have the SMPTE address.

Cheers- Shekhar Govind              [e-mail]

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 93 21:46:29 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PB170 Backlight Problems

My good old PB170 seems to have backlight problems - the screen is
very dim - and the backlight colour is 'off' also.  Naturally when
this happened I took first switched batteries (even though I usually
run it plugged in), restarted it with no extensions, then started it
>From my Norton emergency disk.  Nothing worked.  Took it to my
friendly local dealer who replaced (one at a time of course) the board
with the resister on it (for the brightness control); then the
interconnect board (which brought up the brightness ever so slightly);
and finally the daughterboard (which made no difference).  I am still
stuck with a 170 with a screen that looks just like my old MacAnvil.  Do I
ask them to replace the monitor next, wear glasses with lights in them
or what?  No I am not running any kind of screen saver - and I am
running 7.1.  Any suggestions from you wizards out there?

Thanks,

George Ewonus
([e-mail])

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 93 21:50:31 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: PhotoGrade at 600 dpi

In Regards to your letter <[e-mail]>:
> 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.
>
> 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.

I don't know why, nor have I ever used one of these printers. However,
when I was first hearing about them before they were released, one
of my sources at Apple noted that PhotoGrade only worked at 300 dpi,
and that it was a limitation that would be fixed at some point. No
idea as to the truth of that rumor, but it's a data point for you.

cheers ... Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Editor

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

Date: 27 May 1993 16:28:51 GMT
From: [e-mail] (J. Colin R. Hunter)
Subject: PhotoShop monochrome resolution doubler: where is it

I feel like a right idiot asking this question, but I'm stuck so
am turning to the net for help.

Within the last 1-2 weeks, a PhotoShop filter was made available at
either mac.archive.umich.edu or sumex which doubled the resolution
of monochrome graphics.  I didn't think I'd need it at the time, but
I do now and can't for the life of me remember where it is or what
it is called.  Of course, I tried browsing the directories of both
archives (without success) so if anybody can help with info, I'd be
most grateful.

Colin Hunter
Virology Laboratories
University of Maryland at Baltimore
--

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 09:54 EST
From: Dan Rolander <[e-mail]>
Subject: PICT's in TeachText?

I know I have seen this discussed before, but can someone tell me how to
paste PICT's in a TeachText document? I know the PICT's are stored in the
resource fork, but how do you get them to display in the doc?

Thanks,
Dan

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

Date: Tue, 25 May 93 22:47:18 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: PostScript interpreters

I am considering buying a PostScript interpreter to use with a
HP 550C. Anyone familiar with TScript PostScript Language interpreter
>From TeleTypesetting from Brookline, MA. It is advertised on page 287
of the current (July '93) MacWorld. Anyone have good comments about
any of the others? (Freedom of the Press, etc.) Thanks, Pete Tamas
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 16:45:50 EDT
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>
Subject: printer

oops, sorry. The printer I'm looking at is the Apple LW630, to go with
a phone net network of roughly 20 macs as one of two printers.

The question again is, will the new printer drivers work with the
old Appleshare? and would I do well to buy an upgraded server?

Thanks. Sorry for the noise and undoubted confusion.

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 09:54:16 GMT
From: Danny Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: purported bug in THINK C 4/5

In issue #108, Adam Young <[e-mail]> writes whether THINK C
6 still has a !bug!:
>      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.
as I understood it, the default folder should and in THINK C does stay
where the last file was opened or saved. Check other applications for
ananalogous behaviour and I think you!ll find it common. Sometimes I
use the THINK editor to create non-source files and I certainly don!t
want them saved in the project tree.Suggestions for Adam are:
1) when you create a New file save it straight away *before* changing
folder to where the header files can be opened from.
2) use SuperBoomerang or Norton Directory Assistance. You!ll still
have to remember to change folders, but at least you can select it
>From a menu rather than laboriously traversing a possibly large folder
tree.
3) I!ve never seen it, but maybe THINK reference would be useful. I
gather you wouldn!t have to open as many header files.

