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Info-Mac Digest             Tue,  1 Jun 93       Volume 11 : Issue 111

Today's Topics:

      [!] Info-Mac CD the second
      [*] /game/hangman-plus-20.hqx
      [*] 16-17-inch-color-1.0.txt posting
      [*] Accelerations 1.11
      [*] Attributor 1.0
      [*] B-Panel 1.17
      [*] Bounce! 1.31
      [*] CalConvert 1.05
      [*] DBugR 1.05
      [*] Depth&Volume 1.0
      [*] DottydaDoo 1.11
      [*] DragAnyWindow 1.01
      [*] Find Fat Projects 1.0
      [*] Global Search 1.03
      [*] hangwords-20j2.hqx
      [*] List Files 1.0
      [*] LoopSound 1.0
      [*] portlinker1.0_for_powerbook.hqx
      [*] PowerClicks 1.02
      [*] ResumeToFinder 2.0
      [*] Shutdown Delay 2.0
      [*] SoundSet FKEY 1.0
      [*] Space Madness Demo
      [*] Submission: MemSim1.0
      [*] Trapper 1.04
      [*] Upload to InfoMac archives
      [*] Verifile 1.0
      (Q) Apple's Summer Powerbooks
      68040 Accelerators for the SE/30
      About the Freedom of Information & Software
      Accelerator on an SE (Radius 16 ) (A)
      Adding keyborad cmd equivalent (Q)
      Adobe Type Reunion Slows Mac to a Crawl? (R)
      Analog data capture/display (A)
      archie client
      Ashare3 with new fast printers (A)
      Async. Appletalk Info.
      A Trivia Question (2 msgs)
      Biblical Greek and Hebrew Fonts Needed
      Centis 610 Cache problem
      Color ImageWriter Printing (Q)
      Connecting a Practical Peripherals Pocket Modem [A]
      Defining appletalk zones (a)
      DeskDraw (or any *small* drawing program)?
      DeskWriter C
      DuoBook & FPU (useful tip)
      e-disk
      File Buddy upload please!
      Font (Q)
      Font problems
      Header Files & Think Reference (was "purported bug in THINK C 4/5")
      How can I view a MacDraw doc without having MacDraw? (Q)
      info.hed.apple.com (A)
      LCIII and NEC 3FGe monitor (Q)
      Linking Networks
      Mac/TCP-IP Printing
      Manipulating 16 bit GREYSCALE images
      Manual ARA Connections (A)
      Marsh Gosnell/PBI Software whereabouts?
      MasterTracks/Quadra Conflict?
      Memory CDEV Hack (a challenge!)
      MIDI Wish: Internal Sound
      New Directory Structure - comments, not flames
      NEWS FLASH: PIVOT/LE Returns!
      Nuntius1.1.1d23
      Opcode MIDI system
      PB 160 has stereo?!?!?
      PB 180
      PICT's in TeachText (A)
      PICT's in TeachText? (2 msgs)
      Powerbook 170 Display Problem
      PPP client/server wanted
      Printing large Canvas files to a LW IIg
      Quail 1.0 beta available (Quantitative Analysis in Lisp)
      RGB -> NTSC (A)
      SCSI hard drive problems
      SCSI Peripherals with Macs and PCs!
      SE/30 Clock Speed
      Spanish Translation Software (A)
      Stacker, an impression... (R)
      Sticking Powerbook Keys
      syncing clocks (Q)
      Sys 7.1 & conflicts
      System 7.1 virtual memory eats System file?
      Think-C Request Address
      Token Ring + Telnet
      VideoSync help (Q)
      WYSE Terminal-Emulation-Problem
      Zterm question

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Date: Fri, 28 May 93 02:20:51 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Cliff Miller)
Subject: [!] Info-Mac CD the second

Hi,

The Info-Mac CD-ROM II discs are just back from the factory -- they're
still warm!  I'm sending in the Info-Mac-CD-ROM-2.txt file (which
contains the readme file and the list of programs on the CD), and will
probably be archived under:

    sumex-aim:/info-mac/help/info-mac-cdrom-2.txt

Woops: I realized yesterday that the disc is only System 7 compatible
and will not work with System 6.  This is because I didn't think to
put a System 6 desktop file on it.  I'm hoping that most people with
CD-ROM drives will be running System 7....  For System 6 Diehards,
we'll be remastering the CD next month or so and will make it both
System 6 and 7 compatible ;-)

Cliff

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Date: Fri, 21 May 93 21:41:08 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jan Schipmolder)
Subject: [*] /game/hangman-plus-20.hqx

Moderators:

I'm sending you "HangMan Plus 2.0". In my opinion it should replace
"/game/hangman-plus.hqx" (i.e., version 1.0) which was mailed to you
on Sat, 8 May 93 11:03:24 -0500 by [e-mail] (Lonadar
the Wanderer). I will ask the Wanderer to let you know if s/he agrees
with that.

I believe "HangMan Plus 2.0" is the latest version of Ken Winograd's
word-guessing game. This version, at least for me, works better than
version 1.0, in which there seems to be a discrepancy between the size
of the letters that you are guessing and the space allocated for them
in the guessing window. This version has some additional color
niceties; its sounds seem funnier; and it lets you supply your own
list of up to 200 HangWords (as opposed for only 100 HangWords in
previous versions). On-line Help. Shareware. Compact Pro'd, then
BinHex4'd.
--
jan b schipmolder
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hangman-plus-20.hqx; 77K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 16:18:06 +0500 (EST)
From: Joseph Chiang-Shen Wu <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] 16-17-inch-color-1.0.txt posting

This is the latest compilation of Usenet discussions (including Apples'
Dale Adams postings on 16/17 inch color monitors particularly as it
pertains to support of the 19 inch Apple resolution.  I have also included
a brief summary of my correspondences with various netters regarding their
experiences with several different brands of monitors.  The list is far
>From complete, but nevertheless it should be helpful in your monitor
purchasing decision.


[Archived as /info-mac/info/hdwr/sixteen-seventeen-inch-color-monitors.txt;
38K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:16:20 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Accelerations 1.11

Accelerations is an AfterDark module that shows some balls
moving in the screen with random accelerations. You can
change the number of balls, their size, the maximum
acceleration and the frequency of acceleration variations.

Shareware - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/accelerations-111.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:16:59 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Attributor 1.0

Attributor is an advanced programmer's utility designed to
make life easier for programmers. Since Think C does not
provide a way to set the CODE resource attributes directly
(things like "purgeable" or "preload") and because most of
my applications want to unload the initialization segment, I
wrote this utility to stop going into ResEdit all the time.
Also, Think C does not make the SIZE -1 resource purgeable
as it should be.
Attributor can change the resource attributes of a specific
resource or of a whole resource family in a single pass.
Just create an ATTR resource inside Attributor with ResEdit
and modify it to meet your needs (there's a resource
template in the application as well).

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/attributor-10.hqx; 32K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:22:18 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] B-Panel 1.17

BPanel is a small Control Panel that lets you configure the
system beep by adding a text message to the standard beep
procedure. What you get is a window popping up at beep time
with a one-line message, then either the beep sound or a
user-defined pause before it disappears.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/bpanel-117.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:22:54 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Bounce! 1.31

Bounce! is an AfterDark module that shows some balls
bouncing around the screen, each with its own speed and
gravity acceleration. You can select the number of balls to
show, their size and the percent decay of their elastic
bouncing. The balls can either jump up again when their
bouncing is over or fall down from the screen's top.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/bounce-131.hqx; 5K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:23:22 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] CalConvert 1.05

CalConvert (formerly QuickConvert) is a small shareware
utility that does integer arithmetic calculations and
converts integer values to different bases (decimal,
hexadecimal, binary, octal or any custom base between 2 and
32) or to an OSType (a sequence of four ASCII characters).
The conversion may be signed or unsigned (you can always
enter a signed value, it will be converted to unsigned if
needed); the result may be interpreted either as a word (2
bytes) or as a long word (4 bytes). The Return and Enter
keys start the conversion; Tab, shift-Tab and the four arrow
keys have their usual meaning.
Warning: CalConvert *requires* System 7.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/app/calconvert-105.hqx; 16K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:23:57 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] DBugR 1.05

DBugR is a cool Control Panel for programmers and hackers
who often have to break into MacsBug (or any other debugger
supporting the _DebugStr trap). It puts a floating "small
bomb" icon on your desktop which acts like a button. If the
mouse button is pressed and released inside the icon,
there's a user interrupt and MacsBug is called. DBugR can
show some basic info about the current application (name,
free memory, max free block) and/or send one of two
user-configurable MacsBug commands to be executed
immediately upon breaks (hold down the Option key when
clicking to send the alternate command). The icon may be
moved anywhere on any monitor by holding down the Shift key
and dragging it around.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/d-bug-r-105.hqx; 14K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:24:28 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Depth&Volume 1.0

Depth&Volume is a Control Panel that lets you change the
main screen depth (i.e. the number of colors displayed) or
the speaker's volume on the fly with a keystroke. I made it
because many people I know were using huge commercial macro
packages (requiring lots of system RAM and often causing
errors) only to perform these two simple operations.
Depth&Volume is very small (it uses about 2K of system
memory) and very easy to use, and it only costs $5.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/depth-and-volume-10.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:25:32 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] DottydaDoo 1.11

Dotty da Doo is an AfterDark module that shows some square
dots bouncing horizontally in the screen and creating some
weird superposition effects after a few bounces.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/ad/dotty-da-doo-111.hqx; 4K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:26:08 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] DragAnyWindow 1.01

DragAnyWindow is a control panel that allows you to easily
move any kind of window, including dialogs, alerts, standard
"Open" and "Save" dialogs, game windows and other
non-movable windows.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/drag-any-window-101.hqx; 37K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:27:19 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Find Fat Projects 1.0

Find Fat Projects is a little utility designed to make life
easier for Think C programmers. All it does is to scan any
folder or disk you drop on it and make a list of all
projects that happen to be larger than 15K. A large project
usually has objects in it, and since objects take lots of
disk space you may want to remove them before making backup
copies (or just to free some disk space). If you only have a
couple of projects this is not a problem, but if you have
some more of them Find Fat Projects will help you a lot.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/dev/find-fat-projects-10.hqx; 31K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:27:37 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Global Search 1.03

Global Search is a small utility that lets you search for an
hexadecimal or character string in all the resources of a
file. It generates a text file named "xxx.scan" (where xxx
is the name of the searched file) with a log of all the
matches that have been found. Each match is shown in the
form:

  [RES TYPE] [RES ID]   "[RES NAME]"   $[OFFSET]

where [offset] is the offset in bytes from the beginning of
the resource.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/app/global-search-103.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Fri, 21 May 93 23:40:16 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jan Schipmolder)
Subject: [*] hangwords-20j2.hqx

Moderators:

I'm sending you a folder with a ReadMe file and 10 text files, each of
which can be used as a "HangWords" list of words-to-be-guessed for the
game "HangMan Plus 2.0", of which I sent you a copy earlier today,
suggesting that, if archived, it be archived as
"/game/hangman-plus-20.hqx".

Free. No restrictions whatsoever. If you archive the present
contribution, may I suggest the name "hangwords-20j2.hqx".
--
jan b schipmolder
[e-mail]

[Archived as /info-mac/game/hangman-plus-hangwords-data.hqx; 16K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:27:54 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] List Files 1.0

List Files is a very straightforward utility that creates
text catalogs of any folder or disk you drag on it. The text
file can be edited and saved for later use (you'll be able
to read or print it with any word processor or text editor).
Text catalogs are a very convenient way to keep track of
unmounted volumes (like floppies or SyQuest's) because they
are small, easy to read and easy to search.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/list-files-10.hqx; 34K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:28:16 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] LoopSound 1.0

I like to record sounds that can be looped; that is, they
can be played over and over without any noticeable click at
the end of each playback. SoundEdit lets you do that easily
(you can play a loop by holding down the shift key when
clicking on the "play" icon), but once you've saved the
sound there's no way to loop it from the Finder. Many of my
sounds don't even sound good if they're not looped, so I
wrote this little application to play my loops.
Just drop a Finder 7 sound file on LoopSound's icon and it
will be played forever (until you quit LoopSound or drop
another sound on it).
LOOPSOUND REQUIRES SYSTEM 7!

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/snd/util/loop-sound-10.hqx; 23K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 02:22:08 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Moses Kim)
Subject: [*] portlinker1.0_for_powerbook.hqx

This application links serial ports in a Macintosh.  It makes chance to
access internal modem of PowerBook through printer port. PowerBook will
work as an external modem.

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/port-linker-powerbook-10.hqx; 11K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:28:33 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] PowerClicks 1.02

PowerClicks is a useful Control Panel which enables any
Macintosh to:
1. make a key combination act just like the mouse button;
2. make a different key combination toggle the mouse button
on and off;
3. disable the "real" mouse button (in case it's broken);
4. assign graphical effects to mouse clicks.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/power-clicks-102.hqx; 13K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:29:20 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] ResumeToFinder 2.0

ResumeToFinder is a Control Panel/Extension that installs a
simple resume procedure in applications that don't have one.
When ResumeToFinder is installed, system error alerts (also
known as "bombs") will always show a "Resume" button.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/resume-to-finder-20.hqx; 10K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:29:47 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Shutdown Delay 2.0

What Shutdown Delay basically does is setting up a dialog at
Restart/Shutdown time which gives the user four choices:
1. WAIT for the chosen command to be automatically completed
after a specified time interval;
2. CANCEL and smoothly return to the caller application;
3. RESTART (you can always turn a Shutdown in a Restart);
4. SHUT DOWN (turn power off or safe-shutdown alert as
usual);
A fifth key-combination choice has been added in version
1.22 for power users:
5. FORCE QUIT attempts to return to the Finder (this can
sometimes recover from system crashes if you get to the
dialog after the restart button of the error alert).

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/shutdown-delay-20.hqx; 20K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:30:08 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] SoundSet FKEY 1.0

SoundSet is a small FKEY that sets up a dialog and lets you
quickly set the sound volume, either with the mouse or with
the keyboard. Typing 0-7 will set the sound volume
accordingly; typing Return, Enter, Esc or Backspace will
leave it where it is. If the Caps Lock key is down, the
dialog doesn't pop up and the sound volume is directly set
to 0. After the sound volume has been changed, the standard
beep will be played at the new volume.

FREEWARE
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/gui/sound-set-fkey-10.hqx; 12K]

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Date: Wed, 26 May 93 23:12:33 -0700
From: "(Michael A. Kelly)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: [*] Space Madness Demo

This is a playable demonstration version of the commercial action/arcade
game Space Madness.  It requires a 68020 cpu or better, a monitor capable
of displaying 256 colors or grays, System 6.0.7 or later, 2.2 meg free RAM,
and 1.2 meg disk space.  Space Madness is available direct from High Risk
Ventures for the special introductory price of $35.  It will be available
through mail-order distributors in July, and should be in stores by Fall.

Company information:

    High Risk Ventures
    P.O. Box 70690
    Eugene, Oregon 97401-9610

    Toll-free order line: [phone]
    Fax: [phone]
    Internet: [e-mail]
    America Online: High Risk
    CompuServe: 75110,2673
    GEnie: M.KELLY26


[Archived as /info-mac/demo/spacemadness.hqx; 747K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 10:02:28 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: [*] Submission: MemSim1.0

MemSim is a membrane dynamics simulator that allows the user to
place sources on an elastic membrane, then simulates and displays
the behavior of the membrane.  The output is a drawn 3-d surface
and can be displayed in wireframe or color (on macs w/color QD).
The surfaces are very pretty.

MemSim requires an FPU or emulator, a 68020 or greater, and a
screen of at least portable size (ie not classic size). Documentation
is included as a TeachText README and a Word doucument.

The program should probably be posted in the math/science directory.

Thanks,
Claude Denton

[Archived as /info-mac/sci/membrane-simulation-10.hqx; 174K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:30:30 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Trapper 1.04

Have you ever wondered where all your Mac's CPU processing
power is going? Or why the Finder 7 looks slow even on
68040-based Macs? Rumors are that your machine is spending
most of its time in the Operating System and Mac Toolbox
routines (implemented through the 680x0  A-Trap mechanism).
Cool. But what routines are being called? And are they all
necessary, or is the Mac just running in circles?
Trapper is a Control Panel/Extension combination that keeps
track of ALL system routines (or "traps") by filtering the
standard 680x0 trap dispatcher with a very compact counter
routine. The Mac's speed won't be visibly affected (it'll be
losing about 1 or 2 percent) and you'll be able to see ALL
the system routines (even the undocumented ones) along with
the number of times they have been called. Since this is a
fairly large amount of data, it is stored into a text file
for easy consultation and retrieval.

SHAREWARE - $3
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/trapper-104.hqx; 24K]

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Date: Fri, 21 May 93 15:51:02 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Mike Shapiro)
Subject: [*] Upload to InfoMac archives

macpostit.sea.hqx

MacPostit version 1.0
MacPostit is a simple, intelligent application which allows the user to
create Postit notes on the Macintosh.  The notes are totally customizable
including color, font, size, and location.

[Archived as /info-mac/app/mac-post-it-10.hqx; 86K]

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Date: Sat, 22 May 93 13:30:46 +0200
From: [e-mail] ( Rodella-Morena)
Subject: [*] Verifile 1.0

Verifile is a small utility that calculates a checksum and a
CRC32 on both the data and resource forks of any file that's
dropped on it. This is useful if you want to compare two
files that are not on the same machine without having to
copy them over a network or modem connection. If the
hexadecimal numbers displayed by Verifile match, chances are
that the two files are equal.