As a registered owner of Boomerang I had the opportunity for a cheap
sidegrade to Now Utilities so I use (2), though I may consider (3) as
well. Occasionally I!ve also inadvertently left files in the THINK
sub-tree so it is worthwhile looking through these places occasionally.
    I understand how little glitches can be *so* frustrating; just the
other day I posted some gripes about a program and as I was composing
the message found one of the suggestions already existed under a menu
I don!t normally use (it wasn!t hidden away by *any* means). One of
items that did make it into my posting was also available as a menu
choice - my frustrations had blinded me to the obvious. Slightly
embarrassing but we keep learning, don!t we. Hopefully this reply
might encourage Adam to view this problem as a standard behaviour of
the Mac system, and while Symantec could have a preference to default
a save to the project folder, there are comfortable ways around it,
particularly SuperBoomerang which is a boon for all Mac applications I
use.

cheers,
Danny Thomas.


PS the source file isn!t magically saved where ther header files are:
the dialog box explicitly shows you the folder and disk where it will
be saved, though we don!t always check it.

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 23:14:03 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: QuarkXPress easter egg

According to The Macintosh Secret Trick List (at sumex), you get a
message when in Quark 3.1 you turn on Balloon Help then go to About
QuarkXPress (in Apple menu) then point to the word Quark. I have not
gotten this. Has anyone been able to get this to work? Thanks, Pete
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Wed, 26 May 93 12:17:34 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Jean-Francois Sygnet)
Subject: Renaming the hard disk [A]

Steve Satre <[e-mail]> asks:

> I've got a friend with a Mac IIci on her desk and she wants to change
> the name of the hard disk...
> First thing I checked was to make sure that File Sharing was off ...
> [but I] was unable to change the name...

I'm not sure I remember clearly but there is (was?) a bug
in the file sharing of System 7 (at least 7.0):
When a System 7 shared volume has been mounted from a System 6.0.x
operating Mac, one is not able to change that volume's name any more !

To fix this problem a small utility was written (by who ?).
I'm not sure about it's name but I would try downloading
>From sumex-aim.stanford.edu the file:
-r    23502 Jan 25  1992 ./util/system7-unlock.hqx

hope it helps

J.F. Sygnet, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. <[e-mail]>


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

Date: 26 May 93 12:52:01 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Request for INIT Annoyances

First let me start off by saying that we all know of several init conflicts
that crash our computer.  Some crash at startup, others create a "hole" in the
system that surfaces at a later time and is much harder to find.  Sometimes
the init that crashes at startup isn't really the one that has the problems.
Besides all this, I'm not asking for lists of these known problems.

After reading Info-Mac the last few days (ok, every day, but in recent
articles...) I noticed some discussion about people's computers slowing down.
That is what I want to know about.

We all get the computer running the way we like:  certain inits to handle disk
optimization, compress files, show the moon phase, group font families,
heiarchy the Apple menu, etc.  We get familiar with the Mac this way with out
little short hands and so on and you'd still swear that it runs at a pretty
good speed.  Until... for one reason or another, you boot with System 7.x's
shift key down.  After this, you realize how slow your system has become.

Windows draw faster.  Menus come down faster.  Disk access time is increased
(unless disk doubler is now required to be run before every program!).  You
swear that you'll only turn on the essential inits and only then do you find
that you consider just about all of the three rows of startup icons
"essential."

Anyway, I'm asking people to post or send back to me what they have seen as
the main instigators of System slowdown.  If more people reply than post, then
I'll compile a master list (and give you credit).

On top of this, have you found any unwritten rules?  For example, does having
a bunch of inits that do one minor task (ex, make the del key on the keyboard
do what its supposed to) add up to a system slowdown?  Do you find that if you
already have a commercial version of an init, you trust it more a
share/free-ware version?  What generalizations can you make about inits (such
as, inits that modify pull down menus like FONTS or the APPLE slow down the
system)?

Some things I've found:

    - With Autodoubler on a computer on a network, mount all volumes and
      run the control panel.  Make sure that all network volumes are
      unchecked so that it doesn't painfully slow down your computer
      scanning non-local drives and then trying to compress files it
      doesn't have write access to.