SHAREWARE - $5
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini

[Archived as /info-mac/disk/verifile-10.hqx; 33K]

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Date: 28 May 1993 14:17:59 -0500
From: "Cerro, Joseph A" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Q) Apple's Summer Powerbooks

Howdy, Netters!

Having thrown out my MacWeek with the pertinent info, I now find myself
interested in finding out the configs and estimated list prices of Apple's new
Powerbooks-the 145b and the 180c.

I am most interested in:
cpu speed
active v passive matrix on 145b
grey scale or monochrome on 145b
list price
maximum ram
size of HD
etc.

Please respond to me---I will post summary if sufficient response.
Thanks!
[e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 01 Jun 93 15:11:02 MEZ
From: "Dr. Stefan P. Mueller"
<[e-mail]>
Subject: 68040 Accelerators for the SE/30

This is an preliminary report on 68040 accelerators for the SE/30.
Unfortunately, my request hasn't generated a lot of responses yet. Please,
DON'T
assume someone else has already answered. Tell me everything YOU know about
the
subject!

There seems to be a 040 accelerator review in Mac Week; unfortunately, nobody
over here has access to it. Could anybody give a brief summary? Also I haven't
yet seen the June Mac World in the stores here in Germany.

My findings about Logica and Daystar are at odds with the very favorable
review
in the April Mac User issue on accelerators:

Logica didn't respond to either several FAXes or phone calls left on their
answering machine. Two other users seem to have had similar experiences;
nobody
reported a positive experience. What happened to Logica, have they gone
belly-up
already? This certainely doesn't qualify them as a customer oriented company
in
my book and I would be very hesitant to give them my Dollars!

Daystar sent me a FAX brochure after 3 weeks, having been prodded by 2 FAXes
and
a phone call. So far they have failed to answer specific technical questions,
even after another reminder by FAX. A few weeks back, one other user warned in
the Digest about their lack of responsiveness in upgrading his 030 accelerator
to a 040. Hm ...

Again, please drop me a short note if YOU have any information. If I get
enough
replies by the end of the week, I'll summarize before I leave town for 4
weeks.

Thank you very much!

Stefan

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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 23:58:44 -0700
From: Jon Pugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: About the Freedom of Information & Software

Mark Heard questions whether my employer, Apple Computer, would be in
harmony with my feelings about free software and free information.  I agree
that the current incarnation of Apple is not inclined to give much thought
to anything but profit.  Luckily they are given to the support of free
speech, which is what I am using.  We have internal bulletin boards which
carry very vitriolic debate on company policies and other topics.  I
consider Info-Mac to be a correspondingly wider forum for these same kinds
of free speech debates.

As for the points raised, I agree that my ideal world view is detered by
greed, commercialism and law.  That does not make it any more right than
wrong.  It merely is the way of the world.  I still believe that information
is more useful, effective and beneficial to the human race when it is
dispersed wide and far, and free to anyone who wants it.  I also recognize
the commerical realities of the world, which is why I work here at Apple
instead of hanging out in Jackson Hole pursuing the life of a ski bum.  I
would love to be able to pull off the best of both of those worlds.  Harsh
reality sets in though, and I am forced to imagine a perfect world in the
midst of organizations which charge exhorbitant fees for information,
software and the access to it.  I do not begrudge anyone their nitch in the
food chain, although I reserve the right to try and talk them out of it.
That's all we are doing here.

The charges that Apple should give it's software away are well raised, but
everyone must admit that Apple has done a marvelous job of giving software
away, until recently.  You can also bet that it wasn't the engineers in the
trenches that decided to charge for things.  I also am one of many who
continue to advocate the freedom of software.  How many of you paid for
QuickTime?  The restrictions placed upon the distribution were a compromise
by others who did not wish for things to be as free as they are.

Face it, everyone is a snob at some point in their life.  It's the bane of
humanity that we are forced to look out for number one.  I believe this
requirement of life is the prime reason for all the pain and suffering we
cause each other.  But I digress.

The idea of Apple Prohibited software is already in place by the GNU
Foundation.  Too bad they don't see the forces in here striving to keep the
access to software open.  I also think it's too bad that so many people view
Apple as the mega-behemoth of death.  In reality it is a conglomaration of
people with many different viewpoints, all free to expound them.  Apple
policy is made up of compromises between them all.  Of course, some opinions
carry more weight than others.  ;)

Allow me to close with this apology.  I wish I had the time and energy to
edit this mini-ramble into a more cohesive argument.  This is the bane of
the net. Most arguments are not given the time they deserve.  I know my
notes are all too often dashed off as quick as I can before bed and I can
only imagine how time constrains others that write.  I know that ZiffNet
requires money to run and by providing their software they can offer value
to the people who pay them.  I never questioned that or advised ignoring
their wishes.  I merely advocate the notion of free software and free
information because I believe that it is better for humanity in the long
run, which is much longer than any of us or our institutions will survive.
To that end, you may note that I only have two shareware products and all
the rest of my software is free.  I can only live as I talk.  I'm sorry if I
offend or cause others to disagree.  I suspect it is merely because I cannot
articulate my thoughts better in the brief time I am alloted.  I'll try not
to drag this on any farther.

Jon

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 11:56:29 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Accelerator on an SE (Radius 16 ) (A)

     Radius had a chip upgrade to make their accelerator system 7 compatible.
I put it in. I am not a technician and it took me six hours of guesswork to
make it work. I had an old plus and the connections to my memory chips were
corroded, my chips were in general loose, etc. I had been using what I call
the "lobotomy trick" with my old mac plus. That is, since the memory chips
were
loose or dirty and I didn't want to constantly take it apart and press them
in,
I drilled holes in the side and rubbed a dowel around. After years of this all
my chips got loose and my external drive went cablouey. Talk about abusing a
computer, I should have just smacked it on the side of its frowning face.
When I put the radius chip upgrade in, I got checkerboards on the screen
frowning macs with odd numbers, strange beeps, etc. Six hours got a fix.
Talk about codependency, when it finally keeled over it was because it lost
its
power supply.
      If your employer isn't so mean to his computer, you should do better!

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 04:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Adding keyborad cmd equivalent (Q)

A friend just gave me a copy of Ricardo Batista's freeware NoFinder. All
its menu commands, except for Terminate Process, have keyboard command
equivalents.  Is it possible for me to define a keyboard command for
Terminate Process using ResEdit, say?  If so, how?  (Note: I don't have a
macro program like QuicKeys.)

Thanks for your help.

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

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 01:38:54 PDT
From: Les Ferch <[e-mail]>
Subject: Adobe Type Reunion Slows Mac to a Crawl? (R)

|>Well, after four months of living with a soporific Mac IIvi (yes, I know,
|>my Sucker button's in the mail:-)) I decided to do some INIT surgery. The
|>problems I was experiencing were very sluggish menu redraws (5-10 seconds
|>for Word 4 to pop down its first menu), slow launches (40 seconds for Word
|>4), abysmal network performance (15 *minutes* to copy a 1MB file over
|>AppleTalk) and so on.

|>It took some time, as I have a whole boatload of extensions and control
|>panels. I eventually narrowed it down to Adobe Type Reunion. With it
|>installed, everything was draggy as hereinbefore detailed. Without i,
|>everything sped up to expected speeds (Word launches in about 10 seconds;
|>can produce first menu snappily; network performance, well, good
|>considering it's AppleTalk). The price? Giant font menus (six flavours of
|>Utopia, four Helvetica etc. etc.).

|>Anyone else seen this, come up with a fix or heard of a new version from
|>Adobe? Please e-mail me, as I'm not sure this is of general interest. I'll
|>summarize if it seems warranted.

I have seen the same behaviour on a Quadra 800, but have not yet confirmed
that the cause is ATR. I will test this next week, but I'm pretty sure
it's the same problem, because I noticed the performance drop after
installing SuperATM, which included ATR.

Damn, I hope there is a fix. ATR is nice, but it's in the trash if it's
causing the machine to slow down that much.

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 12:20:55 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Analog data capture/display (A)

>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.

Radiant Enterprises Inc.
415-296-8040
[e-mail]

They sell a box (CommonSense CNX) that sits on a LocalTalk network. I am
not sure that it will handle 1 kHz data rates but I know it will handle 100
Hz data rates. The interface is a HyperCard stack, or C routines, or
LabView drivers. The advantage is that it is less than $400 and you can put
these boxes anywhere on a network so that distance of number of sensors
viewed by one Mac are not limits. The CNX comes with several A/D channels,
one D/A channel, eight TTL logic outputs and four AC power relays.

[e-mail]

I worked for them on another product last year.

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 08:07:23 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Adam C. Engst)
Subject: archie client

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

Yes, there is. I believe it's at sumex, although I couldn't tell you
where at the moment. It's called Archie 0.9, I think, and has a truly
minimal interface. You type in a word in a text box, then hit the
Search button. It tells you how many bytes it has received (seemingly
11 per search) and how many searches are in progress (you can just
queue them up) and when the results come back from the archie server
you told it about, they are displayed in a scrolling window.