    - I prefer inits with multiple features (within reason--there's no
      need to make a calculator/file launcher/screen depth changer) over
      several inits that add up to do the same things

Anyway, please mail me other findings (again, I'm not asking for conflicts,
per se, but if have two or more inits slows down the computer more than
running either one of them, even without a crash, then let me know).  All
replies will make it back to the digest and/or be available as a text file.

Thanks,

Ken Linger
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 01:39:20 EDT
From: Allan Hunter <[e-mail]>
Subject: SE upgrade--anyone familiar with...?

Allan is drooling...nevertheless, there is even yet a somewhat conser-
vative twitch that says "waitaminnit, ask around; see if there's a word
out on it yet."

"IT" is the "Universal cache card" that accelerates earlier vintage
Macs to MHz speeds such as 33, 40, or (oh yeah) 50 in the form of
68030 thingies.  The key word is that, as of May, there's an adaptor
(my MacWarehouse-fueled intuition says it's similar or identical to
Maxima) that lets this cache card word on SE's--no, not SE/30's, just
plain vanilla 68000-powered SE's. Which is to say that today's 8 MHz
68000 4MB-max-RAM machine wakes up to be tomorrow's 50 MHz 68030
16MB-potential-RAM machine.  I've got a plain vanilla SE.  The price
I was quoted was $745 for the 50 MHz upgrade ($405 and $605 respectively
for the 33 and 40 upgrades) plus $45 for the extra adaptor that I think
will be similar or identical to the Maxima ("If you want to use 4MB
SIMMS under System 6..."{p. 31 MacWarehouse most recent issue (?)}
Did I mention that I was drooling?

So, is there?  Word on this here Universal cache card upgrade, that is?
Is $800 an entirely reasonable price to pay for turning my SE into a
50 MHx 68030 compact Mac, or what?

Salivating minds wanna know...

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

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 08:53:52 -0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SoftPC Problem and System Errors DA Update?

Hello again:
Two questions this time. Background: I've recently experienced a problem
with SoftPC Professional on an LC III. I have a PC application which will
run fine under SoftPC Pro on my IIvi but blows up SoftPC with an error code
of 90 on the LC III. The IIvi has the usual boatload of extensions and junk
and had them all before, during and after the installation of SoftPC. The
LC III is an absolutely clean system, freshly installed by me from locked
Apple-labelled masters. The only difference I can think of between the two
machines is the clock speed and the fact that the IIvi has an FPU whereas
the LC III does not. This, of course, is what the error code 90 is
referring to, as I discovered only this morning while perusing the Digest
over morning coffee.

Question one: It seems that SoftPC will under certain circumstances behave
as if there's an FPU present when in fact there isn't. 80287 emulation is
turned off and can't be turned on, since there's no FPU. Has anyone else
had similar problems running SoftPC Pro on non-FPU machines?

Question two: The latest version of System Errors DA I have is 7.0.1 and
doesn't include error 90 >:-( . Is there an update around? Archie could
only find 701 as well.

Thanks in advance
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC Canada

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 15:48:38 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: Sound Manager 3.0

It is clear to me that Sound Manager 3.0 is NOT included inside
QuickTime 1.6. Sound Man. 2.0.x is currently present on my Quadra 700,
and QT 1.6 IS installed.
It is obvious to me that Sound Manager 3.0 has not yet been put on
ftp.apple.com.
I hope it will appear soon - I am reay for the download ;-)
Fabrizio Oddone

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 06:06:25 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Francis J. Van Wetering" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spanish <-> English Translator

Does a program exist (on *any* micro platform) that will automatically (or
even semi-automatically) translate a text document written in English into
its Spanish equivalent?  An MIS type from my area seems to have the belief
that this exists, so I am putting this out on the net for an initial
response.

Please respond directly to me via e-mail.  I will summarize to the net
*IF* there is an interest in the answer.

F. J.  Van Wetering, Ph.D.         INTERNET:  [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:13:39 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Tony Huang)
Subject: Stacker, an impression... (C)

>Date: Mon, 24 May 1993 21:54:51 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Stacker, an impression...
>
>...[deleted]
>
>        So, for me, and since I was called an "ignorant bozo" a few weeks
>back, I find as an amateur that Stacker's overall performance will slow
>the drive down.  AutoDoubler will not, as long as the cache limit is
>observed.