What I want to know is why no one has combined the features of archie
and Fetch? I'd like to perform a search via archie, and then double
click on the file to retrieve it. I think that sounds like a feature
request for Fetch, primarily, but still, it would be neat. No more
of this doing the search and then manually connecting to the machine
in the list.

cheers ... -Adam

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 12:21:15 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ashare3 with new fast printers (A)

>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?

Yes they will work with or without Ashare2.1, no you do not have to go to
Ashare3.

>IF I get Ashare3 might it make sense to get a faster printer/server
>than the SE30?

It depends. If you have a print server running on the SE/30 and print jobs
coming from the SE/30 take longer than print jobs direct from a Mac, you
might want to consider a faster print server. Chances are real good that
the printer will still be the slowest link in the whole process. The time
it takes to send Postscript commands from Mac to LaserWriter is typically
much less than the amount of time it takes to process the commands.

>Or more precisely, would I HAVE to get a new printer?

You do not have to get a new printer. If you want features unavailable in
your current printer (gray scale, Postscript2, double sided printing,
multiple paper trays, binding, collating, color, etc.), you might want to
consider getting a new printer that has those features. But LaserWriters
with those features are extremely expensive. If your current printer works,
keep it.

[e-mail]

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

Date: 29 May 1993 21:37:46 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Async. Appletalk Info.

For those who had questions (as I did) about Asynchronous Appletalk:

Thanks for the note about Async AppleTalk. Unfortunately, there isn't a
Macintosh AALAP server implementation. We've implemented the protocol in our
locally-developed terminal servers.

You might talk to Cayman or Shiva folks to find out about their solutions for
dialing into AppleTalk and Novell network systems. Good luck!

Rich Brown                    E-Mail: [e-mail]
Manager of Special Projects   AppleLink address:  RICH.BROWN
Dartmouth College               (note new ALink address)
Kiewit Computer Center        Telephone: [phone]
Hanover, NH 03755-3523 USA    Fax: [phone]

Forwarded by:
Christopher Van Dyke
Hohokam Middle School
Tucson, AZ
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 01:11:30 -0400
From: "Scott E Maxwell" <[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?

I would have to say that would be 16 mHz.

Scott Maxwell
[e-mail]
Mac.archivist

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 13:16:36 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Bill Moynihan)
Subject: A Trivia Question

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>
>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]
>
Andrew,

15.667 MHz.

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

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 14:54:11 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Connie Fennema)
Subject: Biblical Greek and Hebrew Fonts Needed

    My husband has a Ph.D. in Religion and would like to get both Greek
(biblical if there is a difference) and Hebrew fonts.  He has a Centris 650
and a StyleWriter II.  Please send replies directly to:
[e-mail].  Thanks.

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 17:12:02 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Centis 610 Cache problem

---- Microsoft Mail "Note" message ----

From: Peter Kerns on Fri, May 28, 1993  5:11 PM
Subject: Centis 610 Cache problem
To: Info-Mac
Has anyone had a problem formatting diskettes with the Centris 610 while the
data caches are turned off?  Unfortunately because of some old software we
must
keep the caches off for now.  However, when they are off the computer will
reject formatting 8 out of 10 disks.

Is this a known bug? Is there a fix?

Peter Kerns
Computer Operations Coordinator
Whitehead Institute for Biomed Research
[e-mail]

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

Date: 28 May 1993 22:24:41 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Color ImageWriter Printing (Q)

This is my first request for help, it is quite probably a FAQ (but I haven't
come across the info needed), and it's driving me CRAZY!

A number of programs (ClarisWorks, DeskPaint/Draw,...) will not print color
under 32-bit QuickDraw on an ImageWriter with a color ribbon.  It turns out
that the Apple driver does not support color printing and that only programs
that have their own, proprietary drivers can convert color pictures to print
on the IW II.

-----
Question 1

Can I go back to the old, 8-color QuickDraw and print in color?  I understand
that I COULD use the program MacPalette to accomplish color printing, but I
run a couple of networked labs at a public middle school and it would be
prohibitive to buy the program for every machine and I don't think MacPalette
would work printing through the print server.

(I remember printing in color with the old QuickDraw -- which I can no longer
find -- before upgrading all the machines to system 6.08.)

-----
Question 2

Why is it that color support isn't built into the 6.08 printer driver under
32-bit quickdraw?  It seems to me that Apple, by building color capability
into the IW II, should provide drivers that provide standard color printing
rather than forcing software authors to construct their own.

If anybody can help me with this situation, it would be a great help.  If I
need to go back to the old QuickDraw, the location of an archive site where I
may find it would also be appreciated (I've already used Archie to no avail).
Please respond directly to me and I will summarize responses if this is not a
FAQ to begin with.

Christopher Van Dyke
Hohokam Middle School
Tucson, AZ
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 22:55:27 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Peter Lwin)
Subject: Connecting a Practical Peripherals Pocket Modem [A]

Hi Jon Stewart,

What kind of PP Pocket Modem do you have? There is one that looks like a
big plug and a new one that is about the size of a pack of cigarettes
(Remember those poison sticks). The small plug size one runs on 2400 bps
and new one is 14.4 bps (v.32bis).

You cannot use the 2400 version on the Mac since it gets it's power from
the RS232 port. The Mac does not have a true RS232 port and thus no power.
There is no problem with connecting the PP pocket Modem v.32bis to a Mac
since it is powered externally. If this the modem you have, the problem is
in your old 1200 baud modem cable. The new v.32 or v.32bis modems require a
special "hardware handshaking" cable. Most of the old 1200 or 2400 baud
modems get by with just 3 wires whereas the fast modems require at least 5
wires. I have successfully used the PP v.32 pocket modem on the Mac, even
with ARA which is quite picky.

Good luck!
Peter Lwin
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 10:50:24 PDT
From: Kee Nethery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Defining appletalk zones (a)

>We're using an ethertalk network that consists of twenty Macintosh and
three printers --two LaserWriters and an Appletalk Imagewriter connected
via an EtherPrint+ box.

>Now I wonder how to define zones in the network. Could anybody tell me what
software / hardware I need in order to do that?

if you have one cable with devices attached to it, and no routers, you will
not have zones. You have a single network and the network number is the
default range for an ethernet with no routers. If you were on localTalk the
network number would be 0. With EtherTalk the network range is at the high
end of possible network numbers, around 65000.

If you have to configure a zone name into the EtherPrint+ Box and that is
why you are asking about how to set the zone, you should try to set the
zone name in the box to
*
which is the designator for the local zone.

If you want to know how to set the zone just because you think you need to,
you don't.

[e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 23:21 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: DeskDraw (or any *small* drawing program)?

    Does anyone remember a DA called DeskDraw?  I seem to remember hearing
about it some time ago.  I need it or some similar *small* drawing program
that I could run concurrently with Word4 on my  Powerbook.  Right now, I am
using MacDrawII 1.1 (I cross-graded to Canvas, which is also to big for
what I want) but MacDrawII has  some weird problems pasting picts into Word
and printing to a Laserwriter, when TrueType fonts are involved.  Soooo, I
want a simple small cheap DA or program that can draw:
    boxes
    lines
    arrows
    ovals
    and rotate text (even if only in 90degree increments)

Any suggestions?


Greg
 Trimper   [e-mail]  :wq

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 10:47 EST
From: "Michael R. Roman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DeskWriter C

I don't think we're allowed to post the DeskWriter C drivers. If you can get
the
phone # of someone in HP who will say that I can, I'll call for permission and
post them. I called them up, and they charged me $6 for two disks with the 2.0
drivers. They are a noticeable improvement over 1.0. Alignment is faster, uses
less paper and is more accurate. They also fixed a bug which had the printer
waiting up to FIVE MINUTES between pages on a multi-page MS Word document.
With
these improvements, the DeskWriter C is now one of our best, if not the best,
printer values at the High Energy Physics lab here.

Mike Roman

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 13:51 MET
From: "E Hoenkamp, NICI" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DuoBook & FPU (useful tip)

For those who installed (or want to install) the FPU in their DUO Dock:
I put John Neil's nifty SoftFPU control panel (available from Sumex) in my
system folder. Since the cp checks for the presence of a hardware FPU, it
automatically uses the hardware when docked, and the software when on
the road. Edward.

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 07:50:58 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Mark Vellek)
Subject: e-disk

I guess some further clarifications are in order on my previous post...

Many of the files I had attempted to transfer to the e-disk'd SyQuest were
QuickTime movies (which can't really be compressed by anything that I've
found).

I tried my experience again last night, and I had indeed attempted to
transfer two folders that had been AutoDoubled. Finally got 47.9 meg on the
SyQuest before memory out, even though e-disk, at a factor of "2" said I
had a drive capable of 62.3 megs (which does not exactly add up to 42meg x
2 according to my latest multiplication table). In addition, the e-disk is
painfully slow. Yes, I've tried increasing the cache with e-disk and
disabled CopyDoubler, but it's still slow. Using CopyDoubler, I get disk
writes in the neighborhood of 28k/sec (heck, I've had floppies faster than
that).

E-disk is a useful product if
    1) you never use or have problems with AutoDoubler
    2)  want to attempt to get additional space by compressing stuff in
the system folder, which is
         automatically excluded by AD
    3) use it exclusively for backup and storage - I find it too slow
to use every day on my external
         SyQuest

Guess that's why there are so many compression programs out there, right?

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 12:33:55 -0400
From: victor Norton<[e-mail]>
Subject: File Buddy upload please!

Could someone please post the latest version of Larry Harris's "File
Buddy" to the archives. I downloaded version 1.2.1 from the mac
archives at umich. According to archie, this is the latest version on
internet. However, according to the author,

> Version 1.5.1 is the latest. Version 1.5.1 will create dedicated
> drag&drop applications that will make changes you determine to
> files automatically. It will also allow you to change the created
> and modified dates.

Thanks a lot!

Vic

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 13:26 IST
From: Michael Green <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font (Q)

Does anyone know where I can find a TrueType version of the font Calligraphy
Laser (also called lliLas in some circleses)? Hopefully a pd version, please.
This is probably a thousand to one shot for getting a reply :(

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 00:07:18 EDT
From: Pete Tamas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Font problems

Here's a tough one. One of my students has a Quadra 950 (she's a graphic
artist) running Sys 7.1. She sees fonts listed in the menu but they are
not in the System file nor in the Fonts folder. She does not have
Suitcae, besides, this happens even with all extensions off.

I reinstalled the system, and the problems went away. But, the hardware
vendor reinstalled the system because of some other problem and the
symptoms reappeared.

Any ideas? Has anyone seen these symptoms before? Thanks, Pete
[e-mail], Temple Univ, Philadelphia (betw New York & Wash DC)

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 10:00:38 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Header Files & Think Reference (was "purported bug in THINK C 4/5")

In issue #110, Danny Thomas <[e-mail]> writes :
> 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.
[...]
> 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.

Think Reference 2 is an excellent on-line documentation set that
summarizes much of the information in Inside Mac I..VI and the
asociated tech notes. It has very fast hypertext links between subjects
- click on a word to go to its page.  The subjects are broadly
catagorized into traps, managers, data structures, etc, and there are
numerous code fragments that can be pasted directly into your source
code. The main problem is knowing when to stop, and return to your
original problem. It runs in 640k, in a single iconizable window, so
isn't a huge overhead during program development.

However, it does *not* contain documentation for Think C itself, in any
of its manifestations. So, if the header files that you constantly
refer to are from the Think Class library (say), or your own
application source, Think Reference won't help. Personally, I wouldn't
be without it, since I can't afford the official Apple documentation.

John (whose opinions are purely his own)

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 08:40:52 PDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: How can I view a MacDraw doc without having MacDraw? (Q)

Hi, folks.

    I have a need to look at a MacDraw document, but I don't have
    MacDraw.
Is there a shareware or freeware MacDraw-format document viewer out there in
net.land?

    If this question seems familiar, it's because I posted it earlier but
have had no responses.  The earlier post must have been lost in all the noise
>From the ZiffNet/Mac thread  :-) so I'm reposting it with this long addition
to
see if I can get anyone's attention out there!  Perhaps if the message looks
long more people will read it.

    Of course, I could be wrong about that.  Maybe I got no answers
    because
there aren't any answers, in which case such a thing (a MacDraw viewer) might
be something one of you hot programmers can come up with for the rest of us.

'til next we type
HAVE FUN!!      --      Jesse

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 02:25:44 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Willem Nijenhuis)
Subject: info.hed.apple.com (A)

> 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 ?

You can very easily log in to info.hed.apple.com, but not with ftp, because
it is a Gopher server.
You have to use an Gopher application like Turbogopher or GopherApp. The
easiest way to contact is to use Turbogopher. Start Turbogopher up en click
"Another Gopher." in the File-menu. In the window that you then get: type
"info.hed.apple.com" without the " into the Servename field. The port
number is 70. That's all.
If you prefer to use GopherApp, you have to read the help file. This file
describes how to make a GopherApp file with wich you can automatically log
in to a Gopher sever.

Hope this will help you.

Willem

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 08:53:04 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Kirt Schaper)
Subject: LCIII and NEC 3FGe monitor (Q)

Is it really true that I can only get a 640x480 workspace out of the
NEC monitor?  Do I really need to go to the NEC 5FGe monitor (twice
the price) to get a 800x600 workspace?

Kirt Schaper  [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 15:45:40 EDT
From: Richard Goldsworthy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Linking Networks

Our school received a grant which, when I wrote it, called for
internetworking two sites of mac computers (about 10 Macs per site).
We don't have a huge budget but there is always the possibility of
donations to shoreup a shortfall.

I'd like to connect the two sites' networks as efficiently and affordably as
possible. The sites are about 1 mile distant; however, the local switching
station is much further and costs for a dll seem exhorbitant ($2000 a pop per
end plus about $200 a month). The first year of the project most data sent
ove from one network to the other will be mail and reports (which may be
low end multimedia).

Okay, so what is the cheapest, fastest method to internetwork these two
sites? Any experiences with this, speculations, or wild guess would be
very much appreciated. I will summarize replies and post.

Much thanks in advance.

Richard Goldsworthy
Project Coordinator
Woodbridge Academy
[e-mail]
606.846.5233

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 13:12:30 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mac/TCP-IP Printing

Time to tap the broad base of expertise here to solve the problem
of printing to attached and/or network printers from a Mac for the
output generated on VM, MVS and Unix hosts.

A bit of background - we are in the process of resystemization from
VM and MVS hosts to a Unix host.  Under the VM/MVS environments,
printing was usually routed to an RJE device or other system
printer.  With the planned demise of the VM/MVS systems is the
elimination of the RJE devices, hence the need for creation of
alternative print solutions.  DOS based terminals have been
generally OK with the printing to attached and network printers,
but the Mac is frustrating us.

Our Macs are configured with TCP/Connect II Extended version.  So
far, we have not been able to find a method that will automatically
redirect the data file generated on the VM/MVS/Unix host directly
to an attached or linked network printer.  The closest we have been
to a solution has been to ftp the file to the Mac, open it with
another application (i.e., BBEdit), and then send it to the
printer.

Any assistance and guidance will be immensely appreciated.

      Harvey Beliveau
      Computer Sciences Directorate
      Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division
      Patuxent River, MD

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 13:30:44 EDT
From: [e-mail] (Sridar Narayanan)
Subject: Manipulating 16 bit GREYSCALE images

Hello,

I'm currently doing phantom experiments using film as a radiation dosimeter.
After irradiation, I digitize the films using a DuPont laser scanner, which
digitizes a 14" x 17" area at 1021 x 844 pixels (~ .4 mm spacing) at
14 bits/pixel.  My films are actually much smaller than 14" x 17".
What I need to be able to do is load the image into memory, display and
manipulate (crop, rotate, identify landmark coordinates) a reasonable 8 bit
facsimile on the screen, and write out the new 16 bit data file.

Question:  Does anyone know of software to edit 16 bit greyscale (NOT RGB)
images?  NIH Images will import 16 bit images, but scales them to 8 bit
in the loading process.  I want to keep the full dynamic range.

Mac software is preferred, but I'll take anything that runs on a Sun
SPARCstation or SGI Indigo as well.

I hope to avoid writing my own image editing program, as I am very
pressed for time.


Thanks,

Sridar
[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 06:16:49 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Michael Skurka)
Subject: Manual ARA Connections (A)

> 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?

John,

I've done this with PC-compatibles, but not with ARA (yet).  At computer
club meetings when we didn't have a direct phone line, we would use a
manual cellular modem.  In the dial string, we only put "ATD".  We manually
dialed the phone number and then told the comm program to dial.  It didn't
dial anything, just waited for modem connect tones.

For this to work for you, you will probably need to modify your ARA script
to not add a phone number to the dial command.  Have the switchboard dial
the outside line, as soon as the dialing is done and/or you hear ringing
tell ARA to "connect".  Good luck!

* Michael Skurka, [e-mail], voice: 210-381-3417
* University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg Texas USA

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 09:31:54 -0600
From: "Earl Misanchuk"  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Marsh Gosnell/PBI Software whereabouts?

Several years ago I purchased a very handy cdev called HFS Locator Plus 2.0,
written by Marsh Gosnell and published by PBI Software of Foster City, CA. I
am
trying to find out if there has been an upgrade to it that will work under
System 7.1.

Can anyone point me to either the author or the publisher, please? (Or
information about any upgrade)

ADVthanxANCE

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:22:29 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MasterTracks/Quadra Conflict?