Really? All compression programs will slow the drive down. There's no free
lunch. I haven't tested Stacker yet but I've tested all other compression
programs on the market. Since Stacker uses the same algorithm that TimesTwo
uses (with some minor improvement), I expect Stacker to be comparable with
or slightly faster than TimesTwo. No currently-available SCSI benchmark
program correctly works with driver-level compression program. With the
exception of TimesTwo and perhaps Stacker, compression takes place in the
background, so the better measure of the program's performance is its
decompression speed. AD's decompression speed is mediocre at best
(especially poor when a large file -- such as a database -- is open with
"write" permission).

Tony Huang
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 19:29 EST
From: MACLINK/PC GREAT <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stylewriter Canon ink cartridge

For those interested
the canon series equivalent to the Stylewriter I in terms of ink cartridge I
believe is the BJ10e as both use the same hardware.
Sincerely
ABRODY @ CLARKU

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 00:17:34 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Switches for mice (A)

   Here is what I intend to do. Open mouse and unscrew half a pen to make a
jet to blow into and then blow into holes in switch. Reconstruct mouse leaving
screws a bit loose. If this doesn't work do wais search on Malaysian mice and
800 for phone number (they will sell you the switch in minimum order of about
$20 at $2 a switch (should last a long time with 20 replacements).
   This is my extreme  brief digest of what was said on the net.

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 14:16:40 -0600
From: "Earl Misanchuk"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sys 7.1 & conflicts

- Gene Mayro ([e-mail]) recently wrote:

>An Apple-Authorized technician told me that the conflicts that software
>(which ran fine under System 6.0.X) had on System 7.0 have been resolved
>with System 7.1. This is the first I have ever heard of this. Is it
>true?


I don't think your tech new what he/she was talking about! As a recent (and
*VERY* reluctant) upgrader to Sys 7.1 (from 6.07, where I have been a happy
power user for a long time), I have a horde of conflicts on my hands to
resolve.
Unfortunately, I'm not far enough along in the process to be able to provide
much help, in terms of telling you what conflicts with what.

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Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 16:22:51 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: tar from tape

The various Mac-based tar utilities expect UNIX-format floppy disks.  I
have a 4mm DAT drive on my Mac and a UNIX-format tape and would like to get
a tar archive off that instead.  Can anyone point me to a means of either
getting the archive off, or simply copying the raw tar file onto my hard
disk for further massaging?  Replies to me, please.  Thanks.

Paul Baim

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 16:02:24 +0300
From: [e-mail] (Akif Eyler)
Subject: The most FAQ about Easy View

The initial reaction to Easy View 2.3 seems quite positive. However,
I felt the need to clarify the 32K limits mentioned in the documents.

**Physical limits**
   32K sections per _view_        (K=1024)
   32K bytes per _section_
(No limits on the size of files)

**Recommended practical bounds**
   About 30 chapters per view and 30 sections per chapter
   A few screens (around 5K bytes) per section

**Why these bounds?**
Both the recommendations are "soft" and and for ease of use. More
than a few screens could be handled by the program, but it would be
difficult to grasp mentally. After all, the idea behind EV has
always been the control of large text files.

These bounds mean about one month of Info-Mac Digest, or one year
of TidBITS in a single view. More than that is allowed, but not
easily manageable.

Since the recommended bounds are well within the physical limits,
there is no reason why the limits should be extended in the future.

Akif Eyler
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
[e-mail]

PS: This note can be distributed to other mailing lists.
    I have access only to Info-Mac.

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Date: 27 May 1993 15:14:31 -1000
From: "BIESECKER" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Think-C Discussion Group (A)

To get included on the Think-C distribution list (discussion group)
send your request to "[e-mail]".

Aloha from Hawaii!
-Ted

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 16:09 +0100 (MET)
From: JEROEN HOOIJER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Who is Hans de Wolf??

In digest 106 the following upload message appeared:

From: Hans de Wolf <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Address-Book-361.hqx

The address indicates that Hans works at the same organisation as I,
but I can't find him in the phone directory. Also e-mail bounces on this
address... <:-|
If you read this Hans, please contact me one way or the other.
I am at NLR ASD ext. 3642.
Sorry to bother the net with this, but it got me curious.
Bye!