Does anyone know of a conflict between MasterTracks Pro V5.2 and the
Quadra 950?  When I run the same copy on a IIci, no problems.  On the
Quadra, it loads, puts up the blank windows, and freezes.  Not even
the programmer's switch will work.  Help!

Brandon Munday
[e-mail]
Drive Defensively:  Buy a TANK.

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 21:05:26 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Memory CDEV Hack (a challenge!)

A while ago somebody posted a hack to the **Apple SC HD Utility** that would
allow it to format and update the driver for _any_ SCSI hard drive, simply
by altering a single byte in the CODE resource.

Well, I would like to use the System 7.1 Memory CDEV to create a RAM-Disk
on my Mac LC, but the RAM-Disk part of the CDEV never becomes visible
unless you run it on certain Macintoshes.

There must be a way to hack this thing to prevent it from checking what
type of Mac I have, or to trick it into thinking that I have a Mac that
"works" with a RAM-Disk.

I don't have enough understanding of Macintosh machine language to use
ResEdit's CODE editor to hack around in the Memory CDEV.

Can anyone out there meet this challenge?  ~Is the person who created the
SC HD Utility Hack still out there somewhere?~

BTW, Apple Tech. Support claims that the LC's ROM does not support a RAM
disk, and that this is the way that Apple is encouraging me to buy a newer
Mac that does support this capability, if really I want it. I think this is
Bull!!! (read: not true) After all, even the "wimpy" 68000 in the Powerbook
100 can handle a RAM disk!

[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:20:11 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: MIDI Wish: Internal Sound

Just a wish:  It would be neat to have an application or other Mac software
that would act just like a MIDI interface, except that it would generate
the sounds itself over the Mac speaker.  Kinda like a built-in synthesizer.

Or is there one out there already?

Replies requested...

Brandon Munday
[e-mail]
Drive Defensively:  Buy a TANK.

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 12:05:59 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Liam Breck)
Subject: New Directory Structure - comments, not flames

> I would just like to comment that perhaps the new archive directory
> structure is a bit too "technical" for a macintosh archive.

That's what we were trying to get away from in the first place, hence
the move away from cp, da, ex, util, etc.  That's not to say that we
didn't make a few mistakes.  We plan on tinkering with the structure
'til it works.  Hopefully, in time, it will be easier to find things
by a quick scan of a directory or two, instead of downloading and
searching all-files.txt.

Thanx for your examples and comments.  We are working on the issues
you raised.  Some things (yo-yo, for one) have been mis-archived in
the new directories.  Right now we're in a settling-in period, and
we're not all used to the new system yet.

> A user is not supposed to have to "configure" a macintosh.

Mythology.

Thanx again for your feedback!

Liam Breck
Info-Mac Archive Reorganization Moderator

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 12:01:05 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: NEWS FLASH: PIVOT/LE Returns!

In the latest MacUser, I noticed an ad from Mac Depot announcing the
limited stock return of the Radius Color Pivot/LE package from last fall.
The price is $799 plus shipping ($80) including the necessary interface
card.  The monitor is the same as the current Precision Color Pivot EXCEPT:
not multisync (so it requires the included interface card even on macs with
builtin color), only one resolution (78 dpi).

I have checked this offer directly with Radius sales and they assure me the
offer is legitimate, and that they do a large volume of business with Mac
Depot.  Radius is not beginning manufacture of this monitor again, they
have (apparently) finished wrapping up the inventory from last year's fire
sale and have made the remaining stock available to Mac Depot.  I am
assuming when these are gone, that's it.  These are new monitors with full
warranty (including the new 1-year, overnight, onsite replacement program
>From Radius).  Mac Depot should begin receiving the monitors as early as
today.

Caveats:  I have ordered, but not yet received my monitor.  All information
comes from Mac Depot and Radius sales support.  I have satisfied myself of
the specifics of the offer but you may require more convincing/information.
 Caveat emptor!  I would use a credit card to order to further reduce any
remaining risk.  I am not affiliated in any way with either company.

Mac Depot is at 800-222-2808

Good luck,

Paul Baim

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

Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 11:57:35 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Igor Livshits)
Subject: Nuntius1.1.1d23

Hello,

Please accept this latest version of Nuntius by Peter Speck.

It is a self-extracting archive. [of a usenet news/nntp client -kc]

Thanks, igor
_____
NCSA-UIUC,  e:[e-mail],  p:[phone]

[Archived as /info-mac/comm/nuntius-11d23.hqx; 459k]

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 23:43:44 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Opcode MIDI system

    I don't play with my midi enough, but here is a phone number for opcode.
They will remember the answers to your questions.
    1-415-856-3333 x5900 is a 24 hour order line for Galaxy Plus Editors. OMS
tells midi software about your hookups, that's all I remember. Their sales can
do better. You know, I told it once and then just used it and forgot. I have a
fixed set of sound modules and didn't have to tell it several times.
    Tech support will walk you through. They are available on Saturday last I
tried. I am anxiously awaiting dmcs import capabilities to be debugged.
    Here is their address:
    Opcode Systems Inc.
    3950 Fabian Way, ste 100
    Palo Alto, CA 94303
    Hope this helps!

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 23:18 CDT
From: [e-mail] (Greg Trimper)
Subject: PB 160 has stereo?!?!?

    It does.  For some reason, I don't remember this as being
an advertised feature.  I found out by sheer obstinance -
clicking the "stereo" button in SoundTracker.  Bam!
Stereo.

    In case anyone had a 160 (and maybe a 180?) and thought they
were stuck with mixed monophonic - you're not.

Greg Trimper   [e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 20:23:13 PDT
From: [e-mail] (Brad Brace)
Subject: PB 180

I'm interested in purchasing a PowerBook 180 which I want to use with Music
software and Midi controllers. I'm told that Powerbooks emit an audio pulse
from their ports which interferes with midis. Are future PBs going to solve
this problem? and will they include built-in Midi-interfaces? Are there
work-arounds for the audio-pulse problem?

BB

[e-mail]

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 13:13:53 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PICT's in TeachText (A)

    Within about 2 months of info-mac someone submitted a xtnd translator to
teachtext. So, you paste your picts in a word processor that allows and then
you translate!

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 03:25:28 GMT
From: Sven Guckes <[e-mail]>
Subject: PICT's in TeachText?

[e-mail] writes:

>... 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?

Insert an option-space character for every PICT and some empty lines for
the space that each PICT needs to be displayed.
The numbering of the PICTs must start at 1000.

Sven :)

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:27:06 EDT
From: Andrew E. Scheck <[e-mail]>
Subject: PICT's in TeachText?

>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?

Supposedly (I've never needed to do it yet), the top line of 'PICT' id 1000
is displayed at the first non-breaking space (option-space) in the document,
'PICT' id 1001 is displayed at the second, id 1002 at the third, and so on.

I hope this helps,
Andy Scheck

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 13:43:16 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Dave Hirsh)
Subject: Powerbook 170 Display Problem

In response to the user with the PB170 display problems I can understand why
Apple will swap out the support circuitry rather freely to try to fix the
problem. These parts can usually be repaired and reused. Apple's cost is held
to a minimum. When it comes to the display screen itself Apple gets a little
nastier since these CANNOT be repaired. They are discarded at a considerable
cost to Apple. I think you'll get a real fight because if Apple replaces yours
because the screen fades they'll probably have to do it to everyone else who
has the same problem. I amazed that the Apple tech didn't claim you ABUSED the
computer. Keep us posted as to how this turns out.

BTW: I understand that the backlighting element in these display screens is
     only good for about 2 years of use. I don't know how many actual hours
     of use that translates to though.

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

Date: 28 May 1993 16:28:07 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Josh Hayes)
Subject: PPP client/server wanted

Hello. I'm in the process of acquiring a 14.4K modem and
I'm considering trying to establish a SLIP connection to
our university system. The sysadmin of our local Sun network
suggested that I look into PPP, which I gather stands for
`point to point protocol', arguing that it would provide
superior performance. My question is: does anyone know of
a server/client package that supports PPP? Preferably this
would be PD, but shareware and commercial would be considered.
I'll summarize if I get any useful info.

Thanks!

Josh Hayes, [e-mail]
--
   Josh Hayes, Quantitative Sciences HR-20 U of Washington
    [e-mail]             206 543-5004
         Es fuelt mir gruevisch. - M. Gooley

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 11:04:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mudd Rat <[e-mail]>
Subject: Printing large Canvas files to a LW IIg

OK, so I just spent an hour and a half trying to figure this out, but I
couldn't, so I am humbly crawling to the experts (I'm just a mere peon;-)

I'm having trouble printing a rather large Canvas 2.1 document (about 2 megs
of
doc) to a LaserWriter IIg, 8 megs of memory, over AppleTalk, running sys 7.0.1
(Tuneup?).  At times, parts of the document will print, at others none of the
document will print, but it seems to get hung on the most complex part of the
doc. (I forgot to mention, the document is 12 pages long, tiled 4x3).

A couple of times I got a "stack underflow error" which the handy PostScript
manual from 1987 (+ or - 2) told me that the printer was trying to remove
something from the stack that wasn't there.

Anyway, I was wondering if anybody out there know the Sys 7.1 driver and the
mechanics of PS printing well enough to help me out.  Is it possible that I've
overwhelmed the printers memory?  Is it a PS error locked in the doc (the
document that its taken 9 weeks and close to a 1000 person hours to create)?

Please, please, please help, I don't want to even try to recreate beast of a
file.

Mike  -----=----  [e-mail]

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 15:20:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Wayne Oldford)
Subject: Quail 1.0 beta available (Quantitative Analysis in Lisp)

********************************************************************************

               Quantitative Analysis in Lisp

                 Quail 1.0
                   (beta release)
                 Macintosh

********************************************************************************

            The Statistical Computing Laboratory
                  of the
        Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

               announces the beta release of

                  Quail 1.0

********************************************************************************

Quail is a quantitative programming environment written in Common Lisp
(CL; CltL2) and is largely object-oriented (based on the CL Object System).
Quail extends the CL language to better support quantitative analysis.

Amongst its features are:

       Arithmetical, Mathematical and Statistical capabilities:

       - extended arithmetic including the ability to
         lexically redefine return results that usually produce NaNs
       - rich array manipulation facilities including:
         - array combination and subsetting
         - iteration macros
         - mathematical functions operate elementwise on arrays
         - matrix manipulation including various decompositions
         - arrays by indirect reference and by copying
       - smooth access to other languages (esp. Fortran and C)
         - foreign language arrays behave as Quail arrays.
       - special mathematical functions such as gamma, beta, continued
         fraction approximations, diffentiation (symbolic and numerical)
         and numerical integration, ...
       - probability calculations for a wide variety of discrete
         and continuous distributions including mixtures.
         - pseudo-random number generation
         - quantiles
         - probabilities
         - density and distribution function calculations
         - collection of linear congruential generators.
       - statistical response models
         - fitting of normal linear models,
           and generalized linear models including
           quasi-likelihood

       Display facilities:

       - extended documentation and help facilities
         - by parsing the CL documentation string documentation
           objects are created which can be displayed in interactive
           help windows
         - tools for creating topics automatically from source
           file organization
         - automatic latex production of help documentation
       - object oriented graphics facilities including
         - building blocks for arbitrary graphics
         - collection of stock statistical graphics
           Histograms, boxplots, function plots,
           scatterplots, 3d-rotating scatterplots,
           scatterplot matrices, Andrews' curves, ...
         - function plotting,
         - 3d-rotating function or surface plots
               - wire-frame, hidden line, and solid polygon surface
               - any of which can be depth-cued by colour
         - arbitrary dynamic linking of graphics elements
           allowing brushing within and across windows
       - graphical browsers
       - uniform access to a mouse and colour window system including
         - automatic generation of colour postscript output
           for all graphics

********************************************************************************


Quail is accessible via anonymous ftp from

         setosa.uwaterloo.ca  or 129.97.141.101

Login id: anonymous   Passwd: your-e-mail-address


Code can be found in pub/Quail
READMEs found there will give further instructions.
********************************************************************************

A Franz and CLX based version is anticipated to be released late summer 1993.

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 00:46:55 -0500
From: "Paul M. Sheldon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RGB -> NTSC (A)

   I noted that at times the video of apple's oop tutorial didn't show moire
   or
strobe lines on camcorder videod mac screens. Look in the eyepiece of your
camcorder and see if you don't see moire then tripod it there at that angle or
distance. Camcorders cost more than $389 but can be used for other things.

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 17:24:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: "William M. Porter" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SCSI hard drive problems

Recently I acted as intermediary or broker in the purchase of a Mac Plus
by one of my wife's friends from one of my friends. The Plus came with a
Dataframe 20Mb external hard drive. A few days after the purchaser
started using it, the Dataframe ceased to boot, and in fact wouldn't even
mount. The original owner had had a similar problem a long while back, in
which she couldn't get the drive to work using the driver software
supplied with it. A technician who worked on the drive at that time
installed IDS driver software, and the drive worked fine--until recently.

The mess ended up on my dining room table, naturally. All of my
diagnostic software recognized the drive at SCSI 4, although it still
wouldn't mount. SCSI Probe ver. 3.5 gave me the following readout.
    Type: DISK              Product: M8425-SCSI
    Vendor: MINSCRIB        Version: 304B
Apple's Disk First Aid said the drive had problems that it couldn't fix.
MacTools DiskFix also noted that there were serious problems with the
disk and asked if I wanted to recover files from it.

I ended up using Apple's HD SC Setup to reinitialize the disk. I clicked
on the "update" button there and (presumably) updated the driver. After
the reinitialization, the drive mounted just fine. I hooked it up to my
LC II (so I could use my Superdrive) and installed System 7 on it, then
hooked it back up to the Plus.

Everything seems to work fine, but I am worried. Don't I need >special<
driver software? Did Apple's HD SC Setup install a reliable driver? I
believe that SuperMac is out of business. Will generic driver software
work? I would like to feel confident that this problem is not going to
recur in a few days. Any suggestions would be appreciated--as well as any
remarks on driver software generally or specifically. Thanks in advance.

Will Porter / University of Houston

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 10:15 EDT
From: Jeffrey L. Needleman <[e-mail]>
Subject: SCSI Peripherals with Macs and PCs!

I use Macs and IBM clones, and wanted to save some money by buying a CD-ROM
drive that could be used with both. I asked for help in several places
(including comp.sys.mac.hardware) but never got a reply. I've now figured
out how to buy CD-ROM drives, tape drives, removable cartridge drives,
flopticals, juke boxes, etc. that you can use on both platforms. And, being
kind-hearted, I thought I'd pass the info along.

The guts of these devices are the same for both platforms, but the way the
products are bundled and merchandised means that Mac sellers sell the Mac
version with the Mac interface/cables/software and the IBM firms sell the
IBM interface/cables/software. Until recently, there was no easy way to
order, say, a Mac CD-ROM drive and yet still obtain the software/hardware
needed to run it on an IBM as well.

That's all changed with the introduction of fast SCSI cards for the IBM
sold with ASPI drivers and the ready availability of a product called
CorelSCSI!, which provides easy configuration and drivers for the various
devices you might want to hook up, providing you have ASPI drivers
available for your SCSI card. A fast SCSI-2 16-bit controller for an IBM PC
runs $125-$200 and, these days, usually comes with an ASPI driver (make
sure of that before buying). The Corel SCSI product runs about $80 for the
software alone (there is a version sold with a SCSI card too). Earlier SCSI
cards can often be upgraded with new PROMs and software to make them
ASPI-compatible:  I had an old Always IN-2000 card and was charged $34.95
for the PROM and software to enable it to use ASPI drivers.  Always was
willing to send me those items PLUS CorelSCSI! for $79.95, but alas I had
already bought the Corel software.

Corel has a forum on Compuserve (GO COREL) with a master list available for
downloading of all products known to be compatible with CorelSCSI! (There
are separate columns for DOS, OS/2 and Novell.)  If you're simply looking
for something that will run under DOS or Windows, you'll have no trouble.

I'd suggest buying the product's Mac version rather than the IBM version to
get the right Mac software. (I just bought a Teac mechanism tape drive
bundled with Retrospect 2.0 software; I could have saved a few bucks buying
the drive itself from an IBM-only house, but the bundled backup software
made the Mac version a MUCH better deal.)

I'm now using a Mac Syquest drive, a Toshiba Mac CD-ROM drive, and a Teac
tape drive with both my Macs and my IBMs. I even took an old Mac Quantum
mechanism hard drive and formatted it for DOS/Windows with no problems.  I
am a happy camper!

Jeff Needleman  <[e-mail]>

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

Date: 28 May 1993 16:41:45 -0800
From: "Anker, Andrew" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SE/30 Clock Speed

Well the response was overwhelming at 16mhz.  I wanted to thank everyone for
answering.  Contradicting the recent proposition that no one responded to
these
postings anymore, I would like to name the following respondents as proof to
the
contrary:

     [e-mail] (John Thoo)
     Scott E Maxwell <[e-mail]>
     [e-mail] (Ryan Manwiller)
     Jason Grossman <[e-mail]>
     [e-mail] (P.K.Guinnessy)
     [e-mail] (Eggert Thorlacius)
     Mark Nutter, Apple Support <[e-mail]>
     [e-mail] (Stewart Walker)
     [e-mail]
     Michael R. Roman <[e-mail]>
     Earl Misanchuk  <[e-mail]>
     MACINTOSH NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR <[e-mail]>
     Nathan Gilliatt <[e-mail]>
     Michael Fleming <[e-mail]>
     Cerro, Joseph A <[e-mail]>
     Allan M. Bloom <[e-mail]>
     Chris Smith <[e-mail]>
     [e-mail] (Connie Fennema)
     [e-mail] (K A Sturrock)

If I missed some, I apologize.  I was out at a meeting all morning and came
back
to 100+ e-mails.  I think I picked out all of the ones on this subject but I
may
have missed some with more cryptic subjects.