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 13:48:40 +0100 (BST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Ziff/Mac Peace Proposal

Reluctantly I vote for peace.
Reluctant? I was enjoying it!
It was one of the most interesting discussions in info-mac for
weeks.
Maybe in the spirit of peace I should let things lie but there are
a couple of *factual* misapprehensions that I should tidy up
and one apology to make.

Graeme Forbes wrote:
> Am I just old fashioned, or is anyone else taken aback by the we-can-
> get-away-with-it-and-no one-knows-what-the-legal-outcome-would-be-so
> let's-do-it attitude of some recents posts to info-mac about the Ziff/Net
> Mac license business?

I honestly don't recall anyone making this argument.
I certainly categorically and absolutely deny that at anytime I
encouraged, supported or advocated down-loading of Ziff/Net software.
My original interest was in the contrast between the pompous self-
righteous invective of some discussants (notice no names, Im supporting
the peace!) versus reasoned argument and declared opinion.

Graeme continues:

>But the
> issue of principle is stunningly clear.

Surely the only thing to emerge was that the issue of principle was
not stunningly clear, some guys saw it in black and white and some
saw it in shades of grey. No concensus emerged.

Now on to Charlie Mingo:

First an apology, I meant no criticism when saying that your piece was
"unsigned". You actually don't append a signature to your postings, your
name only appears in the header. I routinely chop my headers to save
space and normally rely on a trailing sig to grab a name and/or address.
In this case I had no name for you and didn't like quoting you without
an ascription. On your second posting I was prewarned and watched for your
name in the header." Am I just old fashioned, or is anyone else taken aback
by the" abandonment of traditional trailing signatures!

Second, I guess that if there was an mvp in our recent game I'd be
voting for you. However despite your knowledgeable and informative
contribution I have one quibble. At times you seem to confuse statute
and law. (a British definition of the difference might be "intent" and
the "enforcible interpretation of intent")

I did have a whole stack more comments but in the interests of the
proposed peace I'm trying to be restrained (no more cheap shots at
those who preferred invective to argument!).

Dennis Summerbell



INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 13:18:06
From: [e-mail] (Charlie Mingo)
Subject: ZiffNet/MAC

[e-mail] writes:

> 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?

This is a definite mistake.  I've already quoted the US copyright statute,
so you must have noticed that it doesn't mention "suffering a loss".

Rather, a copyright simply gives you the exclusive right to control
distribution and use of work you created.  It matters not a whit whether
the author suffers a loss (or the pirate realizes a gain) from piracy.

A copyright is a form of property.  The author owns the right to his/her
works and can control their use and distribution as s/he sees fit.

> 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 what's your point?  Can you find any support in copyright law for
the argument that "letting people freely use something thereby permits
them to distribute it"?  If I let people come into my bookshop and
read books on the shelves, have I thereby authorized them to take the
books with them?

The statute simply gives the author the "exclusive right" to control
distribution, on whatever terms and conditions s/he sees fit.  If you
don't like those, just don't copy that floppy.

>> 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 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.

Well, it's good to hear you say that.  Making unauthorized copies
of software is ALSO a felony, and people who do it have "in fact"
broken the law.

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

Nothing like rhetorical overkill.  The Germans who hid Jews were
not violating an agreement they had voluntarily entered into, unlike
people who disregard the conditions in licenses they have.  As for
people who pirate without having any license at all, well, I think
they're more comparable to the SS:  willing to trample on the generally-
recognized rights of others to achieve their own selfish purposes.

Regards.

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Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 12:14:24 +0100
From: [e-mail]

Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.digest
Path: henry
From: [e-mail] (Henry Bloomfield)
Subject: Importing Macs into the UK (SUMMARY)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Summary: summary of responses to questions on importing Macs
Keywords: Importing, Customs, Cupcakes
Sender: [e-mail] (Usenet News System)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 11:14:18 GMT

Here are some of the responses to various questions I asked
about importing Macs into the UK. The general consensus seems
to be "Don't bother".