Andrew

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 93 14:13:38 +0200
From: Jay Rolls <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spanish Translation Software (A)

Your best bet is a product called GlobalLink. Ask for details at

Globallink
9302 Lee Highway
Fairfax VA 22031
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

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

Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 22:21:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stacker, an impression... (R)

[e-mail] (Tony Huang) writes:

> Really? All compression programs will slow the drive down. There's no free
> lunch.

    The proof is in the pudding and true, it ain't free.  However, the
game Spectre Supreme took 15 seconds to load up while AutoDoubled with
internal compression.  With it fully expanded and in "virgin" state, it
took 14 seconds.  Using DiskDoubler (ADS method), the time took 17
seconds.
    Stacker took 44 seconds.  Adjusting the cache seems to not matter,
at least on this system.
    So, from this end, Stacker slows my drive down.  It just flat
does. I don't detect that with AutoDoubler.

> No currently-available SCSI benchmark program correctly works with
> driver-level compression program.

    Ok, I might accept that but my digital clock works pretty good.  grin

> 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).

    I really think "mediocre at best" is not correct.  All my
applications decompress rather fast and in most cases, none of my files
are perceived to slow down during decompression.  The exception would be
QuickTime files; they crawl.
    A "Stacked" drive's files are just slow.  Period.  Like molasses.
All the files, every one.
    Admittedly, I have not tried this on another Mac and this is a
Mac LC020 with the 40 meg Conner.
    So, if there is another variable that I can set to get the Stacked
drive up to AutoDoubler decompression speeds during user-executable
application open commands, let me know.  As it is, I cannot detect or even
really time any appreciable differences between an AutoDoubled file and a
non-AutoDoubled application.

--Larry Rymal <[e-mail]>

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 93 12:52:58 PDT
From: Robert Pierce <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sticking Powerbook Keys

My daughter recently spilled some coke near my PB145. A little must have made
it to the keyboad because now my TAB and X keys stick.

Do the keys just pop off like regular apple keyboards or is it something
different? I tried gently pulling at the cap, but wasn't feeling any give. I
hope it is just a matter of popping the key cap off and cleaning the plunger.

Any help with this annoying problem will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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

Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 09:57:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Thoo <[e-mail]>
Subject: syncing clocks (Q)

Does anyone know of a utility that will synchronise the clocks of
networked Macs?  Thanks.

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

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

Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 03:45:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (kim)
Subject: Sys 7.1 & conflicts

[e-mail] writes:

>- 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

I know what you are talking about. There is a program out from apple
I think called compatabilty checker. I ran that and still had problems with
the Centris I installed. Some of the problems I had were also from 3 party
periferals too.

What I ended up doing was scrapping every thing and starting over. First
I installed all the Apple software and ran it for a while then I installed
the Laser Printer, Oki Data appletalk type, then I put on the apple cd-rom.
Everything ws going great until I added the scanner, Microtek. It turned out
that the cd rom had an internal terminator(?) and realy screwed up every thing
I also installed a 44meg cartridge drive and that caused more problems with
the scanner. I moved the scanner SCSI address down away from the drives.
Mirror
Tech. mentioned something about SCSI mounters like to treat scanners as
hadr drives.

I finished last night and we have had not problems for the day. I think
everything will be OK for now. I am going to press my luck and install
After Dark tomorrow. Watch my house of cards fall down!!!

The software I installed was Adobe Photoshop, Freehand, Pagemaker, Omniscan
and Suitecase II. I have some other programs on but these are the most used.

I'll keep you posted as to where and when I have any problems.

Kim Sebert
IMS
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green Ohio

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Date: Fri, 28 May 93 13:29:57+080
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Smoliar)
Subject: System 7.1 virtual memory eats System file?

I just (yesterday) installed System 7.1 on my IIfx.  Everything seemed
reasonably sane until I tried to enable virtual memory.  When I restarted
the machine, I got this angry message informing me that my System file had
been damaged and that I had to reinstall my system.  Needless to say, after
rebuilding the system, the first thing I did was check to see if virtual
memory
was really the problem;  and, sure enough, only trying to turn it back on and
restart was enough to duplicate the error.  Has anyone using System 7.1 seen
this error.  I do not seem to be having a similar problem with virtual memory
on my IIvx or my PowerBook 170.

The other thing that happened was that when I rebuilt the system, I got
another
message to the effect that it could not use AppleTalk and was using LocalTalk
instead.  Now I cannot seem to recover AppleTalk, and my Chooser cannot see
anything!  Is this another System 7.1 eccentricity, or have I just done
something stupid?

Steve

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Date: 28 May 1993 13:48:53 -1000
From: "BIESECKER" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Think-C Request Address

Oops!  I made a boo-boo.

I gave the address for the Think-C discussion group as:

  "[e-mail]"

I have been advised that is is actually:

  "[e-mail]"

(Notice the extra hyphen between "think" and "c".)
Sorry 'bout that everybody.  I hope I didn't give a big headache...

Aloha from Hawaii!!!    -Ted

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Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 10:48:57 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Token Ring + Telnet

My wife has a Mac ci in her office with a token ring card. The card works fine
because she can use all the servers on the network. I have been trying to get
Telnet to work for her.

I installed MacTCP 1.1.1 and NCSA Telnet on her machine and copied the IP
numbers for the domain name server, gateway, etc. from a DOS machine in the
same office which on which Telnet works fine. The only response I can get out
of the Mac is "Host or gateway not responding..."

Is there something different needed for token ring? I've done the same setup
many times on ethernet.

By the way, the "experts" who maintain her network claim that Macs can't use
TCP/IP effectively, so they've decided not to try and resolve the problem.

Lee Larson, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville

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Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 16:38:59 -0400
From: "Ron Beloin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: VideoSync help (Q)

               Subject:                               Time:03:25 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          VideoSync help (Q)                     Date:5/28/93
VideoSync v. 1.0, fresh from ftp.apple.com, locks up when it is installed and
we try to hit the option button in the monitors control panel (which we are
guessing is how you turn it on). We have an apple 8*24 board installed in a
IIci, and running system 7. We tried turning off all other extensions. We
don't
have the freeze when videosync is not allowed to load up. Has anyone gotten
videosync to work with this combination, or know what might be amiss??
tnx.

Ron Beloin, Boyce Thompson Inst. @ Cornell U.
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 14:51:37 MET
From: Martin Ammann <[e-mail]>
Subject: WYSE Terminal-Emulation-Problem

Dear Net-Experts

Let me first describe my problem:

There are 13 Macs in our lab, connected with PhoneNet to an AppleShare
server. This server is also connected to an Ethernet. It works as a
router between the two networks.
On this server runs, beside AppleShare Server and Apple Internet Router,
the VersaTerm-Pro-Terminal-Server-Software, which has 24 virtual input ports.
The output Port goes through Ethernet to a SUN.
On the SUN runs a special Lending-Library-Application that requires
WYSE-Terminals. We have six of these terminals in tree different rooms.
They are connected via Ethernet directly to the SUN
We have to introduce our students into the Lending-Library-Application
and we would like to do this in our lab with the 13 Macs, because software
instruction can't be well done on the six WYSE-terminals.
On the Macs in the lab we have to use VersaTerm Pro to login via the virtual
terminal server to the SUN. It works for all the UNIX stuff but not for
the special Library-application.

VersaTerm Pro 3.6.3, Termy 2.1 and Term 4.7.1 all use the tools of the
Communications Toolbox and can connect via the VersaTerm-Pro-Terminal-Server-
Software to the SUN.

What I seem to need is a CTB-Terminal-Module that emulates a WYSE-terminal.
Is there such a beast around, commercial, shareware or freeware?

If not: Can anybody program a universal terminal Module, that can be
configured by scratch from the user?

Is there a Terminal-Module-Construction-Kit for the Communications
Toolbox. Such a tool would be very useful, since there are thousands of
terminals that could be emulated...

Many thanks in advance for your support!!!

Martin
([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 28 May 93 09:06:34 -0400
From: [e-mail] (David B. Reiser)
Subject: Zterm question

I hope this isn't a RTFM question, since I don't have the manual at hand...

A friend of mine is having trouble uploading a file using Zterm. He keeps
getting a "Got ZRPOS=0" error message.

We're both struggling to learn how to communicate on a QWK based bbs using
Freddie and Zipit on our Macs. So far we're both still using evaluation copies
of Freddie, but I have no trouble uploading my .REP files with Versaterm. His
attempts to upload the .REP file always fails in Zterm.

It sure is a pain to learn a DOS centric comm mode after all this time.

Dave
[e-mail]

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