Don't bother
==========================================================
We imported a Mac a few years ago, but I don't think the rules
have changed.
Duty is 5%.  VAT is extra.
I think you'll find that it is barely worth the trouble for a
cheap machine, especially if anything goes wrong.  We get about
5-8% discount off UK academic prices from our educational
dealers, so your  college (and you) should be shopping around
The cheapest Mac's DON'T have an international power supply but
I can't remember exactly which ones do.

How to import Macs
==========================================================
(1)
What I can say is that I have brought computer equipment back
into the UK, and declared them at customs. I would certainly
recommend that you do it in person rather than use a
shipping company, who will also levy a fee for doing it for
you. Personally, I found customs at Heathrow airport to be
be rather friendly, and prices tended to be rounded down
a bit before they imposed (a) import duty of 4.9%, and (b)
value added tax at 17.5%. Note that you pay VAT on the import
duty! Payment is very easy and quick, as they take credit
cards.

My experience on getting education prices in the US is a bit
mixed. For some items (not Apple) at normal shops, all you need
is some piece of paper to show that you are really in education.
Even my union card (AUT) was acceptable, though something like
an ID card or a library card would be better. However, when
I tried to use a university computer shop I was not allowed in
as I was neither a student nor a staff member of that
university. This made me a bit annoyed, but I was then told that
all  I really had to do was find a student to come in with me
and make  the purchase and all would be well.
I don't know how typical this was, but it clearly helps to shop
at a place where you know someone.

(2)
I bought my 128K Mac 8 years ago when I was living in the US.
When I returned, I brought it back with me and paid the duty &
VAT at the airport. I bought a toroidal transformer from
Maplins & built a box (fuse etc) around it and used it happily
for over a year. When I upgraded to 512K, I had the PSU swapped
for  a UK one. It eventually got upgraded to a Plus, and I
finalyy sold it last weekend...

(3)
I can't answer most of your questions, but I did buy a PB100
about six months back by mail order.  The duty you have to pay
is VAT + ~4% (I can't remember the exact amount).  I advise mail
order if you would like to strike lucky - my vendors accidentally
paid the duty for me!  It seemed to be no hassle for the shippers
to comply with import regulations, although I suppose that's
their job.  Shipping costs vary - I think Federal Express were
expensive at > $100 (dollars).

Power supply has been no problem (110 - 220), although the pin
converters are a pain for a portable.

American/ Canadian prices
==========================================================
(1)
     In response to your question in the info-mac digest, I
have a Mac User in front of me and according to it, the *list
prices** are $1389 for the CC with a 4/80 configuration and The
LC III is $1,349 for the 4/80 configuration and $1669 for the
8/160  configuration.  The street value of these should be a
little bit lower and the educational prices should be lower
still.

(2)
Color Classic 4/80                List $1,389   Univ $1,264
LCIII 4/80, 512K VRAM, keyboard        $1,349        $1,146
LCIII 4/160, 512K VRAM, keyboard       $1,499        $1,274

Throw in import duties and VAT, and it doesn't seem
substantial.

(3)
Actually the UK prices aren't all that much higher than US
educational prices.

Here at Brown, a 5 meg RAM/160 meg hard drive LCIII sells for
about $1200 (CPU only). A Color Classic with (I think) 4 megs
of memory and an 80 meg hard drive sells for between $1300 and
$1400. And these prices do not include 7% state sales tax, so
our costs are actually rather comparable. I think that if you
tack on shipping and import costs to US prices, it would be
cheaper to buy your computer in the UK.

(4)
I'm in Canada. The educational price for a
Colour Classic 4/40 is $1410 (Feb 9 price)
LCIII 4/40 is $1444.

--
      HCI Group, CS Dept, QMW, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 16:42:43 EDT
From: Clare Durst <[e-mail]>

This being the end of the year, we might have some money to spend.
We need a new printer. Okfine. But I am still using Appleshare 2.1.
Will the new printers WORK with that or do I have to go to Ashare3?
IF I get Ashare3 might it make sense to get a faster printer/server
than the SE30? Or more precisely, would I HAVE to get a new printer?

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